Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-24395235-20140108005459/@comment-23891957-20140109043223

Frankly, without mods, almost all Elite guns are pretty bad.

-The Stryfe and Rayven are seriously locked up and have a very mushy trigger pull.

-The Rapidstrike suffers from reliability problems concerning the automatic dart pusher jamming darts and destroying them. Only fix is to power up the blaster using Trustfires so that it catches darts better.

-The Retaliator is greatly outclassed by other blasters in it's class in terms of rate-of-fire and accuracy, and is only good as a sidearm or an accessory kit. Brassing helps with the accuracy greatly.

-The Rampage faces that awful sideloading system that blocks vision with right-handed users and makes reloading a hassle for left-handed users. Unfortunately no fix.

-The Alpha Trooper has a very long barrel that only helps out when brassed. In the UK it also has some reliability problems.

-The Centurion shreds darts like nobody's business, and the partial-gear system also causes problems by shredding the teeth. The plunger is also so powerful that it literally smacks itself to pieces (thin plastic only makes that easier). The only real way to solve this is to replace the plunger system entirely with thicker, stronger parts.

-Like the Centurion, the Rough Cut's partial-gear system causes problems with shredding teeth. Unfortunately the fix isn't easy either- you'll have to find metal gears instead. It also has problems with it's air restrictors pushing darts out.

-Despite the Havok/Vulcan (which is rumored to be rereleased as an Elite gun) being a chaingun, stock it has abysmal RoF. Modded it can hit 500+(!) DPM consistently, truly befitting of a blaster of it's caliber.

So yeah.

Modded guns are so much better than stock ones.