Starts: Wed. 20 May 11:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Tue. 16 Jun. 10:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Format: 7 vs. 7 playing Tier VII ships

Maps: Archipelago, Ring, Big Race, New Dawn, Trident, Neighbors, and Riposte

• Players earn the Stars needed to climb the ranking ladder by winning battles. For most ranks, a defeat means a lost Star. However, if you finish first on your team by XP earned, you get to keep your hard-earned Star.
  
• 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 after the first battle of the current Season: one for each rank attained last Season.

The available rewards, as well as the formats of Ranked Battles, differ from season to season. For the current Season, victories can bring you up to 4,700 Steel; 2,750 doubloons; one Ranked Token; and many other rewards.

League flags reduce the cost of servicing your ships by 10% and 20% until the end of the Season. Any flags awarded for entering the Leagues will be removed from player accounts once the Season ends.

Captains!

How thoroughly do you read the news on our website? We’re announcing a great opportunity that will give our most attentive readers the chance to stock up on in-game items. You’ll find a special button hidden in specific articles published between May 11 and June 5 on our website. When reading the articles, you’ll be able to claim the rewards these buttons offer. Each button will remain active for 10 days—clicking it will reward you with a Trophy camouflage as well as 5 Soviet Tokens which you can save towards unlocking Early Access to the new Soviet cruisers!

Let’s get started—click the button below!

Have you clicked already? Now try to find the three buttons we’ve already placed in other articles published since May 11. Once you’ve found all three, keep reading and stay on the lookout for the next ones!

Be sure to check the website regularly—it isn’t just a useful source of the game news, it's also a place where you can take part in fun and rewarding contests, learn about naval history, watch video marathons, and get gifts just for reading our publications!

What a special week it is for us at Wargaming!

The World of Warships team has the phenomenal opportunity to host retired Navy Captain, Bob Batterson, for our weekly NA Twitch stream this Friday at 21:00 UTC. Captain Batterson is a Pearl Harbor survivor who flew F6F Hellcats during WWII.

He served his country for 26 years, and he continues his service as a volunteer on board the USS Lexington museum since it opened in 1992! 
Stream starts: Fri. 15 May 23:00 CEST (UTC+2)




Captain Batterson recently celebrated his 99th Birthday May 8th, and we all wish him a very happy belated birthday and thank him for his years of service.

We understand many of you may want to ask Captain Batterson a question, however, with a limited amount of time during the event we may not have the chance to share everyone's question.

If you would like to share your question with us ahead of time, please feel free to respond to the forum thread below.

See you on stream!




Top up on Soviet cruisers early access containers this month when watching World of Warships on Twitch.

• Up to SEVEN Soviet Containers, which will greatly help you on the path to unlocking Soviet cruisers in early access;
  
• The chance to receive this Update's Twitch Epic Drop – Premium Soviet cruiser V Krasny Krym!

Get all the details below!

Ensure that your Wargaming.net Account is linked to your Twitch account!

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Throughout the duration of Update 0.9.4, a weekly combat mission will be unlocked directly in your Port when watching streams. There are a total of 4 combat missions that are activated every Thursday during the official English stream, becoming available for all stream viewers.

Starts: Thu. 14 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Thu. 28 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Starts: Thu. 21 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Thu. 04 Jun. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Final Reward: 2x Soviet containers

Starts: Thu. 28 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Thu. 11 Jun. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Final Reward: 1,000 Coal

Starts: Thu. 04 Jun. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Thu. 18 Jun. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
A special Twitch container delivered straight to your Port when watching streams⁠—no strings attached! You can receive up to five of these during Update 0.9.4. Contains:

• 100,000 credits
  
• Assorted signal flags 

Rare – A chance to win a Premium ship, delivered straight to your Port when watching streams. Can be obtained only once per viewer. This month, You can get Soviet cruiser V Krasny Krym!

