It's not always just skill

After playing some night paintball, I made some observations that made a difference in the game but had nothing to do with skill.

On one scenario, there were some serious dark sections to our team's right.  The lights just weren't anywhere near that corner.  A bunch of guys were hiding back there.  Me and two buddies moved to intercept.  Couple of the newbies were just doing the spray and pray into the dark just hoping.  We couldn't see them that's for sure but we could find them.  My friend was squared up with a milsim guy trying to use a laser.  Which became his dead giveaway.  My buddy waited for him to shift his attention to my other friend, then fired in at the source of the laser.  The guy I was squared up with was a "peeker" (keeps peeking out for intell).  Problem for him was the LED on the back of his loader reflected off the corner of his lens.  Same thing - popped out and put two right at the reflection and scored a headshot.  Light discipline is critical in night games.

The other side of the coin was using the way the light messes with your attackers.  I found a good spot on one field were I was in the shadows and my attackers had to approach with a light overhead beaming down on them.  This gave me a two fold advantage.  First, they were in a well lit area so i could find them easily.  Second, looking from light into dark makes the dark seem darker so they have a tougher time picking me out.  As well as any lens scratches looking into those lights become horribly disctracting if not imparing vision.  So the key is keep to shadows and find positions where your opponents won't have shadows.  Oh, and have as scratch free mask as possible.