World of Warships is the largest virtual shipyard in the world.

The quality of the work done by our artists improves each year, and the requirements for the accuracy of the models they create grow respectively. Unfortunately, the in-game camera doesn't allow you to see all the details and beauty. In the Dry Dock show, you'll be able to see the refined visuals of our in-game models.

Warships are some of the largest and most complex technical objects in existence. Their monumental appearance and vast guns are enough to impress everyone. To our regret, it's hard to communicate the sheer scale of these steel giants in the game. In this Dry Dock episode, we compare the sizes of all the Tier X ships in World of Warships: from the smallest destroyers to the largest battleships!

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Starts: Wed. 26 Feb. 10:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Tue. 24 Mar. 09:30 CET (UTC+1)

Format: 7 vs. 7 playing Tier X ships.

Restrictions: no more than one aircraft carrier and three battleships per team. If there aren’t enough suitable ships to complete the teams, and the time the first player in the queue has waited exceeds 4 minutes and 10 seconds, then each team can be completed with up to four battleships.

Rewards: up to 5,500 Steel, one Ranked Token, and many additional rewards.

Mode: Arms Race.

Maps: Trident, Warrior's Path, Sleeping Giant, Mountain Range, and Islands of Ice.

• A total of 18 Ranks split into three leagues: Second, First, and Premier.
  
• Those who are new to Ranked Battles will start the Season from Rank 18. Those who participated in the previous Season will receive bonus Stars: one for each rank attained.
  
• Players earn the Stars needed to climb the ranking ladder by winning battles. At the majority of ranks, a defeat means a lost Star.
  
• Ranks 18–15 and 12 are irrevocable. You cannot lose a Star for a defeat at Ranks 18–17. If you are first on your team in terms of XP earned, you get to keep your hard-earned Star—even if your team lost the battle.
  
• A bonus Star is granted for reaching a new rank at Ranks 18-11.
  
• Only Stars obtained for the first time are counted for progress towards the Ranked Battles emblem. Bonus Stars for the previous Season are included in this count if you play at least one battle in the new Season.
  
• You'll receive the Flag of the First League for reaching Rank 10. Upon reaching Rank 5, it will be replaced with the Flag of the Premier League.
  
• Flags given for reaching Leagues will be removed from player accounts once the Season ends.
  
• You’ll receive a commemorative achievement for reaching Rank 1 in the Fifteenth Season.
  
• All those who reach Rank 15 will receive a commemorative flag which will remain in their collections.

The League Flags reduce the cost of servicing your ships by 10% and 20% until the end of the Season.

Arms Race is a battle mode in which special areas that provide buffs spawn on the map. If you can make it to a special area and activate it before your opponents do, your entire team will get a bonus to their combat abilities till the end of that battle. If you capture more than one of the same buff, the bonuses provided by them stack up.

Eight minutes after a battle starts, a Key Area appears in the center of the map. The diameter of this area then shrinks over time. The team that captures it will be able to quickly gain an advantage in points and ultimately win.

• Each buff area activates 2 minutes after spawning.
  
• When you enter one of these areas after its activation, you will receive the buff instantly.
  
• If you are within a buff area together with any enemy ships at the moment of its activation, the team with the most ships within the area gets the bonus. If the ship numbers are equal, the area remains in an uncaptured state until the balance of power inside it shifts one way or another.
  
• In addition to the buffs, each captured area grants victory points to your team and deducts points from the enemy team.

Increased maximum ship speed and a faster rudder-shift time, as well as a reduced aircraft engine boost cooldown time:

• +3% to the maximum ship speed and rudder-shift time.
  
• −20% to the engine boost cooldown time of an aircraft carrier’s squadrons.

Continuous restoration of HP as a percentage of the maximum HP pool for ships or aircraft:

• Restoring +0.05% of ship HP per second.
  
• Restoring +0.3% of aircraft HP per second.

Faster reload time of the main battery and torpedo armament, or faster aircraft restoration time on a carrier's deck:

• −5% to the reload time of the main battery and torpedo armament.
  
• −5% to the aircraft restoration time.

Faster reload time of ship and squadron consumables:

• −5% to the reload time of ship consumables.
  
• −10% to the reload time of squadron consumables.

If you like reading our news on Steam, it’s likely that you’ve already subscribed. But if you haven’t yet — there’s an even more pleasant reason to do so now!

