New German Tier 10 Cruiser Hildebrand!

[@paullempges7860]

The way WG despises German cruiser mains gets even funnier with the new "Dutch" light cruiser branch they are testing, as they are basically all hypothetical German ships exceeeeept they were transfered to the Netherlands after the war 😂

[@SteelxWolf]

when the real dutch navy is literally RIGHT THERE!

[@Con9359]

They made them dutch so they didnt have to actually make the german light-cruiser models and can just copy & paste their made up 128mm's and the 40mm bofors on Eendracht, Wiesbaden and De Zeven Hulls. Low effort gimmick line with no right to exist. Welcome to wows 2024

[@Tearnofear]

little did you know that acually the Dutch had one of the biggest Navys again after WWII =P

[@Maximilian7992]

Lesta’s got a German CL line they’re testing

[@waitthisischinaohgodohfuck163]

I mean really it’s your fault for being a german cruiser main, you could play a better class from a better navy but you chose subpar kraut engineering

[@enimious1]

PQ ranting about carriers is a lullaby to my soul

[@aaronzaloum7986]

to me it's a baby crying and crawling on the ceiling, but I don't have a baby or a ceiling

[@TurboBMRProjectLove]

@@aaronzaloum7986 💀💀💀💀

[@Em59x]

even carrier's player didn't ask for this ship.

[@joshuahughes5647]

As a fan of the insane hybrid flightdeck cruiser designs Germany maid. This ship isn't based off of any of them.

[@Em59x]

@@joshuahughes5647 war gaming fantasy

[@joshuahughes5647]

@@Em59x unfortunately

[@beaugator]

I can hear 'Sgt Schultz" now... "You vill like it and play it or zee Commandant vill hear about dis!"

[@taluthus610]

I don't know what was funnier, the fact that the ship is so hilariously busted, or watching you suffering through demonstrating it, and your passion as to why such things in the game are abhorrent and ruin it for everyone xD

[@Lewiks]

Agree with all your points. Playing since open beta it's really sad seeing my favorite online game degrade so poorly for the sake of releasing new fancy shiny floating aircraft 3D printers. Reading that "for the cost of only 1 credit" felt like a slap to the face.

[@KingAlton9403]

It's all greed, simple as. It is a poison in our society, it corrupts all.

[@NerdyMando_Ewok]

i disagree. it is not degrading its still a good game

[@davidpotts7116]

Just watch, if WG adds a German light cruiser line they will be bigger than Ushakov, coated in 25mm, have have the worst dispersion in the game, but have a 9km detection range and more hp than the heavy cruisers.

[@Majorblood67]

25mm armor wouldn't be bad if it had a ice breaker, if WG just gave Siegfried/Agir an icebreak they would be fantasic instead of mediocre

[@daskrassetoertchen]

And dont forget the only utility germans are allowed to have....hydro

[@NerdyMando_Ewok]

they will add one eventually

[@joshuayang0331]

I mean just do a t10 agir with secondaries or just give an extra turret and put it at t10, Puerto style, this thing? strange, just why?

[@Sarfanger]

Why are these planes called Bf 110C, when they are clearly some kind of naval Ta-152s? They're not even from same company.

[@Frigidblood]

I literally paused the video to try to find some sort of single-engine Bf 110. 😅

[@frankvc5899]

It’s a bug and should be fixed when releases

[@Boatswain_Tam]

Basically it's a CV that happens to have guns

[@thisiswherethefunbegins]

and speed and small size

[@NeptuniaMorgan]

its basically what i drew up when i was a kid because physics and shipbuilding was foreign to me. Guess WG is no different 🤣

[@brianliu3380]

As an Asian server player, I encountered a random battle where the opposing team had four Hildebrand players, making it extremely challenging for me as a destroyer (DD) player. There was nowhere to hide since planes and radar could easily locate destroyers. However, I've now managed to win random battles using Hildebrand, despite never having played a carrier (CV) in random battles before. All I need to do is continuously send out planes to spot enemy destroyers and harass battleships (BBs).

