Let's remember everything that has happened in the game this year.
After all, following tradition is the highest virtue.
Summing up the year is a great idea!
Let's start with German aircraft carriers!
Surely, we should proceed in an orderly fashion
and begin with the British cruisers.
Order is good,
but we had a lot of other things aside from the ships.
Submarine Battles and new Dockyards.
Free consumables and Transformers.
You haven’t forgotten about the improved combat missions,
Armory, and new upgrades, have you?
We haven’t! This year brought so many new things!
Let’s watch the video already!
Agreed! No objections?
No!
Let’s do it then!
NEW SHIP BRANCHES
British heavy cruisers
European destroyers
Soviet cruiser branch divided into light and heavy types
German aircraft carriers
New U.S. battleships
GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS
Introduced new base and unique upgrades, and modified the existing ones
Updated main battery turret barbettes
Improved the matchmaker
Made “Premium” consumables free
Removed restrictions on the number of mounted special and economic signals.
Added tips with descriptions
of the ship branches’ features to the Tech Tree.
Improved and refined the aircraft carrier interface,
changed the aircraft camera, and added warning messages.
Updated the combat mission interface in the Port
and for the post-battle statistics.
Added combat missions with an "or" condition.
Completely reworked Ranked Battles
Implemented a global update for the Armory.
Updated the Equipment tab.
Players can now select modules, upgrades, and consumables on a single page.
Updated the armor layout display in the Port.
UPDATES FOR CLAN PLAYERS
Improved the Clan Base—
Oil can now be exchanged for various rewards for the Clan,
including supercontainers.
In Clan Battles, Clan management can complete the team roster with mercenaries—
players from other Clans or who aren’t part of a Clan.
Introduced the "Clan Missions" section,
which allows players to earn Oil and Coal for their Clan Treasury.
Added a new Clan Base building— Research Institute.
NEW GAME MODES
Our Captains had an opportunity to fight playing submarines
in the Submarine Battle game mode.
By doing so, they also tested the interaction
between submarines and surface ships.
Battles in the Asymmetric Battle game mode
were fought between two uneven teams.
This game pitted superior numbers of Tier V and VI ships
against a smaller team of Tier VII and VIII ships.
The Key Battle was a special game mode
in which Captains earned Battle Points by destroying monsters and other players.
Only those players who managed to escape through the Portal with a key
or survived in the Octagon arena
were awarded a victory and spoils of war.
IMPROVEMENTS TO GAME AUDIO AND VISUALS
Implemented the new lighting model
and enhanced HDR technology on maps and in Ports.
Improved the water reflections
and rendering of shadows cast by static objects.
The water’s surface and flecks of sunlight now look more realistic
with any applied graphic settings.
Updated the system for fog display and distribution in the game.
Added the sunlight dispersion effect.
Improved the antialiasing system for displaying various in-game objects.
Optimized and increased game performance at medium and low graphics settings.
Updated the audio system;
improved the sound quality for all settings;
updated the existing sound effects and added new ones.
Thanks to a general optimization of the game client,
it's now much faster to prepare a new ship for battle.
NEW GAME EVENTS
Two game events in cooperation with Arpeggio of Blue Steel.
Three new Dockyards with three new ships laid down—
Odin, Anchorage, and Hizen.
Cooperation with the Transformers franchise.
Introduction of unique Commanders and special camouflages for Tier X ships.
"Mid-Autumn Festival" event.
Ongoing cooperation with Azur Lane.
Cooperation with Warhammer 40,000—
the world-famous universe of tabletop and video games.
Supported the 10th and 11th instances
of the King of the Sea international tournament,
which attracted thousands of players and viewers from around the world.
Held an international World of Warships tournament
together with the largest U.S. mobile operator, Verizon,
and offered a prize pool of 30,000 U.S. dollars.
OTHER NEW FEATURES
New unique historical Commanders— Andrew Cunningham and Jerzy Świrski.
A new map—Northern Waters.
Several themed collections dedicated to various game events.
New permanent and temporary Campaigns with valuable prizes.
Updated the Black Sea Port, which was renamed Novorossiysk.
Updated the Fjords and Kure Ports.
And many other things!