Changes to submarines and ASW, Lunar New Year celebrations, exterior system update, collaborations with popular YouTubers, the return of Airship Escort, and more!
This is a short overview of Update 13.1. You'll find more information in dedicated articles on our website.
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As we announced previously, we're working on solving major problems with submarine interactions, and we're now ready to present some changes to submarines and ASW. With these changes, we're aiming to create more consistent interactions between submarines and surface ships while still maintaining the current level of combat effectiveness of submarines.

Starting with Update 13.1, most expendable camouflages available in the game will get their permanent versions. New permanent camouflages will operate similarly to already existing permanent camouflages, such as New Year, Epoch, or Made of Steel; however, you'll be able to mount them on ships of any tier. These camouflages can either be purchased or earned through various activities, events, and missions.

Participate in our themed Event Pass for the occasion and journey through two progression lines that offer a plethora of rewards! Each line comprises a total of 20 levels – complete them to earn all the main rewards and gain access to additional rewards by completing extra levels.
As part of the Lunar New Year celebrations, the New Year Beast patch, Lunar Demon permanent camouflage for Hsienyang, and Commander Nian with an individual voiceover have been added to the game. The Dragon Port has also been updated for the occasion.

Airship Escort returns as a separate temporary game type in the third week of Update 13.1!
As always, your goal is to help the allied airship to reach its destination while protecting it from opponents. Alternatively, you can achieve victory by destroying all enemy ships.
Format

• 12 vs. 12
  
• Tier VIII–X ships
  
• All ship types

Early Access to the new U.S. aircraft carrier line is ongoing! You can still earn American Tokens from random bundles available for Doubloons and then exchange them for rewards in the Armory: Essex with a 10-skill-points Commander and Port slot, the Hero of Midway permanent camouflage for Yorktown, the Defender of the Pacific Ocean permanent camouflage for Essex, up to 10x Wings of Freedom Premium containers, and Credits.
With the release of Update 13.2, this branch will become available for all players in the Tech Tree.

A week after Update 13.1 is out, Clan Battles Season 24—dubbed "Sea Dragon"—commences.
Clan Battles offer an excellent opportunity to show off your skills in World of Warships. It's not only the results of individual battles that are important here but also general progress. Fight alongside your allies and rise to the top!
Win Clan Battles to earn valuable rewards, such as Steel, Oil, days of Warships Premium Account, and combat signals, as well as rare and unique expendable economic bonuses. The more victories you achieve, the more rewards you'll earn!

Welcome a new addition to the Armory: with the release of Update 13.1, Sicilia will become available to purchase for 60,000 Research Points.
Battleship Sicilia takes her name from the famous island in southern Italy, as well as the swift and mighty ironclad of the same name which served in the Regia Marina at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
An event dedicated to the Battle of the Java Sea, one of the famous naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II, starts in the second week of Update 13.1.
We've prepared a special mission chain that can bring you various rewards, including Java Sea Tokens; one of two new historical Commanders, Takeo Kurita or Karel Doorman; Battle of the Java Sea containers; and a Battle of the Java Sea Premium container. Java Sea Tokens will also be available in special bundles in the Armory for Doubloons.

We've partnered with five major content creators to bring their unique content to World of Warships! CouRageJD, MoistCr1TiKaL, Ludwig, Nadeshot, and Sapnap are preparing to sail out on our virtual seas. Their respective Commanders—CouRage, CHUCK BLAST, Stonebeard, Nadeshot, and Sapnap—are voiced by the famous YouTubers themselves!
But that's not all: we've also prepared thematic commemorative flags representing each of them, as well as permanent camouflages carefully crafted with their input—Pride of the CouRageous for Leander, BLAST MASTER for Bayern, Stonewash for Normandie, Thief's Future for Pensacola, and Fire Carrier for Fubuki.
We've updated the benefits of our YouTube membership program. Complete special combat missions in Update 13.1 to earn Community Tokens, along with Journey to the West containers and Lunar New Year containers!
We're expanding this program to the channels of our contributors so that more Captains can support the content they like. This means that, in addition to the three levels of membership on our official channel, you can now purchase the WoWS Commander membership level from our contributors. Check all the details here.

Will be playing around and available for a chat at the Steam Next Fest.

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● What's New

• BLUE DRAGON'S BLESSINGS 2024 SPECIAL
  
• AM 3:34 - Daily Dairy Store
  
• PM 7:41 - MarinaFort 1F Patio
  
• Groove Park Extreme4 Pass

• This feature is intended to improve feedback due to audio latency or delays in input devices.
  
