Zao Buffed - How BROKEN Is This Ship Now? 

How much of a buff do you think is the Zao armor update? Its mentioned in the other changes for 12.5 and redirects to 0.10.9.

If only they would re-instate the Legendary Mod rudder-shift boost.

It's Sir David Attenborough hehe But damn, what a game, all that damage for 2 kills. & Any turret traverse buff on IJN CAs is ALWAYS welcome, good god, havent you played a stock Myoko recently?

Wait? A very confusing comment. Seems like you are sarcastic and serious at the same time.

carrier died to GK secondaries ... nothing changes

The playerbase of this game is absolutely stunningly stupid.

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90% of T11 players are dumb

Exactly. 200 battles on his account and he's gonna buy a premium as soon as it hits the stores. Unfortunately thats the main player base - you can see them each day. Makes me want to have teamkilling back.

​@ahmedradi99they are reetrads, not sick.

surely

They are just preparing for the addition of long range missiles.

I also get close, I play a secondary Nebraska :| Or a secondary Kansas... or Florida. Or anything really, I just want to have fun.

Just Image that ship fights where exactly this. Fights on long Ranges with the military pushing those Ranges Further and Further.

Another symptom of Long Range are CV's plane spotting you from 10,000 Miles away and every ship with infinite range blowing you up before you can even get out of spawn, it's really fun.

It's the natural response to yolo-secondaries ships with 12.5km of talent(or 11 if you're talking Napoli). Noone wants to be demolished by AI.

I dont know. The vid where he was encouraging people to sub "for Malta" was pretty hilarious. But double Zao shenanigans may be up there.

How brooooaken is Zao! 😂

Flamuu should be required to say how brrrrrroooooken is zao and malta should be required to shout CRUISERS! everytime he gets a good salvo (or gets devstruck)

I saw someone who somehow got 5 base xp, presumably they got the tiniest bit of spotting damage for a low caliber gun that did the weird tiny ricochet damage and that was it.

Superships on my team often get between 1-10 bxp

Yeah, I still have screenshots from just 4 days ago Yamagiri with 2 BXP United States with 1

i've seen a afk player getting absolutely "0"xp. all other teammates were pushing forward by themself🤣

Those were 2 of my three main cruisers when i played...the third being the pasta party boat

Can sometimes happen in coop battles. For example when most bots decide to abandon your flank from the start, so you don't get much to shoot at (especially annoying on a map like Two Brothers). Low bxp also happened to me first time I tried a T6 sub in coop. Sub and torps were so slow that the cruisers and BB on my flank had sunk everything I shot torps at before I could do much.

More like 5x3 203mm (Atago layout, but tripple turrets with 203mm)

@@The_White_Warlord We have that its called Yodo with 150mm. I looked on the Maine what WG did to Super Montana so Zao with the same treatment+ little as possible changing the whole ship. But if we talk about something special removing torpedo tubes(Because of the retarded angles) adding one turret in front(15sec reload),layout as Mogami,32mm armor plating.50k hp. But its funny how oldest cruiser in-game still dont have Super variant and ships like cough cough RU cruisers have them,BB too.

@@Wulfalier Yodo is 150mm and different layout, while that one is 5x3 203mm with Atago layout, without those cursed Yodo style turrets

@@Wulfalier Quad turrets on BBs used to significantly save weight per barrel, as BB guns are heavily armored and require heavy powerful mashinery to rotate them. Those quad turrets were extremely complex even by comparison with tripple and often malfunctioned. On cruisers they were not just complex and prone to malfunctions, but also didn't give any weight savings, since cruiser turrets are lightly armored and have much less space for loading mechanisms than BB onrs. That's why cruisers never ever used quad turrets IRL, while experiments with quad secondaries failed hard. So more likely they're going to use 5 tripple 203mm turrets for Super Zao. Maine has quads because some Montana preliminary designs used 3 quad 406mm turrets and inner belt (which proofed as bad option as ship is much easier to capsize during intence engagement as due to damage from BB HE and AP rounds unprotected outer area would take insane ammounts of water inside leading the ship to list hard, so they throw it away and used standard outer belt option. While it looks like, that unfortunately WG just ignored this fact and made Maine with inner belt to shorten ship, reduce tonnage (to reduce HP) and armor just to make it smaller and weaker than Hannover and Ushakov abominations "to continue Montana branch as it is", so we aint getting proper Super Montana unfortunately as it should've been made), so WG just upscaled them a bit.

