Worse Mistake a newbie can do.

[scott44]

what is the worst mistake a newbie can do.

[Dräko]

Definetly take off mask. Alot of the others will only lead to people making fun of you or your image. Taking off your mask can make you blind...forever

[MuckRaker]

Yup, but taking off a mask is not only a Newbie mistake, a lot of experienced players also do this ... It's the single worst Screw up you can make, and the consequences are Horrendous.

[FireStorm727]

Taking off your goggles is definatly dangerous but not only newbies make tthat mistake, probably the worst one is givin up you should keep on tryin even tho u not the best even like Jordan had 2 start some where.

[Watupi]

Taking their maks off is the worst thing any player, new or old, can do. I have to constantly remind new players to keep their masks on. They just dont understand how important it is. I can forgive them for most anything, even shooting me despite my orange shirt which says REF on the back. But taking their masks more than once isnt just a newbie mistake, its an idiotic and dangerous mistake.

[ptflyer]

take your mask off is #1 we all know that....
but #2..has got to be cheat....

[MuckRaker]

True Watupi ... it only takes one fool pulling up his mask, getting hit in the eye, permanent damage ... to pull every anti-gun, anti-paintball, anti-everything avenger out of the woodwork and into the Lawmakers' halls. There's a reason we wear a mask when we're on the field, dont' think for a minute that it's cool to take it off until you get into a safety zone. I've been gogged so bad I couldn't see out of my mask, so I asked someone to lead me off the field, there's no shame in it. Your mask foggs up so bad you can't see out of it, call a Ref over, there's no shame in it. Promote safety on the field and off the field ... I'll get off my soapbox now.

[Dräko]

1) Removing your mask

2) Mistaking paint for candy :)

[Richy_C]

yeah mask and thinking that paint thats been out for a month,has to be good, they're marbs right! lol, ahh yes robie newbie

[PB ninja]

I know that the mask issue is very serious it still bugs me the most when a newbie shoots me when I'm on their team. One time I ended up shooting a newbie on my team 'cause he started firing at me and I freaked out and thought somehow the enemy got behind me. So I spun around and shot him in the chest. If he wasn't so young I probably would have marched up there and beat his arse.

[TLplus84]

1. taking off mask.
2. MESSING WITH TLPLUS84
hehehe :eek:

[TrOy]

All of the above?

[spacer709]

i gotta say it- we are all newbies at one point, we learn from experience, even though it might not be such a safe one :D:)

[davidb]

Weeeell... I voted for taking off the mask (come on, people!). But one thing that bugs me, which is something that not only newbies do, is leave when they run out of paint/air. As long as you're still in the game and the opponent doesn't know, you're still valuable to your team. You can still safety somebody, you can still at least PRETEND to lay down cover fire, and who knows, maybe someone'll be a sport and lend you a pod. I've done this for my friends, just let them refill it from THEIR supply after the game. It especially gets me when someone who is guarding a vital spot or whatever goes out because they're out. At LEAST sit there and wait for someone to get brave and get you, at least you'll have bought time for your team.

[spacer709]

thats true

[Creek]

Well yesterday i had a newbie with me her ran out of air. He started to get up and leave.I told him man this is what you do keep poping up draw fire and then move too another spot.keep doing it and draw fire well we won that game and he never got shot.He came up later said he'll remender that stuff. I told him same goes with paint just keep poping off blanks be sirprise at how many will duck back when you do .

[Batman]

Definetly taking of their mask. I sometimes encourage newbies NEVER to take of their mask because of the bad things that can happen. Thats why i think that you should get an Anti-fog mask to prevent reasons of taking off there mask.

[Keikan]

Other:
Post a poll about the worst thing A newbie can do. jp:)

[Congobongo]

what about picking paint off the ground?

[Kamakaze_Newbie12]

Definatly taking off the mask, but for second it would have to be shooting yourself pointblank in the palm. My friend did this and he had little pieces of paintball in his hand for two weeks.

