Whats the point of using anything other than SMG's?

LOL @ "play to your gun's strength's". That phrase is an oxymoron in regards to this game. How can you do that when virtually every map has every area basically SMG territory? SMG's can be used to hipfire snipe people with deadly accuracy half-way across the map. The only way an AR user will "effectively be outside the SMG range" is to somehow find one specific map where the line of sight is massive enough to where the SMG literally can't put up a valid fight, which means:

1) You'd have to be camping your balls off and
2) You'd have to be fighting someone dumb enough to never ever try to take one of the fifty flank routes provided by the chaotic and ridiculously stupid map design.

I mainly use the FAL with the select fire "attachment", which I find to bring a mediocre weapon to almost got-tier status. I can use it at any range, even spraying from the hip with success without jumping on the laser sight bandwagon.

That being said, Black Ops II, as well as most of the newer CoD games (pretty much anything after WaW came out) are all disgraces to online FPS and it's sad that so many people support such broken games. What's most hilarious to me is how Treyarch put in so many "competitive-oriented" features despite the fact that the game itself is broken by design. You can't have all these perks and 50 billion weapon attachments, as well as broken spawns and game logic, and somehow expect to have balance, let alone a suitable balance for true competitive gameplay. This is why any league which still exists which would even dare to put Black Ops 2 on it is instantly a joke league. A shame. Whatever happened to the days of skilled FPS like Quake and CS? Tsk tsk.
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