

#BOMBER CREW TIPS REDDIT PATCH#
It’s knowing when you can afford to pull someone out of a gun turret and send them to patch up a pal.


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It’s knowing exactly when you’ll have five free seconds to aim and drop your bombs. I have a theory that, like cooking, the secret of a successful Bomber Crew mission is timing. There’s little attempt to model realistic physics or flight models and the miniature map of Europe exists to get you into the action as soon as possible, meaning you can cross the channel in a heartbeat and be eating flak before breakfast. Cadet Uhura and Cadet McCoy, with Chen or. In that case, you can go with high level Cadet or Next Gen combinations. But of course, especially as a new player, it's more likely not to have Epic or even Rare officers. Its cartoonish style and bubble-headed bombardiers remind you that this is in no way a simulation, even if there is a reasonably authentic representation of damage and a plane's interconnected systems. Pike and Moreau are the core, but the 3rd member of your crew can be either Chen or T'Laan depending on the enemies you are facing. A self-sealing fuel tank is a gift from god.Īs you might’ve gathered from my opening anecdote, Bomber Crew also refuses to take itself too seriously, even while it’s finding new ways to blast me out the air. Many missions offer critical advantages, such as temporarily reducing enemy damage or flak intensity, meaning it’s wise to tackle them in a particular order, and I’ve learned that practical aircraft upgrades are better than just adding more guns. When things have gone horribly wrong, I’ve often found myself all too aware of what I could’ve done either better or differently. Though many of my first missions have been a bit of a mess, Bomber Crew has scaled its difficulty gradually. Thankfully, it doesn’t feel cruel all the time.

Your attention is a resource that's always in demand, and getting the most out of each crew member throughout the flight is really difficult. A few, such as setting a new course or tagging a bandit for your gunners, require you to briefly focus the camera on a target and, as you might’ve guessed, the precious seconds you lose focusing the camera in the middle of a frantic firefight prevent you from doing anything else. This will give you more practice at flying and gunning simultaneously, can help your team win by putting surprise pressure on fighters that will not expect to be gunshipped by an aggressive bomber, can net you some kills, and prevents you from being the sort of boring person who space climbs and wastes everyone's time.Almost every task, whether that’s arming a bomb or sending a crew member to a new station, demands little more than the press of a button. Once your bombs are off, go be a heavy fighter. Throwing in even a little bit of roll to weave back and forth makes you harder to hit from kilometers out, forcing opponents to come further into your gun range in order to go for the kill. You want to set up keyboard bindings for your flight controls, turn off autopilot, and fly the plane manually while gunning. Leaving the autopilot setting enabled makes you an easy target for long range snipes. Do not rely on the AI gunners, and do not use autopilot while gunning. Learn to shoot accurately, use short bursts until you've ranged your target in. Once you've got them in a tail chase, you should be manually aiming your guns. Use speed to your advantage, you're not fast in the absolute sense, but most fighters that are climbing will be doing around 250-300kph IAS, which means that you can have a temporary speed advantage over them, and force them to tail chase you if they want to kill you. Remember that the longer the match goes on, the less your initial altitude advantage helps you. Pick a path that does not take you directly over opponents, but forces them to turn in the horizontal if they want to come after you. In general, climb early on, but once you can see opposing fighters, stop climbing and start accelerating. Don't fly directly above opposing fighters, they will pull up to take stall shots as you pass.
