Source: Ph3lan, WG Staff

We have an update for you about the Christmas Convoy situation:

“We considered this experimental double-campaign approach used in other regions and saw flaws in it. The double-campaign system does not cater to our audience in the usual manner we prepare offers. It was experimental and as we were not convinced it would work with benefit for the general audience, we decided to opt out of this part of the End of Year activities.

We knew that the Graf Spee itself would be a really important element to our players. That is why keeping this part of the event was an obvious choice. We also knew that many players would want to get their hands on special vanity items. Problems started here. The structure of the campaign combined with its time limitation did not, in our opinion, provided anyone except top payers, the option to get the items without major time commitment. This is not something we wanted nor felt right to ask of our players in the holiday period, when a big part of our loyal player base does not want to struggle between the game and family needs.

Seeing that some people would however like to get their hands on limited-edition content without the sacrifice of time spent with friends and family, we added all the camouflages for individual purchase, disconnected from bundles. This allowed anyone to cherry-pick the one or two items they are interested in fairly cheaply, without investing a huge amount of time for the campaigns or buying the Graf Spee which they may potentially not be interested in buying in the first place.

We understand that this choice has raised concerned through the community and are deeply saddened that this overshadowed so many of the other activities hosted for your entertainment during the Christmas / End of Year period.

We are currently looking into various options regarding the Christmas Convoy campaign, but even if we decide to take action in the following days, neither of them will have an immediate effect. Any event planning on this scale requires a meticulous analysis of the current situation. We learn from community feedback, as well as our mistakes, and we hope to bring you great events in the future and that we’ll manage to make you enjoy the End of Year activities regardless of this issue. The future events will be the core of our concern and that is what we are most working towards right now.”

Credits to Babykim, EU

Developer kindly invites RU Forum Leaders to participate in the test of the new WoWs forum.

Is the new forum format also coming to other regions?

Developer Valter_ invites RU players to a forum group “Collectors”, a group of naval buffs.

For their activity, members of the group get the following bonuses:

1. Access to a closed section of the forum, in which they can communicate with the developers,
2. Test ships prior to release (after signing the non-disclosure agreement),
3. On request, purchase a ship which is not for sale in the premium shop,
4. More privileges are possible in the future.

To become a member of the club, the candidate needs to have:

1. at least 50 ships in port at the beginning of a quarter,
2. at least 13th level of account.

About the fate of Nagato and Amagi hulls (A), (B) and (C):
– Hull (A) gets removed, hull (B) will replace it as stock hull, the amount of experience and credits required to aquire hull (C) will be the same as hull (B).
– Gun models on the new hulls will be changed.
– Hitpoints and maneuverability on hull (B) remain the same as on the stock hull (A).
– If you have researched hull (B) before, you will automatically have hull (C) researched in 0.6.0.0.
– If you have researched and bought hull (B) and (C), you will be compensated by free experience (22.000 for Nagato and 39.000 for Amagi) and credits (1.800.000 for Nagato and 2.300.000) for Amagi).

– Yorck’s AP shell real flight time at maximum range (17,3 km) is 17,5 seconds, while the current ingame calculator shows only from 13 to 15 seconds. It was re-calculated.
– Changes to Forts and Surveillance Stations when their armor models are a little too “strong”, almost immune to British cruiser’s AP shells.

From a Russian dev, I would not trust it, could be a joke, could be real, who knows? : Haven’t abused the invisi-firing before? Haven’t abused the ability to spam shells while sitting in the smoke before? Better do it quick before something which is going to happen soon.

Side note: There is a Supertester on EU who used Aim Assistance and was kicked out upon being busted. But Coordinators love him for a reason, so… they brought him back. He’s the guy who opposed the idea of selling to “peasants, low classes, stupid Americans” the USS Alabama.

Flamu explained it well in this video: