Poll: Paintballing
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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 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
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
I've been twice. both times it was humid/raining so my mask steamed up. I couldn't see for most of either the times I went, but it was still fun, although painful.
First time I went, within 5 minutes of being released into the game zone someone on my team broke there arm. and near the end of the day me and the last few people got pinned in a wooden box a few meters square. slightly dug into the ground. I got shot in the visor and head when I peaked a look above the wall (Headshots didn't count.).
My visor shattered from the impact.
First time I went, within 5 minutes of being released into the game zone someone on my team broke there arm. and near the end of the day me and the last few people got pinned in a wooden box a few meters square. slightly dug into the ground. I got shot in the visor and head when I peaked a look above the wall (Headshots didn't count.).
My visor shattered from the impact.
Wow, I have never saw that one done before. That sounds awesome. I'd love to do that.Darth Mobius said:
I've never tried paintball, but I love airsoft, so I voteed "yes, loved it" anyways.
I play at a "map" where they cordinate it every weekend, and about 30-40 people usually show up. theres forest with small covers, theres small wooden houses, theres wooden towers, theres bunkers, theres even a freekin huge fort with 2 floors.
I play at a "map" where they cordinate it every weekend, and about 30-40 people usually show up. theres forest with small covers, theres small wooden houses, theres wooden towers, theres bunkers, theres even a freekin huge fort with 2 floors.
I've gone once. It was great fun, and I would love to go again at every opportunity. Unfortunately, it is way, way too expensive. It's great fun, but it's not worth the money unless you have a hell of a lot of cash to burn.
It was really painful for me the first time but i was having a blast......until I ran out of ammo (Dam my ichy trigger finger couldn't help but impersonate The Heavy from TF2 lol)
(Dam my ichy trigger finger couldn't help but impersonate The Heavy from TF2 lol)