Low-tier American bombers suddenly absorbing fires, cannon bursts and repeated fighter attacks creates a radically different experience from the fragile aircraft described from before the update. Starting with the unaffected TBD establishes a useful baseline before the B-18 begins demonstrating the new damage model, surviving situations the creator clearly expects to be fatal. That contrast makes the update immediately visible without requiring statistics or lengthy explanation.
The strongest stretch comes through the early and mid-tier bombers, where the PBYs, PBM, B-34, B-25 and B-26 increasingly behave less like vulnerable bombing platforms and more like improvised gunships. Fighters that would ordinarily be treated as threats are actively hunted, defensive gunners score kills, and fires repeatedly fail to bring aircraft down quickly. The creator's disbelief gives these encounters plenty of energy, although individual matches cannot establish exactly how much survivability has increased across the game.
Moving into the B-17 family provides some of the clearest demonstrations of the change. The aircraft withstand substantial punishment while their defensive guns remain dangerous enough to punish attackers, and the badly damaged PB4Y flight is particularly effective because the plane retains meaningful control despite being riddled with damage and burning. Importantly, the presentation does not pretend bombers have become invincible: pilot snipes, dead crew, damaged engines and the creator's own mistakes still end runs.
The B-29 section also illustrates why increased durability can change more than raw survivability. Instead of simply rushing toward a bombing objective, the creator escorts other bombers and deliberately engages approaching fighters, turning what had been portrayed as a passive grind into a surprisingly active team role. The humor and excitement work well here because they emerge directly from how differently these large aircraft can now be played.
Not every aircraft benefits equally, and the later progression makes that limitation clear. The B-57 still has the fundamental problem of lacking conventional defensive guns, while the B-52's single defensive weapon can be neutralized by a jam. Once the progression reaches faster jet aircraft such as the F-105D and the later strike aircraft, the creator reports that the modeling changes are much less noticeable because powerful guns and missiles can still destroy them quickly.
That distinction keeps the central argument more credible than the deliberately exaggerated "broken" framing initially suggests. The creator ultimately describes the biggest conventional bombers as exceptionally durable while acknowledging that jet-tier changes are comparatively modest and that the F-15E is included largely because it occupies the same progression line rather than because it demonstrates the bomber overhaul. The suggestion that there is "at least a 50% chance" of a future nerf is clearly playful speculation rather than evidence about what Gaijin will actually do.
As a full-line experiment, the presentation succeeds because it repeatedly puts the claimed survivability changes into combat rather than merely discussing patch behavior. Its rapid progression, jokes and escalating encounters make what could have become a repetitive sequence entertaining, though the lack of controlled before-and-after testing prevents the footage from measuring precisely how dramatic the changes really are. What it demonstrates convincingly within its own matches is a transformed play experience for many propeller bombers, not proof that every aircraft in the line has become equally overpowered.
Pros
- Repeated combat encounters provide tangible demonstrations of dramatically increased bomber survivability.
- Progressing from low-tier propeller aircraft into jets reveals that the apparent benefits vary substantially across the line.
- Pilot snipes, crew losses, weapon jams and other failures prevent the presentation from implying that bombers are literally indestructible.
- Energetic commentary makes the long aircraft-by-aircraft progression entertaining.
Cons
- The "broken" framing is stronger than the evidence supports because there is no controlled comparison of damage models before and after the update.
- Similar cycles of absorbing attacks and returning defensive fire become repetitive across the large number of bombers.
- Some aircraft receive relatively little examination before the progression moves onward.
- The F-15E contributes little to evaluating the bomber survivability changes at the center of the video.
The progression makes a persuasive experiential case that large propeller bombers have become far more enjoyable and formidable in the creator's matches, while sensibly showing that the transformation becomes much less dramatic at jet tiers. Entertaining combat and genuine surprise carry the lengthy lineup, even if more systematic comparisons would have made the claims about just how "broken" these aircraft have become considerably stronger.
