I have to say simply, whoever the genius is who made it so my F-104 TAF can now we shot down by Ito-90s over airfields, I genuinely despise you.
This change only hurts the player and emboldens the “Gaijin” team to make more revenue by making the grind harder.
Everyone better say bye bye to airfield boming with otherwise useless aircraft
Well, indeed from Roland 1 to ItO 90M is a huge jump but it doesn’t make impossible. These anti-air systems doesn’t intercept guided, smart and dumb bombs, nor rockets or any other kind of ordnances, by that it’s clear what to do. Even though F-104S TAF doesn’t have specialized air-to-ground weapons, simply taking higher altitude and attacking from above with bombs or rockets isn’t something impossible to do, it’s just extra work.
I was at 11,000 meters radio altitude and it hit me.
To have avoided it, i would need to be almost 12,000 meters up, and in an Italian F-104 TAF, good luck.
Which is clearer than ever that these strategy wasn’t supposed to be used in the first place. If you have, so try with an actual strike airplane with a long range (in War Thunder terms) that this isn’t impossible (e.g. Glided bombs).
The ITOs should only be for 13.0 and up, and not 10.7+ in both sim and RB.
Glide bombs that do lots of damage while also not heavily restricting your loadout are limited to basically just the Su-34 AFAIK.
In raw numbers, Su-34 may be the case. However Chinese and Israeli airplanes do share similar weapons. While USA do have, from what I can remember now are usually light glided bombs, note that I may be wrong tho.
They could’ve added an un-upgraded 2s6 for spaa for 11.7-12.7 tbh
That would be useless
Good riddance!
I, for one, welcome the new SPAA
That’s great that you mostly do fighting, but I shouldn’t have my toes stepped on merely because you don’t like something.
So it’s a fighters parade which is so lame. This was the only good mode for bombing, and now that’s out the window.
Target convoys and ground battles then. There are targets you can go for if you aren’t interested in A2A.
Not really. The g overload is better
If bombing enemy airfield is too hard with F-104: have you considered doing something else with it? Or if the airfield bombing is only thing which brings you joy: have you considered using a bit more suitable airplane for the mission?
Your missing the fact that there is the fighter spam hunting and killing you before you can, because they know you aren’t bombing airfields now.
I wanted to use that because it’s premium and gets me through the Italian tech tree quicker.
As if they couldn’t easily find you when you were bombing airfields.
They can, but it spreads out the players / bombers a lot more, meaning less less pockets of people hanging about.
Whatever I’ll just go kill players in the worst kinds of ways. That’s the way they want sim to be, and you all seem to agree for some reason.
There is always an excess of convoys and ground battles. Even bases can be easily found if you aren’t in a very populated lobby.
I have already brought this up elsewhere. Yes it is an issue, but a much smaller one compared to dying to rocket spammers on takeoff, or the entire gameplay loop of several people in the match being takeoff → suicide rocket.
I think the biggest problem right now is that there’s an issue with dropping bombs from high altitude. Currently, there are a few maps — for example, Afghanistan and probably Vietnam — where CCRP doesn’t work properly. I’m more certain about Afghanistan, since you have to fly at around 6–7 thousand meters to avoid anti-aircraft fire. But at that altitude, it’s impossible to drop bombs using CCRP.
There’ve been some bug reports about it, but guess what’s been done? Exactly — nothing.
Additionally, in many aircraft that don’t have a targeting pod or GNSS-guided bombs, the optical sights are limited, and it’s often hard to even see where the target is.