Twitch Drops, Challenges, and Epic Drops can be earned by watching the Official World of Warships channel's livestreams, or those of any other Twitch streamer who is playing World of Warships with Drops enabled. Take care to ensure that your Twitch account is linked to your Wargaming Account, else it won't work!

Find out how exactly to link your account via the link below:

Instructions

The official World of Warships Twitch channel goes live as a general rule every Tuesday and Thursday at 16:00 UTC.

• Tuesday streams alternate between our five European languages. 
  
• Thursdays are reserved for our weekly English streams. 
  
• On Friday you can view our Russian streams. 

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"Battleship X Montana will no longer ride the waves—her guns have fallen silent forever," was what Detective Kléberot thought after arriving at the crime scene and finding the battleship’s hull full of holes. Poor X Midway was off to one side, suffering in a state of shock from the ghastly sight.

“This accident is more than strange—it’s inconceivable… Absurd… Unmotivated... or perhaps it only seems so?” Detective Kléberot continued his line of thought: “either no one, or anyone, could be suspected of the crime...Or perhaps someone else at least had something to do with it?”

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Soviet Tier VIII–IX heavy cruisers are coming to Early Access!

• Effective AP shells with excellent armor penetration capabilities, good ballistics, fewer over-penetrations, and enhanced ricochet angles.
  
• A relatively long reload time and special accuracy settings: the ships of the new branch have a larger dispersion ellipse at long distances in comparison to other cruisers.
  
• The combination of their accuracy settings and the Surveillance Radar consumable they carry, which has a 12 km operating range, makes the new cruisers most efficient in medium-range encounters.

With the release of Update 0.9.5, X Moskva and V Kirov will be replaced in the Tech Tree by X Alexander Nevsky and V Kotovsky, respectively. VIII Tallinn, IX Riga, and X Petropavlovsk will become available to research in Update 0.9.6.

• V Mikoyan, Early Access Soviet cruisers VIII Tallinn and IX Riga, and the Soviet permanent camouflage will be available in bundles that can be exchanged for Soviet Tokens. The bundles are opened in sequential order.
  
• You’ll find Soviet Tokens in event containers that can be obtained by completing Directives or received from Daily Shipments. You can also earn Soviet Tokens by gaining victories playing cruisers VIII Pyotr Bagration, VIII Ochakov, and V Mikoyan.
  
• Completing all four Directives will reward you with the Soviet permanent camouflage for V Mikoyan.
  
• VIII Pyotr Bagration and VIII Ochakov are available in the Armory in exchange for doubloons.

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The Black Sea Port has been updated and renamed Novorossiysk Port.







Starts: Wed. 27 May 06:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Wed. 24 Jun. 06:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Submarines are arriving and will be playable in a separate battle type! This will enable us to continue testing the new ship type while we adjust the balance and mechanics on the live server by involving more participants, and won’t affect the other battle types. Only once we're done with all these steps will we be able to decide on the final fate of the new unit type.

Players will be able to enter Submarine Battles playing submarines and Tier VI ships.

Submarines are fragile but stealthy hunters, capable of traveling not only horizontally, but also diving into the depths. The diving depth of a submarine affects her detectability, viewing range, and range of possible interactions with other submarines and ship types.

The main armament carried by submarines is acoustic homing torpedoes. You can launch an attack from any depth, and submarine-specific mechanics—sonar pings—will help you increase the potential effectiveness of your torpedo salvos. Keep an eye on your battery charge and use sonar pings wisely. Torpedoes can ascend from the depths and hit an enemy only with the help of an active effect from a sonar ping. If you run out of battery charge, reduce your speed to 1/4 or ascend to the surface level to recharge it.

Keep an eye on enemy destroyers and cruisers. All destroyers, as well as cruisers VI Dallas, VI Budyonny, VI Leander, and VI Perth carry depth charges. These are an effective weapon that can hit submarines hiding underwater.

You will find more details about the new event, features of submarines, and ways to counter them in a dedicated article.

