Update 13.6

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Update 13.6: New French Destroyers

Update 13.6 delivers the following:

Early Access to French Destroyers

Starts: Wed. July 10 4:00 AM Central (UTC-5)
Ends: Wed. Sep. 4 4:00 AM Central (UTC-5)

Update 13.6 offers Early Access to new line of French destroyers: welcome V L'Adroit, VI Duchaffault, VII Le Hardi, VIII L'Aventurier, IX Orage, and X Cassard.

The new French destroyers operate best in close-range combat, and starting from VII Le Hardi, they are armed with very powerful torpedoes that can travel fast and far. Starting with VII Le Hardi's researchable torpedoes and continuing with both the stock and researchable types at Tier VIII and higher, the new destroyers' torpedoes inflict variable damage based on the distance they travel. They are most effective at close range and lose destructive power the longer they travel. On the other hand, you can also rely on these long-range torpedoes if you prefer a safer approach in battle.

The destroyers' main battery guns deal moderate damage per minute and don't have the best ballistics, but the Emergency Engine Power consumable with its short duration but high speed output will help you close the distance to your opponents quickly. Special saturation mechanics, shared with their sister Tech Tree French destroyers may also help you survive close encounters: they cause these new ships to take only half damage in their middle section after a certain damage threshold is met.

We're also adding some sweet new content for the Early Access event to celebrate the new warships arriving in our virtual seas:

• The L'égaliseur permanent camouflage for VII Le Hardi
• The Esprit de France permanent camouflage for IX Orage
• The Uniforme Français permanent camouflage for X Cassard
• French historical Commander André Lemonnier
• The Fleur-de-Lys flag

Personal Challenges

Personal Challenges are returning to the game in Update 13.6 as a part of Early Access. They will be available until the start of Update 13.7 and be split into two 2-week sprints.

More information is available in an additional article.

French Destroyers Event Pass

Starts: Wed. July 10 4:00 AM Central (UTC-5)
Ends: Aug. 7 4:00 AM Central (UTC-5)

We've prepared a new thematic Event Pass dedicated to the French destroyers in Early Access.

In the first progression line, you can find V L'Adroit, the French Riviera and Revolutionary permanent camouflages, and the L'égaliseur permanent camouflage for VII Le Hardi as a final reward. Completing each extra level will bring you 1x More Signals container.

The second progression line is unlockable for  Doubloons and will provide you with  V Siroco immediately. Progressing through the line will bring you a bonus package for VII Le Hardi, French Navy permanent camouflages for V Siroco and IX Mogador, and VII Le Hardi herself as a final reward. Completing extra levels will bring you French Tokens.

More information is available in this article.

Mode Shuffle

Starts: July 10 5:00 AM Central (UTC-5)
Ends: Aug. 7 5:00 AM Central (UTC-5)

Update 13.6 brings a new temporary battle type — Mode Shuffle — that will randomly place you in one of three familiar game modes focused on close-quarters encounters: Airship Escort, Convoy, or Arms Race.

• 12v12
• Tier VIII–X ships
• All ship types
• Divisions up to 3 players
• Ship type restrictions:
  • One aircraft carrier
  • Up to six battleships
  • Up to seven cruisers
  • Up to four destroyers
  • Up to two submarines

While Convoy and Airship Escort are the most recent versions of those game modes, we've made a slight change to Arms Race: no buffs will appear near the map borders. The buffs will pop up somewhere in the middle part of the map, so you'll need to get up close and personal to buff yourself and your team! The changes for Arms Race are only present in Mode Shuffle and this mode will be unaltered in other battle types.

More information will be available in an additional article.

Brawls With Support Consumables

Three Brawls with a twist wait for you in Update 13.6. This time, you'll be bringing special support consumables into battle with you. These mechanics previously appeared in the Piñata Hunt event and Clan Battles Season 25, so you might remember them from those clashes; however, not all of the support consumables are returning to our virtual seas — only specific ones are available in each Brawl.

Brawl 1

Starts: July 15 11:00 AM Central (UTC-5)
Ends: July 22 4:00 AM Central (UTC-5)

• 5v5
• Tier V ships
• Only destroyers can participate
• Divisions of up to five players

Joint Fleet Maneuvers consumable

• Number of uses: 3
• Cooldown: 120 seconds
• Action time: 40 seconds
• Preparation time: 20 seconds

• Increases speed of allied ships by 12%.
• Increases acceleration speed by 15%.
• Decreases turning radius by 15%.

