I played Naval so you don't have to | War Thunder 

bro really spent $90 on a vid with only 260 views

BRO being a torpedo boat, rushing a destroyer and torping them is the best feeling in war thunder

Some lore on why Bluewater and Coastal are separate trees: They used to be in the same tree with a very weird research path, the aim was to let you quickly get to the type of ship you wanted to play and grind out those. The problem was Gaijin included their minimum researched vehicles required to unlock the next rank mechanic and set that number to the same number of vehicles in that rank. Making the grind extremely long. Also, gaijin was only planning to have naval be coastal ships but the players kept asking for larger and larger ships since no one really wanted to play random torpedo boats. But when they did add the large destroyers and cruisers the players started complaining that they had to play the small torpedo ships when they wanted to play destroyers and up. So eventually gaijin split the trees to satisfy these players, and it was a good move because the RP cost on ships at the time was incredibly outrageous (kinda looked like the heli grind does right now). Would it make sense if a naval tree was structured more like the ground and air trees? Yes, it would. Will gaijin bother changing it again? Probably not.

Naval player here, yes, the learning curve is a lot steeper than with the other modes. Also, realistic aiming is difficult at first, but once you get the hang of it, you have far more control over where you land your shots. I personally dislike naval matchmaking games, so i usually play on the weekends to get naval EC which is extremely fun. You play 16 on 16 in massive maps, allowing you to maneuver and sail for extreme distances

Still, battles are decided by coastal ships even in the highest tier. Sometimes a side does not have a single coastal ship, so one fast PT boat can capture 2 zones which are far from the bluewater ships, and win the battle alone.

It's actually knowing a ships uniqueness that helps you. Size of gun, reload speed.. anti-aircraft armament.. do I have mines, what is my torpedo range and arc. Depending on the year they were employed and refits, even ships of the same type are different. What is my armor like, does the ship close range brawl or is it better sniping. There's even consideration on what CAS you run.. do you go for a big high-flying bomber, torpedo plane, dive bomber or heavy cannon/rocket strafer, plus pontoon hydro-planes for stealing cap points.

one thing I noticed with naval is that the grind seems really stupid, like rank 5 ships are the same rp as researching a top tier jet

The trees used to be merged but after some evaluation (and rightly so) Gaijin finds that combining them just makes the entire naval aspect a slog and not to mention, pretty boring since it takes a while until you can get to the most basic of pre-war destroyers. And thinking about it, splitting them makes sense since development of blue water ships is pretty different compared to brown water ships. A destroyer can't operate as well in an environment where the PBR excel in thanks to the low clearance and shallow waters. Same with how a PBR can't go to the sea that well since the sea will just tear it to shreds.

5:15, you have to check those ships with X-ray in the menu and learn to aim for the ammo rack and end the battle early

Ive been playing war thunder since before naval. The pt boats used to be in the main tree however it was weird. The boats started on the left with the cheapest and the right was the most expensive ships. Like you get 1.0 pt gun boat and below is a 2.3 torpedo boat and has a submarine hunter next to it while the pt gun boat has an anti aircraft barge

I was playing when naval released, I have a few comments on the points made in this video: -It is definitely possible to learn the differences between different naval ships, especially since different nations have different weapon designs. A British DD gun is much different than an American DD gun. -Realistic does have a steeper learning curve, yes, but I would say it's something you can get used to. Partially an acquired taste type situation. -Coastal and Bluewater got split so people didn't have to spend 100 hours farming pt boats to get the reserve DDs (american coastal grind pain) Overall, I still think your opinions are valid since I know I'm just a bit weird and have a hyperfixation on warships. Sorry if I sound like a "that guy".

Thank you for genuinely giving it a try. I love naval and there is nothing more annoying then people who know nothing about naval calling it a trash game mode. I can accept criticism when it comes from a place of genuine understanding

I'm glad to see someone actually putting in the effort, instead of just saying "naval sucks". That being said, in my experience a lot of the frustration about coastal vessels comes from wanting to play them together with bluewater ships. I mainly play coastal, because I love the faster paced gameplay of it. Once you get to bluewater ship BR, you can easily take on the early DDs, just because you've gotten yourself a feel for your tiny boat and what it can and can't do. Your point about arcade being more fun in naval is true, imo, especially since it allows you to get a torpedo lead indicator. While learning to aim in air RB is a thing of seconds, it`s far more frustrating to learn to aim with torpedoes. You have either a long reload, or no reload at all in RB.

