Then the YaK-9 turns to the fighter and say, “Hey…If I shoot tanks why not use the bias and beat planes also?”
Yak-9K is the Russian copy version of the German Ju-87 G version with better speed and more ammo then the Ju-87 G.
Same could be said about Germany. This game caters to German tanks so much, you’d think they won the war.
In what aspect? Last time i checked, they are quite historically accurate in terms of implementation.
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IG, the part where the TIger II/Panther engine doesn’t break down every 10 seconds.
Just realized that you’re a great dogfighter that I want to be :(\
KV-1s is also running fine even though in reality it didn’t. KV-2 also had lots of issues due to its weight, no issues in WT. T-34 has immaginary RoF which it never had. And so on.
Every nation in WT has “faulty” vehicles.
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Oh wow. Same i dont see KV-1 and KV-2, or T-34 or Cromwell, or Crusader, or M3 Medium, or Churchill with reliability problems. Which all had major problems untill the very later variants.
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If they are so accurate, why did Germany lose the war? Clearly German equipment was not as good as Wehraboos think it was.
Because that’s not how the game works?
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So the Yak 9 isn’t OP by your logic.
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How is that related to german tanks?
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German tanks over preform, and do not have any of the issues that plagued Germany in WWII.
The Yak 9 cannon had issues with ripping the plane due to the recoil, otherwise it was a good tank hunter.
Therefore if the Yak 9 is OP because it doesn’t perform like it did in real life, then German is also OP because they over perform.
German tanks perform just like an ideal condition real example would.
That recoil is precisely what’s missing. You can fire several shots from it with minimal speed loss or deviation. It was not a good tank hunter because of all of these flaws and more.
We have a BR system for a reason which is the point of this thread. Also, nothing is known about its APHE shell and it is likely overperforming.
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And it is easily as known that it is under preforming. We can go back and forth about the APHE, but we will never know. You can cry for a nerf, but it could easily be that it is nerfed already compared to what it actually is.
Also I agree that it should get recoil, all of those tank hunter planes needs it.
Neither do they because nobody has been able to find any specs on the APHE shell, with some documents just calling it “AP-T” and the cannon itself being a dead-end.
Exactly what is underperforming about an almost perfectly accurate, low recoil 45mm cannon on a fighter which one- or two-shots any tank it sees?
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Who knows, surely not us
Has anyone made the case that the Yak-9K essentially out performs the cannon version of the Me262 due to it’s ease of use and maneuverability, so I could really sit at 6.3 given the role that it occupies.
Realistically, no one cares about it’s performance as a fighter, (no one is complaining about Yak 3s being undertiered in Ground RB for example) so It could easily sit at 6.3 and it’s performance would be otherwise unchanged, it’s not like tank roof armour gets much thicker between 4.7 and 6.3.
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Im using in my 6.3 lineup and is a beast. Right now is one of the most broken planes in the game by far!!!
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While this true for you, I think it’s important to consider that increasing the BR of a vehicle should come from it over performing in the hands of an average player, not especially skilled players.
Otherwise we end up with the issue of sub trees having over tiered vehicles on account of skilled player driving the BR.
I think it was Oddbawz or Oxy that pointes out years ago that uptiering certain vehicles only punishes the average player. He was using the french autoloading tanks as an example. The premise is that skilled players aren’t impacted by BR changes, if a vehicle’s battle rating increases, it generally won’t impact their performance. The opposite is true for the average or less skilled players who are in far greater numbers, increasing the BR of vehicles can render a vehicle unplayable for most people. It’ll be interesting to see how the popularity of the KV-1E changes now that its facing 5.3 vehicles, the F-32 76mm gun is going to be at the absolute limit of its performance now AS 30-40mm autocannons have more penetration than it.