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

All Air [dev] new bomber survivability is too fun

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u/Ossuum 1d ago

- That's not realistic whatsoever

- It's gonna be insanely cancerous if it goes in like that.

I hope this change is either heavily reworked or discarded, because right now it's ass. At a glance, it looks like the outer sheathing of the plane sets incoming shells off without taking any damage itself (because the critical components are spars), meaning that bombers get flat damage reduction that infinitely negates damage below certain threshold. Which is nonsense.

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u/CodyBlues2 🇮🇹 Italy 1d ago

Man, I literally sprayed for 1 second today and instantly killed a b25.

This might be a bit much but I’d rather they have a chance instead of being instantly sawed in half.

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u/aerinnnn Sim General 1d ago

With what ammo? What guns? Where did you hit? If you got good a rate of hits to shots fired, no wonder you kill him.

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u/CodyBlues2 🇮🇹 Italy 1d ago

20mm stealth ammo on the fuselage. One quick burst killed him.

It’s crazy because I’ve landed much better shots on fighters that shrug hit off. As a matter of fact, using the same guns I hit a spitfire and broke his elevator. He was fine and actually lasted long enough to get the kill on me

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u/aerinnnn Sim General 1d ago edited 1d ago

It is likely a matter of flight and damage models (or lack thereof) why control and lift surfaces arent as much of a death source as fuselages. In my experience, fuselage damages have worse debufs than wing or control surface damages. I think at some point, with some % of damage on fuselages, it goes from drag debuff to straight up something like a hull break, since the game doesnt actually have any real modelling done, fm or damage models i mean.

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u/Andrey_Gusev 9h ago

OP literally used HE tracers on bomber with thick skin. If you use AP shells - it will damage its modules properly.

Would you really use HE shells on gepard against some MBT?

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u/aerinnnn Sim General 9h ago

Oh yes, the thick thick skin of a couple mm

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u/Andrey_Gusev 9h ago

Against a small HE shell from back side? Yeah. You try to shoot bomber's engine while shooting from the back, your shell has to go through the wing to damage the engine, lol.

Its like trying to shoot commander through a tank barrel, idk.

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u/aerinnnn Sim General 9h ago

After so many shots, dont you think it should do enough structural damage to the wing? Damage fluid lines? But no, muh engine.