Enhanced consumables are set to become free, while standard consumables will be removed entirely. Consequently, all battles will be fought with ships utilizing enhanced consumables, and players no longer need to spend credits on them.

Enhanced consumables mounted on ships and kept in the Inventory will automatically be exchanged for credits at a rate of 1:22,500. “More Consumables” containers will no longer be obtainable, and any such containers that you already have on your account will each automatically be exchanged for 160,000 credits. For other rewards, enhanced consumables will be replaced with signals.

Since aircraft carriers have no enhanced consumables, their parameters won't change, and the cost of servicing aircraft carriers has been adjusted to make it equal relative to other ship types. For example, the cost of servicing Tier X aircraft carriers will be reduced from 240,000 to 180,000 credits.


Start: Wed. 20 May 11:00 CEST (UTC+2)
End: Tue. 16 Jun. 10:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Format: 7 vs. 7 playing Tier VII ships
Rewards: up to 4,700 Steel and many additional rewards
Maps: Archipelago, Ring, Big Race, New Dawn, Trident, Neighbors, and Riposte

The Season’s details will be published in a dedicated article.

• The design of the Modules tab has been updated. Under this tab, you can now view all upgrades and consumables for any ships that you haven't yet obtained.

• Ships can be researched and obtained via the Tech Tree screen. Click on a ship once to open the Spec Sheet with Purchase/Research buttons. Click on a ship twice to open the Modules tab. Clicking on an empty area of the Tech Tree will hide the Spec Sheet.

• The consumable and armament icons have been updated.
  
• The Northern Lights, Shatter, Sleeping Giant, Loop, Greece, and Crash Zone Alpha maps have been reworked to accommodate the new lighting model and enhanced HDR technology.
  
• A special animation is now displayed when a shell ricochets off armor.
  
• We’ve enhanced the visual display of boat handrails, as well as rigging, in Ports and on maps.
  
• Updated the national voiceovers for Polish, Dutch, and Austro-Hungarian ships. The presence of any unique Commander voiceovers is now taken into account when the "National+" voiceover is selected.

The following maps have been reworked:

• Loop: the location of islands has been updated. This will make approaching Key Areas and maneuvering within them easier.
  
• The Atlantic: an island located in square A7 at the map border has been removed.

• from 300 to 400 points in the mode with 3 Key Areas.
  
• from 200 to 300 points in the mode with 4 Key Areas.

This will help reduce the number of battles that end due to one of the teams reaching zero points.

Check under the spoiler for more information on balance-related changes, content changes and additions, and other improvements.



In Update 0.9.4, we've made changes to the parameters of certain ships based on our analysis of their battle efficiency and feedback from players. Such changes were required in order to carefully adjust the balance of selected warships. Further changes may follow, should they be required, in future updates.

• Standard torpedo tube reload time reduced from 70 to 59 s.

• Fighter consumable added to the slot with Surveillance Radar.

• Fighter and Spotting Aircraft consumables added to the slot with Surveillance Radar.

• Deck armor thickness increased from 37 to 38 mm.

• Defensive AA Fire consumable is now available for mounting on any hull.

• Gun traverse speed increased from 5.3 to 5.5 deg/s.

• Base main battery firing range increased from 12.3 to 12.4 km.

• Main battery reload time increased from 5.4 to 5.6 s.

• Main battery reload time increased from 4.2 to 4.3 s.
  
• Torpedo tube reload time increased from 124 to 125 s.

• Main battery reload time increased from 2.7 to 2.8 s.
  
• Torpedo tube reload time increased from 124 to 125 s.

• Added the Repair Party consumable.
  
• Main battery reload time increased from 8.57 to 8.9 s.

• Main battery reload time reduced from 13.5 to 13 s.

• Hydroacoustic Search consumable added in a separate slot.

• Hydroacoustic Search consumable is available for mounting on a standard hull.

