Oh my when I got this thing… after the first game I literally said “this thing is cracked”. Even stock this thing is a beast, and when spaded you’re basically OP
Ki-44-II otsu is my favorite prop in game. The way it flies, the armament, the way it looks just all works for me. It has very similar flight performance to the one you are flying in this video, but has two fewer 12.7s, and the 40 mm cannons have really bad ballistics, so that's why it's at 3.0.
The Otsu version is super fun with Ground RB , 40mm nade launcher and 2x100kg bomb is enough if you had the ability to tosses the nade launcher and bomb into your target. Great manuver aswell and since it's premium you could use it for grinding the tech tree without worrying about upgrade parts lol
I think the reason Mgs with HE rounds feel even stronger than cannons is a combination of exlosive damage being strong in WT, combined with good ballistics and a high rate of Fire. 20mms, especiallly at lower br's usually have Rof around 600-700 rounds/minute, while the mgs on the Ki44 have 900 and the swedish 13.2's a whopping 1080 rpm. It's why the italian breda's are the worst He armed mgs with their low ROF of 700 rounds/min.
"It's why the italian breda's are the worst" I DO agree .50 SAFATs are so bad that I ended up buying an italian prem to skip the italian planes from early tier 2 to the ones that have german 20mm Italian fifties have such underwhelimg damage that they made me want to tear my eyes out, they suck even against AI planes
I was grinding this thing and also other planes in the Chinese tree and I loved it so much. Then out of nowhere, I got a talisman for it from one of those reward boxes after you do well in a match. Now I have unlocked amost all the props in its tree. Will never hate this plane.
@@refractivity3388 Gaijin normally balances the exact same planes in different tech trees at the same Br, but they just forgot doing this once in this case
The Japanese ones were lower BR as well but after the .50 cal buff (they added the historical he filler) they were doing extremely well. Since a lot more people played the Japanese one than the Chinese it was the ones Gaijin received data talking about over performance, so it got moved up (while the Chinese still retained old data so it stayed at the same BR until now) at least is my theory on it
You may try some Japanese late war props sometime. I promise that they would provide you a great time. Such plane like the Ki-87 and N1K2 are both awesome. If you have time,please give them a try. (and well done for the recent videos! Keep up the good work!
Even at 3.7 in my opinion this gorgeous design is the single most undertiered prop in the entire game. It's max take-off weight is 3 tonnes and it has 1500 HP, no energy fighter can hope to touch it. At the same time it out-turns literally everything except Spitfires you can easily out-climb and Zeros you can easily out-speed. The only reason I can think of that this plane doesn't sit at 4.7 or even higher is because not enough people play it, which doesn't reflect kindly on the WT community as a whole lmao
The reason for the low BR (on every Chinese vehicle including GRB) is $$$. The Chinese client has been shut down so now they want to appeal to the huge market this represents. They are overpowered on purpose to snare more Chinese whales. Also, to the detriment of the Western world, the Chinese emigrate at record numbers, fail to integrate properly and maintain their nationalistic fervour in their adoptive nations, so Gaijin can also pitch their overpowered line to these people as well. It's a simple numbers game which Hollywood does as well. Market to a billion people and even 1% uptake means more than most markets elsewhere. Truly pay to win.
the i-225 on the ussr tree also has this overrudder mechanic, it is very much a gimmick with you almost going into a flat spin and losing all your energy making people on your tail overshoot instantly but at low altitude and when you have even the tiniest bit of damage its very impractical
I really love the ki-44, although I do prefer the better stability and handling of the ki-61 series. The Otsu is definitely the best as its the same plane at 3.0 because less guns lol.
I think instead of the plane being brain dead easy…it causes players to become brain dead around it because I saw some dumbass opponents there. I play corsairs and 109s mostly and if I see a turn fighter at high alt, which is where I fly, it’s almost an auto kill for me because speed turns turn fighters into badly flying kites and I’ll just outrun them in circles. I used to only turn fight back when the mobile game WarWings was out. Loved that game. But in WT energy fighting is just the way to go for me.
your average player until about br7 will still sit on the deck and try to turnfight anything they see, it's a big part of why US teams are such cancer before jets.