• When using the key sound assistant feature, the playback timing of all sound sources is changed, and a better experience can be provided even on computers or input devices with poor performance.

• FiND A WAY
  
• 다 잘될 거야 (Almost There)
  
• Shove it (yusi. Remix)
  
• ELIMINATOR

• LIGHTYEAR
  
• Diabolic Swing
  
• BEATRICE
  
• Almost There (다 잘될 거야)
  
• ouroboros -twin stroke of the end-
  
• Stella (별처럼)

• An issue where some vertical lines' colors were incorrectly displayed in SP COURSE has been corrected.
  
• An intermittent issue where the game could not proceed if the game start and dice were pressed simultaneously in multiplayer has been corrected.
  
• An issue where the combo would break at the paused section when replaying a replay played in basic mode has been corrected.

Thank you.

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Beta Branch Note: These changes are currently available on the beta branch. The beta branch is for testing experimental changes and for finding and fixing errors.

This is how you get access to the beta branch (USE AT YOUR OWN RISK):
Right-Click on Avorion in your Steam list, Properties -> Betas -> Select branch 'Beta Branch - Newest Changes & Experimental Features'.

• Improved consistency of subsystem tooltip descriptions

• Fixed an issue where client and server disagreed about docking state
• This should resolve cases where the ship was shown as docked but various menus sent errors about not being docked
• Implemented a workaround for an AMD GPU driver issue
• Fixed an issue where ancient gates could be connected to world boss sectors
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to give orders meant for ships to stations
• Fixed a crash when a station was ordered to support a ship and the ship left the sector
• Fixed an issue where boss health bars were visible in build mode
• Fixed a crash related to destroyed entities in scrapyard sectors
• Fixed an issue where a tooltip obstructed the confirmation dialog when removing a subsystem with shift-click

Some users reported crashes with AMD cards when creating or loading a galaxy using AMD driver version 23.12.1 or 24.1.1. We have implemented a workaround that hopefully addresses this issue. If you had this issue, please report in the comments if this patch fixes the issue for you (on driver 24.1.1). If the problem still exists we recommend a downgrade to driver 23.11.1.

Some background on the status of this issue, by one of our devs:

"This problem is particularly difficult to debug. Originally none of our office PCs with AMD cards were affected. However, we managed to build a PC where we can reproduce the issue, but even with this PC, the crash doesn't happen reliably.

On a technical level, the crash happens in a thread run by the AMD driver in the Avorion process. This should not be possible unless there is a bug in the driver. For those who don't know: a driver *must not crash*. We have verified multiple times that our code is correct and doesn't raise any errors. We've contacted AMD multiple times over different channels but have not received a helpful answer, yet.

Warning, technical: To analyze the cause, we tried to disable various parts of the engine. When the crash disappeared we always had to test many times, as it wasn't 100% reliable. No crashes a few times in a row can just be plain (bad?) luck and lead down the wrong path. We finally found different, independent functions we could disable, that individually stopped the crash. None of them look like they made sense as a cause for a crash. Just leaving them disabled was no option either, we had to find a solution without impacting the content of the game. We settled on restructuring a small part of preparatory texture work so we give the driver less work while loading the game, and forced the driver to complete some of its work on our schedule instead of its own."

We're very sorry for the inconvenience. We hope that the workaround we've screwed into our engine fixes the issue for you fine AMD folks, and we hope we can remove it once the driver crash was fixed by AMD.

We have exciting updates waiting for you in this one. A new vehicle camera perspective, undiscovered fish species in Norway, and fresh customization options with new hairstyles and facial hair. Plus, we've tightened up gameplay with key bug fixes. More details below!


The third person camera option has been added for all vehicle types. Whether you're navigating the land in a 4x4 or traversing waters by boat, you can now enjoy a new camera point from above and behind the vehicle.

Dev Team’s Notes: We had already added a selection of extra static cameras to vehicles, but we saw that some players were still suffering from motion sickness over the rugged terrain. Hopefully, the all new 3rd person camera will offer a smoother ride as you explore the various reserves.

Four new fishes have arrived in Norway - Alpine Bullhead, European Bullhead, Common Dace and Ruffe.

Dev Team’s Notes: With bottom fishing added as a new fishing technique recently, we wanted to offer more bottom lurking fish in Norway, so there's more to catch while down in the depths. We’ve also recognized that most of the fish in Norway were larger species, so we've added some smaller fish to balance it out as seen in other reserves.

