Update 12.0: Lunar New Year

[The_EURL_Guy]

A new collection and unique Pan-Asian Commander; Airship Escort; Early Access to U.S. hybrid battleships; and a whole lot more!

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[Hakssor]

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In Update 12.4,  IX Groningen,  X Hayate,  IX Azuma, and  IX Ägir will no longer be available for purchase in the Tech Tree for Free XP. At the same time, players will have the opportunity to purchase these ships in the Armory in exchange for Coal.

What are gonna be the coal prices for these ships? Are they staying permanently as coal ships?

[electro75]

I appreciate the fact that you looked and fixed something about the scenarios..hermes..and aegis..but I am still disappointed that the missions are restricted for operations..ex: naval battle, dockyard and many other missions that are not  also achievable in operations.. I hope you will enlighten your negative orientation towards operations

[Furiousacerimmer]

Does this mean no Brisbane or Z-42 this update?  Need to know whether to spend or save...

[Klopirat]

Vor 1 Stunde, Furiousacerimmer sagte:

Does this mean no Brisbane or Z-42 this update?  Need to know whether to spend or save...

according to a reddit post both were in the logbook on the PTS, so it is not unlikely that they will be released during the update. Ships that are released during an update and not with the update are usually not listed in the patch notes...

 

edit: this time the PTS logbook was no 'correct hint'...

[koliber_1984]

Great, EA for cash now only, so stupid

[Wulf_Ace]

Gold tier 9 and 10, great now people gonna play ships to farm tier 9 exp in ranked, even more worse game will be.

 

Clan battles tier 10? really WG? for how long? why dont you just put it for whole year tier 10.

 

And also gonna sell all my CVs since you have no plan in implementing them into clan battles. Grinded them for nothing.

 

Not only ships but even news are becoming copy pasta. More boring and boring!

 

 

[electro75]

you talk about game balance.. you will never see balance in random where you play with level 6 ship against level 8 or level 8 against level 10.. maybe co-op because it's too easy.. the only balanced battle of all  world of warships is ranked..a better balance would be just one level above or below..not two above…

[Wulf_Ace]

Just now, koliber_1984 said:

Great, EA for cash now only, so stupid

guess its not stupid since this is a thing for a long time now and there are fools that buy that.

[ColonelPete]

Too bad that you remove the Free XP ships. 

The hybrid US BB line is just another boring tech tree.

[electro75]

1 minute ago, ColonelPete said:

Păcat că ați eliminat navele Free XP. 

Linia hibridă US BB este doar un alt arbore tehnologic plictisitor.

do you somehow want missouri back on free xp..when it was put up for auction with a minimum of 20,000 doubloons..?..it's a better deal for money than on free xp..right..?

[Sol_reginae]

 

Bad and wrong. Star retention upon defeat MUST be left as it is in the current Ranked Season. In the Golden League, it is IMPOSSIBLE to save stars for any player from the losing team - it is Golden for that Golden, the most literate players should play there.

 

What do you call Brawl? Normal Random battle, only with a reduced number of players in the team. This is NOT a Brawl - another attempt to pretend that something has been done (((.

For Brawl - too many players in one team: optimally - 1x1, 2x2, 3x3.

 

[koliber_1984]

9 minutes ago, Wulf_Ace said:

guess its not stupid since this is a thing for a long time now and there are fools that buy that.

T7 and T8 used to be from missions, now T8 is premium battle pass, See the difference? I'm a bit pissed

[Valkyrie_Hound]

Hilarious.

Each Journey to the West Premium container includes one item from the following list (the percentage indicates the drop chances of each group of items):

• 15x rare bonuses — "Credits +160%" — 10%
• 15x rare bonuses — "Ship XP +800%" — 10%
• 15x rare bonuses — "Commander XP +800%" — 10%
• 15x rare bonuses — "Free XP +2,400%" — 10%
• 1,250 Doubloons — 5%
• 8 days of Warships Premium Account — 16%
• 99,000 Elite Commander XP — 11%
• 32,000 Free XP — 10%
• 12,500 Coal — 8%
•  One Pan-Asian ship ( IX Bajie,  IX Wujing,  VIII Wukong, or  VIII Sanzang with a Port slot and Commander with 10 skill points) — 10%

If you already have all the items from the "Ships" group, you will receive 32,000 Free XP instead.

