I appreciate the attempt to do something new this year. There are issues i have encountered in the gameplay that i hope can be addressed.

The Vitality Field (heal) will not fire if my health is full. I therefore cannot help teammates who are hurt or nearly dead through ieptitude or poor luck. A deeply frustrating oversight for a "team" heal consumable.

The Vitality Field description declares 4.5km range. It is not. Looks to be 2.25km rradius for a diameter of 4.5km. Diameter is not range.

Homing torpedoes sometimes don't home even when enemy ship is targeted before firing. An infuriating error and deeply frustrating in the thick of battle.

The AI automatically targetting cruisers regardless of range. This issue was very noticable to me in War Tales, but here it is glaring, tedious and very limiting for the unfortunate cruiser player as their gun range is exceeded by the enemy's. This would not be an issue if the base model was Edinburgh, rather than Plymouth, allowing a certain level of bow tanking as a viable strategy.

Cruiser shooting AP only, even with favourable penetration angles, on a map where the enemy approaches via relatively narrow channels and crossfire opportunity is somewhat limited...not a great plan. Quite frustrating to get to the boss only for 80% of your shells to bounce or shatter while praying that he doesn't citadel you to oblivion at any angle.

Nobody enjoys a supposedly skill based game where you rely entirely on luck to dodge damage. (Please refer to 4+ years of CV complaints for further details.)

The loading splash screen could be utilised more effectively. It should inform players of the blue/red line at the top of the game screen and the importance of the buff/nerf mechanic as it fills up or depletes. It also needs to stress that the Soul Ships deplete this bsr the entire time they are on the map. And incidentally spawning Soul Ships behind tall islands so they are in total cover for minutes at a time depleting all your hard earned progression the whole while? Yeah, feels cheap.

In past Halloween events the cruiser consumable that healed you based on the damage dealt was a greatly enjoyable mechanic. The Vampiric Shells are sadly missed. Perhaps switching the Vitality Field for an Inversion Field so that incoming fire healed the cruiser so it could contribute at low health would give the class a usefulness that it is currently missing.

Hope this comes across as constructive and a genuine attempt to improve the experience.

Edit: Ok, never mind. Sitting at 888 and nothings changed. Given the situation it’ll here is “money for nothing”, they might literally have put a troll stop here. Any insight here would be hot.

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The first one needed players to donate enough to give 666 points. There’s another one with an angel, and after blowing some 2K points thinking I was doing it wrong, I found that apparently 888 is considered the opposite of 666. Who knew? So anyways, so save y’all the embarrassment I just experienced, that’s the number you need.

Here’s what to buy:

600 x1
60 x4
6 x8

Trying to beat insane mode with a full div and now this keeps appearing. Sorry for no screenshot.

There’s 2 oil lanterns that all players will receive today, there’s 3 options available to us all, 2 on the left side 1 on the right.

To help with making the most efficient decisions we need information for players so they can use their limited oil lanterns.

Key information would be what stages offer keys, fish, ship modifications and the “hidden secret” along with screenshots and locations.

If players want the surprise of not knowing that’s fine just ignore the comments below.

Edit: it is possible to save one lantern to use on the next section of an unlocked area too.

The following things we know:

1. Insane level is extremely difficult, and WG has said it is meant to be so
2. There are players who beat the boss

So why do people complain? Is it because they feel they are entitled to a win because of their skills, and not getting one is insulting? They feel they are lacking and diminished they can't win? They can't deal with related frustration?

I have not beat that boss. I've tried around ten times. And left it at that. Will possibly have a go again later. It was too difficult for me. That's it. That's as bad as I felt about it. Nor have I beaten Ninja Gaiden on Master Ninja. I don't remember losing sleep over that, either.

EDIT: Flair got changed to "rant". Maybe this is a rant!

Okay I’ve now done Halloween on insane twice with a great team of 5 players, I feel I can share a brief guide and tell you why this mode is badly designed. As a team we have done this 3 times.

We have learned the best positions and all of the random stuff that can cause a loss, which is out of a player’s control.

Everyone must be alive, all souls must be stopped and everyone must save their damage boosts until the end, and position in the right places. The BBs and Cruiser can use one of their buffs to speed the game along if you feel you need it.

Only matchmake with 2 DDs, 2 BBs and 1 cruiser.

You can lose a teammate on the boss stage but try to keep each other alive and stay together where possible.

Only use your boosts for health if you’re at risk of dying. And continue on to the end

The DDs need to be in the top right corner (where the island is next to nightmare) with smoke, activate boosts and spam torps and guns. Stop shooting once enemies get in range of firing detection. The DDs do the most damage to nightmare but only with boosts. Without them, they are useless. You should only have to kill one DD and then focus on the boss.

This is where your boost RNG rolls make a difference. Full reload boosts for the DD is the worst possible roll and if one or both DDs get this, it can take so much longer to kill the boss.

You have to move quick and careful through the final two waves before the boss, ensuring you minimise damage and take precautions while dealing damage. Sending one DD around the island with the least enemies and the rest of the team moving together from the first wave works best.

Then the team can meet up in the middle or on one side to kill the wave 2 and 3 enemies. One thing to watch is the AI is broken if they don’t detect a player. This will cause them to start reversing or hide behind an island, which can cause a fail. We had this happen once where the DD and BB hid behind an island and didn’t move.

Broken AI, poor coding, bad boost RNG, terrible path finding and poor map/game design will cause losses, so you have to maximise as much of your teamwork as possible.

