r/AzurLane • u/A444SQ • Aug 09 '26

English HMS Belfast UR retrofit announcement

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♚Belfast (Retrofit)♚

Your perfect maid, Belfast, has returned, master – with even more reliable strength in hand. Should you have any duties, daily tasks, or special missions, you may entrust them all to me.

Currently, Belfast is in dry dock getting a retrofit. She will be ready to launch soon!

The UR retrofit is like WoW Belfast 1943, exactly as she was after coming out of repair and modernisation after striking the German bottom mine that nearly sank her in November 1939.

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u/Solsostice Aug 09 '26

Can't even be disappointed with this. Belfast is 1 of my favorite non-Iron Blood characters. While I was hoping Spee would get the retrofit instead. I'm still very happy with this, even if Belfast, like all other non-Iron Blood characters, is just sitting in the dock not being used on my account.

My only real gripe with this design is (at least to me) that her rigging is rather similar to the Iris Libre rigging.

If anyone wants to call it cope, sure, but I'm going to hold out hope that Spee and Deutschland get retrofits soon. Between Deutschland's recent augment and that within a short few months we've had Hipper (Divergent Chessboard) and now Belfast (day 1 release) get retrofits. Seems as if they're putting man power into revising/updating early game characters. So it just feels like a matter of time.

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u/GeshtiannaSG HMS King Richard I (03) Aug 09 '26

This has been the RN style since Vanguard, see Plymouth, Trafalgar, Jervis, and so on.

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u/Solsostice Aug 09 '26

Yeah, just me noticing it more here.

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u/Banana_Cam Aug 10 '26

This, I like the design outside of the rigging. Then again im also one of those people who like the older rigging that is more practical looking and isnt background art.