Use of powerful pyro, yes or no?

[Esoterick]

No and there's evidently a reason i've never come across any sites that have allowed anything past a MK5 or 9mm blank. As Trigger said MK5s can be dodgy enough, especially as the majority of sites I've played at allow them to be thrown overarm increasing the chance for them to land on you or go off near your head.

Between this and hard case pyro being able to ruin your day/life if they hit you in the face I think the use of pyro is already enough of a calculated risk.

 

[EDcase]

MK5 is enough.

Accidents are inevitable and holding a MK9 or being near one when it goes off would seriously ruin your day.

 

[clumpyedge]

I guess this health and safety snowflake had a point after all...

 

[Albiscuit]

It seem's counter productive to use a banger that requires ear protection.

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Pretty much this.

 

[Rogerborg]

Same answer as for the lasers thread: hold your pyro of choice in your hand, next to your undefended ear, and set it off.

If you're not prepared to do that, don't throw it at me.

 

[Albiscuit]

Same answer as for the lasers thread: hold your pyro of choice in your hand, next to your undefended ear, and set it off.

If you're not prepared to do that, don't throw it at me.

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I think anything more than a mk5, lasers and flash grenades should only be used for milsim or similar purposes when the scenario calls for it and all players aware when signing up that they will be used. 

This way you will need to be prepared with suitable protection and expecting that level of realism. On a sunday skirmish no thank you, its meant to be a laugh running around getting shot, I dont want to worry too much about being deafened or blinded by something I have no desire to use myself therefore wouldnt appreciate being chucked at me.

 

[EDcase]

I guess this health and safety snowflake had a point after all...

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I double dare you to hold one when it goes off.

THIS will be your reward

 

[clumpyedge]

I double dare you to hold one when it goes off.

THIS will be your reward

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I've had a 9mm do off in my hand when I trip wire i had laid went off unexpectedly.... so i think ill bow out of holding a mk9

 

[EDcase]

I've had a 9mm do off in my hand when I trip wire i had laid went off unexpectedly.... so i think ill bow out of holding a mk9

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Glad to hear self preservation wins over bravado

If MK9's were used regularly at games then the guns may as well shoot .22 long rifle...

Next level gaming

 

[clumpyedge]

Glad to hear self preservation wins over bravado

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Haha! lets just say even a 9mm I wouldn't recommend but accidents do happen! Guy on my team had a thermo somehow uncap and strike in his trouser pocket, how this happened I don't know (large combat pocket so luckily not near his tackle) and that resulted in 3rd degree burns and a lengthy hospital visit in A&E

 

[ImTriggerHappy]

Maybe using them makes some people feel more of a man. Trying to compensate and all that.

 

[clumpyedge]

@ImTriggerHappy 

Have a gander at this video from a game some of the guys I play with attended a while back...

Maybe that pyro could be used at skirmishes 

 

[ImTriggerHappy]

@clumpyedge Just f*cking WOW.

Even with my disdain for milsim some of that was nice. I now want to blow up an old train.

 

[Tommikka]

As previously stated on the recent threads, I had a team mate subject to a faulty mk9 which exploded as soon as it was struck

His glove was ripped apart and luckily took the impact

The photos of him then went up on the walls of the factory

 

[EDcase]

As previously stated on the recent threads, I had a team mate subject to a faulty mk9 which exploded as soon as it was struck

His glove was ripped apart and luckily took the impact

The photos of him then went up on the walls of the factory

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Wow, he was bloody lucky to keep his hand even with gloves.

 

[Tommikka]

At a certain event in Cooehill down, game on was triggered by a petrol explosion in one of the clapped out cars in the middle of the Main Street.

Instead of rushing forward everyone hesitated and stood in awe/astonishment at the size of the mushroom flame cloud, and the pyro man jumped into his van putting out the flames

During the party he was constantly congratulated on the effects, to some he confessed that due to some delays in starting the game the petrol he had deposited had fully soaked into the entire car, dripped around etc which made a vast fireball in most directions rather than the designed directed fireball 

 

[Tommikka]

Wow, he was bloody lucky to keep his hand even with gloves.

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Defiantly 

 

[Rogerborg]

Maybe using them makes some people feel more of a man. Trying to compensate and all that.

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Steady on: why do any of us airsoft instead of using Nerf guns?  I have no problem with people enjoying themselves any way they like, as long as it's not going to burn or blind me, or burst my earballs.

 

[ImTriggerHappy]

Steady on: why do any of us airsoft instead of using Nerf guns?  I have no problem with people enjoying themselves any way they like, as long as it's not going to burn or blind me, or burst my earballs.

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Accuracy, range and rate of fire. Also can you imagine carrying a 1000 nerf darts?

Lot's of airsofters are using airsoft to compensate. We have all come across the guys who are frightened of their own shadow in day to day life but put them in camo on an airsoft field and they become shouty god. 

Nothing wrong with it normally but most of the worst offenders I have come across for getting arsey with someone generally come from either the 9st or the 19stone crew and I don't mean the big stocky 19st.

99% of airsofters are good lads/ladies but there is that minority that take the relative safety of their surroundings to act out in a way that sucks.

 

[Jedi_Master]

I only get "shouty" because I cannot hear anything after getting pyro'd (again!). I would wear hearing protection but then would not be able to hear the other shouty gods. Catch 22.