Only for the Type 5 30 mm.
The Ho-155 uses AP rounds which, due to the velocity and weight nerfs, penetrate about the same amount of armor as the old practice rounds.
The outcome for the Ho-155 is simply that it got nerfed massively. It is now far slower (700 m/s instead of 920 m/s), the rounds lose velocity faster (less weight, same drag coefficient), they deal less damage (decreased TNT equivalent) and deal damage less reliably (one of the 2 HE rounds has a fuse that doesnt explode on plane skin).
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Yeah, at 10km. An altitude where nobody ever goes. At low alt, the P-51A is faster than the J6K.
And saying it has 6 cannons and 2 HMGs isn’t much of a point, 4x20mm is already overkill unless you’re facing 288s every match. Having that much firepower is just an unnecessary weight increase.
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6 cannons and 2 HMGs are far more firepower than 4 20mm’s. No one is stupid enough to fly into a head-on with the J6K. Nor is anyone going to attempt a Turnfight since their likely bound to lose since they are by all means faster which is a disadvantage for something slower. This only leaves BNZ as a priority option however this still is relatively limited.
Update: You don’t even have the J6K. So by that, any claim you have made is now invalid since you never flew it so you don’t know what you’re talking about.
To be fair, Japan is very powerful in AB, especially the Ki-61s.
7.7 is still kinda bonkers though wtf
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Gaijin doesn’t like touching that BR for some reason, my guess cause the only thing they could add is the 20mm Ohka fighter. Which replaced its explosive warhead with 2 20mm cannon and a fuel tank. With likely Ho-5 20mm Autocannons. Since I doubt they were Type-99’s would fit well into it.
And again, 4x20mms are already overkill, so moot point. What exactly are two more cannons and two more HMGs doing for the J6K’s lacking flight performance at 6.7?
Your faith in the playerbase is far higher than mine.
So pretty much like any other japanese plane, got it.
As I said above, having 6 cannons instead of 4 isn’t much of an improvement, it was already in diminishing returns by that point. if you’re killing with 6 you’re still killing with 4. The flight performance is good but nothing amazing either, yet it sits at the same BR as a very much postwar prop (Spit mk24) and just one BR step lower than an afterburning jet with the SAME firepower as it, that has no issues outspeeding, outaccelerating, or energy trapping the J6K.
Translation: I know I’m losing the argument since my only talking point is that it has much dakka, so instead I shall engage in ad hominem.
I don’t have to be a chef to know when the chicken is burnt.
However, you inadvertently made a good point - it’s an old event vehicle that not many have, and thus anyone that still plays it is likely a very skilled pilot. Its BR is a consequence of above average players dragging it well past the BR it belongs at.
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Once again, you do not have the J6K1. So I do not need to listen to your opinion since you have not flown it. Come back to me when you own it and have flown it a couple hundred times in battle.
Plane wasn’t even the best 6.0 lol.
It has 0 business at 6.7 when it comes to performance… and the amount of guns mean nothing, unless you are stupid enough to go for full commit headons against it (if that’s the case then your opinion shouldn’t even be taken into account here tbh).
Currently it only benefits from clueless players.
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So, just gonna reply to this here a bit late, but I’ve been spading the last R2Y2 (Type 5) and also the Ki-200 (ho-155) and got damn you are right. the Type 5 still deletes things just fine, but I was getting so many “hits” with the Ho-155, it was pretty terrible
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Something people completely do every time.
Tracer belts? or still a lot of hits?
tracer belts are all AP-T in the Ho-155. Universal is still only half HEF, which is what I was using.
only the stealth belts are full HEF, I tried them but was struggling with leading so went back.
Tracers on the Type 5 cannon are all HEF though, which is what Im using there. They work great, enemy planes explode.
no one ever uses universal for any of the 30mm’s the tracer belts for all Japanese 30mm’s is often only the tracer belts since they always did wonders, unsure if this quote still remains strong given the changes but still.
As I said, not for the Ho-155 any more because they are all AP-T rounds with zero HEF, because they got nerfed
Ho-155s no longer have a HEF-T round, and no longer have a tracer belt of full HE.
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As a J6K1 player(because apparently if you don’t have the vehicle the opinion is instantly invaild), it’s not a 6.7 performance.
It turns very well, and has very good armaments but simply too slow and even climbrate is not that good. It’s basically a heavier N1K2 with more guns but at 6.7.
Problem is I hardly see a J6K1 in the match cause it’s old event plane, and when I see it most of the time it’s played by the old players. I think THAT makes a J6K1 6.7.
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Who coulda seen this one coming?
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my favorite aircraft since i received it. it’s like a tempest with far more firepower and a bloody sl printer. any event can easily be completed with it. don’t worry about your enemies. just because they fly jets doesn’t mean that they know how to jet.
I guess you havent fly any japanese planes with 30mm since like before christmas. As for like a half a year half of the 30 mm tracers were nerfed and other half was was just removed. All japanese 30 mm were made slow and inaccurate. If you try to replace it with full stealth HE belt that all planes kept it has some bugged fuse and 90% of time just does not connect and you get “hit” at best. But everyone would think the planes that are so high up with the br just because their guns “used to be good” would have their br lowered like with german Me 163 with inaccurate slow 30 mm at 8.0 (which at least still oneshot like japanese used to) and Me 163 with accurate 20mm at 8.7. But no all japanese planes with high br and now useless guns were kept at their br.