Poll: Paintballing

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Not been before but we're going for Escapism UK and I may be going before then.

 

[RavingPenguin]

Played speedball in an arena once, with a unmodified Tippman 98. Still kicked massive amounts of ass, I think I lost maybe 3 matches out of about 20. I loved it so much I went out and bought a spyder the next day, still have yet to use it though.

 

[NeedAUserName]

I have only been a few times, and always with a big group (20+ people), but its always very enjoyable. I just wish I could go more often, but getting decent amount of people together can be a challenge.

 

[kaziard]

hopefully im going to become a paintball marshall at my local this summer, it the best sport EVAR!!

 

[Dogstile]

I played paintball competitively for about 4 years with a group of friends. We even won a couple of local tournaments. You see a bit of a different side of it when you start playing competitively though, politics of the sport and the such. It really turned me off it.

There's a big difference between the sport of paintball and the game of paintball, which is a war-game. I've played both, and I have to say I had a lot more fun playing tournament style speedball. There's a lot of strategy involved that recreational players watching do not understand. We don't shoot a lot of paint just because we can't aim, but because of added benefits which may not occur to someone who is just out for a day to have fun and doesn't have the money to buy 2 or 3 thousand balls. Stealth also isn't really an issue because you're constantly yelling back and forth to each other where the opposing players are and watching your designated zones. When to move up, playing off one another, knowing how to use your bunker properly, are all things that a rec player does not think about when they play, and when you add onto that the hours of training gun skills and techniques, there's a lot more involved than you might think.

Not that there's anything bad about sneaking around in the woods and popping a few rounds in your buddies rear ends

ah yes, but with woodsball, the stealth can be part of the tactics, we had one main battle town, which was surrounded by forest, 30 players had to be in the town, using speedball tactics, while the stealthy blokes (or gals) sneak around, using the radio to tell their team where the enemy is

not that there's anything bad about popping 20 rounds in your buddy's chest

 

[new_age_reject]

I have not yet been and eagerly await my first game.

 

[Fingerprint]

Yeah its painful but great fun. Next time I go I'm really tempted to wear my rugby body armour underneath.

 

[Food]

Fun, prefered airsofting though.

 

[mikecoulter]

I went paintballing once, and got into a fight, as someone shot me on the top of the head, where there's basically just a pain guard(not a hard bit) after the alarm. He promptly received the stock of my gun to his face. Stupid valleys dick.

 

[atv_chic_18]

I think it's fun and want to go again in the woods. I've never played the speed kind but it doesn't sound like half as much fun because you aren't using stealth and tactics. In my personal opinion it adds fun to it if you get to be all stealthy.

I love it when the courses are varied. I went to a paintball range that had like six set in the desert and three set in the woods. It was cool to have a shootout in the desert, but after the third set of ruins, I wanted something different. What was really cool was that they all had themes. One was Bosnia, another was Baghdad, another Vietnam, and even Northern Africa. And of course, depending on the theme, you had a fake city, a desert with some "Burned out" tanks and aircraft ruins, and even just a thick "jungle."

Wow, I have never saw that one done before. That sounds awesome. I'd love to do that.

It is in Northern Los Angeles, just outside the city, but I can't remember the name... We went there for my Brother's Bachelor Party. It took us over 6 hours to play every course....

That sounds like a ton of fun though. I wished I lived in surrounding LA area to do such a thing. I'd do it even if I had to jump in with a random group of people. Unfortunantly I don't live in LA or the surrounding LA area.

 

[InvisibleMilk]

Proud owner of a Smart Parts Eos, with 20 bps and 14 inch Freak barrel.
Love the sport.

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

Love woodsball, but speedball's too serious for me. I had a truly epic 3v3 round in which I took out the entire other team with headshots. I felt like I could take on the fucking WORLD! RAWR!