Affects all allied ships.

The consumable effect does not multiply when activated by several players simultaneously.

To find all the details about 2nd and 3rd Brawls, please read our Dev Blog.

Ranked Battles

Starts: Wed. July 10 12:00 PM Central (UTC-5)
Ends: Wed. Sep. 4 3:00 AM Central (UTC-5)

Update 13.6 brings Ranked Battles Season 18.

Bronze League

• 7v7; Tier VI and Tier VII ships
• No more than one aircraft carrier, one submarine, four battleships, four destroyers, and six cruisers

Silver League

• 7v7; Tier X ships and  superships
• No more than one aircraft carrier, one submarine, four battleships, four destroyers, and six cruisers

Gold League

• 5v5; Tier VIII and Tier IX ships
• No more than one aircraft carrier, one submarine, three battleships, three destroyers, and five cruisers

More information is available in the game client.

Armory

With the start of Update 13.6 all Commander Dasha Perova variants have been removed from the Armory, but two Commanders with individual voiceovers are ready to take their places at the helms of your ships:  Pan-American Commander Federica Estival can be purchased for  15,000 Coal and  Spanish Commander Martina Verano can be purchased in the Armory for  1,500 Doubloons. Both Commanders come with 10 skill points.

STAR TREK Has Beamed Into World of Warships!

Starts: Wed. July 10 3:00 AM Central (UTC-5)
Ends: Wed. Aug. 7 4:00 AM Central (UTC-5)

World of Warships is constantly working to push the boundaries and bring exciting new content to our illustrious Captains, but this time, we have something truly out of this world for you! We're excited to announce that World of Warships is hosting a collaboration with STAR TREK, the beloved franchise that has spanned many generations! We're keen to tell you about it, but you'll have to wait a bit for everything to be transported to our world.

Prepare yourselves, load up on photon torpedoes, check the battery levels on your tricorders, and chart a course for strange new victories!

More information about the Star Trek collaboration is available in a separate article.

Arpeggio

Starts: Wed. July 17 4:00 AM Central (UTC-5)
Ends: Wed. Aug. 14 4:00 AM Central (UTC-5)

"ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL -ARS NOVA-" is making its return to World of Warships in Update 13.6! The Blue Steel ships and Commanders that you are already familiar with will once again gather to face off against the Fleet of Fog. New Commander Hyūga with an individual voiceover, a new variation of already existing standard permanent camouflage for X ARP Yamato, commemorative flags for X Yamato and VII Hyūga, and Ars Nova containers are being added to the game.

Each Arpeggio of Blue Steel Premium includes:

One item:

• 56% – 14× Blue Bonuses of the same type { , , ,  } or;
• 16.5% – 32,000 FXP or;
• 16.5% – 96,000 ECXP or;
• 6% – a special 10 pt commander or;
• 5% – 2,250,000 Credits or;
• 4.5% – one of ten premium ARP ships, with a 10 pt commander or;
• 1.5% – ARP Yamato, with a 10 pt commander.

Unique item drop guaranteed by the 40th container; compensation 96,000.
If you already have the ship and permanent camouflages that can be obtained from this container, you will instead receive  96,000 Credits.

Make sure to check the contents of the new container on our dedicated page once Update 13.6 goes live! (Page down and use the Search field.)

Transformers

Starts: July 31 4:00 AM Central (UTC-5)
Ends: Wed. Aug. 14 4:00 AM Central (UTC-5)

In Update 13.6, the Transformers return to World of Warships! Welcome back the Autobots and Decepticons, as well as numerous permanent camouflages and other themed content as part of another exciting World of Warships and Transformers collaboration! Additionally, the composition of the following containers has been changed: Cybertronian Premium container; "The Transformers: The Movie 35th Anniversary" container; and "The Transformers: The Movie 35th Anniversary" Premium container.

Check the new container contents on our [ dedicated page] once Update 13.6 goes live!

Content Additions and Changes

When activating Burst Fire and/or Modified Shells (the latter currently only feature on test ships Victoria and Almirante Oquendo), the parameters of the shells change. We've added a few things to make this more clear to players:

• New alternative shell icons have been added when Burst Fire and Modified Shells are active.
• The icon that appears under the crosshair is now more visible.
• Tooltips for shells now show the difference between the original and modified parameters of the shell.

