I've Been Playing For 25 Years But I Stopped Enjoying It 15 Years Ago Edition.Old thread: >>142716We're coming back any day now, boys.
>>220387If only I was fit and rich.
>>220387Im thinking of getting into it.Any tips as far as equipment, finding a place, etc...? Pros and cons in general of the sport?
>>223388There's two types of paintball, woodsball (can be played in arenas too, think of what you see people doing in airsoft) and speedball. Speedball is the competitive field you see in this photo. The sport aspect is unavoidably expensive and to an extent is pay to win. Paint is expensive, the lowest serviceable tier of equipment is expensive, and traveling is expensive. If you're willing to spend $1k or so on gear and well North $100 of paint per day, you are in the game and it's insanely fun. That said, you can bring one box of paint out to your local yokel woodsballer meetup and have a great time blasting children and their overweight fathers. If you bring an e-trigger speedball gun out to a bunch of yokel's with Tippmans, just throttle your trigger to like 1 shot per second and turn the fps down. Don't be that dildo who dumps a firehose of bruises into the back of a 10 year old's head, so he never wants to play again.
anyone ever use the cheap stuff for rec use? ie Tippmann Stormer and stuff?I never got into speedball, 2-3k for a marked is nuts....
>>228472marker*funnily enough I still have my old spyder's but no one does co2 anymore... thinking I can also maybe rjn those with hpa..
>>228472You can get a really good tournament grade marker second hand for less than $600. Hell you can get an Empire Mini for 299 new and it's within tournament spec. Pic rel copped for 600.Haven't played since 08 and I'm hitting the fields tomorrow. Wish me luck.
>>230368Adding to this. Check MazensPB for a big selection of used and serviced markers and Punishers Paintball as well. ANSGear is good too for brand new full starter kits for around $1000-1200 (I'm talking Planet Eclipse marker, hopper and HPA tank) which is a fucking steal. Plus you get warranty.
Who's your guys' favorite tank manufacturer?
>>223388First purchase should always be your mask. Try on as many as you can, think about how you'll be wearing it when the sun is beating on you, and it's humid, and you just sprinted 100 meters.Speedball is for people who's parents are made of money, or the financially retarded. If you're still interested, pretty much anything electronic released over the last two decades will reach the BPS limits these days. If buying new, get an Etha.Woodsball is what your standard recreational experience is going to be. If you just drive out to the field on a random Saturday, you'll probably be out in the woods somewhere. Most fields restrict you to Semi-auto only, so anything electric is a waste if you're not interested in speedball. If you're cheap, find a used Tippmann being sold on Craigslist/Marketplace. If you're not, grab an Emek.The other two ways to play are magfed, and pump. I doubt you'd want to get into either of these formats for your first marker purchase, but a lot of new players at my local field are buying into magfed setups as their first purchase. If the idea of tacticool, in the woods play, where you can shoot expensive, extremely accurate, fin stabilized paintballs, out of very limited capacity magazines, sounds fun, then you have two reasonable options. The cheap, which is the Tippmann options. And the good, which is the Planet Eclipse options.Pump is what you think it is. Pump action. One pump, one shot. It's the old school way to play. It's divided into two "classes". Open class, and stock class. Open class is hopper fed, and has a standard air tank. Stock class is fed by 10 round integrated feed tubes, and powered by 12 gram C02 cylinders. Very few companies make pumps these days, and it's primarily driven by the used, and vintage, market. New options are still made by Azodin, CCI, and Nova. Used options are all over the place.
>>235231never thought id use an hk product but they make a 45/36ci tank that has been perfect for my needs. i have a powerhouse reg on it and threw a home made neoprene cover on it.its a super lightweight and tight setup for pump
stock class is best class
>>238598first strike (the company that makes the finned "bullet shaped" paintballs) is out of business now, so those are not an option currently.i think the best option for a beginner setup is probably a USED basic emek ($250) or tippmann ($100)with a USED dye rotor/ctrl loader ($60), put together a jt mask ($100), and borrow/rent a hpa tank from the field as long as you can. probably pickup a used pod pack ($30) too. if you really like it, sell all that gear and build a pump setup. they have the best events and community within the paintball scene.
