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Interesting they're talking about skill gap when more than half of the flatline recoil is based on rng. Some other weapons have it too, but flatline and spitfire are the most obvious ones.
Maybe they should reduce the rng and make the recoil spread more, so we take our time and learn it. This way they actually would reward players for practicing and trying a harder weapon to use. Until there I'll just pick the r301 8 out of 10 times if I have to choose between these two.
I think you may be mis-attributing what you're feeling. Almost every weapon in Apex has some amount of recoil pattern randomness (and the R301 has more than the flatline). If you aren't playing at a very high level with exceptional recoil control, the randomness is probably not what you're feeling, just a more difficult and erratic pattern. The spitfire, for example, has very little recoil randomness. It has some double shots in the pattern where one shot kicks only a little bit into the second, then the second kicks much more into another pair, which gives it a more erratic "chunky" feeling, and the pattern has some sudden shifts which are difficult to control, but it's not due to recoil randomness.
and the pattern has some sudden shifts which are difficult to control, but it's not due to recoil randomness
That's probably what I feel the most when using the flatline. Maybe I'm expecting the recoil to be so consistent that if I do the same movement pattern everytime to counter it, the result will be consistent as well. These random horizontal shifts are probably my weakness when using it
There is a horizontal shift to the righte and then back to the left in the middle of the flatline pattern, it's tricky. You can learn the timing with some practice though!