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XP-50 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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[eldritchgod]

I love how most “strategies to counter the XP-50” in these comments require the XP-50 pilot to be inexperienced/make big mistakes

[poggergen]

There was only one XP-50 ever produced. It crashed into Long Island Sound on it’s 15th test flight due to a turbosupercharger explosion and was lost.

It was made as a land based version of the XF5F Skyrocket, And it was made as a backup to the XP-49. (beefed up P-38) Funny that the backup failed before the former, huh.

As for it being lost… It still hasn’t been found. I combed the internet for search efforts, and I found one. I contacted the person searching for it, and they said their next search is scheduled for May 2023. However, They said that in a 4 mile line of searching with a sonar device, they found 38 sunken vessels and whatever. So, I believe that the XP has been crushed under a sunken vessel since the 80+ years from it’s loss.

[sheabrockhoff]

Unfortunately, the only way to counter an Xp-50 is for them to be bad… a good xp-50 simply will not die. Ever. I still advocate for it to have its airspawn removed. It will still be above things anyways, just not 2km above going 400km/hour.

[Greasyspleen]

Matchmaker loves to pit you against these when you fly the Swedish planes. And it's just completely hopeless.

[FinskiePerkele]

The amount of toxicity a XP-50 can bring is the same equivalent of 2 nukes in Japan.

It's nuts

[Thunderbox]

I got this thing 75% off, but I have too much of a heart to bully people with YET

[Daakkii]

I haven’t played 4.0 props in a while and this thing is one of the reasons why. Good video tho

[MRtucnakCZE]

My biggest gripe with XP-50 is the fact it's getting spammed during events/operations. An enemy team, with atleast 2-3 XP-50s, casually killing off any friendly bombers.
Only way how to counter it, is to make the other player to dive and distract him enough, for a friendly to take him down.
It's stupidly OP for its BR, and while a fun vehicle overall, it's broken. One can't outrun, outclimb or outturn that pile of concentrated P2W.

[jaek_]

6:12 I think prototypes and testbed aircraft make some of the best premiums because they're often very interesting and war thunder helps bring some of these more forgotten planes to life

[TCWarThunder]

4.0 would be the most fun br in the game if this plane didn’t exist

[bigz]

My strategy (1v1, no else around to 3rd party) in the p63 or similar is to let them feel like a God being above you but lure them into matching your energy in a shallow dive. If they're even just slightly inexperienced this helps a great deal to counter it already. If their energy is much greater, you can reverse them although this shouldn't be the first thing you do.

[adoplwt]

This aircraft is crime at 4.0... And that's why I need it too

[SomeOrdinaryJanitor]

this plane was my second premium (first was the German Marcolin's Cr.42) and i bought before i knew it was stupid OP and got just cause i thought it looked cool. *O H B O Y W H A T A T I M E*

[koflynn]

I hate the xp-50. I hate it so much I won't even capitalize it.

[scumbaggaming]

One time I was like a kilo and a half above an XP-50, and he started climbing up at me to shoot at me. Admittedly, I made the mistake of not spiral climbing and making him stall, and instead dipped down towards him and dove on him. He immediately turned his nose vertically up towards me, and we killed each other in a head-on. He then started complaining in chat that I head-on'd him.

[jonnyboi]

Whenever I see a XP-50 in my Do-335 I just turn around because there know winning for me

[kidpagronprimsank]

I found most effective way to fight them is to use Swedish T-18 playing as heavy figher. So satisfying shooting them down, especially one time 3 of them, with 2 from same squad to boot

[snottytoe]

The AAA in biplane matches is an absolute scourge. So many players just die to AAA at the start of the match.

[Bdb-hptq]

Yesterday I had to fight a 4 man squad of xp50s in my spit. Luckily they all tried turnfighting everyone they saw so we ended up winning but for a moment I was trying to solo 2-3 of them at the same time which wasn’t fun at all lol.

But honestly I think the su11 is more broken. There are atleast some planes that can counter the xp50 like the j2m, but the su11 will stomp any plane(short of a f84g) in an uptier, and in a downtier the su11 gets to fight props

[jcasoriousa]

Favorite strat for playing my halifax, fly with my bombs enjoy life, see 3 xp50s, go full 180, fly as far away from the combat area as possible. Of course being xp50 players they only chase me whole game. Waste their time as much as possible then rip my wings and deny them a kill. Just gotta waste their fun