After Years Of Development It's Back! - Kitakami First impressions

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Komentáře • 408

  • @BasJon
    @BasJon Před 7 měsíci +488

    I owned this ship back in the early days of the game and WG took it off me and replaced it with an Atago, I think the pricing for this event is one massive piss take by WG

    • @Choukai_Chan
      @Choukai_Chan Před 7 měsíci +68

      I never owned it and still thought this event is pure scam, but holy man I forget they took it away from some people, just to sell it back for 10x or more price...

    • @simonkevnorris
      @simonkevnorris Před 7 měsíci +8

      I never owned it as I did not start playing WoWS soon enough - I had applied to get into the closed beta but wasn't successful. With the debacle in WoT where they had pre-order packages with vehicles that were 'never ever' going to be available again (the Heavy was the M6 Mutant) and they put them into the gift shop a year or so later (and then withdrew them after the reaction only to put them back a while later). Anything this company does isn't a surprise.

    • @carlosrivas1629
      @carlosrivas1629 Před 7 měsíci +2

      it funy because he acts like he takes a hit of weed every time he plays.

    • @CCM1199
      @CCM1199 Před 7 měsíci +7

      The kita back then was way better than this version of kita. The old kita had the 20K shima torps with the 12K Damage output. Plus the reload was faster and it didnt have DWT's for secondary torps. Honestly this event is one huge scam. Only the whales will get them. I can get it but with the way they reworked the ship, Its not worth the coal, steel or research points to get them. I can get better use out of all 3 resources to get better ships that are up to current times. Its a hard pass for me.

    • @praneshpalanisamy9955
      @praneshpalanisamy9955 Před 7 měsíci

      So it's safe to say bro got an upgrade😂🎉

  • @hectorc7080
    @hectorc7080 Před 7 měsíci +176

    Lets be clear: no ship is worth so many resources, unless its play by itself and always win. Saying that, the question is if it is decent enough to be played frequently

    • @cornpop3159
      @cornpop3159 Před 7 měsíci +5

      Yea, well... you never had 2 Kitakami empty 80 torps in your direction man.

    • @ILoveforGames
      @ILoveforGames Před 7 měsíci +13

      ​@@cornpop3159how to counter a kitakami:
      Get a cv to spot and kill it (malta, Collossus)
      Sap, he
      Radar cruiser. Radar dd. Radar in general.
      High dpm destroyer. Hell, even mediocre dpm.
      Hydro to dodge the torps.
      Overall, get a cv and it will kill al l of them.

    • @SuperCrazf
      @SuperCrazf Před 7 měsíci +1

      I’m pretty sure they are doing this because they don’t want a sudden spike in torps considering how toxic this ship was considered to be

    • @davis6048
      @davis6048 Před 7 měsíci

      Lets be clear when you have the resources dont worry about it I have every thing moron and dont tell us what we shoud do with our resources....

    • @NOBLE-wo5rr
      @NOBLE-wo5rr Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​@@cornpop3159and you'll practically never get to do that with this new kita lmfao

  • @joselitostotomas8114
    @joselitostotomas8114 Před 7 měsíci +38

    I looked back at a video by jingles on the kita in 2015 during beta. The ship was at T8. You have the launchers all loading at once, and the torps will kill friends
    and foes alike.
    The ship was designed to punish noobs who sail in a straight line. The ship would have been matched at T6-T10This ship would have been a pain if it came out as originally designed for T6/T7, not so much at TT8-10 matches.
    The changes:
    1. Not at T10 so it'll be facing T9 to superships.
    2. Prevalence of hydro.
    3. Lack of noobs at T10. Anyone who encounters a wall of torps would have either pushed forward to spot you if in a DD with hydro and probably would have torped you like that DD did in the 2nd game.
    4. Launchers are now loaded sequentially. Wall of torps now available at 5 min. Battle impact now minimized.
    I originally thought it was not worth the price to get it. Glad your video affirms that decision.

    • @orztaku
      @orztaku Před 7 měsíci +4

      If memory serves the original Kitakami also had torpedo range equal to its concealment. Gimmicks like individual reload or deepwater torpedoes generally didn't exist. Long range hydro wasn't a thing and radar wasn't a problem (tho i think it already existed...).
      The original ship was never designed, they just dropped in a historical ship and hoped for the best. The results were hillarious at best.
      3. "lack of noobs at T10" ..can I introduce you to reality ?
      Why T10 ? You can swipe your credit card to get a T10 ARP Yamato, to buy coal/steel and get a T10 premium, to buy the newest T10 dockyard ship, to buy the newest T10 tech tree ship in "early" access ... ... ... WG has completely abandoned anything below T10 years ago. Besides why bother selling a T8 for 100€ when you can sell it as a T10 for 200€ instead...
      This ship was removed for a reason and just like submarines it should never be added to the game. The ship is a griefing 1trick pony who's only gimmick is to saturate the sea with borderline undodgeable torpedoes due to sheer volume, reducing your gameplay options to cowering behind an island and hoping for the best..or straight up running away. The tier of that ship does not matter since it would be equally shite at every tier. And the ship not being worth for you..or me..or him over there to get unfortunately won't change the fact that T10 matches will be "flooded" with that wonderful addition to enrich everyone's gameplay experience...

