Apex Legends dev explains why they buffed the Spitfire for Season 6 Respawn EntertainmentAn Apex Legends developer has explained the reasoning behind the buff of the Spitfire LMG that came in Season 6. The buff has been relatively well-received by Apex players with the improved handling making the Spitfire an easier weapon to use, alongside a number of other changes that came with the new season including the new Legend, Rampart. Though the patch notes were vague, a number of players noticed that the weapon felt different, and now one of the developers of the game have cleared the air on what they changed and why they did it. David Bocek, otherwise known as AmusedApricot, is a Game Designer at Apex developer Respawn Entertainment, and took to the game\u2019s subreddit to answer some questions about the new changes. While fans sought to decipher the \u201cvague\u201d patch notes that pertained to the Spitfire change, with some saying that it felt different but they weren\u2019t sure what had changed, Bocek decided to clue them in. He said: \u201cIt was just a reduction in the multipliers for the vertical and horizontal kick, but not an adjustment to the pattern itself. The horizontal recoil was buffed a little more than the vertical.\u201d The reason for this decision was a simple one, saying that \u201cthe high mag size with worse TTK is a combo that is better for non-high skill players,\u201d and that as horizontal recoil is hard to control, it \u201cmade sense to improve on that axis.\u201d If you haven\u2019t yet run around with the Spitfire for a bit in Apex Legends since the buff, you\u2019re missing out. The easier handling has made it more fun to use, especially if you sometimes struggle to hit your shots over medium to long ranges. It\u2019s good to see Respawn continuing to be open and transparent with their core player base, and now we can put a bit more context behind the Spitfire buff after finding out why the change was made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev explains why they buffed the Spitfire for Season 6 Respawn EntertainmentAn Apex Legends developer has explained the reasoning behind the buff of the Spitfire LMG that came in Season 6. The buff has been relatively well-received by Apex players with the improved handling making the Spitfire an easier weapon to use, alongside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}