MrConway

As you can see on the portal, there are lots more opportunities coming for everyone to complete their collections! https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/common/vive-la-france-pt-2/

Some good suggestions in this thread and from you, the tricky part is how to do it without any or much development attached to it, as we have more important things to deal with at the moment. We'll see if and what we can come up with.

I think that this won't be necessary as a team with the highest win rate in Hurricane season should also place at the top of the ladder. :)

Correct, all XP earned on the early ships will remain on them when they get converted to tech-tree ships. But while you will be able to research the following ship immediately, you will still have to grind towards any ships preceeding the early ones you got from the missions.

The rate of detonations is actually very low already, especially for battleships, so it should definitely not buff them. We will see how this change works out and make further changes if necessary.

Thanks for using the bat signal, my ban hammer did need some exercising. No matter how frustrated you get, running other peoples battles on purpose is unacceptable. If you do encounter situations like these in random battles, where someone brags about not participating, please forward a replay to customer support right away. If you don't want to play - close the game and don't play.

If there is still a demand for this option once everyone has gotten used to the new feature, we might implement it. We think it gives the game another nice customization option though, so give it a shot or use the mod to disable them for now if you really cannot stand them.

Captains, Please leave any general feedback regarding update 0.7.2 public test in this thread. Should your feebdack concern one of the following topics, please leave feedback in the linked threads: Overall Quality & Stability Game Core Improvements Vive La France #2 Visual Effects Map Changes : Atlantic Operation Hermes Bug Reports As always detailed patch notes can be found on our portal: https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/public-test/pt072/

We are currently using Operation Hermes as a test bed for this kind of localized weather. Depending on how this is received and how well it works, we might start experimenting with localized weather in random battles as well.

Captains, Please leave any feedback regarding operation Hermes in update 0.7.2 public test here.

I do get your feedback regarding the difficulty, but it should hardly be surprising that a mission to escort a convoy works better when escorting the convoy :P Regarding the replayability I have passed on your feedback, although the rewards you get for repeating the missions are still decent.

Unfortunately we cannot yet offer scaling for the rest of the interface due to the limitations with the system we are using. We are however hoping to address this later this year to let everyone play at 4K comfortably. (no promises yet though) The minimap was the only thing we could quickly change without having to rework the UI.

Cruisers will of course still be able to get killed outright with good citadel hits, but random detonations caused by individual shells should be reduced drastically. Don't sail in a straight line, don't sail broadside!

Captains, Please leave any feedback regarding the visual effects changes in update 0.7.2 public test here.

Please leave any feedback regarding other changes here.

Please leave any general feedback about regarding our new "Marseille" port here.

Captains, Please leave any feedback regarding the Vive la France campaign #2 in update 0.7.2 public test here.

We're totally open to suggestions on how we could run this without impacting gameplay too much, or at all. I guess it really depends on how to choose the "win" condition for people to get rewards. So get thinking if you want that flag gents! :P

The matchmaker always tries to find a reasonable opponent, but when not enough are available it does loosen its restrictions. You make good points, OP's clan should see this as an opportunity to pick up some great tricks and use them to advance. You don't get better by playing weaker teams, thats for sure!

To be honest, this is something we have pretty much zero experience with, sorry :( What I would try is chatting to our Chinese community, as some of them surely also play on the EU server. You could try poking @uocat nicely to see if he knows someone that could give you tips on how to connect from China.

Thanks for the suggestion gents, we'll consider it ;)

There will be several more opportunities to collect French containers with update 0.7.2, where you will be able to get them in the campaign, as well as for completing operation Hermes. You should have no trouble finishing it if you want to!

As many others have pointed out with useful suggestions, getting citadels is possible in other classes too and arguably easier to do in some cruisers than with your battleships. We do occasionally like to challenge people to go out of their comfort zone and play something new, especially if there is a great reward at the end. Take it as an opportunity to learn other aspects of the game, or if you don't like that simply skip the missions.

Those missions are only for the test server and will not carry over to the live server. There are rewards for playing on public test, you can find details in the portal publication. The US cruiser split will not be coming that soon, we'll let you know when we have set a date!