Captains!

It's now much simpler to participate in the Public Test—you can log in using your main account. To do so, select Public Test in the Game Instance section of Wargaming Game Center. You'll receive Community Tokens as a reward for participating in the Public Test. These can be exchanged for Premium ships, permanent camouflages, Supercontainers, and other desirable items!

Asymmetric Battles; superships in Random Battles; the "Pan-Asian Cruisers: Part 1" event; and other new features await you in Update 0.11.0. Take a look at the Developer Bulletin, and welcome to the Test! See you on the Public Test Server!

Starts: Thu. 16 Dec. 17:30 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Tue. 21 Dec. 06:30 CET (UTC+1)

• The rewards for activities on the Public Test Server may differ from those on the Live Server.
  
• The rewards will automatically be credited to your account within a few days of the release of the new version.
  
• You can obtain superships on the Public Test Server for completing a special combat mission playing Tier X ships. More details are available in the game client.

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.
  
• You will be able to reset Commander skills free of charge.

If you're joining the Public Test for the first time since Update 0.10.9, you'll be awarded the following additional bonuses:

• At the start of the Public Test, every participant will have all researchable Tier VI–X 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.

If you fought at least one battle on the Public Test Server during the 0.10.11 Public Test, your account will be copied from the Live Server to the Public Test Server.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/552990/announcements/detail/2716184589232191867

IMPORTANT! Because the update is still being tested, the information in this bulletin is tentative and reflects the state of game development at the time of its publication. Some changes and new features may be removed entirely or implemented differently by the time the update goes live. Screenshots, specific values of certain characteristics, and details of in-game mechanics will not necessarily be relevant after the update is released.

Please note: The rewards for activities on the Public Test Server may differ from those on the Live Server.

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Update 0.11.0 brings Pan-Asian Tier V–X cruisers to Early Access. The ships of the new branch are notable for their small-caliber guns, high rates of fire, and powerful deepwater torpedoes, but they also have rather low survivability.

All researchable Pan-Asian cruisers are equipped with a variant of the Smoke Generator consumable with a reduced cooldown time, and starting from Tier VI, they have Defensive AA Fire. The new Tier VII–X ships are equipped with the Torpedo Reload Booster consumable; and starting from Tier IX—with the Repair Party consumable.

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Complete the event's combat missions to gain Early Access to V Chungking and VII Chumphon, as well as a new temporary resource—Pan-Asian Tokens.

You can exchange Pan-Asian Tokens for various items in the Armory, including sequentially available bundles with VI Rahmat and VIII Harbin, as well as the Silk Dawn permanent camouflages for researchable Pan-Asian Tier VII–X cruisers, plus other rewards.

The number of Tokens you can earn by completing combat missions is enough to obtain VI Rahmat and the permanent camouflage for VII Chumphon. You can purchase X Jinan in exchange for Doubloons after obtaining all the sequential bundles. IX Sejong will be available in random bundles for Doubloons.

The Dragon Port has been updated to celebrate the arrival of the Pan-Asian cruisers in Early Access.

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The Pan-Asian cruisers can't be obtained on the Public Test Server.

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As we've already mentioned, superships with special mechanics have the potential to become a full-fledged part of World of Warships, given the interest shown in them. In the future, we want to continue the existing branches with superships. In addition to the logic of this continuation of the branches, we also believe that due to the superiority of superships in terms of their performance characteristics over their "predecessors," they do not fit into Tier X.

This is a big and important step for our game. Based on our previous experience, we planned to test them thoroughly. We're carefully monitoring both the data we receive and your feedback. The current Ranked Season has shown that superships fit into the current game concept and have been warmly received by players.

Therefore, starting from Update 0.11.0, the testing of superships will continue not only in Ranked and Co-op Battles but also in Random Battles—the most popular battle type in the game. This will allow us to better assess the current state of superships and continue to refine the content that is important for the game development.

In addition, Random Battles have a different format from that of Ranked Battles—12 vs. 12. It's important to test superships in this battle type because this significantly changes the battle tempo and density, which means that the effectiveness of superships may change.

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In Update 0.11.0, rental superships will be available from random bundles in the Armory. Only Tier IX and X ships will be able to participate in battles with superships, and the standard restrictions on the number of ships of certain types and tiers apply in battle.

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The update sees the return of Asymmetric Battles—a temporary battle type with a different distribution of ships and tiers between teams.

We've changed the tiers of ships you can helm into battle.

• Tiers: IX and X
  
• Number of ships: 6–8

• Tiers: VII and VIII
  
• Number of ships: 9–12

If there aren't enough players in the matchmaking queue, bots may be added to teams.

To participate playing a Tier IX–X ship, a new temporary resource—Battle Tokens—is required. You can earn these Tokens for completing combat missions by participating in Asymmetric Battles playing Tier VII–VIII ships.

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We've updated the sonar ping and torpedo mechanics. A submarine can now simultaneously maintain sonar pings on several enemy ships.

• Sonar pings that hit a ship are now either active or inactive.
  
• After you launch torpedoes, they home in on an active ping hit sector and continue to home in on the sector if it becomes inactive. At the same time, torpedoes you release cannot be redirected to another target.
  
• Only the last sonar ping that hits an enemy ship is considered to be active.
  
• If a ship has an active ping hit sector and torpedoes are homing in on the sector, it will become inactive when the ping hits another ship.
  
• If a ship has an active ping hit sector and torpedoes are not homing in on the sector, it will disappear when the ping hits another ship.

These changes will prevent submarines from changing the target their torpedoes are homing in on, but they will also give them the ability to efficiently counter multiple opponents at once.

