
Sure, it oneshots trash, but you need to wait for the DoT (which can't clear a horde quickly) and it's less ammo efficient than the caulk (which can kill an entire horde of trash with 4 units of ammo because based ground fire).

In any situation that the spitfires would be better than caulk, I find that it's also a situation where firebug as a class in general is suboptimal. It feels like you're playing a worse version of SWAT, basically. Trash just doesn't spawn in big enough groups for you to need 100+ round mags, and while the whole "MORE DAKKA" thing is fun to play with, it gets pretty ineffective really quickly on higher difficulties. No zed is vulnerable to handgun damage (except cyst clones, enjoy your x1.01 multiplier) and many are resistant to I don't see how stoner is better than AK or how spitfire is better than caulk If you're aiming at a head, you're gonna need to stick the barrel up the zed's nose just to make sure. Flares have the same travel speed as an M79 grenade. Impact damage is less than that of an M1911. Stumble power is so low that it might as well not exist. People were not running out of ammo with the AK12 + HMTech401/SCAR meta builds. Spare ammo capacity is like the mag size: a solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist. Fire rate leads to massive ammo waste which bleeds money. Iron sights can't compared to red dot sights.

Per bullet costs nearly the same as the AK12, but only 62.5% of the damage per bullet.

Ammo is expensive for the damage output. DPS is lowest of all the higher tier rifles. AK12 and HMTech401 mags were already plenty large enough. Large mag is a solution in search of a problem. Both weapons are M4's: they suck because their strengths are meaningless, but their faults are not.
