Submachine Gun

The Submachine Gun was a Submachine Gun in Fortnite: Battle Royale It was added in Season 5.

Functionality
The Submachine Gun is a fast firing, short range and high hip-fire accuracy weapon, in line with most SMGs in the game. The purpose of the Submachine Gun is to deal high amounts of DPS in a close range environment. The weapon can function at longer ranges, but the damage falloff is high and the accuracy low.

Stats
The Submachine Gun ranges from dealing 16 to 20 damage per shot (176 to 220 Damage Per Second). All Submachine Guns use. The Submachine Gun has a headshot multiplier of 1.75x. The Submachine Gun is a hitscan weapon. It does not have First Shot Accuracy enabled, and will always fire a random spread of bullets, which increases with continuous fire. This spread is decreased whilst crouching.

Damage falloff


 * Damage falloff begins at 20 metres (4 tiles)
 * Damage reaches its minimum value of 45% of its maximum at 40 meters (8 tiles).
 * Damage falloff does not affect Structure Damage.

Obtained
Combining a Submachine Gun with:


 * 1 Nuts 'n' Bolts creates a Rapid Fire SMG.
 * 1 Alien Nanites creates a Kymera Ray Gun.

Strategy Guide

 * The Submachine Gun is ideal paired with a Shotgun, due to their close range abilities, if you do not kill the enemy with the shotgun, switch to the Submachine Gun to finish them off.
 * The Submachine Gun can be very good at destroying builds, as it has a high DPS, good magazine size and does not lose Structure Damage at range.

Season 5

 * Update v5.00: Introduced the Submachine Gun in, and.


 * Update v5.10: Adjustments to the Submachine Gun:
 * Reduced damage from 19/20/21 to 17/18/19.
 * Reduced Fire rate from 13 to 12.
 * Reduced Accuracy bonus from 35% to 15%.
 * Range reduced from 2400/3500/5000 to 2000/3000/4000.
 * Percentage reduced from 100/80/65% to 100/70/40%.
 * Update v5.20: Added a higher accuracy penalty to jumping and sprinting for Submachine Guns.

Season 7

 * Update v7.30: Vaulted the Submachine Gun in all rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 1

 * Update v11.00: Unvaulted the Submachine Gun. Added and  rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 2

 * Update v12.00: Vaulted the Submachine Gun's and  rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 3

 * Update v13.00: Unvaulted and  rarities.
 * Can now sidegrade to a Rapid Fire SMG at an Upgrade Bench.
 * Headshot multiplier reduced from 2.0x to 1.75x across the board.
 * Upgrading a Submachine Gun now gives an  Compact SMG. (Issue)
 * Submachine Gun will no longer upgrade into a Submachine Gun. (Issue)
 * Update v13.00 Hotfix: and  stats changed to match the Compact SMG.


 * Update v13.20: Submachine Gun Adjustments:
 * Reduced fire rate of to  from 12 to 10.
 * Decreased damage from 17/18/19/20/21 to 16/17/18/19/20.
 * Increased reload time of to  from 2.3s/2.2s/2.1s to 2.5s/2.4s/2.3s & decreased reload time of  to  from 3.1s/3.0s to 2.2s/2.1s
 * Reverted to Upgrading a Submachine Gun now gives an  Submachine Gun.

Chapter 2: Season 4

 * Update v14.00: Vaulted the Submachine Gun in all rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 5

 * Update v15.00: Unvaulted the Submachine Gun in all rarities.

Chapter 2: Season 6

 * Update v16.00: Vaulted the Submachine Gun.
 * Update v16.20 hotfix: Balance Update
 * Increased fire rate from 10 to 11.
 * Decreased reload time from 2.5s/2.4s/2.3s/2.2s/2.1 to 2.3s/2.2s/2.1s/2.0s/1.9.

Chapter 2: Season 7

 * Update v17.00: Unvaulted the Common Submachine Gun.
 * All Submachine Guns can be crafted into a Rapid Fire SMG of the same rarity using Nuts 'n' Bolts.


 * Content Update v17.10:  to  rarities of the Submachine Gun can be crafted into a Kymera Ray Gun of the same rarity using Alien Nanites.

Chapter 3: Season 1

 * Update v19.00: Vaulted The Submachine Gun in all rarities

Trivia

 * The Submachine Gun has had a confusing life as a weapon in Battle Royale. Before its release in Season 5, the Submachine Gun had existed before in Seasons 0-2 as the Machine Pistol, which is technically a separate weapon, but was vaulted after that and never returned. Then in later seasons, the Compact SMG was added, which served as the and  versions of the Submachine Gun, but was still a different weapon. Finally in Chapter 2: Season 4, the Compact SMG was removed, the  and  versions of the Submachine Gun were added with the stats of the Compact SMG given to them, in order to make them a single weapon..
 * The, and  SMG are modeled after the German Heckler and Koch MP5
 * The and  SMG are modeled after the Belgian FN P90.
 * It is unclear whether the Vaulted Pre-Season SMG, the Machine Pistol is the same as the original SMG. This is unclear, as the weapons have different names, stats and features, but the original weapon was named the SMG. However, for the purposes of distinguishing weaponry, the Pre-Season SMG is listed as the Machine Pistol.

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