Funin Mamori Wins First World of Warships Battles, Then Loses to Human Players

AKA VIRTUAL — Funin Mamori lost a first World of Warships match against human opponents on Tuesday, at the end of a stream spent learning the naval combat game alongside a partner who joined the same division, or squad.

The session began with a multiplayer tutorial that stalled for roughly the first six minutes. Neither player could find the accept button for a division invite, and they tried several workarounds before the invite went through. The next hurdle was readying up: the game refused to start while their ships were more than one tier apart, so they swapped vessels until the tiers matched.

Their first battle, against bots, ended in a win after some confusion over controls such as steering, zoom and autopilot. They then tried submarines, which can stay under for only a limited time before having to surface, and later aircraft carriers, where planes are launched and aimed with mouse clicks. Collisions with islands and each other, and torpedoes that exploded early, came up repeatedly. A crossover section of the game’s armory also drew their attention, with ship-themed items based on the anime-style game Blue Archive.

After more than an hour of bot battles, the pair queued for a random match against other players and landed in a match of more than 200 participants. Their side held two of the capture points but lost on points after several ships went down, and the stream described it as its first defeat. Funin Mamori said the opponents hid behind terrain and fired from long range, and that the pair lacked a scouting plane to find them.

The two said they would like a session with a more experienced player to teach them the game. Funin Mamori said it was not yet clear when the next stream would be possible, but that a free-talk stream was planned for when time allowed.