Captains! As we roll out the update, the server will be unavailable:
- A new branch of German destroyers is now live and ready to be researched!
- Prepare to fight in the Grand Battle—a new temporary battle type that sets super battleships on their path to dominating our seas! You'll also get to try out the new "adjustment firing" game mechanic when you head into battle at the helms of these vast floating fortresses.
- The rocket-launching mechanics of all attack aircraft have evolved.
- Damage can no longer be inflicted to allied ships! Rest assured, your ships are now safe (when it comes to friendly fire from your allies, at least)! Reckless teammates can no longer damage or destroy you.
- Recruitment Points are being reworked and will re-emerge as a more versatile resource named "Community Tokens."
- Prepare your bids for a new auction dedicated to the U.S. Independence Day, and get ready for some combat mission groups that offer
VII Colorado, clad in her Independence Day permanent camouflage, as the ultimate reward!
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German Destroyers
When Update 0.10.5 goes live, German destroyers VII Z-31,
VIII Gustav-Julius Maerker,
IX Felix Schultz, and
X Elbing will join our ranks as researchable ships.
Features of the branch
- Accurate 150 mm main battery guns—a large caliber for destroyers.
- Powerful AP shells with good penetration and damage-dealing characteristics, as well as enhanced ricochet angles. Deploy them in battle to bring the pain to cruisers!
- Their solid HP pools and decent armor protection can shield them from the HE shells of most destroyers (unless an enemy Commander has mastered the Inertia Fuse for HE Shells skill). Combined with their effective artillery, this results in special gameplay for the new German destroyers. They are essentially agile ships that primarily focus on lone targets—light cruisers especially.
- Due to the low damage-per-minute stats of their HE shells and the destroyers' high detectability, these new ships aren't cut out for fighting for control of Key Areas.
- The Smoke Generator consumable boosts their already good survivability even further. Starting from Tier IX, German destroyers come equipped with the Defensive AA Fire consumable—a valuable asset that will allow you to counter hostile aircraft with greater confidence.
- Torpedoes with a standard reload time for most destroyers, good damage, and an excellent reach, but also a rather low speed.
Grand Battle
Update 0.10.5 brings a new temporary battle type—the Grand Battle. Its main feature comes in the form of super battleships. The destruction of legendary battleship Yamato by aircraft carriers presaged the domination of deck aviation in naval warfare. Super battleships are the ships that might have existed if shipbuilding had moved toward the development of main batteries as the primary decisive factor of battle.
Two super battleships will be available to you in the Grand Battle:
★ Satsuma is a project based on
X Yamato with reinforced primary armament—510 mm guns in four twin-gun turrets.
★ Hannover is a Project "H-42" design with 483 mm guns placed in four twin-gun turrets and her secondary battery replaced with 128 mm dual-purpose artillery.
Key rules
- The battle format is 9 vs. 9 with Tier IX–X ships, including super battleships. Restrictions: no more than three super battleships per team.
- You'll receive
★ Satsuma and
★ Hannover as rental ships as soon as Update 0.10.5 goes live.
- To enter a battle at the helm of a super battleship, you'll need a new temporary resource—Intelligence Reports. You can earn them by participating in the Grand Battle playing Tier IX and X ships. You'll also be given some when you first log in to the game each day after Update 0.10.5 hits the servers.
- You'll be granted access to some special combat missions. Their rewards include Dazzling expendable camouflages, a commemorative flag, and the Grand Battle patch.
Adjustment fire
When playing the super battleships, you can try out a new game mechanic—adjustment fire. Each turret salvo that hits the target your guns are locked on to, or lands near it, fills the adjustment fire meter. As soon as the meter is filled, special combat instructions temporarily enhance the super battleships' characteristics. ★ Satsuma's main battery gets an accuracy bonus;
★ Hannover's secondary battery gets bonuses applied to its range, accuracy, and reload time.
The adjustment fire bonuses can be activated an unlimited number of times in a single battle. If your ship ceases firing for a certain amount of time, the progress of the adjustment fire meter gradually resets.
The new mechanic allows you to reinforce your ship right in the heat of battle, but you'll need to plan your actions and positioning in advance to use this feature to maximum effect. We hope it will make the gameplay more interesting and diverse!
