Yes, the He-177 was known for overheating and engine bursts, but here in the game it’s because it fits…
For one thing, the He-177 A5 variant is in the game, and it already had its engines overhauled a long time ago, and this was not the primary problem…
Already from the A3/R2 version (A3 - the second production series), the engines, nacelles, oil and fuel pipe distributions and cable harnesses, oil coolers, etc… were solved … the problem was rather the gearboxes/reducers, which sometimes had a problem withstanding the power of those twin engines and propellers …
And don’t compare He-177 against B-29 … a machine with similar parameters as Greif, is Flying Fortress or Halifax, Pe-8 …
B-29 can stand comparison only Ju 290/390, Lincoln …
Personally, I think that if one of the nations in the game received aircraft that were interned on its territory, repaired and delivered to the reconnaissance-bombing units of long-range bombers that were established, but were not so much in sight, then those bombers in the game would they looked different…
After all, the first 3 units of the Tu-4 version had 11x 12.7 mm UBT machine guns,
several others then had B-20E cannons (aka La-7) and then the main versions had NR-23 mm… So the Tu-4 could be in several versions…
It’s not even unique and no one should put time or money to grind for it or even try to get, it’s literally a downgrade version of the A-5/R2 that we have ingame it offer nothings new, it’s just gaijin using the Hs-293 as pretext to say that this bomb is unique but in reality the A-5 can do every the A-3 and do it better
It may spawn even higher, I think Me-264 f.e. spawns above lighter bombers. This would mean He-177 gets guaranteed 1st drop unless intercepted by absolutely-needing-that-airspawn Hornet.
Anyway, too bad battle pass props are either attackers/bombers or P-51 copies. Ok, B7A2 Homare is a goddamn monster of an interceptor but it’s a broken plane at a wrong BR.
Would love to see some proper fighters instead. Like Re.2005 with VDM propeller and uprated engine.
Or Ta-152H0 with MG213s. Or Ta-152H0 with MW50 (essentialy a lighter 152H, but with worse performance above 8500 - like anyone cared). Or even better - a mix of these 2 - Ta-152H0 was capable of mounting both MW50 and MG213s, and it would make a decent high tier axis prop, finally not hindered by godawful ballistics of non,-stealth belt (due to bug every belt fired shells at the speed of 1st shell in the belt, so basically this means M-geschoss is fired at 710m/s instead of 790m/s but it has its speed bleed modelled just fine, as a result it slows down very fast from that already low speed).
The thing is, that distance varied on alt and the speed of the aircraft firing the shell.
So the value we have in game is basically always wrong.
It would simply be easier to revert the change and equip non SD shells. They existed, they were used, so why bother, combat conditions are not WW2, so adhering to WW2 choice which was based on the combat conditions makes no sense.
First of all: the He177 isnt useless unless you think that all bombers are useless (Typical fighter mafia). And I really like the He177
Second: You dont know if i play Naval or not!.. OK im not playing naval but you dont know that.
Third: One could say that any Vehicle with a gimick is just the other mediocre/bad vehicle with a gimick but that doesnt mean that people arent allowed to enjoy them. I am really looking towards the missles and I’m really happy that they are being added. And you want to know why? Because im allowed to have fun in this game no matter if the vehicle is good or bad. If i wanted to only play good vehicles I would only play US Air toptier but what fun is there if im only limiting myself to a handpicked few when there are over 2000 vehicles in this game. I mean at this point why not just delete over 90%of the vehicles so people dont have to play bad vehicles? I mean even if it the missles came on any long range bomber from Germany YOU would still complain. Because YOU cant see that there doesnt has to come a new META vehicle that will dominate the rank and br its at with every Battle Pass/Event. I mean look at vehicles like the Sturmtiger, Matilda Hedgehog, RBT-5, LOSAT or Typ 75 MARS all of those arent “good” vehicles but its still nice that Gaijin added them. Imagine if Gaijin added only “good vehicles”, imagine how few vehicles were there if people like you would decide what vehicles to add. It’s kinda sad how people like you simply cant get satisfied becasue the next vehicles added arent top of the line broken who will dominate everything.
Forth: I also wish they would still have 4 vehicles per Battle pass but i think thats besides the point. IAd I also wish that some vehicles were TT instead of Battle Pass or Event. And I too am annoyed at copy paste but this isnt copy paste. If it was copy paste it would be a He177 without mislles that prolly has a special skin or even worse was just in another country like the Kungstiger.
At this point they could just remove the Battle pass and then noone gets any vehicles besides TT or the Events every now and then.
