The first mentions of the World of Warships game were made back in 2011. Then the Wargaming company, inspired by the success of its World of Tanks project, promised to postpone fighting to water areas. And four years later, a new MMO action game goes into beta testing. Players will take part in military battles on warships, consolidating their positions and developing the fleet. WoWs uses a Free-to-play distribution method and thus anyone can try it.

Gameplay

The gameplay of World of Warships will be quite familiar to all fans of Tanks. The player has a hangar with several slots for the ships he has purchased. Each ship has its own captain with a certain set of characteristics that affect the success of actions in battle. In the hangar, a ship is selected for the upcoming mission, new technical modules are installed, repairs are made, and a new task is selected.

For participation in hostilities, and in particular for defeating the enemy, experience points are awarded. In this case, there are two types of experience: points for a specific ship that completed the task, and general points for the entire account. The first type is necessary for upgrading a warship and installing new modules, and the second for upgrading any ship in the hangar. Incidentally, as in many online games, pumping is available for real money converted into virtual credits.

Captains' skills also develop, and they themselves can be transferred from one ship to another, but for this you will have to re-learn how to control a certain type of ship. With the maximum upgrade of equipment, the ship goes into the elite category, and all the experience points earned by it go to the general treasury or to accelerate the development of the captain's characteristics.

The game has several modes and a set of different missions that can be completed alone or by joining a group. As a rule, the main tasks of the battle group is to capture the target point (fortress or island) or destroy all enemy ships. And often, you need to do both. There are also some unusual missions, such as Supremacy, where you need to score as many points as you can by capturing and holding specific territories while keeping as many allied ships as possible.

Ship classes in World of Warships

The player can choose from the following 4 classes of ships:

1. Destroyers.

Light and small vessels, characterized by high speed and maneuverability. Due to their small size, many cannons cannot be mounted on them, so they do not have great fire potential, as well as armor. However, small size has its advantages - destroyers are a rather difficult target. In addition, they are equipped with underwater torpedoes capable of inflicting significant damage to enemy ships. And to cover themselves and their allies, destroyers use smoke screens.

2. Battleships.

Heavy armored warships equipped with numerous powerful weapons. And although they do not have great speed, the striking power of these ships can create a lot of trouble for the enemy. Strong armor and survivability allow them to for a long time stand fire.

3. Cruisers.

These ships occupy an intermediate position between destroyers and battleships. They are fast enough and at the same time have a good set of guns in their arsenal. They have more armor than destroyers, besides, like the latter, their list of weapons is supplemented by torpedoes.

4. Aircraft carriers.

Huge aircraft carriers do not have high firepower, their speed does not allow them to evade pursuit or overtake the enemy, and their armor cannot withstand direct attacks for long. Their main purpose is the transportation of air groups and their management. On the platform of the ship there are 3 types of aircraft: bombers, torpedo bombers and fighters. Bombers approach close to enemy ships and drop bombs on them - the damage is small, but it is very difficult to dodge these shells. Torpedo bombers do more damage with their missile salvos, but the chance of a miss when fired is quite high. Fighters, on the other hand, have a different task - to destroy enemy aircraft and cover their own air groups.

World of Warships development branches

At the beta test of World of Warships and by the time of the official release, the player will have access to only two branches of development. In the future, the developers plan to introduce more nationalities of warships, but for now, you can choose either American or Japanese ships.

Each branch has its own distinctive features, which in the process of moving through the game begin to be seen more and more clearly. Comparing the same classes of ships from different branches, one can notice tangible differences. For example, Japanese destroyers have the best torpedoes in terms of range and power, but US ships are noticeably stronger. American cruisers have significant armor protection, good artillery pieces and air defense, in the process of development they refuse torpedoes and high levels more like "light battleships". The Japanese, on the contrary, supply their cruisers to the detriment of armor and air defense the maximum number weapons and torpedoes. The US Navy owns the most powerful aircraft carrier, the Midway, carrying more than a hundred aircraft on board - Japanese ships of this class cannot oppose such equipment to it. However, the Imperial Navy has at its disposal the unique battleship Yamato with the largest maneuvering area, the highest armor-piercing power and survivability. According to the developers, the Yamato can only be opposed to another Yamato, the Americans do not have such a vessel.

