User blog comment:Didikins/My Opinions on Weapon Classes of Advanced Warfare/@comment-5619949-20141110214011/@comment-3967954-20141110233306

The default PDW is piss-poor, though. Low damage, tiny magazine capacity and a really weird recoil pattern. No recoil for most the shots, but ever-so-occasionally it'll just kick straight upwards for no apparent reason. It's fucking stupid.

If you can get Akimbo or Extended Mags for it, it becomes acceptable. But I get the feeling they intentionally made it shitty because they thought full-auto sidearms were OP. Same with the XMG, Sledgehammer seem to think that because it's a pair of huge miniguns, it needs to be nerfed to the point in which it's useless.