Hey, Apex Legends!It's that time again to discuss weapon balance! We touched up on the EVA-8 and Havoc last week and if you still wanted to get in thoughts on those we have the discussion for it right here. But now, let's talk about the Flatline & Triple Take! Both the Flatline and Triple Take received buffs and performance optimizations going into Season 2 (patch notes) Weapon Buffs Flatline: damage 16 -> 19 Triple Take x Precision Choke: choke time 1.5 -> 1.1 Performance Optimizations Improved performance when firing weapons, especially for multi-projectile weapons like shotguns and Triple Take. How do you feel the Flatline stacks up to the rest of the weapons early, mid, and late game? Thoughts on it's recoil? The Triple Take has been getting plenty of love in Season 2 with it's hip fire accuracy. Do you pass on sniper scopes because of that and prefer Holo, or have you mastered it's long range shots?In what situations do you think they're strongest in? What's your strats with them? Does your squad run triple Triple takes? Got any sweet clips of Flatline or Triple Take you'd like to share here even Mirage would be impressed about?Let's hear it!

The flatline is my weapon of choice for close to mid range combat. It's got some serious stopping power and very quick to build with attachments, i see this weapon often left in supply crates on floors etc and i've got no idea why...it's a beast. 😛The triple take...can't say i really use this much. Purely because i can never seem to find precision chokes early enough to justify keeping hold of it. Yes it's quite good to use early game but it quickly loses it's edge without the hop up.

Can't speak on the Flatline... I think I've kept away from it because of the slower rate. I'd prefer an R-301 or Hemlok. Or hell, even a Spitfire since it has more bullets.The Triple Take is hit or miss. I like that it acts as a shotgun-ish weapon early game when people are scrambling around looting. It's got the best iron sights in my opinion. I just hate using it against someone who has a Longbow from range. Yeah it shoots multiple bullets, but they're pellets compared to others, unless you can land a rainbow headshot with the choke. It's just a decent gun to me.

@SethCurry Ocfourse not, those guns have been meta since launch for a reason, but that doesn't mean the Flatline/G7 is bad, it's just outclassed like the p2020 vs RE-45 or something where the 45 will beat the 2020 in most situations but it doesn't mean the 2020 is trash specially since the hopup came out. I feel like I was all over the place with that answer but you get what I'm saying right?

I really wanna love the Flatline, pick it up often, and always do poorly with it regardless of adding a sight to compensate for the horrible iron sights. Just feels sluggish to me, wish I could find myself to love the gun cause the legendary skins are very nice for this one.

@EA_Blueberry Flatline is JUNK, Like shooting a bb gun in slow motion. love the triple take.

Weapon Spotlight - Flatline & Triple Take

26 Replies

Gabrielmojo26
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I really wanna love the Flatline, pick it up often, and always do poorly with it regardless of adding a sight to compensate for the horrible iron sights. Just feels sluggish to me, wish I could find myself to love the gun cause the legendary skins are very nice for this one.
MandatoryIDtag
6 years ago
The flatline is my weapon of choice for close to mid range combat. It's got some serious stopping power and very quick to build with attachments, i see this weapon often left in supply crates on floors etc and i've got no idea why...it's a beast. 😛
The triple take...can't say i really use this much. Purely because i can never seem to find precision chokes early enough to justify keeping hold of it. Yes it's quite good to use early game but it quickly loses it's edge without the hop up.
Huntinwabits
6 years ago
@EA_Blueberry Flatline is JUNK, Like shooting a bb gun in slow motion. love the triple take.
jonesy0218
6 years ago
Can't speak on the Flatline... I think I've kept away from it because of the slower rate. I'd prefer an R-301 or Hemlok. Or hell, even a Spitfire since it has more bullets.
The Triple Take is hit or miss. I like that it acts as a shotgun-ish weapon early game when people are scrambling around looting. It's got the best iron sights in my opinion. I just hate using it against someone who has a Longbow from range. Yeah it shoots multiple bullets, but they're pellets compared to others, unless you can land a rainbow headshot with the choke. It's just a decent gun to me.
asukojo
6 years ago
Flatline = Meeehh, keep it on the ground. Never pick it up, it sucks hards, the sound, the feeling, the recoil, everything feels bad. It's meme gun until now.
Triple Take = Great weapon for all range
- Short range = Could act like shotgun in early part of game.
- Medium range = people start run like chicken once got hit by it.
- Long range = need hopup.
Koochi-Q
6 years ago
Flatline, like it nowadays in comparison to before. It’s like it has a firing accellerator the longer you shoot or something. Sometimes I prefer it over the 301.

Triple take is my go-to shotgun. I just use it as a shotgun since from shotgun range it always hits 55-65/69 dmg. As a sniper, I hardly ever use it since without the hopup it’s weak in my opinion
jumanjaydazed
6 years ago
Love the flateline...always have. Head shots destroy. I guess it's junk to some who can only hit body shots. Flatline/ Eva...I'm good to go
TP is fun...easily dropped though if I see a G7
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Kaira-UK-
6 years ago
I ALWAYS find golden flatlines and i end up just leaving it as its garbage late game, it's too slow compared the damage other guns put out, as for the triple take I have a love hate relationship with that gun, when sniping it appears alot of the time my bullets just go through people and it annoys me but at early game its great for wrecking individuals in your safe space.
Cabowse
6 years ago
I honestly love the changes that have been made to these guns, and the Flatline has slowly become one of my favourite weapons, especially with Gibraltar.
Here are my thoughts on both:
Flatline
I honestly think the Flatline is in a brilliant place right now, when you know how to use it, it is one of the highest DPS weapons in the game. I think the single-fire option on the gun needs a bit of refinement. Currently it doesn't really give you much more precision over the full-auto mode as the recoil is still very high, I'm not saying it should be in the same realm as the Hemlok, but It would be nice for it to be a little more reliable at range.
Triple-Take
This is honestly one of the most underrated guns in the game, I think stats-wise this gun doesn't need any refinement, it's perfect! However just as a quality of life adjustment it would be nice to have an option to switch precision mode on and off when you have the hop-up, as you don't always want to use it and taking the hop-up out of the weapon is a pain.
Anlbrd
6 years ago
Flatline fires as fast as you can click :S Don't know what people mean about it being slow.