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Tenative Title: Update 15.6
Update 15.6: Battle Pass & Summer Festival
Update 15.6 delivers the following:
Battle Pass
Starts: Jul 16, 03:00 AM (UTC+8)
Ends: Aug 13, 03:00 AM (UTC+8)
The key feature of Update 15.6 is a trial of a new "Battle Pass" that temporarily replaces the standard Event Pass for the duration of the update. Instead of unlocking individual rewards by following a linear progression, captains can navigate a strategic map with three areas, further broken down into individual sectors, and choose their own progression path by selecting whatever rewards they most desire.
Players start from the same sector, and earn "Battle Pass Points" through ingame Base EXP missions or occasionally as bonus rewards for claiming sectors on the map. The strategic map features three areas, further broken down into individual sectors and unlock weekly:
- Area 1: The first and starting area will be available immediately with the release of Update 15.6, and can be upgraded for
2000 Doubloons - Area 2: The second area unlocks with the start of the second week of Update 15.6, and can be upgraded for 750 Doubloons
- Area 3: The third area unlocks with the start of the third week of Update 15.6, and can be upgraded for 750 Doubloons
The map is interactive, featuring "On-Map Actions" - Certain sectors, for example, can be claimed to increase the reward in others, or serve as pre-requisites for another sector to be claimed.
Reward Highlights
Rewards for this Battle Pass exceed the value of rewards available in typical Event Passes, though the total cost of unlocking all rewards is also higher.
The free rewards available include 12 different decals, 3x "Decals Premium Containers", the new Turquoise Explosion enemy destruction effect, 1x Captain's Holdall Premium Container, and the Summer permanent camouflage
Among the rewards available for doubloons are the Spanish Tier VI Premium Cruiser Canarias, her "Atlantic" permanent camouflage, five more different decals, 1x “Boom!” enemy destruction effect, 1x "Purple Explosion" enemy destruction effect, 2x "Pin-Up Summer" permanent camouflages and the "Celestial Dragon" permanent camouflage for VIII Cataluña
Do note Doubloon Rewards are split between the 3 areas. Extra rewards can be earned in specific sectors in the second and third areas.
Want to know more about mechanics and rewards for this experimental Battle Pass? See our dedicated article on the Battle Pass for 15.6!
Unique Commander Talents Changes
Update 15.6 brings major changes to the Unique Commanders system in World of Warships, aimed to increase the usefulness of Commander Talents across different battle types and make the activation of said talents more consistent and balanced across different commanders:
- Achievements are no longer required for talent activation, allowing talents to function across a wider range of battle types.
- Simplified activation conditions with introduced staged triggers. Some talents now grow in power as you reach additional milestones.
- Adding separate activation conditions and bonuses based on battle type, so that talents will be equally achievable and beneficial in most of them.
- It will also allow for tuning of these settings for particular battle types in future balancing changes as required.
In light of these changes, a 100% discount on resetting Commander Skills is available during the first 2 weeks of Update 15.6. You'll be able to reset your Commanders' skills either all at once (via a button on the World of Warships website) or for individual Commanders.
A dedicated article on special commanders has been updated to explain these changes in more detail.
Armory
Salvage For Victory: Affondatore
Starts: Jul 23, 03:00 AM (UTC+8)
Ends: Aug 13, 03:00 AM (UTC+8)
New Italian Superbattleship ★ Affondatore will be made available in a new iteration of the Salvage for Victory event. Credits, Elite Commander EXP, Coal, and uncommon economic bonuses can each be used for up to 50% of the progress toward Affondatore. Salvage Tokens earned through Personal Challenges can also be used to cover up to 30% of the progress.
| Resource | Cost of 1 Progress Point | Progress Point Limit | Maximum Resource Spending |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credits | 2,000,000 | 50 | 100,000,000 |
| Elite Commander XP | 60,000 | 50 | 3,000,000 |
| Coal | 5,000 | 50 | 250,000 |
| Uncommon economic bonuses of all types | 30 | 50 | 1,500 |
| Salvage Tokens | 1 | 30 | 30 |
★ Affondatore’s Early Access period runs across three updates- She will appear in the Tech Tree for everyone with Update 15.9.
Summer Festival
Starts: Jul 16, 04:00 AM (UTC+8)
Ends: Aug 13, 03:00 AM (UTC+8)
The annual Summer Festival returns to World of Warships for Update 15.6. Purchasing Doubloon bundles with real money will award Summer Tokens that will automatically fill your progress bar. Rewards include Santa's Gift, Santa's Mega Gift, Santa's Ultra Gift, and Premium Ships V–IX containers; 
Research Points; 
Steel; and more!
