Ahoy, Captains! The season's first update is on its way, bringing a wave of content along with it—including more Modern Era action with fresh operations and new twists, a new French battleship campaign, the return of a nostalgic retrofuturistic event, the Mid-Autumn Festival, German Unity Day celebrations, and more. Read on for all the details!

Check out what's new in this update: 

• Campaign featuring French Tier VIII Premium battleship Roussillon 

• More Modern Era: new operations and a ship reward at the end of the update 

• The return of the Retrofuturism event: new themed ships, skins, and Commander guises 

• German Eagles event: new skins for German ships, discounts, and a card collection

• Mid-Autumn Festival: discounted ships and colorful skins in the Store 

• New ship for Global XP: British Tier VII Premium aircraft carrier Indomitable 

• Discount on converting Elite XP to Global XP 

• Balance changes 

• Spawn points update 

• Improvements and bug fixes 

The new four-week campaign will take place from September 7 to October 5. As usual, you'll get multiple rewards by completing its challenges, including resources and crates. The final reward is French Tier VIII Premium battleship Roussillon. With most of her firepower concentrated forward, this ship can stay angled against incoming fire while maintaining offensive pressure. She also boasts solid armor and a versatile consumable suite, which includes Repair Party, an improved Main Battery Reload Booster, and the choice between an Observation Seaplane, Catapult Fighter, Engine Boost, or Enhanced Secondary Targeting. 

To receive Roussillon, complete all 80 milestones of the campaign within four weeks with an active Admiralty Backing. As usual, you can always use a special built-in mechanic to catch up on missed challenges. Similar to the previous update, you can complete the campaign challenges by playing Modern Era battles along with the usual battle types. Here's the full list of campaign rewards: 

Rewards available without the Admiralty Backing: 

• 50x Common Boosters 

• 12x Revolutionary camouflages 

• 12x Hunter camouflages 

• 12,000 Global XP 

• 120,000 Commander XP 

• 350,000 Research Points 

• 600,000 credits 

• 15x Promotion Orders 

• 1x Insignia 

• 1x Commendation 

• 5 days of Premium Account 

• 1x Retrofuturism Box '26 

• 7x Fall Big Crates 

• 1x French Commander crate 

• Roussillon patch base 

• Roussillon patch symbol 

Value of the rewards without the Admiralty Backing: 17,410 doubloons 

Additional rewards with the Admiralty Backing (2,500 doubloons): 

• 50x Rare Boosters 

• 12x Revolutionary camouflages 

• 12x Hunter camouflages 

• 33,000 Global XP 

• 330,000 Commander XP 

• 1,400,000 Research Points 

• 2,400,000 credits 

• 20x Promotion Orders 

• 4x Insignia 

• 4x Commendations 

• 750 doubloons 

• Roussillon flag 

• Admiralty Backing special weekly mission rewarding Renown Points 

• French Tier VIII Premium battleship Roussillon 

Total value of the rewards with the Admiralty Backing: 71,460 doubloons 

More PvE and PvP Action 

As we promised, the Modern Era mode will stay for another update, up until October 5. In the new update, we're adding small improvements to existing PvE operations and introducing two new ones, so expect fresh twists and challenges! 

• Undefined Threat challenges you to protect an offshore oil rig from destruction. If the enemy destroys the oil rig, your mission fails! Luckily, emergency repair stations will appear across the battlefield—it takes only a single ship to secure one and restore some HP to your entire fleet and the oil rig.

• Taxation by Flame urges you to destroy the enemy's network of oil rigs. Once taken down, a rig explodes, destroying everyone within range and creating a burning oil field that damages everything inside of it!  

We've also prepared three additional PvP scenarios, built around Standard and Epicenter objectives, and the new weekly mission "Crude and Steel". Complete it in Modern Era PvP mode to receive 750 Steel each week! 

Balance Changes to Modern Era Ships 

We reviewed the first weeks of the Modern Era mode, including how ships performed, so we're introducing a few tweaks to several ships to make battles more balanced. 

