Bwo, please
just reverse the damn boat, put it out of its misery
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Won’t agree or disagree but a big weakness of twin engine stuff in my experience is the roll rate is terrible. Just keep rolling and they can’t really follow.
mans delusional beyond belief.
It climbs well but not that well, and it struggles to do anything bar go in a straight line
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I was always told the Hornet in game is actually underperforming to what it should be able to do tbh.
for only 43 battles, it’s quite surprising u say skill issue when i dominate J7W1 in 19 battles and made 38 kills (3/4 per match) while u only did 18 kills (0/1 per match).
just Boom & Zoom, it isn’t that hard🙏
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Eh I think it’s ok, I can shoot stuff down with it and they can shoot me down without issue.
I don’t remember much about fighting hornets but from what I can they aren’t anything special
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it’s an air defense fighter, it’s literally a “boom & zoomer”.
it’s made to be exageratly good using the boom & zoom technique.
lol I know it’s good for its BR, and so is Ki-83.
Its climb rate isn’t the 2nd best. It’s good, but it’s not as good as P-51H5NA or said Ki-83.
Hornet’s climb rate is just… above average.
I see we’re being extra reasonable today
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The Hornets climb rate and speed are outstanding
It’s achilles heel is the thing is a complete flying brick
Isnt this just a fast mosquito at 6.0?
It’s objectively not, and it’s bad for balance that it gets an absurdly high airspawn for some reason. I personally would have zero issues with it if it’s airspawn wasn’t so high.
Speaking from a Sim perspective the Hornet is one of the best aircraft in prop tiers and it’s arguably still underperforming especially where manoeuvrability is concerned… it turns and rolls like a boat.
That being said if you keep it fast it’s untouchable as it should be. As Eric Brown said “it’s beautifully overpowered”, “Like the Ferrari of the sky”, “With one prop feathered it could loop with the best single fighters”.
It’s not “overpowered”. It’s just that good… in fact comparing it to what we have in game it should probably be even better.
Extremely overtiered so this is a bad example
Eh not really, it’s got a fairly average turn rate, only excels with full flaps down
Could go down a bit, but it would be a fish out of water without an airspawn
never nerf the hornet
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Could? It must.
All other air defense aircrafts have 1km airspawn while this thing has 2km by no reason. What’s the difference between all other air defense aircrafts and the Hornet that the Hornet has a better airspawn, cuz i’m pretty sure that (if comparing it with other air defense aircrafts, which aren’t too many) the Hornet is probably the best of them, so in fact it should get the same airspawn, not a better one.
Not really. J7W1 is a hard plane to master cuz it’s worse than a P-47 when it’s flying slow, and also being a single-engine + relatively heavy affects the acceleration.
Ofc if u’re flying at 670kph it turns like an I-15, but that speed gets drained in seconds if u turn too much and it’s hard to regain that speed if u don’t Boom N’ Zoom.
Also not to mention: J7W1 was designed as an “interceptor”, and it isn’t an “interceptor” ingame.
The Hornet currently been assigned with a CLmax of only 1.0, one of the lowest in the prop and it is even lower than most of low aspect ratio swept back wing 2nd Gen Jet. Which had caused the aircraft to be very bad at turning — the aircraft is extremely nerfed at the very beginning of its flight model.
This figure cannot be true, a normal CLmax for Hornet should be somewhere betweeen 1.2 - 1.4 as we see on other props. Yet the low lift may also cause this aircraft to have low induced drag in turning, which helps its energy retention. I would suggest the airplane’s flight model to be fixed before subject to a possible BR change.
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Hornet is crippled since Leviathans patch with fuel starvation for its engines unless they fixed it in the most recent patch. Otherwise yeah its one of those planes that is borderline untouchable but also isn’t the best at fighting alone.