Man, that thing works at 5.3-6.3 br range, it is some misunderstanding that garbage like zero is 5.0-5.3 but Ki-44-II is 3.7. Ki-44-ii is better than all zero's, a7m, n1k's and raiden's, yet it sits at lower br than all of those planes and thats for japan disadventage as people have to suffer in garbage planes that are currently at 5.0-6.0 when real 6.0 plane is hidden at 3.7 for god known reasons. That thing climbs 28! m/s and 26 m/s at 5000m! Zero can hardly pull 19 m/s at sea level! N1Ks 24-25 m/s! and J2M3 is only better in climb when below 3000 meters as later they are even, and past 4000m Ki44 claps raiden out of the skies. Ki-44 can casually get to 7000 meters on bigger map before even first enemy clashes begin! And it has dive speed of 850 km/h! with little to no compression in elevator! A6M5 can go only 740km/h and N1K past 700km/h will compress beyond any limits that would allow fighting or targeting enemy and Raidens with such speed wont be able to pull out as their elevator compresses past 600km/h to the levels that you will likely just hit the ground, you will be pulling 5 degrees for each 1000m lost. Heck, even Ki-84 loses with Ki-44 in terms of climb rate or turn rate and wins only by its high speed which is enough, but still, and stall speeds? Ki-44 recks havoc among all those planes mentioned, that thing climbs 25 m/s while going 220 km/h IAS! I really REAAAALY wish they add Ki-44-III to the game so it gets high br, since right now i need squad mate to get into high br matches and thats problematic but like 16:1 KD so like yeah, it aint problematic for me, it is enemies that cries when sees me 😂 Gajin is stupid is not they? Zero Hei/A6M6c a fucking rock that forgot how to fly is 5.0 and plane that can swipe thru 6.3 teams and get ace is 3.7 Why did i started to play Ki-44 at that br? because of realshtter (shitter) that gajin added to make game (un)realistic. So japanese 20mm and 30mm (anything above 13.2mm) does no dmg, like noo dmg at all, u can put into someone 150 rounds and they dont care. its bit better with 30mm as it still can and will cut tails and wings, but forget about pilot snipe or engine kill/fires, it does zero shrapnel, so frame center hits dont do shit, Hit a Ta152H with 12, 30mm HE rounds and he shruged that off like nothing, hit a b26 guy in the tail, and tail fall off so yeah, zero consistency nowadays. Only low caliber guns work for japan (for germany for ex. all caliber guns work wonderfull, germany was not hit by realshitter "upgrade")
Day 33 of asking to play the yak4 at 2.0 Start by a dive directly at q base that has another base clise to it ( 2 bases beside each other) 4 bombs for each Go straight to your base killing some ai on the way with your 7.62 Some planes will come on your back going in a straigh line with minimal evading is recommended and try to hit their engines with ur turret since they have weak engines a damaged one will lead them to crash i return to the airfield with 2 bases with 4 to 5 ai kills and 1 or 2 planes after taking off i go for bases if left but if not i will focus on ground targets cuz aa is the bain of this plane so bombing airfields is not recommended Bonus:do not forget to have smoke always on to piss the enemies 🤣
Ki 44 supremacy. Also get used to china just having better stuff at lower brs. They got a T54 with stabiliser lat 7.7 and a bmp1 with tandem heat at 7.3. This is what happens when you balance by winrate with a techtree most dont play.
so you said these cannons feel like 20s check out the sweedish 13.2s they hit closer to 30s if you use the hef rounds try the j22-b i think it is with the quad 13.2s
Japan is truly a box of mystery. How could one nation make such good planes and such terrible tanks. Like look at the Japanese tech trees. Planes are dope right from the start and tanks (non American imports) are just garbage.
@@sottourr you mean diving? yeah, like that any plane outruns anything, but AT 4km (at this altitude) it doesn't, at least in my experience, and if u do a slight dive then goodbye chaika
Gaijin nerfed 1(ONE) american 20mm type (the M3), the AN/M2 is still OP and is still the best 20mm in the game. Japanese 50s might overperform (they don't, they have HE rounds, OBVIOUSLY they gonna hit hard), but almost all american planes in the TT are undertiered as shit, so I guess that makes up for it.
But why did it have to be the Chinese cop paste one. I don't care if there is a difference, I just typed this before watching the video coz copy paste sucks and the Chinese tech tree is 90% copy paste, so have a pre-emptive screw Gaijin
Because the KMT operated Japanese captured aircraft. The Chinese tech tree is great, you are missing out on some undertiered gems by not playing it. My sole reason for playing it is the A-5C Fantan and future F-16.
![[War Thunder, 워썬더] Ki-44-II병 리얼리스틱 (12.7mm 고폭파편탄)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FrBNaCTiOOg/mqdefault.jpg)
There’s something about Japanese machine guns, I remember playing the American ki61 at 2.3 before it was put to 3.0 and I could one tap biplanes
And do you remember how the American Ki 61 got down to such a low Br?
