Speed Or Accuracy

[Sked Finger]

What do you think is more important. Speed or accuracy.

Do you play your game shooting up a storm or do you play with a few shots that you know will hit?

[AK47]

Accuracy, you don't have to move and you can still take guys out. You can't out run a paintball.

[anchorite]

both are equally important.
accuracy for snapshooting and eliminating players.
laying paint for keeping heads down.
if you are trying to help a teamate push up a tapeline, it is easier if the opponents are behind their bunkers, afraid to pop their heads out cause 13bps are hitting their bunker, or whizzing right by it.
thats my philosophy.

in tournaments, you need to be able to lay paint, while still hitting what you are aiming at.

[magicsly1]

Originally posted by anchorite
both are equally important.
accuracy for snapshooting and eliminating players.
laying paint for keeping heads down.
if you are trying to help a teamate push up a tapeline, it is easier if the opponents are behind their bunkers, afraid to pop their heads out cause 13bps are hitting their bunker, or whizzing right by it.
thats my philosophy.

in tournaments, you need to be able to lay paint, while still hitting what you are aiming at.

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[AK47]

Are, you guys trying to say Im wrong?

[P.A.]

um ill take both, and i will use both via an angel, but if i had to choose id have to say accuracy.

[VeNoM]

Originally posted by AK47
Are, you guys trying to say Im wrong?

these are opinion question/answers and there are no right or wrong answers . . .

i also agree that both are important . . . it is best if you can shoot fast and have a nice tight pattern, like me :D

[133+ Player]

speedball - speed
woods - acuracy

[anchorite]

nope.
both are equally important in all forms of paintball.

[VeNoM]

i dont agree with that at all 133, do you have any idea how hard it is to hit a shoe or corner of a harness (or many players that are good show a very small profile when out) sticking out of a bunker 40 yds away? with out a fairly accurate marker, damn near impossible (not really, but it is hard...) if anything i would say its the other way around . . . but what ever :eyes:

[133+ Player]

I didn't mean totally i meant in speedball speed is more important then acuracy usually. But in woods u gotta admit accuracy is WAY more important then speed.

[DeAd SoUlJa]

well if i had to choose 1 for speedball it would have to be speed. speedball is played on a small field and the paintballs wont curve as much before they hit the target. you gooda be able to keep heads down in speedball so you could advance. in the woods its much more diff. there are trees you can use for cover as you run. you need to be accurate to shoot through small openings. speedball and woodsball are 2 diff things. SPEEDball=fast paced action, woodsball is more of a slower game to me.

[Sked Finger]

When I get into it I shoot alot. In one 15min game I shot like 850 paintballs.

[NSUCK]

Id say accuracy, I could care less about how fast you fire the gun, its where ur shootin... I mean speed is ok.. but not when ur sacraficing lots of accuracy for 2-3 extra bps

well.. instead of saying it the way to where there all gonna be the same try this.....

you have an angle with a ball break and no squeege,
or a stock cocker with a LOOOONG trigger pull but good paint/barrel match
which would u rather use?

[VeNoM]

the cocker, its so frustrating when you cant hit something cause your paint is curving (like when mu bushy went down and i had to use a rental tippman) . . . there was so many times that if only i could have got 2-3 nice shots off i would have got eliminations instead of having to get close and throw tons of paint and hope one doesnt curve too much and hits the target . . .

[NSUCK]

hehe, yea with rentals you dont shoot fast ;) keep it slow and keep the co2 out of the gun ;P
anyting to not break a ball.. horrible
if I break a ball in my cocker, ill sit in the back and make them think im fine til the time runs out...

[LordChaos]

Nether is more important then the other. Sufficient volume of fire can provide enough "accuracy" to get a break. However, at the same time, sufficent accuracy can equal "volume of fire" in the ability to keep them down.

Explaination :

If you are tossing out 10+ bps with a moderate ammount of accuracy, you will get them to keep their heads down quite a bit, and have the ability to get a few elims through saturation fire. Expensive, but it can work.

