The Me 163 B Is The Original Rat Rocket

[@kobeh6185]

I cant believe that tiny propeller on the front can generate this much speed on the thing thats crazy

[@0GTXR]

Makes it go so fast the tail is on fire

[@dhiaanthakkar9272]

no thats a power generator. the rocket engine in the back propels it

[@0GTXR]

@@dhiaanthakkar9272 re-read the original post, then think about why someone would write it. Then think of another reason why someone would write it.

[@shugie6350]

@@dhiaanthakkar9272yikes 😬

[@Tommy-qc4rj]

Reminds me of one of them little propeller hats. It's so cute

[@kunchenyu413]

Defyn is so good at flying the Me163 with his feet on the second monitor while recording the Mig19S on the main, can’t imagine how cracked he would be flying it with his hand!

[@suprfreke]

this is true, look up "defyn feet pics" for more info

[@smigoltime]

I really hope it stays around 8.0, it's so fun and utterly OP if you know what you're doing

[@Viktoronto]

I barely find it fun

[@pazdol4705]

​@@ViktorontoThe you barely know what you're doing 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@cat-tj1xk]

163 players belong on a cross

[@a.gabrielarchibald5291]

I don't like it because of the guns... you have to get so close just because these guns are stupidly slow

[@Viktoronto]

@@pazdol4705 I don’t find it fun because the guns are horrible and almost everything is faster than you.

[@TheDogThatBarks]

damn, that's a fast german superprop. The tails on fire from the speeds

[@Dragonyy-sb51]

for real bro... i heard that the prop is so small that it's super fuel efficient. insane...

[@IvanBaturaChannel]

The in-game efficiency increase from lowering the throttle is absolutely crazy. For example, the specific impulse of BI at 25% would be 1250 seconds, which is more than any rocket engine ever IRL. At 3℅ and 18600s, it would be more than any existing and in-development propulsion technology. At the lowest possible throttle, the exhaust velocity would reach 5500 km/s, which is ~1.8℅ of speed of light. It used to say here that rocket engines in game shouldn't be throttleable at all, but that wasn't quite accurate, so I removed it.

[@s_ziel]

the 163's rocket engine was actually throttleable after a modification was made. The first version was non-throttleable, this made the plane have low endurance, the plane took off and climbed at high pitch angle, then leveled off at high altitude, but since it couldn't be throttled, the plane quickly reached compressibility issues at high speed. This was undesirable and the german engineers added a throttle to the engine.

[@KekusMagnus]

​@@s_ziel but as he explained, lowering throttle was not nearly as efficient as in-game

[@hardspank]

The reason the 163 took so long to enter service was the delay in developing the throttlable ability of the motor .

[@s_ziel]

@@KekusMagnus True, but I was only talking about the throttle on the 163, I've not said anything about the efficiency.

[@J3Mul]

Where are you getting these numbers from?

[@kingghidorah8106]

Me163 is a godsend, but it all depends on your aim and discipline.

[@bruetel436]

I have neither.

[@topscranreviewsgames4248]

same bro@@bruetel436

[@giantskeleton420]

​@@bruetel436 i felt that

[@aerbon]

thank you Defyn for the asmr at 16:02 very satisfying.

[@eLeft6]

Easily the most fun plane in game. More fun even than the zeros.

[@taskfailedsuccessfully4791]

It's in a magical place, were missiles are shit, early jet planes turn like bricks and aren't very fast. No wonder it's fun

[@bornonthebattlefront4883]

Defyn Something you might not be thinking about when you talk about how many people just slam their jets into others is A lot of those people that do that, are fairly new to jets, I know I would do that, because I thought I had more time to dodge out of the way, but I would forget that I’m going 2x faster then in my props I think that’s why it’s more common for head ons to end in a collision from 7.3- 8.3 People are new to jets, they haven’t gotten the hang of it, and at least 20% of those people, will never get the hang of it, and will always dedicate everything to the head on, ending it in a collision

[@martijn9568]

If you can't safely do a head on, then just don't go into a head on😉

[@fkboyStalin]

yes but also KAMIKAZEEEEEEE

[@claudemontezin911]

Or, they are Russians!

[@tHe__Viegas]

Fuel: Leak Pilot: 💀

[@drkpheonix444]

"He almost hit the first tower, and I almost hit the second tower"

[@ironteacup2569]

Love this plane. The throttle is amazing.

