User blog comment:Crazy sam10/CoDWiki News - July 26 2015/@comment-25261281-20150726212148/@comment-24756040-20150727134344

StG is only better than the HBRa3 if you want a consistent fire rate. Other than that, you're just limiting yourself with less range and more gunkick (they have the same recoil pattern, mind you).

The SVO, on the other hand, is actually pretty damn strong. It's sort of like a mix-match between the MORS and the Atlas-20mm: it has the damage of the MORS, the ability to hip-fire like the MORS, the semi-automatic capability of the Atlas 20mm, and somehow, it gets its own ten round magazine. Not to mention that it has pretty low recoil per shot, but then again, your centerspeed is a sucky 600, so have fun trying to spam that. Regardless, the SVO is pretty damn strong of a sniper.