Outlaw Paintball

Summary: overall a fantastic Paintball arena for some good fun with friends who dont want to spend a lot of money for recreation. The fields are small which generate more dynamic firefights.
The Details if you have time to read:
PROS:
1. Current groupon $ 54 deal for 4 ppl worked out great. No hassles no complications. Includes admission, gear rental, and a total 1000 paintballs for the group.
2. Rental guns are OK quality mostly Tippman 98s in a condition that is expected at most paintball establishments. Tippmans are very hardy guns that can withstand a lot of abuse… Sorta like an AK rifle.
3. The low cost barrier of entry makes it easy to introduce new people to paintball especially when you use Groupon (see PROS point #1)
4. Getting hit by a paintball from a rental gun at a normal distance is not super painful at all which is due to their use of air tanks. This can be a good thing but I still prefer CO2 tanks to keep my accuracy + distance. Nevertheless I will keep it here in the PRO category since most other users will enjoy less pain and could care less about accuracy on the gun.
CONS:
1. Young teens run the rental booth and fields which means customer service and the ability to have foresight & understanding of what the customer really needs/​wants will be lacking. They are nice but just not very proactive.
2. They can only refill Air tanks here which means No CO2 tanks and No nitrous tanks. I’m accustomed to CO2 tanks and their accuracy/​speed. The air tanks did not have the same performance I am use to.
3. Highly inaccurate guns. All my shots went to 10 o’clock from iron sight and as your tank ran low your shots will falter to 4 o’clock. None of my shots were straight or even relatively close. This is due to Con #2 (see reference)
4. Serious long downtimes between games and this is with 30+ players sitting at the picnic tables chilling. (Reference Con #1). You will play 2 games and then come back to the bench for 20+ mins to chill whereas at Texas Paintball you will bring your bags of paintball to the field and reload between rounds because you play 4 – 5 games before coming back to chill for 10 mins.
5. No Woodsball field. A lot of people love Woodsball. It feels like jungle warfare.

I brought my teens here to play on our Texas vaca. They played hard and everyone had a great time! Thanks for the great memories!

I’ve been playing paintball off and on since 1998. With that being said this is a great local field. Family oriented staff with a true passion for the sport and recreational side of paintball. Fair pricing decent paint and a friendly environment. I wouldn’t recommend any other field in Austin. Wether you are looking for a field for your paintball party or a place to practice as a team this is defiantly the paintball park of Austin. My team practices here every weekend and so do a few other teams and it’s nice to finally have a place that encourages tournament players to practice and get better that doesn’t destroy the wallet.

The Good:
Came to this place to celebrate my son’s 12^th birthday. The place is close to where we live and the rates are cheap. He enjoyed his 1^st time out because there was a lot of kids out there also. He would like to play again.
The Bad:
Place was out of control. As soon as you walked through the barrier, the plugs were off the guns and everyone was shooting. The ref’s just let it happen and had no control over the situation. The breaks were too long between games considering it was only a minute walk to the course. Too many people after lunch and it was hard for them to split up the people and play different games at the same time. Again, no organization.
The Ugly:
There were some jerks out there that took the game too seriously. This course is not the place to take things seriously. There are other places for more competitive games. There was this one particularly tall, bald-​headed guy who was yelling at a kid and he did nothing wrong. Again, nothing was done by the ref’s. I’m sure it’s not always like that but it was enough to not want to go back.
In Summary:
There are much better places to play than this one — Jonestown. But if you want a quick game, then this is the place… cheap and convenient. I would come back if my son wants to play again.

Took my son and three friends to play on a Saturday. Got there at 9:15am. Helped right away when we walked in the door. They went over the rules with the kids and made sure they knew the rules before they got their guns. Paint is pricey but you get free air all day, on their rental gun (3000psi) or your personal gun (4500psi) We purchased the groupon for $ 69 for four people. This was a great deal for the kids to play for the 5 hours we were there. Will try them again.

If you are looking to go play paintball without a group, stay away from outlaw paintball. A friend of mine and myself headed out to Outlaw paintball for the first time this past weekend. The prices were pretty low, it was $ 18 for the day and rental gun. My buddy paid $ 60 for 2000 paint balls. You cannot bring your own paint here, so that was kinda bad. The only reason we went here was because it was getting too late in the day to go out to the other known good paintball fields.
Once we got inside, there was nobody at the rental booth… There was only one ref for the 3 fields they had. So we sat around for about an hour wondering when they were gonna setup a game. A group of kids came in, and were escorted to a field to start playing. We realized that they were not going to setup games, we would just have to go play for ourselves. So we did that, and it sucked… Playing without a ref, people would turn their guns all the way up and just stay in if they got hit. We played maybe 3 games with just random people and left. All in all we were there prolly 3 hours. It was the worse paintball field i’ve ever been to. No organization at all, if we would not have just went and started playing we would have not gotten to play at all. There was no direction at all.
Also if you are taking your kids out here, beware that they do not regulate the pressure of the guns… So if you have a custom bought paintball gun, you can turn it up as high as it goes and potentially cause some damage. I know I left all bloody.

This was a fun place to play. If you have over 10 people its a little cheaper. I do suggest bringing your own equipment since the cost of their paintballs is quite high. Also just a heads up it is a bit hard to find.

The experience I had with Outlaw Paintball over the phone was so bad I won’t bother taking my business to them. I was looking to host a birthday party for my 13 year old son, his firiends, and some adults. I checked their web site, which detailed the offered group packages. They had two group offerings: a volume discount for 10+ people and a private field party. The volume discount stated that 10+ people could play the whole day at a rate of $ 10/​person on a shared field. The private field party was for a 2 hour block of time where only the members of your group would be on the field. The volume group rate was exactly what I wanted.
The problem started when I called on Monday ⁵⁄₃₀ and left a voice mail. It was a holiday, but after 5 days and still no phone call, I decided to call them again. A woman answered and was very rude. I explained what I wanted and she told me that the volume discount was only good for 2 hours and that the web site was wrong. She said she would call me back after checking the web site. Well, I didn’t get a call back, so I called the next day, Saturday. This time I was speaking to a man that was at least not as rude, but he basically said the same thing. There was no volume discount for all day play. It was only for a 2 hour block and the web site was wrong and he would not honor it.
Now, the full person price is $ 17.50 to play all day. If I brought 10 people and paid the full price for 8 hours of play that would cost $ 175.00. Broken down per hour that would be just under $ 22.00 per hour.
If you pay $ 10.00 per person for 10 people and play for 2 hours that is $ 100.00, which as far as total cost goes is cheaper, but you are now paying $ 50.00 per hour. So where’s the discount!
The whole point of offering volume discounts is that it encourages groups of people to make use of your product or service that normally wouldn’t and attracts more business to your company.
The only thing this place has going for them is that they are the only paintball field in town, so I guess that allows them to run their business any way they want. They definitely lost my business though.