At Blast Factory, the best thing to wear is camoflauge or dark clothing so you won't be seen easily.
When moving from bunker to bunker. Move fast and even call out to a team mate to "Cover you" so they will shoot at anybody that is shooting at you.
Always think that there is someone right in front of your bunker so that you will be more cautious about moving.
Get an idea of where your team mates are so you know who they are shooting at. That help cuz they might be shooting at someone you didn't know was there. So you get the info from where the enemy is.
A good strategy in paintball is to hide the entire time, so that the enemy has NO IDEA where you are. So when they are advancing forward to your base, you will be behind them and just shoot them as they walk past you. (I got Andrew Morris with this tactic. Hehe. He was so mad!)
The following tips were submitted by: Sticknac
If you have tried everything from laying low to imitating Rambo and you still keep saying "I came, I saw, I got my butt kicked." then this article is for you. First of all take heart, we have all been there. These tips, some more serious than others, are based on an article by James R. "Mad Dog" Morgan, Sr. who is both a great writer and player.
1) Use your brain more than your trigger finger. Paintball is a mental game as much as a physical one. You don't have to outshoot a player you can outwit.
2) Keep your eyes and ears open at all times. A good sense of situational awareness is a great asset to many players. Its a darned fact that when you focus your attention on any one area during a game, the paintball that eliminates you will come from another direction.
3) The most pain(t)less way to learn is to watch the other players. Good players will use tactics you want want copy and bad players will make goofs you don't want to repeat. It's a lot less damaging to the ego if you learn from the mistakes of the other guys without having to do them yourself.
4) Learn to balance aggression with caution. Keep close enough to get into the action and/or be able to retreat without exposing yourself too greatly.
5) Most importantly: This is a game. You're not here to collect scalps. You're here to have fun.
6) You should take the barrel plug out of your gun BEFORE you have someone "Dead to Rights" in your sights.
7) Sticking you head up in the same place more than twice transforms you from a paintball player into the main attraction at a turkey shoot.
8) When you've set up that perfect ambush, and have two players just walking into it, its a good idea not to have a watch that beeps on the hour.
9) Never shoot at sounds going through the bushes. Your fellow teammates and referees make noise, too.
10) Give your teammates help if they need it, or ask for help if you need it. Even a mediocre team is better than a good individual player.
11) Remember which color armband you have on. And try to remember it's the members of the other team you are suppose to eliminate.
12) Never forget your peripheral vision. You see a player (sometimes it's even a teammate) and become so engrossed with eliminating him that you don't even realize there are other guys around until one sticks his barrel practically into your side.
13) If you're not defending the flag or waiting in ambush, never stay in the same place too long,k or all you've done is pick your grave site.
14) Let your teammates know where you are. Friends are nice to have. Friendly fire is not.
15) Talk to your teammates, let them know what's happening, or the only words you'll be saying are "Ouch! Hit! Out!"
16) Don't shoot at someone when you see he's in the next zip code. If you freeze in place, he'll most likely not see you until he's so close that you can't miss.
17) Watch your backside. I mean, be careful it doesn't stick out from behind cover. It's by far everyone's favorite target.
18) Be sure to check out what team a player is on before taking orders from him.
19) On the first game of the day, be a bit more careful before entering a hut. Sometimes they are occupied by unwelcome guests. In other words a skunk is faster on the draw than the average paintballer.
20) No matter how great a location it seems, poison ivy, poison oak, and ragweed patches are not good locations to hide in.
21) Lace your shoes very tight on fields with marshes. Many a shoe has never been recovered on certain fields.
22) Late in the day don't go out onto the field unless you're sure you've got more gas in the bottle than you've gotten from the field food.
23) Never use the same tactic exclusively. Being tagged as "old Reliable" is not a compliment.
24) Never take on a player "head on" unless you have to. It's fine for John Wayne, but he has a stunt double, background music, and a script that says the other guy is going down. Always try to get around and behind an opponent who's dug into a defensive position.
25) always know just about how much paint you have left in your loader, and never let it run dry. They always rush you as you reload.
26) If you have to squeegee you Autococker from a ball break, be sure to put the bolt back in before you fire it. Unless you like to kill your self. Yes the gun can shoot backwards.
27) Keep your goggles on!
The following tips have been submitted by white_viper003@webtv.net
This is a really sneaky tactic that this white viper guy sent me, it goes a little something like this.... you pretend that you are out of paintballs and shout "Crap!, I have to Reload!" or something to that effect. The opposition will think you are defenseless for a few minutes so they come after you and you pop up and take them out. (I kinda like this one.)
The following tips have been submitted by bigmattg17@hotmail.com
One of the biggest tips I can give is wait, just wait, get relativly close to a base if you can. Sometimes you may have to wait and work your way up, but Ive found that most times if you just wait in one spot your oppenent usually gets impatient enough to expose them selves. The other tactic I have is that when there are a few guys left at a base you can usually get some other teammates to get them to concentrate them on the one side thus allowing one or 2 guys to sneek up around and open fire
The following tips have been submitted by Tanders399@aol.com
Hide in the flag base the whole time and never let yourself be seen, when the enemy tries to get the flag, surrender them all. [of course this only works on indoor courses though]
If you have any more tips or strategies or tactics that you like to use E-mail me at P3aintball@aol.com