Raise the F8F up or put it at Rank 4 just before or after the cannon U4's

I don’t think so, if we think about Wyvern.
“Gaijin do have a form of order…” sounds a bit more like Gaijin’s shill /j

About Sea Harrier, yeah, she has a bad airframe in ‘War Thunder’ thanks to Gaijin’s British hatred.
You know… she even punched F-15’s ass in those training flights IRL…

And for F-15E, well, she might be outclassed by those 4.5th Gen such as Rafale, but it doesn’t mean that F-15E has the same level of fuselage as ‘traditional strike aircraft’ such as A-10/A-7 does. Right?

Anyway, I brought SHAR and F-15E just to argue against your ‘trust about Gaijin’s classification’
So, further arguing about those would be a derailment.

Then back to normal, do you still believe that F8F-1(4.7) is a worse F6F-5(3.3)?

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@Pangolin_Fan @RXDimA @iegaatdao @Stockholm_Blend @Normandy_Corsair
Here you go https://youtu.be/PfM6epxMw08
I play hella agressive, even for this plane so i do some retarded shit on the video, also, idk how to aim, if anyone knows how i could learn send help to [email protected]

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really shows how insane the low speed power of this thing is.

For its BR, i’d say its airframe is pretty comparable to the likes of the Harrier.

I never said it’s worse. The F6F itself is one of the worst planes for anything outside of ground pounding.

Hmm… AFAIK, I thought F-15E were best 4th gen fighter in airframe until EFT and Rafale showed up.
Anyway, we need to consider that this topic is about the F8F-1, so we might cut the chatter.

Hmm…

Really…?
AFAIK, you called F8F-1 ‘a worse F6F’.

Yes, every toptier is the best until something better comes . . .

I did not call the F8F worse, I called it worse turning. The Fw 190 D-9 turns worse than the F8F, but the plane itself is far from worse.

Either I suck with the D-9 or I just had bad luck but I hardly get even a singe kill with it per match while with the F8F I got a lot more.

Yesterday I got 5 kills and set a D-13 on fire with my last couple of rounds (around 30) before I had to RTB. He put it out but was chased by a P-47 who finished him off.

In my book the D-9 is pretty much a worse La-7 but somehow at 5.0.
Or I should probably I say the the La-7 is somehow 4.7.

In one match a guy in D-9 tried to BNZ me in my Yak-3 but the moment he run out of energy he headed to his airfield, then complained about my undertiered Yak-3.

But hey, if the Yak-3 was 5.0 like a 1944 D-9, the D-9 would still kinda suck.

I mean after cannons were buffed to hit like 30mm and 20mm Mineshells have not a single advantage over regular explosive shells, the BRs didnt change despite previously weakly armed Soviet planes doing worse due to their inability to kill quickly.

Now, more cannons are not useful anymore and just give you a higher BR for the same airframe.

I remember that you called it worse in your ‘flagged’ post…
And I found part of it in my older reply.

‘Upgrade of a shitty 3.3 at 4.7’
‘people struggling to fight an upgrade of a shitty 3.3 at 4.7 is kinda wild.’

It sounds like
“I did not have wild claims with that plane, F8F-1”

Thank you for literally proving my point that I called it an upgrade.

Sir, stop playing with your word. Look at the forest instead of the tree.

proving your point? No, I am dismissing your point.

Of course, F8F-1 is an upgrade of F6F-5, but it doesn’t save your six.

Your take sounds like
“Indeed, I did have a claim about F8F-1 that she was an upgrade of F6F-5.”

If we consider whole takes which you argued in this topic,

You nearly dismissed the upgrade.

‘a upgrade of shitty 3.3 at 4.7’
Yes. F8F-1 at 4.7 is an upgrade of F6F-5 at 3.3. But you didn’t mean it. right?
You meant ‘F6F-5 is awful, and I wonder why people whine about the upgraded version of an awful plane, which is on even higher BR’.

You literally said it was worse than the Yak-7B (2.7), at this point you should just admit that you were wrong like you were about the AV-8C vs F-5, or just stop all this nonsense

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the more I play the F8F-1 the more i understand it’s BR

don’ts for this aircraft:

  • Headon with anyone
  • have lower altitude than anyone else
  • fight more than 1 enemy at a time (you’ll spend half you ammo setting him on fire)
  • get scratched by anything (your wing falls off)

Dos in this aircraft

  • climb for your life
  • carefully position yourself above enemies
  • avoid anything at high altitudes
  • aim for the Pilot, nothing else will take meaningful damage

its main problem is it’s extremely weak armament for the BR, and for a .50 cal armed Fighter at any BR

Typhoon supposed to win this dogfight easily tho

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dude please stop posting I know we’ve had our arguments but I’ve played long enough to know that there are plenty of planes that are on like the f5 but I’m just not good with no matter what, the f8f is that for you, in other people’s hands it’s extremely overpowered I promise

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Yes, I’m clearly struggling to fly a plane I have a single game in . . .

Nope. If that were true then they wouldn’t be free kills in ARB.

Thiis me with the F1C, good grinder but I just suck in it. Also the magic 2’s aren’t what I was promised, lots of launches getting flared off (please don’t mention aspects, I know them.).

and the FM is straight up horrible.

It’s mostly this. You’re a capable fighter with extremely trashy unusable guns.
Your only reliable means of damage is wing spar damage and pilot snipes.

Replace “Your wing falls off” with “Your entire tail falls off.” though.

You can be great in a 1 v 1 and if you’re super aware and can conserve energy you are a danger. But you’re hampered by the point harmonization of your guns and your guns don’t light things like they should.

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When someone knows how to flare, should they be killed anyway because muh magic 2?

Funny because one kept up in a two circle with my F-15A the other day

Please do not exaggerate to try to make a point.

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