Not long ago the me 163/ki-200 have got nerfed
Fuel time
It went from maximum 6 minutes to only 4
Which is maybe historically accurate I am not hear to discuss that.
But the gameplay is changed for worse
moving it in br or giving it an air spawn might solve this problem
Specially the one in 8.7 you will find yourself in bigger maps that’s Will waste most of your fuel before you reach the battlefield .
The Me 163 and Ki-200 both could use the OG air spawn it used to have back in 2014 as compensation for the fuel nerf since the aircraft is already brutal enough to play as it is playing against supersonic/subsonic IR missile-equipped Cold War aircraft.
Even with proper fuel throttle cutting and the rocket plane’s amazing maneuverability and energy retention, you can only use this to your advantage when the enemy player directly engages you and commits to a dogfight with you (which in my personal experience playing these dreadful rocket planes most jet players at 8.7-9.7 won’t fall for since they dismiss you as a threat or BnZ you anyways).
The WW2-era cannon fire rate and low ammo count of the Komet really don’t help much in head-ons either. (Gaijin thinks that 4 x 20mms MG 151 on a Me 163 with a bit more ammo is .7+ BR worthy from the 30mm Mk 108 equipped Me 163 at 8.0 BRUH LOL?).
I feel that a BR decrease for specifically the 30mm Mk 108 Me 163 B at 8.0 won’t be fair since with good trigger and ammo discipline it will just make it club early Korean War/WW2-era jets and props around 7.0-6.7 and recycle the current issue with decompression. But the Me 163 B-0 with the 20mm MG 151s definitely can go back down to 8.3 or 8.0 as a tradeoff of having low-calibre cannon firepower with more ammo.
It’s also worth noting the Soviet BI rocket plane counterpart at its current state and BR is questionable against the things it faces as well.
But one thing for sure is that they all definitely need their air spawns back.
At 8.7 you find jets with afterburners and in up tiers you are massively outclassed
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