Taking into account the peculiarities of the ships of different branches, the gameplay for each side will also differ. Playing for the Americans, you can choose a fairly simple battle tactic: take a comfortable position and, relying on good armor ships, shoot the enemy from powerful guns. The US Navy successfully defeats the enemy using brute firepower. The Japanese, on the other hand, cannot afford long skirmishes - their armor and weak air defense are not able to provide sufficient protection. The main principle of playing for Japan is an unexpected powerful attack and retreat. Their strength is in torpedoes and massive volleys from all guns in a short period of time.

Management and combat in World of Warships

V game plan the vessel is controlled by both the keyboard and the mouse. On the one hand, nothing is difficult, but in reality the player may encounter some difficulties. The fact is that each particular ship has its own nuances in control: different sets of speeds, different steering wheel rotation, different weights and dimensions. In addition, the ship's inertia must always be taken into account. When moving through the water, you cannot slow down or turn around sharply. Therefore, the player will have to calculate in advance all his actions in order to avoid getting hit by enemy shells or simply not run aground.

Battles in each class of ships, respectively, also take place in different ways. The destroyer constantly changes course and tries to successfully launch torpedoes, after which it quickly retreats or hides behind rocks, simultaneously releasing smoke to cover its group. The cruiser seeks to get close to shoot the enemy and at the same time not get under heavy fire. The battleship takes a confident position and launches cannon volleys at the ships from a distance. An aircraft carrier has a more tense situation - it needs to constantly manage several air groups and at the same time take into account the changing arrangement of ships on the map in order to move to a safe position in time. Playing for aircraft carriers has the greatest tactical component, while other classes are more conducive to action.

Each ship has its own task, its place in the group. It is important to act in a coordinated and effective way as a team in order to win in naval battles.

Passage of the game and its features

In the process of completing missions, the necessary experience is gained to increase the level of the entire account. This non-standard software solution is a nice highlight of World of Warships. Raising the level opens up access to new types of battles and more difficult missions, additional ships become available. High-level accounts get more rewards for completing tasks. As the user progresses through the game, the user unlocks more and more ships and missions, the technical sophistication of the fleet grows and its participation in group missions becomes more valuable.

The gameplay has a lot of pretty interesting features. Battles on the water do not proceed monotonously and predictably. An unexpectedly successful hit on an important part of the ship can decide the outcome of the battle in a few seconds.

A system of modular damage to ships has been implemented, in which not only their overall “health” is reduced, but individual pieces of equipment also fail. An interesting point is the ability to repair the ship right during the task. The ship is equipped with a special repair system - its use is limited, but it can really save the day.

There are no complaints about the graphic component: the glare of the sun on the water, the waves, the wind, the fire on the ships - everything, as expected, is perfectly done. And, of course, the highest detailing of combat ships - business card Wargaming developers. All the smallest elements are visible, and when upgrading, the “filling” of the deck changes. High-quality graphics combined with excellent gameplay leaves a very pleasant impression of the game.

Beautiful and thoughtful World of Warships will appeal to all fans of military online games.

We are talking about both special premium ships and gift varieties. Most importantly, keep track. specifications, combat abilities, gun power.

How to get acquainted with the assortment?

If you are interested in the full tree and development branches in the World of Warships of ships, the developer suggests using a special mod, the task of which is to show even those positions that are not yet available. Now you can preview new nations, technical characteristics, combat indicators. Such data is needed not just for familiarization, but for choosing a strategy for the near future. You will answer yourself the question: “Is it worth pumping these branches, is there any prospect in this, is it necessary to develop ships in the chosen direction?”.

