Update 12.10

Development Blog 482, Commander Skills Developer Bulletin Public Test News article

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Update 12.10: Asymmetric Battles

Update 12.10 delivers the following:

Commander Skills Update ● Battle Pass ● Early Access to New Japanese Battleships Continues ● Asymmetric Battles ● Voyage to the North Pole Continues ● Clan Battles ● Ranked Battles ● Brawls ● High School Fleet Collaboration ● YouTube Memberships ● New Arrivals in the Armory ● Balance Changes ● Content Additions and Changes ● Other Changes and Improvements

Commander Skills Update

With the release of Update 12.10, we’ve made much-needed changes to some unpopular and under-performing skills for destroyers, cruisers, and battleships. These changes are based on both statistical data and player feedback and are meant to make these skills more practical in battle.

Complete List of Changes

See the Commander Skills article for all skills in tabular form.

Consumables Specialist (Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers – Line 1)

Removed the following effects:

• Fighter consumable cooldown time: –10%
• Spotting Aircraft consumable cooldown time: –10%
• Defensive AA consumable cooldown time: –10%
• Main Battery Reload Booster consumable cooldown time: –10%
• Torpedo Reload Booster consumable cooldown time: –10%

Added the following effect:

• Cooldown time of all consumables, except Damage Control Party and Repair Party: –7.5% (for unique Commanders that have an enhanced version of this skill: –10%)

The bonus also doesn't affect Specialized Repair Teams, Heavy Repair Teams, or Fast Damage Control Team.

This skill will now affect a greater variety of consumables, which means that it will benefit most ships in the game. To balance this out, we decided to slightly reduce the bonus itself.

Preventive Maintenance (Battleships, Destroyers – Line 1)

Added the following effects:

• Increases HP of AA guns: +15% (for unique Commanders: +20%)
• Increases HP of secondary guns: +15% (for unique Commanders: +20%)

Super-Heavy AP Shells (Battleships – Line 3)

Added the following effects:

• Fire damage received: –10%
• Flooding damage received: –10%

Improved Repair Party Readiness (Battleships – Line 3)

Added a new effect that can be activated:

• Receive an additional Repair Party charge for accruing 2,000,000 potential damage (once per battle):
  • Repair Party charges: +1

Focus Fire Training (Cruisers – Line 2, Battleships – Line 3)

Added the following effect:

• Immediate damage when activating a priority sector: +1.5%

Changed the following effects:

• Airstrike armament reload time: –10% → –15%
• Aircraft preparation time: –5% → –10%

When you activate a priority AA sector, enemy squadrons within its range immediately receive damage, based on the squadron's HP. Currently, without using this skill, cruisers and battleships deal immediate damage equal to 3.5% of the enemy squadron's HP, and the skill buffs it up to 5%.

Pack a Punch (Cruisers – Line 3)

Renamed Enhanced Torpedo Explosive Charge as “Pack a Punch” and added the following effect:

• Secondary battery firing range: +20%

Some cruisers actively use their secondaries; however, there aren't that many skills that apply bonuses to them. This change will make the skill useful to a bigger pool of ships.

Furious (Battleships – Line 4)

Removed the following effects:

• Main battery reload time: –5%
• Dispersion of shells fired by enemies attacking your ship: +5%

Added the following changes:

• Improves your ship's characteristics for each active fire and/or flooding instance on board your ship.
  • First fire/flooding—main battery reload time: –10%
  • Second and each consecutive fire/flooding instance (up to 6)—main battery reload time: –5%

Fire and flooding can be extremely frustrating, especially when you don't have a Damage Control Party charge available. This skill will partially compensate for the inconvenience by providing the ship with a significant bonus to her main battery reload time. Additionally, it can be combined with the updated Super-Heavy AP Shells to reduce both fire and flooding damage.

Dazzle (Destroyers – Line 4)

Added a new bonus to the activated effect—it reduces the accuracy of hostile fire directed at your ship and increases her speed for 15 s after your ship has been detected.

• Ship speed: +8%

AA Defense and ASW Expert (Battleships – Line 2, Cruisers – Line 4)

Changed the following effects:

Battleships

• Continuous AA damage: +10% → +15%
• Damage from AA shell explosions: +10% → +15%

Cruisers

• Continuous AA damage: +20% → +25%
• Damage from AA shell explosions: +20% → +25%

Activated effect: Improves your ship's characteristics when her AA guns are active.

• Ship consumable preparation and reload time: –15% → –40%

Activated effect: Improves your ship's characteristics when her AA guns are active.

