Captains!

On the night of October 31 to November 1, the shadows get thicker, and the monsters awaken again. To drive out the darkness, you must become a monster yourself.


Some familiar Operations return. Are you ready to take helms of incredible steel monsters to dispel the darkness?

• The first stage takes place throughout Update 0.10.9. During this period, Operations Saving Transylvania and Sunray in the Darkness will be available.
  
• The second stage starts on the third week of the update and lasts until the release of Update 0.10.10. You will be able to participate in the Twilight Hunt temporary battle type—a reworked version of the Big Hunt that was available during Update 0.10.2.

In this article, we are going to remind you about the festive Operations and tell you about the updated rewards. As for the Twilight Hunt, we will talk about it later in a separate article. Stay tuned for more news on our website!

Both Operations will be available as Operations of the Week. Players will also have an opportunity to team up with their friends in a Division and fight the evil at any of the three difficulty levels throughout the entirety of Update 0.10.9!

Attention! The first completion of the Operation at the Super Hard difficulty level with three Stars or more will reward brave Captains with a new Jack-o’-Lantern Premium container.

By completing Operations at every difficulty level, you can earn expendable camouflages, signals, and days of Warships Premium time. The more successfully you fight, the better your reward will be!

Operation Saving Transylvania will be available at Normal difficulty during the first and last weeks of Update 0.10.9 and at Hard difficulty during the second week. You can also complete the Operation as part of a Division throughout Update 0.10.9 at all three difficulty levels, including the Super Hard one.

The main task in this Operation is to escort a ship called Transylvania on her winding route to a safe place. On the way, you must protect her from the attacks of catapults and Zikasa ships possessed by the darkness. At the end of this journey, players will face the final boss—the evil and dangerous battleship Rasputin.

For Operation Saving Transylvania, we will provide players with the following ships manned by Commanders with 21 skill points:

• Destroyer III Blade with Commander Abraham V. Hellsinger
  
• Battleship III Jackal with Commander Henry J. Hide
  
• Cruiser III Igor with Commander Victor F. Einstein

[expand style=more] [/expand]

Halloween Commanders earn Elite Commander XP, which can be spent on training Commanders of the in-game nations.

Escort and protect Transylvania during her escape through the Portal.

Apart from the primary task, the team can complete five secondary tasks to increase the reward they earn:

• Transylvania must not lose 50% or more of her HP during the voyage.
  
• Destroy at least 16 Zikasa ships.
  
• Neutralize all catapults on the map.
  
• Transylvania must not stop until reaching the end of the route. To ensure that this condition is completed, at least one player should always remain near the ship.
  
• Sink battleship Rasputin.

[expand type=details]


One Star—5x India Delta, 5x Juliet Charlie, and 5x Mike Yankee Soxisix signals

Two Stars—5x Sierra Mike, 5x India X-Ray, and 5x Juliet Whiskey Unaone signals

Three Stars—5x "Type 3 — Halloween" camouflages

Four Stars—5x Halloween camouflages

Five Stars—1 day of Warships Premium Account
[/expand]
[expand type=details]


One Star—5x "Type 3 — Halloween" camouflages

Two Stars—5x Halloween camouflages

Three Stars—5x Wyvern signals

Four Stars—5x Hydra signals

Five Stars—5x Ouroboros and 5x Scylla signals and 1 day of Warships Premium Account
[/expand]
[expand type=details]


One Star—5x Halloween camouflages

Two Stars—5x Type 59 camouflages

Three Stars—1x Jack-o'-Lantern Premium container

Four Stars—1x Jack-o'-Lantern Premium container

Five Stars—1x Jack-o'-Lantern Premium container
[/expand]
We come bearing gifts! Stay on the lookout for Community Tokens in this and other articles on our website! You can exchange them for various items in the "Naval Community" tab in the Armory. Make sure to keep up to date with the news, and be sure to share the articles with your friends so they can also enjoy claiming gifts!

You can claim the gift before: Wed. 20 Oct. 15:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Watch our official streams and participate in the Public Test and other activities to earn Community Tokens. In total, you will be able to find up to  1,510 Community Tokens on our website before the end of Update 0.10.9.

When Transylvania and her defenders return to their home realm, they face an even bigger evil. The entire kingdom is at risk! The most advanced ships of the royal fleet are awaiting your orders. Put a stop to the invasion and save the civilians!

Operation Sunray in the Darkness, which has already become a traditional continuation of Saving Transylvania, will be available to players as the Operation of the Week at Normal and Hard difficulty levels. Take on Operation Sunray in the Darkness to get generous prizes!

• At Normal difficulty, the Operation will be available during the third week of Update 0.10.9.
  
• Hard difficulty level of the Operation will become available on the fourth week.

