worker just surprised us with a brand
new product this is quite possibly one
of the best flywheel sidearms for the
price i've ever seen this is the worker
nightingale
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worker has been seriously upping their
game over the past couple of years we
first got the swift which is a really
competent powerful springer then we got
the worker phoenix 2.0 which
really improved the overall design
language of their blasters and now we
are finally seeing
the worker nightingale i couldn't have
picked a better segment of the market to
jump into if i was working myself and in
charge of actually developing these
products so i'm really excited to take a
look at this blaster this thing came out
of nowhere and it was available very
quickly worker is getting very good at
these product releases having stuff
available shortly after release and not
leaking too much too early one quick
disclaimer obviously i run a web store
and we sell these blasters so my
opinions are my own but i do run a shop
and it is my job to sell blasters and
run this youtube channel as well so keep
that in mind with the review this is a
mag through grip blaster features a 15
round magazine a little bit more on that
in a bit it is a micro flywheel a brand
new flywheel size from worker and a
brand new flywheel design the flywheels
themselves have serrations laterally and
that seems to give a lot more grip and
purchase on the darts themselves
additionally the crush is much higher
than a lot of workers previous offerings
which means they've either been doing a
lot more testing or they've finally been
listening to the community more in
general it is thankfully also a single
stage blaster meaning there is just one
set of flywheels inside there it is a
double action trigger so pulling the
trigger both revs and fires using a
really nice elegant pusher mechanism
so you can choose to
fire rapidly just pulling the trigger
without uh waiting
or you can rev and then fire i would
generally recommend both revving and
firing kind of doing it slower taking
your shots you're going to allow those
flywheels to spin up to full speed and
you're going to get a little bit better
performance the ergonomics of this
blaster are exceptionally good it is a
little bit small for my large hands but
it is very comfortable one of the key
reasons this is so comfortable is the
grip itself not only is it textured in a
nice tpu rubber but it features an
entirely new magazine now these
magazines alone
are going to make waves and i think you
are all going to be very very excited
for them we've wanted magazines for a
while that are a little bit smaller than
the standard worker magazines and here
i'll show it for some comparison we'll
also show some video clips but
this is the 15 round magazine that's
included with the nightingale and this
is the 18 round worker and you can just
see how much smaller the profiles of
these magazines are it's just a little
bit but it really does make a pretty
massive difference
um losing that
i don't know what we're losing here
probably about
four or five i'd say five millimeters in
the width of the mag this way and in the
thickness of the mag
probably just a two mils or something uh
and
this allows for a much smaller grip that
is much more comfortable when i compare
this to the
worker phoenix this you can see how far
around my fingers wrap here it's not
nearly as far around as they get on this
one where my fingers actually
close that gap considerably more while
this is a very comfortable grip i don't
think this oversized grip would feel
nearly as good when you go to a compact
sidearm style of blaster i think these
mags by themselves are interesting they
don't feel quite as rigid and robust but
they are still very well built they're
stiffer than a katana magazine but
they're not quite the rock solid talon
and that makes sense they had to thin up
the plastic and simplify the design a
little bit it's also more rounded on the
ends which again
improves the profile of the grip i
really think that these 15 round
magazines are going to be insanely
popular for the diy crowd the hobbyists
anybody that wants to minimize a loadout
because carrying these they're just such
a nice tiny size they're going to fit in
more mag holders more easily they're
going to make the grip mag through grip
blasters a lot more comfortable and i
would be shocked if the hobby doesn't
embrace these as a new uh secondary
really really great standard i mean here
here we got a 10 rounder of the the
standard angled talons and it's not that
much longer we're talking inch and a
quarter 30 millimeters there
pretty pretty solid one other little
quirky thing that uh perry found out
here when he was testing is that
it looks like these mags are going to be
compatible
if we just had a little shim and a
different mag release on some of the
other blasters
it almost seems like these are going to
be compatible with talent some talon
magwells the angled magwells of course
so i'm hoping workers been thinking
about this because the fact that this
fits in here the alignment's right it
just doesn't quite catch
i'm hoping they figured that out so stay
tuned for more on that we're not
entirely sure they've got
heat set inserts throughout the entire
blaster there are no toy screws in this
blaster which good job worker i think
that is the only path forward for any
hobby grade blaster is not having toy
screws going into plastic where they
wear out over time on both sides and as
well as the top we've got optional rails
that are sold separately i believe
they're going to be both metal and
plastic but it might just be metal don't
quote me on that one
so you will have options to put optics
up top or other funky add-ons on the
side i mean maybe you want to put like
three
proud papas on there that would be
completely ridiculous but yeah you know
we might do it anyway in the back we've
got a sling point and we've also got a
sort of awkward sling point down here
i'm not too sure why you would sling
point in this method but this little
mechanism here does serve another
purpose available sold separately but
included in the
launch batch only that means the first
batch of blasters that we get is this
clip along with an actual belt to go
with it the belt features a little
bungee cord these will be available
separately for the later batches or if
you're watching this video at a later
date but the way this works is we've got
a little rail right here
and it just slots right in here and in
our general testing unless you are
sprinting or really jumping it seems
like this will actually stay put i was a
little skeptical i think i might tighten
mine up with a little bit of a little
