Fortnite's Charge SMG Is Secretly Great -- And It Just Got Even Better

gamespot.com:

When Epic added the new Charge SMG to the Fortnite loot pool this season, pretty much everybody reacted the same way: «What the hell is this, and why would I bother with it?» The very sight of the thing, which required players to hold the trigger to charge up a long, impossibly fast burst of bullets, was met with revulsion.

The folks I play with wouldn't even touch the thing, and that seems to still be the prevailing wisdom on Reddit and other places where folks discuss Fortnite amongst themselves. It has its defenders, of course--nothing is ever truly universally disliked--but they're usually drowned out by the haters.

Despite all the rhetoric, I had some success with the thing, getting a few winning kills with it not long after the gun was added to the game in July. But then I stopped using it, some combination of the general disdain and the weirdness of the gun poisoning my mind against it. And I became like everybody else, audibly scoffing every time a Charge SMG popped out of a loot chest.

But no more of that. I recently got back on the Charge SMG train, and I don't want to get off. And though I may feel alone in my enjoyment of this thing, I actually do have some good company on my side: both Loserfruit and Ninja have produced videos where they were pleasantly surprised by the thing.

While I wouldn't be surprised if Epic vaulted this thing at the end of the season because of all the complaints, I hope it keeps it around a little while longer so I can keep enjoying this absolute haymaker of a gun.

Let's get into the technical details for a second. The way the Charge works is that you hold the trigger to build up a burst of fire--the longer you hold it, the more bullets are included in the burst, up to a full clip of