RE: Some Airsoft Bullshit
September 7, 2013 at 7:54 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2013 at 7:59 pm by Nine.)
(September 7, 2013 at 7:37 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Can you blokes get paintball gear legally? I never understood the attraction to airsoft. Someone shoots you with one of those, you can laugh it off. There's little motivation to not get hit.
Yep, Paintball stuff is real easy to get.
Airsoft guns can be cheap and shoot at like 150-200 feet per second and have like 20-30 meter range. Those won't hurt unless your close. A decent one will be at 330-350 full auto (For most UK sites) Or like 450 FPS for snipers. They can hit you at 50-60 meters accurately and from 30 meters in they sting a fair bit. At 20 meters a good gun will draw blood. From about 10 meters they can go into your skin.
As for not wanting to get hit. The annoying part is mostly being taken out of the game. If you want to win you need to be able to hold ground and move up. If you keep getting hit your no use at all. Same as paintball really. Difference is that airsoft guns usually have much more range. Certainly they are much more accurate. Which means you get more intense battles and more strategy in play. All which go onto the being hit part. The pain is irrelevant compared to being pinged off at 50 meters because you were just wandering about.
Lots of people do it for the realism and the fact that a good day paintballing can easily cost upward of £100 where as airsoft its between £25-50 depending on what gear you have. BB's cost £8 for 3000 paintballs cost almost the same for 100 that you have to buy from the site your at 9/10. My experience paintballing is that you only play like 5-6 20min games where as airsofting we went out for 3 hours had lunch and did another 3 hours.
(September 7, 2013 at 7:48 pm)Captain Colostomy Wrote: Worse, who the hell would admit to being 'out' in an airsoft battle? It's not like the ruptured testicles smothered in neon orange paintballers get.
Well you get kicked out of the site pretty damn sharp if your caught. I had far more trouble with cheaters in paintball. Last time we got stuck against the same lot of cheating assholes all day and they were just ignored because they had paid so much.. Its usually a bunch of assholes doing a stag do or birthday party at paintball..
