Yeah I know I meant that the 12,7mm MG is GOOD plus the 45mm APHE is modelled as HE but with a lot of pen meaning that it’s also good at one-tapping planes.
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Just let the YaK-9K have HVAP like it did IRL so that it can STILL pen tanks but also require skill + many hits like other big gun planes.
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Oh, yeah it absolutely is. You’re goddamn right.
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12.7 DShK MG
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Is here any reasonable way for you to insult me?
Do you have anything sensible to say that is not ad hominem?
Do i really live in your head rent free?
EDIT: Yeah, thats what i thought
The 9K should be like the Tempest MKV Vickers P- the Tank gun(s) weigh down the aircraft and affect its flight performance a lot (turning and speed), the guns can pen but won’t spall too much requiring repeated hits, the gun should have a lot of dispersion, the guns should not have ahistorical APHE, the guns should create a lot of recoil that affect the aircraft. That would be how to fix the 9K without completely making it irrelevant.
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I don’t think that’s exactly a fair comparison.
The Vickers guns are larger, heavier and produce more force, since they fire heavier rounds at a higher velocity and the NS-45 has a muzzle brake while the Vickers gun do not (although this isn’t modeled in WarThunder).
The Vickers guns are also mounted under the wings in large pods, while the NS-45 is centerline with the plane, inside the plane.
The NS-45 should have way worse dispersion, and there is good reason to remove the APHE, but it shouldn’t impact the performance of the plane nearly as much as the Tempest with the 47 mm Vickers guns, specially top speed.
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It shouldn’t impact it as much, but it should still affect the Yak 9Ks flight performance substantially alongside being inconsistent with the spalling (HVAP or normal AP, theres still no proof of the 9K having APHE)
…apart from the Swedish 13.2mm Akan m/39, especially if used with its air target belt.
The 13.2mm is probably the best HMG in the game, but for 12.7mm caliber the UB is definitely the strongest. I keep forgetting that the .52 cal browning and similar exist.
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ive finally unlocked the Yak-9k and i fell like taking a shower after every match.
minimum 2 kills (often 4-5) every match, even as stock.
i was in a 7.0 match today and my team was ahead, half the enemy team was gone, 2 Yaks starts their magic and puf. most of my team was gone.
This is NOT balanced.
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remove its APHE, Give it HVAP or dumb AP like irl, make the gun be absolutely detrimental to the flight performance, give the gun bad dispersion, make it overheat extremely quickly. Problem solved.
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not going to happen.
this is apparently completely fine and balanced.
I swear, Gaijin couldn’t balance a plate on a flat surface
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At some point, considering the kh-38MT and this… you have to start to think its intentional
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Hmm I wonder what nation all these broken mechanics, vehicles or weapons belong to…
Start to think?`
ahem…
Yeah, well I was trying to be a bit charitable.
I won’t say more, as I don’t particularly want a forum break, but I can think of 3 reasons, and only one of them puts them in a decent-ish light.
Gaijin always seem to not actually understand game design or balance at all tbh. They leave maps in utterly broken states for years, they continually make horrific balancing decisions and then stubbornly refuse to fix them. War thunder is a success despite gaijin, not because of them. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally.
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I love the game!
If i didn’t, i wouldnt spend time and money on it.
BUT!!!
But Gaijin couldn’t balance a map, let alone design a good new one if their life depended on it.
And don’t get me started on balance and spaags among the different nations.
I always say they couldn’t balance a cube. :D