Nike.
How slow do you think the Zeppelin is? It’s 103km max irl. Thats more than quick enough to reach bombing targets just like the HP,12 at 130-140kmh. The bomber spawn is fine.
The Maus, Tortoise and T-95 don’t get extra close spawns because just as they are slow, they do still make an impact and get to the objectives in time without issue.
Fwiw, you can spawn pure float-planes in ASB on dirt airfields and the game solves the issue by making you spawn like 100 or 200 meters and around 50 km/h above stall speed.
Further, it allows you to respawn after landing a non-carrier plane on an aircraft carrier the same way - airspawn you with some margins above stall speed and 100-200m above the carrier.
EXACTLY! This has already been solved since hydroplanes were added.
either it will climb very high and be nearly unkillable or it will be low and get shredded by everything with the spawns we have
we shouldn’t add vehicles just for people to f around with them in matches
maus tortoise and t95 are fitting for the game and clearly capable regardless
And just like Hydroplanes that unless it’s a PBM-5A Mariner, you belly land on the airfield and repair/rearm and respawn above the airfield like normal.
yes for a legitimate use case
this one is just for f’ing around
events are events. you often get something from them but dont feel entitled to get everything, not everything is compatible with the game
No it’s not? It’s fun to fly but has a very good bombload. And to balance that is slow massive (like all prop bombers of 1.0-2.0) and is fragile.
F117 exists and that plane’s sole use case is “f’ing around” as well.
We genuinly want to see it as a bomber in the game.
I and many others use it seriously for bombing ingame.
Just because it may not be apparent in use case for yourself, doesn’t mean the rest of us in the bomber community and Zeppelin interested community don’t want to use it seriously for bombing.
Isn’t its bombload insufficient to take out bases at 8.0 games in a single pass?
Yes but it’s perfect for bombing pillboxes and using in tandem with squad mates for bombing points.
Hopefully soon we get it as a nuclear jet option since it is the first Nuclear Stealth Bomber in the game.
as per my further comment either it space climbs and you cant kill it or you dont space climb and youre already dead
and a lot of people will also come and use it for trolling or other non sense
it isn’t compatible
the f117 is a bomber, however a stealth bomber. it isn’t a blimp and you can’t drop a carcass from it into a capture point and block it
it will be absolutely dumb to see a squad of 4 blimps come and do stupid things like fill the map middles with them so you cant see anything or fill the capture points
sure it works well enough in the ww1 event use it there and have fun until the event ends
im sure many of you want to use it seriously however everything i said is still correct and is why its not being added
I enjoyed it for what it was. Good things compared to previous events:
–good event length, I’ll be bored after another night of it
–keeping some of the vehicles
–reasonable star requirements, both for score and GE
–good map variant, I would try keeping it in regular rotation
I think it would have worked better if you started planes and earned SP for tanks, while the rewards stayed the same. That way you could solve the A7V issue with a higher SP cost. (Alternatively, make it and the Chamond SP-earnable, so both sides had to start in the Russian car or the Mark V and try to make points with them, likely also would have been more balanced).
I do think the teaser trailer was obviously a little misleading. Yes I get it was April Fools, but AF stuff should be goofy. Promising modern FPS action was just bad marketing. Shoulda found a way to make it a little sillier.
The store DOGE stuff I also think wasn’t great marketing. For a game that says it always wants to stay out of politics I think it was a bit of a misstep but more importantly the lack of any news article to help make it clear what was AF and what wasn’t just led to some unnecessary player and CC confusion yesterday.
OMG
These people are crazy
Imagine if they would like to keep the flying ponies from 2013 or other stuff like mechs
Event stuff is just event stuff
so guys, enjoy it while it lasts
blimps may come some day later when ww1 becomes a thing in war thunder. just wait until then, just like we wait on submarines. theyre not compatible with the game as is right now
May I ask something then? It’s got the speed for bombing, it will have the altitude spawn. It has defensive armament and to balance out it’s good bombload is fragile.
Why remove it from bomber players to use? It won’t harm fighter players other than give bomber players a fun vehicle to try and bomb with and defend yourself against 1.0 aircraft?
True
Tbh id argue they’re far more compatible than subs, but im not gonna argue