Each month our subscribers will get some goodies, and they might be different each time! We’re going to send out a Steam container on the 26th and 29th of February, which contains:

1. In the first slot:
   
   • 5x Steam camouflage patterns:
     
     • +75% ship XP per battle
       
     • +75% Commander XP per battle
       
     • +75% Free XP per battle
       
     • –3% to the ship's detectability range by sea
       
     • +4% to the dispersion of shells fired by the enemy at your ship
   • or 10,000 Free XP
     
   • or 1 day of Warships Premium Account
     
   • or 250 doubloons
2. In the second slot: 5x signal flags (Zulu, Zulu Hotel, or Papa Papa)
   
3. In the third slot: 5x signal flags (Juliet Charlie or November Foxtrot)

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New combat missions are available! Find out what bonuses and rewards await you in the coming week.

You can find more information about the combat missions, bonuses, and rewards of Update 0.9.1 in a dedicated article.

Starts: Fri. 21 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Mon. 24 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

On February 22, we're celebrating the end of the round-the-world journey of the Great White Fleet—a unique expedition of two battleship groups of the U.S. Navy that was completed between 1907 and 1909.

Click the "Participate" button, join the celebration, and complete some combat missions which can grant you valuable rewards!

A Wargaming container drops the following rewards:

• 1 day of Premium Account
  
• 3x Papa Papa signals
  
• 3x Juliet Charlie signals

You can complete these combat missions simultaneously.

Starts: Fri. 21 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Mon. 24 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

February 23 is the day on which Russia celebrates Defender of the Fatherland Day. During the festivities, gain 23 victories in Random or Co-op Battles playing Tier V–X ships to receive an additional bonus of +23% XP and credits!

Complete a chain of combat missions playing Tier V–X ships in Operations, Random, or Co-op Battles to get rare expendable camouflages and signals!

Part 1
Over any number of battles, score 15 citadel hits on enemy ships.

Part 2
Over any number of battles, destroy 10 enemy ships.

Part 3
Over any number of battles, set enemy ships on fire 20 times.

The combat missions of the chain can be completed only in the specified sequence: you can start the next part only after all the missions of the previous part have been completed.

Reward for completing each part: 2x "This is your day, Commander!" expendable camouflages

Final reward: 5x Dragon signals

Blue Steel Flag

Our collaboration with Arpeggio of Blue Steel isn’t over yet! Play one of the following battle types: Random, Ranked, Co-op Battle, or Operations, with any ARP ship before the release of Update 0.9.2 to be awarded a Blue Steel flag!

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• Fixed a bug causing the client to crash in Scenario Operation "Raptor Rescue" and the operation is again available in the game client.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game client to crash when trying to mount the "French Navy" permanent camouflage on the Tier VI destroyer Guepard. The camouflage is again available for purchase in the game client, and owners of the camouflage will have it credited back to them.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the Steam client of the game to always run in English, regardless of the selected settings.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a very loud sinking sound after receiving a torpedo hit.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the "Master of the Water World" camouflage to display incorrectly.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the client to crash when changing the game window mode (windowed/full-screen) if the player had the language bar enabled.

Because of the updates being made to upgrades, the dismounting of them will be free of charge for a period of 1 week from the release of Update 0.9.1.

Free Upgrade Demount Offer Ends: Thu. 20 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

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• Cruiser VI London: the main reward for completing four Directives of the event.
  
• Royal Tokens: a themed temporary resource which can be obtained by completing Directives and Daily Missions, or received from Daily Shipments. You can earn more of them by gaining victories on VIII Albemarle or VI London—up to 10 Tokens per day.
  
• Commander Andrew Cunningham, whom you can find in the Armory in exchange for 1,000 Royal Tokens.

If you complete four missions from each of the first two Directives, as well as collect the rewards from Daily Shipments, you can obtain up to 300 Royal Tokens. These can be exchanged for one of the following rewards in the Armory:



If you complete all four Directives and collect the rewards from Daily Shipments, you’ll receive cruiser VI London, a permanent camouflage for her, and up to 600 Royal Tokens. These can be exchanged for one of the following rewards in the Armory:



If you log in to the game regularly and actively progress through the Daily Missions, complete all four Directives, collect all the available rewards from Daily Shipments, and complete the Daily Challenges on VIII Albemarle or VI London, you can obtain up to 1,380 Royal Tokens. These can be exchanged for a unique Commander— Andrew Cunningham—or one of the following rewards in the Armory:

• Lightning Fast: the speed of your ship and squadrons increases by 5% after scoring two "Caused flooding" ribbons.
  
