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Old September 30th, 08:47 PM   #28 (permalink)
tlmiller
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A new propellant is a new propellant nevertheless. It's not a huge innovation. The real INNOVATIONS in paintball were:

1. The idea of using paintball guns for fun instead of just for marking objects so you didn't have to walk up to it.
2. The first semi-auto
3. Still to come...

That's it, everything else is evolutionary...not revolutionary.

Going from co2 or hpa to propane isn't innovation. Regardless of how different you do it. It's still hooking a tank up to your marker to propell a paintball at ~300 fps. Nothing innovative there. Now if they found a way to have the marker compress it's own air so no tank required...that would be revolutionary. But as long as you're still doing the same thing, just with a different propellant, it's the same old song and dance with a different hat.
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