Of course the clowns that use this plane will disagree, but I was in a match and 3 reds coming at me i took down 2 and emptied about 100 shots at this D8 and missed! I get it you will say dude youre a bad shot! Im not! This plane is a joke and unfair. It doesnt matter who uses it! Its an unfair advantage.

Well I see two choices here either zup makes that tiny ting bigger or he replaces the top allied plane with the d8. So it kinda evens thing out. Any allied plane is like a bus compared to it

How about it stays the same and we do some more practice to shoot and hit it.

I agree with you Rat, some of the low ranking pilots are having maybe too much advantage using the D8. I had a battle recently along with some high ranking pilots against 2 average pilots using a D8. The latter were having a great time shooting us down easily while we were struggling to hit them, wasting a lot of ammo. This plane should be balanced with the rest of the planes. Otherwise a lot of players will be forced to join only in the German side.

Ive been abandoned coumtless times from piots of every squad when i was allied. When the join back in, what do they have? That dam D8. Its not fair. I have the D8 and just wanted to test it out, with NO upgrades at all, I went 15-1 in a dogfight because noone could hit me. I seen the bullets get so close, and I wondered, y are these bullets not registering?
Its amazing withing some of the most skilled in the game miss u while u get to relax and line up a shot.

Maybe there should be an allied Monowing style plane. Just to even the head on odds.

Strap a sniper on the front of a crop duster and problems solved....lmao I agree hard to hit and when you do hit it your out of bullets

I've AVERAGED a 7-1 kdr in that beast. I used to be a pretty decent head-on fighter, now I'm a cross between Hulk, Wig, and Davy. I went 18-2! I LOVE this thing!

Ya.. I agree with the point that D8 is hard to hit. But zup has clearly explained about it. During WW I,when a new plane was launched on any side,it completely wiped out all the old planes. Game going little bit realistic.But It is upto us to prove that oldies are always the goldies..! Practice & hit!! No more D8 myths!!

Lo I must be doing something wrong, because I'm getting shot down a lot in the D8.

Ok folks just did some digging and found out that what we have for a top allied plane is not the best plane. The d8 is considered the best German plane for ww1 and the over all top.allied plane is the martinsyde f4 buzzard. Its a small bi plane the wings are close together with a top speed of 145 so.why do we have a variant of of the camel as top plane while it is considered one of the top ten allied planes it was not close to the d8 witch is considered the best of all.ww1 fighters. For the fact it was so hard to shoot and the maneuvering was untouchable. Bit there was an allied mono plane that looks like it could hold its own in a fight

The historical problem is that when one side brought out a new plane it did confer an advantage, but the problem is that the game is playing 1914 to 1918 simultaneously, so your new pilots in Aircos are up against a plane that would come out long after their aircraft was retired.

I can hit the D8 head on but it takes some concentration, and is much harder to hit from a chute at any angle given the wing profile. In an all star match last night against five D8s at once, three of us held for a good while, but I wasn't anywhere close to my usual KDR, and guys that I can usually trade kills one to one with had a marked advantage over my formerly supreme SE5. I went high to chase a fu... I mean, a tactician of altitude, and coming down chased a laden D8 around banging away at close range. Total advantage in speed and maneuver over the laden aircraft, which may have had two bombs. At some points in the swirl I had my nose nearly touching the tail and couldn't get hits. That pilot is a damn good one, and well know to DF, so there's that, but it was only when I could cut inside and get an angles shot at the top of the D8 in profile that I could register hits.

I'm a pretty fair marksman, but that thing is tough to hit.

To someone else's suggestion though, the only Allied monowings were early aircraft, French, slow and badly armed, so not a good historical fit.

Possibly the answer is to date the scenario to start, only period aircraft enter, so no more than one or two class differentials between combatants, as would be more typical of the front.

Rat Tat Tat! wrote: Of course the clowns that use this plane will disagree, but I was in a match and 3 reds coming at me i took down 2 and emptied about 100 shots at this D8 and missed! I get it you will say dude youre a bad shot! Im not! This plane is a joke and unfair. It doesnt matter who uses it! Its an unfair advantage.

in my case it isn't really the plane... If you cant hit it then that's your problem but I can mainly bring down the enemy from a far distance so it comes down to who is more accurate!

Ya air commodore's have a hard time hitting anything...

El Stupido and Becken let me guess, ummmmmmm You have D8's!????

This reminds me of that thread a couple years ago were everyone complained about the Fokker E.iii. Guess what happened. Absolutely nothing.

Love it.what a piece of kit..

Noobs anyways find sum to cry about... if it wasn't the d8 you would be crying about sum else, try flying more and becoming a better pilot, world chat and the forum don't make you good in the air... ya its hard to hit but figure it out like everyone else

El Stupido stop crying already cuz I know all you use is the D8. Youre garbage without it and I love your new name El Stupido.

See ya in the air ace

You got it El Stupido

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I broke the kill record for one game ,363 in a red baron it's not the plane , it's the will to kill!

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My monkey makes all the red tape at home and when he has time he prefers playing piano.

I wonder if i am not going to wait a little before using again the d8, do not want to hear again that im playing unfair ... !

There are much more new rules / each day in this game than new planes !

When i will have money i will upgrade the se5 to the max and get the radar signature of the d8.

Edit2 : my monkey is not my wife as it can be (mis) understood at the bdginning of my post ...

I guess the best thing to say is figure out how to shoot it down...I do it regularly and other pilots are shooting me down in mine as well. I don't switch to German just to use it. I don't use the Sopwith F1 that I paid a lot for because it is a "lead sled." Still use my SE-5a.

Otherwise, just dial 1-800-waaaaaaaa!

I must be unlucky when I fly it people seem to have no problem shooting me down, I find I'm still at my usual 2.5 : 1 ratio. When flying allies I don't notice too biflg a difference, it's no worse than a head to head with the old monoplane.

My 3 ways to hit d8: 1) go higher, turn and get it while diving, 2) go from low to high (and hope it does not get you first lol) 3) get shot, get chute, hit the wing with sniper rifle. 1st & 3rd method work best for me. 2nd method is high risk lol

And FGS: Do not attempt to attack it head on (unless to get chute). Attacking d8 head on is suicide!!

Rat Tat Tat! wrote: El Stupido and Becken let me guess, ummmmmmm You have D8's!????

yes I have the D8 and I find it easy to shoot down the D8. Like I said above you need to be accurate when your flying.. I can bring down the D8 with no problem with my se5a and that's like flying a bus.. think about it, a Bus vs a Mosquito. each plane shoots the same bullets just depends who is controlling the plane and who is more accurate

Great!! LMBO!

Rat Tat Tat! wrote: El Stupido stop crying already cuz I know all you use is the D8. Youre garbage without it and I love your new name El Stupido.

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Since your good at making up names let me think of one for you... hmmm. How about CPT.CRYBABY should work just fine. See ya in the air CPT.CRYBABY

That was weak El Stupido, see you in the skies El Stupido