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New combat missions are available in Update 0.9.12! Numerous rewards await you, including VII Strasbourg, Santa's Gift and Santa's Big Gift containers, and other valuable items.

Happy New Year!

Following the good old tradition, ships of Tier V and above feature Snowflakes with holiday bonuses. In Updates 0.9.12 and 0.10.0, the first victory or earning 300 XP with a ship will yield you the respective rewards:

• Tier V–VII ships: 400–750 Coal
  
• Tier VIII–IX ships: 75 Steel
  
• Tier X ship: Santa's Gift container

The bundles are available until: Mon. 11 Jan. 07:00 CET (UTC+1)

Free daily bundles await you in the Armory. Within these bundles, you can find Santa's Gift and Santa's Big Gift containers, festive camouflages (Frosty Fir Tree, Winter Strands, New Year Streamer, Type 3 — New Year, and New Year expendable camouflage), Coal, doubloons, and 1 day of Premium Account!

A total of 12 bundles will be available for a period of 20 days.

In Update 0.9.12, players will be able to start building a new Japanese Tier IX battleship, IX Hizen, at the Dockyard. By completing the Dockyard combat missions, you can complete 22 out of 26 shipbuilding phases. Completing each phase will bring you valuable rewards, including destroyer II Tachibana and cruiser V Yahagi for the fifth and 15th phases respectively. Both ships come with the Winter permanent camouflages and Commanders with 6 skill points for these ships.

Completing the 20th shipbuilding phase will reward you with the New Year permanent camouflage that can be mounted on most of Tier IX ships. Among the other rewards, you'll find Santa's containers:

• Santa's Gift for the third phase
  
• Santa's Big Gift for the 10th and 22nd phases
  
• Santa's Mega Gift the 24th phase

You can also complete shipbuilding phases by spending doubloons. When you finish construction, you'll obtain IX Hizen with the War Paint permanent camouflage, a Port slot, 10-skill-point Commander, and commemorative flag.

If you complete the construction of IX Hizen by spending doubloons, make sure to keep progressing through the Dockyard combat missions anyway—completing each phase will bring you 400 Research Points and 200 Steel. In total, you can earn up to 8,800 Research Points and 4,400 Steel.

Take part in two new temporary campaigns during Update 0.9.12. The first mission of the "In Pursuit of Strasbourg" campaign is already available, and subsequent missions will be unlocked every week. Missions of the "Ships and Fates" campaign are already available for completion, but you need VII Strasbourg to complete them.

For completing the first three missions of the "In Pursuit of Strasbourg" campaign, you'll receive 6-skill-point Commanders. As a reward for completing the fourth, final mission, you'll obtain VII Strasbourg, which is required to complete missions of the "Ships and Fates" campaign, along with a Port slot and Winter Holiday camouflage.

Completing six missions of the "Ships and Fates" campaign will reward you with ships adorned in their permanent camouflages, 6-skill-point Commanders, and Santa's Gift containers.

To complete a special combat mission, earn 500 base XP in a single Ranked Battle. As a reward, you'll get two special signals. One combat mission can be completed during each of the six sprints in this season.

Starts: Tue. 22 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Sat. 26 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

• +100% XP bonus for the first win of the day playing each ship, every day
  
• −50% to the cost in credits
  
  • of researchable Tier II–V Soviet, British, and French destroyers
    
  • of researchable Tier II–V Italian, Japanese, and German cruisers
    
  • of researchable Tier II–V Soviet, German, and French battleships
    
  • of researchable Tier IV American and British aircraft carriers
• −30% to the cost in credits
  
  • of researchable Tier VI–VII Soviet, British, and French destroyers
    
  • of researchable Tier VI–VII Italian, Japanese, and German cruisers
    
  • of researchable Tier VI–VII Soviet, German, and French battleships
    
  • of researchable Tier VI American and British aircraft carriers
• −15% to the cost in credits
  
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X Soviet, British, and French destroyers
    
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X Italian, Japanese, and German cruisers
    