List of changes 

Sovremenny 

• Missile defense system damage reduced from 475 to 450 per second 

• Missile defense system sector width reduced from 90 to 60° 

• Missile defense system rotation speed increased from 25 to 50°/second 

• Homing missiles reload time increased from 90 to 100 seconds  

• Removed Radar 

• Added Engine Boost 

• Ship HP reduced from 75,000 to 70,000 

• Rudder-shift time increased from 3.4 to 3.8 seconds 

• Cruise missile armor penetration increased from 40 to 500 mm 

• SAP main battery range reduced from 9.5 to 9 km 

Nanuchka 

• Cruise missile reload time reduced from 30 to 25 seconds 

• Cruise missile dispersion radius reduced from 54 to 45 m  

Ticonderoga 

• Missile defense system damage reduced from 390 to 275 per second 

• Missile defense system damage bonus while active increased from +70% to +200% 

• Missile defense system duration reduced from 10 to 6 seconds 

• Missile defense system reload time reduced from 30 to 15 seconds 

Arleigh Burke 

• Radar duration increased from 25 to 40 seconds 

• Radar reload time increased from 45 to 75 seconds 

Oliver Hazard Perry 

• Radar duration reduced from 30 to 25 seconds 

• Radar reload time increased from 30 to 35 seconds 

• Ship HP increased from 26,000 to 30,000 

We've also slightly tweaked battle earnings in Modern Era Mode: 

• In PvP battles, credit and XP earnings will be increased by 15%.

• In PvE hard mode, credit earnings will be reduced by 20% and XP earnings will be reduced by 5.5%. 

Faction War Results 

We'll check the final score and determine the winner of the faction war on October 4. On this day, those of you who earned at least 25,000 Blackline Crude will receive a new Commonwealth Tier VI Premium cruiser in the colors of the Accord Initiative or Free Meridian, depending on the winning faction, together with Commonwealth Commander Harold B. Farncomb. If you already have this Commander in your roster, you'll receive a Personal Commendation for him instead.

A nod to the past, a leap into the would-be future: retrofuturism returns to Legends from September 7 to October 5! Check out the Store for new ships Progressor and Metro Aegis, retro-tech skins, and Commander guises, and complete the new "For the Name of Progress" mission to receive a Retrofuturism Box '26, which can drop any of the new items or retrofuturistic content from the previous year. More details are coming tomorrow in a dedicated article. 

German Unity Day is celebrated on October 3 and commemorates the day East and West Germany officially reunified into a single sovereign state after the fall of the Berlin Wall. To mark the occasion, we've prepared the new German Eagles event, which will run from September 21 to October 12. Themed content includes new German Eagle skins for several German ships, available in the Store and from the new German Eagle crate, which also has a small chance of dropping the Legendary Tier battleship Großer Kurfürst (check the Containers page[wowslegends.com] for the drop rates). Another part of the event is the new German Navy collection featuring the Goldelse Commander guise as the main reward. 

Also, be sure to pick up the free "Forged in Unity" bundle in the Store, which includes a 3,000-doubloon discount on German Premium ships and the "German Eagles" mission. Complete this mission to receive collection crates, new camouflages in German colors, the "Red, White, and Black" player background, and a coupon allowing you to obtain any of the new German Eagles skins for just one doubloon.

And a few more treats tied to the event: 

• 50% discount on the Schlieffen Bureau Project in the Store from September 21 to October 12 

• 30% discount on German Tech Tree ships of Tier V–VII from September 28 to October 5 

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming to Legends from September 14 to October 5! This traditional festival is associated with family reunion, the full moon, and, of course, mooncakes. We're going to celebrate it with various themed content in the Store, including: 

• The "Winds of Mid-Autumn" chained bundle: various items and resources; a coupon with a 30% discount on select Japanese and Pan-Asian Premium ships; dragon-themed camouflages; and Japanese battleship Iwami, which comes with a mission for Commander Progression Items – enough to upgrade a Commander to rank 10. 

• The "River of Fury" Pick-One bundle: get the Pan-Asian cruiser Huanghe with a mission rewarding the Fury skin for her and a commemorative flag, or claim just the Fury skin and commemorative flag right away. Both options come with a 20% discount.

• Discounted Pan-Asian ships, including Northern, Eastern, and Southern Dragons, Loyang, and Wukong; colorful skins; and the Sun Wukong and Celestial Guardian Commander guises. 

You can also complete the new "Mid-Autumn Voyage" mission to receive boosters, Air Dragon and Fire Dragon camouflages, and a Lunar New Year '25 crate. 

A new ship is arriving in the Store on September 14, available for Global XP: British Tier VII Premium aircraft carrier Indomitable! During the war, this ship served valiantly in the Mediterranean, providing air cover during Operations Pedestal and Husky. Later in the Pacific theater, Indomitable served as flagship for the British Pacific Fleet. She suffered a kamikaze attack in May 1945, but received minimal damage thanks to her armored flight deck. 

Indomitable is armed with HE skip bombers, notable for carrying a single, powerful skip bomb per plane, requiring precision and timing to land devastating blows. She's also equipped with UK-carrier-style HE dive bombers that carpet bomb a target with small bombs. Indomitable planes are some of the fastest in the game! 

