World of Warships - [Tier VII] HIJMS Akatsuki on Shards [2018.04.06], Build 0.7.3.0

Опубликовано: 12 Май 2025
на канале: Renegade334_S7

World of Warships is a naval warfare-themed MMO arcade game produced by Cyprus-based developer and publisher Wargaming Group Ltd.

WoWS gameplay is team-based; players are in command of historical (from WWI to the end of the 1950s) warships picked from four available classes (destroyer, cruiser, battleship and aircraft carriers) and navies (Kriegsmarine, Imperial Japan Navy, Royal Navy, US Navy, Soviet Navy, Polish Navy, Republic of China Navy, People's Liberation Army Navy, French Navy, Regia Marina and Royal Australian Navy), and are pitted in two-team battles for domination of one or more spots on a given map. Each match ends with either the 100% capture by one team of all "cap" points, or the complete annihilation of the opposite team. A timer also forces the players to reach a decisive conclusion to their battle as swiftly as possible.

Players use their experience and financial rewards to unlock increasingly modern and powerful vessels, culminating with the end 1940s-1950s' Tier X (many of which are actually "paper designs", having never been built due to the end of the Second World War and/or the ineluctable obsolescence of the traditional battleship, due to the advent of missile-launching boats and the supremacy of carrier-based aviation).

This Random Battles match here displays my casual gameplay (I only play when I have the time to, and I'm not trying to become sort of stat-obsessed pro gamer) with the Tier VII Japanese destroyer *HIJMS Akatsuki*. The Akatsuki (and its predecessor the Fubuki) is a welcome change in the IJN DD line, where torpedo range was barely enough to launch long-range attacks without getting detected. It is also the last in the line (until the [Tier X] Shimakaze) to sport three launchers instead of two. With fishes that can swim up to 10km, the Akatsuki is at long last the silent stalker players have been waiting for (the Fubuki and Hatsuhara also have the 10km upgrade, but the Akatsuki has 10km out of the box).

Whereas previous vessels like the Minekaze required the player to either hug islands for an extend amount of time or mindlessly charge towards the enemy in order to get within torpedo range (and even then it only had a ~1km stretch where it could stealthily drop torps before it had to turn away to avoid spoiling the ambush), the Akatsuki can comfortably maintain a 10km safety distance between it and its targets and still deploy massive firepower, thanks to its very flexible triple launcher setup. Its stealth levels are nothing extraordinary and it unfortunately means that, when another same-tier DD is in the area, the Akatsuki will be the first to be detected by a few seconds, thereby losing the chance to land the first strike (which is horrible, as the Akatsuki has a small HP pool, compared to other same-tier DDs). Additionally, the Akatsuki will suffer against Tier VIII destroyers like the Kagero that have access to BOTH the Concealment Expert captain skill and the Concealment System Modification 1 upgrade. It also lacks the Torpedo Reload Booster that its Tier VII counterpart (alternative DD line), the HIJMS Shiratsuyu, gets.

In this match, my new personal ninja showed its skills and how, despite its low stealth, it could give battleships some serious grief. Using islands as cover isn't always easy depending on the map (when I had the Minekaze, most enemy BBs I met preferred sailing in open waters, thus preventing me from carrying out island ambushes), but in this case I had a good opportunity to play hide-and-seek with islands. It was fun, though the last part was a bit iffy (that German battleship's secondaries could have whittled me down to nothing) and the now-broken CVs can easily kill you in one go. Close call and good match…which deserves a few ninja memes. I'm now ready to upgrade to the [Tier VIII] HIJMS Kagero.

The footage was recorded with Windows 10's in-built Game DVR, since NVidia ShadowPlay was giving me trouble.

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PC Configuration:
CPU: Intel i5-2500 (non-K) quad-core, 3.3Ghz
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
GPU: MSI/NVidia GTX 970 Gaming 4GB
Storage (Windows): Samsung 850 Pro 128GB SSD
Storage (Game files): Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB HDD
Screen: Asus 23.8" screen, 1920x1080p
OS: Windows 10 Professional Anniversary Update, 64-bit Edition