Weapon balance is lazy! Differant bullets, Same damage!
Differant bullets need to do differant damage (CNY,RUS and US ammo all have same damage, but differant bullet entirely)
5.45x39mm WP - AK-12 =======>Max dmg:25, Min dmg:18, drop-off start:8m, drop-off end:55m
5.56x45mm NATO - M416 =====>Max dmg:25, Min dmg:18, drop-off start:8m, drop-off end:55m
5.8x42mm DAP-87 - QBZ-95-1 ==>Max dmg:25, Min dmg:18, drop-off start:8m, drop-off end:55m
M240B and PKP, Totally differant bullet, Exact same damage, Differant velocity UMP45 and M1911 Exact same bullet, yet the M1911's bullet dropoff starts Later than the UMP's? WHY.
5.45x39mm WP and the 5.56x45mm NATO have the Exact Same Damage across all same catagory guns?(carbine, PDW, rifle) WTF KIND OF LAZINESS WAS THIS!?
5.8x42mm DAP-87 is sometimes the same as the NATO and other times is it's own bullet aswell as moonlights as the AK series bullet! <- How does that even happen?!
Would someone like to explain to me why physically differant sizes of lead traveling at differant speeds deals the Exact Same Damage? I'll assume it was so that there "wasn't that one OP gun because of it's bullet" and let me tell you why that excuse/reason is Total Garbage.
No matter what, Even if Every Single Gun did the same damage by having the same bullet, It would come down to RoF, Fastest RoF wins, and therefore the gun with the highest Rate of Fire will win more often than the "average" high RoF guns due to the TimeToKill, Making "that gun" "op"
The JS2 and P90 are two guns that i feel are "balanced" with eachother, Same RoF, Differant bullet, Same # of Bullets To Kill (CQB) Differant damage, Differant accuracy. Now if you go and Symthic these guns, http://symthic.com/bf4-compare?JS2_vs_P90 You'll notice the P90 is better at CQB, but could be out gunned by the JS2 at range due to the accuracy
Same with the FAMAS and CZ-3A1, They are balanced with eachother, One wins at CQB, The other at range http://symthic.com/bf4-compare?CZ-3A1_vs_FAMAS Reasons, CZ-3A1 has Much less hipfire spread, five more rounds in the magazine, faster reload. FAMAS, deals more damage at range and Higher accuracy.