Hint: America players have nothing to do with it.
@@martijn9568 are you sure about that?
@@martijn9568 of course it has something to do with American players
I had 21 kills in arcade before
Yeah the japanese 50.cals feel more like 20mm
Oh my when I got this thing… after the first game I literally said “this thing is cracked”. Even stock this thing is a beast, and when spaded you’re basically OP
Ki-44-II otsu is my favorite prop in game. The way it flies, the armament, the way it looks just all works for me. It has very similar flight performance to the one you are flying in this video, but has two fewer 12.7s, and the 40 mm cannons have really bad ballistics, so that's why it's at 3.0.
Really like the way you cover the vehicles and come with examples afterwards. Keep em coming
as a former Ki-44-ll player i completley agree, this plane always brought me the most sl
"Really good climb rate" is honestly understating how insanely well it climbs.
Absolutely criminal plane, the only thing that could be considered negative about it is the goofy instructor.
This is my Favorite plane to go against in the P-39-N, it's almost always an engaging fight with this thing
The Otsu version is super fun with Ground RB , 40mm nade launcher and 2x100kg bomb is enough if you had the ability to tosses the nade launcher and bomb into your target. Great manuver aswell and since it's premium you could use it for grinding the tech tree without worrying about upgrade parts lol
40mm HE rounds are pretty useless for light targets though, or at least they were a cew months ago when Iast tried...
I think the reason Mgs with HE rounds feel even stronger than cannons is a combination of exlosive damage being strong in WT, combined with good ballistics and a high rate of Fire. 20mms, especiallly at lower br's usually have Rof around 600-700 rounds/minute, while the mgs on the Ki44 have 900 and the swedish 13.2's a whopping 1080 rpm. It's why the italian breda's are the worst He armed mgs with their low ROF of 700 rounds/min.
"It's why the italian breda's are the worst"
I DO agree
.50 SAFATs are so bad that I ended up buying an italian prem to skip the italian planes from early tier 2 to the ones that have german 20mm
Italian fifties have such underwhelimg damage that they made me want to tear my eyes out, they suck even against AI planes
The one plane that fans of Ace Combat would love. It out turns everything at its level
The Japanese 12.7’s are bonkers right now and it’s really fun
I was grinding this thing and also other planes in the Chinese tree and I loved it so much. Then out of nowhere, I got a talisman for it from one of those reward boxes after you do well in a match. Now I have unlocked amost all the props in its tree. Will never hate this plane.
Great Video, mate! I haven’t even started on Chinese tree yet. Thank you for this! We love you and God bless you, man! Keep doin what you’re doin! ❤️
Chubby back at it with the positivity! :)
The Italian 50s got buffed too, you should try the C.202
I have no idea why this thing has lower br than the Japanese one while being pretty much (if not exactly) the same except for way better camo.
Japan is often played by better players, so the stats for vehicles become inflated.
@@refractivity3388 Gaijin normally balances the exact same planes in different tech trees at the same Br, but they just forgot doing this once in this case
The Japanese ones were lower BR as well but after the .50 cal buff (they added the historical he filler) they were doing extremely well.
Since a lot more people played the Japanese one than the Chinese it was the ones Gaijin received data talking about over performance, so it got moved up (while the Chinese still retained old data so it stayed at the same BR until now) at least is my theory on it
I can head on a Japanese plane in a P-47, and the result is usually him cutting off my tail and tearing off both wings whilst I do no damage to him
You may try some Japanese late war props sometime. I promise that they would provide you a great time. Such plane like the Ki-87 and N1K2 are both awesome. If you have time,please give them a try. (and well done for the recent videos! Keep up the good work!
Also that outro will never get old. HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
0:23 it is the same performance which is why i been trying to get you to play it. And it used to be 2.3 lmfao
Even at 3.7 in my opinion this gorgeous design is the single most undertiered prop in the entire game. It's max take-off weight is 3 tonnes and it has 1500 HP, no energy fighter can hope to touch it. At the same time it out-turns literally everything except Spitfires you can easily out-climb and Zeros you can easily out-speed. The only reason I can think of that this plane doesn't sit at 4.7 or even higher is because not enough people play it, which doesn't reflect kindly on the WT community as a whole lmao
2.7 tons and 1580hp. Insane
This is the best plane in the game bar none
It’s got an INSANE climb rate and the Ho-103s are the best .50cals in the game no doubt
I just recently played the i-29 that I got from the drops and its crazy. It's like a Russian xp-50
Try the yak2 kabb, it’s even better
@@stormjet814 they're basically the same plane, just the yak 2 kabb is the strike fighter version that made it into production
This is the Ki-44 II.
