B-11 Strikeforce Appreciation & Discussion Thread

[Up2NoGood45]

Another reason people with a functioning brain do not play in public lobbies.  

[GLTh3Pr0]

4 minutes ago, LegendaryAce 73 said:

And risk pissing off (kids with their parents credit cards) loyal customers of Rockstar?

<Edited because I'm unfamiliar with strikethrough on the forum.>

They already did when they made the Oppressor MK II's explosive cannon useless (out of all the troll moves they made in the last few years, this is the best).

[Deracho]

2 hours ago, TheBricktop said:

but now that it's buffed it's definitely viable.

so, let's count them down

good: 

-savage, akula, nightshark (forgot about this one)

bad: 

-bombushka, molotok, chernobog

 

it's 50/50 afaik

 

isn't APC russian as well?

the akula is only russian in game. its based on the american comanche. and the savage is american in game eve tho the hind is russian irl so pick one not the other.

[Thomas The Dank Engine]

[TheBricktop]

2 hours ago, Gaffa said:

But the cannon doesn't need a buff, it's fine.

 

Freemode will be ruined otherwise. 

 

 

/s

yet dumbass Reddit community thinks it's ok 

[Commche]

I do appreciate the irony of them giving everyone a free nightshark on the same day they release this hunk of scrap. As if to say "Boy, an A-10 would be perfect for dealing with these fast, heavily armored cars! Here's our knockoff version that's worse at wrecking them. 

[—TheSquid—]

I’ve been playing around with this for a couple minutes now. I didn’t realize there are thirty homing missiles. So let’s go over this again:

 

-It’s slow as sh*t

-The gun is slow as sh*t

-The gun is a pea shooter

-Limited homing missile capacity

-Takes a fair amount of rockets

 

How was this well balanced again? I’d say the armor meant something, but with how slow this is NO ONE in the right mind would use it to get across the map. So it’s not a functional transport, it’s not a functional weapon against ground units, and it’s not a functional weapon against air units. f*ck your balancing. I’ve complained a bunch, but it’s like new things keep popping up. This isn’t worthy of a spot in my hangar. It’s an impostor. 

 

It’s been said before, but I think it’s important to say again for potential buyers. Everything this POS does, the Hunter does better. It has bombs. It has a barrage. It has an explosive cannon, albeit passenger operated. It’s got armor and flares. It is significantly faster. 

Edited August 7, 2018 by —TheSquid—

[RyuNova]

5 hours ago, RyuNova said:

Would people be happy if the Strikeforce got unique Armour Piercing ammo on its gun instead of explosive?

It passes through any vehicle it is fired at and kills anyone it hits in one shot. Imagine the fun that could be had if you could BRRRT people out of their vehicles and not have to pay Insurance.

 

Or "BBBRRRRT" some fool out of his Jet before he can EWO.

[Stupidis]

I think this gets some undeserved hate. Managed to kill two players on foot in one strafe. As well as some bounty speeding in a car easily. Although in the best of worlds the hydra/lazer gun would switch places with the B-11s.

[Yellow Dog with Cone]

Not only this thing has an explosive pea shooter as a cannon, it also has limited Homing Missiles and some cops with pistols can make it smoke.

 

Ironically enough, this seems to be good for dogfights.

 

It's like if R* operates on opposite day for f*cks sake.

 

If there was a plane worthy of a meme cannon, it's this one.

 

You had one job R*

[RUFF_inthejungle]

Looks great and sounds better but wow the gun is just pathetic. Running missions and unloading the gun on npc choppers and SUVs just bounces them around with the first few direct hits, destroying them only by the 3rd or so. Limited homing missiles make the barrage the only consistent, reliable weapon. Flies smoothly and slowly enough to line up some good passes but when all you're shooting is spitballs, what's even the point? Rogue is an infinitely better attacker, with unlimited homing missiles and guns that can actually destroy things! Why barrage from pass to pass when one can just sit there with a Hunter and and carpet the area endlessly? There's no reason to buy this aside from A-10 enthusiasm as almost any other aircraft can do the job better - I found I can get almost as many kills per mission soloing the Bombushka's bombs as I do exercising the B-11's impotence. Major disappointment for such an iconic combat aircraft but at least it flies nice. PFFFFFT away, my friends.

[SHOKKERZ91]

I personally killed alot of ground targets. The problems are armored ground vehicles. A kanjahli i was fighting was able to tank a sh*tload of hits from the cannon. If only the firerate where higher...

Divebombing is very effective tho, i shoot a barrage first and then make my target ragdoll with the cannon, just in case i don´t hit my target with the barrage. The ragdoll gives me enough time to go into another divebomb.

So i say, buff the firerate. Buff, buff, buff!

[Smooth Longsack]

B-11 is my new life for a while. This thing is awesome. I'm getting back on target super fast. You can stay a bit higher on your divebomb runs because the barrage has a farther effective range than the lazer cannons. The cannon is mean on cars and such but worthless against players on foot. It doesn't react well to explosions in the tail but you're going to survive. This plane shows  great forethought on the part of R. 

[Geisterfaust]

20 minutes ago, —TheSquid— said:

It’s been said before, but I think it’s important to say again for potential buyers. Everything this POS does, the Hunter does better. It has bombs. It has a barrage. It has an explosive cannon, albeit passenger operated. It’s got armor and flares. It is significantly faster. 

