What a tracer should look like (before spazzing just look).

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Thats pretty accurate, the only exception being that they look a tiny bit wider in the footage than I think they should be on a .50, but as you note they are still thinner then in game. Also in rl they are slightly narrower but more intense, but as you can see in the footage the tracer becomes shorter as it moves away from you, it will also be shorter the further you are from it in distance at a 90 degree angle.

oh for the love of god... that's not a .50cal, that's a 7.62 one, the .50 cal is in the end.

Another thing that "experts" don't probably know is that nowadays there are three kinds of tracers: bright, semi-bright and dim.

Once again, please bear in mind the RAF standard order of the era:

"Browning 303s fire 1200 rounds per minute, that's 20 per second. As mentioned above, what you see also depends on the number of tracers loaded. If you have a tracer every 5 rounds then that's 4 tracers streaking away every second."