User blog comment:AntiScootaTwo/Advanced Warfare Havoc DLC preview/@comment-174.64.99.147-20150116003123/@comment-3967954-20150117091207

While initially the Bal was the only gun anyone ever used, it's pretty easy to counter now. Vanilla HBR is barely even used. AK-12 needs a recoil boost.

There is no standout "best" weapon in AW. There are bad guns and there are good guns, but even the overused weapons like the Bal and the MORS are really only effective in the right hands. At the end of the day it's all down to the player who uses them. A skilled team using KF5s and ARXs can still go positive agianst a team of people using ASM1s and Bals.

By comparison, AW has a lot less "overpowered" weapons than MW2 or CoD4 ever did, and nothing on the scale of the M1887/Akimbo disaster or CoD4's grenade launcher. Whether AW is as good as MW2 or CoD4 on the whole is really up to the player.