Cool addition that I will be looking forward to. Will it have modeled cockpit? :) I play sim battles, fully modeled cockpits add to the immersion ;)
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soon™
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It’s been 11 years since that devblog. It’s a shame developers abandoned bombers, despite they actually are one of cooler aircraft to fly. As far as I understand not making cockpits for hmm… rarer planes, where reference would be extremely hard to find, I do not understand abandoning cockpits for planes which are well documented and still in existence.
Gaijin is working on another aircraft game - Aces of Thunder, so there is still hope they will make cockpits for the remaining bombers in WT at some point. I love flying B-29/Tu-4, or B-26 in WT, it’s a big shame I, as well as other bomber enthusiasts, cannot enjoy full immersion, like fighter pilots do.
This is even more disappointing, considering that it’s a „paid” airplane (BP costs), which I would expect to have more details added anyway (same as premium soviet B-25 or Be-6 and so on).
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the pby doesn’t have a radar
The french one does.
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Fully agree.
I proposed in this post:
… to open the very rare Pacific maps in Air RB for all nations.
I do agree that this is just another immersion killer, but the immersion is already killed on those maps. I mean you see 1953 Wyverns, captured 109s and land based Spits there, so why not allowing 16 vs 16 matches for all nations there?
Currently you get on these maps (mainly Iwo Jima, Saipan, Gualdalcanal and New Guinea) just very early in the morning - and then just as small 6 vs 6 JP vs US/UK matches. This makes low level torpedo runs suicide attacks as usually their whole enemy team dives on you…
An opening to all nations would help to solve your He 111 issue quite fast…
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The free battlepass vehicles are notoriously easy to get. You do most of the challenges and you’re already there.
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You know I meant allied.
And hopefully you knew I wasn’t being serious…
was hoping this was gonna be a tech tree aircraft being its the most modern variant of it
BP rewards are never tech tree are they??
no was hoping this aircraft would be tech tree one day instead of being a battlepass item, just seems strange they put the most powerful version of a aircraft as a vehicle not everyone can get
Make the next vehicle the B-36 peacemaker. At this point i don’t care if it will be a tech tree, prem, event or bp. Just add new higher tier prop,prop/jet or jet bombers!
And if you have spare time, a working cockpit for my beloved B-29 would be awesome <3
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No offense, but this plane in the current state of prop Air RB is imho borderline useless.
Why?
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The current meta in wt prevents you in almost all of the cases to get near to a base, it its simply too slow and can’t climb. You face stuff like B7A2s or T-18Bs which kill you in a single pass as you are totally outclimbed long before you can drop.
Even Fireflies can do this - and every single engine fighter (except maybe Avia S-199) is able to intercept you before dropping outside the 5 Frontline maps.
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So you are forced to fly large detours in order to get to 4-5 km altitude and to stay out of spotting ranges and you have to avoid contrails at any cost.
This leads to the fact that either your team is complete dead or the game is over before you can drop.
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So when i use all my experience of >2.000 hours as bomber pilot to get in my 4th match in a position to kill 3 enemy bases (on a 3 bases map) and bomb an afk guy sitting on his runway (see replay) is more than disappointing that the seamines i dropped failed to explode.
I mean there is zero point in flying out this plane if your tech staff is unable to fix a rather easy bug (see bug report) if your armament refuses to do its job.
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I flew this plane 4 times; the first 2 times my complete team was dead before i was at 4.500 meters, so i was forced to rtb, land and j out (which worked thanks to landing gear). In my 3rd match all enemies were dead before i was even close to a base.
And if i flew sneaky, avoided detection and managed to drop after 14 minutes (due to necessary detour) and i don’t get any score thanks to bugged mines, i see no use for this aircraft in its current state.
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I will never use this plane again - and i can’t recommend it to others. You might consider lowering the BR to 3.3 and give it a strategic bomber spawn like the Sunderland, but even then it takes way too much effort trying to make it work.
Have a good one!
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It wouldnt take anything on the exterior pylons when armament larger than the 1000lb bombs were carried internally. Is this intended, or would it be beneficial to bug report it?
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What “bigger” bombs do you have in mind? I found only 1600 lb bombs (as not implemented payload) whilst doing a quick search…
If you have valid information a proper bug report is always a good idea - maybe this plane can be useful in Ground RB or Naval AB/RB…
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The bigger payloads in question were the ones in game, that is the 1600lb AP-bombs and the magnetic mines. As far as i can understand there is no problem with the weight, combining, for example, 8x 1000lbs bombs and two torpedoes.
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It’s a good bomber but 3.7 is too high, at least a solid 3.3
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i am a bit late to the party as it seams, but tbh i find this plane rather useless; like above posts mentioned i tried playing this plane for 9 games or so; in just 1 game i managed to get to the enemy base and bomb it; in all other games it got killed way before reaching 1/2 the distance to enemy bases; didnt care to sideclimb, cos it is so damn slow, whole game is over until i reach ~5000m; so yeah, this is an usless plane and it looks like the vehicles from this bp are kinda odd, to say at least.
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