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The new feature of the Luxe
OLED is its OLED screen, which
sits at the back of the marker’s comfortable, ergonomic
grip frame. This screen allows
the shooter to quickly and easily cycle through modes, make
adjustments and check on the
marker’s status without opening
the grip panel, as was required
with previous models. Thanks to
the OLED screen, a single button
and trigger pulls, firing modes,
battery status, eye status, dwell,
rate of fire and much more can
be checked and adjusted practically on the fly, making the Luxe, an already feature-rich and remarkable piece of
paintball technology, a much more user-friendly marker especially when compared to its
competitors, which all offer screen interfaces.
As Art Chaos recently proved, the Luxe’s performance is the equal or better of anything on the modern market. Light at approximately two pounds, a game-ready Luxe
OLED with a Ninja bottle and hopper can be taken inside the net at between five and six
pounds. All testing was performed with a Ninja bottle with a Pro regulator and Pinokio
Speed hopper, with Valken Redemption, Empire Evil, Empire Marbalizer and GI paintballs
in chilly late winter weather in the Mid-Atlantic United States, with a little moisture in
the air. With such brittle paintballs, some problems wouldn’t have been surprising, but
none were encountered. The Luxe OLED was fully charged when removed from its zippered case and took only a few minutes to get ready for play. With brittle, tournament
paintballs and a consistent chronograph reading of around 285 feet per second with only
a few feet per second of variance in either direction, the Luxe OLED delivered extremely

March 2014