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Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha
This is the whole point they don't get, if they are saying the tracers look like SW and CoD has them looking like SW which based them on WW2 tracer rounds then they are correct, the fact no one knows what a laser round looks like as they don't actually exist, the whole discussion is pointless.
I think they are more plasma looking 
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Here is an example of what a laser weapon would look like. While this is much lower power than anything that could really be used as a weapon, the visual would be similar. Lasers, particularly high-powered ones, are not normally visible as a beam. This is because the whole point of a laser is that the light does not scatter, therefore the only way to see the beam would be for it to be shot into your eye.
When laser beams are visualized it's because there is particulate matter in the air that scatters the beam. The flash of light you see when this one fires comes entirely from incandescence of the target, and possibly a bit of ionization of the air.
here is an actual laser weapon test, again even with this powerful beam you do not see the beam itself, but only a bright spot on the UAV as the laser burns it.
Also of course there is no (perceptible) travel time for a laser beam, even if you could see the beam itself it would just be a perfectly straight line from the weapon to the target for the duration of discharge.
So long story short: I agree Star Wars looks a lot more like WWII than sci-fi :p