@EdwardDLuffy well, I'm in my 30s actually, so I'm not as young as most players either and it also took me a while to get used to Apex, coming over from the Battlefield series where the matches were more chill and teams were large, so there was hardly any pressure on me to play sweaty and pull off any miracles. I had to relearn everything in Apex and upgrade my setup to get higher FPS 🙂
I've never had the problem with forgetting to reload though. My issue is the opposite, I keep spamming reload too frequently when there's plenty of ammo left in the mag 🙂 (it's a habit I got from single player games). The only time I've been stuck with a weapon that's not firing is with L-star, because the weapon itself doesn't come with any bullets. It's hilarious to pick it up with no ammo off drop, point it at people punching you and click the trigger like crazy with nothing happening :D
I have eliminated a few people across the map with a sniper as well (did a 700m record elimination with Charge Rifle once), but if I'm going for high kill games then a sniper rifle just doesn't get me great results consistently enough. Sometimes you get lucky eliminations with it, but mostly the knocked enemies just crawl behind a rock and get revived and if you try to push in to finish them then you'll have to make do with just one gun, because a sniper is hardly reliable at close range. Snipers are fine for farming damage though 🙂
I have gotten a 20 badge with Spitfire as well, so you can certainly make it work, but close range SMGs and shotguns are more effective, because they have a higher fire rate and they also allow you to strafe around faster behind cover to avoid taking damage, while chipping away at the enemy's health. I'd rather take a fully kitted SMG/Shotgun over an LMG. I've lost a final 1v1 to a Mastiff with my Devotion, while in this match I eliminated two Devotion players with an SMG. I'm lucky that I was able to knock the Mastiff player with shots in the back, because a face to face fight would've been really bad for me... one hit alone could've done 104 damage to me and his teammate would've finished me off.
As for longer ranges, Spitfire just doesn't have the same range as Scout, but it's still viable at medium range if it has good attachments.
