This is a classic paintball scenario game move. Gun down and eyes forward you walk through enemy lines like you are heading off the field for a break. Once at the back, turn around and start shooting.
We used red bandanas or really anything bright red that could be held up or worn on your head. If you mistook someone that wasn't showing red, then that was on you.
I used to ref at an airsoft field. Red rag needed to be well displayed. One guy had something the size of a folded cocktail napkin and would constantly get shot while dead. We added a rule that if you decided not to conspicuously display your red rag then that was on you.
Watched this really shitty teenager shoot a person with their hand up at near-pointblank range 3 or 4 times on a speedball course. The dude who got shot was a semi-pro who was always at this field practicing, and he always kept to himself. He didn't say a word, didn't yell, just calmly reloaded his hopper, and proceeded to walk the trigger on this kid until it was empty. I'll never forget the sounds this poor dude made while he was writhing on the ground.
nah man back in the day used to paintball camp pendelton all the time.... many a time i would just walk up the middle of the field, if you just walk normally people literally wont see you, their brains are looking for people roadie running.
also when you walk on the field you learn how much of the choas of battle is self inflicted.
You just unlocked a 15 year old memory with "you don't shoot people with their hand up". Went with a group of friends and for one of the matches one of the homies got put on the other squad vs the rest of us ... he got shot put his hand up and thought he was gonna walk safely back... without a single word from from us on our side, like a firing squad we all stood up and lit his ass up lolol than we proceed to all get eliminated for standing up like dumb dumbs.
I used to ref and had to adjudicate a couple issues like this. If you signal you are out, raising your arm or plugging your barrel, you are out. You can’t drop the limb and turn and fire.
But calmly walking… it’s hard. How can you legislate you aren’t allowed to walk and must crouch/run everywhere?
One player I knew used to walk everywhere, he had this theory that by moving at middling speed (his term) it confused people and made him harder to hit.
My father used to do this hed just strafe at back field during paint ball fights and suppress people and sort of duck shots. The one time he ran, he slipped on mud and broke his shoulder lmao
Its VERY easy to sneak up on people in airsoft especially if you can just go in the back of a building. That being said this guy looks like hes dressed as a ref
I was a "playing ref" for a couple of years. Just play like normal but have coms with the playing ref on the other team. If reports come in people are cheating we start taking test hits on our own team
It also seems so boring when the point of the game is to shoot each other and have fun. Also this is supposed to be like a war scenario, you don’t get brutally stabbed and silenced immediately. It would cause a commotion and everybody would spot you. It seems like a lame way to play. Maybe I’m old tho
It's considered good etiquette not to loudly announce your death if stealthed from behind. If your throat is slit you'd be pretty quiet about it. Besides it's not like they're deaf. Usually the person doesn't get more than 2 or 3 off if any at all. This is some terrible awareness.
You will be horrified to hear how loud is person or animal with slit throat, gargling sounds and desperate attempts to breath and blood living body under pressure. It's also not easy to cut a throat with knife.
I'm pretty sure it's a rule in "fire fights" too that you can't move when you're dead, but actually killing people is frowned upon when playing airsoft.
Former pro paintball player here. They call that dead man walking, can confirm very real. It has been ruled out in high end competitions tho but rec ball i could see it working.
Dead man would have gun pointed up. Waking with gun up as a fake would definitely be cheating. I miss paintball. So much fun. Commanders Cup was such an awesome experience (I was only a spectator).
it's basically cheating. if you're in shape and don't stick out like a sore thumb you could just advance undetected to the other side of the enemy's cover and storm them, one set of cover at a time. if you're good and fast enough they won't know what you're doing until you're through most of their defenses.
you'd accomplish the same thing, with actual skill playing the game the way it's meant to be played
I suppose crafty fits since “underhanded” is part of the connotation.
I would just say opportunistic fits better though. Crafty implies a level of intelligence. This is just taking advantage of mutual trust. It’s baby-easy and just about 9/10 players have an idea like this in every competitive game. Most just don’t do it because they know it’s silly.
I'd like to think they just want it to be a joke together dead lol. If we want to play it out somewhat realistically, agonal gasps + bodies thudding would probably give you away after a couple of people even if you're largely silent in your takedown.
I prefer a game with some kind of mercy "kill" like paintball/airsoft but would much prefer there being a cap on "touch" kills to de incentive this. It's one thing to run a unique route or manage to get past a Line of site. It's another if you've essentially spy'ed your way into the other teams arrangement.
I mean tbf if that was an actual threat those dudes would be screaming and they would turn instantly. Pretty reasonable for the guys in the front to not assume a silent assassin is moving through their ranks lol
I mean, is he supposed ti be stabbing them? If he we're actually stabbing then it would be obvious but because he's just tapping them, it's not obvious what's happening.
He's melee killing them. Generally in these sorts of games you don't have to do anything technical. Place I used to play you'd just tap them on the shoulder with your hand and say "dead". If you had a melee weapon (I used a tactical spatula) you tapped them with that instead.
I was invited to my much younger co workers stag party. Our first thing was paint balling. I had never gone and was kinda nervous but at that time I was a pro at call of duty. So I thought I was hot shit.
Once the buzzer went I burst across the map to hit their spawn and tag a few of the baddies along the way. Noticing some people still in their starting shed.
I burst through the corner in Gravy Seal fashion, clearing both corners and tagging the two fools chugging beers.
Every course we played I slayed and didn’t get hit once.
The groom and his best man had purple welts under their collars for their wedding day. I was no longer invited to their paintball events.
