As everyone else pointed out, this is meant to be a recreation of GE, which includes it's weapon behavior.
I now avoid Cradle. The layout of the map makes for some cool and funny moments, but overall it's annoying to play on. I also avoid LTK. Without radar it usually amounts to getting shot in the back 50% of the time, and shooting others in the back the other 50% of the time. What an exhilarating test of skill (sarcasm)!
LTK (or as I like to call it, "License to Kamp", or "The Back Shooting Contest") is usually a nightmarish fuck-fest of a gamemode. Not my cup o' tea at all. I don't grasp why some people actually favor it.
I'd probably play it a little more often, but I'm a stats whore, and I don't want my stats soiled by such a thing. I'm assuming the stats are equally affected by LTK in points, weapon kills, ratio, etc.... which is all a lie in the extremeness that is LTK, as far as I'm concerned (so are the weapon achievements, regardless of the 1 for 3 "compensation").
I should probably be less concerned about that little stat's plug-in. But I can't help it!
Haven't played any GES in a couple weeks. Might have to get a little playing done pretty soon here. Hopefully my little break hasn't left me sloppy and easy to kill. Because my stats.... MY STATS!!!