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

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Originally Posted by choctaw111

I stumbled upon this vid today. It shows tracers during the day and at night from the same vantage point on a LAV.
The cameraman pans around during the shooting and I believe this give the best impression yet of what tracers really do look like as the camera seems to record very close to what the human eye sees or at least what my eyes have seen.

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.