Literally made this vid because people wouldn't stop asking me on the stream what my build is. Well done, you win! Stream: www.twitch.tv/flamuu Twitter: twitter.com/flamuchz Discord: discord.gg/Flamu
Flamu: Let me show you how good the ap is against broadside targets, it's disgusting Does 2-4k salvos Flamu: Not as much damage as I hoped. I've hit 8-9k volleys. Citadels the Stalin at 11km range Flamu: Not sure how that happened..But you get the idea
Flamu being more dead inside each time a CL gets released. If its a Soviet ship it makes it even worse LOL *BREAKING NEWS* "Flamu completely dead inside by end of year, if current trends continue"
*BREAKING NEWS* "War Gaming confirm that SLAVA is coming without any changes in it, Flamu found completely dead inside in his apartment claiming that he is never gonna "touch this shit game ever again". "
@@strangways78 Thats the problem...His complete Twitch and YT is based around WoWs and if he ever stops having interest in the game or leaving because of WG shenanigans. Well, either his viewers follow or he will be significantly smaller :(
@@livz666 That's not specific to the Kutuzov, though. All light cruisers with gun calibers larger than destroyers were affected like that. It was a change to smoke cruisers across the board.
Eh, first time I saw Smolensk last night, I killed him in one salvo from Stalingrad. I mean they might have massive DPS, fire chance, etc, but if scrubs park it behind an island because they don't know someone with AP is around, that problem is solved quick.
@@aluisious Indeed, Ive met so many Smolenskes lately and the ship honestly doesnt seem that strong. Maybe it isnt played right thou. You just need to push a Smolensk instead of running away and youll blap him easely. DMs will litteraly rape Smolenskes unless you try and open water gunboating. Also Smolensk only damage is basically fire damage. It shatters almost every shell on anything even with IFHE.
@@admiralfloofz658 Did you even watch the video? Flamu addresses all your points and shoots them down. You cannot argue a ship is not OP because most people playing it will do so poorly. You cannot argue a ship is not OP because there exist ways to deal with it, even though a competent player will never let you exploit those ways. Those arguments were nonsense when they were used to denigrate the concerns around Stalingrad, and they are still nonsense now.
@@nonowgoaway The ship is strong but being a coal ship, a lot of the people playing it are awful. The reason something like Stalingrad was especially strong when it came out was because only the most effective players were able to amass the steel quickly to buy it, so you had a strong ship used by strong players. Smolensk is a strong ship used by anyone who chooses resource containers.
I liked what they were going for with the early iterations of Smolensk and Colbert. Bow and Stern overmatchable by 203mm cruiser AP. But WG, ever insightful into how to fix a game they seemingly don't play on their own, rolled out the spreadsheets as they usually do and botched the job. Smolensk and Colbert would be tolerable if they were glass cannons like they were originally shown off as. But it seems like WG misinterpreted the glass part of the glass part of that statement as "Can't see them because they are behind an island or sitting in smoke. . . Or because you're dead raged out in port". Welp, I have to applaud them for something and I guess Italian SAP is looking a whole lot more enticing now against these two of only just for them.
"Of course it's not as stronk as Kutuzov, tovarisch. Look at it, smol guns, very balans, smol HP, very balans. We'd never make an overpowered russian ship, if it looks stronk, that's just the superior soviet naval engineering, very historically accurate, tovarisch." - WG devs.
Hm? I don't play that game and have never seen this channel, but the video has just appeared in my recommendations. I really have no idea, why, but the fact that I actually live in Smolensk LMAO Anyways, recommendations are becoming more and more surprising ^^
3.6? I've seen worse, comrade. What do you mean "It's not balanse"? Take that burning cryBB to the infirmary. Balans sheet says is okay. Now release it.
Ahh yess, classic WG. Same things as in WoT, make something stupidly OP then make it rare but not so rare that people can see how it is stupidly OP, make crates or limited time to buy, cash in money. That how we make monei in Rasha da blyat.
Flamu, you could choose RPF plus Consealment plus hydro. With such a build, Smolensk becomes a perfect counter-destoyer CL that can also cap. However you preferred AND recommended the ultimate HE spammer's build. Great job dude, keep supporting the HE and firestarting meta - it gives so much fun and enjoyable gameplay experience to everyone, right? PS Smolensk herself is not OP. It's the HE/firestarting meta that is OP. And it's not going to change because it is in this meta that every potato can get loads of XP and feel like a hero.
