J7w1 seems got a buff for the engine, but a nerf for high-speed performance.
Unlike most of the Interceptors, it doesn’t have air respawn, and due its poor climb rate and maneuverability, it is hard to dogfight or BZ other fighters at that BR, even when it is in full down-tier, it still worse than like KI84/J2M. I know someone will say it has very strong firepower, but consider it only has 60 rpg and bad muzzle velocity, I don’t think it is better than M2/3 or Hisparnos
Nope, it is still a 5.0 plane at 6.0, unless they gave it air spawn and/or moved it down to 5.0-5.3, this thing will forever be ass.
And also I wonder if why J7W1’s FM is so weak? you can’t get any damage on your wing, or you will lose control when you try to turn or pull up
It does have really good high speed maneuverability, which with enough altitude if you side climb can give you the upper hand just for a bit against super-props and even jets, but other than that its really not 6.0 worthy at all, and should definitely go down to at least 5.7 (the entire br bracket from 6.0 to 7.0 needs to be reworked too, some matches where 850kph capable jets fight props feel like silly costume matches…)
any other mono-engine fighters are better (except maybe VB.10’s)
it’s a bit better than when they killed the UFO FM it have way back in the days,… but it still quite underpar anything,…
Even more considering what the XP-55 “Ascender” can do in game, with similar wing configuration.
the J7W also was designed as B-29/B-24/B-17 High-Altitude Interceptors
so the 18.6m/s climbrate is still pretty low, subpar to J2M’s or Bf-109K4 for exemple
P-51D is doing 22.7m/s and it’s 5.0
even the F-82E fatboy is doing better with 18.7m/s, and that’s an heavy one
Speed wise, it’s not better than anyone.
the only reason why it’s a 6.0, is the 4x30mm nose mounted cannons
And as I said, 4*30mm cannons are also overvalued. Gaijin has nerfed that, unlike MK103; now muzzle velocity is 770m/s only.
no, I was flying the j7W1 in sim not long ago and it very much was highly competitive in fights where you were intentionally burning altitude constantly to keep speed over 500ias kph.
Only side climb and make sure there is no Interceptors coming for you, but if is same conditions, most of mono-engine fighters can do better(like F4U4B or LA9)
I was able to consistently match or exceed the performance of planes I faced. (in that specific scenario)
Ah, MB, that’s for Sim, J7W1 in RB/AB is bad enough at least
Yo the J7W’s climbrate is DEFINITELY not 18.6 m/s. This climbrate is listed at 27k ft, the performance below that is much better.
It’s a glorified strike plane at this point. Good against ground targets and head ons but everything else is bad
In my experience, the J7W is usually a complete failure in air battel; it’s a very situational aircraft. However, in ground battel, it can perform exceptionally well. It’s ideal for ambush attacks or playing A-10, vaporizing tanks and SPAAs.
I feel like psrt of the reason its so high BR is because jts FM is actually in theory good, like if you use full real controls it can actuslly turn pretty decently. Not as well as some other JP planes, sure, but still fairly decently, particularly at lower speeds where BnZ planes usually turn to complete bricks, it has a suprusing amount of respobsiveness and authority.
It was never good
Holds energy decently but it’s not that fast and it climbs very slow for a 6.0, it was always carried by other Japanese planes like the R2Y, Kikka, Ki-83 and 84s, atrocious enemy teams nearly always stacked with bombers and Skyraiders and having 4 railguns in the nose
same with any plane,… yet, A6M still turn on a dime as Rafale without FRC
played like 7 nations out of 9, and still J7W is shitty FM wise compared to anything else.
the only aircraft with similar wing configuration, the XP-55 “Ascender” (BR.4.3) does twice as good FlightModel wise, with a 1.7 BR lower BR
IRL though, the first XP-55 crashed, the 3rd was trialed in 1944 and judged underpar every other fighter made in that time,…
the engine power and canard configuration of J7W should allow it to get much more nose authority.
[…] after 2016 Flight model change,…
the pre-2016 change was certainly a bit UFO (could nearly do Cobra at 450km/h),
but it had nose authority,
it should be similar to what have XP-55, and canards aircrafts such as Rafale or EF-2000.
that’s basically what the J7W lack today.
Nah, the improvement with full real controls is actually insane on it, much more then nearly any other plane, in some circumstances it drops it from like a 24s turn time to a 17s turn time.
try XP-55, you’ll be surprised to discover the differences. (it’s premium, so anyone can try it,…)
i have J7W myself,… and still believe there is a twice better FM on XP-55 than J7W
But that will only happened in Sim, and it’s FM, to be honest, has been nerfed a lot. I still remember in 2016 when I first tried that, its high-speed performance is amazing, even when you reach 800km/h, you can still get 13g overload, and can easily aim anything.
Now J7W1 in RB/AB can’t even go against like BF109K or Spitfire, due to its poor climb rate and maneuverability, unless it spends 2 times of time for side climb.
I do believe it could be 5.3, which is lower than J5N1 in RB/AB, as an Interceptor, J5N1 is better due it’s energy and air-respawn