TL;DR: Get as many ships as you can before 0.7.12 hits the live server so you can earn more coal/steel when the event comes. The rewards below are not final.

In bold are extra essential pieces of info from the Russian ST Discord.

Steel is a valuable resource that is used to unlock rare ships. At the moment it is awarded only to active participants of Clan and Ranked battles.

After adding steel to the game, we received many requests to make it more obtainable. This is understandable, because not everyone has the opportunity to play in competitive modes effectively and regularly.

To celebrate the New Year we have prepared 4 game events, and by participating in them you will get a lot of great prizes, including some steel.

This doesn’t mean that we are now planning to constantly create events like this, but it’s the New Year and as you know, this is a time for surprises.

So here’s what awaits you:

«In The Name Of His Highness!» event
The new game event «In the Name of His Highness!» is dedicated to the heyday of armored ships of the early 20th century. It will last 4 weeks.
There are 4 stages of the event. Each stage consists of 4 directives. Each Directive contains 10 to 11 tasks. There is a corresponding reward of camouflage, signals, Christmas containers and even steel (each directive will add 500 steel, the total amount of steel you can get from this event is 8000). And continuing our new year’s tradition, the main prize will be a new premium tier VI German battleship – Prinz Eitel Friedrich! (for completing all 4 weeks)
Rules for completing directives are similar to the Royal Navy event. After the completion of all directives, access to the Hall of Fame is unlocked, for which points can be earned in co-op, random, ranked, clan, scenario or special battles.

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WoWS – Hot Fix : Austin Office

November 30, 2018 ~ Sebastianul

WoWS – How it works : Flooding

November 30, 2018 ~ Sebastianul

Overwolf causing FPS to drop

November 24, 2018 ~ Sebastianul

Source

„The problem

We’ve found out that popular TeamSpeak plugin “Overwolf” does 3 bad things to our players:

1. It installs the mod to WoWS without asking the player;
2. It causes FPS drops
3. It gathers the data on in-game events, reads python.log, records a lot of things (damage dealt, damage done, ribbons, battle participants data) and puts it to owevent.log

Dear players! It has come to our attention that using Overwolf (a TeamSpeak plug-in) with World of Warships causes the following issues:

1. During the installation Overwolf modifies World of Warships game client without asking for confirmation. It puts a mod into D:\Games\World_of_Warships_RU\res_mods\0.7.10.1\PNFMods\owplugin folder.
2. This mod actively logs your game data while you play: it reads python.log, damage dealt and taken, ribbons, frags, list of battle participants. This information seems to be recorded to owevent.log file.
3. While doing so, the mod seems to decrease game performance. While we did not have time to test all configurations yet (as we wanted to share the information ASAP), we saw the decrease from 75 to 48-56 FPS on our i7-8700K / GTX1080Ti test machines, caused exactly by this mod activity.
4. We also ask you to pay attention to the following facts:
a. If owplugin folder with the mod is deleted from World of Warships game files, Overwolf re-installs it when launched;
b. If Overwolf is uninstalled normally, the mod remains installed.

With that in mind, we recommend the following:

1. If you have Overwolf, you can check the difference in game performance yourself. To do it, launch the game from Wargaming.net Game Center or Legacy Launcher in safe mode. Safe mode basically disables res_mods modifications, including the one installed by Overwolf.
2. If you want to stop using Overwolf, you will need to uninstall it AND manually delete the World of Warships mod. To do the latter:
a. Find owplugin folder according to the path above;
b. If you’re not sure or not experienced enough just clear the whole res_mods folder. The downside is that you will have to re-install any mods you’ve been using.
3. Always read EULA of all products you use. We’re not responsible for what and how 3rd party applications do.