I just picked up the XP-50 cause how many people both praised and hated its godly performance… and so far, its been a pain in the ass to use. Yeah its climbrate and airspawn is nice and you can easily rack up altitude and energy… but i have found it pretty hard to use it effectively as it compresses a lot at 550+ km/h and slight turns can cause a blackout, though thats just bad crew skills.
Anyways, i have heard basic things with it like boom and zoom, conserve ammo, good energy retention, whatever, but am wondering how to use it more effectively.
always have energy advantage, come from above!
(exception: some heavies with painful dorsal armament like the Pe-8 or the BV whale, attack their soft belly by coming from below)
Boom and Zoom, but mind your compression, use more shallow angles than you might be used to, and be prepared to cut throttle!
use your fantastic climb speed to energy trap other fighters
you are faster and have a better climb rate than most planes. Some you cannot outclimb, but outrun, some you cannot outrun but outclimb. Know what to do in defense should you have baddies incoming!
Mind your ammo, once the cannon rounds are used up, you are on 2x 50 cals, which is about the armament of a BR 2.0 fighter, so you are pretty much useless. RTB and rearm while you still can!
each tiny damage cripples your style! RTB while you still can!
be the hero of the team in the late game when the final enemy is searched and found in near earth orbit, you can get there!
DONTs:
dont get into an extended vertical dive, you will compress irrecoverably and splat.
don’t fight when outnumbered
don’t turnfight extendedly anything smaller than a bomber. You can be outturned by a P-47 or a B7A2!
don’t groundpound without need, what a waste of your climb rate!
Just as starters!
Also: wings rip at 745 kph, combat flaps rip at 465 kph