[@evolutionari]

I remember the times where you were trying about being a CC to get the benefits, to use the resources to make more content better and quickly. Also you said you wouldn't change the ways you do these videos. Congratulations, you've held your promise since then. And you're absolutely right, subs and planes ruin the fun for anybody else playing any other classes.

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

Now imagine if WG & Lesta ever merge back together in the future and all the ships Lesta made get put into WG WoWs, we'll get the Lothringen alongside the Hildebrand.

[@b-17gflyingfortress6]

AL Hildebrand next PR lul

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

@@b-17gflyingfortress6 PR8 would be the next one that Iron Blood could get something.

[@smaug9617]

Lothringen is actually cool, unlike this one op monster. But they have super subs and Severomorsk which is the truest hybrid monster of both versions.

[@joedoe6444]

they are still both owned by the same person/people, this so-called split is just a way to get around sanctions and still make their money.

[@TheGlenn8]

I saw someone use this thing in game and it was absolutely ridiculous. The cannons also deal monster damage in addition to the planes.

[@Dark-zw6kz]

Appreciate the late night laugh PQ! Great way to start a vid

[@vitezslavlorenc3479]

WG knows exactly what the community wants...more hybrid ships :-)))

[@vyhbing]

1:10 that laugh is just devious

[@philipcoggins9512]

Yesterday I came up against a team with a division of a CV and two of these ships. My team didn't stand a chance as the game was over in about 8 minutes simply because of the spotting advantage. They also had a Kearsarge and a Tone on their team. I killed the two DDs with Italian SAP, but that was more due to luck and being on the opposite side of the map, but once they had nothing on their side, the ships on my side didn't last long.

[@themysteriousguy3784]

Watch WG nerf this boat 4-6 months later like they do for every broken boat they release. 50k dubs well spent XD

[@michaelpage4199]

So glad I found your channel. I play mainly German ship. Thanks for sharing.

[@mdabdale]

We have minimap spotting over at Legends and I noticed that after the rework, radar/sonar ships mattered more on the battlefield than they did before since planes can't spot ships or torps anymore.

[@jjimlee7009]

I love this ship. 2-3 on each side now. Sky full of unlimited planes. So good for the game. Yeah sarcasm. But one good counter is that if you are playing any BB with overmatch, you will obliterate a Hildy. Faced 3 last game in my Satsuma. Dev striked one early in the game and did 40k each to the other two who were hiding behind islands.. They all died to focus fire. The torp planes are annoying, but just that. If you have good torp belt you can ignore them.

[@asdsafasf3]

this thing actually has really good secondaries though, 12.5 km and they fire really fast. best part is that theyll be going while you're piloting your planes

[@Trae4k]

I've used kearsarge a lot, and it is incredibly OP for free. In the same way that CVs can, you just perma spot any dd that doesnt have smoke until they die. Then when you are done doing that your spotting range is like 10km so you just pop up with montana guns and delete that cruiser that forgot you were out there somewhere

[@thegreatgazoo7579]

the trouble with perma spotting is you don't get points for doing it. I once with a Kearsarge perma spotted a Jager, a dd with hardly any AA. He could do nothing to make me go away, and I just stuck with him, totally ruining his game. It helped my team win, taking out a dangerous dd, but I was last on the list and barely got any credits. The Jager player was very angry at me, called me lots of names, asking me what was the point of spotting him since it didn't get me any points.

[@bradenhagen7977]

My favorite plane memory was using my *free* halford to spot a dd in cap an accidentally spotted a minotaur sneaking between the islands. 1 salvo from our yam and it evaporated. "Balance" literally nothing he could do.

[@thensho]

thank you for the video, i got it in my first container!!! i just bought the first 2 bundles, so 3 containers but got it on the first already :)

[@jamesharrington001]

Was working my way through FdG yesterday, and subs made it almost unplayable, the 24 second rudder shift meaning I couldn't react to the subs that suddenly popped up 3km away because my hydro couldn't spot them because they were running deep, or they were staying out of their surface detection slinging torps at me and I couldn't do anything. Now I know what you're going to say, DD's could do the same, yes and no, there is a much longer reload time on the DD torps for a similar damage profile.

