When I was looking for a new weapon I came across someone who destroyed with the up for anything so gave it a go and found it worked that's what lead me to the abyss defiant same stats better reload and stability, you say it's dismal in pvp but when the lobby is not an obvious lagfest I found it works more than fine I was topping leader boards with it.
Strange thing for me now is shotguns used to be useless for me now they destroy.
Oh and odd weapons to use I was messing about last night got a 34 kill nearly 6000 point game with badger ccl! We lost however next member of team only had 16 kills but it was close.