• Ship consumable preparation and reload time: –20% → –50%

Due to these changes, you can take advantage of the opportunity to reset Commander skills absolutely free of charge during the first week of Update 12.10.
From: Nov 8, 03:00 AM Central    Until: Nov 15, 03:00 AM Central

Battle Pass

Update 12.10 delivers a new Battle Pass season. Progress through the stages and earn valuable rewards!

This time, the final reward for the Free Battle Pass is 3x Black Friday 2023 containers, while the final reward for the Premium Battle Pass is a permanent economic bonus package for a Tier VIII ship.

The seasonal bonuses are identical to the previous pass: an additional combat mission to earn 80 BP points and progress through levels; +10 BP levels immediately after the purchase; +100% first daily victory bonus; and +5% bonus to Coal, Steel, and Research Point earnings.

In Update 12.10, we will be testing different variations of Battle Pass progress. This means the rewards will stay the same but the ways to progress will be different.

Early Access to New Japanese Battleships Continues

Early Access to the new Japanese Battleships continues in Update 12.10.

These ships have accurate large-caliber guns and are intended for long-distance engagements. This is emphasized by the presence of the Spotting Aircraft With High-Precision Optics consumable that not only increases the firing range of their main battery guns but also provides an additional bonus to their accuracy.

VIII Yumihari – Available in sequential bundles obtainable for a temporary resource — Japanese Tokens.
IX Adatara – Available in sequential bundles obtainable for a temporary resource — Japanese Tokens.
X Bungo – Available to purchase for  Doubloons at the end of a sequential bundle chain.

Once Update 12.11 goes live, these Japanese battleships will become available for all players to research.

Asymmetric Battles

Starts: Nov 23, 10:00 AM Central   Ends: Jan 10, 01:00 AM Central

The latest iteration of Asymmetric Battles awaits you 2 weeks after the release of Update 12.10. This time, you can participate playing Tier VI–X ships and superships of all types. You’ll be matched in a team of five players, with the tier difference between human players limited to one, and fight against 12 bots that will be two tiers lower than each tier represented in the player team.

For example: If a team of players has only Tier VI ships, they will face Tier IV bots. If there are Tier VI and VII players on the team, there will be Tier IV and V bots, respectively. Bot teams won't have any submarines. Additionally, Divisions of up to five players are allowed.

We’ve also made some improvements to the bot AI based on your feedback. AI-controlled ships have been reprogrammed to prioritize attacking the player ship with the highest HP in proximity. Also, compared to the previous iterations, bots will be less efficient at dodging torpedoes and will more actively engage in capturing Key Areas.

More details will be revealed in a separate article.

Voyage to the North Pole Continues

6th directive starts: Nov 10, 04:00 AM Central
7th directive starts: Nov 17, 04:00 AM Central
8th directive starts: Nov 24, 04:00 AM Central
Ends: Dec 1, 03:00 AM Central

Update 12.10 delivers another set of missions! Complete them to earn special rewards, as well as Arctic Tokens, which can be spent on various items (including some Premium containers!) in the “Voyage to the North Pole” section of the Armory. With the new update, we’ve added Captain's Holdall Premium containers to this tab.

Completing all combat mission groups will bring VIII Dmitry Pozharsky to your Port.

You can read more about the Voyage to the North Pole event in the [ dedicated article].

Clan Battles

A week after the release of Update 12.10, Clan Battles Season 23 — dubbed "Triton" — will commence.

Clan Battles offer an excellent opportunity to show off your skills in World of Warships. It's not only the results of individual battles that are important here but also general progress. Fight alongside your allies and rise to the top!

Win Clan Battles to earn valuable rewards, such as  Steel,  Oil,  days of Warships Premium Account, and combat signals, as well as expendable camouflages and rare and unique expendable economic bonuses. The more victories you achieve, the more rewards you'll earn!

Rules

Gaming sessions are available on: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Format: 7 vs. 7; Tier X ships.

On the days of the release of any updates, Clan Battles are held only during the Prime Time of your server.

Game Maps and Modes

The Atlantic, North, Trap, Loop, Estuary, Crash Zone Alpha, and Northern Waters. Battles on all maps will utilize the Clans: Domination mode.

The following rules apply to all maps:

• Number of Key Areas: 3
• Capture time: 30 seconds
• Scoring of capture points: 3 points every 4 seconds

Ship Restrictions

Just like in the previous seasons, certain restrictions on the numbers of specific ships or ship types per team apply in Clan Battles.

The restrictions can be set for the entire duration of a season or for specific periods of time; for example, they might be set after the first 2 weeks of the season and then replaced with different restrictions a few weeks later. This allows us to promptly react to the current state of the season.

