One Last Elite Disappointment?: Fortnite X Nerf Half-Tone Hero... the full blown zero.

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@sataki82 Ай бұрын

I like the new style for the intro. :) This blaster will be perfect for cosplay or low power larp but for nothing more. If i own one i would make an aesthetic mod to let it look like a big bad iron. Cool to see the new target. May it protect the wall and the darts. :)

@MrAjusog Ай бұрын

Hasbro has never failed to disappoint me, even when I first used a blaster 20 years ago.

@another3997 Ай бұрын

Then maybe your expectations were, and probably still are, too high. Did you think you were going to get a cheap kid's toy to perform like an air pistol or gas powered paintball gun? Getting shot at 20 feet by either of those hurts, they can take out an eye, leave welts and bruising. Pellets can break the skin. I can't imagine why Nerf chose slow, soft darts to use in a kid's toy. 🙄

@MrAjusog Ай бұрын

@@another3997No, it was their loss of innovation and creativity. You just made an entire narrative that is COMPLETELY wrong, but if you work for Hasbro, I'm sorry for you, hopefully you get rolled over to another division. Nerf Sales team got in the way of creating new toys. They bullied their way into the American culture through a monopoly of stifling other toy companies, making stores sign exclusivity contracts, stealing designs, or outright buying smaller companies only to liquidate them. And now I see they've been grossly overcharging for their culture God status items. All while slightly modifying and reskinning their entire line, "We're not making new things, take what we give you and like it, and pay us way too much money for a toy that costs $5 to make." I do have to say, their Rival series did not disappoint me, though. So it's not about shooting faster and farther for me, it's about losing their creative side and overcharging for the same reskinned crap, and now other toy companies are creating new toys that are better, creating them faster, and cheaper, and of MUCH higher quality. So yes, Hasbro has disappointed me, EXCEPT for the rival series which were probably stolen from a German toy company to begin with because NO ONE at Hasbro has the faintest idea of what great innovation is, because they don't listen to their customers while the other toy companies do. Take that to your Hasbro overlords, salesman....

@MrAjusog Ай бұрын

@SecondHandBlasters Ай бұрын

@@another3997 You're making quite a leap in comparisons there. I don't think MrAsjusong ever mentioned anything about expecting the performance out of an air pistol or paintball gun. Also, without knowing how old they are now, who is to say that they weren't the target audience for Hasbro 20 years ago?

@fortyeth Ай бұрын

Hi Normatico, I guess this is a sad day all round with the demise of Elite. Hasbro probably put out this subpar blaster to stop us die hard fans clamouring for more Elite blasters - you know a final nail in the coffin offering. I have to say I enjoyed the Fortnite SP-1 pistol - it had a nice smooth trigger and mine was fairly accurate at 25 feet. BUT...good news, I have finally taken the plunge and purchased an X-Shot Longshot, and it's much better than I was led to believe. I'm only allowed by Mrs Tyeth to fire it down my hallway at the front door but it's fun 😃!

@SecondHandBlasters Ай бұрын

So oddly enough there is one more Elite blaster coming out but its not a mass release. The Ace of Spades LMTD and the level of f*kery they are adding to he able to order it is enough to turn me off to it already. In order to Pre-Order it; you need to own Destiny 2, the expansion and have legendary achievements done by the time pre-order starts. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Anyway, glad you’re enjoying the XSLS. I remember many a discussion about that one, defending it despite the plunger tube defect.

@fortyeth Ай бұрын

@@SecondHandBlasters Oh right, well I am not a big gamer so the Ace of Spades won't be a large loss to me and it was Mrs Tyeth that bought me the SP-1. Just to go back to the XSLS, I know the original batches had an "Orion" logo on the shell (possibly referencing the Orion Blasters Lynx) but mine know says "TECH" in that logo's place. I wonder if X-Shot has changed/thickened the plastic too as mine feels substantially more solid than the one I tested when it released.

