One year later: the relative effectiveness of the .50 in multiplayer

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[FTC_DerSheriff]

Also here: What do you think about the effectiveness of the 50cal now?

[Hook_Echo]

I need to do more testing and I'm not on the PC to post pics. The 50s don't seem to be doing much visual damage to the skin. I shot up a k4 with a p51. I would check the external camera after every burst and watching where my rounds hit. There were very few holes. In one instance there were only a couple holes around the engine, but the windscreen was covered in oil in under 30 seconds. Another instance I was focusing on a wing and really hosing it down. Again hardly any holes visualized, but the then wing rips clean off. I did the wings a couple times with the same result. Not much visual damage and then suddenly the parts are flying off.

 

I put the 50 cal mod back on, as I was pleased with the damage 50s do in the mod. Again, there seems to be much reduced visual damage even with the small explosive the mod adds. I need to try other target planes as thus far I only went against k4's.

 

Oh one pleasant surprise, I was shooting the k4, from the normally exceptionally bullet spongy rear end, and I got a pilot kill!

[[DBS]TH0R]

Just a quick testing (few flights in) so nothing conclusive here. But...

 

vs. 109s I was able to one-shot an AI 109 by landing few rounds into its engine which immediately sized. And got few de-winging kills, which I don't recall in the last two years. Plus the already mentioned PK from dead 6OC.

 

OTOH I've wasted my whole ammo into a Me-410 online with large bits and pieces falling off. And it got home depriving me of a kill.