deploy 2 adds criticals, deploy 3 takes them away. so essentially, you pay 550 for more armor and thats it. i would buy deploy 3 regularly if it worked.
i should go ahead and test this to see if its the case lmao. yep, hes right. heres what i found using gold criticals, silver reload, and bronze clip size (to space the bullets out and increase critical frequency, so the numbers are easier to measure), on each deploy in a row, in 3 games of blitz, i found... deploy 1: had roughly 9 sets of critical shots within a clip deploy 2: had roughly 12 sets of critical shots within a clip deploy 3: had about 8 sets of critical shots within a clip the only thing better than this would be getting a dev's opinion to make sure...
they have confirmed that this is a known issue, they just havent confirmed that they have fixed it in the upcoming update.