• The spotting range of all aircraft has been reduced from 17 to 16 km (spotting range being a parameter that determines the distance at which an aircraft can detect a hostile target).

The Armory now offers containers with elements of the "Resolute and Rapid" collection. The containers can be obtained in exchange for 6,000 Coal. The reward for completing the entire collection is the unique Italian historical Commander, Luigi Sansonetti.

With the release of Update 0.9.4, all European Tokens will be exchanged for credits at the rate of 1:7,500.

The Victory Day permanent camouflage, which is available in exchange for doubloons, has been added to the Camouflage tab of the Exterior section for the following ships: VIII Alabama, V Texas, VII New Orleans, VII Duke of York, VIII Implacable, VI Aigle, VII Minsk, and V Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya.

The following expendable camouflages have been added: Recruiting Station, Trophy, Awarded, Deserved, and Triumphant.

More details on how to get these items will be announced later.

The following ships have been added for testing by developers, supertesters, and community contributors: IV Rhein, VI Weser, VIII August von Parseval, X Manfred von Richthofen, VIII Z-35, and VIII V. I. Lenin.

• Increased the game client loading speed when a large number of Commanders are present in the Port.
  
• Account Levels have been renamed Access Levels. Reaching a new level is now accompanied by a voiceover.
  
• A ship’s detectability range by air is now equal to the firing range of the ship's AA guns for a period of two seconds after her AA guns cease firing. This affects detectability only in situations where enemy aircraft are within the range of your AA defenses.
  
• Updated the algorithm that selects recommended Clans and updated the design of the Recommendations tab in the Clans section.
  
• Reworked the animation of the torpedo-aiming cone. Now the aiming cone moves more smoothly near the target position.
  
• The word “Flag” has been removed from the names of flags.
  
• Fixed bugs in the descriptions of the features of ship branches in the Tech Tree.
  
• Fixed a bug due to which the fore and aft athwartship bulkheads of VIII Graf Zeppelin and VIII Graf Zeppelin B had a thickness of 20 mm. Now the thickness of part of the bulkheads is 60 mm.
  
• Small corrections have been made to textures and models of the following ships: VIII Mainz, VI Guépard, VII Skåne, X Småland, X Venezia, VIII Vladivostok, X Daring, X Hayate, X Ohio, IX Brindisi, I Eritrea, X Halland, VI Trento, IX Georgia, VII Sims, VIII Amalfi, VII Zara, X Minotaur, V Visby, VIII Siliwangi, V Raimondo Montecuccoli, X Marceau, II Enseigne Gabolde, VIII Lightning, and IX Östergötland.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a string of lights of the New Year permanent camouflage on aircraft carriers to be lit up from bow to stern, when they should light up from stern to bow.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused X Smolensk to be displayed as a Premium ship, and not as a special one.
  
• Fixed bugs on maps Archipelago, Estuary, Polar, Haven, and Tears of the Desert; and in Ports New York, Marseille, and Fjords.
  
• Fixed a bug due to which, when inserting text with characters <, >, or ^ into a chat message in the Port, cause the text to be cut off. Now these characters will be removed.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused players to not automatically be disconnected from the server after 3 hours of inactivity.
  
• Fixed the display of tooltips when hovering over the “Ready” and “Not Ready” buttons in the Training Room and on the Division screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused battle modes in the Training Room to be called "Battle Type."
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the sizes of windows to be changed incorrectly when the value of the Increase UI Scale setting was higher than 100%.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game client to shut down when pressing the ESC button while opening the window displaying patches.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused talent and skill icons to overlap each other in the Personal File window of Commander Günther Lütjens.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the reticle to show incorrect information about the readiness of guns for firing with the Reduce GUI Refresh Rate option enabled.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused autopilot to switch off when dragging autopilot waypoints on top of each other.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible for the overview camera in the Port to switch from one gun to another gun of the same type.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the interface text to be partially blurred.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the secondary/AA guns indicator, information about fixing guns, and fire and flooding timers to not be displayed after reentering a battle.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to plot an autopilot route on a specific area of the Tactical Map.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the reload timer to reload for a second longer when the reload time was longer than 1 minute.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the icon of a completed mission of a Campaign to move down if the mouse was hovered over it.
  
