As far as I can tell, it is outclassed by several 5.7 aircraft and doesn’t have many redeeming qualities. It also appears to just be a more powerful F4U-4 with 20mms, but that shouldn’t be 1.7 Br increase?
Ground strike capability shouldn’t matter very much in ARB either, so that shouldn’t affect it’s BR by more than 0.3 or 0.7. Plus, we have separate BRs for air and ground now too.
Is there something I am missing? (tips welcome)
The thing you (and gaijin) are missing is that it has a couple hundred SNEBs. They probably forgot about it like they did with the scimitar, so it retains legacy BRs in both air and ground. And it’s also not in the american tree so…
Only tier 6+ planes got seperated brs, but they said they wanted to do them aswell for lower br planes. I dont know how good the F4U-7 actually is but maybe the br will change in arb when they seperate lower tier planes aswell
The F4U-4B is 5.7, and the U-7 is essentially identical but with a more powerful engine.
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Unfortunately, those aren’t stock, but they are the main reason I purchased it.
I’d much rather play the G.56 which is arguably a 6.0 aircraft over the F4U-7.
Funny thing, I’m grinding it right now. It will go well with my 100% W/R 7.7 lineup
I think it should be 5.7 too, because this is more likely a sidegrage (F4U-7 weighs more), A2G weaponary shouldn’t be taken into account to make certain plane higher in BR. To be honest, the best Corsair to play is basic F4U-4, Browning are more reliable than M3 cannons.
The only area where M2 .50cals outclass 20mm M3s is max firing range. 20mms have the advantage in all other areas, especially when it comes to CAS, which is the main use of the F4U-7 and F4U-4B
F4U-4B is significantly lighter and retains engine power at altitude better, due to the supercharger. F4U-7 is a USMC AU-1 with a R-2800-43W engine, giving it only 2000 hp vs the AU-1’s R-2800-83 with 2300 hp.
WT wiki says the F4U-4 has a R-2800-42W engine, but I can’t find any info on that. We know the F4U-4 did use the R-2800-18 though, which does have a horsepower advantage at pretty much all altitudes.
The F4U-4 has the R-2800-18w, and the F4U-4B has the R-2800-42W in the xray. The F4U-7 has the R-2700-18W ingame too.
If im not mistaken, it is MUCH heavier due to its large amount of armor.
Because it was made specifically for French Navy.
He means US players are not performing well with their own vehicles, whereas Non-US players do well in Non-US tree vehicles, resulting in this unbalanced BR distribution.
This thing is a complete brick compared to the 4b
Extra added armour plates for a more ground attack-oriented role for the Corsair is the reason for that:
French F4U-7 Corsair:
American F4U-4B Corsair:
there is seperate BR for air and ground so i dont see why its at 6.0
later f4u’s are capable of fighting early jets and winning so it only makes sense (note that I’m referring to real life and not the game)
At low BRs is no difference between Air RB and GRB Battleratings. This beast has several dozen SNEB rockets, which are a nightmare to come by at WW2 BRs in GRB. Thats why Gajin still applies an compromise as BR.
The right solutions would be to pan a GRB BR of 8.3 on it. An Air RB BR of probably 5.7.
Same with these horrific US Attacker planes like Sky Raiders. They sport hundrets of FFARs in several pods. Their GRB BR should be bumped massively. I mean typical Strike aircraft which fit the WW2 time frame have like 2 bombs and some HVAR rockets.
I don’t think it is worthy of 0.3 BR below a G.91, or being a higher BR than an F-84G.
It is fine at 6.0 in GRB, rockets are harder to use than bombs, and it’s not on that good of an airframe.
