Flying America's FAVOURITE Low Tier Premium (War Thunder XP-50) 

Honestly I have never had a huge issue with the XP-50. Most people that I encounter think it's a free win, but they just don't have the experience to use it properly. Now running into a player that does know how to use it? Yeah, that gets really annoying really quick.

You mention how good the B7A2 is, I'd love to see you show it off. Its one of my favorites of late as its a dive bomber that performs like a fighter and has Japan's notorious turn speeds. A great plane to catch people off guard. No one expects a dive bomber to be such a beast.

Wow Ash you are really ramping up your video production

This and the Wyvern either need to get moved up to 4.3 or have their airspawns nerfed. They're not "OP" planes on their own, but where they get to start the match gives them a massive advantage.

the fact that this is faster, climbs better and has more maneuverability than the J5N1 that sits 1.7 BR above it is completely laughable. And the amount of people that still defend it is crazy.

XP-50 pilot's MOMMAS! You know fine well this isn't how they play Ash. They never fight fighters, but take a Halifax as high and as wide as you want, and just as you arrive over the first enemy base, an XP-50 will appear above and behind you with no notice. Aparently even spaded Halifax gunners can't see them within 1,000yds, or maybe they are cloaked space ships.

XP-50: look at my insane climb rate VL Pyörremyrsky: am I a joke to you?

There was once the air-race event when instead of biplanes u could race in ANY rank 3 fighter u owned, an the XP-50 was the one that dominated the race. Yes there were some planes that could catch it in the straight parts, but had to slow down significantly when they wanted to make the tighter turns the track had while the XP-50 didn't. Sadly I only bought it years later, when the 50% sales became regular (not that I needed it at that point just wanted to try it).

How to beat XP-50, Step 1: get plane with better turn rate step 2: win.

I think the sub-folder P38-J is slightly better, granted it's .7 br higher. But it's got a nearly identical climb-rate, rolls better, and has great air-breaks -- I guess id consider it a perfected xp50 Also, funny note about the real life xp50; it didn't even survive it's maiden flight, it's engines overheated and burst into flame.

I remember one german youtuber calling this plane as it released trash because he couldn't dogfight with compressed elevators.

You can comfortably climb at 20° and be at 7k before even spotting the first enemy bomber. The cannons are ... ok. The .50 cals have a ridiculous tendency to instantly kill planes. Not just pilot snipes. You can saw bombers and attackers in half with a single tap. It's like this thing is stuck in another patch. Now, aside from outclimbing korean war era jets this thing also outturns almost anything at its BR if you add the tiniest amount of verticality. Your mere existence is an energy trap, your sustained turn is completely nuts caused by the insane (one might say wrongly coded) power to weight ratio. You can turn of one engine and hold down S and still win. Excluding Spitfires and the japanese techtree, if you turn with those you are an average XP-50 owner. Downsides: limited ammo (kinda). I can lock up but thats also a sign that you are sacrificing to much energy and should be recovering that before reengaging the enemy. You will win any match with that strategy - excluding Wyvern spam ticket bleed matches. Your rudder doesn't like speeds outside the 320-450kph bracket - stay within that bracket by abusing your arcade flightmodel. Biggest downside: If you fly this thing, everyone knows you drive a big car for a particular reason. Also it's a premium. Biggest upside: Still not a Wyvern.

From what I understood part of the reason the XP-50 and it's predecessor the XF5F failed was both the army and navy set some pretty absurd requirements that weren't quite feasible, not to mention changing their bloody mind and tacking on new requirements whilst still expecting it to stay the same weight and size, with the engines and technology available that early. In the end it did pay off though since it matured into the F7F Tigercat just took some time and better engines etc.

I miss my serious Air RB days. Best I ever managed in the XP50 was 7 kills (maybe one assist) with about half my 20mm ammo and over half my 50cals. 1000% recommend getting used to seperating the 20s and 50s

Airspawns need to be severely nerfed. In low tier theres the yak 2 kabb, then theres this and at 6.0 theres the hornet. Everywhere you look theres some shitty meta attsckers just dominating simply due to airspawns

It's not the climb rate (not even highest at this BR), it's the 1.5 km advantage you get with air spawn

i really need to fly this thing more often

Its a crime that this thing still sits at 4.0, even worse when paired with Wyverns

I acquired one of these around 2019 I think, and knew nothing about it beside climb rate at that they seemed pretty uncommon. This was during the days when BV238 squads could wipe a match just by bombing, and was pretty much the US's only plane that had truly good climb rate to meet them in time. I think once that bomber meta came to an end, did it really become the menace we know today. Once that happened, players still climbed with them, and it came into its own by "stallfighting". Being able to use altitude to pick your battles, drain opponents energy, and continuing to maneuver on combat flaps while even Spitfires stalled out is what made the XP-50 particularly fearsome. Of course, now that the economy doesn't suck, I don't see the need to play premiums so much, so I've flown it maybe a handfull of times in the last year. Edit: It also use to be br 3.7, which made it even better.

Midnight Ash post!

3:20 Not that I think it would have allowed you to outmaneuver these guys, but in my opinion in an end-game, life or death scenario like this, getting the most performance out of the plane is more important than worrying about engine damage from overheating that you would take if you were still at max throttle(and alive) in a couple more minutes.

The fact this thing gets an airspawn is mental. It's just so easy to club in it because 90% of players will just try and stall up to you early game. Without that airspawn, I don't even think it would be that overpowered, maybe still a very good plane, but not OP.

ah it seems ash went to play X nation at 3.7 and raged at the XP-50 (deserved) at least we get a video out of it lol

Ash can you play T14 heavy it’s extremely fun a op for 4.7 and very underrated and xp55 is pretty deadly

If this can be in game, thee Focke Wulf FW 187 can be too.

my only gripe is the weapon placement, but other than that it's a great aircraft

Ive beat many of these . Even the skilled ones. Mind you i used a BF 109. Secret is keep your energy and get him slow and hungry

cool

More of a XP-55 player myself.

I don't hate it, just don't like it. Didn't play long on the BR it is on so when I met one either I died or was going to die already. Since I started to grind the bombers though, I never met one at all just saw some fly 8 km away from me Nevermind, the first one you showcased I never saw one at all😅😂

98% of xp-50 players will dive on the first strike aircraft they see, and slam into the ground. I can usually beat them in a dogfight, but the die more to the ground than to me shooting them. A true low tier pay 2 win experience where most people who've bought it don't have the skill to use it.

I got the thing for free idk how but its a good plane in game irl it sucked so ive heard

bullets nerfed.. it like 1 out 3 hits ..even if up its bumm.. terrible

have they fixed the economy yet? haven't played this game in forever because its just way too grindy.

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this is why I never play bombers I arb you can't do what bombers do when even basic fighters can reach you before you reach the target