Progress towards achieving the objective for this type of mission will be shared between all players on the server, with each individual participant contributing their own amount. In 12.1, collective combat missions will make their appearance in the game. To complement the event, the new permanent camouflages Iron Resilience for Sturdy and Victoria Cross for Thrasher will be added to the game, together with the British submarines commemorative flag. The game is more and more an MMORPG with ship skins.Wargaming has announced that the upcoming Update 12.1 for World Of Warships will add some new content, including a bunch of new UK submarines in early access. Yes.this game is now pure fantasy.but that what WG does.takes great games and makes them unplayable.sad I cant realistically expect you to throw them out completely, but I'm not going to support you while they are in general circulation. Just as an aside WG, you're not getting another dime out of me until subs are excluded from the general server population into their own gameplay mode. They haven't because they know their player base would seal club lower tier players and make the game unplayable for them.

If they did fit the gameplay, WG would put submarines in the time period/tiers where they existed. The fact that submarines are only after tier 6 is proof submarines don't belong in the game, and that WG knows this. 2-3 min submerged time is ridiculously unrealistic. Submarines could stay submerged for hours, not minutes. I know of exactly one U-boat class that could do 21kts submerged. Early war subs had a top speed submerged between 6-8 kts, and surfaced speed around 20kts. Late war submarines (1943 or so for Germany) could charge batteries while submerged at snorkel depth. Period torpedoes could be set to run a search pattern at a specified depth, or run in a straight line until they ran out of fuel or their batteries died. Homing torpedoes were a late war invention, sonar from own ship did not guide torpedoes to their targets until much, much later than the time period of the game. WG have chosen the latter, as the former would break the game.

I have to say, that as I originally predicted in the post that got me into the Alpha test (edit: its been removed for some reason?), submarines would either be ridiculously overpowered or completely unrealistic. I've played a few battles in submarines, and in surface ships with submarines in battle.

World of warships submarines gameplay