yea with the 100lb bombs you need to be precise but with the 250kg(500lb) bombs you can drop the shit like 50-100 meters away from people and they still end up with arms, legs and asscheeks scattered across the ground…
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Rockets are point amd shoot. How much easier can it get.
The only reason 250 KG is effective is because German bomber are very precise once you get a hang of them. I ditched the BF 110 which had higher survivability and had better armaments for the Stuka which is trash is every way on paper when compared. Simply because the Stuka was more precise.
The only advantage German planes have over Allied ones are the 250 KG bombs. Take that away and they are useless. They are dead the moment an enemy plane is in the sky. This was intentionally done to bring balance.
And please don’t get into arguments over what the bombs do now. The game as whole is unplayable at the moment due to the HE buff. The devs will most likely find a way.
Germans are the only ones with genuinely unbalanced aircraft bombloads
They were actually balanced in the Moscow CBT when fighters didn’t have bombs and the Stuka only had the single 250kg bomb. Why they gave fighters bombs and 4 50kgs to the Stuka is beyond me
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Tbh if we took the 250 off the 109s and left them only on bombers that’d be a welcome change. Lessening bombloads on things like the Stuka in Moscow and Berlin would be alright too because it’s absolutely spastic compared to the competition’s loadout.
Tbh fighters shouldn’t get bombs at all, but that’s an entirely different argument tbh.
What I am absolutely not looking forward to is the return of the fair and balansed Me410 with the pair of 500kg bombs combined with the insane durability buff so you can’t shoot it down.
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They were struggling to kill because the average teammate is beyond shit. While the Allied planes had no issue getting kills due to how bigger their area of impact is. Now, changes could have been made to IL-2 but we all know that’s not how it works around here.
What allied plane has a bigger area of impact outside of shit like the SB-2M or A-20?
The 250 that the Stuka had in Moscow was perfect vs the 4x 50kg or 100kg bombs the IL-2 had
Honestly the RBS rockets they have now are great if you have people marking tanks and I like that change in favor of the larger bombload it had.
The pre buff 250 had to be dropped quite accurately if you wanted it to kill something. Which needs help from teammates. That is not happening. The extra 50s is a big help in this regard.
The IL-2 bombs could be dropped over a larger due their number. Not as effective as a single 250 on a marked target but you are more likely to hit something with the IL-2.
Reducing the bombs on Stuka now will require a ton of other roll backs. That thing struggles to stay in air these days. If it’s load gets worse than IL-2, the least I hope the devs do to compensate is to make its cannon work. Currently it shoots paper balls. And also give back it’s ability to climb so that you have more time to dive and see where you want to drop your single bomb.
Which is very easy to do since its a dive bomber
No it wouldn’t at all
That’s absolutely false. Even with 3 250s in Berlin you fly just fine unless you try to climb at an angle greater than 10 degrees same as the IL-2.
The defensive gun if that’s what you’re on about actually worked in the CBT, but it was really aimbotty and I think they’re trying to get that working on their end before re-enabling gunners.
It climbs fine unless you try to go higher than 10 degrees. You also have all the time in the world to climb back to the resupply which is what you should be doing anyways.
They’re 7.92s not 20mms, Zayn
I am yet to break the 1000m mark since some changes a while ago. It’s speed, climb, and altitude lost during turns got nerfed a while back. I know you don’t play Moscow buddy.
You are pitching a pure bomber against a very versatile plane that is IL-2. Give it some advantages over the other. For now, it’s the bombs.
Also the Stuka is dead the moment someone decides to take a shot at it. While you can deplete your entire guns on Soviet planes and watch it continue doing its thing.
You are forgetting that you can’t see shit on the ground unless you are on a collision course. You need non-retarded teammates otherwise. Yeah, like that’s going to happen.
You have to climb for awhile in the IL-2 as well to get 1km up.
Honestly everything accelerates like dogshit, so I wouldn’t be surprised if its just that.
I play both, I just gave up on actively grinding Germans because the new stuff doesn’t interest me enough to keep at it after what like six months of only playing Moscow in this game.
The Stuka has the advantage of being an actual dive bomber and not some jury rigged level bomber shitbox with zero visibility.
That’s entirely the new DM change which needs heavy tweaking before we can really make long term judgements on stuff like that.
It’s very easy to bomb with no visibility though? Just remember where people are likely to go and you really don’t have to rely on the dogshit teams for any kind of marks.
This 1000%
Reality check, you don’t seem to understand how hard it is to stay in the sky if you actually have some competition up there. Sure I can get 280 kills and fly until I run out of gas in the A20 if no Germans actually get in a fighter and try to deal with me.
Besides i normally get 100+ kills and 7000 + XP with only infantry and capping as well.
Same with tank, I hardly ever get wiped by bombs, maybe once per match. But I don’t run the usual routes, I make spawn points with engineers and I don’t run like a lemming with my team to my death.
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I would like to see a nuclear bomb as well, remember the first was used in ww2 so I think it makes sense. the bombs rn are pretty weak
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Give it to the jumbo, as a shell type.
Nuclear bomb HE: 58
Or give the Long Tom nuclear arty shells 
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Once per match is prety often!
You think it much per se or think plane bombs need nerfs? Unless one is camping it’s bound to happens. Someone might mark my hidden spawn beacon for aircraft or the like.
I think once per match is not “hardly ever”! 
My impression was that people complain about being bombed all the time. If it’s ones a match… Like I don’t even…
If the enemy team is actively bombing, I probably die to bombs 5-6 times a match in invasion on average, sometimes even more. Definitely not fun as it currently is.