February 2021
Yea I feel u onnat, you’ll get there 💯💯
March 2021 - last edited March 2021
Lowering the mag size on an LMG doesn't make too much sense. Maybe give it like 48 or 50 max instead of 55. I think a better balance for spitfire would be to lower the fire rate and/or increase the damage falloff. I personally use spitfire a lot for mid and long range encounters and love it, but I do get that it can be very bullet-spammy. This is made worse by the fact that purple/gold mags are EVERYWHERE in pubs right now. You can find L3 loot within arm's reach everywhere you drop and that makes all of the bullet spam weapons more annoying.
March 2021 - last edited March 2021
@papahandsoapI could see them making rampart have 55 bullets instead of 63 and all of the other legends having 47 bullets max or something... but idk I think they should just lower the damage back to 18 it was fine where it was before but now its just my go to weapon I haven’t even been using a volt/R-99 unless I haven’t had the chance to find a spitfire yet
March 2021 - last edited March 2021
@TheApexLegendNub Honestly it was mid tier at best before the buff. I agree with your proposed ammo change suggestion, but the 20 body dmg makes a lot of sense for it being a heavy LMG. R301 is 14 to the body and it has a higher fire rate, so they had to make the spitfire a reasonable choice. I think the best way to tweak this gun would be magazine size and/or fire rate. Otherwise it just won't be picked up.
March 2021
Yea true if the fire rate is slowed down then that’s be a better alternative.
March 2021
Its fair all the way. Hip firing is absolutely terrible and your character moves slow while using it. I use it often and I die all the time with it.
March 2021
When the damage per bullet was 18, most people wouldn't even consider picking up the Spitfire because it wasn't strong enough.
And now when the damage per bullet got increased by +1, all of a sudden it's "broken" and "the new meta".
Come on, that's just a 5.6% buff to its DPS. That's not the difference between a below average gun and a top tier gun.
LMG's are supposed to be strong, and a turbocharged Devotion is still way stronger than the Spitfire.
March 2021
The spitfire starts with 35 per magazine. You can get chopped down with less than that, so I'm not sure a smaller capacity magazine would help.
March 2021
March 2021 - last edited March 2021
Spitfire was Shitfire before the buff. It was completely outclassed by the Flatline at close range, outperformed by the Hemlock at long range, and eat a full meal of dirt by the Wingman. Suddenly a minor +1 damage buff with the downside of ~33% more reload time and people went mad about it