bit of something so it doesn't have uh
jump out quite so much but
i think it's actually fairly functional
um
let's see if i can
i would have to actually i can't
okay there we go i managed to throw it
and look like a like a silly boy but
it would be pretty hard to get this out
of here i think you could actually
probably run it might help if i didn't
have this quite so loose on my my actual
hip it's pretty uh
i didn't actually tighten this belt
properly i think if this was snug
against me would actually be a little
bit better but i think it's cool that
right off the gate they've got a
holster solution for us which is awesome
i also think the fact that there are two
screws going into m3 brass inserts on
both sides gives us a lot of options for
doing a holster style plate or a
magnetic plate there are two variants of
this blaster a low power and a high
power version the low power version hits
a little over 90 feet per second that
could be awesome for hvz or for playing
with kids and the high power version in
our testing is hitting about 111
now that 111 it sounds lower than what
werker was initially promising i did
hear something around 125 128 and we
suspect it's actually due to an issue on
the alignment of the first cages here so
since we are selling these we're going
to be taking a look at the alignment of
every single box before we ship them out
because this one was clearly off by
about a half millimeter i'll have perry
try to shoot a video here you should be
able to see
a clip here where we can see that the
two flywheels are not aligned and i
think that's causing some some issues in
the actual performance the blaster
itself is very snappy it's just pull the
trigger and you're good to go
you will get much higher performance by
actually holding the trigger slightly
and then waiting to fire
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we did get the chance to test these out
at an actual game and a really suitable
one we had another warehouse battle and
they performed quite well uh with the
exception of the alignment issue on this
cage here hindering the performance from
what we think it's supposed to be the
battery that worker suggested and sells
for
this blaster is a little bit too large
to properly fit a lipo and alarm there
and that was a 550 milliamp xt60 battery
a 3s i would probably suggest a 450
because i think that's going to have a
little bit more room to
actually fit a lipo alarm which is
definitely important and something i
wouldn't want to not have on the blaster
while you're using it when it comes to
accuracy and consistency it's about what
you would expect from most micro
flywheel blasters blasters like the
lepis and like anything that runs off
flywheel the world flywheels are very
similar there's uh when you have a very
small contact with the darts due to the
smaller flywheels you're just not going
to see quite as consistent of groupings
or as consistent of fps and i think
that's acceptable for a blaster that's
really ultimately a sidearm and you're
not going to try to pick people off at
long range at a 120 fps anyway a few
upgrades and mods and potential fixes
worker is offering some other metal
components like i mentioned before the
rail you can also get this component in
metal i believe you can get this top
muzzle in metal and you can get this
sling point back here in metal which i
could definitely see using the first
batch as i mentioned before does come
with an actual belt and a little lanyard
i can't quite figure out the lanyard to
be honest i think the concept is
you put it on the blaster and then if
you drop the blaster the blaster doesn't
hit the ground as hard or perhaps if you
strap this a little higher on yourself
you'd actually stop it from from
dropping altogether it does do a pretty
good job at just not losing the blaster
so if you
kind of have this attached and then you
you let go by accident it doesn't
totally smash into the ground but i
think if you just tighten this up a
little bit or mounted this
carabiner a little higher on your body
you'd actually have full protection of
accidentally dropping your blaster
that's not something i do too often but
it's kind of a neat feature and it's a
nice inclusion as sort of a launch deal
as far as the cage itself for once i
can't believe i'm saying this i don't
think there's going to be much to change
these wheels have a larger envelope and
more contact with the dart than most
they've got the lateral serrations which
are definitely going to help with grip
and the crush for once is actually very
very good these almost are clips level
crush
uh and uh encompassing the dart so i
don't see anything to be improved here
on the high end the high power blaster
is also
neodymium motors and they're running at
a pretty high rpm
and i don't see this being improved by a
third-party cage
ultimately
so whether you choose the high or the
low it's really about who you're playing
with if you're playing with younger kids
or inside the low power is going to be
great
i think what i'm going to have to do
this summer at the family reunion is
show up with about 40 of these
if you'd like to see me bring 40 of
these to the family reunion i'll
probably choose orange and film a game
play where everybody has the same
blaster let me know in the comments and
i will
consider doing that and then what will
happen is we'll end up with a bunch of
used ones used for that week at a
discount i do think there are some fun
cosmetic mods people might want to do
with this you could definitely play with
the muzzle you could play
um
with you know making it look more sci-fi
or doing a body kit
but honestly i'm really impressed with
this overall other than the cage
alignment issue on the one blaster again
we're gonna check those before we ship
them so i will make sure that doesn't
happen to a customer that's simply an
assembly issue and i could measure the
motors inside there and see that they
were just a half mil off which makes a
big difference in a blaster like this i
would like to see a battery thumb screw
there and i'm almost 100 certain we have
one that fits so we'll definitely have a
listing up for that as well at the end
of the day i'm really impressed with the
blaster i
i see no reason why not to give it five
stars which seems crazy assuming this
isn't an ongoing problem where we have a
misalignment which again we're going to
test those i really like the feed system
it's got a very snappy trigger pull it's
very comfortable the styling is great
clearly this designer just knows how to
make things that look good i'm going to
give it 5 out of 5.
until next time i'm out of darts
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