Author Topic: Tracer options for each plane. (Read 387 times)

LLv34_Snefens · « **on:** November 29, 2002, 09:20:25 PM »

I might be an minority here, ( a loose guesstimate gives about 10%), who doesn't use tracers when in a fighter.
However, when I remember, I like to add the tracer rounds when I do bomber, and sometimes gv-missions. It isn't always I do that, but when I do, 99% of the times I forget to change back to non-tracers when going back up in a fighter, each time scaring the s*** out of myself when I sneak up on an enemy plane and opening up on his unsuspecting tail, not to mention, at least in my head, making it harder for me to make deflection-shots.

Making a long story short, please make the tracer option plane-specific like you did to the salvo option.
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ccvi · « **Reply #1 on:** November 30, 2002, 09:57:34 AM »

Also separate tracer options for each gun please.

Fancy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 30, 2002, 10:14:25 AM »

I think this is only natural as it's less a "gameplay" option as it is a historical one. It was generally pilot's choice. The tracers for each gun thing I don't know about and sounds a bit too much.

Blank · « **Reply #3 on:** November 30, 2002, 11:48:07 AM »

Agree with ccvi

BenDover · « **Reply #4 on:** November 30, 2002, 12:24:07 PM »

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Originally posted by Fancy
I think this is only natural as it's less a "gameplay" option as it is a historical one. It was generally pilot's choice. The tracers for each gun thing I don't know about and sounds a bit too much.

Yeah, it was common for tempest and typhoon pilots to have tracer rounds, or even different colour tracers, at the end of the ammo belts so they know when its time to stop screwing around, kill the bastage, and rtb

the disadvantage being obvious

Spooky · « **Reply #5 on:** November 30, 2002, 12:34:18 PM »

At least an option to leave tracers on by default in Gvs and bombers ie : toggle tracers in fighters only.

Thrawn · « **Reply #6 on:** November 30, 2002, 12:55:43 PM »

Thanks for starting this thread Snefens. I was thinking this just last night.

frank3 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 30, 2002, 04:12:23 PM »

damn, how to attach files?

ccvi · « **Reply #8 on:** November 30, 2002, 06:47:59 PM »

rr

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Originally posted by BenDover
Yeah, it was common for tempest and typhoon pilots to have tracer rounds, or even different colour tracers

Different colors? Now that would be fun.

Imagin a dot command

.tracer [ ...]

where gun is the gun number
colors is something like y---- for 1 yellow tracer all five rounds or y--r-- for one yellow tracer all 3 rounds than 1 red tracer all three rounds.
limit is the bullet number when to change to a different pattern.

I'd go with something like "rrrbrbbbgbgggygyyyry"

Probably soaks up too much bandwidth I guess.

RightF00T · « **Reply #9 on:** November 30, 2002, 07:47:07 PM »

*punt* I still think its a good idea.

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=65906&referrerid=5344

Shiva · « **Reply #10 on:** November 30, 2002, 07:48:06 PM »

You could always just have the varied tracers on your client, with tracers on/off sent via the host; it would preserve the 'warn your target' feature of tracers, but leave all the eye candy for your machine.

ccvi · « **Reply #11 on:** December 01, 2002, 04:24:34 AM »

I don't want that setting for my fun but to scare the nme

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #12 on:** December 01, 2002, 08:31:06 AM »

I would like an option to choose the number of tracers per number of bullets. I know this isnt historically accurate, but the
tracers in AH seem to be much more dominant than in
real life gun cam footage.
And were there tracers in every gunbelt and cannon drum or
just 1 per wing or nose? I just havent seen the hail of
tracers in any gun cam footaget that i see in here.
I need the tracers but thousands of them in a view is a
but overboard.
Any tracer historians out there with a book of tracer factlets?

Shiva · « **Reply #13 on:** December 01, 2002, 09:41:44 AM »

Initially, the practice was to load every 5th round as tracer. The problem with this was that the tracer rounds have different ballistics than the non-tracer rounds (is this modelled in AH, HT?), so that at longer ranges, if your tracers were on target, 80% of your gunfire was missing the target. The practice of putting five or ten tracer rounds together near the end of the belt as a warning that you're low on ammo also bit both ways, as it also warned your target that you were running low. Units that stopped using tracers saw their success rate almost double and their loss rate drop.

buzkill · « **Reply #14 on:** December 01, 2002, 10:56:33 AM »

guns also lasted longer w/o tracers melting the rifling