0.6.9 New Contents and Changes Update IV

0.6.9 comes with a new campaign and a new collection.

Graf Zeppelin

Flight control changed from 2-3-0 to 2-0-3 (FT-TB-DB).

Dive bomber Ju87C now mount SC500 HE bombs. This bomb is more powerful than US 1000lb ANM65 HE bomb. It has 11100 maximum damage, a dispersion ellipse slightly smaller than that of US dive bombers, and manual drop is 50% more accurate.

Basic secondary firing range increased from 4.5 km to 7.5 km.

Commemorative Flags

Collector's Edition: Admiral Makarov

2017 Gamescom

Navy Day

WG Anniversary

Blueprint: HMS Iron Duke

The front, profile, and top view of British battleship Iron Duke.

Always Ready for Battle

British Battleship

Orion's basic firing range increased from 14.4 km to 15.18 km.

Nelson became premium ship; King George V (356mm) moved down in tech tree from Tier 8 to Tier 7; Monarch moved into tech tree and became new Tier 8 tech-tree ship.

Increased HE splash resistance for most British 40mm AA guns and 114mm and above dual-purpose guns. 134mm dual-purpose gun turrets' armor increased to 38mm. Few British cruisers (namely Neptune) also gain from this change.

The Defensive AA consumables on high tier British BB have been removed; The AA gun config on those ships were reverted as well.

Lion and Conqueror‘s surveillance radar consumable has been removed.

Monarch now hasDefensive AA consumable: ×5 to short-range AAs, last 40 seconds; it shares the same slot with Catapult Aircraft.

Lions and Conqueror now haveDefensive AA consumable: ×10 to short-range AAs, last 40 seconds; it shares the same slot with Surveillance Radar. Meanwhile, both ships had their single-mount 40mm replaced with 20mm Orelikons. The stationary AA was reduced but this consumable would be more powerful.

Benson

Rudder time upgrade moved from Hull B → C to Hull A → B.

New Campaign & Collection

Similar to Bismarck campaign, players have to complete a series of tasks, and collect some collectibles to get the final reward.

Complete the collection will give the player a new legendary Japanese Captain: Isoroku Yamamoto.

Captain Isoroku Yamamoto has a regular capt skill set, but he has two unique skills (Passive skill, does not require skill points):

During the battle, as soon as you earn ”First Blood” achievement, you receive +1 charge to each of your consumables.

During the battle, as soon as you earn ”Kraken Unleashed!” achievement, your ship starts to recover 0.4% HP/sec for 120 seconds (48% max.), and permanently cut 33% of main gun's reload time in the remaining time of this battle.

Complete the collection will unlock 2 new functions:

Allow the player to change the color schemes of basic camouflage on all Japanese ships.

Allow the player to simultaneously show 2 commemorative flags on all Japanese ships.

Deprecated: smoke-fire punishment

!! WARNING: We speculate that this new mechanic will work as follows. However, unveiling the actual effect requires further investigation.

This change is disabled in PT (but not removed).

Now, smoke-firing will not be as pleasant as it used to be. Ships fire inside (or around) smoke screen will accelerate the dissipation of smoke.

For example: Gearing's 1-click firing will reduce 0.24 (0.12×2) sec. lifetime of all smoke cloud in a radius of 630 meters.

Larger caliber guns have better effect on smoke dissipating. The biggest 460mm has the basic smoke-dissipation penalty of 5.91 seconds. That is, each 1-click shot will cause 17.73 sec of smoke dissipation and one salvo will almost blow away an entire smoke screen!

Secondaries, AA guns, and torpedoes do not cause smoke attrition.

Base value × # of barrels = Actual penalty.