[Would you like to see heavy strike aircraft such as A10, Su25, etc. get buffed damage models like the bombers do?]
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Title is pretty self-explanatory. Most WW2 bombers are known for being extremely survivable and tanky, and this recent damage models update for them has been great. They are much more survivable and reflect the real-life counter parts and I love it.
However, some modern planes are designed to be survivable too, yet it isnt reflected in-game sadly. The two planes that came to my mind are A10 and Su25, currently in-game they are not tanky and are very easy to kill and I hope they get damage model buffs too.
Not really necessary, a10’s can fight off most of the aircrafts at its BR without much issues, bombers got this buff because they couldn’t fight off most of the vehicles they faced as they lacked good armament.
yea A10 can turn well and can defend itself in dogfights, but my issue with it is that it’s damage model is really weak, combined with it being slow, it can easily be critically damaged/shot down by tank machine guns while flying over them. The tail controls are also really easy to knockout, they always go out first when u get shot anywhere even tho the real life A10 has dual-redundant hydraulic flight control system, which isnt reflected in-game what-so-ever
Again, the reason bombers got the buff was because they couldn’t defend themselves, the a10s can, same goes for most of the strike planes, like the su25s etc, the buff for strike aircrafts are unnecssary.
no the buff is because the bombers are way too weak, they can defend themselves ever since they came out cuz they got turret guns, but the damage model were wayyyy too weak compared to real life, same for A10 and Su25.
Its not about the if the plane can defend itself or so, its about the reflect of its Structural integrity and Highly resistant Model, In real life, its much stronger, effective, however that does not get reflected in war thunder with its over simplified damage model for such historical aircrafts like A10 or Su-25 all of their variants.
yes, you are correct, what I meant to say was, they were easily overpowered by aircrafts in their BR range though, a spitfire could easily rip the wing of a bomber with a few bursts, if you’ve played bombers, you’d know how difficult it is to use them before the buff.
eh, it’d cause them to move up in BR, which isnt really needed tbh, its better they stay at their current BR with the current damage model, as if they did hypothetically get a buffed damage model similar to the bombers, there’s an extremely high chance they’ll get moved to a higher BR.
SU-25 already had this tankiness on the first years it got released. Remember all those videos and people complaining about SU-25s taking like 6 missiles from antiairs on ground RB? i even remember my Ozelot running out of ammo hitting these Sukhois
but i never saw A-10 being tanky not even once. You will always see people spamming SU25s and taking multiple missiles but when an A-10 spawns it always required 1 missile to shoot it down. The bias was too much lol.
i hope they give A-10 some love.
(i dont even play USA and i don’t even have A-10 but i want equal treatment and not selective bias)
Maybe now they die from 1 or 2 missiles (i didn’t attacked SU25s for a long time) but when Su25s got released it stayed with this buffed damage model for MONTHS, maybe it even was years.
its the average gaijin russian bias where they add a russian vehicle with buffed damage model then wait years to fix it. like it happened to Ka-52 tanking 50 missiles
They always will fix the damage model once they get a new better toy
