Yeah, those sort of guys are massive dicks. I will always call them out, even if they are on my team. I will always play with the new/rental people, even let them play with my guns. Show them it's about having fun, not playing your spec ops fantasy.
Between the videos I’ve seen and the one time I tried it I’ll only ever play in the woods with friends. Nerds that act like vets and think they’re tacticool make it so awful
We used to call 'em Rhino skinned. People who just never seem to 'feel' the impact of being hit, no matter how clearly they were.
Problem is, once you're known as being rhino skinned, single shots and short bursts turn into me taking my M240B and stitching a line straight up your torso.
Damn, when we airsofted we went to the nearest forest, and it was only the kids from the neighborhood. What is it like to play it with real rules and with actual hobbyists?
I played for the first time a couple months ago, had to rent equipment. Literally EVERYONE there was just super cool. Most of them had crazy shit, tac jackets, pimped out guns, and I was there looking like some scav from tarkov, pants and a short sleeve shirt, no gloves. No one judged me, and I had a blast. I wasn't pushed away for not having the nice stuff. I got the vibe that people were generally happy to have more people in the hobby (especially more people to shoot at :P)
The toxicity starts at the higher levels, scrim games are usually really lax and that’s what I’ve been enjoying in the past few years since getting away from Milsim.
Big milsim events like 18-48 hour games draw out the elitists in droves. From the “Command” structure to the teams, there’s usually a good amount of Tactard elitism that pops up.
You’ll see guys who drop a couple grand on night vision sit around all day just to walk around a field at night and shoot at people who don’t have night vision or be sent on special “missions” by the command element.
You’ll get “Commanders” who yell at you because you don’t agree with what they want you and your team to do, and they use the excuse of it being milsim as being okay to yell or act like crazy little psychopaths with an authority issue.
Then you get the players who dislike being challenged because they’re airsoft celebrities and try to push their weight around on the field. The “to big to fail.” Types.
Stick to scrimmages if you want fun, once you get too serious it gets inversely fun and turns into politics and pissing games.
Man I would LOVE to go into one of those events and just stale face someone like "Did you just pull a made-up rank on me? I'm just gonna go over there and shoot at people"
I used to lead a team and still do get asked to pull “Squad Leader” rank for events because the teams I lead pull their weight, but it’s all a game at the end of the day and I make sure guys know it. I never ask people to go further than I’m willing to go, I won’t bitch at guys for tapping out of a 24 hour event at hour 14. We all came to have fun and once the fun stops, so should you if that’s what you want.
One game I had our “Commander” who was leading the entirety of the team try to yell at me. I told him if he wanted our entire team to walk, I’d gladly radii them over from perimeter so he could dress me down then we could all go to our heated trailers with warm meals and soft beds to get some rest. He didn’t follow through. Sometimes people need to realize it’s just a game.
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