• Submarines at the operating depth can now detect ships in smoke from the assured acquisition range.
  
• Ships in smoke can now detect submarines at the operating depth from the assured acquisition range.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused submarines to be affected by a 20-second detectability penalty after using a sonar ping.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused ships' detectability to increase for submarines after firing main battery guns while in smoke.

We have also made a number of balance changes to submarines and anti-submarine weapons. The full details are available on our Development Blog.

Captains!

Recently, two bugs have been found on the main server:

• some ship modules have become indestructible;
  
• HP is incorrectly distributed to different parts of the ship when the Survivability Expert skill is active.

The fix for the issue will be deployed Fri. 17 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

Expected downtime: ~1 hour.
Please be aware that because of this, cross-server Clan Battles will not be available on the days the patch is being applied.

Instead of reverting the mechanics, the fix will adjust how getting additional HP works in general (this covers such cases as Survivability Expert or, for example, HP buffs in Arms Race). Additional HP will be distributed among different parts of the ship proportionally instead of being put into the hull. As an example of what effect it might have, a destroyer with about 2,000–2,500 HP in the bow section and roughly 20,000 total HP, the increase of HP in the bow would be about 400 HP, which will not lead to a significant gameplay change. We understand that it won't be a full revert to how it was before, but we were planning to change this mechanic as it will help to improve the technical state of the game and keep the mechanics consistent.

As for the bug with indestructible modules — regrettably, the fix will only be deployed with the release of 0.11.0 due to the noticeable technical risk caused by applying it without sufficient testing, since it concerns the game's crucial damage dealing logic. We will also adjust the combat missions in the Dockyard which require destroying modules.

We apologize for this situation and would like to offer you a token of gratitude in the form of 3 WG containers — each dropping a day of Premium account — in each one which you will be able to claim by pressing the button below until the end of the year.
Ends: Sat. 01 Jan. 01:00 CET (UTC+1)

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

Good luck in battles!

The holiday season is here—it's time to decorate a fir tree and let it shine bright with your victories!

Join the Captain’s Holiday Tree event—festive missions, gifts, and giveaways await you! These activities will make the most magical time of the year even more joyful!

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• The Captain’s Holiday Tree ornaments unlock special missions.
  
• Click the "Participate" button, then click the ornaments and complete the missions they unlock to obtain gifts.
  
• Lucky participants who achieve the best results will receive special rewards!

Starts: Wed. 15 Dec. 11:00 CET (UTC+1)
Ends: Wed. 29 Dec. 01:00 CET (UTC+1)

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The missions can be completed playing Tier V–X ships and superships in Random, Co-op, and Ranked Battles. Each mission has a specific action period.

As New Year gets closer, more ornaments will light up on the Holiday Tree. Complete all the missions before all the ornaments light up!

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The more missions from the ornaments you complete, the more gifts you will receive! The ornaments hold three types of gifts.

• Complete the mission from an ornament to obtain the guaranteed gift.
  
• The giveaway prize is given out randomly among those who’ve obtained the guaranteed gift.
  
• The competitive gift is given to the participant with the highest result within the Competitive mission.

If you complete a competitive mission with better results than anyone else, you will be able to choose and receive any ship* in the game.

* Apart from the collaboration ships (Azur Lane, Warhammer 40,000, Arpeggio, High School Fleet) and ships that are available for Steel or Research Points.

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All details about the event are available below.

• You need to click the "Participate" button on this page to participate in the event.
  
• You can join the event at any time while it is active.

• A set of ornaments can be seen on the Captain's Holiday Tree. Each of them holds two missions: common and competitive.
  
• You can complete a mission and receive its reward only while it is active. If you join the event after a mission has expired, progress will not be considered for this task.
  
• For any common mission, your progress starts to be considered only after you have joined the event.
  
• For any competitive mission, your progress is accounted for the entire time that this mission is active, but you need to join the event while this mission is active.
  
• All the missions can be completed in Random, Co-op, and Ranked Battles. Exception: Only Random Battles are considered for mission no.11.
  
• Each ornament contains three gifts: A guaranteed gift, a random giveaway prize, and a competitive gift.

• The winner of each competitive mission is the player* who achieves the highest result among all other participants.
  
• The nickname of the competitive mission winner will appear in the description of the corresponding ornament within 5 days of the expiration of the competitive mission.
  
• One participant can win no more than one competitive mission during the entire event.

* If several players have the same highest result in a competitive mission, the person who achieved this result first wins. The only exception is the competitive mission for the longest victory streak. If several people have the same longest streak, the person who earned the most Base XP in total while the competitive mission was active wins.

• Winning a competitive mission earns you the right to obtain any ship you like. Apart from the collaboration ships (Azur Lane, Warhammer 40,000, Arpeggio, High School Fleet) and ships that are available for Steel or Research Points.
  
• To obtain the ship, you need to contact Player Support before February 1, 2022, in any format, using the game account that won the competition.
  
• If the winner does not contact Player Support, a Premium Ship IX container will automatically be credited to their account.

• All prizes will be credited after the event ends but no later than January 14.
  
• Competitive gifts are credited within a day of the winner contacting Player Support.

We wish you all the best in successfully completing every holiday mission and hope you obtain as many gifts as possible—happy holidays!

Anyone who plays video games encounters program errors sooner or later.

These types of errors have hindered players since the emergence of the gaming industry. We are used to them and not-so-affectionately nickname them "bugs." Bugs can be found everywhere, and World of Warships is no exception. Our project comprises millions of constantly updated lines of code, a huge amount of content, and a complex system of interactions between players' computers and our servers. All this creates a multitude of relationships in which mistakes can occur. Today, you will learn about how we reduce the number of bugs that reach the main server and how we fix those that are overlooked.

