Talk:L96A1 Black-Magnum/@comment-70.92.67.13-20131121050944/@comment-1906486-20131121180632

They likely were stronger at one point, but Nexon has always had a need to reduce weapons. Mostly to justify superior ones being added in, which will be better for a while and later effective range is reduced. Both are identical in mostly all ways, apparently the Black Magnum is using a more lethal round but that's from how long ago? Likely reduced a lot of effective range, making it a less desirable weapon to renew with them throwing more into the game.

Unless you're a serious Black Mag fan, and like it's appearance over new snipers it's a pass. Because they will always keep tweaking here and there, to make things not as appealing but within some effective range limit. To not basically kill complete interest, possibly keep things within a medium-long range instead of extremely long range kind of idea.

They want you to buy more new cases, with new and more shiny weapons. As they add more into a category, the more they need to balance it out to everything else. Depending on if it's a standard, rare or even epic. Obviously rarity aside it can still be scaled far worse than what they intended, but that's just how I'm thinking they handle it all.