I already spent quite some time with it, and I honestly love this plane.
It’s a wonderful fighter plane that’s able to carry out attacks on ground too.
I’ve seen so many posts saying that it’s horrible or flies badly, but it’s complete opposite for me. P38s are just candies and P47 isn’t even that hard to outmaneuver.
On additional stuff, it never overheats, you can run it at 110 for entire match, no issue whatsoever & if your engine gets shot and starts leaking, you can easily do 1-2 more runs, it heats up slowly.
the maxed upgrades are really worth it.
on a side note, personally, I find fw 190 to be a better fighter over BF 109/110, not sure why, could just be matter of taste. But fw just feels far more responsive and sturdy, plus it’s smaller compared to Bfs, so it’s harder for enemy to shoot you down. Also I’ve noticed that it can take A LOT of punishment before going down to the ground, I’ve once had like 80% of my plane yellow/orange, still managed to shoot like 2 more planes down.
Is there any reason why people tend to avoid this plane or am I missing something?
I hated the 109s due to the cockpit so I instantly moved to the 190 when I got it and I have never looked back ever since. The guns are excellent, the rockets are workable and the cockpit actually has visibility. The only issue is how the roll rate sometimes throws you off, but at least this time the weak link is a double edged sword where you can do something good with it as opposed to just having shit visibility.
although, i feel like it’s a bugged airplane. cuz, not only you survive, but it’s hard to destroy them. like, you see feedback on them of taking damage, but that was before he buff for my experience. so i haven’t shoot many of them down recently because of this mentality above.
( of JU being “better” )
( also yeah, forgot to mention, fw is weird in flying. doesn’t feel the same as wt )
I don’t like it because of how it flies. It’s basically drifting in the air (it’s flying “sideways”) and for some reason this is enough to discourage me from using it. Other than this, fantastic plane.
I was so excited to unlock the FW190 D12 in Berlin.
I triyed it.
And put back the Stuka in my roster.
I triyed the FW190 A8 in Normandy. Launch it’s 2 roquets, miss it. And try too kill a P47 that shot 10 roquets and one bomb to my base.
So I switch to the Ju188.
this is one of the main reasons why I like it so much, especially on open maps, you can just basically throw it sideways and shred concentrated infantry while doing 180 turn
The FW190 is great for killing the A-20 in Normandy and is capable of getting some good kills on the ground and even kill tanks if the rockets don’t miss.
Though honestly the 109 premium is truly the best fighter in the campaign. It’s 30m cannons shred anything and it has the speed and maneuverability to get about 100 feet behind the enemy that the 110 doesn’t posses.
I don’t play berlin. I’m lvl 5 or something. I can’t tell why but something there feels not right reich.
Maybe I have to give it a second chance one day as I enjoyed volks gewehr (?) quite a lot.
Absolute garbage tier fighter that cannot defend itself against any half-decent opponent. It cannot turn, it drifts for whatever reason, it falls from the sky randomly if you use flaps, it rolls in absolutely wild unrealistic way. Only good for shooting down oblivious enemies. Even starting 109 G6 is eons ahead as a fighter.
Yes I know; no bombs.
But it’s easily the most potent fighter of the campaign, allies side included. Nothing flies faster than this. It’s impossible to outrun, nor catch up. My main solution when a Beau (or any allied plane, really) is in the air and I don’t want to build AA.
(Flying is fun sometimes)
To be used only when certain the enemy spam planes. Otherwise, without bombs, you turn from lifesaver sky ruler to a dead weight for your team.
As for Berlin FW: I merely don’t fly here.
Normandy: I’m not a fan of planes in this campaign (even if they’re at their very best here) and don’t play here enough.
I also really enjoy the FW-190. It’s so nimble you can eventually become very proficient with pinpoint placing those rockets into a Jumbo, and it just all-round feels great to fly.
The Fw190 D12 in Berlin is solid because of the mixed bomb load of the 1x 250 and 4 x 50kg . Once you release the payload it becomes an excellent fighter. Its one of my fav choices the train map, where it pays significant XP dividends. For the Berlin city map itself, you have to time your flying to those times when the objectives are on open ground. Once they shift into the building, the plane’s effects are significantly degraded.
On Normandy, now that they have activated the gunners, there is almost no point in flying anything else than the Ju188 A-2 for its 6x 250kg payload. I also use the Fw190 for CAP, but if you have the gold the other worthwhile investment is the Bf109-G10 Premium because it is armed with the 30mm cannon with minengeschloss - very effective vs the A-20G-25, which is an abnormal bullet spong !
I’ve not “spaded” out the Fw190A on Tunisia and compared to the others its base handling leaves much to be desired. I particularly don’t like the fact that you can’t boom and zoom with it effectively given the underdeveloped damage and flight models.
I’ve been spawn camped by the 190 in Normandy -0 you never see it and you cease to exist 15 seconds after spawning in any allied a/c - guy got 7 or 8 plane kills IIRC…
It in fact handles VERY well in Tunisia. Probably because it comes without bombs. Being literally the fastest interceptor in the campaign, you can hit and run anything, without the enemy being able to retaliate if you do things right.
Best plane killer. Completely worthless for ground support (except if destroying enemy bombers count as ground support).