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X Soviet, German, and French battleships
    
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X American and British aircraft carriers
• −80% to the cost in doubloons of demounting upgrades
  
• −80% to the cost in doubloons of training new Commanders
  
• −50% to the cost in doubloons of retraining a Commander

• −3% to your ship's detectability range by sea
  
• +4% to the dispersion of shells fired by enemies at your ship
  
• +200% XP per battle

• −3% to your ship's detectability range by sea
  
• +4% to the dispersion of shells fired by enemies at your ship
  
• +30% credits per battle
  
• +100% XP per battle
  
• +100% Free XP per battle

Happy holidays! Onwards to new victories!
Starts: Sat. 26 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Sat. 02 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

• +200% XP bonus for the first win of the day playing each ship, every day
  
• You can convert Elite Commander XP at the cost of 1 doubloon for 25 35 Free XP
  
• You can convert XP from ships at the cost of 1 doubloon for 25 35 Free XP
  
• −50% doubloons to the cost of economic signals in the game client
  
• −50% doubloons to the cost of Port slots

Win a battle in Ranked, Random, or Co-op Battles, or in Operations to get 3x Wargaming containers, with each holding 1 day of Premium Account, 3x Papa Papa signals, and 3x Juliet Charlie signals.
One chain will become available to you each day. Progressing through each chain will reward you with XP, signals, credits, Coal, and even Steel!


Want even more bonuses? Complete Daily Missions and the following rewards will be yours:

Players with access to the Research Bureau will be able to earn even more Research Points by completing Daily Missions—400 Research Points for completing 25, 50, and 75 combat missions.

• Each day, you can complete a chain of six missions.
  
• You must earn a certain amount of base XP to complete a mission of the chain.
  
• You must earn 250 base XP in a single battle in order to accomplish the first mission.
  
• The second mission requires you to earn 500 base XP across several battles.
  
• For missions 3, 4, 5, and 6: you need to earn 1,000; 1,100; 1,200; and 1,300 base XP in victorious battles, respectively.
  
• All missions within a chain must be completed in successive order, playing Tier V–X ships in Random, Co-op, or Ranked Battles, or in Operations.
  
• You'll receive any due rewards in your Port once you've completed the conditions of the missions.
  
• After completing the entire chain, you'll obtain the final reward.

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     • +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
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Update 0.9.12 brings an ice-cool close to 2020 thanks to its one-of-a-kind Epic Drop: if you missed the chance to get Duke of York with her Arctic permanent camouflage during the last Update, you can now land her historical rival VII Scharnhorst with her own rare Arctic permanent camouflage! Even if you don't land the grand prize, you can still come away with some unique and colorful camos and signal flags!

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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, not only will you get VII Scharnhorst, you'll also get the rare and icy Arctic permanent camouflage for her!

When watching streams during Update 0.9.12, combat missions will be unlocked directly in your Port. Each Thursday of the Update, a new mission will become available.

Starts: Thu. 24 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Thu. 07 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

You can complete this combat mission only once.

Starts: Thu. 31 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Thu. 14 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

You can complete this combat mission only once.

Starts: Thu. 07 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Thu. 21 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

You can complete this combat mission only once.

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 0.9.12. Contains:

• 100,000 credits
  
• Assorted signal flags

Twitch 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!

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In Update 0.9.12, players will be able to start building a new Japanese battleship, Hizen.
IX Hizen is a variant of a superbattleship project that preceded the development of the Yamato-class ships. The ship is armed with twelve 410 mm guns placed in four turrets. Having such an atypical number of guns for a high-tier Japanese battleship allows her to deal impressive damage per salvo.

• The construction process at the Dockyard comprises 26 phases.
  
• These shipbuilding phases can be completed by progressing through the Dockyard combat missions, or by spending 1,950 doubloons to complete each phase.
  
• If you want to complete shipbuilding phases at a discount, you can purchase Starter Packs: ten shipbuilding stages in exchange for 9,950 doubloons and four shipbuilding stages in exchange for 5,000 doubloons.
  