3:00 Trust me i say this, Naval was a hell hole before the separation of costal and blue water, the only way people were able to play cruiser and Destroyers were after 2 years of grinding or just buying the packs.

Coastal main here: The reason you got bored of naval combat is because you picked the ships with the slowest gameplay loop. Battleships are painfully slow and they are the reason I refuse to touch any ship above 5.0 If you want to have fun in naval, you really have to find hidden gems. The Pr.35 (SKR-7) is one of them. But you could pick the SKR-1, the Köln-class germain frigattes, the italian Saetta (nigh useless against anything bigger than a fishing boat but damn swatting WW2 props out of the sky with AShMs is the most fun you can have in the game), USS Moffet, USS Atlanta... The main problem with naval is the awful BR compression and the technology of the ships. Most of thr fun ships I listed are cold war era. Most of the ships you played, the ones slow as a snail with parkinson's, are pre- to early WW2 battleships/heavy cruisers. Slow as hell with even slower guns, but Gaijin keeps adding them because morons keep buying them, desparately hugging their body pillows, begging for the Texas and Yamato to be finally added so they can [REDACTED] all over their monitors. Gaijin refuses to add modern ships with very few exceptions, almost all of them in the coastal tree.. and most if not all of them are fun, as long as they are fighting similar ships. PT boats VS. Destroyers isn't fun because 1. PT boats weren't made to kill Destroyers, and 2. Destroyers were *specifically engineered to kill PT boats*

I enjoy your videos, they’re pretty informative for someone like me who’s getting back into the game. Keep up the good work!

Ships are definitely interesting and unique there just confirms within the shape of a boat unlike a plane or tank ships can’t really vary from being a boat at the end of the day if you really get into it different countries have vastly different ships and every battleship is mostly unique

There are a few videos on reconfiguring your controls for Naval overall, and doing it makes a HUGE difference. You should always be using stuff like the ranging shot which makes aiming EXTREMELY easy as you can volley for various ranges. I would recommend you look into it and try again, again.

You need to feel the sensation of takedown a big battleship with a small G-5 or other torpedo boat. Small boats are challenging to master but become a dangerous opponent with good players.

Trust me, a world of people would be even more pissed off if they had to grind through coastal ships to get to blue water vessels. Keep them apart.. Forever.

When it comes to realistic, you must set your range to ur middle mouse button, when you can adjust aiminh with the scroll to make it more accurate

Nononononono. Gaijin already separated the coastal and bluewater trees, I remember having to grind through so many shitty American and British pt boats just to get to a destroyer that wasn't very good. Since they split the trees I have actually convinced my friends to try it and since they were starting in destroyers that are big and powerful compared to the PT boats.

Naval is chill, until you get a torpedo warning or you see a plane coming straight for your ass. Coastal is fun, and mostly used for capturing points or fighting in enclosed area of the maps against other coastal

Nice Video overall, but I have some stuff to add. You can Absolutely hit specific components in naval and 1 shot things... Just takes practice with aiming. After grinding for almost a year I can pretty much just knock off the enemy captain's cigar off his mouth from over 10 kms away while both ships are actively maneuvering lol. I will however, suggest learning to aim with realistic. I actually feel NRB better coz I can decide to aim a bit higher or lower on the deck or waterline for the gun knockouts or the juicy ammo racks. I love playing DDs coz its the best mix of maneuverability and knife-fighting; as well as rapid fire to readjust aim and providing supporting fire from range. Coastal Vessels usually decide the fate of the match (other than float planes). I usually spawn in a fast coastal boat, take a cap, launch torps if i have them and then leave vehicle and rejoin in a bigger ship. Usually both sides' players are too busy fighting other big ships and it comes down to a stalemate. Having that 1 cap usually wins me quite a few games. I am not writing this as a hate comment or a showoff even if it might come off that way. I love naval warfare in general and I think Warthunder naval really captures naval warfare pretty well. Naval is supposed to be boring coz its all about what you did 5 minutes ago and not what you are doing now lol. I like the slower pace. That said, Great video. Keep it up! o7

Naval is the most relaxed part of war thunder. I just put my headphones in and be clapping cheeks with my Scharnhorst.

