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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: sirvlad on July 18, 2008, 12:39:38 PM
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on or off? Just asking. Mine are off.
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OFF :aok
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Congratulations!
Mine are on.
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Off.
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On, though seeing them won't help you shake me off your 6! :aok
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on or off? Just asking. Mine are off.
Tracers have different balistics then the non tracer ammo which is the vast majority of yr ammo load. If you aim with tracers, 80% of yr rounds miss, because 4/5 of bullets have no tracer. So why advertise that yr aim sucks with tracers when you can turn them off, save face and not give the guy a clue he's been fired upon
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Off for practice, on for combat. I notice that without tracers i use more ammo. I have played without tracers for months and when i turn them back on i do notice my kills per run go up. Also i use them to scare people to turn. Mostly my aim is very good so i really don't see the need of turning them off because when i do fire my average hit % is so high that's its too late for the enemy.
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Tracers have different balistics then the non tracer ammo which is the vast majority of yr ammo load.
Not in this game.
I have tracers on most of the time. Can't hit anymore if I keep them off for more than a day.
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Off for practice, on for combat. I notice that without tracers i use more ammo. I have played without tracers for months and when i turn them back on i do notice my kills per run go up. Also i use them to scare people to turn. Mostly my aim is very good so i really don't see the need of turning them off because when i do fire my average hit % is so high that's its too late for the enemy.
I've tried both extensively. My analysis is conclusive. The 'sneaky' factor of having them off is vastly outweighed by the ability to use tracers to coerce a fleeing foe to break-turn, offering a nice high profile deflection shot with closure instead of a low-profile extreme range dead six shot...
Having tracers off is really only useful in two situations that I can think of...
1) You shoot at an enemy that is unaware of your presence and you usually miss with the first burst...If you usually hit these types of targets with the first squirt there's really not any point to having tracers off, he's going to realize you're there anyway when stuff starts falling off his plane...;)
2) You like to HO and want to 'sucker' the other guy into thinking you are not going to guns on the nose to nose merge...I find people who do this extremely irritating. You think you are about to have a fight then the next thing you know you get a face full of invisible HO.
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I've tried both extensively. My analysis is conclusive. The 'sneaky' factor of having them off is vastly outweighed by the ability to use tracers to coerce a fleeing foe to break-turn, offering a nice high profile deflection shot with closure instead of a low-profile extreme range dead six shot...
Having tracers off is really only useful in two situations that I can think of...
1) You shoot at an enemy that is unaware of your presence and you usually miss with the first burst...If you usually hit these types of targets with the first squirt there's not really any point to having tracers off, he's going to know you're there when stuff starts falling off his plane...;)
2) You like to HO and want to 'sucker' the other guy into thinking you are not going to guns on the nose to nose merge...
Tracers off in Wirbles really helps :aok Bombers can't see the spray and zero in on ya. Also the people vulching the field have no idea you are shooting at them :rofl
I find in aircraft you actually look for hits rather than staring at the tracers. :aok
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The 'sneaky' factor of having them off is vastly outweighed by the ability to use tracers to coerce a fleeing foe to break-turn, offering a nice high profile deflection shot with closure instead of a low-profile extreme range dead six shot...
Not unless your me ... for some reason, the dead six shot is my worst. I always prefer the deflection shot.
Mine have always been ON since day 1.
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Off, most of the time.
If I'm in a ship with guns I'm not familiar with (for FSO, etc) or in an M-16 I turn them back on.
I still wish HTC would make this as a plane-by-plane setting in the hangar.
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The ideal setting for me would be mg's on cannon's off.
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Not unless your me ... for some reason, the dead six shot is my worst. I always prefer the deflection shot.
Mine have always been ON since day 1.
Yea, same here, that's what I was saying...
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I will turn tracers off if i'm flying a HO plane(mossie,110,FWa8)
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On. by the time you see my tracers, it doesn't matter what you do.... you're dead. :t
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On. by the time you see my tracers, it doesn't matter what you do.... you're dead. :t
same :lol
plus the first tracer is the last tracer with a 30mm :devil
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Off and either model but with the T you can still see the 37mm round anyway. MG never use it.
<S>...-Gixer
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On
Good for making them get nervous and turn plus like Lusche, I start to lose my aim after awhile.
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on.
Helps with aiming without the gunsight. For example, during a high deflection shot in a hard turn.
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on
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Tracers off in Wirbles really helps :aok Bombers can't see the spray and zero in on ya. Also the people vulching the field have no idea you are shooting at them :rofl
I find in aircraft you actually look for hits rather than staring at the tracers. :aok
Amen brother Baitman!
I often fly with no tracers. Here's the thing people will recognize the sight of tracers and react much quicker than to the sound of a ping. If they get pinged they think what is that. It delays their reaction long enough for the fatal strike.
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On.
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No tracers is also great for gunning a bomber con has no idea you even see him til it`s to late
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On, They look kewl. :aok
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Been off for years!!!!
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On ! I'm a noob, I need to walk my rounds =)
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Off... when AH2 started, I had a bad video card and tracers would drop my frames to 5 or less.
I found out that by turning them off, not only did I get better frames with that card, my accuracy went up as well.
