Props are… fine. Airfield AA has been toned down a lot so you can approach airfields without being immediately destroyed. I get my share of cool fights. The only real annoyance is how passive some people play.
Meh, they should just remove it, period. I still die to it sometimes because it insta nukes my engines after i chase someone I’m winning a dogfight against when they inevitably run back to airfield for aa cover.
And everyone flies passive, this game is populated by people who are terrified of dying, it’s especially noticeable in props.
A-26
It just compresses too hard while level, you can barely do strike stuff because of it.
100% - i completed spading it today. No “normal” match. A real pain. You get out turned by a 190 Dora, killed by ai gunners (one shot & pilot snipe) and the game is either lost or won until u are at 5 km alt.
As a real positive side note - i scored my kill at the highest altitude ever - bullets fired from 11,700 m (coming from 13,500) - the I-225 stall climbed upfront to 11,4 was not used to fights at this alt and got killed at 11,100 meters (i watched the replay) 😎.
I climbed that high as my last teammate in a 109 G-10 climbed to 10,500 😂
Sim
Just to help revive a fun thread:
The planes I hate to fly the most are:
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the most useless plane at all: it cannot turn, it cannot climb, it is slow, it has crappy guns.
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The floatplane bomber that has 20mils - but with a muzzle velocity just marginally faster than the plane itself. And has one microbomb under each wing, meaning as a bomber it gets outperformed by a Swordfish or a Po-2
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And the “I am NOT overcompensating at all!” duck
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Genuinely such a sad plane.
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Isn’t it? If you as much as turn too hard, you fall out of the sky.
This is the first time ive heard of someone going above 10km.
The highest I went to was 10km against an A7M in a P38K, and it was incredibly tedious. The moment I tried to shallow dive I got hit with a ripspeed warning 5 seconds later.
U might check the replay - the 109 climbed afk to 10,5 km.
As the Ki-94 was then already that high 13,395 m was reached quite fast when i spotted the enemy below and behind me.
I spotted him at 22:05 and killed him at 23:15 - TAS ~ 810 kmph (no red line, nothing). :
I think it looks really pretty but I cant bring myself to use it.
Okay I actually love this thing. The twin 7.92s on the back shred and the 20mms are more than enough against biplanes, plus bomber spawn!
The late P-38’s noses have a mind of their own, and that stupid rollrate has some dialed up inertia bullsh#t on it, so it takes to time to start rolling AND to stop rolling, and P-38’s rudder is really weak so you need to use that malicious and evil rollrate for the final manouver.
Spoiler
“YOU ST#PID F#CK, POINT YOUR NOSE THE OTHER WAY”
“STOP ROLLING YOU DAMN F#CK, 5 SECONDS AGO YOU WEREN’T EVEN IN THE MOOD TO ROLL”
“HOW DOES A PLANE WITH NO ROLLRATE OR VERTICAL STABILIZER FLY BETTER THAN YOU?!”
“THAT WAS A PERFECT SHOT LINED UP, HOW DID YOU MESS THAT UP?!”
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If your least favourite prop in mind doesn’t come as the sakeen. You need to have the displeasure of playing the sakeen. It’s a bf 109 with a lot of extra weight and a gutted engine derived from a bomber. It is atrocious, feels exactly like flying a small-sized bomber without airspawn or bombs.
Having messed with many props across all nations, the sakeen gives me ptsd, had to play it in arcade to grind anything worthwhile. Its one of those that I couldn’t skip because it’s your only TT option to start the israeli tree
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Tu-1, the only premium I’ve ever truly regretted buying. It should in theory be great for CAS but it’s an absolute boat with terrible flaps and utterly useless turrets; I have more success with reserve tier attackers at its BR
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I find its better at arb
I’ve played a lot of stinkers over the years, but for some reason, the one that sticks out to me the most is the J26 (Swedish Mustang).
It’s the combination of the lazy rudder, which makes getting shots on target a chore, along with the lacking firepower. It’s the only Mustang to be limited to the mid-war .50 cal belts, which means that even if you decide to give up tracers entirely to run the best belt, 1/2 of all the rounds you fire might as well be blanks for all the good they do at 4.0.
It’s also a D-20, meaning it’s heavier than the earlier C/D models, but without the better engine of the D-30. Combine this with a flight model that’s already pretty anti-meta (An energy fighter with a poor climbrate), and it was a pretty miserable grind.
Sakeen does not exist
Israeli air Tree does not exist
I actually would say the Sakeen is one my favourites
idk if i already did call some prop my least fav to play here
if i did i retract that statement
cuz the worst prop you can play in this game is the SM79 (the late variant that is at 2.3 or something like that)
its has one crappy italian 50cal as offensive
it has the worst compression i can remeber an aircraft having in this game (you cant turn above 350kph)
and the airspawn doesnt change anything cuz the airframe is that bad
it doesnt matter if your enemy tries to die to you or not
you will lose the fight cuz this plane is just so bad
and my least fav prop fighter to play is the 109g14 i dont need to explain why