Various bundles will be available for purchase in the Armory including:
- Firepower IX and X Premium containers
- Rare ships:
- New Italian X Conte Verde
- IX Nanning
- IX Cambridge
- VII Arkhangelsk
- VII Royal_Sovereign
- X Rhode Island
- IX Suzuya
- IX Tsurugi
- VIII Almte. Grau
- VIII Cheshire
These ships may also be obtained via the Summer Festival Wishing Wharf, alongside Gold Eagle permanent camouflages for American Battleships X Vermont, VII Florida, VIII Kansas and IX Minnesota, Rare Economic Bonuses, Signals, 
Credits, Elite Commander XP, and 
Free XP.
- Every 8 Tries guarantees a reward: a decal or a permanent camouflage
Fuyutsuki: Guardian of the Final Hour
Starts: Aug 6, 03:00 AM (UTC+8)
Ends: Aug 20, 03:00 AM (UTC+8)
New Japanese Destroyer Fuyutsuki becomes available for the first time! One of 12 of the historical Akizuki-class, Fuyutsuki accompanied the Yamato on her final ill-fated mission and today her hull exists as part of a breakwater in Kitakyushu. In World of Warships, she has a low top speed but has access to a unique Crawling Smoke Generator 
and a powerful Main Battery Reload Booster 
Fuyutsuki is available through Doubloon sequential bundles filled with Japanese Squadron Premium containers, which themselves have a 2% chance to drop her and can be purchased individually. At the end of the chain, Fuyutsuki and her new Japanese Lacquer permanent camouflage are available for 1 Credit.
New Armory Category: Enemy Destruction Effects
Enemy Destruction Effects will be purchasable under their own unique category starting in Update 15.6. The Pink Explosion, Turquoise Explosion, Purple Explosion, and Neon Green Explosion enemy destruction effects are available for 4,500 Doubloons each.
Star Trek Final Sale
Update 15.6 brings the final chapter in the collaboration even with STAR TREK.
Available from the Final Frontier are a lineup of illustrious Commanders such as Picard, Spock, the Borg Queen, and more.
Themed permanent camouflages include Queen’s Diamond for X Yamato, U.S.S. Voyager for X Salem, U.S.S. Enterprise-D for VIII Enterprise and more. The “To Boldly Go” and Assimilated permanent camouflages are also available to carry your choice of Starfleet or Borg styles.
You'll have the opportunity to acquire commemorative flags for the Klingon, Vulcan, and other factions in the “Space, the Final Frontier” collection, and unlock the STAR TREK Port if you haven’t already.
Ship Rotation
VIII Provorny, VIII Eskimo, VIII Chkalov, VIII Congress, VIII Roma, VIII Borodino, VII Indianapolis, VIII Rochester, V Agincourt, VIII Le Terrible, VI P. E. Friedrich, V Okhotnik, IX Dalian, VI Molotov, V Yahagi, VII Collingwood, VI Perth, VII Strasbourg, VI De Grasse, VII Ashitaka, VIII Siliwangi, VI Mysore, VI Juruá are leaving the armory in Update 15.6
Replacing them are: VIII Graf Zeppelin, VIII Flandre, IX Giuseppe Verdi, VIII Vanguard, VIII Aquila, VII Hyūga, VIII Wichita, VII Maya, VI Dunkerque, VI Repulse, V Texas, VII California, V Siroco, VIII Orkan, V Marblehead Lima, VII München, VIII Z-35, VIII Tiger '59, VI London, VII Abruzzi, VIII Fenyang, VI Huanghe, VI Canarias, and VIII Numancia, as well as VIII C. Aguirre
Recruiting Station Anniversary Campaign Begins
The Recruiting Station's anniversary campaign kicks off in Update 15.6 with refreshed newcomer and returning player missions, new Division missions, and updated Recruiting Supplies. Any Recruit who joins during Updates 15.6, 15.7, or 15.8 and completes the newcomer mission chain will earn a special anniversary reward themed around the number 11, which will be distributed at the end of the campaign in 15.8.
Unlike last year, no Recruit disconnects are planned this season, so your Shipmates stay with you throughout. Bigger events, additional rewards, and the campaign's grand finale are coming in the updates ahead.