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The term "bug" is probably familiar to most gamers.

A bug is an error that causes the actual result of a program's operation to differ from the expected one.

In the early days of the game, we divided bugs into two main types: bugs in the game content and bugs in the code. Now, there are many more types.

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Quality assurance (QA) teams are responsible for finding and fixing bugs in World of Warships.

QA departments exist in most World of Warships development teams. For example:

• Content: Checking models, sounds, visuals, and more.
  
• Game logic: Checking the correct operation of the game mechanics.
  
• Server core: Checking the correct operation of the game servers.

QA's job is to understand how certain things are implemented in the game. To do this, they study the documentation and communicate with developers. After that, they develop testing processes and schemes that are used to check the program's compliance with its expected behavior.

Both negative and positive tests are carried out when testing the program:

• Positive testing uses scenarios that match the normal, expected behavior of the program. For example, checking that a user can enter the game client upon entering the correct password.
  
• Negative testing involves performing "incorrect" actions deliberately (abnormal scenarios). For example, checking if it is possible to log in to the game client by entering an incorrect password or leaving the password input field blank.

Other types of checks are carried out if deemed necessary: performance tests, user friendliness tests, and others.

In World of Warships, testing can be simplified into several main stages.

Internal testing:

• Various types of functionality testing at all stages of functionality creation, such as:
  
  • Ideation
    
  • Design
    
  • Development
• Integration testing, or checking that all the individual parts of the game work correctly when put together and added to the main game code.
  Testing an assembled build for obvious defects before an external test.

A build is a specific version of the game client that can also be used for testing.

Tracking absolutely all relationships and their results in various elements of such a large project as World of Warships is not possible even for the largest QA teams.

Therefore, external testing begins in parallel with the final stages of internal tests:

• Testing of a pre-release build of the game by a small group of volunteers (Supertest and Clan Test).
  
• Public testing, which is open to everyone.

External testing also allows us to check the operation of the game on a wide variety of computer and software configurations.

The World of Warships development team is also involved in external testing. We have a mechanism called "Traffic lights" in the studio. This is a special page that all teams fill out after playing on the Public Test Server. On this page, staff can leave feedback about each new tested version feature, as well as give it an assessment that is later taken into account when summing up the testing results.

Based on the results of external testing, we fix the last identified errors in the current build of the game. If it is impossible to fix the errors, we may even have to remove certain features from the coming update.

This was the case with Asymmetric Battles in Update 0.10.9. A bug that led to incorrect operation of the mode and required additional time to fix was discovered during the Public Test stage. As a result, the mode was removed from the update.

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Why do bugs occur on the Live Server? Bugs occur for a variety of reasons and at different development stages. From commonplace errors in the program code and the human factor to non-obvious interactions and errors at the stage of creating a design document for a new version.

An error may be present, for example, already at the stage of developing an idea and will still be considered a bug.

For example, the mechanics of temporary invulnerability of an aircraft carrier squadron immediately after an attack, which could earlier be used to overcome the enemy's air defense zone, can also be attributed to bugs. This particular use of the mechanic was not foreseen in the design stage of the aircraft carrier update and was later fixed.

To prevent similar situations, we try to start testing as early as at the stage of discussing new ideas.

In addition, game elements that work perfectly in isolation can "break" when combined with other game elements due to various interconnections and conflicts that arise.

For example, in one of the internal tests of the Ranked Battles update, we found that they caused errors in the operation of Clan Battles—players were not able to start a battle because matchmaking took an infinitely long time. The cause of this was not the most obvious relationship, but it was fortunately found and did not reach the Live Server.

Another cause of bugs—one that is rather difficult to track down—is the huge variety of our users' computer configurations, which, together with the complex client-server architecture, can lead to unexpected behavior of the game code on specific computers.

For example, in one update, due to the date format in Japan being different to the format used in Europe or America, the game code was not able to process this information, and the post-battle statistics were not displayed for some players.

What players consider to be a bug can sometimes not be a bug at all because the program behavior seen by players is actually the expected outcome. In such situations, it is important to analyze player feedback and, possibly, change something. The opposite can also be true—a bug can sometimes become part of the game and the decision not to fix it can be deliberate.

For example, the unique sound of X Shikishima's guns had an error in the audibility range setting (it could be heard at a greater range than was intended), and this error was fixed. However, you noticed that the sound lost its unique quality due to the fix, so we returned this "error" to the game.

Bugs can also be tentatively attributed to technical problems in data centers or Internet providers. Unfortunately, there is little that we can do in such situations, and we cannot always help players, regardless of whether we know the source of the problem.

It should be understood that it is impossible to track down absolutely all bugs. The result of the QA team's work is that a new functionality works as intended, without critical bugs and flaws, and that it can be released on the Live Server.

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Why do some bugs take so long to fix? The required time period for correcting a particular error depends primarily on its nature. Some defects require a significant investment of time as early as the error analysis stage. Indeed, in order to correct an error, we need to reproduce it accurately and understand the reason or reasons why this error occurred.

For example, a recent bug caused torpedoes to launch incorrectly when the launching ship was turning. This was a mistake in the game logic, and any changes and fixes to the game logic are always very risky because they affect absolutely all players and affect the very basis of the game—its gameplay.

Therefore, to fix such an error, it is necessary to accurately analyze player complaints and various reports, find the cause of the problem, and develop and verify a solution. In special cases, it can be necessary to rewrite the game code to fix a bug or optimize it using new technology. This process is called refactoring. Despite the fact that nothing seems to change from the player's point of view, this process takes quite a long time.

