User blog comment:Didikins/My opinions on weapon classes in Black Ops 3/@comment-1263839-20151116122903

I use the XR-2 against my better judgement. It does next-to-no damage and hip firing with any AR other than the KN feels like a losing battle. The Blackcell is such a lovely weapon, I absolutely adore the feature where it says if your teammates are locking on to the same aircraft. Just a shame that the care package carrier is pretty much impossible to shoot down, and even if you do it won't fail at dropping its crate.

The specialist abilities continue to be all sorts of fucked as well. Users of Glitch (like myself), Vision Pulse, Kinetic Armour, that point bonus one and Psychosis may as well just plant themselves on the floor and die because most of the specialist weapons are ridiculously powerful.

After a week or so, I've decided to do what I did for Black Ops II: play Hardcore until they sort the weapon balance out.