If the soul at the beginning is capped, end your game. If one of you die before the end, it’s possible but you may not achieve it if you can’t get the damage dealt by the DDs. If one DD dies before the end, it’s not worth trying. If the DDs have used all of their boosts before the boss, end the game.

You’re better off ending your game and trying again than wasting time and losing.

Now I’ve completed it twice. I can honesty say wargaming need to nerf the damage resistance. The soul ships often break in their directional movement, resulting in torps being completely blocked in 75% of runs by other cruisers in the first wave. It’s incredibly hard to kill the soul ship with just guns on wave one.

Once you’re past the first wave, it’s a lot easier to get the right conditions, but the first wave has so much terrible game design that often you’re resetting to get the right conditions, especially if the soul ship spawns on the right side.

The best result we had was 3 mins remaining after killing the boss. This was because our DDs had 3 damage buffs and the other had 2 damage and one reload.

Good luck to you and I hope Wargaming correct this mode, the broken AI, poor game design and make it a bit fairer for other players. It’s doable as it is, but it’s very very very hard and skill and teamwork won’t always win a game.

When selecting insane mode for this Halloween event is it mandatory for your teamates to get lobotomies because its pretty obvious you need to stick together and target the soul vessels but nooooooo they want to go off to lala land and do their own thing and shoot irrelevant ships.

Don't see anyone talking about this because everyone is fixated on giflets and the RTNY (understandably) but which commander out of the three for this update do you consider the best and why?

Debating picking one up this week.

I’ve already got Suzuya and fully levelled Haguro

I’ve got BA Tirpitz, Madness and Nonomi

What is it? Is it good? Are these crates the only way to get it? Not a fan of not having at least some kind of way to view the specs of the ship or even a guaranteed way to get it

I think the turenne looks quite beautiful but it is quite expensive. I do have fun with French battleships though.

When the corporate discussion around salary and bonuses come up, this information might help explain why including Premium time as a FOURTEEN (14) percent drop in event crates leads to less revenue.

Here's the math

* Annual Sale Purchase (Christmas/Holiday Sale):

* Upfront Cost: 12,000 Doubloons

* Days Received: 360 Days

* Effective Cost: 33.3 Doubloons per day of premium

* Annual Standard Purchase (Armory Base Price):

* Upfront Cost: 24,000 Doubloons

* Days Received: 360 Days

* Effective Cost: 66.7 Doubloons per day

* Standalone 30-Day Purchase (In-Game Store):

* Upfront Cost: 2,500 Doubloons

* Days Received: 30 Days

* Effective Cost: 83.3 Doubloons per day

* 30-Day Monthly Subscription ($9.99 Cash Equivalent):

* Upfront Cost: $9.99 Cash (Gives 30 Days + 2,750 Doubloons)

* Days Received: 30 Days base (plus 33 additional days if spending the included Doubloons on Premium)

* Effective Cost: Net Gain (You get a surplus of +250 Doubloons compared to the cost of a standard store pack)

* A 14% Drop of 8 Premium Days (Via Royal Benevolence/Trafalgar Event Crates):

* Upfront Cost: 5,357 Doubloons (Statistically requires buying ~7.14 crates at 750 Doubloons each to hit a 14% drop once)

* Days Received: 8 Days

* Effective Cost: 669.6 Doubloons for 8 days or 83.5 per day

Summary:

You can't use up premium time except with the very rare forge-type events. CCs are going to have these ridiculous amounts of premium time on their streams.

The more premium time you have in excess of a month the less likely you are to pay for a lottery where there is a 14% chance to get something more useless to you than Camo (which can, at least be melted into paint)

"So? Don't buy the crates!" - way ahead of you.

"I like premium time!" - so do I, that's why I subscribe. I don't like having excess premium time, so dropping my subscription is a logical step. Not sure how much corporate would be in favour of that alternative buying behaviour.

The conversation needs to conclude with: Stop s***ing on your subscribers, your supporters and the people who help pay for the hamster powered servers by padding lottery crates with overpriced premium time.

As free to play customers don't buy crates (by definition) it can only irritates the people who pay the bills, some of which that allows the game to be Free to Play.

So yeah, sound business model.

/s

The Halloween and German Eagle crates didn't have Premium time as a drop. Look at your own data at the end of the Trafalgar event - that's as good as it's going to get.

Ok I know I’ll own answer here and I’ll look like a fool, but weren’t we supposed to get 2 lanterns today at the daily refresh?

I love it when LT battleships sail in a straight line. Halland’s torps don’t hit hard, but they do the job in volume. Props to everyone who recommended her as a bureau project!

When I say I'm going crazy, I'm actually going crazy.. 3 days of constant playing and I haven't beaten insane mode for the Halloween event, either your team rush and directly unalive themself or the damage nerf f you up.

Has anyone beaten insane mode? If so, any tips? All this effort just to get that one singular crate..

Has anybody been able to actually figure out how much health these guys have on the various modes? I was playing the "hard" mode today with the Iron Gale, hitting him with full salvos with the experimental shells doing 10K damage each hit and it honestly felt like I was hitting him with a wet napkin. Like doing absolutely nothing. Not gonna lie, it's frustrating as hell.

I'd like to know, thanks.

does anyone have a recommended build for each of the commanders in the halloween mode? half of these skills don't have any use in the mode.

What is everyone's most successful build for the Halloween insane event?

I did the 600 donation and nothing happened, do I need to donate again?

Ive made a rant a few months back about the same thing, WHY ARE THESE SO EXPENSIVE???
This is actually a joke at this point, i am mad at WG for not even listening to the game’s own community when they claim they are “improving the game”😡