Paintballing

[TheDonUK]

Going tomorow with some mates, a field near upminster/essex.

Never been before, any tips?

Best to charge while laying suppressing fire or sneak around?
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[hellkat]

So long as your group is a mixture of gung-ho heroes and strategic snipers, you should be fine.

I'm so pleased I went, even though I fucked up my ankles.
Its a great day out
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[MarJay]

You can't really prepare for it (well, I don't think anyway).

When you're there, it kinda feels like you should stay still under cover for as long as possible, but if the other team are decent its actually better to keep moving. And its boring sitting behind an upturned pallet getting splattered with ricochets!
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[Carl_steveo]

Think strategically and pick out the weaker members of their team and just annihilate them and hope the rest of your team are adequate.
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[WildGoose]

Keep an eye on the boundary ropes.

When you are executing a daring arnie commando style run and the adrenaline is pumping, they can clothesline you quicker and inflict more pain than any of those paintballs.


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[andyscooter]

wear a backwards facing baseball cap

yes Ive found a use for them

they stop paint pellets hitting you in the most painful area besides bollocks the back of the neck

and if you look the marshalls also do this so must do something

also if there's ferns about hide in them

and buy smoke bombs

[Fnatic]

I got into prone. They didn't expect that. Then they saw me and I got shot.

[arry]

[yen_powell]

bayonetting someone is frowned on apparently
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[TheDonUK]

Im pretty slow on foot so im going to assume the sniper/camper job.

There is also a bit of a grudge match gonna take place, one of my mates years ago borrowed the others bicycle, bunny hopped it and buckled the wheel, it was never the same and i think some revenge may get dealt to someones balls tomorow .

Should be a laugh, early start need to be there by 9, looks like rain by about noon, gonna get muddy
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[c_dug]

Delta force? My "mate" is a marshal there *, his names Rob, feel free to shoot him in the nuts

If it is delta force its brilliant fun, some of the arenas are a bit poop but the good ones make up for it.

Speedball (lots of pyramid type things and the bunker one afghan bunker I think its called, are my faves

*If he hasn't got himself fired yet!

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[L-Jam]

Don't challenge a marshall to a one-on-one at the end of the day, I still have a bruise on my arm about four months later from it. The motherfucker hit me about literally 50-60 times in ten seconds, had like a double-trigger gun and didn't tell me.

I got owned.
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[dextersaurus]

Wear combat boots.

I was wearing my full combat gear, RAF issue ones...

Everyone else was in trainers, keeping out of the puddles.

Its better when you have nothing to stop you.

Also, wear your bike gloves, they bloody hurt when you get shot in the fingers.

Dunc

[Tonka]

[bacon]

best to keep moving and be brave tbh

if your scared on the field you are pretty much useless. it does hurt, more so at close range, but if your scared of a bit of pain you shouldnt be there in the first place

I used to do walkons, bring your own gun etc, and play with speedballers etc, if you sit you get shot etc


heres what happens at 7 feet when someone uses a gun that hasnt been chrono'ed (i.e make sure its firing under 280feet per secon muzzle vel)

for the record, i had just pulled the flag down and won the game, then a fucking retard decides to put 7 into my back/head. these 2 bled as his gun was way over the allowed 280fps

https://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v112/51/46/517802695/n517802695_120010_1874.jpg

but yeh, you will love it man and have a great time


oh and as for clothing etc to wear, when i play i wear a t shirt and an old pair of trousers i bought for my mountain biking days, plus my mask of course, no gloves or fook all

[quacker_boy]

[nick606]

you can't prepare for it. It's just mayhem if your lucky you will get team mates who aren't tarts.

[bacon]

[Villers]

[Visitor Q]

Yep, always have some paintballs left in your gun at the end, or you can't (properly) retaliate when people decide to savage you



Cheeky sods

My trick when sniping over cover (I seemed to alternate between suicide charging and attempting to remain inconspicuous and snipe) was to literally throw both my legs out from under me whenever someone clocked me a started firing. Saved me twice, and make me feel all hardcore commando

... then I got owned by a midget with a ridiculously good gun the moment I tried to push forward. Damn near broke my finger.
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[ZRX61]

Use marbles instead

[TheDonUK]

A good day was had by all,

They do hurt a bit but only for a few seconds.