    • @Shibata_
      @Shibata_ Před 7 měsíci

      Lack of noobs at T10? Are we playing the same game? There are nowhere more of em around than on T10 man..

    • @ryanbrochu3336
      @ryanbrochu3336 Před 6 měsíci +2

      You forgot to mention the rampant prevalence of radar. Especially Russian 12km radar. The 7.9km detect may seem god tier, but with how squishy Kitakami seems, if it gets lit up in open water, chances are it's done.

  • @neishark1735
    @neishark1735 Před 7 měsíci +190

    Idk... I rather get the Jinan that can launch the same amount of torps while having good guns

    • @eflbrth
      @eflbrth Před 7 měsíci +11

      good guns is a brave statement but yeah

    • @Choukai_Chan
      @Choukai_Chan Před 7 měsíci +34

      ​@@eflbrthThey actually start a lot of fires while having (atleast in my build) 450.000 HE DPM.

    • @yomammasaurusrex9571
      @yomammasaurusrex9571 Před 7 měsíci +34

      ​@eflbrth Jinan is a fantastic little gun boat. Too many people just build it for torps which is wrong.

    • @eflbrth
      @eflbrth Před 7 měsíci

      OK @Choukai_Chan and @yomamasaurusre9571 you might have convince me to go back on my grind then. I was so deseperately stuck at tier 7 of the line.

    • @neishark1735
      @neishark1735 Před 7 měsíci +3

      @@eflbrth the low tiers of this line arr rough. But the Jinan is very good. Maybe a bit hard to play. But if you know how to aim your torps and use your guns you can destroy anything.

  • @Apollyon-er4ut
    @Apollyon-er4ut Před 7 měsíci +112

    Well the good news is: It's not the OP ship many were afraid of. Seems a bit like Jager; If you land a perfect salvo the thing is a monster. But, it's so situational, anything short of that makes the ship inferior to ships like Jinan, Austin, Mino, etc.

    • @odinsrensen7460
      @odinsrensen7460 Před 7 měsíci +5

      Really? I'm having a lot of good games in the Jaeger mainly by scouting other destroyers and capping, I'm not actually landing perfect salvos.

    • @ILoveforGames
      @ILoveforGames Před 7 měsíci +15

      Jager imo is somewhat better. Sure you get 7.5k torp alpha but 95 knots + 12 torps per minute? It feels like the jager has more potential and fun.

    • @orztaku
      @orztaku Před 7 měsíci +2

      I fail to see the good part tbh.
      This ship ranks among the worst additions to the game. You know you will have those in your team shooting deep water torps at DD's 14km away or yoloing in and loosing a gunfight against a Shimakaze. Then again if they are on the enemy team nobody will want to leave the map border behind their spawn because of the POTENTIAL 40 torpedo wall of skill. The staggered reload makes it even worse since even if you see and dodge a Kitakami volley you have no way of knowing if he is dry and reloading or if he just sent 1 launcher with the remaining 4 on this side loaded and waiting ... nor do you know how far the current reload is.. For every other cruiser or DD you can count the salvo and you know for a fact that you have a fixed window to act when all launcher are fired. For Kita, as long as he doesn't fire all 5 launchers at once, you have literally no way of knowing when his next launcher his ready. And with literally ~48k alpha per launcher (without skills,"slightly" more for the alternative deepwater torpedoes) you don't wanna risk running into a loaded and waiting launcher either...
      Jaeger doesn't even remotely compare to this cancer because contrary to Jaeger Kitakami torpedoes have enough alpha to actually 1shot you. So you literally hide behind an island, lube up your behind and hope that someone spots and/or sinks Kitakami before it finds you.....and don't even start about having to push into an area where a Kitakami was seen...
      For a while matches will be like 3+ Kitakami per side with everyone who isn't in a carrier or submarine having a "real blast"....add the standard carrier nad double submarine and you are in for some fun and engaging gameplay...

    • @chrisjackson1215
      @chrisjackson1215 Před 7 měsíci +4

      @@orztaku The ship isn't cancer just because the player base can't play worth a damn.

    • @tairak3923
      @tairak3923 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@ILoveforGames kita gets 10 tops per minute, 5 per side so it's close.

  • @BunkMastersGaming
    @BunkMastersGaming Před 7 měsíci +52

    It can be called a handicapped Jinan. I absolutely love Jinan because of its 32mm upper belt plating, hilarious AA along with DFAA that can make CV players cry as well as 40 deepwater torps. Smoke and good guns.

