User blog comment:AntiScootaTwo/Advanced Warfare Havoc DLC preview/@comment-174.64.99.147-20150116003123/@comment-24737457-20150117151855

Kyle, has it dead on, try all the guns, i can conclude after doing that, there are no truly "Bad" weapons, there are only weak ones, or ones with not enough good variants.

AMR9,  only one great improvement variant, the Pro Pipe,  19 -> 33 Damage, unbelievable damage increase, and NO OTHER VARIANT upgrades damage, poorly thought through.

MK14 - The damage in MW3 was 75 - 49... AW? It's 49-25...Seriously? I'm well aware that people disliked the ridiculous damage in MW3, but when that minimum damage is the maximum in AW, that's called a fuck up. At the very least, it needs to be 50-33 or something, where you have a chance at a 2 shot, in close range, because NOBODY is goning to stand anywhere near a chance against the BAL or the ASM1 or even the AK with low recoil and hih damage+RoF.

S-12, this thing is weak, but at least it has fairly good variants, but the key issue is that it doesn't do ENOUGH damage with the vanilla model, so you NEED a variant to really succeed, namely one with a +Mag size.

HBRa3, STOP COMPLAINING,  there is nothing wrong with this weapon, it still kills consistently, sure its worse than it used to be, but that is nothing to whine about, look at the weapons above, THEY are the ones with real problems, not the HBRa3, and there are plenty others with issues, the MDL, the Atlas 45 and 20mm (No variable, r U av1n a g16gle there m9?) The EPM3, The ARX, The vanilla MP11 and SN6 are all Average in comparison or have some stat issue somewhere.