That’s a good portion of my argument here. The vast majority of people I’ve seen discuss the He-162 either consider it easy to kill or annoying to fight, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone think it’s overpowered or anything . I think it’s pretty good, personally.
So if the He 162, with what is, to my knowledge, the same engine or very similar to the Me 262, is widely considered fine at 6.0, then what would make the Me 262 overpowered at 6.7? I think it is pretty evident that the Me 262 should not be fighting most jets from two years after it, let alone ten. When you’re talking about ww2 aviation, that time gap makes a big difference in technology, considering most major advancements happened more on the scale of 3-6 months for aircraft during ww2.
I have no idea how the average B-29 fight plays out I rarely see them. I would prefer bombers to be completely removed from the game mode they do not work in the current game structure.
Bombers are the only reason WW2 Jet Fighters can’t go lower. Against props they’re annoying to deal with but you can out turn them in any situation so it requires surprise to get a kill. Bombers don’t have that, they’re very slow. Once the jet is up to altitude the bomber has very little it can do defensively to avoid dying to a jet. They turn off too fast for turret fire to hit.
Something is definitely wrong here, gaijin. As any layman should know, both the Ar 234 & He 162 displayed better characteristics than the Me 262, and yet somehow the ‘worst’ craft is inexplicably at 7-7.3 in this silly game while the other two are in the sixes on top of being heavily neutered? Fix it:
Props can out turn low tier jets very easily on top of that the jets generally have very low velocity cannons as they weren’t designed to hunt fighters they were designed to kill long range bombers. The British are about the only people who didn’t follow this trend as there weren’t German long range bombers at that point they had to worry about.
“They were initially used to intercept V-1 flying bombs, achieving the world’s first air-to-air “kills” in a jet-powered fighter on 4 August, just a few days before its German competitor, the Me 262, achieved the same on a piloted aircraft.”
The only Jet with low velocity cannons is the Me 262, well and the Me 163.
All other Jets have high velocity cannons or HMGs, with the Soviet 23mm and 37mm cannons being on the lower end of the spectrum.
If you are not in a full downtier planes like F-80, F-84 or F-2H are better suited for that. They are faster and can hit the bomber on longer range.
I would not want to endanger my ME 262 for a bomber kill. Certainly of it os not an opportunistic one.
The potential loss of energy could also make you easy pray for aicraft which are superior in a equal energy state anyway.
Bringing the R4M in ARB is very risky since you only increase your disadvantage against enemy fighters.
P51 H-5 6.3 out does me262 in everthing but fire power and top speed but it can keep up so can the f7f the f8f aswell the merlin spitfire late variants can too
