Creating the Best Experience at Your Events with Quick Resets

Savvy operators use these resets to set up their laser tag guns and gaming equipment quickly.

Waste no time before your session fiddling with the settings.

Instead, we recommend using the Reset closest to your requirements before every session, and then making any necessary changes from there.

For example, for our woodland battlefields, we set the volume on our devices to High (rather than the standard Medium) because the gamers will be playing over a large battlefield.

The High Volume setting makes it easier for them to hear each other and their hit feedback.

        So what are the resets, and when should you use them?

There are more than 200 resets across the 12+ themes offered in SATR3; however, most operators will only need to use a handful.

Here is when to use the six most common resets! Download the Comprehensive Re-sets User Guide here.

Gaming Theme Battlefield TAG: Reset "Tagger" or "Commando"

The SATR3 laser tag system offers a lot of flexibility. 

There are several Gaming Themes to select from. 

The theme "Battlefield TAG" is similar to traditional Laser Tag.

It's family friendly and easy to use.

Within the Battlefield Tag theme, there are two types of Resets to look out for.

They are: Tagger (Red and Blue) and Commando (Red and Blue).

You can find these within Common Settings on your controller under Reset.

In this blog, we will cover each in turn.

When to use the Tagger (Red & Blue) resets?

The majority of the players are aged 5-7 and are from elementary school (or primary school) groups. Summer Camp (or vacation care) groups. Or for events like fetes, fairs, and festivals.

Here's what you'll see on the display screen...

What are the benefits of this Tagger Reset?

The Tagger Reset is fun and sci-fi themed.

It is about as far away from milsim as you can get!!

The "shooting" sound effect resembles a zap or a pew-pew from a sci-fi blaster.

When players are "hit," their tagger makes no sounds to indicate a wound.

Instead, players hear a recording. Either "You're Tagged" or "You're Deactivated".

This Reset is also focused on keeping everything light-hearted, simple, and straightforward for the players.

This includes health points.

Every player has five health points and, because Battlefield Tag uses Basic Damage, they must always be tagged five times before they are out.

When a player runs out of these health points, whenever they pull the trigger, their tagger will play the sound effect: "You're Deactivated Return to Base".

This helps young players remember their next step. Young kids will often not absorb everything you say in the briefing, and this feature helps keep them in the game and having FUN!

Gaming Theme Battlefield TAG: Reset "Commando"

The second reset you will find in the Common Settings is the Commando reset.

Here's what you will see on the display screen...

When to use the Commando resets? 

 If the majority of the players are aged 8-9. If they are in middle school or junior high school, students are participating in a school event. Or if the event is for Church or youth groups

What are the benefits of this setting?

The commando resets are very similar to the Tagger resets, but with some differences! They have one significant change: the shooting SFX. 

The Commando, as the name implies, takes a step back towards a "live video game".

The shooting sound effect is a gunshot. So instead of pew-pew, it is bang-bang.

This reset is ideal for straddling the line between family friendly and giving your players a live video game experience.

This is necessary for some events.  For example, schools are often hesitant to have anything to do with "guns" but high school students won't engage without a more serious sound effect.

Gaming Theme Battlefield Royale: Resets "Gun" & "Assault Rifle"

When to use this theme?

• If the majority of the players are aged 11 & older
• For a college or university student group
• For sports team breakups, team building / bonding events 

 What are the benefits of this theme?

To engage modern gamers, you must take inspiration from modern video games.

Players want to play "Fortnite for Real". This reset works in tandem with the Supply Crate setting on our Utility Boxes.

Unlike with the previous resets, Battlefield Royale has dynamic damage.

Every player has 100 Health Points. Some weapons do as little as 20 points of damage, while others do close to 90!

Players can collect virtual upgrades from the Supply Crate, which will improve their health points, heal damage they've taken, or upgrade their weapon. Gamers will get hit-feedback SFX like: "Hit", "Wound", "Ricochet", or "Kill".

Gaming Theme Battlefield Royale: Resets "Gun"

If you're running with the Battlefield ROYALE theme, there are two key reset options. The first one is "Gun" (Any or Red or Blue).

This reset is all about bringing the experience of first-person shooters like Call of Duty and Fortnite into a live game. 

The Battlefield ROYALE theme allows for the use of Supply Crates. If you are planning to use Supply Crates with your event, the Gun resets are a great option. This starts all the players with an Automatic Pistol (Common). These pistols are fine to play with but leave plenty of room for upgrading weapons in the game!

Here's what you will see on the display screen...

Gaming Theme Battlefield Royale: Resets "Assault Rifle"

Your alternative option is the "Assault Rifle (Any)" reset.

This reset acts a lot like the previously discussed "Gun" reset but has a few key changes to make it easier for players. This reset gives players an Assault Rifle (Common). It also sets their ammo to Unlimited and volume to High. 

When to use this Reset:

• If you have a group with a wide range of abilities or ages. For example, you might have some younger siblings joining in with a teenage birthday party and maybe some adults as well. In this case, it's a good idea to give the weaker players a leg up to begin with by using the Assault Rifle reset, even if you are using Supply Crates. 
• If you are not using Supply Crates for this session but still want the video game theme

Resets for Three Teams

Okay, you need to divide your group up into three teams easily but you only have headwear for two teams, the Assault Rifle Reset will save you.

The team resets under Assault Rifle turn on the hit light and set it for that team's colour. 

Assault Rifle (Red) = Red hit light ON

Assault Rifle (Blue) = Blue hit light ON

Assault Rifle (Purple) = Red and Blue hit lights ON

With this change, players can tell which team their opponent is on regardless of hat.

Quick Resets - Summing Up

 The SATR3 software offers a huge variety of gaming emulations.

Within the battlefield business, you will entertain all kinds of groups.

Using the rare settings, you can cater to just about any group!

But often the Battlefield Operator is short on time.

We have created a series of shortcuts, or "Resets," to quickly set the configuration for sound effects, hit points, etc., that's appropriate for your group.

There are six common resets to tailor your events to them (without wasting time fiddling around with rare settings)! Let us know which of these Resets you use the most often.