User blog comment:LittleNemo/Bad company 2 balance issues/@comment-1427137-20110105002906

If you think that's unbalanced, well, that's why they made Kit Shortcuts.

Anyways, it's untrue that the first guns are worse. The PKM is a powerhouse. The AEK has godly iron sights, and it damage is perfectly identical to the M16A2's. The M24 does as much damage as any other bolt-action rifle other than the M95; it just has less "features", and is over-all, ordinary, but is just as capable to kill as the SV-98 or GOL. The 9A-91 has a shitty magazine and bad iron sights, but has the highest damage of all the submachine guns, equal to that of the SCAR-L and UMP, but the highest at range.

Trust me, it's just as easy to get kills at level 1, as it is at level 50. The only reason you'd be at a disadvantage is the lack of player experience.