HE 162-A1 useless?

[Granite]

Does anyone have any sort of useful effect with this aircraft? At its BR, or nearly any BR I can't see how to use this.
It's slow to climb, slow to get to speed, slow and unstable in a roll, has very little ammunition and turns like a cow.

What's the point here?

[jaxjace]

Its better in arcade. in realistic its pretty much useless. Its small and hard to hit with great roll rate. Its also more manuverable than most jets at or near its tier, but its limited ammo count, poor top speed, and poor climb rate really doom it.

Hint, play arcade and get it downplayed to 5.7
You still will get wrecked by super props but at least you can boom and zoom.

[Stubbz]

I'm gonna be honest I don't have any jet, maybe try playing it in ground RB? Most of the planes you will be facing will have some type of ordnance, so if you dive on them they'll be easy prey.

[Stellar Fox]

Originally posted by jaxjace:

Its better in arcade. in realistic its pretty much useless. Its small and hard to hit with great roll rate. Its also more manuverable than most jets at or near its tier, but its limited ammo count, poor top speed, and poor climb rate really doom it.

Hint, play arcade and get it downplayed to 5.7
You still will get wrecked by super props but at least you can boom and zoom.

people play air rb? that is the least fun gamemode any game has ever invented

[Granite]

Originally posted by Stellar fox:

people play air rb? that is the least fun gamemode any game has ever invented

They could fix that by having everyone spawn much closer and have nearby airfields, but have the aircraft fly like they do in AB.
Maybe this should be its own mode though because it would affect aircraft who are climbers

[Sobolewski]

Originally posted by King_Ghidorah:

Originally posted by Stellar fox:

people play air rb? that is the least fun gamemode any game has ever invented

They could fix that by having everyone spawn much closer and have nearby airfields, but have the aircraft fly like they do in AB.
Maybe this should be its own mode though because it would affect aircraft who are climbers

Nope. Bad solution. Rather, we need either bigger maps with more spread out ground targets that will allow for more climbing and sideclimbing opportunity as well as making it more viable for ground attackers to avoid greedy interceptors and get some score - or fine-tuned airspawn for long-range fighters with poor climb rates so that they can compete with faster-climbing planes like Bf109s, G55s, and A6M/A7Ms whitout being vastly outnumbered because their teammates either don't sideclimb or will get intercepted if they do because then there will be one one to be bait while others climb.

Whatever the problem is, making the maps even smaller and making flight models Arcadey definitely won't save Air Realistic.

As for the He 162 , it should be decently good in Air RB if you keep your speed up - it's an early jet and it's top speed still wrecks even superprops anyways. For Air AB, I have no idea - top speed seems irrelevant in a game mode where rip speeds while diving don't exist.

[Illusionyary]

He 162 is my go to suffer plane. The thing is just garbage, don't bother with it.

[The Black Raven]

Just gona be here with my 1.6 kd on the he 162.

[The Black Raven]

Wait wait wait, you mean the rare he 162 with the dual 30 mms?