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Hi, I'm Luke with Out of Darts.
This year I missed EndWar.
Now, we were still sponsors, and we were on the bandana,
but I was really sad not to be able to go.
Unfortunately -- and fortunately, the reason I missed it was for a family reunion.
Every couple of years, my family on one side gets together, and we do a lot of fun things.
We get together for a week in Colorado, we generally do a lot of outdoor stuff,
and it has become very popular to nerf every year.
You may have seen previous videos on nerfing at the family reunion; it's always been a lot of fun,
and I thought, since the kids were getting a little older this year…
(The cousins were all older, and our youngest member now that was playing
is probably about ten years old), I wanted to step it up a notch.
So, this year I brought 20 high-power Nightingales,
with three mags a piece, and thousands and thousands of worker Gen3+ darts.
I have to say we had an absolute blast!
I chose the Nightingale high-power blasters because they are Rock Solid.
I am wildly impressed with this blaster.
They've been really popular on the shop;
we've got all the colors in stock as of the time of filming this video.
I brought 20 of these to the reunion, we used all of them,
and we came up with a couple of nice tricks First of all, we were playing in public spaces,
so I did bring orange, and I actually went one step further.
I actually taped this over with orange during the actual game,
so you'll see that when we're actually playing.
Additionally, we wanted a good way to distinguish who was on which team.
So, we took two color bandanas --orange and blue, and we threaded it through this
little thing here, so everybody was running around with this like tassel.
I thought it was nice because it broke up the profile of the blaster,
made it look like it was obviously a toy it made it really obvious what team you're on.
You know, sometimes times you're playing, and people are putting
their bandanas on their head or on their arm or on their off arm, or their waist,
or their blaster, or their neck, and it's it can be harder to figure out.
This was super obvious because you'd see that bright color coming around a bunker,
and it would let you know who you were actually facing off against.
Now the age range was all over the place.
My uncle, who was in his mid-80s, played and
everybody in between: from college age to high school all the way down to 10-year-olds.
Amazingly we had zero problems running 20 of these the entire week.
Each person was able to take up to three mags.
We brought our exclusive clear mags.
These are exclusive to Out of Darts, these new slim angled mags.
I really like clear because I can see through them; it makes it really obvious.
I was surprised at how well these functioned the entire week.
Because there's no rev trigger, they're actually a really good candidate for
someone who's newer to a blaster because you don't have to think about revving.
You just pull the trigger, and it works.
If you pull the trigger a little slower, you get a little bit faster of a shot,
but in the end, it worked out really well.
I think my cousins all had a really good time.
In previous years we always had this thing where everybody wanted the best blaster.
There would be a couple of Jupiters or a couple of -- whatever the blaster
was that year -- a couple of modded Stryfes,
and it was like a constant Battle of people wanting to rotate in and out of that.
So, this year, we really kind of leveled the playing field.
Everybody got the same blaster, everybody got the same amount of ammo, the same magazines,
and really got to have a good time.
These darts work exceptionally well.
We opened about eight or ten boxes of 200, and I think I only threw away about 30
darts for the whole week, which is really impressive as far as Dart head retention.
These new Worker Gen3+ have really become the gold standard of Dart,
and I'm gonna do a separate video just on this because personally:
While there might be a brand out there that's advertising,
“the number one darts, period,” I have something else to say about that.
I did, unfortunately, during this trip,
lose Squid Game and finally get the Illness that's been going around.
My entire family -- my close family -- caught it during the reunion, and so we
spent a bunch of the reunion quarantined, canceled our flights, and drove the long
drive back from California over two days with our kids and a car full of sick, sick people.
It was not a great end to the reunion,
but I was really happy to get to see my family and play some nerf.
It wasn't a great end to the week, but I did make it this far.
I really thought I'd win Squid Game and make it to the end,
but two and a half years in here, we finally did catch it.
Fortunately, everybody's symptoms were relatively mild, so we are doing well.
I am, however, a little on the tired side compared to normal.
Thank you so much for watching!
I hope you enjoyed this video.
I'd love to hear what you think on this.
Until next time, I'm out of darts!