[@Xollistrea]

compared to agir's guns, hildebrand has the same HE, but her AP has improved alpha damage and armor penetration. The turrets also turn faster, same speed as scharnhorst turrets.

[@tronjeotten1510]

This ship is really sick. In the hands of a slightly better than average player it is a deadly theat and a game changer...

[@thegreatgazoo7579]

Your rants are educational and important. Please keep them up. Now, you also mentioned why you like this game - strategy. Now, if I may, let me educate you. You play much better than I do because of your superior tactics as well as your strategic knowledge. You hit what you aim at; I don't. It is tactical ability, the ability to hit a target when you shoot at it, where you just demolish players like myself. I tend to play torpedo DD's because torps need knowledge to aim, not the eye-hand coordination that gunfire takes. Subs however, have no place in this game, and neither do planes.

[@insovietrussiavodka]

I can hear a dreadnought in the background screaming "That abomination is mine, by the emperor I cast you down" It must be a japanese dreadnought...

[@gameover_477]

Feel like this ship particularly is an overstimulators dream. You get two or three salvos then a tactical squadron, then another tactical squadron, then rinse and repeat. Also funny that the torpedo squadron has the old name still even though they got changed out for Ta 152s. Definetly not worth the cost and as far as I've been seeing from new releases they're limiting it to these overpriced events and not making them regularly available after? Jager did come recently but I can't remember if that was something they mentioned when it released.

[@casualreclaimer5239]

I've said many times that a play list like "Random Battle Classic", with no CVs or subs, is the way to restore the player base.

[@kolla5415]

I do hope WG will do something about their supposed CV rework and a lot players wants to remove plane spotting. Hybrid ships as well as CVs should only able to spot for themselves and the planes should give mini-map spotting to ally ships kinda like how sonar works for subs.

[@florianstraub72]

CV need a fix, Uboots removed and less hybrid ships. And dont get me started on tactical amarican cv line...

[@philipreber3314]

When i read the log i knew if the ship itself is 1 credit its going to be extremly expensive to buy to that insanly good deal so no real surprise but maybe good that not many are going to get this ship :). And the rant is absolutely what many, i think even most players think. I saw a cv kill an atlanta in 2 drops and then laughting in chat about the grand AA cruiser that atlanta is sold to be and it is if your as good of an cv player as i am and many are but if you know what ur doing you do not only create crossfires but also dont really need those to kill very fast.

[@cerneysmallengines]

I got the Hildebrand in less than a dozen containers. I wouldnt recommend going all the way through, I was willing to go through stage 5, I was mainly just resource stacking. Getting some econ boosts and some credits and some XP. I got it on the 4th step.

[@Palalune]

New PQ video and it's a German ship, what a day! ... Oh no, what is this thing?

[@i_nameless_i-jgsdf]

Already done playing this game. Haven't touch WoWS for months now and nothing is motivate me to do it either.

[@Lex_Morich]

I've been playing since the closed beta test and quit the game twice - when aircraft carriers were added and when submarines were added. Both times are truly, as they say, “the last time” and “never again.” But damn I love ships and there’s no other game like this, so I recently came back and just play, gritting my teeth when planes keep coming at me again and again or when a submarineidiot is chasing me for the entire battle. P.S. WG casino sucks.

[@quintiax]

7:37 most sane PQ moment (ur totally right tho)

[@hd3_824]

PQ, rant way!!! Your “ranting” is a never whining or pointless complaining. Your critical analysis is always filled with statistics, facts and yes, passion for the game. Also I don’t see videos like this as negative. You are simply pointing out a flaw in the game that we should be aware of and how we as players may consider that flaw and how to counter it… These honest game reviews are what people are looking for, good or bad. As always, thank you.

[@laughworld9037]

Imaging this ship group up with a Tromp and gulden, how many planes, spoting and kiling zone around islands they can provide.

