It’s only me or is La-200 actually overpowered at its BR -by a lot. I mean its gameplay looks like R2Y2 back in a day, its boom n’ zooming all the time and running away from slower aircraft. I do believe that La-200 would do very well at 8.0 or at even 8.7. With its speed it would certainly catch up with its foes and with its 37mms it would be able to shred them apart, so why is that thing at as low BR as it is now?
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Fat boat that can’t turn + 3x37mm that are hard to aim af means the general player base do pretty bad in it.
Still pretty undertier imo could probly go up to 8.3.
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*can turn.
the only thing it cant do is roll, which is just Soviet jets in that BR range
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It can do some quacky stuff at higher speed but once you do, it’s joever.
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It can keep sufficient energy retention to reasonably deal with 8.3 jets on its own. Its no magic, but 7.7 it is not. it can be 8.0 8.3
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Well yea i literally said that it should be 8.3, Maybe struggle a bit since gaijin literally bring the entirety of it uptier down to 8.3 (15bis, sabres,…) but a competent pilot should do fine with it speed.
La-200 players turnfought the Vampire, and here we are
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Might as well put the Ta-152C at 2.0 because it can’t turn. The La-200 can outrun and outclimb most things in full uptier it doesn’t need turnrate.
Air RB games are over so quickly now, and there are so many players in each match, that you need to be able to finish enemies fast or a friendly will come in and 3rd party it.
You just don’t have the time to do multiple BNZ runs to get your enemy slow enough for the killing shot.
Thus a lot of fast BNZ planes get their BRs decreased, while slower turn fighters like the Zero and RE.2005 keep going up.
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La-200 is basically the F-104 at 7.7 xD
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I’ve been watching these things in the game for a long time now…
- the game is built on a tactical level (a ball of hell on a small area of the map)
- this aircraft was designed for all weather, its target opponent was the B-29 Superfortress
- that is strategic levels’, high-altitude combat …
- compared to standard fighters, a large target and at medium and low altitudes, it is a very cumbersome aircraft…
So his chance is in hunting at high heights, for one or two attacks… After falling to the ground, you need to time well when to join the attack and watch the positions of team players and opponents…
Most of the players are playing dogfights and don’t seem to realize that maybe they don’t have a suitable plane for it at all, or that none of the planes have the same characteristics… and the La-200 is one of the many planes that are in the game and are built for a specialized type of air attack…
It would be convenient if Gaijin installed AI aircraft (similar to AI A-4B, so heavy bombers), with a reasonable setting of defensive fire of airborne weapons, at high altitudes, because if only nimble jet fighters remain in the game, then the La-200 is at a disadvantage …
And this does not only apply to the La-200, there are many such aircraft in the game, which have to play something that the game has no characteristics for.
Basically, on the ground, you can only use BaZ, at high speed, to hunt ground AI…