Need Hopper Advice Please...

[Dirge]

I've had great luck with a Vlocity Jr. with a Gangster board. No chops yet with an RT, and it's great on battery consumption. Overall cost is about the same as a regular Vlocity, but with an aftermarket board.

[CaptainMorgan13]

Personally I use a tac one w/ the flatline turned up to 1100+ and I shoot a Ricochet. It is the Apache version, and I have used it on my imp w/ a blackheart in it and my tac one and I have yet to outshoot it. Maybe I'm just lucky but I have had it take all kinds of hopper hits, w/ not solid bust, I have played w/ it in the rain, and I have used it multiple times riin scenario games over 24 hours straight and It has always done me good. I have shot a halo, and personally I think it jams wayyy too much. Yes you can just turn the rip drive and it is ok, but still when you are shooting a lot of paint w/ guys ramping on you, that isn't too fun... Yeah so I recoment an Apache, have a good one.

Captain

[drg]

Watch this...its a revi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3p4qTAJxD4

It is quite difficult to tell whether it is getting a ball fired per "pop" and in fact in quite a few places it appears it does not. Since the RT will fire whether or not a ball is loaded, it may SOUND impressive but not really be putting out the paint you think. A good illustration of this is in the end of the video, when he dry fires it a bit, it sounds indistinguishable from when he was firing paint with it.

Revvys feed so (relatively) slowly that even a gun with level 10 type pinchability can get dry shots within a stream of paint and not pinch/chuff/stutter.

[drg]

Here is the info I have. On the force feeds. The Halo wears out and jams up at the worst possible times and is heavy. The reloader b is bassically a perfected Halo and isn't prone to those problems but it is heavy. Both the Halo and reloader do eat batterys fairly quickly.

I don't know whether I am special, my Halo is special, or what, but my Halo has never jammed with paint in it except one time where some foreign matter literally jammed a ball in the feed neck (it was one of the beads from the loader, which cracked). I don't know what you mean about wearing out, unless you mean the shell, but the Reloader B has the same crappy shell.

Having both a Reloader B and Halo, while the Reloader has some positive aspects (the best IMO being it doesn't run when empty lol), IMO it is the less perfect design. Because it responds to sound rather than actual ball movement, it will wind or attempt to regardless of the feed rate or characteristics. I have found it extremely inconsistent as far as keeping the cone spring wound properly. It's so aggressive with the winding that it's hard on the spring and paint. The usual solution, lowering the speed, is little more than a workaround. I occasioanlly get gaps in firing with my reloader due to the uneven spring winding as well, which pretty much never happens with a halo.

Then again most people swear by their Reloader Bs as well.

[Digler45]

Narrowed it down to 3.

Halo
Empire B
Evolution III

Leaning more towards eggy3 right now. Opinions?

[drg]

Narrowed it down to 3.

Halo
Empire B
Evolution III

Leaning more towards eggy3 right now. Opinions?

The Egg is really a different class of loader than the other two (significantly lower end) ... Only get it if your goal is to save money IMO ...

I say if you are considering the first two then the vlocity should be in there. And probably the eye force.

[Digler45]

The Egg is really a different class of loader than the other two (significantly lower end) ... Only get it if your goal is to save money IMO ...

I say if you are considering the first two then the vlocity should be in there. And probably the eye force.

i considered the vlocity junior, but it seems to go a bit more expensive. Used Halo/Reloader B seems to be around the $50 mark. i would most likely buy a new Eggy3 for that if i go that route.