 

Each Lunar New Year Premium container includes one item from the following list (the percentage indicates the drop chances of each group of items):

• 8 days of Warships Premium Account — 8%
• 14x Lunar Warrior camouflages — 8%
• 8x rare bonuses — "Credits +160%" — 12%
• 8x rare bonuses — "Ship XP +800%" — 12%
• 8x rare bonuses — "Commander XP +800%" — 12%
• 8x rare bonuses — "Free XP +2,400%" — 12%
• 20,000 Free XP — 22%
•  One Pan-Asian ship ( VIII Fenyang,  VIII Loyang,  VIII Irian,  VIII Siliwangi,  VI Anshan, or  VI Huanghe) with a Port slot and Commander with 10 skill points — 5%
• The Lunar New Year permanent camouflage for one Pan-Asian ship (Fenyang, Anshan, Loyang, or Huanghe), or the Garuda permanent camouflage for Irian or Siliwangi — 9%

If you already have all items from the "Ships" or "Permanent Camouflages" groups, you'll receive 1,500 Doubloons instead.

 

 

What sort of miserly people are in control? This is absolutely awful.

 

1.5k dubs for a Tier VIII ship. 32k Free XP for a Tier IX ship. What are you guys smoking?

[ColonelPete]

9 minutes ago, electro75 said:

do you somehow want missouri back on free xp..when it was put up for auction with a minimum of 20,000 doubloons..?..it's a better deal for money than on free xp..right..?

Obviously anything for money is better for WG, but not the players.

[Hugh_Ruka]

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Because more than 6 months have passed since the separation of economic bonuses and exterior aesthetics, the clarification that camouflages only change the ship exterior will be removed from the descriptions of various bundles in the Armory and Premium Shop.

Why would you ever remove useful information from players ?

[electro75]

3 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

Evident, orice pentru bani este mai bun pentru WG, dar nu pentru jucători.

and I'm sorry that I didn't buy misouri.., musashi..when they were on free xp..I missed them..now you can't even find them in the wargaming store anymore..they are sold at huge prices at auctions and  in Christmas containers.. that's if you're worth it..!.. that is, if you've spent a lot of money on the game..

[Wulf_Ace]

24 minutes ago, koliber_1984 said:

T7 and T8 used to be from missions, now T8 is premium battle pass, See the difference? I'm a bit pissed

Nothing new in WG department

[Seraphice]

1 hour ago, Hakssor said:

What are gonna be the coal prices for these ships? Are they staying permanently as coal ships?

Yes, these ships are planned to stay as coal ships. Their prices will be known later.
 

1 hour ago, Furiousacerimmer said:

Does this mean no Brisbane or Z-42 this update?  Need to know whether to spend or save...

No, they will not be coming out in this update.

 

1 hour ago, koliber_1984 said:

T7 and T8 used to be from missions, now T8 is premium battle pass, See the difference? I'm a bit pissed

In previous early access, usually up to the T7 was available for free. For access to the T8 of the line, it was required to spend money.

1 hour ago, Valkyrie_Hound said:

Hilarious.

Each Journey to the West Premium container includes one item from the following list (the percentage indicates the drop chances of each group of items):

• 15x rare bonuses — "Credits +160%" — 10%
• 15x rare bonuses — "Ship XP +800%" — 10%
• 15x rare bonuses — "Commander XP +800%" — 10%
• 15x rare bonuses — "Free XP +2,400%" — 10%
• 1,250 Doubloons — 5%
• 8 days of Warships Premium Account — 16%
• 99,000 Elite Commander XP — 11%
• 32,000 Free XP — 10%
• 12,500 Coal — 8%
•  One Pan-Asian ship ( IX Bajie,  IX Wujing,  VIII Wukong, or  VIII Sanzang with a Port slot and Commander with 10 skill points) — 10%

If you already have all the items from the "Ships" group, you will receive 32,000 Free XP instead.

 

Each Lunar New Year Premium container includes one item from the following list (the percentage indicates the drop chances of each group of items):

• 8 days of Warships Premium Account — 8%
• 14x Lunar Warrior camouflages — 8%
• 8x rare bonuses — "Credits +160%" — 12%
• 8x rare bonuses — "Ship XP +800%" — 12%
• 8x rare bonuses — "Commander XP +800%" — 12%
• 8x rare bonuses — "Free XP +2,400%" — 12%
• 20,000 Free XP — 22%
•  One Pan-Asian ship ( VIII Fenyang,  VIII Loyang,  VIII Irian,  VIII Siliwangi,  VI Anshan, or  VI Huanghe) with a Port slot and Commander with 10 skill points — 5%
• The Lunar New Year permanent camouflage for one Pan-Asian ship (Fenyang, Anshan, Loyang, or Huanghe), or the Garuda permanent camouflage for Irian or Siliwangi — 9%

If you already have all items from the "Ships" or "Permanent Camouflages" groups, you'll receive 1,500 Doubloons instead.

 

 

What sort of miserly people are in control? This is absolutely awful.

 

1.5k dubs for a Tier VIII ship. 32k Free XP for a Tier IX ship. What are you guys smoking?

