Kreole

Aslain's direct link has slowed sown considerablly, But I tend to use mediafire in order not to mess with the bandwidth on Aslain's server. He's paying for it :P

I've never seen an update occur in the middle of a game. I don't think that's even possible, consider WoWS client loads res_mods during startup and is static until restarted. Perhaps I have missed something.

I also saw this in the same time-frame you did and was delighted! It has disappeared and I reported it this morning. I think it was WoWS 0.5.3.0.02 where it started allowing us to increase the map beyond 4x. If you could add your observation to the 0.5.3 post in the Bugs forum, Aslain might take another look at it. I hope we can get that back.

Aslain, I love the big waves.... makes the game much more immersive. Is it possible to have a couple options for larger white caps and spray from stormy seas? I imagine that is a lot of work, but would be cool if there could be varying degrees of moderate to very rough sea-state. Thanks for the hard work, as always.

By process of elimination, it looks like Seeker's extended tech tree is causing this. Although we can see the extended tech tree when it is installed, we cannot see anything under the profile tab.

The profile page is blank... none of the tabs are available for achievements, ranks etc. Mini-map is scalable to a max of 4 magnifications and no larger. I'm running Renegade v.4, Scalable Crosshairs by Kvalme, Aircraft w/ship names, Gold Premium consumable icons, Mini-map names and last position/direction lines, More visible cruise control, Gold premium ship icons, Improved chat, Extended Tech Tree for NA, and the best... Aslains BIG Waves! Am starting to eliminate mods one by one to track it down.

Aslain creates the specific folder by name that WoWS will be looking for. His mod tool is written to produce a specific folder name for that WoWS (a specific) release. So no matter how many times you try to reinstall, the mod tool will create the same folder name. Since WoWS 0.5.3.1 is looking for a folder called 0.5.3.1 in res_mods for any modding, it's not finding the (now) older folder of 0.5.3. It's not as simple as renaming the folder to 0.5.3.1, although with some experimentation you can do that and WoWS will find it and some mods will work The problem with this is that if you've selected a mod that the WoWS 0.5.3.1 update breaks, the whole game tends to break. I hope that helps you understand why you are seeing what you mentioned. An additional comment... ALWAYS have Aslain's modder do a clean install. This will prevent any possible headaches by removing everything from res_mods and providing a fresh folder with data.

This was fixed this morning with the 0.5.3.1 update... now just a waiting period for Aslain's update. I crossed my fingers and copied res_mod 0.5.3.0 folder to 0.5.3.1 ... but WoWS doesn't like it. I must be more patient!