the f4d is too overpowered for the current BR it sits at. It roughly has 9.3 performance and yet it sits at 9.0. It’s such a small difference in numbers but it affects everything. There is just not a single bad thing about the skyray. It’s fast, it has nose authority, it has good speed retention past 850 ias, it turns, it has four 20mm and four aim9b’s.
So has less fire power and is slower to that of something like the Scimitar at 8.7?
Sounds more like it needs to move down in BR not up
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the scimitar is a brick compared to the f4d and the 30mm are slow and despawn 700m away. If this is your kind of argument then the Pulkzerstörer has to go to top tier alongside the Duck for having a 50mm and a 75mm cannon respectively.
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Its tends to run out of fuel quite a lot, has an extremely small ammo capacity, has no countermeasures, loses its speed in any turn at any speed below Mach .85, is subsonic (wouldn’t be), and has horrible low speed turning capability.
Being fast and having good acceleration with 4 mediocre missiles is its only gimmick.
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One last thing, it’s legit a triangle, you’re not gonna keep 850 IAS in a turn lmao
Dorito to the Max
It’s just a compressed BR range, this thing has no business facing F8U-2s
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definetly one of the best planes I’ve ever played in WT for its BR, but I wouldn’t call it OP. It gets dunked on pretty much every supersonic outside of F-104, and its high speed compression makes dodging it super easy.
If you’re at low speeds, you can outturn pretty much everything (including Ariete I think lol) however its low speed acelleration is awful and leaves you completely defenseless against any 3rd party.
I bring upon thee: Hunter, Super Mystere, F11F, G.91Y, CL-13B and F-86F-40.
I guess it is stupid that the F4D turns like a sheet of paper, but it also losing speed like a sheet of paper makes up for it.
The armament is pretty typical anyway. The 20mms just have minimal trigger time though.
Funny thing is, 9.0 gets downtiered to 8.0 like 95% of the time in my recent experience. You’d be hella unlucky to see a F-104.
lol
F-4D is alright, it’s no where close to OP though.
Mig-17PF for example can deal with it.
After the wingrip fix, the F4D is very comparable to the MiG-21F13. It just trades a bit of top speed for two extra missiles and slightly better dogfight performance. I think both are fine at the same BR of 9.3
I eat F4D-1 for breafast in F-86F40 (as i eat F-104A/C, with same aircraft)
I did that lately, a whole day of playing Japan to make money, and i got most mission with 3 to 5 kills.
The F4D-1 is indeed having some strong points in it’s Flight model but it is not Stronger than anyone.
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Point aside:
You’re still creating threads on things that are not problematic?
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Btw:
False, it despawn at 1.4km away