• Consumables Expert: adds one charge for each of your ship’s consumables after you destroy two enemy ships.
  
• "Sink, Burn, Destroy!": the reload time of your ship’s main battery guns and torpedo launchers, as well as aircraft restoration time, are reduced by 10% after earning the Witherer achievement.

These talents can be activated only once per battle, and aren’t available in Clan or Training Battles.

• Jack of All Trades: reduces the reload time of all ship consumables by 10% (instead of 5%).
  
• Aircraft Armor: reduces the continuous damage dealt by AA mounts by 11.5% (instead of 10%).

Commander Andrew Cunningham is available in the Armory in exchange for 1,000 Royal Tokens. He comes with 10 skill points and a specialization for I Black Swan.

In Update 0.9.7, we're planning to make Andrew Cunningham available in exchange for Coal in the Armory. Thus, you'll still be able to get this Commander in future if you didn't manage to do so in Update 0.9.1. The exact amount of Coal required will be announced later.

The new game event tasks you with completing 36 missions spread across four Directives. The first Directive will become available with the release of Update 0.9.1, and the following Directives will open each subsequent week. Completing the missions will reward you with signals, expendable camouflages, Free XP, credits, and other desirable items. The main reward is cruiser VI London, which comes with the Victorian White permanent camouflage and a Commander with 3 skill points. You can obtain her by completing four out of nine missions of the last Directive.

If you already have VI London in your Port by the time you complete the final Directive, you'll get a Commander, Port slot, and compensation for the ship in the form of doubloons.

You can expect the missions of the Directives to be more diverse than they have been in the past. Experienced players who have collected large numbers of ships in their Ports will have the opportunity to select the ideal ships for particular missions, and thus complete the Directives faster.
Directives can be completed until: Tue. 10 Mar. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

Detailed information on the Directives and Hall of Fame rewards can be found in the game client.

• Completing all four Directives of the "British Cruisers: Part 2" event will grant you up to 550 Tokens.
  
• Completing the Daily Missions from February 13 through March 8 will bring you 20 Tokens per day. You can obtain up to 500 Tokens in total.
  
• Daily Shipments will deliver you up to 50 Tokens.
  
• Completing Daily Challenges on VI London or VIII Albemarle during Update 0.9.1 will bring you 10 Tokens per day (up to a total of 280 Tokens). You'll also be able to complete the Challenges on VIII Cheshire after she becomes available at the end of February. In order to obtain the available rewards, gain victories in Random, Co-op, or Scenario Battles.

In total, you can earn up to 1,380 Tokens.

Royal Tokens can also be dropped from random bundles that are available in exchange for doubloons in the Armory.

With the release of Update 0.9.2, Royal Tokens will be obtainable only from random bundles that will be available in exchange for doubloons. After Update 0.9.3 goes live, all Royal Tokens will be converted into credits at a rate of 1:9,000.

The "British Navy 2" section of the Armory has been stocked with random bundles. Each of them can be obtained in exchange for 1,000 doubloons.

• All the rewards are visible in advance: the bundles’ contents and their amounts will be displayed to you when viewing the currently available bundle.
  
• After each exchange, the contents of the next random bundle will be visible to you.
  
• Having collected all the bundles, you're guaranteed to have obtained all the available rewards.

During Update 0.9.1, log in to the game between February 13 and 27 to start getting valuable rewards via the Daily Shipments section.

You can get a total of 10 rewards, while the shipments are available for 14 days. Thus, you can skip 4 days out of 2 weeks and still claim all the valuable rewards.

Please note that the servers will be temporarily unavailable due to the release of an update. The schedule is available below.
Maintenance times are tentative and subject to change. Please accept our apologies for any inconveniences.
The new update will go live some time after it's been downloaded because the client and server sides are updated separately. While the client begins to update immediately, it takes time for the servers to be updated across all regions.

If there are problems with downloading or launching the update—please perform files integrity check.

Subtitles can be enabled in the video player separately.

