>>8004660Rival stuff has improved by leaps and bounds since that blaster. They still sound like a mack truck hitting a wall at 80mph, especially when dry fired, but new one have much smoother actions and much more ergonomic designs.
If you want to stick to springers, the Artemis and it's bigger brother, the Promethius are both solid two handed internal mag blasters. The Helios is more or less a direct and highly superior improvement over the Apollo and there's also the Khronos, which is a blaster any nerf fan should own.
I don't have any experience with the Roundhouse so I don't know how effective it is, but most Rival blasters work well so I don't see it being too bad. But the Apollo is easily one of the worst blasters in the line imo, especially nowadays with so many vastly superior blasters to compete with.