After the most recent major update, the Vautour bombers have only gotten worse and near unplayable. You constantly get matched with the new Yak-130. The Yak-130 beats the Vautours in almost every way. The only thing it lacks is payload sized which for bombing doesn’t matter since it gets napalm while the Vautours do not. They have better acceleration performance that allows them to gap and beat a Vautour that has a minimal load for a base. You’re either facing them in which they simply intercept you as you go to your base or you’re matched with them in which case you’re not getting a base at all since they can carry enough napalm for 2 bases. How and why Gaijin thinks the Vautours deserve a runway spawn and to be placed at 9.0 where you face vehicles better than you in every way is beyond me. At the very least it could use an interceptor spawn like the 8.3 Vautour but Gaijin refuses to give it even that.
As everything else in the game gets fixed and rebalanced, the Vautours are always left behind and forgotten, much like the non-US F-84Fs.
Side climb and wait for the bases to respawn?
Takes too long. In similar BR jets, where Ive tried that, im either dead or the match is over before that happens.
What they need to do is drop the respawn time down from 5 minutes to 3 minutes and/or make the forward AFs modular like we have in ASB, so you can at least dump bombs on that for some payout.
But War Thunder needs a total PvE overhaul (because its not just ARB, ASB and probably AAB are lack luster gameplay too)
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