More details about the Grand Battle's rules and rewards will come in a dedicated article on our website. Stay tuned!
U.S. Independence Day
In celebration of the American Independence Day, the game will feature a set of dedicated combat mission groups and a new auction.
Summer Battles
Update 0.10.5 unlocks access to four themed combat mission groups called "Summer Battles." Completing them will bring you Dazzling and "Stars 'n' Stripes" expendable camouflages, as well as signal flags. Once you're done with the third group, you'll get VII Colorado, a Port slot, and a 6-skill-point Commander. The fourth group will bring you the Independence Day permanent camouflage for Colorado.
If VII Colorado is already berthed in your Port, you'll receive 9,000,000 Credits as compensation. Detailed information on the mission completion criteria can be found in the game client.
Independence Day auction
Lots
- U.S. Commander Theodor "Trouble" Murphy with 14 skill points, plus 20 Rising camouflages
- Sharks permanent camouflage for
X Worcester
- Eagles permanent camouflage for
X Worcester
- 100,000 Coal
X Somers commemorative flag
Auctions are cross-server—players on all World of Warships regions (CIS, EU, NA, and ASIA) compete with each other for the same lots, so the final number of winners is shared between the four servers.
We'll share more details on the starting bids and numbers of winners closer to the starting date of the auction. Stay tuned for more news on our website!
Changes to the Game Mechanics
Friendly fire is now disabled
In Update 0.10.5, we're disabling the ability to cause damage to allies (friendly fire) in all battle types. This change will have a positive effect on gameplay—your teammates will no longer be able to damage or destroy your ship.
Main changes
- You can no longer damage or destroy allied ships, disable their modules, or cause detonation Ramming won't cause any damage to allied ships either.
- At the same time, all armament types can still hit allied ships. This means that you still won't be able to launch torpedoes at an enemy through an allied ship.
- Camera effects that indicate incoming damage won't be active for a ship that gets hit by allied shells or torpedoes.
- The warning about incoming allied torpedoes has also been removed, as they can no longer inflict damage.
Friendly fire penalty
While it's now impossible to damage allied ships, friendly fire is still tracked by the unsporting conduct penalty system. Any players who fire at teammates deliberately can expect to be penalized. This kind of behavior interferes with other Captains' experience of the game and doesn't contribute toward the success of the team.
- A warning for unsporting conduct will now be issued for a certain number of hits on allied ships in one battle:
- 40 hits or more on one ally.
- 50 hits or more on several allies.
- Hits on allied ships with any armament type, except for secondary battery hits, are counted.
- If you receive a warning in a battle, any Credits or XP earned in that battle will be forfeit as a penalty. However, provided that you don't break the rules in your next battles, any resources you earn in those battles will be credited to you as usual.
- An issued warning also triggers a friendly fire penalty. Damage will be inflicted to the perpetrator's ship each time they open fire at allies. The exact amount of inflicted damage depends on the perpetrator's current HP and grows with each new hit on an allied ship.
More details about the unsporting conduct penalty system will be available in a dedicated article.
Attack aircraft: evolved mechanics
We've reworked the rocket-launching mechanics for attack aircraft in Update 0.10.5.
- These planes will now fire small-caliber machine guns prior to firing rockets, and the duration of an attack run is now longer.
- The machine guns don't inflict damage to ships—their function is to show the exact spot where the rockets are going to hit.
- Once the machine guns open fire, you won't be able to adjust the flight path of your attack aircraft. However, your attack aircraft also become immune to AA fire at that point.
- Apart from the rocket-launching mechanics, we've also changed the aiming settings, the time it takes to prepare for an attack run, and other attack aircraft characteristics. The attack aircraft of
VIII Saipan,
VIII Sanzang,
VIII Lexington (F4U-1D Corsair Tiny Tim),
X Midway (F8F Bearcat Tiny Tim),
VIII Graf Zeppelin, and
VIII Graf Zeppelin B will now climb high at the start of an attack run.
Information about rocket hit zones, together with the prolonged attack time and fixed aiming reticle position, will allow Captains of agile ships—destroyers, primarily—to reduce the chances of taking rocket damage by making evasive maneuvers.
The evolved rocket-launching mechanics are being applied to the attack aircraft of all carriers.