If you are accurate enough that the other side knows anything exposed has a beter then 50% chance of being tagged, you ALSO can get them too keep their heads down, and you also will get a few elims through "sniping" (shooting through small openings, hitting small targets, or good deflection shooting at runners). Takes a lot of skill, but it's not impossible.

Most players tend to gravitate toward the "accuracy through volume" style, do to the steap learning curve for the "volume through accuracy" style. Many other players try to walk the mid-gound area of "sufficent volume, sufficent accuracy".

[SgtRauksauff]

I'd have to say accuracy over volume. I've only had the privilege of using rental F4 illustrators to play so far, so obviously don't get the advantage of high-volume paint dumping. (workin on buying a gun (sorry, its not a marker unless you can get high smelling it. :) ) )

I'm in Wisconsin, and all of the courses i've been to have been outside in the woods. They have some speedball courses there, but you know, woods again. We've played against "pro" guys (well, they have the cool kneepads and jerseys and neon-chrome barrels and expensive stuff like that) with their autocockers, and 85% of the time have walked away with our paint on their faces, and not vice versa. In speedball, whoever has the bigger paint bucket wins. But in larger areas, ive let people take 20-30 shots at me, because they're wild. Then i pop of 3 rounds, and they're goggled on the last 2. I think it does take a good mix, but if you're just starting, and want to stay good, I would think that you first would want to develop your accuracy. Then, with that accuracy in hand, ramp up the rof until you can send 15 shots at an elbow sticking out and hit on 12 of them. But i think that starting out with a high-volume gun will only develop bad habits if your gun breaks and you have to use a rental or a buddy's backup or something.

Thats just my 2 cents.

That said, I'm looking for a good entry-level/midrange marker in the $250 - $400 range. any sites with comparison reviews that you know of?

Sharkpork. It's what's for dinner.

[coyote]

Just a thought...

In the brief time I have my Phantom I have become a better player. I don't think that 12 to 15 bps is any great advantage. I'm not fast enough to get out of cover and shoot at someone who is laying 4-5 bps on me. The only advantage I have had with my fast shooting electro is the ability to lay down a wide field of fire fast. It works better agin multiple opponts in tighter firefights. Sounds like speedball don't it?

[stevie Fry]

If you can hit everything the first time you shoot at it, then you don't have to worry about speed

[Sked Finger]

Few I had a paint sponser then I would be shooting a lot more and a lot faster.

[NoVeLTeK]

for speedball speed is VERY important....


from personal experience... my bro got a tippmann... (slow as hell) and ig ot an electro.... my electro was by FAR faster then his gun but less accurate... a few weeks later he sold his tippman for an autococker because he was being out-shot by timmys and a bunch of other friends of mine that has electros....

[captain_rexx]

i have to agree with anchorite they are both equal because they both have there advantages the only problem with speed is you use up more paint and it drains the wallet faster

[Richy_C]

Get an electro, and AKA reg, and a Freak. Duh :P

[Sked Finger]

If I get an electro I would be broke in no time.

[Lorquas]

Both....I shoot accurate 3 shot bursts.... saves paint, hits the target, and increases overall accuracy (in case first paintball doesn't go exactly where you point it).

[mikek2111987]

accuracy is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more important to me, i can take one shot, with great accuracy, and hit him. or i can take 100 and hope i hit him by wasting paint:eyes: kinda obvious

[Sked Finger]

In the beginning of a paintball day its all about speed. But as I shoot up all my paint I go for accuracy.

[FPS 300]

Well I say accuracy, because it doesn't matter how many paintballs you shoot at me if you can't hit me. :D

[Sked Finger]

After my thrid pod i'll get you. I hope I would get you..

[spyderman13]

unfortunately I play with a brass eagle, so i have to do accuracy by volume. so for me, speed is the most important, but once I get my Em1 it'll be accuracy:D