Or even Rogue for 1.4 mil. 2 seats, unlimited missiles, same explosive cannon and bombs. I'm still puzzled what's wrong with this thing. 

[GTAlover5]

What a waste of money

[TheBricktop]

idk what are you guys all about, my b11 works quite well :x

 

on a serious note, this is not a bad plane, but it is a TERRIBLE warthog.

[Yellow Dog with Cone]

It's like if R* said "alright, let's nerf the jets!" but started with the wrong ones first while the Hydra and Lazer remain as OP as always.

[AsphaltTrench]

This is now my go-to vehicle when going after freemode events. I do regret buying it for 3.8m in it's current state, but it's still a fun vehicle to fly around and kill players with.

[SHOKKERZ91]

Oh, and to clear things up, i don´t want the cannon to be op like the lazer/hydra ones. I don´t care about the damage and the explosion radius. I only think the firerate should be higher, for armored ground vehicles.

[SkylineGTRFreak]

3 minutes ago, Voodoo-Hendrix said:

It's like if R* said "alright, let's nerf the jets!" but started with the wrong ones first while the Hydra and Lazer remain as OP as always.

That is my main problem. If it wasn't for those 2 jets it would be perfectly fine, but seeing as they have twin cannons with a Lot better explosive damage.... well yea.

 

 

Edit: that being said, I'm slowly getting a hang of it and use its potential more and more. Defo a good defense against Deluxos as well.

Edited August 7, 2018 by SkylineGTRFreak

[Deracho]

 

[—TheSquid—]

^This. Why do they selectively screw up vehicles? Was this to save them a few minutes of actually thinking about how to balance this thing? I feel like the next jet they add will have a cannon that works perfectly fine, but they won’t fix this garbage heap. 

 

It’s like the handling flags and downforce. They just threw it on some cars, messed around with it a bit and moved on. Didn’t balance the other cars. Didn’t do away with it. They just ruined a batch of cars. This won’t be fixed. I know it won’t because they’ll just completely destroy the whole game by going back and changing the rate of fire or something as simple as that, obviously. It’s not laziness at all. 

[Garland137]

The only conclusion I can come to is that none of the R* staff still working on GTA actually play their game.  Or understand why people request certain things.  An A-10 that sucks at ground strafing?  Seriously?  It's like adding an exact likeness of Christina Hendricks to the Vanilla Unicorn and then making her flat as a pancake.   Utterly pointless.

 

The B-11 should have had the Hydra cannon at mininum.  It doesn't have VTOL, so it still wouldn't be as OP as that thing.  In my ideal GTA, the B-11 would be the only vehicle with cannons that powerful.  That's the whole point of that aircraft.  The others can make do with lesser guns because they can compensate with different missiles/bombs or handling since they fulfill different roles.

[Deracho]

26 minutes ago, Stupidis said:

I think this gets some undeserved hate. Managed to kill two players on foot in one strafe. As well as some bounty speeding in a car easily. Although in the best of worlds the hydra/lazer gun would switch places with the B-11s.

They were probably low level. Im 590 so my health is maxed I got hit repeatedly by its canon and still forced him out of the air with explosive shotgun rounds

4 minutes ago, —TheSquid— said:

^This. Why do they selectively screw up vehicles? Was this to save them a few minutes of actually thinking about how to balance this thing? I feel like the next jet they add will have a cannon that works perfectly fine, but they won’t fix this garbage heap. 

 

It’s like the handling flags and downforce. They just threw it on some cars, messed around with it a bit and moved on. Didn’t balance the other cars. Didn’t do away with it. They just ruined a batch of cars. This won’t be fixed. I know it won’t because they’ll just completely destroy the whole game by going back and changing the rate of fire or something as simple as that, obviously. It’s not laziness at all. 

This reminds me of when they release the bombshuka. And no one knew it was trash till it can out. Then the avenger was everything it should have been

[Cutter De Blanc]

Seems to be a lot of "buyer beware" from this one. To find out the homing missiles are limited on it though makes it an instant pass for me.

[LegendaryAce 73]

Two of my friends tested out the cannon. On a level 300+ player, one direct shot from the PFFT cannon takes 1/4 of your health away...

 

I'm sticking to my Rogue. At least that can kill people!

Edited August 7, 2018 by LegendaryAce 73

[andyyapi]

Regardless of firepower, it still looks amazing

 

[Mattoropael]

49 minutes ago, Cutter De Blanc said:

Seems to be a lot of "buyer beware" from this one. To find out the homing missiles are limited on it though makes it an instant pass for me.

It's honestly not that big of a deal other than "WTF Rockstar".

 

Nobody was going to use it much to begin with.

Edited August 7, 2018 by Mattoropael

[Cutter De Blanc]

Let me rephrase. At 3.8 million dollars, to find out the homing missiles on it are limited even though they aren't on any other aircraft except the Thruster makes it an instant pass for me

[Geisterfaust]

14 minutes ago, Mattoropael said:

Nobody was going to use it much to begin with.

Useful in dogfighting to force the pilot of a plane with inferior turn radius to turn, trying to evade the missiles while burning him with the cannon.