I haven’t gone paintballing in over a decade but did it a few times as a teenager at birthdays and it was really fun. Thought it might be a good time to go again for my upcoming birthday. However, airsoft has also become a big thing over the past few decades so maybe that would be more fun instead. Thoughts, experiences, opinions?
Paintball is run around hahaha shoot friends good times.
Airsoft is larp as a badass soldier with realistic looking guns and gear and maybe some camping.
Both are a lot of fun but paintball is less cringe-coded.
Airsoft sometimes involves camping? Cause gotta be real, whatever the equipment, I’ve always thought playing non lethal guerilla war with friends would be fun as hell. I wanna see if I can be snake in mgs3 and stealth for like 3 days to a destination
Yeah this was me and my friends every high school summer. Camp gear, MREs, airsoft guns, and my friend’s racist veteran dad giving us “special forces” tactical advice. Would be fun to do again without that last one.
Leftist airsoft nerds should really be more of a thing. Camping with your friends is our style of warfare dammit! This is just the Cuban revolution but with non lethal weapons
I might be wrong but isn’t airsoft cheaper?
As to which is more environmentally friendly though I’d assume paintball because of biodegradation. Maybe the pellets are biodegradable too now though.
Airsoft bbs are also biodegradable (very slowly).
And yeah airsoft guns and the essentials (battery pack, charger, mask) are pretty affordable as an adult, and the bbs are very cheap, but don’t you also wanna wear sick camo and a chest rig with extra mags and a radio and maybe some grenades and shit? And maybe you want a gas pistol as a sidearm, so you need mags and gas for that too. And that sniper on the other team had a really cool ghillie suit, maybe you should try that some time…not to mention camping gear, since this is gonna be a weekend-long game.
Airsoft is much cheaper for the basics, but it’s so easy to get larpy with it.
Fuck, that sounds fun. I wish there was even a remote chance anyone else who does it around the area isn’t the worst. I just wanna play Rambo
Yes it is. In paintball you’ll probably waste half of your ammo just trying to load your gun lol
This is pretty funny to me because back when I used to do paintball over a decade ago, it was a mix of the two. The operator larpers going with the ‘soft’ instead of ‘ball’ just makes me laugh too much.