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Smokefire conspiracy
By: Dr Schizo Date: October 13, 2022, 5:41 am
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Greetings, I will publish another one of my findings. I hope
this will enlighten us all.
Smokefire conspiracy
Description: Whenever you are in a smokescreen the enemy will
always blindshoot you and hit you. This typically occurs when
other teammates are closeby and spotted (not in the smoke), in
which case the enemy will still target the undetected ship (the
subject).
Rarity: Common
Severity: Severe
Example: Typically occurs against DDs and smoke-cruisers, often
resulting in fires or citadels taken. Severity level increases
to Extremely severe whenever you are devstruck because of the
blindshooting or when you are taking damage at low HP-levels.
Flamu is the origin of the blindshooting for the EU-server.
Torpedoes hitting the smokescreen does not count into the
smokefire conspiracy.
I notice that this happens more often the older the game gets. I
remember that back at release nobody would dare to shoot into
the smokescreen, not even at close distances (3km), but nowadays
individuals are shooting at the smoke even though spotted ships
are within firing range (not necessarily further away). What do
you think about this? King regards.
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Re: Smokefire conspiracy
By: wows Date: October 13, 2022, 6:39 am
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I'm not sure which vehicle types prefer to blindshoot into smoke
the most. Maybe msotly CVs, but maybe DDs still, i'm not sure.
BBs don't do it much because they don't want to gamble with
their slowly loaded guns so much, but even they do it of course
soemtimes. I guess DDs do it most, and not CVs.
In a way it is an advanced skill because they have to predict
where the enemy exactly locates inside the smoke cloud. I
remember i have done it for some reasons. When the HP of your
vehicle is low and you don't have time to turn slow guns towards
a visible target then better shoot blindly into the smoke at
least and then die.
Some people concentrate on 1 target and often zoom into it so
closely that they are not aware anything else that is
surrounding. Maybe that explains why people sometimes chose
weird targets.
I have been training many rare tactics and things in battles
where the goal is to train myself etc and not to perform the
best. I have been testing smokefire this way some times but not
very often. I have tried to shoot little bit above and below and
left and right from the location where bullets come out from a
smoke. Maybe other people do also such testing. But i doubt
because it seems that the community is so Stats oriented that
they wouldn't chose such testing goals etc.
From a safe distance and even when unspotted some try luck
sending a salvo into a smoke. Quite rarely some do that because
the odds to get a success after such act is very low because the
gambler becomes (longer) spotted. But some entertain this way as
i have seen.
Every year makes humans more skillful. They knowledge grows so
that what was a rare skill in old days becomes a simple typical
thing nowadays. For example, making a web site was an advanced
art in old days but nowadays it is a simple act. Even this forum
was easy to set up here but in old days it wasn't so easy.
Probably people practice smokefire every year more and show in
videos and this way it becomes a typical thing one day. I'm not
sure if it is possible to practice other such rare skills in
Wows. In the WG's tank game hitting a small weak point from far
used to be a very rare thing too in old days but later it become
very typical.
In politics it is divided usually the parties as: conservatives
and liberals. The former tends to feel more sufferings and use
often phrases like "in old days". The latter one seems to suffer
less and is close to spiritualism which says that there is no
Free Will and let things develope as they develope. It is
difficult to say where to draw the reasonable line between those
2 groups, because total anarchy would cause probably even bigger
amount of sufferings in the beginning phase. Similarly in Wows,
it is difficult to say if the game changes are too fast or not.
I personally don't feel that Subs/CVs are somehow bad, laso i
don't suffer about other things, not about smokefire either, but
there is a line of course somewhere where i would say probably
that it is too much. I'm not sure where that line would be and
which add-on to the game would make me say that there is too
much chaos now and let's go back to the old days.
I wil ltry to look the smokefire aspect in next battles. For me
there are German and Australian DD for testing that. I guess
such Sonar-DDs are the most favourite smokefire targets compared
to Shima-types of DDs because all hydro/radar ships are very
effective in those days and therefore a more precious target
than a common DD.
I see your creativity is nicely open and also looks like you may
explore the scienctific part of the world as the next step in
your journey. Doing science is good many ways, one thing is that
it makes your creative/inventive. The bad thing about
universities/science is that it feeds ego and the bigger you
feed it the stronger it hits sooner or later.
Some smokefire testings today:
1. montana makes a smokefire and breaks a DD's module. Also the
game chat teaches both teams and they agree that the teachings
from this forum are good if you read the chat.
HTML https://replayswows.com/replay/168815#teams
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Re: Smokefire conspiracy
By: Hickerman Date: October 13, 2022, 2:57 pm
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Hey wows,
I am also very interested in the research done by Dr Schizo. I
think he is a great scientist and a creative mind.
However, I interpreted the smokefire conspiracy the other way
around. Meaning that you are the one sitting in smoke and the
enemy is shooting you, not you shooting the enemy smoke
yourself.
Can we do some research on this?
Please correct me if I am wrong with that, Dr Schizo.
Also I am not sure if it is the improving skill that makes
people better in shooting smokescreens.
It might also be brainwashing by the priest of evil "Flamu", who
is trying to lure the playerbase into hating submarines and CVs.
Do you have any thoughts on that?
Kind regards,
Hickerman
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Re: Smokefire conspiracy
By: Dr Schizo Date: October 13, 2022, 3:29 pm
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Hickerman, I agree on the point that the smokefire conspiracy is
about when the subject is inside the smoke, not shooting at it.
Here is an illustration with the subject is coloured in blue:
HTML https://imgur.com/4aKY9dE
I hope there was not too much of a misunderstanding,
King regards.
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