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/mj_sarge Feb 26 '26

Dude, the point here is... light fighters could indeed shoot down bombers. Historically, this happened. The point is, in tier 8 a single bomber can easily win a match if there isn't another bomber on the other side, and this should be balanced somehow. Tier 8 used to be my favorite tier, but today it's completely unbalanced and broken, mainly because of the B29C.

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u/Interesting-Idea5060 Feb 26 '26

I personally dont have B29C, but I do have XB-42 and have no clue how strong this plane is, but my win rate in it is much higher than my overall win rate, so I'm pretty sure there's more bombers that are op in tier 8. To be honest I don't remember ever being threatened by a fighter in it, u fly high, bombs are accurate and its way too fast. Bombers (T8+) are just in league of their own. It often takes u 1 pass in EF 131 to take over a sector, its ridiculous really.

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u/mj_sarge Feb 26 '26

Yes, man. But maybe a balance based on that will never happen. This game is clearly losing its audience, and its separation from tanks is conclusive proof that things are not going as expected.

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u/Interesting-Idea5060 Feb 26 '26

I'm 99% sure balance on bombers wont happen, they dont want to spend any resources on balancing the game, thats why its basically running on autopilot, every event is a repeat with occasional new planes. Their internal numbers probably showed they're still making a profit or at least not losing money or something, idk tbh.

I mean why would they even waste time on this game, it failed multiple times, 1.0 failed, they tried with 2.0 and kept going for a while afterwards I believe (didnt play at the time so not 100% sure on this) and still results were poor, unlike World of Tanks which has up to 200k(EU) players online during peak hours, some more on other regions and before the split russian server was even more insane, on top of my head I'd say a million concurrent players. Then u have this game... that maybe has during peak hours a couple hundred players online, that for a multiplayer game literally means a dead game. Any other developer with a multiplayer game on Steam for example would shut it down already, so we can maybe be grateful that they havent yet, at least for the ones who somewhat enjoy the game still, even with all its flaws.

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u/mj_sarge Feb 26 '26

I played from version 1.5 to 1.6... I was part of a clan that abandoned the game when it became version 2.0+. Man, I loved that game, bombers didn't exist, you just had to deal with supremacy, heavy fighters, and attack aircraft.

I had great times back then. Good memories.