For ships actively using smokes, I actually always prefer NOT running the extended hydro duration mod as it helps keeping the smoke and hydro cooldown times more closely synchronized, plus overall I can barely remember when I had a moment where I wished I had longer hydro duration ... the amount of times I however wished my hydro were already off cooldown is something much more common. And in the current meta, CVs numbers are dwindling down again so more often than not you won't be seeing any CVs anyway. Plus with BFT and AFT, your AA is already so nasty with the now current (post-patch) AA mechanics that the DFAA doesn't really make that much of a difference (it mostly just boosts the flak burst damage, which is much less reliable damage than continuous dps whose damage boost has been reduced significantly) and the new priority sector already functions as a "DFAA lite". And even if all this isn't enough, any smart CV player who really wants you can just do the same thing they've always done, bait DFAA, bail, wait out its duration and get you then anyway. I am however curious why you chose BFT over DE. With a base fire chance of 7% after IFHE, the flat 2% addition is an almost 30% fire chance increase ( 25% increase in addition with the signal flags boost if we count those into the base chance). Compared to the 10% dpm (and thus likewise a 10% effective firechance increase), I find it's almost a no-brainer to pick DE over BFT since the vast majority of damage you do against any armoured targets (i.e.: any plate your IFHE can't pen) is fire damage and thus anything that buffs the fire chance, even at the expense of a little gun dpm, is well worth it. So unless you take BFT because you also really want that 10% continuous AA dps buff, it's arguably a bad trade-off given the very BB heavy meta.
Everyone was whining about the Colbert being broken and i just sat there, looked at Smolensk toolkit and thought to myself "you are crying about the wrong bottle of spilled milk guys". On another note, a bot sad to see/hear so little from you on YT as of late.
This year was BY FAR the worst. Benham with Torpedo spam, Colbert, Smolensk, Georgia, Ohio is coming out soon... There are Overpowered ships if they are played right. Aka only the good players will destroy people so "theyre balanced ships" Also, theyre all Premiums. Play until T7 and then You only have to really Pay attention to Giulio Cesare and Kamikaze as op
@@ThenVersusNow_ I think there is a reason current clan battles are at T8... They know they fucked it up. It started with the Stalingrad. The entire Steel thing just escapes me...But thats why I play casually. I generally try to avoid Getting too invested into the game...Or else it will hurt wayy too badly to see it die
> be wargaming > "British cruisers having HE would be unhealthy for the game with their high rate of fire" > be also wargaming > "aww yeah boii here's a load of ships with 2-3 second reloads that have HE!" >.>
В самом деле. Этот корабль имеет средние параметры и есть очень хорошо сбалансирован. TBH idea of balance in WG is like "let's make Soviet ships one tier better".
A ship for those who can't play anything, in my opinion. I agree with how you named the video - kutuzov on crack.. Even one-handed blind imbicil can farm damage on it. So far for "the thinking man's game". Flamu -good job, as always 👍
Didn't build it like you. I put the extended range module and with AFT i'm sitting at 19 km spamming HE on BBs. Also chose demolition expert in place of BFT. And i play it with the sonar for when i'm sitting in my smoke.
WG: Kutuzov is too strong. We're pulling it from sales for the sake of game balance. Also WG: You can get Kutuzov and other removed OP ships by whaling hundreds of dollars through RNG containers. ALSO WG AGAIN: Here's Kutuzov 2.0 at T10 Anyone who thinks WG actually give a flying fuck about balance in this game needs their heads checked. Yes, they're a business and fine they need to make money. But they crossed the line to unmitigated greed a long time ago with bullshit lootbox mechanics, OP premium ships, captains, etc. I still play the game from time to time, but I haven't dropped a fucking dime in over a year and a half. I went from spending $1k+ a year to literally nothing.
Now that you see 2 of those in every game it's even more apparent how OP this shit is. I think a good NERF would be to make it choose between smoke or heal to make it less idiot proof.
this ship (and the Colbert) is the reason I stopped playing BBs above t7, and I'm even reluctant to get on my Minotaur or Worcester because it's just not fun facing this thing in 90% of the games I play...
It's amazing the amount of facts Flamu has been screaming about while watching a lot of his old videos. It's such a shame where this game is today. I sure do wish WG would sell the game to a devoloper who actually gives a shit!!! Much love here on the NA Server Flamu. Never Give Up!!!
It doesn't really matter what caliber ship guns are or how low the sire chance is, it's the pshycological effect you get with the amount of shells fired at a target, nobody likes to be shot and being shot by a constant stream of shells makes you want to turn away, even if only 1 shell of 50 hits does 800 points of HP dmg the amount of constant barrage will just make you run for cover and again, the dmg will keep stacking and stacking with the rate of fire Much fun but i guess the flow charts say people getting shot by Smolensk are having fun so...
Just wondering if anyone would consider , instead of IFHE, leave it and go DE, to maximise its fire starting strength. I'm thinking of buying it and I think I will probably go for that spec.