[jizz186]

theres nothing wrong with using paint thats over a month old. ive used rps premiums that were 4 months old, left over in my garage in the winter, in under 32 degree conditions. and not one ball bust in my barrel, and no loss of accuracy. guess it shows how much quality is put into RPS paintballs

[cranberynvodka]

i dont even understand why people even take off there mask i know sometimes it gets a lil hot but its betten then lossing an eye

[Spyder7]

Other, spending 100$ on a 20 inch barrel for a tippmann

that's just wrong

How about wasting a good earned 20 bucks ona blade that breaks after 2 uses...and gets u pelted...i use to be able to suicide charge my friend when he had a blade id get with 10 yards and he still couldnt hit me pretty sad.

[The Billionare]

Taking off the mask is just stupid, but habbits can be formed with constant reminder. It's everyones job on a paint field to make sure those reminders are constantly given. The worst mistake a newbie can make is giving up. You win some, you lose some, but never give up. If you truly enjoy the game of paintball, don't let a loss push you away from this great sport. Your not the best until you've beaten everyone, and every dog has his day. Aftershock loses games. Even I have good days. Never ever give up on your goals and dreams. It's the biggest mistake anyone can make, not just in paintball, but in life its self as well.

[Incube]

Originally posted by MuckRaker

Yup, but taking off a mask is not only a Newbie mistake, a lot of experienced players also do this ... It's the single worst Screw up you can make, and the consequences are Horrendous.

Horrendous and hilarious i think it is just funny that someone could do that one time i was playing and out of no where some newb comes out and yells out and take his mask right off and says dont shoot anyone and all of a sudden his own gun goes smack and he falls thew the top floor of the bunker and he gets up and runs intro a tree and gets bak up and throws his stingray into a bush and runs of the feild bleeding. it was funny but i sorta felt bad for him. it was a sad, sad day for human evalution:(

[MuckRaker]

Originally posted by Incube
it was funny but i sorta felt bad for him. it was a sad, sad day for human evalution:( [/B]

About as bad as you saying "evalution" instead of evolution. :eek:

[Incube]

Originally posted by MuckRaker
Originally posted by Incube
it was funny but i sorta felt bad for him. it was a sad, sad day for human evalution:(

About as bad as you saying "evalution" instead of evolution. :eek: [/B]
***** ***** all day long j/k;)

[iipaintballer]

Newbies and Vets alike, masks are what make paintball a safe sport. If you are not wearing goggles can you imagine what could happen if you got gogged?

With goggles, paintball is one of the safest sports. Lets keep the sport safe and keep those goggles on.

[Incube]

I heard paintball is safer than golf i saw it at http://www.paintballsafety.com

[dawgs712]

nope, no way. gofl is def not more dangerous than paintball

[iipaintballer]

basketball is the sport with the most injurys requiring a trip to the hospital...

I can believe that people get injured in golf... i play, but there are a lot of old fat guys playing... man if you dont stretch, you can pull something, get hit by a club, struck by lightning...

[filasophikal]

it has to be taking off your goggles... that is one thing, that i always enforce with my friends... they take it off... and yell at them to put it back on...

every other mistake... is what you see in tournments alot... especially getting out early... sometimes when i play front... im usually one of the first ones to get sweet-spotted... its either im too slow to run to the 30, 40, or even the 50... or i peek out to check out my opponent's positioning... when i play back... there's always one or two that get out on opening play...

[green_goblin]

shooting people off of the field ( w\o masks ) just as a joke ya know like when your walking down your street or something - it not only could hurt em bad but it gives paintball a bad rep.

[KoRnMaN]

If they get caught taking of there mask the 2nd time at or field they getted kicked out.

[Wasimodo]

As everyone has said, taking off the mask is the worst mistake because it's unsafe. But one other thing these kids were doing on Sunday was really pissing me off. There were 4 or 5 of them on our team of 20, and every round they would run to the closest bunker (on a huge field) and stand behind it the entire game. They would only move up as soon as there was NO chance of getting shot, and they never laid down any paint. And when our team was getting beat, they would just stand there at the way back bunker for the entire game until the enemy pushed forward and tagged them. The entire time I was thinking, "if you're not going to get in the game and you're afraid of getting shot, you don't belong here"...

[iipaintballer]

Yeah, that is a pretty common newbie thing to do. I hate it when 3 or 4 newbies follow me up into my bunker and crowd it so much that we are pretty much open targets.