Season 23 begins with the following restrictions:

• Players will be able to go into battle aboard cruisers, destroyers, and battleships.
• No more than one battleship per team.

At the start of the season, there won't be any special restrictions. During the season, based on our statistical analysis, new restrictions may be applied, and existing restrictions may be changed. We'll announce any changes separately on our Development Blog. Information about any changes will also be available in the game client.

Please note: The results of this Clan Battles season will be used for seeding in a yet-to-be-announced tournament that will take place in early February.

Rewards

Detailed information about the completion criteria and rewards can be found in the game client.

Clan Treasury

Clans ranked 1–50in the Global Rating will receive from  5,000 to 25,000 Steel.

Place in the Global Rating  Steel

• 1   25,000
• 2   22,500
• 3   20,000
• 4   17,500
• 5–50 *   16,250–5,000

• Each following step brings  250 Steel less.

Clans that fail to enter the top 50 will receive  Steel and  Coal for their Treasury at the end of the season. The exact amount will depend on their league and group.

League, Group  Steel  Coal

• Hurricane, 1 2,500 25,000
• Typhoon, 1 1,500 25,000
• Typhoon, 2 1,000 20,000
• Typhoon, 3 0 15,000
• Storm, 1 0 12,500
• Storm, 2 0 10,000
• Storm, 3 0 7,500
• Gale, 1 0 5,000

Ranked Battles

Ranked Battles Season 14 starts in Update 12.10.

• 7 vs. 7; Tier VII ships
• 6 vs. 6; Tier VIII ships
• 5 vs. 5; Tier X ships and superships, no aircraft carriers

In Season 14, the rule for keeping a Star in the event of a loss is the same for all leagues. Only the top XP earner on the losing team keeps a Star.

Brawls

Round 1 starts: Nov 13, 10:00 AM Central   Ends: Nov 20, 03:00 AM Central

Update 12.10 will see three Brawls unleashed in different formats.

Round 1

• 6 vs. 6 playing Tier VI ships
• No more than one submarine, one aircraft carrier, three battleships, and four destroyers
• Maximum Division size: 3

Round 2

• 9 vs. 9 playing Tier VIII ships
• No more than one submarine, one aircraft carrier, four battleships, and six destroyers
• Maximum Division size: 3

Round 3

• 3 vs. 3 with Tier V ships
• No more than two battleships and two destroyers
• Maximum Division size: 3

High School Fleet Collaboration

A new wave of collaboration between High School Fleet and World of Warships makes its way into the game in Update 12.10! You hoped they would return one day, and they haven't let you down—the characters from High School Fleet are coming back in the seas of World of Warships!

Players will be able to obtain VIII HSF Harekaze, VIII HSF Harekaze II, and V HSF Hiei as well as High School Fleet Commanders and camouflages for X Yamato, IX Musashi, and VIII HSF Harekaze.

That’s not all! We're hosting a special Auction for High School Fleet during Update 12.10 in which the main offer will be VI HSF Admiral Graf Spee, Commander Thea Kreutzer with 6 skill points and a Port slot. More information will be available later.

©AAS/Maritime Safety Support Department
©AAS/New Maritime Safety Support Department

YouTube Memberships

We've updated the benefits of our YouTube membership program! Complete special combat missions in Update 12.10 to earn Community Tokens, Soviet Era containers, and French Squadron containers!

Rewards for Different Membership Levels in Update 12.10

Level	Cost*	Combat Mission	Reward
WoWS First Mate	$0.99	Earn 15,000 Base XP. Battle types: Random, Ranked, Co-op, Events, Brawls, and Operations. Tiers: V–X ships and superships.	1,500 Community Tokens
WoWS Admiral	$1.99	Deal 600,000 damage. Battle types: Random, Ranked, Co-op, events, Brawls, and Operations. Tiers: V–X ships and superships. You'll also be able to complete the previous level's combat mission and receive any due rewards for it.	4x Soviet Era containers + the reward from the previous level
Naval Historian	$2.99	Earn 15 "Destroyed" ribbons. Battle types: Random, Ranked, Co-op, Event, Brawls and Operations. Tiers: V–X ships and superships. You'll also be able to complete the combat missions from the two previous levels and receive any due rewards for them.	3x French Squadron containers + the rewards from the two previous levels + historical content**

* Currency and membership fees may vary by country.

** Historical content includes posts on the official World of Warships channel about the naval history of different countries and is only available to Naval Historian members. Access to the historical content is automatic and doesn’t require Naval Historian members to complete combat missions.

