World of Warships- WG Actually Did Something Awesome Here (D-Day Operation) 

As a player who absolutely loves Asym and Ops, I would love for these to be added in the ops mode in the live server (But if we can manually pick specific modes/missions would be a blast)

6:36, the most powerful shell in existence.

@sealordmountbatten I've played this quite a bit on the previous 13.4 PTS rounds, and also yesterday. Some comments: 1) Atlanta is an absolute beast for this. Radar+hydro+IFHE+very good AA makes short work of everything. It takes 2-3 full salvos to annihilate one of the AA positions, and 5-6 to wipe out one of the artillery positions. You simply shred all the torp boats and destroyers too. I also take the anti-Mine skill. Typically two ASW drops, and the minefield gets cleared. Also it's small and maneuverable enough that you can navigate a minefield at speed to erase it while not hitting any. I've had multiple 2,000+ base XP games playing it. 2) The minefields in the way of the transports must be cleared. You can't get full stars for the mission without that, because even if the enemy ships don't get them, enough of them will plow straight into mines and sink. 3) On your "my secondaries aren't shooting at the shore target" - it's because the shore batteries are elevated above sea level, which reduces the effective range of your guns! In my Atlanta, for example, a lot of the artillery batteries aren't "in range" until I'm around ~10.5km away, because the shells hit higher in their arcs, which means they can't fly as far before reaching the target. It's physics :) 4) This is going to be a blast playing in divisions, with people on comms.

7:55 aiming at installations has always been a bit buggy for people who usually play scenario and take note of it (Killer whale, narai, cherry blossom). You need to get a little bit closer than your max gun range to even lock on it, not to mention aim a little bit further away (higher) for your shot to actually hit instead of aiming right at it. Maybe something to do with its height compared to the sea level, but idk. 9:55 oh... I believe people already gave up asking for damage counter for damaging installation in scneario. It is quite ridiculous that it doesn't exist, if you consider that the clear goal for operation cherry blossom is destroying airfields, but at the same time you don't get any bonus for damaging it. A CV can carry that cherry blossom operation but only counted as dealing like 30-40k damage since the early enemies are sparse and late enemies are too packed to be a target for airstrike, making the airfield to be the rational target to aim for... but the damage is not counted.

Time to break out the HMCS Haida. Want to be historically accurate for this.

Well with my old eyes I reckon a lot of squinting at the screen will be involved. Sooo dark.

Devs took care❤ of D-day balancing through few phases ofv testing. It's not advisable to get too far from center of sea area anyway, usually those mission (optimal) spots for you are marked. The battle is really dynamic so moving too far doesn't help finish later sub goals. Main source of damage to enemy ships are those DDs at 2nd to last goal, these DDs appears at end of map so its not goo to be on other side of map at that point. When you have battleship then its probably best idea to stick center of map as your main guns should be able to take out coastal defenses comfortably. While I liked WV44 to nuke torpedo boats with its secondaries and inflict massive damage to coastal targets with main guns, its slow. Also ASW works that way you better with ship based ASW so you clear minefield with few sets of charges. Mines in mine field are displaced regularly so if you sail 1/4 speed you. can navigate through. 👉 Dutch T7 cruiser Eendracht worked best for me to snipe torpedo boats. 👉 Fiji worked great too having even heal which can be handy but you can do even without it. Surrey was good for me to blast torpedo boats great too 👉👉👉 Guys with Atlanta usually led the scoreboard but also Helena or even its prem variant Boise placed great (Boise didn't work for me, lol). Decent timing - positioning your ship during operation seems crucial to get ok result. I think mixed class or division could take care of secondary missions better. Btw I am curious if WG also testing those human named like AI bots on PTS, named as WoWs_CC_xy, as they don't communicate but able to refuse inv to div, lol. There was a little note about them some time ago.

i wish WG would just add more and more of these operations. I do like them. a lot of times i'd rather play these than deal with randoms with subs and CVs.

I’m really looking forward to these operations!

This was an excellent video SLM, i look forward to the D-Day Ops. My wife's uncle was with the "Big Red 1" on D Day and his group parachuted behind enemy lines to destroy the German artillery which was aimed at the landing beaches.

Hallo! I been having a good time in the PTS: D-Day ops with Belfast. Fun!!!. Thank you Sea Lord Mountbatten!.

In my oppinion, both shore bombardements and Aircraft damage should be added to the damage counter, I mean how are they not accountable damage?

