Pulse RDR

[fullofpaint]

Have you guys seen a lot of these around? I have yet to see one locally, but every time I try to redeem my voucher for oen from PBE, they're out of stock.

[Unfated33]

I haven't seen a single one in this area, but very rarely do I see players with tons of new gear either. Truthfully, I've yet to see a player using a Spire either. We're still very much Rotor and Halo country, with a strong showing of Pinokios.

(That said, what I've heard from players using the Pulse RDR or STD is that they aren't very good)

[L x]

It's all rotors and spires in my neck of the woods. Havn't seen or heard of RDR's at all since all the fuss when they were announced.

[emisnug]

I've seen a couple of top-level teams here in the UK using RDR's. Truth be told - the only shoot them when it's a GI sponsored event or their pictures might go to GI. They're not brilliant and a lot of the time I see them pulling out Rotors and Spires that they've bought themselves.
Besides that, it's a strong 50/50 with Rotors and Spires, with the occasional (broken) Z2 and lots of Halos in the lower divs.

I did use a development RDR for a weekend tournament - must've put about 3 sets of batteries in there. It fed paint, but ate batteries. Did a test at the end of the day (bad paint that people had left behind) - got maybe 1500ish shots before the batteries started to go, and about 2500ish before it couldn't keep up with 10BPS. Although I did hear that that particular issue had been sorted with the latest software update.

[Pump Scout]

It's very telling that GI's own flagship tournament teams aren't using them.

My suspicion is that it was released well before it was actually ready.