We've made several sound improvements for Combat Instructions, including sounds that indicate:

• Filling of the Combat Instructions progress bar.
• Activation of Combat Instructions.
• Combat Instructions being currently active and working.
• End of Combat Instructions action time.

In addition to the above, Combat Instructions have also received visual improvements for the tooltip UI.

Content Additions

• Bad Santa Commander with an individual voiceover.
• For Clan Battles Season 27, we've added the Asp and "Hurricane: Asp" achievements.

Pan-American unique Commander Joaquim Marques Lisboa

• We've also added Pan-American unique Commander Joaquim Marques Lisboa to the game for testing.

Joaquim Marques Lisboa (1807–1897), also known as the Marquis of Tamandaré, was an outstanding naval commander that South America gave the world. A national hero of Brazil and patron of the Brazilian Navy, he brought glory to his name in several 19th−century conflicts.

The Commander has the following enhanced skills:

• For aircraft carriers: Survivability Expert — increases aircraft HP for each ship tier by +30 instead of the regular +25.
• For battleships: Brisk — increases ship's speed while remaining undetected by +12.5% instead of the regular +10%.
• For cruisers: Survivability Expert — increases HP for each ship tier by +500 instead of the regular +450.
• For destroyers: Survivability Expert — increases HP for each ship tier by +400 instead of the regular +350.

Additionally, the Commander has the following talents:

Patron of the Navy

Activates upon earning the "High Caliber" achievement.

Bonuses:

• Number of ship/squadron consumables +1
• Consumable action time +20%
• Ship speed +8%

Can be triggered once per battle.

Relentless Firing

Activates once per battle upon hitting enemy ships 175 times with main and secondary battery shells.

Bonuses:

• Main battery reload time –5%
• Secondary battery reload time –15%
• Torpedo tube reload time –10%

Can be triggered once per battle.

Master and Commander

Activates after using Combat Instructions two times.

Bonus:

• Raises the minimum Combat Instruction progress from 0 to 20 until the end of battle.

Can be triggered once per battle.

This Commander is still in development and will become available to players in one of the future updates.

• Starting with Update 13.6, all players who previously owned VII Rodney will receive a new historical permanent camouflage for the ship.
• Ships: Pan-American battleship Cordillera (Tier IX; used to test Los Andes), Pan-American battleship Libertad (Tier X), European cruiser Svea (Tier X), German destroyer Georg Hoffmann (Tier X), Pan-Asian submarine Xin Zhong Guo 14 (Tier VI); Ship clones: Comodoro (which is a clone of Libertad), and Prinz Sigismund (which is based on Prinz Heinrich) were added for testing by developers, volunteers, and community contributors.

Future Changes

In Update 13.7, the Colorful Regatta Premium container contents will be changed. Each Colorful Regatta Premium container includes three items

Slot 1:

• 10 Colorful Tokens — 75%
• 20 Colorful Tokens — 24.5%
• 200 Colorful Tokens — 0.5%

Slot 2:

• 750,000 Credits — 24.93%
• 12,500 Free XP — 24.93%
• 37,500 Elite Commander XP — 24.93%
• 5,000 Coal — 24.93%
• 15,000 Doubloons — 0.30%

Slot 3:

• 5x one of { India Delta5x India Yankee, Juliet Charlie, November Foxtrot, Sierra Mike, November Echo Setteseven, Victor Lima, India X-Ray, X-Ray Papa Unaone, Sierra Bravo }.

Commanders Armory section update

Starting with Update 13.7, the following Commanders will join the Armory on a permanent basis: Karel Doorman, Bruno Battaglia, Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Yi Sun-Sin, Robert Jaujard, Leroy Jenkins, Erich Bey, Takeo Kurita, Bruce Fraser, Pavel Nakhimov, and Leonard Murray.

Other Changes

• Fixed textures on IX Johnston.
• Fixed an issue with the incorrect probability of causing flooding when torpedoes hit the bow or stern of an enemy ship.
• Fixed a visual issue for X Wisconsin with the War Paint permanent camouflage equipped.
• Fixed a visual bug concerning the display of blacklisted players in a battle.
• Fixed an issue with the display of incorrect battle results for X Midway's bombers.
• Fixed an issue with the incorrect display of pinged airplanes on the Minimap.
• Fixed a visual issue with the Port on the low graphics setting.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes allowed a player who did not create a Division to change the battle type for that Division.
• Fixed a visual issue with the display of AL Baltimore in the Port.

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

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