War Thunder?

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, they modified the damage model, stuff falls apart much easier now.  Except for Russian planes.

[Alcibiades]

I warned you guys about the Russian planes on page one. 

[Malicious Intent]

In 1.29, most russian stuff worked OK. It was mainly the low tiered planes that behaved like UFOs or were just overpowered for their tier (I-15, Chaika, SU-2, Ishak).

1.31 reintroduced some old broken FMs for some soviet planes, most prominetly the LA-5, which in addition is now even two tiers lower than before. 

The developers are allegedly aware of the problems and fixes are incoming.

[Malicious Intent]

And a fun little fact:

There are two teams working on flight and damage models. A russian team for soviet panes and an international team for the rest. Until recently there was no communication between those two. 

[Razgovory]

So the stats of the planes you see in the hangers, about airspeed, turning radius, climb etc... are those accurate in any way?

[CountDeMoney]

The game's officially unplayable now.  Those of you who have bailed already are not missing a thing anymore.

[Syt]

The game's officially unplayable now. 

How so?

[CountDeMoney]

Damage model is totally wrecked now.*   P-47s fall apart like Zeros.

*Except, of course, for Russian planes.

[Razgovory]

Yeah, I noticed.  One blast from the 20mm on a Yak will take down most everything.  World of Warplanes will enter Open Beta in July, so we might be able to get our fix there.


But, hey we had some fun didn't we?

[CountDeMoney]

Uninstalling this weekend.  Enough is enough.  The favoritism to Russian aircraft isn't merely imbalance, it's obnoxiousness.  Yeah, the IL-2 was badass but it wasn't a dogfighter, and has no business outmaneuvering a P-51 Mustang, FW-190 or a Spitfire IX.  C'mon.

And I'm not going to even mention how insulting the damage model is regarding Wildcats and Thunderbolts, some of the hardiest airframes ever built.

LOLZ PLAY TEH HISTORICAL BATTULS, says Lettow.  Sure, if anybody would even queue up for it at all.

And they refuse to fix the economic model.  Yay, I have 12 million Bonus XP so I can level up (using gold to do it, no less) and see even more planes I can't afford with the shitty credit model.  Charging gold to level up using bonus XP is worse than paying interest on credit cards.  And it makes no sense to spend all that gold and credits to level up to the next aircraft frame, which in many cases is only mildly different than the last.

One day maybe there will be some companies out there that aren't Russian making these combat video games.

[Razgovory]

Currently the most OP plane is now... the Beaufighter.  The economy model is really bad.   I dislike the crew XP as well.  You'd have to grind 8 hours a day for six years to get all the gunners on B-25 up to snuff.

World of Warplanes is having a beta.  Haven't joined it yet.

[CountDeMoney]

Currently the most OP plane is now... the Beaufighter. 

The 410 is just as bad.  Instapopper.

[Alcibiades]

Yup, I logged some solid hours into the game but I quit at the end of February.   Got up to level 15 in the Americans and 12 in the soviets and it was just so ridiculous that I didn't want to play any more.


Hopefully world of planes will be better but :russki:

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, finally uninstalled.  Wake me up when somebody west of the Elbe decides to create an aerial combat game.

[Razgovory]

They've added tanks to the game now.  Actually they've changed a lot of things, I started playing again last winter.  The IL2 is no longer the world's best dogfighter.  So far you can only play Soviet and German tanks and it's kind of buggy.  Sometimes I'll fire my cannon at someone and won't see any report but will get points for hitting them.  One time it said I killed a teammate before I had even fired my gun.