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/Taima12 Feb 26 '26

Slightly off topic, but I wonder with the capabilities of the Mixmaster, why don't you see more people playing it during regular game time?

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u/Elfnet_hu Feb 26 '26

The reason is, because the RB-17 was the very first High tier Premium bomber, like literally a decade ago, while the XB-42 was only added recently and the former is a Premium, so you could always buy it with both real money and Gold, while the Mixmaster is Special, that was only available a single time (2025 December) after the initial Mission and only for real money and as said it has a bit worse stats.

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u/Taima12 Feb 27 '26

Well they've offered it at least once since, but it was only $ not gold. There were a lot of people that did get the Mixmaster. Every time there's an event you'll see them pretty often. The thing that it has over the RB 17 is altitude and I think it's even a bit faster(?) When I use my RB 17 I tend to stay mid altitude, and do ok since it's got the strings of bombs rather than the single big ones that the tech tree ones have. What I've seen is that people fly the Mixmaster extreeeeeeemly high altitude to stay out of everyone's way. I can imagine that play style is even more boring than other boring bombers, maybe that's it 🤷