War Thunder [SIM|VR] - Dewoitine D.520 (Quick Review)

Here's a review of the Dewoitine D.520, one of my favorites aircrafts in the French tech tree. A nice plane overall, but not without its downsides.
Note: I'm not necessarily an expert in the planes I review, so take that into consideration, but I will not review a plane unless I have at least 100 kills with it.
Gear:
• Thrustmaster Warthog (HOTAS)
• Thrustmaster TPR (Rudder Pedals)
• HP Reverb G2 (VR Headset)
• Honeycomb Bravo Throttle Quadrant (Additional Axis)
PC Specs:
• RTX 2080 Ti
• I9 7940x
• 64 GB DDR4 RAM
Axis Settings:
• Pitch:
- Sensitivity: 100%
- Nonlinearity: 1
- Multiplier: 1
- Dead zone: 0
• Roll:
- Sensitivity: 100%
- Nonlinearity: 1
- Multiplier: 1
- Dead Zone: 0
• Yaw:
- Sensitivity: 100%
- Nonlinearity: 1
- Multiplier: 1
- Dead Zone: 0.05

[@combichristevilnice6581]

I love this new format man keep it up, finally someone reviewing planes in sim, because some planes felt much better in sim than in air rb.

[@ATC83]

Thanks man, appreciate it! I totally agree, if a plane is bad in RB that doesn't mean it will bad in Sim too. Climb rate, for example, is not nearly as important in Sim than it is in RB

[@Daniel-CMelinte]

Very nice video!Good job,it was entertaining and informational .

[@ATC83]

Thanks man! Glad you liked it!

[@caseycodes]

Awesome vid as always!
The dive towards the end on the desert map was so cool lmao

[@ATC83]

Thanks man! That BV 238 nearly got me lol

[@Alexandros11]

Cool review! I straight up cannot believe how many hits that Ki-43 in the first clip took!

[@ATC83]

Thanks man, appreciate it! Yeah the French 7.5mm seem to be even worse that the Japanese 7.7mm :)

[@Alexandros11]

@@ATC83 Wouldn't have thought that was possible! 😆

[@ATC83]

@@Alexandros11 Me neither haha!

[@clementnoel6663]

nice to see an other d-520 enjoyer ;)

[@ATC83]

It's a nice plane!

[@reggiekoestoer1511]

Wow you made this thing turn with a Hayabusa? Nice flying...didn't see that coming

[@ATC83]

Yeah lol I wasn't optimistic at all about the outcome. I guess he wasn't too experienced, but it wasn't easy nonetheless

[@reggiekoestoer1511]

@@ATC83 he was unlucky too with the Airbase AAA sleeping at their posts

[@ATC83]

@@reggiekoestoer1511 Yeah clearly. Thanks Gaijin... I guess :)

[@Avetorro]

Interesting. I must admit ive never felt any desire to explore the French, Chinese, italian, Swedish or Israeli trees. Ive dabbled with the low BR planes in my arcade days but always thought the time and SL woukd be better spent elsewhere. One day, when ive spaded every british, german, japanese and russian plane, im going to have to venture in here 😊 I dont see many french planes in sim tho, in fact these days i dont see many planes at all. Last game i flew for 45 minutes to find an enemy, a bot, a minute before the game ended. 😮

[@ATC83]

Thanks! Yeah the French tech tree isn't my favorite obviously, but the D.520 isn't bad (I like the V.G.33C-1 too). Italy has some interesting planes too (G.55, G.56, Re.2001, Re.2005, C.202, C.205, etc). I like to fly the low BR planes sometimes, more dogfights and less zombers there (no Ju 288's lol). Also doing these reviews forces me to test extensively planes that I wouldn't fly otherwise, it makes for a nice change.

[@Avetorro]

@@ATC83 sounds good, yeah I’m glad those ju288s got moved up a BR. I guess you have to have these planes to review, or you’d have to spend time grinding them. You should do some of the premium stuff, might help people decide whether to buy or not.

[@ATC83]

@@Avetorro Oh I didn't realized it was moved up, good thing. Good idea about the premiums, I might do the G.55S next, a very nice Italian fighter that can carry a torpedo :)

[@Avetorro]

@@ATC83 it was moved from 5.7 to 6.0, so the 4.7-5.7 games are a lot more interesting now. Bloody bomber spam is a scourge of this game, but the economics force people to play like that. Don’t get it in IL2, people fly what they want there, not what earns SL

[@deremjool8043]

​@@ATC83Have you tried the M.B.157? Once you get the hang of it, it's an absolutely wonderful aircraft!

[@NinjainJapan-jx8lm]

I could understand the unrealistic behavior that is caused by French bias.
I will never play the game with French aircrafts.

[@ATC83]

I'll admit the French tech tree isn't my favorite. The D.520 is not a bad plane though