CV’s are being added to legends

the thing I find funny is all the supposed “ PC “ refugees are acting surprised they are being added.

Kaito

I don’t see it to be an issue honestly

The rework was a huge step back in the interaction between CV's and surface ships. The closest to balanced that CV's ever were was in the RTS days, when surface ships of basically all tiers had some ability to defend themselves. CV's had a lot longer reload on each squadron and a finite hanger capacity. Each full squadron of planes for the CV got a single attack run then had to fly back to the carrier to reload for up to 1 min and 45 seconds each. Low tier carriers usually had around 36 planes in their hangers, so any losses of any type of plane were devastating. You could easily run out of torpedo planes permanently for the game because you had a squadron of 4 with 4 in reserve. Once they were done, that was it.
So every 2 minutes someone on the map would be attacked by a few squadrons, or a few ships at once. Once that run was over it was another 2 or so minutes to the next attack. Cv's attacks in the rework are near constant, each squad can attack 3 times and you can have a new swuadron already at the target ship within 45 seconds of the last one ending.

There is also no CV fighter support in this iteration. It was rewarding in the RTS days to use your fighters to fend off air attacks on your teammates, defending them from the enemy carrier, but they destroyed that ability by removing fighters and making them a limited consumable with a short action radius and time. If an enemy carrier is focusing you, you have to hope that your AA is good enough, or you are basically helpless against them.

AA recieved many alterations over the course of the rework, most of which screwed it up completely, and AA is a shadow of its former self, universally regarded as worse in all aspects with the Defensive AA fire consumable regarded as useless by most CC's. Even a dedicated American AA cruiser specced with full AA build with not stop a CV air attack, only shooting down significant numbers after the drop has occured. No matter your level of AA you will still be hit by attacks from a competent CV captain.

Pre-rework AA cruisers and some BB's were a no fly zone for planes, the squadron's would instantly melt like they flew into the side of a mountain.

I truly hope they don't completely fuck it up. While I didn't like Legends (I found the camera and aim controls wonky, and the inability to map my own buttons a turn off) it's a great option for those who don't have a good PC, and is at least historically accurate in terms of the boats in the game (i.e., not a ton of paper ships).

Crossing my fingers for y'all. :-)