The MP7? I would not call it overpowered, really do not know what to call it. Here are some things I have noticed about it though.
- It is effective at any range.
- It is like a laser and has very little to no recoil at any range.
- The suppressor has what seems no effect on range.
- At prestige 3 level 74 the number one weapon I see used is the MP7
- It dominates the game, with 9 out of 10 full party games of KC having no less than 8 players using it.
Overpowered, it certainly does not have any damage rating over any other weapons however it has a lot of other advantages over all other weapons. About the only other weapon that has more advantage than it is the akimbo FMG9's.
I can be doing terrible in a game and I can pick up an MP7 from the ground and essentially start destroying. Not a one time occurrence but every single time I pick one up. That plus the fact that so many people use it tells me there is something wrong with it. That moan and "Wow, Akimbo FMG9's" people think when they die from well FMG9's because it takes no skill to use them is exactly how I feel about the MP7. Where the Akimbo FMG9 takes no skill using the MP7 starts off right above the akimbo FMG9's.
You also mention the striker. I may not use range but I use damage with what is essentially a weapon that has one range and that is room clearance range. It does nothing for you at distance and in an extremely close up situation it is almost useless. It also takes a certain finesse to use a shotgun any shotgun because you have to consider timing, reload time and distance. Not to mention if you get interrupted in the middle of reloading you have to know how long you have.
The SMG in this game have essentially made the AR's useless. Sure I can get a good game every so often with an AR but for the most part the weapons people use force me to resort to the striker. I would like to use different guns in the game. I would love to be able to use the pp90, the MP5 even a pistol. What it comes down to is people using class setups that make them virtually so fast that using anything other than an MP7 or Akimbo FMG9's yourself is useless. I do not like the MP7 and I do not like the akimbo FMG9's so I am left with one choice the Striker. You might call it over powered or say it takes no skill but at least it is a "takes no skill weapon" at one range and not all ranges.