• The Dockyard combat missions span two updates—0.9.12 and 0.10.0. After that, you can still complete phases by spending doubloons until the end of Update 0.10.1.
  
• In total, you can pass through 22 out of 26 shipbuilding phases by progressing through Dockyard combat missions.
  
• You'll receive II Tachibana and V Yahagi in the Winter permanent camouflage, 6-skill-point Commanders, and Port slots as rewards for completing the 5th and 15th shipbuilding phases respectively.
  
• Completing the last four phases will reward you with 10,000 Coal; one Santa's Mega Gift container; 2,000 Steel; and IX Hizen in the War Paint camouflage with a Port slot, Commander with 10 skill points, and commemorative flag.

• Completing other phases will bring you Santa's Gift and Santa's Big Gift containers, the New Year permanent camouflage for Tier IX ships, the new Winter Strands expendable camouflages, and other valuable items.

If you already have II Tachibana in your Port, then upon obtaining her again, you'll receive compensation in the form of 1,425,000 credits; a Port slot; the Winter permanent camouflage for Tachibana, and a Commander with 6 skill points.

If you already have V Yahagi in your Port, then upon obtaining her again, you'll receive compensation in the form of 4,000 doubloons; a Port slot; the Winter permanent camouflage for Yahagi; and a Commander with 6 skill points.

If you complete the construction of IX Hizen by spending doubloons, make sure to keep progressing through the Dockyard combat missions anyway—completing each phase will bring you 400 Research Points and 200 Steel.





The new game event tasks you with completing 56 combat missions spread across seven groups. The first group will become available with the release of Update 0.9.12, while those that follow will be unlocked on a weekly basis.
Completing each group, except for the last one, will progress you through three shipbuilding phases:

• Two shipbuilding phases are completed by accomplishing specific missions in a group.
  
• One shipbuilding phase can be completed by finishing the entire group.

Completing the last group will progress you through four shipbuilding phases— two for specific missions and two more for finishing the group.

The Dockyard combat missions will remain available until the release of Update 0.10.1. Detailed information about the mission completion criteria can be found in the game client.

By progressing through the Dockyard combat mission groups, you can complete 22 out of 26 shipbuilding phases and obtain the corresponding rewards at the Dockyard.
By finishing the first two combat mission groups, you can complete up to six shipbuilding phases and obtain the following rewards:

• II Tachibana with a Port slot, the Winter permanent camouflage, and a Commander with 6 skill points
  
• 1x Santa's Gift container
  
• 2,000 Coal
  
• 1 day of Warships Premium Account
  
• 10x Winter Strands camouflages

Finishing five out of seven combat mission groups will allow you to complete up to 15 shipbuilding phases and obtain:

• V Yahagi with a Port slot, the Winter permanent camouflage, and a Commander with 6 skill points
  
• II Tachibana with a Port slot, the Winter permanent camouflage, and a Commander with 6 skill points
  
• 1x Santa's Big Gift container
  
• 1x Santa's Gift container
  
• 2,000 Coal
  
• 40x special signals
  
• 10,000 Free XP
  
• 2 days of Warships Premium Account
  
• 15x Winter Strands camouflages

By finishing all the combat mission groups, you'll complete 22 shipbuilding phases and obtain:

• V Yahagi with a Port slot, the Winter permanent camouflage, and a Commander with 6 skill points
  
• II Tachibana with a Port slot, the Winter permanent camouflage, and a Commander with 6 skill points
  
• 2x Santa's Big Gift containers
  
• 1x Santa's Gift container
  
• 1x New Year permanent camouflage for Tier IX ships
  
• 2,000 Coal
  
• 80x special signals
  
• 10,000 Free XP
  
• 2 days of Warships Premium Account
  
• 25x Winter Strands camouflages

In order to complete the shipbuilding process entirely, in addition to progressing through all the combat mission groups, you'll need to spend doubloons to progress through any four shipbuilding phases.

• The reward for completing the 23rd shipbuilding phase is 10,000 Coal.
  
