It doesn’t help that the damage model doesn’t care where shells hit; to it, 500 holes stacked on a single spot are the same as 500 dispersed. You’re not going to punch your way through!
I just played Jet SB for intercepting B-52.
I think some fighters are impossible to intercept B-52/Tu-95 just like 50cal Sabres.
MiG-17 is still possible to kill them but, ways harder now even through B-52 has massive dead zone because hitting a target with a gun while moving at jet speed is harder than people think.
Even though bomber players already had the crutch of abusing third-person view in SB, Gaijin handed them yet another crutch, making it so even a monkey or bots could play it.
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The bomber survivability adjustment has been vastly overdone and is making a mess of the game balance, at least in AB. More and more battles consist of wave after wave of well-nigh impregnable heavy bombers (especially the boats like PBY, PBM, BV, but also the B17, Pe-8, Me-264).
Sometimes they don’t even bother to climb (since nothing hurts them anyway, especially not airfield AAA) and you get several bombers circling at 1,000 feet above the enemy airfield. It’s totally ridiculous and surely not “more historically realistic” than the previous situation.
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At least they have limited ammo in SB and are not reloading mid air. You could bait them.
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Airfields are just scripts and do a fixed amount of damage instead of actually firing a shell at you.
Would be better if they had actual 8.8 flak there.
And as I said…
the WINDOWS are providing ARMOR despite being UNARMORED, and the non-glass skin is providing even more
And what ammo were your attackers using?
this is AP
this is HE
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I don’t know about lower BR but, higher BR is not enough.
I just played Tu-95 as gunship but, It has more than enough ammos to kill few B-52s.
its amazing how rn 50cals are the best way to take down bombers
(just why?!)
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its very simple actually, bomber skin is providing 7-10mm of armor steel equivalent, instead of whatever the ~2mm of aluminum they would have at most
and thanks to datamines we know they also have HUGE damage modifiers for explosion and fragment damage (-50% and -85% respectively)
all this makes it really obvious why missiles have been doing such BAD damage - they detonate, they fragment, all as intended, but when they reach the bomber most of the damage is eaten up by that fictional armor and damage reduction, which is also amplified by the huge increases in hp value for every part
.50s will cut through it, solid projectiles have a lower damage modifier (-30%) and can directly attack the crew
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Tried to launch R-3S against B-52 but, the game says just “hit” and needed to use guns for finish him…
I don’t play AB but, I can see ppls are spamming Yer-2 or Do 217, just like old days…
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Damn. Didn’t know Gripens were shooting at strategic and tactical bombers with their internal gun.
That’ll be for ground targets and even then, only if you’re desperate.
What missiles, lmao, all my bombers were one-shot with missiles. Do you speak about the devserver, perchance?
I personally one-shot 3 bombers with bravy’s missile also, right after the update. My tu-95 was one-shot with missile two times, tu-4 suffered the same fate, il-28 - the same, yak-28b - the same.
im aware of that but why did they do it
everyone in their right mind should be able to see that this is neither realistic nor fair
;w;
ahh makes sense
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this dude, people want things to be over as fast as possible.
i have been having a lot of fun shooting down bomber with their new DM in my inteceptors, really hope they keep like this, maybe make fire do a little more damage but thats it really
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If his control lines were hit - he was gonna crash anyway, lol.
who the hell knows lol
it’s just stupid, we have unarmored windows stopping HE cannon shells now.
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I know why. At least I can understand how this happened. Windows just are not separate from the hull cuz before the whole fuselage was made of paper, as well as these windows, lol.
They will separate windows, I hope, in next updates. As well as make modules more detailed.
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He literally just kept flying straight toward my team’s airfield.
Right now in SB EC, there’s this ridiculous collusion going on called “PvE matches”, so I had to intercept them all just to discourage them from doing it.