[@richardburger4859]

Completely understand the "frustration" with CVs and subs. I just dont understand how any tier 8-10 CA-BB doesnt have airstrike asw at this point, they are completely defenseless against a sub. CVs, well maybe if they ever get this "fix" in that has been being tested some of that will be fixed, doubt it but hey we can hope.

[@davesbibliotheca6107]

do not worry comrade, is of balans)))

[@_nihilus7127]

Coming from wot, i never hated carriers that much, they just arent as bad as arty. But.. damn, subs suck man. And this new ship seems pretty damn op too for a hybrid..

[@Cresc3n1]

I'm also from wot and CVs don't bother me because I remember Conqueror GC 1 shots at the start of the match. Ahh good old 2015 wot days. There are counters to CV like sticking together.

[@Paperclip111]

I know what you mean. I left wot after the arty rework. Before the rework your suffering was at least short. Now they can stun you into the stone age.

[@TonyC2328]

@@Cresc3n1 Dunno how long you've been playing, but sticking together does nothin even when you're surrounded by "strong" AA ships. Wish I could provide you with the many times I've been dropped/spotted in a Des Moines with a Montana, Minotaur ect close by

[@Cresc3n1]

@@TonyC2328 well yes you will be dropped once or twice. But it won't kill you with continuous drops.

[@DaneTheInsane675]

@@Cresc3n1 Unfortunately most CV haters refuse to see any counters to CVs

[@cerneysmallengines]

Just got out of a battle. A moving fletcher, I did 14k damage to. Full health fletcher to 2k. he was not happy

[@blackraen]

Get a CV, Louisiana or two, some Hildebrands and Gouden Leeuws, Halford and Tromp for DDs and you've got the perfect surface ship team comp.

[@SchusterJames]

13:47 You forgot to say, "used to be". In front of, "it's so fun, it's so interesting".

[@potloodpuntje6130]

Meanwhile We have plane spotting on the mini-map on playstation

[@retirednavychief6983]

I had some good laughs watching this video. I don't disparage your rants; I completely agree that Submarines need to be changed and Carriers need to be gone. This game was great when it was surface-action only. I think that submarines can be managed, but not air-strikes. Anything that can air-strike should be removed. Or WG could simply add an option that allows players to exclude carriers from their MM. I'd rather wait for another 30 seconds or minute and get surface battles then have to deal with one...or two...carriers every match.

[@Stephen__White]

So the game was never great then? Because CVs have been around since the early alpha.

[@mofocro]

@@Stephen__White true but the skill requirement for old RTS cvs just gave us the placebo that there were less carriers since a majority of them sucked/had 0 impact. The rework just made even the dented cv players able to actually just grief players now because it's just so easy

[@Stephen__White]

@@mofocro Fair but the metric I use to gauge RTS to current CVs. RTS CVs in co-op the bot CV would generally be top of the team and would likely still kill a player or two. Current CVs? The bots lucky to get an attack off. The fact that a good chunk of the player base couldn't do much in RTS CVs is all the more reason the system had to change into one people could actually play. Like I'm not gonna try to say current CVs are perfect, but man it's getting exhausting pointing out to people CVs used to be a whole lot better and they have in fact been around for a very long time.

[@AdamWieczorek-Swain]

Imo gambling mechanics are fine because - all in all - you get much good stuff in those passes/chest campaigns. Like right now, getting 120 supercontainers does not *guarantee* any good ship, but it *guarantees* very solid amount of flags, camos, bonuses, steel and even dubs. Same goes for campaigns - it's much better to pay 50k dubs for shitload of items (Idk what the drops on this campaign are, i dont play test server) AND a ship (Also its important to assume that the average player will have to pay at least 40% less than 50k for the ship since it will usually drop randomly at some point so the 50k number isn't completely justified but I understand why you want to assume 50K - that's the "wholesale" price) than to pay for example 30k dubs for just the ship. Obviously it would be ideal if WG released in this state and released that thing at a regular price in a few months (Kinda what trade-in even is about), "early accessing" it to the playerbase. I think even WG would make more money this way, but I am no psychic - can't tell what would be. But it certainly would make me want to buy it more.

