If TrickZZter thinks the 1000lb LD bombs are better I personally won’t complain (even if it makes zero sense), at the end of the day its basically an artificial buff to the plane. I’m very much focused on getting the full 4000lb loadout and hopefully napalm bombs too.
However, if the bombs being LD instead of GP prevents them from being twin mounted (i cant see why it would be a problem) ill happily make a report for it though
On this note, I wonder if this logic could also be used to get the F.53 fitted with M77 Incendiary bombs ingame. We don’t have photos of them being fitted, but we know fire bombs were planned and the Mk77 would be quite likely.
that would be perfect as the F53 could then take out a base
The F53 currently feels completely pointless in GRB and also ARB in any kind of ground attack role. The rockets fire all over the place and never hit anything and you dont get enough bombs to do anything meaningful
gaijin might sell a few more F53 if they buffed it… wink wink gaijin
I boguht it basically for the lower repair costs in Sim (back then they were astronomical), but it would be good to have it a decent littel grinder, especially with the red top buffs
If you create a loadout and then Gaijin changes the restrictions on certain combos. The preset isnt deleted but you cannot make it again. There is a famous one with the Italian premium F-104 I think where you can equip a combo of AAMs or something that you normally cant.
Gaijin have a bad habit of limiting your payload options despite your plane easily being able to carry way more for artificial “balancing” reasons. A great example is the firebrand as it can either carry a 1000 or 2 250s and yet can’t carry both when it can easily do both. Along with only carrying either 2 uncletoms or bombs but not both (not even a couple rp3s). Really limits some aircraft that could have benefited massively from custom load outs.
It’s a bit like fuel amounts as the 57mm mozy was in desperate need of fuel control and yet just over an hour is still the minimum fuel amount because gaijin like to use fuel as a balancing factor for whatever reason on these bigger fighters.
hopefully we can see these changes soon, the only question is if they are willing to model the accurate bombs or take the lazy route and just use what we have now. Or the even lazier route and not adding it at all…
The first case would allow us to destroy a base with the 4 bombs, the latter would then require the drag bombs on the top mounts.