Because of the updates being made to upgrades, the dismounting of them will be free of charge for a period of 1 week from the release of Update 0.9.1.

A new line of British heavy cruisers has become available for all players to research.

• Their powerful artillery can cause significant damage per salvo, but the guns have a relatively short firing range and arcing shell trajectory.
  
• In contrast to light British cruisers, these ships have high-explosive shells in their arsenal that can cause heavy damage and have good chances of setting targets on fire.
  
• Their ability to fire torpedoes one-by-one opens additional tactical options.
  
• Strong armor protection for the central parts of the decks of ships of Tier VI and above, increases their survivability compared to other cruisers, with X Goliath's deck armor reaching a thickness of 40 mm.
  
• Efficient Repair Party consumable.

Decent survivability, thanks to their durable armor and effective Repair Party. Their powerful guns with relatively short firing ranges predispose British heavy cruisers to medium-range artillery encounters.

You'll be able to learn more details about the British heavy cruisers later in a dedicated article on our website.

The new game event tasks you with completing 36 missions, spread across four Directives. The first Directive will become available with the release of Update 0.9.1, right after the necessary technical work has finished. Those that follow will be unlocked each week. The ultimate reward for completing all Directives is cruiser VI London.

Completing missions will reward you with signals, expendable camouflage patterns, credits, Coal, and Free XP. Completing Directives will reward you with Royal Tokens.

You can exchange Royal Tokens for doubloons, signals, Union Jack camouflage patterns, credits, days of Premium Account, and the main reward—the new unique British Commander, Andrew Cunningham!

You can get Royal Tokens for completing the event's Directives, Daily Missions, and Daily Challenges for warships VI London, VIII Cheshire, and VIII Albemarle. You can also obtain Royal Tokens from random bundles that are available in exchange for doubloons in the Armory.

With the release of Update 0.9.2, Royal Tokens will only be obtainable from random bundles in exchange for doubloons. When Update 0.9.3 hits the servers, Royal Tokens will be converted into credits at the rate of 1:9,000.

• Lightning Fast: the speed of your ship and squadrons increases by 5% after scoring two "Caused flooding" ribbons.
  
• Consumables Expert: the number of consumable charges for your ship increases by one after destroying two enemy ships.
  
• "Sink, Burn, Destroy!": the reload time of your ship’s main battery guns and torpedo launchers, as well as aircraft restoration time, reduces by 10% after earning the “Witherer” achievement.

Each of these talents can be activated only once per battle. His talents are unavailable in Clan Battles or Training Rooms.

• Jack of All Trades: −10% to the reload time of all mounted consumables, instead of the standard −5%.
  
• Aircraft Armor: −11.5% to the continuous damage of AA guns, instead of the standard −10%.

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• Dates: from February 26 till March 24
  
• Format: Tier X ships in a 7 vs. 7 format
  
• Battle mode: Arms Race

Arms Race is a game mode in which special buff areas appear on the map. If you manage to enter an area and capture it before the enemy does, your entire team will receive a bonus to their combat characteristics that will last until the end of the battle. When you capture another area with the same buff, its efficiency increases further.

At a certain point in time after the start of a battle, a Key Area will appear in the center of the map. Its diameter will shrink over time, and the team that captures it will be able to quickly gain a point advantage and ultimately win.

We've reworked the bonuses given by buffs. They now also apply to carrier squadrons and provide:

• Increased ship speed and a faster rudder-shift time; reduced aircraft engine boost cooldown time.
  
• Continuous restoration of HP as a percentage of the maximum HP pool for ships and aircraft.
  
• Faster reload time of the main battery and torpedo armament; faster aircraft restoration time on a carrier's deck.
  
• Faster reload time of ship and squadron consumables.

In Update 0.9.1, many old upgrades will be updated and some new ones will be added. These changes will make the selection of upgrades more interesting and diverse.

We've also removed all type and tier restrictions for any special upgrades that improve the efficiency of ship consumables, provided that the ship has the respective slot.

Some upgrades will be replaced with new ones. If you have any of these upgrades already mounted on your ships, they will be replaced with their new versions. You will get compensation in the form of credits for any upgrades in your Inventory that are removed from the game, and the amount of credits provided will be equal to the removed upgrade's full cost.



