code789 wrote:jacking up FPS is just a fad that inexperienced players keep going to. sure it takes a lot of tech work to get everything right and its a great piece to show off. but the experienced players will always go with something that works and saves money(except for load outs)
@Spartanacus:
Not discrediting the quality that can be achieved with all those upgrades. I'm just going straight to Code's reaction here. If you search "DMR" here, you'll see an overwhelming amount of these, people wanting to crank the energy of their guns up past not only the legal limit for AEG's
(yes, I understand DMR's can have 475fps, but just bear with me) but also perpetuating the myth that an FPS
limit is actually an FPS
target.
rant?:
I'm sick of seeing people crank their guns up to 399 FPS and hosing with their high-caps. You don't need to shoot at EXACTLY 350 to play indoor, 280 is more than enough to get the job done, your gun will last forever (and people playing won't complain when you tag them at two meters). It's a downwards (or rather upwards) domino effect: everybody shooting 350 is out-powered by the guy shooting 401, so naturally we whip it out and pump ours up to 402. It doesn't help with a lot of the big online retailers doing stuff like this:
http://www.airsoftmegastore.com/Categor ... %5e450+FPSand marketing it like this high-powered hose is superior to a well-constructed gun shooting 330.
Now, I'm all for sniper rifles being employed as an asset to the team. I don't mind when somebody (usually, by the nature of the endeavor, over 21) takes hours of TLC and a little bit of dough and a lot of know how, and tags me with 500+ FPS. No problem. But somebody indiscriminately firing at the DMR limit (or target, depending on your philosophy) degrades the role of the sniper. I think it would be better if we all had guns around the 330-350 range, really encouraging construction of guns with good hop up/etc., and less of this "crank it" mindset.
/rant?
TL/DR: I'm not a fan of these new-fangled DMR's and I frankly don't see the appeal. If you get a DMR, you're encouraged to camp like a sniper but not set up a hide, use stealth, fire selectively, etc. You've got all the power while employing none of the skill and suffering none of the disadvantages. The DMR is like the sniper rifle for a lazy person. The DMR is like the standard rifle for the lazy person.***
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Okay, there are obviously people who aren't lazy, and employ them differently and all that jazz. I read through almost every post on this forum on a daily basis and I've seen damn few a) actually create them and b) focus on using them in a squad element to increase firepower.