Recent Updates

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Here are listed updates from Kancolle game maintenance.

Latest Maintenance: 10th October, 2014

Next Maintenance:   TBA

Future updates

TBA

1. Combined Fleet mechanic will eventually return
2. New ships will become available with the "Autumn" Season
3. Autumn 2014 Event mid-November and Fusou (& Yamashiro?) Second Remodels

Last update

10th October, 2014

1. New Voices
   • Kitakami and Ooi now have new voices. The CL version of those two ladies now have new idle voice, new supply voice and a new line after wedding in CL form. Also, they fixed some voices when they are in CL form. There're new voices for the CL(t) version of them, too.
   • Both of them now have hourly notifications.
2. New Remodel
   • New Kai Ni ship: Hatsuharu
   • No blueprint is needed. The level for Kai Ni is 65. The equipment after Kai Ni is: 12.7cm Twin Mount Type-B Kai 2, Type 13 AIR RADAR Kai and 25mm Triple Autocannon Mount
   • There's also plans to add new voices in the future.
3. New mechanics for AP shells
   • After this update,when you have AP shells and Large-Caliber cannons (i.e. 41cm, 46cm etc,) on the same ship, there will be a buff applied to both Hit and Firepower when attacking [Heavily armored enemy ships] and [Bosses](such as Anchorage Demon and Airfield Princess etc.) also there will be balance to all the equipment you have on your ship. (The balance is not disclosed)
   • Also, the buff ONLY applies during the Shelling rounds(1st and 2nd).
   • The buff ONLY applies when you have a Large-Caliber cannon
   • There's buff applied to other equipment too.
4. New Quests
   • One time quest - 【主力戦艦部隊「第二戦隊」を編成せよ！】(Literally as to form a main BB fleet called 'Second Fleet') (A total of 4BBs, two from Nagato Class and two from Fusou Class)
   • One time quest -【「第二戦隊」抜錨！】(A sortie quest, need 2 S victories from 4-2 Boss)
   • Monthly quest - 【「水上打撃部隊」南方へ！】 (S rank at 5-1 with 3 slow BB, 1 CL and 2 other ships)
   • One time quest -【戦艦を主力とした水上打撃部隊を編成せよ！】(Form a fleet consisting ONLY of 1 CL and 3 BBs from either of: Yamato/Ise/Fusou/Nagato class)
   • One time quest - 【「戦艦部隊」北方海域に突入せよ！】(Requires a fleet which must consist of 2 BBs and 1 CVL and obtain S victory at 3-5 Boss)
5. New Equipments
   • Type 1 AP Shell: can be obtained from the new quests,「第二戦隊」抜錨！and 「戦艦部隊」北方海域に突入せよ！
   • 46cm Twin Gun Mount Prototype: Main Gun
   • Shiun: Seaplane
     • Both Shiun and 46cm Twin Gun Mount Prototype are the ranking rewards. However, there will be quests in the future that provide a chance to get them
6. New mechanics for equipment lock
   • Now you can lock equipment
   • The equipment can't be scrapped when locked
   • Ships that have locked equipment can't be scrapped either.
   • The 機種転換 quest can't be finished when the equipment is locked.
   • The locked equipment will disappear when the ship is destroyed. (Just....don't. Please.)
7. Misc
   • Now you can have up to 210 ships and 940 equipment.

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