A few examples

The ship development tree in World of Warships is different for each country. The United States and Japan have different approaches to the development of technology, in particular to protection and armor. American developers decided to use the principle of "all or nothing", the Japanese went the other way. The Germans also do not stand still, the ship development tree in World of Warships is regularly updated with new models, taking into account:

  • air defense and artillery power;
  • indicators of survivability and camouflage;
  • movement speed and maneuverability.

The RBK Games platform team will soon try to prepare ship development branches for you in World of Warships.

Alexey Levakov, producer.

However, the US Navy did not build specialized training cruisers, so the question arose before us - what kind of ship can we oppose to Katori? At the same time, our main task was to find a sufficiently versatile ship with a relatively small displacement, which could be correlated with Katori. Quite a non-trivial task, I want to tell you. The solution was found: the gunboat Erie. In terms of displacement, it is, of course, inferior to Katori, but it has guns of a larger caliber, and also carries some kind of armor. In addition, it has enough space on the upper deck to accommodate the location of torpedo tubes (in alternative history of course :))

However, Eri was not our most difficult decision. The most difficult and more than once rejected was the decision about what kind of american ship will be able to give a worthy rebuff to the Japanese Yamato.


Let me remind you that the battleships Yamato and Musashi are the largest built battleships in history. What can be opposed to Yamato? The answer, it would seem, is obvious and suggests itself - of course, well, of course, Iowa!

This answer, despite the apparent obviousness, will still be incorrect. The American Iowas, although they had an impressive full speed of 33 knots, nevertheless, from a conceptual and constructive point of view, they are actually just elongated South Dakotas, with increased power plant and slightly improved guns. However, in people's memory and thanks to movies like The Siege and Sea Battle, ships like Iowa are firmly in the first place and are considered to be the best battleships in history. We tried to move away from the emotional assessment of the ships, and take into account all the factors. What did we end up with? And here's what: the real rivals of the battleships of the Yamato type were supposed to be ships of the Montana type.

Montana, with all her sixty thousand tons of standard displacement, four hundred and nine millimeters of belt, and twelve sixteen-inch guns, would have been a formidable opponent of the Yamato. That is why, having evaluated the performance characteristics of the ships, we put Iowa on the ninth level, and Montana - on the tenth level, on a par with Yamato.

2016 is gradually coming to an end, the main branches of this year have already seen the light, these are: Soviet and British cruisers, as well as German battleships. By the end of the year, an alternative branch of Japanese destroyers should be released, but it cannot be called full-fledged, it will end at level 8. Probably, in the future we will see ships of tier 9-10 in this branch, but when this happens and what will be the top is too early to say.

And today I would like to focus my attention on those branches that await us next year. I must say right away that all the information I have provided is exceptional vanging of varying degrees of fantasizing. Officially, no new branches have been announced, and before the end of the year it is unlikely that anything is to be expected.

So, let's start with the fact that now WoWS has national branches of the key naval countries of the period of the first and second world wars. Considering that many “nations” are not complete now, in 2017 I would expect mainly the addition of current nations with new ship branches, and not the announcement of some new nations.

Germans

The Kriegsmarine lacks a branch for a full-fledged representation in World of Warships destroyers. Fortunately, there were actually quite a lot of ships of this class and it was not particularly difficult to make a branch out of them. Since the development of German destroyers was largely carried out sequentially, it will not be too difficult to assume the 9-10 level of the future German branch. They will become Zerstörer 1942 and Zerstörer 1944 are also known as Z-51 and Z-52 respectively.

Presumably the 9th tier of the German destroyer branch. Z-51

Estimated 10. Z-52.

According to officially confirmed information, the branch has already been modeled and is awaiting tuning and testing. So, right now, when you are reading these lines, the issues of “uniqueness new branch". One can only hope that the Germans will bypass the demonstration in Lately"elfism". The branch should be expected next winter.

Advice

Here, too, everything is quite prosaic. Tips are sorely lacking branch battleships, and quite a few players are not unreasonably waiting for this very branch.