• Fixed a bug where secondary guns could shoot at the enemy through allied ships.
  
• Fixed a bug that made it possible to confirm the "Ready" status in a Division for Clan Battles with an unsuitable ship selected.
  
• Fixed a bug where the torpedo alarm indicator, collision alert indicator, and the Radio Location indicator didn’t allow players to select a priority target for their secondary battery guns.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the buoys indicating the boundaries of Key Areas to be displayed only at close range.
  
• Fixed a bug where a squadron’s reticle before the start of an attack was not displayed in the spot where it was fully aimed.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented players from mounting the Ship Consumables Modification 1 upgrade on VII Belfast and VII Z-39.
  
• Fixed the incorrect naming of the AA guns on III Romulus.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the names of items in collections to be written in capital letters.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused a marker above a torpedo to appear before the torpedo was armed.
  
• Fixed a bug due to which, when switching to another ship, ships with the “Coming Soon” field displayed the “Test Ship” field.
  
• Fixed a bug that prevented a squadron from attacking immediately after taking off.
  
• Fixed a bug due to which, with the 1366x768 resolution selected, icons of unavailable missions were displayed incorrectly in the Campaigns window.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused aerial bombs to deal damage later than the point when they hit the target.

Researchable Soviet cruisers VIII Tallinn and IX Riga are arriving in Early Access. To obtain them, you can exchange Soviet Tokens for bundles in the Armory that are opened in sequential order.

Soviet Tokens: a themed temporary resource that can be obtained from Soviet containers or random bundles.

Soviet containers: obtained by completing Directives or received in Daily Shipments.

Bundles that provide Early Access to Soviet cruisers can be obtained in the Armory in exchange for Soviet Tokens. There are a total of six bundles that are opened in sequential order. In these bundles, you'll find cruisers V Mikoyan, VIII Tallinn, and IX Riga, as well as the Soviet permanent camouflage for cruisers Tallinn, Riga, and X Petropavlovsk.

• One of the main features of the new sub-branch is their effective armor-piercing shells with good ballistic properties, high penetration, and a short fuse-arming delay time, the latter of which will significantly decrease the number of overpenetrations. Salvos fired from these ships are effective against both battleships and cruisers.
  
• An average reloading time and special accuracy settings: the new ships have a larger dispersion ellipse at long distances in comparison to other cruisers.
  
• When these ships are positioned wisely, they will demonstrate their decent ability to absorb hits thanks to the good armor protection they enjoy for their type.
  
• As with most cruisers, you can choose between Hydroacoustic Search and Defensive AA Fire.
  
• Cruisers of Tier IX and above have the Repair Party consumable at their disposal.
  
• The combination of their accuracy settings and the Surveillance Radar consumable with a 12 km operating range makes the new cruisers most efficient in medium-range encounters.

Cruisers VIII Tallinn, IX Riga, and X Petropavlovsk will become available to research in Update 0.9.6.

The new game event tasks you with completing 42 missions spread across four Directives. The first Directive will become available with the release of Update 0.9.4, while those that follow will be unlocked on a weekly basis. Completing the event’s missions and Directives will bring you signals, expendable camouflage patterns, credits, and Soviet containers, as well as other rewards.

Reward for completing all Directives: the Soviet permanent camouflage for cruiser V Mikoyan.
The Directives can be completed until Tue. 09 Jun. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

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

Players will be able to obtain Soviet containers from Daily Shipments (up to six containers) and by completing Directives (up to 54 containers).

Each Soviet container includes 5, 10, 15, 25, or 300 Soviet Tokens.

