Night Games

[Emergencychimps]

I remember the urban assault night games at RAF upwood, before anyone really could get, let alone afford, night vision. They were intense, creeping around pitch black buildings, big stretching shadows, wary of going into any moonlight, intense fire fights which were often over in seconds, any spec of light was telling....the pure adrenaline pumping of it all! They were so different to what it's like now.

Back in the hay days (with my rose tinted glasses on) id do 10+ Stirling events a year + 4-5 night games and the odd extra one off events. It did allow me to get in the groove of using it and became much more proficient, now I'm like a bumbling fool, it's a very perishable skill.

I can understand it from an event organisers point of view, it's another 4-5 hours of work for an event that is shorter (so cheaper) and attracts less than half a day game, after a long day of running a site and there's always moaners.....I can understand why the hassle of it isn't worth it for the money it generates.

 

[CamboL]

I’d happily pay the same or perhaps even slightly more than a normal skirmish day for a good night game where NODs are welcome

My local site is £30 walk on, happy to pay £40ish for quality night game where it’s the novelty of play style and the convenience of not having to ask the Mrs for a full day away from the fam. Know a lot of my pals I play with feel the same too tbf

Thinking about it - maybe that’s the solution. Add a NOD surcharge onto the walk on fees and make it cheaper for non NOD users. That way non NOD users could be slightly happier that they’ve not paid a full fee to be targets, outgunned etc etc

 

[TheFull9]

Do places that allow NV not just evenly split them between teams? I know, on a slightly different note, someone here a while ago mentioned a site where they'd have.. say, 5-8 with NV vs 20-30 without at a night game.

 

[Adolf Hamster]

Do places that allow NV not just evenly split them between teams? I know, on a slightly different note, someone here a while ago mentioned a site where they'd have.. say, 5-8 with NV vs 20-30 without at a night game.

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That could be interesting.

Didnt do too many night games but sadly the nv split would be something like me and my gen 1 versus the other guy with a gen 1 and the one guy who rocket up with a pvs14.

No real balancing there.

No nod night games can be atmospheric as hell when there's enough folk going, although sadly the game can be somewhat owned by bringing extra lights to stick in tree branches covering important chokepoints so you can sit in a hedge totally obscured watching the tracers come in at the torches and the ever escalating cries of "take your hits".

 

[hitmanNo2]

Do places that allow NV not just evenly split them between teams? I know, on a slightly different note, someone here a while ago mentioned a site where they'd have.. say, 5-8 with NV vs 20-30 without at a night game.

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Ideally yes, NV users are evenly split between teams but I have had a few nights where our group of NV users wasn't split and there was maybe one or two NV users on the other team. Though site dependent od course but don't underestimate site knowledge and sneakiness of someone without NODs. A few times I've been killed by someone appearing from behind me and knife killing me whilst I'm focusing on my 40 degree FOV in front of me.

And yeah, a couple of times the last game of the evening at Ironsight has been all NODs users as a hunter killer force against everyone else. Where the non NODs team has a head start to hide etc. Quite fun for NODs users, I'm not sure how much non NODs users find it as it's very much a sit and hide in the dark somewhere sort of game for them really.