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This is still something we have on our mind. Unfortunately I can't say what the current status is, but we have not forgotten about the CV spotting issue. We've tried various ideas but none of them so far yielded satisfactory results. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

E#1: This is working as intended. Any ship with a permanent camouflage applied prior to the rework will not have the other camouflages discounted E#2: This is the same as above, if you had a permacamo on your ship prior to 0.11.6, you will not have a discount on that ship. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

Hello @Miscommunication_dept I encourage you to do as Hunter advised and leave the replay in that thread so we can look at it and improve the system in the future. Thank you! Fair seas captain! ~Sera

Yamato and Shikishima are rather vulnerable and slow, to make up for their increase in firepower and caliber. Incomparable is especially vulnerable due to her low HP pool, vulnerable citadel and weak extremity platings. They "pay" for their caliber much more. The reason why we banned Ohio is because we simply banned every ship with calibers 421-459mm to crack down on 30mm overmatch to see how it would affect the meta. I can still remember playing Zao in Clan Battles This is in fact the first season where smaland is banned Not all ships are exactly equal, it is true. It is also not possible to have every ship exactly and perfectly on the same power level. Especially in clan battles. This is because the game is not balanced around clan battles and certain ship attributes are much more important in clan battles than in random battles. In a competitive environment, Napoli is extremely strong, which is why she has been limited in most competitive formats. However in randoms she is hardly too strong, her damage output isn't anything special and while her tanking is great, it is not as valued in randoms. The same goes for a limitation on BBs in competitive formats. It is not a problem in randoms to have 5-6 BBs out of 12, but in competitive 1-2 BBs for 7-9 players is ok. And in fact, this season is an experiment. We have worked closely with devs on the restrictions and map pools this time to ensure this season is fundamentally different from the last, to make sure that we dont get 17 weeks of the same, and to see how radically changing restrictions and maps impacts the meta and what the feedback is on the restrictions made. We have actually been in contact with the core competitive community for a long time and we've made sure to hear their feedback and implement changes based on their feedback this season. I encourage you to leave your feedback too! The best place would be e.g. the King of the Sea discord - the main competitive discord for WoWs. I've explained to you before the reasons for changing up the season, but you simlpy refuse to believe them. We really are just experimenting. We've drastically changed restrictions and maps for this reason, and we aren't afraid to make more changes to evaluate the data. We're not really worried about cruisers dying out - rather we want to try to increase cruiser diversity by making cruiser options more viable. In a 2BB 7v7 setting it is difficult for 30mm cruisers to survive, hence the restriction. And as I mentioned above already, it is no secret that in competitive some ships are stronger than others, which is why we have restrictions and bans in the first place - I don't think we ever denied this either. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

The game is not balanced around competitive. Not all ships that perform extremely well in randoms are suited for clan battles and vice versa. Different ship attributes are required in clan battles to win in clan battles. As for what we experimented with, we banned a lot of additional ships and changed the restrictions, as well as drastically changed the map pool with new layouts to differentiate the season from the last one. The restriction list is hardly similar at all. only 3 of the maps are the same (Tears of the Desert, Crash Zone Alpha, Islands of Ice) there are 2 completely new maps (The Atlantic and The Faroe Islands) and 3 maps with completely unique cap & spawn layouts (Estuary, Shatter, Sleeping Giant). This is also hardly "the same maps we have always done" The reason why we banned so many ships is simply to remove all ships with calibers from 421-459mm. This is mostly to crack down on 30mm overmatch to see how that affects the meta, especially when 2 BBs are prevalent, and later when the season will go over to 1BB Fair seas captain! ~Sera

There is no doubt they will be popular. We will be watching their performance closely. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

Fixing the root cause is not adjusting the matchmaker to become skill based matchmaking. It will not work in wows. To fix the root issue we would need a complete game redesign/re-balance to increase TTK and lower damage output across the board, which is a rather unlikely outcome. Also please feel free to upload any replays with timestamps where you encountered said aiming bug. The public test server is not so much about balance or "testing" in terms of performance testing but rather a sort of QA. the Quality Assurance part as well as feedback on new features is the most important - making sure things work as intended and making sure they are good. I hope it helps in explaining our goals with the public test :) Fair seas captain! ~Sera

