Yak-9K is very much a problem and should be corrected.
It’s had its time in the sun, being allowed to farm 4.0 BR games for a few months now.
“But it’s fun”
Correction, it’s fun for you, because you think rolling over enemies with no effort is fun.
(I recommend a single player game if that is your preference for fun, by the way. That’s called a power fantasy and is generally not healthy for multi-player PVP games.)
It’s the exact opposite for anyone fighting against you.
PVP games should be enjoyable for both sides, including the one losing.
That plane does something that shouldn’t be done by a fighter. And it also doesn’t need bombs, which isn’t fair for other fighters who are forced to ditch theirs. And I am not talking about AIR, but am talking about Ground RB, so if you’re going to talk like that then get out.
I tried hitting Yak-9K attacking my teammates with SPAA. Couldn’t hit shit then got strafed by another plane. SPAA is fun gameplay if one enjoys suffering.
Reality is, this plane is essentialy a death sentence as unlike any other big APHE slinger, it can dive vertically. Me-410 f.e. fires way slower and if you try to attack from vertical, you need a ton of skill to land hits and not pancake into the ground.
Playing planes in a ground mode is pansy behaviour to begin with. Begging for nerfs will only worsen the game. Just hush it and get better at the game. It is not that hard to take out a Yak. Machine guns exist, boom and zoom exists, use your main cannon, since the Yak needs to get close to shoot.
That’s why you can spawn a SPAA or a plane to counterattack CAS. Just because you have a skill issue doesn’t mean the plane needs to be nerfed or moved up in BR.
I don’t even own the Click Bait. What I do have is top tier Sweden, Israel, China, Britain, Italy, and Russia, all tech tree. My America is up to M-48 and the F-100D.
If a document of an experimental round is evidence enough, where’s the grenade launcher for most of WW2 shermans, the early APFSDS for the Centurion mk.10 or the DU hull improvement for the Abrams series? Or is it just a convenient balance measure to use experimental features whenever Russia is the benefited?
If it exists, and it performs as the devs believe it does, then the plane should be moved to 6.0. It effectively is a multirole without the need of using any ordnance other than its cannon and the couple of 20mm.
It has better flight performance even when the AD-4 is wings clear and i’d believe your argument if it had like 10 rounds, but it has 29, its more than capable to do runs on a reasonable amount of vehicles before running out of ammo, it is 6.0 worthy.
Better. I know that the AD-4 has 4 20mm and can carry (I think) HVAR, Tiny Tim, etc. But the YaK-9 can kill tanks without needing bombs and can also dogfight well without abandoning bombs like the AD-4/2 must if it wants a fight.
NOTICE: I will grind the YaK-9K and see for myself on how well it does against tanks once they get the APHE. I cannot record (IDK how, skill issue on my part) nor take screenshots (I think my Prt. Sc key is dead.) But I will post my experience here in a few days as real proof.