I partially blame jets for this.
People seem to forget aircraft fight in 3 dimensions and instead just turn in a flat circle. From what I’ve seen of modern jet gunfights, it works there due to their extreme TWR/SEP. People then apply the same logic to propeller planes where even the best plane has worse SEP than is needed to keep turning at corner speed, maybe not zeros since they love being slow.
You can partially see this in people hearing advice to climb and rejecting it as “But I can’t go 2km above enemy to dive in them so climbing is worthless!” forgetting that altitude isn’t just about diving but offsetting your horribly weak (compared to jets) engine and trading altitude to maintain your best turning speed or to cash it in for an aggressive lead turn without falling out of the sky afterwards.
I feel jets can also be blamed about people not doing out-of-plane maneuvers. Most CC jet dogfights I see stick to the deck to avoid missiles (or at least that’s what I was told when I asked why nobody is cutting into the other guy’s turn or using yoyos, pitchbacks and lag rolls), while with props you kinda want to fly the egg.
And beyond these…
People go “Props boring, idc to learn” for the final jet blame.
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Glad we could help you resolve this issue, (I’m not taking credit for RunaDacino’s response here) I apologize for not understanding at first
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More of a rant than anything on my behalf but happy to have your contribution mate :)
Because specs are important in a supposedly realistic game? If they didn’t matter then you get funny shit like when the sea hawk had it’s thrust doubled.
Like… Why not? It’s the very basic thing to do, or why don’t we just make Tie and Xwing
My point is people care about specs etc but whether they have 10hp or 1000hp - people just fly into headons, the behaviour, tactics dont change.
You see it for yourself, highly agile fighters and climbers such as zero’s etc totally disregard their capabilities and strengths and go into headons with mustangs and 190’s.
I understand specs etc but my sentiment is that the playerbase utilise the same method regardless of capabilities/statistics.
At that point - who cares about lacking 100hp?
Generally the people who care about that stuff, aren’t the ones mindlessly flying planes. Plus it’s nice to know that the plane you’re flying is realistic.
I get buffing/nerfing planes, but I don’t get some people literally leaking secret docs just to prove a point.
None of the top tier vehicles are accurate. It would be impossible to get things accurate, and even where data can be reasonably found, Gaijin refuses them to balance the game.
Besides, the A6M would rip itself flying like in the game lol