The bias is crappy, but the real problem is twofold: (1) a complete inability to balance crap. At this point, they're just throwing shit at the wall to see what everyone will pay them money to have, and (2) inability to fix all the horrendous user-experience bugs in the game, including the vast array of "features" that are completely broken. I mean, they make my 7th grade computer science students look like geniuses. Completely inept as a company.
@@drunksquirrel2051 And neither are WG's developers. You confuse employees with owners. The people writing the code for WG are generic Russian software people, getting paid Russian wages.
Just funny to me when you think about how das they nerved the already bad Siegfried for no reason other than it not being Russian and release ships like that, Russian ofc...
Glad I picked up the Yoshino instead... Tier X Flint is just not my style of play no matter how OP it is. I don't find it enjoyable to have my finger down on mouse 1 the entire match while looking for the next island to hide behind... Also, not much end game carry potential if you're team is losing and you find yourself as the last 1 or 2 ships on your team with no one to effectively spot for you while you sit in smoke. So your ability to shoot from behind islands or from within smoke cover is gone if no one is around to spot for you, and as soon as you're spotted by that opponent BB you're so squishy that ur dead in 2-3 salvos tops. Now that the average player has this ship we see it often on the NA server, and it seems like 50% of the time they are the first ship to die because they over-extended thinking their ship was untouchable and a well placed BB salvo deleted them.
I still like this cruiser but I wouldn't trade it for my yoshino since this cruiser cant take much in return but it can only really spam and as for the yoshino it can't take much much back but it can still hit very hard as well as for the effective torps it gets
The question is, when the IFHE change comes, will ships like this be useless? I’m worried things like my Atlanta and Belfast will become obsolete with the change.
Tell that to the Mogami as well.... It's already bad that IJN has slow reload, turrets take forever to turn as well, and now they're facing these type of monsters... Damn :(
Absolutely correct. I've run into them driving my terrible trio of DD's.. Harekaze, Yugumo, Shima... Very difficult to deal with especially with US radar (enhanced) usually running about with it. Worse when air is about. And ya'll though Harugumo was bad.. *THPPEEEFFFFT!~* Compared to this not even! Utterly sets a new high bar on released OP.
After the changes, is IFHE still a must have perk? - I wonder. Can you please make an uptade video about the Smolensk build? I'd appreciate it. Thank you!
What do you think about switching Concealment System Mod. 1 to Steering gear Mod 3? -80% repair time and 40% better rudder is insane. Concealment is almost useless for Smolensk, but i dont know if +5% dispersion is worth it
Was there a main gun range reduction on Smolensk? Was it before or after this video? Does this change the recommended modules set-up? Gun fire control mod 2 instead of Main battery mod 3?
Ship Modelers:"hey so uh what is the community crying about all the time?" Community Representative :"Somethin about HE Spammers and OP Russian Premiums" Sales Department:"Ahhh dont worry about it, this is fine!" *Smolensk happens* Modelers:"No we cant Bring this out yet, its too OP...any suggestions?" Sales Rep: "Benham Mogador Georgia Ohio!!!!" *high tier is now a wasteland of OP Premiums, but atleast the spreadsheet says youre having fun.*
My only hope is most good players will get board with it as it such a easy mode ship and many prefer a challenge which is why match making isn't flooded buy kutazovs and Belfast anymore but the next two months could be harsh
Why is it OK for this ship and the Colbert to have HE but not the mino, i thought the mino wasn't allowed HE because it's rate of fire with HE would make it op????
I don't have this ship and I don't intend to get it because it represents the pinnacle of pay-to-win and wargaming's idea of gouging customers for deliberately OP trash, but I can sum up what I've seen in this way: smolensks on enemy team: pew pew pew! ship dead. pew pew pew! ship dead. pop smoke. pew pew pew! more ships dead. smolensks on your team: rush in and die in 5 minutes.
I have been saying the same as well since facing these months ago in test mode ... Complete insanity, and Colbert is worse in ways ... the WRONG direction for this game... Slava sniper in the same camp... Smolensk came to coal to appease the masses for Colbert in Research center - Say no to research center captains- do not support bad systems in this game - Research center should be missions tree based, should be for cosmetics, flags, consumables and all sorts of other goodies... NOT OP SHIPSUnfortunate events because WG has actually done some decent things recently. Thanks for the honesty Flamu
The Shima could have actually won them the game. It was 468:460 with 40s remaining. What if he had stayed in the cap for the rest of the time, kept duking shells and stayed alive? The red team gets cap points whereas green doesn’t.
Maybe I missed it but which Line's Capatin would be best suited to also be the captain for this ship? Either DD line one closer or better than the other for perks?
Literally made this vid because people wouldn't stop asking me on the stream what my build is. Well done, you win!
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You sound either exhausted or frustrated...and i can unterstand. I cut down playing lately to not get burnt out
Could you do a video on the Ohio?
