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> What is this? Steel Ocean is a multiplayer arcade game focused about warships from World War 2 era.
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>see enemy team >first thing in my head is "I have to kill fucking everything"
Isaac Richardson
>WR is 36% help me
Caleb Foster
>>WR is 36% You might as well kill yourself right fucking now.
Ryan Walker
Jesus christ user, at least tell you have less than 100 matches played.
Please tell me that.
Mason Smith
46 games played
Cooper Gutierrez
Then it's nothing, just get better and don't get worse
Lucas Brown
You are fine then user, worry when you get to +1000 with less than 50%
Jaxon Adams
Friendly reminder that there's "people" with over 3k games played and they're under 50%. They also want to be treated with respect.
Levi Martin
literally lost all my games in U-2A and Farragut ahhhhhhhhh
Colton Garcia
>U-2A
I will always suggest new players to play other lines before playing subs, since a big part of the sub gameplay requires knowledge on how the other classes behave.
Adam Martinez
This game is essentially WoT SPG mode: the game. I can't believe it exists
Landon White
Never play subs
Hunter Collins
>people that have 1k+ matches and go to tier 3 WHY LITERALLY CANCER
ISFHYGDDT
Jason Howard
Thank you for the bump /WoWsg/!
Noah Hernandez
yw.
I'm still happy to see a small game that a tiny group of people enjoy. even if its a very bad game
Josiah Rodriguez
I need my free 6 torpedo event
Leo Cooper
but it's a good game.
Alexander Davis
Don't mind him, the only people from /wowsg/ that has actually played this game dropped wows, that's a fact.
Luke Lee
subs are almost impossible to do well in in the current glut of 5v5 matches
remove lafag
Jacob Cruz
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Jaxson Robinson
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Christopher Peterson
Don't forget FBs today. Hopefully the dirty normies will be able to make it
Matthew Johnson
We'll see tomorrow
Adam Kelly
>Monday: Helena Overlord >Friday: Helena Overlord
is there no more KTKM?
Bentley Jenkins
>Be logged for NA FB last week >No one connected
Yeah, blame the normies.
Isaac Peterson
Normies had shit to do so they didn't show up so yes, I do blame the normies
Parker Roberts
> NA NA is old and busted EU is new Hotness
Landon Bell
I faced a Helena in the EU TZ and KTKM in the NA TZ. The chance is random, CVs force Helena matchups.
Samuel Wilson
hey guys, I'm new to CVs, how can I counter ships like the Wyoming and the Atlanta? their AA goes through all my 9 planes in seconds. can't even get close.
Lucas Ortiz
Drop the torps early or wiggle your planes. They arent a big problem unless you dont drop the torps in a single pass or they're in formation.
Dominic Torres
Also don't send the TBs leading, send a fighter squad or a single/double scout to lead the TBs, it helps to distract (and spot if smoke/no scouting ships) the target.
CLs in general are tricky to torp, since they have both good maneuverability and good AA, so I'd avoid them until you are confident with your drops, as for WHYo, you'll notice soon that most BBs are predictable, and when you get the hang of it you'll be dropping torps far from them.
Jose Russell
thank you. I send 2 scouts first to find a guy (hopefully a big fat BB) and the 3 TBs right behind, unless someone else already saw him. Since fighters are more durable than Socuts, is it more viable to use them for strong AA enemies? and how do I use Dive bombers?
Leo Smith
>how do I use Dive bombers? you dont
Liam Reyes
Fighters can be used to get vision on a target for a longer period of time since they have more HP. On the downside, they're fairly blind so you gotta know where they are first.
>and how do I use Dive bombers? You dont. Everything about them is awful. Go to manteinance and replace all your DBs with fighters or TBs.
Gabriel Cruz
understood. I've changed my loadout. but do Dive bombers just suck in general or do they get better once I reach Enterprise and higher? The Helldiver is one my favorite planes.
Lincoln Turner
They are "useful" at high tiers. There's been some testing done with a Yorktown on a Tosa where the damage of a full DB squad was inferior to the TB counterpart, but the module damage was greatly better. Module damage doesn't have a really big of an impact on anything that's not a BB, and even so, before say T7 or 8, you'll want to torp most of the time.
