now that cannon damage has been fixed
I feel like its time for 0.50 cal incendiary to actually do damage
heres an old bug report on it Community Bug Reporting System
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It does, a lot actually.
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not really
and nowhere near as much as it should
I am not talking about API, just pure incendiary rounds
I only use incendiary, I’m not kidding when I say blasted both wings off from the rear of a PB4Y from about 1.2-1.4km away
The things do more then enough dmg and you have much more ammo then any other plane out there.
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Are you talking about pure incendiary bullets or the APIT late-war belt specifically?
Because I have always found it weird how the API-T belt seems to do considerably more damage than the Stealth Belt’s API and pure I rounds, given that without tracers, both could have much more filling inside to do damage with.
I was using the P-47D-30 Italian version, so I think it’s late war rounds.
50 cal does what’s on the box. Though I would like to see some experimental Ammo here and there.
Yup, those are indeed late-war belts. If you’re ever unsure, late-war belts have the M20 API-T round.
Do tell. I know of so-called SLAP rounds which are mini-APDS of sorts for .50cal but beyond that idk of any other experimental ones.
Ah, I’ll give the stealth belts a try but I did do a few rounds earlier and the tracers melt stuff and even the default belt is great.
Had some dumb deaths(not the best pilot tbh) and even made the mistake of head on with a spitfire(tho I did get em, and he only messed me up for a P-47 to come and mop me up)
Got 3 kills that round which was nice(including the spitfire)
you cant only use incendiary
the closest you can get is the late war stealth belts at 50% incendiary
the one you can run a full belt of is API tracers
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SLAP are already in game, but only usable by helicopters with the 0.50 cal minigun
So tracer belts are full incendiary?
no
they are full armor piercing incendiary tracers
API or armor piercing incendiary functions completely differently to the pure incendiary rounds in game
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I’d consider them still to be broken, just instead of dealing realistic amounts of damage, they’re now all 30mm mineshells.
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this is frankly a hilarious statement.
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Because clearly singular 20mms should be taking down P-47s and Me 264s.
what does this have to do with the us being tied with the ussr for op under tired props?
It has nothing to do with that cause you can count the number of undertiered U.S. props on one hand.
Maybe if your hand had extra fingers…
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Let’s see, P-51H-5 . . . MAYBE F4U-4B.
The only other U.S. props that are too strong for their BR are either outsourced premiums (namely Spitfire, Ki-43, and A6M2) and ranks 2s.
I really don’t think it’s fair to say that planes like F4U-1C and P-39 are undertiered due to how early in the TT they come.