I heard so many 'good' reports on the ME 262. So, during the holidays, I unlocked it, and all of its parts. On paper, it looks amazing. But, when you fly it, it is terrible!
In every match I play with it, I lose 10 - 18 k so far, even on a win and premium account. I can only seem to do 7k combat damage on a good match, and she turns like a turtle! I can turn my bomber faster than this thing!
A breakdown on its flaws (they are many):
- It's guns are super inaccurate at distance, and require you to close distance, but by the time you do, you're already almost over-running the enemy, giving you very little time to shoot them down. The only way I've seen is to try to hit someone from behind, so you have 1 or 2 more seconds to fire before over-running them. FORGET DOG FIGHTING!
- It's extremely vulnerable to all types of hits!
- It catches fire if you fart too hard.
- I have to use up 2 or 3 consumables to stop the fires, or getting its wings/tail blown off in 1 or 2 shots.
The only things I like about it are the autocannons (if you have time to shoot them), and the rocket spread (really fun on bombers).
If I fly a Spitfire XIV or the Seafang, I can outgun this piece of junk any day, and make a hellova lot more coin and XP per matchup. So, this leads me to conclude:
- Either Wargaming nerfed the tar out of this plane because it WAS a good plane
- Or, they need to seriously fix this plane so it has a chance to do some damage to SOMETHING before it dies.
Suggestion: longer-range on the guns, with a little more accuracy, and a little more turn rate would be nice! The rest I can live with, if at least I get a chance to kill my enemy before they turn and shoot me down with 1 or 2 shots.