Yak3 horde, manifestation of newest noob ride

[mthrockmor]

A rough definition of a noob ride is something that is so easy to fight it takes zero skill to pose a risk to everyone. Clearly the Yak3 is the newest noob ride of AH. The frustration is everything is the Yak3, every where every time. Gone are the days in which you could up in a mid-war bird and have a fruitfull day mixing it up with late-war birds. Now, everything is disrupted by noobs in Yak3s.

I know, I know...the scourge will diminish over time. People will get bored of flying the newest noob ride. Begs the question about using perks to control the usage of something like this. A rolling, floating perk system so that when 100 people up 99 of them are not in Yak3s, without cost atleast.

In any case, I'll log for a few weeks and see what August brings. I see why people lose interest in the MA and only fly FSO or Scenarios. If I wanted this action I would sign up for an arcade game.

Flame away...

boo

[Zacherof]

Your missing the A5 hunting trip!

[lyric1]

Perk the YAK-3.

[uptown]

When the P40s were redone everyone complained about how bad they sucked...... same thing with the P39.  Now we have a plane added that everyone seems to like and folks still complain   HTC can't win for losing with some guys.

I don't mind the Yak3. I find them to be a challenge to fight and a good change of pace. It sure as hell beats swatting at Spitfires constantly. The new will wear off on the Yak thing and we'll be back to normal in a couple of months.

And Boo, I would think you'd enjoy some 109F vs Yak3 action.....sounds like a interesting matchup to me      <SHRUGS>

[Karnak]

I really can't imagine that the Yak-3 will remain that popular.  It simply doesn't have the firepower or ammo demanded for the task as it requires shooting accuracy that n00bs don't have.

[Lusche]

Remember when the P-47M was introduced?


Seriously, it's a new toy which players are simply eager to try out. A relatively high initial usage is the norm, not the exception, for any ride that's at least half way competitive in the LW MA. That's no reason to perk anything, especially as  "99 out of 100" upped planes are Yaks is quite a bold exaggeration 

[titanic3]

It's not THAT great. Treat it like a slightly lesser Spit16. Haven't run into any Yak3 pilots that gave me trouble yet. Lots of people don't know what to do with it.

[Zoney]

I've run into a lot of Yak-3's lately also.  I love em.  They want to fight, think they have a plane to beat you in and make such pretty colors as they flame all they way down to the ocean.  C'mon boo, if you're not a Knight, switch, join JG11 on our squad channel, wing up, and let's slaughter a whole hurd of em.  I've also seen a lot of these new "Uber"Yaks flying in pairs, what fun !  They are fiddling with their new shiny plane, staring at all the new stuff their new toy has and NEVER checking their high 6.  Guess who is there?  Go ahead, look up and back........................n o higher...............just a bit more.............there I am !

BOOM!

(tower)

[Fulcrum]

Been away from the game a few weeks....was looking forward to trying out the new Yak but I guess I'll hold off for now.   

I do plan, however, to up the Yak9T as I was flying it for several weeks before the break and look forward to seeing the changes.

[Gman]

The 190a5 is a noob ride.

[Lusche]

Numbers seem to be declining already . For example in the past hour, there had been 753 kills by and deaths of fighters in the MA. Only 33 of them were by/of the Yak-3 (and an additional 36 by/of the other Yak marks). And as I write these words, I'm watching the stream of kills/deaths and still only see a Yak popping up every once in a while.

As said before in this thread, low ammo count, no ords and short legs will limit it's role and thus numbers in the MA in the long run. 

[Reaper90]

 Now we have a plane added that everyone seems to like and folks still complain   HTC can't win for losing with some guys.

yeh, this right here. 

[Shifty]

A rough definition of a noob ride is something that is so easy to fight it takes zero skill to pose a risk to everyone. Clearly the Yak3 is the newest noob ride of AH. The frustration is everything is the Yak3, every where every time. Gone are the days in which you could up in a mid-war bird and have a fruitfull day mixing it up with late-war birds. Now, everything is disrupted by noobs in Yak3s.

I know, I know...the scourge will diminish over time. People will get bored of flying the newest noob ride. Begs the question about using perks to control the usage of something like this. A rolling, floating perk system so that when 100 people up 99 of them are not in Yak3s, without cost atleast.

In any case, I'll log for a few weeks and see what August brings. I see why people lose interest in the MA and only fly FSO or Scenarios. If I wanted this action I would sign up for an arcade game.

Flame away...

boo

[aztec]

Been a Yak Fanatic for 14 years....alone....now people whining about Yaks.

[Daddkev]

  Right Aztec...me too!