The structural integrity of this aircraft is terrible. It dies to a handful of 30mm rounds which is just not realistic for a bomber this size.
The flare count is a mess also some how the flares barely counters early IR missiles, and it doesn’t even have MWS to react in time. They removed ECM for regular matches acting like its gonna stop the bullets, atleast add a nerfed version of it, its just a floating sl and rp pinata.
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What were you expecting with it though?
a 30mm kills any plane
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A bomber that can at least reach the target before dying. Crazy expectation right ?
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For this game, yes
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Well yes but you dont expect it to die in just 5 rounds.
They need a new type of damage model for strategic bombers to become more durable.
They are working on bomber durability, as they announced last year; So all we can do is be patient.
teams are supposed to protect bombers have you seen a real B-52 flying by its self eating enemy bullets
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People are somehow shocked by this revelation instead of expecting it from the get go…
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no one does this in wt thats a problem , im not saying its not gonna eat bullets im js saying its too weak for a huge body like this
explosive rounds or high pen rounds?
depends on where you hit, most of the airframe is empty space so explosive rounds lose effectiveness in some area. But AP rounds shouldnt be this efficient against the main structural spars
and a missile is usually a destroyed target if you hit but we have seen a few planes in real life like that F35 taking a hit from a missile and still flying back to a base but gaijin logic is that if a big target has a missing part on the wing or anywhere it will explode from a few bullets
This was largely expected.
They were never going to be “good” aircraft. ARB is already brutal for ground attackers that can evade, B52 was always going to be screwed.
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this dosent mean we cant fix it
oh damn.
No ECM or radar turret just feels like gaijins typical bomber hate
don’t fly through the middle of the map
Obviously. But you would realize that the large bombers in game are all increadibly weak compared to real life conterparts. WW2 B17 needed to fly in formation with escorts too, but it wouldnt die to 5 30mm just cutting off the wing. We have footage of it tanking continous fire from bf110 on youtube. The logic is simple, if it was actually wet paper, why do ww2 countries bother with heavy fighers/interceptors by jamming the most autocannon/machinegun possible in the nose?
The B-52H and the Tu-95M suffers from his historical inaccuracy. No the wing of a bomber isnt going to clip in a few shots. No it will not burst into flames after eating a single aim9b, its just commen sense.
That is not to even mention the AI gunners nowadays thats just politely sitting while the enemy shreds your bomber. Sure AI gunners sholdnt be too OP, but maybe they should do something when the enemy is breathing down your tail at less than 200m? and hit?
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