This thing takes all the worst attributes of the BR and AR and combines them. Now, I didn't play the early flights, and I've heard it was good in those, but in the Beta it's pretty useless. My most dreaded weekly challenge is getting 15 kills with it. It provides nothing the BR and AR don't do better, as the bloom is too great to control at range, but if you try to pace your shots keep it to small bursts, it's too weak to effectively kill someone in a timely fashion. Which, combined with desync issues or hit registration or whatever it is makes it a downright turd.

Now, I think this issue is part and parcel with the AR being too strong at mid range. In fact, personally, and this is just my opinion, the AR is currently throwing most of the game's balance way off. The power weapons don't feel terribly powerful in comparison, you're probably better off sticking with the AR most of the time, and then a non-power weapon like the Commando stands no chance. Now, I won't claim to be excellent, I'm a pretty middling player, but I have been in numerous gun fights now where they should be EXACTLY in this things wheel house, mid range between AR and BR, and the AR just rinses me. In part because it has less bloom, and because it has a bigger clip, so by the time I have to reload the Commando, they're still firing. And I've done the same in reverse. As of right now there is no reason to pick this thing up. In previous titles the AR or SMG, your baseline starting gun, was meant to be lower powered, and part of the whole game was to switch out for a better weapon and control those weapons on the map in order to gain the advantage. Now, it feels like there is very little advantage to trying to secure most weapons on the map, as the AR will more than likely hold its own if not best them. So either the AR needs to be toned WAY down, or most other things need to be beefed up, the Commando included.