The bombers can now tank 12 AIM-120C-7 Missiles from the NASAMS 3 (TEL), and at most it would be considered severe damage unless the pilot is hit directly. I am really not sure how that is a good update. It is really too extreme. Has no realism whatsoever, because every other aircraft, whether that be an interceptor, attacker, jet fighter, still can be shot down with a single hit. But Bombers? You can put the entire magazie full of universal rounds, armor piercing rounds, high explosive rounds from a 50mm Mk214a cannon on the Me 262 A-1/U4, and it won’t have any effect more than half the time. Even crashing your own plane into the bomber does not always help
Or, you can take a Pzh 2000, take the M107 (PF) Rounds, and shoot a bomber, such as a Be-6, for example, and unless the hit is directly at the cockpit that takes out the pilot, you can be launching multiple 155mm rounds with a simple “hit” message, no damage to the bomber.
I have posted a video on Reddit showing the example with 12 AIM-120C-7 Missiles hitting a Be-6, repeatedly, one after one, at most setting the bomber on fire and granting me “Severe Damage” after SEVERAL MISSILES. The only time I managed to shoot it down directly with one missile is when I knocked out the pilot. without that, they can take tons of incoming damage from any round, any missile, without getting destroyed.
From a logical perspective, that “buff” is so extreme that it really makes no sense. Sure, the damage model on the bombers before the update has been weaker than any other aircraft when you think about it. But now you can still one tap any other aircraft, helicopters included. Why not make helicopters just as powerful as bombers are? Let them take 12 Anti Air Missiles consecutively without any damage, letting them still hover in the ground or fly. Helicopters, especially on lower ranks are very vulnerable. Why not do the same addition there, by that logic? Or aircraft with no guns? Such as the Sea Vixen, other aircraft with similar issue. Hell, even the JAS39D Gripen. Has no guns, not even ones you can mount. Let’s make them indestructible too!
I honestly do not understand why people have to go to such extremes. It does not “balance” the gameplay. It gives one group a huge advantage. How, for so many years, there have been people with extremely successful runs on the bombers? Because they played well. Just because people cannot play well, does not mean you have to go to such extremes to make the game better for them. It is illogical.
Is this anywhere near normal?
