At the very least, it might discourage those "I know best" type DD captains that go off on their own to hunt something irrelevant instead of sticking with the team where they're needed. To be honest, those solo-DD flanks are a frustrating tactic to everyone except the user and are unrealistic to boot. God forbid the game should encourage sticking together. It gives little to no information in that situation. RPF becomes useless if it's pointing at a mass of ships, some of which the enemy can see anyway. I'm sure more tricks will emerge as time goes by good luck.
unfortunately RPF has ruined that end of game excitement and turned it into a 'chase the remaining ship Turkey Shoot'. Had a really good game yesterday, 18 points in it in the end, really close. I would/used try and take a ship out or steal a cap, not now RPF is in game, the enemy knows where you are and the nerfs to torps and the way ships can dodge torps normally, you'll have little chance hitting them when they're coming straight for you. I have nothing for the end game strategy. This could trap the enemy into revealing himself with your 2 DDs ready to pounce (unless there are 2 of them lol). Second, if you have a second DD both go in. Of course staying back doesn't help in the 'race' to cap. However, how would I have countered RPF:Įither drop back closer to your support (if you have any things like caps seem to act like a quarantine zone to some ships lol), most of the time you can guesstimate where your enemy DD is, so you can have a good go at making sure his RPF looks as though its pointing at your CA rather than you. I've decided to take a break from the game for a while. You would, however, not be able to share spotting information with your friends - at least not with those who you don't have line-of-sight with like you said. Because listening to the radio waves is passive and you're not emitting any signal while doing that - thus it won't give off your position. I don't think that switching off broadcasting would mean you can't receive spotting information from friendlies.
Indeed that would be even better if you had full control via a button over whether you are broadcasting or not. Penalties would be that you no longer recieve spotting information from ships that you don't have line of sight to (since should could and typically would communicate via light or flag signals during operations and hold radio silence specifically to avoid being detected by those signals). The absolut last resort would be to either: implement a radio silence option for ships that allows a player to disable one's radio, resulting in the skill no longer being able to locate any ship whose radio is disabled. The premium version would increase the duration, but not affect the cooldown.Īssuming RDF is here to stay, do you think something like what I suggested would help restore some element of stealth play to the game? The consumable should have a rather long duration of perhaps 3-4 minutes and a short cooldown. If you have the RDF skill yourself, you'd still be able to get the direction to the nearest enemy AND see targets spotted by your friendlies - you'd be listening with the radio, but not broadcasting. A side effect would be that while the consumable is active you'd also be unable to spot targets for your friends. Like the name says the consumable would switch off your ship's radio thus making you immune to being located by the RDF skill for the duration. It would be an extra consumable slot on all ships and would not compete with or replace any other consumables. Here's what I would suggest instead:Īdd an extra consumable called "radio silence" to all ships of all classes from T4 or T5 upwards, or potentially even all tiers. In my opinion that would not be the best option. I have heard suggestions that there should be another commander skill which negates the effect of this one. Many have said and I agree that one of the issues with this skill is the fact that it cannot be countered - the only way to somewhat protect yourself against someone with this skill is to have that skill as well. But assuming WG insists on leaving it in, we have to find a way to make it work. Like most people I don't think this skill will improve the game and would rather have it not exist.
With patch 0.6.0 imminent and with it the controversial Radio Location or Radio Direction/Position Finding skill added to the game I had a thought.