" to do well with cheaper guns as opposed to almost being forced to buy the best guns just to ensure they weren't severely disadvantaged which is what I set out to achieve in the reabalance."
It seems like your thought on rebalancing is having all the guns obtain fair stats so they can go up against other more expensive guns, that way the other person won't have an advantage when buying the most expensive guns.
Apologize, but isn't that the purpose of buying an expensive gun? I don't expect a PDW to go up against a BAR when the BAR is double the PDW's price; therefore exceeding its stats. Funny, I bought a BAR recently thinking it was a very good gun and saying to myself "Oh, might aswell get this since I know it won't be nerfed. Held up for 6 years after all without one
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Oh boy, was I wrong.
Good thing I just sit at trade-tables all day. Can't say the same for everyone else.