Addressing people who have faith in future weapon patches.

This is going to be long, so if you don't want to read it at least post some dank ass TL;DR memes.

From what I can tell, you don't have to look any further than what they've done to The Mattock to realize that, for whatever reason, they don't have the intention of making most of these weapons viable. They fix(the very noticeable) rate of fire glitch on semi autos, and then bump down The Mattock's damage to offset the much needed buff given to it?

In the meantime, two of it's uncommon brethren(The Incisor, and Raptor), remain untouched, and absolutely shred enemies in comparison.

They've done nothing about the lack of reload canceling(you can say what you want about it's exclusion, but it is a necessity to make single shot weapons with relatively long reload times viable, or even reasonable primary damage dealers.)

Shotguns are by far doing the worse as a weapon class, not a single one received a damage buff.

Here's my point.

Among the various schools of thought for game balance, there is one that I've noticed in ME:A's multiplayer. It can be primarily found in older PVP shooters, and that is: Rewarding more mechanically skilled players with higher damage potential.

Allow me to give you an example, in Halo CE you could definitely snag a few kills a match by just using the assault rifle, but any player that was skilled with the pistol would melt you, and there wouldn't be much that you could do about it, except try to beat them at their own game.

As far as gun balance in ME:A is concerned, shotguns are the weakest, but they are the easiest to land shots with, followed by assault rifles, then pistols, and finally snipers. 

Are there exceptions? Yes, The Thokin is pretty good actually, but you need to have the skill to lead shots at range, for example.

Biotic Boom kits, which require very little mechanical, and fine motor skills, definitely aren't as effective as they once were.

They seem to want sniping, which is the playstyle that requires the most gunskill, to generally be the most effective way to play the game. Unless, you're lucky and have an easy to use weapon that is an exception to my hypothesis.

I simply don't have any faith that they actually intend to stray too far off of the "balance" that is in the game currently. They launched it like this, believe that they've tested it enough that a beta wasn't necessary, and this recent patch doesn't do too much to address the issues, or stray too far from what what they've already established. Once a gun became a little "too" effectve(The Mattock), AKA, not shit, they nerf it in the same patch that was suppose to buff it.

LOL! I can only conclude that this is what they want.

And before anyone decides to strawman, and say that I hate how powerful snipers are in comparison because I can't use one, check my clips:
xboxdvr.com/game/Astronautic%20II/videos

That's not the case.