The special combat missions for our YouTube members can be claimed until the end of the current update, and you have until the end of the next update to complete them.

New Arrivals in the Armory

Starts: Nov 8, 04:00 AM Central
Ends: Nov 22, 03:00 AM Central

We’re running a Soviet-themed event centered around IX Navarin that will go live with Update 12.10. Players will be able to purchase Navarin for Doubloons, but she can be also obtained via Soviet containers. Soviet containers can also drop VIII Ochakov, V Mikoyan, and VIII Pyotr Bagration, as well as Soviet permanent camouflages.

Players will also be able to obtain a Soviet permanent camouflage for VIII Tallinn as the final reward for completing a special combat mission chain.

Balance Changes

We're applying balance changes to the following ships based on an analysis of both their combat statistics as well as player feedback: X Austin, IX ZF-6, VII Tashkent '39, and the Pan-Asian cruisers.

American cruiser Austin, Tier X

• Main battery reload time reduced from 8 to 7.5 sec.
• Main Battery Reload Booster consumable reload time reduced from 125 to 120 sec.

German destroyer ZF-6, Tier IX

• Main battery reload time reduced from 4 to 3.8 s
• Main battery 180-degree turning time reduced from 18 to 10 s

Soviet destroyer Tashkent '39, Tier VII

• Torpedo reload time reduced from 100 to 93 s

Pan-Asian cruiser Chungking, Tier V

• Base hull main battery reload time reduced from 10.5 to 9.9 s
• Researchable hull main battery reload time reduced from 9.5 to 9 s
• Researchable Gun Fire Control System main battery firing range increased from 12 to 13 km; the stock module’s main battery firing range has been increased accordingly
• Main battery shell ballistics have been changed; the trajectory will now be flatter

Pan-Asian cruiser Rahmat, Tier VI

• Main battery reload time reduced from 7.5 to 7 s
• Researchable Gun Fire Control System main battery firing range increased from 12.5 to 13.5 km; the stock module’s main battery firing range has been increased accordingly
• Main battery shell ballistics have been changed; the trajectory will now be flatter

Pan-Asian cruiser Chumphon, Tier VII

• Main battery reload time reduced from 6.5 to 6.1 s
• Researchable Gun Fire Control System main battery firing range increased from 13.2 to 14.2 km; the stock module’s main battery firing range has been increased accordingly
• Main battery shell ballistics have been changed; the trajectory will now be flatter

Pan-Asian cruiser Harbin, Tier VIII

• Main battery reload time reduced from 5.5 to 5.2 s
• Researchable Gun Fire Control System main battery firing range increased from 13.5 to 14.5 km; the stock module’s main battery firing range has been increased accordingly
• Main battery shell ballistics have been changed; the trajectory will now be flatter

Pan-Asian cruiser Sejong, Tier IX

• Main battery reload time reduced from 4.8 to 4.5 s
• Researchable Gun Fire Control System main battery firing range increased from 14 to 15 km; the stock module’s main battery firing range has been increased accordingly
• Main battery shell ballistics have been changed; the trajectory will now be flatter

Pan-Asian cruiser Jinan, Tier X

• Main battery reload time reduced from 3.2 to 3 s
• Main battery firing range increased from 14.5 to 15.5 km
• Main battery shell ballistics have been changed; the trajectory will now be flatter

Content Additions and Changes

• Added the Xbox flag and patch.
• Added the “King of the Sea — Interstellar” permanent camouflage for X Vermont.
• Added the King of the Sea XVI Finalist achievement and King of the Sea XVI commemorative flag.
• Update 12.10 will also bring Naval Base Port decoration inspired by the Black Friday event.

Ships American VI CV Independence, Pan-Asian cruiser IX Tianjin, and American BB X Rhode Island were added for testing by developers, volunteers, and community contributors.

Container Changes

• Microsoft container renamed Xbox container; its appearance has been changed accordingly.
• The visual appearance of the Flags Premium container has been changed.
• Updated the visual appearance of the Santa's Gift, Santa's Big Gift, and Santa's Mega Gift containers.

Soviet container contents have been updated.

• 60% – 14x one of { , , , }; or
• 18% –  100,000 Elite Commander XP; or
• 15% –  32,000 Free XP; or
• 4% – One Soviet permanent camouflage for a ship from the list { VIII Ochakov, VIII Pyotr Bagration, VIII Tallinn, IX Riga, X Petropavlovsk }; or
• 3% – One ship from the list { VIII Ochakov, VIII Pyotr Bagration, V Mikoyan, IX Navarin }.

