The devs have been talking about introducing a bomber mode for some time now, right? I mean why not just get rid of low clouds and have bombers spawn at 10k+ km like they would irl? And make it so only bombers can destroy bases unless no bombers spawn? It’s a little ridiculous that bombers can be balanced with a few simple changes but we’re still just food for fighters. A CR.32 was able to reach my B-17G before I was anywhere near a base on Malta which is absolutely insane. Right after that I was ripped in half by a Spitfire and there’s really nothing anyone can do about it except the devs actually balancing bombers in Air Battles.
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Satelites are not considered bombers
Would not be a good move. Would end up with like 25% of your team leaving without spawning in.
Would be better to re-add the ability to bomb the af.
Bombers, and all planes in general, need a damage model update.
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Fixing damage models and tweaking AI gunners to react before enemy fighters are closer than 200m would be a good start.
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The gunner was nerfed, if im not mistaken back in the day those guys we’re killing people from 1-2 km away so gainin nerfed them hard
I think the AI gunners used to engage at about 800m or so. However they used to have to limited ammunition for their turrets, so they would either have to trust the AI gunners or switch to manual and let people get closer to not waste ammo, or risk running out of ammo by the time the fighter got within range.
Then Gaijin had the brilliant idea of letting them magically rearm the turrets in mid air, so they would just hose at you from 3km out, things like the Ju-288 where especially bad as their high speed means that you are often stuck in long tail chases trying to catch up with them so they could unload multiple loads of ammo on you.
Best is when flying in B52 , wing is ripped off, by a single salvo of 50cals :D
Nerfed them too hard. Now they only wake up when they smell the burning of the plane around them and they need to jump out.
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