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After reboot, some weapons in the game will be slightly ... adjusted.
Some weapon classes were out of line with the rest of the weapons so things have been nudged around to ensure that some more neglected classes aren't totally useless.
Also now when you look at the 'top end' choices of a particular weapons class, if they were roughly comparable before, now you might be forced to make a choice between offense, defense and damage...
(Oh and sometimes something that was once intended to be at the top end wasn't...and maybe it is now.)
There will be some further revisions upcoming Real Soon Now (tm) as I have not quite finished my revision of certain weapon classes.
Happy mudding
D.