Ares GBB Groza using TM AK system

[Austeyr]

 

Taken from @kinwa__official

[AERA]

Recently saw this and I'm quite excited, is there any demo vids on it?

[Austeyr]

1 minute ago, AERA said:

Recently saw this and I'm quite excited, is there any demo vids on it?

 

Not yet, Ares are undoubtedly still collecting pieces off the ground from it exploding 😂

 

It's only just been announced, and all that is available currently is the technical drawings it seems

[AERA]

I'm hoping it'll be any kind of good, don't know the track record with ares but from what you said I'm concerned lol 🫠

[Colin Allen]

13 hours ago, AERA said:

I'm hoping it'll be any kind of good, don't know the track record with ares but from what you said I'm concerned lol 🫠

Ares make beautiful RIFs that are junk internally.

[Lyndication]

Yeah I really don't trust Ares, who have a track record of making AEGs that shit themselves, to pivot to GBBRs and somehow not make them shit themselves sadly. 

 

That said it might be useful to rip the furniture off this and possibly slap it on a VFC, GHK, or TM AK chassis. Remains to be seen.

[novioman]

The ares 686 Co2 revolvers have been o.k, but I know that quite a few owners have had to send them back for replacement. 

[Lyndication]

I've seen some of those turn up with the hop installed upside down and video reviews where they just couldn't get them to shoot consistently for the life of them. 

 

I'm guessing a few people win the lottery and get a working one probably but I'd rather something that just works.

[Austeyr]

5 minutes ago, Lyndication said:

guessing a few people win the lottery

 

You have a higher chance of winning the lottery back to back than you do a working Ares replica out of the box

[mightyjebus]

interesting GBB to be sure but the hate for Ares on here is crazy. I've got a bunch of Ares stuff in my collection and they are a reliable as most other manufacturers. Terrible to take apart as they seem to be designed by a savant drug addict but on the whole not really much worst that others when it comes to reliability.

[ButcherBill]

I have 4 Ares rif's and never had any issues with them, but they're wall hangers so I don't feel qualified to really have an opinion. What I can say is I have another 9 wall hangers that have given me issues either through previous owners 'upgrades' or parts compatibility & none of them are ares.

Out of the 7 other rifs I've used in game over the past few years only 1 has caused an issue in game due to the motor hight & was a simple fix.

I'm sure where there's smoke you'll find fire but ares do seem to get a lot of schtick whether it's warranted or not.

Edited yesterday at 15:49 by ButcherBill

[Colin Allen]

59 minutes ago, mightyjebus said:

interesting GBB to be sure but the hate for Ares on here is crazy. I've got a bunch of Ares stuff in my collection and they are a reliable as most other manufacturers. Terrible to take apart as they seem to be designed by a savant drug addict but on the whole not really much worst that others when it comes to reliability.

It is far from being crazy.  They are badly designed, badly manufactured and badly assembled, with poor quality parts.  I have had a number of them over the years and am now down to two and only keep those because I cannot get those two guns from any other manufacturer.

[Galvatron]

4 hours ago, mightyjebus said:

interesting GBB to be sure but the hate for Ares on here is crazy. I've got a bunch of Ares stuff in my collection and they are a reliable as most other manufacturers. Terrible to take apart as they seem to be designed by a savant drug addict but on the whole not really much worst that others when it comes to reliability.

 

I'm sure there is some hate toward Ares coming from people on the bandwagon but there is reasonable criticism as Colin alluded to. 

 

There are so many unnecessary decisions made in their design department that add to people's grievances such as trying to be edgy by using a clockwise thread on the outer barrel or forcing a vendor lock-in with proprietary gearbox casings based on v2.

 

I happen to own one Ares AEG that has been extremely reliable but when its mosfet or something else in the gearbox goes, finding spares is either going to be really difficult or so expensive that I can just spend the money on or toward something else more modern and serviceable.

[Anonymoose]

6 hours ago, Colin Allen said:

I have had a number of them over the years and am now down to two and only keep those because I cannot get those two guns from any other manufacturer.

 

What are they?

 

(Just out of curiousity. I know nothing about Ares.)

[Tackle]

15 hours ago, Anonymoose said:

 

What are they?

 

(Just out of curiousity. I know nothing about Ares.)

Quite an old brand, way back i think they were called Star, or they swallowed the Star brand up ? 🤔, some of their early kit was pretty good, but they never really evolved enough like other brands, & let themselves (& us) down by making most if their internals proprietary, & from soft as 💩 materials.

Its amazing their still around, & i say that as a former fan-boi.

[Anonymoose]

1 hour ago, Tackle said:

Quite an old brand, way back i think they were called Star, or they swallowed the Star brand up ? 🤔, some of their early kit was pretty good, but they never really evolved enough like other brands, & let themselves (& us) down by making most if their internals proprietary, & from soft as 💩 materials.

Its amazing their still around, & i say that as a former fan-boi.

 

 

No, you turnip. What are the two guns? 😂

[hunter511]

I had one of their aw.338's and it was..... not great. IIRC their Tavors looked really nice but had some issues as well. That said my mate loves his L1A1. 

[GiantKiwi]

Had both the MS700 and later stupidly, when I could afford it the Ares MS338, externals were fantastic, the internals were dogshit. Main trigger sear in both examples snapped into pieces within 20 shots a piece, requiring extremely expensive aftermarket options just to do the bare minimum.

 

Amoeba Honey Badger, that the stock ETU caught fire on its first use, and turned the gun into a lovely pile of beige plastic gloop. Round 2, when a local tech pulled the warranty replacement apart to remove the problematic ETU before plugging anything into it, discovered that the sector gear and bevel gear were made of clear plastic, on a £250 'premium' gun back in 2014.

 

G36, which for some reason only known to the intelligent people at Ares, was shipped out with an M170 spring, resulting in a gearbox shell that was cracked at the front of the cylinder, such that when the gearbox was removed the front of the shell clean fell off.

 

M320 GLM, where the primary receiver lugs for the hinge clean snapped off after 50 odd shells being reloaded.

 

Tavor 21, first generation, plastic gears in a £370 gun.

 

I have a much longer list, but that is why there is hate for Ares. They're like VFC AEG's, briliant externals (most of the time) but internals which need to be, most of the time, completely replaced OOTB.

[Colin Allen]

18 hours ago, Anonymoose said:

 

What are they?

 

(Just out of curiousity. I know nothing about Ares.)

I have an L1A1 and a VZ58.

[Hudson]

 

33 minutes ago, Colin Allen said:

I have an L1A1 and a VZ58.

 

BZ Brother 🙌