Recruitment Points
Recruitment Points are getting updated with the release of Update 0.10.5. They will become a more versatile resource that can be earned by participating in various activities and exchanged for various rewards.
- Recruitment Points have been renamed Community Tokens.
- These Tokens can also be earned outside of the Recruiting Station program. Watch official World of Warships streams and participate in Public Tests, as well as regional and global activities, to earn more Community Tokens, then spend them on some awesome rewards!
- The following rewards will be added to the special category of the Armory:
III Katori, Premium Ship V and Premium Ship VII containers, permanent and expendable camouflages, commemorative flags, and much more!
Interface Changes
The display of upgrades in the Equipment tab has been updated.
- A full list of available upgrades, including special and legendary ones, is now shown in each slot.
- While browsing the Equipment tab of the Port, you can now click through to purchase special or unique upgrades from the Armory.
- A button that will take you back to the Equipment tab has been added to the purchase status pop-up window.
- Upgrade sorting has been updated: regular upgrades are displayed first, then special and legendary upgrades.
Changed the animation and display of how ribbons and achievements are received in battle. Changed the size of icons of earned achievements. They are now displayed separately from ribbons in the top-right corner.
Daily Shipments
New daily rewards will become available to you from July 1.
This section is available in the player menu of the Port and includes 24 rewards that are refreshed on a monthly basis. If you succeed in collecting all 24 rewards before the end of the month, you can receive an additional reward of 750 Free XP for each subsequent day that you enter the game until the end of the month. If you don't click the "Collect Reward" button, the reward is collected automatically at the start of a new 24-hour period.
Armory
The following new ships will become available with the release of the update:
X Druid is a destroyer armed with four dual-purpose 127 mm guns placed in two turrets on the ship's bow. They fire only AP shells with improved ricochet angles and a reduced arming threshold, so you can expect fewer overpenetrations and ricochets. While she lacks torpedoes, Druid has a wide choice of consumables at her disposal: Hydroacoustic Search, Short-Burst Smoke Generator, and Repair Party. The ship will be available in the Research Bureau for 56,000 Research Points.
VIII Tone is a heavy cruiser armed with eight accurate 203 mm guns that are housed in four turrets situated on the ship's bow. She participated in key battles of World War II—the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Leyte Gulf. This fast ship has decent armor and good concealment. Tone also carries a squadron of four torpedo bombers with low detectability. Each bomber is armed with two torpedoes. The ship will be available for 11,300 Doubloons.
Unique historical Commander Jerzy Świrski is now available for 175,000 Coal.
VI Gallant is now available in exchange for 48,000 Coal. The ship is no longer obtainable from the Dunkirk container.
We've added the Red Fox permanent camouflage for X Plymouth—it's available for 10 Ranked Tokens.
With the release of Update 0.10.5, German Tokens will be converted into Credits at the rate of 1:2,100.
Content Additions and Changes
Added the Independence Day permanent camouflage for VIII Constellation and Maple Leaf permanent camouflage for
VII Yukon.
Added 12 football-themed patches.
Added Clan test and closed test emblems.
Details on how to get these items will be announced later.
Ships X Ragnar and
VI Repulse were added for testing by developers, volunteers, and community contributors.
When Update 0.10.5 goes live, VI Erich Loewenhardt,
VII Nelson,
VI T-61,
VII Haida,
VII Z-39,
VIII Asashio,
VI Admiral Graf Spee, and
VIII Lenin will cease to be available. The ships will be taken out of the game due to a combination of their popularity and combat efficiency. To maintain the proper level of ship diversity within teams, these ships will cease to be available to obtain for an indefinite period of time, but they may return in future.
The following changes were made to the Tech Tree tab.
- The following ships were removed from the Tech Trees of their nations:
VII Duca degli Abruzzi and
VIII Mainz.
- The following ships were added to the Tech Trees of their nations:
VIII Pyotr Bagration,
VIII Tirpitz and
VII München.
VIII Mainz and
VII Duca degli Abruzzi are still available for purchase in the Armory.
A new nation—the Netherlands—has been added. Following the addition of the new nation, IX Friesland, which was historically a ship that belonged to the Royal Netherlands Navy, will still be a ship of the European nation. However, she'll be removed from the Tech Tree and won't be available to research when Update 0.10.6 is released. In Update 0.10.7 she'll be replaced with Groningen, which is identical to Friesland. She'll be available for 1,000,000 Free XP.
