Honestly, I think the biggest share of the reason people think the Meteor is OP is because of the performance of the plane itself.
That’s why I suggested changing the fuel to 100% to degrade the performance of the plane so that it has similar flight performance to other Jet.
In other discussions, there was an opinion to nerf the Meteor’s flight performance itself, but this is honestly impossible unless changed in War Thunder.
However, it is possible to nerf the performance by changing the fuel to 100%.
To give you a tip
Raise the altitude 1500~2000.
It raises the success rate very significantly.
I like that idea, if it’s not too much trouble they could also nerf the durability of the meteor as well. Make it easier to shoot down if you have the opportunity, but just as punishing if you get locked in a dogfight.
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I do that, I climb up to 3000m Lol
But why can’t you destroy it?
Considering Meteor’s performance, Meteor can’t keep up there.
So you are afraid of a plane with 2 100 kg bombs but 2 500lb bombs are just terrible even when they are low power ones which still are better than the 100 kg.
If think about Me262 and Kikka.
They always fly at the same time.
No
Is Even more i would nerf it Even more by standarizing it’s turn rate to the same number as me262 and su-9
Same goes to the kikka
13 sec thats hilarious compared to kikka with 15 and me262 with 16 all these planes need the same turn rate
So it’s possible just to change the fuel to 100%. (only Meteor)
Who cares about fuel it would worse the plane performance and btw don’t tell me that You are those guys who live flying 24-40 minutes per Game
And Even if it got it’s max fuel the 99% of times ppl would just bomb and then cycle infantery so is pointless to My view
Just changing the fuel only meteor will be similar in performance, and Kamikaze problem is the same for other planes.
Even in the case of the Meteor, engine performance lags behind other Jet, so it can be worse in every way.
And in this game, fuel is a bigger problem than you think.
Most flight problems on airplanes come from fuel.
At dog fighting sure, fighters that can’t blow tanks in br5 are worthless, 262 is vastly superior in CAS.
It should of retained it’s bomb load and just had it’s turn rate nerfed.
the meteor is used on the fighter pilot class, not the attacker pilot class
use a plane thats designated for CAS
It has amazing speed retention and acceleration
It’s anti infantry capabilities are still amazing
It outperforms every single plane in the entire game by a significant margin
Now at least it has a downside of ‘oh shit destroying tanks is actually difficult’ but given it’s anti infantry killing capabilities I’d nerf it’s turn time even further, though I am fine with it being a better fighter now that it has 2x500lb (since back when it had 1000lb it was just inexcusable)
Kikka technically has the best air to ground armament right now, but it flies 2v1 in BR5. I believe the Kikka is ought to be addressed when a solid attacker option gets added for the Japanese high tier
Bombs has been quite meh against infantry, ever since they nerfed those mini nukes years ago.
Even after that mini nuke nerf, I think they changed the bombs blast so that its conical upwards technically granting 200% chance of survival if you just prone outside of blast zone.
Against tanks ? Yeah, it works.
Which imo, is the issue. Murrica having the meteor that can deal both tanks the enemy team can have simultaneously leaving the attacker free to spam freedom rockets at infantry.
And while dealing with tanks, it can deal with the enemy planes too.
Considering the meteors current capabilities of being best fighter and having such capability deal with tanks.
They could move it to attacker planes.
Or, remove the bombs and it still would be best plane against other planes at sky.
A fighter class plane called kikka have 800kg nuke and 30mm APHE on it
2v2
Japan end game air vehicle is heavy fighter Ki-83 classed as attacker + jet bomber kikka classed as fighter
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the radial differency in blast zone is less than 3m compared to 1000lb.
800kg has more fragments in 1on1 comparison but meteor has two (2) 1000lb bombs so it actually produces more.
And ? Meteor still can take out both enemy tanks on 1 run and let the attackers spam rockets of freedom.
Too bad Ki-83 is just completely and utterly outclassed
It flies like a fighter but it has very poor bombload. Too bad it’s fighter performance is still outclassed completely by the Meteor anyways
P-47 at least has armament to make up for mediocre flying stats
That’s not how math works
800kg Number 80 Model 1’s blast zone is 1.48x than 1000 lb H.E M.C Mk. 13
The correct statement is you have to run 3 meter more to escape from kikka than meteor bomb
It is more eazy to escape from meteor cause it’s bomb isn’t on the center, I’ve done it many time with Ho-Ri against noob meteor player, but it is basicly impossible when against kikka
So one have guaranteed kill, and the other have max blast zone
Anyway since they gonna nerf meteor bomb to hell it is very reasonable to nerf kikka too