Those of us who aren't able to watch your twitch stream as much as they'd like to appreciate the effort!
This sounds like a job for submarines
1077 hits fucking kek
WG: Mino with HE would be too OP
Also WG: This
hehe so why did they remove kutuzov and bel ? wg logic +cash grab
WG: yamato's thick deck armor breaks most small cal HE rounds... Also WG: smolensk
at least they're going to pull it now
An he minotaur would just be a disabled Worcester, what do they mean it would be op
@Martin Der König This ship is actually weaker than the mino, it isn't as tanky and doesn't have as good smoke, also does not have a radar option
"Very easy to hit citadel damage on this ship."
My full overpens from my yamato would like to have a word with you sir.
That Kurfurst had an enjoyable gaming experience.
yes Spreadsheets say so!
Thats me every time I take the FdG
look at the izumo. Not 5 mins in the game and he already got burned from stem to stern. Poor guy
Yes.
Is it just me or does flamu sound super dead inside throughout this video?
Heh, just did a 9h stream before recording the video, was pretty tired
@@Flamuu thanks for your hard work for those of us on youtube!!!
Flamu it has nothing to do with Wargaming releasing YET ANOTHER strong ship, shitting on most the tech tree ships? :P
He is a fin. All fins sound super dead inside throughout life.
no.../hes dead inside!
Flamu: Let me show you how good the ap is against broadside targets, it's disgusting
Does 2-4k salvos
Flamu: Not as much damage as I hoped. I've hit 8-9k volleys.
Citadels the Stalin at 11km range
Flamu: Not sure how that happened..But you get the idea
Pisses me off
Flamu being more dead inside each time a CL gets released. If its a Soviet ship it makes it even worse LOL
*BREAKING NEWS*
"Flamu completely dead inside by end of year, if current trends continue"
*BREAKING NEWS*
"War Gaming confirm that SLAVA is coming without any changes in it, Flamu found completely dead inside in his apartment claiming that he is never gonna "touch this shit game ever again". "
problem is he's making a good living out of WoWS. other than that he would've left long time ago by now
@@strangways78 Thats the problem...His complete Twitch and YT is based around WoWs and if he ever stops having interest in the game or leaving because of WG shenanigans. Well, either his viewers follow or he will be significantly smaller :(
BREAKING NEWS:
WG introduces "Satlin's Wet Dream No.245" , Flamu has emotional brakedown on Stream!
ahhh Komrad only have small guns can't pen, is balance da!
*balanS
WG: 'Minotaur with HE would be OP'.
Releases Worcester.
WG: 'Kutuzov is OP, let's nerf it'.
Releases Smolensk.
WG: 'Khaba is OP'.
Releases Kleber.
I don't think Kutuzov was ever nerfed. It was simply removed from the store.
I still prefer the Mogami. Kill me.
@@Spectacular_Insanity they nerfed it's smoke firing detection range
@@livz666 That's not specific to the Kutuzov, though. All light cruisers with gun calibers larger than destroyers were affected like that. It was a change to smoke cruisers across the board.
wg: *changes game mechanic*
players: oh it's nerf
Worcester is balanced against minotaur by having no smoke, no torps, worse heal, worse concealment, and now worse AA.
Citadel on STALINGRAD. We are beyond russian bias now.
stalingrad has a garbage broadside, that is its one weakness
Zao: Its good firestarter, so it doesnt need utility
WG: Here, every new premium CL is better with 1000 utility
Cry's in Zao.....
Well zao has torps that do serious damage and are usable. Ever since they added the 12km torps it's been a very useful ship even in clan battles
You know something is wrong when Flolo calls Stalingrad 'poor'
Eh, first time I saw Smolensk last night, I killed him in one salvo from Stalingrad. I mean they might have massive DPS, fire chance, etc, but if scrubs park it behind an island because they don't know someone with AP is around, that problem is solved quick.
@@aluisious Indeed, Ive met so many Smolenskes lately and the ship honestly doesnt seem that strong. Maybe it isnt played right thou. You just need to push a Smolensk instead of running away and youll blap him easely. DMs will litteraly rape Smolenskes unless you try and open water gunboating. Also Smolensk only damage is basically fire damage. It shatters almost every shell on anything even with IFHE.
@@admiralfloofz658 Did you even watch the video? Flamu addresses all your points and shoots them down. You cannot argue a ship is not OP because most people playing it will do so poorly. You cannot argue a ship is not OP because there exist ways to deal with it, even though a competent player will never let you exploit those ways. Those arguments were nonsense when they were used to denigrate the concerns around Stalingrad, and they are still nonsense now.
