Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-7008975-20130713143427/@comment-126472-20130822142819

It's only rated at 6.3, which is hardly great. That said, it isn't terrible by any stretch of the imagination. The Deploy on the other hand...

It has more issues than just being a reverse plunger. For one, it doesn't always stay "deployed" properly, and also doesn't always stay folded up when not in use. Also, its main gimmick is supposed to be stealth. If folds up into a block in an attempt to not look like a Nerf blaster. It ends up looking like a folded up blaster, and being bright yellow doesn't help.

Besides that, using a large drum can cause damage if you leave the drum in while switching modes, barrel attachments can actually make it less accurate, and brand new out of the box can perform as if it was already heavily used.

All that said, they underperform not because of their ability to change into other things, but simply because they were not designed very well. It's probably true that more thought went into their gimmick than their usability, but that's hardly the only issue.