Now that Gaijin has fixed its high speed rudder where it immediately goes sh#!t mode the moment you go past 450 km/h IAS, it eats anything in a down tier and can go pound for pound in an uptier, with its only drawback being US pilots gimping its WR%. Obviously it deserves to go back in the 5.0 range or should it go higher than it? (Thinking of 5.3)
I took it out on 5 matches today and only died once from ground pounding. Had a KBP of 3.5+ with it.
There has been no change to the F8F’s rudder’s ability of control at high speeds.
The sharpness to that changed.
F8F-1 (all variants) — a bug that caused a sharp loss of rudder efficiency at high speeds has been fixed.
Congrats, sir! You just made a mistake!
I literally played the aircraft prior to making the post. The rudder impact is still there, and still prevents nose on shots at high speeds.
Congrats on making your mistake.
So are you trying to make a ‘Gaijin is lying on their patch note’ claim?
No matter new rudder change is marginal or not
It is true that Gaijin ‘changed’ it.
You claimed that ‘it never happened at all’.
It’s a more gradual loss now, as said in the post you replied to.
That is exactly what the changelog says, yes. Either way it’s a big change and the Bearcat is much more dangerous now.
You can actually aim at high speed now, even with the compression, unlike before where the rudder did nothing at all.
I really wish we could freely switch between FM versions in free flights, so we could just make comparison videos.
It did it even before the change. The BR should be closer to 6.0 because it is almost as good as a P-51H at the deck in terms of engine performance.
Before after example.
Naaah… I can’t wait to see F8F-1 go down to 4.3BR as long as I see all those bearcats just go ground digging or initiate low-speed turnfights against Zeros. :/
Major Skill issues in the American team, which made F8F get buffed, will make them buffed even further.
I did 3 matches in the A6M5 Ko, fought F8F’s and they were pure poo poo. Still remember using the Yak 3 VK107 and encountering two 3-man squads that used the F8F in conjunction with other meta planes, I’ve never seen a team get swept so fast that wasn’t in Top Tier. Edit: my team not theirs
Game gave me a talisman on it when I was already Rank 6 on the American TT, but I still love playing the F8F.