If you already have all the ships and camouflages that can drop from the container, you’ll receive  100,000 Free XP instead.

There will be another way to obtain IX Navarin besides the container — she will be available to purchase in the Armory.

Future Changes

Santa's Gift, Santa's Big Gift, and Santa's Mega Gift container contents update

Don’t panic! Santa’s Gifts will stay almost the same, but with an improvement that we hope you’ll be excited about—an updated shortened ship drop list. Last year's containers had a ship list featuring 174 ships in total — this time, instead of just adding the new ships released over the last year, we’ve also removed older ships to make it easier for you to obtain your desired ships.

A total of 43 older ships have been removed from the drop list — all of which are available for direct purchase in the Armory. In their stead, 19 newer additions to the game have been added.

See Santa's 2023 Gifts for the new ship lists.

All other aspects of Santa’s Gift containers, such as drop rates for each category, will remain the same as last year.

Supercontainer and Steam Supercontainer contents update

The following ships will be added to the containers: VI Dupleix, VI Leipzig, VII West Virginia '44, VII Tokachi, VII Tashkent '39, VIII Almirante Grau, VIII Colossus, VIII Nottingham, VIII Numancia, VIII Alliance, VIII Schill, IX Sun Yat-Sen, IX Halford, IX Jäger, IX Velos, IX Karl XIV Johan, IX Scarlet Thunder, X Tromp, X Brisbane

Premium Ship VI and Premium Ship VI Elite container contents update

The following ships will be added to the containers: VI Dupleix, VI Leipzig

Premium Ship VII and Premium Ship VII Elite container contents update

The following ships will be added to the containers: VII Tokachi, VII West Virginia '44

Premium Ship VIII and Premium Ship VIII Elite container contents update

The following ships will be added to the containers: VIII Schill, VIII Alliance, VIII Almirante Grau, VIII Nottingham, VIII Numancia

Premium Ship IX and Premium Ship IX Elite container contents update

The following ships will be added to the containers: IX Velos, IX Sun Yat-Sen, IX Halford, IX Jäger, IX Karl XIV Johan, IX Scarlet Thunder

Other Changes and Improvements

• Improved the visual details of the armor on the following ships: IV Hōshō, VI Ryūjō, VIII Shōkaku, X Hakuryū, VIII Kaga, and VIII Kaga B.
• Fixes to textures and other visuals on the following ships: VIII Amalfi, X Lüshun, X Venezia, X Delny, VII Prinz Heinrich, IX Somme, IX Iowa, VI Repulse B, VIII Shōkaku, VIII Brandenburg B, X Smolensk B, and IX Jäger.
• Fixed a bug with VI Repulse which caused her AA defense to not work properly in some situations.
• Fixed a bug that allowed bot ship horn sounds to be heard even if the ship horn option had been turned off in the settings.
• Fixed a terrain bug that caused ships to crash into invisible textures on the Shards map.
• Fixed a sound issue on battleships that sometimes caused the second and third shot sounds of the main battery salvo to not play properly and get cut off prematurely.
• Fixed a sound issue that caused the sound of the engine to be heard after a ship had been destroyed.
• Fixed a bug in the equipment window's reorder option that sometimes allowed aircraft armament to be rearranged on hybrid ships.
• Fixed a sound issue with X Puerto Rico's horn that caused it to have a low volume in certain situations.
• Fixed a bug that caused one of the secondary guns on VIII Borodino to not rotate properly when there was no enemy ship nearby.
• Fixed a bug on hybrid ships that caused the squadron consumables hotkey to be changed if a player changed other consumable hotkeys in the settings.
• Fixed a bug that would not show the British Commonwealth permanent camouflage for VII Haida and Vanguard permanent camouflage for V Minekaze in the Captain's Logbook.
• Fixed an issue for tactical squadrons that caused the animation for jet-assisted take-off not to be shown despite being active.
• Fixed an issue with tactical squadrons that sometimes caused jet-assisted take-off to not slow down when the key for slowing down was pressed.
• Fixed a bug with the Ocean map in the Domination mode which caused Key Area B to not be neutral from the start of the Battle.
• Fixed an issue which did not allow players to create a Division for Clan Battles before prime time was available.

For a complete list of changes, please refer to Player Support.

• Added a section number indicator in the Collections window.
• Fixed the tool-tip description for the Early Access feature.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Equipment tab interface to work incorrectly for hybrid ships.
• Fixed a minor texture issue affecting the Heroic Clash collection background image.
• Fixed a UI description bug for a combat mission in the Thai language.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from setting up a Division for Clan Battles before the Prime Time was available.

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