Anu said that Midway's DBs are godtier, and as for me I haven't used the lexi's DBs since she has such horrible deck prep time, but I'll tell you that one of the first things I'll do with Essex is leading TBs with DBs and fighters to alpha BBs. I've tried that with BigE but with only 3 squads max at T7 it's quite risky compared to 4 squads at T8+
Jason Moore
They suck at almost everything because: 1- RNG reliant 2- Commander reliant 3- Harder to land on small targets 4- Low damage with a decent chance of bouncing, compared to TBs which deal good damage and have a chance to mag them for even more damage 5- Even weaker than TBs to AA because they actually gotta reach the target instead of dropping their load 800m away. This also means that DBs can potentially deal even less damage due losses.
Asher Perry
Ah, I see. That's a bit disappointing, but I guess I'll wait till I reach those high tiers for my helldiver fun. Thanks for the info guys.
Oliver Gray
np, if you have any questions about other ship types or nations just ask.
Nathaniel Ortiz
I think I'm going to re buy Aoba just for > fun
Ryan Lee
Have fun then.
Mason Cooper
>10
Adrian Fisher
>Since fighters are more durable than Socuts, is it more viable to use them for strong AA enemies? Fighters are your most important plane, scouts die way too easily and have a higher chance of dying before they even spot someone. You basically only use them for picket duty - not trying to spot but rather sending one and waiting for a passing enemy to shoot it so you know they're there (a fighter picket has smaller scout range so a savvy enemy can theoretically go around it without alerting you). And for economy - when you're spamming fighters for every job but can only bring 30, you can also add a couple scouts as lowpowered specialized fighters to go over that 30 hardcap.
Owen Nelson
Scouts are great for finding the enemy or sneaky DDs. But you are correct though in usage. They are great for getting periodic updates if not constant.
Mason Diaz
See you fags for EU FBs
Austin Reed
Y-you too.
Matthew Cook
H A G U R O
Austin Wood
Naptime bump.
Jordan Cruz
I know it's completely unrelated, but the picture reminded me of what just happened to me on Naval Action
>be preparing myself for boarding on an enemy npc pirate >board successful >going to be a somewhat hard fight as we're both well prepared, but he has less crew >fight going well, smaller npc pirate ship peppers me with some rounds, but stray rounds hit his ally >ally catches fire >I don't think much of it >completely forget that he probably cannot send people to put the fire down, as he's being boarded >fire spreads fast as fuck >HUGE EXPLOSION SHIP PARTS THROWN OFF EVERYWHERE OH GOD >his ship BTFO taking me with him >lost the mission
worried laughter.jpg
Jonathan Ramirez
ded
laforey or yugumo?
Ryan Russell
Lafo if you wanto to win, yuugumo if you want a daughteru.
Caleb Ortiz
A tough choice, user.
Josiah Lopez
Daughteru is best.
Brayden Reyes
senkan
Ethan Roberts
FBs soon!
Ryan Mitchell
I had enough for a lafagoy, but I went for Yodo.
Camden Taylor
FBs now get in here faggots
Wyatt Stewart
Bump! FBs are on!
Adam Martinez
GET IN HERE AND HAVE SOME FUN. FBs ON NOW
stop being so ded EU
Chase Adams
>Lafo if you wanto to win
you sound like a disgusting tryhard :^)
Caleb Cook
>not the tryhard option
Liam Long
>Being a tryhard
Comfy casual player here, I just hop on for some fun and then get off. :^)
But user, I'm so casual I still don't understand commander shit despite reading the info pictures.
Cooper Roberts
Why don't my teams want to win??
Dominic Williams
What.
Robert Morgan
Playing is hard.
Grayson Richardson
C- Carry me up a tier and I'll play with you!
In my defense, commanders weren't explained well in the tutorial for SO well at all.
Jacob Russell
No they weren't. But we are here for you to answer any questions you may have.
Asher Thompson
>C- Carry me up a tier and I'll play with you! I usuaklly play t7 actually, but I've been stuck my only t6 for a couple matches now because every time it's a team like that one..
Andrew Reyes
Carry me up two tiers, then. :^)
Isaiah Jenkins
>Two tiers
Eli Phillips
what do I have to do man
Ryder Bennett
play t7 with me
Henry Morris
Do it. You scared?
Liam Moore
perform the tryhard ritual, sacrifice a goat and you'll get air support
Cameron Cook
No. Just can't be assed.
Adrian Walker
p- pls
Gavin Morris
I'm not that guy who are asking. I just showed up for fleet battles.