0.5.0.1 Maintenance and Patch notes

[Thorontir]

Hi guys. I wandered off to the Asia-Pacific website for WoWS and spotted there some interesting news about upcomming patch for 29th September (this may vary depend on server). You can find patch notes here:

http://worldofwarships.asia/en/news/announcements/ver-0501-patchnotes/

 

To sum things up there will be new quick commands system to communicate with teammates and also some warships from new branches are introduced for testing purposes. Not only them as there will be 3 new premium ships! T6 Polish DD Błyskawica, T4 Russian dreadnought Imperator Nikolai I and IJN Heavy Cruiser Tone at T7! There is also some balance changes like faster ROF for Colorado, fighter for Tirpitz etc.

[Takeda92]

What? why make Tone a premium instead of a regular ship on a seconds cruiser line!

They could use Maya with the same number of guns (8 203mm) instead!

 

First the Takao class and now the Tone class? are you going to make Agano and Ooyodo class premiums too? If so then screw you!

[Wischmob_von_Eimer]

Yes, thats what the game needs, even more useless premium ships.

[Thorontir]

What? why make Tone a premium instead of a regular ship on a seconds cruiser line!

They could use Maya with the same number of guns (8 203mm) instead!

 

Point taken, Takeda. Until now WG wasn't introducing lead ships in class as premiums to secure that class name ship could be used for a branch in regular tree... Maybe they don't plan second branch for IJN cruisers at all?

[avenger121]

 

[Copy of the patch notes, so ppl dont have to open another tab]

 

Ships*

* These ships have been included into the version for testing purposes, and will become available to all players with the following updates.

 

• The opening of German and Russian/USSR Tech tree are represented by the branch of  German cruisers and  the branch of Russian/USSR destroyers

  • The starting ship of Russian/USSR Tech tree patrol ship Orlan
    

    destroyers branch represented by ships: Storojevoy – Tier 2; Derzky - Tier 3; Izyaslav - Tier 4; Gnevny - Tier 5; Ognevoy - Tier 6; Udaloy - Tier 7; Tashkent - Tier 8; Kiev - Tier 9; Khabarovsk - Tier 10.

  • The starting ship of German Tech tree colony ship Hermelin was introduced before and now will take her proper place in the branch 
    

    Cruisers branch is represented by ships: Dresden - Tier 2; Kolberg - Tier 3; Karlsruhe - Tier 4; Königsberg - Tier 5; Nürnberg - Tier 6; York - Tier 7; Admiral Hipper - Tier 8; Roon - Tier 9; Hindenburg - Tier 10.

  • 3 ships were added to the premium ship collection: Polish destroyer Bliskavica - Tier 6; Russian/USSR battleship Nikolay I - Tier 4; Japanese cruiser Tone - Tier 7.

 

Balance changes

All ships:

• The values of thickness of hull planking have been corrected. Now it is not thicker than bills planking. When we were setting the armour for the bills, in some cases we didn't realize that the center of the hull can be really "true", and on high tiers in some cases arnouor in the ceter of the hull was smaller than on the bills. This is now fixed.

• Increased by 50% the number of HP points for the 4 and 5 inches main battery guns.
• Redesigned the system of turrets turning on all ships. Now Main Caliber guns that meet an obstacle while turning, automatically raise (if technically possible). As a result of this redesign, the cases where main caliber guns go through other ship's elements are nearly gone. In rare cases this issue can still be found, as the fix in such caes would have lead to serious limitation or shooting range. E.g. Nagato battleship's second turret's guns are still "hitting" the raised element of the first turret, otherwise we would have had to add to their "blindspot" nearly 7 km on course of the ship.

 

Germany:

• Battleship Tirpiz: Added Messerschmitt Bf.109 G catapult fighter plane.

• Added branch of German cruisers.

 

Japan:

• Cruiser Hashidate: Removed inner hull upgrade.

• Cruiser Myoko: Mounted torpedo module type 90 mod1, the same as in Hatsuharu destroyer. Players that have researched the module for both ships will receive compensation.  

 

Russia/USSR:

• Cruiser Aurora: AA armament 7,62-mm “Maxim” machine gun changed for 76,2-mm Lender guns. Firing distance of AA guns increased to 2 km, the damage doubled.

• Cruiser Murmansk: КОР-2 catapult spotter changed for "original" Vought OS2U.
• Added branch of destroyers and starting ship "Orlan".

 

USA:

• Cruiser Erie: removed inner hull upgrade.

• Battleship South Carolina: Increased the number of HP points of top hull from 29000 to 31700.
• Battleship Colorado battleship: Increased fire rate (to 2 times per minute, i.e. cooldown time 30 sec instead of 35) and turrets rotation speed to 4 radians per second (used to be 3).

