Man i cant understand what happened to this community. I played on the Falange(Brazil) server for 3 years and i never seen anyone complain about the weapons like people do here. People from Falange played with every weapon in the game, shaw/alig, ntec/cr5, oca/pmg, csg/jg, etc etc...
For us the only "OP" weapons was PMG and Nfas because the great dmg both weapons do in CQC. I never seen anyone complain about HVR being to "strong" or that you can kill anyone at any distance, or NTEC being the main weapon. We just played the game the way it was. Ntec was popular, yeah it was, because its a good weapon, everyone can equip it and play, just try to learn how the weapon works and you are gonna be fine.
Thats why talking about balance here is wrong for me, if i said something people dont like, they are gonna rage at me like im wrong.