Request: better .50cal impact effects.

[LColony_Kong]

IRL the impact flashes from .50cal are quite pronounced compared to the game. Any possibility of this being changed?

[FTC_Karaya]

What you are seeing in guncam videos is usually late war ammo such as the M8 and M20 rounds.
These will be restricted in an upcoming patch as they do not fit the period covered by 5.0.

If you have any sources regarding impact flashes of .50Cal rounds of the M1 and M2 variety then please do share.

Edited August 7, 2020 by JG4_Karaya

[Buzzsaw]

There are incendiary rounds available in this period if you want impact flashes... but in the default ammo load there is 1 incendiary per 4 total rounds.

 

Default load is:

 

Ball -  Incendiary Ball - Tracer Ball - Armor Piercing

 

You can change that to whatever you want.

 

Armor Piercing Incendiary and Armor Piercing Incendiary Tracer were not available at this time period.

[LColony_Kong]

On 8/7/2020 at 5:07 AM, JG4_Karaya said:

What you are seeing in guncam videos is usually late war ammo such as the M8 and M20 rounds.
These will be restricted in an upcoming patch as they do not fit the period covered by 5.0.

If you have any sources regarding impact flashes of .50Cal rounds of the M1 and M2 variety then please do share.

There is practically no visible flash even when you hit them with APIT. I customized a pure APIT belt and its almost impossible to see the flashes unless you are about to put your prop in the other planes tail. Restricted or not, the APIT effects are not accurate.

 

Also I am trying to look up the rounds available in this time period and cannot find any information on it. Do you have any sources? The best thing I have found so far is a forum post that indicates that M1 incindiary actually had more composition than M8, and either way all incendiary should leave the flash.

Edited August 10, 2020 by [TLC]MasterPooner