    • @CCM1199
      @CCM1199 Před 7 měsíci +9

      Not even remotely close to being a jinan. the kita of the old was as deadly as the jinan of today. It had a 1.5 min reload time to all torps and it all loaded at the same time. You was literally shitting out torps every minute and a half. Not to mention they were 20K torps with the 12K damage out put (24K'ish damage per torp). They literally neutered and gutted that ship and its not worth the resource to get it.

    • @seal8688
      @seal8688 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Jinan’s torp can hit cruiser BTW

    • @monkeybreath4842
      @monkeybreath4842 Před 7 měsíci

      So can Kitakami @@seal8688

  • @Blkstang82
    @Blkstang82 Před 7 měsíci +18

    I remember this memeboat from beta, back when it was a T8. One trick wonder, but that trick was pretty brutal.
    Sidenote: anyone else find it hilarious that they release kitakami to the whales in the same patch they give a bunch of newbies free yamatos? LoL

  • @klmnts
    @klmnts Před 7 měsíci +61

    From what I've seen so far, using high caliber HE on Kitakami is a lot more effective than the AP.

    • @seraphis
      @seraphis Před 7 měsíci

      Could probably get SAP citadels on the exposed citadel lol.

    • @Tibsbb
      @Tibsbb Před 7 měsíci

      @@seraphis Anything with 406mm or more will citadel with HE. Anything with 315mm will citadel with IFHE.

    • @orztaku
      @orztaku Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@Tibsbb partially true. Kitakami's deck is exposed 30mm citadel, so Harugumo can citadel it with HE. Anyone or anything with 30mm overmatch can overmatch Kitakami citadel and anything with 30mm+ HE pen can HE Citadel Kitakami...which includes almost every ship Kitakami can run into....

    • @zaozedong
      @zaozedong Před 7 měsíci

      In Nevsky my AP did nothing but overpen. HE did cits. I was only about 4 km in range though.

    • @meneldal
      @meneldal Před 7 měsíci

      It is the good old trick of no armor is best armor.

  • @Bombless
    @Bombless Před 7 měsíci +11

    As a former Kuma captain, I was screaming "GET LAST STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!" right at the beginning, lmao.

  • @Lancista
    @Lancista Před 6 měsíci +2

    *_I've met one today with my FS Colbert. Our meet was very short .....about 6 second's and IJN Kitakami was escorted to the Port by the Les Baguette Express..._* 😂

  • @ladion7285
    @ladion7285 Před 7 měsíci +47

    Imagine how expensive it is to unlock this instead of a Jinan Shima or a Research ship. Its such a unbelievable bad deal. Cant believe that people spend this many ressources and lets be honest money on this. Mark my words: There will be a ship even mor expensive than this in the future.

    • @gamingrootz4411
      @gamingrootz4411 Před 7 měsíci +3

      I mean, for yer avarage player you'd be lucky enough to afford a single steel or research ship. Resource vampire this event

    • @TK--ce6hp
      @TK--ce6hp Před 7 měsíci

      @@gamingrootz4411 nah its not hard at all to get steel and RB ships. I've been playing for a little over a year, and already have 2 steel and 2 RB ships without sweating or spending any money on them

    • @thegreatid3595
      @thegreatid3595 Před 7 měsíci

      Another classic take at attacking peoples FOMO

    • @taiho5233
      @taiho5233 Před 7 měsíci

      @@gamingrootz4411 its alot easier to get ressources nowaday than it used to be.

    • @gamingrootz4411
      @gamingrootz4411 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@TK--ce6hp I must be doin somtin wrong. 3 years n only unlocked a single research ship, welp.

  • @azerhero
    @azerhero Před 7 měsíci +6

    12:41 LMAO that quick death XD XD

  • @prisregil
    @prisregil Před 7 měsíci +1

    Still have PTSD from the CBT of this ship sending its gifts out of smoke and seeing a wave of red coming out of it

  • @clmwrx
    @clmwrx Před 7 měsíci +11

    I love how easy it is to citadel a kitikami with a dd. Altho i did get killed by one as i wasnt aware of the torp switching capability lol. The thing was launching deepwaters so i thought it was safe to rush and not worry about torps ha. This was when it first started showing up as a test ship in my games

  • @elliottledragon
    @elliottledragon Před 7 měsíci +36

    Kita is less than Jinan

  • @mkasrey7365
    @mkasrey7365 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Good to see it has lots of weakness's on top of being very hard to get. Plus it gives some yolo vibes

  • @Tikman6969
    @Tikman6969 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Damn so that's how frustrating it feels to miss that many torps :)

  • @missk1697
    @missk1697 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Jager on steroids with a citadel

    • @Andi-ex2bk
      @Andi-ex2bk Před 7 měsíci

      Well jäger at least has a fast torp reload

  • @qu3stionm4rk
    @qu3stionm4rk Před 7 měsíci

    Im just wondering - how you was gaining speed at 16:40 with broken engine without last stand? Is it because of engine boost?

