War Thunder?

[katmai]

Shortest "this is great to fucking filthy dev's" post by Seedy evah!

[CountDeMoney]

I has Buffaloes.  TATAUNKA

[CountDeMoney]

I has an OS2U-1 Kingfisher.  grumbler is the tail gunner.

[Ed Anger]

Filthy fucking nigger Russian designers.

[Razgovory]

I'll give it a shot.

[Razgovory]

I shot down an enemy plane, and severely damaged a mountain twice with a kinetic impact!

[Razgovory]

I led my team with six kills on my second try.  I still have no idea what the fuck I'm doing.  It kept telling me to capture something.  I have no idea how to take prisoners in an airplane.

[CountDeMoney]

Now that I have my Dauntless, dive bombing is fun.

Although I've noticed in the match queues, the line that seems to be played the least are the Japanese.  That's odd.

[Razgovory]

What kind of matches you playing?  I've only done the arcade ones.  I don't have a joy stick, so I haven't tried the historical and realistic ones.  Does seem absurd to be flying through the mountains trying to blow up tanks with a PBY Catalina or a Kingfisher.  I keep thinking, "Gee I bet this plane would be much faster if I didn't have this enormous float underneath.", then some Russian asshole shoots me down in a biplane.

[Lettow77]

Although I've noticed in the match queues, the line that seems to be played the least are the Japanese.  That's odd.

Odd until you play the Japanese, maybe. The Zero got mauled with the last major patch, and has been more or less unusable since. Even before then, Japan was the least played- they have the fewest planes, the worst bombers, and just aren't competitive once it gets around level 9 or so.

[Razgovory]

I'm going to bet the Russians have the best fighters and bombers.  Just a guess.

[CountDeMoney]

That's a shame about the Japanese planes.  I really wanted to trick out a Zero, but like so many other video games, the designers took to heart the rumors of how exactly fragile silk and balsa wood must me.

Raz, bombing in a PBY is fun as balls.  More productive than you think.

[Lettow77]

 the PBY is absolutely ridiculously durable. In historical mode on pacific maps (before they were removed for how impossible carrier landing was..) their combination of resilience and capacity to land beside rather than on top of carriers made them the best thing either side could field anywhere near their tier level.

Edit: Sure enough though, in a previous patch the russians could buy the PBY as a premium plane, except it was only level 1, so you were matching against biplanes. It was as ludicrous as it sounds; Russia had the best bomber by way of getting America's bomber before it could. In keeping with the trend, America can buy a level 6 Japanese plane even in the present patch, and fly it at level 4 instead. The joke's on him though, because America's level 4 fighter is far better than Japan's level 6 fighter post-nerf, with better turning ability and much better armament, and all of 3 km/h slower.

The Hayabusa is a level 2 plane and was mighty before the massive, nearly all-encompassing nerf on Japanese planes. It was comparatively lightly hit, and is likely Japan's best fighter until you get up as high as the N1K. It scales well, and can down seemingly much better planes like the Yak-9 or the ME-109 somewhat reliably.

[Razgovory]

I've had mixed results with the PBY.  High level bombing doesn't seem to work well, but coming in low isn't bad.  Unfortunately I'll always end up with one or two guys shooting the shit out me.  Just got me P-40 which is a huge improvement.  I can buy the Dauntless but haven't done so yet.

I really hate those fucking Russian biplanes.  The ones with the four machine guns.

[CountDeMoney]

I dive bomb with my PBY.  Easier than using the bomb sight, and scares the fuck out of the crew.