50. cal tracer smoke

[catchthefoxes]

Just a quick question, why don’t the 50. Cals produce a smoke trail like 20mm or the early German mg’s, couldn’t it be possible to add a bit of smoke, a tad, a smidge? just wondering.

Edited May 28, 2018 by catchthefoxes

[Danziger]

I was always wondering why the guns had such huge smoke trails. In the US Army I worked with the M2 .50 a lot and never saw smoke. Apparently other countries had actual smoke tracers that leave a huge smoke trail.

[catchthefoxes]

 

 is it because of the condensation the bullets produce in different climates and altitudes? or maybe these are different planes from other countries and a different time? i dont know if the video helps @BorysVorobyov

[-SF-Disarray]

It could be related to the tracer compound used. Less pure stuff might burn with more smoke?

[[N.O.G.F]_Cathal_Brugha]

Some of the other countries guns or cannons used smoke trail tracers, but I am not sure if the US planes used them or not. Personally I would rather not have smoke trail tracers as with the FW190 the 4 cannon and 2 mg make such a thick "smoke screen" from the tracers that the target gets obscured.

[Legioneod]

I've always thought that the round in this game had way too much smoke, I don't mind a little bit but it seems overdone in this.

[EAF19_Marsh]

No tracer option would be great...

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

3 hours ago, catchthefoxes said:

couldn’t it be possible to add a bit of smoke, a tad, a smidge? just wondering.

 

3 minutes ago, EAF19_Marsh said:

No tracer option would be great...

 

These could be done with mods. 

[-SF-Disarray]

Some of the guns have no tracers by default. The 20 mm cannons on the MiG and the AP only belts on the LA 5 for example.

[ATAG_Flare]

It's the design of the tracers. The American .50s don't leave smoke because of the compound. Early British .303 rounds left smoke (because of the phosphorous in the tracer that exited out a hole in the side of the bullet AFAIK) but they switched later in the war to not leave smoke.

 

MG-FF tracers left smoke for sure, not sure if the MG17 tracers did or not IRL. I was doing some research on this for CloD but I could only really find a definitive answer for the .303 British rounds.

[-TBC-AeroAce]

I love all your knowledge but what has just popped up in my mind is there is no way the Devs are on that level of detail lol

[LukeFF]

1 hour ago, AeroAce said:

I love all your knowledge but what has just popped up in my mind is there is no way the Devs are on that level of detail lol

 

Umm, yes they are lol. Otherwise, we wouldn't see things like tracerless ammo with the ShVAK with some of the early Soviet planes.

Edited May 29, 2018 by LukeFF

[dkoor]

Hehe in old IL-2 you could see .50s from like 5k but you could have probs seeing them when firing from your cockpit...

[RedKestrel]

5 hours ago, dkoor said:

Hehe in old IL-2 you could see .50s from like 5k but you could have probs seeing them when firing from your cockpit...

Yeah, I like the tracers a lot better in this game than old Il-2, I have a lot better time walking my fire (my gunnery is...not the best). D:

[KoN_]

I think its pretty good to be honest . I would like to see AAA tracer more realistic . But that nitt picking .