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Trying to single out the cringiest things in airsoft is a bit like pointing out the lemoniest part of a lemon. Still, the brief has been set so I’ll try… The Compensator. Desperately masculine, loud, edge-lord, every morale patch is practically peeling itself off it’s own Velcro to tell you, your mates, anyone near you, that this guy, this guy right here is not someone you want to mess with. Nevermind the fact that he’s playing with a toy gun, just because his boss talks down to him and his wife doesn’t respect him, YOU should know what you’re dealing with. Every sentence starts and ends with swearing and you’re gonna hear it, oh yes mate you will, no matter how far away from him you try to stand. Brought your young kids with for the day? Well this is a man’s game, it’s not his problem they hear grown up talk and he’ll just swear a bit louder to make sure they fuckin well do. Scene of crime officer. You cross his path, both bring guns to bear, your hits land milliseconds apart. It’s a trade, you can both be in and out of spawn in less than two minutes. Or so you think. Mr SOCO wants to stop you in your tracks, he hit you first he claims and before you can utter the first syllables of ‘yeah mate let’s just call it a trade’ he’s already describing to you moment by moment what just happened to prove, at length, that you are wrong. You walk away back to spawn. You think he’s still there, telling someone else who happened to stumble past him and who is now considering a BB to their own head just to get away. Clique-Ops. These guys showed up together, they’ve got squad patches and identical uniforms. You’ve not seen them speak to anyone else all day. You got lumped in with them to balance the numbers. ‘Alright?’ You offer as your opening gambit before the round starts. One of them glances shyly at you, the rest proceed to ‘mic check, mic check’ before continuing their conversation that excludes you. The klaxon goes, they make a beeline in the opposite direction to the objective whilst you resignedly set off to move a jerry can from one oil drum to another by yourself. You finish the round covered in BB welts and cuts. Your team has lost. You scored the only points. You see them back at the safe-zone celebrating how well they played.

Marshals that try their hardest to be funny during briefings, meanwhile said briefing has gone on for 10+ minutes and everybody in the safe zone has already zoned out and stopped listening

My only cringe is players who take our hobby too seriously, I get the excitment of playing to win but it's airsoft not life or death. I like to see groups all kitted up in a milsim kind of way whether it's WWII Wehrmacht, GI Joe's, British army etc, etc, etc... but it's the players who try herding cats & lose their shit when it doesn't work that make me cringe most.

This I won't even blank his name out

That's my retirement plan!

I find people who criticize others for blanking their faces in pictures cringe. Having spent a long time in in house recruitment for some pretty massive and well known companies, you'd be amazed at the things I've seen used for not hiring someone, so a picture of them holding a "gun" isn't something id want to be tracked back to me. I like the pics etc, I just don't want them tracking back to me. Likewise sometimes it's a great picture and I'm just pulling a derp face that ruins it. I mean, how ridiculous would it be to have my career derailed and earnings reduced just so that my face can be in pictures from when I'm playing toy soldiers. Also, people who are so "not competitive" that they actively do things to be not competitive, like bright gun/gear or talking down people who do put effort in, especially when they aren't effective players themselves. I'm there to have fun and my version of fun isn't being a moving target,

Teams who assign themselves ranks & roles based on real steel....... Get over yer selves ya walts 🤦‍♂️

I tend to play on the "under 18's" kids type days with my boys and the ultimate cringe is the guy we refer to as "full auto dad" (or FAD for short). His boy is great, good player, get stuck right in, but dad has to keep yelling at him to do this, and do that, raar raar etc, the kids having a blast and completely ignoring his dad. Heard him telling the kid at lunch to move like this and shoot like this. Dad however runs around like a speed laced chicken, blasting everyone with full auto (hence the name). Once he cornered my boy and from about 2 meters, lit him up, full auto and really upset him. We had a quick word and that was it, FAD was on a hate offensive for me..... I mean, grow up, we're just LARPing with plastic guns ffs.

Even worse when they expect others to call them by said rank. Yes I've seen this happen. Said bellend wasn't happy when we obliged but added a few colourful words to the end

Everything. You're all a bunch of cringy buggers and you know it😁 Re the photos on social media, blurring out your face is pretty pointless to me. If a prospective employer is seeing them on your profile then it's going to be pretty obvious it's you whether faces are visible or not. Either don't post them or at least sort out your security settings so any random Tom Dick or Harry can't see them. One thing I find properly cringeworthy are the excuses people come out with when losing. No they're not cheating and no they don't have more players, you just got out played. Rather than whining, acknowledge that they did well and learn from it. I suppose this is part of the winning is everything mentally which has started to creep into the game and I just don't get as some of the best games I've had have when I'm on the receiving end of an arse kicking

You're so cringe...... Actually, that sounds like a really hard way to live - well done for still attending even with the struggles you have.

