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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Simon on January 18, 2021, 07:01:50 PM
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Yak3 is amongst the top in acceleration, climb rate, top speed, roll rate and its ability to absorb damage. Its small airframe makes it hard to land hits, especially with the stick-stirring warps exacerbated by the high roll rate and huge rudder. I won't even mention the 20mm cannons.
Sure, it doesn't carry much ammo and it's not great at high altitude, but neither of those factor in to its survivability. If there is any doubt, take note of the plane of choice for the most timid or survival-oriented players.
Perk the Yak3!
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Haha how many times will this come up!?
Maybe not perk but adjust the ENY! Oh wait ENY doesn't matter haha
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+1
truely a nuisance in the game now.
It's K/D compared to the spit16 and La7 tells the true story.
Those planes carry very little ord, not enough to do any real damage, and they are 5eny, not sure why the Yak3 isn't on the same scale when it's statistically much harder to kill.
Wish most of those super late war planes were perked anyway. Would balance the fights better.
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Maybe not perk but adjust the ENY! Oh wait ENY doesn't matter haha
Or neuter it, starting with the damage model.
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+1
Hordes of Yaik 3s are a common site now
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HTC perked the f4u1c for less and the F4u4 only has 50 cals ..... If it out preforms other perk planes then Perk the Yak.
Remember Kids friends don't let friends fly Yaks! (That's Hold over from Air Warrior).
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Yak3 is amongst the top in acceleration, climb rate, top speed, roll rate and its ability to absorb damage. Its small airframe makes it hard to land hits, especially with the stick-stirring warps exacerbated by the high roll rate and huge rudder. I won't even mention the 20mm cannons.
Sure, it doesn't carry much ammo and it's not great at high altitude, but neither of those factor in to its survivability. If there is any doubt, take note of the plane of choice for the most timid or survival-oriented players.
Perk the Yak3!
Cannons? It has a single 20mm with terrible ballistics. It has very limited ammunition, very short legs (restricted fuel), poor high altitude performance. With Wep the p51b and d/p47m/109g14 and k4/190d9 all outrun it. Then the next tier down are faster above 15k.
As you stated, it's flown mostly by timid players. They're very easy to deal with, I know who you're talking about - some of the BT squad. Those guys are notorious for their stick stirring and peril sensitive internet connections. But that's not the planes fault.
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It at least should be 5-8 ENY.
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a solitary yak is usually no big deal, but once they swarm its pretty much futile. Its usually the bts but they have some really good pilots and its still fun to fly against them.
its just such a dull aircraft to fly.
dont perk it, will end up with people calling for perking my fav ride, the pony, aswell.
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HTC perked the f4u1c for less and the F4u4 only has 50 cals ..... If it out preforms other perk planes then Perk the Yak.
Remember Kids friends don't let friends fly Yaks! (That's Hold over from Air Warrior).
Yeah, but they both can carry a couple thousand pounds of ord and rockets. I don't know that I've ever seen anybody do it, but they can.
That said, the Yak3 should be probably 8 ENY IMO. 18 is just not right. And for some reason, likely because they're nose mounted, on paper the guns might not be great but in game they seem to me to hit harder than you'd expect.
Wiley.
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I leave this hear, never heard any word from hitech on this...
https://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,400469.msg5308361.html#msg5308361
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A great airplane. All the Yaks are.
At least nobody is complaining about the LA-7 and Spit-16s. I remember those being the most cursed. Are the LA-7s perked now?
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A great airplane. All the Yaks are.
At least nobody is complaining about the LA-7 and Spit-16s. I remember those being the most cursed. Are the LA-7s perked now?
Nope. But they are 5 eny as they should be.
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Nope. But they are 5 eny as they should be.
And a 30mm round blows them to bits rather than just flying home giggling!
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It is the russian programmer HT borrowed from IL2 when the yak was created in AH.
Eagler
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And a 30mm round blows them to bits rather than just flying home giggling!
Landing that tater just requires a precise guess of where the negative G stirring yak is going to appear in your gunsite.
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The 9T had the 37mm right? I remember it being murder against Landing ships.
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I think I'm calling BS. Simon, who in a Yak3 beats you?
