None of the vampires should sit at 8.0 and here is why;
Thrust to weight is absolutely abysmal at 0.34. For reference 262-A1a sits at 0.37 at 7.0, and that aircraft is known for it’s poor straight line acceleration.
More competant aircraft around 8.0 (MiG-15, F86A, etc.) usually produce about 0.4-0.5 TWR .
In practice this means you quite literally take TWICE the time to accelerate let’s say from 200-800kmh. Here is a visualizing graph I made using StatShark:
The blue line is the vampire, and for the sake of the argument I added a couple of 7.3 fighters. But as you can see the vampire severely lacks behind thruout the whole speed range.
And from this we can move on to the top speed which is around 840kmh at sea level, making it quite literally one of worst fighters at it’s br in this aspect aswell. This often correlates to a very frusrating playstyle where you can’t essentially catch or keep up with anyone around your BR bracket, not to mention making it practially impossible to disengage on your terms.
From here we can move on to the firepower. As of the latest shell damage patch, alot of guns have been much more consistent, unfortunately the hispano MK.5s really didn’t get to enjoy this too much as the core problem with the weapon is not the HE shell, but the lack of it.
Using the air targets belt provide you with only 40% HE shells, and with stealth that’s pumped up to 50%, and in pratice this of then gives you around 50% of your hits doing pretty much no damage.
The outlier here is the swedish A28, which actually carries different weapons, and thing such as K/D ratio is clearly better than any of the other models in global statistics, since that model has an exellent belt with consistent damage.
Now only arguement I could ever think of to justify for an 8.0 is vampire is the good manouverbility, but even this is flawed, here is why:
Around this battle rating of mid tier jets or so, energy starts to outweight manouvering in most situations. If you lose your speed in anything else than an isolated dogfight, you are essentially a sitting duck, with no ability to evade to play defensive effectively, soon trapped getting boom and zoomed.
This makes the vampires “strength” already flawed by design at 8.0. It’s not 3.7 anymore where you can sealclub new players who turn with your zero every game. If you face a decent player EVEN in something like an F2H (A 7.3 MIND YOU) he will actually clap you every time, since there is no way to play offensive if he knows how to play around your weakness.
So the expectation to succeed in 8.0 is that your enemy has no idea how to play the game??? Being so slow with a weak engine quite literally leaves you playing from a defesive posture in most fights and if you want to win these fights the expection is for your enemy to enter a one or two circle fights like instead of playing for any sort of energy.
Quite frankly I don’t even think this jet would be very good at 7.7, but reudcing it any lower than that would start to face it against props more often, which might not be good overall.
I’d really want to hear does anyone disagree with this and if so, why?