This is indeed the Ki-44 II.
The most ridiculous plane in the lower tier game at the moment. Load the stealth rounds and you die only if you screw up big time.
you really said everything that comes into my mind when playing this, yeehae
ki-44 is my fuckin jam in air RB. The plane will save your ass, its better than I am as a pilot. the Japanese .50s with air targets, so good!
The reason for the low BR (on every Chinese vehicle including GRB) is $$$. The Chinese client has been shut down so now they want to appeal to the huge market this represents. They are overpowered on purpose to snare more Chinese whales. Also, to the detriment of the Western world, the Chinese emigrate at record numbers, fail to integrate properly and maintain their nationalistic fervour in their adoptive nations, so Gaijin can also pitch their overpowered line to these people as well. It's a simple numbers game which Hollywood does as well. Market to a billion people and even 1% uptake means more than most markets elsewhere. Truly pay to win.
My first game in this thing my whole team flew away from the enemies team leaving me alone which wasn't fun
the i-225 on the ussr tree also has this overrudder mechanic, it is very much a gimmick with you almost going into a flat spin and losing all your energy making people on your tail overshoot instantly but at low altitude and when you have even the tiniest bit of damage its very impractical
It is sooo good. My first day using it I got an 8 kill game
Japanese army marching in background
I really love the ki-44, although I do prefer the better stability and handling of the ki-61 series. The Otsu is definitely the best as its the same plane at 3.0 because less guns lol.
I think instead of the plane being brain dead easy…it causes players to become brain dead around it because I saw some dumbass opponents there. I play corsairs and 109s mostly and if I see a turn fighter at high alt, which is where I fly, it’s almost an auto kill for me because speed turns turn fighters into badly flying kites and I’ll just outrun them in circles.
I used to only turn fight back when the mobile game WarWings was out. Loved that game. But in WT energy fighting is just the way to go for me.
your average player until about br7 will still sit on the deck and try to turnfight anything they see, it's a big part of why US teams are such cancer before jets.
Just unlocked it but i am having trouble aiming with it, u play Vertical target on or off and on what convergence
Man… I use this plane to slap top tier jet on ground war lmao
Good&EZ to use
I like this plane a lot but its 3.7 now. still a great plane to get a talisman for
I had mixed thoughts about this plane at first and when I played a game after watching this video ended up with 4 kills them 12.7 feel like 20mm
Hey jet noob, why don't you try out the American fw-190 A-8? Its an absolute tank destroyer.
That thing is like a ki43 but better at everything IMO.
Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa
Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki
Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate
It is an evolution of the design.
@@FirstDagger not only but the rudder on the ki43 is fucking horrible and doesn't work at all if your going faster than 200 kph
Fun & easy to play??? that's THAT one Nerfed then ! 🤣👍🖖🤘🤙✌👌
hey I was wondering if you could make a vid on the P-51D-20-NA, I am thinking of getting it and I would love to hear your thoughts on it
Don't get that, its one of the worst mustang
Even the C variant is better
Hey jetnoob love ur videos i wanted to ask ur opinion on if i should buy the f5c or not
Can you make a video about the IAR-81C?
Man, that thing works at 5.3-6.3 br range, it is some misunderstanding that garbage like zero is 5.0-5.3 but Ki-44-II is 3.7.
Ki-44-ii is better than all zero's, a7m, n1k's and raiden's, yet it sits at lower br than all of those planes and thats for japan disadventage as people have to suffer in garbage planes that are currently at 5.0-6.0 when real 6.0 plane is hidden at 3.7 for god known reasons.
That thing climbs 28! m/s and 26 m/s at 5000m! Zero can hardly pull 19 m/s at sea level! N1Ks 24-25 m/s! and J2M3 is only better in climb when below 3000 meters as later they are even, and past 4000m Ki44 claps raiden out of the skies. Ki-44 can casually get to 7000 meters on bigger map before even first enemy clashes begin! And it has dive speed of 850 km/h! with little to no compression in elevator! A6M5 can go only 740km/h and N1K past 700km/h will compress beyond any limits that would allow fighting or targeting enemy and Raidens with such speed wont be able to pull out as their elevator compresses past 600km/h to the levels that you will likely just hit the ground, you will be pulling 5 degrees for each 1000m lost.
