Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-37798126-20181214143500/@comment-27306930-20190108042922

Nerffan101101 wrote:  I think the deploy has too much hate so I decided to give it another chance. To be fair, the Deploy only gets the hate it deserves. Hah 😛

But seriously, let's take a look at the Deploy objectively for a sec. At best it was an intentionally gimmicky blaster with below average performance compared to blasters of its day. Its reverse plunger was poorly designed - possibly intentionally, which is like a slap in the face to Deploy owners.

It's quite possible there were a lot of QA issues during production because many Nerfers complain about excessive jamming, while many others do not. There were clearly a lot of lemons, and as a result, a lot of ill will.

Additionally, it didn't get any love from the modding community because of its reverse plunger system and its "multi-mode" design. Bottom line, it's significantly more difficult to mod than other blasters in the N-Strike series, many of which have a reputation for being super easy to mod.

And let's face it, it was followed up shortly after by much better blasters like the Rampage, Retaliator, and the EAT. I'm sure many Nerfers were infuriated after finding out they could've held out a few months for a vastly improved N-Strike Elite blaster. So all that hate might be somewhat deserved. At least to some degree.

But good on you for giving it a second chance. Isn't there some old saying about that ? Oh yeah, "If at first you don't succeed, and the going gets tough, turn, turn the other cheek" 😉