Posted by: Clayphoto on June 06, 2003 at 10:35:36

Played my first 4 games with a Flatline last weekend by trading guns with another player for part of the day. Hate to say it, but to me the Flatline has it's place, and most of it is in the woods. The reason I noticed is that to me one of the hardest things about playing in true woods is that the longer the shot, the more you need to lob your shot, and the more time your ball is going to spend amoung the branches and twigs. Obviously, the shortest line with the shortest trip is if you can make a straight line. I really did not experience any more accuracy or range, but I have far less problems with ball breakage half way to the target because of hitting pine cones alone the way. However for speedball, I found it to be a bigger disadvantage then I thought. If you were trading shots with somebody playing mids and backs, it was okay. But I did not realize how oven I am aiming for the feet and packs of people playing snakes till I played with the flat line. I found out that for playing aginst the low bunkers you actually depend alot on your ball to drop 3 or 4 inches to hit your target. Flatline barrel tended to add more cover against those people. Few other big change that I think both new players and speedballers take awhile to adjust to. The first and more obvious is more space to move. But also there usually are fewer real bunkers and more cover (tree limbs, tall grass, etc) in most woodsball games I've played than in speedball. In speedball terms, its kind like getting rid of half the bunkers on your speedball field, but getting 1/4 failure rate of ball breakage. Would affect your tactics in a similar way. : Hey man, : Most of those players probably called themselves snipers right? There are no rambos in a game with that many people. These people thought they could sit back, lob balls at you from a distance, and eliminate you as the weakest link (r.u. a survivor). What they didn't realize was even though they hit you from a distance, the paintballs had lost the velocity necessary to splatter. When you got close, the flatline is the worst barrel for close quarter combat. I do not have fancy guns, just a tippman c98 with a response trigger (no flatline just a lapco auto spirit) and a piranah with an e-force electronic trigger frame (that one I am upgrading for speedball). : But you are right speedball teaches you to work as a team, woodball (which I am playing next week)teaches you to sneak around, be quiet, and stock people. Both have their advantages, and I do play both (mainly because I am not a purist, I'll play wherever I can whenever I can). Sounds like you had a good time, but remember... : Shoot to thrill play to kill : Embers of Wrath

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