Happened years ago, I’d have to look through the changelogs to find it.
I might throw them into some test flights later, though this isn’t the topic for it.
Well, there are attempts at doing it. A user in Wingaling’s Team Sim discord has made wtapc.org, but actually attempting to accurately simulate all of these things for props has proven to be extremely difficult, so only two metrics are available (power and power to weight).
There’s also statshark.net/ but they only include jets and it’s not 100% accurate.
Even putting the tests I do into a ‘database’ of sorts wouldn’t be a great idea, since there’s changes to many aircraft very often which aren’t included in the changelogs. It would be outdated VERY fast.
This isn’t a terrible way to go about it, but without being able to standardize your opponents it’s hard to make sense of things.
When the japanese premium 109 was mistakenly lowered to 2.3 I actually thought it got worse since you still outclimbed 99% of your enemies anyway, but now being able to dogfight them was much rarer since the lower tier planes tended to be slower and better-turning. You essentially lost half of your options despite being super OP.
Happened in patch 2.37, if I remember it right. Another 300kg or so added to their empty weights. I don’t know when they added automatic flaps, but that killed my playstyle.
I think this is because your opponents changed. At 5.3 you’d see planes that are slower and will find it much easier to pull into, and stay behind you even if they don’t actually turn better.
I do quite like the N1K1-J, and I’ve been considering writing a suggestion for a version without gunpods:
Which HOPEFULLY gets a lower BR and then I’ll be able to truly enjoy a Shiden.
I am once again going to ruin your day. Though yes, they are much faster, and to my knowledge they didn’t get automatic flaps so you can still pull them out whenever you want.
The A7M2 is one of my favorites. Has absolutely HUGE wings that grant it some unbelievable turn performance even well above its comfort altitudes. Also just as fast down low as the N1K2-Js. Armament is fine, though I wish there was a variant with the 4x 20mm armament the ‘new build’ A7M2s had, instead of the mixed configuration from the A7M1 conversions. Also A7M3 pls.