A VERY ANGRY REACTION to CoD Vanguard's Bougainville Mission - Historical (and mental) Breakdown

I am furious. Livid.
I have had it with the racial tokenism and lack of effort in this game. Some way. Some how, you have managed to ruin what hope there was for a return to a GOOD WW2 Shooter.
But no. No you had to release this insulting, broken, half-baked crock of amphibian turd.
/ animarchy

[@AnimarchyHistory]

So I am going to pin this comment here regarding Japanese War Crimes. The Imperial Japanese Army, as an entire institution, were guilty of atrocities almost universally among their ranks. Unit 731 were by far the worst offenders in conducting biological and chemical warfare (which ultimately meant they were given immunity after WW2 by the United States in exchange for their research data but that's another story) but they were by no means alone. Point is. When discussing the IJA and the IJN during WW2, there is no getting around the fact that they were under standing orders to commit atrocities. I have a selection of links to the Wikipedia articles for cursory examination. And for more hardcore viewing, there are several links to videos made by Dr Mark Felton on this topic. There are also too many books to list here that also tackle the subject comprehensively and I highly recommend checking them out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Alls_Policy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnO7c2CNbaZpgZY&ab kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGGlapl7Yr2rhbM kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaG5mHedgNWEiZo&ab Please keep in mind, that this should not be used to attack or racially abuse modern Japanese people or undermine the Japanese culture, lest we forget I am also an Anime channel and learning Japanese, so my love for them is not in doubt. But as a guy from a country who completed a genocide against it's native people (my Australian family all live in Tasmania for context), I can't run from my nations past. And neither should they.

[@h.cedric8157]

I know a lot of people in my country, that up to now HATES on the Japanese people in general for them atrocities. And most these people praise the Philippine Dictator Marcos, and the Pro-Chinese Communist Party Duterte presidency

[@alisholst255]

You forgot that Japanese sniper rifle scope mounted wrong

[@ussbattleship1m322]

76mm shermans no, but 75 mm shermans in the pacific did happen

[@texan-american200]

12:55 During the Chinese occupation, the IJs, especially those of Unit 731, called their test victims logs or lumber to be used in any manner as they saw fit. Suffering be damned. And yes, the nation of Japan has significantly matured morally. The sins of their fathers and grandfathers are just that... Their sins and no one else's.

[@aveteranplayer6403]

14:25 honestly, I think you are praising a woke addition of a african-american unit because they are not that much represented in games. But you shouldn't, because I can give you an very good example of how a black unit was very good represented. In Mafia 3, Father James was in World War 2 and its stated that his unit were all black (3rd platoon, Company C, 614th tank destroyer battalion) and their engagement in Climbach a French town just outside the German border that resulted being rewarded several medals and unit citations, but in 1990s it was discover that were severe racial discrimination in the process of awarding medals during the war, and it was recommended that seven Distinguished Service Crosses awarded to African Americans be upgraded to Medal of honors . You should definetly look it up, if you like that much history and I hope you read it👍🏻

[@NoahLoydOG]

Q: Why is there an Opel Blitz on a Japanese held island in 1943? A: A German time traveler used it to bring Stg 44s to the island.

[@shadowzone2588]

Hans is messing around with the timeline again

[@Nightdare]

Fuck, your solution is more sensible than the morons who made the game

[@Halocon720]

Zurück in die Zukunft, with an Opel Blitz instead of a DeLorean

[@TheBigBlackJoshi]

"DAMMIT RICHTOFEN, I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE WITH THIS!"

[@stuglife5514]

Fuck you caught me.

[@josefuentes4198]

I have the feeling that the person who made the planes had a different mentality than everyone else who worked on the game.

[@josefuentes4198]

Okay after seeing the Aichi and the Stuka from the other video, I now believe that there was a person doing allied planes and another doing the axis.

[@ARCtrooperblueleader]

Well said.