Other Changes and Improvements
Changes to the "Naval Battle" competition
Added the possibility to earn an additional attempt during the Engagement stage, depending on when the stage began and the number of attempts used.
- 24 hours after the start of the Naval Battle: one additional attempt for each five used.
- 48 hours after the start of the Naval Battle: one additional attempt for each four used.
Information on how to earn additional attempts will be shown in the tooltip next to the current number of attempts.
Changes to the Ranked Battles maps
With the release of Update 0.10.5, the maps and modes for the Bronze League of the current season of Ranked Battles will be changed.
New maps
Map | League | Battle Tiers |
---|---|---|
Archipelago | Bronze | 6–7 |
Big Race | Bronze | 6–7 |
Neighbors | Bronze | 6–7 |
Trident | Bronze | 6–7 |
Sleeping Giant | Bronze | 6–7 |
Battles on the Archipelago map will be fought in the Epicenter mode. Battles on other maps will be fought in the Domination mode. The compositions and settings for other maps won't change.
Game balance changes
We've made some changes to the parameters of certain ships based on our analysis of their battle efficiency and player feedback. These changes were required in order to carefully adjust the balance of selected warships. Further changes may follow in future updates, should they be required.
Japanese Tier VII battleship Hyūga:
- Main battery reload time increased from 28 to 29 s.
U.S. Tier VII cruiser Flint:
- Main battery base firing range increased from 11.9 to 12.4 km.
Italian Tier X battleship Cristoforo Colombo:
- Main battery reload time reduced from 38 to 37 s.
- Main battery gun 180-degree traverse time reduced from 40 to 38.2 s.
Update installation process changes
Starting with Update 0.10.5, certain technical changes are being made to the way in which updates are delivered to players.
World of Warships client updates will be downloaded to your PC as a single archive. Previously, the updates included several archives, and the size of each archive didn't exceed 4 GB. This was required to successfully install the update on drives with outdated file systems that do not support files larger than 4 GB, such as FAT32. These file systems are now only rarely used among our players, and supporting such systems creates additional technical difficulties. Because of this change, players who are using drives with the FAT32 file system won't be able to install further game client updates, starting with Update 0.10.5.
To solve this issue, we recommend that you switch to the NTFS or exFAT file systems.
Pre-installation of the update
Starting with Update 0.10.5, you can not only download the new game version to your PC beforehand, you can also install it at any convenient time before the release. To install it, click the "Update" button that's located to the right of the "Play" button in the Wargaming Game Center once the update files are downloaded.
To use the pre-install feature, activate the preloading of updates in the "Updates" section of the Wargaming Game Center.
Other changes
- Changed the mechanic that determines the contents of containers—this is now determined at the point in time when the container is opened. This will prevent situations where players could receive a unique item for the second time if the container hadn’t been opened immediately after it was received and the player had already obtained the item from the container. (Due to an error, this change was added to the article after its publication. We apologize for any inconvenience caused).
- Added the roar sounds of Godzilla and Kong to "National voiceover +" and to quick commands received from allies. Increased the roar volume of Godzilla and Kong.
- Added ambient sounds for islands and cities.
- Increased the catapult rotation speed that occurs on all ships when the Catapult Fighter takes off or when Spotting Aircraft is activated.
- The Junior Shipbuilder, Senior Shipbuilder, Shipbuilding Inspector, and Chief Shipbuilding Inspector achievements are now displayed in the "Achievements" section when the player earns Research Points for the first time.
- The achievements for Ranked and Clan Battles are now shown in the "Achievements" section, regardless of whether they've been earned or not.
- Fixed the armor of
VII Mahan's fore-end athwartship, as well as the superstructure near her conning tower.
- Fixed an error that caused ships that were far away from islands to run aground or collide with underwater obstacles on certain maps.
- Fixed an error that prevented loaded main battery guns from firing in some cases.
- Fixed an error that caused the gun accuracy of
VIII Vittorio Veneto's stock and researchable hulls to be different.
- Fixed an error that caused the main battery reload time to be displayed incorrectly when the Gun Feeder or Adrenaline Rush skills had been mastered.
- Other improvements and changes. For a complete list, please refer to Player Support.
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