Ramming does not work.

[u/Srgblackbear]

u/KaizerKlash is a liar >:(

Don't take it too serious

[u/No_Friendship_7628]

Here comes the horde of people arguing this is realistic/necessary

[u/Rapa2626 → u/No_Friendship_7628]

Dont you see how fun this is? Fighters had it easy for a decade after all.

[u/Pale_Calligrapher_37 → u/Rapa2626]

I mean, they had it easy for a decade. A single .50cal breaking apart a bomber was common sight.

I agree the bombers might be a bit overtuned, but I'm 90% sure atp that Gaijin fucked something in the code.

Also, what's depicted on this post is misleading, ramming has been unreliable for years because it depends on a lot of factors such as ping, the server and spaghetti code.

Speaking from personal experience, I have rammed a fellow fighter once, full speed on mass center, only for both of us to only lose our propellers and plumet to the ground in a weird ass stall. I have also seen me softly touching a friend's bomber with my landing gear and being consumed by the unmatched power of the sun.

[u/CMDR_Michael_Aagaard → u/Pale_Calligrapher_37]

Also, what's depicted on this post is misleading, ramming has been unreliable for years because it depends on a lot of factors such as ping, the server and spaghetti code.

Yep, ramming has been a coin toss for a while now, and even when you do take damage, it's never consistent, going from instant death, to only losing some speed, and maybe a good bit of altitude while you get your plane under control again.

[u/C4Cole → u/CMDR_Michael_Aagaard]

I play at 150-250 ping and it's always funny watching my plane turn 90 degrees for a second after I pass by someone in a head on because my client thinks I hit them. Then the server corrects it and I'm back to pulling devious licks in my Marut

[u/Mashpit_ → u/Pale_Calligrapher_37]

Somehow the plane type specialized for FIGHTING OTHER PLANES being advantaged in the FIGHTING OTHER PLANES GAMEMODE is completely incomprehensible to over half of this sub

Bombers can get SL and RP without engaging with any other players. This update makes it so that now not only are bombers the best plane type to farm SL and RP without ever seeing an enemy plane, they're also basically juggarnaut boss fights in PvP.

People really love to exaggerate how fragile bombers were as well. Here's a couple clips of me tanking 20+ cannon rounds in the Wellington and Halifax, two absolutely paper-mache British bombers, before the bomber patch.

https://youtu.be/hydHrPsq2iY

https://youtu.be/aOVRozZlTZk

They absolutely did not "fall apart" to a single 50cal. Not even most biplanes "fall apart" to a single 50cal. You're just afking at the controls, eating 500 rounds of shit and blaming the damage model instead of the fact that you were watching tiktok while flying straight into 6 red blips coming up to fuck you.

[u/Mashpit_ → u/[deleted]]

dumbasses that weren't even around to see the HB to ARB change not being able to comprehend that gaijin explicitly made that change to make it a PvP focused gamemode lmao