I think whether ships are as cool as planes and tanks depends on person/community a lot. It just, that there are probably more tank nerds around, than ship nerds. And like you said with train fans. I personally can't tell difference between tanks except of very famous ones, like Tiger or Sherman. But I can tell you all possible ship classes from memory and classify nation, type and maybe even "tech tree" of 1900-1950 era vessel based on one photo. Yes, they look different.

played like 3 games in arcade to get the hang of things, switched to realistic and yeah, was confused with aiming but in the span of a single match I got the hang of it, I’m enjoying naval so far

This popped up on my recommendations and holy smokes he does look a bit like Zelinsky.

i hopped on naval recently. and its decent. its a massive SL grinder and its pretty fun doing full broadsides.

The shot aiming is why I love naval. When you get rekt, it’s usually because the guy is actually really good. Vs ground battles where you die to a guy shooting thru a gap in a box that you can’t see from 2km away

Great vid man!

Bruh...I just wanted to tell you coastal is VERY important. These ships cap....I have been in matches that were won only by coastal ships constantly capping shallow points. I used to play WoW's , but after the infamous CV rework and being shot-gunned by subs, over and over I went to WT Naval. You know what? "War...Thunder...it's fantastic!"

I like naval. It is slow and a little boring but whenever I’m getting frustrated playing air or ground I’ll play naval for a bit and just chill.

Im starting to prefer naval to ground since you have more of a fight with the ships and you cant get taken out by someone camo'd up like a bush

If naval was more refined I would play it more because I want to play a naval game, but WT is the only one I know of with the mechanics I want. Another thing that'd be great would be if they brought back a submarine mode because I played the demo years ago and despite not knowing how to play it well at all, it was really fun

i love the lyrics when he says "Save or kill, it's a game"

ships are way more sexy than anything else ships are the ultimate way that man kind found to make war since the start of civilization

Have unlocked the entire Kriegsmarine.. Was worth getting the ultimate coastal boats to compliment your bluewater fleet. My personal fav lineup is Admiral Hipper for constant barrage of guns.. Jaguar & PR 206 for coastal speed and quad torp runs.. The Admiral Graf Spee and Scharnhorst to fill out Bluewater.. along with these aircraft, the FW 190 (premium) & HE 111 H6 with torp loadouts. I prefer Naval to Tonks & Planes.. but there's not a large enough playerbase. Really hope Subs are incorporated into the lineup soon. Were soooo much fun!

Naval is chill, until you realise you're already in enemy waters lol

I love customisation and drawing attention to myself with the vehicles I use. That's why I'm such an avid collector of event vehicles. It also happens to be the reason why I entirely agree with you on this point! 5:49 . The event and rare versions of ships in WT rarely have any immediately noticeable and distinguishing features, and they don't draw double-takes from other players. One of my favourite things is when I'm in ground or air battles and I get comments in chat like "What the heck is that?", or when I can see very clearly multiple friendly tanks turning their turrets to look at me (yes, I'm an attention w**re XD ). In naval, the biggest change is generally just some armament switchups that only you will really notice.

Naval imo is the best game mode in WT. I started playing WT before boats were added bc i always found the fast paced pixel peeking tanks or turn fighting bf109s and spitfires fun in tiny doses. I consistently play naval now, i enjoy actually having the time to think about my strategies and stay alive for a while and make hits even if i dont get kills or its just assists. If youre tired of getting mad at WT naval is the way to go. Destroyers are the best class

I would say that visual identification is harder but when you come from games like World of Warships; knowing that what your shooting is a desmoines and not a worcester can be helpful, but not threatening by any means

I mean the arcade aiming kinda makes sense. There are crew mates that would math the trajectory in real life lol

The tech trees used to not be separate. It was just the coastal one, it went from PT boats to light cruisers. I agree, the two trees is dumb.

As someone who’s only played air for the last 6 years and have achieved top tier air. Naval is addicting. There is nothing that hits dopamine better than landing a 45degree broadside with some explosive round from a high angle at 12km.