Throughout Update 0.10.9, the Operation can also be completed as part of a Division at Normal and Hard difficulty, as well as at Super Hard one.

The Forces of Darkness are breaking through the Portal. Your mission is to fend off their attacks, but you won't be alone. The security towers will try to seal the Portal, but you will have to protect the towers from enemy ships. Along with monsters, the Filth—a dense fog—is leaking through the Portal and endangering life itself.

Be careful: While in the Filth, your ship takes damage each second. The amount of damage you receive depends on your ship type. Besides this, visibility and ship detectability decrease significantly in the Filth. At the same time, the Filth benefits your enemies by restoring their hit points and reducing the amount of damage they take. Note that your main task is to protect the towers until they seal the Portal.

For Operation Sunray in the Darkness, we will provide players with the following ships manned by Commanders with 21 skill points:

• Destroyer VIII Urashima with Commander Mina Hurray
  
• Cruiser VIII Svyatozar with Commander Ivan K. Ulibin
  
• Battleship VIII Magnu-S with Commander Klaus V. Teslau

[expand style=more] [/expand]
Protect the towers until they seal the ominous Portal to another dimension.

The team can complete five secondary tasks that increase the reward they earn for completing the primary task:

• Successfully defend at least two towers.
  
• Sink battleship Rasputin.
  
• Sink aircraft carrier The Great Gorgon.
  
• Destroy 30 enemy ships in the Filth.
  
• Successfully defend Transylvania.

[expand type=details]


One Star—5x India Delta, 5x Juliet Charlie, and 5x Mike Yankee Soxisix signals

Two Stars—5x Sierra Mike, 5x India X-Ray, and 5x Juliet Whiskey Unaone signals

Three Stars—5x "Type 3 — Halloween" camouflages

Four Stars—5x Halloween camouflages

Five Stars—1 day of Warships Premium Account
[/expand]
[expand type=details]


One Star—5x "Type 3 — Halloween" camouflages

Two Stars—5x Halloween camouflages

Three Stars—5x Dragon signals

Four Stars—5x Red Dragon signals

Five Stars—5x Basilisk and 5x Leviathan signals and 1 day of Warships Premium Account
[/expand]
[expand type=details]


One Star—5x "Type 3 — Halloween" camouflages

Two Stars—5x Type 59 camouflages

Three Stars—1x Jack-o'-Lantern Premium container

Four Stars—1x Jack-o'-Lantern Premium container

Five Stars—1x Jack-o'-Lantern Premium container
[/expand]

Please note that you can play special ships in Operations only! With the release of Update 0.10.10, all special ships will be removed from your account. Once the event is over, any XP earned playing the special ships will be transferred to I Orlan.

Complete the festive Operations, protect the world from the Forces of Darkness, and claim your rewards!

German Tier III–X battleships have arrived in the Early Access. We're going to tell you everything you need to know to get started with these ships, and most importantly—we're going to reveal how you can get your hands on them.

What are the features of the new branch?

• While they don't have so many main battery guns, and those guns have a rather short range for this ship type, these battleships come out on top against their peers when it comes to accuracy. The shots you do fire will fly true and hit hard.
  
• Tier VII ships and higher are armed with long-range torpedoes.
  
• Numerous accurate secondary battery guns.
  
• Low detectability.
  
• Starting from Tier VI—a variant of the Hydroacoustic Search consumable that's similar to the type that German cruisers are equipped with.
  
• A variant of the Fast Damage Control Team consumable that differs from the standard Damage Control Party by having a reduced cooldown time and limited number of charges.

German Tokens are a new temporary resource that you can obtain by participating in our new Personal Challenges temporary event, from free daily bundles, and from bundles available in exchange for Doubloons and Community Tokens in the Armory.

Rewards for German Tokens: sequentially available bundles with new German Tier III–IX battleships; the German Eagle permanent camouflage for IX Prinz Rupprecht and X Schlieffen; the German Navy permanent camouflage for VII Prinz Heinrich and VIII Zieten; the "German Battleships: Part 1" commemorative flag; and other items.

Early Access to X Schlieffen, together with a Port slot and 10-skill point Commander, will be one of the lots at the upcoming Lighthouse auction. The starting bid is 1,000 Doubloons; in total, 1,000 lots will be auctioned.

The Lighthouse auction will be held from October 7 through 11. You'll find details about the auction's rules, the lots, their quantity, and the starting bids in a dedicated article that's scheduled to be published on our website later this week.

The Hamburg Port has been updated to celebrate the arrival of the German battleships in Early Access.

When Update 0.10.11 goes live, the German battleships will become available for all players to research

We come bearing gifts! Stay on the lookout for Community Tokens in this and other articles on our website! You can use these to obtain various items from the Armory. Make sure to keep up to date with the news, and be sure to share the articles with your friends so they can also enjoy claiming gifts!

