So some people wonder when guns started getting unbalanced? 2 new hidden weapons the Ap7 and Taurus were introduced. Taurus represented an ineffective gun due to extremely long freeze rate. It was however the first gun to introduce the 5 shot kill. Ap7 was your spammy gun. When Ebiziou came to era, Ap7 was their favourite weapon during the earlier times. Later on, Neo Rifle came. This was another hidden weapon. It gained lots of attention due it being "nearly a sniper rifle". It had a 1 clip. But had 8 damage. It was proven to be very underpowered gun. Admins then buffed it, giving it 2 clip and 9 damage. But the problem was gun upgrade was introduced sometime before or after the neo rifle release. Neo rifle can be upgraded to 10 damage which destroys Taurus' uniqueness of 5 shot kill.

The balancing wasn't super broken. But this was the slow start to guns becoming more unbalanced.

I came back to era sometime after m16 got nerfed after it's release day. So I don't know what happened when cloyd became guns admin. What I do know was that m16 used to be very overpowered.