Rubber bullets are a thing. Should be looked into IMO, I plug planes with 50s cals and do very little damage that ends up getting me picked as I try to plug more and more ammo into them. It's the #1 thing currently aggravating me more than anything else in this game, 1st before everyone in their easy mode trainers. Not entirely sure what's going on. Shoot FD, I think you tried to kill me and put like 200 rounds in my 109e in a rope with those 303s and it did no damage at all. Lethality should be adjusted in 50s and 303s. Just stupid when 3 20mm cannons from pass kill you, but I gotta put 160 rounds in a plane over 4 passes to knock them down.
There was talk in the early days about .50 cal lethality. Don’t recall or I wasn’t around to see where it ended up.
.50 through wing guns in fight mode can be a challenge. If shooting outside of convergence your movement large will vary.you have to stay on target longer than nose guns with canons. On a buff you’re better off sawing a wing off. Convergence is everything with wing guns. Not that you don’t know this, just making a point. P-51s aren’t really easy mode planes, except for speed, but that recovers slowly.
I jump into a A5, D9 and especially at 262, it seems my kill rate takes off. 262, pretty much blow them out of the air almost at will with 2-5 rounds.
IMO spits have always been easy mode AC. LAs are kinda too.
Wing guns are a HO no no.