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Changes to test ships - Closed test 13.1

Based on testing results, we're applying changes to Commonwealth Cruisers, Victoria, Wiesbaden, Jupiter '42 and Chikuma II
 

 

II Port Jackson

  • Main battery reload time increased: 9.1 to 9.6s

III Caradoc

  • Main battery reload time increased: 8.0 to 8.5 s

Commonwelath Cruiser Red Fort, Tier V

  • Main battery reload time increased: 6.0 to 6.6 s
  • Range of the Depth Charge Airstrike decreased: 8 to 7km
  • Added Submarine Surveillance with parameters similar to Hobart
  • Torpedo protection removed

Red Fort is a clone for the testing of TIer V Delhi

VI Hobart

  • Main battery reload time increased: 6.5 to 7.5s
  • Range of the ASW airstrike decreased: 8 to 7km

Commonwealth Cruiser Uganda, Tier VII

  • Main battery reload time increased: 6.5 to 7.1 s
  • Range of the Depth Charge Airstrike decreased: 9 to 8km
  • Added Submarine Surveillance with parameters similar to Auckland
  • Removed torpedo protection

VIII Auckland

  • Main battery reload time increased: 10 to 11 s
  • Surface detectability range increased: 12.3 to 13.28km
    • All other detectability ranges adjusted accordingly

IX Encounter

  • Main battery reload time increased: 8.9 to 9.8 s
  • Surface detectability range increased: 12.3 to 12.96km
    • All other detectability ranges adjusted accordingly

VII Jupiter '42

  • Main Battery reload time increased: 4.5 to 6.5s
  • AP shell parameters changed:
    • damage increased: 1700 to 2500
    • arming threshold decreased: 20mm to 12mm

IX Victoria

  • Improved the main battery firing angles
  • Sigma parameter increased: 1.8 to 2.0
  • Switched standard and alternatives shells. Fast-moving shells are now base shells, and slow-moving but high-damage ones are alternative.
  • Alternative AP shell parameters changed:
    • Damage increased: 13800 to 14200
  • Alternative HE shell parameters changed:
    • Damage increased: 5250 to 5850
    • Fire chance increased: 30 to 40%

VIII Wiesbaden

  • Main battery reload time increased: 5 to 6s
  • Hydroacoustic Search consumable changed:
    • Ship detection range decreased: 6 to 5km
    • Torpedo detection range decreased: 4 to 3.5km
    • Action time reduced: 120 to 100s
  • Smoke generator consumable changed:
    • Action time reduced: 20 to 15s
    • Cooldown increased: 160 to 180s


Japanese Cruiser Chikuma II, Tier IX

  • Decreased the firing angle of the torpedo tubes by 1 degree as a result of a bug-fix to the model

 

Please note that all information in the development blog is preliminary. Announced adjustments and features may change multiple times during testing. The final information will be published on our game's website.