World of Warships Blitz: Update 1.2 Patch Notes

New Shipline: U.S.S.R. Destroyers

• A total of 9 new U.S.S.R. Destroyers are ready to battle! Find them in the U.S.S.R. Tech Tree.

New Port: Saint Petersburg

• Own a Tier 5 or higher U.S.S.R. Destroyer to unlock this exquisite brand-new port.

Silver Economy Tweaks

• Silver income has been increased for all Tier 3 to Tier 8 ships.
• Silver income for premium ships has been increased from 20% to 25%.

New Premium Packs

Three new Premium packs have been added to the shop:

• 30 Days for 2,500 Gold
• 180 Days for 10,000 Gold
• 360 Days for 16,000 Gold

Battle Commands Improvements

• More map-specific battle commands have been added.

Free Look Function

• Look around without rotating your guns! Enable the new free look function in your settings.

Ship Skills Change

• Ship skills now have a limited amount of uses per match. The amount of uses is displayed on the bottom right corner of the skill icon.

Fleet Search Improvement

• You can now also search for fleets based on their tag.

Campaign Changes

• Campaign 1-3 “Destroy Artillery” now requires a Cruiser instead of a Destroyer.
  Ranked Battles Matchmaker Improvement
• Ranked battles will now take a player’s rank score better into account when balancing the teams.

Terrain Collisions Refined

We have refined terrain collisions in the following maps:

• Strait
• New Dawn
• Big Race

Hawaii Port Improvement

• The Hawaii port has been visually enhanced.

Ship Balance

Overall balance

• To make HE shells more effective against light armored targets in low tier battles, HE shell penetration factor has been increased by 10% for all Tier 2 to Tier 5 ships with a main battery bigger than 129mm.

Destroyers

U.S.S.R. Tier 5 Premium DD Okhotnik

• Base HP increased from 10,800 to 11,500 to match its displacement
• Maximum speed increased from 31.5 knot to 33.5 knot
• Maximum traverse speed increased from 7.4 deg’s to 7.8 deg’s
• Main battery reload time reduced from 8s to 7s
• Main battery shooting range increased from 7.2km to 7.5km
• Torpedo base damage increased from 1,800 to 1,900
• Torpedo range increased from 3.6km to 3.9km

U.S. Tier 7 Premium DD Sims

• Torpedo base damage increased from 2,800 to 3,000
• Added skill: Air Defense Alert I

U.S. Tier 9 DD Fletcher

• Replaced skill Smoke Generator I by Smoke Generator II

Cruisers

German Tier 4 CA Karlsruhe

• Main battery HE shell damage increased from 350 to 380
• Main battery reload time reduced from 6s to 5.5s

German Tier 7 CA Yorck

• Main battery HE shell chance of setting fire increased from 7% to 9%
• Main battery HE penetration factor increased by 10%

U.S. Tier 4 CA Phoenix

• Maximum traverse speed increased from 7.3 deg’s to 7.8 deg’s
• Rudder shift time reduced from 6s to 5.7s

U.S. Tier 5 CA Omaha

• Maximum traverse speed increased from 7.9 deg’s to 8.2 deg’s
• Rudder shift time reduced from 6s to 5.7s

U.S. Tier 5 Premium CA Marblehead

• Maximum traverse speed increased from 8.1 deg’s to 8.4 deg’s
• Torpedo base damage increased from 2,400 to 2,600
• Torpedo base range increased from 5.4km to 6 km

Japanese Tier 3 Premium CA Katori

• Added skill: Torpedo Reload I

U.S.S.R. Tier 4 CA Svetlana

• Torpedo base damage increased from 1,800 to 1,900
• Torpedo range increased from 3.6km to 3.9km

U.S.S.R. Tier 5 CA Kirov

• Main battery HE damage increased from 450 to 500
• Main battery HE shell chance of setting fire increased from 4% to 6%
• Main battery AP damage increased from 650 to 680

U.S.S.R. Tier 6 CA Budyonny

• Base HP increased from 18,100 to 19,000
• Main battery reload time reduced from 8s to 7.8s

U.S.S.R. Tier 7 CA Shchors

• Base HP increased from 20,200 to 21,800
• Main battery reload time reduced from 8s to 7.8s

U.S.S.R. Tier 8 CA Chapayev

• Main battery reload time reduced from 8s to 7.8s

U.S.S.R. Tier 6 Premium CA Molotov

• Base HP increased from 16,900 to 17,800

Battleships

U.S. Tier 4 BB Wyoming

• Main battery maximum dispersion reduced by 5%

U.S. Tier 5 Premium BB Texas

• Main battery AP shell maximum penetration power increased by 8%
• Main battery maximum dispersion reduced by 5%

U.S. Tier 6 Premium BB Arizona

• Torpedo defenses increased from 12% to 15%

Carriers

U.S. Tier 4 CV Langley

• Bomb damage reduced from 1,300 to 1,250
• Bomb chance of setting fire reduced from 35% to 30%
• Dive bomber squadron increased from 3 to 4 planes

Japanese Tier 4 CV Hosho

• Each torpedo bomber preparation time reduced from 3.1s to 2.9s

Japanese Tier 9 CV Taiho and Tier 10 CV Hakuryu

• Removed skill: Air Defense Alert I

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