In the end it was the Delta Force park we went to and the guys there were cool, the owner seemed to recognise me from the ace cafe or dick turpin so was cool when 3 of the people we booked dident show, gave us their paintballs.

Thing is me and my mate were really trigger happy so we werre getting through about 200-250 per round, and at the prices they charge on sight the money only lasted 3 games (2 halves of each), but we were knackered by that time anyway.

Did the Vietnam Villiage, London Busses/VIP, and the castle/fort areas, the last two were the best but also the most paintballs were used there.

I was more of a sniper/flanker than my mate who did the old suicide charge nearly every game (he has the marks like that pic to prove it too). Couple of great moments were headshotting people across the field who had been plinking at me for a while. Getting about 3 slow movers runing across open ground in front of me... thats a good feeling unloading on them

Also picture a double decker london bus, i was on the top floor sniping covering our VIP and all i heard was "THEYRE FLANKING TO THE RIGHT" and then a minute later 3 guns open up from downstairs on the bus, so i sneak down the stairs, hide in the stairwell, see paintballs flying across, pop out and tag 3 of the bastards shooting through the back window of our bus. they dident expect that .

Oh and the castle map when we wrre attacking, Me and some random kid formed a really good impromtu 2 man sniper team. moving bits of tree out they way for each other in the bog, giving legs up to climb into this cliff thing, covering fire for each other to move. was well good. The best bit had to be crawling prone through long grass to apprach the castle, and i can see 4 of them on my side of the castle shooting at teammates 90 degrees to my left, so not looking my way, pop up, first shot hits the guy looking my way, he ducks for cover, and then i procede to light up all three of them. very satisfactory, on the plus side after that game i was told i made a small girl cry WIN.

Paintball does indeed kick ass, but the masks they give you are shit, i mean when dispatching i barely took off my lids, and i still wear them an inordinate amount of time (my baldness goes to show) but those masks are sweaty/foggy and generally shit for seeing out of. Dont get it twisted i got shot SPLAT in the face a few times and was glad of wearing one then but walking between fields and stuff bloody horrible. I imagine its like going gokarting without your own lid, their ones are shit but your ones are good.

Me and my mate hated the full face ones so much we went for the half face ones, and were almost the only ones using it.

Oh and i was thankfull of the reverse cap trick when i got shot in the back of the head by an idiot teammate at close range, the cap stopped that one hurting.

So we will be going back again but considering online 2000 paintballs seem to be about 30 quid and on site they sell the same for 120 quid, i think a smuggling operation is in order.
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[bacon]

buy yourself a mask, they dont cost much, i used to have a dye, dont bother, load of shite and cost me over £60, steamed up all the time

Sold it on ebay and bought a Vforce profiler, Vforce use excellent lenses, cost me £50 i think, and its never steamed up even on the hottest mugiest of days makes a world of difference to your game when you arent worrying about your vision every 2 seconds

glad you enjoyed it bud

[the grim reaper]

I've been a few times and really should go again one day. The only time I got hurt was when a pellet skimmed my knuckles and broke up as it did so, cut all four knuckles open. Still, I bleed every time I even think of working on the bike, so it's not really surprising

I was also criticised for shooting two of my team mates in the final game, the last time I went, we were all soaked and I couldn't tell if they were friendly or not, so I made a decision as we needed to clear the base to win. Apparently killing two of your team mates to win the match was not considered team play. I didn't care, we f***ing won

Cheers

Grim
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[TheDonUK]

Grim you did the right thing, on the very first game we played in the vietnam villiage i was sweeping up the right hand side, and on the next piece of cover ahead of me i see some guy with his back to me but i couldent tell which team he was on, so i dident fire had a perfect shot of the back of his head too, he then turned around and gave me the worst hits of the day on my knee and leg.

With retrospect i should have shot first asked questions later...

Bacon can you get like a fogcity visor insert type thing for paintball masks? because that for me was the downside of the whole experience, the masks.
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