Paintball vs. Airsoft

Baconsen wrote:Tagging With Lasers gives me the chance to constantly say SW quotes!

"Stormtroopers take them out!"
"Roger Roger!"
"Rebel Scum!'

=D

'There he is! Blast him!'

Angatar wrote:I prefer Mortars to Roman Candles, though you can't really throw Mortars at people...

FIRE ZE PANZERSHREK!

Lazer tag beats both. You can't shrug off something that keeps you from shooting.

We play airsoft like this:

The legs and arms are incapacitation. For 15 seconds, you can call for a designated medic to come heal you. 2 shots to the chest is lethal, 5 second revival, headshots are instant death.

Angatar wrote:I prefer Mortars to Roman Candles, though you can't really throw Mortars at people...

I prefer screamers.

airsoft is more "realistic" then paintball... as you have actual magizines of ammo. the pellets are harder to see, and there is a HUGE variation of guns


I prefer it because of that... although you HAVE to play in a woods setting for it to be any fun... only annoying part are the morons who don't fess up to being hit...

KrAzY wrote:only annoying part are the morons who don't fess up to being hit...

Exactly what I was thinking.

I must say, while I enjoy airsoft, paintball, and nerf, the most exhilarating of them all, for me, was being a photographer during an outdoor paintball match. Something about having paintballs whizzing past me as I ducked behind a rock to get an action shot of a player taking paintballs to the face mask and being completely unarmed was really exciting.

KrAzY wrote:only annoying part are the morons who don't fess up to being hit...

Thats why you make the rule where players have to wear T-shirts or long sleeve shirts made of thin fabric. Dont forget to use really strong guns.

Angatar wrote:I prefer Mortars to Roman Candles, though you can't really throw Mortars at people...

ive aimed them at a abandoned apartment complex, it didnt end well...

as a player of both, i will give you a strait up non bull shit answer:
THEY SHOULD NOT BE DIRECTLY COMPARED

Airsoft - all about mill sim. The guns are more realistic, the action is more realistic, you cant get nearly as close to Mill sim with paintball as you can to airsoft. Sure, there are some PB guns that look realistic, but not nearly as good as airsoft ones do with the exception of a very few number of markers. Also, its much eassier to cheat in airsoft then it is in paintball. Im not saying cheating dosnt happen in paintball, it does a lot, but its much eassier to do and get away with in airsoft

paintball - its own sport all together in my opinion. A real paintball player plays on the air/speed/hyperball field, not in the woods. And if your going to tell me that 90% paintball is meant to be realistic anymore, go jump off a bridge, because your retarded. i enjoy paintball because it is way more fun, a lot faster paced, and way more of a rush.

airsoft done right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPyA2Pr988k

paintball done right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6zI0fDZ9Y8

as you can see, not to be directly compared

another thing to look at is the price and fields. Paintball is about a dozen times more expensive to play. This is why if your playing paintball for the woodsball and mil-sim aspect, you should be playing airsoft anyway. Theres not point in spending hundreds of dollars for a paintball game when you could achieve that same thing in airsoft for far cheaper.

as far as fields go, i have about 12 paintball fields within 50 miles of my house, and only one airsoft field. If you play airsoft, chances are your going to wind up playing with no more then 4 of your friends in an abandon lot, as opposed to paintball where you'll have a field with anywhere from 50 - 200 people at it.

hope this helped

edit: damn, after taking all the time to post that, i realise that 1. No one was asking which was better, and 2. i killed the entire section

Ive never played paintball but airsoft is a lot of fun with a lot of people.