In addition, the time frame for correcting errors depends on the ways in which fixes are delivered to players. For example:

• To fix some bugs, it is enough to make small fixes to the server side of the game, which most players will not even notice.
  
• The situation is more complicated when the error also affects the player's client or it is necessary to carry out server maintenance to fix the error. In this case, a small patch can be prepared and additional work performed on the server. The server is not available to players during this time.
  
• Fixing some bugs requires so many changes in the code and additional tests that fixes can only be released with the release of the next major game update.

The decision on how to deliver each fix and the priority of bug fixing is determined by numerous factors:

• Bug severity: Inoperable Random Battles should be fixed as soon as possible, but a typo in the ship's performance specifications can wait a bit.
  
• Scale: Some errors affect all players; other errors occur for one player out of a thousand.
  
• Risks and necessary fix tests: As mentioned above, sloppy fixes in the game logic can only make things worse.
  
• Time spent on server maintenance and the update size: To fix an error, we will need to turn off the server for several hours, and players will need to download quite a big patch. In such cases, it is worthwhile to think again how important it is to fix an error immediately because many players will not be able to enter the game for a long time.

Unfortunately, despite all of our desires to fix all possible bugs, the resources of the World of Warships team are finite, so we focus on fixing the most critical and frequently encountered bugs.

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You can always inform us about any errors you find via one of the following resources:

• Player Support
  
• Game forum
  
• Official World of Warships Discord server

To help facilitate quicker and more efficient error fixing, please add the following to your report:

• Error description.
  
• Screenshot, video, replay, or any other visual confirmation of an error. If you attach a battle replay, make sure to indicate the timing of the error.
  
• WGCheck file. Detailed information about this file is available in a separate article.

In today's article, we did our best to tell you about our "invisible front" in the fight against bugs in the simplest possible way. We want to thank you for your bug reports, feedback, participation in our tests, and playing World of Warships! Without your contribution, we would not have been able to quickly find and correct various errors that have occurred in the game.

The Holiday Season is a time of celebrating, remembering, and gift-giving.

Claim your gifts, exchange New Year Certificates, and purchase containers—each of them drops something valuable: Doubloons, Coal, days of Warships Premium Account, camouflages, signals, or one of 134 ships!

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Tier X ships and rare ships

• X Max Immelmann
  
• X Thunderer
  
• X Marceau
  
• X Hayate
  
• X Småland
  
• X Salem
  
• X Napoli
  
• X Yoshino
  
• X Moskva
  
• X Smolensk
  
• IX Missouri
  
• IX Georgia
  
• IX Jean Bart
  
• IX Musashi
  
• IX Benham
  
• IX Neustrashimy
  
• IX Friesland
  
• IX Alaska
  
• IX Kronshtadt
  
• VIII Enterprise
  
• VIII Massachusetts
  
• VIII Lenin
  
• VIII Asashio
  
• VIII Mikhail Kutuzov
  
• VII Z-39
  
• VII Haida
  
• VII Nelson
  
• VII Flint
  
• VII Belfast
  
• VI Erich Loewenhardt
  
• VI Admiral Graf Spee
  
• VI T-61

Tier VIII and IX ships

• IX Pommern
  
• IX Marco Polo
  
• IX Ägir
  
• IX Azuma
  
• IX Z-44
  
• IX Groningen
  
• VIII Saipan
  
• VIII Indomitable
  
• VIII Graf Zeppelin
  
• VIII Kaga
  
• VIII Alabama
  
• VIII Constellation
  
• VIII Vanguard
  
• VIII Gascogne
  
• VIII Champagne
  
• VIII Flandre
  
• VIII Tirpitz
  
• VIII Roma
  
• VIII Kii
  
• VIII Borodino
  
• VIII Congress
  
• VIII Wichita
  
• VIII Cheshire
  
• VIII Tiger '59
  
• VIII Belfast '43
  
• VIII Bayard
  
• VIII Prinz Eugen
  
• VIII Mainz
  
• VIII Atago
  
• VIII Tone
  
• VIII Ochakov
  
• VIII Pyotr Bagration
  
• VIII Irian
  
• VIII Kidd
  
• VIII Cossack
  
• VIII Le Terrible
  
• VIII Z-35
  
• VIII Orkan
  
• VIII Loyang
  
• VIII Fenyang
  
• VIII Siliwangi

Tier V–VII ships

• VII Florida
  
• VII California
  
• VII Hood
  
• VII Duke of York
  
• VII Strasbourg
  
• VII Scharnhorst
  
• VII Ashitaka
  
• VII Hyūga
  
• VII Poltava
  
• VII Atlanta
  
• VII Indianapolis
  
• VII Boise
  
• VII München
  
• VII Weimar
  
• VII Duca degli Abruzzi
  
• VII Gorizia
  
• VII Lazo
  
• VII Nueve de Julio
  
• VII Yukon
  
• VII Sims
  
• VII Yūdachi
  
• VII Leningrad
  
• VII Błyskawica
  
• VI Ark Royal
  
• VI W. Virginia 1941
  
• VI Arizona
  
• VI Warspite
  
• VI Dunkerque
  
• VI Prinz Eitel Friedrich
  
• VI Mutsu
  
• VI London
  
• VI De Grasse
  
• VI Duca d'Aosta
  
• VI Molotov
  
• VI Admiral Makarov
  
• VI Perth
  
• VI Mysore
  
• VI Huanghe
  
• VI Ise
  
• VI Monaghan
  
• VI Gallant
  
• VI Aigle
  
• VI Leone
  
• VI Juruá
  
• VI Anshan
  
• V Texas
  
• V Agincourt
  
• V Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya
  
• V Viribus Unitis
  
• V Marblehead
  
• V Marblehead Lima
  
• V Exeter
  
• V Genova
  
• V Yahagi
  
• V Murmansk
  
• V Krasny Krym
  
• V Mikoyan
  
• V Kirov
  
• V Hill
  
• V Siroco
  
• V Okhotnik

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More details about the mechanics of containers, as well as the chances of obtaining their specific contents, are available here.

