You spend half your fuel to climb to a height where everyone in your BR can climb, then you spend about 30 seconds hovering in the air looking for a target, spend another 30 seconds chasing a target, don’t hit a shot with that MK 108 piece of junk and when you do it doesn’t do shit, then you spend the rest of the 30 seconds trying to escape to the base just for someone to chase you while you’re out of ammo and out of fuel, CONGRATULATIONS SHITTY GAIJIN
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You have to fly slowly, and that is probably one of the best aircraft in it BR. Set your throttle to 40% to safe fuel.
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It’s never the best, the seconds I counted are already saving fuel, I leave it hovering at 20%, this shit doesn’t even compare to a me 262 c2b or a mig15 bis, it’s garbage.
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Yea, they literally cut the fuel in half recently. From 6 min to 3 min. That killed the plane.
Gues some gaijin emplyoee had a bad day and got wiped by a Me 163 player.
Would be full in line with gaijins usual behaviour.
They always pretend like they are professional, reasonable people.
But you just have to watch Stona and the rest of the moderation to see, gaijin is made up of childish, selfish and incompetent people.
If, they hadn´t War Thunder, something with practicly no competition in its specific nische, this company would be gone for a decade already.
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It has nothing to do with a Gaijin employee having a bad day or not liking the Me 163.
The fuel consumption was bug reported with very specific sources that talked about, among other things, the fuel consumption of the Me 163’s engine.
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During test flights at EK 16, the engine achieved a maximum burn time of 6 minutes, compared to the planned 12 minutes. And the 6 minutes were only achieved when the aircraft was towed to altitude by a Bf 110 during take-off.
When used in JG 400, the maximum possible approach to a bomber lasted only a few seconds. If this was unsuccessful, the mission had to be aborted and the aircraft landed in gliding mode.
From this perspective, Gaijin has done a good job here.
I don´t care, playability ruined for stupid garbage. This is why this game sucks.
But didn’t that kill pretty much any real chance to be effective as a fighter?
Doesn’t really matter that it outperforms some fighters when you have like 1 minute of superior performance before you have to return to base.
And it’s not like it’s better than anything it can see.
The BR placement was basically 3-4 minutes of superior performance against equal BRs.
To be fair, intercepting bombers should be pretty much all it should be doing.
The problem is probably the lower BR it gets, the less performance it needs, which decreases fuel consumption and the longer it can stay in a fight.
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Isn’t that how it was in real life?
Besides I’m not arguing for the game balance or anything like that. I’m just pointing out that the explanation isn’t always “Gaijin, the evil company”.
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Indeed.
It’s not horrible, I mean, look at my KI-200…
I have a positive KDR, post nerf, never got to play it when it was broken asl, 28 kills to 24 deaths, and 27 total air matchs, meaning I have statistically gotten 1 kill a match minimum, that isn’t bad in this thing post nerf…
But most of the time it is - currently best examples:
- OP BI at 6.7 with magic low fuel consumption
- OP Yak-9K with fantasy APHE shell
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We have multiple interviews with pilots that flew the me163 and German documents that stated it had 5-6 min of full throttle power, and the me163 didn’t have a throttle like it does in the game, the pilots had 3 pump levels that were used to gradually bring the engine to full throttle because even with throttle control testing showed it only extended the powered time to about 7 and a half minutes so it wasn’t used to conserve fuel, pilots climbed on full throttle usually.
So why does Gaijin immediately accept and implement some guy’s crude calculations instead of just using the numerous historical sources? the historical issue with the me163 was how the throttle works in WT giving it impossible to achieve efficiency, not the fuel consumption.
If Gaijin insists on not believing the historical sources they should simply remove the me163s like they did with the Maus, they have no place in the tech tree as this incredibly niche useless aircraft. They should have waited until they have had replacements for them like the me163C and me263 before doing such a drastic change, its like imaging if they nerfed the off road speed of the Maus to like under 10kph (which can be argued is realistic) and then just kept it there in the tech tree to waste peoples rp and time…
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you have to fly like 300km to save fuel, limiting yourself to that speed in battles against 9.0 jets is a fucking joke, it’s not even a competitive speed against propellers, besides its horribly slow guns what is it supposed to be better at in its BR ? at being useless ?
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I’ve always found this argument of real life and historical accuracy funny, in this game historical accuracy is always about screwing a vehicle to the ground, unless you are one of gaijin’s favorite nations like russia.
sure the me163 was shit in real life so it must be shit in the game because that was historically accurate, but at the same time let’s make this WW2 aircraft face cold war fighters and air to air missiles, because when it comes down to it history doesn’t matter does it?
this game does not imitate real life one bit if it did the me262 would be facing spitfires as it happened in real life and there would not be an imaginary camera flying behind your plane and pilots could not withstand half the G-force they do in this game, so stop treating this game as a simulator because it clearly is not, and it better be, we all prefer good balance to historical accuracy.
If only I had said something specifically about the balance of the game.
Oh wait…
In the very comment you’re quoting no less.
Stop trying to throw crap at the wall and seeing if it sticks.
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In real life this shit never played against these jets that fall in the current Br.
irl it would get rolled by props, never the less jets, its a failed plane irl that has its weaknesses exposed even more in the game despite the game allowing you to do things the irl plane couldnt
it also doesnt help its climbrate is half what it should be its a rocket plane and a light one at that so light all takeoffs have to be in the wind or it blow away
irl they also would use 100% throttle the entire time (it didnt have variable throttle like seen in game) and they would only fight AFTER running out of fuel and gliding downwards towards the target