The newest paintball from RPS. Metallic shell with manufacturing properties that allow it to feed faster and fire faster. Perfect for those fast feeding electronic guns. Shell is half silver metallic with the other half matching the fill color.
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The RPS Flash Paintballs are newer, so they should be commonly available.
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Multiple used: 98C with a teardrop 14", 98C with a 16" Tipp sniper, spyder extra, spyder rodeo.
Recommended Barrels:
No recomendations, didn't try enough.
Strengths:
Price was right. They broke when they hit, even on soft clothes. Washed out easily.
Weaknesses:
Paint had lots of dimples.
Review:
What we used was labeled as Orange with Yellow fill. The outer color was somewhere between pink and red? But the kids liked the color so great! This might have been the best paint I've used for consistent breaking. The other group with us had some old paint that was bouncing like rubber balls. Our paint ruled this day, we just had to use a lot to make up for the accuracy. Still a great day of paint ball! We only paid $29/2000 for these at MC Sports.
RPS stinger
XO war
Drxs
Tippmann
Basically Everything except tourney paint
Marker Setup:
Bob Long Vice
4c Lazer Eyes
Tadao OLED Board
Bob Long Gear ASA
CP one piece barrels
Recommended Barrels:
.689-.692
Strengths:
Breaks
Cheap
Consistent
No Dimples
Dry
Weaknesses:
Fill is kinda small
Hard to clean, I don't really think this a con >.>
Review:
I shot around 2 bags of this after being shot by it all day long. Needless to say it really caught be off guard when they said it was only 25 bucks a case at MC sports. The next weekend, I went out and bought 3 cases. When I say it's the best paint for the money current on the market. I mean it! Bar none this is THE best paint for the money current offered by any company out there. If you are worried about dimples just open the case before you buy it. Check it out. If it has dimples say it's bad most likely the store will take it off the shelve.
EDIT: I shot ROPES with this paint. 20 BPS + No breaks. The pillow bolt and 4c eyes help..If people give this paint bad reviews it is because it has been sitting in the shop for too long. Like I said. Check the paint before you buy it. Every store I have been to let me do this every time I ask.
Conclusion:
If you have a MC sports near buy. BUY this paint. If you see it for 40 bucks I would say pass. If it's out there for the price of 25 bucks....Pick up all the paint you can buy.
Rating:
10 out of 10
Last edited on Monday, April 5th, 2010 at 6:17 pm PST
Extremely Brittle shell, Bad fill, Very Inaccurate, Prone to ship with major defects.
Review:
It was one of the first games of last year for me. I had gotten a late start (cause of work). It was about late summer and i needed a 2000ct box of paint. So of course I went to a big box store (Stupid Decision), and low and behold i found what seemed to be good paint, mostly deduced by the brand, PMI. Well we get to the field 45 minutes later, we open the box and the first site to greet us is a ball break in the bag. We sorted out the paint-balls and in the process also noted a multitude of ball defects (bumps/Pits) and new this was gonna be hell...but still we proceeded to shoot the things and this is what we found. The accuracy of this batch of paint was miserable, we had balls curving at 5 ft (no kidding). But that's if we where lucky, most of the paint just broke as it left the barrel. we all tried stock and after market barrels to see if anything had an advantage....I'm sad to say that nothing did. After half a game and being broke- paid $40 for the box- we disbanded the game an returned home.
Conclusion:
Look, even if your a cheap like me, dont go buying this for even a back yard game unless you really dont intend on hitting anyone, or much less for that matter enjoy cleaning your barrel frequently. I'm sure some would argue it was just that batch of paint, but I have seen my fair share of this paint on fields before and it just inspires pure hatred among me and my group of friends to see the shoddy performance and build. PMI could have done so much better but chose to make this crap.
Tippmann Custom Pro Platinum, RAP4 16" Milsim Barrel, Cyclone Feed System
Recommended Barrels:
Any
Strengths:
Good Fill
Inexpensive
Weaknesses:
Seam
Bounce
Review:
My local MC Sports had these on sale for $24.99 (per 2000), so I picked up a case to try out. Admittedly, my expectations were pretty low, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.
I haven't used them in actual gameplay yet, but I did some tests out in the woods, shooting at foam airsoft targets and wooden bunkers. I went through roughly 800 rounds with no barrel breaks and I was able to keep fairly tight groupings. The fill is pretty thick, although I would have liked to have seen a fill color other than yellow, as it didn't seem to show up very well (they're probably available with other fill colors, but MC Sports only had yellow.)
