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Update 0.9.1: British Heavy Cruisers Part 2
The release of the British heavy cruisers, a new unique Commander, cruiser London, and much more!
Commanders! Due to the installation of the Update, the server will be unavailable:
From: 12.01.2020 02:00 UTC
Until: 12.01.2020 06:00 UTC
Update size: 1.5 GB
Because of the updates being made to upgrades, the dismounting of them will be free of charge for a period of 1 week from the release of Update 0.9.1.
British Cruisers: Part 2
A new line of British heavy cruisers has become available for all players to research.
Unique Features of the Ship Branch
Their powerful artillery can cause significant damage per salvo, but the guns have a relatively short firing range and arcing shell trajectory.
In contrast to light British cruisers, these ships have high-explosive shells in their arsenal that can cause heavy damage and have good chances of setting targets on fire.
Their ability to fire torpedoes one-by-one opens additional tactical options.
Strong armor protection for the central parts of the decks of ships of Tier VI and above, increases their survivability compared to other cruisers, with Goliath's deck armor reaching a thickness of 40 mm.
Efficient Repair Party consumable.
Decent survivability, thanks to their durable armor and effective Repair Party. Their powerful guns with relatively short firing ranges predispose British heavy cruisers to medium-range artillery encounters.
You'll be able to learn more details about the British heavy cruisers later in a dedicated article on our website.
Directives
The new game event tasks you with completing 36 missions, spread across four Directives. The first Directive will become available with the release of Update 0.9.1, right after the necessary technical work has finished. Those that follow will be unlocked each week. The ultimate reward for completing all Directives is cruiser London.
Completing missions will reward you with signals, expendable camouflage patterns, credits, Coal, and Free XP. Completing Directives will reward you with Royal Tokens.
Royal Tokens
You can exchange Royal Tokens for doubloons, signals, Union Jack camouflage patterns, credits, days of Premium Account, and the main reward—the new unique British Commander, Andrew Cunningham!
You can get Royal Tokens for completing the event's Directives, Daily Missions, and Daily Challenges for warships London, Cheshire, and Albemarle. You can also obtain Royal Tokens from random bundles that are available in exchange for doubloons in the Armory.
With the release of Update 0.9.2, Royal Tokens will only be obtainable from random bundles in exchange for doubloons. When Update 0.9.3 hits the servers, Royal Tokens will be converted into credits at the rate of 1:9,000.
A new unique Commander
Andrew Cunningham has the following talents:
Lightning Fast: the speed of your ship and squadrons increases by 5% after scoring two "Caused flooding" ribbons.
Consumables Expert: the number of consumable charges for your ship increases by one after destroying two enemy ships.
"Sink, Burn, and Destroy!": the reload time of your ship’s main battery guns and torpedo launchers, as well as aircraft restoration time, reduces by 10% after earning the “Witherer” achievement.
Each of these talents can be activated only once per battle. His talents are unavailable in Clan Battles or Training Rooms.
This British Commander also has two enhanced skills:
Jack of All Trades: −10% to the reload time of all mounted consumables, instead of the standard −5%.
Aircraft Armor: −11.5% to the continuous damage of AA guns, instead of the standard −10%.
The Fifteenth Season of Ranked Battles
Dates: from February 26 till March 24
Format: Tier X ships in a 7 vs. 7 format
Battle mode: Arms Race
Arms Race is a game mode in which special buff areas appear on the map. If you manage to enter an area and capture it before the enemy does, your entire team will receive a bonus to their combat characteristics that will last until the end of the battle. When you capture another area with the same buff, its efficiency increases further.
At a certain point in time after the start of a battle, a Key Area will appear in the center of the map. Its diameter will shrink over time, and the team that captures it will be able to quickly gain a point advantage and ultimately win.
We've reworked the bonuses given by buffs. They now also apply to carrier squadrons and provide:
Increased ship speed and a faster rudder-shift time; reduced aircraft engine boost cooldown time.
Continuous restoration of HP as a percentage of the maximum HP pool for ships and aircraft.
Faster reload time of the main battery and torpedo armament; faster aircraft restoration time on a carrier's deck.
Faster reload time of ship and squadron consumables.
New Northern Waters Map
The map is designed for Tier VIII–X battles in the Epicenter and Domination modes, with three Key Areas.
Battles will be fought in the harsh Northern territories, among snow-blanketed islands where the sun appears for only several hours each day.
The map is divided into three parts:
The western part is an open-water space with several large islands, providing good possibilities for battleships and destroyers to maneuver.
The central part is also open water, but at the same time it contains islands that will allow you to find shelter from any fire from the flanks. Besides that, the location of islands and their landscapes make it possible to push through the center into the flanks.
The eastern part has many islands behind which cruisers and destroyers can find shelter from enemy fire. This part is suitable for those players who prefer inflicting sudden attacks on the enemy, and who can skillfully make use of limited shelter.
Updates to Upgrades
In Update 0.9.1, many old upgrades will be updated and some new ones will be added. These changes will make the selection of upgrades more interesting and diverse.
We've also removed all type and tier restrictions for any special upgrades that improve the efficiency of ship consumables, provided that the ship has the respective slot.
Some upgrades will be replaced with new ones. If you have any of these upgrades already mounted on your ships, they will be replaced with their new versions. You will get compensation in the form of credits for any upgrades in your Inventory that are removed from the game, and the amount of credits provided will be equal to the removed upgrade's full cost.
