My love for warships always makes me come back but each time i'm disappointed, the game is not fun and the frustation created is never worth it.
Basically every issues are caused by how dumb the AI is and what come with it. I don't know if it's cause of campaign mods or TTE, but it's never fun (though i remember originally searching for mods cause i was a bit bored)
I will try to do it quickly but here it is. First air combat, i do like fighters vs fighters , always nice to watch those. But fighters vs bombers is so dumb, if you don't make your fighters specifically come in straightline they will half of the time keep dancing behind bombers without ever firing just asking to be shot down; so you have to micro manage them just for that reason. And when coming toward your ships, AI's bombers never try to maneuver to get a better shot, they just fly straight towards you. + combined to what i say about fighters, you start to take some torpedoes or bombs that shouldn't be there.
Now by far the most frustrating point , which obviously is the most important part of the game, naval combat. The AI, again, is completly dumb, including somehow its pathfinding on OPEN WATER when you realize kindergartners are better at keeping formation than the ships during a turn. So alongside the bombers' AI, ennemy ships know 2 moves, running away or charging straight towards you which may ends up in the only thinking the AI does which is turning and run away when loosing.
So obviously to compensate the AI sea water temperature IQ, the AI's gunnery accuracy is waayyy better than what you can achieve, you may deploy smoke or do evasive maneuver, they will start to hit you regularly once you enter gun range, while on your side you may try to build up a solution with scout aircraft, good conditions or spotting fire (does this even change something), you will always need to come at point blank (=6km) if you don't want to spend your 7 warships entire magazines on 2 destroyers and a light cruiser, my bad i meant 5 warships considering your destroyers are dead in the water by that time.
I even got cases of my light cruiser's magazine blowing up from potentially a merchant ship's gun, or heavy cruiser's magazine blowing up this time by a destroyer's gun which didn't take a single hit in return obviously.
And to finish, as if it wasn't enough, not matter the game's "difficulty", the opponent starts the campaign with 4x times more ships, which makes the game very unbalanced and centers the gameplay mostly around what you can do with one fighting fleet and one supply fleet (and basically make the defense of several areas almost impossible, though depends on the campaign map if you use campaign mods). So your aircrafts become quite expendable since you can't do anything with guns.
Anyway that's it, if you want to buy it, don't buy it when it's full price it's not worth it. I heard you can change accuracy in files, so this might help to make the experience better. Thanks for reading
