New 'Realistic' Airfields | War Thunder

AIRFIELDS HAVE BEEN UPDATED AGAIN:

The new airfields added in update "Firebirds" come with a "feature" that you won't know about until its too late...

Previous Video on Airfields:

Music:
Firefly in a Fairytale by Gareth Coker (Veritasium Theme)

[CatWerfer]

AIRFIELDS HAVE BEEN UPDATED AGAIN:

This video is NOT a complaint, it is an informational video, just like my previous one.
If you always land with your landing gear then congratulations, this doesn't affect you.

I had documented the strange one-way slipperiness of the airfield in my previous video, and after I found out, I got used to doing high speed belly landings since if you did them carefully, you could completely avoid damage on your aircraft, letting you J out and take off very quickly.
I don't really care all that much about larping and I just thought it was interesting that the devs had left in a feature that let you minimize the amount of time doing boring stuff like landing and increase the amount of time spent actually playing the game, especially when games can end so quickly with ticket bleed.
I'm not too upset about the fact that I have to land with gear now, but I'm preemptively preparing myself for the frustration of dying on landing a lot more often when I'm nursing a damaged plane back to base.

The stuff said within this comment is my own personal opinion though, which is why I left it out of the actual video.
Feel free to comment about how you didn't read any of this and how extending your gear gets you hard.

[KekusMagnus]

The game should incentivize you to not belly-land every time, maybe the repair should be significantly shorter if you land properly?
Making belly landings next to impossible just isn't it though. This is probably an oversight

[TheKevinFanClub]

How do we know this is not a bug. Almost every major updates come with a game breaking bug. There was last time planes sink into the runway, thus no one can take-off.

[Charlie-fkly]

Not gonna lie, there was situation I had before where I had to maintain 600kph cause my F3H2 lost its wing. I managed to land it at such speeds and live to continue the fight, with that kind of runway, it looks like such miracles are no longer possible.

[ac-VO]

I’ve always heard that the best landing is one you can walk away from. I understand for game balance but belly landings are viable emergency measures.

[Rickardo]

Yeah I always thought that the obvious solution to belly landings were to just make the repair time longer for doing so, because this just makes landing a damaged aircraft next to impossible, which I think is a shame, you should be rewarded for skillfully bringing down a limping aircraft. I feel like this has got to be a bug of some sort, some problem with the surface material or geometry rather than a feature, if it was a feature surly they would have said something about it.

[peepsbates]

Wow, Gaijin updated runways by making all planes suffer from what is almost the old Me-163/Ki-200 landing bug, lmao.

[Jathax]

As an avid user of the belly landing mechanic, I'd rather they essentially remove the repair/rearm time if you're not damaged and land smoothly, or increase repair time for a belly landing to make it not worthwhile doing anymore. Reward the butter-smooth landing pilots.

[federationprime]

So gaijin once again improved a feature by breaking it. Very cool.

The feature in question is belly landing at all, though maybe I'm wrong and the "bounce aircraft into the air randomly" and "instaexplode" effects vanish below the speed that an individual model of aircraft can handle.

[MD_Walker_Bulldog]

The amount of people saying "land normally" or "use your landing gear" seem to miss the part where you said "expect to die more often when limping back in an already damaged aircraft"

I feel these people who are praising this are going to end up loathing this because their severely damaged aircraft they managed to limp back to the airfield is going to explode the second they try to touch down

[cola-warthunder]

How tf is this more realistic.
Aircraft don't just explode immediately on belly landings IRL.

[dutch]

Which is why carriers should be brought to more battles (and they should be fixed lol)

Some navy planes do NOT have the proper brakes for anything but a stalled out landing, whether that's accurate or not I'm not sure but I've found myself overshooting runways in the A-4 after landing at the start at just 280kph, it's genuinely better to enter full real and pitch up till you tailslam once you're slow enough, to airbrake.

[timbrwolf]

Most planes even today are specifically built to perform belly landings as a last resort for gear failure. The aircraft is strengthened underneath to reduce damage to protect both aircraft and occupants. As this is not only limited to combat aircraft. Civilian aircraft are also built with emergency belly landings in mind. Older aircraft even specifically left the retracted gear exposed. So as to add some cushion for gear up landings.

[bliboblob]

I see one case where this can cause problems for "normal players" that actually land their planes when able and not purposefuly do controlled crashes.
That would be when coming back from a battle after having lost control surfaces or parts of a wing, which would force you to land at extreme speeds because otherwise the plane is uncontrollable (and too fast to use your gears).

[danielkaiselgruber]

Perfect, so now when your landing gear gets shot out from your belly, you can't even limp back to base and land!

[RobbieRR]

I still don't understand what's so special about forcefully landing at such high speed. Like, just slow down and belly land at proper landing speed, or land normally. Only reason I'd ever see for a belly landing to be justified, is if you took damage in the fight and lost your gear

[AmelpsXett]

if you really need to belly land you can use the dirt on the side of the asphalt track

[Doberman]

Found this out the hard way last night. I belly landed my F-4E, so I could J out and take off faster. Instead I touched down, sparked, bounced, and by the time I stopped my fuselage was red. So I had to sit for the repair time anyway..

[geronimo]

Im fine with runways not being an easy belly landing all the time. I rather we have that realism. However I do not like the long standing problem of how easily an aircraft explodes bouncing all over the place. Basic phyics should still apply and would interesting for the risk of explosion involved.

[lintytuff]

I've already seen this happen in a couple matches. The runways also feel a lot more skittish when taking off too.

I saw a couple guys taking off normally and they just tripped and blew up. Idk if their tail striked the ground or something.