Once you've obtained all the available containers from Daily Shipments and for completing Directives, you're guaranteed to have collected enough Tokens to obtain cruiser V Mikoyan.

All available rewards will be visible in advance of making an exchange. After making an exchange for one bundle, the contents of the next bundle will become visible to you.

• All ships are added with a Commander with 3 skill points and a Port slot.
  
• If you already have V Mikoyan in your Port, the bundle will provide you with a Commander, Port slot, and compensation for the ship in the form of doubloons.

You can also exchange Soviet Tokens for the following rewards in the Armory:

With the release of Update 0.9.5, Soviet Tokens will only be obtainable from random bundles available for doubloons. After Update 0.9.6 goes live, all Soviet Tokens will be converted into credits at the rate of 1:9,000.

Cruisers VIII Ochakov and VIII Pyotr Bagration will be available in the Armory in exchange for doubloons. While playing these ships, as well as cruiser V Mikoyan, you can complete special combat missions that will bring you between 15–30 Soviet Tokens for victories in battles, depending on the ship. More details on combat missions are available in the game client.


The Soviet Cruisers section of the Armory has been stocked with random bundles. Each of them can be obtained for 500 doubloons.

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

During Update 0.9.4, enter the game in the period between May 14 and 28, inclusive, to start getting valuable rewards from 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.

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Captains!

Three quarters of a century have passed since World War II in Europe officially came to an end and hostilities ceased. In celebration of this solemn 75th anniversary, we’ve prepared a special event to honor the European nations that helped bring an end to the deadliest conflict in modern history through their unfailing valor and sacrifice. 

We’ll be giving away a full 360 days of Premium Account to 75 participants who achieve high base XP scores playing British, French, European, or Commonwealth ships. Read on for the full details.

Starts: Fri. 08 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Mon. 11 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Prizes credited by: Sat. 16 May 01:59 CEST (UTC+2)

• Make sure to click the Participate button in the article of your region or in the News inside the game. 
  
• During the event, fight as many battles as possible playing Tier V–X British, French, European, or Commonwealth ships. 
  
• Battle types: Scenarios, Random, Coop, Ranked and Clan Battles

Participate

All participants will receive a Sierra Mike signal to confirm their participation. It will be added to your account immediately after you click the button. 

• We'll raffle off 75 sets of 360 days of Premium Account among all participants who manage to earn 19,450 XP or more. Only XP earned while playing British, French, European, or Commonwealth Tier V–X ships during the event will be taken into account.
  
• After the event, for destroyers, cruisers, and battleships, we’ll reward the top-20 base XP earners in each category—a total of 60 winners across the three ship types. As with the raffle, participation will only count for those playing either British, French, European, or Commonwealth Tier V–X ships.

• For carriers, we'll select and reward the top-15 participants by the total amount of base XP earned during the event.

To improve your chances at getting one of these prizes, you may want to consider focusing on playing a particular type (destroyer, cruiser, or battleship). Doing so will certainly help you achieve your objective of ending up in the top-20 for one of the categories.

Take part in the marathon to obtain festive camouflages!

Starts: Fri. 01 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Mon. 11 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

The festive victory bonus is still available. The first victory of the day playing each ship will bring you an additional 200% XP.
Starts: Fri. 08 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Fri. 15 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Discounts for ships, XP conversion, and upgrades are available in the game:

• –50% to the cost of researchable Soviet, American, French, and British Tier II–V ships
  
• –30% to the cost of researchable Soviet, American, French, and British Tier VI–VII ships
  
• –15% to the cost of researchable Soviet, American, French, and British Tier VIII–X ships
  
• –50% to the cost of upgrades in credits
  
• You can convert XP from ships at the cost of 1 doubloon for each 25 35 Free XP
  
• You can convert Elite Commander XP at the cost of 1 doubloon for 25 35 Free XP

Starts: Fri. 08 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Fri. 15 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Take part in the great victory marathon to obtain eight Victory Day permanent camouflages for Allied ships!

