A few days ago, in the regarding complaint threads over at il2sturmovik.com, common sense of well respected long-term members became that there is indeed something wrong with AP ammo in IL-2 GB.
Furthermore, Jason's post from December, stating that they'd look at the DM and ammo issues "later" was always used as proof for dev awareness of the issue and that they'd eventually be fighting it.
People were asked to file a properly formatted bug report in the regarding forum section...
Then the devs sent out their cohorts, merged many complaint threads until everything was just one big mess.
Jason replied on Facebook that there is no issue:
We have addressed the .50s and all of our weapons several times over the years. We don't ignore anything and our years of work prove it, but if you're rude about it we will ignore you. The .50s are not nerfed they just aren't to your liking. We are focused on other tasks at the moment. Right now my engineers are focused on new planes and fuel systems. I do not have a large team that can work on multiple revisions of old features endlessly and new features at the same time. And after we updated the weapons last time MANY more users are happier than they were before the update so not everyone shares your opinion.
Now
QB.Shallot, a "Founder" of this game having pre-purchased lots of it's modules and stuff, makes
this perfectly reasonable bug report:
And
this is what the game's lead developer replies:
In other words: Fuck off! We couldn't care less for your fucking complaints.
The devs really seem to believe that 1.4 grams of PETN in a 13mm round would
regularly cause fatal damage of 300mm diameter to aircraft skins, and they truly can't distinguish .303 from .50 holes and last but not least, they completely ignore the fact that such an AP round will either travel
through the airplane, causing a much bigger
exit wound or - alternatively - spend their pretty significant kinetic energy on vital structures and/or equipment
inside the aircraft, causing catastrophic damage within.
They don't give a flying fuck.
And that means: Nothing's gonna change.
IL-2 Great Battles will stay a fuckfest for wannabe Hartmanns.
The devs fell in love with that crowd.
Mike