in·tent (ĭn-těnt') - Intent. to or for all intents and purposes, for all practical purposes; practically speaking; virtually: The book is, to all intents and purposes, a duplication of earlier efforts.
I start this article by asking you guys a question. What is your intention of playing paintball? For fun? As a weekend exercise? A pastime? To hurt? To make people feel pain?
A paintball "hit" is defined as a hit or a mark made by a paintball which leaves a(singular) paint mark on a player to define the player as "dead" or "out". Yes. You only need to hit a player once for him to be dead or out. Paintball is not brutal. Its a professionally played game worldwide. It brings up back to the point of this write-up. Why overshoot?
Every weekend, countless players, regulars and newbies alike comes to me to complain. "I out already they still shoot me." Some players keep quiet but the effects of overshooting can be clearly seen on their clothing. It is further reinforced by the bruises on their body. Overshooting makes the sport of paintball brutal. Newbies who get overshot, do you think they would ever come back? Do you think their friends would tryout paintball after seeing the bruises?
Put your self in a scenario like this, this has just happened to one of my close friends who played paintball twice and playing the first time with his own marker. He's laying in a fox hole in Viet-Cong. He's the last man standing. A group of 15 regulars surrounds him and marked him "firing squad" style. He got bathed in paint with at least 20 shots to his body, marker, mask and head. What am i supposed to tell him to expect? As usual, the only thing i can say to him and the countless people who have been overshot, "Suck it up, it comes with the sport" but for how long more do i have to use the suck-it-up line? If you guys would just look at the playing style of really professional players. Go YouTube- PaintBorg. Look at his quake cams and learn because that how paintball should be played.
I do admit that the overshooting comes because of certain players who wipes and plays on. But if a guy, any guy. And that guy could be you yourself. If that guy were to be the last man standing, and he's one against 15, what's the point of shooting the poor guy? Can he wipe if there's 15 barrels pointed to his face? Can you? Again i come back to the word intent. What is your intent?
I know its fun and its reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyyyyyyy tempting to give that guy 1 or 2 more shots "just to make sure" but come on guys. 20 shots? That's a bit over already la. Play like an adult because "most" of you are. Play fair, and if you don't want overshooting to happen to you, do not overshoot in the first place. Its karma. What goes around comes around.
If you wanna hurt people and bruise people real bad, quit paintball and take up boxing, so that you can go back whining to your ugly girlfriend saying people hurt you. =(
GOOD!!!! i was been overshot by some regulars as well.... pain!!!
ReplyDeletemy friend got bonusballed once, he aint coming back ever again, and this is the guy whom i know can be good at the game and would always cover my back...
ReplyDeleteYou do realise that sometimes newbies stand up straight in a lane of fire, right? I'm not saying bonus balling is good in any way, I'm just saying that it can be entirely unintentional. Once the paint has left the barrel, it has 1-2 seconds of travel time in large fields, if a newbie stands up a player cannot do anything to stop that paint that's already flying. Especially if it's a heavy lane at 12+ bps.
ReplyDeleteI'm just saying is all. If you want to go aggro on people, make sure you find out what really happened. I don't condone the firing squad thing, but sometimes if a newbie gets shot a few more times, it's accidental. It's happened to me, I don't complain because it's like that in tournaments as well. You're in the way.
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ReplyDeleteI understand that the newbies might be in the lane of fire and get hit. What i'm implying here is that it only takes 1 shot to take a person out. Why do you have to ramp the hell out of a guy when he's only a single person sitting in a bunker? With (lets say) 14 other guys standing with you on a single file, each of you only have a fire a single shot and there will be 15 shots already. Don't give me that out of 15 shots none will break.
ReplyDeleteEDIT ADDED: You wanna talk to me on tournaments. Read article 23.04.7.3 on the official US-PL Rule book. "Over Shooting. Over shooting other player with the INTENT to injure"
PS: I'm lazy to dig out my NPL and MPOC rule books.
Which brings us back to the point of this article. "Intention"
ReplyDeleteeffin over shootas, screw u!!! i'll do dat only on regs but newbies, giv em chance la. pity em.
ReplyDeleteu dont fire a shot, wait 1-2 seconds to see if it hits or misses, and then fire another pellet if the first one misses.
ReplyDeleteu ripple out a few pellets hoping to score a hit, and sometimes several of them hit the mark. that's not overshooting. overshooting is when a player has already called himself out and you still fire at him.
also, to the noobs, please dont stand up to call urself out if u know ppl are firing at you. just stick ur hand up and shout 'i'm out!' loudly several times and wait for the shots to stop. THEN u can safely stand up, and walk off the field.
and well, for the wipers and the zombies... well they deserve to be bonus balled. u make the bed, so u gotta sleep in it. peace.