Paintball design concepts you can’t stand

[MrKittyCatMeowFace]

Stock parts only

There's no more aftermarket. Hell you can't even change out an ASA at this point. If the companies could just decide on one gas through ASA design then it would open up a whole market for aftermarket ASAs and mounting options.

I like drop forwards, can't do it on the market today because not only is making a gas through drop hard but as it sits you would basically need to make one for each marker. Very small margin for profit there so nobody does it.

Bolts, feedneck, eyes, triggers

It's all gone.

For the most part a lot of it was useless, but that doesn't mean it wasn't fun and I like to see what people choose to do when making their marker "theirs".

Anyone can put money on a counter to buy something, it takes some thought and creativity to turn it into something that suits you better

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Not even about performance. Just kills aesthetic creativity. Can't do a harlequin looking (volkswagen) parts bin build any more if nothing is standardized.

[cheapguitarscheapthrills]

Much like the car industry of today the marker aesthetics have become kind of bland and uniform. When I started everything looked completely unique to each brand. Sure you had a lot of Spyder clones in the low end market but there were so many different electros/cockers out there with distinctly different milling. When I got back in a few years ago I had to focus on such minute details relative to my beginnings in paintball to tell brands and models apart.

[Jsc5150]

Everyone going hoseless was an aesthetic choice, not an actual performance upgrade.

The ubiquitous use of black as the base color for pretty much all soft goods. I roasted my nuts off too many summers because even colored gear is half black

[Sdawg]

The Angel A1 looks amazing, and the stock board and trigger are great, I hate everything else.

[Ecapnation]

That's basically every angels vibe.

[Jsc5150]

Angels are cool but they aren’t good guns.

[Meleager7]

this abomination.....

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-paintball/ottawa/triumph-xt-paintball-marker/1714024489

thankfully not mine!

I still cannot wrap my head around how GI Sportz believed that would sell !? did they think there was a market for buyers, who'd never buy a Tippmann that looked like a real firearm , but instead would put money down for a paintball gun the resembled Nerf ?!!

[Ecapnation]

Because this happened before GI Sportz bought Tippmann... This was all in house before the x7 phenom even

[$L!mBo]

im up in here derailing the thread like a "Positivity Patrice"

PAiNTBALL DESiGN Concepts YOU ABSOLUTELY LOVE!

-SLide Triggers
-not busy or super futuristic looking barrel milling
-spiral porting!
-wood grips!

[Ecapnation]

Time to rerail this train.

Wood grips look good but from the standpoint of use freaking suck. Way too slippy to handle sweat and paint spray

[$L!mBo]

sounds like a "you problem". love my wood gripped gats, i wear gloves tho and my panels are checkered.

[Myrkul]

I've never had a problem with wood grips. I don't wear gloves though and have never had any slipping issues what so ever.

[Trbo323]

this abomination.....

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-paintball/ottawa/triumph-xt-paintball-marker/1714024489

thankfully not mine!

I still cannot wrap my head around how GI Sportz believed that would sell !? did they think there was a market for buyers, who'd never buy a Tippmann that looked like a real firearm , but instead would put money down for a paintball gun the resembled Nerf ?!!

GI? As long as my memory isn't way off that thing came out long before GL bought tippmann.

That was tippmanns idea through and through

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[FeedTheDogg]

Kingman’s offset holes for bottomline adapters and drop forwards. Why?

[$L!mBo]

lol. this^
the drops probably because at the time, a lot of high end guns had them
the offset mounting holes im guessing had something to do with their fixtures or tooling. they probably had something already set up so they just went with that instead of making up a new jig

[Trbo323]

Kingman's offset holes for bottomline adapters and drop forwards. Why?

Yes! Also the metric air fittings. It's not as bad for me because I have a whole bin of spyder parts but yeah I would still like it to be standard everything.

I will say though. The one nice thing about those metric hoses is having the o ring at the fitting. You can hand tighten those on and they seal up just fine

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[mikeds80]

My biggest turn off is the use of proprietary consumable parts. Weird seals, detents, etc. But the worst offender, which impact most current guns...the grips. It seems that modern rubber grips just get torn up through normal use and become harder to replace once the gun is out of production.

[Sdawg]

I hate when a marker requires a custom-made solenoid that goes out of production, leaving you to eventually have a beautiful paperweight.

[Chuck E Ducky]

For me it’s Back bottle valves and right / left feeds. I can’t hit anything if I can’t sight down the side of it. I can’t train my eye to sight over the top. Power feeds forget about it can’t see over the top or the side.

[Chappy]

Re: the triumph, Tippmann Pneumatics was bought out by capital investment long before GI owned them. The 98 internals in a plastic shell was a shareholder idea. However we can go back to the 98 which was Tippmanns idea on how to put the tippmann drivetrain in a cheaper shell in the first place so they could become profitable and sell out to a capital investment firm…

[Myrkul]

The aesthetics of almost everything. Flames. Skulls. Flaming skulls, “tribal” tattoo looking carny garbage. Anything “bad ass” with no backup.

Names invented by a 14 year old who learned English by watching “attitude” era WWF. “Evil Pimp”, for example. What kind of Juggalo came up with that? The endless gags regarding balls and keeping things clean…usage of terms like “mafia”, “killer”, “murder”, all things down that road. The Ball Sack is a modern product with a name as stupid as the 90s, so is the Death Blade trigger for the Luxe. Death. Blade. Moronic.

I actually disagree with this. Back when I first started playing, "Agg" was very much a thing, and 13 year old me loved it despite not being able to afford anything even remotely cool. Now when I see something with "flames" on it or a gun from "Murder Inc." it just makes me smile. It reminds me of the confidence, aggression, and enthusiasm of youth. Especially with how "politically correct" and toned down our culture has become, I really love remembering a time when guns were named "Evil Pimp" and WDP had naked lady triggers. It never fails to make me smile and chuckle to myself anyway.

Totally in full agreement with you on hating milsim though.