User blog comment:DevilWarrior112/Alliance to stop Akimbo 1887s/@comment-1079585-20100102194120

The Akimbo 1887s were already nerfed considerably, but because Infinity Ward throws earth worms at keyboards and calls it "programming," there was a bit of an oversight *cough* I am a better programmer than those dipshits *cough*. Each attachment loadout for each gun is actually stored by the game files as a different gun, just with the same stats (except for whatever stats the attachment changed) and similar appearance. There are 4 1887s. Two of them were never overpowered. The 1887 and the 1887 FMJ. The other two were very overpowered. The 1887 Akimbo was nerfed. The 1887 Bling (Akimbo + FMJ), however, was not, so it is exactly the same as the old Akimbo 1887 (plus better wall penetration). They simply forgot how their own weapons were stored in the game files and forgot to patch the Bling version because it never even crossed their minds. And Peter Griffen Boy, please refrain from giving people misinformation. Stopping Power has no effect on the old Akimbo/new Bling 1887s because they did 35 damage per pellet with no headshot modifier, meaning that they always took/take 3 pellets to kill regardless of range or perks. That also means that they are/were always a one pellet kill in Hardcore. And also, FMJ only increases wall penetration. The only other "effect" (logic error in programming) it has is that it reverts the Akimbo 1887s back to their original dominance. Just to clarify, the no attachment 1887 and FMJ 1887 were not nerfed, so they also do 35 damage per pellet and have quite a bit of range. However, they obviously fire half as many pellets (6 instead of 12), so they really aren't overpowered. Once again, this means that Stopping Power has no effect on the 1887, except for the regular Akimbo 1887, who's nerf I will explain now. Its range was reduced considerably and it also loses damage over range, so there are most likely a lot of situations in which the new, nerfed Akimbo 1887 benefits from Stopping Power. Sorry for the wall of text.