 

Maps

• Added the Domination mode with two control points to all the maps, except the "Hotspot".
• Changed script settings of the "Domination" mode with two points. The reward for capture of enemy’s control point is 1000 points. The time of control point capture is 180 seconds.
• Reduced the speed of getting points from captures points on the maps "Two brothers", "North" и "Islands of ice" from 3 points every 5 seconds to 3 points every 6 seconds.
• Changed the probability of getting some of the maps.

 

Aviation

• If the fighter planes began to carry out the "fire storm" mission, other fighters will not be able to engage them into battle until the end of the mission.

 

Sound

• Added voice messages for  Quick commands and  Emoticons. Voice messages are only played once in a row, to exclude the possibility of sound spamming.

• Introduced Japanese voice overs (TBA 17/09).

 

Interface

• Quick Messages are available during battle.
  Use F3 - F11 to send a short message and give commands to allies. 
  The messages are sent to all players or only allies depending on the chosen chat channel.
  Commands are given only within your team.
  Messages and commands are duplicated in the chat; the speaker is marked for a short time in the game screen and on the mini-map.
  

  Key bindings can be changed in the Settings menu.

List of available commands:

• • F3 Indicate targets (targets possible to indicate: base, point, ship)
  • F4 Thank you 
  • F5 Affirmative!
  • F6 Negative!  
  • F7 Support required
  • F8 SOS

List of available messages: 

• • F9 Great battle 
  • F10 Good luck to all  
  • F11 Damn and blast!

 

• Average battle experience in player's profile in client is now displayed with premium account in consideration, but excluding the modificators (first win per day modificator, signal flags modificators, etc). Average battle experience on World of Warships Portal worldofwarships.* is now displayed the same way.

 

[Admiral_noodle]

Yes, thats what the game needs, even more useless premium ships.

 

Well some people like to buy and collect them. Mind you I regret Atlanta. I like team chat options

[Takeda92]

 

Point taken, Takeda. Until now WG wasn't introducing lead ships in class as premiums to secure that class name ship could be used for a branch in regular tree... Maybe they don't plan second branch for IJN cruisers at all?

 

And then what? no new cruiser line, no new destroyer line, no new battleship line, no new CV line.. IJN Tree is going to be only 4 lines and like 50 premiums?

Why make a premium heavy cruiser in the first when Atago is there? Then why it is Tone and not another cruiser? Tone will just be a weaker Myoukou i they don't give her any special ability for planes or anything. 

[Arakus]

Yes, thats what the game needs, even more useless premium ships.

 

As a collector i really  like premium ships!

 

More ships where i can train my captains.

[specialkha]

Yeah more cash grab. Soon, there will be more premium ships in wows than in wot (except that Wot is 4-5 years old).

[ArtyIsWorseThanCorona]

• Battleship Tirpiz: Added Messerschmitt Bf.109 G catapult fighter plane.

Because she isn´t OP enough as she is now :,D

 

• If the fighter planes began to carry out the "fire storm" mission, other fighters will not be able to engage them into battle until the end of the mission.

FINALLY

 

and ... yay new premiums ...

 

 because we totally need more wallet warriors who don´t know how to drive their ships

[avenger121]

What? why make Tone a premium instead of a regular ship on a seconds cruiser line!

They could use Maya with the same number of guns (8 203mm) instead!

 

---->"These ships have been included into the version for testing purposes, and will become available to all players with the following updates."

 

Bismarck had also the premium status during gamescom, I guesss it is really just for testing purposes. Could be quite interesting, mixing CV and CA gameplay.

[Thorontir]

What? why make Tone a premium instead of a regular ship on a seconds cruiser line!

They could use Maya with the same number of guns (8 203mm) instead!

 

First the Takao class and now the Tone class? are you going to make Agano and Ooyodo class premiums too? If so then screw you!

 

Takao is present in game as Atago, so it can be used as Takao in a main branch without issues, just like Tirpitz/Bismarck and Warspite/Queen Elisabeth, so don't worry too much. And if you dig into patch notes then you can find that:

 

Ships*

* These ships have been included into the version for testing purposes, and will become available to all players with the following updates.

 

Maybe Tone is just temporarily added as a premium for some testing and balancing, just like Hermelin, Dresden or Bismarck were tested and now we know that they will be in normal tech tree.

[fnord_disc]

Like avenger says, I don't think the Tone's are actual premium ships. They're bogus premiums you can test and then get your gold refunded, if you even have to spend gold to begin with, which I don't think.

