I’ve just reach lvl 28 in Berlin and the FW190 D-12 is just a bad joke.
It flight like a heavy bomber, can’t turn, can’t dogfight or can’t do precise bombing because the flight model make it drift like on ice. Hopefully it’s not a premium plane, so I will not ask for a refound.
I’m back with my Stuka. First and last love of my life.
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Sorry have to disagree, I was part of the fix the FW club, since Normandy, now I got used to it, all FWs in this game are good, but the D12 is lethal, 30mm cannon chews through anything, IL2 gets blown apart with a short burst… 5 Bombs.
The flaps do not rip till 700, engage them all the time unless distancing… biggest tip I can share, helps stability too.
In Uploaf’s defense, I think the FW is great in air-to-air combat. I just don’t understand the behaviour it exhibits when I try to do ground attack with it.
Out of curiosity, do you glide or dive bomb with the Berlin model Focke Wulf?
Dive bombs, with flaps, easy kills…
yes FW is an excellent dive bomber to <3 But not as sexy as the Stuka
The plane is not made for bombing.
It will be a very good plane for bomber interception in high altitude tho.
It’s also fast as fuck. But it’s useless if it used as a Stuka role since you can not adjust your flight few second before droping the bombs.
Stuka in Berlin is one of first German planes ive flewn that actually has armor for once <3 Love it so far and the 20mm is perfect for strafing and killing planes. Still slow though but the armor and guns make up for that
I wholeheartedly disagree, Fw 190 D-12 is lethal, your just using it wrong and i will explain why.
You have to play to its strengths, the Fw 190 is not a turn fighter, its a boom and zoomer. So climb, give yourself the altitude advantage at all possible times, if there is any enemy aircraft, you will be above them. Dive on them, you will gain ridiculous speed, 650 most of the time, maybe even 700 occasionally.
Do not engage in a turn fight unless you are sure there is no other enemy aircraft and that your target is too damaged to fight back, Fw 190 isnt a turn fighter, think of it like a hawk or a peregrine falcon, you dive for your prey. Even if you miss your shot, do not immediately turn to re-engage, you’ll lose all your speed, energy and altitude which removes any of the advantages that your aircraft has, your basically playing into the enemies hands at that point. The fighters you’ll face are yak 3 and la5fn which are great turn fighters especially at low altitude, so i cannot stress this enough, do not turn fight in a fw 190!!!
When you reach your target, give them a burst of your one 30mm and two 20mm, they rip any aircraft to shreads and makes easy work of il2 but make sure you give the il2 a extra big burst so that you dont have to repeat the process because sometimes it can be stubborn.
When youve killed your target, pitch your nose up immediately, almost vertical to regain the altitude you’ve just lost. Because of all the speed and energy you’ve built up, your back at 1200 before the enemy can even react to you, they will be too low and slow to reach you in any capacity, and if they’re stupid enough to pull up and engage you, they will be a floating brick by the time they reach you and will be easy pickings.
Its bomb armaments are great too, i find the one 250kg and four 50kg bombs to be better than two 250kg bombs on the me410 for example, they spread over a greater area which gives you quite a bit of kills.
Overall i think its a great aircraft, i really enjoy playing it. I always end up dominating the skies with it, almost impossible for the enemy to deal with when you play to its advantages. Makes it hard for AAA to get you also because your constantly going above 500 tas, often deciding if the enemy team caps a point or not. So yeah i think your just playing it wrong.
O for fuck sake, you posted in an 1y ago topic wen the plane was bugged as fuck
