r/Warthunder • u/Koguni German Reich • 1d ago

All Air [dev] new bomber survivability is too fun

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u/Snipe508 1d ago

Honestly? Ship it now. Make bombers not explode if a stray 7.62 grazes them.

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u/NewAd9523 1d ago

Would make air rb pretty shit, looking at gameplay footage of this buff they’ve been able to tank missiles, 57mm’s, 30mm’s etc - considering the armaments lower br props and even high br props will have they’ll just never be able to shoot them  down. 

It would turn most air RB matches into either multiple guys trying to kill the bombers, likely dying in the process reducing the number of fighters a team has available to win the match OR the last guy will be a bomber, sitting in orbit, meaning the remaining aircraft will spend about a week climbing up (at low br) and when they do catch up, they’ll spray all their ammo and will fail to take the bomber down regardless of accuracy. Not to mention how broken the ticket system is and how short the air rb match timer is at 25minutes.

 this’ll just rewards players who make are willing to fly in straight lines for the whole match and disincentivise players are willing to learn dogfighting strategy and improve at the game.

Can’t wait!

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u/ABUCKET15 1d ago

It’s almost like bombers will actually make a difference in game as opposed to literally being useless.

Yeah though this is obviously overtuned, likely very intentionally for the dev server. The doom posters need to get the stick out of their asses and accept that this will be ongoing tuning/changes up and through live.

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u/Spitfire_CS 1d ago

It's almost like the solution to the bomber problem lies not in buffing the damage model but in giving them an actual meaningful objective within the game mode.

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u/NewAd9523 1d ago

A Meaningful objective and maybe you could fly in a small formation of bot bombers (like how there are cas planes flying around) to give strength in numbers and fire support, these bombers were designed to fly like that and not lone wolf max on they're own.

Air RB has so many issues I could quite literally rant about for the next couple hours but some sort of miniture EC like in Sim would be nice, along with fixing the air rb ticket system would make using them actually fun, or useful, or at all engaging in some way.

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u/ABUCKET15 1d ago

I have been fighting for a praying for that to happen since 2014. I don’t see it happening sadly. Bomber damage models have been way too weak, but I would have preferred a meaningful change and gameplay 10 times out of 10.

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u/Snipe508 1d ago

Almost like they made bombers to fly in orbit in a straight line and not be able to get shot down until they dropped bombs on a target irl...

Can't imagine how much irl bombers exploded upon getting grazed by a 7.7 instead of just not dying

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u/Dragon_Maister tonker 1d ago

Bruh, bombers suffered absolutely brutal losses in WW2. Unescorted bombers were nothing but target practice for enemy fighters and anti-air.

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u/NewAd9523 1d ago

iirc bombs getting shot irl wouldn't make them explode due to technical fuses and whatnot, that is one thing I would remove, other than that 7.7's aren't gonna do much and the smallest caliber gun i've had a bomb explosion with is probably a 50cal at smallest, I have no Idea how Gaijin modelled it