Hi, I’m Luke. Today on Out of Darts, we are checking out
the Conquest Pro. We had a chance to play with this blaster at our last
small close-quarters battle, and it is a very cool, very unique platform. Let's get going!
Dart Zone's first pro line blaster this year was the Conquest Pro, and this blaster came out of
nowhere. It's completely unique in its firing and loading mechanism, which is really neat to see.
For those who haven't seen it loads out the back, so you've got a magazine that goes
in the rear, I guess. And that makes for a very
compact blaster with no magazine sticking out, and for some game types, this could be very nice.
A couple weeks ago, we had a close-quarters battle with about 12 people, and this blaster
proved to be a very solid offering. Firing from the hip, coming around corners is very natural
and easy to do, and surprisingly the feeding mechanism on this blaster works very well.
Ultimately, whenever you're changing the dart alignment inside the blaster, there's a lot
more that can go wrong, especially when you're dealing with a small directional dart. But,
fortunately, it's proven to be very reliable, and it's a really fun blaster to play with.
Ergonomically, the blaster is quite comfortable. I find this grip a little funky it almost sort
of pinches the webbing of my hand here, but I can see what they were trying to do. They
had to fit this whole magazine in there with a certain shell thickness,
and so it's definitely forgivable. It's nothing that's uncomfortable by any means,
though it does feel like it's meant for a little bit smaller hands than mine.
You're probably seeing a recurring theme on the grip commentary.
Maybe it's just me, you guys. let me know in the comments(!)
It comes with iron sights up top. I don't know that I would hold it way up here to use it;
I feel like for most purposes, I would use this;
I might be down lower, especially since it doesn't have a stock.
I love the aesthetic look of this blaster. It's just different, it's unique, it doesn't look like
a firearm, which is great. I kind of like these raised panel details; they look kind of like a
heat sink or something. And here it says “220v”
220 volts? that makes no sense. I have no idea what that's for, but it just looks cool.
Up front, I think, is probably the coolest muzzle that they've put on
any of the adventure force blasters so far. I mean, I even think this looks better on here, and
I think Perry was the one that was on board this muzzle first. He really liked this, and I agree.
Because the muzzle is the same size as the nexus pro, it's also compatible with our scar barrels,
so you can pop that right in the end as well. You'll lose about 5-10 FPS
with a scar, but you should gain a bit of accuracy with that additional spin.
The release mechanism leaves something to be desired. It is definitely not perfect. I can't
hit it with my finger without taking my hand off the actual grip or taking my front hand back to
remove it. So, I’m not exactly sure how you're supposed to unload, but I’m going to guess the
cycle would look something like this: You take this hand off, you drop this one, and (if you
do it right) maybe you catch it? That's kind of good. And then you put your next one in.
While we're talking about magazines, pretty much everything is compatible until you get to curved
mags, and I’ll elaborate on that in a second. so the standard [Adventure Force Pro / Dart Zone Max]
mags will gravity drop. these are the [12-round] mags. This one came with the Max Stryker. This one
came with the Nexus Pro. And, of course, that will fit too, but you'll have to sort of stick
your finger in the rear of the blaster to get that all the way in, and then it will gravity drop.
Talons, of course, do work. However, they seem to be almost like a detent hold. They
definitely hold firm, and they fire fine, but Perry pointed out that during gameplay,
there were there can be some issues with slam-fire, so let's give that a shot.
Yeah. And there I felt… wait, we might just be empty. No, we're just out of darts.
Talon mags do perform just fine, and they do hold in here, but… you will have to
put them in the right way.
You'll also have to… oh, that gravity dropped that time. Sometimes they
haven't been gravity dropping. So, we have found that, at times, you might
either need to give it a little bit of a shake or just pull it out. And that was actually kind
of nice. Perry was commenting -- he played with this a bunch in our last game, and he was able
to just grab and pull, and it held firmly rather than having to mess with the funky mag release.
I know a couple people have done extensions on this. I think I might try to get something where
it's like right here in front of the trigger or just bring it down here. But somehow, it's got to
be a little closer to your hand. It just feels like this finger should be doing the work, and
currently, you can't. Now the talons can have issues
with slam-fire so let's give that a shot. I got a fully loaded 15-round…
Yeah, there we go. one stopped loading. So, I don't know if it's something where the
magazine's working its way out on slam-fire, but it seems like single fire is just fine.
Now, without a stock, you will find that this blaster is nowhere near as accurate as
holding up the Nexus Pro or the Max Stryker.
It's just hard to prime and stay on target. I mean, you can see each time I prime.
No matter how hard you try to keep it in place, you're going to have quite a bit of
barrel drift there. So, it's worth noting I think it's more of a CQB [blaster].
Now, my buddy Thanh, one of our licensees who does the Extra Edge adapters, which looks kind
of like this one. This is the one that Eli did for the Tachi mags, but Thanh’s working on an
extension that's compatible with this and might turn it into a stock, so it would sit out further.
And then, I kind of want to go one step further and turn this into a tri-mag.
I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments on what you think of this idea, but
essentially you'd have one mag here, one would be loaded in here, one's in the center, and it
would be some sort of stock that then you'd pull the whole thing out and move over for the next
shot. I don't know. It could be a little clunky, but it's an idea I definitely want to play with.
While we're talking about compatibility, sadly, the Worker [18-round] curved mags
won't fit without modification. They collide with this little joint up here.
now many users… “Many.” Some users have actually cut this section here, and you can make it
compatible even with our Tachi mags. So, this mag does not quite fit, but if you cut out a
little notch right here the width of the magazine and about a ¼-⅜” up (maybe 8-10 millimeters),
then you can actually fit the Tachi mags. And one user online actually created a stock with some
dart holding capability for the Tachi because the length was about right, so we might play with that
as well. But it's sad to have to cut that up just to make it fit, so I’m not sure how many people
would like to do that. Again, if that's something you'd like to see in the shop, I might reach out
to that designer and see if they're interested. Let me know in the comments, as always.
Performance-wise, this blaster is, of course, delivering the hits just like
you would expect from Dart Zone Pro. It is a little bit lighter in FPS than the
Nexus Pro in my initial test, but we'll put up the real numbers on the screen.
This is a blaster, when I saw the photo of it, I was like, “Oh,
they screwed up. It's going to be bad. There's no way that works well,” and I was wrong.
It's really solid. I’d give this 5 out of 5 because of what it is; because it's unique,
it functions well, it works well, it comes in at a really good price point of $40, and I think it
makes a good addition to just about any arsenal at a really reasonable price point. And again,
you can grab something competitive on shelves. Always exciting.
Thank you so much for watching! We're going to have more mods for this in the future,
definitely springs and some other parts. Until next time, I’m out of darts.