  • @nikolarajcetic2040
    @nikolarajcetic2040 Před 7 měsíci +7

    Never have i ever clicked so fast on video 😂

  • @gamebrigada2
    @gamebrigada2 Před 7 měsíci +9

    I had a guy in like 6-7 of my games with a kitakame. He waited a lot longer for torps, stayed way closer and used his guns a lot. Looked for opportunities and one shot with torps. He won every game.

  • @Spreadie
    @Spreadie Před 7 měsíci +18

    Thanks for confirming my suspicions about this ship. Zero impact meme machine.

  • @rageorge1369
    @rageorge1369 Před 7 měsíci +3

    I stumbled into one about a month or so ago, I guess someone was testing it. My DD spotted it very briefly and never saw it again, but the torps… it was a horizontal rain coming at us all the time. Fortunately the guy had poor aim and never hit anyone but it denied us the flank.

  • @crow917
    @crow917 Před 7 měsíci +3

    thank you for the demo on this. 2 years it is

    • @frosty3693
      @frosty3693 Před 6 měsíci

      You actually believe WG when they say no other way to get this ship for two years? Remember, no subs in the game only in special events?

  • @realhelmi
    @realhelmi Před 7 měsíci

    what's the new torpedo mod in the thrid game? those unreachable markers and stuff? Can't find it in Aslain's package.

  • @A_Degenerate_with_Glasses
    @A_Degenerate_with_Glasses Před 5 měsíci

    I remember back in the days of playing Navyfield, this ship would just launch waves of torps into the enemy team and everyone would try to run away instead of crossing the T.

  • @Sp33ddialz
    @Sp33ddialz Před 7 měsíci

    I remember playing this ship really *really* briefly out of the closed beta way back in the day and it just completely filling the map with torps.

  • @729060
    @729060 Před 7 měsíci +1

    It seems like the best way to play it would be to keep one side full while the other you do your more often drops with? Then if you get a nice juicy target you just flip to the other side with your excellent ruddershift/turning circle and dump the load.

  • @armoredfrost
    @armoredfrost Před 7 měsíci +37

    AA Defense rating is a 9? Unbelievable! Kitakami is literally CV food!

    • @CynicallyObnoxious
      @CynicallyObnoxious Před 7 měsíci +7

      Did you think it was going to be some AA battery lul me torp everything tism drool experience

    • @spam_with_ham
      @spam_with_ham Před 7 měsíci +6

      Also it has a 40mm exposed citadel roof. Have fun getting devstruck by nakhimov rockets or midway HE bombs

    • @mnl6042
      @mnl6042 Před 7 měsíci +5

      yeah unlike every other ship right lol

    • @clmwrx
      @clmwrx Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@mnl6042ikr. I think the only ships that aren't outright cv food are subs and other cvs

    • @gothia1715
      @gothia1715 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Does it matter? Even with 90 AA rating T10 CVs would get 3-4 drops on it without issues.

  • @saltyvanilla3304
    @saltyvanilla3304 Před 7 měsíci +8

    when i first saw the event i knew that i would just wait the 2years for a normal release lol
    As a Huge KC fan i've wanted Kitakami since forever, mostly because of collection purposes, but i would probably play her like once and never again, so yeah, i won't even try to get her
    (also hate how WG made her "Over Gimmicky")

    • @reeizz114
      @reeizz114 Před 7 měsíci +1

      I love the torp cruiser of KC especially Kiso, she got a CA level of gun power but still have that insane torp stat and ability to use Kouhyoteki,or basically throwing a suicide mini submarine
      Ah,i miss that day,malding the Kitakami's torpedo cut in to instakill the boss till i loss all my resources and buckets

  • @F_Around_and_find_out
    @F_Around_and_find_out Před 7 měsíci +2

    The torpedo carrier - TCV

  • @Vvvrrrmmm
    @Vvvrrrmmm Před 7 měsíci

    Can you build it for smoke yolo and try rush and torp?

  • @BSoDexe
    @BSoDexe Před 7 měsíci +13

    of all the torp ships, Asashio, U-4501, Jinan, Paolo Emilio, Yamagiri/Shima, Halland, are all much more fun to play, in different ways

    • @Slava_Yarmolenko
      @Slava_Yarmolenko Před 7 měsíci

      I dont understand how 4501 is fun to play. Damage to BBs is mediocre at best (6-7k), and you usually will die after attack.

    • @BSoDexe
      @BSoDexe Před 7 měsíci

      @@Slava_Yarmolenko in my experience, most people don't really hit you because you're fast

  • @SkyRaider-31
    @SkyRaider-31 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Id have given the ship a 3min 40sec reload to get all the torps back at once. Also it to have freisland main gun reload with minotaur AP performance while keeping its current HE.