• The 24th phase brings you a Santa's Mega Gift container.
  
• The 25th phase—2,000 Steel.
  
• By completing the 26th shipbuilding phase, you'll earn IX Hizen in the War Paint camouflage, together with a Port slot, Commander with 10 skill points, and commemorative flag.

If you decide to complete the construction of IX Hizen by spending doubloons, you can still continue progressing through the Dockyard combat missions. Instead of construction progression, you'll get 400 Research Points and 200 Steel for each completed phase.

If you want to complete shipbuilding phases at a discount, two Starter Packs are available to purchase:

• Ten shipbuilding phases for 9,950 doubloons
  
• Four shipbuilding phases for 5,000 doubloons

However, these packs will only be available to purchase prior to the point in time when you complete four shipbuilding phases by finishing combat missions. Once you've purchased both Starter Packs or completed four shipbuilding phases by finishing combat missions, you'll be able to purchase further phases individually for 1,950 doubloons each.

New Year would be nothing without gifts.

We're here to tell you about all the bonuses that you can enjoy during the holidays.

Now that we've briefly mentioned the main holiday rewards, let's take a closer look at them. Check the section that interests you the most.


Ships of Tier V and above feature battle performance bonuses—traditional Snowflakes. During Updates 0.9.12 and 0.10.0, winning the first victory or earning 300 base XP playing ships in all types of battles, except Training Battles, will bring you the corresponding rewards:

• Tier V–VII ships: 400—750 Coal
  
• Tier VIII–IX ships: 75 Steel
  
• Tier X ship: Santa's Gift container

In Update 0.9.12, players will be able to start building a new Japanese Tier IX battleship, IX Hizen, at the Dockyard. By completing the Dockyard combat missions, you can complete 22 out of 26 shipbuilding phases. Completing each phase will bring you valuable rewards, including destroyer II Tachibana and cruiser V Yahagi for the fifth and 15th phases respectively. Both ships come with the Winter permanent camouflages and Commanders with 6 skill points for these ships.

Completing the 20th shipbuilding phase will reward you with the New Year permanent camouflage that can be mounted on most Tier IX ships. Among the other rewards, you'll find Santa's containers:

• Santa's Gift for the third phase
  
• Santa's Big Gift for the 10th and 22th phases
  
• Santa's Mega Gift for the 24nd phase

If you want to complete shipbuilding phases at a discount, two Starter Packs are available to purchase:

• Ten shipbuilding phases for 9,950 doubloons
  
• Four shipbuilding phases for 5,000 doubloons

Completing the ship's construction requires you to progress through at least four phases by spending doubloons. By doing so, you'll obtain IX Hizen with the War Paint permanent camouflage, a Port slot, 10-skill-point Commander, and commemorative flag.

The Starter Packs will only be available to purchase prior to the point in time when you complete four shipbuilding phases by finishing combat missions.  Once you've purchased both Starter Packs or completed four shipbuilding phases by finishing combat missions, you'll be able to purchase further phases individually for 1,950 doubloons each.

Take part in two new temporary campaigns during Update 0.9.12, and you'll receive numerous rewards, including French battleship VII Strasbourg!

The first mission of this campaign is already available, and those that follow will be unlocked each week. Completing the first three missions will reward you with special New Year Commanders with 6 skill points. Completing the final, fourth mission will bring you VII Strasbourg with a Port slot and the Winter Holiday camouflage.

Obtaining battleship Strasbourg will enable you to complete the missions of the Ships and Fates campaign, which are already available to you. Completing six missions will bring you ships with permanent camouflages, Commanders with 6 skill points, and Santa's Gift containers.



The bundles are available until: Mon. 11 Jan. 07:00 CET (UTC+1)

The Armory is offering free daily bundles. Within them, you'll find Santa's Gift and Santa's Big Gift containers, holiday camouflages (Frosty Fir Tree, Winter Strands, New Year Streamer, "Type 3 — New Year," and the New Year expendable camouflage), as well as Coal, doubloons, and 1 day of Premium Account!

