User blog comment:Cubuff37/My Official Review Of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare/@comment-24756040-20150131184000/@comment-3967954-20150131191436

Post-patch XMG is not only usable, but actually quite good in the right hands. SN6 is usable but not great, and the AMR9 needs rapid fire to really be effective.

Seems to be a lot of hate towards the Mk14, which is somewhat understandable considering it bears no real advantage over any other AR, but it's not quite as bad as the community makes out. It's certainly not as bad as the EPM3, which is essentially the same thing but with more recoil, less accuracy and an overheat after every 5 shots.

NA-45 should never be used as a sniper rifle, and never used as a primary weapon either. It's not designed for TDM, it's designed for objective gamemodes and can be effective. Takes some getting used to and it doesn't really hold much advantage over the MAHEM.

Now the S12 - that's crap. Just bad. I'm also surprised they haven't patched the PDW's recoil yet. Lynx has almost as much recoil as the Atlas 20mm which is stupid.

To be honest, the only "garbage" weapons in the game as the S12, Lynx, Atlas 45, EPM3 and NA-45 if you use it for sniping. Riot Shield and Crossbow could qualify but no-one even knows they exist anymore.