@@nonowgoaway he can shoot them down as much as he wants. Ive not had issues dealing with them thou. Infact theyve mostly been freekills
@@nonowgoaway The ship is strong but being a coal ship, a lot of the people playing it are awful. The reason something like Stalingrad was especially strong when it came out was because only the most effective players were able to amass the steel quickly to buy it, so you had a strong ship used by strong players. Smolensk is a strong ship used by anyone who chooses resource containers.
Imagine if WG focused on dropping ten new maps.
and or new game modes?!
Torped the spamming shit just a minute ago in my Shima. Feels good.
byxl you did good I’m proud of you!
I torped a shima with my spamming shit. :-)
Killed this shitship with my desmo...felt so good
I kill this thing with my DesMo or Monty at least once a week
murdered one with my kremlin :D
This ship is an insult to Minotaur.
Mino is actually a fairly good counter but I get your point
I liked what they were going for with the early iterations of Smolensk and Colbert. Bow and Stern overmatchable by 203mm cruiser AP. But WG, ever insightful into how to fix a game they seemingly don't play on their own, rolled out the spreadsheets as they usually do and botched the job.
Smolensk and Colbert would be tolerable if they were glass cannons like they were originally shown off as. But it seems like WG misinterpreted the glass part of the glass part of that statement as "Can't see them because they are behind an island or sitting in smoke. . . Or because you're dead raged out in port". Welp, I have to applaud them for something and I guess Italian SAP is looking a whole lot more enticing now against these two of only just for them.
You'd make a good messenger, keep up the good work :) .
You title is funny as hell giving the news that Evgeny Kuznetsov has been caught doing cocaine.
Vodka*
Wasn't he the guy that WOWS had special containers with?
@@jacobseager4897 Nah that was Alexander Ovechkin that had the special Captain in wows.
@@christopherpittman2689 Oh lol they look the same
@@jacobseager4897 They look drunk?
"Of course it's not as stronk as Kutuzov, tovarisch. Look at it, smol guns, very balans, smol HP, very balans. We'd never make an overpowered russian ship, if it looks stronk, that's just the superior soviet naval engineering, very historically accurate, tovarisch." - WG devs.
This ship is f*cking op
oh so is the Colbert
Everyone: "Stalingrad is so OP omg!!"
Smolensk: "Hold my vodka"
Hm?
I don't play that game and have never seen this channel, but the video has just appeared in my recommendations. I really have no idea, why, but the fact that I actually live in Smolensk LMAO
Anyways, recommendations are becoming more and more surprising ^^
Smolensk: the Minotaur and Worcester had a baby who was sent for adoption and picked up by a Kremlin.
So this thing is basically a floating Chernobyl meme with the 3.6 roentgen reload time, got it
3.6? I've seen worse, comrade. What do you mean "It's not balanse"? Take that burning cryBB to the infirmary. Balans sheet says is okay. Now release it.
Not great, not terrible
They should bring the Belfast back if they have this monster in the game for coal
Flamu kiting away from a Kremlin: "Im getting agressive on this Kremlin now"
Love to watch Flamu vids but this video just reminds me of why I don't miss playing WoWS. Stopped in May and haven't missed it even a little bit.
Got my Kutuzov in a Christmas crate.
That's a good roll.
Was just browsing your channel hoping you’d upload earlier and now I see this. Excellent.
Normal Smolensk games looks like "A sunray in darkness" games
"Working as intended".
Russian scribbles on a napkin win again
Wow your voice is so chill in this gameplay :D You are the Bob Ross of Wows Replays haha
bru the shima had used dual purpose torps lol.
I love when flamu thinks wargaming uses logic when designing ships
Its WG. Are you suprised they show Soviet bias. They did so amazingly explicit in WoT, so what makes this game any exception?
Thanks for making this video. Unfortunately it's not going to stop a lot of people asking for your Smolensk build on stream.
Ahh yess, classic WG. Same things as in WoT, make something stupidly OP then make it rare but not so rare that people can see how it is stupidly OP, make crates or limited time to buy, cash in money. That how we make monei in Rasha da blyat.
Combo Freak dont forget that it must be russian, if not they wont make it op.
I meet three Smolensk and one Woster in my Hindi last night, didnt work out for me and I stopped playing. Not a fun experience......
I uninstalled the game. Too much bullshit in the game anymore
Flamu, you could choose RPF plus Consealment plus hydro. With such a build, Smolensk becomes a perfect counter-destoyer CL that can also cap.
However you preferred AND recommended the ultimate HE spammer's build.
Great job dude, keep supporting the HE and firestarting meta - it gives so much fun and enjoyable gameplay experience to everyone, right?
PS Smolensk herself is not OP. It's the HE/firestarting meta that is OP. And it's not going to change because it is in this meta that every potato can get loads of XP and feel like a hero.
if its the best way he will support it
For ships actively using smokes, I actually always prefer NOT running the extended hydro duration mod as it helps keeping the smoke and hydro cooldown times more closely synchronized, plus overall I can barely remember when I had a moment where I wished I had longer hydro duration ... the amount of times I however wished my hydro were already off cooldown is something much more common.
