Forthcoming large content update: Alpha 3.

Hello Admirals,

We would like to provide a small insight of what is coming in the forthcoming update “Alpha-3” which is scheduled to arrive within this month. First of all, several gameplay fixes, balances, additions as follows:

• Improved Secondary Guns' Penetration & Accuracy.
  
• Torpedo Boats less resilient against gun fire.
  
• Penetration rebalance for more effective medium/long range encounters. HE shells should not be as overpowered as previously.
  
• Fixed issue with hull damage that made severely damaged ships and torpedo boats too hard to sink.
  
• Reduced ladder aiming penalty of initial salvo shot, from -75% to -50% because it caused too low accuracy at close range.
  
• Cordite, Tube Powder, TNT explosives rebalanced to reflect better their special characteristics. Cordite offers more explosive power but is unsafe, Tube Powder is the safest explosive and more effective in penetrating armor, TNT is very expensive but overall the best compromise.
  
• Fixed issue of Radar towers, increasing too much the surface visibility of ships that carry them.
  
• Late tech torpedoes have even more intensified damage so they are useful against heavily protected battleships.
  
• Torpedo protection now also increases floatability but reduces acceleration and turning speed making a ship slightly less maneuverable, yet, it will be vital for your capital ships in order to survive against the stronger torpedo threat.
  
• Citadel armor schemes increase the armor quality, but are more expensive. Citadel is a feature not yet finalized, but this new functionality simulates better its influence in armor schemes and vitals protection.
  
• Ship steering/acceleration slight rebalance for more realistic maneuvering. This balance addressed additionally the over-effectiveness in evading torpedoes and the unnaturally very tight turning circles of small ships, which causes also issues in formation and evasion logic.
  
• Sinking mechanic improved so that ships do not “jump” to a default sinking state as previously. Ships will gradually sink according to their last floating state.
  
• Fixed issues with USA battleship hull type. Now mission “Design a Dreadnought” will include a properly looking and scaled model based on BB South Carolina.
  
• Fixed issues of AI related to engage mechanics. AI ships should approach more gradually and fire broadside salvos at more effective angle and distance.
  

• New Oxygen fueled torpedoes.
  
• New 23-inch and 24-inch torpedoes.
  
• Penetration chance better details: When we hover our mouse over a ship, the pen chance will update also according to angle, so the info will be more accurate for player.
  
• Cage mast towers will be available to a series of US hulls.
  
• Detected torpedoes will be indicated by a visual warning for a short period of time.
  
• Improved AI ship design (with proper focusing on armor for Battleships).
  
• Many game performance optimizations, increase the FPS.
  
• Further reduction of crashes and instability.
  
• Loading of Ship Designer will be faster, battle loading will be slightly faster.
  
• You will be able to name your ships.
  
• You will be able to save your ship design, for the respective missions.
  
• New hulls improving the variability of ship class designs.
  
• New missions based on the new hulls.
  
• In-game music will be reverted back to full functionality.
  

• Damage decals will improve the visuals for the battles.
  
• Various water displacement effects (waves, splashes etc.).
  
• Better fog and particles affected by the atmosphere at distance.
  

As the patch gets closer to completion, more features and improvements will be added. Soon we will post the roadmap that will show the major features we plan to deliver before launching the game on Steam.

Please let us know if we missed anything you consider VERY IMPORTANT for this patch that must be added or fixed.