4.11 F4U Performance

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Shaker

Sawyer presented quite a convincing case and did hours of testing and posting only to be met with general skepticism. I have yet to see any data from DT supporting the changes to the flight model.

The Corsair took a huge performance hit and we haven't even gotten to the Hellcat yet.

I realize that endless hours have been spent on creating this patch and for the most part it's pretty cool.

What you guys have to realize is that those of us who fly the Navy planes exclusively, we have noticed a huge difference. And there is nothing wrong with stating the "feel" of a plane isn't quite right. We aren't all modders or airplane mechanics. Not to mention some of us have families and careers so we don't have time to test out the differences between patches.

Besides I think no matter what evidence is presented here, DT will shoot it down. I've seen declassified documents which matched my so-called fan base site stats and they have been met with cynical skepticism.

Further more DT has not provided any data or reasoning as to why the Corsair has been remodelled.

I have found this whole discussion to be highly biased and unprofessional.

The only post where I found sawyer presenting his case was his testing of Corsair performance in 4.10.1 and 4.11 which proves that the Corsair numbers have changed (top speed is reduced). However, that doesn't mean that it was correct. In general the Corsair numbers are now more representative of the specific versions. So the F4U-1 versus the F4U-1A versus the F4U-1D.

In follow up posts by other posters there was official US navy documentation showing the performance numbers. So I went...great, lets do some testing. Turns out the aircraft was too fast in 4.10.1 (and previous) and matches the numbers presented almost exactly. Nobody has refuted that point yet... I'm waiting for them to tell me I'm wrong

The trouble with "feel" of an airplane is that it's precisely that. Someones feelings on what it is and how it should be. To some degree the feel has to be relied upon for an overall judgement on how good a plane is but you can't use it to say "it feels too slow". Often times between patches we've had entire arguments about planes only for a couple of guys to show that nothing had changed between patches... identical numbers pre and post and yet someone "felt" that it was too slow now. Feeling can't be relied upon as a successful tool.

TD didn't provide any data... that would be helpful in this discussion for sure, however, lots of other data has been provided. So far, in my own testing (which I posted about), that data that has been provided matches the new changes to the Corsair. Before the Corsair was too fast and turned much too slowly. Now it's slower but it turns much faster. I don't know what prompted it to be that much better in the turn rate (I'm happy to see such an improvement) but I am also pleased that historical numbers are reachable and not too high above or below.

I still feel like there is a lot of discussion and yet I can't figure out what the problem is. Yeah it's slower than before but that's not an argument in itself. It now more closely matches numbers provided (oddly by the people saying that it's too slow). Now what am I missing?