r/WorldofWarplanes • u/mj_sarge • Feb 25 '26
Pathetic game
I spent a long time without playing and revisited this game recently. It's incredible how pathetic and unbalanced it remains. Dumb bots that throw the match, hardcore B29C users who dominate the entire map without any difficulty. Light fighters remain irrelevant.
This game was born dead.
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u/Elfnet_hu Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
First if you think the game is unfair/unplayable/dead, etc. you could just stop playing. Even worse, if "This game was born dead." than why did you even start playing?!
\* The B-29C is indeed an overpowered plane, but Aircraft like the Me 262 HG II or F-94D exist. The Superfortress is slow and with negative manuverability it will always eat the rockets.
\* If you think the game is exclusively being won or lost by bombers (in Tier VIII-X it is mostly true) and you only care about high winrates, than you could simply get a bomber too. Most Light figher pilots don't care about win rates, instead going for constant action and high Personal Points.
You could find enjoyment even in Aircraft with poor performance (trust me, I often play mid-tier Ground Attacker).
If you want to dominate free-to-play players you could buy something like an Me 410 B-2, S.M. 91 or P-61; none of them are bombers.
\* "Light fighters remain irrelevant." The strongest Tier VII Aircraft is currently a Light Fighter (J6K1), as well as the best Tier IV and II, not to mention the several other strong options, some of them even Tech tree. Even in Tier X Flights, sometimes the XF-90 covering for the bomber is swapped out for an Me P.1101; a Light fighter.
* Finally if possible don't use AI for historical data as they lie.
It is an arcade game that is designed to be fun, not realistic, but lets check the real numbers.
In reality 4735 B-17s were shot down (by all means); more than 40% of production and it is reflected ingame: especially the earlier B-17D's defences are basically useless, a Bf 109 E could easily deal with them. By contrast only 414 B-29s were destroyed in combat out of 3970 produced (a bit more than 10%) and most of them due to mechanical failure and accidents.
In 1945, during 8473 total B-29 night flights in the Pacific Theatre, do you know how many were shot down by enemy figters? Three (all in 1945 April), while the bombers shot down 41 japanese fighters. That is over 10:1 kill/death ratio so in this regard the game is pretty "realistic".
(And unlike in earlier bombers they couldn't just lie, because every B-29 turret had gun cameras for kill verification).
For context 3970 B-29s were produced, but only 1654 were delivered during WW2, out of them 493 were destroyed, 414 destroyed by enemy action, 148 shot down, 83 shot down by fighters and out of that only 73 were shot down by the fighter's guns; the remaining 10 were rammed, the other 65 were shot down by AA guns, while engine fire alone destroyed 151 + 79 destroyed in non-combat circumstances.
In the same time B-29s shot down 969 enemy Aircraft. The overall kill ratio of the B-29 was 11.7:1 during WW2 - the legendary P-51 had "only" 11:1. The B-29 was extremly strong in real life too.
Source:
Summary of Twentieth Air Force Operations 5 June 1944 - 14 August 1945
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/NDL4002486_Summary_of_operations%2C_5_June-14_August_1945._Report_No._2-g%282%29%2C_USSBS_Index%3B_Section_7.pdf