Changes to Bomber Survivability

[Thodin]

The issue with air ab is, that the objectives (NPC convoys) are quite often almost under the enemy airspawn. Its a bit meh. The frontline maps are ok. The advantage of air AB is the pace of the game. Maps are small…alot respawns mean target rich enviroment. Ammunition respawns as well. So you can rack up alot more kills than in RB. Means its number one choice for tasks and event missions. Its much quicker to do kill tasks in AB than RB.

[RoyalWaffles]

Just had a fire spread from the inner engine nacelle of my b52… to the outer undamaged nacelle, but not the wing joining the two (???)

[TheAnnoyingFinn]

They are aware of the issues and working on fixing them.

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@BVV_d

The next important aspect is improving fire mechanics. We plan to detail fire damage and make it more realistic. This includes aspects such as: fire spread, the area where the fire causes damage (for example, currently the visual fire effect on the wing can reach the tail assembly, but the tail assembly receives no damage as a result of this), the size of this area over time, the likelihood of a fire depending on the extent of damage to the fuel tank and the volume of remaining fuel, and the change in structural strength of components as they are exposed to fire (e.g., a prolonged fire near a spar reduces the load-bearing capacity and reduces the destructive overload for this component).

@BVV_d

We plan to release some of these improvements in the coming weeks

[Loofah]

Meanwhile wings remain ridiculously resistant to multiple R4M or 50mm HE impacts.
They are “tweaking” things, while there are problems in the very basic assumptions, like “bomber wings are semi-indestructible”, and the only reason bomber tails are destructible is because paper tail syndrome affects every plane in game and even boosting tail HP 80 times doesn’t help enough, lol.