I’ve been a dedicated bomber main for over a year now. I spent months enjoying the slow, strategic gameplay of lower tiers, managing my altitude, and utilizing my defensive gunners. But after recently unlocking the B-29 Superfortress, I feel completely forced to quit the game.
The current matchmaking at 7.0+ BR is mathematically broken for strategic bombers, and Gaijin’s automated balancing algorithm completely ignores the reality of gameplay:The Interceptor Contradiction: My B-29 takes 10 to 12 minutes of painful, slow climbing just to reach a safe altitude. Meanwhile, early jet and rocket interceptors (like the Me 163, Su-11, or MiG-9) can climb to 6,000+ meters in less than two minutes. The bomber air spawn advantage is entirely gone.The “Jet Hell” Reality: Propeller bombers maxing out at 500 km/h are being forced to fight 1950s jets cruising at 900+ km/h.
We are literal sitting ducks without flares or countermeasures against a player base that can close the distance before we even reach the map center.
The Match Timer Nerf: With Air RB matches cut down to 25 minutes, there isn’t even enough time to properly side-climb, bomb, return to base, and rearm. If your team dies down below in the first 5 minutes, you are trapped.Gaijin balanced the B-29 based on legacy win rates and automated statistics from years ago, effectively giving up on balancing them.
Pushing strategic bombers into high jet BRs is just a silent way of telling us, “Stop playing heavy bombers in Air RB.”
I shouldn’t have to learn how to dogfight early MiGs in a massive prop plane just to survive. If Gaijin doesn’t want us playing these legendary aircraft, they should just remove them, rather than keeping them as a permanent Silver Lion repair trap.
For those who stayed bomber mains, how do you even cope with this? Because for me, walking away from the grind feels like the only logical choice left
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Gaijin just catering to the majority player base that has to much ADD to even climb above 1000m in a P-51
Yeah, screw SIM players over again because something isn’t working in a different game mode, good plan!
Gaijin has announced a planned revision of bomber damage models, but whether or not that ever actually happens is another issue (they promised attacker forward spawns a year or 2 ago now and it’s just never happened).
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If they remove bombers from game I would then never die 25 times in weekend and 50 times a week , and would have to learn dogfight which I never did since rank 1
Like I joined this game a year ago bez I wasn’t interested in killing players just for realistic models and real fsituation flights and I choose bombers bez it’s not about killing players but ai targets and bases.
It might be worth trying to learn SIM then, no spotting, longer game times, bigger maps etc.
@RunaDacino and @Schindibee would probably be the best people to talk to about getting started there.
Unfortunately ARB is just extremely hostile for anyone but fighters currently.
Already playing it , it’s the only last thing left and I am doing soo, but I get catch up by mugs and their radars and they hunt like tiger vs deers ,
And at lower br if you go a bit high for safety then you won’t see base by your naked eyes and low enough to be killed, but still trying to mainin my moral by playing sim , it’s expensive like I sometimes loose 100 k in one day but keeps me happy
And BTW who wants to play in this cockpit view bruh
Yeah, Bombers have been neglected for way to long, between the increase in base respawn time, addition of fire bombs allowing the far faster attackers and fighters to kill the bases, everybody getting air spawns so on and so forth, it’s just not a viable playstyle currently.
I think the only realistic hope is that a low tier Nuclear escalation mode might be viable for them, but Gaijin unfortunately doesn’t seem to think the relatively low numbers of bomber pilots are worth catering to, which is a reoccurring theme for them, they don’t think something is worth fixing due to low player numbers, but don’t seem to consider that the numbers may be low due to it being broken.
Yaa, it’s not an big issue for those who use bombers just for grinding rp but who goona tell them that playing bomber main and bombing is an different type of fun which they just treat it as greedy algorithm.
