User blog comment:Darkman 4/CoD7 multiplayer chat/@comment-1897394-20100426023354

ok i just have a comment on if shotguns remain a secondary or return to primary. As all of us CoD veterans here know, in Modern Warfare and World at War, shotguns were almost never a one shot kill unless at point blank range, even with stopping power. they were under-ranged and you wouldn't get a hit marker from 15-20 feet away. What i'm trying to say is that shotguns in CoD4 and WaW were far to underpowered and were often beaten by sub-machine guns at close range, because of inferior power and lack of range. Now in Modern Warfare 2, they are not overpowered in my opinion but perfectly damaged and ranged, some still underpowered.. (except for the model 1887 akimbo, those were fun, but unfair) If in the next call of duty game, CoD7, they make shotguns as good as in MW2, then as a primary i think they would fit in well. But if they are like the primary shotguns in CoD4 and WaW, they need to be secondaries or at least made better. My guess though is that in vietnam, there are mostly jungles and open areas, and shotguns better be really good to have a chance in wide open playing fields.