 

But yeah, I agree that I'm not too happy about the addition of Atago, since Takao is basically the same. Why not AA Maya?

[Comrad_StaIin]

I want that Tone !

[Arakus]

and ... yay new premiums ...

 

 because we totally need more wallet warriors who don´t know how to drive their ships

 

What you called "wallet warriors" are the players that help the game running as they spent the money needed instead of pay nothing and play for free.....

 

You also have buyed a Tirpitz and your standard BB tier is 5, so what?

[Kenliero]

I want that Tone !

 

USN players already wasted their money on Atlanta, time to waste your money on IJN Cruiser for a change!

[Takeda92]

Well, maybe that Tone is also in her light cruiser as she was first planned.. with a bunch of 155mm guns like Mogami but all mounted forward. If that's the case, then yes.. she can be premium. 

I rushed judgement too soon, it could be just like Bismarck and that Buffalo cruiser, premiums for testing.. maybe they want to test plane mechanics for those aviation cruisers. If so then it's fine. But I would be really disappointed if she turned out nothing but a weaker Atago premium one tier lower, made by WG just to suck more money.

[xCaptainObviousx]

Well, it seems like I'm the only one who's happy about new ingame premiums. I've been sitting on a pile of dubloons for ages with nothing to spend them on.

[ArtyIsWorseThanCorona]

 

What you called "wallet warriors" are the players that help the game running as they spent the money needed instead of pay nothing and play for free.....

 

ah there we go again with the best argument ever.

Not everyone who buys Premium or has a Premium ship is a Wallet Warrior. With Wallet Warrior I mean the people who nearly reached tier 4/5 and alrdy buy tier 7/8 premiums and don´t know how to use that ship or what to do.

Best example are those who fire Torps without watching around them or even considering what the range on their torps is. Because 10km torps totally will reach a ship in 15km distance.

 

Well thats my opinion, you don´t need to have the same opinion, thats why i put it in spoiler ;)

 

Edit: "You also have buyed a Tirpitz and your standard BB tier is 5, so what?"

 

Yeah and? In closed beta I nearly had Yamato. And if you didn´t look at it. I know how to drive BBs. 93k average on Tirpitz 4th best on Tirpitz on Eu ;) I know how to drive it. I also have more average on Kongo then most on Iowa or Montana ;)

[fnord_disc]

Well, maybe that Tone is also in her light cruiser as she was first planned.. with a bunch of 155mm guns like Mogami but all mounted forward. If that's the case, then yes.. she can be premium. 

I rushed judgement too soon, it could be just like Bismarck and that Buffalo cruiser, premiums for testing.. maybe they want to test plane mechanics for those aviation cruisers. If so then it's fine. But I would be really disappointed if she turned out nothing but a weaker Atago premium one tier lower, made by WG just to suck more money.

 

Well, the thing that agrees with you is this:

 

These ships have been included into the version for testing purposes, and will become available to all players with the following updates.

 

together with

 

Polish destroyer Bliskavica - Tier 6; Russian/USSR battleship Nikolay I - Tier 4

 

I don't see how these two are not actual premiums.

 

[ToxicGamer69Alpha]

I really don't understand the disdain for wallet warriors, I find them, on the contrary, to be a reliable source for lulz if they just spent the cash on a Tirpitz or a Atago or what-the-[edited]-ever and then plays like a clown with downs.

 

All you really need at that point is your favorite beverage and popcorn.

 

And depending on the premiums tickle my fancy, I might buy them. For added lulz because now I know there is some clownshoes on these forums that go absolutely mental at the idea of premiums.

[JapLance]

 

• The opening of German and Russian/USSR Tech tree are represented by the branch of  German cruisers and  the branch of Russian/USSR destroyers
  • The starting ship of Russian/USSR Tech tree patrol ship Orlan
    destroyers branch represented by ships: Storojevoy – Tier 2; Derzky - Tier 3; Izyaslav - Tier 4; Gnevny - Tier 5; Ognevoy - Tier 6; Udaloy - Tier 7; Tashkent - Tier 8; Kiev - Tier 9; Khabarovsk - Tier 10.

 

This are different tiers than the ones shown yesterday.

 

[Sybeck]

 

What you called "wallet warriors" are the players that help the game running as they spent the money needed instead of pay nothing and play for free.....

 

You also have buyed a Tirpitz and your standard BB tier is 5, so what?

 

Zinged!

[ArtyIsWorseThanCorona]

 

Zinged!

 

Nope, not really

[dash_lonestarr]

 

• Introduced Japanese voice overs (TBA 17/09).

 

Yayyyyy