IMO, speedball>>>>woodsball annyday.

 

Edit: Whale, I think I love you.

 

Zing!

 

 

 

New Guy:  Chill.

 

 

 

I'm a running sniper and I play woodsball, but sadly I shoot a TON of paint when I play. Typically around 2000 paintballs in 6-8 games, and I have a stock a-5 with an apex barrel, no auto.

 

 

Why are you asking about paintball? I bet half the guys that answered in this thread haven't even played this year...

 

 

Only thing you need to know about woodsball... Fear the Reaper.

 

 

 

I like speedball, I have fun playing it. I like woodsball, I have fun playing it. I like Milsim, but very much dislike the majority of the milsimers ive met as well as the "form over function" mentality. I play semi in both, and have fun, I play pump in both speedball and woodsball, and have a blast. I dont like bushball with a pump, cant shoot through thick undergrowth, and generally dislike playing bushball no matter what.

With out a doubt I play much more woodsball than speedball. I play more pump than with my electric now (pump for rec, electric for tourney/competetive). To me, the amount of paint shot only matters to a certain point, with experience you learn all players/teams shoot the amount they like to shoot, no matter the feild/circumstances. Yesterday, a guy with a pump (t2) shot a case or so, in woodsball and a couple mixed feilds (some haybails and wood bunkers, but set up like a speedball feild). Now, you said in speedball guys just hide behind bunkers and shoot a lot of paint, but then how did this guy, playing woodsball, with pump, one of the slowest styles of paintball markers, shoot a case? Its because everyone has their own playing style, so saying one style of paintball has to be one way is only looking at the group of players you saw.

you have to consider why those speedballers you saw were just hosing. Maybe it was just their peersonal style, or maybe the feild had a 20bps cap and everyone was using it because that was the set standard (I dont think any feild encourages or allows 20bps ramp, but if they did, you wouldnt see a lot of movement), or maybe the layout had wide lanes and not a lot of safe cover?

I find that in woodsball, with an electric(usually in semi, and hopperball, but in leagues ill do a ramp and use pods) I shoot more paint than I do in speedball under the same circumstances, and those around me shoot more in woodsball than in speedball.  I know in speedball Ive been at certain feilds where there are a lot of individuals who love to hose, but you see those guys in woodsball more, there just called "heavy gunners"
In woodsball, I see guys with huge bt's or a5's with the 500 round hoppers, pods melted to them to increase capacity, e-triggers set to shoot stupid fast, and all they do is hose bunkers, half of the time they dont even shoot at a person, just at their bunker to "cover fire".  So, for the most part in my experiences, its some big guy who cant run worth crap and has so much gear/pods on him he couldnt bend over to touch his knees, and all they do is shoot paint while chilling behind a bunker at a safe distance.  Personally, If I get in a situation where some guy does this to me, I whisper **edited**, coward or somethig under my breath, switch hands, go low and pop the guy in the head.

your big problem with speedball is they dont move a lot, chill behind bunkers and shoot to much. Fine, that does happen a fair amount of the time at certain feilds(certain feilds that are frequented by individuals who play like that may bring about others who do the same).  I dont have a problem with woodsball itself, but I do with a lot of its individuals that tend to populate that end of paintball.