[@maxwelllittle5291]

PQ's internal monologue while recording: "If you enjoy hybrids...FUCK YOU"

[@000NULL]

I cant believe they released this before German Raiders

[@DrSid42]

Meanwhile Tone, the real world OG hybrid, cries in the corner with 3 minute cooldown on tier 6 planes, which can barely spot,as they die in seconds.

[@Ecl1pse1388]

Come for the boat showcase, stay for the PQ rant

[@Terrathrax]

I'm happy youre calling WG out over cv's/subs. Keep doing it.

[@Jason-35D]

With the aircraft rework, will the planes still be as OP?

[@nrjclar]

OMG, really .... So when are we getting the Sub Hybrid ? .... The IJN I-400-class ...

[@Taeschno_Flo]

The Torpedo Bombers are Ta-152s, not Bf 110s....

[@deviant1001]

Did the designers of this at some point work for British Leyland at Longbridge?

[@TryingExtraHard]

Does Pack a Punch work on the plane torps? I assume it doesn't, but I guess you never know with WG.

[@garryarganis5801]

i only buy 1 container per event simply because the first one is dirt cheap and im not exactly rich by any means, so i got 1 container for 250 doubloons and it dropped me, i didnt believe it, first thing i did was to watch PQ and see how the ship does because its a hybrid, never had a hybrid ship before.

[@larswhitt1549]

And, the super super strong hybrid sold as a pay to win. There is just some fundamental wrong here.

[@JohnsRandomVids_US]

The Hildebrand is a hilariousy weird, OP, and not necessarily wanted ship. For now. I will say though that there's a certain gentlemanly inspector with a nearly identical name from FFXIV online and this ship instantly reminds me of him. Weird, OP, and not necessarily wanted. 🤣

[@wisedragon5757]

well komisa was allowed in clan battle season 25 so, yes always possible for this to be in clan battle, oh forgot about tone allowed in this seasons of 26 too

[@AndrewPardo]

Does pack a punch increase the damage of your plane torps?

[@last_man_alive1579]

i got one of these in a hail marry on the second box. it requires a shower after every bomb.

[@mandalorion]

WeeGee making this German cruiser a hybrid is them just taking the piss.

[@ottoman1623]

I was hoping the new German cruiser would be the better secondary than napoli

[@ivanholik2245]

uptier is good bcs in reality you could go against stronger ships and if you win or deal good damage you get rewarder more for it which helps you grind xp too :) but we all know cvs dominated world war 2 so giving them so much in game makes them repeat the events :D

[@Mattyrocks1000]

I wanted the easy blue bonuses from the 250 dunloon chest and got this ship instead, welp easy farm unlocked i guess

[@adsfwef1331]

The rework will be a buff to CV rather than a nerf.

[@wolf986]

I promised myself to only buy 3 bundles, which was 6 crates, and got it on crate 4. LUCK!

[@Tripintrios]

that’s a nice ship world of warships, how about you back it up with a source?

[@MisterBiter]

I actually got it from my 15th case. 6k Gold is fair price.

[@rihkuazoyord7458]

i like how they nerfed US hybrid line (no one even played it before the nerf now its even more rare then rearest ship in game..) but now they released this

[@MsTh5]

I can't even join in on the sealclubbing as the 'missions' is through lootboxes and those are banned here

[@SuperCrazf]

Irl this type of ship would’ve been very ineffective. Ships like a Brennus had more use

[@danielwarren7110]

WG should release a random mode that is sans cv sans subs... then monitor the player base.. that way they could say they offer all people the options they want.. and allows the player base to speak.. it currently feels like they have from upper management trapped themselves into the "we said we would put cvs in the game" "we said we would put subs in the game" and because they are locked in on that they are trying to force it on people who have been in the game since day x and did not want them... sure they were cool for events and for random playing around once every year but....

