I mean, why would they add cruise missiles anyways?
There is nothing in the game that would warrant such an addition.
Even if fortifications or destructible airfields were a thing in WT it wouldn’t be a good idea to add cruise missiles, as they would be very one-sided in terms of gameplay. There is no real interaction after launch, as they don’t need to be guided and trying to intercept them would not be very interesting and/or engaging gameplay either.
I stopped watching after the third “look, this guy shoot at someone through a window!” xD
As you said, there’s some actually neat stuff too- it’s only natural that not every clip is outwordly, after all, they gotta share several every Friday.
It is hard for me to believe that they don’t get enough worthy clips.
Like, surely they get plenty of clips that are more interesting and/or impressive than a heli using rocket pods as makeshift countermeasures.
Seriously, using rockets to destroy frontally approaching missiles or as makeshift flares is one of the most mundane things I can think of.
I should’ve sent the one of me bombing a bearcats pilot with the lancasters 12k
Or even this
“i am surely going to kill this base”
At this point I am convinced that you could make it into the Thunder Show by killing planes or even just Helis with A2G missiles
Tbh i dont really want to even try despite some of the random stuff ive managed to do being quite funny
if the problem is range (we all know you mean grinding sim with it) why not introduce weapon restrictions to game modes?
Happens with the bomb bay on the buccaneers too, It’s reaaaaally annoying. Happened cause you pitched down during bomb release, at least that’s when it happens most often on the buccaneers.
Just to add to this:
Grom E1 (from game stats): 165 kg of TGAF-5M (1.6 TNTe) = 264 kg TNTe, roughtly eq to a 1000lb/500kg GP bomb
JASSM (from real sources): 108.9 kg of tritonal (1.18 TNTe) = 128.5 kg TNTe, roughly equal to a 500lb/250kg GP bomb
So from this you can roughly see it would take twice the amount of JASSMs to get a base compared to the Grom E1, if we don’t account for smaller warhead weight damage bonusses. Anyways, remember warhead weight =! explosive weight.
air sim is already broken with gbu39 and grom 2.
God that’s so annoying. I keep having bombs collide with the Buccaneers nose, or even worse, with its wings.
Though there is some potential to get some crazy bomb tosses by rolling and deflecting the bomb sidewards.
Or just don’t add them because there is no reason to add them.
What exactly is there in WT that would warrant the addition of cruise missiles and cruise missile/glide bomb hybrids such as the Grom E1?
There are no fortifications, airfields are indestructible (and if they weren’t it should require more skill than just clicking on them on the map and then launching missiles at them), there are no ships to attack in most modes (and even if there were, getting actual AShMs would be more appropriate) and most maps aren’t even as large as the range of cruise missiles.
Ground battles do not need more weapons with even more range than the Kh-38, especially not ones that are programmed to follow the terrain to avoid detection and interception. Cruise missiles aren’t even designed for tank busting in the first place
Air battles (especially sim) do not need weapons to make bombing even more trivial than it already is (which would lead to further reward reductions and at this rate the removal of ticket bleed caused by bombing and ground pounding).
Get the bottom gear guys to do the next warthunder update devstream as they struggle to navigate the menus
Is radar bugged atm? when I use TWS it won’t return to middle. turned it off and on still wont fixed (F-15E and Su-27SM).
Yeah it’s a bug, one of many radar bugs brought in the update.
except in SB.
And low tier ARB, but as I’ve also mentioned, destroying them shouldn’t just be a matter of taking off, climbing a few secs, launching missiles, landing and repeating
Yup, agreed.
Even glide bombs are tenatively “too good” for doing damage to things like AFs at the moment. Heck, maybe even GPS guided weapons in general.
High Alt CCIP or High alt CCRP drops or low alt loft attacks vs an AF take some skill to get right, but just point and click with GPS guided bombs might be too good.
(not that I would suggest removing either, they arent brokenly OP like Grom-1 and cruise missiles would be )
Maybe having to use different types of weapons to destroy different parts (like in sim)
The fortified ammo bunker/plane bunker hangar things could require penetrator warhead equipped things (like bombs or cruise missiles) to destroy, the runway would take either dedicated anti runway weapons or just regular bombs, and other parts could just take lots of regular bombs, thermobarics bombs, or a bit of napalm to destroy
They could add AA as required part but it doesn’t really affect actual airfield operations so I guess it would just be a defense like how it is now
