peak CBT
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It’s true, they are extremely inconsistent, especially in frontal aspect. I don’t know why but in rear aspect they seem much more consistent.
In frontal aspect I think I had one successful kill. Two times I tried it on a F-104 during an head-on and I clearly saw it exploding behind the enemy aircraft without doing any damage.
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No one uses them because they are bad = no one reports the problem = the missile stays bad/gets worse = no one uses them because they are bad. Welcome to the war thunder death spiral.
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The very sad truth.
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Its from a couple months back and is in the primary bug report, but this is my crown jewel for this bug.
Proceeded to detonate behind them and blow off a single flap (or elevator, can’t remember which)
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It’s the same thing with the Rato pods on the kikka it took literal years for them to actually spawn in the first time
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I realize these aren’t the best shots possible, but I mean… come on, 3 hits and he’s still able to out-run me and maneuver?
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I’m mostly amazed #1 was a crit and #2 wasn’t
it would be interesting to see how much damage each one actually did to him
I could drag up the replays later. AA20s are so wildly inconsistent that I stopped even looking at the damage because it’s usually next to nothing. Flap here, some fuselage damage there, if you’re lucky maybe skme wing or elevator damage. Almost never does it daamge the engine, and I think I’ve set a single fire since March.
First Shot:
The Damage:
Second Shot:
The Damage:
Third Shot:
The Damage:
I’ve had 9Bs detonate very close to their 9 meter proxy distance and they at least set fires, damage engines or destroy whatever control surface they were close to, ie, wing or elevators.
This is THREE AA20s with nearly THREE times the warhead size of a 9B, I get that their proxy distance is 15m instead of 9, but it doesn’t take a genius to realize something is wrong and needs to be fixed. It’s nearly been a year since this bug has been introduced and there is absolutely zero indication of them receiving attention. It’s tragic and insanely frustrating for the devs to completely disregard something that is actually game-breaking. It isn’t some niche minor correction of some statistic like a few kg off an aircraft’s mass or a few mm on a tank’s belly pan, no… these just blatantly don’t work and they are a primary way of downing enemies for some aircraft and the secondary for even more.
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Unchanged in recent update.
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but we got a new american and russian prem!
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