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

The whole game seems like a 'fantasy football league' of equipment, uniforms, tactics and physics. It's WW2 in an alternate reality.

[@MagpieOz]

@@paulmurgatroyd6372 What else would you be expecting from a computer game?

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

@@MagpieOz A computer game about historic events can quite easily be realistic to the time and setting it is based on. It's not rocket science.

[@tyler89557]

It's is incredibly infuriating how there are *real* stories of marginalized people doing amazing things in the war, and we just shoehorn those groups into places where they don't belong and bastardize their contributions.

[@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826]

Because if ou look at it, their contributions pale in comparison to the rest of the conflict.

[@tyler89557]

@@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826 Any single unit's contribution pales in comparison to the war. That doesn't excuse blatantly ignoring these stories to shoehorn people into generic roles to fill out a diversity quota, when you could easily write a compelling story based off of the services of actual units that would truly shed light on the services of minority groups without being tokenistic.

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

_”marginalized”_

[@JerseyJake98]

@@Eirik_Bloodaxe Marginalized is accurate yes. An example would be African Americans during WW2 and the Navajo Code Talkers

[@samh3805]

@@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826 The Person who decoded the Enigma Code used by Nazi Germany, which almost certainly turned the tide of the War, was a Gay Man.

[@simonwest9450]

Japanese soldier that speaks perfect English: “Do you speak JAPANESE?” Me: “If your English is so good, why do you need to ask that question you absolute spanner?”

[@holdencross5904]

Sounds like a British insult.

[@majorblitz3846]

_“If your English is so good, why do you need to ask that question you absolute spanner?” but in Japanese for double flex._

[@holdencross5904]

@@majorblitz3846 even funnier.

[@MrFleem]

Random Japanese soldier who was ordered to talk to the American captive: "DIS IZU PEN!"

[@XionXIV243]

@@majorblitz3846 あなたの英語がとても上手なら、なぜあなたは絶対的なスパナにその質問をする必要があるのですか？

[@wartornforester1868]

24:12- Pleasently surprised by a weapon model and happy to explain its functions. 25:46- heart torn out and rip to shreds because the function and animations was lost on all game developers involved. My heart goes out to you 😞

[@averyretodo8159]

I died here

[@matthewtorres4414]

Was looking to see if someone had time stamped this tragedy yet..

[@123456789554332]

@@averyretodo8159 TBH with everything wrong with Woke of duty I was expecting something like this after the whole Bren gun disaster. I was correct.

[@sparrisguy6330]

I really love the type 11 but ever since BFV did the same now everyone believes it's done like so. It sucks, and removes the whole point of the hopper.

[@TheKusa5]

@@sparrisguy6330 actually you can load the hopper in BFV, but its an upgrade and you can only do it when you have your remaining ammo at increments of 5 so like 20, 15, 10, 5.

[@carn109]

25:40 The explantion followed by the absolute butching of the reload is gold

[@lavish263team5]

You can hear the exact moment his heart rips in half

[@zoomerboy5784]

He just sounds so angry

[@DiggerDeeper01]

Turns out it CAN do the correct reload...but only with intervals of 5. So 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, and 5. If it's at 26, they just do...that.

[@Starkweather133]

Butching? You OK sir?

[@LastGoatKnight]

​@@DiggerDeeper01 because each clip holds 5 rounds. Logical but it's not at the same time

[@kvant13]

12:53 I remember seeing a video of an interview with a USMC veteran where he talks about executing a Japanese POW. He mentions that one of the only things the Japanese soldier had in his possession was a photograph of a group of smiling Japanese officers beheading a bunch of random Chinese civilians, presumably for no particular reason other than the lulz. I think I kind of understand why it seems to be so hard for a lot of people to wrap their heads around just how utterly horrifying Japanese war crimes were - because so much of what they did was so absurdly over the top and barbaric that if you read about it in a fictional story you'd roll your eyes at how cartoonishly evil it was.