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My theory on tracers. They were invented for a reason. :D
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On 99% of the time.
Off when I want it to get a little bit more challenging. I notice that in my first run I get a crazy amount of kills, and then slowly I begin not being able to hit anything. Thats when I get frustrated and turn tracers back on.
And also, my dead six shot is the worst when I'm in a plane with wing mounted guns. In the 190 D9 the dead six shot I find the most effective.
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I had them on for ages, I turned them off for a while, but I've turned them back on again for now. I wish I could select them in the hangar (and the system would remember the setting).
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On of course. To valuable of a tool to be shut off.
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Most real aces that i have read about had tracers,And i keep mine on for a multitude of reasons.I would like to be able to keep them on for my bird and keep them off with flack guns,without having to change it all the time though.
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You too need a button in the hangar! :D
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I used to have my MG tracers on, but my cannon tracers off in my 38.
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I wasn't aware you could do such a thing?
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I wasn't aware you could do such a thing?
I smell a S.A.P.P disinformation campaign... :noid
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Like has been said before, I would love a gun by gun selection on the tracers.
I loved having the 30mm tracers off (though you probably should be able to see a slight trail or glint of the round.....nothing like the standard tracer trail we have now) and it was fine when I went through a stage where I flew the K4 90% of the time. I could hit pretty consistantly at over 400 yards with the 30mm, even in turn fights. 800+ on level and running targets (who wouldn't evade because they couldn't tell you were firing). Pulling the tail section off a running Pony at 800 yards always cracked me up.
I almost ruined the K4 for myself by flying it so often, so I branched out and realised that I had difficulty hitting anything at all with any other sort of weapon. I couldn't hit a single thing with 20mm cannon, .50 cals and 303s, so I turned the tracers back on.
I still have them on because I try to fly lots of different things these days. I've taken a liking to the Mossie lately. It's a great multi-role fighter/attack aircraft.
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Mine are on...
Only reason I can see to have them off, is if you are trying to sneak up on someone which I rarely do. I personally want to other con to see me coming because I'm after a fight. I'd rather duke it out with a con that turns rather than auto climb pick him. I don't HO, so having them off for that reason is of no concern to me, as again I'd rather fight the con than make some lame HO shot.
I've been flying the K4 pretty much all the time lately and it's tatter tracer is only on every other round. I only use the smaller machine guns on a K4 in a snapshot turn, so the tracers on those make very little difference to me.
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800+ on level and running targets (who wouldn't evade because they couldn't tell you were firing). Pulling the tail section off a running Pony at 800 yards always cracked me up.
Interesting the maximum I've ever hit a straight and level fighter with a single 37mm round was at 600 on a Typhoon as he was pulling away and I thought that was an exceptional shot. Under 400 not a problem but prefer under 200 for anything turning. Best is just off the nose snap shots.
But no matter what the range it's a bit like shooting ducks with a very large calibre single shot rifle, frustrating at times but very entertaining when they hit. :t
<S>...-Gixer
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The best shot I've ever had with the 37mm was a pony HO at 1.2k
Lucky as hell but funny too. :lol
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Interesting the maximum I've ever hit a straight and level fighter with a single 37mm round was at 600 on a Typhoon as he was pulling away and I thought that was an exceptional shot. Under 400 not a problem but prefer under 200 for anything turning. Best is just off the nose snap shots.
But no matter what the range it's a bit like shooting ducks with a very large calibre single shot rifle, frustrating at times but very entertaining when they hit. :t
<S>...-Gixer
Man, I dunno why but I can hit snap shots much easier in a tatter plane even at 400ft vs trying to hit a guy when you are right behind them. In a regular fighter with normal guns then a 400ft shot from direct 6 is a breez but tatter plane it can be quite hard and if they are bobbing and weeving then you better hope for a lucky hit.
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On. by the time you see my tracers, it doesn't matter what you do.... you're dead. :t
Unless, of course, you collide with me and I fly off unscathed :D
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Unless, of course, you collide with me and I fly off unscathed :D
LMAO, oh god that was to good!
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off= 100x harder
-BigBOBCH
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Man, I dunno why but I can hit snap shots much easier in a tatter plane even at 400ft vs trying to hit a guy when you are right behind them. In a regular fighter with normal guns then a 400ft shot from direct 6 is a breez but tatter plane it can be quite hard and if they are bobbing and weeving then you better hope for a lucky hit.
Yes it is much harder when you don't have 200 rounds per gun to spray and pray for a hit. Use the MG make them break then nail them. If they don't break and you can sneak in some hit sprites with the MG (a good reason for not using tracers) hold it steady and try a tater round.
Just never rush the shot, you will always miss.
And in general as far as using or not using tracers. Tracers imho makes you lazy, either to let the target fly into the spray or the spray into the target. Rather then taking the time/patience and learn to aim without tracers and land hits first time.
<S>...-Gixer
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my farthest was a d800-d900 30mm shot on a p38 :noid
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when I played game 2 years ago I had em off.........since I came back need em on......but it doesn't matter I still suc
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Off when in the 109F4 because I dont shoot from outside of 300 anyway.
on when in the jug so I can walk the 50s to the wing root from d800
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Dont matter. By the time most people realize Im shooting at them they are going down anyway.