A total of 12 bundles will be available for a period of 20 days.

You can claim your Santa's Gift containers right now:

• One container when you enter the Armory and one container when you open the in-game Premium Shop.
  
• One container awaits you on a special Santa's Gifts page.

Happy New Year!

Santa's Mega Gift containers have the highest chances of dropping ships.

Santa's Big Gift containers have higher chances of dropping ships than Santa's Gift containers.

If a ship that you already have in your Port is dropped, the Santa's Gift container will be replaced by a supercontainer. It will drop another ship from the list along with a Port slot and Commander with 10 skill points. More information about the available compensation can be read here.


Starts: Tue. 22 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Sat. 26 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

• +100% XP bonus for the first win of the day playing each ship, every day
  
• −50% to the cost in credits
  
  • of researchable Tier II–V Soviet, British, and French destroyers
    
  • of researchable Tier II–V Italian, Japanese, and German cruisers
    
  • of researchable Tier II–V Soviet, German, and French battleships
    
  • of researchable Tier II–V American and British aircraft carriers
• −30% to the cost in credits
  
  • of researchable Tier VI–VII Soviet, British, and French destroyers
    
  • of researchable Tier VI–VII Italian, Japanese, and German cruisers
    
  • of researchable Tier VI–VII Soviet, German, and French battleships
    
  • of researchable Tier VI–VII American and British aircraft carriers
• −15% to the cost in credits
  
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X Soviet, British, and French destroyers
    
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X Italian, Japanese, and German cruisers
    
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X Soviet, German, and French battleships
    
  • of researchable Tier VIII–X American and British aircraft carriers
• −80% to the cost in doubloons of demounting upgrades
  
• −80% to the cost in doubloons of training new Commanders
  
• −50% to the cost in doubloons of retraining a Commander

Starts: Sat. 26 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Sat. 02 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

• +200% XP bonus for the first win of the day playing each ship, every day
  
• You can convert Elite Commander XP at the cost of 1 doubloon for 25 35 Free XP
  
• You can convert Ship XP at the cost of 1 doubloon for 25 35 Free XP
  
• −50% doubloons to the cost of economic signals in the game client
  
• −50% doubloons to the cost of Port slots

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The New Year preparations are in full swing! We've prepared a lot of gifts and New Year activities for you: two New Year's campaigns, the Dockyard, battle performance bonuses, New Year's gifts, New Year's horns, and much more!

• Head to the Armory to receive a free Santa's Gift container on the main page.
  
• Collect a second Santa's Gift container by opening the in-game Premium Shop.
  
• Another Santa's Gift container awaits you on a special New Year's website.

The Armory and Premium Shop are also offering bundles with three types of Santa's Gift containers. Within them, you'll find doubloons, days of Premium Account, Coal, Free XP, expendable camouflages, signals, or even one of 107 Premium ships.

The Armory is offering free random bundles—New Year Supplies. Within them, you'll find Santa's Gift and Santa's Big Gift containers, as well as other valuable rewards.

The bundles will be available

From: Tue. 22 Dec. 07:00 CET (UTC+1)
Until: Mon. 11 Jan. 07:00 CET (UTC+1)

You can obtain only one bundle per day. A total of 12 bundles will be available, so you can skip 8 days and still be able to collect all the rewards.



In Update 0.9.12, players will be able to start building a new Japanese battleship, IX Hizen. The ship is a variant of a super battleship project that preceded the development of the Yamato-class ships. She's armed with twelve 410 mm guns placed in four turrets. Having such an atypical number of guns for a high-tier Japanese battleship allows her to deal impressive damage per salvo.

• The construction process at the Dockyard comprises 26 phases.
  
• These shipbuilding phases can be completed by progressing through the Dockyard combat missions, or by spending 1,950 doubloons to pass through each phase.
  
• If you want to complete shipbuilding phases at a discount, you can purchase Starter Packs: 10 shipbuilding phases in exchange for 9,950 doubloons, or 4 shipbuilding phases in exchange for 5,000 doubloons.
  
