New Nerf Ultra Blasters Shoot Farther Than Ever Before – But There Is A Problem

The next time you get trapped with a Nerf dart, it may be at an incredible distance of 120 feet. Indeed, the new Hasbro Ultra One blaster, which will be released on October 1st at $ 49.99, offers staves never seen from an unmodified blaster, thanks to a redesigned Dart with new stabilizing fins.

This could be the most important change brought to Nerf blasters in years, the scope having always been a limiting factor in the Nerf wars. When Nerf introduced the "Elite" dart with its 75-foot reach in 2012 and its 90-foot Elite XD * blasters in 2014, the players struggled to gain an advantage over their opponents whose darts did not shoot as well. far.

But the new blasters come with a trap: DRM for darts, it sounds like! "If the blaster detects an incompatible dart in the drum, it will not shoot and move to the next room," he writes. The Wall Street Journal. A Hasbro official told the publication that the existing darts were too easy to copy and that patents were pending on the new Ultra Foam.

This could upset the Nerf community, as it could push up the effective cost of organizing a Nerf war. At the present time, you can buy hundreds of nested Nerf Elite darts for just a few dollars and use them in dozens of different Hasbro blasters and competitors, while it will cost $ 10 for get only 20 of these new Ultra darts.

The low price and interoperability of Elite darts meant that event organizers could afford to provide a large ammo chest to the players that they would return at the end of the day – instead that each no one brings their own ammunition and fights to determine the darts at the end of each match.

Again, it did not take this It is urgent for third parties to copy Nerf's "ultra-spongy" round bullets, which seemed rather innovative at the time. Heck, there is a leading ad for the famous "HeadShot Ammo" token directly on Hasbro's official list for the Ultra One!

It will be difficult for Nerfers to skip significantly improved ranges, DRM or not. If the new darts are good, the community will find a way.

The Ultra One is a motorized blaster with a 25-cartridge drum and takes four C batteries according to its official product page.

* Elite XD was not a new type of dart, but rather a slight improvement in its reach with some blasters. You may also be wondering about Nerf's claims of 70 miles per hour for his Rival range line – the answer is that Rival bullets have more air resistance and generally do not shoot as well. far in spite of the speed.

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