You can’t underestimate it, because if you think it’s one of the worst fighters in the game, you’d be 100% correct in thinking so.
If someone loses to a F4F it’s not because they underestimated the plane, it’s because they’re a drastically worse player than the F4F player is.
S-199 foaming in the mouth rn.
The thing is there since it can turn decent-ish and at that br ppls either play the p39 or the f4u so there isn’t really statistics to balance it. It also doesn’t help that some of it irl advantage doesn’t translate well ig and are just there as dead weight for the plane.
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Weight. Consider->More weight can lead to wings potentially stressed marks=bending.
Sakeen is pretty damn good, 'least in AB from what I have heard.
More guns is always good in AB
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I was actually flying it yesterday.
Managed to get a turret kill.
It is agonising.
F4F-4 has a 15:90s turn time.
Ki-27 has a 8:52s turn time.
It doesn’t even turn well.
The P-39N can keep up with it in a dogfight, and turnfighting is what the P-39N is least good at.
Except, Gaijin increased it’s BR from 2.7 to 3.0 at some point. I guess there has to be some degree of stats available for it.
Rudder turn stats.
Also the KI-27 is garbage, you must be the bullet.
True turn stats*
- Better climb rate than a 5.7 BF 109 G-10, 5.0 Spitfire Mk XVI, 6.0 F2G Corsair or 6.0 N1K2-J, all whilst the Ki-27 sits at 2.0.
- Outturns the majority of biplanes and virtually any monoplane in the entire game.
- Still does 426 km/h on the deck, meaning it can out-run any biplanes it can’t outturn with ease.
There’s a reason why people get 20 - 1 K/D ratios in the thing, it’s playing the game on easy-mode with how horrendously overpowered it is.
This is also why I rank it at S-Tier for low tier props:
For further info, just look up DEFYN’s video on it.
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Fair enough, but because that thing is broken and has a janky flightmodel, doesn’t mean the wildcat is shit.
Wildcat has good turn time, great firepower, lots of ammo, dives well, has armour.
If I was gonna do anything other than just turn, I would take the Wildcat.
Arf, what a bullshit rates ^^"
Not gonna lie,… when i see every Bf-109E at B rank, i laughed hard…
The F3F-2 being A rank also is questionnable,…(B rank to me)
Same with Spitfire Mk2b,…(should be B, if not A but it’s clearly better than C)
P-40E is as good as F4F’s it retains energy worse, and is not good in every sector of flight model.
At least F4F can dive well, while retainning good controls. I prefers P-36’s out the heavier P-40,…
The Ki-44 being A rank is questionnable (B rank to me)
I also think A6M2 is underrated, as it won’t fight as well on Speed, it remains nearly untouchable in turnfights,…
And P-39N being S-rank? It’s really fun to see, but NGL the 37mm isn’t accurate at all, in such the P-39N is only good at catching bombers.
Because BF 109F-1 > BF 109E-1 > BF 109E-3
18.0 m/s climb rate and 404 km/h on the deck for a biplane at 1.3 that can out-turn Chaika’s is absolutely insane.
I get the feeling you’re not knowledge about these aircraft, and hence your confusion regarding my rankings. I’d suggest to fly these aircraft out before claiming my rankings don’t make sense.
Spitfire Mk IIb is just a Spitfire Mk1a with worse flight performance and a 0.7 BR increase.
I don’t need 20mm cannons to get kills, it’s just a straight downgrade from the 3.0 Spitfire Mk 1a.
You could only make such an obviously incorrect statement if you don’t have an idea what the two planes are like. Again, I suggest testing/flying them out before critiquing my rankings.
Buffed 12.7’s behave as if it’s got 4x 20mm cannons, it’s got one of the highest climb rates of any single engine prop fighter in the game, decent top speed, turn performance equal to a Spitfire.
Yet you question my placement at A-Tier?
583 km/h on the deck, literally untouchable.
18.8 m/s climb rate, ludicrous low speed energy generation, great flaps, in short: Watch DEFYN’s video on it.
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Though its 1.7 in AB…
Except for the premium which is 1.3 in AB.
Explains why I enjoy seal clubbing with the Ki-27 so much :3
'K boy,… i’m playing since may 2013,… i used those aircrafts a lot back then, i still do sometimes to see why people so wrong, and as usual it came back to me that most statements are wrong.
But if you feel true to your gameplay, then why not,… maybe i’m built different and uses aircrafts very differently than you do.
A JP plane that can turn well? Color me surprised, might as well compare it to bi-plane.
It does if you keep your speed up, again this plane play style isn’t pure turn fighting, it’s a jack of all trades, turnfight with some plane and energy fight with others, same thing for the F6Fs. That why i said it has a high skill celling.
Comparing fine wine to dog water, P-39N is pretty undertiered even at 3.0 imo.
Almost like the only one who plays this plane are ppls whom are big fan of the plane or are skilled, newer players usually goes for better options at that br for US which i remind you are plenty. Another example of skill based balancing being rubbish.
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Is ARB still sharing br with GRB?
The other person claimed the F4F-4 turns well, I then showed an aircraft that actually turns well.
And if you take issue with me using the Ki-27, here’s a couple others to compare it with:
- Spitfire Mk 1a: 12:60s
- CW-21: 12:20s
- Ki-44-II: 14:40s
- A6M3 Mod. 22: 11:92s
- I-16 Type 18: 13:19s
- Yak-1B: 14:96s
- F4F-4: 15:90s
In an F4F-4? Haha.
That actually made me laugh out loud, thank you.
Let’s say that, for the sake of argument, the BF 109E-1 were at Battle Rating 5.7.
Would you then say: ‘‘It’s not bad, it’s just got a high skill ceiling’’?
If you don’t want to call the F4F bad, then nothing in this game is. Which is absurd because obviously there are good and bad vehicles.
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