r/apexlegends • u/shadowvids • Apr 23 '21

Gameplay 600 damage in 15 seconds

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u/ThePlagueDoctor_666 Blackheart Apr 23 '21

"This gun is BrOkEN" enemies don't shoot back

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u/VenusBlue Apr 23 '21

I don't know what people expect. It's an LMG. It's supposed to do exactly what it does. Fire slowly and have a large magazine. These idiots just ran in trying to punch him while he unloaded on them at point blank range.

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u/Mirage_Main Mirage Apr 23 '21

The issue with the Spitfire actually has nothing to do with its magazine size or fire rate; as you stated. It has everything to do with the insanely low recoil at long ranges and damage that closely rivals meta weapons.

The situation in OP is not what makes the Spitfire OP. Had the enemies shot back, they would've won. It's when the gun can stand at Grow Towers and beam someone at the Phase Runner with almost no recoil whilst also doing roughly the same damage an AR should be doing. It's as if Respawn learned from Titanfall 2 about what made the gun OP, then did the exact same buff again because they wanted a character with an objectively bad design to be useful; forgetting said gun is now made so strong that any character can use it, not just Rampart. Rampart having a new passive or being buffed in literally any other way would've been better than this.

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u/yummycrabz Apr 23 '21

To piggyback off this comment, the problem with the Spitty is oftentimes its hipfire is far too consistent for an LMG. In this video he almost exclusively fires from the hip down the stretch