-We're here at Captain Xavier's, and we are going to play nerf today!
Finally got a loadout ready. This will actually be my first ever
real game with the Nexus, and I got the Tachi Tri-Mag here along with Crooked
Cousin -- should be fun. Sidearm today is the DZP Mark-II. Let's get going!
-Perry, if your team could go to the left…
-You got me too. Two Blasters in the center! Grab them!
-One left! One left!
-I’m out! -Oh, shoot, sorry.
-All right, I’m out.
-I can't emphasize how fun it was to get back to an actual game. Now, this was a relatively small
game, with only 10 or 12 people at the peak, but it was really nice to get out and play.
We focused mostly on close-quarters battles, and it was really a blast.
Some kind of takeaways from the weekend: We played with some rival stuff, Perry (my
video guy) got to have his first-ever nerf game, and we had some really unique rounds.
One of the rounds we played is essentially a HammerShot round where the HammerShot is your life
pool. You pull it out of a bucket (Captain Xavier has dozens of HammerShots, of course), so you pull
one out, you run around and use it, and it's sort of like collect the points or capture the multiple
flags(?) I’m not even sure what you'd call that game type, but we'll call it HammerShots. And you
bring them back to your base for an ultimate score at the end of a timed game. Really fun.
We also got to test out the Conquest Pro, which worked very well for the close-quarters stuff.
Since you don't have a stock, you can move a little quicker; get around those corners.
We also got to test out Crooked Cousin on a number of different blasters, though my primaries
were always working really well, so I didn't get to get that many eliminations with them,
ultimately. It was really nice to have a shield piercing unit with a mega round on a blaster.
But honestly, the MVP blaster of the weekend was the Rush-40, and I’m a little surprised
because I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was, but this was formidable in close ranges
playing 150 fps games. Now, I think if you're firing at someone that's farther away,
probably not going to be as effective, but I do have my little hop-up tab in here,
got an upgraded spring. It shoots about 145; it Shoots really straight, and this
was killer just having a pocket full of an extra 50 rounds and the 30 or 40 rounds in the blaster.
I, unfortunately, didn't roll a camera on one of the rounds.
One of the rounds -- and I know everybody that was there saw it, but I think I took 14 people
with two lives, which is pretty darn good for this being my primary blaster against
Stryfes, and other springers, and things. So, I’m kind of a fan of this of the Rush-40.
I am not as impressed with the Siege-50. It definitely deserves that three-star rating,
but I still hold fast to the four-star rating for this blaster. It's not perfect,
but it is a really formidable blaster.
In the entire day of play, I think I had one time where I pulled the trigger, and it didn't
actually fire. The feeding issues that are present here really aren't that bad when
you're actually playing it in an actual battle playing. But that was really fun.
It's nice to finally get to test these blasters. It is really odd reviewing blasters all this
last year and a half without getting out to a game playing with the blaster and
getting to really put it through its paces. So, I’m looking forward to future reviews, now,
finally having gameplay footage and real-world testing to accommodate the video content.
I’m hoping to get out to more games soon. We've got another small one planned for August.
I would love to hear from you: What are you looking forward to as far as games?
Endwar was sadly canceled this year, but we know it's going to come back with a
vengeance next year, and I think we can expect a really big event.
I would say the same for Ragnaroktoberfest in the bay area. Let me know in the comments
what you're looking forward to most, and until next time, I’m out of darts.
And my voice is gone from yelling and running around and having too much fun!