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Hero (Retired)

Re: The spitfire buff was not necessary and probably not the greatest move.

@hayhor When I run it, I tend to run with a 99 or Volt, depends whats available and what magazines I find on drop.

The spitfire I use at ranges the 99/volt really are not that great at. The 99/volt I use in the CQC fights. It's a fairly solid combo. I do think the flatline or 301 is a slightly better gun still. But those guns have 0 margin for error vs spitfire players. If you have to reload you're dead. I get downed by the players who don't miss shots with their anvil hop ups.

Most of the time that I die to spitfire players, it's happening in one of three ways. The entire team is running it (or at least 2 are), I down one enemy and the second gets me. You can't run and reload or do much of anything because their magazine is just never ending. The other is the spitfire player sort of hangs back a bit and spams shots at me.

I would agree that anytime you have 2 people shooting at you, you'll be lucky to down 1 of them. But the spitfire has really lowered the success rate of pulling off clutches like that.

I don't know if the gun needs a nerf. It's just a really obnoxious gun to deal with at times. Especially when the person who killed you shot 80% of their magazine into the wall. It's a third partiers dream gun that's for sure.. Oh look fighting, I'm just going to sit here and spray bullets endlessly.

4 Replies

LordloshBang
5 years ago
You are dying to it more, because more people are using it now, not because its so much broken than it was before or so.
Its the same gun, with + 1 damage added, no more, no less.
Again more people are using it, cause they think its super upper duper god tier now, and thats why you are dying more to it.
It was always a solid weapon, that was created with the idea to help the newbies with the large mag.
Saying all that, the weapon has it downsides.
Terrible Iron sight, ADS speed is terrible, Firing rate its slower than its competition. Not going to talk about reload speed, cause you don`t need that with the huge mag, same with the weapon switch, tho its another drawback to the weapon.
Recoil is not nonexistent, its actually make you miss, but you pretty much won`t know it, cause it have so many bullets. :D
Same with hipfiring recoil.
What i don`t like is the 2x Headshot damage, and maybe they should reduce this, and bring it back to 18 damage per round.
Its still going to be a solid pick for whoever like this type of weapon.
I played for few days and to be fair i don`t remember dying much to it.
I still prefer and always switch to R301, Flatline, R99 and Volt.
Still you need to know how to play against it.
I remember back in the day where Havoc was really strong and the feedback i get against that weapon was to 100% not fight against it in a open fight, esp in close distance. Right now its kinda depend for the Spitfire too. In a medium distance if i can call it like that, unless you can down the target with 1 Mag(not going to happen most of the time, even if have good aim), unless of course he really have terrible strafing pattern or you have god god tier aim, you should just look for a cover or take some kind of advantage, otherwise not worth fight it, you will lose most of the gun fights in that range if you are equal or close to in terms of skill.
II-LAZZARUS-II
5 years ago
@DarthValtrex how about if you search a cover before fighting a spitfire team, its much easier.
In the open field you are only dead meat fighting a guy with a spitfire.
On the other hand if they are so close to you, punch him...he may be firing at you but he will miss.
Take a shotgun with you, or a flatline or another spitfire to have a good chance against another spitfire user. Heavy weapons are the most effective way against another heavy weapon.

I also prefer the spitfire over all heavy ammo weapons now, well till the Prowler comes back. Spitfire and a R99/Volt or a Shotgun and you are ready for everything...
Like it when they gat hammered with haeavy ammo and can't run away that fast :D
soccerking122
5 years ago
only reason why I'll ever run the spitfire is because it's part of rampart's passive. otherwise if I'm not using her, than I'll never pick up a spitty or any lmg
MandatoryIDtag
5 years ago
@DarthValtrex Pre buff your description was accurate, but the OG spitfire was actually a monster, it got nerfed pretty early on lol.
I do think that the spitfire should be a powerful suppression weapon, along with every other LMG, I just find the way respawn go about nerfs/buffs pretty frustrating at times lol. 😛