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Some news from the getfun digest: Source: 1. New port has been unpacked from the 0.5.7 client. A map (top view) of the port can be seen at 0.49. 2. The USS Flint characteristics have been unpacked from the 0.5.7 client. She has two turrets less than USS Atlanta. But even better AA at the close range (slightly worse at the long range). The reason being the higher caliber of the Bofors 40mm guns installed on the USS Flint. Most importantly, the USS Flint has better torpedoes (Mahan torpedoes) and smoke. 3. On 22.06 there was a very short-lived announcement (on a Spanish forum, ours?) of a new game mode with forts (bastion) in the public test of 0.5.8. A similar message shortly appeared on the Russian forum. Both were deleted as soon as possible. SubOctavian told the community to chill and wait for the announcement of the public test, without denying the statement.

Here is an old video showing the alpha gameplay I quite like the arty-like aiming and the damage model. But I wonder how the reticle on destroyers and cruisers looked like? Did they have the reticle they have now?

This is good news because the supertesters will get the German BBs in time, which implies no delay for an almost certain leak of the details about the tree

The German battleships should be with supertesters in 0.5.8, i.e. mid-July. The German destroyers is the most interesting German branch in my opinion, but discussing it in this thread would be off topic.

On the RU forum they just started discussing two more Chinese-leaked German battleships: Tier 4 premium: SMS König Albert Tier 4 tech-tree: SMS Kaiser http://forum.worldofwarships.ru/index.php?/topic/57218-sms-koenig-albert-%d0%b8-sms-kaiser-%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%bc%d0%bb%d0%ba34-%d0%b8-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%be%d0%ba%d0%b0%d1%87%d0%b8%d0%b2%d0%b0%d0%b5%d0%bc%d1%8b%d0%b9-%d0%bb%d0%ba4/ The information must be taken with a pinch of salt, i.e. rumor. The reported stats are in Russian. Should I translate?

So, noone can remember if smaller ships had the same arty reticle?

On my reading of the RU forum, whether RN makes it in the autumn is still uncertain. More likely is the appearance of premium ships for an unexpected nation commonly known as Australia.

This 100%

I like Ocean, it's like fighting in my port.

There are some interesting news from the RU forum, I just could not find time to translate them. But I promise I will soon. The most interesting news is that super testers will get the German battleships for testing in update 0.5.8, i.e. in several weeks. The main feature of German battleships is their superior survivability. The Gneisenau gets 380mm guns.

Got the email and the error. Great job WG. Your customer service and community management (GNB) are superb. Continue this way and I might stay longer...

Yeah, I am so confused that I will probably not bother.

From the NA Season 4 announcement : http://worldofwarships.com/en/news/common/ranked-battles-season-4/ If you have both the "Jolly Roger" and "Jolly Roger II" Flags and reach Rank 1 in Season 4, the "Jolly Roger II" flag will be exchanged for the USS Flint! There will be another opportunity to get "Jolly Roger II" in Season 5. And in Season 6, another unique Premium ship will be available! So USS Flint is retroactive! Another ship, not the Flint, will be available every three seasons.

Does this even end on a specific date, say June 8th, or when 15kk is reached?

Soon, and that's a secret. There were hints on the Russian forum about an all-against-all game mode, which will see the Kitakami because of the impossibility of a team kill.

Sorry I was away for a few days. Where do you have the informations about what the secret award will be?

Yeah, I hear you! I have the Tashkent and Schors waiting to be purchased. Since I only buy bad ships on a discount, they need to wait longer.

Just don't shoot the messenger I share the reaction to the unique reward, but we do not know if this will be RU only, or even if it will be at all. It might be a developer's test balloon to sample opinion, something they have been doing for a while on the RU forum. Another strange thing to me was: single torpedo firing mode to be a distinctive feature of a nation.

More news on premium ships and ranked battles from the latest digest by getfun: Source: 1. USS Sims and IJN Yubari may soon hit the store, not so the Gremyashchy. The designers are unsure whether to release the Gremyashchy because of markedly different performance of this ship on different servers (some people actually manage to suck in it). Perhaps this ship will not be sold continuously, but be made available during a major seasonal or thematic event. 2. IJN Iwaki Alpha and USS Arkansas Beta may hit the store without the "Alpha" and "Beta" in their names. 3. The IJN Mikasa will not be sold on the Russian server till the implementation of the manual control on the secondary armament, which is particularly good on this ship. 4. The fate of the IJN Kitakami is not clear due to it being the epitome of a torpedo soup. 5. 14 new premium ships were planned for 2016, of which about one half has been released already. The actual number may even be higher. 6. The new R-Projekt on the Russian server will take place approximately between June 19 and July 31. It will feature ARP ships are awards. The unpopular lottery crates will be gone. The ultimate award may be the Russian cruiser Krasny Krim. Due to negative feedback on the first Russian R-Projekt, some modalities of the event will be changed following forum feedback prior to the start. 7. The new tech tree will be announced either in the beginning of June or the end of July, because these announcements often coincide with large gaming conventions. Some premium ships of the forthcoming tech tree will be released to allow preparing captains (German tier 4 battleship?). 8. The developers like the reception of the single-torpedo firing mode such as on USS Smith, and may make it a hallmark of a nation in the game. Feedback is being collected. 9. The new ranked battles season will start on June 3. Players who achieved the first rank in all seasons except the first test season will receive a unique tier 7 premium ship. Rewarding first ranks with special ships will probably be the future standard. 10. Changes to ranked battles include flags with credit bonuses and the best player on the losing team will not lose the star. 11. However, to slow down the ranking progress, no bonus stars for reaching certain ranks will be awarded.

Nice but useless, as they don't farm.

The Furutaka after the recent buff is an absolute monster that will very likely be nerfed. Just try it yourself while it is on 50% discount. But it does have a citadel.

Yeah, a pointless thread seldom comes alone.

Here is the original hint (it is more than a hint): Q: What about other nations?A: It’s still too far away to say anything about it for what is not coming this year. Maybe this year an Australian branch will come. Albeit it had a small navy, they had cool ships sailing in it. Source: https://thearmoredpatrol.com/2016/03/24/wows-mrconway-tuccy-stream-transcript/ And here is a youtube video about an excursion to the HMAS Vampire Note that this video is not available on the English speaking Youtube channel.

The synergy with the Royal Navy and the fact that the Commonwealth states have a large number of museum ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museum_ships and therefore accurate drawings and photographic material for a nice model (and this is an issue for Lesta).