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Title: 6 bullets for 1 tracer
Post by: titanic3 on April 11, 2007, 04:14:35 PM
i was watching TV on military channel and a WW2 veteran said that " for every 6 bullets, a tracer round comes out". in AH, each round is a tracer. should this be fixed? or something? i dunno..:confused:
Title: 6 bullets for 1 tracer
Post by: 68Dougal on April 11, 2007, 04:23:44 PM
Umm, AH already has it modeled correctly. Try it yourself with a slow firing gun. Fire off one round at a time. Only every 5th round or so will be a tracer.

Or at least I think so. I may be going crazy, and it is possible that every round is a tracer. And since AH is being patched at the moment I can't go test it myself.
Title: 6 bullets for 1 tracer
Post by: nirvana on April 11, 2007, 04:50:13 PM
I don't think every bullet is a tracer and being the cynic that I am, don't think it's worthy of the time to fix it.  Unless of course you won't be able to sleep unless it's fixed.
Title: Re: 6 bullets for 1 tracer
Post by: Lusche on April 11, 2007, 04:50:54 PM
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Originally posted by titanic3
i was watching TV on military channel and a WW2 veteran said that " for every 6 bullets, a tracer round comes out". in AH, each round is a tracer


No, it is not.
Title: Re: 6 bullets for 1 tracer
Post by: Benny Moore on April 11, 2007, 04:51:31 PM
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Originally posted by titanic3
in AH, each round is a tracer.


Who told you that?  Inform him that he is very wrong.
Title: Re: Re: 6 bullets for 1 tracer
Post by: Ack-Ack on April 11, 2007, 05:41:25 PM
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Originally posted by Benny Moore
Who told you that?  Inform him that he is very wrong.



Try firing the P-38's .50 cals one round at a time.  All the rounds will appear as tracers.


ack-ack
Title: Re: Re: Re: 6 bullets for 1 tracer
Post by: 68Dougal on April 11, 2007, 06:52:21 PM
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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Try firing the P-38's .50 cals one round at a time.  All the rounds will appear as tracers.


ack-ack


No they don't. I just tested all 3 versions and only about every fifth round was a tracer. Several times though I would get a few tracers in a row, but they would be from different guns.

i.e. The left gun would fire a tracer, then the next round I fired would come from the right gun and would also be a tracer. It's just coincidental that both guns had a tracer round queued up as the next round in the belt.