We've expanded character customization with four versatile hairstyles and two additional facial hair options, allowing even more ways to personalize your angler. In addition, we've made our original hairstyles compatible with all body types and enhanced the look of the classic mustache.

Dev Team’s Notes: The options for hair and facial hair styles have been somewhat restricted, with only a single hairstyle available for each body type, excluding the bald option. However, the new additions are accessible for both body types and can be modified using the complete range of color swatches.




We've improved the casting mechanics to make them more accurate and reliable. Now, you'll find it much easier to cast your line exactly where you want in the water, no matter the angle or distance.
Dev Team’s Notes: Casting is a fundamental part of the experience in the Angler. We noticed that manual casting sometimes seemed too simplistic and, unfortunately, led to many unsuccessful casts. To make it more gratifying, we've updated how the game understands your actions and added horizontal control during the casting movement. This should result in a much more satisfying casting experience for all players.

We're constantly tuning and tweaking fish spawn rates for well-balanced populations across all reserves. We've used your feedback and live data to introduce subtle adjustments, aiming to make your fishing adventures even more fun!
Dev Team’s Notes: As we add new fishing techniques and species, our aim remains to keep the game enjoyable for all players. This is an ongoing process, so expect more adjustment with each update. Your feedback is invaluable in shaping these changes - please keep it coming!

Vehicles you spawn will now stay in place. Whether you wander far on foot, fast travel, or leave the reserve - your vehicle will still be there when you return (unless you've spawned a new one of the same type). This change should greatly simplify your travels, especially when returning to reserves in remote locations.
Dev Team’s Notes: This is just the beginning of several planned improvements to make vehicles more convenient to use. We hope you'll consider this first step as a nice quality of life change.


Cloud atmospherics have been updated to be more dynamic. You'll now witness a wider range of formations and more noticeable changes as time passes.
Dev Team’s Notes: It might have no impact on the gameplay, but we hope you’ll enjoy the enhanced visual display of the clouds.


We've given a fresh look to the main menu and reserve selection pages.
Dev Team’s Notes: As the game has evolved significantly since its release, we've refreshed the pictures and graphics you see right when you start playing. We hope you'll agree that everything looks even better now!

Button prompts are now clickable using the mouse on PC. Previously a keyboard was required to navigate much of the UI, and now it is possible to only use the mouse.
Dev Team’s Notes: We value creating a game that everyone can enjoy with ease. Acknowledging your feedback about wanting more mouse-based navigation, we've transformed the button prompts into clickable items for easier menu maneuvering.

• Alongside the third-person camera, we've introduced a new stationary camera at the front of the Ultra Cruiser Jon Boat for a better view.
  
• To make your travels easier, we've placed a new vehicle spawner near the main cave entrance in Spain as there wasn't one close by previously.
  
• We've patched up a gap in the Golden Ridge Reserve map where players could accidentally fall through - oops!
  
• We’ve fixed an issue with some fish getting spooked by the player when they were stood in a Jon Boat.
  
• If you're a passenger on a boat, you won't get caught in an endless respawn cycle when the boat's owner fast travels to another location anymore.
  
• An issue, where some photo challenges were not progressing, has been addressed. In particular, the Ruby River Range Photo Challenge 1.

• We’ve fixed many minor graphical clipping issues with various water bodies.

• We've fixed an issue where the "Take Photo" map markers were showing "Error/Unknown". They now display correct labels.
  
• The thumbnail for the Ultra Cruiser [ADD LIVERY NAME] has been updated to make the appearance of the vehicle.
  
• The soft lock experienced when moving items from the last row of the storage when using a controller has been fixed.
  
• Players can now click mouse button to Release Fish (rather than hold ENTER) to progress beyond the reward screen.
  
• Vehicle spawn location icons are now constantly visible on the map instead of only appearing when player is in proximity.

In addition, we’ve also introduced multiple minor bug fixes and quality of life changes to give you the best possible gaming experience. We hope you’ll enjoy what patch 1.5.5 has to offer!

And if you’re looking into expanding your fishing adventures - you can now grab the Norway reserve 60% off on Steam until February 12!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2165500/Call_of_the_Wild_The_Angler__Norway_Reserve/

HAPPY FISHING!

Japanese subtitles will be re launched on the Steam platform.

1. Fixed several bugs.

祝大家新年快乐！！！Happy New Year！！！