You can claim your gift before: Tue. 26 Oct. 15:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Watch our official streams and participate in the Public Test and other activities to earn Community Tokens. In total, you'll be able to find up to 1,510 Community Tokens on our website before the end of Update 0.10.9.

German Tokens can be obtained:

• By participating in Personal Challenges—up to 2,550 Tokens.
  
• From free random bundles in the Armory—up to 100 Tokens.
  
• In exchange for Community Tokens in the Armory—up to 600 Tokens.
  
• From random bundles available in exchange for Doubloons in the Armory—up to 6,000 Tokens.

Tokens that you can earn by participating in Personal Challenges will be enough to obtain German Tier III–VII battleships and the German Navy permanent camouflage for VII Prinz Heinrich.

With the release of Update 0.10.11, German Tokens will be converted into Credits at the rate of 1:4,500.

You can exchange German Tokens for sequentially available bundles and other rewards in the Armory.

The ships come with all of their modules researched.

If you already have IV Moltke in your Port, you will receive 1,300,000 Credits as compensation, as well as a Port slot and Commander with 3 skill points.

The Armory will offer free random bundles—Ocean Raiders Trophies. Within them, you'll find German Tokens, Doubloons, 1 day of Premium Account, and other rewards.
The bundles will be available until: Thu. 11 Nov. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

You can obtain only one bundle per day. A total of 15 bundles will be available, so you can skip more than 2 weeks and still be able to collect all the rewards.

The bundles will be available until: Thu. 09 Dec. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

The German Battleships section of the Armory will feature special bundles, such as "In the Shipyards of Lower Saxony," "From the Docks of Schleswig-Holstein," "In the Ports of East Prussia," and "On the Stocks of Pomerania." Each bundle costs 500 Doubloons. Within them, you can find German Tokens, "Black-White-Red" expendable camouflages, and special signals.

Moreover, the Armory will offer you Support for Battle Fleet daily random bundles at the cost of 150 Doubloons each. They can drop days of Warships Premium Account, expendable camouflages, Coal, Free XP, and combat signals.
The bundles will be available until: Thu. 11 Nov. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

You can purchase only one bundle per day.

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.
steam://validate/552990

Subtitles can be enabled in the video player separately.

The following new features await you in Update 0.10.9:

• Early Access to the new branch of German battleships.
  
• Operations Sunray in the Darkness and Saving Transylvania make a comeback, and a new temporary type of battle called "Twilight Hunt" has been added.
  
• Rental submarines in Random Battles.
  
• Two new Brawl seasons.

Let's dive into the details of these and other changes!

Read through this article carefully and keep your eyes peeled for a gift! Share the article with your friends and Clanmates so they can arm themselves with all the essential info for this update!

Update 0.10.9 brings Early Access to a new branch of German battleships.

[expand style=more] [/expand]

• While they don't have so many main battery guns, and those guns have a rather short range for this ship type, these battleships come out on top against their peers when it comes to accuracy. The shots you do fire will fly true and hit hard.
  
• Long-range torpedoes on Tier VII ships and higher.
  
• Numerous accurate secondary battery guns.
  
• Low detectability.
  
• A variant of the Hydroacoustic Search consumable that's similar to the type that German cruisers are equipped with.
  
• The Fast Damage Control Team consumable.

The Hamburg Port has been updated to celebrate the arrival of the German battleships in Early Access.

[expand style=more] [/expand]

When Update 0.10.11 goes live, the German battleships will become available for all players to research.

German Tokens are a new temporary resource that can be obtained:

• By participating in the Personal Challenges event.
  
• From free daily bundles.
  
• From bundles available for Doubloons.
  
• In exchange for Community Tokens in the Armory.

Sequentially available bundles with new German Tier III–IX battleships; the German Eagle permanent camouflage for IX Prinz Rupprecht and X Schlieffen; the German Navy permanent camouflage for VII Prinz Heinrich and VIII Zieten; the "German Battleships: Part 1" commemorative flag; and other items.

The number of Tokens you can earn by participating in Personal Challenges combined with those you can get from free daily bundles will be enough to obtain German Tier III–VII battleships and the German Navy permanent camouflage for VII Prinz Heinrich.

Early Access to X Schlieffen with a Port slot and 10-skill point Commander is one of the lots you can look forward to at the upcoming Lighthouse auction. The starting bid is 1,000 Doubloons; in total, 1,000 lots will be auctioned.

The Lighthouse auction will be held from October 7 through 11. Look for details about the auction rules, lots, their quantity, and starting bids in a dedicated article that will be published on our website later this week.