[@charlesriportella5453]

I just got the 163 and it’s a total blast. After playing the bf109 k4 for about a year it’s refreshing to actually be able to dog fight and not just boom and zoom. Very fun plane. Thankfully I’ve had lot’s of practice with the 30’s tho cause you get only a few bursts😭

[@heliogonzalezsanchez8227]

Just play russia or japan, they have a lot of good vehicles and most of them are not bnz specialists like the bf 109 so you can dogfight

[@Dorm_]

the chat at @12:00 :D holy cow!

[@martinantab3520]

12:01 dude the question in the chat 💀

[@Eclipse-lw4vf]

Fun plane. Spaded it a little while back. It’s semi hard to use but once u get the hang of the fuel it’s insane tbh

[@Hotwire999]

When you were talking about how the rocket fuel is dense, I was expecing the "your moder" joke, but it never came. :(

[@no-legjohnny3691]

I've said it many time before and I'll say it many times more: I hate these things. It's a UFO flight model that's balanced by a lack of fuel and ammo, so a disciplined individual flying it has essentially zero downsides. There is no "counter" to this thing, you NEED to either have the speed to outrun it or the agility to outturn it, or else all you can do is cross your fingers and pray that he's dumb.

[@widewan7585]

Yeah I mean if the player isn’t amazing then they won’t be able to snipe you from longer than 600m away

[@heliogonzalezsanchez8227]

It's the same with zero's, you have to outrun them because they will out turn you, but does that make it op? No

[@no-legjohnny3691]

@@heliogonzalezsanchez8227 The difference is that the Zero is actually pretty slow. Most of everything at the BR of any model of Zero will be able to outrun it since it has a very weak, high drag radial engine. It also has agility second to none, not even Spitfires can outdo it. So you can always run from it, but you can't outturn it. But with the rocket planes, the vast majority of regular jets can't outturn but also can't outrun it. It's like a Spitfire that has the speed of a P-47. Are there a handful of planes that are faster or more agile? Sure, but almost all of the rest are incapable of dogfighting it, and incapable of outrunning it.

[@гига-нигга]

Lol, what early jet can out turn this thing? The rudder doubles as an air brake and they have an instant energy button

[@гига-нигга]

​@@no-legjohnny3691actually it's easy to outrun the 163, most smart comet pilots wont waste fuel chasing a jet that's already got speed

[@evantherccar8980]

Oh hey! Its warsix! A good friend of mine, we used to play like 30 hours a week, He was happy you complimented him :)

[@thewarsix8219]

Why are YOU here?

[@ignasanchezl]

I'm pretty sure the thrust to fuel consumption curve on rocket planes is way off at low throttle positions, fixing that might offset the balance.

[@fate3071]

Rocket planes shouldn't be able to throttle. Realistically they should have only an on/off switch because they didn't get "throttles" until the 1950's, and even then they weren't true throttles

[@widewan7585]

@@fate3071didn’t the 163 have an adjustable throttle (although I think it actually burnt more fuel on lower thrust somehow?)

[@fate3071]

@widewan7585 no, the closest thing to a rocket engine with a throttle ever made was an experimental plane in the 1950's that has so many separate engines that it would ignite/shut off individual ones to adjust thrust

[@ignasanchezl]

@@fate3071 I hate to say you're wrong, unless my sources are wrong, the HKW 509A rocket engine on the Komet B had a 2 setting turbopump and a mechanical throttle, which provided overall 4 power settings. And correctly so the fuel efficiency of the engine was worse on the lower settings, which doesn't mean the range was worse on low power, but less overall thrust was achieved for the equivalent fuel do to the nozzle being optimized for full power.

[@ricardoricardoricardoricardo]

When sabres were top tier and I was stock grinding mine, I remember being ganked by those as I was leaving the AF area under 400kph. Funny times.

[@salamber_guy3605]

it's the video he was making with his feet on his floor computer

[@nickytruck3063]

Ayo DEFYN it's fulldanad the La-200 that was on all your replay😅 It was really a pleasure to play with you and btw your video is AWESOME and very interesting keep going. Also thank you for posting those clips I thought you would forget me...💔😅.

