Empire Reloader B review

[GTakacs]

Re: Re: Re: Empire Reloader B review

Originally posted by No sKiLLz


Wow. You just made an idiot of yourself.

Lesson for Mindflux who is too poor to own a Halo:
Halo has an IR eye. This eye sometimes doesn't read paint. If the Halo doesn't read paint it will try to spin. If it tries to keep spinning while paint is backed up in the feedneck, the motor will burn.

Here's a shoehorn to help you get your foot out of your mouth.

*hands Mindflux shoehorn*

The HALO has a reflective eye and it does not sense the presence or absence of a ball, it senses the variance in the light reflectance (it measures the derivative of the signal) Checking for presence of a ball would infringe on another patent, so they decided to use the other, analog method which works a lot better.

I have a HALO-B that works just fine, no problems what-so-ever. But that's just me.

However I kind of feel that if HALOS were as bad as you portray them, they would go out of business fairly qucikly, I don't think they have allocated warranty claim budget would cover 3-4 motors for everyone.

Oh, and that "Mindflux is poor" comment was totally uncalled for dude.

[No sKiLLz]

Re: Does the Reloader board incorporate?

Originally posted by Bad_Knees
I know you said you have different feed speeds, is it similar to the upgrade board that is out for the Halos? The Victory board?

BK

The Empire has three speed settings. I think the Victoy board has more.

[No sKiLLz]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Empire Reloader B review

Originally posted by GTakacs


The HALO has a reflective eye and it does not sense the presence or absence of a ball, it senses the variance in the light reflectance (it measures the derivative of the signal) Checking for presence of a ball would infringe on another patent, so they decided to use the other, analog method which works a lot better.

I have a HALO-B that works just fine, no problems what-so-ever. But that's just me.

However I kind of feel that if HALOS were as bad as you portray them, they would go out of business fairly qucikly, I don't think they have allocated warranty claim budget would cover 3-4 motors for everyone.

Oh, and that "Mindflux is poor" comment was totally uncalled for dude.

And since this turned into a lookie what I have thread, here is my marker (I also own my domain name and host :

Ok, this is getting out of hand. You two have these wonderful claims about your Halos, guess what, I DON'T CARE!!! The Empire B reloader is sound activate because the Halo IR eye SUX!!! If you don't think the IR eye was designed to detect the presence of the paint, then how the hell do you think your Halo works?! If you don't think Halo's are unreliable, go out and play more! Talk to people who have had them. Talk to people who have had SEVERAL! THEY BREAK!

And as far as my "uncalled for" comment, I think this was far more uncalled for:

Originally posted by Mindflux
That must be why you bought a halo in a different shell. For the more reliable motor right?
It's the SAME equipment, with sound activation. Woo-hoo! Go you!

[Mindflux]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Empire Reloader B review

Originally posted by No sKiLLz



And as far as my "uncalled for" comment, I think this was far more uncalled for:

Uh, I didn't personally attack you. I didn't call you poor, dumb, stupid, french or otherwise.

You, however did.

[No sKiLLz]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Empire Reloader B review

Originally posted by Mindflux


Hrmm..

Lemme see, last month. I played 4 days. (over the course of 3 weekends).

Halo's still going strong, and it's not brand new either.

For shame, you ought to use the shoehorn for yourself.

"anyone who brags about owning a domain is too poor to have it"? Uh.. I have a domain, where's yours. Oh? Too poor to have one?

Hahaha! Well I own two Ferrari's and have a house on the boardwalk in Newport. And I went out 6 times this month!

Talk is cheap, and that's all you can do. I review the Empire B loader for everyones edification and you decide to make a smart a$$ comment. Go back to PBN and pretend to be cool there, because there are plenty of people in this forum that have real Halo problems that want to know more about other alternatives.

And I will take that shoehorn back because you need the Jaws of Life to get your head out of your a$$.

[No sKiLLz]

Re: Re: Empire Reloader B review

What the hell do you call this?

Originally posted by Mindflux



That must be why you bought a halo in a different shell. For the more reliable motor right?

It's the SAME equipment, with sound activation. Woo-hoo! Go you!

[SlartyBartFast]

TO change the thread to something other than childish griping and name calling,

What's the point of having different feed speeds? Don't you want the loader to feed a fast as absolutely possible so that you don't chop/miss during your quickest trigger pull or however fast you marker is set to fire?

[Mindflux]

Re: Re: Re: Empire Reloader B review

Originally posted by No sKiLLz
What the hell do you call this?

I was alerting you that the equipment was all the same, you make it sound like halo motors just engulf themselves in flames.

Anyway, enjoy your Halo.

[tyrion2323]

Guys, don't argue about this. It's a simple case of over-reacting to a troll.

[GTakacs]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Empire Reloader B review

Originally posted by No sKiLLz


Ok, this is getting out of hand. You two have these wonderful claims about your Halos, guess what, I DON'T CARE!!! The Empire B reloader is sound activate because the Halo IR eye SUX!!! If you don't think the IR eye was designed to detect the presence of the paint, then how the hell do you think your Halo works?! If you don't think Halo's are unreliable, go out and play more! Talk to people who have had them. Talk to people who have had SEVERAL! THEY BREAK!