• The combat missions of the Dockyard will span two updates—0.9.12 and 0.10.0. Players will be able to complete shipbuilding phases in exchange for doubloons until the end of Update 0.10.1.
  
• In total, you can pass through 22 out of 26 shipbuilding phases by progressing through Dockyard combat missions.
  
• Completing the 5th and 15th shipbuilding phases will reward you with II Tachibana and V Yahagi in the Winter permanent camouflages, Commanders with 6 skill points, and Port slots.
  
• Completing the last four phases will reward you with 10,000 Coal; one Santa's Mega Gift container; 2,000 Steel; and IX Hizen in the War Paint camouflage with a Port slot, a Commander with 10 skill points, and a commemorative flag.
  
• Completing the other phases will bring you Santa's Gift and Santa's Big Gift containers, the New Year permanent camouflage for Tier IX ships, new Winter Strands expendable camouflages, and other valuable items.

If you already have II Tachibana in your Port, then upon obtaining her again, you'll receive compensation in the form of 1,425,000 credits; a Port slot; the Winter permanent camouflage for Tachibana; and a Commander with 6 skill points.

If you already have V Yahagi in your Port, then upon obtaining her again, you'll receive compensation in the form of 4,000 doubloons; a Port slot; the Winter permanent camouflage for Yahagi; and a Commander with 6 skill points.

If you complete the construction of IX Hizen by spending doubloons, make sure to keep progressing through the Dockyard combat missions—completing each phase will bring you 400 Research Points and 200 Steel.

The Port of Kure will be added to the game. The designs for the Port and Dockyard were inspired by Kure harbor in Japan.



In Update 0.9.12, ships of Tier V and above will feature New Year bonuses for battle performance—Snowflakes. Depending on the ship's tier, you'll receive Coal, Steel, or Santa's Gift containers.

The mechanics of receiving the rewards for bonuses have been updated. You can now obtain a reward by gaining a victory or earning 300 base XP. Claim bonuses by playing your favorite battle type!

• Tiers V–VII: 400/500/750 Coal
  
• Tiers VIII–IX: 75 Steel
  
• Tier X: Santa's Gift container

Please note: you can get the battle performance bonus for each ship only once during Updates 0.9.12 and 0.10.0 in battles of any type, except Training Battles.

Update 0.9.12 features two temporary campaigns—"In Pursuit of Strasbourg" and "Ships and Fates."

The first New Year temporary campaign comprises 32 tasks in four missions. Each mission tells part of the story of the French Navy, using the example of VII Strasbourg and her famous sister ship—battleship VI Dunkerque.

Completing the missions will bring you unique New Year Commanders of Pan-Asian, Italian, and French ships. Completing the Campaign will reward you with VII Strasbourg, adorned in the Winter Holiday permanent camouflage.

If you already have VII Strasbourg in your Port, completing the Campaign will reward you with a Port slot; the Winter Holiday permanent camouflage; and 9,500 doubloons.

The first mission will become available with the release of Update 0.9.12, while those that follow will be unlocked each week.

Please note: to complete this Campaign, you'll need VII Strasbourg, which can be obtained as a reward for completing the "In Pursuit of Strasbourg" campaign, though if you’re short on time, you can also get her in the Armory in exchange for doubloons, or in the Premium Shop.

The second New Year temporary campaign comprises 36 tasks in six missions. Each mission tells the story of a specific ship: cruisers V Furutaka, V Hawkins, and V Kotovsky; destroyers V T-22 and V Visby; as well as battleship V New York.

Completing the missions will reward you with these ships, as well as unique New Year Commanders, Winter permanent camouflages, and Santa's Gift containers.

All six missions of the Ships and Fates campaign will become available with the release of Update 0.9.12.

Both campaigns will remain available until the release of Update 0.10.0. As with all campaigns, you can complete the tasks of each mission multiple times. This will allow you to earn Stars, but you'll receive the reward for completing each task for the first time only.