A new temporary event called "Personal Challenges" will be available to you for the entire duration of Update 0.10.9. The goal of the event is to earn as much Base XP as possible while demonstrating your skills in battle playing ships of different types and nations.

The rules are similar to Naval Battles: a personal table of records will become available to you. This table displays all the available ship types and nations. After fulfilling one of the mission's requirements, you can move on to the next part of the table, which will offer a more difficult mission.

[expand style=more] [/expand]

• You can take part in the event playing researchable ships of Tier V and higher, and you can also play Premium and special ships of Tier V–X if the nation has a researchable branch of that type.
  
• Personal Challenges can be completed in Random, Ranked, and Co-op Battles.
  
• You have an unlimited number of attempts.
  
• The table of records is reset once a week.

Each mission you complete will reward you with  15 German Tokens and 50 Coal. It's possible to earn up to  510 Tokens each week. After reaching the weekly limit, each completed task will bring only 50 Coal.

We come bearing gifts! Stay on the lookout for Community Tokens in this article and others on our website! You can exchange them for various items under the "Naval Community" tab of the Armory. Make sure to keep up to date with the news, and be sure to share the articles with your friends so they can also enjoy claiming gifts!

You can claim the gift before: Mon. 25 Oct. 15:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Watch our official streams and participate in the Public Test and other activities to earn Community Tokens. In total, you'll be able to find up to  1,510 Community Tokens on our website before the end of Update 0.10.9.

In the dark night that bridges October 31 and November 1, hordes of dismal evil creatures squeeze out of their shelters and creep all around the earth, set on conquering new lands!

We invite you to take part in Operations from previous years—save Transylvania and defend the waters of the Silver Spear Archipelago from invasion by the Forces of Darkness!

Both Operations can be completed while Update 0.10.9 is live. A Super Hard difficulty level is available in addition to the Normal and Hard difficulty levels.

The first completion of a Super Hard Operation with 3 Stars or more will bring you Jack-o'-Lantern Premium containers that have specific chances of dropping one of the permanent Halloween camouflages from previous years, as well as other rewards. These can include expendable camos, Doubloons, and Free XP. There is also the possibility that Halloween permanent camouflages might drop.

To complete the Operations, you will receive the following special ships on your account: III Blade, III Jackal, and III Igor, as well as VIII Urashima, VIII Svyatozar, and VIII Magnu-S.

On the third week of the update, a new temporary battle type called "Twilight Hunt" will become available to you. Show your true courage in battles against the Twilight Fleet at the helms of these fantastic future ships.
Starts: Thu. 21 Oct. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Thu. 11 Nov. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

The new battle type pits 16 players against each other and the AI-controlled Twilight Fleet, led by the terrible Rasputin, on the gigantic Polygon map.

• Your main objective is to exit the Polygon via the Portal located at the center of the map. Be cautious—the Portal opens up only some time after the start of each battle.
  
• You start out alone, but you can form teams directly in battle.
  
• It is now possible to enter battle as part of a Division, but each player still starts the battle on their own. In order to coordinate their efforts, Division mates will need to locate each other on the map and create a team.
  
• The Twilight Hunt ends when all surviving players exit through the Portal or when the battle time expires.

[expand style=more] [/expand]
A temporary resource—Battle Points—will be issued to players for destroying monsters and other players.

• Having accrued a certain number of Battle Points, you can reinforce your ship directly in battle.
  
• The Battle Points you receive aren't lost or spent in battle.
  
• Successfully exiting the Polygon will double the amount of Battle Points you earn.

The Twilight Hunt mode is divided into three stages. Each stage has a different difficulty level: Normal, Hard, and Super Hard.

Players can take part in the Twilight Hunt on one of nine ships, and each ship has her own style of gameplay. Apart from IX Valkyrie, IX Gale, IX Heracles, X Hector, X Avenger, and X Whirlwind—ships that you're probably already familiar with—you'll also be able to join the battle on monster ships X Fangblade, X Thornridge, and X Lobster-Eyed. You must complete a special combat mission to obtain these ships.

[expand style=more] [/expand]
Earn Battle Points and complete daily and weekly combat missions. As a reward for completing them you'll receive Jack-o'-Lantern containers, Community Tokens, a new temporary resource called  "Twilight Tokens", and other rewards.

Twilight Tokens can be exchanged in the Armory for themed Commanders with 10 skill points; Intanian Fleet permanent camouflages for VIII Admiral Hipper, VIII Hsienyang, VIII Implacable, IX Kitakaze, IX Dmitri Donskoi, and IX Iowa; Jack-o'-Lantern containers; and other items.

More details about the Twilight Hunt's rules, as well as the available rewards in the Armory, will come in a dedicated article on our website.

