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by Gareth Jale


Paintball would be a harder game to keep score at if there were not so many variations of colors for the ammunition itself. Even if you may be the best player or even if you can play alone so that you can be among the greatest player that have been around, this will be useless if you can hit someone but without any person to judge what happened, this also can lead to many quarrels or unwanted discussions.

Paintballs are built from an easy to break plastic that contains the water-based paint. When the ball hits something, it breaks easily leaving the color residue to adhere to the surface that has been targeted. This means that a shot from a paintball gun will clearly leave a sign on the target surface but also a certain area around it. This makes it challenging sometimes to judge whether the target was directly hit by the paintball or, if it just got some splatter from an adjacent location.

Depending on the rules of the game, sometimes only a direct hit will count as a kill, so, having different colors to differentiate between adversaries is something that will ease the judging process. The paintball guns have a container that can hold up to hundreds of paintballs at a time. The balls sometime have the color which resemble the one which is in its interior, however in some instance it can also display the manufacturer marking.

When there is a game which is going on, different colors also can help in knowing if the shot came from the friendly force or from the enemy. Being able to tell who shot, especially when a lot of players are under cover is also easy to do by way of the color of the balls. Another aspect of having different colors is that shots that have been localized to the hands or to the feet may mean that the player will not be able to use that limb no more. For instance, the rules may imply that a contender that has been shot in the leg should only crawl for the remaining of the game or that, if a hand was targeted, that particular hand will not be used to shoot again.

Some paintball manufacturers also make color balls that are easy to see in the dark. Such paintballs are best used when the game is played when there is no hit and when the hit have to be seen accurately. Some paints can also be luminescent and they can even glow during the dark period which means that they can be costly but they can be found easily.

These paintballs color will make the game more easier to play and if they also have the diversity it means that some bigger events can easily be organized and the scores can be guarded easily. Manufacturers compete in making better paints that adhere easily and that have a spread radius that does not spread more than needed. To play the best games, always have enough paintballs and make sure that they come in different colors.




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