In chronological order. Before: Invective. SUROS. Fusion rifles. Shotguns. TLW. Thorn. Fellwinters sniper. When the time to kill was above 1.5 seconds. When steady aim was actually needed, and you needed to land more than 2 headshots per firefight. When first light was in the normal map rotation. Before the VoG was available. The pvp in this game was so. SO. [b][i][u]SO[/u][/i][/b] much better. Sure hand cannons and pulse rifles were severely under powered. But the entire meta game wasn't [i]"Hahaha, I have thorn". [/i] The way it is now isn't [b]terrible[/b] but it could be so much [b]better[/b].