Have you played in the dark?

[Darkstorm]

I know a lot of tourney players are on this board, but since scenarios have come your way, I am wondering how many people have played in the dark?

[Dayspring]

I've played several scenarios in the dark. Drop me at Skirmish USA in the dark and I'll get you just about anywhere you need to go on one side. The other, I'm about 60-70%.

[Flip]

Pretty much blind at night.....

Yet I still love the night portions of Scenarios. The adrenalin for me goes up 200%, since I can't see squat. Still get my base demo's and GK's, nice having a good group of players to lead you in

[Meph]

I do, but rarely. Normally when Nighttime hits, I'm with the drunk people. In the players' shack upstairs playing Beer Pong. It's a tradition.

I remember a great story during last years Quest. After some beer pong, then sitting on somebodys' bunkhouse porch having a couple more cold ones. It came to be about 2am-ish I think. Blue was in the A-frame getting ready for sleep. As soon as Blue turned off his lights to hit the sack...

Bang BRING OUT YOUR DEAD! Bang

Winter (writer for Crossfire) and I were at that very moment starting our journey up the Bunkhouse road. I grabbed a trashcan lid and a metal 12-gram quick changer. Went all the way up to the top, Winter screaming "BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!"
The walk back down, there were people standing outside the bunkhouses just looking at us. I couldn't tell if they were sleepy or pissed.

As soon as Blue heard that first gong, he just said "Oh no..."

[TheGreyMage]

nightime is a lot of fun, especially when all the idiots go in. a lot of people are confused by night play (and not just those who are new to it) and just shoot at everything that moves. for those of us who played with rtd during stonehenge you will know exactly what i mean. once things settle down around midnight things get fun. you really start to get into the story line because its all about the missions, and often times at midnight something cool goes down. then you get to hunt down and root out snipers completly blind while they have gen 3 night vision, and crawl painstakingly to the other base and cause some havoc. then its to the reinsertion for some more chaos as likely now that you have been gone for a half hour, the same old snipers are back again and have blown your cp. night play is a lot more fast pased because of the fewer people and the ability to move more freely than in th day, yet everything slows down. its just so uch fun.

[Dayspring]

My rec team does some of its best work at night. Night Vision helps too.

[hitmanng]

I cannot vote in poll for some reason but night play fastenates me. I never miss a night game although it can be very flustrating to defent a base at night when assaulted. That ends more night games then any other factor. Night vision helps but a good set is so expensive it is prohibative. I do have a monocal and it can be useful. The thing to remember is that night vision is useless if there is light. I am thinking a huge 1 mill light with a red filter is the most fun.
Hitmanng

[Mickster]

Never played

Am very curious as to how night games work they sound like they could be fun. Have yet to hear of any in the UK im sure they do exist, would love to play one if they do. So how do they work is there some lighting or are you completely in the dark and have to provide your own source of light??

Mike

[TheGreyMage]

i think we are mostly on the topic of the 24hour scenerio, in which night play is almost a third of the action of the game. there are generally some sources of light on the field, be they powered by generoators or from somewhere built into the field. you will often times see many people sporting maglights and hand held spotlights if not night vision. scenerio ball in europe is a sly beast as far as i can tell, although i know there are a few. most scenerios include at least some night play so chech your calenders for events.

[Tunaman]

You guy gotta get some of those Kryptonite Paintballs and the Richochet loader with the Ultra violet in it to energize the balls...real cool stuff

[hitmanng]

Originally posted by Tunaman
You guy gotta get some of those Kryptonite Paintballs and the Richochet loader with the Ultra violet in it to energize the balls...real cool stuff

Only problem with tracers Tunaman is it allows me to see where the balls are coming from. Kinda kills the stealth thing. Although a night speed ball game would be a blast with them.
Hitmang

[Dayspring]

That's why you mix in half and half. Like tracer rounds in real bullets. That way you shoot and every so often the glow one comes out. Allows you to aim.

Originally posted by hitmanng


Only problem with tracers Tunaman is it allows me to see where the balls are coming from. Kinda kills the stealth thing. Although a night speed ball game would be a blast with them.
Hitmang

[rjvemt1]

i absolutely do not recomend trying this!

i played at night in a large corral full of horses one time. i was back in cal. on the nor. cal. coast, it was very foggy. the corral was the private property of one of the guys playin. horses DO NOT like being hit with paintballs! luckily this was back when everyone used pump guns, so the horese were not gettin hosed real bad. we also all chrono-ed under 240. its a game ill never forget, thats for sure!

[2k1angel]

night play is sweet i love walking up on people and tapping them out, its also the man with nightvisions playground.

[mtnkid82]

Um I night time is scary lol

Ive played a few night games 1 scenario game and one with like 5 of my friends . It was pretty fun . My favorite is when you hear some one but you cant see them , the suspense is enough to kill ya ! And the adrenalin sky rockets !