Gaijin Made a Mistake Lowering This Abomination to 4.7 | F8F-1 Bearcat Review | War Thunder Air RB

The Bad MER honestly makes it great for baiting most planes into a slow speed fight whilst still having good top-speed against planes you REALLY can't do that against.

I beat a Spitfire Mk IX in a dogfight because the plane would lose speed quickly but then float around because the sheer amount of 'fuck you' power allowed me to essentially move where I wanted to.
Also, the plane doesn't produce 3000hp. In game testing it produces 2500 at "Normal speeds" Most I've gotten is up to 2700 by going almost 640kmh at low alt.. It did have another manifold pressure allowing it to produce an extra 200 horsepower, but gaijin basically said "Fuck you, no."

Even if you change the Game or something someday, your style of producing videos in such Great detail is Great!! I am Shure that is a real skill and You will find a way to use it for good :D

It would be quite funny to see a cannonstang video

Any thoughts about MB.5?

I think 4.7 is fair for most people. Guns matter in this game. I’m an experienced player who has been playing this game since 2015 probably. I do far better in the yak 3p at a higher BR than the yak 3 because the ability to one tap opponents in a short firing window is really important. Maybe not for the most skilled people with the best aim and ping but it does matter for the majority of other players. 4 50 cals is really anemic at that BR.

The lack of good rudder control at high speed is a major detriment too. Especially for a plane that goes fast. Good high speed maneuverability would be great to use against yaks since they rip so soon. But you can’t do that fully with the bearcat due to compression.

Finally the need to have to use MEC to stop the engine overcooking is a major downside. Most people don’t use MEC in this game. Even I personally don’t use it since 2017 because I keep forgetting how to set it up again after all those years. If the plane cooks itself while using auto engine control, it’s not for everyone. The yaks for example don’t need any engine management at all. You just have to take them out and fly them.

This thing overheats like crazy even on 95% of throttle and it have no rudder.
Yeah cool video, bult learning curve is not too entertaining.

US Plane...P39N at 2.7...D520 at 3.0 Gaijin teams are drunk all day long at work...

I love that you put up MEC settings in your videos :)

This thing is an absolutely nutty allrounder at its BR, since it can use its own tools to outperform its adversaries weaknesses. The frontal canopy could be better in sim, but that's about all I can complain about.

This plane is nasty in the sense that it too fast for it's br (not count the cancer wyvern) it's doesn't really stall either, bad MER can be abused to your advantage.

This thing fight something like La-5 FN, spritfire Mk2B, A6M2. Good job gaijoob.

What is Gaijin even smoking?

Yeah dam murder played it, then got br changed, got 106 kills, and 4 deaths lol

Congrats on 2.5k Mac

Loved this plane but the guns let it down.

Will there be a controls and binds video in the near future? Love the vids bro

Beercan can face 3.7 planes? Gayjob at it's finest.

The AoA the F8F is capable of is incredibly fun

I took an N1K2 by surprise using it, but his speed was equal to a biplane when i engaged him

Was using the F8F-1B

I tried this plane after the by change and I've never spaded a plane so fast. People who say it should be at 4.7 are on drugs.

This thing and the wyvern SHOULD NOT be in 4.0 lobbies…

.50cals have no right to blow off wings as often as they do 😂

Is there like a spreadsheet of listed mec settings of all planes

It's like the reverse Ta152H. Incredibly bad MER, incredibly good climb and speed.

It looks like one of those funny egg planes

this plane is so bullshit man

You aren’t kidding about the bearcat being fragile

MOM IM ON TV!!! Man clutched that frontline game.

When Lincoln?

Only Mac can kill 3 people with 100 rounds of .50 cal

abomie nayshn