I’ve experimented a little, the nerfs overall were needed, pulling 17Gs at mach 1.5 was fun, but a bit silly.
Now what I really liked about the EF which doesn’t really affect it’s combat ability but was just fun, was it’s flight model/maneuverability at low speed with real controls, U used to be able to do backflips, spin out doing 200 RPM and other fun aerobatics.
Heres a little example of the fun maneuvers it could pull:
https://medal.tv/games/war-thunder/clips/jUjVvs2W2e78ViG-S?invite=cr-MSxaOXUsMzA2NjI1NTg
And heres me trying to replicate these with the new FM:
https://medal.tv/games/war-thunder/clips/jUjd8lMxmh3pNXvhS?invite=cr-MSx3QmosMzA2NjI1NTg
Now the thing just SLAMS back even if you try to attempt a simple cobra. No matter what limits u turn off and how manual you make the controls, the flight model is very much on rails and just feels boring. Will this flight model change stay or might it be a bug? To my knowledge it wasn’t like this in the dev server, although I didn’t test it myself.
I really miss the full control u had over the plane, even tho it was “arcadeish” it was just fun and u didn’t really benefit from it in a combat scenario.