Heck, even Ki-84 loses with Ki-44 in terms of climb rate or turn rate and wins only by its high speed which is enough, but still, and stall speeds? Ki-44 recks havoc among all those planes mentioned, that thing climbs 25 m/s while going 220 km/h IAS!
I really REAAAALY wish they add Ki-44-III to the game so it gets high br, since right now i need squad mate to get into high br matches and thats problematic but like 16:1 KD so like yeah, it aint problematic for me, it is enemies that cries when sees me 😂
Gajin is stupid is not they? Zero Hei/A6M6c a fucking rock that forgot how to fly is 5.0 and plane that can swipe thru 6.3 teams and get ace is 3.7
Why did i started to play Ki-44 at that br? because of realshtter (shitter) that gajin added to make game (un)realistic.
So japanese 20mm and 30mm (anything above 13.2mm) does no dmg, like noo dmg at all, u can put into someone 150 rounds and they dont care.
its bit better with 30mm as it still can and will cut tails and wings, but forget about pilot snipe or engine kill/fires, it does zero shrapnel, so frame center hits dont do shit, Hit a Ta152H with 12, 30mm HE rounds and he shruged that off like nothing, hit a b26 guy in the tail, and tail fall off so yeah, zero consistency nowadays.
Only low caliber guns work for japan (for germany for ex. all caliber guns work wonderfull, germany was not hit by realshitter "upgrade")
Day 33 of asking to play the yak4 at 2.0
Start by a dive directly at q base that has another base clise to it ( 2 bases beside each other) 4 bombs for each
Go straight to your base killing some ai on the way with your 7.62
Some planes will come on your back going in a straigh line with minimal evading is recommended and try to hit their engines with ur turret since they have weak engines a damaged one will lead them to crash i return to the airfield with 2 bases with 4 to 5 ai kills and 1 or 2 planes after taking off i go for bases if left but if not i will focus on ground targets cuz aa is the bain of this plane so bombing airfields is not recommended
Bonus:do not forget to have smoke always on to piss the enemies 🤣
Can u play the Chinese premium KI-84 ko?
This thing was 2.7 br lmaoo 💀
With waayyy worse guns mind you
Ki 44 supremacy. Also get used to china just having better stuff at lower brs. They got a T54 with stabiliser lat 7.7 and a bmp1 with tandem heat at 7.3. This is what happens when you balance by winrate with a techtree most dont play.
What ammo belt is this?
iv played it it dumb op
so you said these cannons feel like 20s check out the sweedish 13.2s they hit closer to 30s if you use the hef rounds try the j22-b i think it is with the quad 13.2s
Ki 61 next plzzzz
😮😮😮🙌🙌🙌
Japan is truly a box of mystery. How could one nation make such good planes and such terrible tanks. Like look at the Japanese tech trees. Planes are dope right from the start and tanks (non American imports) are just garbage.
Definitely not true
First game i played with this i got out maneured by an I-153 p
yeah but the ki-44 outruns the i-153
@@rodrigovb1 not if he is from 4000m it doesnt
@@sottourr you mean diving? yeah, like that any plane outruns anything, but AT 4km (at this altitude) it doesn't, at least in my experience, and if u do a slight dive then goodbye chaika
Then you did it quite wrong.
probably the most over performing guns in the game tbh, meanwhile gaijin butchers american and german 20's.
Gaijin nerfed 1(ONE) american 20mm type (the M3), the AN/M2 is still OP and is still the best 20mm in the game.
Japanese 50s might overperform (they don't, they have HE rounds, OBVIOUSLY they gonna hit hard), but almost all american planes in the TT are undertiered as shit, so I guess that makes up for it.
Day 9 of asking for F3D-1
Nice video but too much talkative
But why did it have to be the Chinese cop paste one. I don't care if there is a difference, I just typed this before watching the video coz copy paste sucks and the Chinese tech tree is 90% copy paste, so have a pre-emptive screw Gaijin
Because the KMT operated Japanese captured aircraft.
The Chinese tech tree is great, you are missing out on some undertiered gems by not playing it.
My sole reason for playing it is the A-5C Fantan and future F-16.
The Chinese version is significantly lower BR than the Japanese version for some god-forsaken reason.
@@Tom-jw7ii China Bias
turn off the engine
bro this thing has ass rudder and turn it's very bad when you try to split S and all japanese planes should have axis turn
ur bad
@@thetaxikab604 ur bad at spotting irony
you didn’t filly anything and you didn’t put any “effort” in anything.
>Chinese vehicle is terminally handcrushed at lower tier than exact same vehicle in other tree
Imagine my shock.