Flatline v Bigshot
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Topic: Flatline v Bigshot
Posted By: parkg95
Subject: Flatline v Bigshot
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 3:01pm
| Which do you find more useful in woodsball? disregard price. |
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Posted By: Snake6
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 3:11pm
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Bigshot. The added range on the Flatline is worthless in my opinion. Even if you have enough unobstructed room to take advantage at the Flatline's maximum range, the chances of hitting the person and getting a break are very slim.
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Posted By: Monkey Dust
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 3:32pm
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Yeah, I had that problem with the flatline not breaking at a longer range.
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Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 3:34pm
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Snake6 wrote:Posted By: whack-a-mole
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 3:54pm
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I've seen both be very useful in woodsball. But if it were my choice I'd go with the bigshot. ------------- NASA and the Americans spent millions of dollars and hundreds of hours to develop a pen that would write in space.....The Russians used a pencil. |
Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 4:31pm
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if your a mil-sim/big game player, id say the flatline, but for every other possible instance id say the bigshot. ------------- 
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Posted By: TrivialBeing
Date Posted: 24 January 2006 at 4:44pm
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Agreed, the bigshot will let you hit and break on the person and you can always arch your shot when needed and walk the balls to the target, but if you don't have accuracy youre simply going to be missing them at a longer range. Go for the Bigshot if you are interested in being able to make a shot without having to put a large volume of rounds toward your target, therefore becoming vulnerable to return fire. (That is a very effective woddsball tactic, it has been most commonly mislabelled with the title "sniper" but its really just covert tactics, making yourself less vulnerable)
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Posted By: Big Pun
Date Posted: 25 January 2006 at 9:40am
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Flatline. You get a lot more distance and a flat trajectory, but you lose some accuracy. i have eliminated players because they thought they were out of range and paid no attention to me what so ever and turned the other way. ------------- M98 Custom Flatline 14" Teardrop Dead-On dbl trigger M98 Ebolt R/T Eggy II Micro-Rock Palmers Regulator Polished Internals Various other mods |
Posted By: tippyseal
Date Posted: 25 January 2006 at 10:17am
| I would say the bigshot. The flatline sucks for a little bit of wind, the balls almost curve. |
Posted By: ANARCHY_SCOUT
Date Posted: 25 January 2006 at 5:06pm
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Bigshot owns the flatline I have 2 bigshots on both my 98's
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Posted By: the_skdster
Date Posted: 25 January 2006 at 10:54pm
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Posted By: warbeak2099
Date Posted: 26 January 2006 at 3:56pm
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A flatline or an apex is really more useful for a support gunner player. They are innacurate compared to most every other barrel. The Bigshot and other good quality barrels will give you immensely more accuracy than a flatline or apex. So, only go for the flatline or apex if you play as a "machinegunner" type role. Otherwise, get a Bigshot or J&J Ceramic. ------------- MIDN 2/C, US Navy LCE-SpyderMag | G-Force Pneumatic Mag | '99 RF Sniper II |
Posted By: snypur sam
Date Posted: 27 January 2006 at 3:09pm
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Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 27 January 2006 at 4:18pm
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I'd go with a Bigshot. Added range isnt that great and I 'd rather have the better accuracy anyday.. ------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: jdub27
Date Posted: 27 January 2006 at 5:25pm
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Posted By: DanSD
Date Posted: 30 January 2006 at 8:47pm
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I've had both on my 98 and I would definitely recommend a 12" Bigshot. It's cheaper, less paint picky, easier to use and maintain, and much more efficient with a good paint match. ------------- Don't hate the player... Hate the game. |
Posted By: VimyRidge
Date Posted: 01 February 2006 at 1:41am
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I thin one of the players in the middle of this topic hit it right between the eyes saying the FL is mainly good as a 'support gunner' for cover fire. My teammate uses a FL and has ball breakages every so often with poor acuracy and no ball breakage on targets at long range. I use a Lapco bigshot 14". Never had to clean it once. Still looks new inside the barrel after 2 years of service too! GREAT acuracy! ------------- "The key in war isn't to die for your country, but to make the othe bastard die for his". |