Development blog

Update 12.6 brings five new ships. American Super Battleship Maine, Italian Super Cruiser Piemonte, European Battleship Karl XIV Johan, British Battleship Scarlet Thunder, and British Cruiser Defence will be added to the game for testing.

Details about which resource some upcoming ships will become available for.

Let's check out some of the main new features of the coming update.

Based on testing results, we’re applying changes to some of the Spanish cruisers, Schill, Lüshun, and Dmitry Pozharsky.

Based on testing results, we’re applying changes to some of the Spanish cruisers, West Virginia ’44, Jäger, Halford, and Novosibirsk, as well as the unique upgrade for Manfred von Richthofen.

In Update 12.6 we will resume testing Kitakami - a cruiser whose main armament consists of five quadruple-tube torpedo launchers on each side. 

We’re applying balance changes to Italian ships, German destroyers, Japanese cruisers, and a number of other ships, as well as to the Smoke Generator Modification 1 upgrade and the X-Ray Papa Unaone signal.

In one of the future updates, we will add a second branch of Japanese battleships to the game. Currently, it's still in the early stages of development, but we want to share the first details now.

Based on testing results, we’re applying changes to Asturias, Cataluña, Andalucía, Castilla, Schill, Novosibirsk, Halford, West Virginia ’44, Devastation, Jäger, Muavenet, Stord, Grom, Split, S-1, L-20, and K-1, as well as to the unique upgrades for Petropavlovsk and Manfred von Richthofen.

Soon we'll conduct a closed test of planned visual changes for the maps Polar, New Dawn, and Islands; changes to hit effects, shell tracers, and water display; and the addition of some fauna on our maps.