Detailed list of changes
New upgrades
Changes to upgrades
Unique Upgrades
As the opening move towards the changes that have been promised for unique upgrades, we've updated the way in which they are obtained. With the release of Update 0.9.3, unique upgrades will appear in the Armory's Research Bureau. The combat missions for unique upgrades will also change.
With the release of Update 0.9.1, you cannot get combat missions for unique upgrades.
The end date for any combat missions you have already received will be December 31, 2020.
We're going to revamp the existing upgrades and also add new upgrades in future. Stay tuned for more news!
Updates to the Service Record
The order in which in-game possibilities unlock has been changed.
The number of battles required to reach the majority of Service Record levels has been reduced.
The rewards granted for opening various levels of the Service Record have been updated.
You can learn more details about the changes to the Service Record in the game client.
Please note: all players who started playing before the release of Update 0.9.1 will receive all the newly added rewards for the levels they have already reached, minus the rewards they had received in the old version of the Service Record.
Thus, any players who have already reached the final level in their Service Record by the time that Update 0.9.1 is released will receive 15,000 Coal, 4 days of Premium Account, a supercontainer, and nine daily containers (with five More Resources containers among them), as well as upgrades, expendable camouflage patterns, and economic and special signals.
Armory
When Update 0.9.1 hits the servers, Shipbuilding Tokens will be converted into credits at the rate of 1:7,500.
The unique historical Commander, Philippe Auboyneau, has been added. He's available in exchange for for 175,000 Coal. He has the unique Sparks of Resistance, Fully Armed, and Speed and Composure talents, as well as the enhanced Survivability Expert skill.
Smolensk
Effective as of the release of Update 0.9.3, the following ships will no longer be available in the Armory: Smolensk, Jean Bart, Neustrashimy, Flint, and Black.
Smolensk and Jean Bart have become very popular warships for their tiers. In order to maintain the proper level of diversity in teams in terms of the ships they are made up of, these ships will no longer be available to obtain for an undefined period of time.
For a number of reasons, Neustrashimy, Flint, and Black are not currently strongly sought after in exchange for Steel. That is why they will no longer be available in exchange for Steel, but will later become available in exchange for Coal. However, this will be after 6 months at the earliest.
We understand that accumulating resources for ships is a long process, which is why we wanted to warn you in advance so that any interested players can still steer these ships into their Ports before Update 0.9.3 goes live.
Other Changes
Interface Changes and Improvements
Display of AA defense characteristics
Changes to Armament Panel in Battle
Game Balance Changes
In Update 0.9.1, we've changed the characteristics of several ships, having analyzed their combat performance and taken player feedback into account. Such changes were required in order to carefully adjust the balance of selected warships. We'll continue to introduce changes in the updates that will follow, if deemed necessary.
Tier X Japanese aircraft carrier Hakuryu
British Tier IX cruiser Neptune
American Tier X destroyer Gearing
Soviet Tier VII battleship Sinop
Soviet Tier X battleship Kremlin
Tier X destroyer Yueyang
Tier IX destroyer Chung Mu
Tier VIII destroyer Hsienyang
Tier VIII cruiser Irian
Tier VIII cruiser Wukong
Tier VIII Destroyer Siliwangi
British Tier VI cruiser Devonshire
Aircraft
Content Additions and Changes
Added a flag for the Recruiting Station referral program.
The following ships have been added for testing by developers, volunteer testers, and community contributors: Aegir, Yashima, Arashi, and Orkan.
Other Changes and Improvements
Harekaze: hull geometry updated.
Z-39, Trento, Venezia, and Kremlin: fixed the designations of her gun fire control system modules.
Irian: changed the designation for her torpedo module.
Puerto Rico: fixed the display of secondary battery data in the ship's technical specifications.
Midway: changed the designation of her torpedoes.
Bajie and Izumo: fixed the armor protection of the conning tower.
Roon: the armor protection for the barbette of the fore 150 mm secondary battery turret is now displayed in the Port.
Mogami and Yahagi: updated the geometry of their main battery turrets.
Gremyashchy: added a second color scheme for the camouflage.
ARP Takao: fixed the exterior view of turrets when the ARPEGGIO RED camouflage is applied.
Updated sounds in the Designer's Table Port.
Fixed a glitch which disabled the sound of aircraft flying by in the sky in the London Port.
Fixed a bug which disabled gunfire sounds when the sound quality was set to "Low" in Audio Settings.
Removed visual artifacts on the Neighbors and Land of Fire maps, as well as in the Taranto Port.
Fixed a number of glitches affecting the display of containers in the Port.
Fixed a bug preventing the language bar from being displayed in the game client.
Fixed an issue which in certain cases prevented players from receiving bonuses provided by Clan structures.
Fixed a glitch which prevented the display of smoke trails from rockets fired by attack aircraft.
Fixed an issue causing the "Your Rewards" window header to move outside of the screen border.
Fixed an issue which caused game login errors on computers with non-typical names in the OS settings.
Fixed an issue causing the incorrect icon of the reticule to be displayed when a player was controlling a squadron from an aircraft carrier.
Now the tooltip informing players about the possibility of reloading a torpedo tube isn't displayed if the main battery guns are selected.