HPA rifle hate? I guarantee it’s not why you think

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I own some HPA stuff now, but I must say the level of dickishness amongst HPA owners seems to be notably higher than your average player. I realise a lot of them tend to be the older players who've been playing for years and this may be why they notice the bad stuff more easily, but they do complain a lot on sites about people not taking their hits I feel.

Also, 35rps+ is always going to make one a target for criticism. One needs to be aware that they're going to be scrutinised a lot more when playing and just be extra sure not to be a knob. HPA is brilliant, but some of the people who use it aren't so much.

 

[beastmode]

I only don't like hpa because of the tank and the line just doesn't seem realistic or practical to me but that's just my personal preference nothing against anyone that owns them as long as they don't think they are superior to everyone else.

 

[Qlimax]

I'll stick with public cheeky comments thanks.

What i was hoping for;

"Yeah i keep trying to quit but love it, and keep ending up on here/ at one last skirmish"

Yeah your right it’s hard trying to quit something you love doing. The only reason this whole thread went up is from a PM I received last night about my SMP. Then I saw that thing about why people hate HPA and thought it would be good to post and see.

I own some HPA stuff now, but I must say the level of dickishness amongst HPA owners seems to be notably higher than your average player. I realise a lot of them tend to be the older players who've been playing for years and this may be why they notice the bad stuff more easily, but they do complain a lot on sites about people not taking their hits I feel.

Also, 35rps+ is always going to make one a target for criticism. One needs to be aware that they're going to be scrutinised a lot more when playing and just be extra sure not to be a knob. HPA is brilliant, but some of the people who use it aren't so much.

I have mine set at 25Rps as most PTW’s do that or some AEG’s do roughly 20Rps. 25Rps is reasonable I think and I only ever use full auto for those players that don’t take there hits….. if you have 25rps coming at you, you’ll take it.

I see on the HPA pages all the time people with their ROF set outrageously high and myself being a HPA owner it pisses me off because I bet those with ROF that high wouldn’t want to be shot with it themselves so why shoot someone else with that kind of ROF.

 

[Sacarathe]

I only don't like hpa because of the tank and the line just doesn't seem realistic or practical to me but that's just my personal preference nothing against anyone that owns them as long as they don't think they are superior to everyone else.

I agree with you completely. Wouldn't stop me using one though.

One of the big 'things' with airsoft that has never made sense to me, is the partial realism of the sport: "you must use RIFS", "you may use midcaps" - the hypocrisy.

No critique to you beast, or anyone else, as I do agree, but it seems all airsoft players pick and choose what elements of non realism they are willing to put up with in their kit, and others. Many without noticing the double standards they impose on others.

Either go full realism, or don't, but it should not matter what the other guy has (visually speaking), yet practically speaking - why were hicap magazines even invented, I won't use them and i'd love to play realcap games, but I don't speak a peep when out playing airsoft.

Realism and airsoft (skirmishes) are two things which do not go together.

 

[TheFull9]

I'm yet to overhear anyone at a game complain about any particular system, but I think the environment here is a bit different to the US and 98% of people use G&G AEGs anyway.

As long as your gun is within the appropriate energy limit then I do not care what it is at all, neither should anyone else. If you're using any HPA or gas-in-mag weapon and are planning to run a BB with more mass you need to take it upon yourself to chrono using that specific BB and calculate your own muzzle energy. If it's within the same Joule limits as a 0.2 at 350 then crack on.

 

[Colonel Kurtz]

Yeah your right it’s hard trying to quit something you love doing. The only reason this whole thread went up is from a PM I received last night about my SMP. Then I saw that thing about why people hate HPA and thought it would be good to post and see.

Cheers pal, was a troll too far. Why I love airsoft so much more than paintball, full or normal decent folk not meat-heads on a stag-do.

Was a guy with a t-shirt saying 'haters gonna hate' at my last skirmish, think he has the answer!

 

[BrightCandle]

I really haven't seen many HPAs here in the UK, but by all accounts they have become quite a bit problem in the USA. I think in the end so long as suitable power tests are being done (0.20g and actual weight BBs) such that BB power is within site specs and reasonable rates of fire (certainly less than 30 rps) are adhered to I can't see how there would be a problem. But most sites I know don't have rps rules and I don't think I have been to a single one that tests for joule creep.

 

[PT247]

Love my hpa set up on my ghk g5, hate any high rof guns.... Be they hpa, gas or electric. Guess the issue with high rof guns that are accurate too mean that more BBs will hit you in the face before they stop pulling the trigger. Only way to play with an accurate gun is semi only, else peeps get angry.