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Start: Fri. 10 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
End: Thu. 20 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

One Santa's Gift container awaits you when you enter the Armory, and you'll obtain another one when you enter the in-game Premium Shop.


Snowflakes will help you collect gifts—blow them off playing Tier X ships to earn New Year Certificates. The Certificates can be exchanged in the Armory:

• One Santa's Gift container can be obtained in exchange for 1 New Year Certificate.
  
• One Santa's Big Gift container can be obtained in exchange for 3 New Year Certificates.
  
• One Santa's Mega Gift container can be obtained in exchange for 5 New Year Certificates.

You'll be able to take advantage of festive battle performance bonuses until the end of Update 0.10.11. You can blow a Snowflake off each ship once in battles of any type, except for Training Battles.

With the release of Update 0.11.0, each remaining New Year certificate will be exchanged for one Santa's Gift container.

Free daily random bundles await you in the Armory. Within them, you'll find four Santa's Gift containers. You'll also find Doubloons, 2 days of Warships Premium Account, festive camouflages, and Coal!
The bundles will be available until: Thu. 20 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

Progress through the shipbuilding phases at the new Clydebank Dockyard to earn numerous rewards, including two Santa's Big Gift containers and one Santa's Gift container.

Four Santa's Gift containers, along with Community Tokens and other rewards, await you for completing special combat mission chains that can be unlocked on our website. Stay tuned for the news so you don't miss them!

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.

In Update 0.10.11, you will be able to start building new British battleship Marlborough at the Clydebank Dockyard, as well as obtain two other ships—Dreadnought and Repulse!

IX Marlborough is based on a 1947 project with some of the design solutions borrowed from the Vanguard-class and King George V-class ships. Her primary feature is extensive but not particularly accurate artillery consisting of sixteen 356 mm guns housed in four turrets. While the battleship's armor is rather mediocre, this is compensated for by low detectability and numerous main battery guns that fire quite rapidly for her type and have a decent firing range.

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While constructing IX Marlborough, you can also obtain the famous III Dreadnought and a new ship, VI Repulse—one of the Renown-class battleships that fought during the First and Second World Wars. The ship is armed with six 381 mm guns housed in three turrets. The guns have a good reach and decent accuracy, and they reload quickly for a battleship. Repulse enjoys high speed and a large HP pool, but she is relatively poorly armored.

• The construction process at the Dockyard comprises 32 phases.
  
• These shipbuilding phases can be progressed through by completing Dockyard combat mission groups or by spending 1,500 Doubloons to pass through each phase.
  
• If you want to complete shipbuilding phases at a discount, you can purchase Starter Packs: eleven shipbuilding phases in exchange for 9,900 Doubloons and five shipbuilding phases in exchange for 5,500 Doubloons.
  
• You can complete combat mission groups throughout the entire duration of Update 0.10.11 and during the first 3 weeks of Update 0.11.0. The Dockyard will remain available until the end of Update 0.11.1.
  
• In total, you can progress through 27 out of 32 shipbuilding phases by completing the Dockyard combat mission groups.

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You'll receive III Dreadnought in the Snow and Stars permanent camouflage, a 6-skill-point Commander, and a Port slot as a reward for completing the 6th shipbuilding phase.

Completing the 18th shipbuilding phase will reward you with VI Repulse in the Snow and Stars permanent camouflage, a 6-skill-point Commander, and a Port slot.

Completing other shipbuilding phases will bring you Santa's Gift, Santa's Big Gift, and Santa's Mega Gift containers; New Year Sky expendable camouflages; days of Warships Premium Account; Coal; Steel; Research Points; and other valuable rewards. Upon completing the 32nd shipbuilding phase, you'll receive IX Marlborough in the War Paint camouflage, a Commander with 10 skill points, a Port slot, and a commemorative flag.

If you already have III Dreadnought in your Port, you'll receive 5,250,000 Credits as compensation.

If you decide to complete the construction of IX Marlborough by spending Doubloons, you'll still be able to progress through the Dockyard combat mission groups. In that case, instead of the usual rewards for completing the shipbuilding phases, you'll get 250 Steel for each completed phase.

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The new game event tasks you with completing 72 combat missions spread across eight groups. The first group will become available with the release of Update 0.10.11, while those that follow will be unlocked on a weekly basis.

Completing each of the first five groups will progress you through three shipbuilding phases—two for accomplishing certain missions and one for finishing the group. Completing each of the remaining three combat mission groups will progress you through four shipbuilding phases—three for accomplishing certain missions and one for finishing the group.

The Dockyard combat mission groups will be available throughout the entire duration of Update 0.10.11 and during the first 3 weeks of Update 0.11.0.

Detailed information about the mission completion criteria can be found in the game client.

