One thing is certain. Your favorite gun in Call of Duty will get nerfed at some point. You know that when you search for best gun articles or videos, the weapons being discussed are likely already nerfed or buffed. Are you sick of mass confusion because of Call of Duty and their endless tweaking? There are solutions, and simple ones at that.
Let's see what happens with BO3. I will agree that the nerfing gets a bit much. I guess the more weapon tweaking that is needed post release, says something about the developers? Rush jobs? Not sure. I personally would rather have buffing if at all necessary and they can leave some fun guns alone.
I think its good to nerf. Or else u get crap like jug/m16 in cod4 mw or one man/danger close mw2.
Let's talk reality here. Halo 1 had the most unbalanced gun ever. The pistol. Were people crying how horrible it was? No. The opposite. People in Halo 2 wanted the Halo 1 pistol back! If that was COD, then the pistol would be blah. Fun would be over. Did the pistol ruin Halo 1. Um...no would be the correct answer. There is a lesson to be had by that example I just gave.
Good article but that first solution is utter nonsense. Second solution was okay.
My solution (and I know this would be unpopular but feck it, I like playing not mucking around in menu's) would be to remove gun customisation altogether and just give the player the choice from 6 classes with each team being on a different type so in all, 12 classes.
Kinda like COD3. That game had the best weapon balance cos every weapon was fair game to be lethal.
only guns that need to be nerfed are the sniper rifles... make it so they cannot be quickscoped and noscoped... make it that the have to be used properly, most of the maps recently are to small for sniper rifles anyway...