This upgrade combines the bonuses provided by the Propulsion Modification 1 and Steering Gears Modification 1 upgrades which are scheduled to be removed from the game:

• −20% to the chances of critical damage to the engine and steering gears
  
• −20% to the repair time of the engine and steering gears

This upgrade cannot be mounted on an aircraft carrier.

• +20% to the traverse speed of torpedo tubes
  
• −40% to the chances of critical damage to torpedo tubes
  
• +5% to the speed of shipborne torpedoes

This upgrade cannot be mounted on an aircraft carrier.

• +5% to the speed of torpedoes dropped from the air

This upgrade can be mounted on an aircraft carrier only.

Replaces the Target Acquisition System Modification 1 upgrade and provides the following bonuses:

• Increases the range of assured acquisition of torpedoes to a fixed value of 1.8 km (this range can be further extended by learning the Vigilance skill)

Please note: the upgrade doesn't extend the torpedo acquisition range for the Hydroacoustic Search consumable.

The Target Acquisition System Modification 1 upgrade was rarely used by players, and wasn't as efficient as the Concealment System Modification 1 upgrade. We've introduced changes to this upgrade in order to make it more relevant.

The bonus of +20% to the acquisition range of torpedoes heavily depended on their detectability range: this bonus was ineffective against torpedoes with low detectability, and very effective against torpedoes with high detectability.

The new bonus doesn't depend on the characteristics of any approaching torpedoes. You will always be able to spot torpedoes at a fixed distance of 1.8 km without taking the effects of the Vigilance skill into consideration. This change will allow your ship to actively counter the torpedo armament of your enemy.

We wanted to set a fixed assured acquisition range of 2 km and totally eliminate situations where the enemy detects you when you haven't spotted them. That's why we've replaced the bonus for the range of assured acquisition of ships in the game.

This upgrade cannot be mounted on an aircraft carrier.

• +10% to the action time of ship consumables

This upgrade cannot be mounted on an aircraft carrier.

• +50% to the action time of squadron consumables

This upgrade can be mounted on an aircraft carrier only.

This upgrade will replace the AA Guns Modification 2 and Secondary Battery Modification 2 upgrades that are scheduled to be removed from the game:

• +15% to the continuous damage of AA guns
  
• +15% to the damage within the explosion radius of shells fired by AA defenses
  
• −20% to the secondary battery reload time
  
• +2 explosions in AA salvos when the Defensive AA Fire consumable is active

• Added a bonus reducing the cooldown time of the Defensive AA Fire consumable by 10%

• Removed the penalty to the main battery gun reload time

• The bonus providing additional explosions in AA salvos has been replaced with a 20% reduction in the preparation time of the priority AA sector.

This upgrade cannot be mounted on an aircraft carrier.

The bonus providing a certain number of explosions was ineffective for most ships whose AA defenses produce a lot of explosions, and for some ships—especially destroyers—it didn't work at all. The new bonus reducing the AA priority sector preparation time will be effective on any ship that has AA armament. This is because the priority sector, in addition to reinforcing the continuous AA damage, deals damage as a percentage of the enemy squadron's current HP. The exact percentage depends only on your ship's tier.

• The bonus applied to the action time of the Surveillance Radar consumable has been increased from 10% to 20%

This bonus has been improved in order to highlight the difference between X Worcester's unique upgrade and the new Ship Consumables Modification 1 upgrade, which provides a similar bonus, is situated in the same slot, and is available on other ships.

As the opening move towards the changes that have been promised for unique upgrades, we've updated the way in which they are obtained. With the release of Update 0.9.3, unique upgrades will appear in the Armory's Research Bureau. The combat missions for unique upgrades will also change.

• With the release of Update 0.9.1, you cannot get combat missions for unique upgrades.
  
• The end date for any combat missions you have already received will be December 31, 2020.

We're going to revamp the existing upgrades and also add new upgrades in future. Stay tuned for more news!

• The order in which in-game possibilities unlock has been changed.
  
• The number of battles required to reach the majority of Service Record levels has been reduced.
  
• The rewards granted for opening various levels of the Service Record have been updated.

You can learn more details about the changes to the Service Record in the game client.

Please note: all players who started playing before the release of Update 0.9.1 will receive all the newly added rewards for the levels they have already reached, minus the rewards they had received in the old version of the Service Record.

