User blog comment:Donotdiddlekids/Hahahaha.... Ghosts./@comment-24737457-20141030161200/@comment-1187559-20141030182629

Best guess; R5 and AK-12 are both the high end ARs and their only real "balancing" is that they fire very slow, the recoil is negligible and easily compensated. Vector has a decent RoF, mild recoil and is the most powerful SMG of the class. MTAR is an AR-SMG hybrid, and it's pretty low recoil with moderate damage so it's range is quite high. Ripper is likely the same as the MTAR. I can't say for the Bulldog as I only use Shotguns in BF games since in CoD (barring MW2) they are shit at anything short of point blank range, at which point you're better off using the knife than the shot gun, since the knife is still a more guaranteed kill. I don't think they were all that OP, but I do think the balancing was poorly done.