The Praedian Records

J.G. Phoenix

M.A.S.S. Builder Update: Upcoming Boss #2

This new guy is pretty stompy. I approve.

There’s not much to this update and nothing else I really want to comment on so that’ll be all for this week.

Clan Battles 8/24

It could have been a lot worse, but today’s win/loss ratio was pretty bad. Group A (we had two groups after the first few games for once; quite the rarity) had eleven matches with only wins. I have no idea how Group B fared. A few people had to leave early. I decided to head out early too since I wasn’t having any luck in most of my tier 8 dds. There were a few good games, but only three of those games were worth recording. I’ll grab the replays of those before 11.8 goes live.

As for the breakdown, here it is:

  • Harekaze II – Win
  • Harekaze II – Win
  • Harekaze II – Loss
  • Loyang B – Loss
  • Le Fantasque – Win
  • Le Fantasque – Loss
  • Le Fantasque – Loss
  • Oland – Loss
  • Harekaze II – Loss
  • ARP Takao – Loss
  • Prinz Eugen – Win

You can almost see the shifting tactics and the mindset behind the breakdown. It’s kind of funny to look at, but of my two favorite Tier 8 cruisers, Prinz Eugen managed to get me that win I so desperately needed to not come away from this one feeling dead inside. Thanks, Eugen~

Crash

I crashed hard yesterday. I had the tab open to make a quick post and everything, but alas. Resting my eyes turned my Monday into a Tuesday. It’s like magic, dark, evil magic.

Anyway, I’m still tired for some reason so I might not even manage my catch up post today, but I still need to mention what happened for posterity. On the bright side, if all goes according to plan, I may have a more flexible budget again soon. Just depends.

Slept On Clan Battles

There weren’t enough people to get started and I was tired. Given how Wednesday went, plus today, it’s not a good sign for how the rest of the season may unfold. I’ve wanted a tier 8 Clan Battles for a long time, even if only to escape from the frustrations of Tier 10. My current clan might not be up for it though, which is a shame, but it is what it is.

I’ll just enjoy the extra free time if it comes to that. Hopefully 11.8 will at least give me something to make World of Warships fun again in general.

M.A.S.S. Builder QOL Update

Quality of life updates are always welcome. VD’s focusing on the menus specifically. For the section where unlocked nodes are equipped, they’re adding new sorting options like ascending and descending sorting, and alphabetical sorting. For the parts section and the node unlocks screens you can also hold down shift to skip the unlock animations.

All in all, pretty good.

In other news, I was thinking about whether or not there would be a cutscene replay feature added to the archive at some point. When this update posted I decided that it would probably be a good question to ask VD. I even went into the archive for a minute just to make sure it wasn’t already a feature introduced previously that I just hadn’t noticed. I’m still going to give it maybe one more week before I submit my question, but I’m leaning sharply toward that one, mainly because I want to rewatch the old cutscenes in order as the story unfolds and make eventually record an entire playthrough.