PT 0.5.15 starts tomorrow 17.11 at 17:30 CET and lasts until 28.11

[daki]

http://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/public-test/public-test-0515/

 

What to expect in Public Test 0.5.15?

Key Attractions

• Check out the next BIG thing in World of Warships - the Campaigns!
• Dynamic Divisions are brought back to life. Try them out!

 

Campaigns

Check out Campaigns, a feature that is aimed at making the gameplay more diverse and fun for every player out there. Participating in Campaigns will introduce novice players to some important features of the game and will allow experienced players to test their skill and earn valuable rewards in the process!

Campaigns are an evolution of Battle Missions. In brief, a Campaign is a set of special missions which need to be completed successively. Each mission consists of usual and final tasks, which a player can fulfill in battles.

 

Curious how it all works in-game? Let us break it down for you:

• For completing usual tasks, you will earn pins. Pins are required to unlock final tasks. A usual task can be completed multiple times and you will get pins everytime you do so.
• Final tasks conclude a certain mission.
• A total of two tasks (three if you have Premium Account active) can be active at the same time.
• There will be some enticing interim rewards for fulfilling certain tasks. Most often the rewards are in the form of signal flags, consumables, credits and so on. These rewards can be received only once.
• And of course, there will be a big reward awaiting all brave and persistent Captains for completing the entire Campaign!

 

In the 0.5.15 Public Test, two Campaigns will be available:

• The Science of Victory –  a long Campaign, aimed at helping beginners to master various subtleties of the game and level up their personal fleet. Using various armaments and upgrades, playing ships of different types, levelling up Commanders, fighting for control of key areas — all these and many other game aspects are gathered into simple tasks to make sure you have fun.
• Honourable Service – a relatively short but rather complex Campaign, which can be played with high-tier ships. It is mainly aimed at developing personal skills, improving battle performance and teamwork. 

Conditions to complete missions on the Public Test server will be much easier for testing purposes. Also, keep in mind that the final rewards in the Public Test will not be the same as on the live server.

Be the first one to complete both Campaigns, collect rewards and send us your feedback!

 

Dynamic Divisions

They are back! The Divisions tab is now added to the battle loading screen and the battle statistics. This tab will allow you to create a division, invite players to a division or submit a request to join an existing Division. However, the best thing in all of this is the fact that voice chat in dynamic divisions works exactly the same as for the ordinary ones – focus, cooperate with other players in Cooperative and Random Battles, and win together!

 

Other

Maps and Locations:

• Improved the appearance of the Saint Petersburg Port as well as the maps New Dawn and Strait.

Physics Model:

• Significantly lowered the chance of facing issues such as "jumping" out of the water, twitching of small ships while ramming, rotation of the ship's wreck and other issues that used to happen to destroyed ships.

And that's not all! Apart from the aforementioned additions, there's something else that we have kept isecret for version 0.5.15's release! For now, try out Campaigns, Dynamic Divisions and lots of other cool features that you will come across in the 0.5.15 Public Test, and don't forget to leave your feedback!

 

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All in all nothing that major. Nevertheless we have another "it's a secret" moment so who knows what it will be

[Comrad_StaIin]

  there's something else that we have kept isecret for version 0.5.15's release

 

Graf Spee? German DDs Japanese DD Split?

 

 

[Vanhal]

 

Graf Spee? German DDs Japanese DD Split?

 

 

10 camos?

[Admiral_Chunder]

I'd love to participate in the public test but can't sign up. The sign up page (https://pt.worldofwarships.ru/registration/en/) seems to be text only and at the bottom I can't see the captcha image to enter the characters. Is this a temporary glitch or are they no longer accepting sign-ups for the public test server?

[havaduck]

 

10 camos?

 

I thought exactly the same.

[Niibler]

:« Nevertheless we have another "it's a secret" moment so who knows what it will be 

 

Someone with "Keen Intuiton" to figure this out?

My bet is on a 5% discount on Admiral Hipper Prinz Eugen in the shop but only for the ultimate pack.

[havaduck]

 

Someone with "Keen Intuiton" to figure this out?

