Weapon balance is impossible because of all the variations in games and players different styles of play. Games will ALWAYS have prefferential guns, and its unfair to call them noobish. In Black ops, due to the medium sized maps in the main, assault rifles were king. In MW3 due to the smaller maps SMGs are the way to go. Give us large maps, like a few other games have, and snipers are king. EVERY gun has a situation where it is king, and EVERY gun has a place in the game. The harder to use guns are put in to test the better players, the easier to use guns are put in to help the not so good players match up and complete. Remember the vast majority of players are pretty mediocre at best. And what a lot of poeple dont realise is that 95% of players dont read forums etc so have no concept of what appears to be OP or noobish. They use what they can get the best results with.
If cod just had snipers, would you buy it? Coz I wouldnt. Theyre selling a game and want to obvioulsly sell as many copies as possible, so they have to make it balanced in that the good players dont beat up on the bad players day in out, or the bad players, the lower tierof the games ecosystem wouldnt play, or even buy the game, then the game wouldnt exist.
IMO only a few guns have slight faults, like the barrat being used as an smg for example, or the type 95 being a 1 shot kill close up, stuff like that.
The other stuff that should be up for debate like dead mans hands blast radius, stealth bomber being in support package, emp in support even, etc etc, is always going to happen, its the mchanics of the game and in some way what makes the game the amazing thing that has turned into. It gets people talking, and people keep laying. If they stopped making cod today, people would still be playing the games we have now in 10yrs!
The things they really need fixing are the lag compensation issues, matchmaking in parties, and they need to bring back the random option is map selections, and more detail on the leaderboards, like objective totals for flag caps, tags colected etc. THATS the most important stuff imvho
