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50 Caliber tracers - Bidule021 - 11.12.2009

What happenned to the .50 cal ( 12.7 ) tracers?

What was the rationale behind changing the visibility of the tracers with the UI? Is there any plan to bring it back to what it was?

Whoever has ever shot 50 cal,( or been shot at) knows that they are very visible. they were used in WW2 for adjusting defelction shooting. they are so weak now, you cant barely use them for anything.

if you spend a bit of time on youtube, look at modern and WW2 movies, you will see that they are visible, and their impact is quite noticeable.

I dont understand the reason why it was done, if it was to remove perceived advantages to the people who use 50 cal, it does not make any sense, as it is like cleaning the japanese gunsight, but dirtying the british one instead... I would consider this changing the weapon model to accomodate the game

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- Sakai07 - 11.12.2009

I totally agree, and have been on both ends of .50 cal tracers (in training, not combat) They are VERY visible.

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- MudMarine - 11.12.2009

I've been shot at with weapons of the medium/heavy automatic type, and I didn't notice so much the tracers as the sound of the bullets as they "snapped" passed. The snapping noise a bullet makes is completely lost to most folks due to most archival info being on the giving end, not the receiving end. I would include the super talented pool of mod makers out there in this. There is no way for them to know about the snap, unless they have been "there", or worked the pit at a range.

If you are down range and some one shoots anything bigger than .30cal, the bullet "snaps" and *then* you hear the boom of the shot. If your far enough away, 600-800 meters, you may not even hear the boom depending on the wind or other noises, but I guarantee you hear the snap as long as the bullet is still supersonic or at least 1200 fps in velocity (roughly).

I'm sure WWII pilots heard the snap and not the boom.

MudMarine

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- Sakai07 - 11.12.2009

It was after dark when i got to see the tracers, night infiltration course. :twisted: On the rifle range in the pit you could really hear the snap of bullets flying over head. I thought for a second it was the sound of the paper target being cut but I figured it out when I saw the amount that hit the target and the number of snaps I heard. :wink: It would be a pretty interesting mod to simulate the noise of a bullet passing close by!

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