And in the current meta, CVs numbers are dwindling down again so more often than not you won't be seeing any CVs anyway. Plus with BFT and AFT, your AA is already so nasty with the now current (post-patch) AA mechanics that the DFAA doesn't really make that much of a difference (it mostly just boosts the flak burst damage, which is much less reliable damage than continuous dps whose damage boost has been reduced significantly) and the new priority sector already functions as a "DFAA lite". And even if all this isn't enough, any smart CV player who really wants you can just do the same thing they've always done, bait DFAA, bail, wait out its duration and get you then anyway.
I am however curious why you chose BFT over DE. With a base fire chance of 7% after IFHE, the flat 2% addition is an almost 30% fire chance increase ( 25% increase in addition with the signal flags boost if we count those into the base chance). Compared to the 10% dpm (and thus likewise a 10% effective firechance increase), I find it's almost a no-brainer to pick DE over BFT since the vast majority of damage you do against any armoured targets (i.e.: any plate your IFHE can't pen) is fire damage and thus anything that buffs the fire chance, even at the expense of a little gun dpm, is well worth it.
So unless you take BFT because you also really want that 10% continuous AA dps buff, it's arguably a bad trade-off given the very BB heavy meta.
I feel like there was an oopsie at WG HQ and the NTC ship Smolensk was accidentally released for coal, while Colbert got released for NTC instead
Flamu forgot about the Belfast step in the "smoke + HE spam OP - better make it premium" timeline
Because we all LOVE the he spam!
#spreadsheetsaysyourhavingfun
Everyone was whining about the Colbert being broken and i just sat there, looked at Smolensk toolkit and thought to myself "you are crying about the wrong bottle of spilled milk guys".
On another note, a bot sad to see/hear so little from you on YT as of late.
Bc he's too lazy
BOTH those ships are OP cancer that should never have made it onto the game
Both ships are absolutely horrible for the game. Smolensk is only worse because it is arguably easier to get.
@@1CAPTAINREDBEARD1 that and the Smoke
Anyone thinking about started this game, don't waste your time. The dev's will not listen to anything and continue to break the game worse every year.
This year was BY FAR the worst. Benham with Torpedo spam, Colbert, Smolensk, Georgia, Ohio is coming out soon... There are Overpowered ships if they are played right. Aka only the good players will destroy people so "theyre balanced ships"
Also, theyre all Premiums.
Play until T7 and then You only have to really Pay attention to Giulio Cesare and Kamikaze as op
@@Macintoshiba If Ohio proves to be a needed ship for clan battles that might be it for me. What angers me is I know what this game could be.
@@ThenVersusNow_ I think there is a reason current clan battles are at T8...
They know they fucked it up. It started with the Stalingrad. The entire Steel thing just escapes me...But thats why I play casually. I generally try to avoid Getting too invested into the game...Or else it will hurt wayy too badly to see it die
@@Macintoshiba tier 8 CB are fucked.
To kill a BB you need your BB to ram The enemy.
Takes too long to kill RU BBs
Did you know that the mission Total Wreck we saw at the end of gameplay actually refers to the future of WoWs?
> be wargaming
> "British cruisers having HE would be unhealthy for the game with their high rate of fire"
> be also wargaming
> "aww yeah boii here's a load of ships with 2-3 second reloads that have HE!"
>.>
and smoke, don't forget smoke
now show me the rubles comrade
Flamu: "this ship is stupidly strong and OP"
Also Flamu: "this is my bild for this monster"
Atago dmg 70000
Smolensk dmg nearly 500000
Seems legit ,fully balanced & fair!
Atago is t8 tho...
“Poor Stalingrad”? That statement does not compute...
Wow. This ship looks fair and balanced.
В самом деле. Этот корабль имеет средние параметры и есть очень хорошо сбалансирован.
TBH idea of balance in WG is like "let's make Soviet ships one tier better".
A ship for those who can't play anything, in my opinion. I agree with how you named the video - kutuzov on crack.. Even one-handed blind imbicil can farm damage on it. So far for "the thinking man's game". Flamu -good job, as always 👍
Why WG? Why?!!
Now WG introduced Plymouth, a UK CL version of Smolensk with special AP shells of UK CL
Didn't build it like you. I put the extended range module and with AFT i'm sitting at 19 km spamming HE on BBs. Also chose demolition expert in place of BFT. And i play it with the sonar for when i'm sitting in my smoke.
never take DE over bft on 139mm gun or less, simple math: better reload gives more fire chance and dpm.
