User blog comment:Ausir/Mass Effect 2 weapon concept art/@comment-1221773-20110417145445/@comment-1726879-20110417153547

A good question. I wish we could give it a good answer. I'm guessing that since the majority of DLC weapons appear to be returning (Most shown in the GI magazine, Incisor excluded, which was seen in the first trailer), we should expect to see these as a new standard. I just hope that they do the balancing properly and make weapon subtypes equal and weapons become a matter of preference and fight style, not one gun outmatching the rest.

Honestly, if they replace the uber-weapon option (Claymore, Revenant and Widow) with a weapon upgrade or passive mod for ME3, I'd be obliged to love the starter weapons more and not drop them like a ton of bricks.