best plane

[Soviet Ace]

Originally Posted by David603

I would pick a Spitfire XIV over either, and probably any of the two stage Merlin Spitfires too, but they are good fighters, and certainly a match for the Bf109 and Fw190.

The only later Spitfire I like is the MkIX. I prefer the earlier Spitfires just because after the MkIX, they got to weird for me.

Also, I think the Me-109F2-4 are the best. G's are to clanky and big.

[David603]

The Spitfire XIV is an good plane to fly. Handling isn't as nice as the Merlin engined Spitfires, but is still good compared to most other fighters, and the XIV features a good top speed and sensational climb rate. Whats more, unlike most fast and quick climbing fighters, the XIV has a decent turning circle. In fact, the only real let down with this fighter is range, and the possibly the way medium-high speed roll rates are only average.

As for 109s, my favourite is like yours the Bf109F, in particular the F4 because I feel the F2 is just a bit too undergunned.

[Yossarian]

Originally Posted by Almighty Blighty

On another note- NO DLC PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It just leaves out us people who don't want to spend even more money on LIVE when £40 for the game is enough.

Originally Posted by David603

Too late. Already the P47D and Ta152 will be DLC only, available free to people who pre-order but everyone else will have to pay to fly them.

Originally Posted by OntheCrab

...and only people who pre-order in the UK.

DLC doesn't bug me - what bugs me is when it has no value; whether its something tangible that costs too much, or if it just plain sucks costly or not.

I think it's almost guaranteed to happen, and I probalby would like to buy new units. I just wonder how MP is going to be handled with it. Will I be able to join servers with people that pre-ordered from Game or whatever ? I never pre-order, there's no point the shops are always full of game. I'm assuming that all clients are going to have the same content as the host to be able to join their server. It looks like if I don't preorder I'm going to have to buy new content to access a lot of the UK servers on day 1.

[David603]

I very much doubt that. The way an intelligent developer would resolve this problem would be to build the DLC planes into the main game, and when you brought the DLC off Xbox Live you would get what would effectively be a key to unlock aircraft already in the game.

Any future DLC planes would just need to be patched into the game at the same point the DLC itself became available to purchase. This would mean players without the DLC could fight in the same servers with or against players who did have the DLC, but only those with the DLC unlocked could pilot these aircraft.

Shame Eidos Hungary can't think of a simple solution like this for BSP.

[P38Lightning]

Best plane? I dont know, but I want to say P-38 Lightning. Im pretty sure it was the only mass produced single-seat double-engined plane of its time. And it was built to do a ton more things... it could climb faster, if I remember right.

[Pizzadvl]

I like the Messerschmitt BF-109 And the Spitfire.

[David603]

Originally Posted by P38Lightning

Best plane? I dont know, but I want to say P-38 Lightning. Im pretty sure it was the only mass produced single-seat double-engined plane of its time. And it was built to do a ton more things... it could climb faster, if I remember right.

The Lightning was a good fighter. Its combination of a high top speed, great climb, good high speed handling, good firepower, long range and the added safety of being able to fall back onto one engine in case of a failure meant it performed very well in the Pacific. Who cares about having a lousy turning circle when you can use boom and zoom tactics all day on slower fighters.

However the Lightning didn't really cut it in Europe. The Fw190 and Bf109 were as fast and more manoeuvrable, and the Lightning struggled to hold its own even as an escort. If the German fighters had been going after the escorts instead of the bombers the Lightning wouldn't have even managed a 1:1 kill ratio in Europe.

[fuzzychickens]

Originally Posted by Soviet Ace

Best plane is no doubt the Yak-3 or La-5F. Both could handle Germany's top fighters with ease.

Yak-3 vs Fw-190 A3 would be a killer dogfight to see.

La-5F vs Me109 F2 would also be a great dogfight to see.

In my experience online, the F2-F4 always won a dogfight if the LA didn't break off and try to get away. It seemed to turn a bit better at low speed.

The later models (G2 is still ok) of 109 just got too fat and useless for mixing it up and I never used them for anything but boom-n-zoom and I considered the FW190's superior for that job.

I think yak-3 vs FW190 A3 is a bit too much in yak's favor, at least in game. Seemed to me the Yak had every advantage - it even rolls with the FW. I never engaged yak3's in game beyond a 90 deg turn in a FW. Best hope is to suprise them when playing cockpit only servers.

[MAYAman]

ME-262 or my fav airplane of all time the FW-190

[Hypoman]

I think the Fokker G-1 or XXI are the sexiest.... Mmm, i must be Dutch!