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Offline JunkyII

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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #90 on: September 24, 2014, 12:29:11 AM »
ki84 vs f4u

the better pile-it will win.  sure on paper the f4u looks really good, but the ki in game is a beast.  Like lets look at the brewster...looks terrible on paper, but a monster in game  :rofl
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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #91 on: September 24, 2014, 01:02:24 AM »
Like lets look at the brewster...looks terrible on paper, but a monster in game  :rofl
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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #92 on: September 24, 2014, 01:14:07 AM »
Brewster is mediocre, at best, in AH and its performance each tour demonstrates that.
The people who tend to fly the brewster aren't normally even close to being a decent stick...
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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #93 on: September 24, 2014, 01:15:24 AM »
like bruh, if i see a brewster at 10k I run for the hills.  :rofl :rofl :rofl :bolt: :airplane:
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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #94 on: September 24, 2014, 01:56:13 AM »
ki84 vs f4u

the better pile-it will win.  sure on paper the f4u looks really good, but the ki in game is a beast.  Like lets look at the brewster...looks terrible on paper, but a monster in game  :rofl
Brewster's need la7s and p51s around to engage the enemy, then the Brews arrive and saddle up like heroes. If there are only brews around they are pretty useless.
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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #95 on: September 24, 2014, 01:58:27 AM »
Brewster pilots usually suck and haven't the slightest idea of what a throttle control looks like, so I let them get D200 spraying and I kill throttle and watch em fly by and snap roll their selves into the ground attempting to escape.

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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #96 on: September 24, 2014, 08:14:26 AM »
I've never had a problem killing Brewsters.  

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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #97 on: September 24, 2014, 08:33:48 AM »
it doesn't need further explaining...just fly one for a tour and you will find this weakness very quickly.

I've flown one... and I know exactly why it behaves the way it does, which has nothing to do with subpar performance. I also know your statement is false, which is why I've asked you to substantiate your claim. The burden of proof lies on you to prove the Ki-84 behaves worse than average (bottom 33-40% or so of all fighter aircraft) in regards to turn rate, turn radius, and energy retention.
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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #98 on: September 24, 2014, 08:46:27 AM »
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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #99 on: September 24, 2014, 09:01:33 AM »
I've flown one... and I know exactly why it behaves the way it does, which has nothing to do with subpar performance. I also know your statement is false, which is why I've asked you to substantiate your claim. The burden of proof lies on you to prove the Ki-84 behaves worse than average (bottom 33-40% or so of all fighter aircraft) in regards to turn rate, turn radius, and energy retention.

I thought you said you wanted him to explain his statement about high speed maneuverability?   :headscratch:

Have you ever recorded a kill in the MA in a Ki-84?

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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #100 on: September 24, 2014, 09:56:56 AM »
I thought you said you wanted him to explain his statement about high speed maneuverability?   :headscratch:

I asked him to explain in quantifiable, verifiable terms. He has yet to do that.

Claiming "no high speed maneuverability" is not only false, it's also entirely subjective and useless in the course of a discussion such as this. Had he actually pulled the plane performance statistics, he'd find that the Ki-84 falls squarely in the middle of high-speed plane performance and is actually very average.

Further, it's not a lack of high-speed maneuverability that makes the aircraft appear to turn poorly, but rather the fact that the Ki does not give up E easily. This makes it hard to slow down the aircraft to its optimal turning airspeed because it doesn't bleed very much E in turns. However, this is actually a desired trait in turnfighting aircraft... and the aircraft would not handle well at all if it didn't retain its E in this manner. Therefore, it actually has good high speed maneuverability, it simply doesn't bleed E quickly enough to use most overshoot tactics.

Complaining about this is akin to complaining that a D9 has horrible turning at low speed; the D9 has horrible turning at all speeds (and if you took time to generate for the plane, you'd find it's 3rd or 4th worst-turning aircraft in the game). However, it dumps speed so quickly that it can cause overshoots easily, as well as perform some stall maneuvers, giving the illusion it turns well because you can drop airspeed quickly at high speed. At low speed, you have no excess E to drop and its poor turning becomes apparent. This is a side effect of high wing-loading, just as a lack of speed loss is a side-effect of low-wing-loading on aircraft like the Ki-84.

All of that said, I'm not sure why people are trying to make the Ki out to be some kind of skilled plane to fly by claiming it has horrible performance in certain realms of flight. It's almost laughable, as if they're trying to preemptively save their man card. If people actually cared about planes that took skill to fly, they'd be in P-40's. This is just another thread where people are trying to make excuses for their plane of choice, as we all do; the only difference here is that it seems the people that fly the Ki can't even properly explain their plane performance.

Have you ever recorded a kill in the MA in a Ki-84?

Yes, but even if I hadn't, it has nothing to do with someone else having to verify their claims.
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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #101 on: September 24, 2014, 10:34:58 AM »
All of that said, I'm not sure why people are trying to make the Ki out to be some kind of skilled plane to fly by claiming it has horrible performance in certain realms of flight. It's almost laughable, as if they're trying to preemptively save their man card. If people actually cared about planes that took skill to fly, they'd be in P-40's. This is just another thread where people are trying to make excuses for their plane of choice, as we all do; the only difference here is that it seems the people that fly the Ki can't even properly explain their plane performance.

Yep.  Pretty much the point I was making as well. 

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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #102 on: September 24, 2014, 10:55:56 AM »
Well of course you find it amazing, it is basically a Japanese Spixteen, or possibly even better than that:

On top of the flying qualities, they seem to absorb about as much ammo as a P47.


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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #103 on: September 24, 2014, 11:03:14 AM »
No matter how skilled anyone in this game thinks they are, there is really no way to be a monster killer In  p-40 in the Late War.  I'm not gonna say it's impossible, or can't be done. But the plane just ain't good enough to handle the hoard.
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Re: Ki-84 vs. Brain Surgery
« Reply #104 on: September 24, 2014, 11:04:27 AM »
No matter how skilled anyone in this game thinks they are, there is really no way to be a monster killer In  p-40 in the Late War.  I'm not gonna say it's impossible, or can't be done. But the plane just ain't good enough to handle the hoard.

That sounds like a wicked fun challenge! Almost makes me want to resub just to do that.  :devil