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By progressing through the combat mission groups, you can complete 27 out of 32 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:

• III Dreadnought in the Snow and Stars permanent camouflage with a 6-skill-point Commander and a Port slot
  
• 1x Santa's Gift container
  
• 5x New Year Sky expendable camouflages
  
• 2,000 Coal
  
• 20,000 Elite Commander XP
  
• 1 day of Warships Premium Account

Finishing six out of eight combat mission groups will allow you to complete up to 19 shipbuilding phases and obtain:

• III Dreadnought in the Snow and Stars permanent camouflage with a 6-skill-point Commander and a Port slot
  
• VI Repulse in the Snow and Stars permanent camouflage with a 6-skill-point Commander and a Port slot
  
• 1x Santa's Gift container and 1x Santa's Big Gift container
  
• 5 days of Warships Premium Account
  
• 10x New Year Sky expendable camouflages
  
• 5x expendable camouflages of each type: "Type 3 — New Year," Frosty Fir Tree, New Year, New Year Streamer, and Winter Strands
  
• 10x Basilisk special signals
  
• 2,000 Coal
  
• 20,000 Elite Commander XP
  
• 10,000 Free XP
  
• 1x Gift container

By completing the last two combat mission groups, you'll finish 27 shipbuilding phases and, in addition to the rewards specified above, receive one additional Santa's Big Gift container and ten of each of the following special signals: Ouroboros, Wyvern, Dragon, Scylla, Leviathan, Hydra, and Red Dragon.

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In order to complete phases 28–32, in addition to progressing through all the combat mission groups, you'll need to spend Doubloons to finish any five shipbuilding phases. This will reward you with:

• 10,000 Coal for completing phase 28
  
• 1x Santa's Mega Gift container for completing phase 29
  
• 4,000 Research Points for completing phase 30
  
• 2,000 Steel for completing phase 31
  
• IX Marlborough in the War Paint camouflage, a Commander with 10 skill points, a Port slot, and a commemorative flag for completing phase 32

If you want to complete shipbuilding phases at a discount, you can purchase Starter Packs:

• Eleven shipbuilding phases for 9,900 Doubloons
  
• Five shipbuilding phases for 5,500 Doubloons

However, these packs will only be available for purchase prior to the point in time when you complete three shipbuilding phases by finishing combat missions. Once you've purchased both Starter Packs or completed three shipbuilding phases by finishing combat missions, you'll be able to purchase further phases individually for 1,500 Doubloons each.

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Two weeks after the release of Update 0.10.11, five themed groups of the New Year Fleet combat missions will become available. To complete them, you need to obtain VI Repulse, which is a reward for finishing the 18th shipbuilding phase at the Dockyard.

The reward for the first group is the New Year permanent camouflage for Tier VIII ships. Completing groups two, three, and four will earn you VI Weser, VI Fubuki, and VI Izmail, respectively. Each ship comes with the Snow and Stars permanent camouflage and a Commander with 6 skill points. The reward for completing the last combat mission group is VI Kijkduin in the Snow and Stars permanent camouflage and Dutch Commander Sinterklaas with 10 skill points.

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All five combat mission groups will become available simultaneously. The first combat mission group can only be completed playing VI Repulse.

All details on the missions will be available in the game client.

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The following new features await you in Update 0.10.11:

• The new Scottish Clydebank Dockyard, where you can build IX Marlborough.
  
• The New Year's Night event, a festive collection, and other festive activities.
  
• The new German battleships leaving Early Access.
  
• Visual and technical improvements.

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 this article with your friends and Clanmates so they can arm themselves with all the essential info for this update!

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Start: Fri. 10 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
End: Thu. 20 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

A free Santa's Gift container will be available for you on the main page in the Armory. You can also claim another Santa's Gift container in the in-game Premium Shop.

The Armory and Premium Shop are also offering bundles with three types of Santa's Gift containers. In these festive containers, you'll find Doubloons, Coal, days of Warships Premium Account, camouflages, signals, or even one of 134 ships. You have specific chances to obtain rare ships, as well as Tier X ships.

Receive traditional New Year battle performance bonuses—"Snowflakes"—playing all of your Tier V ships and higher.

The bonus for combat results can be obtained by either scoring the first victory or earning 300 base XP playing a ship. Depending on the ship tier, you'll receive:

• Tier V–VII ships: 750 Coal
  
• Tier VIII–IX ships: 75 Steel
  
• Tier X ships: 1 New Year Certificate

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New Year Certificates are a special temporary resource that you can exchange for festive Santa's Gift, Santa's Big Gift, and Santa's Mega Gift containers during Update 0.10.11.

• You can get one Santa's Gift container in exchange for 1 New Year Certificate.
  
• You can get one Santa's Big Gift container in exchange for 3 New Year Certificates.
  
• You can get one Santa's Mega Gift container in exchange for 5 New Year Certificates.

You'll be able to take advantage of festive battle performance bonuses until the end of Update 0.10.11. You can blow a Snowflake off each ship once in battles of any type, except for Training Battles.

With the release of Update 0.11.0, each remaining New Year certificate will be exchanged for one Santa's Gift container.

If the exchange limit of 100 unopened containers is exceeded, the Santa's Gift containers you receive will not be opened automatically. This means that you can store more than 100 containers. However, due to the technical specifics of containers received after the exchange limit, the subsequent opening of a Santa's Gift container or any other container that you receive will lead to all Santa's Gift containers that exceed the unopened container limit being opened.

Let's say you have 100 unopened containers and 4 New Year Certificates at the end of the update cycle, for example. With the release of Update 0.11.0, your remaining 4 New Year certificates will be exchanged for four Santa's Gift containers, and these will not be opened automatically. Thus, you'll have 104 unopened containers. If you then open one Santa's Gift container or receive a More Resources container, any other Santa's Gift containers in your possession that exceed the limit will be opened automatically.

One of the primary features of our New Year celebrations is a temporary event called New Year's Night. Magic stars brought three snow giants to life, and those snow giants now have the responsibility to prepare the festive celebrations. Each star entrusted its snow giant an errand in preparation for the celebrations. Help them contribute to the celebration!

