Hello friends,
I finished my little test today.
And yes, Germany has to get rid of at least 50% of the current nerfs.
Why did I come to this conclusion?
Since it’s usually the American mains who scream the most that it’s not the airplane that makes them so great and it’s just the Germans’ lack of skills, I decided to try out the US Tech tree.
And yes, the planes are just way too OP.
From Rank I to Rank III there is almost no aircraft that is not superior to the German aircraft.
What caught my attention?:
1.: Aiming and hitting the enemy.
It is very easy to hit opponents. Like shooting with a shotgun. Some bullet will hit. And most of the time it hits the engine and the opponent has to make sure that he makes it back to the airfield, if at all.
2.: Speed and climb rate:
These two things are also superior to the German aircraft. Which means that you can easily withdraw from a situation. If you have grazed the enemy beforehand and of course, how could it be otherwise, his engine is smoking, you usually have a kill.
3: Range of projectiles and excessive penetration at a distance:
You see a bomber, you fly behind it, its gunner fires, but the bullets don’t reach you… You fire, hit, and its engine smokes… Likewise, you do that 2 or 3 times and the bomber goes down…
4.: Flight behavior:
I had already reported that the oh-so-great BF 109 F4 suddenly experienced wing stalls (over 300 km/h), which caused the aircraft to spin. Of course, this happens in dogfights, which usually means death.
I have not seen this behavior in any of the American aircraft.
Sit down and fly headlessly is the motto here.
5.: Acceleration and elasticity:
In the German planes, you have the feeling that the propeller produces negative thrust. If I had to estimate, around 20 to 30%.
This can be observed at all airfields that are higher than 400 m above sea level. The Bf 109 in particular has great difficulty taking off there.
I couldn’t see that with the American planes.
6.: Engine durability and overheating behavior:
Engine durability:
What can I say?
It’s a joke…
If you overheat your engine, it will cool down and all will be well.
If you fly in a German airplane for more than 15 minutes with 97% throttle, the oil indicator suddenly turns yellow, and you have to take your foot off the accelerator… And the engine no longer recovers.
Your engine is hit and is yellow…
You can easily fly further in a US plane. Continue for a very long time. Which makes a difference, especially in combat situations.
In a German aircraft (even an FW 190, which was specifically known for being combat-ready in the event of such hits), you have to get back to the airfield as quickly as possible. And with a lot of luck, you can do it.
Overheating:
WEP was invented by the British, but never adopted on aircraft. The Germans took up the idea and put it on the planes.
WEP supplies the engine with a cooling fluid mixture that contains, among other things, water.
The aircraft were able to fly continuously on WEP for 30 minutes. Why only 30 minutes? Because then the tank for WEP was empty, not because the engine overheated…
In WEP situations (i.e. in direct combat) they even closed the radiators to be even faster… And the engine stayed cool…
But here, 10 seconds WEP and your engine is deep red…
In a US plane, strangely enough, you can fly on WEP for ages, even though as far as I know they didn’t have WEP…
Funnily enough, I was accused of only flying the “Seal clappers” of the US planes…
Hmm, which plane isn’t one?
The P39, yes…
BR 3.0…
It’s like flying a ME 262 on BR 5.0…
You can also shoot a bomber with the 37 mm cannon from 2 km away without any problems… With a single hit…
P-51C-10…
708 km/h on BR 4.0…
Yeah… Why not just another F16 on BR 7.0???
Not 2, not 3, NO!!!, 6, six! .50 cal…
You really don’t need to aim to hit.
P-51 (The “Cannon Stang”)
The Hispanos were supposed to be the worst weapons in the game. They were actually extremely terrible in real life…
But… one glancing shot and your opponent is history.
In the FW 190 you can often hit 5 times and all you get is another hit…
Not in the P-51… glancing shot… kill
And here too… the range is abnormal.
What I’ve noticed in the last few weeks with the German aircraft is the extremely poor performance of the 20mm’s
It looks like up to 50% of the bullets fired don’t exist. The ammunition display goes down, but the bullets are not modeled.
In addition, 3 or 4 hits should actually be enough to render an aircraft unflyable. But no… 1 hit, 2 hits, 3 hits… not even a crit…
Everything together… Germany suffers! A lot!!!
But we don’t need a buff…
Just let 50% of the nerfs disappear.
That should be doable, since I’m not even talking about a nerf of the others.
Thanks for reading, and always keep 2 m of air under your wings!
