Hurricane reigns supreme online (why??)

[kozzm0]

I play the ps3 but I've faced a bunch of Hurricanes online and I have a hunch the matches you're talking about were unlimited ammo.

If so, that's the reason they do so good... what I've seen so far is the online is dominated by decent turners with machine guns. With unlimited ammo, using machine guns gives you a much greater number of chances to hit and do a bit of damage from far away. The Hurricane especially covers a huge amount of target profile with its guns. You can fire from much farther away than normal, before you're close enough for the target to effectively break out of plane, and if you can nick the target a couple times, it's easy to close in for the kill.

It does seem like the Hurricane overperforms in level turns, but it is a slow plane... a lot of people fly their planes too fast and expect to turn the corner on a much slower plane, when they should go 3-D first to slow down. Not implying that you all do, but it's pretty common.

Too bad limited ammo never works... there's no penalty for just crashing and respawning.