Submarines have been present in Ranked and Co-op battles for almost 2 months now, and we're extremely grateful for the battles you've played, as well as your feedback. By participating and telling us your opinions, you helped us determine what the next steps in submarine development are going to be.

We've planned a number of future changes for the new ship type, based on the data we collected and player feedback. First, we're going to add anti-submarine weapons on all Tier V–X cruisers and battleships in Update 0.10.9, except for Dutch cruisers and hybrids.

We're aware that adding anti-submarine weapons on a large number of ships can have a significant impact on the effectiveness of submarines, so we've made a number of balance changes to the new ship type:

• We've changed the characteristics of torpedoes—submarines now have tube-by-tube torpedo-launching capabilities. Tube-by-tube torpedo launching will allow for more dynamic gameplay and also allow better control over the number of torpedoes launched during an attack. To encourage submarine Captains to use sonar pings for better accuracy, the width of the torpedo launch sector has been increased
  
• German submarines were weaker compared to American submarines in terms of damage they were able to deal. To make them even in terms of this parameter, we've increased the maximum damage and the chances of causing flooding of torpedoes launched by German submarines.
  
• The torpedo tubes of German submarines are mostly located in their fore ends, which is great for attacking from longer distances. To shift German submarine gameplay toward long-range combat, we increased the range of their torpedoes.
  
• American submarines, in their turn, can be quite effective in short- and medium-range battles, because their torpedo tubes are located in both their bows and sterns. To encourage American submarine Captains to embrace this style of combat, the range of American submarines' torpedoes has been reduced.
  
• Reduced dive capacity depletion if the submarine is detected. The increase of dive capacity depletion in Update 0.10.8 significantly affected how comfortable it was to play submarines, and it also impacted their effectiveness. To make the detection of submarines impact their gameplay less, we've reduced the dive capacity depletion rates when submarines are detected.

Check out a detailed list of changes in a dedicated article on our website.

We’ve also changed the submarine settings in Co-op and Training battles. Now, submarines controlled by AI will take part in battles more actively. This change will prevent situations where the battle went on for far too long due to the process of searching for and destroying the last enemy submarine.

The next step in testing submarines is to add them to Random Battles. This will allow us to properly evaluate their state and gather feedback from a larger number of players.

For this reason, rental submarines will become temporarily available in Random Battles during Update 0.10.9.

Offering submarines in this way will help us keep an eye on how many of them are out on our seas and prevent extended queue times. We are going to keep a close eye on submarines in Random Battles, and we are able to take measures if their presence in Random Battles has an adverse impact on gameplay.



In Update 0.10.9, we've updated the way in which ship characteristics are displayed in battle: Changed the ship parameters screen that opens by pressing H. Any modifiers currently applied to the ship are now displayed in the pop-up window.

Apart from that, the battle interface has additional indicators for various temporary effects:

• Added the display of active skills and temporary modifiers of talents above the armament panel.
  
• Added a notification about changed parameters when Commander talents are activated.
  
• Updated the display of destroyed and incapacitated modules, fires, and flooding.
  
• Added a setting in the "Controls" section that allows timers on fires, flooding, and other modifiers to be permanently displayed when the adaptive full combat interface mode is enabled.

[expand style=more] [/expand]


World of Warships will see the addition of:

• Two variants of German Battleships containers that have specific chances of dropping German ships VIII Brandenburg, X Max Immelmann, VII Weimar, VIII Gustav-Julius Maerker, and other rewards. Brandenburg will be also available in the Armory in exchange for Doubloons.
  
• German Commander Johannes Meck-Leyne with a unique voiceover.

• Loyang, Giuseppe Verdi, Marlborough, Novorossiysk, and Flag of the Tsar of Muscovy commemorative flags.

• Regular Supplies container.

Especially for the King of the Sea tournament, we've added:

• King of the Sea XIII Red and King of the Sea XIII Green expendable camouflages.
  
• Commanders Edward Turner, Stepan Yermakov, Kenji Shiraishi, and Klaus Sternberger.
  
• King of the Sea XIII commemorative flag.
  
• Bane of the Seas permanent camouflage for VIII North Carolina.

[expand style=more] [/expand]
In early 2022, X Khabarovsk and X Grosser Kurfürst are going to receive the status of "special" ships and leave the branch. They'll be replaced with Delny and Preussen, which better match other ships from the branch in terms of progression and gameplay.

Any players who own a permanent camouflage for X Khabarovsk or X Grosser Kurfürst at the time when the ships are removed from the Tech Tree will receive the Type 20 permanent camouflage for Delny or Preussen, respectively.

Any players who had a permanent camouflage for X Moskva on their accounts at the time when Update 0.9.5 was released will receive the Type 20 permanent camouflage for X Alexander Nevsky within a week of Update 0.10.9 going live. Those who already have the Type 20 permanent camouflage will receive 5,000 Doubloons as compensation.