@@alexzasokhashvili3412 and it buffs the already strong AA
I get the Smolensk now and in my third game i get a kraken ugly to play against but playing it makes fun
WG: Kutuzov is too strong. We're pulling it from sales for the sake of game balance.
Also WG: You can get Kutuzov and other removed OP ships by whaling hundreds of dollars through RNG containers.
ALSO WG AGAIN: Here's Kutuzov 2.0 at T10
Anyone who thinks WG actually give a flying fuck about balance in this game needs their heads checked. Yes, they're a business and fine they need to make money. But they crossed the line to unmitigated greed a long time ago with bullshit lootbox mechanics, OP premium ships, captains, etc. I still play the game from time to time, but I haven't dropped a fucking dime in over a year and a half. I went from spending $1k+ a year to literally nothing.
"bUt It'S sTiLl BeInG bAlAnCeD"
Now that you see 2 of those in every game it's even more apparent how OP this shit is. I think a good NERF would be to make it choose between smoke or heal to make it less idiot proof.
It's the Russian punishment for our sins!
this ship (and the Colbert) is the reason I stopped playing BBs above t7, and I'm even reluctant to get on my Minotaur or Worcester because it's just not fun facing this thing in 90% of the games I play...
WTF WG! It is russian cruiser and should have radar too. Please buff.
It's amazing the amount of facts Flamu has been screaming about while watching a lot of his old videos. It's such a shame where this game is today. I sure do wish WG would sell the game to a devoloper who actually gives a shit!!!
Much love here on the NA Server Flamu. Never Give Up!!!
It doesn't really matter what caliber ship guns are or how low the sire chance is, it's the pshycological effect you get with the amount of shells fired at a target, nobody likes to be shot and being shot by a constant stream of shells makes you want to turn away, even if only 1 shell of 50 hits does 800 points of HP dmg the amount of constant barrage will just make you run for cover and again, the dmg will keep stacking and stacking with the rate of fire
Much fun but i guess the flow charts say people getting shot by Smolensk are having fun so...
Kutusov was not only smoke and HE, when it came out; it was smoke, HE and stealth fire ...
Just wondering if anyone would consider , instead of IFHE, leave it and go DE, to maximise its fire starting strength. I'm thinking of buying it and I think I will probably go for that spec.
Super Kutuzov, exactly what the game needed.....
LOL, i stopped playing WOWS because of the russian bias. No more money for you WG!
I'm agree....I stop to play with with the British BB...HE spammer too
The bias is crappy, but the real problem is twofold: (1) a complete inability to balance crap. At this point, they're just throwing shit at the wall to see what everyone will pay them money to have, and (2) inability to fix all the horrendous user-experience bugs in the game, including the vast array of "features" that are completely broken.
I mean, they make my 7th grade computer science students look like geniuses. Completely inept as a company.
@@drunksquirrel2051 And neither are WG's developers. You confuse employees with owners. The people writing the code for WG are generic Russian software people, getting paid Russian wages.
Flamu, plz make a video on updated AA mechanics and Captain skills, and how to spec. We need the info.
Very informative... as always...and I'm sold...I want to be sick in the gut playing Smolensk..😁
Just funny to me when you think about how das they nerved the already bad Siegfried for no reason other than it not being Russian and release ships like that, Russian ofc...
Glad I picked up the Yoshino instead... Tier X Flint is just not my style of play no matter how OP it is. I don't find it enjoyable to have my finger down on mouse 1 the entire match while looking for the next island to hide behind... Also, not much end game carry potential if you're team is losing and you find yourself as the last 1 or 2 ships on your team with no one to effectively spot for you while you sit in smoke. So your ability to shoot from behind islands or from within smoke cover is gone if no one is around to spot for you, and as soon as you're spotted by that opponent BB you're so squishy that ur dead in 2-3 salvos tops. Now that the average player has this ship we see it often on the NA server, and it seems like 50% of the time they are the first ship to die because they over-extended thinking their ship was untouchable and a well placed BB salvo deleted them.
I think WG released Smolensk and Colbert to compensate for the fact that the upcoming Italian cruisers won't have HE shells.
This is why, Smolensk must be the priority to kill first at the game
As a potato player and Kutuzov, Atlanta and Flint owner, I like this ship.
Dont cry here. Learn to sink that Ship... wait for Colbert Smolensk Mino Division.
I'd probably do des moines or stalingrad instead of colbert since they have radad and improved ap. No counter play, no hiding
I HATE fighting this ship in my Shimakaze, always dodges my torps!
Interesting. I torped 3 in last 2 days in my Daring. Some people don't run hydro.