Thus, any players who have already reached the final level in their Service Record by the time that Update 0.9.1 is released will receive 15,000 Coal, 4 days of Premium Account, a supercontainer, and nine daily containers (with five More Resources containers among them), as well as upgrades, expendable camouflage patterns, and economic and special signals.

When Update 0.9.1 hits the servers, Shipbuilding Tokens will be converted into credits at the rate of 1:7,500.

The unique historical Commander, Philippe Auboyneau, has been added. He's available in exchange for for 175,000 Coal. He has the unique Sparks of Resistance, Fully Armed, and Speed and Composure talents, as well as the enhanced Survivability Expert skill.

Effective as of the release of Update 0.9.3, the following ships will no longer be available in the Armory: X Smolensk, IX Jean Bart, IX Neustrashimy, VII Flint, and IX Black.

Smolensk and Jean Bart have become very popular warships for their tiers. In order to maintain the proper level of diversity in teams in terms of the ships they are made up of, these ships will no longer be available to obtain for an undefined period of time, but may return in future.

For a number of reasons, Neustrashimy, Flint, and Black are not currently strongly sought after in exchange for Steel. That is why they will no longer be available in exchange for Steel, but will later become available in exchange for Coal. However, this will be after 6 months at the earliest.

We understand that accumulating resources for ships is a long process, which is why we wanted to warn you in advance so that any interested players can still steer these ships into their Ports before Update 0.9.3 goes live.

The map is designed for Tier VIII–X battles in the Epicenter and Domination modes, with three Key Areas.

Battles will be fought in the harsh Northern territories, among snow-blanketed islands where the sun appears for only several hours each day.

• The western part is an open-water space with several large islands, providing good possibilities for battleships and destroyers to maneuver.
  
• The central part is also open water, but at the same time it contains islands that will allow you to find shelter from any fire from the flanks. Besides that, the location of islands and their landscapes make it possible to push through the center into the flanks.
  
• The eastern part has many islands behind which cruisers and destroyers can find shelter from enemy fire. This part is suitable for those players who prefer inflicting sudden attacks on the enemy, and who can skillfully make use of limited shelter.

You can find even more information about what’s going in the game by clicking the spoiler:

• For ships and squadrons, we've changed the icons and exterior view of the indicators on the armament panel.
  
• When in battle, UI elements can now be hidden using Ctrl+J.
  
• Reworked the icon for the destroyer ship type.

The display of AA defense characteristics in the Port has been updated:

• AA defense parameters that are displayed in the Port have been changed: Now the players can view the following parameters:
  
  • Average continuous damage
    
  • Damage per second within a shell's explosion radius
    
  • Maximum priority sector reinforcement
    
  • AA gun maximum firing range
  
  
• A pop-up tooltip with detailed parameters has been added for each position in the AA defense characteristics.
  
• The information you can view during battle on the tooltip called by pressing the H key has been changed.

Please note: average damage is calculated by summing up the damage dealt by all AA defense zones. The damage dealt by each AA defense zone, taking into account its accuracy, is multiplied by the "weight" coefficient of the particular AA defense zone in relation to the ship's overall air defense capabilities. This coefficient is equal to the ratio between the firing range of a particular AA defense zone and the maximum firing range of the ship's AA defenses. With this in mind, to calculate the average continuous damage we use the total damage dealt by the long-range AA defenses (as this range extends over the entire AA firing range of the ship), and part of the damage dealt by the medium- and short-range AA defenses—depending on their firing range.

In Update 0.9.1, we've changed the characteristics of several ships, having analyzed their combat performance and taken player feedback into account. Such changes were required in order to carefully adjust the balance of selected warships. We'll continue to introduce changes in the updates that will follow, if deemed necessary.

• Fixed a bug that caused an inconsistency between the accuracy of her standard attack aircraft and that of her researchable attack aircraft. The accuracy of her standard attack aircraft has now been reduced to the level of her researchable type.
  
• The damage dealt by rockets from attack aircraft has been reduced from 3,450 to 3,350.

• Her main battery reload time has been reduced from 5 to 4.8 seconds.

• Standard torpedo reload time has been reduced from 106 to 103 seconds.
  
• The reload time of her researchable torpedoes has been reduced from 122 to 118 seconds.

• The sigma parameter for her main battery guns has been reduced from 1.6 to 1.55.