Uhm, I wonder why the HALO-B has a 9.4/10 rating on pbreview from over 100 people. I'm sure it's because of all the failed motors . Note that I haven't found a low rating that was dissing the motors.

http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/1237/

If you can't comprehend first derivatives, basic concept of motion of balls and the angle of attack of reflectivity, then I can't explain you how the HALO-B detects balls.

As for asking people around: I have talked with the captain of Team Licid, a local Texas Novice team who are sponsored by Odyssey paintball.

He said:"we had an issue last season where we were burning up motors, but it was due to a bad batch of motors and the type of paint we were using was making the halo fight itself"
[then] "the Z series software came out"
"we laugh because we think that they developed the software because Odyssey got tired of us having to swap out motors"

So there you have it! Note that their back guys actually go through 5 cases of paint a practice, several times a month.

Just because you never bothered to upgrade to the Z-board and likely had the combination of things (bad batch of motor, paint color) that caused an issue, it doesn't mean that the HALO B with the z-board is non-functional poop.

I'm happy that you're happy with your new Empire loader, to me it's just another HALO with some new gadgets to make it more appealing. Just as the Empire Timmy is the same as an Alias Timmy that costs $200 more.

And if you could lay off the name calling and questioning people's income level, your review might gain more credibility.

[No sKiLLz]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Empire Reloader B review

Originally posted by Mindflux


I was alerting you that the equipment was all the same, you make it sound like halo motors just engulf themselves in flames.

Anyway, enjoy your Halo.

I said a million times the IR eye is the problem. The motor engulfs itself in flames because it doesn't know when to shut off, unless you have a Z-code, in which case if it can't read the paint it will lock itself, and needs to be turned off, and then on again when you want to shoot, and since it still won't read the paint, it will lock up again and the cycle is repeated.

Anyway, enjoy PBN.

[Oddball]

well,

I have had a Halo B for maybe 10 months now, never had any problems. It has a rip drive but not z-code. Shot paint that was yellow, blue, pink, orange, and brown shelled thru it. If I had a choice between a Halo B or a Empire Reloader, I would get the Halo B. I don't need different speeds for the loader, the B is pleanty fast for me, and turning on the Reloader either empty or upside down sounds like a pain. But I am sure that some ppl will like the Reloader more then then the B, I am sure they are both good products.

[No sKiLLz]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Empire Reloader B review

OMFG PBN has come to me.

Originally posted by GTakacs


Uhm, I wonder why the HALO-B has a 9.4/10 rating on pbreview from over 100 people. I'm sure it's because of all the failed motors . Note that I haven't found a low rating that was dissing the motors.

http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/1237/

Everything has a 9 or higher on PB Review. I can't believe you would quote that as a resource.

If you can't comprehend first derivatives, basic concept of motion of balls and the angle of attack of reflectivity, then I can't explain you how the HALO-B detects balls.

I comprehend them just fine thanks. I know how the IR eye works and your first statement about them was erroneous as you tried to make it sound like I was wrong about something I never even addressed.

As for asking people around: I have talked with the captain of Team Licid, a local Texas Novice team who are sponsored by Odyssey paintball.

He said:"we had an issue last season where we were burning up motors, but it was due to a bad batch of motors and the type of paint we were using was making the halo fight itself"
[then] "the Z series software came out"
"we laugh because we think that they developed the software because Odyssey got tired of us having to swap out motors"

So there you have it! Note that their back guys actually go through 5 cases of paint a practice, several times a month.

Yep. There you have it alright. So what if they get a paint sponshorship from Severe or PMI and they are given cases of half black shelled paint? Now what? Keep using the Halo's and just turn them on and off over and over again during gameplay? I have nipples Greg. Could you milk me?

Just because you never bothered to upgrade to the Z-board and likely had the combination of things (bad batch of motor, paint color) that caused an issue, it doesn't mean that the HALO B with the z-board is non-functional poop.

Never said it was poop. I said the eye was poop. If Halo paid the royalties to use a break beam eye they would never have to deal with these issues except for maybe getting the eye blocked with paint if one exploded in the breech, which us another plus for sound activated loaders.

I'm happy that you're happy with your new Empire loader, to me it's just another HALO with some new gadgets to make it more appealing. Just as the Empire Timmy is the same as an Alias Timmy that costs $200 more.

And to those who play enough to experience the problems a halso can have, it's more than just a Halo with gadgets. $15 more is not a lot to spend to have a better loader.

And if you could lay off the name calling and questioning people's income level, your review might gain more credibility.

Ok Ghandi. If someone takes a shot at me, I'm going to serve them right back. Don't buy it if you don't like it, but don't clutter up a review thread with irrelevant crap.

[Tron]

Did you have to show them your ******* card before you bought the loader? Because I am interested in getting one of these loaders but I put mine through the wash.

[Reaver]

No sKiLLz dude stop being a freaking prick.....

I have had 2 halo motors burn 1 with out z and one with sooo....