@Flamu I noticed that you cant get torped by deep water torps in smolensk. Did you know that? How's that even possible? xD
I still like this cruiser but I wouldn't trade it for my yoshino since this cruiser cant take much in return but it can only really spam and as for the yoshino it can't take much much back but it can still hit very hard as well as for the effective torps it gets
These things are cancer to play against. 8% fire chance but you roll the dice 200 times a minute. As a BB driver, I am constantly on fire these days.
I'm thinking of getting fire insurance with how many times my ships are set on fire these days...
The question is, when the IFHE change comes, will ships like this be useless? I’m worried things like my Atlanta and Belfast will become obsolete with the change.
Tell that to the Mogami as well.... It's already bad that IJN has slow reload, turrets take forever to turn as well, and now they're facing these type of monsters... Damn :(
This is soooooooooo balanced
In World of Soviet Bias!
I think its gona be a selling trick like atlanta and that frenc bb, 'let everybody buy it, after that nurf it'
Just like they nerfed stalingrad, right? lul
Looking at this thing, it tells me that IFHE is gonna take a massive cut in power, this is a last second cash in by WG.
There is no Soviet bias! Period!
Absolutely correct. I've run into them driving my terrible trio of DD's.. Harekaze, Yugumo, Shima... Very difficult to deal with especially with US radar (enhanced) usually running about with it. Worse when air is about. And ya'll though Harugumo was bad.. *THPPEEEFFFFT!~* Compared to this not even! Utterly sets a new high bar on released OP.
Nightmare. Just a nightmare.
After the changes, is IFHE still a must have perk? - I wonder.
Can you please make an uptade video about the Smolensk build? I'd appreciate it.
Thank you!
WG logic : smaller the shells are, deadlier the ship is.
And historical logic too. Look at Yamato... Bismarck... Hood... On the other hand, you can take a look at the Daring class or Atlanta class.
Better get this thing or get the Yoshino?
What do you think about switching Concealment System Mod. 1 to Steering gear Mod 3? -80% repair time and 40% better rudder is insane. Concealment is almost useless for Smolensk, but i dont know if +5% dispersion is worth it
Was there a main gun range reduction on Smolensk? Was it before or after this video? Does this change the recommended modules set-up? Gun fire control mod 2 instead of Main battery mod 3?
Ship Modelers:"hey so uh what is the community crying about all the time?"
Community Representative :"Somethin about HE Spammers and OP Russian Premiums"
Sales Department:"Ahhh dont worry about it, this is fine!"
*Smolensk happens*
Modelers:"No we cant Bring this out yet, its too OP...any suggestions?"
Sales Rep: "Benham Mogador Georgia Ohio!!!!"
*high tier is now a wasteland of OP Premiums, but atleast the spreadsheet says youre having fun.*
My only hope is most good players will get board with it as it such a easy mode ship and many prefer a challenge which is why match making isn't flooded buy kutazovs and Belfast anymore but the next two months could be harsh
Why is it OK for this ship and the Colbert to have HE but not the mino, i thought the mino wasn't allowed HE because it's rate of fire with HE would make it op????
Wargaming sometimes doesnt know whats healthy for their own game.
It's maybe because they don't want silver cruisers to have HE and smoke. They probably want to keep that a premium gimmick. Just a thought
They choosed to remove HE for the RN CLs, because Smoke+Fast Dakka+Very nimble+stealthy+brutal AA+ *SMOKE AND HE*
I don't have this ship and I don't intend to get it because it represents the pinnacle of pay-to-win and wargaming's idea of gouging customers for deliberately OP trash, but I can sum up what I've seen in this way:
smolensks on enemy team: pew pew pew! ship dead. pew pew pew! ship dead. pop smoke. pew pew pew! more ships dead.
smolensks on your team: rush in and die in 5 minutes.
This ship needs to go away, I've played like 10 games in a row without taking dmg with and 200k+ dmg on all of them, it's disgusting!
I have been saying the same as well since facing these months ago in test mode ... Complete insanity, and Colbert is worse in ways ... the WRONG direction for this game... Slava sniper in the same camp... Smolensk came to coal to appease the masses for Colbert in Research center - Say no to research center captains- do not support bad systems in this game - Research center should be missions tree based, should be for cosmetics, flags, consumables and all sorts of other goodies... NOT OP SHIPSUnfortunate events because WG has actually done some decent things recently. Thanks for the honesty Flamu
Graham Pyne Slava at least is apparently delayed indefinitely according to the last QnA from Sub Octavian on Reddit, so that’s something at least.
Cant find an oktyabrskaya revolutsiya review on your site. Can you point me to it or should it be on your list of things to do?
The Shima could have actually won them the game. It was 468:460 with 40s remaining. What if he had stayed in the cap for the rest of the time, kept duking shells and stayed alive? The red team gets cap points whereas green doesn’t.
Maybe I missed it but which Line's Capatin would be best suited to also be the captain for this ship? Either DD line one closer or better than the other for perks?