Destruction radius on both FAB-5000 and H.C. 12000LB was pretty much halved.
I get how dying to these things was probably frustrating, but they were already insanely situational and fairly rarely used. It wasn’t anything like Yak-9K which is a constant presence in it’s BR bracket. Unless you got a perfect map, enemies played into you and you managed to jump into one of those very expensive planes quickly, you would simply end up with 1-2 kills and be a free kill from that point onwards.
Now they have destruction power comparable to a 4000LB barell bomb before the nerf, how are you suposed to justify sacrificing versatility, good flight performance and whatnot for 1 of those big bombs now? You can’t.
Last strategic bombers with any degree of viability in this game have been castrated and are no longer worth using at all.
Low caliber HE was pathetic so it’s nice something was done about it, but this big bomb nerf was imo absolutely unnecessary. Probably went in due to historical accuracy, but in this case i’d rather have them in old ahistoric version for balance reasons. Rn they are absolutely worthless
Does someone in the Gaijin dev team have a complete hate boner for bombers? they keep being nerfed all the time even in their small playable niches, at this point just remove them from GRB and ARB
Unfortunately, not many people have noticed this, and most people’s attention is taken away by the premium terminator and Mig25. When people are killed by giant bombs, they only think about the excessive damage caused by the range of the giant bombs, rather than the fact that many vehicles are forced to squeeze on a narrow map
50mm Me262 is arguable, due to much lower rate of fire and much higher speed it is genuinely challangeing to use it effectively. Yak-9k though does remain absolutely stupid
Well, what were you intending to use it for? As a bomber, or as a mini-nuke for close air support - a completely fictional and unrealistic role for those specific aircraft?
Well man, you see apc and spaa facing tanks. Realistic role is something war thunder doesnt care. You also see artillery and mlrs doing direct fire into enemy tanks (do you think sturmtiger or sturmpanzer was made for that?).
If a historical big ass bomb exist and its ingame, why I cant use it against tanks, even if its dropped from a strategic bomber?
There are no realistic roles for bombers (or most vehicles even) anywhere in this game because Gaijin keeps focusing only on the call of duty high action portion of the playerbase
Oh no!!! The only type of aircraft that was already on deaths door with very limited uses wasn’t realistic in a game where we have to hold floating capture points, Have 2000’s era vehicles fight ww2, and unrealistic fighting distances!!! Golly we cant have that now can we.
But in all seriousness, why are you rooting for this? Not coming at you, Genuinely curious. pe-8’s and lancasters on average kill maybe 1-3 players unless the map is horrendously small.
In which case its perhaps time to start letting suggestions for bigger maps through?
Also going off the jap guy, Bombers have never been realistic. Never flying in 20+ formations, having their actual game influencing objectives removed, And being forced to dive just to get a base from fighters with napalm! Nothing in this game supports realistic bombers, so why nerf them again based on “ReaLisM”