Azur Lane Collab

[Stainstein]

Welp... I don't know about you guys but those prices are just beyond my measly wallet anyways. Just wondering how the rest of you guys find it. (It's anime so I bet some are willing to pay those prices). I can already hear those whales from the distance making their mating call.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3246180481

[christof]

Originally posted by 503Stannis The Mannis:

Originally posted by OBXandos:

The only real unique ships I have seen WG make from one of these anime collabs are the HSF Harekaze I[wiki.wargaming.net] & Harekaze II[wiki.wargaming.net]. They have some hull/gun configurations that aren't possible on any other ship in the game. Most of the rest are just slightly modified reskins or complete reskins.

All AL ships prior to the event that added AL Azuma(among others) have different stats, albeit slightly, than the original. So they play a bit differently.

I do disagree here. It's true that Sovetskaya Rossiya, Montpellier and Yukikaze have slightly different stats. But only with Yukikaze does it have a real effect on how it plays, thanks to the shorter range of the F3 torpedoes.

Rossiya you will experience a bit better accuracy at long range, worse one at short range combined with nearly 10% less health and worse AA. So it might sound like a ship you would (be forced to) play at longer a range than Soyuz. But you do not actually have the range on your guns to actually do so. In the end you find yourself doing the same and just hoping that the slightly higher damage potential on your outmost km of range make up for the smaller healthpool and slightly lower damage potential in brawling distance.
Okay, there's also that your turrets don't break as fast. Which you pay for with a much worse turret traverse. The latter is the only thing here that truly might have a noticeable influence on how you play the ship, really. Seeing as it does force you to think ahead a bit more.

Montpellier to Cleveland, the differences are so little that they honestly play and feel the same.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Dee-Jay:

Originally posted by Nepgear:

They're already doing it. Ship's 80% off. So like Ace said, it's just insulting to those of us that spent $60 or whatever on the ship before.

Yeah it's a bit crap isn't it. Although this is pretty common in many ways - buying games and then them going on sale days later etc.
Specific to WOWs - there's been lots of examples. I bought Perth and then they gave it away for next to nothing on steam and then in the battlepass (or was it outright free?). Similar with Mysore. I own Scharnhorst but they gave out Scharn '43 (OK it's fairly different/arguably better but just a rough example). How many people shelled out for WV'44 last year was it, only for it to be handed out this battlepass? Think there's a few other examples too.

That's common with WG. Pay now, get for less/free later. Look at the free tech ships. They always charge for those too. World of Warships is very blatantly pay to "advance" even if it's with free stuff. Nothing wrong with that. It's for the impatient. The rest of us can just wait. It's good marketing and a great way to make money. The people who really want something for free/inexpensive can get it, and the people who want it NOW can also get it - meanwhile WG makes money. The more they make off the impatient, the less the rest have to pay.

[Dee-Jay]

Originally posted by Jackson:

Originally posted by Dee-Jay:

Yeah it's a bit crap isn't it. Although this is pretty common in many ways - buying games and then them going on sale days later etc.
Specific to WOWs - there's been lots of examples. I bought Perth and then they gave it away for next to nothing on steam and then in the battlepass (or was it outright free?). Similar with Mysore. I own Scharnhorst but they gave out Scharn '43 (OK it's fairly different/arguably better but just a rough example). How many people shelled out for WV'44 last year was it, only for it to be handed out this battlepass? Think there's a few other examples too.

That's common with WG. Pay now, get for less/free later. Look at the free tech ships. They always charge for those too. World of Warships is very blatantly pay to "advance" even if it's with free stuff. Nothing wrong with that. It's for the impatient. The rest of us can just wait. It's good marketing and a great way to make money. The people who really want something for free/inexpensive can get it, and the people who want it NOW can also get it - meanwhile WG makes money. The more they make off the impatient, the less the rest have to pay.

I think one of the big issues has been the reduction in compensation which we've seen relatively recently. In some cases giving 25k FXP to existing owners of a ship - that's a pretty derisory amount. I get that they have seen what they think are problems with the game economy due to people amassing huge amounts of dubs and premium time but they could give out something a bit more valuable for people. Also the changes to the amount of coal that's given out has really impacted on things.

[Ace42]

Originally posted by Dee-Jay:

I get that they have seen what they think are problems with the game economy due to people amassing huge amounts of dubs and premium time

And credits, and grind in general. And it's because they keep using eco boosters, etc, etc as a boobie prize for their lottery-boxes and as filler for events, etc, etc - so they're constantly pumping stuff into the economy and then they have to punish you for whaling because of all the extra crap they had to give you along the way.

The inflation is of their own devising because they think they're cleverer at monetisation than they really are - when they could just charge fair prices for fair products and let the grind be nice and steady.

