The Ki83 is a terrible aircraft, it needs to get buffed or moved down to 5.7

boeing just runs on bad takes though

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You’d be surprised how many kills you score with twin Breda MGs.

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you’re wrong in everything lmao, tell me how on earth 550 TAS at 4km of altitude is faster than the LF Mk9

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the fact the echo chamber of the community disagrees with me doesn’t mean they’re bad takes.

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yeah cannons i noticed are as good as usual but some matches the server or netcode decides to not make them do any damage whereas Breda Safats and Ho-103s are amazing with their HE filler rounds.

Well, it’s funnier actually. Shells do damage, just a lot less. Look up this and next few posts, including the video, there is damage, there’s hit detection, Gaijin just decides the damage is 1/3 to 1/5th of what it should be in some cases and it affects everything you fire for quite some time.
IMO in some matches the game is rigged for 1 side to have a much greater chance to win:

you’re right, it’s the whole just being a bad take anyway that makes it a bad take

You’re so unbearable it’s annoying. I went ahead and tested them out myself.

Ki-83:
581 IAS/ 586 TAS @ 150m
552 IAS/ 642 TAS @ 3025m
507 IAS/ 691 TAS @ 6025m
Lf MkIX:
564 IAS/ 568 TAS @ 155m
518 IAS/ 602 TAS @ 3030m
478 IAS/ 653 TAS @ 6040m
Conditions:
Test flight was used
Ki-83 set to min fuel, Spitfire set to 20mins
AEC was used.
Airspawns were used (for example, to test out SL top speed, I spawned at 3km then dove.)

Before this, I used MOBB’s top speed charts, then after that, the top speed docs. Did you even test out whatever you’re saying at all?

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this is chill asf though

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Statshark isn’t too accurate for props, but it can give a quick prediction as to what’s really happening.
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Statshark also promises higher maintained speeds during climbs for the Ki-83
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statshark and real scenarios aren’t compatible.

yes, i tested it out, and yes, your test shows that the ki83 is one of the slowest rank4 fighters. The Spitfire might be slower, but it is much more versatile (and in fact one of the best rank 4 fighters in the game)
THe Ki83 is a brick with little engine survivality and a huge fragile target, which gives it a very bad diving acceleration and compression. The Ki83 also has very bad guns, known for their late fuse action.

thats normal

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How is it normal that a heavy fighter with self sealing fuel tanks has more fragility than a rank 1 biplane?

Which one though? the Merlins are a little slow, but the Griffons will give most planes a run for their money, for a minor cost of turn and climb rates.

The explosions are due to the lack of neutral gas pressurization, with out it a partially empty tank is just a fuel air explosive waiting for a spark to set it off.
I do think most airframes in game are far to fragile though.

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im just saying its normal for 50cals to hit way harder than they should

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ah ok lmao sorry

Went into a match with it, people do not at all know how to fight it.

These planes are designed for bomber shooting or ground strikes, stop trying to compete with single engines.

It has the highest climb rate of any prop in the game, and turns decently for a 2 engined plane, beating the hornet and f7f in a dogfight. if it didn’t overheat so quickly it would have been great but sadly it cant use its max engine power most of the time and that leaves it easy prey for single engined fighters if not played very carfeully