[@barniem3148]

It's crazy how many players moan about this thing being over-tiered but every time I watch someone good playing it in a video, they're utterly clapping everyone in their path. Another great vid

[@jonas_k.123]

The people who complain are playing it like a jet

[@nightskyflyer2638]

buff it gayjin its so weak >:)

[@ИльяЖуравлёв-е9и]

A person who plays this game for a living and cherry picks their footage somehow makes a plane look OP? No f ing way.

[@robi__0768]

Consider that it is slower than 70% of the planes when stock. It was one of the most painful grinds for me

[@KekusMagnus]

They're clapping bad players. Back in the day, when sabres/migs were top-tier and skilled players flew them, it was very hard to kill anything in the 163

[@thebigwagyu]

“If you run into an F-104, you’re going to have some problems!” I should hope so!

[@fir3fox87]

Me163 should not run into F-104 and planes like that. That's so stupid in War Thunder. WWII planes against cold war jets.

[@thomascabaniss1709]

according to reddit, this plane should be 6.3 max because "historical matchmaking"

[@ironteacup2569]

Historical match making would be something else for Germany. I pretty much played Germany in the beginning just because of that…. Then I realized it wasn’t that way

[@smigoltime]

yes please let me get a 14 kill game

[@kwestionariusz1]

​@@smigoltimeHistoricaly if u would have leak in it instant pilot kill😂

[@ironteacup2569]

@@kwestionariusz1 Love the idea of "pilot melted due to fuel leak"

[@LarySeeAircraft]

If that’s the case to make it “ historically, accurate” fix the rocket motor so it’s either full on or full off no in between

[@movieboy6]

I have about a 4 K/D in the Ki-200 in RB, but the Me163 is so much fun in its own right at the BR it's in. Both are great planes

[@kwestionariusz1]

In reality if you had leak in this rat your pilot slowly evaporates😂

[@WRTartal]

Nice gameplay and evaluation. Personally it's still the most interesting plane to fly =)

[@miguelsoriano3323]

Another day where the old man uploads a video what a time to be alive

[@claudemontezin911]

Looks like the best fit for you at this BR. Very enjoyable. Like my tough French father said (being a prolific resistance fighter) "I hated nazis but i loved their mechanics". Cheers!

[@pinguspringus8356]

RATRATRATRATRATRATARATRATRATRATRATRATRATRATRATRATRATRATRATRATRAT

[@Trennerd]

12:00 "Your teammates will just kinda shoot through you" yeah i was seeing this in ariete when i was grinding f-104s (iam spading it now) thad my teammates will just shoot missle to guy infront of me missle 10meters away from me no problem i think once i got shoot down by missle of my friendly 💀

[@agiliteka]

It would be interesting if they made it very prone to exploding and catching fire. For some reason, the in-game damage model is rather robust, making a plane that is already hard to catch equally hard to kill.

[@widewan7585]

True the actual damage model is normal but it’s ability to wing rip might make up for that. Otherwise the 163 DID actually used to explode on takeoff cause the runways were so bouncy you’d just jump into the air and crash back down dying instantly, it drove me mad 😂😂😂

[@meezo9980]

rats? do you know what they do? they drive me...

[@PyroRaptor841]

crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A room full of rats. Rats make me crazy.

[@harveyweaver8853]

Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A room full of rats. Rats make me crazy.

[@Steve-s4b]

Rounds take 3-5 business days to reach the target. I love this jet though, so much.

[@kevinbarry3375]

I've never played this even though I've near all the German Air tree. I did get a free talisman for this so maybe might give it a go.

[@гига-нигга]

It's so much fun, you won't regret it

[@pyencdocde5716]

"Rather mediocre, C2B" bro is starting beef with a cult

[@DEFYN]

Half the cult is in my friendlist and they all agree so lmao

[@pyencdocde5716]

@@DEFYN I am currently eating dinner, save your cope for some other time, no cap!

[@ROBERTO-in2iq]

VERY HONORABLE plane (those who know will know)

[@Xiphactinus]

Very honourable indeed

[@FlightIsLife]

Same loop with some of the F104s... cool planes, not particular fun to fly or fly against.

[@fred3965]

Defyn why don't you have a video on the spitfire mk24 i'd love to see it

[@Blitzcreeper239]

Days passed without a 9/11 joke made on city: 0

[@NickDaMan]

Humble request to re-review the Mirage-2000D-R1 now that it has a gunpod and can actually be played like a fighter. (And Magic-2s have been buffed!)