@@The_White_Warlord Yodo is continuing the style of Atago with pyramid style turrets the only change is that the second turret is facing forward and not backwards.I can see Atago layout with 5x3 as a steel ship or coal. Super Zao is continue the line of Mogami,Ibuky with front turrets high-low-low and all forward facing so simple adding one turret in front of the first is a nice continuing of Mogami layout. Btw with Super Zao we are talking about 5x3 203mm The first comment was mean as a joke

I think you mean less terrible.

@@EvoraGT430 less terrible, but you can get it to 6.5 second rudder shift.. and at range that is good enough.

They buffed yodo in one of the most useless way possible, faster rudder shift means nothing when you have a turning circle worse than most battleships

@@demosearies7591but still has one of the largest turning circles in game, ballistics that make it extremely difficult to use the range you have, and even after all that, you STILL get out dpmed by 155mm mogami two tiers below you

The default is” H”

I saw him shoot at the GK Flamu was fightng near the end at least once, so maybe that was the one time he had a seizure in his index finger and thus accidentally double-clicked the left mouse button. Would explain his bxp gain maybe. 😇

Agreed. Since deleting the game months ago, due to double CV matches (unacceptably stupid), nevertheless I've still liked to watch Flambass, Flamu and Trenlass. They offer great commentary. However, this will be the last WOWS video I ever watch. It is no longer amusing to watch this pathetic attempt at game design. Sympathies to the content creators who have been betrayed by such poor game designers. They will never grow their channels unless they move away from WOWS. This game is dead.

with 10km stealth?

Sounds like you need to git gud.

@@sebastianromero113 you love CV's don't you?

@sebastianromero113 there are things called CVs, cruisers and Subs right?

@@anthonyware4033 its not that there are everywhere.

its a darn shame you weren't playing, sounds like it would've been a win.

It has been powercreeped, A LOT. It was once very god...but today: its a "heavy" cruiser, but just explodes in modern games because of the amount of overmatch. So You eat damage from everywhere with very short range yourself. and the community wanted a health and armor buff for years now, and what did WG? better Turret speed. ...yay.... Zao ist the maybe worst T10 cruiser you can research by now.

@@saltee_crcker2363 no, the joke is its bad lol

I don’t PLAY the game anymore, but I Think the meme is about WG says their data are showing that many people play Zao and therefore it must be a good ship, even though the ship is statically worse that almost all other tier 10 cruisers.

@@Schnatterinchen in previous patches Zao had HP buff, actually turret buff is a big deal for Zao, be couse you can now run legend mod and cannon mod at the same time, making Zao the most accurate ship in the game, i the past this combination was practiacally unplayble do extramly slow turret traverse and need of the turret mod instead cannon mod.

@@Quottrup1998 well after last buff I had in ranked like 80% win rate in Zao

Des Moines reload?

@@EvoraGT430 at least 10 sec reload would be balanced

​@@EvoraGT430Des Moines has an autoloader. And besides, when Zao was made WeeGee was still in Russia and we all know the Russians are still salty about the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 lmfao

10% of 300 is 30, and 8% of 300 is 24. Math checks out here bud.

@@GarretTheGussy Are you serious? What do you not understand? "...*less* than 10%." Have you checked the video? You know what fire chance WG claims for the Zao? >20%, it doesn't matter if she has 8, 9 or 11%. She should have >20%!!!!!

@@jaqenhghar9758 You have to keep in mind that fire chance doesn't take into account enemy ships that are running captain skills or equipment that lowers fire chance, and that some of those shell hits were while DCP was active on enemy ships, at which point their fire chance would be zero. Also, probability doesn't mean it'll always average out to the stated fire chance every time.

The base fire chance of zao is 22% if not mistaken. However, all t10 ships have a built in 50% base fire chance reduction, so you come out at around 10%. Captain skills like fire prevention reduce it a little more.

It's a loss

It's because Hannover is a torp and fire magnet and is really easy to kill. Hannover relays heavily on team play and support because trying to slip between torps is almost impossible with it and fires do alot of DMG to it before it can get into range. You can burn down a Hannover in 1min and 30 secs with a good HE spam ship or if thunder or conq is on the map your so dead because they will burn you down before u get into range and you can't rely on your guns do to gunners being drunk af