  • @MrMintoni
    @MrMintoni Před 7 měsíci +1

    One of my fav ship back to good old navyfield days

    • @Crazyman23
      @Crazyman23 Před 6 měsíci +1

      I was thinking that too. Sending a tiro wall that goes across the map. Devistated blitz battles but was a minor annoyance in GB. I use to arm mine with aa guns to power level crews.

  • @connorstephens4011
    @connorstephens4011 Před 7 měsíci +12

    Honestly, i think this ship was way overhyped seeing how it came out. Also could you do a video on the Stord '43, I'm curious how that ship is.

  • @Riful
    @Riful Před 7 měsíci +3

    Making Defense look like the deal of the year. Jinan seems like the better value.

  • @wesgeorge4112
    @wesgeorge4112 Před 7 měsíci +3

    You need to be using that smoke in an ambush role to dev strike isolated BBs and heavy cruisers. Like a big Pailo Emilio. When you cant do that working closely with your team for area denial and to stop pushes.
    It doesnt seem like the ship is particularly strong though. As many have said theres actually several other ships in the game that can do similar on better gun platforms.

    • @Posilepton
      @Posilepton Před 7 měsíci

      The Deepwater torpedoes don't hit cruisers. The normal torps have terrible alpha and very poor spread, it's unlikely you can devstrike any heavy or super cruiser, especially since they usually have hydro.

  • @AndrewPardo
    @AndrewPardo Před 7 měsíci

    With IJN 140mm guns does it get aiming mod 0?

  • @Diisonbravo
    @Diisonbravo Před 7 měsíci

    You can also smoke up CL, DDs, BBs to save them or help them dps down a ship.

  • @Debbiebabe69
    @Debbiebabe69 Před 6 měsíci +3

    I always remember the kitakami in the game 'Navy Field EU'. Pretty much every battle involved each team dodging multiple blind fired Kitakami torp walls before your carrier planes got close enough to spot for the battleships.

    • @Fiasco3
      @Fiasco3 Před 5 měsíci

      Ya cross wave torpedo net patterns that no one can escape.. fun city..

  • @mmm-on4zp
    @mmm-on4zp Před 7 měsíci

    Thx for the great review. Yeah like you mentioned, this ships is not OP but the other ships can do what this ship is capable of.
    The best part of Kitakami seemed to be launching 40 torps at a time.
    So, I feel like it might be better if WG add reload booster for all launchers as consumable. 2 or 3 reload boosters might be decent and a player can add one more by captain skill.
    I don’t have enough research points and recourses to get the ship all combined, so I’m not too worried about not getting this ship.
    But your review with actual battles is always entertaining and educational.
    Looking forward to watching more of Kitakami videos in near future.
    Best.

  • @ckop64
    @ckop64 Před 7 měsíci

    Fun fact: you can citadel these with cruiser HE from any angle basically, provided you have decent enough pen. I have citadeled a Kitakami in a Goliath from the rear like 4 times.

  • @tpaktop2_1na
    @tpaktop2_1na Před 7 měsíci

    So how much did you spend to get the Kitakami?

  • @edduzanatta2635
    @edduzanatta2635 Před 7 měsíci +1

    this ship enters into a stealthy activity of surprise attack between islands and flanking... based on the information presented in the offensive arsenal and armor... it must be effective in surprise attack (where the enemy least expects it)...

  • @pophotdog1007
    @pophotdog1007 Před 7 měsíci

    what if you try doing a regolo with the exhaust smoke

  • @tdbraun6837
    @tdbraun6837 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Seems like a Benham that can do a yolo-run in smoke like a Paolo Emilio and take out multiple ships. Could be a fun ship but I'm not going to spend all those resources for it.

  • @antoniograves2293
    @antoniograves2293 Před 7 měsíci +2

    This ship is really tricky just like I-56 and like I-56 this should do well in asymmetric battles.

  • @frostybandit1
    @frostybandit1 Před 6 měsíci

    I missed this ship from Closed Alpha and Beta days. Still has the highest Teamkill ratio.

  • @Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll
    @Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll Před 7 měsíci +2

    This video singlehandedly removed any and all FMO I might’ve had for this event. 😅

  • @triluckgg3447
    @triluckgg3447 Před 7 měsíci

    I remember someone on the enemy team have kitakami and i use the kaga to pick it citadel all game

  • @joecarlson6428
    @joecarlson6428 Před 7 měsíci

    I think the Jager is a better value. This ship dropped from a Christmas container. It is a DD with a detection of 5.4 K. The torps speed is 90 knots in 5x3. Each set of three reloads in 65 seconds. Damage is 7533. The top speed is 38.9 and is equipped with a 120 second 8% speed boost. It has 4 heals. The turning circle 670 meters with 3.4 second rudder shift. No smoke. The attributes of each ships is nice. What I can't do is compare the battle impact each brings. A comparison contrast of these two ships would help the community especially given the cost of the Kitakami.