[@ayc789gaming6]

Downside is you have to grind through the me 262’s if you are free to play

[@tobipolley3322]

yeah starter jets are a funny br right now, so many people will literally turn/stall directly in front of you, they literally could not try harder to get killed by you

[@szabolcsdorok-nagy310]

Hey DEFYN I'm hopping that you can make a video about the f9f2 again bc you made a video about it but it was 5 years ago and I would thank you for it

[@cesaralarcon5228]

I was last man standing in a 1v6 in this one time I took it out to try out the new matchmaker, when I was 4 kills in they just gave up

[@Mute_Main]

Pleaseee can you fly again the mig-15bis or maybe not again cause you flew the russian one like 2 years ago. I just really wanna see the subtle changes (if they have) to the gameplay. P.S I just bought it so no clue how to fly cold war jets(first one)

[@reinni2968]

10:13 Almsot recreated a certain historical event there, careful defyn.

[@xXrandomryzeXx]

10:11 NAHHH

[@Archangel_exe]

Hey, may I ask what's your gun convergence setting for the MK108s?

[@CrimpyComb]

I watch your videos all the time and just realised I'm not subbed. Well that's changed now. Keep it up love the videos your a god.

[@BillyCrabtree-ob6py]

German engineering at its finest.

[@schakalicious6023]

Irl they really just would blow up lol They lost a lot of their superstar pilots having them test fly this thing. It hurt the germans more than it helped

[@Manhwa18FYP]

bro you are very skill full

[@gameboosted007]

Dear sky God can you make a video on the swedish top tier viggen pls

[@Liams_Kebab]

flying death trap

[@thebigcheese1148]

Can you do the f80 again please I’m grinding it currently and I’m in 7000 in det I hope you consider it

[@Soarnea]

12:30 he's agreeing to the la200 right?

[@shakenbakejake25]

Serious question, is it a "pilot G" issue? I see your Me-163 taking these hard turns I don't even take in something like my Attacker, Hunter, or Harrier.

[@avisingh4958]

Defyn can you play saab 105 with only 1 gun pod, it’s one of my fav flight models in the game

[@EGGOFDIMENSIONS]

I am a tiny jet boi ❤

[@nichendrix]

One of the things I don't understand in WT is why they made this plane so completely unrealistic if compared to the actual Me-163. The real plane was indeed very fast and could get close to Mach 1 on a dive, but this was its biggest problem, it was so fast pilots couldn't properly aim on their targets, bomber gunners used to say that they were the easiest plan to hit, because you just needed to fire in their general direction, and they would fly directly on the spray of bullets and either be badly damaged or killed, mix this with Tha fact that most Me-163 that survived any encounter with the enemy would likely to die on landing, one can understand rstand why there were almost no working plane left when the allies took down the nazis.

[@vladdyboy6975]

I got myself a La 200 and i been an absolute monster in every game, it's extremely fast and climbs very fast and retains it's speed even in a completely vertical climb and i been destroying everyone i catched, then this bloody thing appeared 😂

[@mehmetozturk771]

I love how war thunder reddit consider this thing as over br ? It is literally broken OP plane that can only be countered by running away.

[@keithbruder960]

Welcome ❤

[@honzafrid]

can the same be said about Ki-200 ?

[@smigoltime]

guns don't hit as hard but are easier to aim, pretty much thats all the difference + you fight at 8.7 and you're just slightly lighter than 163

[@honzafrid]

@@smigoltime Thx

[@BasherBenDawg8]

*Sad Japanese version sounds

[@99redpontoons]

Once had one of these little bastards miss so many passes on my F2H that he gave up and J'd out. That's the way handcrushed planes teach you to play, I guess.

[@Domonian]

Does your decal not exist anymore? I can't seem to find it and it doesn't show up in my purchase history like others

[@JoyKazuhira]

the 2nd tower 😂

[@kokuszreszelek7242]

Where should I seek that logo on your left?

[@alexpayne2662]

in practice, this jet is one of the saddest experiences ever - remember this guy is actually really good at this game, most of us aren't half as good

[@fancythunderWT]

which belts you using

[@nokillkam-t7m]

Guys, he almost hit the second tower… 10:15

[@SharkMerchant]

Can one of you guys give me a summary of whats changed with the game in the past year? Took a year off of playing

[@lukapalatinus2162]

Well… it’s it good or bad ?