[@johnex1029]

If you come across a link to that video, please send it to me. WW2 Japanese did the same thing in south east asia.

[@kvant13]

@@johnex1029 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKe2l2ulgt6UhJI A detail I forgot - he kept the picture and shows it.

[@johnex1029]

@@kvant13 Thanks

[@Blox117]

why do you care what they do? its just a bunch of asians

[@muhperson9094]

As someone who’s family was full Japanese until about * 50 - 70 or so years ago * I am extremely ashamed and very sorry for what Imperial Japanese people did during WW2.

[@TheDiablotak]

If they wanted to make a “progressive” game that was historically accurate they absolutely could have and it pains me that they didn’t just open a history book. They could have had Japanese Americans in Italy, Female Snipers or pilots or even tank crews on the eastern front, commonwealth’s troops of all stripes and colors literally in any theater. You could have had stealthy infiltration missions built around the exploits of the British commandos or any of the many intelligence gathering agencies that operated behind the lines with the resistance forces of different countries. But NO they just decided to make a generic Historically inaccurate and in my opinion down right disrespectful to those who fought in the war video game

[@kevinbayu7621]

I just wish there's a game portraying the nationalist Chinese forces. Because unlike Mao's group, they actually fought the Japanese instead of retreating to the Soviet border. But nah it's we need to portray minority in western army because God forbid we have game featuring a non western Allies perspective on one of the most brutal front of the war.

[@APersonOnYouTubeX]

@@kevinbayu7621 Ye then there’s the issue of unfair depiction of warcrimes The devs of this game literally portray both sides so badly, they would butcher it more

[@murderofcrows2179]

no effort triple AAA release.

[@GlareanLiebertine]

Why not make a game set during the Spanish Civil War?

[@garrettsattem4799]

What about Brazil’s exploits in Italy?

[@foldervtolvr]

Your response to “DO YOU SPEAK JAPANESE” was amazing. And now I can perfectly imagine an actual soldier in WW2 saying that right to the face of a Japanese soldier

[@Tennischamp450]

Asking an captured American if they speak Japanese has to be one of the dumbest questions asked in a video game

[@razgriz9146]

This is the Imperial Japanese Army dude. If an American captive actually said to his Imperial Japanese captors, they'd cut out his tongue, rape him up the ass with a bayonet and then bury him alive or some sick shit like that.

[@phoenixmarktwo]

​@@Tennischamp450... why? It's a reasonable question to ask a prisoner, especially one you intend to interrogate. If they say yes, well hot diggity you don't have to go get a translator before you start putting hot coals to his throat.

[@phoenixmarktwo]

@scarletgoat173 They might have been an immigrant, or their parents were immigrants, they could have intentionally been taught to serve as a translator, etc. There were a few American soldiers in WW2 that spoke Japanese as far as I know.

[@phoenixmarktwo]

@scarletgoat173 The training might still stand, then, and the Japanese soldiers have no real way of figuring out who translators might be without asking. So I guess they decided it couldn't hurt to ask.

[@sprtsfanatic1]

The fact that COD: WAW, a game released in 2008, for the most part, had more accurate portrayal of weapons, vehicles, and uniforms; coupled with the fact that it portrayed the horrors of war on a much better scale, through their cutscenes, voice acting, inclusion of real WWII footage, the OST, a better Stalingrad and Battle of Berlin mission, and tone to the game, is astounding. Why in God’s name Activision doesn’t have the brass balls to remaster that game is beyond me. Nope, rather keep limping to the barn with these half-assed, cliched to death, Hollywood, recent WWII games that just makes anyone with half a brain groan in frustration

[@stuglife5514]

Fuck, they went as far as to have entirely different character models for the Germans in the battle of Berlin. If you look closely, a lot of them are wounded with bandages, or their old men and young boys. The only real inaccuracies I can think of is the M44 Mosin showing up in Stalingrad and a scope on the PTRS-41. But I understand why they didn’t make a seperate mosin model for a single level in the game.