• The sigma parameter for her main battery guns has been reduced from 1.9 to 1.85.

• Torpedo speed has been increased from 68 to 69 knots.
  
• Torpedo reload time has been reduced from 146 to 142 seconds.

• Standard torpedo speed has been increased from 55 to 56 knots.
  
• Standard torpedo reload time has been reduced from 122 to 119 seconds.
  
• Researchable torpedo speed has been increased from 66 to 67 knots.
  
• The reload time of her researchable torpedoes has been reduced from 122 to 119 seconds.

• Researchable torpedo speed has been increased from 55 to 56 knots.
  
• The reload time of her researchable torpedoes has been reduced from 122 to 119 seconds.

• Torpedo speed has been increased from 68 to 69 knots.
  
• Torpedo reload time has been reduced from 136 to 133 seconds.

• Torpedo speed has been increased from 63 to 64 knots.
  
• Torpedo reload time has been reduced from 110 to 107 seconds.

• Torpedo speed has been increased from 61 to 62 knots.
  
• Torpedo reload time has been reduced from 131 to 128 seconds.

• Continuous damage of long-range AA defenses has been reduced from 95 to 53 HP per second
  
• Continuous damage of medium-range AA defenses has been increased from 151 to 161 HP per second
  
• Continuous damage of short-range AA defenses has been increased from 158 to 165 HP per second
  
• Number of AA shell explosions has been reduced from four to two
  
• Damage within the area of AA shell explosions has been reduced from 1,400 to 1,120

• The viewing range (being the parameter that shows the distance at which an aircraft can spot the enemy) of aircraft carriers' squadrons, as well as that of fighters and spotting aircraft, has been reduced from 20 to 19 km.

Added a flag for the Recruiting Station referral program.

The following ships have been added for testing by developers, volunteer testers, and community contributors: IX Ägir, X Yashima, VIII Arashi, and VIII Orkan.

Operation Narai has been removed from rotation due to technical issues.

• VIII HSF Harekaze: hull geometry updated.
  
• VII Z-39, VI Trento, X Venezia, and X Kremlin: fixed the designations of her gun fire control system modules.
  
• VIII Irian: changed the designation for her torpedo module.
  
• X Puerto Rico: fixed the display of secondary battery data in the ship's technical specifications.
  
• X Midway: changed the designation of her torpedoes.
  
• IX Bajie and IX Izumo: fixed the armor protection of the conning tower. 
  
• IX Roon: the armor protection for the barbette of the fore 150 mm secondary battery turret is now displayed in the Port.
  
• VIII Mogami and V Yahagi: updated the geometry of their main battery turrets.
  
• V Gremyashchy: added a second color scheme for the camouflage.
  
• VIII ARP Takao: fixed the exterior view of turrets when the ARPEGGIO RED camouflage is applied.
  
• Updated sounds in the Designer's Table Port.
  
• Fixed a glitch which disabled the sound of aircraft flying by in the sky in the London Port.
  
• Fixed a bug which disabled gunfire sounds when the sound quality was set to "Low" in Audio Settings.
  
• Removed visual artifacts on the Neighbors and Land of Fire maps, as well as in the Taranto Port.
  
• Fixed a number of glitches affecting the display of containers in the Port.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing the language bar from being displayed in the game client.
  
• Fixed an issue which in certain cases prevented players from receiving bonuses provided by Clan structures.
  
• Fixed a glitch which prevented the display of smoke trails from rockets fired by attack aircraft.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the "Your Rewards" window header to move outside of the screen border.
  
• Fixed an issue which caused game login errors on computers with non-typical names in the OS settings.
  
• Fixed an issue causing the incorrect icon of the reticule to be displayed when a player was controlling a squadron from an aircraft carrier.
  
• Now the tooltip informing players about the possibility of reloading a torpedo tube isn't displayed if the main battery guns are selected.

World of Warships is the largest virtual shipyard in the world. The quality of the work done by our artists improves each year, and the requirements for the accuracy of the models they create grow respectively.

Unfortunately, the in-game camera doesn't allow you to see all the details and beauty. In the Dry Dock show, you'll be able to see the refined beauty of our in-game models and duly appreciate the immaculate details of the various objects on their decks.

