User blog comment:Dr. Clayton Forrestor/GBX dev(s) & The Evil Dr. F/@comment-3034094-20120912024238

Is there still a 'best' variant of every weapon part? For most of the orange weapons in BL, a variant with only part 5s (body, stock, mag, barrel etc.) would be better than any other. Does this still occur in BL2?

Personally I found that Repeater Pistols and non-semiauto Sniper Rifles were more interesting to collect because there wasn't an outright best one. To have superior damage a gun would sacrifice something else, and so on.