Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20190824174358/@comment-27306930-20191017041913

While waiting for paint to dry, I unboxed my Tempest tonight. It's been sitting down in the basement  Proving Ground for a couple months 😮  Hey, don't judge, I'm savoring the experience.

To my surprise, it works pretty well. The firing rate isn't that bad, and it performs better than I thought it would based on all the negative reviews I've seen. But the stock darts kinda suck. And they're not standard length. Not the end of the world.

I've only got two real complaints. There's a rim all the way around the front of the cylinder that halfway covers the individual dart chambers. By design, it looks like it's meant to keep the darts from accidentally falling out the front of the blaster. But this rim also makes loading the cylinder awkward. I have a thing about mangling darts. And you definitely need to bend your darts to get them in the Tempest. Maybe it's just me, but I just don't like it.

My other complaint is much more subtle. There's a knob on the back that you need to turn to a specific position in order for the cylinder to rotate freely. If you forget to turn that knob before rotating the cylinder, all sorts of bad things happen. Darts get pushed halfway into the flywheel cage, they fold on top of each other, crush one another, and make a general mess. It's super important to remember to set that knob before adjusting the cylinder.

You'd think that would be easy to remember, but I totally jammed up my Tempest three times in the space of five minutes. DOH !

But other than that, I'm pretty happy 👍👍