What’s new?

• Aiming system for ship’s guns is reworked (no more glitching with ballistic markers)    
• While aiming you are now able to hold distance to your target and make additional elevation and lateral corrections;
• Significantly reduced shells spread over distance
• New feature of automatic target follow whilst aiming
• New mechanics for sinking destroyers. Instead of disabling any three compartments as before, to demolish a destroyer it is required to damage one of the following:
• reduced crew member numbers below 100
• hull penetration below the water line
• ignite ammunition magazines
• a direct hit of a powerful bomb or torpedo to the hull

The test will take place on two locations - Ice Fields and recently introduced Black Sea port to test new game mechanics. Also, this time we play on our regular production servers. Welcome, commanders!

Changes on the “Ice Fields” location:

• Cargo ships have been moved closer to the centre of the map and will move slowly, not anchored as before.
• Convoy ship accuracy has been adjusted (Now closing in for a torpedo launch will not become a “one-way ticket”)
• More cover available for the mosquito fleet
• Destruction of a cargo ship will subtract 1000 from the owning team, with a total of 8000 (8 ships per side) from the start.
• Convoy ship survivability has been increased
• Line-ups have been changed. Each player will have 3000 Spawn points at the start of the mission. Patrol/MGB/MTB’s will be available for free, a destroyer will cost 1300 SP, fighters with high-calibre armament - 1500 SP, bombers - 3200 SP.

Shells with radio activated proximity fuses are not implemented in the current version of the "Fletcher" class destroyer.