You can only hide your lack of skill behind your rate of fire for so long

[pito189]

I like cover fire it lets me make those long runs to the front. You can tell the difference too. Last 5 man event I played we tried a few different things, I was always shot out on the occassions when my backplayer didn't shot until he got into his bunker. When he did shot I managed the 50 on the break, and was able to get angles that made the difference between winning and getting spanked.

Edit for spelling.

[paint magnet]

I purposely play with my lower-performance markers to improve those skills, or just play hopperball with an Angel.

The Phantom is NOT a lower performance gun, nor is any other pump. They don't have the rate of fire or the features of expensive electros but they are still high performance guns.

[blackmag3]

The Phantom is NOT a lower performance gun, nor is any other pump. They don't have the rate of fire or the features of expensive electros but they are still high performance guns.

while i agree that the phantom is not a low prefromance gun , however , the blade , tiger shark and talons ,to name a few, are. so no all pumps are not high performance guns.

[mykroft]

Depends on your definition of performance, mine includes ROF. The Phantom is The Volkswagen Diesel of PB guns, it ain't fast, but it's hella reliable, looks cool, and never lets you down. I bust out the Spyder or classic mag (which is lower performance than my Angel) for this type of play, as I don't currently have a pump.

[paint magnet]

You have to take into consideration the fact that the Phantom wasn't exactly intended to be a fast- firing gun, and the gun performs exceptionally well at what it was designed to do, firing paintballs. Technically, it has no limit on balls per second since the user controlls that. I can shoot mine faster than I can shoot my Stingray, but like I said before, it is not meant to shoot fast, but to shoot accurately. I think Punisher's customs even offers an electro conversion that makes it capable of 10 + bps, but that's a different story. Anyway, I don't consider ROF to be a factor in judging performance. I guess it all depends on your definition.

[paint magnet]

Yes, but guns like the Blade and Talon don't even have all metal parts, they break often and there is no point in fixing them, they are not accurate, not reliable, not efficient, not quiet, not customizable, they're just crappy low priced guns. That's kind of like comparing an E-mag to a Black Dragun. Sure, they're both electros, but the Emag is obviously a higher performance gun.