I'll trade the old Rad damage in the D9

[Zacherof]

Why is it when a player's hit on an enemy airplane doesn't turn it in to a fireball like the Death Star getting torp'd does it mean there is something wrong???

HTC has not changed the lethality of the .50 cals, or of any weapon as of late.  "Rubber bullets" they are not, you just didn't hit enough.  Please stop blaming the game "coad" for the lack of landing enough hits on critical areas of the targeted plane.  It is that simple.     

the other day I vulched a 51 in a 38. Put a 3 second burst into the engine/cockpit area. Nothing. Later on someone got him and I only got an assist

[Fulcrum]

Even if I do hit I dont kill, but that is simply because I suck.

 

I suffer from this particular illness as well.   

[N8Fire]

  Made the same experience. I did a full load at a Spixteen, i saw the hits on it and i saw some grey clouds when the some bullets left the Spixteen.

  Nothing happend and a while later a runstang finished the Spixteen, i got a nice assist.

Something is wrong, something may have changed.

[Krusty]

Well, if it's repeatable (happening more than once) somebody should make a bug report post. Maybe HTC will respond and let you know if it was something that got changed, or just your latency affecting it.

If you've got film of said experience (bullets hitting, no damage, later got an assist) post that, as they can pick the film apart far more than you can, and tell exactly how many bullets hit and how much damage was done, possibly indicating where the problem might be.

[whiteman]

instead of hitting them from nose to tail or wing tip to wing tip i try and concentrate on one section, seems to work more often than not.

[Tank-Ace]

Bring Lusche in here. If there's any change as to the lethality of any weapons, it will be reflected in the stats.

[Lusche]

Bring Lusche in here. If there's any change as to the lethality of any weapons, it will be reflected in the stats.

It would have to be a change on a massive scale to be showing up in the kill stats.
And even then it wouldn't be entirely clear, as we can see only a decline in overall kill numbers, which in turn can have many reasons.

[Babalonian]

For having the bullets back.

Please HTC/HiTech/Pyro/Skuzzy, disregard this lost and confused soul.

Reports of rubber bullets is nothing new (or exclusive to the totally awesome Dora-2.0) by players in AH.