Most fun i had in naval was a broadside fight with a scharnhorst in a ISE at 500 meters

Accidentally AFKed watching this video in a an air match, then came in and rekt shop, getting last man standing and winning the match. Fun.

Good Luck mate

Great vid

The German heavy cruiser used to be so OP because it used to be the only heavy cruiser

You can’t complain about realistic reload times and “preference”. I personally love dreadnoughts, and the battles are relatively well paced.

I came to War Thunder from World of Warships. I appreciate the added challenge, but I probably wouldn’t like ships if I did have the previous experience.

I personally love ships. It’s more about positioning and bigger ships mean you can take more hits and kill things with ease

I enjoy naval from time to time, while it’s definitely lacking, I’d say it has made up about 15-20% of my playtime.

Naval is a great change of pace from the rest of the game! If playing tanks is like checkers and planes like chess, then naval is mahjong. Playing with ships can feel terribly slow in comparison to ground RB or mid-tier air RB, but once you wrap your head around the controls, nuances, and game phases then adjust your play accordingly the mode's passivity fades away to a large degree and it can actually be quite hectic. A better way of trying to understand the premise of naval combat is if you imagine flattening the spatial considerations of air RB to a two-dimensional plane- yet positioning, team cohesion, maneuvers, and pacing are just as, if not more, vital. Now combine that with all of the game knowledge surrounding ground combat (armor, angling, shell typology, etc). Finally, an extra element complicates all of these considerations- survivability. Barring bizarre circumstances (gaps in the damage model) or being entirely outclassed, chances are you're going to be slugging it out for a while so the threat calculations provides you a lot more leeway in pushing the boundaries of what is possible/advisable for the previously mentioned aspects within ground and air modes. As for ships feeling "samey same", I don't know if that feeling ever goes away if you don't grind through a tree using lineups and/or avoid playing multiple nations. Since that wasn't the goal of the video it'd be hard for you to get that perspective. The various ship classes and vehicles within each class definitely have their own "character", even if it is a bit more subtle than other vehicle types in the game (e.g., the HMS Dido and USS Helena may be light cruisers, but they play VERY differently). Visually, each nation has their own cues (Japanese smokestacks, citadels, and twin-barrelled turrets come to mind) while ships of a certain class within each nation have turret layouts that can help in identification (IJN Fuso has 6 turrets vs the IJN Kongo's 4). Admittedly, it just takes being a naval nerd or lots of play time to get that visual memory built up. P.S. One trick to help alleviate issues with both aiming and pacing is to bind a key for ranging shots. You can then toggle an option to range by gun or battery. What that does on a ship like the Kongo (4 turrets each with 2 guns) is you can have 8 individual shots or 4 paired shots rather than an all-in-one salvo with the main guns. This allows you to very quickly range in on a target without sweating reload times and once you get dialed in you can keep a non-stop rolling fire on the enemy vessel to either keep them crippled or constantly cripple multiple modules. It also allows you to transition between targets without sitting on a massive reload- you can effectively engage multiple targets simultaneously in a general area of your primary target or transition to a more threatening target if it's starting to hammer you. Combine that with the keybindings to switch to your secondaries and you can either juggle an absurd amount of targets or machine gun a single target.

Ok, so basically, air and ground are essentially Battlefield, you get killed by people that you can't even see, get instakilled in the most bullshit of ways, etc etc. Naval is like chess, if you die, either the enemy has completely outsmarted you, or you fucked up in a massive way. it's more about anticipating what the other captains are going to do and acting accordingly. Also, set range to the mouse wheel, it's much better. This is specially true in blue water ships btw. Oh, and learning where ammo racks are is kinda really important, (you can also use logic i mean, if there's a turret, there's usually ammo below it) and you have to think of what you do (and you have lots of time to think, specially if the other ships are far away), like, if the ship is close to land and heading toward it, you should probably take out the command tower, in order to prevent them from controlling the ship and making them crash into land. If the ship has more firepower than you (something you need to learn to spot) you might want to take the turrets our in the first few blows, and then aim for the waterline, you also need to position yourself in a way that maximizes your firepower while also minimizing the chance of your ammo racks blowing up in the first voley you recieve, etc. Lastly, you need to be strategic with repairs. ALWAYS priorize taking out fires, then repairs and lastly taking out the water that has accumulated (tho depending on the damage, you can do the last two at the same time). I'd also reccomend training your crew for damage reduction first, specially for fires and crisis prevention, and also spotting, as this will help you get a better chance at surviving because not only will you be able to handle damage better, you'll also have a positioning advantage because you will see ships earlier than they see you, plus you'll get updated on the position the enemy ship has more frequently and accurately. Also, naval battles don't take much longer than air or ground, it feels like it does because you usually live longer

