Why is 30mm airburst ammo so awful in game compared to IRL?

Machinery of War Discussion Ground Vehicle
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IRL


in game

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Because this is a videogame, War Thunder is not a simulator, is just a somewhat realistic arcade vehicular combat game, and you’re shooting less than 50 meters away from you, there’s no target there and obviously AHEAD or airburst ammo won’t trigger in non ‘alive’ targets such like rocks and debris. Even if you say that it does trigger, HE-TF in War Thunder works based in the zeroing of your gun, if you dont lock into a target for constant distant calculation or not rangefind a specific spot, the projectile won’t trigger.

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i set the range to a building then moved away zeroing it that distance to explode and its still awful same for plane lock on with IRST and its still horrible

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see here setting the fuse to a distance and still barely anything it doesn’t even look like 30mm fire

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then apply for a graphics designer position at gaijin. really noone cares how the airburst looks compared to IRL

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it’s not only looks but performance same for PUMA the AHEAD round is awful and barely works its literally better to use APDS then to use AHEAD and mk310

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then make a bug report with a source. just saying “IRL it does better” does not work