My bet is on a 5% discount on Admiral Hipper Prinz Eugen in the shop but only for the ultimate pack.

 

Buff for the Prince Eugen since its not "unique" and "fun" enough. Twice the HP, citadel that is depleted after taking 100 damage. Every other additional damage to sections that are not the citadel will instead be transfered to a Mogami (if present in the game) since that ship didnt receive a nerf in over one month; they gotta do something about that!

[svadilfari]

campaigns look fun. curious about the surprise. my guess would be the IJN dd split. germand DDs might be too soon. or maybe the missouri mission...

[lankylad11_lankylad]

could be new commander stuff but lets find out.  if missouri is a mission then its requirements will be absolutely ludicrous and will require tier IX ships in the first place

[ShuggieHamster]

anyone having issues with the PT download? Am getting a "The data obtained from the update service is incorrect" message right at the end!

[solaris1212]

The same problem: not downloaded.

 "The data obtained from the update service is incorrect"

 

[Leo_Apollo11]

Hi all,

 

Same here... perhaps we have to do it tomorrow (i.e it is too early today)...

 

 

Leo "Apollo11"

[havaduck]

There you go, thats your secret right there.

 

Now you would be glad about 10 camos, wouldnt you?

 

(try switching the language to something different. last time this error occurred the english language packet deployed was defect. Knowing WG, this very well might be the case again, because literally no one cares about the obscure language no one understands anyway. /s)

[Verdius]

 

 

This really reminds me of something...

 

 

 

 

[_cosmo]

Does this "campaign" imply pve only missions, or can the missions be completed by playing random battles as well?

 

Also, my previous public test installation updated itself without any issues, so server issue was fixed?

[Takeda92]

This "it's a secret" reminds me of the GNB event which turned to be extra 10 camos 

 

[NyronGT]

10 camos, for sure.

[ShuggieHamster]

 

(try switching the language to something different. last time this error occurred the english language packet deployed was defect. Knowing WG, this very well might be the case again, because literally no one cares about the obscure language no one understands anyway. /s)

 

yeah ... tried that. AFter about 8 attempts locked out english and couldnt get back to it causing my french GF to burst out laughing.

I have all the linguistic capability of a dead newt!

 

edited to add .... got back to english.

[Myrmix]

I'll pick camos with +% xp anytime...playing without premium here.

[wongman66]

Hopefully they apply the good things from WoT campaigns. I never did the arty missions and do not play CVS so can get a 4 woman crew that is usable. But not the bad, where certain missions are pure RNG or map/team dependent like t15 for scout tanks. 

And by doing it right will minimise those trying to rig.

Come on WG surprise us and do a real good job.

 

[Xevious_Red]

Hoping they add the good things from WoT missions yes. God help us if they include the gimmicky stuff (like hit a light tank going 60kmph with an arty shell), I can image "mission X: hit a target 20km away with a torp"

[Kartoffelmos]

Graf Spee? German DDs Japanese DD Split?

 

Well, there's this tier 3 Russian cruiser named Oleg in the game files:

 

Not sure how another unwanted Russian vessel is going to make me feel excited though. At least it's not a battleship...

[tenacious_torps]

The big secret: they fixed tier 5 mm. By removing any chance of ever being top tier for good. Seeing how this crap has not been addressed despite obviously being just a pain in the backside it must be intended. And actually I kinda get the reasoning: Continued exposure to WG products requires a high level of frustration tolerance, so best to weed out those too weak from the general server population at that point. They might purchase a tier 7 or 8 premium to escape the horror. If that doesn't make them to, they're unlikely to allow their purses properly fleeced anyway, so need to be made to go away before they scrounge too many valuable server resources. 

[JapLance]

I'm having problems downloading the PTS. Started this morning, and it's been hours stuck at this position

 

 

Any idea why?

[daki]

I'm having problems downloading the PTS. Started this morning, and it's been hours stuck at this position

 

 

Any idea why?

 

That happened to me a few times ago with other patches and the restart of download fixed the issue (i.e. exited then re-entered the launcher).