Rubber knives, just another thing to lose which can be swapped out with a simple hand on the shoulder then you don't have the problem of people being stabbed by coldsteel training knives which are rock solid.
they seem to be mainly an acheivement thing, i wear one for looks but frankly if i get close enough to someone and i've got the drop on them i just give a bang kill with my selecter lever on full auto and the trigger about 0.5grams off the break point just in case theyre one of "those" guys.
Any form of camo in an urban environment, your DPM isn't fooling anyone.
the inverse is also very much true, them tactical operators turning up to outdoor sites in their black uniform with maybe some token multicam, but i suppose i shouldn't complain, makes my job a lot easier.
Any hop up chamber which requires a tool to adjust.
oh god yes, it would be fine if it held its setting, but we all know that's not a thing that happens.
inspired by that: stealth bb's, great in theory, completely fucking useless after about 30 minutes when your hop has re-settled itself and you don't know where the hell it's going but you're still shooting like it's going where your sights are.
on a related note, and considering we're now doing people: the "i had him in my scope at 9x" crowd who simaltaneously don't understand that zeroing is a thing, or that even well zeroed you still have to put a crapton of kentucky windage on it if you want to actually hit something.
i did pick up a bunch of ir glowsticks, yet to actually employ them in a night game, plan was to get them going and sneakily hand them out to the enemy team. other than that i do agree they have very limited utility in airsoft.
cheap BBs which shatter upon touching any surface
or just cheap bb's, although i must admit i do somewhat mightily take advantage of the .25g "sniper" types and enjoy every minute of it. you can have the most amazing gun out there but it'll still shoot like crap on bad ammo.
Those who say "I won't spend more than £20 on any airsoft kit because it's only airsoft" when you ask me what my kit is and how much it costs then proceed to poke fun at why I spent over a grand on what I'm wearing and using, then proceed to moan about your kit falling apart during a game. JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS MORE DISPOSABLE INCOME THAN YOU DOESN'T MAKE THEM A BAD PERSON.
kinda 2 ends of the spectrum really, both are trying to flaunt something, one is flaunting wealth and the other is flaunting thriftyness. i must admit i find both sides have a point, a lot of cheap stuff can be surprisingly decent, but likewise a bit of money put into the right kit can also make life a fair bit more comfortable (eg lowa's might be expensive boots but by god do your feet enjoy them) but then i'm that weirdo who can run a £14 red dot on an e&l just to annoy both sides
The people who have no time keeping ability, if a briefing is due to start at 10 and you wander into the safezone at 9:45 you're stopping everyone else's day.
a lot of the places i go to just run the briefing and if folk are late then they can show up to the battle late, not a perfect system but seems a decent compromise.
The people who feel it necessary to shout orders at random people across a site, +10 if they did cadets in 2001 and therefore they've "got military experience and training".
i don't mind shouting useful information, but i absolutely agree at drawing the line at orders. once had a very annoying chap who took it upon himself to "lead the team to victory", as we were running in he shouted at me to take a route which i'd already planned to take, needless to say i immediately turned the other direction just to spite him.
we can also add the "calls out literally everything they see regardless of the situation" types who inevitably only show up right behind you as you're trying to be stealthy
few more for myself:
- tacking literally everything onto the front of a gun, yes granted i shouldn't be so judgemental but i cant help but think "why you no engage brain?" when i see someone with a bipod, torch, peq box and front grip on a gun, yes i know the original call of duty only limited you to 1 accessory and you hated having to choose between a grenade launcher and a red dot but just because in airsoft you can doesnt mean you should. if your going to have anything strapped onto a gun you should first ask yourself why you think it's useful for the game you're about to play, if the answer is no then leave it off.
- the "doesnt take the time to learn the basics" types, now i know this is partly endemic of the wide variety of people that you see popping up in airsoft and not everyone is an engineer, but it's amazing how many times you run into someone who's either red with rage at "people not taking their hits" or equally red with rage at "this gun is shit" when the root of the problem is they never took any time to figure out that hop units are a thing that might enhance their enjoyment of the hobby.
-[contraversial] the "it only takes 1 shot" types. whilst yes i agree in an ideal world that you do only need 1 shot to get a hit, sadly we don't live in that world. on the rare occasion i've been playing with a crowd honest enough to play the game properly the whole day i've been stuck solidly in semi, taking careful single shots and waiting until it's made its mark (or been taken off course by a nearby robin farting) these days are to be treasured. the sad reality is there are people who can go right up the scale, and your choices are to leave, be "that guy" who's either screaming "take your hits" or calling the marshall every 5 minutes, or just accept that this is going to be one of those days that you need to dust off that other position on the selector lever. end of the day i'll send as many bb's as it takes to get a hit call and if that's the whole mag then that's what it'll be.
-the "328fps problem", or more correctly "people who justify cheating through ignorance", this really annoys me, it's kind of terrifying how often i'm chrono'ing on the heavies only to get a comment of "that's a bit low", i realise that physics is a dark and mysterious subject full of witchcraft and ideas that sound like the end result of an adventurous night out, but for people who run sites is it really that hard to spend an evening's research (because, y'know, the internet is full of it) figuring out what your chosen joule limit is for the common bb weights, tape a strip onto the chrono so you know when someone says "i'm on .3's mate" what number you should be expecting it to spit out. if people are going to run hot on a site i want them to have to lie about it so when they get caught an instaban is justified.
i should probably stop now, gonna end up sounding like a right bitter sod
