
unfortunately that makes sense so instead the me163 will go down to 5.3 next patch, also fuck you :^)
he-100 is still 1.7 so there is precedent lol
The BI is one of the aircraft in game that never should have really been added at all.
If you’re buns with ammo conservation, fuel conservation, speed management, and positioning; you’re feeding someone else’s kill counter and bringing statistics down.
If you’re at least some what adequate with any of the previous topics, you’re hell on Earth to the enemy team, and only overwhelming enemy superior or luck can kill you. In my honest opinion, it’s a very gimmicky aircraft.
If you (the BI) are going against aircraft that know what they’re doing, you can’t really do much. It compresses at 720kph and it’s an easy target when compressed, go figure.
But against players that don’t know what they’re doing? Of course the BI will win. It’s the ultimate skill check.
If you brought it to 7.0, it wouldn’t do very well because even players in jets that don’t really know what they’re doing and their idea of evading is to run away defeats the BI (again, compression speed and top speed). It would be relegated to the unenviable playstyle of 3rd partying in most instances. If you brought it down to 6.3, first off why, and second off it would do too well because of the constant downtiers to 5.3 (poor bastards).
Against jets, it’s a rat plane for 3rd partiers because elsewise the BI can’t catch up to any of the jets it’d face (even the coughing baby He-162 is faster than it). It really never should have been added, and that’s coming from someone who has it.
But because people have wasted time (or more likely, money), maybe as a way to balance it, they make it realistic in the same way that a realistic Me 163 would fly. It would have two options: 100% (on) or 0% (off) and any damage to fuel tanks will cause total loss of the aircraft/pilot due to the incredibly damaging nature of their fuel.
But again, it’s one of the aircraft that never should have been added because of the pendulum. It’s either too lethal in a downtier or too reliant in an uptier.
At 7.0 it’s still unkillable and can roflstomp people during climb phase. It would not be weak. It’s a team game, and BI denies the enemy team any chance of dogfighting or energy climbing. You either stay fast or you die.
The whole game mode of Squadron Battles at this BR revolves around BI being OP.
Big money are circulating there so no one is going to disrupt a goose laying golden eggs.
Yet another reason the warthunder esports scene is taken seriously by literally no one.