  • @henriqmarques_
    @henriqmarques_ Před 7 měsíci +14

    Jinan does the same but like much much better

    • @BSoDexe
      @BSoDexe Před 7 měsíci +8

      and for free

  • @mike393000
    @mike393000 Před 7 měsíci

    Im sorry....I only skimmed the video.. was it said when the mission comes out for it? Im not finding it...

  • @bigphillyed
    @bigphillyed Před 7 měsíci

    Was my first beta ship. Miss it.

  • @Stephen__White
    @Stephen__White Před 6 měsíci +1

    Kitakami really feels like a T10 squishier Yolo. I mean engine boost+fuel smoke means unless the ship you are charging down has radar/hydro they can't do much of anything to stop you outside of blind fire, and speaking as someone who has had a Kitakami rush around an island in it's fuel smoke with no active way to detect it, it feels just as bad as getting rushed by a Yolo Emilio.
    Like I honestly do not understand why Wargaming brought this thing back if they were going to make it so bad for general use, but also frustrating to play against. Like sure the torp mechanics do make a triple div of these a lot weaker, but it also makes the ship so situational that it's just not worth it. I mean even at each set of 4 torps taking 60 seconds, that's still 5 minutes to load 40 torps, Jinan does that every 5 minutes as well, only between doing that every 5 minutes, it's throwing 20 torps in the water every 2 minutes. Only Jinan has good guns on top of that.
    I mean if we break this down, Kitakami is 40 torps every ~5 minutes, Jinan is 40, 20, 20, 40 in that same time. So as a torp cruiser, it's not even the best. Yoshino can dump 32 20km torps into the water in almost the same time. It takes Yoshi an extra minute. Only Yoshi's 20km torps can hit everything, and Yoshi has guns. Fucking Yodo can put out 48 torpedoes in 5 minutes that travel 15km.
    The only advantage Kitakami has is the fuel smoke and engine boost, basically making it Paolo Emilio with a citadel a tier higher.
    I'm not saying I would have wanted old Kitakami back, 40 torps as often as Jinan can fire off 20 is a bit much, I'm saying Wargaming should have just let this ship die. Or used it for some special game mode only. Imagine an operation where your entire team is made of old Kitakami and you have to ether attack into or defend something and team damage is turned back on. That would be funny as hell. Or they bring back the battle royal mode and the only ship choice is an old Kitakami, so it's a 12+ person free for all with everyone just spamming torps everywhere. That also would be fun as hell. Instead we get this. A mix between a sub and Paolo Emilio, with a citadel.

  • @Pekopekope
    @Pekopekope Před 7 měsíci

    torp boats require 4d degrees of foresight to pay off. Probably best paired with a 20km shima buddy to scout and pressure movement

  • @ted5567
    @ted5567 Před 7 měsíci

    2 types of torps deep water and refulars?

  • @ashrose367
    @ashrose367 Před 3 měsíci

    i used to have this back in the day . i found a lot of team mates would troll in front of you trying to get you to torp them so they could complain . lol, it was a great little ship.

  • @jamiewilson343
    @jamiewilson343 Před 7 měsíci

    good lord. i remember before i started playing seeing videos of all these torps. open water mele.

  • @kirgan1000
    @kirgan1000 Před 6 měsíci

    You know a ship was overpower if it go from Tr7? (or was it 8) to Tr10

  • @Nidhoggrr
    @Nidhoggrr Před 6 měsíci

    Anyone else remember when 74 knots wasn't even possible for torps? Now it's considered the "slow" option.

  • @TheTBW1
    @TheTBW1 Před 7 měsíci +3

    This ship definetly now worth that amount of resources, since it is very hard to play a tier 6 kuma body at tier X.

    • @Andi-ex2bk
      @Andi-ex2bk Před 7 měsíci +1

      Tier 4 ;)
      And it loos boring, I would rather play Jonan over Kitakami

    • @bradenhagen7977
      @bradenhagen7977 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Now or not?

    • @TheTBW1
      @TheTBW1 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Yeah tier 4 even.

    • @TheTBW1
      @TheTBW1 Před 7 měsíci

      @@bradenhagen7977 For these resources definetly never.

  • @seraphis
    @seraphis Před 7 měsíci

    It's fatal flaw is ship based torpedos. The superior version is submarine launched torpedos.

  • @philcharles238
    @philcharles238 Před 7 měsíci

    About a month ago I played against one. I think I was in my Somers. He was a good player and held his own in the early-mid game. I'd found his general location by the mid-late game, and both teams were under half. He was kiting me and it was very difficult to spot him for more than a couple of seconds as I maneuvered to avoid torps. I had chipped away at his health but he eventually got me with a torp. In no-CV games, and in decent hands, this is a bitch to play against. I can't imagine troll-divisions of 3 of them.

