Meh, not really. The F8F-1 was super overhyped. They’re very easy to shoot down in a Bf 109 G-2 or Typhoon.
The P-61 is only dangerous cause it faces noobs that don’t know how to fight it.
P-47? Undertiered? 😂
This is the only plane that you can really argue should move up, but it’s literally in 5/10 tech trees. It’s not exactly helping your case that U.S. planes are too powerful, especially overall.
In each case, the moment my rounds actually hit the enemy - it bursts into flames. It’s not even a long burst - you can see it in the F4 and Ju388 case where my nose is wobbly and I’m just spraying.
This isn’t even the late-war .50s, so it’s not performing to the level of a F4U-4.
Why do you insist on using naked incendiary rounds?
API/API-T is able to penetrate and kill the pilot, wreck the engine AND ignite whatever it touches.
.50 cals, as demonstrated in the above examples, performs quite well if you shoot the fuselage. The P-51C has probably the “worst” firepower too, to boot - only 4 guns, no late-war belts.
Incendiary rounds are just destined to forever underperform.
They only are useful for being able to light things on fire compared to AP but are otherwise useless.
In a belt with API, having AP over Incendiary would be a straight upgrade since API already has the benefits of incendiary while AP can deal additional kinetic damage.
Not to mention how pathetic cannon tracer or practice shells are damage compare to smaller caliber AP rounds.
they cant even do that though. their fragment distance is too low
to light a fire the round needs to damage something flammable eg. engine or fuel tank
while 0.50 cal incendiary rounds fragment distance is so low they can only damage the planes skin
Buddy, if you are SOMEHOW struggling against the F8F-1 of all planes, then that is just simply skill issue. There’s nothing more to it, you’re just bad at flying.