Changes to planes/flying

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Any pilots out there noticed some changes since last wednesday’s big update?

  • Rockets seem nerfed.
    Hitting a tank no longer means almost instant kill.
    Need to aim more at the sweet spots.

  • MG and cannon seem buffed.
    The day of the update, I shot off the wings of several fighter planes with easy and at distance.
    Also I shot several attacker planes literally in half.
    Noticably different than before.

(heyquadro made a video about rocket nerf and mg/cannon buff)

  • When flying, I got a red message on screen warning me to ‘raise flaps because speed to high’ or something similar. Nice. Havent seen any more/different warnings though.

  • Flying behaviour changed.
    I flew several different planes that day, so I may be mistaken.
    But it seems some planes handle differently a bit.
    When I make a turn I always make, I end up at a much higher altitude than before.
    Also I almost lost control of my P47 due to high speed/aerial acrobatics but that never happened before.

  • SBD-3 in Tunisia now has working bomb sights.

  • Maps look nicer.

Please let me know what you think and noticed.

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:point_up:
After doing some sweeps with 12.7 browning and from a distance that I would consider far away, I was able to destroy a rally point and kill some that another,

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and

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D3A1 have sights too

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More like, fixed. Now they have the correct penetration they have in WT, and not 300+mm

There was changes to some plane shells, as well as changes to the damage models of planes themselves, so the guns should be much more effective.

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Why did they nerf contact between tanks and ground and made early IS-2 shell almost useless against KTH? Who asked?

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Yeah looks also like the 122mm he all of a sudden totally sucks unless you do a direct hit on a soldier.

I had all the time yesterday a case where shooting 122mm HE into a room full of people I’d only have 1 kill, unless i hit a guy directly.

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I mean, HE randomness is constant, i made 2 bug reports on it. While BR-471 i checked on test and in WT, they penned KTH’s LFP and turret but hardly. I asked to slightly improve stock 471 and give early is-2 471b, instead of which they broke stock 471, which now looks completely useless, and i doubt B version performs a lot better. I also watched JustGameplay’s video with KTH gameplay and he catched -3 crewmembers by D-25 hit, then repaired and killed Is-2. Just imagine this nonsense

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M8 rockets where nerfed, but it was not a real nerf, they where bugged, thats why they one tapped any tank, now they are working as intended, and I do play planes a lot, and at least with the axis ones I havent noticed anything different, I tested the m8 rockets as soon as they posted the patch notes here, and yes, they where nerfed indeed, deserved, but the cannon of the p38 still has some wanky ass pen values, it can pen big tanks like panters and tiger by some reason still

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I noticed German 30mm really wreck tanks now. Certain ones I have tried anyway.

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My favorite part of the Big Update :smiley: