I am currently grinding France and am soon getting rank IV. The last plane I acquired was the P-63C-5, and I gotta admit I’l really confused about it. I usually get way more kills with 3.0 vg-33 and d520 than with my p63 despite it being 4.0 and having better speed, maneuverability and armament.
Something I noticed as well is, while my others planes (V.G.33C-1, D.520, VB.10-02,…) tank bullets very well, this new plane seems to get sliced like a paper plane as soon as it gets hit.
What am I doing wrong?
Edit: I forgot to mention, I usually play Arcade 4.0
p-63 has non-self-sealing IIRC wing fuel tanks that are prone to fire so that’s probably something to watch out for, btw this is an issue with a lot of American aircraft (in general)
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oh that’s why it goes on fire so easily… that explains a lot. Well I guess I gotta get used to it (or play sturdier planes)
I was spading this exact plane in the USA tree yesterday and it was awful. But the P-63A-10 was even worse experience…
Just try to third party some kills and maybe hover around the AI plane spawn if possible and kill those for huge and easy RP.
Just never try to dogfight obviously.
Also some boom n zooming works fine but its hard to get high altitude in the first place to have enough energy to be able to do that.
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also the P-63’s engine and propeller shaft make for an humongous hitbox that will probably result in your engine destroyed to anything that hits center of mass
P-63 has good low-altitude speed and even turnrate. Issue with it comes from the armament, which is 900 rounds of .50 cal with bad belts and awkward placement. If it had six .50 it would be a good 4.0 as it’s easily 35+ KPH faster than nearly every other non-American plane at low altitudes, while having turnrate that can keep up with Bf 109 down low for short periods. But the armament kills the plane.
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