In this case it has to do a lot with the season as well; We've decided to experiment a bit more this season. As a result we also decided to include Louisiana as part of our initial restrictions. However as the season continues it is possible that we start to unban certain ships and ban others - that applies to Louisiana as well. This of course depends on the meta that develops during the season. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

KotS simply still has this rule because this is how the rules were since the beginning. In theory it would be no problem to allow all the unavailable ships in KotS considering that all participants are given press accounts to play - making all ships available to all players. However we've opted not to change this longstanding rule. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

Smaland was the most popular destroyer among all leagues last season. If Marceau and Kleber turn out to be too strong we'll consider adjusting her limitation. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

While it is true that BBs are limited in clan battles in general, the specific restrictions on the banned BBs this season are not linked to the performance of every one of the banned BBs specifically. The BBs that are banned are any BB with a caliber in the range of 421-459mm. Specifically to make the pool of BBs rather limited in terms of options that posses overmatch, leaving only Yamato, Shikishima and Incomparable in that role. All 3 of those ships have very significant weaknesses to get those extremely large calibers. Preussen is hardly popular nor strong in Clan Battles. If it turns out to be an issue we'll adjust the restriction I seriously doubt anyone will play that. You see a bit of Khaba on ASIA, but otherwise they are extremely rare. Don't really think this will be the case - Montana was already quite popular last season so I doubt we will see exlusively Yamato/Shikishima/Incomparable. Additionally the maps do give way to other options such as Schlieffen or maybe even GK, provided the meta allows it. This season is more an exception than the rule in terms of restrictions. We are shaking things up heavily to see how this impacts things. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

In this case, when we speak of the Battleships, and e.g. Smaland, restricted means they are banned. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

Captains! The Public Test server goes live later today and there is plenty of stuff coming your way in Update 12.0! Check out all the details here: https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/general-news/bulletin-120/

In this case any ship you already had a permacamo for prior to 0.11.6 will also not have the discount. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

We will be testing some new changes to avoid such steamrolls in the future. You can read about it here: https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/general-news/bulletin-121/ Fair seas captain! ~Sera

Hello! If you can link me to where we made these promises I can follow up on them internally, but for now the arguments brought by @Wizard27_1979 and @floribe2000 are more than enough reason not to implement this currently. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

It's correct that if you did not own Black with the improved bonus before update 0.11.6 hit, that the improved bonus is not available anymore at all. If you did have the camouflage before that, and you don't have the improved bonus now - that would be a bug. In general we decided to abandon the idea of different bonuses with the exterior separation. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

Yes! This is correct. The information on the wiki is of the old bonuses - the new bonuses have increased commander and free xp gains since ship XP modifiers no longer affect commander/free xp Fair seas captain! ~Sera

It's been great working with them :D We hope to be able to collab more in the future :) Awesome!

To be fair radar minotaur is some of the best fun you can have in this game along with Church Colbert and Legmod Des Moines Radar minotaur has very high game impact with her stealth radar and crazy damage output. If you can play it well, you can carry a lot of games. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

Personally I rather enjoy arms race - be it in ranked or randoms. A quite new and fun way to play, and can definitely bring some unique games to life, especially when they go down to the wire with so many buffs. If you are up on buffs but down in ships there is always so much comeback potential.

In this case I suggest you to first check whether the claiming on the twitch website is working. If it says on the website that you claimed them, but you did not receive them in-game then please contact our customer support. In the case that you are not able to claim them on twitch, then it is an issue on their side. Could you send a screenshot of your twitch drops page? Fair seas captain! ~Sera

Hello! Please follow the steps as @ItsEyeJasper linked. Contacting our customer support is the best way. It may also be good to reach out to YouTube's support team in addition. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

as @Ubertron_X pointed out, it was available in the in-game client. Refer to his screenshots for more details. Fair seas captain! ~Sera

All of the information about the content and bonuses of the battlepass was freely available in the client starting from the very first moment of the update. Fair seas captain! ~Sera