Tip for Leading shot is to use Ranging shot, fires one of the guns to judge range.

as someone playing naval right now, thank you

you can get the lead indicator in realistic, it's just a keybind

Naval has some easy fixes. Add subs, add the ships people want (Yamato) and maybe implement introduce new game mode that sees double the lobby size where half plays naval and other half is in the air and teams attack each other (e.g. same naval combat but add more players that battle in the air combat and run torpedoes to enemy ships)

To answer your question about the tech trees: They used to share just one tree. But they found that most players trying their hand at naval were interested primarily in the larger bluewater ships, which were locked behind multiple tiers of grinding. It wasn't quite the same as air or ground trees, because the lower tiers were full of coastal vessels which play dramatically differently to the bluewaters. It was like being forced to play call of duty for 100 hours to reach CS: Go. As a result, the developers split the trees so that people could play how they wanted.

So i just watched your video and i thought it was interesting, especially as a Naval main and see what your thoughts would be. Below is things i agreed and disagreed on when watching the video that i wrote down in discord that i copy pasted here. 1. i 100% agree with the aiming in RB, i find incrediably tedious due to the constant need to adjust it because of the distance and speeds your fighting at, which is why i dont like playing RB. 2. The split in tech trees shouldnt be a thing but its better than before were you have to grind out the coastal then start on bluewater ships like it was a few years ago, still the suggestion made in the video is a good one. 3. i disagree with the idea that coastal is inherintly less fun than bluewater, i agree with the notion that a blue water will win 90% of the time against most coastal ships but thats only in scenarios were both types of ship are in game, purely coastal battles are fairly action packed and can be alot more engaging, especially since for the most part you are on equal footing. 4. i disagree with the statement that naval vehicles inherntly play and/or look the same, there is differences between them that make gameplay varied, for an example american destroyers like moffet and porter have incrediable rates of fire for there guns, have alot of guns, but have vulnerable magazine storage and below average torpedoes. Compare that with russian destroyer tashkent, it has few guns and fire at a slower rate with even worse torpedoes, but they have very high yield SAP with great penetration and muzzel velocity, which makes it one of the best destroyers in game, this comparison can be done across the board with naval ships so i find it odd it was said, just as there is differences between a panzer 4, sherman and t34 there is differences between a helena, sverdelov, mogami and london which makes each encounter with them more unique and can change how you play against them or as them. 5. while aircraft in RB are certaintly not very powerful, it is totally opposite in AB, which at times can be worse than ground RB, mainly from orbiting pe8s and other high yield bombers that sit outside of AA range and kill entire teams. thats all the thoughts that popped out at me the most but there is other things as well that i can comment on.

Navel need to be more than just "battleships". Coastal, destroyer, subs, aircraft carriers, air fighters, air bombers. Need a mode that add everything, with their own role and such. *Realistic aim you just need to add aim up down to the scroll wheel.* Once you are able to use it, it is actually easier to hit ships and or components. Another aspect to the guessing is to try and figure out what your opponent is doing while having good range guessing gunners (crew stat) and use the estimate they give to estimate where the ship will be. For example the gunner, based on speed and so on, says X position, but you noticed the opposing player is speeding up and down at random, but not really random, more in "waves" pattern and currently you estimate he is slowing down so you shoot a bit to shorter than the estimate. Now you add AP rounds and where on the ship you want to hit and estimate in regards to that as well. Boom, you get a ammo rack and the long fight isnt that long after all. On realistic the manual aiming is such that once you get it. You can do more than you regularly can in arcade. It is kinda like driving an automatic vs a stick shift on diffusivity terrain. Stick shift is more complex, but also easier to use on difficult terrain once you know how to.