Update 0.9.12 sees a large-scale update of the Ranked Battles system and gives start to a test Season of the new Ranked Battles.

• Ranked Battles seasons are now going to be held on a regular basis with short breaks between each one. This will mean that you can choose between Random, Co-op, and Ranked Battles, as the latter battle type will be more regularly available.
  
• Each season is divided into several sprints. The duration of a single sprint is approximately 1–3 weeks, and this may differ from season to season.
  
• During a single sprint, players can only progress through their current league and qualify for the next one.
  
• Demonstrate your skills in the qualification, during which you'll fight against players from the next league to determine whether you'll progress to the next league or stay in your current one.
  
• The leagues are more tailored to your preferences:
  
  • You can progress through the Bronze League at a smooth and leisurely pace.
    
  • The Silver League offers bigger rewards, but will require more effort.
    
  • The Gold League is the best option for the most experienced players who want to collect the most impressive haul of rewards.
• Ranked Battles aren't available to play during the hours of least activity. This is necessary to ensure high-quality matchmaking.

• The rewards are refreshed and updated for each new sprint and can be collected again—fight in your preferred league over and over again, and you'll collect rewards every time.
  
• Rewards are granted for achieving victories, reaching Rank 1, and qualifying.
  
• Steel hasn't gone anywhere: achieve victories, reach Rank 1, and accrue it to spend on items you desire in the Armory.
  
• Doubloons are granted as a reward in each league—the higher the league, the more doubloons you can get.
  
• New themed camouflages and achievements in each of the leagues.
  
• Ranked Tokens are awarded each time you reach Rank 1 in the Gold League. In Update 0.9.11, the cost of permanent camouflages available in exchange for Ranked Tokens has changed, and the number of Tokens on player accounts has increased by a factor of four.

Time:

• CIS: 06:00 — 23:00 UTC
  
• NA: 16:00 — 09:00 UTC
  
• ASIA: 01:00 — 18:00 UTC
  
• EU: 08:00 — 01:00 UTC

Format:

• 7 vs. 7
  
• Tier VIII in the Bronze League
  
• Tiers IX–X in the Silver League
  
• Tier X in the Gold League

Six sprints, each lasting 1 week. Each next sprint starts immediately after the end of the previous one.

During the Season, you can participate in no more than six sprints in the Bronze League, or five in the Silver League, or four in the Gold League.

• Bronze League: up to 400 Steel; up to 200 doubloons; up to 1,000 Coal; up to 5x Bronze camouflages; and up to 5x "Type 3 — Ranked" camouflages.
  
• Silver League: up to 500 Steel; up to 300 doubloons; up to 3,000 Coal; up to 3x Bronze camouflages; up to 3x Silver camouflages; and up to 10x "Type 3 — Ranked" camouflages.
  
• Gold League: up to 600 Steel; up to 400 doubloons; up to 5,000 Coal; up to 3x Bronze camouflages; up to 3x Silver camouflages; up to 8x Gold camouflages; and one Ranked Token.

This Season is the test Season for the new Ranked Battles system. We'll keep an eye on how it goes and monitor your feedback. Following the test Season, additional changes may be made to the new Ranked Battles system in order to improve it. In future seasons, the format, rewards, combat missions associated with Ranked Battles, and other details may differ from the current ones.

You can learn more details about the updated Ranked Battles system and the first Ranked Season in a dedicated article.



As a New Year's gift, we've added four single-use coupons that grant 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25% discounts when obtaining ships in exchange for doubloons. The coupons will become available on December 25 and remain active until January 8.

The following ships will be available in the Armory in exchange for doubloons:

• VIII Siliwangi — for 10,300 doubloons.
  
• IX Z-44, IX Georgia, IX Pommern, IX Alaska, IX Ägir, IX Azuma, and IX Friesland — for 19,300 doubloons.

Starting from Update 0.10.1, the following ships will no longer be available to obtain: IX Georgia, IX Alaska, VIII Massachusetts, X Thunderer, and X Småland. Georgia, Alaska, and Massachusetts will also no longer be available to purchase in the Premium Shop.