HONK!
Gooss
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Yak-3 only had 8.5mm armor behind the pilot's seat.
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Yak3 is amongst the top in acceleration, climb rate, top speed, roll rate and its ability to absorb damage.
Perk it please. :salute
+1
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Haha Gooss no doubt there are plenty of folks that could rock a Yak3, yourself included. :salute Lucky for us the better sticks mostly have some semblence of shame and would never degrade themselves to such a level.
Thing is the Yaks attack in bunches. They get their kills from other people's fights. They're not really dangerous on a 1 vs 1, but with their 'get out of jail free' card they can just stick-stir all the way home at the first sign of a disadvantage. Since they're so hard to kill in the first place, it's almost inevitable they'll make it to their ack, or at least to all their buddies. Then they'll come back and vulch you once you're tied up in a fight.
A quick skim shows a majority of the posters in this thread agree that something should be done about the Yak3. We only represent a small percentage, but it seems to be a consistent opinion in the game chat, too.
Is anything going to change?
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Haha Gooss no doubt there are plenty of folks that could rock a Yak3, yourself included. :salute Lucky for us the better sticks mostly have some semblence of shame and would never degrade themselves to such a level.
Thing is the Yaks attack in bunches. They get their kills from other people's fights. They're not really dangerous on a 1 vs 1, but with their 'get out of jail free' card they can just stick-stir all the way home at the first sign of a disadvantage. Since they're so hard to kill in the first place, it's almost inevitable they'll make it to their ack, or at least to all their buddies. Then they'll come back and vulch you once you're tied up in a fight.
A quick skim shows a majority of the posters in this thread agree that something should be done about the Yak3. We only represent a small percentage, but it seems to be a consistent opinion in the game chat, too.
Is anything going to change?
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Haha Gooss no doubt there are plenty of folks that could rock a Yak3, yourself included. :salute Lucky for us the better sticks mostly have some semblence of shame and would never degrade themselves to such a level.
Thing is the Yaks attack in bunches. They get their kills from other people's fights. They're not really dangerous on a 1 vs 1, but with their 'get out of jail free' card they can just stick-stir all the way home at the first sign of a disadvantage. Since they're so hard to kill in the first place, it's almost inevitable they'll make it to their ack, or at least to all their buddies. Then they'll come back and vulch you once you're tied up in a fight.
A quick skim shows a majority of the posters in this thread agree that something should be done about the Yak3. We only represent a small percentage, but it seems to be a consistent opinion in the game chat, too.
Is anything going to change?
I roll to a base with a small but decent dar bar. Get there in my P47. I see 3 yaks and La7... I try to keep em low, put 70 bullets of direct hits in the la7s and yak but they fly away with little damage of course, but eventually one yak3 easily matched my alt. We tango but collide and I lose half a wing. I dive away, now with 2 yaks and a la7 trailing. On the deck. I make it just about stopped on the runway, not before the La7 belines it right to me with 4 other of my friendlies in to engage, to kill me skidding on the runway so I couldn't land my kills.
This is the state of AH. Lowering the yak3 eny will not make any difference. The spit 16 still gets the second most kills regardless of ENY. These planes should be perked. The p51 is fine at 5 eny, but these others should be perked. The lame gameplay is just out of control with these easy mode super late war planes.
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Seems the damage and flight modeling is what needs fixed...
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I flew a Yak against a P51 last night. He made the mistake of not keeping his speed up and deck fighting out of the vertical. I can remember in the canyon map getting my butt handed to me by a P-51 stick who really knew his stuff and kept his energy up forcing me to fight "his" fight. A slashing vertical fight.
Not that the Yak is a stall fighter but it excels in a P-38 type fight staying about 200 mph and semi vertical with some altitude to retain some energy. Keep it at that level and your bound to get a crossing shot with the nose guns just like with a P38.
Im no good in a P51 but Ive seen guys just upend them and only stay vertical turning their energy into angle of attack and just spin you around. They stay so fast you never get a poke at them. Heck we had a Mossie driver, I forget his name, who would do the same thing. Starting at 10k and always ending back up there. Get in a turn fight on the deck with a Mustang and your fighting "his" fight.