They need to make it possible for t9 and t10 to do operations. Stupid that they won’t let us have fun if we are past t8

This is gonna be a blast

Weird thing happened just tonight, was playing this operation, and my whole team got wiped, and we still managed to win the mission.. It was crazy!

Looks like a bit of chaos and I love it!

Can’t wait for this to hit live. Won’t touch test server myself as I have very limited gaming time and not spending it testing lol.

I had a blast playing this on the pt server. I can't wait to play the next one and I hope they bring them to the live server. The Uganda is a beast on this map.

Did the first round of testing on this. Great mode !!!

once the airfields are spotted the Dutch cruisers air strike will take them out in one run.

Looks a lot like the Dunkirk Op from a few years ago. Are they give out another free tier 8 DD for completing the mission? Those generous days seem long gone.

Love this Op. Also, AP work better against coastal batteries.

damn, that visuals with fog look amazing also in ops ap is always better aginst land targets that arent airfields

I wondered if they were a different take on limpet mines, like the one that nearly sunk the HMS Belfast. They sat on the bottom in shallow water until activated by a ships mass, but instead of just detonating they pop to the surface? The field definitely seems to grow. I really like the Belfast in this mode. On airfields the HE does the most dmg, but on coastal guns, AP gives me the highest dmg on my 152s.

I think the ASW just disable mines equal to the number of bombs dropped per flight. I noticed the same thing during the convoy event while playing BB and cruisers. With DD's,I've had up to 10 mines get knocked out per skill use. My guess it's hardcoded, so BB's and cruisers don't drop an ASW and clear the entire field.

It would make sense to bring Texas if you have here since she was present at D Day

I played a Helena in this gamemode and It was just shoot shoot and shoot

I don't think the actual landing was so challenging for the allies' Navy, but this is a cool idea from WG.

Cant wait to try it.......

That operation was really awful during it first PTS (hyper accurate and fast coastal gun, ultra fast torpboat, destroying coastal/aa gun gave no reward, coastal/aa had an armor that shatter HE..even BB ones). But WG fixed all of this during the second PTS.

Which in Real Life, The Luftwaffe was almost nonexistent during D-Day, but i digress......

its interesting because apparently the s-boot (s100 class) could do just over 45 knots and occasionally over 48 knots. if theyre doing 50 or 60 knots its like they dont want you to hit them lol

Finally! New ops that look really great to play.

Guess a bombing-deployment-focusd D7P might be very useful against those onshore targets, cuz she can delete the airport in the Op Cherry Blossom easily.

man this operation is insane and prty dam hard but makes it so much fun

NO! just me but, I totally despise planes and torps! I'm not going to ask to play the two biggest pains in the keister

This looks really cool! I find the torpedo boats especially interesting, WG add MTBs when? (although I have no idea how that would work in the regular game)

Operations are my most played mod of WoW. Feels closest to a real naval battle versus the joke random mode. Random just means island hiding and smoke to fire from instead of covering friendly ships with.

Ship based depth charges work *many* times better than airstrikes. And them Schnellboots are a pain in the neck to hit more than a few km out.

I farm ops, free xp and to level captains. Good games can net you 1500-2000k base xp. I've hit 1.4M credits and see regular 1M games ( blue boosters). Asymmetric is fun, but I play it to level T9s tbh

I can't do the test server. I need to grind the dockyard. Maybe if it counted to my main account I could do it. As it stands the rewards care too small for the time investment

Is this going to be available on the regular servers later?

Anddd...time to add Minesweepers, MTB's, and Landing Ships/Craft!

Try using ships like the Helena or Mahan, both of them are excellent for this mode. Battleships seem to be less useful within this game mode

Do you know if the ribbons you earn will count towards the dockyard event? Or will the event be over before this is released?

i have a question: how do you tag people in the gamechat? there are always people tagging me to come back or smth but i can never figure out how

I use a secondary build Rooke for this battle.

I'd love to try this OP, but on SEA server, there are 10 people...

My client verry commonly has a error message when I exit. I don't know why or if there is anything I can do about it.

The secondary guns issue has been a bug in the game since it started. Sadly WG dont want to fix the issue.

Mountbatten please make a list of most rewarding ships/lines when played right!! Or even a most fun ships list Keep them Tier 10 though

Will depth charges also destroy the mine fields?

I think having a DD with decent guns and ASW would do wonders on the minefields.