This is only the compensation in case you already have all of them, after which the main reward of the crate is exhausted.

 

Fair seas captain!
~Sera

[Nauseica]

1) i feel sorry for Julls having to wear that chain on her neck except if you resemblance us on how we feel on this game.
2) Airship Escort

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We regularly test new mechanics in temporary modes with an eye on introducing them into the game on a permanent basis, and this is also the case for Airship Escort. If the updated mode performs well this year, Airship Escort will most likely be introduced into Random Battles in the future.

Why for the love of cold icecream you dont have a separate mode with all the gorgeous and fun modes you made for the last year and you just have to force this mode on Randoms .... WHY !!!!

3) Collection Pan asian Commander

Now we put containers in BP so either spend some doubloons to be sure or just hate your RNG time ... GG

4) USA Hybrid BB's
The reward for early access T8 is now send to BP premium pass .... an alternative way to get some extra stuff you said when you introduce BP and now its end up as we had been foreseen it to another monetization method for our pocket, glad that i dont give flying sock about it.

5) ASW balances
Can we get to all ships some kind of asw armament to have all ships "equal" chance to have fun with Subs please

6) EAT PLAY TALK 2022 commemorative flag and achievement - Troll incoming

Are we gonna have some toilet icon/achievement next time ???

7) Removal of free xp ships
Well kinda sad but we been expect that, i wish that we could had both options available but yeah Research Bureau is way better for WG

[Seraphice]

2 minutes ago, Nauseica said:

Why for the love of cold icecream you dont have a separate mode with all the gorgeous and fun modes you made for the last year and you just have to force this mode on Randoms .... WHY !!!!

We already shared this sentiment back in a Q&A in May.
To keep randoms fresh and interesting we want to introduce various new game modes into randoms with different objectives and rules, such as Arms Race and Airship Escort.
If the mode is very popular and well received then we will consider making it a permanent part of the game as a mode in Random Battles. In any case we are then not "forcing"  this mode on Randoms.

 

Fair seas captain!
~Sera

[luksusdyr]

US hybrid BB, more crap ship

All ships with planes for arial attack on other ships should be classified as CVA (auxiliary carrier) no matter if its dd, ca or bb. And as caterorised as CV there can only be 2 on each team, 2 of one type or 1 of each.

With this update you can fill up with hybrid bbs så you have, lets say: 2 ordinary CV + 4-5 hybrid bb and rest hybrid dd and hybrid ca and those damn invisible subs.

Whats next; carrier submarines like the japanese I-400.

 

Another step against a ruined game  

[Wulf_Ace]

1 hour ago, Seraphice said:

In previous early access, usually up to the T7 was available for free. For access to the T8 of the line, it was required to spend money.

Ok, you are buying a brand new car, a seller comes to you and tells you that he will sell you a new car for 20 000  euros NOW, or you can wait a month and he will give it you for free. 

 

When you put it like this example you can see all the predatory actions of this company.

[Wulf_Ace]

14 minutes ago, luksusdyr said:

US hybrid BB, more crap ship

All ships with planes for arial attack on other ships should be classified as CVA (auxiliary carrier) no matter if its dd, ca or bb. And as caterorised as CV there can only be 2 on each team, 2 of one type or 1 of each.

With this update you can fill up with hybrid bbs så you have, lets say: 2 ordinary CV + 4-5 hybrid bb and rest hybrid dd and hybrid ca and those damn invisible subs.

Whats next; carrier submarines like the japanese I-400.

 

Another step against a ruined game  

you might be right, they could put it as a new class in the game. Hybrid BB or CV or Auxilary carrier, something. But you would need more of them

[Easha]

1 hour ago, Seraphice said:

In previous early access, usually up to the T7 was available for free. For access to the T8 of the line, it was required to spend money.

Right. After you split camoflage and bonus package.
How convenient for your explanation to neglect how we got the VIII ship and its perma camo (and thus including the economical bonus back then) for completing all the missions and without spending a dime when the concept of  early access was introduced. This changed with Hawke and has been to the disadvantage of the players ever since. My apologies for having a longer memory and attention span than your desired customer.

Also lovely to see the final battle pass reward decline with each one we had so far: Tokachi as guaranteed discounted premium ship -> gambling crates at a discount that might get you a reward you desire - or not  ->  regular game content you can get for free by simply waiting your turn

How about selling the right to pay dubloons for the tech tree VIII ship as final reward of the next battle pass? Pay to pay? You can message me for the negotiations for royalties for this genius suggestion. Even though... now that I think of it you already pulled that on us with... which premium ship was it? Black? Where you had to do a mission marathon to be allowed to buy the ship for 30k-ish dubloons? I do not remember as I would not even consider it even remotely.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Easha