  • @andrewcox4386
    @andrewcox4386 Před 7 měsíci

    I got this ship just in time to not play any games before WG replaced it with an Atago 😢 Looking forward to trying it out 😁

  • @7thsealord888
    @7thsealord888 Před 2 měsíci

    Good video. Legends player, with a notable fondness for weird Premiums. Certainly heard of the original Kitakami. I'm guessing this version will EVENTUALLY come to Legends, and she sounds interesting. Whether I can actually afford her is another story. :)

  • @flounder2760
    @flounder2760 Před 7 měsíci +3

    As a torpedo main seeing others not know fish fu is heartbreaking.

  • @donnybrook23
    @donnybrook23 Před 7 měsíci

    Battle impact seems really situational. a bit of a relief.

  • @EatonZ26
    @EatonZ26 Před 7 měsíci

    I thought WG premium days also can be used to redeem along with RB, Steel and Coal?

  • @sper8556
    @sper8556 Před 7 měsíci +2

    want to see Defence.

  • @gamerskampf8203
    @gamerskampf8203 Před 7 měsíci

    Is available in the game now?

  • @Ismail-pv3hv
    @Ismail-pv3hv Před 7 měsíci +1

    can you try a lauria secondary build?

    • @forge16hanadamaintenancedr43
      @forge16hanadamaintenancedr43 Před 7 měsíci

      There's no point in trying. Despite having SAP secondaries, their reload (10.7s) is so bad the hitting dpm is a sorry 27k. Only Vermont, Thunderer, and Conqueror's hitting dpm is lower than that.

  • @brandonlevy8680
    @brandonlevy8680 Před 7 měsíci +2

    I just wanted to say thank you. After watching this video, you helped me decide if I'm going to dump the resources to grab this ship, but this looks absolutely god-awful to play. I understand they had to do a balancing act and giving what it's capable of doing they had to give it a lot of weaknesses, but this does not look fun or enjoyable in the least bit.

  • @cashe3561
    @cashe3561 Před 7 měsíci

    I have so many unused resources, why not get it?

  • @chrischros8790
    @chrischros8790 Před 7 měsíci

    By the looks of it the name should probably be Kitetakami. She looks more like an area denial ship with defensive strengths.

  • @user-cb8mp4nf4z
    @user-cb8mp4nf4z Před 7 měsíci

    so how much of these resources does one need to get to stage 80? at present i have 22000 steal 45000 research and 460000 coal.

  • @merafirewing6591
    @merafirewing6591 Před 6 měsíci

    I want this ship in World of Warships Legends so badly.

  • @matheusfiorelli8829
    @matheusfiorelli8829 Před 7 měsíci

    i will always remember the time i was grinding the Old Colorado, and ended in a mtach in the old diagonal Islands of Ice with a full div of Kitakamis on the other team, and of course they were in my flank, but i ended up killing all 3 of them, just after they lanched their walls xD (1 may have been a KS, but whos counting :V)

  • @captainworstpirateiveheard9842
    @captainworstpirateiveheard9842 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I blew a bunch of coal and steel before really researching this, which now i regret. I'm gonna take on the challenge and grind her out with Coal and RB points. It's a long grind, but I'm up for it. I got the Harugomo line reset 4x at this time since I had 1.5M free xp sitting. At least, I can get to Defence and call it there 😅

    • @ChippychrisAus
      @ChippychrisAus Před 7 měsíci

      Don't miss. XXX@@GeneralHood92

    • @captainworstpirateiveheard9842
      @captainworstpirateiveheard9842 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @GeneralHood92 I heard the same about Thunderer, and Benham, and Schlieffen, and Shima, etc. Ppl hate to rag on other ppls botes. Play what you want and concentrate on killing stuff instead of comparing ur dock to others

  • @northernzeus768
    @northernzeus768 Před 7 měsíci

    This ship is the definition of “ spin to win”.
    No thanks… always look forward to the uploads tho… gj PQ

  • @lfthess157
    @lfthess157 Před 7 měsíci

    I Love my slava even more now

  • @kingofcastlechaos
    @kingofcastlechaos Před 7 měsíci +1

    Buyer's Remorse Maximus = Kitakami

  • @Alex-hy9cw
    @Alex-hy9cw Před 7 měsíci +2

    Either you die instantly from anything or you wait 5 minutes for a likely huge whiff in torps & become useless... glad it isn't anything like people panicked over.

  • @EllieBanks333
    @EllieBanks333 Před 7 měsíci +1

    So to be clear, you are the super unicum & I am not. That said, I was surprised by the way you tried to use this ship. Honestly, I would think the idea is the "massive wall of skill torpedo attack" sort of like a Shima, but more extreme. Hence I would assume we would stay quiet for the first 5 minutes until our torps are maxed out. Then fire one whole side of the ships torps as a wall of skill attack. Then circle around & look for a target for the other broadside of torps to launch another wall of skill. Depending on how long that takes maybe the other side of torps is ready or will be soon. I actually think it's supposed to be a fairly boring ship that simply launches 2 major attacks in a battle and then in the "late game" you just use what's available.
    On the other hand, it also could just be WG fucking over it's players with a ship that looks super OP at a glance only to find out after all your resources are gone that it's a dog turd.