Today, we're focusing on the French Tier IX Premium battleship, Jean Bart. Built under the 1935 shipbuilding program, this Richelieu-class battleship was commissioned after World War II. The battleship resisted the Allied landings near Casablanca in 1942, and was badly damaged by airstrikes and artillery fire. The ship was finally completed after the war. She received the most advanced AA artillery available for her time, which significantly enhanced her AA defenses.

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If you’re interested in recruiting one or more of these remarkable Commanders, click on the "Participate" button to unlock access to some special combat missions. Completing them all will reward you with five Fleet of Fog ships and Commander Yotaroh!

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• VIII ARP Takao is a versatile heavy cruiser with powerful artillery, devastating torpedoes, high speed, and low detectability. The ship comes with the alternative Arpeggio permanent camouflage.
  
• VII ARP Ashigara, VII ARP Nachi, VII ARP Haguro, and VII ARP Myōkō are effective heavy cruisers, capable of engaging any enemy with the help of their numerous 203 mm guns and 610 mm torpedoes.
  
• V ARP Kirishima, V ARP Haruna, V ARP Kongō, and V ARP Hiei are high-speed battleships with long firing ranges for their tier.

ARP ships are Premium ships. This means that they earn more credits per battle, and their permanent camouflages provide bonuses to XP, as well as reduce the cost of their post-battle service. You can reassign Commanders from any Japanese ships to ARP ships without having to retrain them. XP earned on ARP ships can be converted into Free XP. ARP ships have a special set of unique visual effects for shell and torpedo hits, fires, and flooding.

Each ship comes with her respective same-name Commander with a unique voiceover from the anime series.

You can disable the display of additional content anytime. Starting from Update 0.9.0, all camo bonuses remain active even when their display is disabled. In this case, the standard permanent camouflage or, in the case where a ship doesn’t have one, the Type 5 camouflage will be displayed.

Commanders Gunzo Chihaya and Iona, each with 11 skill points, are available in the Premium Shop.

• Commander Iona with 11 skill points
  
• 11×Dragon signals
  
• 11×Red Dragon signals

• Commander Gunzo Chihaya with 11 skill points
  
• 11×Dragon signals
  
• 11×Red Dragon signals

For those who want it all and want it now—we've got you covered. We have a big bundle comprising all ships and Commanders especially for you.

• VII ARP Ashigara
  
• VII ARP Nachi
  
• VII ARP Haguro
  
• VII ARP Myōkō
  
• V ARP Kirishima
  
• V ARP Haruna
  
• V ARP Kongō
  
• V ARP Hiei
  
• VIII ARP Takao
  
• 9×Commander with 10 skill points
  
• 9×Port Slot
  
• 9×Combat mission: x3 XP for 25 battles
  
• Arpeggio permanent camouflage for Tier VIII ARP Takao
  
• Commander Iona with 10 skill points
  
• Commander Gunzo Chihaya with 10 skill points

Complete four chains of combat missions and you'll get five ARP Premium ships! The combat missions will remain available until the release of Update 0.9.1. You can complete these chains of combat missions playing Tier V–X ships in Operations, Random Battles, or Co-op Battles.
Start: Fri. 31 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
End: Thu. 13 Feb. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

• You can complete each chain of missions only once.
  
• If you obtain a ship that you already have in your Port, you will get compensation in credits, a Commander, and a Port slot.

Please note: you can have several identical ARP Commanders in your Port simultaneously.

If you already have V ARP Kirishima, V ARP Haruna, V ARP Kongō, or V ARP Hiei, you'll receive 3,750,000 credits as compensation for each ship. If you already have VII ARP Myōkō, you'll receive 6,375,000 credits as compensation for the ship.

The anime and manga are set in the near future, at a time when the mysterious Fleet of Fog has seized control over the World Ocean. An enigmatic invincible squadron is made up of the reincarnations of legendary ships from the first half of the 20th century, with Kongō, Kirishima, and Takao being among them.

Equipped with a mysterious superweapon, and led by battleship Yamato, the new masters of the oceans block the humans from accessing the seas—destroying anything that dares to move offshore. Many corners of the earth, including Japan, find themselves isolated and cut off from the rest of the world.

Ships of the Fleet of Fog are commanded by their human-like Mental Models. Iona, the Mental Model of Japanese submarine I-401, chooses to defect across to the humans in a bid to turn the tide of the war against the Fleet of Fog.