Please note that the servers will be temporarily unavailable due to the release of an update. The schedule is available below.

Maintenance times are tentative and subject to change. Please accept our apologies for any inconveniences.
The new update will go live some time after it's been downloaded because the client and server sides are updated separately. While the client begins to update immediately, it takes time for the servers to be updated across all regions.

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

Subtitles can be enabled in the video player separately.

• German and U.S. Submarines in Early Access
  
• Operation Wolfpack
  
• Halloween Celebrations
  
• Construction at the Dockyard entering the final straight
  
• Ranked Battles
  
• Brawls
  
• The Adventure: Velos
  
• Interface Changes
  
• Testing the cross-server matchmaker
  
• Armory
  
• Game Balance Changes
  
• Content additions and changes
  
• Other Changes and Improvements

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You can claim your reward before: Mon. 31 Oct. 15:00 CEST (UTC+2)

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• Leave a comment under this news. 
  
• Play 5 battles within the specified time period. Game modes: All modes except Training

• Guaranteed prize: 200 Community Tokens.
  
• Superprize for 5 random winners: 1x Premium Ship VIII container

• The superprize winners will be picked at random from the pool of participating unique users.
  
• Any comments that break the discussion rules may be deleted or excluded.
  
• We will announce the results in this thread on October 3. The prizes will be awarded within a week.

We wish you good luck and following seas!

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Commanders!

Some of the players who acquired the American Freedom DLC, among other items, should have received a Dunkerque on their account. But due to a technical error, players were incorrectly credited with the regular version of this ship or compensation in doubloons if they already have her. The excess items have already been withdrawn from the accounts of the affected players. We have fixed the issue by providing 1 week rental of Dunkerque, as well as 1 Steam container for the inconvenience caused.


Thank you for your understanding.

Update 0.11.8 sees four Brawls unleashed in different formats. Round 4 will be held in a 12 vs. 12 format playing Tier VIII destroyers.

Brawls are characterized by short seasons and unusual team formats. The clashes are fast and dynamic.

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Up to 10,000 Coal, 2,250,000 Credits, 80,000 Elite Commander XP, 56 combat signals, and 16 expendable economic bonuses.

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You can take part in the Brawl only during the time period specific to your server.

Format: 12 vs. 12 playing Tier VIII destroyers
Big Race, Polar, Islands, Loop, Warrior's Path, and Trident. Battles on all maps are fought in the Domination mode.

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Greetings, Commander! We're the World of Warships Content Team.

We want to address you directly and thank you for being with us for these 7 action-packed years! During this time, we've been working hard on our mission to elevate your experience in the game and make our beloved World of Warships even more enjoyable to immerse yourself in.

Together with you, we make a perfect team! Your valuable insights and feedback give us important prompts about the areas we need to develop further. We've become more open and eager to inform you in detail about not only the game updates but also about our development plans for the months ahead. We thoroughly read all of your comments, and these help us come to what we hope are the correct conclusions about how to improve the game. We hope that you might appreciate this closer interaction and that the fruits of our labor will bring you greater satisfaction and enjoyment in the game.

World of Warships is celebrating its Seventh Anniversary right now! It's quite a respectable age for the world of online games, which is pretty much always moving at the speed of light. But World of Warships is much more than just a game, right? For us, it's the community that makes it so special. In other words—you and your many fellow Captains from around the world! To celebrate this special occasion, we've prepared loads of birthday activities and gifts. Read on to find out what you can still look forward to!

• Explore the Treasure Map and journey across the game, our official website, and YouTube channel to obtain the final reward and take part in a superprize raffle.
  
• Take advantage of battle performance bonuses on all ships starting from Tier V. You'll now be able to receive several gifts per battle!
  
• Take a fresh look at our historical Ports. Learn fascinating facts about 16 well-known Ports in World of Warships. Gather elements of the collection, enter Ports, find hidden numbers, and obtain a bonus code. And if you're wondering what the code is for... Look for the answer from FairPlayer_I!
  
• Immerse yourself in the tense atmosphere of the Warship Strike minigame, where the opposition's ships are invisible and the first shells are pretty much fired at random. You'll find Warship Strike in the Armory!
  
• Complete a chain of combat missions to obtain up to seven Thetis expendable camouflages, up to three Common Bonus containers, and Commander Master of the Seven Seas with 6 skill points for European ships.
  
• Earn Base XP, complete a combat mission, and receive a Seven Seas commemorative flag.

You can read the full details about World of Warships' Anniversary activities in a special article on our website. Stay on course—let's sail into the future together, Commander!