Looks perfect for Nelson

When does it start being fun? Where are the rewards?

hello, please also talk about the scam that is this leader board event that wargaming have releasd. in the asia server the top guy is getting 300000 base xp but his last active was 3 days ago. i mean its even before the event even started.

tried out the D-day - bring back Assymmetric as D-Day really wasn't that much fun (still better than clan battles + brawls though)

WOULD THE ILLIONOIS BE GOOD FOR THIS AS IT CAN SPAM HE FASTER

It is impressive.

Hello i made it on PT server with French cruiser La GALISSONNIERE Best in this mode to me.

I tried this out over the last weeks and I hate it. The only good ship you can play in there is the WV44. But the targeting of the shore stuff is buggy so often you can't actually shoot the shore installations. Unfortunately it is thematically limited to Western Allies ships. So there are a bunch of good ships you can't use in this gamemode. I will not play this on the live server.

Will this be in the main game soon ??

The only complaints I have on this mode is how hard it is without those buffs are. If you run without anything equip, it will be the living hell. Torpedo Boats are basically faster than a DDs which is weird considering that most Torpedo Boats at most, to make a stretch, would be around 30 knots maximum. Which to add more into the insult also hard to hit. To add even more insult these things launch torps every 5 seconds. Although torps do at most European level of damage, but it still annoying as it still able to crit you and knock out the engine totally. Sea Mines are very annoying. Sometimes Airstrike depth charges doesn’t work properly and Tier VII ships only have a single airstrike. Coastal Guns are inaccurate for serval first 10 seconds before it increase to aimbot accuracy. Seriously these guns can hit you at 12km dead on even you are a destroyer. Overall, good operations. Wish we have more players per operations. BBs are Arty bombardment CAs provide anti air as much as possible and shot down those mines aircraft as much as possible. Def. AA required pn this and it’s even not enough to take out all of them. DDs are mine sweepers. They are very useful at doing this, they are more effective than Aircraft Depth Charges. As DDs can make a safe passage on the sea mines area. Smoke screen also useful at hiding CAs and BBs as Coastal Guns are very dangerous, those things can set you on fire and sometimes knock your engine and rudder and each shot hits you every 2k with terrifying rate of fires. No, you can use CVs or Subs. And no you can use any ships, only allies related. Means no IJN, KMS, Pan Asian, Pan American, Italian, even Soviet Ships. Only countries that can participate are US, UK, FRA, EURO and DUTCH. So you can’t use Soviet Superior Bias BS AA on this one and you can’t use Tier VIII or higher ships. Means, no Alabama or other broken Tier VIII Ships. And yes, that’s include our best AA Numba Wan Cruiser, San Diego.

how do you get access to public testing?

It's tier 7.. what's he mean by American light or heavy cruisers? There's only Helena..

How do i install the test server

Dang spoiler alert! lol 😂

In my opinion, this operation is underwhelming at best. I played it quite a lot in the public test hoping that they would release something cool, but it just felt boring. All you do is get in a cruiser with any dpm, and you wreck the whole mission. The minefields are easy to sail through with anything that isn't a battleship, and the depth charges take that issue away from the battleships. Load up AP in any cruiser and you melt all of the shore installations. As much as I want to say that this is a cool operation, especially because it represents D-Day, it's just so underwhelming. In my opinion, the only reason to play it is because the styles for the ships are really well done.

Is there any good reason why there are no ops missions for tier 10 ships?

So BB's only on whose main targets don't dodge, making EVERYONE else work, and BB's still want ALL the glory? 🤔 Sounds accurate! 😅😅😅

actually AP is more useful than HE against the costal guns. BBs are not as useful in this mode. because all the enemy surface ships are DDs and there are constant minefield and torp planes, tier 7 BBs are just not good at dealing with any of those. CL is best, other DDs depends on which nation .

Did You think the NORMANY VICTORY was EASY? thought you were a teacher!

Bring back Operation Dynamo amd add it to the permanent Ops list

Whats a ship that doesnt suck?

I did not have fun dodging mines while also dodging plans AND not being able to see what you’re shooting at. I won’t be playing this mode at all.

didnt they closed PTS yesterday?

Yay now content that's needed in the game. When are they going to remove it lol. They keep taking the only way to play to and t10 coop out of the game, which is crazy.