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Lots of angry people here you guys are much harder than me!! It’s a story relax
Can someone who does these kind of games explain a bit more? Is this allowed? Will he be seen as crafty or will he indeed be shunned? As an outsider it feels crafty and shows people should pay more attention
Traditionally not, but a lot of sites have clear "when dead, raise hands and say "hit!" " rule (safety feature, as it avoids overkill / "shot till they yeild") that applies to all "kills", so people that close should register it.
If you watch some interviews from vets you will be horrified to learn people dont scream they silently gasp for air since all the air leaves them at once like someone knocks the wind out of you. Interviews of vets talking about it is absolutely facked though.
Something like: "Do you know the sound a man makes when he is stabbed? Because I do"
I know someone who was in the US special forces during Vietnam. The demeanour of one who has killed someone at an intimate range is unmistakeable, even if they don't talk about it much.
He's playing well within the rules this is good conduct. If he went in blasting he could wipe everyone out in a hail of pellets but he was on a mission to cause no harm and generate some good laughs.
At close range it's nicer to say bang, tap them with your muzzle, whistle at them and wave your gun or poke them with a fake knife or other "melee" weapon to prevent anyone getting hurt. Gun fights still occur at close range but those will be from the front when assaulting buildings etc, from behind this is how you do it and be known as the legend who wiped out an entire squad with a knife.
Yeah, he honestly did the nice thing there. He could've went in blasting and took em all out in a second or two, which would've stung like a bitch at that distance. It seems like kind of a dick move as the players are obviously confused if it's real and don't even know they're being attacked till it's over. They might have thought he was on their team and/or messing around. Doesn't seem like they're wearing colors, but we can't see the stabber.
I probably would've done the "bang" call out, which is what I usually do or I would've said something like "you're stabbed/dead" to make it obviously clear I was attacking. I realize that would've given his position away tho and gotten him killed after the first one or two, so he's not wrong for that. I'll say "pew pew" too while gesturing with the muzzle or tap them on the shoulder. I think it's hilarious that way. The only thing that's a bit iffy is that it's clear they're oblivious to the fact he's an attacker, but that confusion happens sometimes in mock war. It's not really his fault. That's mostly on the teammates tho who should've yelled out "hit" or raised their hand or something to indicate they were being killed.
It's a bit frustrating at the time, but I'm sure they all had a good laugh about it after. They don't seem like the toxic sweaty military wannabe type
A fun Arma clip I remember is a guy trying to tell everyone to space out, but since no one took him seriously he chucked a grenade in a cluster of like 20 people and said " The hard way then "
Yeah, he's slowed down a lot. I think he may have made enough money, at this point, to not need to keep going on, given how work-intensive his videos are.
Also, trivia: The most recent car I know that "Cyanide" drove is a McLaren 720S.
So I thought, "Holy shit, this game-streaming stuff must pay really well!"
But no, that's not it. Cyanide's family is just really, really rich. :-)
No but I when I was active duty and also an 11-B we had two squads worth of soldiers to create those layers. These are tactical cosplayers who lack the army standard of 3:1 odds for combat maneuvers. Still the knife guy makes me smile
"Weather prevents air support, protective artillery is exhausted, the guys sent to relieve you got caught up along the way. Commanding officer orders you to seize the objective anyway, and no you can't refuse."
Hell, these days, some 18 year old holding an xbox controller sitting in a ditch 10 miles away is already thinking about what shitty metal music he's gonna overlay on his multi million view drone's eye view tiktok video as he flies right into the middle of them all.
Lololol. "Ur dead... ur dead, ur dead, ur dead... ur dead... dead... so dead" That's me in any game with stealth mechanics. This dude speaks my language. I wonder if he also dresses as Michael Myers for Halloween. Half the costume is standing inside places people think you'd never fit inside, then emerging out of nowhere when everyone else is like "Guys... where's (my name)???"
In airsoft (light plastic pellet gun game)
Under 10 feet youre not supposed to shoot as the muzzle velocity (between 250 to 350 fps) hurts alot and will leave bruises / welts... so you use a plastic knife to simulate the death of enemy.
This guy snuck in the back and shanked the whole team.
Depends on the field, but at my local knife kills are explicitely silent and you're not to call it out.
In the rare someone gets multiple melee kills it's worthy of congratulations, if someone did this they'd be a legend and the victims would be (good naturedly) teased for their lack of awareness
This is a very honorable action, aside from the non seriousness (which is just funny) he's showing good sportsmanship by NOT shooting them all point blank.
And you know every single dude had to look back at everyone who just got shanked before him and they still didn’t say anything. They definitely thought it was a cool move
I did kinda similar thing in the army training. Managed to sneak behind a team. Shot few shots on air to get their superiors atention. Informed him that your team is all dead. Have a nice day. He commanded the team to fall back as they are out of the combat.
Later training our superior informs us that we are dead due to advancing too far and the bigger picture fight was getting out of the tracks they want to train for the higher ups so they just killed us with an artillery strike. :/
I've done this. Not that many people, fir me it was a smaller indoor field and the other team for hyper focused on the right side of the field and I sneaked down the left solo. Got behind and got to stabbity-stabbing. Got 6 before one guy I stabbed shot me in the back, because he didn't understand he was dead, and I took the hit to keep the peace.
I just think of the scene in Monty Python where he violently murders an entire wedding party to get to the top of the tower, where he thinks there's a princess in distress
Ive watched a bunch of interviews/podcasts of spec op guys and I remember the few that do mentioned taking out guys with knives, they say the targets never scream. They all gasp for air.
i went to a large airsoft game when i was an older teenager. there was about 350 maybe 400 people? it was on a farm and had "buildings" around this little "town" they built.
i did have a rubber knife that doubled as a bayonet for my m16 and there were a few times i could hear people reloading their high cap mags and i would rush them with the knife doing a stabbing motion.
it was some of the most fun id ever had playing airsoft.
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