Gun Recoil

Ah, allow me to shed some light on the Apex recoil problem. Guns like the R-99 and previously the Havoc, lack horizontal recoil, which is left/right kickback per shot. Now, they do have vertical recoil, but the thing about vertical recoil is that in video games, there isn't both up and down kickback. It is usually just one direction with vertical recoil, even though horizontal recoil is made to kick back both to the left and right. So when guns don't have any horizontal recoil, like the R-99, all a player has to do is hold the camera button to counteract the upwards kickback, thus completely removing the effects of recoil mechanics altogether. This makes no sense because a rapid-fire weapon should have immense recoil when holding down the trigger as a trade-off for the ridiculous fire rate.

The Spitfire is a good example of a weapon with horizontal recoil. This is why you may hear a lot of complaints about the effectiveness of the weapon. Holding down the trigger for a target more than five feet away is a fool's errand because you're going to recoil to the plains of Antarctica. And yet, the Spitfire has one of the lowest, if not the lowest fire rate for primary weapons.

The R-99 has been a hard meta carry for several seasons because of the unbalanced recoil and fire rate combination. Players should not be able to use a sub-machine gun as a primary laser beam.