User blog comment:Didikins/How I Thik AW Weapons Should be Revised/@comment-1187559-20141123044924/@comment-24756040-20141123153132

XMG getting a buff is no placebo. The crosshairs are super small in Lockdown, and there's no recoil.

To me, Sledgehammer is getting more and more lucrative with weapon stats - raw game files are encoded in some crazy, untranslatable language, from what I heard. And not mentioning a pretty significant XMG buff all sounds like they don't want people knowing what they're doing to the weapons themselves. As well as the EM1 stealth buff.