TGS 2016 was not only a new collaboration, but also including prospect of wows's upcoming new content in the second year

Articles that translated by our working group: 4gamer.com As previously revealed, WOWS is going collaborate with High School Fleet.

It has been a whole year since the WOWS began its official business on September, 2015. This time, seizing the opportunity of TGS2016, we invited the producer Yaginuma Tsuneshi with product specialist Sho Hatai to attend this interview. In addition to the already announced cooperation with High School Fleet, we have contents of many plans, such as commemoration activities, a new ship, system improvements, etc.

The [APR Takao]-related activities will be implemented in game. Then,what's the following cooperation content with High School Fleet? Firstly, the cooperation with Arpeggio of blue steel isn't going to be ended as rumor said and there'll be a extra activities that can win a [APR Takao] back. What surprise a lot of players is that the [APR Takao]'s model will based on cruiser Atago, the second ship of Takao Class Cruiser. Atago is now the premium ship being sold in the premium ship. In other words, if you complete the related tasks in the game, you will get this premium ships' APR version for free (※ Note: the original text did not clearly indicate whether the APR Takao has premium ship properties). Yes, this will be a very bold activities. And they also recorded the captain's voice. As far as we've known, when comes to difficulty of this event, base on feedback received by the difficulty of the activities in the past year, this will not be easy, but if you go well at the beginning, majority of players can have obtain this ship. Also, the APR Takao event will continue to December, so players don't need to be anxious and can challenge it patiently. However, cooperation with Arpeggio of blue steel will pause for a while and the activity of APR Takao could be said as the peak of Operation Arpeggio of blue steel. For more detailed contents, please wait for the next report.

For the cooperation with High School Fleet, which has been concerned by players, Yaginuma said that the contact with the producers has begun before the broadcast of the animation. And a lot of player's has ask "Don't you guys have any consideration of coopearation? ". After communication with producer of animation, things are going very smoothly. Or in other words, Hit it Off, all this should thanks to support from the people. Meanwhile, another factor in this cooperation is,allegedly, that Sho Hatai is such a crazy fan that even applied to the Preview Ceremony. He paid a lot of motion to the content and optimistically looking forward to the speech collection work. Very good, very strong, and because his favor, there will be the classic line from the animation appeared! The starting time of the cooperation activity is expected in the first half of 2017. Specific content will be released on the next point. But Sho Hatai also tell us, based on experience so far, there would also be greater linkage activity than what we have now.

According to what we see in the timeline, surly St Petersburg Studio has also begun work on it. In addition, as part of the commemoration of the first anniversary of WOWS official operation, real activity named "World of Tanks meets Girls und Panther" in Akihabara are also under discussion

Despite the wait for such activities, First activity cooperated with High School Fleet will soon be launched. On September 18, last day of TGS 2016, WG Japan will release gift code on its booth activities "World of Warships RENDEZVOUS High School Fleet special talk show". When players enter a code, they will get flag "Yokosuka woman marine school" in game. Yes, first is the flag. So the WOWS players can fully looking forward to booth activity. Also the activity will be broadcast in NicoNico live, those who are unable to join the activity can have no worry about it.

More News. New IJN Destroyers now is clear. The first changes we made in the system is the mechanism of [you can get extra bonus when enemy ships are found by you while damage are caused by friendly ships] . Currently, the destroyers and aircraft carriers take the task of scout, but due to the highest risk of wil being smashed in to pieces by opponents, no one is willing to risks, and everyone starts the trench war at the beginning of game. Yaginuma said, the new bonus mechanism is applied in order to change this situation. For the old players and destroyer players, this should be a exciting elements.This update will be released at the end of September or beginning of October.

On the other hand, the Royal Navy(RN) Cruiser line will be released in mid-October. The RN Cruiser's characteristic is closer to the destroyer—— high speed and equipped with torpedoes. These ships' 3D model of have been completed so far and now is balancing parameters. But, for the role [between the destroyer and cruiser], it's good if you can only take the strengths of them, what we fear most is only having both ships' disadvantage, so their balance adjustment is very difficult. And because of its thin armor, cases that RN cruiser are quickly sunk by destroyers after being spotted occurred a lot during the test. Therefore we are also carefully considering its performance adjustment, such as wheel turning. We will not disappoint fans of Royal Navy.

Also, Japanese players' most exciting thing is the change of IJN destroyers line, which seperated into two branches. Although IJN destroyer's performance is famous in early peroid of game, but with the release of Soviet destroyer, now the IJN destroyers has lost its superity. Data also show that players using IJN destroyers are decreasing. Because of this, now we decided to re-examine [advantage of IJN destroyers], and so as the being-added destroyers to the game. Here's the IJN destroyers being added to the game, "Akatsuki", "Yūgumo", "Shiratsuyu" and "Akizuki". I believe there are a lot of people are already excited excited looking forward to their performance in the game, even only hearing these name . Now they will be scheduled to be released in games in mid-October, Although it's a little bit later than RN Cruiser, we still hope that we can get them on the line at the same time. Meanwhile, they also showed us the unpublished videos, here is photos captured by us.——Akizuki and Yugumo. We are looking forward to these IJN destroyer after their reborn.

Comparing to WOT, which has been regarded as e-sports and has held several conferences in the world, WOWS have been giving a "why still in beta" impression. But this time, after a full year of official operation, related content seems has been begun. Firstly, Clan functions will be launched in the near future. As the first step of its relevant content, Clan's name will be added after player nicknames. As it's just a start, following contents will add management functions of the Clan and even launch the team dual. Last message to reader, Sho Hatai said "Despite most content we released on TGS 2016 are about cooperation with High School Fleet, we will also continuously add new of function and play, and please looks forward to future of WOWS", while Yaginuma said "I am senior player and like to share with other players. For world of players, and also for the Japanese players, I want to make the Japanese Ship into the best ship.”