Paintball pain

I just got back from a whole day of paintball. We went to a small establishment near the foot of the Angeles Forest. My friends had invited over a hundred people, but only four of us made it there. We actually got there late, but nothing has started yet. I guess it's tough for young people to get up early on the weekend.

After donning up our face masks and tested our guns, we started the game. I was inexperienced enough to have a jammed gun right from the beginning. Fortunately, a teammate showed me how to unjam the gun barrel. It didn't help much though, because I got shot before I fired a single bullet.

The second round, I learned my lesson, so I fired pretty much constantly at my opponents who were well-protected behind some barricade. Before long, my ammo ran out, and I was forced to use my gun as a bluffing tool, firing just blanks. I didn't have any reserve ammo with me.

I became smarter and smarter throughout the day. We skipped lunch and played on. The adrenaline was just feeding us. More and more people arrived, and the battles became quite chaotic. During each round, bullets just flew in all directions. And some of the times, I got hit by a sniper that I didn't even see.

When it came down to the last game, I got pretty brave. It was all or nothing. So far, I only shot one guy out. I was going to be either the hero, or go out in a blaze of glory. I made gradual advances toward the other team's flag, and surprisingly, I wasn't hit. I was just crawling around in the sand by that time. My face gritty with sands, my knee skinned raw from skidding on rocks, my brow dripping with a mixture of sweat and paint, I was running on my last leg.

Then I got to just a few feet within the opponents' flag. Bullets were flying in all directions. I said my prayer (even though I am an atheist), and made a dash for their flag. Shockingly, I got there and captured their flag without being shot, unlike the guy before me who tried the same thing.

I thought the game was over. I raised my gun, and shouted "game over". My enemies must have been pretty stunned, because for about ten seconds, there were no shots fired anywhere. Then, one of my teammates ran to me and said "give me the flag". Someone suddenly clued me that the game wasn't over until I bring the flag back to our base. I started running back, but then half a dozen shots hit me on the back. I felt like a victim in a John Woo movie.

What a way to end a day of paintball. I learned the meaning of "capture the flag", and earned some red badge of courage in the process.

Yeah, I know what you all gonna say. "What a n00b not knowing the rule in advance". But I had fun, and that's priceless.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

LOL!!!

never played UT2003 CTF before, eh?

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
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I love paintball. I didn't read any of your post, because it's long and I'm tired... but I still love paintball.

Then I got to just a few feet within the opponents'
flag. Bullets were flying in all directions. I said my prayer (even
though I am an atheist), and made a dash for their flag. Shockingly, I
got there and captured their flag without being shot, unlike the guy
before me who tried the same thing.

my proudest paintball moment was quite similar, only the rule there was
that you won if you took the enemy flag, you didnt have to bring it
back.

i took out 3 guys while advancing to their camp and then running through a bullet-rain without being hit and taking the flag.

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

i once snuck up till i was like 10 ft behind a guy and unloaded on him with a semi-auto only to miss every shot

i love how acurate paintball guns are

I havent had an opportunity to try paintballing. If it came up, I'd go.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

I found out later from the staff that I was the only person who took
the flag the entire day yesterday. As a result, our team won.

Most games ended when time ran out. We had ten to fifteen minute
games, and if everyone played hardcore defense, nothing happens when
the fifteen minutes are up.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

Heh, nice report. I played paintball once but would love to play it
again. It's quite expensive here, though, so it's not likely that I'll
play it anytime soon. But it's sure a lot of fun. Good capturing there,
satch. :smile:

// Why does satch suddenly remind me to satchel charge? :wink:

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

It's not cheap in the States either. It costs $70 per person to
rent the equipment and buy the paint. Yesterday, there were
mostly hard-core people there. People with their own customized
$1700 fully-automatic weapons and full camouflage. We had a clear
disadvantage with our rental semi-automatic guns that lack both range
and accuracy. I managed to take out just one person.

However, the one major difference between paintball/real battle and
Counter-Strike is that you have to learn to position your body to offer
the minimal profile for your opponents. I was pretty much
crawling on my belly the whole time. Ants crawled on my face and
even into my ear. I could taste the gritty sands in my
mouth. All my elbows and knees are without skin today.

I had to throw away the shirt, pants, shoes, and socks I was
wearing. They're just torn and too dirty to launder. I was
pretty hard-core myself, as you can see.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

ive got a friend who used to have his backyard turned into a course most of its still out there

havent used it in a while but all we had to buy was paintalls and CO2

Paintball is big fun, really !

We once had a meeting with a lot of Belgian Team Fortress Classic
clans, to play our favorite game in real life. It wa so awesome. The
fantastic feeling of a flag homerun ! We even had some kind of grenades
and sniper rifles (scoped high pressure rifles).

I can recommend it to everyone. And don't worry about the safety of it.
If everyone keeps their helmet on, nothing bad can happen. (Of course,
getting hit is a bit of pain, but it all depends on what's the pressure
on the rifles.)

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

Forceflow said:
We once had a meeting with a lot of Belgian Team Fortress Classic clans, to play our favorite game in real life.

i bet guys like YellinD, Desorted, ... were also present :wink: . i met YellinD at Yellow Fever a few years ago and i 've seen Desorted a few times at parties here in leuven last year. You're still in a tfc clan nowadays ?