>>238994First Strike is still in business, they were bought out by the same distribution conglomerate that just bought Ninja, like, two months ago. The group has really reigned in production, and who they're working with. But, you can still buy First Strike rounds, and markers.Personally, I think they're just coasting until the patent expires in a few years, and then will "radically restructure" the company. Fuck the First Strike patent anyway, it's bullshit, and anything that can universally impact all player safety (mask safety features, the round you're getting shot with) should be open.Magfed had some real momentum behind it before First Strike really decided to leverage their monopoly.Pump kicks ass. I wish it wasn't so hard to get people to play it.
When I was a kid I watched my best friend steal some kid's brand new Dye DM4 and I didn't say anything. He even helped him look for it like a nigger. My friend was loaded, his dad was a doctor who owned his own practice. To this day like 20 years later I still don't know why he stole it and I still feel bad about it.
>>240241I just ordered a first strike revolver, what am I in for?
Hi I've bought a used front and back ul-i dye barrel kit but it came with a crbn pwr insert in 689, I would like to know if there is a difference in accuracy or in longevity between those two manufacturer inserts?
>>238992The power of stock class is that allow Paintball to be affordable.
>>242809Something really, really impractical, but fun.If it's .50 cal, it's only useful as a novelty, really. .50 cal just sucks ballistically, and from what I've heard, .50 cal First Strikes really aren't much better. If it's .68 cal, you can actually use it, but, you know, revolver, so not the most practical thing. If you wear a cowboy hat, it becomes practical.Might need to fuck with it to get it to chrono decently.
>>242981Got a chance to mess with it a bit yesterday. It's definitely designed for indoor fields, pretty underpowered for woodsball. I'm going to upgrade the valves for sure. Otherwise it handles pretty well.
Damn this thread was so dead it didnt even see the drama that happened this year lol Couldnt paintball a lot this year, I am gonna try next year as I had an injury and have been getting back to normal after it I live in Illinois and Paintball Explosion moved fields to a new place as their old shit was busted. I wonder if they will bring back nuke town, nuke town went from my favorite field to the worst ever since they would stick 60 people there sometimes and wouldnt allow moving past the middle for 5 minutes it was so gayif it was 5v5 CTF nuke town it was amazing but you needed to be lucky
>>243309What drama? Btw I don't think Paintball is the only sports/hobby that is struggling from Internet, what I see is Gen Z also don't do Paintball regularly, most of them play once a year during an anniversary. Owners field make more money mostly from renting and teams, than any rec player, where I live. Can't play any speedball as a rec players because the speedfield have been rented by local teams for training...
>>220387does anyone have a line on 90s paintball anodizing jobs? they were 90s wacky and wild and i want to get my AR to look like a custom job from 97.
>>243653stock class and pump on the airball field is infinitely more fun than using semi and electros. i put on pump airball days with 8-14 guys showing up typically. we do saturdays since sundays is more popular with the speedball guys. im always able to convince the 3-4 dudes with electros who DO show up to give pump a try. they always love it, and everyone appreciates the faster paced, short games. with pumps, you are able to pull off way crazier moves and no one is staying put and hiding behind bps. even when the pace and action are ramped up, you will NeVER catch a pump guy cheating/wiping.
>>245310PK selective did those. And they do/did AR parts too. ARC annodizing is one of their old guys iirc.
>>245414thats my shit right there.
>>245512yea that era of paintball was the peak. mags and cockers, actual athleticism and big paint. i had a shit ton of folks outraged when i suggested a "Classic Mech League" with no space mechs allowed. -revvys only-single trigger -mags and cockers only-no r/t, no hair trigger, limit lbs/trigger pullthe emek and mech trigger kit electro guys were very butthurt that i would come up with a mech game they weren't allowed to hide behind bps with. "you should allow emeks at least" "these rulesmake no sense, theres no difference between modern mechs and the older stuff" "no one will show up to a game like that, its unsponsorable" definitely gave me more incentive to try and actually put something together.