Details about the new ships, as well as details about the upcoming changes, can be found in a dedicated article on our website.

The "Naval Community" section will have several changes. Premium Ship V and Premium Ship VII containers, as well as the Restless Fire commemorative flag, will no longer be available for purchase.

The following ships will be available to purchase with Community Tokens:

• IV Ishizuchi for  10,000 Community Tokens.
  
• V Exeter for  15,000 Community Tokens.
  
• VII Leningrad for  20,000 Community Tokens.

The ships are credited with a Port slot and Commander with 3 skill points.

Apart from that, a bundle with a Supercontainer will become permanently available for  6,000 Community Tokens and without any purchase restrictions in the "Naval Community" section.

• Renamed Airstrike Modification 1.
  
• Added for all Tier V–X battleships, researchable Tier V–X Dutch cruisers, and VIII De Zeven Provinciën.

Changed the code that processed ship armor.

The update will allow for better interactions between shells and armor due to a more accurate calculation of the position of the shell in the ship's hull. For example, these changes allow us to avoid situations where a ship receives damage from penetration and overpenetration of the same shell at the same time. They also make it impossible to penetrate a ship's armor through various decorative elements on the deck.

The way in which the parts of a ship's armor are displayed will also change—it will be more detailed and uniform.

The transfer of ships to the new armor system will take effect gradually, starting from Update 0.10.10.

• Added the option to rent a Commander, similar to ship rental.
  
• Fixed an error that caused the shell ballistics of IX Missouri to be calculated incorrectly in some cases.
  
• Fixed an error that caused torpedo range not to be shown in the characteristics of torpedo bombers in the Port.
  
• Fixed an error that caused the Airstrike bomb penetration value to be incorrectly displayed for X Gouden Leeuw.
  Fixed an error that caused the Survivability Expert skill to increase aircraft HP by an incorrect value.
  
• Other Improvements and Changes. For a complete list, please refer to Player Support.

Thank you for being an attentive reader! Click "Collect Your Gift" to claim 1 day of Warships Premium Account. The day of Warships Premium Account will start immediately after you click the button.

You can claim the gift before: Mon. 25 Oct. 15:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Commanders! We've been thinking about what birthday gifts to give you, our players, for quite some time, and our bright idea is finally being brought to life!

Every year, you'll receive a gift in the game on the occasion of your birthday. What gift? Just have a look:

This gift will be given to you on the day of your birthday, as long as you specify the date on the Account Management page and give us permission to send you mails with presents.

To start receiving birthday gifts in the game, you need to:

• Specify your date of birth on the Account Management page (otherwise, how can we know, right?).
  
• Link your account to your email address and confirm it (important for Steam users).
  
• Give us permission to send you letters with presents to your specified email address.
  
• Have at least one battle played in the last 365 days.

Please note: You can change the date of your birthday on the Account Management page once every 365 days.

If all the requirements are met, you'll receive a congratulation letter on your birthday every year! To claim your gift, simply enter the game within a period of 7 days after your specified date of birth.

Congratulatory letters can be sent only once a day. It can happen on the next day from the date you've set before in case you've changed it recently.

• Your birthday coupon will give you 100% cashback in Doubloons when purchasing an item in the Premium Shop. In other words, when you use this coupon to make a purchase, you'll receive both the purchased item and an amount of Doubloons that's equal to the cost of this item.
  
• The maximum cashback amount provided by the coupon is 50,000 Doubloons. There are almost no items that cost more than this in the Premium Shop.
  
• You can use this coupon only once, and you must use it within 7 days of receiving it.
  
• You can't transfer the coupon to another player or use it to purchase a gift for someone else.
  
• The coupons have expiry dates. Each birthday coupon must be used within 7 days of receiving it.

Please note: Each coupon can be applied to a single item, not to the entire cart.

Greetings, Commanders!
Our collaboration with Transformers is still going strong! To celebrate this epic event, we're holding a special giveaway.

1. Click here
   
2. Click the "Like" button
   
3. Leave a comment, and that's it!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2610115648

• Four random winners will get one Transformers Commander of their choice:
  1. Grimlock trained for Republique
  2. Hot-Rod trained for Minotaur
  3. Soundwave trained for Venezia
  4. Starscream trained for Manfred von Richthofen
  
  
• Another four random winners will get one Transformers permanent camouflage of their choice:
  1. King of Primitives for Republique,
  2. Hot Racer for Minotaur
  3. Lord of the Seekers for Manfred von Richthofen
  4. Superior for Venezia

• Any comments that break the discussion rules may be deleted or excluded.
  
• The results will be announced in this thread on October 1. Prizes will be awarded within a week.
  