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

Part 1

Earn 60,000 Commander XP.

Part 2

Earn 60,000 XP.

Part 3

Earn 20,000 base XP.

Reward for completing each intermediary stage: 2x Victory Salute camouflages

You can complete all the combat missions in Operations, Random, Co-op, or Ranked Battles playing Tier V–X ships of the respective types and nations.

Part 1
Earn 30,000 Commander XP.

Part 2


Part 3
Earn 10,000 base XP.

Reward for completing each intermediary stage: 2x Victory Salute camouflages

Final reward: Victory Day permanent camouflage for V Texas

Please note: you can simultaneously complete combat missions playing battleship Texas to receive two permanent camouflages—one for V Texas and one for VIII Alabama!

Starts: Fri. 08 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Fri. 15 May 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

In battles, sink two enemy ships.

Reward: 1x Wargaming container
Ship restrictions: Tier V–X
Battle type restrictions: Operations, Random, Co-op, and Ranked Battles.

You can complete this combat mission only once.

A Wargaming container drops the following rewards:

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

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

You can complete these combat missions playing Tier V–X ships in Random, Ranked, and Co-op Battles.

In battles, earn 20 "Captured," "Assisted in capture," or "Defended" ribbons.

Reward: Victory Day patch

Win seven battles.

Reward: 5x Victory Salute camouflages

Final reward: 1x special signal of each type

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The matchmaker is a system for distributing players between teams that ensures the teams are balanced in terms of ship types and tiers.

The main parameter considered when distributing ships is the battle tier—the highest tier of ships in an individual battle. For example, a battle that involves Tier V–VII ships is a Tier VII battle. The maximum battle tier in which ships can participate is set for each ship.

• The teams have an equal number of players. An ideal battle is played in a 12 vs. 12 format, but the required number of players can be reduced in cases where the waiting time spent by the first player in the queue exceeds 3 minutes.
  
• There is a maximum difference of one tier between ship tiers in battles involving Tier II–IV ships.
  
• The maximum ship-tier difference in a single battle is two tiers for Tier VII battles and above.

Please note: this article explains how the matchmaker works in Random Battles. The rules it follows in other battle types can differ due to the specifics of each battle type. This information is relevant to Update 0.9.3.1.

The matchmaker is integral to World of Warships, and we are constantly making efforts to improve its algorithms. It's designed to assemble the most effective and balanced team lineups while having as little adverse impact on the battle queue waiting times as possible.

In addition to the ship's tier, the matchmaker also takes each ship's type into account. The following rules are applied for these two parameters:

• The matchmaker initially tries to assemble exactly mirrored team lineups in terms of ship tiers and types. If the matchmaker isn't able to assemble a battle in this way, it then proceeds to match ships of lower tiers while ignoring the ship-type parameter. For example, in a Tier VIII battle, it's possible for a Tier VI battleship to be matched to a Tier VI cruiser, or even a Tier VI destroyer. This rule doesn't apply to aircraft carriers.
  
• The matchmaker limits the numbers of ships of specific types in a battle. While teams consisting of only battleships would probably be able to fight in a very efficient manner, such a battle would hardly be interesting or diverse. For example: the number of destroyers and battleships in a team won't exceed four and five ships, respectively, provided that the matchmaker's queue has a normal number of players waiting. The number of aircraft carriers won't exceed two ships in a team for any battle tier.
  
• There are certain tier restrictions in place: in Update 0.9.3 we added a soft restriction on the minimum number of ships allowed that are two tiers lower than the battle tier, and also on the maximum number of ships of the highest tier in the battle. For example: even in a Tier X battle in which you're playing a Tier VIII ship, you'll meet several enemies of the same tier as yours. For Tier X battles, a team should include at least three ships of Tier VIII, if such ships are waiting in the queue, and a maximum of five ships of Tier X, if the matchmaker's queue has a normal number of waiting players.
  
