Originally posted by Krusty
No offense to Karnak, but I think some people are totally freaking out at the "slow" speed of the Ki84. It's going to kick butt.
No offense taken.
I believe that we'll see a few changes to the Ki-84 in the next patch or two. Not to its speed, but an increase to it's roll rate, better roll handling at speed, perhaps improved elevator control at speed, perhaps reduced climb and acceleration (particularly at altitude) and perhaps reduced turning capability. Really the roll rate changes are all that I am comfortably sure of based on Pyro's comment about the roll rate being unrealistically low.
Once it's roll rate is better it will be much more usable.
Last night I was at the Furball Island in the MA and in a fight with a P-51D he dove away from me. In the course of the dive I actually closed the range from D600 to D200 and when were leveled out on the deck at about 450mph he was not drawing away. My controls were very heavy, but he didn't know what to do and pulled up into a climb, if he'd rolled and done a break turn there is no way I could have followed him. As it was I was just able to pull up and stay with him. As the airspeed dropped I easily shot him down.
We'll see how it goes.