[Aimee_Anasazi]

OK, that's cool:
you folks who never got her before,
tier 3 AL Avrora (russian Aurora cruiser in a fancy jeweled camo)
is a for-free Steam DLC for a limited time.

Tier 3, but still, free is free.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2985560/World_of_Warships__Azur_Lane__AL_Avrora_Free_Unlock/

[Duck Person]

Originally posted by nayansuncaller:

OK, that's cool:
you folks who never got her before,
tier 3 AL Avrora (russian Aurora cruiser in a fancy jeweled camo)
is a for-free Steam DLC for a limited time.

Tier 3, but still, free is free.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2985560/World_of_Warships__Azur_Lane__AL_Avrora_Free_Unlock/

Sweet free port slot! Also another pack with free container + camos

[Gadden84]

Wat bothers me is that I can not just buy the NEW captains but need to buy the pack with the ones I have.

[[503]Stannis The Mannis]

Originally posted by Gadden84:

Wat bothers me is that I can not just buy the NEW captains but need to buy the pack with the ones I have.

This time around the boxes won't give you duplicate captains so it is not that bad

[Nepgear]

Originally posted by Gadden84:

Wat bothers me is that I can not just buy the NEW captains but need to buy the pack with the ones I have.

If you have all the old ones you could just buy the lootboxes.

[Gadden84]

Originally posted by Nepgear:

Originally posted by Gadden84:

Wat bothers me is that I can not just buy the NEW captains but need to buy the pack with the ones I have.

If you have all the old ones you could just buy the lootboxes.

Originally posted by 503Stannis The Mannis:

Originally posted by Gadden84:

Wat bothers me is that I can not just buy the NEW captains but need to buy the pack with the ones I have.

This time around the boxes won't give you duplicate captains so it is not that bad

Ok thanks for the tip :)

[Dee-Jay]

Originally posted by Nepgear:

Originally posted by Gadden84:

Wat bothers me is that I can not just buy the NEW captains but need to buy the pack with the ones I have.

If you have all the old ones you could just buy the lootboxes.

Yeah the lootboxes are, as i see it anyway, basically for people collecting captains with the added 1/20 bonus chance of getting a ship. The balance of odds/cost just isn't good enough to think of them as ship containers - just buy one of the damn things instead!

[Nobie_J_Culla]

Originally posted by nayansuncaller:

OK, that's cool:
you folks who never got her before,
tier 3 AL Avrora (russian Aurora cruiser in a fancy jeweled camo)
is a for-free Steam DLC for a limited time.

Tier 3, but still, free is free.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2985560/World_of_Warships__Azur_Lane__AL_Avrora_Free_Unlock/

Kinda lame that we're getting the Azur Lane ship,
but the 3-point commander is just some generic guy who's NOT Azur Lane.

They could've just sold this for $5 and included a 3-point version of the correct AL commander.

[Dee-Jay]

Originally posted by nobieculla:

Originally posted by nayansuncaller:

OK, that's cool:
you folks who never got her before,
tier 3 AL Avrora (russian Aurora cruiser in a fancy jeweled camo)
is a for-free Steam DLC for a limited time.

Tier 3, but still, free is free.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2985560/World_of_Warships__Azur_Lane__AL_Avrora_Free_Unlock/

Kinda lame that we're getting the Azur Lane ship,
but the 3-point commander is just some generic guy who's NOT Azur Lane.

They could've just sold this for $5 and included a 3-point version of the correct AL commander.

Well it is free I suppose.


As for the ship itself, Aurora itself is a historically significant vessel due to it's involvement in the Russian revolution, so a nice one to have even just as a modded one and a port queen. The normal version in the store is hardly expensive if someone wants a style which is closest to the real thing, but you can always take the cheap ass option of turning the camo off on the Azur Lane version. :D

[Lavian]

Originally posted by 503Stannis The Mannis:

Originally posted by Gadden84:

Wat bothers me is that I can not just buy the NEW captains but need to buy the pack with the ones I have.

This time around the boxes won't give you duplicate captains so it is not that bad

Wait, are we sure about this? This is how it was last time, but I've been looking around to confirm the mechanics for the new containers to see if this is a thing, because these bundles are getting expensive enough for even me to have serious pause.

I haven't found anything in the shop or news articles mentioning a guarantee of new commanders, so the odds on their own seem pretty grim if this isn't a thing.

[Jackson]

Originally posted by Lavian:

Originally posted by 503Stannis The Mannis:

This time around the boxes won't give you duplicate captains so it is not that bad

Wait, are we sure about this? This is how it was last time, but I've been looking around to confirm the mechanics for the new containers to see if this is a thing, because these bundles are getting expensive enough for even me to have serious pause.

I haven't found anything in the shop or news articles mentioning a guarantee of new commanders, so the odds on their own seem pretty grim if this isn't a thing.

Not true for me. 7 boxes so far and 6 were duplicates.