• If possible, ships of different nations are distributed between teams on an even basis.

The rules described above constitute the soft restrictions. For each battle tier, several sets of settings are used that replace each other, depending on the waiting time in the queue—the longer the battle waiting time, the softer the restrictions.

The matchmaker doesn't take into account such parameters as the upgrades and modules mounted on a ship, the number of skills and talents a Commander has, or a player's combat statistics.

When matching teams, the algorithm also takes your battle history into account, i.e. the number of battles you've played with ships of the same tier as yours and lower, with ships one or two tiers higher, and where all ships were of the same tier. We also collect separate statistics for each battle type and ship tier you play. After a short calibration period, the matchmaker will ensure that the percentage of battles with ships of the specified tier doesn't exceed the set limits, so as to prevent long series of battles fighting against ships of higher tiers. When a player joins the queue for their next battle, the algorithm takes the player's previous 20 battles into account when assembling their team, thus ensuring that the set limitations are met.

Example: for Tier VIII ships, there's a maximum limit of 40% of battles with ships two tiers higher. If you played Tier VIII ships in your 20 most recent battles, a maximum of eight battles would have included Tier X ships.

The following rules apply when you play in a Division:

• The difference between ship tiers within a Division must not exceed one tier. This means that when playing Tier VII ship, you can only enter battle with Division mates playing ships of Tiers VI–VIII.
  
• A Division can have only one aircraft carrier.
  
• The matchmaker rules ensure that a player cannot encounter ships that are outside of the player's tier range in Random Battles. However, when a player is a member of a Division, the matchmaker ignores this rule for ships of lower tiers. For example, when you're playing a Tier VII ship in a Division and your Division mate is playing a Tier VIII ship, you might find yourself in a battle involving Tier X ships.
  
• There is a maximum difference of one Division between opposing teams within a single battle.

World of Warships has a special queue for novice players entering battle—a so-called Sandbox.

• When playing ships of Tier I–IV, newcomers are put into a special queue that excludes players who have fought more than 70 battles.
  
• If a player's waiting time in the queue exceeds 60 seconds, and the matchmaker has at least one enemy of a suitable ship type and tier, a battle will be assembled. If necessary, the teams can be complemented with bot ships.
  
• If the matchmaker fails to assemble a battle after the player has spent more than 60 seconds waiting in the queue, the player is placed in the general queue without leaving the sandbox queue.
  
• Players from the same Division can be placed in the queue for newcomers only if all the players meet the requirements specified above.

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

Starts: 2020/04/29 @ 05:00 (UTC+8)
Ends: 2020/05/08 @ 05:00 (UTC+8)

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

You can complete these combat missions playing Tier V–X ships in Operations, Random, Ranked, and Co-op Battles.

In battles, earn 50 ribbons of any kind.

Reward: 1x Wargaming container

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

In battles, sink 15 enemy ships.

Reward: 2x Type 59 camouflages

In battles, deal 1,000,000 damage to enemy ships.

Reward: 2x Spring Sky camouflages

Final reward: 2x Asian Lantern camouflages

Starts: 2020/05/01 @ 05:00 (UTC+8)
Ends: 2020/05/11 @ 05:00 (UTC+8)

The first victory of the day playing each ship will bring you an additional 200% XP.
Starts: 2020/04/29 @ 05:00 (UTC+8)
Ends: 2020/05/08 @ 05:00 (UTC+8)

• −50% to the cost of researchable Japanese and Pan-Asian Tier II–V ships
  
• −30% to the cost of researchable Japanese and Pan-Asian Tier VI–VII ships
  
• −15% to the cost of researchable Japanese and Pan-Asian Tier VIII–X ships
  
• −50% to the cost of economic signals in doubloons under the Exterior tab
  
• −50% to the cost of Port slots in doubloons
  
• Exchange 1 500 2,000 credits for 1 doubloon