Geardos and those trying to take it too seriously. The funniest thing I have ever seen at Airsoft (pull up a sandbag) was at the old Urban Assault site a few years back. There was this team of geardos who spent their lunch break running through CQB drills, stacking up, clearing corners etc. Fine, but they were doing it wrong and the Chief Geardo was getting more and more irate. It was fucking hilarious. Anyway, post lunch my mate and I were in an end room of a building (Urban Assault was an old RAF base) when said bunch of geardos burst in and clear the room even though we were in the same team and had been sat in the enemy less room for around 10 minutes. Utter bunch of knobs.

Anyone who gets genuinely angry when they lose a game mode. This isn't real life or death stuff. It just makes me think they never moved past the mentality of screaming down microphones on computer games.

The biggest cringe I remembered was a team of speedsofters in their purple and white uniforms at the Battery. In fairness, a couple of them were reasonable but one player was the most insufferably self-satisfied twat who took play and himself far too seriously and had no self-awareness. Even in CQB, you may have to give your opponent the benefit of the doubt with hit taking because you may not feel a torso hit if you're wearing a plate carrier - just shoot a different part of the body. One of the speedsofters (on Blue team) claimed to land a hit on an opponent on Red team but the latter didn't call it. Speedy boi had a go at in the game but the marshal nearby reminded him with short shrift to take it up with a marshal and not to have argue over hit calling and that it was mentioned in the briefing. Back in the safe zone after the game, the speedy boi confronted the Red team player and had a go despite the marshal's warning. It started to get heated but the speedy boi came up with an absolute howler "We're a serious team and we play by the rules." putting his hand on his chest in the most smug Will McKenzie fashion. The Red team player was initially pissed off but he scoffed and laughed at the speedy boi taking himself so seriously. Another game I was in at the Battery had the same speedy boi team with the same self-satisfied player who insisted he shot an opponent but a marshal and I both had a better line of sight than he did and he clearly didn't as the BBs went a good foot wide to the left of the opponent's shoulder yet McKenzie swore he hit the target, which to be fair probably was true as I assume his target was the thin air to the left of his opponent.

That deserves so much more than just a Haha reaction. I doubt he could pull in a brothel with a suitcase full of £20 notes

Did I need it? Not really. I have two genuine Magpul slings that more than do the job, but I do like a leather sling, and at a -60% discount this'll go nicely on my pre-ban Tanaka m24.

Anyone taking it too seriously , or even remotly seriously . We are playing dress up and running around with toy guns Dude !

You've hit the nail on the head there. I think what most people here are posting about are the ones who either base their whole enjoyment of a game solely on the result (yes it's nice to win but that's not the be all and end all), or will scream and shout at others (often people they don't know) to follow their plan no matter how bad it is while staying so far back they might as well be in the safezone

This actually happened. Guy behind tree: "Push up lads!" 2 minutes later: Guy still behind tree: "PUSH UP LADS LETS SEE SOME AGGRESSION - SECTION ATTACK NOW!" 2 minutes later - he grabs a bunch of new players after trying to rope me in to it all and proceeds to explain to them a rough section attack. He then watches them try it and all get hit and then goes back to the tree. ENDEX Guy still behind tree: "We lost because we didn't push up."

I agree with this....and I don't. In these enlightened times, prospective employers WILL scour your social media footprint to see if you align with their perception of what a good candidate is (and to make sure nothing is going to bite them in the arse later down the line). Blurring out your face in photos can be an attempt to stop playing a game that quite a lot of people might think is a bit... odd, interfering with your job prospects. If they're doing it to try and be "more ally", then yeah, cringe as fuck.

Here's my M4 (Specna Edge), my brother's M16 (Specna Core I think) and my XM177 (E&C). The M4 has a Perun hybrid, 14:1 gears, solid bushings and compression set from Mr Ak2m4, motor is a bit of a mutt I built by putting the armature from a high torque motor into the case of a high torque, high speed one from AliExpress. Barrel is the original brass Specna 6.03 and uses a Macaron 60 hop rubber, omega nub. It shoots like a laser (in Airsoft terms) and has decent range. ROF is about 23rps on 2s I think? The M16 is bone stock and this also shoots fantastically, with decent range too- my brother is going to leave that as is. He has great fun blasting people with the 203 too, usually accompanied by giggling... The XM is my favourite to look at, the trades are fantastic and I love the old school integrated carry handle over the M4's detachable one. It has an upgraded compression set and nozzle, again from ak2m4, and a 6.02 stainless barrel. Hop is the same as the M4. It's running 16:1 gears and I have a Perun hybrid on the way for it. The problem I have with the XM is that it does not shoot as accurately as the M4, I get the odd curler which goes off to the side now and then. I may remove the barrel and try to polish it a bit to see if that helps at all...