Riposte Map Changes
The Riposte map has been modified and upgraded and will see use in more battle types starting in Update 15.6. Riposte receives a full underwater world, allowing submarines to be playable on this map for all battle types.
- For Co-op Battles, Riposte will receive a new version with three Key Areas and will be available for Tiers VI–IX
- For Random Battles, two different versions of Riposte with four Key Areas will be added and will be available for Tiers VI–IX
- Brawls, Clan Battles, and Ranked Battles will keep the current Riposte map settings.
More information is available in our dedicated article on Riposte
Italian Submarines Leave Early Access
Starts: Jul 16, 03:00 AM (UTC+8)
VI Foca, VIII Pietro Micca and X Pietro Calvi will be released into the regular Tech Tree with Update 15.6.
Italian submarines bring the following traits:
- Strong main guns and access to an improved Main Battery Reload Booster
- Combat Instructions that grant improved ship speed and torpedo reload time, charged by landing main gun hits
- Access to the Exhaust Smoke Generator
consumable—a first for submarines! - From Tier VIII upward, they can also use Repair Party
- Powerful torpedoes with decent range but rather slow maximum speed
- High battery charging rate but rather limited dive capacity
- Improved marked sector duration but a long sonar ping reload time
Ranked Battles Season 30
Starts: Jul 16, 10:00 AM UTC+8
Ends: Sep 10, 02:00 AM UTC+8
Ranked Battles Season 30 begins in Update 15.6.
| Bronze League | Silver League | Gold League |
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Note: In Season 30, the rule for keeping a Star in the event of a loss is the same for all leagues. Only the top XP earner on the losing team keeps a Star.
Brawls
First Brawl Starts: Jun 20, 09:00 AM UTC+8
First Brawl Ends: Jun 27, 02:00 AM UTC+8
Update 15.6 brings three new Brawls with different formats, one which will have unusual adjustments to ship parameters. Each brawl lasts 1 week, with the first week starting on July 20th and ending on July 27.
| Brawl | Format | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Brawl 1 | 4v4; Tier IX, no aircraft carriers or submarines allowed | * Ramming damage reduced by 99%, increased speed and maneuverability and decreased main battery gun and torpedo tubes turn time for all ships |
| Brawl 2 | 1v1; Tier VIII, no aircraft carriers or submarines allowed | * No special recalibrations |
| Brawl 3 | 5v5; Tier X, no aircraft carriers or submarines allowed | * No special recalibrations |
The maximum size of a Division is equal to the maximum size of a team in the respective Brawl. More information is available in the dedicated article on Brawls
Content Additions and Changes
Take a look at some of the additional content that we are preparing for Update 15.6:
- With the start of Update 15.6, Pizza Time Premium and Colorful Regatta Premium containers will be automatically opened for all players who have them on their accounts
- With the start of Update 15.7, Three Kingdoms, Three Kingdoms Premium, and Three Kingdoms Era Premium containers will be automatically opened for all players who have them on their accounts
- These containers will receive content changes in one of the upcoming updates, so this way players will obtain the current items from the containers before any changes apply.
- Contents for Japanese Squadron Premium container will be updated with the release of Update 15.6
Ships: Pan-American destroyers Almirante Villar (Tier III) and Serrano (Tier IV), Pan-American battleship Pérez Gacitúa (Tier X), German battleship Friedrich Carl (Tier IX), Pan-Asian destroyer Datong (Tier VIII), and Pan-Asian cruiser Taejong (Tier X) were added for testing by developers, volunteers, and Community Contributors.
Other changes
- Fixed a bug with the X Harugumo, X Minotaur, and X Yueyang unique upgrades that caused part of the bonuses they provide to Smoke Generator not to work properly in battle, even though it was described correctly in the UI.
- Fixed a bug which sometimes caused torpedoes to do full damage in Brawl sessions that had a modifier reducing torpedo damage for all ships.
- Fixed a bug with the recommended Commander skills for aircraft carriers.
- Added new entities in the Inventory, as well as rarity support, more detailed tooltips, and other UI improvements.
- Fixed a UI bug that caused long-duration consumables to have an incorrect number of remaining charges if you activated the consumable, disconnected, then reconnected while the consumable was still active.
- Fixed a visual bug with time-based consumables that, if you halted a consumable's action with ~1 second of charge left, it would display the wrong value in the UI.
- Bots in Asymmetric Battles are slightly stronger on all tiers.
For a complete list of changes, please refer to Player Support.
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