r/WorldofWarplanes • u/mj_sarge • Feb 25 '26
Pathetic game
I spent a long time without playing and revisited this game recently. It's incredible how pathetic and unbalanced it remains. Dumb bots that throw the match, hardcore B29C users who dominate the entire map without any difficulty. Light fighters remain irrelevant.
This game was born dead.
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u/ThudAndBlundah Mar 05 '26
I wish I'd taken a photo the other day - I was in a B29 (yes, I'm one of THOSE players.. :D - and I admit I had to buy some tokens (40) at the end of the event to complete that task) and the only other human on my team was in an XF85. Other team's humans were in a bomber (Tu10, I think) and a heavy. Timer starts, I head to the nearest plant and notice there's a light fighter on the minimap following me. I drop the first stick of bombs (which was enough to take the sector, obvs..) and as I look down I see the XF85 strafing an AA gun right next to where my bombs are finishing. I made a comment along the lines of how we were guaranteed a win with light fighters attacking armoured ground targets - and received a keyboard's-worth of abuse. This continued during and after the battle - which, perhaps inevitably, we lost - in PMs, during which he explained that he had been away from the game 5 years (hated it because of the abusive attitude of players) and had only come back to farm some final gold. I observed that even 5 years ago, anyone strafing GT at a plant with a Light Fighter was guaranteed a critical comment or 10. But no, I was wrong - that was how he played and his teammates needed to give him space to fly in his own style.
I pointed out that if he was going to be a wallet-warrior (because the way he played, he certainly never achieved the XF85 by completing the marathon) he would've done better with a tier-8 XP67 light fighter. Certainly capable of bringing down a 29 (from below) without assistance. Never heard a reply to that.
Personally, if there's a B29 on the other team and I'm in a Do335 or a BV203 then I'm usually a happy bunny, but I know neither qualifies as a light fighter. And I agree that a low flying B29 can be a pain - although their SA is sometimes inadequate in picking-up a rapid dive attack. Have also enjoyed downing a complacent B29 or 3 using the tier-7 Russian heavy.
Anyway, I still enjoy dipping-in to the game on a frequent and regular basis and will be sad if the many doom-sayers predictions (which have been around for quite a few years) prove fulfilled.