Cliffs of Dover Video Thread V1.0 [Closed]

[spahis]

Originally Posted by Space Communist

An option for what? To make them less realistic?

Have you ever seen real tracers shot? I mean real real, not vids. In reality they don't look like flying light sabers but like fireballs. It's the same with every game it seems, i'm surprised nobody ever points it out.

Originally Posted by spahis

Have you ever seen real tracers shot? I mean real real, not vids. In reality they don't look like flying light sabers but like fireballs. It's the same with every game it seems, i'm surprised nobody ever points it out.

Please...Do a search on this forum...It has been debated over and over...
And many REAL military who fired different kind of weapons have confirmed that tracers in COD are very accurate in terms of "looks"...
Have you ever fired tracers in RL ? You would be the only one among all who came in here to share their personnal experience who saw dots in RL....

Salute!

[F16_Petter]

Can anyone post some videos of the bombsight in the He111?
*curious*

[Qpassa]

Originally Posted by F16_Petter

Can anyone post some videos of the bombsight in the He111?
*curious*

Less flood, more research. One has been uploaded

[spahis]

Originally Posted by kalimba

Please...Do a search on this forum...It has been debated over and over...
And many REAL military who fired different kind of weapons have confirmed that tracers in COD are very accurate in terms of "looks"...
Have you ever fired tracers in RL ? You would be the only one among all who came in here to share their personnal experience who saw dots in RL....

Salute!

I haven't been following the debates but yes, i've fired real tracers on 30mm automatic cannon and machine gun, and i'm 100% sure they don't look like they do in COD nor like most other games. On video they look "long" because the camera burns the image during a period of time and during that time the bullet moves on. I don't want to start another debate but it's always bothered me while playing

[Hoverbug]

Originally Posted by spahis

I haven't been following the debates but yes, i've fired real tracers on 30mm automatic cannon and machine gun, and i'm 100% sure they don't look like they do in COD nor like most other games. On video they look "long" because the camera burns the image during a period of time and during that time the bullet moves on. I don't want to start another debate but it's always bothered me while playing

Not having done that myself, would the current effect be more realistic at night when the tracer movement would tend to burn in? In other words, it should be ball like in daytime but a bit more light saberish at night.

[Space Communist]

Originally Posted by spahis

Have you ever seen real tracers shot? I mean real real, not vids. In reality they don't look like flying light sabers but like fireballs. It's the same with every game it seems, i'm surprised nobody ever points it out.

As was mentioned this has been debated endlessly. The majority of people with military experience describe how surprised they were that tracers looked like "lasers" (real lasers look nothing like Star Wars lasers but I won't get into that.)

Some people did describe them as more like points, or fireballs as you say. But generally the consensus seemed to be that they only look like points when they are being fired out of a barrel you are looking down, so that the round is not moving much laterally to you. When seen from the side (someone else firing, or a gun in your wing or well underneath you in the nose,) they turn more or less into bars, though often with the front of the "bar" being brighter than the tail.

Now I am not speaking from personal experience so please feel free to correct me, I am simply summarizing the conclusions come to in other threads.

[JG52Uther]

Can we keep this thread for video's please rather than debate? Theres plenty of other threads for that.

[choctaw111]

Originally Posted by Space Communist

As was mentioned this has been debated endlessly. The majority of people with military experience describe how surprised they were that tracers looked like "lasers" (real lasers look nothing like Star Wars lasers but I won't get into that.)

Some people did describe them as more like points, or fireballs as you say. But generally the consensus seemed to be that they only look like points when they are being fired out of a barrel you are looking down, so that the round is not moving much laterally to you. When seen from the side (someone else firing, or a gun in your wing or well underneath you in the nose,) they turn more or less into bars, though often with the front of the "bar" being brighter than the tail.

Now I am not speaking from personal experience so please feel free to correct me, I am simply summarizing the conclusions come to in other threads.

The "bar" is not brighter in the front than at the tail.
They have the same brightness for their entire apparent length.
The tracers in Cliffs of Dover look very good.
The only complaint that I have as they appear too fat when close.
Of course, that would all depend on ambient light conditions.

[choctaw111]

Originally Posted by spahis

Have you ever seen real tracers shot? I mean real real, not vids. In reality they don't look like flying light sabers but like fireballs. It's the same with every game it seems, i'm surprised nobody ever points it out.

In reality they do look like flying light sabers.