statshark and real scenarios aren’t compatible.
yes, i tested it out, and yes, your test shows that the ki83 is one of the slowest rank4 fighters. The Spitfire might be slower, but it is much more versatile (and in fact one of the best rank 4 fighters in the game)
THe Ki83 is a brick with little engine survivality and a huge fragile target, which gives it a very bad diving acceleration and compression. The Ki83 also has very bad guns, known for their late fuse action.
thats normal
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How is it normal that a heavy fighter with self sealing fuel tanks has more fragility than a rank 1 biplane?
Which one though? the Merlins are a little slow, but the Griffons will give most planes a run for their money, for a minor cost of turn and climb rates.
The explosions are due to the lack of neutral gas pressurization, with out it a partially empty tank is just a fuel air explosive waiting for a spark to set it off.
I do think most airframes in game are far to fragile though.
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im just saying its normal for 50cals to hit way harder than they should
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ah ok lmao sorry
Went into a match with it, people do not at all know how to fight it.
These planes are designed for bomber shooting or ground strikes, stop trying to compete with single engines.
It has the highest climb rate of any prop in the game, and turns decently for a 2 engined plane, beating the hornet and f7f in a dogfight. if it didn’t overheat so quickly it would have been great but sadly it cant use its max engine power most of the time and that leaves it easy prey for single engined fighters if not played very carfeully
Using MEC you can almost entirely negate that.
boy, overheating is the least of the issues. Maybe being slower than a spitfire lf mk9 in a straight line, compressing into oblivion and getting absolutely mogged by tu2s in dogfights is.
Climb rate means nothing if the plane is severely limited by parasitic drag. It may have a 90 meter per second climb rate at 600kmh, then drop to 30m/s at 400kmh, but the drop in speed is almost instant. Either you’ll compress when boom and zooming and never recover your altitude on time or you’ll get caught up by single engine props that climb just ONE meter per second less than you considering the BR you are at. You may climb at 60 meters per second when going up but the P51H that has been flying at 700kmh can just put all it’s energy into altitude and one click you off making you explode as if you were hit with four aden 30mm’s.
The plane is a heap of shit because it can’t compete against super props that climb almost as good as it while being much faster, having better energy retention and having actually usable guns because the poor KI83 happens to combine the worst 20mm’s in prop br’s with the worst 30mm’s in the entire game plain simple. I’ve never died to ki83s while i was aware of them, and when i did I died when i was in a bomber. I’ve outperformed KI83s in dogfights with J5N1 and even Tu-2s outrates it at medium to high speed. This community should actually learn to stop using Occam’s razor. Everything isn’t solved with climbrate engine power or a same-speed ratefight. Trust me, the ki83 is bad. There’s so many drawbacks to this plane that the climbrate being 5 to 1 meters per second better than the rest of 5.3-6.0’s is completely negligible. The plane is where it is now from back then when usa would only bring bombers and attackers all loaded up with ground ordnance and the guns would go 1000 meters per second from start to despawn. Now you have all the things that costed 20K SL to repair being spammed plus new additions.
Even you barely play the ki83, if it is so good why do you have less than 20 matches on it? I bet is still stock. But maybe i’m wrong and the gameplay of gambling your lifetime by baiting enemies up that your teammates will take away and die nuked by a single 50 cal from 1km away with nothing but two kill assists is your ideal of peak superprop gameplay.
Instead of spamming the same post over and over why don’t just play another planes?
lord forbid someone plays a plane they like, as if getting the f8f from 0.3kd to 3kd in just 70 matches wasn’t enough, it gets BORING. There’s a difference between playing something challenging and playing something that has only a single shot at getting a frag if the enemy royally messes up.
I think the outcome is clear, most people just don’t think this plane got any major problem at current BR. After reading your arguement I think you seem to forget it still a heavy fighter and we all knew that heavy fighter in this game is really not the brightest tools for air to air battle.
it is not a heavy fighter, it’s an interceptor with amazing flight performance, but it does not fit the 6.0 niche. It thrives of people playing like muppets on planes that can literally give spitfires a good run for their money.
Yeah that’s literally what I said.
Doesnt matter that much when you can out climb them.
Until like 700kph IAS it’s pretty alright not really a big problem.
Skill issue
Doesnt matter that much when you can out climb them.
you may outclimb them at slow speed, but nobody else flies at slow speed at 6.0, and the rest of less draggy planes convert kinetic energy into potential energy much better than the ki83, hence why they catch up after the ki83 goes back up after diving and taking one out (if it can).
Until like 700kph IAS it’s pretty alright not really a big problem.
The Ki83 will rarely reach 700 IAS in a straight line, as it will usually never go past 650, while compressing enough to miss shots on actively dodging people well already entering the 500kmh of airspeed.
Skill issue
No, I am the tu2 that outdogfights the ki83.
His comment still applies, just not to you