PaintballX3 Magazine July 2014 Issue | Page 104

104 gun. When I heard that the 2012 design was going out of production to be replaced by a new design, I wondered how Machine Paintball would keep the good while getting rid of the ‘bad’. The 2014 Vapor is an evolution and simplification of the 2012 Vapor, with an entirely different bolt design and a new-to-paintball paint sensing system. While still looking like a Vapor, there are many changes to the design to lower the IQ required to maintain the gun while preserving the accuracy and quietness of the previous gun. The only real fault the 2012 Vapor had was that it required an IQ higher than room temperature to maintain and operate. One bitterly complained about ‘fault’, was the necessity for low pressure input into the inline regulator. Doing so with the 2012 gun would instantly cause over pressurization, which in turn would cause massive air leaks. Properly maintained by a reasonably intelligent player and given 450-550 psi input into the ASA, the 2012 Vapor has proven itself to be a extraordinarily quiet, devastatingly accurate and stupidly fast July 2014 Right out of the shipping box, the case the 2014 Vapor comes in a new case, this one made of a semi-rigid material. Inside the zippered case we found the gun, a large assortment of o-rings, hex wrenc