Carriers Are Overpowered By Design and By Playerbase | My Personal Thoughts | World of Warships 

CVs are fundamentally broken since the infamous CV rework. Their gameplay is incompatible with the rest of the game. They are impossible to balance as well, with how things are surface ships just get bullied, but if you start buffing AA or giving accuracy penalties with DFAA, CVs quickly become unplayable and unfun. I believe there is no middle ground, as the lack of interactivity between the surface ships and the CVs mean there is little to no skill involved in any given encounter, making it impossible to give a fair chance at outplaying for any party involved. I won't deny that RTS CVs had issues, but they were, imo, in a much better state and interesting. Could they one shot someone across the map in very specific circumstances? Sure they could, like many BBs can actually. But they had several limitations, such as limited plane reserve, takeoff/landing/servicing timers, overall slower squadrons, and the inability to keep continuous pressure on someone like current CVs do. DFAA had purpose, AA builds actually worked, and they were not as frustrating because of how slower the pace of CV gameplay was. In current day CV, if you're not striking 24/7 you get bored very quickly. I could go on for so much longer but WoWs has proven too many times to be a lost cause :(

Bro there is no balancing carriers... they are just as powerfull irl.... no wonder entire task forces are built around them...

Thank you for bringing up the playerbase factor, I agree cv are pretty game breaking as the rest of the community but most of the playerbase just whine without learning any counterplay

Those torpedoes hit Encounter literally 4 seconds after you dropped them into the water. Encounter has rudder shift time of 14 seconds and turning circle of about 800 meters. So no, there was very little he could do to avoid being hit. Which is why he didn't even bother to try.

imo they could make carrier balanced if they reworked them so you just control the ship and drop planes like depth charges or gouden

Mechanically, I prefer carriers to subs. I think cv’s need a damage nerf across the board and mini map only spotting. If they did that, they would be a pretty balanced class. Subs need to just go. As a BB player against a sub, you just have to run and hope you can get an island between you.

As carrier user as well i would said CV and hybrid are strong​ against​ lone ship like flanker but get torn to shred if ppl stayed in group​ I want more dept to the gameplay​ like controllable fighter so i could cover my team, or be abke to change attitube of my plane like high ceiling have slow speed cant spot but safe from small caliber​AA but take more damage from high caliber AA or a need to change a ceiling in order to attack first like torpedo bomber need to gone down to low attitube made them vulnarable for AA fire but it need to perform inorder to drop torpedo, And made CV hardest counter to DD but made cruiser is hardest counter to CV by increase its AA range and potency of its AA while BB and CV should couter each other

I'm kinda new to the game, i got Midway and Yorktown, i still don't understand how you aim your green reticle above the ship and still hit!?? and you also sometimes aim with torpedoes bombers behind arming distance and still your torpedoes arm in time!

It's impossible to balance carriers, the very principle of a PLANE is to go fast anywhere. When you include this in a game where SHIPS go 30 knots and take 30 seconds to turns, it cannot go well. It's simple as that. You cannot balance something that has INHERENTLY the upper hand. And if you nerf them too much they become useless, but if they has the slightliest of power, then they become OP. And it's the same thing with subs, they can't fit in the game, period.

Alle beschweren sich, wenn es historisch nicht korrekt ist. CVs sind aber auch in echt die stärkste Klasse, also ist es immerhin mal realtitätsgetreu

If they are that OP why the population of CV players is lower than the Sub players in NA server?, I don't know how is in the other serves.

I mean can we all agree WG should have never REWORKED CVs, oh btw THEY ARE DOING IT AGAIN for the SECOND TIME, im nothing will go HORRABLILY WRONG and somehow make things WORSE then they already are. And why did they do it? Console releases..... I have no doubt at this point. RTS CVs where by no means perfect, but for god sake at least CVs had stuff to do besides SPOT DDs and Farm Damage. Like ya know.... defend your team from the ENEMY CARRIER with your own fighters! From my own XP the only thing that was totally OP about RTS CVs was dropping 2 manually dropped Torpedo bombers in a criss cross pattern, since CV torpedoes seemed to do the same damage as DD torpedoes back then. Of course their was also always that A HOLE CV player on the other team that would be like "you don't get to play the game" and nuke you at the start of the match. God forbid they put in any effort. The "Action" style CVs just SUCK for everyone involved, CV gameplay is BORING and No one can stop you. Fighter Squadrons are useless both on Ships and Dropped by CVs, they only shoot down X number of planes rather then the whole squadron (cus reasons), and even then you can just DODGE them. Also, as a Carrier, if your team SUCKS their is nothing you can do anymore to turn the match around. On the flip side, if your team is Dominating, you are barely going to do any damage cus everyone dies before you can lay into them. (may as well go hunt the enemy carrier at that point) While it is nice that "cv sniping" is heavily discouraged, the only reason that is case is cus CVs have CAP FIGHTERS! Once the CAP Fighters are gone the CV is just as vulnerable as any other Surface ship even with their Excellent AA. And for reasons only known to WG (probably because they are running out of ideas), they are trying to push CV gameplay on to EVERY ship type. I have no doupt their will be Japanese Premium sub with Airstrikes, or maybe the whole Japanese Sub Line will have Airstrikes.

A little bit too late for such revelation, don't you find?

No they shouldn't be