• A private Steam message will be sent to our winners on October 1. Please answer it within 1 week so we can award you with the prize you choose.

Transformers Commander winners:

• DerHenker7125
  
• EODJOKER
  
• tl28774080
  
• 锡瓦のMedic

Transformers permanent camouflage winners:

• OKTA
  
• sounmichael
  
• https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198929143228
  
• arnold_shorty

Please accept my friend request on Steam and respond to my message, so we can discuss your prize!

Thank you to everyone who took part, we really appreciate your support!

Our ships are reliably protected—Transformers return to World of Warships!

Choose your side and join the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons! During the event, new Commanders with recognizable voiceovers, themed permanent camouflages, containers, combat missions, and much more will be added to the game for a limited time only.


The bundles will be available for purchase until: Fri. 15 Oct. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Visit the Armory and Premium Shop to find all the Transformers Commanders, each with 10 skill points, in a special bundle that also includes permanent camouflages for the corresponding ships.

New Commanders Soundwave, Hot Rod, Grimlock, and Starscream, each with 10 skill points, plus permanent camouflages Lord of the Seekers for X Manfred von Richthofen, Superior for X Venezia, King of Primitives for X République, and Hot Racer for X Minotaur are available in a separate bundle.

[expand style=more] [/expand]
A bundle with both already familiar and new Transformers Commanders, as well as Autobot Ark and Decepticon Disguise camouflages, also awaits you.

All Transformers Commanders have unique voiceovers. You can have an unlimited number of identical Transformers Commanders simultaneously.

You can also purchase any themed permanent camouflage of your choice in the Armory and Premium Shop.

[expand style=more] [/expand]
Start: Fri. 24 Sep. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)
End: Mon. 11 Oct. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Two combat mission chains await you. Complete them to earn event containers and Commanders, commemorative patches and flags, and other rewards.

Earn Base XP; get "Destroyed," "Captured," "Assisted in capture," and "Target hits" ribbons; deal damage; score potential damage; and ensure damage upon your spotting to earn "The Transformers: The Movie 35th Anniversary" and Cybertronian containers, Transformers patches, and a commemorative flag.

To obtain Bumblebee or Rumble with 3 skill points, as well as the Autobot Ark and Decepticon Disguise camouflages, you only need to earn Base XP.

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

You can complete the combat mission chains playing Tier V–X ships in Random, Ranked, and Co-op Battles, as well as in the Convoy mode.

Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) is a global play and entertainment company committed to Creating the World's Best Play and Entertainment Experiences. From toys, games and consumer products to television, movies, digital gaming, live action, music, and virtual reality experiences, Hasbro connects to global audiences by bringing to life great innovations, stories and brands across established and inventive platforms. Hasbro’s iconic brands include NERF, MAGIC THE GATHERING, MY LITTLE PONY, TRANSFORMERS, PLAY-DOH, MONOPOLY, BABY ALIVE, POWER RANGERS, PEPPA PIG and PJ MASKS, as well as premier partner brands. Through its global entertainment studio eOne, as well as its entertainment labels, Allspark Pictures and Allspark Animation, Hasbro is building its brands globally through great storytelling and content on all screens. Hasbro is committed to making the world a better place for children and their families through corporate social responsibility and philanthropy. Hasbro ranked No. 13 on the 2019 100 Best Corporate Citizens list by CR Magazine, and has been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by Ethisphere Institute for the past eight years. Learn more at http://www.hasbro.com, and follow them on Twitter (@Hasbro) and Instagram (@Hasbro).

Captains!

As you already know, Update 0.10.8 went live with several bugs, and the most annoying of them was the torpedo bug that appeared as a result of fixing an error that caused torpedoes to change trajectory if a ship was moving in a circle while launching torpedoes. You can read more about the situation here.

We apologize for these issues. Fortunately, our team has already found solutions to these problems. The full details are available on our Development Blog. Thank you for your constructive feedback—it allowed us to quickly identify the existing problems and start to solve them.

We are giving all players 3 days of Warships Premium Account, and we hope you have a good time in the game!

Please claim your gift on your region’s World of Warships portal before October 5th 13:00 (UTC). If you are not sure what region you are playing on, press ESC in your Port and check the upper left corner.

• EU
  
• CIS
  
• NA
  
• SEA

Wargaming authentication is required.

If you do not have a WG account yet, please complete your registration in-game. More on this:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/552990/announcements/detail/4174225702959905780
For the registration you will receive:

• 3x Steam containers
  
• 250 doubloons
  
• 1 day of Warships Premium Account

With a registered account you can also use all of the website features (bonus codes, gifts, coupons, etc.), and also link your account to Twitch to receive Twitch drops.

Action stations!