  • @DeepSpaceIndustriesLOL
    @DeepSpaceIndustriesLOL Před 7 měsíci

    this is the ultimate area denial ship

  • @tztxz80
    @tztxz80 Před 7 měsíci

    It's a little short. like cow bell, I need looooooooonger kitakami

  • @PowerslideSWE
    @PowerslideSWE Před 7 měsíci +2

    So it's 136000 steel for a Kuma that can't torp DD's or cruisers? Even If I could afford that it's a hard pass. Great review as always tho PQ.

    • @Cloudman572
      @Cloudman572 Před 7 měsíci +1

      You take 4 seconds to change from deep water torps to standard ones. The 2 types have different stats.

  • @Alyeska23
    @Alyeska23 Před 7 měsíci

    I was citadeling Kitakami's with DD HE.

  • @KillBones
    @KillBones Před 7 měsíci +2

    Honestly I'd prefer to play a torp build Jinan, she's free and more confortable to play

  • @Diisonbravo
    @Diisonbravo Před 7 měsíci +2

    Torps boats are about luck hitting with torps.. his spotting is amazing... its like having an extra DD on the team. Its unique for sure.

    • @manofchaitea6904
      @manofchaitea6904 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Its not hard to hit with torps, torps are ruining the game.

  • @TechnoGlobalist
    @TechnoGlobalist Před 6 měsíci

    As an disowned Kitakami owner, i think they should give all previous owners the option to buy the Kitakami.

  • @TheMarkemmy
    @TheMarkemmy Před 7 měsíci

    Somewhere "up there", PT Barnum is smiling at WG, Not a chance of getting this ship

  • @janorszulik6429
    @janorszulik6429 Před 7 měsíci +1

    This ship requires way more patience than you have. If you plan to launch single rack on CD then just play something that can reload faster, that's not the point of the ship. Point is to prepare massive wall of skill, wait for perfect opportunity and decide match with single massive launch. You are scalpel, not a club.

  • @Chad-hp2qh
    @Chad-hp2qh Před 7 měsíci

    It’s a cool ship. I did want it but I don’t think I want it anymore.

  • @thegreenfather1978
    @thegreenfather1978 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I'm tempted to get the special camo as an ultimate flex, but I'd have little ressources left...
    What to do...

    • @ladion7285
      @ladion7285 Před 7 měsíci

      Its like buying that 500€ app that just to flex with the App icon. Believe me you wont impress people with this. You just look stupid. Spend the money for your family having a great time at christmas instead or donate it on charity. That would be a flex.

    • @alphax4785
      @alphax4785 Před 7 měsíci

      It's only for the flex imo since it looks like a camo Lesta's art department would make for a 'win 10 battles / get 10 incaps / etc.' event chain.
      As for the ship itself... as everyone has said if you want 40x torps AND battle impact, Jinian already has that and doesn't have a 40k RP FOMO tax attached to it.

  • @Nurg1982
    @Nurg1982 Před 7 měsíci

    The defence is apparently worth it. So just go half way

  • @saabstory69420
    @saabstory69420 Před 7 měsíci

    Sounds crazy but you should wide spread more.

  • @stfvoyager6269
    @stfvoyager6269 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Yeah I had it. At that time we could had only 2 boat per side.. troops wave it's insane.
    I don't know why really it get remove. And now they sell it back.. what da heck...

  • @0neLoneClone
    @0neLoneClone Před 7 měsíci +2

    What do you think about WG giving out the Yamato or 900k fxp and 15 days premium for free to people who didnt long in for 30 days while the rest of us got a box and 5 days premium time?

    • @cryptoshorts161
      @cryptoshorts161 Před 7 měsíci +2

      for real, they should give every player the same, past month wss the same, for newer players or comebsck ones they were given them like 7 premium ships

    • @obinator9065
      @obinator9065 Před 7 měsíci +1

      stop crying anout free stuff jfc

    • @clmwrx
      @clmwrx Před 7 měsíci +2

      Me personally id rather get the premium time and box than a free techline

    • @0neLoneClone
      @0neLoneClone Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@clmwrx I just think we all should have gotten the fxp for having the ship. 900k fxp would help out with a few things

    • @clmwrx
      @clmwrx Před 7 měsíci +1

      @0neLoneClone well yea I guess that is a good amount of free xp. I don't really use much free xp personally tho. Not yet anyways. Got quite a bit saved up currently. I'm free to play player so the prem time is nice and the mega box has a great drop rate for a ship. I got nueve de julio from mine. Not exactly something I wanted but it's actually kind of decent with its healing at tier 7. Plus it's prem so can make decent credits. Credits are more important to me than free xp currently. I do see your point tho. Maybe they could have given free xp to everyone but still more to the returning players. O well