You got the wrong ship. If you get a Des Moines or fast battlecruiser, it's fun as hell. I like the USS Roanoke, the Atlanta and the Mitscher because they spam shots.

Wait until they add modern destroyers, cruisers and all the guided missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles and you dont even see the enemy at the egagment range.

I'll have to disagree with the 'all ships look the same'. At some point you'll realise that the destroyers have major differences. The US has the Sommers class with a ridiculous reload speed that just pummels you with HE, the Japanese have the best torpedoes, the Germans and Russians have good main armament, the British are the easiest to kill if you aim for the deck cause thats where the ammo is stored, a featured removed in the last destroyers of the tree. Later in the cruiser part, and this is where I hate the current meta, you'll realise that US has the best cruisers, as all they do is sit at spawn and use their ridiculous reload speed to just spam HE and melt your crew to death as you try and leave spawn. Any other feature the rest of the nations have is completely negated by US spamming ability. The Russians have the kronshdat, a ship that was never completed that just absolutely tanks anything you throw at it. Only in battleships do you find an equalizer, where theyre all pretty much the same, slow, thick with punchy guns

Personally I think that coastal battle are much more fun the blue water, the maps aren't that much bigger than ground rb and the boats mostly are crazy fast so coastal is way fast paced, and you need to know where an enemy has been shot before, and where to shoot them now, which is like leading a tank shot in ground rb

Command & Conquer Generals music. I feel old knowing I’m the only one that noticed 😭

The German battle barges are pretty fun in coastal

i enjoy the naval battles more than what i do tanks and aviation

Ships are not as sexy as tanks and planes? I BEG TO DIFFER, GOOD SIR!!! No ship has perfect and elegant symmetry from bow to stern more than the Prinz Eugen and the Bismarck and their respective classes for that matter!

I remember playing this years ago and just obliterating the enemy fleet with the f2p boat. I thought it was too easy and went to planes lol

That intro was unexpected to say the least, but i like it when youtubers start with a quick joke.

Might be good idea to try Boat Crew after this:)

The reason that they don't combine the trees is because it would create more grind for players that already complain enough

My grandgrandgrandgrandpa said this : "become the sea king or lost by the sea king!! "

I remember shen they forst added boats. I started playing WT in 2012/13 and i honestly only hop on the game now for the naval battles. I miss the old aiming system they had, the new one is alright i guess. Im not a serious player anymore, only once in a blue moon.

they where separated because it use to take a long time to even get to destroyers so it was done to make it less grinding i use to play naval when it was one tree and your complaint about it was ten fold when it was one you just want a destroyer but you need at least 60 or more hours of grinding to get them depending on country and then you where curved stomped by better DDs

Imo the worst thing about naval is the br compression. Like, there is just nothing appealing about dying to a heavy cruiser over and over again in your little destroyer, because you can't do anything, since your torps don't have much range and are easy to evade, your guns can't hurt it and he can kill you in one shot. Honestly feels like playing 11.3 air rb. You're always stuck fighting significantly superior enemies, can't really control the match at all, and have to play like a vulture to get kills. Couple this with the fact that these superior ships are being played by players that know what they're doing and you basically block any new players from getting anywhere in naval.

6:59 i think this issue has to do w how new naval is when compared to other game modes. On the start of the game, aircraft and tanks weren't that different mechanically from they counterparts; they were all WW2 vehicles that worked all the same, until jets, missiles, ATGMs and other stuff came to add variety. Maybe on some years we will see more variety of weaponry with missiles, aircraft carriers, subs and others, and things will be more diverse through the gameplay.

Sharnhorst and hood will make you happy

What's funny, is that guy who barely understands game mode is explaining it to people who heve played it for years. Game mode is flawed but I can only hope that devs won't make it similar to ground battles

Navals fun but at the lower to mid tiers, it is blatantly unbalanced, and the grind to get the top tier ships takes forever, especially when you dont get that much sp, you gotta use the same ships for tens of battles

5:48 what is sexier than a large battleship with more firepower than an entire match of ground rb combines... in one 381mm cannon?

