Captains!



Recently there were a number of reports about the survivability of the primary armament on some types of ships being too low. At first we assumed this was probably just a case of several separate game testers suffering a string of bad luck. But later, when the number of complaints increased, we decided to take a closer look at this component of the game. Eventually – thanks to your help, dear testers – we detected the problem. Here’s what happened:



Trying to make Version 0.3.0.3 more rich and consistent, we included some improvements intended for Version 0.3.1 by mistake. The problem was that, at the time of Version 0.3.0.3, those improvements were not completely configured. Specifically, while we did include turret barbettes (what is that? The Wiki is our friend!) as a part of the primary gun turret hitbox, their armor was set to zero. Those changes affected the following ships:



Cleveland
Pensacola
Atlanta
New Orleans
Baltimore
Des Moines
Aoba
Myoko
Mogami
Ibuki
Senjo
Kawachi
Myogi
Kongo
Fuso
Nagato
Amagi
Yamato


Now that we definitely know what the problem is, we will get it fixed as soon as we can. In fact, the first steps will be taken tomorrow! The barbette armor will be set to the proper thickness for all listed ships. Following this update, your guns should be destroyed less often or at least less fast – and we will be able to collect some interesting statistics. At the same time, we are getting closer to the version 0.3.1 and the complex armor changes it contains, that will be described soon in the Developer Bulletin.

Thank you for your feedback which allowed us to fix the issue so soon and sorry for the inconvenience this mistake caused to you. Because of this incident we will be able to improve the game version verification system to minimize the occurrence of similar incidents in the future.



Thank you for your attention and have a great weekend*!



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*Yes, we know it is only Thursday - it's the spirit that counts