[@Dreissen]

I don’t want to even touch this because of the massive nerf potential

[@cloudy7937]

1:50 mmm I didn't realize the Bf 110-C was a single engine plane lol

[@NIAGTLH]

I pulled it on my 5th bundle off the chain!

[@MrTrool323]

Hilde is absolutely ugly...literally a perseval with the front chopped off Nice Bf110's btw... It's still absolutely not what german line needs in terms of what it should be as german cruisers

[@Frigidblood]

Yeah, what was up with that Bf 110c label? Did they use the wrong model or forget to change the description or something? Edit: looks like both squadrons were using Ta 152 models? I thought it looked like a long FW 190.

[@masterhacker7065]

yah i saw that too i was confused as fuck... shits a TA 152 and WG is mega stupid

[@MrTrool323]

@@Frigidblood It was supposed to have 110's which are slower and have less health but then during work they changed it

[@Frigidblood]

@@MrTrool323 So they forgot to change the name. I wonder if they'll fix it before it goes live.

[@rihkuazoyord7458]

i wonder if this will be p2w like rhodes island so we will have another event where you only can buy it

[@AllAhabNoMoby]

I wish you *would* complain/rant about CV's and subs every single video. The more you get through to others - including perhaps even WG themselves - the better.

[@Majorblood67]

CC will only go so far with the criticism cause they don't want to lose their perks lol

[@AllAhabNoMoby]

@@Majorblood67 I know this happens a lot but I gotta give it to PQ, he does NOT shut up about CV's and subs. 😂

[@RandomName55]

@@Majorblood67 nah, malta didnt get kicked for his famous screaming expletive rant (that was hilarious and deserved im not hating) PQ aint even close to getting kicked lol

[@GroceryGetterST]

​@@RandomName55 Link to this? I wanna hear that 😂

[@RandomName55]

@@GroceryGetterST it was a while back I think bfk might have it as a sound clip on his twitch channel if you search "they dogs****ted the game" it might come up as a vid somewhere

[@AlexFeldstein]

I totally agree with you.

[@smh6926]

Let's also keep in mind how Hildebrand is a cruiser, which means he can slot radio location and anal-fuck destroyers to the map border if he doesn't kill them with the plane spotting or plane armaments (cus radio location works even when you're using the aircraft on a hybrid as long as the hybrid is a cruiser or destroyer)

[@nozyspy4967]

I would take a CV over HE spam any day. I don't have a problem with carriers and have never had any problem playing against them or as them. I genuinely do not understand the hate and I have played every ship type at every tier for the last 9 years.

[@ethansolomon6886]

I saw this thing a week or 2 ago on the Asian servers and I was like WTF IS THIS!

[@colinconnery1384]

in my opinion, subs are not nearly as frustrating as carriers... id rather deal with them any day of the week....the issue is I was just in a game with three subs and two cvs per side... i just gave up

[@IFSmxxv]

Dont worry about the ranting, its fun to listen to as a CV main

[@ericbentley5091]

I love the ranting because it feels like im heard with my complaints haha, the game is at a very frustrating place

[@derrickdoiron4421]

Picked it up after 4 crates so I'm ok with that hahaha!

[@aris_han]

Every hybrid ship should have limited consumables.

[@memph1ston]

PQ! Play the Chikuma II! You didn't play it or make a video on it during its' gambling event and I got one from one of the two boxes I purchased 😂😂

[@Weste88]

arent BF110 twin engine heavy fighters? ofc in different variations, but still... TWIN ENGINE?

[@jmac4978]

Remember when this game was good? I do and it was really good. Shame WG got new devs fresh out of high school.

[@Schnatterinchen]

Got it in the 15k coal container... and will prob never play it :P

[@RheaMainz]

There should be a game using the warships of 1861-1920; far less prominent planes and subs :D

[@jetownsend1333]

Not sure if there is anything WG can do to bring me back to the game at this point. The devs are way too greedy and have abandoned veteran players in favor of high turnover rates of new players.