World of Warships

“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn about depth charges” World of Warships is due to introduce their newest ship class, submarines, in a couple of weeks on May 27, a day already pretty darn busy on my personal calendar. (New EverQuest servers, SpaceX launches astronauts to the ISS, etc.) Those captaining subs will find themselves with a very different view of the battlefield when submerged. Able to move in all three dimensions, captains will be looking at the sonar reflections of the terrain beneath the waves. Every sonar ping, though, will reveal their position and heading on the main map. ...

During this PvE mission, I was politely asked by a teammate to "uninstall the game". Back in the before times, there was a blogger who was deep into World of Tanks. I don’t remember who it was, but I remember really liking the slower pace and the tactical gameplay. I didn’t (and don’t) much care for or about tanks. World of Planes, when I tried it, was way too fast paced and hard to keep track of the fight. ...

Ranked up! Rank 14 and owner of the flag marking me as a member of the Second League… that is really available to anyone who is playing the ranked battles in World of Warships at all. You can’t lose ranks until you get to 14, so unless you just never win a match, you will enter the rarefied heights of the Second League. Now that I have reached a rank that I could lose, I am reluctant to play any more. If I remember right, the next rank, 13, gets some new camouflage, and then 12 gets nothing, and 11 gets some more signal flags. 11 is as far as I can get with my ships – after that, I have to stop. Or buy a premium ship and get boosted into Tier VIII. I don’t see much point in that, though, except as a generator of Free XP for my lower tier ships. ...

The Furutaka, a T5 Cruiser It was only fair that Suzuki Senchou was offered command of the Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser Furutaka on her addition to my fleet. It was his stellar record on the Kuma that not only drove the research of the new line of cruisers, but also drove improvements on other ships of the line. However, the deeper waters of Tier V engagements may tarnish the record that has brought my record of wins and losses almost to “average”. ...

Terror on the High Seas, me I’ve always sucked at team based PvP. Whether in fantasy MMOs or whatever, team PvP requires an instinct toward knowing your abilities, the abilities of your team, of your enemy, and the map, all at once. This is why I’ve not been able to get into MOBA games like League of Legends and such. I don’t like being terrible at stuff. Worse, I hate for people to know that I am terrible at stuff. Hence why I spent so long in MMOs playing support classes. The kind of people you bring to fill out the team. Druid and rogue in EQ, bard in EQ2 and Rift, priest and rogue in WoW. Priest in WoW might sound high pressure, but it was really just looking at a grid with everyone’s names on it and pressing the red buttons. I think that was before they nerfed WoW plugins. Back when I played, being a priest was just staying out of the fire and pressing red buttons. ...