when will the devs fix the stupid bomber issue of them being incredibly useless? like they are horrible to use due to is basically a gigantic free kill that can be instantly turn into ash by a single burst of 50 cal, its not rewarding and practically fighters ironically is a better bombers since they can carry 500 to 2000 pound bombs to begin with so their is no reason to use bombers to begin with, like yeah adding more bombers is cool but realistically after like max a week, people will either find it pointless and never use it ever again or just unlock it just to get pass it for the next aircraft to unlock next rank. atlease fix the bomber issue like take away fighters ability to carry bombs or increase rewards for using a large bombers atlease, i wanna have fun with bombers
Yeah, until we get the bomber overhaul (and it does at least half of what the community hopes it does), adding new heavy bombers is a wierd choice
I’ll quote my answer from a previous thread:
like actually make them not instantly turn into ash after like 2 50 cal shots to the wings, or make it actually rewarding since they abandon game modes when AI NPC can actually effect the games
and make them useful, like making them survivable is not solving the problem which is that they are useless since fighters can carry bombs and after dropping them, they still useful unlike bombers
Its a 2 sided problem.
The first is the paper nature of the damage models. For this, what they need to do is increase the fidelity of the models, break the airframes down into far smaller parts, so instead of the wing being 3 parts, its a grid of 3x5 or maybe even more for such large airframes like the B-29. That way damage becomes more localised and instead of a burst of fire turning you into confetti, it instead just punches holes.
The other is what any ground attacker is really meant to do in any air mode, even in ASB where matches can actually be won by ground attackers… the gameplay is just… stale and two dimensional. Even if they made heavy bombers 100% invicible (or at least could always make it to the target). There just isnt anything to really do when you get there other than drop bombs onto a boring target (assuming its not been killed by something faster)
So yeah, they really really need put some effort into this part of the game, because at the moment, its just pointless to touch most of these aircraft
like you remember back then that AI in air mode used to actually not just work but also can capture points. like if you dont destroy the ground targets, they will cap the point and make you lose. it makes bombers useful, but the devs abandon it and the AI is straight up broken and does nothing. also speaking of AI, i do hope they not just fix the damage model but also they fix the AI gunners being stupid, like they have the intelligent of a lobotomized squirrel, practically they do beardly anything except for slowly figuring out “is that mustang that is currently shredding this bomber a enemy i need to destroy?” and if they finally start shooting, is already to late this point. like i hope they fix it by increase the range and make them smarter. i hope