I personally like naval the most, the slower pace is something I like. I dont enjoy or play well in the others though I still play them. I need to add my boats back in my lineups again to refresh myself on the current boat experience. Though i can say that boats can be proper game changers and dare I say game deciders. If they succeed in capping and holding them the game is over. Ive been on both ends of that. One complaint I do have is how stupidly accurate the AA AI can be. Like i can't tell you how many times I get sniped by a random aa gun from like 4-5+km away. They do need to just calm down on the accuracy. Like there is no point in adding AP bombs if we're gonna get shot down so quickly. Im curious about the idea of adding FFGs, DDGs, CLGs and CAGs to the game. These are the various types of guided missile warships. Though Im unsure. All I can say is that I have identified some ships that could be added relatively comfortably in the game's current state. Ships like uss albany and uss gyatt. The only issue i have is what I can "indirect powercreep" im not massivly worried about anti ship missiles. I'm worried about SAMs. The level of no fly zone is gonna have to allow more capable aircraft in which kills having the earlier ones in game.

I played coastal beta and recently started Bluewater about a month ago but for coastal i gotta say you need to play russian because they feel a lot better with their 76 mm or 85 mm cannons AND they have the SKR-1 at the end of their line which is comparable to the SKR-7

After playing Naval RB a bunch I must agree that I still have no idea what ships I am playing against. It has to do a lot with typical engage distance imo. In WoWs you have both marker with model name and clear view even on distant ships. In Naval RB you have no markers and the ship is a distant foggy silhouette, plus you always play vs mixed teams so you cannot really narrow it down by nation often. I learned some ships only after watching bunch of RU-vid videos and even then its just a few.

Honestly, it seems like you have bounced of off the Naval thanks to War Thunders typical learning curve. I mean, many things you mentioned sounded like me, before I had any clue what to do in game regardless of whether it was Air/Ground/Naval. And until I got a hang off it, it sucked, because I felt frustrated, because a lot of things didn’t make sense to me, even though I got the hang of basics. What I agree with though, is the game pace of Naval. Even when I played World of Warships, it still was a bit too slow for me. And I think it makes learning Naval even slower.

Id love to have a first person view on naval. Maybe in the bridge or the main spotting post.

Bluewater and coastal should have separate mm but coastal should be able to be taken into bluewater if you want to

That instant Ramen better taste good.

you wouldnt be living on instant ramin if you didnt make fun of the british

Dope vid

Before naval, I had to grind for SL. With the naval, I only care about the RP. Money is no longer a problem - even the occasional "casino boxes" don't drain my SL wallet.

Ironically enough I am a menace with costal ships lol hell I sunk a battle cruiser today that was 4.3 to my 1.3 lol

For some reason naval is just tickles my brain in a way ground rb doesn’t my only issue with it are the absurd que times and lack of nations fighting other nations

I gave war thunder naval battles a chance once you figure it out its a blast

underrated WT youtuber

Love the ships!!

The thing is... in my past experiences when you have game imbalances, bugs, cheatting and whatever other general whack that occurs, it seems less impactful on you enjoying the game when you are playing ship battles. I still sometimes play air, but I have totally swore off ground. The only times I have encountered the minor level of BS in naval that i have encountered in ground with the poor implimentation of various mechanics, bad maps, etc etc etc (not to say ship battles doesnt have some horrendous ones though.) But the major levels are when they do the idiot cash grab of releasing a broken new ship with insane firepower andor durability and charge you to get it now, then nerf it later when the trial period is over or that new tree or whatever is sufficintly filled with plays as best as they can. (I still say the dev that let the PG02 run amonk like a midget superman needs to be prevented from interacting with the rest of humanity after that fiasco). So this passes ad isnt a constant. Now it's just the problem of torpedo's running wild and there's no explaination I've found yet since returning to war thunder, and the obvious imbalance of missile armed ships vs. ww2 era vehicles. Though people complain about torp spam, it's only arcade when this really becomes nuts, and its easy to fix. Correct the issue with spawn camping/spawn congestion and dying right after you spawn, slow large ships reload times for torps and face facts that the smaller boats are going to be useless without rapid torp reloads in many cases. But since when has warthunder been known for correcting simple mistakes without taking ages and millions of hours of headaches?