equally powered wepons

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It most certainly counts. I've played with Vexis many times and seen him have 3 or 4 or more absolutely horrible matches. These are the kinds where it came down to basically being 1 or 2 versus 3. I'm not saying that they were all won, but they most certainly were not all lost. I've said this before and continue to say it, any player can be beat on any given day. What I'm going to add is that people can also be very lucky and have the weapons that you were complaining about or get a "good spawn". Those kinds of things do happen, and don't really have anything to do with weapon power.

Think about it this way, if everything did exactly 20 damage (which is basically what you're suggesting), then why have any weapons beyond the grenade? You would still have those multi-round, or even multi-day, losses and people who have learned how to throw the grenades so that they explode the same instant that they hit you or land right next to you and don't move.