Tracers Rounds (From SimHQ)

[swiss]

Originally Posted by fireship4

no need to be abusive swiss, and just because luthier says something it doesn't mean people cant discuss it and have their own opinion.

Sure they can have their opinion. We had this discussion already, it's not gonna change. What should this discussion be good for?

[=WF=RAW]

Many times before, Oleg and his team says "we have all correct in our IL-2", but everybody knows, that it's not true.
so if luthier says something about "perfect tracers" it is not the "holy absolutely true", on which we must "pray"!
we will just see when we get the game. lets be patient.

[choctaw111]

For those of you who have never seen tracers being fired in person, why argue about someting you have never actually seen?
Tracers appear as streaks, just like in Star Wars.
Where do you think George Lucas got his inspiratiation? From dogfighting gun camera film and movies showing anti aircraft fire.
Anything this size moving at 2000 miles per hour will appear as a streak.
From what I have seen of the movies and sceenshots of Cliffs of Dover, Ilya is right, they are perfect and I am happy to finally have tracers that look realistic.

[Sturm_Williger]

Originally Posted by Vasilj_Mitu

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I know this tracer discussions sounds silly, boring, tiresome and above all nitpicking... but to me they will not look natural and bring more to the game immersion-wise just because Luthier says they are perfect.

Thing is ... I've not seen real tracers and a lot of people who will buy the game haven't either. I've only seen video which as has been mentioned, is not how they look to the eye.

So they don't look un-natural to me and nor will they bring any more immersion-wise if they are changed to what you are proposing ( er.. what are you proposing they look like ? )

So simple economics dictates that the devs aren't going to spend more time tweaking something that only 1%-5% of potential customers are likely to notice are not quite 100% "real" looking. And even then, I tend to believe that the devs may actually have looked at tracers too and be pretty close.