[@yepyep9495]

Am to Young for this game and many others but am disappointed now with there modern day counter parts

[@dannyzero692]

Activision don't have enough balls to portray war as it is anymore, they used to had balls to make WaW and No Russian but now their chicken shit ass can't even make a WW2 game as a WW2 game without afraid of being called "racist" or other insults by the loudest minorities in existence.

[@sprtsfanatic1]

@@dannyzero692 Facts. The true irony is the fact that this mindless minority doesn’t even play the game. They just jump on the buzzword bandwagon of easy targets and berate it for clout and to gate-keep. I get Activision and Treyarch making their multiplayer a clusterfuck with WW2 weapons having red-dot sights and ACOG scopes, as retarded as that is. However, if you’re gonna make a campaign based upon historical battles, then get your fucking facts right. Otherwise, it disrespects the veterans and ruins the immersion. Also, no excuse, in this day and age, to have endless information available upon said time period, to not get uniforms, weapons, vehicles, and the setting correct

[@hx20games77]

They have the power to remaster no russian but lack the power to remaster WAW

[@oberleutnanttai4343]

All these new games are a pain. almost makes battlefield 5 look good.

[@chrismath149]

You cannot make Battlefield V look almost good, only less bad. It's the difference between seeing a new car, and seeing a car lying in a ditch and comparing it to a car wrapped around a tree.

[@doctorhunter5553]

I like kertz and Peter muller from the last tiger story mission as their close friends and kertz is a giga Chad for driving and repairing the tiger

[@openthinker6562]

What’s funny is that Battlefield 5’s player numbers actually increased after 2042 released. At least it had some new features, like back blast and tried to experiment with new gameplay mechanics (despite the botched narrative and release drama), but 2042 is like starting from scratch and forgetting basic stuff from past games. They even forgot Leaning!!

[@bryanmarco4515]

Almost makes Battlefield 5 look good. ALMOST

[@drunkenfinnpeltsi5968]

Bf v is accually pretty good now

[@symphony_in_152mm2]

Your rant on tokenism was absolutely spot on, took the words right out of my mouth. When I see progressive stuff in games, I want to see PROPER progressive representation, not the tokenistic bullshit and smoothbrain virtue signaling that game devs keep shoehorning in.

[@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826]

A realistic portrayal would leave you very disappointed.

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

@@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826 We want an "authentic" experience, not a "realistic" one if you get what I'm saying.

[@cleanerben9636]

that's what progressive is

[@kakyointhemilfhunter4273]

@@cleanerben9636 No, it’s not

[@cleanerben9636]

@@kakyointhemilfhunter4273 ohhhhhhh yes it is

[@dman8115]

Very well said man. As an active duty soldier myself, its great to see someone call out tokenism and virtue signaling on both sides of this argument. I can't speak for other servicemen, but from what I've seen in my time in the Army, this stereotyping of folks is bullshit. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and even our Coasties are normal servicemen regardless of race or creed. So this constant stereotyping of Hernandez and The 93rd is just annoying. Soldiers don't act that way at all

[@YeahItsYourBoyG]

Right?? Like everyone has their moments.. but no one, and most certainly in the forces (most of the time), wants to fit a stereotype or stand out to a huge degree. especially after everyone's been taught we're unified trash and then break down/rebuild our personalities from scratch xD

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

@@YeahItsYourBoyG you were good until you said "unified trash"

[@thatperformer3879]

Jesus, good luck my dude. Pretty sure Biden is sending you boys to Ukraine to fight the Russians 😬. Let’s go Brandon.

[@green4527]

@@thatperformer3879 mostly gonna be Brits fighting if there is a war in Ukraine

[@karakas9905]

@@thatperformer3879 why would you not want to be deployed to fight Russians?