Spread out. Get good coverage. Lay out the paint.

[KoRnMaN]

I hate it when you say spread out so they get a better shot and then the get stupid and they follow you and you have 4 people in your bunker made for one.

[filasophikal]

i see alot of sponsored teams do this, 1 or 2 people don't fire at all, and when there is like 1 person left on their team, they pop out and start lobbing paint... what kind of strategy is that... talk about a dumb strategy...

[Sudden Impact]

Ill be damned if golf isnt more dangerous than paintball. After one of my friends and I finished 18 holes we were sitting at some picnic tables enjoying a smoke, next to the club house. The next thing I see, a golf ball hit him right in the side of the head. Knocked his *** out cold. The person's ball that hit him was our grade school principals of all people *lol*

[KoRnMaN]

Yes its dangerous, One time I was teeing of and there was this wood pecker and it knocked this big chunk of wood off and it almost hit my head. Remember: Golfing good, Wood peckers bad:)

[harrysacks]

the funnest thing about golfing is just taking a driver and hittin the ball as far as u can

[Ded]

taking off mask of course but I voted for swearing becasue there's nothing more pathetic than hearing a sixth grader spewing profanities that don't even make since. If you have to cuss, which I don't see the point anyway, at least have the intelligence to make sense.

[The Billionare]

If you get struck by lighting it serves you right for playing golf. They should all be converted to paintfields.

[Ded]

my high school soccer coach has been struck by lightning three times while playing golf. Sucks to be him, he's still a great guy though. (wouldn't that be cool to play paintball on a golf course, don't modify it at all, just play on the course. first to capture all 18 flags and down a cherry coke at the 19th hole wins! WHOOOOO!!! you could use golf carts too!

[schuss]

1.taking off your mask
2. cheating, such as this ******* who used off-field paint at the first big game I played at the other day. He got the moron award of the day too, as he shot a ref with it :D. So he was singled out and shown to over 200 players.
I'm guilty of two of those tho, as my first game I was the first one out, as a stray ball flew into our castle and nailed me in the chest. I swore (pretty damn loud too) when people kept shooting me after my hands were up and my barrel plug in after a charge. I was about ready to clock one kid with the gun I was using (VM, that thing does damage too).

[KoRnMaN]

Originally posted by The Billionare
If you get struck by lighting it serves you right for playing golf. They should all be converted to paintfields.

Then we can use the golf carts lol. That would be so sweet. Have a guy in the back shooting and have the guy driving with a gattleing gun.

[theragu40]

1) taking off your mask
2) stealing paintballs, supplies, etc. from other players
3) acting like you aren't a newbie even though you are ( I just hate people like that. They are so high and mighty).

[theragu40]

yes i am aware of the irony of the fact that I have only posted six times and am therefore considered a newbie. I'm not, I just don't post very much.

[KoRnMaN]

Thats why I posted 260 something times in a week and 1/2.

[krasher]

I think that not moving is the biggest mistake of the newbie. Just move, and get in the action. You will have alot more fun that way. If you sit back and just wait around, you ain't gonna do much or have much fun. Go for it. Hell, even alot of more experienced players do this :D

[KoRnMaN]

I hate that when they just sit there and your screaming your guts out trying to make them move and they won't.

[krasher]

Yeah well, it is for their own good.

I also hate it when they shoot you, just think to look for the armband before you shoot. How hard is that?

[braiden1835]

i hate it when they think they no so much bout paintball when they don't

[KoRnMaN]

I have a great idea. How about we start a new thread and call it (I hate it when newbies _____)

[braiden1835]

ok.....

[KoRnMaN]

What you don't like my idea?

[braiden1835]

no i did post up a thread go check http://www.pbreview.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=7695

[KoRnMaN]

o I thought you said ok..... as in sarcastically. but thx for posting it.

[braiden1835]

oh ok no problem

[Insanekila]

i would say forgetting what team he is on and taking out his entire team from behind and start screaming that he is the best in paintball

[VeNoM]

the thing that bugs me the most is when the opposing team is running at me and i could use some help with layin down paint and they just SIT in the corner saying what do i do? what do i do? HELP ME OUT SI WHAT U DO! or if your not gonna use that paint u might as well give it to me

[KoRnMaN]

and if you want some paint from a newbie they won't give it to you because there afraid you won't pay them back.