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

Heh, that's something me and my Dutch mapping friends still want to do:
a LAN together. Not a paintball game but just a LAN. Only real problem
is to find a suitable location for a few days that doesn't cost too
much...

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

I went paintballing about 5 days ago, a whole days worth. I'm thinking about joining a regional team, I was pretty damn good at it. Didn't get hit once in the whole day!

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Last time I played, it was for my 8 year old cousin's birthday... he's insane!

Anyhoo, one of the guys playing was a cop. And not like a fat
donut-eating cop... a Schwarzenegger cop. Needless to say,
everyone wanted to be on his team. He was very gung ho and pretty
much took out the entire other team.

We resolved the situation by playing a game where it was all of us (around 15) versus him... he almost won

I love the game, I have my own gun... lot's o fun :smile:

A day of paintball finally inspired me to install Counter-Strike. I've never played CS before, and wasn't really interested until it occurred to me that it's sort of like paintball, but without the dirt and pain (or the extra cost). It's like free paintball tournaments.

I'll see whether my assumption is really true. I had to wait six hours for Steam to update the game when I installed it, so I haven't really had a chance to load it up yet.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

steam strikes again

thank you steam for ruining our lives

I've never played paintball, I'd like to, but it's too expensive. I have once played laser, that was fun.

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Better to be in denial than to be human.

Bill Gates understands binary: his company is number one, and his customers are all zeros.

Yeah, laser is cool. I played it indoor once.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Errr... It's only played indoors fewl!

When I went the other day paintballing I spent around ?60 for the day ($100 or so?), quite expensive but well worth it for a days worth of fun and weeks of joy of thinking about it afterwards.

I found when I went that all you had to do was flank the enemy and they are screwed. Go around on your own or with 1 other, any more and your cannon fodder. All I did was lone wolf style mainly, crawl round the edge of the entire arena down the right (so right handed people find it harder to find cover against me) then get behind the enemy.

The funniest moment was when I was behind 3 people and they turned around. I thought "s**t, better try out some halo moves" so I did, and they actually worked. I just straffed and duck jumped- took out 2 of them and they were only 5m away. After that the other guy (one of my best m8s) ran behind a load of logs. I then went into a building, ran out and knee capped him twice :biggrin:

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Forceflow said:
We once had a meeting with a lot of Belgian Team Fortress Classic clans, to play our favorite game in real life.

i bet guys like YellinD, Desorted, ... were also present :wink:
. i met YellinD at Yellow Fever a few years ago and i 've seen Desorted
a few times at parties here in leuven last year. You're still in a tfc
clan nowadays ?

Wel, most of SSK was present. YellinD was there for sure (he's a memorable guy), Raven, Brucie, Cerbz, Fax, ...



Upper row: YellinD, Raven, (don't remember) the one with the silly hat is fax.

Down row : Me, Beau, (don't remember)

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

Your paintball field is so green and grassy. The one I played on was full of sand and rocks. It must be a lot better crawling around in the grassy knoll than the rocky surface.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

i went last october. i was cold and there was quite alot of snow. it was so fun and i kicked ass, but by the end of it i was freezing and wet.
still nothing like it. me and my friends are going to organise a huge paintball-fest with like twenty people one of these days. that will be fun.

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Bullet Control: $5000 for a bullet.
"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

snows fun

but cold paintballs hurt more

i remember playing in the snow and there was a guy there who was all decked out in white

he looked like one of the guys on a snow recon from a marine commercial

You know what's really stupid ? When you get instructions, every tutor
is saying: don't pick up fallen, non-exploded bullets to use them
again. As soon as they hit the ground and lie there for a while, they
start to absorb water, or something like that, which makes them as a
hard as a small rock.

Some dumbasses pick up those hard paint balls, and use them again. A
normal ball goes splatter on your head, but those hard ones ... ouch.

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

some jackasses freeze them and shoot out peoples windows

ive never actually played anywhere other than private games at friends houses

I never played paint ball :sad: , is it that nice ?? i heard it really
hurts, which really discourages me lol, i tried lazer once, but it
doesnt seem how paintball is, to me paintball is like, you, in a real
battle area, where if you got hit, YOU FEEL IT..

But i never played it :biggrin: hehe

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.::Dark|Masta::. - One name. One legend.

Ever been in an simulated combat excercise with real weapons(using
blanks). Heh. That's really something. Real equipment, real conditions
the only thing that isn't real is the hits. They even had a score
board. I made it to the top 5 with most of kills. That was mostly
caused by the fact that I got separated from my squad couple of times
and found myself surrounded by the enemy. There's nothing else to do in
that situation than hide yourself the best you can and fire at the
enemy until you run out of ammunition...

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

Dark|Killer said:
I never played paint ball :sad: , is it that nice ?? i heard it really hurts, which really discourages me lol, i tried lazer once, but it doesnt seem how paintball is, to me paintball is like, you, in a real battle area, where if you got hit, YOU FEEL IT..
But i never played it :biggrin: hehe

it doesnt really hurt that much, unless youre fat or are wearing no shirt or something

just wear baggy clothing like cammies or something, they will slow the bullet down

It doesn't hurt that much, but the hits do leave bruises and welts on the body for a week or so.

My recommendation is to wear gloves and knee pads. They really help to protect your body from the terrain.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

i got hit in the head once, no welt, no bruise, just stung for a little bit

yeah gloves are a good idea though, getting hit in the hand sucks