0.7.4 New contents and changes

World of Warships is shifting into a 4w update cycle.

Pensacola (Tier VI)

Removed 260lb shells.

Dallas, Helena

Main gun reload time shortened from 10 seconds to 8.5 seconds.

Being a sister ship of Helena, Nueve de Julio (ex-Boise) didn't receive this buff.

Baltimore (Tier VIII)

Main gun reload time shortened from 13 seconds to 10 seconds.

Armored extremities increased to 27 mm.

Cleveland (Tier VIII)

Main gun reload time shortened from 7 seconds to 6.5 seconds; basic firing range increased from 13.3 km to 14.2 km (15.62 km after FCS upgrade).

Catapult Spotter moved from slot 2 to slot 4. It now shares the same consumable slot with Surveillance Radar.

Buffalo

Hull B ONLY: surface detectability increased from 13.14 km to 13.62 km, and in-smoke firing detectability increased to 7.98 km.

Seattle, Worcester

Seattle: Basic firing range increased from 13.37 km to 14.28 km (15.7 km after FCS upgrade); main gun AA strength increased from 13 to 22.5, so her long-range AA dps increased from 52 to 90.

Worcester: Main gun reload time shortened from 5 seconds to 4.6 seconds; firing range increased from 14.71 km to 16.71 km; main gun AA strength increased from 12.7 to 20.2, so her long-range AA dps increased from 76 to 121.

Worcester: 2nd / 5th turret is able to fire over 1st / 6th at a high pitch.

155mm-gun Mogami and Minotaur can't not do this at any circumstance.

203mm-gun Mogami and Ibuki can do the same (their 2nd turret each can fire over 1st turret).

Reallocated consumables on both ships. Slot 1: , Slot 2: , Slot 3: , Slot 4: , Slot 5: .

Varyag

Main gun reload time shortened from 9 seconds to 8 seconds.

Orion

Accuracy reduced from 1.8σ to 1.6σ.

Monaghan

Received a new hull with different armaments.

Z-39

3rd turret traverse angle extended from ±129° to ±143°, but it had a limited pitch at that maximum firing angle.

Priced at 5900 Doubloons.

Abruzzi

Received Repair Party consumables; it repairs 1/3 of citadel damage received.

Hipper

Main gun reload time shortened from 13 seconds to 11.5 seconds.

Hull B & C ONLY: rudder shift time reduced from 10.7 seconds to 9.2 seconds.

Prinz Eugen

Received Repair Party consumables; it repairs 1/3 of citadel damage received.

Massachusetts

Received a new variant of DCP: activation time 30 seconds; reload time: 180/120 seconds.

Received Gascogne-version Repair Party; it reloads faster.

Secondary gun firing range increased from 5 km to 7.5 km. In addition, her 127mm gun was protected by 50mm armor (instead of 25mm), and hence the secondaries were more durable against most of 8-inch HE shells.

Accuracy reduced from 1.9σ to 1.7σ.

Kronstadt

Hitpoint increased from 59800 to 71050.

Surface detectability increased from 14.76 km to 16.2 km, and in-smoke firing detectability increased to 12.78 km.

Main gun reload time shortened from 20 seconds to 18.5 seconds; accuracy increased from 1.8σ to 2.05σ.

Received Surveillance Radar consumables; it shares the same slot with Catapult Spotter.

Stalingrad

Hitpoint reduced from 84000 to 72450.

Main gun reload time shortened from 20 seconds to 18.5 seconds; accuracy increased from 1.8σ to 2.25σ, but the maximum dispersion increased from 221m to 264m.

3rd turret traverse angle extended from ±145° to ±154°, but it had a limited pitch at that maximum firing angle.

Increased AP shell fuze delay and penetration, the auto bounce angle changed to 60° - 67.5°.

Received October Revolution-version DCP; it has limited charges but reloads extremely fast.

Received Surveillance Radar consumables; it shares the same slot with Defensive AA.

Stalingrad will come with an exclusive clan war permanent camo.

Shimakaze

Surface detectability reduced from 7.56 km to 7.11 km, and in-smoke firing detectability reduced to 2.65 km.

Hakuryu

Flight Control mod.2 is changed from 2-3-3 to 3-3-2 (Fighter-Torpedo bomber-Dive bomber), and the associated hangar allocation was 30-40-30.

Midway

Hangar capacity decreased from 136 to 116, and hangar allocation changed to 34-41-41.