Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27158360-20151201224959/@comment-2001041-20151202003737

In order to answer this question, we must first answer another: What was the purpose of N-Strike?

The first N-Strike blaster, at least commonly recognized as such, was the Scout IX-3 released in 2003, right at the end of the Early Modern Age. If you look at everything else that was released prior to it, you find a majority of ball blasters (barely more than a carryover from previous epochs at that point) and Super Soakers. The most popular blasters were the Rapid Fire 20 and its cousins, which defined the Age with their supreme firepower. Despite this, they were not really...guns, so to speak. Their designs were definitively toy-like (which isn't a bad thing) and so their ease of use on the battlefield wasn't the best it could be. N-Strike solved this problem by introducing weapons which acted like, and felt like, military hardware. In other words, they were reliable and easy to hold.

The only problem with the original N-Strike weapons is that many of them were prone to low accuracy and/or ranges, especially the later clip system weapons released at end Modern/beginning Great Age (2009/2010/2011). The Deploy, Alpha Trooper, and personally my least favorite weapon of all time, the Longstrike, are serious examples. N-Strike Elite solved this by re-introducing the direct plunger system and hardy internals that were characteristic of other legendary weapons. The Nerf battlefield was now a force to be reckoned with: the time for seriously awesome combat had arrived.

So, with this in mind, what exactly does the Modulus introduce to Nerf warfare? Personally, I don't recall an instance where a sniper scope, a flip clip, or a tactical light won me the day. When it comes to Nerf, the most glorious battles are won through determination and skill, and accessories don't really help with that. What does help, though, are darts that can fly 75, 80, 85 feet through the air with the marksman behind them calling the shots. This is why I consider N-Strike Elite to be the obvious progression of technology.