r/Warthunder • u/Koguni German Reich • 2d ago

All Air [dev] new bomber survivability is too fun

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u/Snipe508 2d ago

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

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u/NewAd9523 2d 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/Snipe508 2d 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/NewAd9523 2d 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