The New Year's Night event is similar to the Aircraft Bureaus Rivalry and Battle of the Beasts events but with some small interface tweaks—we've updated the tooltips on the team selection screen and above the mission cards.

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The event starts 2 weeks after the release of the update and runs until the end of Update 0.10.11. It is divided into four stages, with each stage running for 1 week.

Once each week, you can choose one of three teams named after the magic stars: Modus, Sertum, or Munera. During the event, you need to complete personal missions that are issued daily to all participants. The missions can be completed throughout the day in Random, Co-op, and Ranked Battles. Completing the missions will advance you through personal and team progress bars and unlock rewards.

Each team offers different unique rewards such as themed Commanders—the snow giants with 6 skill points—and V Omaha, V Jaguar, or V Conte di Cavour in the Snow and Stars permanent camouflage. The first time you earn a unique reward from any team, you will also receive the New Year's Night achievement.

Other rewards include a new temporary resource— Star Tokens, Christmas and New Year in the Navy collection containers, and New Year Sky expendable camouflages.

You can receive up to 600 Star Tokens for taking part in the event. Apart from that, you can obtain up to 300 Star Tokens in exchange for Credits in the Armory, or alternatively, you can also purchase them with Doubloons.

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Full details of the New Year's Night event will be revealed in a dedicated article.


The festive collection is dedicated to New Year and Christmas traditions in the navy. It consists of four pages, with six elements on each. The reward for completing each page is 1 day of Warships Premium Account. The reward for completing the entire collection is a Santa’s Big Gift container.

Collection elements drop only from Christmas and New Year in the Navy containers.

These containers can be obtained by participating in the New Year's Night event and in exchange for Star Tokens in the Armory. You can receive a total of:

• Up to 28 containers in the New Year's Night event
  
• Up to 40 containers for Star Tokens received in the New Year's Night event
  
• Up to 20 containers for Star Tokens purchased with Credits

The exchange rate for duplicates is 4:1.

In a future update, the Christmas and New Year in the Navy containers will be added to the Armory and be available in exchange for Coal.

In Update 0.10.11, five themed groups of the New Year Navy combat missions will become available. To complete them, you need to obtain VI Repulse, which is one of the rewards at the Dockyard.

The reward for completing the first group is the New Year permanent camouflage for Tier VIII ships. Completing groups two, three, and four will earn you VI Weser, VI Fubuki, and VI Izmail, respectively, all in the Snow and Stars permanent camouflage. The ships also come with Commanders with 6 skill points. The reward for completing the last combat mission group is VI Kijkduin in the Snow and Stars permanent camouflage and festive Dutch Commander Sinterklaas with 10 skill points.

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All five combat mission groups will become available at the same time, 2 weeks after the event starts. The first combat mission group can only be completed playing VI Repulse.

Details about the mission completion criteria will be available in the game client.

To mark the celebrations, we've updated the Port of London.

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Update 0.10.11 offers you the opportunity to start building a new ship. IX Marlborough is based on a 1947 project with some of the design solutions borrowed from the Vanguard-class and King George V-class ships. Her primary feature is extensive but not particularly accurate artillery consisting of sixteen 356 mm guns housed in four turrets. While the battleship's armor is rather mediocre, this is compensated for by low detectability and numerous main battery guns that fire quite rapidly for her type and have a decent firing range.

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While constructing IX Marlborough, you can also obtain the famous III Dreadnought and a new ship, VI Repulse—one of the Renown-class battleships that fought during the First and Second World Wars. The ship is armed with six 381 mm guns housed in three turrets. The guns have a good reach and decent accuracy, and they reload quickly for a battleship. Repulse enjoys high speed and a large HP pool, but she is relatively poorly armored.





We'll provide you more details on building of IX Marlborough in a separate dedicated article.

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The torpedo homing mechanics have been updated:

• At the maximum launch distance, they will home in strictly on the impact point of a sonar ping without considering the target lead.
  
• As the distance to the target decreases, torpedoes will home in with a gradually increasing lead—up to 50%. After reaching half the launch distance, torpedoes will home in strictly on the lead point.
  
• At the same time, just like before, torpedoes stop homing when they are within a certain distance of their target.

This change will allow torpedoes to home in on their targets in a more natural way and reduce the frequency of situations where homing torpedoes launched in the proximity of islands at ships highlighted with a sonar ping would hit the land. Moreover, it will be somewhat easier for the target itself to dodge homing torpedoes because removing the sonar ping effect no longer affects the accuracy of torpedoes.

The Hydrophone now becomes available some time after each battle begins. Unlike main battery guns or torpedo launchers, the time that the Hydrophone takes to prepare for battle is longer than its reload time.

This change will reduce the impact of submarines on the gameplay on enemy submarines at the beginning of each battle and allow them to occupy a more advantageous tactical position without being detected by the Hydrophone at the very start of the battle.

• Added an underwater torpedo reticle.
  
• You can enter Training Battles playing submarines on maps that feature the underwater world.
  
• Added the indication of additional dive capacity depletion for a detected enemy submarine.
  
• Added information about the additional dive capacity depletion of detected submarines to the post-battle statistics screen.
  
• Added new tips for submarines when they launch sonar pings at a target:
  
  • "The ping will be dispersed"—if the target has the Damage Control Party or Fast Damage Control Team consumable active.
    
  • "Insufficient time for torpedoes to acquire the target"—if the target is too close for torpedoes to home in.
• The ship status screen that is brought up by pressing H now displays the ship's detectability from a submarine that is at the operational or periscope depths, as well as when the ship is inside a smoke screen.
  
