why dont the machine guns shoot like machine guns?

[Cwl]

Originally Posted by Voyager

Do the console versions have Debug mode? The PC version has a toggle that shows a hit marker/vector for all rounds that impact a target. Using that function we verified that, at least on the PC, while not all of the rounds are drawn, they are all modeled.

You aren't going to see all tracers anyways, because they burn the barrel out, and didn't typically have the stopping power of HE or API.

tracers fly on a different trajectory to regular ammo which could be detrimental to a pilots aim if he expects all the rounds to fly on the same path as the tracers.