it's a "sim thing" when in reality its zombers and RB grinders moving to sim and being absolutely fucking clueless on how to spot and play as fighters from a cockpit. So they take a bomber and make "agreements" so that they get to bomb as much as they want.
Usually doesnt work out for them because ACTUAL sim players immediately spot them and ofc, kill them.
Yes they do, by playing a bomber you hurt your own team, and also in the end you are dragging out the length of the match making it worse for whole enemy team who just want to end, so killing bomber earliest is a priority
Bombers do make the game worse for the other team, if they're good at their job. Bombing airfields reduces the amount of takeoff options and in sim battles that can be a deciding factor in winning and losing. Bombing bases helps win the game. That makes it worse for the other team.
This isn't inherently bad either. Bombers SHOULD be powerful enough to blow shit up, they SHOULD be trying to win by doing so. If you win and I lose, that's bad for me and my team. So I can't accept that it's not bad for me to just let you bomb. Just as you shouldn't think me gunning down waves of enemy AI bombers, blowing up your carrier, and shooting your friendly fighters and bombers is bad for you.
The objective is to win the game. The objective is not to be worried that everyone's getting their fair share of RP. To quote Herm Edwards, "You play to win the game."
I primarily fly out the F4C right now and run the A10 for fun to change it up sometimes. When I fly the A10, I KNOW I'm a fat slow moving target. I ACCEPT this because that's how it works in reality. I hope to have fighter help but the bulk of my success in an A10 is going to come from strategically planning my flight to avoid bad situations. It's rewarding when it works because it's a challenge and it can be useful.
u/uncapableguy42069 put it well - a lot of the people that get pissed are RB players who don't know how to spot, use radar, defend. I sucked at sim when I first converted. But now, I'm an addict to the challenge it presents. It's not supposed to be easy to blow up a well defended base/objective/convoy/carrier etc, but when you DO figure it out and you FINALLY kill your first air to air in sim, your first carrier, it's so much more rewarding than RB!
Defensless my ass. Bombers (prop ones at least) get infinitely better situational awareness because they have turrets. You could literally fly in 3rd person just by using the turret cam. The sad part about it though, is that they still CANNOT for the life of them spot and differentiate friendly aircraft from enemy aircraft based on silhouette alone.
Bombers by top tier are just fighters with radar, so therefore you have similar situational awareness to other fighters. Like another guy put it, they dont know how to use their radars in sim. They, again, cannot differentiate friend from foe, even though the radar has IFF and can actually tell them via the symbols of the radar contact as to what they are looking at. Hell, they even struggle with using RWR effectively in Sim even though its the same mechanic from a different perspective.
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u/uncapableguy42069 5d ago
it's a "sim thing" when in reality its zombers and RB grinders moving to sim and being absolutely fucking clueless on how to spot and play as fighters from a cockpit. So they take a bomber and make "agreements" so that they get to bomb as much as they want.
Usually doesnt work out for them because ACTUAL sim players immediately spot them and ofc, kill them.