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Help us make the game better! Answer a simple survey question to open another element on the Treasure Map and grab a gift—a Seven Seas festive container. Use this link to find out more about the upcoming activities.

We keep you posted and help you navigate the sea of game news. Every week, the "In a Nutshell" series and its host Natalie provide you with an overview of the main events of the past 7 days.

Did you enjoy the video? Subscribe to our channel to stay tuned!

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Ends: Fri. 14 Oct. 07:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Another special combat mission awaits you: Earn 7,777 base XP to obtain the Seven Seas flag. You'll find the mission on the page with the game statistics!

You can complete the combat mission chain playing Tier V–X ships and superships in Random and Ranked Battles, as well as in Operations and Brawls.

As the name suggests, the Recruiting Station is World of Warships’ referral program, and it’s actually much simpler to take advantage of than you might think. In essence, what happens is that a player sends invitations to people who they think would enjoy World of Warships. The inviting player receives rewards when the people they invite accept their invitations and play the game.

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The Recruiting Station revolves around the relationship between the Recruiter and their Recruits.

• A Recruiter can be any player with at least 15 battles fought on their account
  
• A Recruit (a.k.a. Shipmate) is a person who either:
  
  
  • Doesn’t have a World of Warships account
    
  • Has fewer than 15 battles on record
    
  • Has an account but hasn’t played in 90+ days

If you fit the criterion to be a Recruiter and you know someone who fits the criteria to be a Recruit, then just send them an invitation through the Recruiting Station interface—either on our website or from your in-game Port screen.

Recruiting Station

You can send as many invitations as you want to as many people as you want—there’s no downside.

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Once somebody accepts one of your invitations, they become tied to your account as your Recruit. What does that mean for you?

• For every single battle your Recruit fights alone, 10 Community Tokens will be credited to your account, up to a limit of 1,500 Community tokens per week.
  
• For every single battle you fight in a Division with one or two of your Recruits, 18 or 22 Community Tokens will be credited to your Account, respectively, plus bonus amounts if these battles end in victory.

• The first time your Recruit fights a battle playing a Tier VI ship, 3 days of Warships Premium account will be credited to your account.

• You will receive 10% of the total value of every purchase made by your Recruits in the Premium Shop in the form of Doubloons.

As you can see, you can pick your own pace. You can actively support your Shipmates in progressing faster and get higher rewards, or you can just send the invite, sit back, and reap the regular Recruit battle rewards without having to lift a finger. The choice is yours!

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So, you’ve recruited an entire gang of Shipmates and you’re swimming in Community Tokens. What now?

Community Tokens are first and foremost an Armory currency.

Head to the Naval Community tab in the Armory interface and take your pick—from signal flags and economic bonuses to Premium ship containers, special Commanders, and Supercontainers.



But Community Tokens are not just any Armory currency.

They have a unique property that allows you to spend them in the REWARDS section of the Recruiting Station interface. There, you can exchange Community Tokens for special bundles of two of each type of Recruiting Station container at a discount. What’s special about these bundles is that while one of the containers goes to your account, the second goes to the Recruit of your choice. It offers a welcome chance for them to obtain one of the valuable rewards inside these containers, including Premium ships.

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The Recruiter isn’t the only one who benefits from this special relationship. So, what do Recruits get?

Fight one battle in any mode, except for battles in the Training Room

• II Emden with the National camouflage, a Port slot, and Commander with 9 skill points
  
• 7 days of Warships Premium Account

Fight one battle playing a Tier VI ship

• VI Repulse with a Port slot and Commander with 10 skill points
  
• 7 days of Warships Premium Account
  
• 5,000,000 Credits
  
• 25x signals of each type
  
• 30x common expendable economic bonuses of each type
  
• 25x special expendable economic bonuses of each type
  
• 20x rare expendable economic bonuses of each type
  
• 5x More Coal containers

Win 25 battles playing Tier IV–X ships

• 14 days of Warships Premium Account
  
• Premium Ship V container

• Every single battle a Recruit fights in a Division with their Recruiter will net them 5 Community Tokens—10 if the battle ends in victory.

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The World of Warships Seventh Anniversary party has spread to the Recruiting Station with bonus prizes and hot giveaways for both Recruiters and their Recruits while Update 0.11.8 is live! Each successful Recruit means guaranteed Community Tokens plus entry to both a weekly giveaway and the Grand Giveaway that takes place at the close of the event with Premium ship containers, t-shirts, or even the coveted Belfast on the line!
Event ends: Fri. 07 Oct. 01:59 CEST (UTC+2)

Take Part Now!

For more detailed information about the Recruiting Station, click here.

Commanders!

