Players themselves also earn experience, which can unlock new account-wide features such as signal flags or ship commanders. These points can be used to develop upgrades for warships and eventually reach the next ship in the line. There are no respawns in any given twenty-minute match, though once sunk players may leave to begin a new battle in a different ship.Įach player has a harbor where they may research new ships, normally by playing existing ones to earn experience points.
Ships are sorted into four distinct categories battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and carriers. In order to do so, players use a combination of gunfire, torpedoes, and sometimes aircraft in order to attack opposing vessels in combat. Matchmaking between players is randomized, though the game balances for technology which ranges from late 19th century, at the first tier, to the end of World War II at the tenth and final tier.Īt its core, World of Warships is about defeating the enemy team via total destruction - typically sinking all their vessels - or territorial control. It pits teams of up to 12 ships in competitive fleet battles using vessels from a variety of historical navies, in locations ranging from open oceans to island chains and ice floes. World of Warships is a free-to-play game with elements of naval simulation.