[@IS-3]

I am scared to play jets bc smigol likes to play this

[@forseir]

I find the Vampire to be able to compete with a 163 if played perfectly, you have to use flaps but I have out dogfought 163s in the past

[@DEFYN]

If the 163 is terrible and you make 0 mistakes yes its not upon you to win Its upon him to lose

[@j_tha_panther]

Tbh this thing handles like a mig15 but with 3 seconds of fuel😂

[@Corvusfromcentaura]

Tiny jet boi

[@KekusMagnus]

classic troll plane. They should nerf its fuel consumption and make it explode when its fuel tanks get hit. Wont be nearly as op then

[@Definitelynotasam]

the other one has Gunpods no?

[@SHALLOWISBACK]

Hello bro love you videos can you please make a video about f8f5

[@brooklyn4k759]

So I heard from your past self that you played the 163 with your feet this time around

[@TheRedMartian]

I just made a video on this thing, never had so much fun with WT in a looonnngggg time. 3 aces in 2 days

[@Oliepolie]

i cant tell you the number of people per match that just go directly into the defended airfield's anti air and just melt instantly its not just one, but two or three all one after the other its depressing and terribly predictable

[@widewan7585]

I haven’t played in a while how strong is this BR AF AA right now?

[@polandminigaming2456]

I recently bought the Me163 and i love it. Mini nuke rounds, fast af boi and agile. The only thing that is pissing me off in that plane is wing overload crash.

[@GabrielBerti]

just dont turn going vertical to the ground

[@Netherboiii5443]

Just finished researching it

[@bonkykong9442]

youll be trying and failing to chase the f1-oh four-get it's i apologize for my terrible joke

[@Phoenix1.s]

defyn i will touch you

[@Rakot.o]

I would like to see the La 15 please

[@brettheffelfinger10]

I've never flown this plane I've been playing for about 11 years and still are on prop planes war thunder makes it impossible to get new vehicles unless you spend thousands

[@azerbaijandemocraticrepubl9624]

Dude is solid balls as always.

[@dbzfanexwarbrady]

the only plane i have confidence 1v1ing a 163 is the Mk6 Canberra

[@yggdrasil7033]

Spitfire mk24?

[@mochabear88]

nice shlappin

[@5co756]

"Dodging shoots" , that's cause the velocity is just wrong modeled in game . The Mk103 has 550m/s , so in one second they travel 550m . One second reaction time and the shells reach you before you can even change the direction of your plane . And nobody shoots from 500m away , cause you hit nothing . It almost feels like the plane outruns the shells , but that's BS cause you fly also at high speeds . The Minengeschoss feel like Hans throw them out like a baseball , you can't hit anything at a range more than 300m . Maybe some balance , cause they hit hard I know . But the easiest way to bring balance in air RB , just make the planes rip their wings . I mean you can pull 9 to 12G with old WW2 planes and jets , not even a modern Eurofighter can pull 12G . And nothing happens , maybe the pilot blacks out for a second . With that you can balance this flying rats a little bit .

[@martijn9568]

I don't think you get what muzzle velocity means. When the bullets leave the barrel (the muzzle) they're travelling 550 m/s if everything goes correct. After that the bullet slows down due to aerodynamic drag. Hence it doesn't travel 550 meters in 1 second as it doesn't sustain that 550 m/s past the barrel, which are the drag changes Defyn talks about with these guns.

[@5co756]

@@martijn9568 Everything slows down yes , but not that fast . Even after a few hundret meters they still have enough speed . You can't dodge pistol rounds either and they travel at 300 to 450m/s . This is just pure WT BS , these 30mm are way to slow modeled . A paintball travels at 65m/s and that you can barely dodge , so I think you don't know how fast 10m/s really are . 😅

[@glovely4119]

asmr :DDDDD

[@Losowy]

J1N1 video when

[@princesspupcake1269]

So the other day I SOMEHOW managed to beat a 163 in a dog-fight... w/ an F3D-1. I think I only won because I managed to hit it w/ 1 or 2 20mils though it didn't seem like they did very much damage... it 100% shoulda won though because c'mon, it's a god-damn komet