When World of Warships first released in 2015, there were only two nations available to play: USA and Japan.

Now—7 years, 11 nations, and 400+ ships later—we’re proud to be able to celebrate our game’s anniversary with a pleasure cruise down memory lane: pick up our festive gift and experience a wave of nostalgia aboard some of our most veteran American and Japanese Tier III researchable ships, each with her own 3-point Commander.

To unlock the gift, simply claim one of the following Free DLCs:

• American Freedom

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1889260/World_of_Warships

• Way of the Warrior

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1954920/World_of_Warships

As soon as you claim one of the two, the other will also be automatically unlocked on your account. In total, you will receive:

• American Destroyer Wickes
  
• American Cruiser St. Louis
  
• American Battleship South Carolina
  
• Japanese Destroyer Wakatake
  
• Japanese Cruiser Tenryū
  
• Japanese Battleship Kawachi
  
• 2 days of Warships Premium Account

*These ships are researchable — meaning that they can be earned in-game through playing. This bundle offers to speed up your low Tier research by giving you immediate access to this nation's different ship types.
If you already own one or more of these ships, you will receive compensation for them in credits.

IIf you like reading our news on Steam, there’s a good chance you’ve already subscribed. But if you haven’t yet—we’ve got a sweet new reason to do so!

Each month, subscribers will get a FREE Steam container! We’re going to send one out today (for those already subscribed) and another one at the end of the month.

To subscribe, click the "Follow" button either on the store page



or the community hub.



Each Steam container drops 10x signal flags and one of four random items: 250 Doubloons; or 5x Steam camouflages; or 10,000 Free XP; or 1 day of Warships Premium Account.

Well-coordinated actions are especially important when it comes to team play. World of Warships is a game that encourages players to coordinate their actions with those of their allies to secure victories in battle. But is this possible in a team composed of random players? If you doubt it, there's a solution—create a Division!

Divisions allow two or three players to join together and fight in battle. You can play with your friends and cover one another like partners do in your favorite action movies, try different combat tactics, have lots of fun, and generally enjoy the game together. If you don't have any friends in the game yet, Divisions will help you find some. You just have to take the first step, or in this case—simply click a couple of buttons!

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You can find the Division menu in the Port to the left of the Battle! button. By opening it, you'll see a list of your contacts, as well as the nicknames of players who are currently looking for a Division. Click a player's nickname to instantly invite them to your Division. After that, all you need to do is select ships and head into battle. You can also use the "Looking to Join a Division" button in the Division menu. Click it, and your nickname will become visible to other players who will be able to invite you to a Division.

The chat button can be found in the bottom-left corner, under the ship carousel. One of chat channels is specifically dedicated to searching for Divisions. Enter this channel and introduce yourself.

Found a player with admirable skill? Invite them to your Division right in the heat of battle! Press the Tab key to open the Divisions tab, where you can quickly create a Division or submit a request to join an existing one. Divisions created right in battle are called "dynamic."

To look for Divisions, you can use a special section of our official forum or a separate channel on Discord. The advantage of this option is that you can be more thorough in choosing your brothers and sisters in arms by communicating with them in advance of banding together.

If you have a friend who's eager to play, it's even simpler— just add them to your contacts using a dedicated button in the bottom-left corner of the Port and invite them to your Division by clicking their nickname. If your friend doesn't have a World of Warships account yet, send them a referral link via the Recruiting Station program. By registering with this link, your friend will receive loads of in-game presents, and both of you will obtain rewards for playing together afterwards.

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Not everyone likes communicating in battle. When fighting in a Division, theoretically, you can work together without direct communication and use quick commands instead. But communication is one of key advantages of playing in a Division. It helps improve interaction like nothing else. For this purpose, Division members can use:

• A separate text chat both in the Port and in battle.
  
• Internal voice chat.

In general, you can use any means of communication, including Discord (vacant rooms are always readily available on our server).

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We've already made a passing mention of the wide variety of tactics that you can use in battle as one of main advantages of playing in a Division. These are not just mere words. There's straight logic here—each ship type in World of Warships has its weak spot. But a reliable ally will help you keep it protected, and you'll form a versatile power. In a Division, you can apply this tactic in every battle.

• A cruiser + a destroyer with Smoke Generator. In this tandem, the destroyer's smoke will provide cover for the cruiser while she delivers targeted artillery salvos to strike opposing ships spotted by the destroyer.
  
• A destroyer + a battleship. Enemy targets are spotted by the destroyer, and crushing artillery fire is delivered to them from the battleship's guns. The same applies to cooperation between a battleship and an aircraft carrier. The latter is generally perfect at conducting reconnaissance; the former can deliver the sinking blow.
  