• Added the ability to switch to torpedo launchers from Sonar by pressing 3 for all submarines.

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Four single-use coupons for the "Ships for Doubloons" category, which grant 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25% discounts, have been added to the Armory.
Coupons will become available: Thu. 23 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)
Coupons valid through: Sat. 08 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

Be on the lookout for Christmas Preparations free random bundles in the Armory. Among them, you can expect to find 4x Santa's Gift containers, Doubloons, days of Warships Premium Account, festive camouflages, and Coal.

A total of 18 bundles will be available until the end of Update 0.10.11, so you can skip more than 3 weeks and still be able to collect all the rewards.

You can obtain only one bundle each day.

We have added a Dutch Commander—Klaas Janssen—available in exchange for 35,000 Coal. The Commander has two improved skills:

• For destroyers, cruisers, and battleships—Demolition Expert: +1.5% to the chances of setting a target on fire when hitting it with HE shells (by default: +1%).
  
• For cruisers and battleships—Focus Fire Training: +35% to AA damage in the priority sector (by default: +25%).

Added a German Destroyers container, available in exchange for 2,000 Coal. We have also changed the contents of the container.

Each German Destroyers container now includes:

• An element of the same-name collection
  
• 1x "Black, White, Red" camouflage
  
• 3x signals of the same type (Zulu, Equal Speed Charlie London, Papa Papa, or Zulu Hotel) or 1,500 Elite Commander XP

When the update goes live, the contents of all German Destroyers containers that are currently in players' possession will be updated as well.

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The update brings the following items to the game:

• Japanese Castle permanent camouflage for VI Fusō.
  
• "A Good Cause" commemorative flag and patch.
  
• New Year Constellation commemorative flag.
  
• Early Morning and For Valiant Service expendable camouflages. Visually, these are identical to the Rising and For Meritorious Service camouflages, but provide a different set of bonuses.

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• −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
  
• +75% Commander XP per battle
  
• +50% Free XP per battle
  
• +50% Credits per battle

Details on how to obtain these in-game items will be announced later.

We have added new ships that can drop from Supercontainers and Steam Supercontainers.

The armor layout of VIII Pobeda has been updated to accommodate the new technology we touched upon in detail in our article about Update 0.10.9.

With future updates, we'll continue reworking ships to gradually accommodate the new armor protection system.

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Players now have access to a selection of sound presets in the Game Settings. By switching between those presets, you can quickly adjust the audio image of the game to your preferences at any moment.

Available sound presets:

• Standard: Default sound settings.
  
• Cinematic: Sound effects are brought to the foreground; the sound is more vivid and saturated.
  
• Simple: The volume of sound effects is reduced; additional sounds and highly distracting audio effects are disabled. This setting will help focus your attention on in-game notifications.
  
• Night: The settings are optimized for playing at low and medium volumes and the dynamic range is reduced. At the same time, all effects and notifications are preserved.
  
• Custom: Gives you the ability to set up the game sound yourself using the fine-tuning sliders.

Each sound preset is based on the following:

• Varying loudness of different groups of sounds.
  
• Varying audio frequency corrections.
  
• Enabling or disabling certain sounds.
  
• Varying dynamic characteristics.

None of the presets, except Custom, offer any fine-tuning capabilities, and you can only adjust the general volume settings. This, however, will let you immerse yourself in the various audio options we've added to the game.

Sound presets can be selected in the Game Settings. The Standard preset is active by default. Any preconfigured sound settings will not be reset with the release of the update. Instead, the Custom option will be enabled.

To avoid a long break between the current and following seasons of Ranked Battles, the Fifth Season will be extended for an extra 2-week long Sprint.
Updated Season completion time: Thu. 17 Feb. 01:00 CET (UTC+1)

We've updated the templates for the matchmaker and the behavior of AI-controlled bots in Co-op Battles.

• The matchmaker start template used for battles of Tier VI and above includes a maximum of three battleships and three destroyers per team. If the waiting time of the first player in the queue for battle exceeds 25 seconds, the maximum allowed number of battleships and destroyers per team changes to four.
  
• We have excluded the possibility of matching battles with five battleships or five destroyers per team for all battle tiers.
  
• Bots will now fire at targets more accurately.

These changes will provide for better balance in team lineups in Co-op Battles while also making the behavior of bots more realistic.

We've changed the screen transition sequence after purchasing a ship: Now, when purchasing a new ship from the Tech Tree, you will be taken to the ship demonstration screen. From there, you can navigate to the Equipment tab, to the Port, or back to the Tech Tree.

Ships can now be purchased from the ship viewing window. Added the "To Tech Tree" button to the ship viewing window.

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• Added the underwater world to the following maps: Ring, Defense of Naval Station Newport, Operation Killer Whale, and Raptor Rescue.
  
• Added text hints about the condition of the Depth Charges and Airstrike armament in battle.
  
• The 150 mm/45 SK L/45 secondary battery guns mounted on VIII Zieten were replaced with 150 mm/55 SK C/28 guns to maintain unified shells ballistics of 150 mm secondary battery guns.
  
• VIII Ship Smasha now has two charges of the Depth Charge armament, same as VIII Fenyang.
  
• The spawn points for submarines have been slightly changed for all maps.
  
• We've reworked the flag with the Warhammer 40,000 logo that's mounted on board VIII Ship Smasha, VIII Cross of Dorn, VIII Ignis Purgatio, and VIII Ragnarok.
  
• Fixed a sync issue that caused the position of sub torpedoes to be displayed incorrectly.
  
• Fixed an issue that extended the firing range of certain ships beyond their spotting range.
  
• Other improvements and changes. For a complete list, please refer to Player Support.

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