why dont the machine guns shoot like machine guns?

[guiltyspark]

look , test it out yourself , take a bf109 and point it at the ground and see how many times the bullets hit the ground , the only "real" bullets are the tracers. there are no bullets in between

[Wissam24]

Oh, you mean hits on the ground, not smoke. Well, meh.

[MorgothNL]

I just checked with a spitfire.. and it is actually quite good. Only the cannons of the spit have tracers... so those are the only ones you see in the air.

Then I pointed to the ground and shot... seeing just dust comming up from the cannon shots...and not the machine gun shots. So maybe.. not all the bullets can been seen when you shoot the ground.

Anyways.. when giving one good burst to a plane... you shoot it down.. so the amount of lead that is in the game (visible or not).. is packing the 'same' punch as the 'real ' planes with the higher visible? rate of fire.

I think they maybe decreased the amount of vssible bullets... but increased the damage of the visible ones (according to the gunload of each plane)


I wonder what the devs have to say about it...

[Lexandro]

As far as I can tell only cannon rounds make the ground hit effect, since machine guns rounds are to small to register the effect.

[Steiner]

Try shooting at water...

[Wissam24]

And yet, if you fire guns whilst landed on the ground, you can hear the empty cartridges falling on the floor

[guiltyspark]

Originally Posted by Wissam24

And yet, if you fire guns whilst landed on the ground, you can hear the empty cartridges falling on the floor

sound effect thats pre recoreded , its not the actual shells hitting

[Wissam24]

No shit

[Vulcan607]

the guns are harmonised so all the rounds converge to one place, hence the reduced number of clouds of dust etc.
in the game the range of harminisation seem to be varied so that its the range when the rounds hit the ground/sea.

[Kamak86]

Did you know that actual WW2 pilots of the P-51D rarely used all 6 machine gns at the same time.... When i find the video from the show dogfights there is a WW2 pilot talking about how they used 2 at a time (one of each wing) and they moved inboard to outboard. Ill post it.