User blog comment:Didikins/Why I think the supply drop system doesn't work/@comment-3967954-20150103102134

The whole weapon variants concept is flawed in itself. None of the variant are actually explicitly better than their original couterpart; they're just different. In order to "balance" the game, Sledgehammer thought it'd be a good idea to make every variant have just as many downsides as upsides. This completely defeats the point. Sure, if some variants were better in every way to their originals, then it would give the player a direct advantage over people using the vanilla version of that weapon, but isn't that the point? Why have variants if you're not prepared to deal with the consequences of that concept?

Basically, this means that Elite variants (which are very rare) aren't actually necessarily any good. The Lynx Kingpin variant has -1 damage and -1 accuracy, and no advantages whatsoever, but hey, you get a free parabolic microphone! I swear the stats were randomized. There is no way a human being could have such poor judgement.