The ships have been taken out of the game due to a combination of their popularity and combat efficiency. 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 indefinite period of time, but may return in future.

From Update 0.10.2, X Somers will cease to be available in the Armory for an indefinite period of time. She will be replaced by another American ship—X Austin.

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 Updates 0.10.1 and 0.10.2 go live in about 2 and 3 months' time.



In Update 0.9.12, we've made changes to the parameters of several ships based on our analysis of their combat efficiency and feedback from players. 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.

• Sigma parameter increased from 1.6 to 1.7
  
• Armor penetration of shells increased by approximately 3.5%

• Armor penetration of shells increased by approximately 4%

• Armor penetration of shells increased by approximately 12.5%

• Main battery reload time reduced from 11.5 to 11 s

• Number of torpedo bombers in a squadron reduced from 6 to 5
  
• Size of an attacking flight of torpedo bombers decreased from 2 to 1
  
• Number of torpedo bombers on the deck reduced from 9 to 8
  
• Torpedo bomber restoration time increased from 59 to 71 s
  
• Torpedo damage increased from 5,400 to 5,800

• Torpedo damage reduced from 4,233 to 3,500
  
• Chances of causing flooding with torpedoes reduced from 33% to 30%

• The area of the reticle ellipse of bombers has been increased

• Fixed an issue that resulted in excessive deceleration when Engine Boost was used. The value has been adjusted to match the standard one.

• Maximum bomb damage increased from 5,300 to 5,600
  
• Chances of bombs causing fire on a target increased from 30% to 32%

• Number of rockets carried by standard attack aircraft reduced from 12 to 10
  
• Number of rockets carried by researchable attack aircraft reduced from 14 to 12
  
• Maximum bomb damage increased from 6,000 to 6,400
  
• Chances of bombs causing fire on a target increased from 35% to 36%

As part of the game server component optimization, we’re reducing the maximum number of unopened containers on player accounts to 100. If you have more than 100 unopened containers at the time of the release of Update 0.9.12, the containers that you obtained earliest will be opened automatically.



We plan to cease support for Mac OS in January 2021. We made this decision due to the low popularity of this operating system among our audience. Supporting Mac OS restrains our ability to improve the visuals of the game and its overall performance. You can find more details in this Player Support article.

Captains!

Which component of the game is most important to you? Global multiplayer gaming? The militaristic naval setting? Is it realistic ships? Tell us about your preferences, and we'll grant you one day of Warships Premium Account!
                          

1. Find the "Popular user-defined tags for this product" section on the right-hand side of the main page of the game.
   
2. Click the "+" symbol.
   
3. Select a tag (or create your own) that’s applicable to World of Warships. To select an existing tag from the list, click the "+" symbol next to the tag of your choice.
   
4. Share your list of tags in the comments of this news item.
   
5. Within a matter of days, you'll be granted 1 day of Warships Premium Account (for your account associated to the Steam account)!

Attention! During this event, 1 day of Warships Premium Account will be granted only once, regardless of the number of tags issued.

Good luck in battle, Captains!

We are excited to announce our new partnership with Hearts of Iron IV! Hearts of Iron IV × World of Warships bundle includes:

• World of Warships (free-to-play)
  
• World of Warships — Exclusive Starter Pack (DLC)
  
• Hearts of Iron IV
  
• Expansion - Hearts of Iron IV: Man the Guns (DLC)

Lead an armada or command the ship yourself — get two naval-themed games at 50% off!

This bundle will be available for 5 days only: from 17th to 22nd December! There's never been a better time to try Hearts of Iron IV and World of Warships, so grab our new bundle today to get off to an explosive start in both WW2 battlefield and out on the open virtual seas!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/18244/

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To mark this collaboration, we'll be having a stream together Friday 18th December at 14:00 CET!

We'll be playing both World of Warships and Hearts of Iron back-to-back, so it will be a great opportunity to see both games in action alongside one another.

Tune in at 2020-12-18 13:00 UTC to our broadcast on Steam!