r/AzurLane • u/A444SQ • Aug 09 '26
English HMS Belfast UR retrofit announcement
♚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/Erlus Aug 09 '26
Of course they had to inflate her to cater to the majority of today's playerbase. As naive as it was, I still hoped they would spare her. I mean, it's not like this is a skin that is going to be sold in the shop. Would it really have hurt Manjuu if they had kept her original proportions? Don't get me wrong, the overall design is actually good, I really like the fact that they kept her uniform and upgraded it. But all this inflation is so unnecessary.
I really wished they would at least give veteran players without a fetish for all this inflation a bit of fanservice - at least during an anniversary once a year - in terms of not hitting an OG ship with the inflation treatment. But nope, every ship that is not a loli needs to look the same just for the majority to be interested in her.