User blog comment:Longshot17/"Overpowered" Weapons and "Underpowered" Weapons/@comment-5093628-20131111211957

You are right on certain aspects. Every gun has strengths and weaknesses, true but some guns have strengths that clearly outweigh its cons, or that their cons are nearly negligible.

What makes a gun good are its stats and handling. Your example of someone with a lot of experience of a gun (M16A3) vs a guy who just acquired an M416 CQB is flawed in the sense that the players do not have equal experience in the usage of the weapons.

What makes a weapon overpowered, is when the stats and handling allow a player with lower skill levels to perform equally or better than someone who uses another weapon that is balanced or underpowered. If both players in your example had equal skill, it would take much less effort for the guy with M416 CQB to wreck the guy with the M16A3.

There will always be someone who with an underpowered weapon that can beat someone with an overpowered weapon, but that doesnt disprove the fact that the overpowered weapon is overpowered. A person with a M4A1 CAN beat someone with an Orthus at close range, but its going to take a lot more effort and skill than if they both used an Orthus or had weapons of equal tier (assuming both players are equal in skill).