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 today(for those already subscribed) and at the end of the month too, 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)

To subscribe, click the "Follow" button

• either on the store page
  
  
• or the community hub
  

If you wish, you can also:

• Follow the Wargaming publisher page if you want to know when new games are released.
  
• Join the official Steam group chat to find some good company.

Commanders!

You'll be happy to hear that we've made it much simpler to participate in the Public Test—you can now log in using your main account. To do so, select Public Test in the Game Instance section of Wargaming Game Center.

The epic "German Battleships: Part 1" event, challenging Asymmetric Battles, spooky Twilight Hunt, and other new features await you! Take a look at the Developer Bulletin, and welcome to the Test! See you on the Public Test Server!

Leave Feedback


Starts: Thu. 23 Sep. 18:30 CEST (UTC+2)
Ends: Tue. 28 Sep. 07:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Сommanders, thank you for participating in the Public Test for Update 0.10.9! Your feedback helps us to improve the version and to fix errors. Check out the changelog and join the second session of the Public Test!

• Added the Depth Charge Airstrike armament for most Tier V-X cruisers and battleships that had no ASW armament. Balance changes were also made to submarines. More details are available in our Development Blog.
  
• Balance changes to german battleships, VI Béarn, and other test ships were made. More details you can find here.
  
• Updated the recommended commander skills for several ships.
  
• Added an option in the game settings to always display timers of fires, floodings and other modificators when choosing an alternate or full battle interface mode.
  
• Fixed an issue which caused IX Missouri's shell ballistics to be counted incorrectly in some cases.
  
• Fixed an issue which caused mouse input to be working incorrectly in some cases.
  
• Fixed several issues with ships and bots in Twilight Hunt and festive Operations.
  
• Fixed several interface issues with Asymmetric battles.
  
• Fixed an issue which caused the penetration of the Airstrike bombs of X Gouden Leeuw to be displayed incorrectly.
  
• Fixed an issue which caused some elements of superstructures or armament not displayed on the models of several ships.
  
• Fixed several other issues.

Asymmetric Battles and Twilight Hunt will be available on the Public Test Server between the following dates:

Start: Thu. 23 Sep. 18:30 CEST (UTC+2)
End: Sat. 25 Sep. 12:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Start: Sat. 25 Sep. 12:00 CEST (UTC+2)
End: Tue. 28 Sep. 07:30 CEST (UTC+2)

• The rewards for activities on the Public Test Server may differ from those on the Live Server.
  
• The rewards are automatically credited to your account within a few days of the release of a new version.

You can earn Community Tokens for completing combat missions on the Public Test Server.

Each Wargaming container drops 1 day of Warships Premium Account, 3x Papa Papa signals, and 3x Juliet Charlie signals.

• The research prices for ships and ship modules will be substantially discounted.
  
• Players will be able to reset Commander skills free of charge.

If you're joining the Public Test for the first time, then, starting with Update 0.10.7, the following bonuses will be additionally credited to your account:

• At the start of the Public Test, every participant will have all researchable Tier VI and VIII ships, helmed by Commanders with 19 skill points, credited to their PT accounts.
  
• 500,000,000 Credits; 30,000 Doubloons; 250,000 Coal, and 90 days of Warships Premium Account.
  
• 50 signals of all types (except for special signals) will also be added to your PT account.

All information on how to join the Public Test and obtain its rewards is available in our instructions.

Public Test: Instructions

The sailors of different navies have different line-crossing ceremonies. Together with the U.S. Naval Institute, we've prepared a selection of photos depicting crew rituals that have taken place when crossing the zero-degree latitude.



The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in various navies that commemorates a sailor's first crossing of the Equator. The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are nicknamed Shellbacks, Trusty Shellbacks, Honorable Shellbacks, or Sons of Neptune. Those who have not crossed are nicknamed Pollywogs, or Slimy Pollywogs.


World cruise of the US Navy, 1907–09. Crossing the Equator. Sailors wading in water aboard a ship.


The "Royal Court" passes judgement during Shellback initiation as USS Rochester (CA-124) crossed the Equator.


Neptune party aboard destroyer tender USS Black Hawk (AD-9) when crossing the Equator en route to the Dutch East Indies.


A Marine Corps officer undergoes the electric treatment during "Shellback" initiation ceremonies for "Pollywogs" as a transport bearing Marines to the South Pacific crosses the Equator.


Murray Wiener, Asst. Physician, crosses the Equator, but not before submitting to having the "Southern Cross" clipped across his chest, a ducking and other "tortures"; Ship's baker, Jack Gambole, washes the victim's mouth under Dr. Alfred B. Geyer's guidance.


Crew members of USS Libra (AKA-12) perform a line-crossing ceremony.

All photos are courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive. Looking for more thrilling shots related to naval history? Check the photo archive online here.