Cyborg, my first impression

[TheDuelist]

I received my Cyborg today while at work and being the loyal company man that I am I dropped everything I was doing and opened the box. It comes in a hard plastic case, nicely padded with foam which I liked but don't feel I have a use for in the future. Overall appearance of the marker is beautiful. The anno is very well done and looks a lot better than the pics.

My immediate response when I picked it up is "Wow..this thing is light." The battery was installed but the barrel was not attached and the thing weighs nothing compared to what I am used to. I grabbed my flatline and hooked up the air and after a quick browsing of the manual gassed it up and dry fired a few shots. So far it functioned very well.

I hooked up my Evo 2 and dumped some paint inside. This is where things got interesting. I fired a few rounds then handed over to my brother who is a hell of a lot faster than I am. I watched as he ripped out a rope of paint without a problem. We both have owned various markers and have shot most of those we haven't owned and I have to say without a doubt this is one of the fastest I have ever seen. Too bad i'll never be able to use it to its fullest potential with my fat, slow fingers. Oh well, I still have my skills to fall back on.

Overall we have dropped about 300 rounds through the marker so far without a problem. I am happy with the purchase and look forward to getting on the field to check out the efficiency claims. I won't comment on accuracy other than to say the Matchstik barrel is really nice and the Cyborg is a very stable shooting platform to fire from. Very little recoil and quiet. The noise level reminded me of my old Matrix I owned prior to the EMag.

Hopefully soon i'll get some pics up and I will add more once we hit the field with it maybe this weekend. Overall I am very happy so far and feel it was well worth the money.

[Mindflux]

Cool deal.

Did you order directly from MacDev? How long was your preorder.

[camilion705]

lol, While I as reading I thought you gased it up and shot it at work!


Anyway, it sounds like a sweet gun.

[emagclown]

I did shoot it at work. PaintballKingdom is the US distributor for the Cyborg. They had just received their latest order Monday and mine came today. Those guys are great too. Many thanks for the great service I have received every time I have ordered from them.

TheDuelist logged on his bro's account

[Lee]

sounds nice man. glad your happy and i'm interested to see it in action even though i'll probably be on the recieving end of it since you regularly cap me whenever we play against one another.

sheesh!

[pbguy888]

Originally posted by emagclown
PaintballKingdom is the US distributor for the Cyborg.

The paintballkingdom in Marshville, NC?

[penguinpunk555]

Pics?

[RRfireblade]

For those interested.....

http://www.macdev.net/Video/Cyborg05.wmv

[-=Squid=-]

bloody fast. LOL... Made my day...

[Steelrat]

I actually really liked the concept of the cyborg until a few things started happening:

1. Videos posted of it, along with claims that it wasnt bouncing. Yeah, right. My viking shoots that fast too, when its set up to bounce. No one can pull the trigger at the speed they are shooting. All new markers have videos showing them shooting that fast, and they are all because of bounce. Making claims like that damages my impression of the marker, which leads to number 2...

2. Claims about efficency. I read claims that it was as good as the viking. Fine. I then read claims that it was a little bit better than the viking. Great. But then came the claims that it was getting 1700 shots out of a hot filled 45/4500. Gimme a break. Someone on PBN tried to point out the incredible efficiency it would need to do that, on the order of 20% better than anything else out there. While I think MacDev makes nice stuff, the design of the cyborg is relatively conventional, and there is no real explanation for how they could make such a breakthrough using a conventional design. The viking is better than most other markers, due to solid engineering and great manufacturing tolerances, but even it isnt incredibly efficient compared to similar markers, only somewhat more efficient.

After seeing the hype train pulling the viking along, I really shouldnt be surprised that its hitched up to the cyborg now. Hey, I own a viking, and the hype was even beginning to bug me a bit.

[Woogie12]

Hey duel, you think you could get a video up of you or your bro shooting it?

[TheDuelist]

Camera is down right now but i'll see what I can do. As for video, I'll have to get someone to do that since I don't really know how.

I understand the questions regarding efficiency and as of right now I have no way of testing them. I have found that so far I feel the marker is quite efficient. I'll know more when I get it on the field. When it comes to the speed issue I don't really care. I was only stating that , yes the marker is fast, bounce or no bounce. MacDev claims to have a filter on the trigger which can be adjusted by a dipswitch setting depending on how much bounce you experience. It comes set to low filtering from the factory.

If you are interested here is the link

https://www.paintballkingdom.com

[Digits]

how light was it?

[TheDuelist]

I put my 72cu flatline on it and weighed it without a hopper and it comes in at about 5 1/2lbs.

[RRfireblade]

Originally posted by Steelrat


After seeing the hype train pulling the viking along, I really shouldnt be surprised that its hitched up to the cyborg now. Hey, I own a viking, and the hype was even beginning to bug me a bit.

In my opinion,the Cyborg has been the least hyped marker I may have ever seen.Check out the Macdev site,there's hardly any info on it,let alone hype.And PBKingdom's hype consists of the same print from Macdev.no more no less.

I'm curious how you would sell one of your own products?

"Check out our new product,it's average,you probably should shop around."

Welcome to the world of bankruptsy.