F8F-1 at 4.7???
What does low tier of the others make them not applicable?
P63s are higher BR than P51C…
P38L is great, it’s not as good as 51C or H, it’s about as good as 4B.
The odds of you losing in any of the planes listed being due to being severely outmatched instead of it being a result of misplay is extremely low. They are very capable.
People should be whining about absolute ridiculous trash like Yak3s being too overpowered rather than these planes being overtiered.
Legendary insult
If i write:
and you post this:
You might consider asking a friend regarding the difference between “playable” and “good”.
If i look at the title and the tags of this thread your statement:
explains your very “special” view on things, but i still don’t know why you feel the urgent need to share these views if you don’t play Air RB.
In any case: Welcome to my ignore list!
Edit: Flag attack😂
The F8F-1 is insanely overhyped, and the only noteworthy P-63 is the P-63A-5 at 3.3
F4U-1s are amazing, especially after they buffed elevators to historical levels.
Its only issue in sim is the lack of rear visibility which is a non-issue in RB.
P38s are great climbers and with flaps turn incredibly well. Their issue is a super recognizable silhouette and fragile damage model.
Bearcat is great. It keeps up at 6.0 in sim quite well, it’s 4.7 in RB.
Sim performance and RB performance have almost nothing in common. P-38s have below average climb rate, and the only good F4U-1 is the 1D.
Bearcat is just massively overhyped.
The F4U-1D is the lightest -1 Corsair (~50kg at min fuel) because of no wing fuel tanks but it is the one with most drag due to the suspended armament pylons. Therefore its actually the slowest one and its at 3.0. The other -1 Corsairs are faster by around 8-13kph but the A gets to sit at 2.7 and the USMC is also 3.0. Their flight performance are near identical yet you think the one with the very slightly worse one and higher BR is the best one.
Video with some testing:
P-38s (at least the J and L) have VERY good climb rates (on par with similar BR 109s…and they get airspawn!). Both are one of the few TT aircraft that let you have superior alt to 109s. They have good speed, great firepower and insane flaps which let them out turn many straight up turn fighters in certain envelopes. The L gets boosted ailerons which lets you out roll a lot of other planes and airbrakes to deal with compression and can be used as an added trick in maneuvers like reversals.
Watch some videos on how to use these planes, they are very potent and very fun to fly when you get things right in them.