I have the P-51 H 5 and i would like to offer a contrary opinion. The turn time is alright, nothing brilliant. The guns are a little underpowered, only 6 50 cals doesn’t do so well against all metal fighters. At any higher br, it would consistently face jets against which it would absolutely suffer. There are many planes that are competitive with it at the same br, and it isn’t incredible in any way. Also, at the end of the day people from all nations are gonna say that they suffer. I could write about Russian bias, but for the sake of my and everyone else’s mental health, im gonna shut up
Interesting, I assumed the Yak3U’s engine basically stopped working above 4k alt (seems like most yaks share the same high altitude performance deficiency). I guess the Yak3U escapes that drawback, I really need to get it and fly it.
Perhaps, but I’d rather have one plane suffer instead of a whole BR range getting dunked on, decompression can only be achieved by raising BR’s not lowering them (although i’m sure Gaijin will find ways to lower the BR’s of the Ayit or the f104 again someday.)
With the current state of aircraft guns, .50 cals absolutely dominate with tracer belts, they’re the only guns that deal consistent damage. Fly any canon equipped spitfire and then fly any P51 and you will see the difference I guarantee it.
Please don’t, there’s no such thing.
Is that a new change? Water/ methanol injection was historically, and last I checked, in game time limited.
I think the “Yak-X and La-X are low altitude fighters” is over done a bit. Most of the fighters in this game that I have encountered and flown have engine performance biased towards low altitude.
The power production on the Super 'Stang is better between 1000-2000m and 5000 to 6500m… but all that’s doing is chipping away at the Yak-3U’s substantial power-to-weight advantage, until the Mustang can eek out a little P:W advantage above 6500m. Without WEP, the Mustang has no chance. Similar story with the Yak-3 vs. the P-51D-10 - the Mustang eeks out a slight advantage over 5500m.
In fact, I played a match just this morning in the Yak-3 where I started off by dunking on a Bf-109 G-2 in a fight that started at 4600m or so.
Iirc there’s some bug that allows some planes to have unlimited injection.
They do if we’re going to scrutinize them.
Go spade it, then fly it for 10 matches then come back here.
Okay to discuss the topic at hand; the P51H DOES deserve to go up in BR (and so does a myriad of other planes.) Playing it was entertaining even when I was grinding modifications on it I didn’t find myself on the backfoot hoping for a miracle. Jets are different but even then it was manageable.
Playing against it? Different story, my most recent one is going against SEVEN of them in a single match in the French F8F-1B. Annoying and nerve-wracking to say the least.
Though I don’t mind the La-9 going to 5.7 though, it’s really mid at everything it does.
Easier to write nonsense to boost their ego. Notice how they never replied when I slowly pieced appart their terrible posts? How curious :^)
I would cry.
I disagree, I think it should stay at 6.0 even if its mid because lowering it means 5.0’s and lower might see it and it would be a complete menace
The La-9 is a La-7 with a cleaner airframe (less drag equals +30kph top speed), 4x NS-23 with worse ballistics + ammo pool and worse MER. This is not worth a bump in 1.3 br and you could argue that the La-7 should be 5.0 like the La-7 B-20 but this range has plenty examples of gaijin’s choice of balancing flight performance vs firepower. Stuff like Ki-84 ko → Ki-84 hei, N1K1-Ja → N1K2s. Or you have things that are at a lower or equal BR but with performance and armament that is better than the La-9 in almost every way.
I agree that gaijin has this obsession with firepower that borders on insanity sometimes, one example I like to use is the J7W1, like why is that poor thing so high, it’s only good in headons, that’s it.
Honestly I wouldn’t mind if the LA9 went down, but as things stand I also don’t mind its current BR. I’m also far too lazy to make a BR change proposition in the official thread lol
i want whatever youre smoking if you think the mk8 meteors are good and in a good spot
They are good planes though, in a proper dogfight they can take the advantage (yes i know dogfights in ARB aren’t common). And yeah, the matchmaker made them irrelevant but you can still hold your own and take down 3-4 guys before the sabre/mig15 swarm eats you up.
Anyway please stay on topic, thanks.
You aren’t educated enough (in general on WT) to make this sort of claim, but you also haven’t flown russian planes (pretty much at all) so you’re double ignorant of what you claim.
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This is pretty much all wrong, full stop.
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Is there something wrong with Caern? Feels like he’s just here to ragebait people.
Used to be a reasonable forum user who I could agree with and disagree with normally but in the past few weeks or maybe a bit longer it’s just been ragebait or at the very least him making statements that are clearly wrong with little backup.
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believe it or not LA-9 is at 6.0, so you’d think its the better plane all around
If he’s trying to ragebait he’s doing a piss poor job, he’s just mildly annoying.
That’s all ragebaiting boils down to. People just seeking attention at the detriment of other’s peace.
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Yeah, I assumed so to, yet I remember how it somehow outperformed my D-13 at 7km
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Another ragebait attempt from someone who never even flew em.
Yak-3 is a 1944 fighter, of course it’s going to be good.
Its BR is about correct. Just look at Spitfires and Zeroes as well.