First off before I start I want to say this post is not for poking fun at people who do cringe stuff in Airsoft it's merely a discussion on what you find cringe worthy in the sport, end of the day people doing these things are still having fun and enjoying them selves so I don't intend any offense towards anyone that does these things. Keep doing you and what you enjoy. Disclaimer done. I was wanting to know what do others in here find most cringe worthy in Airsoft as I'm finding I have a few that I find worthy. First for me is probably people who play as if they are someone in the real SF and post online pictures of them playing but allways blank out or blur their faces. Just don't get the reasoning behind it unless your embarrassed to admit you play Airsoft, even worse are the ones who go further and on game days will hang around all day with their face covered and not interact much with others, it's like come on man we are all here to have fun at least join in on the fun and socialise.

Marshalls not enforcing team balancing is indeed cringe. Stopped going to one field as it essentially became all the mates of owners hunting rentals like they are Rambo in first blood!

For me, the objective of Airsoft is to win, and I do my best to win while playing fair. The *aim*, is to have fun doing so. It's a balancing act IMO. On the one hand, going all drill sergeant at your team and getting up in people's faces over the results is bad in any hobby. On the other, you kinda ideally want your team to be energised and giving it a good go. A very small minority of players seem to think trying at all is a bit cringe, lmao. I find it's fun to try and gin up folks for a push, or to hold a spot. Most people want to get stuck in but get a bit lost or a bit overwhelmed, so giving them a job tends to work. If they're hiding behind a tree all game as the action moves away from them, a gentle nudge to come along with a few others seems to work. Especially if you remind them why they're there. That's way to cool a gun to not come push up with us, you wanna cover our flank while we try and go straight in?

sorry to hear mate , i find the game offers me a distraction at least

Hey dude, this would be me but i have a medical condition so everyones lynx and deodorant and cig smoke etc hurts my head, causes head pressure, breathing difficulties/coughing, blurred/double vision makes me feel like i have motion sickness , i zone out constantly like focal seizures and also a chance i end up bedridden with joint and muscle pain (my body attacks itself) for 3-4 days. Everyones fragrance to me smells incredibly strong or if i breathe through my mouth it tastes like ive licked the can . I live in complete isolation outside of airsoft and can only meet family or friends outside which most wont do so i sometimes go months without seeing anyone.. and airsoft is one of the few things i get to do so yeah i have to have my face covered all game, in safe zone , also in the shops the bus the train etc i get less weird looks at airsoft wearing a respirator than on a train or bus though 🤣 (no i dont wear a mili one on transport, is a half face one) But before this when i used to play many years ago i would always interact and chat with others also at lunch and in safe zone, examining various guns and also subjecting people to my really bad jokes. I sure do miss those days.... now i always sit on my own at lunch in the car park What i find really cringe in airsoft is the elitists who spend thousands but then shittalk new players or people returning who have purchased some guns and gear and just getting into it again i guess not everyone has a hefty budget or rich outside of the game

Difficult to think of things that won't offend somebody🙃, but eg a player who turns up with new top of the line shiney speedsofter at a normal woodland skirmish. Guys who bring their lady friends with them but forget to tell them not to wear skintight tops and trousers. Player with lots of expensive kit who barely if ever gets out of the safe zone (thats me btw 😄)

I like to keep things flexible so I've put this together as a base kit that I can add to depending on what I'm using or where I'm playing. 4 mag pouches are mounted two sideways under my arm and two more on the belt for easy access while keeping the front of the PC clear to make it easier to go prone. If the need arises I can swap the front panel for a triple flap pouch and carry up to 10 total. Or if I'm running an smg I can put the panel with 4 smg mags on the front. I have two large general purpose pouches for carrying tools, speed loaders and gas and some extra pouches on my back for things that I don't need mid game. Pistol and one spare mag as that's the most I've ever needed.

https://prefired.co.uk/ads/aap-01c-custom-build/ Man this listing is gunna outlive us all

Hmm, which site could you be referring to? 😜

Lead marshal at a well known site in Suffolk (Ex RAF airfield...) Throwing a full blown tantrum at lunch time because someone had pissed on the portaloo seat was both equally funny, tragic and cringe Yes feet were stomped, yes there was shouting, yes we were all called dirty c*&ts, yes the scrawny fecker promised to knock out the pee offender followed with the threat of a lifetime ban, no me and my pals haven't been back since (Also no we didn't do the peeing - we chose a far nicer tree to relieve ourselves against as opposed a dirty portaloo in the middle of summer!) Don't get me wrong - peeing on the seat is a bit grim, but watching a man child have a full blown temper tantrum - was not expecting that! Also side note - didn't appreciate this Marshall make comments regarding "mongs" and "mong like behaviour" during his briefing. I'm by no means a snowflake, but having previously worked with SEN kids and adults, that just wasn't funny - no matter how many times he dropped it into the briefing...

