Update log
Full World of Warships update
The complete published notes, normalized for clean reading and source attribution.
Extracted changes
- Server
- Gameplay
- Performance
- Store
- Balance
Please note that the servers will be temporarily unavailable due to the release of an update. The schedule is available below. Maintenance times are tentative and subject to change. Please accept our apologies for any inconveniences.
| Asia | 22.12.2020 05:00—8:00 UTC+8 | 2020-12-22 21:00—23:59 UTC |
| CIS(Ru) | 21.12.2020 05:00—10:00 MSK (UTC+3) | 2020-12-21 02:00—07:00 UTC |
| EU | 22.12.2020 06:00—09:00 CET (UTC+1) | 2020-12-22 05:00—08:00 UTC |
| NA | 21.12.2020 02:00 AM—05:00 AM PT (UTC–8) | 2020-12-21 10:00—13:00 UTC |
The new update will go live some time after it's been downloaded because the client and server sides are updated separately. While the client begins to update immediately, it takes time for the servers to be updated across all regions.
If there are problems with downloading or launching the update—please perform files integrity check. Subtitles can be enabled in the video player separately.
The New Year preparations are in full swing! We've prepared a lot of gifts and New Year activities for you: two New Year's campaigns, the Dockyard, battle performance bonuses, New Year's gifts, New Year's horns, and much more!
| New Year in World of Warships ● Kure Dockyard ● Snowflakes: Battle Performance Bonuses ● New Year Campaigns ● Updates to the Ranked Battles System ● Armory ● Content Changes ● Game Balance Changes ● Technical Changes ● Support of Mac OS |
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New Year in World of Warships
New Year's gifts
Head to the Armory to receive a free Santa's Gift container on the main page.
Collect a second Santa's Gift container by opening the in-game Premium Shop.
Another Santa's Gift container awaits you on a special New Year's website.
The Armory and Premium Shop are also offering bundles with three types of Santa's Gift containers. Within them, you'll find doubloons, days of Premium Account, Coal, Free XP, expendable camouflages, signals, or even one of 107 Premium ships.
Free bundles
The Armory is offering free random bundles—New Year Supplies. Within them, you'll find Santa's Gift and Santa's Big Gift containers, as well as other valuable rewards.
The bundles will be available
From: Tue. 22 Dec. 07:00 CET (UTC+1) Until: Mon. 11 Jan. 07:00 CET (UTC+1)
You can obtain only one bundle per day. A total of 12 bundles will be available, so you can skip 8 days and still be able to collect all the rewards.
Kure Dockyard
In Update 0.9.12, players will be able to start building a new Japanese battleship, Steam post imageSteam post image IX Hizen. The ship is a variant of a super battleship project that preceded the development of the Yamato-class ships. She's armed with twelve 410 mm guns placed in four turrets. Having such an atypical number of guns for a high-tier Japanese battleship allows her to deal impressive damage per salvo.
Rules of the Dockyard
The construction process at the Dockyard comprises 26 phases.
These shipbuilding phases can be completed by progressing through the Dockyard combat missions, or by spending 1,950 doubloons to pass through each phase.
If you want to complete shipbuilding phases at a discount, you can purchase Starter Packs: 10 shipbuilding phases in exchange for 9,950 doubloons, or 4 shipbuilding phases in exchange for 5,000 doubloons.
The combat missions of the Dockyard will span two updates—0.9.12 and 0.10.0. Players will be able to complete shipbuilding phases in exchange for doubloons until the end of Update 0.10.1.
In total, you can pass through 22 out of 26 shipbuilding phases by progressing through Dockyard combat missions.
Completing the 5th and 15th shipbuilding phases will
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