Anything other than straight woodsball, and I tend to experience problems. People using mech guns, low rof, people being sneaky and using good team tactics, being able to do those cool bum rushes and unique moves only a large feild will allow, those are all things I love about woodsball, but the problem is in my area those players who love the same things are generally enthusiastic renters or the select few pure woodsballers.  In this area(meaning, I have not played everywhere at all times so my opinion is based on those areas only, and that I have based my opinion from the amount of individuals who all act and behave similarly to the point I have collected them into a group, but still have a seperate opinion on any individual who does not act of behave like this group, regardless of style of play.) we get a lot of milsimers, guys who wear a stupid amount of gear, get all serious, and shoot up little kids.  I played with some guys a while back, 15 of them from this milsim only feild, and I was so overtook by their blatant cheating, treatment of players, and there rof that I stopped playing half way through my day and left early. These guys didnt have a single mech gun on them, none carried less than 4 pods (the majority of them carried 4 on front,and about 8 on back unless they were running a remote line and had a tank on their back). They had no clue how to use their rof and ended up lighting up several little kids, and were always talking about how they did this sick flank maneuver and took out all of this one side. THose guys had the worst shots I have ever seen, I once had a battle against a renter, to whom I had cover against, and one of the milsim guys who I had no cover to, and the renter ended up shooting my gun while I was gunfighting with the other guy.  If anyone actually hitted them(which was quite often, they were slow and had lots of hard targets on them) they wouldnt call their hits, but then complain afterwards that a bunch of stupid kids lit them up. I once had put 2 on a guys head (top of head, not mask) once bounced of his neck smemagh thing, and broke 3 paintballs on his chest, and he continued playing, many would take hits from renters, then bunker/rush that player and call themselves out afterwards...  now, Ive also had a heck of a lot of other guys do the same thing, the majority of milsimers and a lot of plain old woodsballers will use electronic guns that look like milsim/woodsball guns, but shoot the crap out of kids, act horridly, and be all around dicks. 

 

I dress like a "speedballer", I wear pb pants, jersey, sandana, gloves, cleats, use a flashy gun (pump orry and a droid) and will often wear a podpack(50 round pods for pump, standard if I have my droid) and be called a speedballer. I get people who are woodsball/mislim purists who will laugh at me, give me looks, and treat me like im dirt.  They all say I cant be sneaky or play woodsball with my flashy guns(dark purply orry and a gloss black droid...), my flashy gear (camo invert pants and a dark black/green jersey) and everything, that I am going to shoot everyone up and be a douche.  I Understand they may have had experiences where speedballers are this, just like I have negative experiences with some woodsballers. The thing I dont understand, is why guys like this will be dicks to everyone else, think they can shoot me up and be the hero whos saving woodsball from the evil speedballer. Ive had experiences where I was testing out a mech prostock, I went over to help some players on one side, tried to shoot it fast when I was running and jammed a ball, arrive to my bunker safe but the other players I was trying to help get shot, get bunkered by a ramping tm7, and take 4-5 in the back while im walking away, hands up, already 10-15ft from where I originally got shot, and have the guy say some smart arse remark about how his e-trigger went off and that electronic guns just seem to shoot too much paint(im holding the jammed/not working mech gun, and he gives me a comment like that? even if his trigger did malfucntion, why was he pointing at my back as I walked away?)

Youve had problems, Ive had problems, youve made opinions on your problems, as have I. You say speedball is like that, I say you get a lot of problematic guys in woodsball but there still can be an overall more easy going friendly crowd there. I think you just havent experienced enough paintball yet, and everyone thinks I talk wayyyy too much.

answer to it all... play pump, everyone shoots faster than you but it doesnt really matter, and you have to be sneaky(sneaky as in crawling through bush to get that perfect shot, and sneaky as in sharing a bunker with a guy wihtout him knowing, then pop him when he turns to check the other side) 

 
fixed.

 

I couldn't resist...

 

I like speedball its fast.

 

I bet you my paintball gun can shoot 350 feet...

 

Wait, I like speedball its fun to shoot lots of paint.

 

Fear the reaper...

 Because there is a bridge somewhere missing it's troll.

 

 

Fear him...

 

I've considered playing tournaments, but finding others that come even close to my skill level is difficult. Maybe I could clone myself twice...

 

 

 

THAT is a good idea...

 

While on the subject, there are plenty of fields that even though in the woods are pretty much still speedball courses. They use trees instead of blow ups, but they are still essentially speedball courses set in the woods.

 

Both versions have good players and bad, in both skill and attitude.

 

I shot a 12 point buck with my paintball gun, after sneaking up on it in my backyard.

 

 

Yeah, he now fears the reaper...

 

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