I have no idea what happend to planes, the dmg done to them seemed really good to me before. Not to easy to kill and not to hard. There was a possibility for counterplay. Not anymore. Planes are near unkillable.
I shot a entire clip of my 12.7mm A20 and got hit markers on nearly non stop (enemy plane was going straight up) And the plane did not die. Had my ponderings a bit before and other people had the same complaint so wanted to test planes again. Its a mess now.
Anyone else have trouble with killing planes all of the sudden or does it feel alright?
I thought it was just me; however, I only played 2 games since the patch. The Controls seemed a bit goofy too… Not as bad as before; however, worse than the last patch.
Since the patch my experience flying IL-2 has been that both Hs-123 and Stukas die easier than before, although Stukas are definitely pretty tanky still.
Of course nowhere near as easy as at start of Enlisted OBT where a single rifle caliber bullet would cause planes to crash, that was pretty ridiculous.
Moscow is worse considering most things have smaller caliber guns and less cannons.
I outright ignore fighters on both Moscow and Normandy because they can’t kill me. I have plenty of time to rearm, bomb, kill a lot, then jump out and hop in a tank or a second plane and repeat.
It could just be patch day. I remember War Thunder used to be flakey right after a patch for a day or two. (I played Normandy in the 38 and couldn’t down crap… )
This is not a fluke, this is a rather big problem, specially on Moscow.
As of now, is it as good as impossible to shoot down an soviet plane, if you are sitting in an axis plane. Your best option is a direct ram collision as the 7.92 gun does zero damage to any of the soviets plains. Almost feel like their are no hitboxes, even if you put 500-1000 rounds into the I-153 with the BF 109, those puny little plains will still not go down, not to forget about the Sb-2M, which of now, is basically an invincible machine unless you luckily can ram it.
I’m relieved to see this, I’m finding it impossible to shoot down German planes on Normandy. I’ve put two whole ammo loads into the same plane and it just didn’t care.
It feels like they’ve nerfed something.
Also the AI changes feel like they’ve been filled rolled back.
I have the same problem right now. I full hit but it does not kill them. the example of the IL2 that cuts me in half each time, me on the other hand I put him 36000 shoot, it continues to fly as if nothing had. Even with the AA, sometimes I put everything in their face, and not it keeps flying as if nothing were.