• An aircraft carrier + a destroyer. The aircraft carrier can both perform reconnaissance and cover the destroyer from air attacks. This leaves the destroyer more free to capture Key Areas and cause other problems for the opposing team.
  
• A Division of battleships. This combination allows you to bring devastating concentrated fire to bear on your targets. For spotting purposes, the Division can be enhanced with a destroyer or aircraft carrier.

These are just a few of the many tactics that you can exploit playing in a Division. Try it for yourself, and you'll find effective combinations that will bring you victory in many battles!

Dear players!

Now, the transfer procedure begins! Starting from this date, you can transfer your account data to the EU server* and continue playing via Steam.

*Check the additional information by clicking on this link.


This transfer campaign has been designed specifically for CIS realm players in order to give them the opportunity to move their accounts to the EU realm and continue playing World of Warships on Steam. All the other regions remain without any changes (e.g. in terms of this campaign you cannot transfer your account from NA to EU, or from ASIA to NA etc.).

The transfer allows the player to move their account data from one server to another while retaining purchases, resources, statistics etc. After the transfer, the original account on the CIS server will be blocked and then deleted in 59 days. During this time period, every transferred player has a one-time opportunity to change their decision.

The transfer procedure is available for all players that have an account on the CIS realm.

In order to use the transfer option, you need to have an email address and password added to your World of Warships account.

We fully understand that this decision might not be an easy one and you might have a lot of extra questions about the transfer. We will try our best to cover as much information as possible in this article. Let’s dive into the details!

1. Q: How do I prepare for the transfer?
   A: Generally, you don’t need to do anything, but you can make a couple of actions beforehand to make sure that everything goes smoothly:
   
   • Check if you have completed the account registration. If not, make sure to add an email and a password to your account.
     
   • Check if you have another account on EU registered using the same Steam account. If yes, then you will need to unbind it from your Steam ID.
2. Q: What will happen to my progress and in-game property when I transfer to the EU server?
   A: All your in-game items are transferred to the new EU account, with the exception of cruiser Bagration and its permanent camouflage. Your game statistics may be partially unavailable for certain time periods. All progress made on your account up to the point the decision to transfer your account is taken will be preserved.
   
   
3. Q: Once transferred, can I go back to the RU Server?
   A: If you transferred your account to the EU region and then changed your mind, you will have 59 days to decide to return to the RU region. The process includes the following steps: 14 days after a successful account transfer to the EU region, an account in the CIS region will be automatically marked for deletion. Account deletion will take place 45 days from the date the deletion request was made. After a CIS region account is deleted, a return to the RU region is no longer possible. That is, you will have 59 days to change your mind and cancel the removal request, and then remove the restrictions on the game through the CPC. The request for deletion can be canceled by the player themself in the Account page.
   
   
4. Q: Will I be able to make purchases/payments? If so, what will the prices be like?
   A: For players from the Russian Federation or the Republic of Belarus, after the transfer to the EU region, payment in the Premium Shop will not be available (from the date the account transfer procedure is opened). The exception is the case of changing the country of the account if there are grounds for this.
   For players not from the Russian Federation or the Republic of Belarus, after the transfer of the account to the EU region, all payment methods will be available as normal. The pricing approach will be similar to that in the CIS region.
   
   
5. Q: What will happen to my nickname?
   A: Your EU account is assigned a nickname according to the following rules: if the your former nickname on the CIS server is not taken in the EU region, it will be transferred as is. If it is being used by a previously-existing account on EU, the system will generate a placeholder nickname and you will be given the ability to change it for free.
   
   
6. Q: What will happen to my clan?
   A: If you were a clan commander in the CIS region, then a new clan will be automatically created for you in the EU region. If the clan’s name or tag is already in use in the EU region, the clan will be assigned a random name and tag, which you can change for free. Clan buildings, oil and treasury will be transferred, but not all clan achievements will be. You will be able to distribute resources from the treasury 14 days after the successful account transfer. The clan in the CIS region will be disbanded and its name and tag will be blocked from use by other players for 30 days.
   
   
7. Q: Will my ping change after moving to the EU region?
   A: This depends on the individual in question’s ISP and physical location. In some cases, ping may improve, in others it may deteriorate significantly. For players from Ukraine specifically, the connection should be more comfortable on the EU server.

We hope that this article will be useful for everyone who wants to learn more about the transfer before making a decision. We understand that this is a big change for our players, and we will do everything we can to make sure that your gaming experience on a new realm will be enjoyable and fun!

Hope to see you on EU soon!