Greetings, pilots!
Jet Squirrels are back with a new episode of Developer Diaries.
The nearly endless summer is upon us,
and it brings a truly huge Update 2.0.5.
Let’s dive right into the details!
Greetings!
With update 2.0.5, World of Warplanes will see significant changes.
We have new opportunities for developing your aircraft
and improving its characteristics.
Let's talk about them in more detail.
This update is the first stage
towards implementing an extended progression or level-up system.
Previously, you could use experience earned in battles
on upgrading your aircraft and advancing to Tier X,
but now you will have new opportunities.
You will be able to develop each aircraft even further
by giving it new properties and emphasizing its strengths.
All equipment will be changed in update 2.0.5.
It can now be mounted only in special slots.
For example, if an aircraft has a slot for equipment that improves the cockpit,
you can mount a sight or armor in this slot.
If an aircraft has an equipment slot for the engine,
you can mount an uprated engine or armor protection for it.
Now equipment has a significant positive effect and a slightly negative one.
For instance, to increase maneuverability,
you will have to sacrifice a small number of hit points.
But the most important thing is
that now you can change and improve equipment to meet your own needs!
For this purpose, we are introducing equipment enhancement and calibration.
Enhancement increases the equipment’s quality level.
There are four quality levels:
Stock, Improved, Advanced, and Ultimate.
Each new level increases the number of positive effects of the equipment.
For example, a Stock optical sight increases only the firing accuracy,
but its enhancement can add a chance of causing fire,
a chance of inflicting critical damage, and other effects.
Calibration can increase the positive effects of equipment
or weaken the negative ones for equipment of any quality level.
Thanks to calibration, you can improve the advantages to the maximum extent.
Both enhancement and calibration require special Materials.
You can receive them
by destroying aerial and ground targets in victorious battles.
With the release of the update,
a special will start that will familiarize players with all the new features
and will offer an opportunity to try the new equipment.
Elite status is no longer the final stage in aircraft development.
Now you will be able to complete a special mission
and reach the "Specialist" configuration for your favorite aircraft.
The mission objective is easy and, in fact, will gradually fulfill itself
if you just continue to fly the selected aircraft.
The “Specialist” configuration differs from the Stock one
in the significantly greater number of slots for equipment and consumables.
By mounting them and combining their effects,
you can significantly increase certain characteristics of your aircraft
and thus adapt it to specific missions
and playstyles that are more to your liking.
Depending on the type and tier,
aircraft can have a different set of slots for equipment and consumables.
Starting from version 2.0.5,
low- and mid-tier aircraft in the Stock configuration
will have a smaller number of such slots.
Here is an example of how the new features can be used.
A Tier VI fighter in the Stock configuration
has one slot in the cockpit and one in the airframe.
You can increase the damage ability of your aircraft
by mounting a collimator sight and a lightweight wing frame
and thus increase its firing accuracy and maneuverability.
Or you can do it the other way—
increase survivability by using cockpit armor and reinforced skin
that will increase the aircraft and pilot's resistance to critical damage.
The “Specialist” configuration will add another two slots:
one for an engine and the other for an airframe.
You can continue to make your aircraft more aggressive and improve the airspeed,
or you can additionally protect these modules from critical damage
and thus transform your aircraft into a “flying tank.”
As a result, you will be able to create “builds”:
combine equipment and consumables so that a certain characteristic
of your aircraft and playstyle will become much more prominent.
Unlike the Stock configuration, the modules of an aircraft
in the “Specialist” configuration cannot be changed:
a “Specialist” is equipped with the top configuration for its model.
If you wish, you can switch to the Stock configuration and back
to choose what is more important for you:
an opportunity to mount more equipment or change modules.
In addition, you can now acquire Elite status
just by researching all modules of an aircraft.
You don't need to research the next aircraft in the Tech Tree.
You can accelerate crew training or start earning Free Experience at once.
Update 2.0.5 is just the first step in introducing the new progression system.
Future updates will bring new configurations for legendary aircraft
and significantly different module compositions,
which will even change the role of some aircraft in battle.
The game will see new equipment and consumables
as well as changes to the aircraft’s exterior.
All this will allow you to fly your favorite aircraft
exactly the way you like.
Pilots, start your engines!
See you in the skies!