However, there were quite expected difficulties with her. The fact is that the “iron” battleships of Russia of their own construction end at sunset Russian Empire. In the USSR, the construction of new battleships began only in 1938, in order to freeze the construction later, in October 40, and then finally cancel it.

Accordingly, a hole is formed between the middle levels and the “tops”, which can only be plugged up with “napkins and paper” of varying degrees of plausibility. This is one of the reasons why the branch of Soviet battleships has not yet seen the light of day.

It is worth saying a few words about what awaits us at the top of the branch. It is quite expected that this will be Project 23 " Soviet Union”, created at one time with the aim of outsmarting Iowa. And for its time, it really could become one of the most perfect battleships. If it was completed.

However, at level 10, to fight the Yamats and the Grosser Electors, Project 23 with 9,406 mm guns is no longer frankly pulling, and Wishlist and fakes are used, which can be called Project 24. Compared to its predecessor, the caliber of guns and displacement will greatly increase. The overall layout will remain unchanged - 3 turrets with 3 guns each, but the caliber will be 457 mm. Presumably, the key "trick" of the councils will remain the same - excellent ballistics.

At what stage are the Soviet battleships now - officially unknown.

In addition, some rumors suggest that the councils will acquire an alternative branch destroyers, since there were a lot of ships of this class in the USSR. Moreover, the existing branch consists for the most part not of destroyers, but of "leaders". Unfortunately, there is no specifics on the new branch at the moment, so the likelihood of its appearance in 2017 is not very high.

Americans

America is a full-fledged nation in the Air Force and new ships seem to be in no hurry for her. However, earlier it was announced several times that Cleveland would sooner or later “leave” from level 6 somewhere in an alternative branch.

Lately, however, such conversations are almost inaudible, but the Internet remembers everything. Yes, and in a recent interview with the developer was clearly mentioned american branch light cruisers. Where exactly Cleveland suggests itself. In addition, few people remember that the American 10ka Worcester has already appeared in the client. At that time, it was not said what the hell it was modeled for, and since then this ship has been lying and waiting for its fate. And there are actually not many options here - either a promotional ship for all sorts of clans and other activities, or the fate of the top of the new branch of light cruisers.

Tier 10 American cruiser Worcester.

British

A full-fledged branch of British ships has only recently appeared in World of Warships. The queen of the seas got to the game for a relatively long time and did not last role this was due to the inaccessibility English archives. In the new year, we should expect the replenishment of this nation with new branches and the first in line, most likely, will be battleships.

Britain throughout its turbulent history "stamped" battleships literally in batches, not a few important role plays in the same way that it was in England that battleships (dreadnoughts) were born in the form in which they existed until the end of the war. The only difficulty is that by the end of the war, the “Englishwoman” was greatly “blown away”. The latest battleship of this nation to be commissioned is the Vanguard, which pulls to the 8th level at most. Accordingly, in the tops future branch some paper is traditionally waiting for us.

Estimated tier 8 of the British battleship branch is Vanguard.

It will be possible to admire the new branch of battleships in the game no earlier than the summer of 2017.

WITH destroyers there is no clarity at all. Obviously, there will be a branch of British destroyers in the Air Force, but whether this will happen in 2017 is unknown.

French people

Already represented in the game by the Dunkirk-class battleship. And it is most likely that in 2017 this nation will be supplemented with some kind of upgraded branch of ships. However, at the moment there is not much information on this subject, the French traditionally have a problem with tops, so it is very difficult to even estimate the future class of the new branch.

Let's summarize a little

At the moment, Lesta is trying to keep the pace of one new branch for three months, respectively, in 2017 we will have 4 new branches. Most likely it will be: German destroyers, Soviet battleships, British battleships, and either American cruisers or some French.

In conclusion, it is worth repeating that all of the above is not an official announcement, but only a small vang about future branches. What these branches will actually be, only time will tell.

And what nations and branches in WoWS are you most looking forward to? Have your say in the comments!

UPD: Most likely there will be no Soviet battleships in 2017. :(And the next branch with a huge degree of probability will be German destroyers.