green bouncing mg bullets?

[Linoleum]

ive been playing ostfront for a few weeks now and noticed that mg42's tank mgs etc (not smg's or rifles) have greenish bullets (when flying through the air and ricoshaying off things) they also seem to bounce unrealisticly, i noticed it rarely happend in the mod but the problem seems to be kinda worse in the new version, seeing as its made from the UT engine could be something to do with that, not sure if its just me, if you lot arnt getting it il take a screenshot.

also when will this aol issue be solved?

cheers.

 

[Steaks]

The bullets are green because they're tracer rounds. As for the bouncing, I've heard from a few people that they actually do that IRL. Not sure if that's true or not though.

 

[FuSiOn]

they are working on an AOL fix.......also the "green bouncing bullets" are tracers the russians used green tracer rounds in their mgs and tank mgs

germans used a orangeish color

 

[Zath]

Green tracer rounds and bullets ricocheting i.e. bouncing off things are completely realistic. Perhaps the tracers could be made a bit thinner though, as currently they resemble Star Wars blaster beams. I'm not distracted though...

 

[Linoleum]

i would of never even thought of that!

cheers guys!

 

[natemo]

The bullets are green because they're tracer rounds. As for the bouncing, I've heard from a few people that they actually do that IRL. Not sure if that's true or not though.

they do bounce IRL
and they do bounce in ww2 also saw it in a video once.

 

[takadi]

They bounce every so often, but since RO doesn't have penetration, it bounces for every bullet

 

[MkH^]

As a matter of fact, they are not bullets, but deadly lasers.

 

[takadi]

eh they do kinda look like laser do they...maybe they should ease up on that a little. Yes they did light up, but they were more like flying sparks than lasers (i'm talking about lasers from starwars, not real life lasers)

 

[FuSiOn]

id ont know someone posted a video of tracer rounds in action and they look VERY similar to the ones in RO

 

[HelldogBE]

Green tracer rounds and bullets ricocheting i.e. bouncing off things are completely realistic. Perhaps the tracers could be made a bit thinner though, as currently they resemble Star Wars blaster beams. I'm not distracted though...

bullets don't bounce off dirt soil (it digs in)

bullets bounce off of metal/glass it can't penetrate (pretty much everything armored) and other objects at small angles

also I don't believe the tracer smoke looks like laser, but more like a very small smoke trail, but as u know its hard to simulate how smoke trails fade to air (especially without taking all the fps)

its a bit too starwarsy when an MG is firing (and theres plenty videos out on the net of airplanes using the smoke just haven't seen many MG videos like that. Usually the bullets just show up as "flameballs" at night (not green laser beams ) and the dodge is overdone (I can't imagine bullets not penetrating bricks, I have a family member that had a bullet drop through his roof that was shot a few km's out of town into the air and have it penetrate the roof at such range

Just sharing my opinion

 

[Kalashnikov Slamdunk]

they do bounce IRL
and they do bounce in ww2 also saw it in a video once.

ya, but it shudnt bounce from a wood, or from a ground. its supposed to burry inside it.

 

[LordOliver]

http://216.140.44.191/highlight Here is a good live fire tracer demo from Dillon Aero company, if it helps... Watch the ricochets, even from the ground.

 

[Bikewer]

There have been several threads on this, it's generally the opinion that the tracer effect is a bit overdone.
Bullets do ricochet from a variety of surfaces if the angle is right, even water. On soil, they will frequently penetrate,then come back out again. I was once firing round-nosed .45 ACP rounds into a an old, weathered hickory stump, and had one come out the top at right angles to the point of entry, and one come back out the same way it went in and hit me in the leg! (fortunately spent)

 

[Zath]

also I don't believe the tracer smoke looks like laser, but more like a very small smoke trail, but as u know its hard to simulate how smoke trails fade to air (especially without taking all the fps)
its a bit too starwarsy when an MG is firing (and theres plenty videos out on the net of airplanes using the smoke just haven't seen many MG videos like that.

Absolutely, I have fired tracers myself when I was doing my armed service, and they look like thin (not wider than a bullet ) bright lines, and they should be more white and less green. I.e. the tone of the color isn't quite right, IMHO.
However, this probably need not be quite on top of a fixes list.

Also, I believe that the devs have tested the possibility of thinner tracers, and they most likely have good reasons to have them the way they are now. So I am not asking for a change here really.

 

[MkH^]

I think the tracers are pretty well implemented in Red Orchestera, having fired quite a few hundred of those in different calibers. Maybe they are burning for too long, after bouncing high in the air, in my opinion they should disappear, and not keep on bouncing.

 

[takadi]

thinner brighter tracers that aren't necessarily the pastel green they are right now. They should be more of a bright light like a green flying spark.

 

[Byte Me]

It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't bounce so high, they should tone down the bounce height a little. Its hard enough to stay alive as a mg as it is .

 

[dirle]

I've used the MG3 (MG42) when i was in the millitary and tracer rounds do sometimes bounce off dirt too, or rather the phosphorus part of the bullet break off and go flying away in a different direction.

 

[RedStorm]

It'd look much better if some tracer rounds (or the phosphorous) would "stick" in the substance you shot at so they wouldn't all bounce up, some would stick in the ground/wall whatever and burn for a few seconds.