The maps are gigantic, the cold-war jets just rush to the middle while I have to crawl 25km with low throttle to remain somewhat useful when I get there… and when I get there, half the team is dead, I fight what’s left, or I get picked on by overwhelming numbers. And for what ? The jets it meets have higher max speed, can sustain it MUCH LONGER, and if they are not stupid and won’t turn fight you, you won’t have a chance to kill them.
It’s still 8.0, which it was 10years ago, but lost half it’s fuel, climb rate, airspawn and thrust, and gained more advanced enemies at it’s BR, not to mention the 30mm which evaporated enemies you hit (when you hit) is not so reliable anymore, as ‘hit’ happens and sometimes it just does nothing.
And before you correct me, I know that in situations when enemy is overconfident (which happens a lot when their planes are so much better) and they commit to turn-fighting you, YOU HAVE ADVANTAGE, WOW ! I can for minute or two compete with my enemies! …and god forbid the dog-fight lasts more than a minute because one fight and you’re done, and back to base is a long way which you’re gonna be cruising on low speed, without much ability to fight back.
Yes, I micro-manage my fuel like a madman, and there are times I make it work, but I just feel like playing a total different game than people in my match, on these gigantic maps where everyone goes 1000km/h most of the time, I just cruise there in a distance… slowly… hoping that SOMEBODY WILL COME TO ME, and intelligent players just B&Z while I just waste my precious fuel to manuever… (Don’t even mention head-ons against cold war jets, these are MK108, intelligent enemies easily dodge them)
If F-84 get’s an airspawn because it can’t take-off War Thunder’s airfields, then Me 163 deserves an airspawn because it’s characteristics with the map design doesn’t allow the plane to perform on fun and same competetive level as it’s opponents.
You can argue that the player statistics with the plane aren’t so bad, but if we’re balancing a plane only on the basis of few extraordinarily mad players who are trying to make it work just for the fact that they enjoy making something like this work, then we’re forgetting all those other players you meet in those planes who only get dunked on and are basically free kill, until they entirelly abandon the plane…
As someone who enjoyed much of these now abandoned jets in 2015 (Me 262 a1, Ho229, Komet) I still sometimes out of nostalgia get these urges to play them, but they’re in such a rought spot… I don’t ask for much, I’ll endure the plane being half good of what it was, facing double the threat in had faced, but the airspawn would provide relief from the issue none of it’s competitors face…
PLEASE, LET ROCKET INTERCEPTORS AGAIN FULFIL THEIR ROLE. (ki-200 also)