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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
I mean, they added this joke of a plane and some other stuff. And now Russia will have the best Battleship too, beating the Iowa, Yamato, and Bismarck.
That’s probably because MK108 has way bigger HE charge and fires more than twice as fast.
When strafing people with MK108 I usually hit them 7-8 times while firing 15 shells (1,5s of firing).
Yak-9k would have to spent about 4s to fire 15 times and would lose half of its ammo. Even if we assume 9k hits every time (not true.at all for most users), that’s still 8 shells so 2s of firing. Reality is, 9k gets the job done in 1-2 shots, and MK108 rarely kills in one pass.
This is a huge buff to Yak-9K, as it’s one of the planes affected. Basically outside of nose/engine/canopy and modules, nothing in this plane triggers fuses of enemy HE shells. Which means, SPAAs are modtly ineffective now and probably were for quite some time, as this community is not the sharpest.
Anyway, end result is, if you hit the wings or fuselage/tail there’s a huge chance your shell will pass harmlessly through, dealing no damage whatsoever.
This further exacerbates rhe Yak-9K issue and generally means many WW2 Soviet aircraft and The Mosquito are now.VERY hard to to kill.