@another3997 Ай бұрын

It's likely their licence for Fortnite products required them to release a certain number of models. Plus they want to make use of the work already done on Elite style blasters and use up existing inventory parts. Changing production lines isn't an easy, quick or cheap process. It's not a sub-par blaster, it's what Hasbro wanted it to be. They could have made it shoot at 150fps, but they want to sell to the masses, largely young kids and early teens... not a relatively small bunch of hobbyists who have frankly unrealistic expectations. X-Shot Longshot is great, but notice, the vast majority of X-Shot blasters are cheap and low powered. Because that's what makes them money.

@SecondHandBlasters Ай бұрын

@@another3997 according to Epic Games: The average Fortnite player is aged 18-35 (85%); The average nerf player is 13-14 (which is the younger range for the hobbyist community as well). Hasbro does have the license deal with Fortnite (which is admittedly a cash cow) but from a profit standpoint, a wiser decision would have been to go with something that worked closer to the Blue Shock / Legendary TAC / SCAR / E-SMG models. Still safe for the young ones but enough to keep the young teens interested. The HTH (even when compared to others in the series) is subpar and, to quote my 11 year old, clown shoes (I'm assuming that is some gen alpha saying?) Also, I am curious where you are located at that you say what you say about X-shot. I have seen nothing but consistency when it comes to X-shot blasters (outside of their Longshot) and they all perform right at or just above the way standard Nerf blasters do. I know that different countries get different mechanisms due to local laws.

@Clamblezplays Ай бұрын

This video is rock solid

@SecondHandBlasters Ай бұрын

Thank you! A rock solid review for a not so rock solid blaster. 😂

@DartsNStuff Ай бұрын

Great review thanks for the video.

@SecondHandBlasters Ай бұрын

Not a problem! Thanks for watching!

@Drdevious-i7o Ай бұрын

Did you use the code that has the gives you the wrap?

@SecondHandBlasters Ай бұрын

I have not that code is up for grabs to one of my lucky subscribers

@SSJChar Ай бұрын

i feel like this blaster would suit people who want to cosplay moreso than people who want to use it as an actual blaster. its too bad, seems like a neat concept, but even when you're holding it, it doesn't seem like you're supposed to 'use' it

@SecondHandBlasters Ай бұрын

That is definitely a possible use for it. As i’ve stated, it’s a cool looking blaster but that is just about it.

@another3997 Ай бұрын

The majority of Nerf users are kids, so both aesthetics and gimmicks are primary factors used in making their choices. There's no point in looking at it from an adult's perspective, because they don't have the same expectations. Kids want cool looking blasters that shoot similar distances to their friend's blasters. Kids with a huge, 'unfair' advantage or a huge disadvantage, won't be playing with their friends who have standard Nerf blasters.

@Essrayle Ай бұрын

I think the time I spent trying to figure something constructive to say on this greatly dwarfed the actual thought that went into making this blaster really.

@SecondHandBlasters Ай бұрын

I feel you. This review literally took me a week to do. From opening segment to final thoughts. I was trying really hard to focus on the fun.. but it was just not possible to overlook the bad design choices and execution. Shame because the actual look of the blaster is really cool; but that is the only thing it has going for it.

@Essrayle Ай бұрын

@@SecondHandBlasters Yes. I mean....this shell had potential, it could go several different ways easily- actual break-action prime, trilogy shell use, it's just too much potential to waste and yet they did. This is saddening like the Super Soaker CPS.

@another3997 Ай бұрын

Maybe that's because you're completely over-thinking it. This is a kid's toy, generally for kids aged from around 5 up to early teens. Kids like cool looking blasters and gimmicks. But parents like blasters that don't hurt their kids or leave welts and bruises, and they don't want blasters that will knock pictures off walls, ornaments off cabinets etc. Or ones that launch darts over the fence and across the busy street outside, or into the next door but one neighbour's pond. Strangely, Hasbro know this, so they make a variety of blasters in all different shapes, sizes and configurations to please the kids. They make them shoot at low speed to please parents and prevent lawsuits.