Are you still writing 15-page essays bud? Cause I’m not reading any of the Nothing burgers. Tell me when you play Japan and understand how they fly and then we can have a real discussion. As of right now, you don’t know how any of the Japanese aircraft perform.
I do recommend you not to pay attention to SinisterIsRandom’s words. While we are talking about certain aspects of fighters’ performance, he is just mad about his incompetence and the fact that it has been pointed out by me.
Yeah you don’t need to read them, cause they are too difficult for you. I’m mainly talking to PercussionCap. As for you, I do recommend you go watch DEFYN’s videos, till then you might really “start playing ARB”.
Or that one time I rammed a guy mid air in my Kikka to “save” my squadmate (he was gonna win anyway but it looked cool) because I ran out of ammo…
¯\ (ツ) /¯
Probably a net gain if I’m not playing the 7.3 lineup given how many props there are at 6.3 and 6.7, and at low altitude there’s nowhere for them to dive away from me or have enough speed to outrun my shallow dives like early jets can.
Playing the P-51H here and there recently (with the premium M46) has been quite the shock as I can RELIABLY get in gun range for just long enough to hit them.
Eh, we disagree plenty but he’s more rational than like… 95% of forum users.
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Thanks.
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Speaking of P-51H, I have really had enough of smartest USA players crying “M2 Browning is useless!” I never had any difficulty spraying down any opponent with Tracers belt. Some people just want a fighter with 6 ANM3 and 1880 rounds.
To be honest, still, I haven’t played USA props for a while. The team is just a disaster. No matter how broken the specific fighter might be, it is always compensated for by USA pilots and USA team. Every time there are 4 XP-50s in your team, 3 of them will go for strike aircrafts at around 1000m altitude, and the last one is usually sent straight to hell when he’s at random bomber’s six. The smartest XP-50s usually devote themselves to energy trapping Yak-3 or even Yak-9U at below 3500m altitude–as long as the Yak knows what he is doing, we all know what is going to happen. The USA player just fall for Yak’s trap, run out of energy, and finally realize that it’s too late to abort.
I’ve been using the default belt with zero problems. Yeah sure you’re not gonna do much in deflection shots but if you can get a good angle, just a fraction of a second is enough. And they have far better ballistics than the Ho-103s.
No different in ground RB either…
I’ve literally decribed that exact situation in another thread where someone was doubting my claim that USA air players are just bad and it’s the planes’ fault. You can give them an advantage on a silver platter and they’ll still waste it.
Sorry, I got a bit out of the loop of who’s who in here.
Yak-3 can rat e Bf 109 F4 till the latter cooks itself to death. The difference i maneuvrability isn’t that huge, unless we’re talking about 500-600IAS - Yak-3 can dodge like no other and retain an awful lot of energy. Bf 109F4 sadly flops around.
In general, I consider Yak-3 way more useful aircraft and a way more dangerous opponent. I literally consider F4s “easy kills”, unless I’m flying something really damn bad, like Mosquito
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I’m sure that you have already seen this “official” joke posted by Gaijin.
Ever since this change, I decided to stop complaining about Ki-44 or Wyvern S4. Yeah, Ki-44 and Wyvern S4 are both too strong in proper hands. So what do we do now? We move F8F-1 to 4.7. We now have a USA fighter faster than Wyvern S4, climbs as fast as Ki-44II hei and has energy retention way better than it, maneuverability almost as good as Yaks, and it’s at 4.7 now. Honestly, at first I felt speechless, then I burst out laughing. Feel free to ruin this game anyway, Gaijin. You win.
I will always remember this joke.
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Of course, who hasn’t? .3br above the Wyvern, almost as fast at sea level (faster if 2-3km higher) and infinitely more maneuverable if you put the flaps to work. Only proper downside is lower firepower.
In 2023 this was true but they ahistorically nerfed the Soviet fighter wings, so now an I-185 is outturned (initial) by a 190, and combat flaps down the 109 has better radius than Yak. ~= without
STR is very close.
Dangerous part is just Yak energy down low.
i185s are known for their very bad turn and 190s have strong flaps so wdym and yak turns better than 109 with flaps at all speeds? but what does str mean anyway i tried searching the meaning but couldnt find it anywhere.
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so are u agreeing with me on the f4u characteristics? idk what u really mean
i hope that player isnt me because u got a history of liking to be rlly ambiguous. it will be very funny if u are talking abt me when im also in this thread.
What? I was discussing with PercussionCap.
ur comment i replied to saying the average us player uses top speed to run back to af idk what ur thoughts on the f4u4 are
USA players? Use top speed to run back to AF? I’m not sure if you are serious, cuz that is USA player. I haven’t seen a USA player who knows how to avoid dogfighting USSR, British or Jap fighters for months. Had they learned anything about arb, we would have F8F-1 at 5.3 and F4U-4 at 4.7 or 5.0 at least.
Do you have a source for that nerf? I don’t think anything has changed, Yak-3 continues to be one of my most dangerous opponent while Bf 109 F4 and G2 cotinue being fodder, nowadays along with Fw 190 A5.
Probably sustained turn rate.
u can also check the ratio of ai killed per battle and divide the kills by that, it works better right? the ai planes spawn late and sometimes i dont see them spawning at all on one side, so if someone kills many of them their team most likely already won. i dont think farming ai works consistently if someone doesnt have skill in the first place cause usually ppl will dive on the first enemy they see. renamed said that person only had high kd in ki44 and a7m. i dont think ppl who like to stat farm only do it for a few planes and i also dont get the point of ai farming for stats in the first place. usually there wont only be one person who goes for the ai.