[ctx]

cheating if a newbie wiped on me id pop him about 20 times id like to see him wipe that

[KoRnMaN]

or you could shoot him and make sure he doen't have kids lol j/k

[Wasimodo]

Originally posted by KoRnMaN
and if you want some paint from a newbie they won't give it to you because there afraid you won't pay them back.

I can understand that. I loaned a barrel plug to a guy once and he just split after the day was over. And I've never seen anyone who loans paint at my field get paid back.

[RebelLe]

I hate when i kid on your team shoots you when you have a pefect ambush

[KoRnMaN]

I just plain hate it when newbies don't use commen sence and are very stupid (there I ended this forum)

[SEPHIROTH_086]

Yup taking off your mask is the stupidest thing you can ever do it doesnt matter how good you are, JUST LAST WEEK A DUDE IN THE FIELD I PLAY IN LOST ONE OF HIS EYES BECAUSE HE SAID HIS MASK WAS FOGGING UP AND HE TOOK IT OFF TO WIPE IT NOW HE ONLY HAS ONE EYE!!! DOES THAT SUCK OR WHAT?

[Sharc]

#1 is take amsk off but wouldn't it be funny if some newbie gto hit and starteed balling his eyes out LOL i know i would laugh!!!!

[KoRnMaN]

That would almost be sad if he was inacent of not doing anything wrong but if he did I might laf.

[Xander]

I have a idiot neighbor we will call him Steve who plays with us and well he was running after a guy and a different guy shot him, and he told Steve that he got shot and Steve denied it and then he finaly looked down and when he looked down he got shot again. He got so mad for some reason he took of his mask and just unloaded on the guy who shot him. Yes he is a idiot and yes he is fat.

[KoRnMaN]

umm...ok That would suck for the person who shot him.

[SH4YD33]

when they all stand behind one bunker and when i flank them they get mad at me and start cussing at me.. x_x

[KoRnMaN]

They do that? Why?

[NahZhaleen]

Omg I bet in 3 years they will make a new loader called a Halo B that can load 25bps.

Everyone..look at date of post if you don't get it ;).

[Paintballshurt]

Reading this thread is like taking a trip back in time, to when people would take off their masks when they are still on the field....oh wait, that happens these days too:P

EDIT: I know better than to post in a dead thread but it was just far too tempting:(

[ps2baller]

Originally posted by Dräko
Definetly take off mask. Alot of the others will only lead to people making fun of you or your image. Taking off your mask can make you blind...forever


I reff at my local feild and I get at least 3 peopl who lift their mask up on the feild.

[matnoo]

when me and my mate were quite new he actually managed to shoot himself sub-pointblank range.... yes thats rite peeps he actually had his finger a good two inches down the barrel... not only that but the thing was so swolen he couldnt get it out again lmfao.
worst noob mistake i ever made was in a recball game running through a thick bog and actually losing both of my shoes forever, i carried on and i caught a few punters by surpise tho :] who would expect an attack from the dreaded shoe eating bog?

[jdolla]

Get a bunch of expensive gear and think it'll make them awesome.

I watched a guy try to wipe a gog hit while I was watching him, (I was reffing). I almost didn't call him out, I was laughing so hard.

[Juvenile]

The worst, as well as LAST mistake a newbie can do...

Shoot me when I'm out.

Their lives end. There. Now.

[Deathwish]

Taking off the mask's by far is the worst thing anybody can do, The other worst thing a newb or any one can do is wipe off a hit because there tired of being out (no offence Newbs)

[Infiltrator]

Taking off the mask. Taking off the mask. Taking off the mask. Taking off the mask. Read the thread. Read the thread. Read the thread. It's already been said. it's already been said.