Aside from the fill color, my only other issue was that the seams were kind of heavy, and I had some bounces (although I mostly attributed the bounces to the fact that I was shooting in 18 degree weather.
Conclusion:
Overall, I'd say these are on par with RPS's Stingers, but a good bit cheaper (at least, if you find them on sale). The seams/accuracy could be be better, but for an entry-level paintball, they performed as good or better than expected.
If you're looking for something good for playing woodsball with your friends, then I don't think you'll find a better deal. I just went out and bought a couple more cases, and I'll probably buy a bunch more before the sale is over.
BTW - to previous posters who complained about brittle shells and dimpling, I'd say that is more a symptom of stale paint rather than a shortcoming of the paintballs themselves.
If you live in some podunk town and buy your paint from the local WalMart, where they maybe only sell a few cases every six months, then yeah - that's pretty much what you're gonna get.
If you buy a case of paint and find a bunch of dimpling, then box it up and take it back for a refund (DUH!!!) Or you can write down the lot number and email RPS - who knows, maybe they'll send you a new case or something.
nearly everything by rps and pmi
draxxus midnight
jt predator
zap
Marker Setup:
stock 98 custom platinum w/ A.C.T. (just got back into paintball)
Recommended Barrels:
if there's a barrel out there that can remove paintball dimples then id recommend it
Strengths:
Ehhh...bright fill?
Weaknesses:
dimpled like a golf ball
Weak shell
Didnt have a very thick fill
Review:
Some friends and I went to play some woodsball for the first time in a while (just warmed up after a long winter) and stopped by a local rec store to pic up some paint. We grabbed a couple cases of flash (only paint there at the time) and drove to the field.
I really cant say anything positive about this paint. It was terrible.
EVERY ball had atleast 2-3 dimples
The paintballs were brittle and weak
The fill was watery/easy to wipe if someone was going to cheat
Just everything youd expect from a walmart paintball.
We couldnt hit anything accurately past 20ft. since the paint would go wherever it wanted to. And i didnt have many problems with chopping but all of my friends were cleaning their guns/hoppers/barrels out constantly.
Conclusion:
Please dont buy this paint. Spend a few extra bucks on some good paint so you wont spend the day cleaning your gun and praying after every pull of the trigger that the paintball will go straight.
a-5 with 14'' progressive barrel with rufas dawg double trigger
Recommended Barrels:
Smart parts progressive barrels
Strengths:
The price, and the quality
Weaknesses:
A couple of chops and bounces
Review:
Me and a couple of friends used them for the first time a couple of months ago and the only complaint any of us had about them is the number of bounces. i only had a couple but my friends had alot, but that was because they froze them. i liked them enough to go buy a second case and this time i had a few chops, but anything to spazz out about. The color of the fill is bright and the shell is pretty good. overall a really good brand to buy for the price.
hot spot, marbalizers, draxxus, monster balls, rps premium, visible impact, rps big ball, and jt tactical paint
Marker Setup:
(1)98 custom platinum series ,ak47 upgrades, ruffas dawg lvl 2 internal upgrades, bsa open red dot, double trigger with electronic trigger, and m4 stlyle grenade launcher
(2) a-5 stealth with ruffas dawg lvl 2 internals with a little milling work done by me on the front bolt for me to be able to make the cocker be pulled from just in front of the trigger.
Recommended Barrels:
flatline and ak barrel
Strengths:
Shoot straight, dont break in the gun,and hard to wipe.
Weaknesses:
Color on some because you can see them coming at you.
Review:
Very accurate and reliable. Take differnt temps. well. And the price was amazing. $30 shelf price. ( with tax they were 32.10) I got some a week later and they were on sale at $22.50 per 2000 ct. so i bought about 15 cases because i supply a local paintball course at their expece. I do testing for them. The total was $337.50 with out tax and with was 361.13.
Conclusion:
An all around great paintball. Best buy hands down.
Visible Impact got at walmart for $38 (i think is better)
Xball Silver got at Scheels $39 (i think is much better)
Brass Eagle Monster Balls got at walmart for $30 (flash is much better for same price!)
