User blog comment:Argorrath/CoDWiki News - November 9th, 2014/@comment-24756040-20141109164630/@comment-2163805-20141109200111

Bal-27: great weapon, but not necessarily overpoweredT he ARX-160 can be a good competitor against it; fast bursts and overall nice weapon.

Atlas 45: I don't understand how people didn't like it; it actually performs well compared to semi-auto pistols from previous games. What I actually didn't like is the MP443 Grach in AW: very noticeable delay between bursts (of 2 rounds only) + horrible recoil.

XMG: Abomination, to the point that even its extremely high mag capacity is useless.

SAC3: With rapid fire it becomes a good weapon, but not without it.

S-12: I wonder when shotguns will finally have some range in CoD, and I wonder when full-auto ones will actually have high power with a lower and more controllable rate of fire (though not as low as the MW3 USAS-12), like in the Battlefield series or the AA-12 from The Expendables.