There was this one newbie I was up against that was really resilient. I nailed him in the mask and he wiped it and kept playing. Another one of my teamates came up who had an E-blade (I didn't at the time) and we both unloaded on the freak together who was totally exposed. The idiot wouldn't come out as our paint exploded all over his face and body. It was just a little kid that wouldn't go out. We tried to call the ref, but the ref was a newbie as well and took his own sweet time getting to the git that was by now an assortment of colors. We were trying to flank the side before this retired pro backman got through the other. The ref took his time looking for the hit. I don't know what took the newbie ref so long to check him, the idiot was covered in paint. Finally when he called him out the newbie took off his mask as I was running to take his bunker and sweep the field. He then turned around and started shooting at me more. What the heck was I supposed to do now? All I could do was strafe as he unloaded on me. I couldn't shoot back though I was super tempted to just let loose. By the time the ref dragged him out of the game the pro backman (team rage retired oldy) was already on us and we were outnumbered. He unleashed his fury of paint and eliminated my teamate. I ran back and tried to find out where he was, but couldn't see him. The rest of the newbie players were taking pot shots at me. Not wanting to get eliminated by these fools I rushed toward wherever the EVIL paint was coming at me. I almost made it to a bunker that would of given me a chance but was eliminated in the process. That newbie that took off his mask delayed me for 5 minutes and it would of only taken 5 seconds if he counted the first shot I landed on him.

[darktrooper5]

!!#1 mask!!, cheating, trying to bunker darktrooper5:cool:

[Juvenile]

More than half the kids in this thread are newbs themselves.

[AGGirl]

Originally posted by Juvenile
More than half the kids in this thread are newbs themselves.

You speak the truth. You are the AGG God.

[notaHUGEnoob]

1. Taking off mask.
2. Suing a field because you took off your mask and lost your eyesite, even after you signed a wavier.
3.Originally posted by Juvenile
The worst, as well as LAST mistake a newbie can do...

Shoot me when I'm out.

Their lives end. There. Now.
Threatening peoples lives because you got bonus balled
:rolleyes:

[TiPpYsGaLoRe]

Buy a marker from Walfart, and say "It's hunting season".

[Paintball-Dojo]

i would feel bad if i was the one who shot the person who took off there mask even though they risked it themselves id still feel bad...and i hate it when noobs get hit but the ball doesnt break and they dont ask for a paint check but they call them selves out any way:pissed: it sucks cause even though there new ur still down a player!

[Juvenile]

Originally posted by notaHUGEnoob
1. Taking off mask.
2. Suing a field because you took off your mask and lost your eyesite, even after you signed a wavier.
3.
Threatening peoples lives because you got bonus balled
:rolleyes: I would indeed end your life if you (a noob) shot me as I was walking off the field and out. I didn't say bonus ball.

You see, in the paintball world, bonus balling is also known as over shooting, when you shoot someone too many times.

[Six Feet Under]

1. Taking their mask off in the middle of a game, even if they're turned around facing the netting and no balls are flying at their face, everyone that is shooting is behind them. I've seen some people start to lift their masks and get shot in the back, then whirl around with their mask half off!! Stupids... Needless to say, the refs rushed over and made a barrier-like wall around the kid so he wouldn't take it in the eyes.

2. Picking paint up off the ground. I did this a few months ago and gave it to a kid I hated really really bad. He actually used it too, haha.

[hybrid-sniper]

Bringing back 3 1/2 year old threads.

[Paintballshurt]

Originally posted by hybrid-sniper
Bringing back 3 1/2 year old threads.

:laugh: :D

[Avery_mac]

OWNED

[Ebonclaw]

Well, obviously taking the mask off. But shoting your own teamate......damn I hate that more than anything.

[puck2paint]

well I am going to speak about the worst thing experienced players can do; make fun of noobies

if noobs get made fun of, they'll think to themselves "omgzorzz, everyone that playzorzz paintball is a jerkoffzorzz" and they will never play....zorzz again. and eventually when the experienced players get old and crusty, they wont be able to play anymore, and the noobies they made fun of wont either so the population of the sport goes down. plus even the EXPERIENCED players started from somewhere, that somewhere being a noob. and they also make fun of people because they dont have $900 guns because they can't afford it. well most these people with timmies, DM5's, stuff like that have jobs, and 12 year olds cant exactly get a job now can they? I just dont see who its helping to pick on newer players, sure they act stupid but you were at that point too. just think of the future of the sport. and remember; an eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.

[thatsright]

try to shoot a paint ball gun with out CO2 and think its broken and send it back:P