So I went paintballing last week and caught a cold (that explains why I haven't been posting stuff up). As it was my first time paintballing, I thought I'd share my first thoughts on the game.

1) It hurts

But only if you get hit but then again, it hurts less if the paintball acutally splatters on you rather than just bounce off. I got two bruises showing that it really hurts when paintballs just bounce off you. Of course there's no fun when there's no pain but still I thought it should have hurt a little less.

2) It's muddy

Yeah, slush through puddles that are 2 inches deep and ruin your shoes for ever. I wore a pair of old trainers (the right one had a hole in it) so my right foot was caked with mud afterwards. I didn't mind the mud but it was the wetness that got on my nerves. The jumpsuit was sufficient in preventing any mud to stain my shirts and trousers which was nice. But the wetness really gets to you when you reach a map with a small hill. THERE'S NO DAMN WAY YOU CAN CLIMB UP A HILL WHEN IT'S MUDDY AND WET! Of the team of 13, 8 slipped, 5 had to use their guns to climb up which meant that their barrels were filled with mud and were useless and I almost didn't make it over the hill. Yeah, we should have picked a drier day. I thanked god I had a change of socks and shoes.

3) Paintballs are really easy to lose

I lost 200 (and so £10) by not having my paintballs secure. One of the paintball holder's tops just literally fell off while the other 100 fell out when I was reloading and someone shot me which caused me to tilt my gun, you can figure out the rest. Here's a lesson to all newbies like me: KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR BOTTLES AND GUN!

4) The god damned paintballs swerve!

Yeah it was windy. Even with the paintballs travelling at 120mph the wind swerves them so your perfectly aimed shot goes 3 metres to the right by the time it gets to the target. Also I thought the paintballs wouldn't arc in the air, but they do! You would think travelling at 120mph would mean pretty much a straight line for at least 10 metres, but nooooo, they arc which means that damn ball only goes about so many metres before falling to the ground. So damned annoying.

5) The guns jam

Yeah, some guns lose CO2 faster than others while others don't jam. On one of the missions, I had a perfectly good firing position and had 3/4 people ready to be mowed down by a hail of paintballs. THE GUN REFUSED TO FIRE! I went to get it replaced but the match had already ended. When I took the paintball container off the gun and fired it at the ground, guess what? 6 paintballs came out all at once.

6) Grenades can be useful

On one of the maps, one group was stuck inside a house while the other was positioned all around the house. The group inside the house can comeout but only at a 5m distance from the house while the other group can't get within 8m of the house. When the match began, me and my friends shout have just tossed in about 3 smoke grenades and shot the guys while they came out. Good game.

Well there's more but I really can't be bothered right now. It's half past 11 and I'm tired, so don't bother me when I sleep.