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Originally Posted by Ricochet
VFC is certainly not the best bang for your buck, they're more expensive than almost all standard AEG brands. VFC is solid out of the box, great reliability and good realism/quality. If you're having issues come upgrade time then you're the problem and not the gun. VFC is arguably the best variation of the old Marui system. Still a normal AEG, but worth it to get off on the right foot.
Best bang for your buck is the G&G lineup. $200 buys you a reasonable starter with proper tolerances and compatibility. Nothing special, but totally stable and upgradable. At $200, who can complain?
Systema is far from terribly flawed. Terribly flawed would describe any gun still based on the Tokyo Marui gearbox system and most GBBRs. Systema has one flaw, it's motor. Not the motor's design or engineering, but it's assembly. Specifically the armature winding. Luckily we have an excellent fix/mod for that. A real flaw would be not having a proper fix/mod for a problem (ARES!!!), requiring a hose and tank to run your "not paintball gun", your FPS swinging or magazines dumping because of temperature change, inability to reach a 200' plus and consistent shot, or being a clone that doesn't accept upgrade parts well enough to make it worth it.
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-motor is flawed, I've seen a tacked motor fail
-stock hop up is useless
-27:1 gear ratio for worse than AEG trigger response
-motor braking kills motors
-electronics cost twice as much as AEG electronics, have less functions and are less durable
-nozzle system is "better engineered" but makes the piston assembly heavier than necessary and the nozzle mashes BBs as soon as there is a misfeed
-can you even shim bevel pinion or are you stuck with adjusting the pinion on the shaft?
-sintered gears at that price?
I think that's a pretty flawed platform.