I want to like this op, but having played all 3 test iterations so far, there are some serious issues. Balance is tuned around the Intelligence mechanic. This makes certain tasks either completely trivial, or not worth the effort because of how broken scoring is. Scoring is broken. Damage and kills trumps actually helping with the other objectives, which are not particularly satisfying to complete. There are serious issues with aiming at structures, and mine tooltips are confusing and unintuitive. Why bother with these objectives when chasing damage will net you a much higher BXP score and be overall more fun to boot? Concerning mines, they aren't fun to interact with. As stated, the tooltips don't make sense, and even when you do figure it out, you quickly realize that they respawn very quickly, no matter how many planes you destroy, and airstike ASW is completely useless. Fields have HP of around 50 or so, and at most, you will deplete only 1 or 2 HP with an airdrop. Combine this with the 30 second reload of air ASW, and its clear that calling in strikes is pointless. Such equipped ships should ignore mines and chase damage or shoot structures. Concerning structures, their hitboxes feel broken, much more so than in regular ops. Destroying them rewards little XP, and gunnery against them isn't satisfying because of the hitboxes. Gun emplacements are allowed to stealth fire (a mechanic that has LONG since been removed) against you, and may only be spotted by attack aircraft (a mechanic WG has expressed they want to remove). These pain points push players to just farm damage, which is easier, more fun, and is awarded much higher XP. These issues push you toward CLs(meta for round 2 and 3) which can 1) destroy ships effectively and 2) defend themselves against mines with ship dropped charges(mind you, you only clear a path for yourself if needed, there's no incentive to actively mineclear for others based on how scoring works). Actual op objectives are eschewed in all three iterations in favor of simply farming damage. Even a 1 or 2 star clear will reward the lead farming ship more than a higher star clear where that same ship did not selfishly farm. It should be noted that round one was borderline unplayable, and the newer iterations are better, but this op still feels like a mess that rewards a very particular meta (much more so than regular ops) for the stated reasons.

On D Day the german airfoce was noteable by its LACK of presence! almost non existent!!! and most mines were cleared long before D Day. I know it is just a game but did the developers even study the real battle even a little? snell boats on d day itself were also nonexistent! All together I am very disapointed !

hello

P TEST

"A wonderful mess, hectic", yet players hate planes and torps supposedly. Where's this thrill for war like combat when it comes to PvP?

Played it in the second round of the PTS, boy it was so boring and easy.

Played it 4-5 times on the PTR, was boring af... everytime we lost cuz the Cannons on Land were just too strong they nuked the crap out of us.

I see they fixed this ops? the first iteration was soooooooooo bad.

trudging through that minefield was not fun. challenging bot hoards can be fun and exciting, crawling through minefields, not so much.

Personnally not of fan of this. The mine field mechanism seems bugged, why do they suddenly dissapear? How do you clear the mines for the landing craft? You sail through the part of the sea destroying any mines you find and yet the landing ships turn up and just plough into mines. Hardly reflecting realistic events on D Day (I know this is an arcade game). You have shore batteries that can't be fired at when in range, they are above sea level but that should make them easier to hit not harder! Also they are blasting away at you and you can't see them because the planes haven't spotted them!?! Really this operation has absolutely nothing to do with D Day except the name!

How is 95k credits worth 20 minutes of my life?

The Op sucks. It's too difficult. If it is released in its current state, I won't play it. I ran with a Fiji and KGV several times, and the AP rocket planes took out half the Fiji's health in one rocket launch. The torpedo boats are almost impossible to hit, the minefields spawn on top of you and expand, and the shore guns are too accurate. Yeah, not playing it.

Are subs still in the game? If so, I'm still out. Enjoy your vids though.

Hate to break it to you but ops is not even close to "not being played to much". I understand your a random, ranked and clan guy but ops is always full of players so please stop trying to make it sound as if its a shit mode that people dont play. there are just as many of us who hate the try hard sweats who solely focus on stats and fk their teammates by playing for themselves so we stick with the pve. its actually refreshing because players actually play to win, are nice and speak to each other like real people, you know, no crying, bitching, moaning and groaning, yea its nice. the only thing that would make the game better for us is if they made asym permanent because thats a super fun mode.

Operations is less played because people who play it are made fun off

After a few days of these, I have yet to find a TEAM that can make 5 Stars. Actually 3 is the norm so far... most players have NO idea what to do and BRING THE WRONG SHIP. Very Frustrating. I am with Potato Quality. You are frustrated VERY FAST... even in an Atlanta.

Yeah; no. ZERO fun. Guns not damaging targets. Mines constantly appearing magically in front of, or on top of you. too much coming on all at once. This Op can go to hell. Not worth wasting time with.

First operation is terrible. Change my mind.

for christs sake quit calling it an anniversary. call it what it should be:: a day of rememberance

this is boring af, for some reason everyone playing DDay event is a pro wows player hitting those tiny Shnellboots from 20km away