With his dick sandwiched between two major credit cards....

Just found that page and bloody hell it hasn't gone well for him in the comments. Also 99% of the posts look like the modern version of the postcards you used to find in phone boxs

Maybe we should all join, it would seem the chicks love a bit of SF kit.

No, as you can see in blue it says join which means I'm not part of that page 🙄

That's all about demand. There is a term in some car communities "rare but nobody cares". There are only like 36 Ferrari GTOs in the world hence they are the most expensive car in the world. There are less than a dozen Austin Allegros on the road no one gives a shit. There are some airsoft guns people will pay stupid money for but most will eventually become worthless.

Thanks for sharing it Jez, more chances for the lucky lady to see it - hope I can get some dates 🙏 Disclaimer: This is not me, thank god!

My Missus would have died laughing if posted this. Then say I won't be playing Airsoft at all.

"and our team had all the first time players and rentals." Add to that 1st time at site player and yeah, that's cringe. Marshals playing favourites; timmy, just ask them out, jesus, don't make it my problem. Can whole heartedly agree those mocking others is super cringe, but that mocking gear or gats, we all playing toy soldier, chill. The "why not rent till ukara" crew are in this as well. It's not the bright red you have a problem with as I saw you gushing over that abomination of a hpa aap1 like its the best you've seen, just elitist. Oh, man clique ops - been a while since I've seen it but yeah, that part/half of the team appearing and taking the last two kills of the game after "new to site" and rentals slog up a hill - especially- especially when, if they had pushed with the objective the game timer would have hit our favour. (Yes I play to "win" but mostly that's where the action is going to be) Sadly this is too often the case, they have 1 joke that made 2 regulars laugh and they made that thier whole personality. I would argue that marshals pointing to the players that caused items to be added to the safety brief is not cringe but a public service announcement of "people get hurt near this person for dumb reasons"

I can really get that from a modern prospective. One reason I only post Airsoft content on my Airsoft Instagram that has no connection to my main main socials. (Other than my photography one tagged in it) And Facebook I don't even use anymore so that doesn't worry me. But fully understand that concern. The full auto players are always annoying when they only use full auto even at 5m engagement distance. Like come on man over kill. But then again I'm a GBBR player so full auto is a rare thing for me. Suppose to some I may fall into a cringe as I use real caps and only engage when I can clearly see the enemy.

A medical condition is what keeps me in too - Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis - hence my user name, as SNAFU is a perfect decription of life with MS! 😆 But at least we both keep trying!

Hey dude from your prospective I can fully understand why you do what you do. No point making yourself ill. Well done on playing and doing what you do. So for you it's definitely not a cringe moment. Agree with the players who ridicule new or returning players because they haven't paid 1000s on guns and equipment. We all have our budgets and not everyone can buy expensive stuff. People forget some of these might be on an average wage and don't have the disposable income that others do, your life and wellbeing away from Airsoft comes first so can make the difference if it means paying the rent/mortgage or buying a new RIF and modding it.

Custom gbb workshop. sig P320 AXG Legion. Parabellum gbb. Unicorn out barrel. Unicorn hop-up chamber set. Unicorn inner barrel.

It's a nearly 3 year old appraisal thread, not a sales thread, no mention of prices, but you'll take it apparently 😏

Oh god it's people who forget that these things are pretty terrible consistency/accuracy wise and end up accusing others of not taking hits. I was marshalling a few weeks back and a player I was stood behind told another to take their hits. I had to tell him his hop was too high, because I was watching his BBs get about 3/4 feet in front of the other player then flick up and over his head.

Lol, i have a sporting background where throwing hands was pretty much compulsory, & getting banned or nicked wasnt even a thing, so having to bite my lip with some of these mouthy "toy soldiers" can be really difficult, but im too pretty for prison 😜, so gotta behave.

Hi mate is this is still available I take it

Allo Allo cameto mind 😆

Weathers going to start getting colder so I picked up a cyma grach aep to keep the russian larp going into the autumn/winter. Ran three mags through it and it's definitely a fun little piece and seems worth the cheap price tag.

Sounds like you need a gunslinger loadout.