Why does The P-51D Have to Suck so badly...

[Clontroper5]

Siriously why...

Why has War thunder decided to make Arguably the Best Plane in ww2 a absulote Failure incapable of Out poforming anything on any sort of remotely equal grounds.


mind you this seems to only apply to the D variants, with the A ironically seeming to perform better at altitude and at high speed :/

[JackoFrisky]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZA9CfSiFtQ watch this... P51 is beast in the right hands.

[Mark]

Its just that every other nation is so strong by the time you get the p-51.
So the p-51 just feels like fail every time against any other nation.

[Parminio]

I have the Premium P51D-10. I love the plane. Truly, I do. But I never fly it because it can't out climb, out dive, out turn, out run or out gun a single aircraft it faces.

Most I ever got was 2 kills in it, and that was only because I was up against rookies.

[MootieFrog]

I enjoy flying the D-20. It is a great looking aircraft and the six fifty cals have a satisfying sound. However, there are planes at the same tier that perform better overall or at a certain area.

[Daemia]

Ah, here we go again. Just because people can't fly the damn thing, it doesn't mean it sucks!

Plane is awesome if you know how to fly it, and most importantly, if you take your time with it.

There are quite a few youtubers that have a video on it, how to properly fly it etc., and mostly all of them love the plane. Wonder why huh? ;)

[Parminio]

Originally posted by Daemia:

Ah, here we go again. Just because people can't fly the damn thing, it doesn't mean it sucks!

Plane is awesome if you know how to fly it, and most importantly, if you take your time with it.

There are quite a few youtubers that have a video on it, how to properly fly it etc., and mostly all of them love the plane. Wonder why huh? ;)

There's a big difference between a guy posting the one or two good games he's ever had in a plane and the plane being matched up equally with it's competition.

The American planes, by and large, are epic failures vs any other nations planes. The only exception is the P47D...and that's because of it's low BR.

Oddly, the P47 has roughly the same capabilities at BR 3.3 that the P51D-10 has at BR 4.7.

It's laughable.

[Daemia]

Agreed, you can't judge it from a video or two. But you can judge it on multiple videos, and people actualy saying it's awesome in the right hands! Practicly every YT that I follow loves it. It's hard to fly, yes, it takes a lot of patience, yes, it's maybe not the best tiered plane, yes, but it's still awesome. IN THE RIGHT HANDS. That doesn't mean it's bad, it just means it's flystyle is not for everyone. Once you learn how to use it, I guarantee you, you'll love it to death.

We've had this debate lots of times on forums. There will always be cry babies who can't do shi* with the plane, and there will be others that can't praise it enough.

IMO, plane is awesome. And speaking of, so are other US fighters.

Either learn to fly them. Or don't play US at all. Simple.

[Max Headroom]

The problem with the Mustang is so few engagements happen at it's working altitude.

First five/ten minutes of a game is climb, the rest is chasing everybody else down to the ground after they run.

It's not a bad plane if played the way it was meant to be played, but as others have said others in the same tier do the job better because of the conditions of the fight.

[Parminio]

Exactly.

What's more, it's pretty discouraging to spend the first 10 minutes of the game flying up to 22,000 feet, turning, and seeing 5 109 F4's and a few G's sitting up at 31,000 feet waiting for you.