Marker Setup:
Tippmann 98 custom
all stock so far
Recommended Barrels:
Barrel with smaller bore
Strengths:
Very cheap $30 bucks!
Fly's straight
No dimples or broken balls in bag
Weaknesses:
Fill to thin and not bright
Had alot of bounces
Review:
Got a case of this at my local scheels for $30 bucks. My friend and i split the case.The fill could be better but its not to bad. I chopped about 3 out of the 1000 i used and this is with a stock tippmann 98 custom. I dropped one from about 2 feet and the shell broke. The shell is very fragile almost to fragile. I had a few of bounces with these balls. My case had no broken balls and there was no dimples in the balls at all! This paint shoots very straight but bounces a little. The fill could use alittle improvement but its certinaley alot better then some of the other fills i have seen with paintballs in the same price range. I would definitely buy it again as it is very cheap as it was only $30 bucks for a case.
Conclusion:
Good paint for a rec-baller on a tight budget. Fill could be improved but not the worst ive seen. Overall id buy it again if short on cash but if i had the money i would rather buy impact or something alittle better if i had the extra 10 bucks.
Rating:
7 out of 10
Last edited on Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 7:03 pm PST
ION (stock barrel), JT Excellerator 4.0 (Lapco Bigshot), Raptor (Stock Barrel), Spyder Sonix Pro (Stock Barrel). All were running CO2 except the ION (HPA)
Recommended Barrels:
Large Bore
Strengths:
Probably won't break in the barrel in cold weather. Very acurate.
Weaknesses:
Won't break on your opponent even in warm weather.
Review:
For RPS I was disappointed. After reading the other reviews, their quality control on this line of paintballs is all over the map. Some complained about dimpled shells and brittle shells but mine were the opposite.
There were no dimples and the balls were reasonably round. I saw only a few that weren't. Our main gripe was how hard the shells were. Yesterday was in the '70's and we had more bounces and more welts from bounces at close range than I can remember at any other time I've ever played. I wouldn't be surprised if half of our hits (at least a third) bounced. I shot my brother-in-law twice in the back and both bounced. He shot me right on the arm and it bounced. I took one to the chest and one on the neck from my brother that both bounced. Looking at the welts they left (and judging from the sting) there is no question we had plenty of velocity on these balls.
I will say that no one had any chops and no barrel breaks and they were very accurate in all the guns listed above. But I won't buy them again. Way to many bounces. The case we bought was a winter time paint, not summer (unless it needs to be 105 degrees to soften the shells up !?!? Come to think of it, the longer they sat in the afternoon sun the better they began to break). Of course it's still winter here but like I said, yesterday was warm but even then I think they were too hard even if it was cold outside.
EDIT: After studying the other RPS paintballs being reviewed, I noticed that not only does my box of Flash paintballs not look like the one shown on PB Review, it looks like the one shown for the RPS: Menace paintballs (http://www.pbreview.com/products/reviews/3161/) and I noticed in that thread there were lots of complaints about bounces. It looks like RPS is mixing up their low grade paint to meet their orders. Also, on the PMI website (PMI owns RPS http://www.buypmi.com/paintballs.html) they show a type called Rampage which also is the same color box as my version of Flash/Menace. I bet this explains the different experiences people are having with so called Flash paintballs because they are not all the same.
I bought a different type of field grade RPS paint called Stinger which is sold at my local paintball store. It works great but it's not listed on PB Review or on the PMI website.
Conclusion:
If you want cheap acurate paint and don't mind the bounces buy it. If you want it to break when you hit your opponent don't buy it.
IF the piantball manufacturers have a clue about their shell thickness and expected performance in different weather conditions, they would do themselves and us a favor by saying so on their boxes.
Rating:
5 out of 10
Last edited on Saturday, March 17th, 2007 at 8:58 am PST
Dimble in every ball. Thick nasty seam. 1/3 balls were deformed.
Review:
I bought a case of these for around $29.00 for a simple backyard style game. I know my flatline is sensitive to what I run through it, so I wasn't surprised when it chopped about half of the shots when I had it on response. Soon I figured out that is wasn't my flatline. I put my stock A5 barrel on, and tried every mode from semi-auto, to burst, and full auto, but nothing worked. I continuously chopped and the accuracy was horrible.
Conclusion:
Don't buy these if you have an A5. My buddy at the same party as me had an A5 and these sucked face in his gun, too.
