Game balance changes:
Some Commander skills will be modified. Because of this, all players will have the possibility to redistribute skill points of Commanders for free.
Expert Loader: skill effect was increased from -30% to -50% to reload time.
Torpedo Armament Expertise: skill effect was increased from -10% to -20% to servicing time of torpedo bombers. Torpedo reload time modifier was not changed.
Vigilance: skill effect was increased from +20% to +25% to the detection range of torpedoes
Last Stand: moved to the second level of skills, into the Special Skills column
Jack of All Trades: now provides -15% to reload time of consumables
Advanced Firing Training, Basic Firing Training, and Expert Marksman: caliber of low-caliber guns affected by these skills is now limited to 139 mm.
Last Chance: used to be -9% to reload time of all types of armament if the ship's HP is less than 20%; now is -30% to reload time of all types of armament if the ship's HP is less than 10%.
The Basic Firing Training and Advanced Firing Training skills will now affect all secondary battery guns regardless of their caliber.
Preventive Maintenance: skill effect was increased from -34% to -50% to the risk of incapacitation of modules.
The following skills were added:
Manual Fire Control for Secondary Armament: secondary guns open fire only at targets designated by the player. This way, the fire efficiency is significantly increased. -15% to the maximum dispersion of secondary armament shells for Tier I-VI ships; -60% to the maximum dispersion of secondary armament shells for Tier VII-Х ships.
Manual Fire Control for AA Armament: Significantly improves the efficiency of large caliber AA guns fire at a designated target. +100% to the efficiency of AA artillery with a caliber of >85 mm when a priority target is set for AA guns
Survivability Expert: Increases maximum amount of HP. + 400 hit points for each tier of the ship
Torpedo acceleration: Increases the speed of torpedoes launched from ships and aircraft at the expense of a reduction in their travel distance. +5 knots to torpedo speed; -20% to the torpedo travel distance
New consumable named "Torpedo reload booster" was added. When this consumable is activated and the torpedo tubes are being reloaded, the reload time of torpedo tubes is reduced to the value specified for each type of the consumable.
Fixed the situation when the guns incapacitated in the result of the magazine incapacitation remain inoperative until the end of the battle
Yamato: The efficiency of the Repair Party consumable was reduced by 33%. Now, the efficiency of this consumable for Yamato is the same as for the rest of battleships
Mikhail Kutuzov:
rate of fire increased (from 6.75 to 7.5 rounds/min)
firing range increased (from 15910 m to 19100 m)
turret traverse speed increased (from 5.4 degrees per second to 7.2 degrees per second)
Albany:
A different detection device is used: a portable range finder (with 0.8 m distance between optical axes) mounted on her crow's nest.
Firing range was extended from 6350 m to 8470 m.
Viewing distance was increased from 8200 m to 13180 m.
Farragut: hull B was changed from AA defense-focused to standard artillery-focused hull. The number of AA guns was reduced, while one main gun was returned (5 main guns in total now)
Reworked AA defense and aircraft
Revised Tech-trees of aircraft
Reworked the AA armament efficiency (efficiency of AA guns at long-range distance was significantly improved, other AA guns were revised as well)
Gain in efficiency enjoyed by the player when setting a priority target was reduced by 12% (now, the intensification factor is x1.1)
Defensive Fire consumable effect was reduced by 33% (now, the AA armament boost is x4 when the Defensive Fire consumable is activated )
When the Defensive Fire consumable is activated, both dual-purpose guns and large-caliber automatic AA guns will be affected by it.
For assault setups of Midway and Essex aircraft carriers, one squadron of torpedo bombers was replaced with one squadron of dive bombers
One squadron of fighters was removed from Lexington aircraft carrier default setup