Fixing Bombers In 2024

The snail recently solicited some feedback from content creators to consider for their upcoming quality of life roadmap in 2024. I wanted to submit something that nobody else was talking about (or at least, few were talking about) so I submitted a shorter version of my proposal from 2022 on how to fix bomber gameplay in War Thunder.

[TimsVariety]

Looks like the QOL suggestion form is now live and public, you can submit your own ideas here:

[ryanweintraub]

Gaijin be like, "Very well put together, well articulated, and well thought out. No."

[Loudward__]

What’s really sad is that the community has become so frustrated that they have thought out and created some really great ideas on how we could fix gamemodes. Fully fleshed out and planned, but they rarely listen. I hope they listen this time.

[jeremyfisher]

I wish war thunder would take steps to prevent teamkilling, stuff like "Assist counts as kill" once you hit a certain amount of damage, plus more bomb targets.

[tristandaries]

One thing I always thought could be fun is if teammates that have already died can man the gunners while you fly, and then you split the rewards between the pilot and the gunner

[MegamiIriasu]

Gaijin tries really hard to make Air RB become a fighter only mode, it's already one at top tier

[TheDoubleace]

Reviving bomber population would be also mean giving the 'interceptors' actually the targets that they can 'intercept' using their great climb performance. So yeah, I really like all your suggestions.

-from a former WT player who played bombers quite a bit

[ImmortalSugimoto]

More modern bombers also allows more modern interceptors. It's hard for them to add MiG-25, a truly iconic aircraft that should be added, into the game because it doesn't fit into the meta at all.

Adding more modern bombers fixes that aspect as well

[phreakedout]

One of the main reasons, in my opinion, that the player base is 'allergic to teamwork' because they rightly recognize the real enemy is the grind, not the other team. The snail should really consider creating either new game modes or other incentives to encourage actual team play.

[StrayGuard]

I really like the idea of the adition of strategic bomber as a category but it should not stop there, it would be really beneficial for this category if gaijin added objectives for strategic bombers that required huge amounts of bombs to be destroyed like some big factory complexes with indiviual buildings that could be destroyed and not the generic hp based bases that we have right now.

[House_of_Schmidt]

We desperately need revisions to Air RB. The current 16 vs 16 nightmare just isn't working. Some form of an Air RB EC would really be nice.

[rowanp]

I love bombers, even though I mostly play fighters.
The whole reason I started playing WarThunder was it's "combined arms" self label. Just another fighter vs fighter arcade game would have lost my attention immediately. The more variety that's added, the better the game will get, I think.

[AudioPayload]

Call me old but all these cut throat only fighter aircraft allowed people get me frustrated since playing same mode same battles endlessly drives me insane!

I just want variety of game modes it’ll be fun for everyone involved make it more thought out and tactical instead of smashing aircraft together like action toys.

Thank you Tim for your suggestions to the snail! :)

[ijfouse]

Thanks for looking out for us bomber players. I play on console, use a controller, been doing that for 25 years now don't want to bother with m&k. Going out in a bomber hitting bases and returning is about all I can manage in a plane. And grinding the Lancaster III with JU288s taking every base on the map as I wait to die to a FW109 was not fun

[AirsoftFaction]

Add back Enduring Confrontation. Fixes most the issues entirely with RB TDM.

[GameOverZaza]

As a bomber player really thanks man. I appreciate that we have a voice represent us and bring new ideas.

[Voekov]

Love your content, Tim. I'm an ex-wt player, I used to play this in the time period between air beta and the addition of ground units. Your non-elitist and broad coverage of all things air reminds me of my original enthusiasm for this game. Thanks.

[StrayGuard]

It would be also really good if gaijin made the winning conditions and the rewards dependant on objectives completed instead of tickets so if there were objectives that required specific types of planes to be completed every plane would feel like it has a place and no one could make coments about bombers and attackers dragging the team down.

[sanfully]

One of the things that I have wanted most that I think would benefit vehicles of all types would be changing objectives. For example, control points and bomb bases that become available after ones before them are taken/destroyed.

[vincentbreidinger]

Thank fuck someone cared about bombers. I love playing bombers all the time and playing them are fun but I get all my bases taken or I get tked. I hope this goes through and at least one of these changes get made. Thanks for talking about this Tim. Great vid!