From September 14 to 21, you can convert Elite XP to Global XP at a discount: get 35 Global XP instead of 25 per doubloon! 

Starting from the upcoming update, U.S. alternative destroyer Commander Ernest E. Evans, who arrived in the game through the Calendar event a couple of updates ago, will be added to the American Commander Crate and the Commander Crate.

As usual, we've prepared a small gift for all who are reading our patch notes: redeem the code GA2HX6JSU7[wowslegends.com] to receive 1x Fall Big Crate, 5x Hunter camouflages, 5x Regia Marina camouflages, 10x Common Battle Boosters, and the Captain Reader flag! The latter is likely already in your flag collection if you redeemed our previous patch notes codes. 

Balance changes to several ships are coming this update—check them out! 

Hipper 

• Repair Party citadel HP regeneration increased from 10 to 33% (both for standard and upgraded hull) 

Nottingham 

• Repair Party citadel HP regeneration increased from 33 to 50% 

• Upgraded Repair Party cooldown time reduced from 80 to 60 seconds 

• Upgraded Repair Party amount of HP recovered per second increased from 0.5 to 0.6% 

Karl XIV Johan 

• Secondary battery dispersion reduced by ~32.5% 

Weimar 

• Small armor additions to turret rings: 

  • The turret bottom thickness increased from 16 to 40 mm 

  • The turret ring has been filled with 40 mm armor 

Nürnberg 

• Armor model has been updated: the bow and stern will now display athwartship bulkheads. This change only affects how the ship appears in the armor viewer, but doesn't affect gameplay. 

Siegfried 

• Bow and stern armor plating thickness increased from 26 to 27 mm, providing resistance against up to 152 mm HE and 381 mm AP shells 

• Main battery dispersion reduced by ~3.2% 

Prinz Rupprecht 

• Armor model has been slightly updated. This change doesn't affect gameplay. 

Iwami and Iwami B 

• Secondary battery 100 mm guns HE shell penetration increased from 17 to 20 mm 

Now, on some maps, if there's an aircraft carrier in a battle, the middle spawn point will be limited to two ships in addition to the carrier, which is always positioned in the middle. This way, we'll avoid situations where the middle spawn point ends up with four ships total, while one of the remaining spawn points is left with only two ships, leaving one side of the map more vulnerable. These changes will affect the following maps: Archipelago, Ring, Strait, Big Race, New Dawn, The Atlantic, North, Hotspot, Fault Line, Islands of Ice, Trap, Two Brothers, Land of Fire, and Shards.

In addition, the ship type composition will now always be mirrored on the enemy's flank on these maps.  

All platforms 

• You can now see a timer for some Store offers that are going on sale soon. You won't miss discounts anymore! 

• Added a timer for the increased detectability period after firing main battery guns. 

• Reverted the collision alarm sound to its previous version.

• Added animation for AA and secondary battery mounts when they're in an idle state. 

• Fixed errors in ship upgrades' names. 

• Fixed a bug where the Airstrike UI didn't appear properly. 

• Added missing descriptions of the U.S., Japanese, and French Tech Tree lines. 

• Fixed the jackstaff being slightly off-center on the bows of Accord and Faultline cruisers. 

• Fixed slight flickering on the rotating propellers of Pan-American cruisers. 

• Removed black artifacts appearing on the horizon in Torpedo Follow mode. 

• Fixed the camera being too far away from Novorossiysk in battle. 

• Fixed occasional performance issues appearing in Modern Era mode. 

• Fixed minor visual issues where camouflage was incorrectly applied to some elements of ships. 

• Fixed a visual bug with the nameplate on the Indiana hull. 

PC 

• Fixed ship carousel movement speed being different from the cursor speed. 

• Fixed a bug where the tooltip didn't appear when hovering over the Fleet Cup icon in mission requirements. 

• Added an explanatory tooltip for the blocked Store button for PC players using an Xbox account who have disabled multiplayer in their account settings. 

• Fixed eye buttons for viewing fleet previews not appearing on the Fleet Cup post-battle screen. 

• Fixed the set FPS limit not applying for some parts of the game. 

• Added a button for viewing players' Winrate Badges information on the post-battle screen. 

Play Legends and turn the tide!

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So, whether you play one of our games, both, or neither, this is your in to the trademark tactical naval combat you know and love (or are about to), served two ways: World of Warships, where smart decisions matter more than quick reactions, and World of Warships: Legends, where you're right in the fight from the first salvo.

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Catch you on the high seas, Captains!