It's pretty embarrassing the fact that every low skill player rocks it... It's so stupid the fact that has 55 rounds. Its too broken. You can one clip a full squad and have a few bullets left. I think that others like me are sick and tired of the Spitfire spam

This gun has been broken since day 1, but now it seems like every single player runs it. An extremely helpful nerf would be to reduce the mag size of each mag for the spitfire by 5-10 and reduce the damage from 20 down to like 16-17. This gun just hits way too hard and it is entirely too overused in high rankings I just hit diamond and all I run into are people with the spitfire spraying and crouch spamming at me until i'm dead because you can't get away from the guns mag capacity.

@yourd3ntis7 Really ? Its actually pretty weak apart from the mag. The low rate of fire makes most guns beat it one on one.

positioning doesn't really matter when the spitfire does so much damage The spitfire is absolutely more broken than the R301 in fact I would say that the R301 is the only "balanced" weapon in the game currently. I am not the only who feels this way either there have been pro players saying the same thing. They gave us a broken gun what do you even mean? This gun has been broken for ages and actual pro players have said the exact same thing A mag nerf would be huge but it would be really nice to get a small damage nerf as well [CM - Edited to merge consecutive replies]

@xx_Dante2k_xx Weak? Pffff.... Please.... It's weak because you miss

@xx_Dante2k_xx is right. The low rate of fire is why it has a huge mag. The only way I can actually drop people is by headshots, or if they are just bad... But 9/10 times I have dropped people by headshots - and even then, I have to heal right away.I think the spitfire is perfect where it is.

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IMightKickAss
5 years ago
@Midnight9746 That's quite a subjective claim: it is much faster than Sentinel for same damage (when not charged with cells) or than longbow (which in addition does less damage), or even charge rifle (which does usually not the full damage as you will move and not take the full ray, and which also lose his hoomph with distance -beyond 150m, If I remember well-
IMightKickAss
5 years ago
@Noksymon I don't understand all the craze about Spitfire. Granted, it packs some punch, but hey, that's a machine gun. L Star is also wild, so does Devotion... What is exactly the problem, it has recoil and so on. Indeed, if you are close shot with it, you will take much damage. Logical?
WreckingVi
5 years ago
@IMightKickAss Have you played season 8? have you watched pro players talking about it? Have you seen what is happening in this season? Some players here either are Spitfire users into a certain lvl or wanna act like they are so good not to see the issue.
WreckingVi
5 years ago
@yourd3ntis7 New season and Spitfire is much worse than. Woah. They need to patch nerf now.
Noksymon
5 years ago
@IMightKickAss u clearly dont know whats the problem right? then why talk? problem is that there is almost no recoil (feels better) then 301, its same damage as flatline, now even higher cause AR hs multiplier nerfedm and it has almost 60 bullets in mag, its a deadly gun, and it requires 0 skill, thats it
PraetorOfOlea
5 years ago
@yourd3ntis7 Spitfire is fine. All the guns are fine. If you don't like dying to them learn how to AD spam properly and use the guns yourself.
yourd3ntis7
5 years ago
The Spitfire is fine?! Apparently you're missing way too many shots
Rageborns_Fury
5 years ago
Reducing the amount of bullets in the mag would destroy the feeling of the weapon. It's an LMG, it's supposed to have loads of ammunition. And an LMG is supposed to deal alot of damage as well. But as it is right now, it's too powerful even for people who just spray and pray
But if we think back to action movies where people "run" around with LMG's, they dont really run as much as they're walking with the back arched due to the weight of the weapon.
One thought about "nerfing" the gun would be to make a character move slower while wielding it, thoughts about this?
It would keep the spitfire as a true LMG, lots of ammo, lots of damage but at a very realistic price.
Az-Laar-yagami
5 years ago
Its underpowered but at the same time steady firing and low fire rate unlike the devotion is of anything it should have a dps buff for the lack of fire rate to say win against a squad of nothing but r-99s that everyone is mostly top players are running 2 of them.
Rageborns_Fury
5 years ago
@Az-Laar-yagami I wouldn't say that the Spitfire needs a DPS buff.

It takes 6.06 seconds to empty a clip of 55 bullets.
If all of these hits are bodyshots, that is 1045 damage.
This means you have a 174.16 damage per second.

If all of those hits were headshots, it would be 2090 damage.
This would mean that it would have 348.33 damage per second.

Naturally one would not hit 55 headshots in a row unless he was cheating. But say 50% are headshots if you get lucky.
That would amount to 1567.5 damage which yields 261,25 damage per second.

This is, if my math checks out, plenty of DPS.
Sure, it's slower than a real life M249, but a lot more accurate.

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