FAQ

Yes. Paintballz.io is free to play in your browser. Every map, mode and cash gun can be earned just by playing. Optional purchases of splats (the premium currency) and value packs help support the game, and ads are shown on paintballz.io.

No. Open paintballz.io and press Deploy! to play as a guest. Your progress is saved on that device. Make a free account to keep your cash, guns, accessories and level safe and to play on other devices.

Move with W A S D, aim with the mouse, shoot with the left mouse button and jump with Space. One paintball tags a player out. In Team Deathmatch your team wins with the most tags; in Free for All, the player with the most tags wins. New players get a short tutorial in their first match. The How to Play guide covers everything in detail.

Team Deathmatch (Blue against Red) and Free for All. Each map is built for one mode, and players vote on the next map at the end of every round, so a room can switch between modes as it goes.

Public rounds last 5 minutes, with a short break for results and the map vote between rounds. In a private room you choose 3, 5, 8, 10 or 15 minutes.

Up to 18 people per room (9 against 9 in Team Deathmatch). When there aren't enough people, bots fill the empty places, and each person who joins takes a bot's place.

Yes. Add friends from the social screen and form a party so you join the same match. You can also make a private room, put everyone on the teams you want and pick the round length. Friends you put on a team get an invite.

Yes. Phones and tablets get touch controls: a joystick to move, drag to look, and buttons to fire, jump, scope, chat and use equipment. You can resize and move the buttons in Settings → Mobile. Landscape works best.

Yes. Every key except Esc can be rebound in Settings → Keybinds, with two keys per action. Mouse and touch sensitivity are in Settings as well.

No. Every gun tags a player in one hit. Better guns land that hit more easily: faster fire, longer reach, flatter shots or better accuracy. Gun damage only matters against sentries, drones, tanks and walls.

Cash guns form a ladder in the shop. Each one costs cash and unlocks once you own the one before it. The five premium guns cost 200 splats each, and one of them is on sale as Today's Deal every day. See the full gun list.

Pick up to four pieces of equipment in Shop → Streaks. Each one charges when your tag count in the round reaches its number: Radar at 4, Sentry at 8, Drone at 12, Wall at 14, Tank at 16 and Nuke at 90. Charges stack up to 3. Use them with Z X C V. Radar, Sentry and Drone are free; Wall, Tank and Nuke are bought once.

Tag players ($250 each, more for quick multi-tags), shoot down enemy drones and tanks ($400) and sentries and walls ($150), finish your three daily tasks ($2,000 to $8,000 each), claim level rewards and log in every day for the 7-day reward track.

Splats are the green premium currency. They buy premium guns and Premium Crates. You get them free from every 10th level, from the daily login track and from optional reward videos, or you can buy them in the store. Your first splat pack gives double splats.

From crates. A Paint Crate costs $40,000 and a Premium Crate costs 40 splats. Every crate gives you an accessory you don't already own or a cash prize, so you never get duplicates. The exact odds are shown before you open one.

Guests are tied to a sign-in token in the browser, so clearing site data loses a guest's progress. Make a free account and your progress is kept on our servers, so you can sign back in any time, from any device.

Set Graphics quality to Low or Medium and lower the Resolution scale in Settings → Game, close other heavy browser tabs, and play in a room in your own region. Your FPS and ping are shown at the bottom of the main menu. Make sure hardware acceleration is turned on in your browser settings.

Any modern browser with WebGL: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari and Opera, on Windows, macOS, Linux, Chromebooks, iOS and Android.

If you added a phone number to your account, use Forgot password on the sign-in screen and we'll text you a code. Otherwise, ask for help on our Discord server.

Open your Profile and choose to delete your account. This removes your account data from our servers. See the Privacy Policy for details.

The anti-cheat removes players who move or shoot impossibly, and admins can ban players. To report a player or a bug, email youygan@gmail.com or post on our Discord server with the player's name, the room and what happened.

Every update's patch notes are on the Updates page.