[@ThePeteriarchy]

It still bothers me IMMENSELY that this game had Japanese soldiers using those German revolving shotguns that were never even in service in Germany. There were only around a hundred of those ever produced. On top of all the other nonsense, this just... ugh. Ah, yeah, I'm glad you mentioned the people showing sympathy for Japanese soldiers during the war. I still remember the insane amount of BS I'd read from people calling CoD WaW "racist" for starting the Pacific part of the campaign off by showing a Japanese soldier committing a war crime, as if they didn't do that to the Americans who came to my shores and the locals in my country IN DROVES back then. It's disgusting that people can't seem to realize that the Japanese soldiers in occupied territories were just as reprehensible as the Nazis. Those folks who either minimize or outright forget Japanese atrocities seem to have forgotten that "comfort women" is just a sanitized term for sex slaves.

[@thevgfsg7384]

Agreed. Imperial Japan was much worse that nazi Germany. There is no way around that

[@Buorgenhaeren]

Depends on the country, just like the nazis they really committed the worst atrocities towards slavs and jews. Some nations saw japan as liberators against white colonialism and they appointed locals to rule the country

[@50megatondiplomat28]

Yeah the Japanese war crimes issue has been majorly underplayed compared to National Socialist war crimes. They don't even teach that they happened in Japanese schools.

[@seemslegit6203]

@Advocate For UFO Disclosure warcrimes of many countries are underplayed, includning the "good" guys. Everyone did them, but no one likes admitting it.

[@50megatondiplomat28]

​@@seemslegit6203 Oh, I'm a critic of those too, believe me, but the fact that they were so commonly done and the sheer number were what made the Japanese record so egregious.

[@gunnerpup7288]

Not gonna lie. I had the same reaction to this mission. That an NCO, not just that but a black NCO from the 1940’s talking to a Lieutenant from the navy the way he did would have gotten his ass chewed. By far. This game just showed me more of why I hate newer Call of Duty titles. I was a big fan in the early years (Talking CoD 1 and MW1), now I’ve almost come to hate the series for this shit. They could have easily made Wade in Europe and with the Tuskegee Airmen, learning from them, and showing how bad ass they were. Maybe he goes in cocky, but it changes him to see that these guys are working just as hard, if not harder. Make it humble him in a way that would’ve been amazing to see. Ya know? But no. We get this abomination to history. I honestly returned the game after this mission. I hated it so much.

[@undeadalex4579]

if he talked like that hed get disciplinary actions against him faster than you can say fast

[@patrickjohnson5245]

​@undeadalex4579 faster than you can say Jesse Owens.....

[@mjlindero9065]

"DO YOU SPEAK JAPANESE?!" Is forever gonna be marked in CoD's history books as one of the greatest quotes out there. Right next to Reznov's speech in Vorkuta. Truly what a beautiful CoD moment

[@lordjor96]

Along side the "Press F to pay respect"

[@comradekenobi6908]

“You think because you say nothing, you are strong?”

[@uncommonsaucers2355]

Don't forget "That's why we brought the guns right? To shoot them!" Vanguard is a bin of great quotes

[@samlund8543]

Right up there with “Train go boom”

[@frrak5564]

For honor reference

[@Survivor00]

I had a friend who went on a similar rant about the Type 11 when they first saw it, and so I knew what was coming. So I apologize, but your scream of rage when the reload pulls the whole hopper out made me laugh uncontrollably for a bit there.

[@thedude4840]

It’s such a cheat to. We can’t be bothered to model arasaka clips so we’re just gonna rip the whole mechanism out.

[@ThePhengophobe]

@@thedude4840 I mean they have Arisaka clips modeled, he literally reloads an Arisaka right after. They either didn't do research for the weapons they modeled, or didn't want to worry about a unique reload animation, which is unforgivable. Why put unique qnd odd guns in game if you don't actually show them in a historical light?

[@thehotdogman9317]

I saw this comment before the part came up so I was waiting in anticipation. Then when he finally gave the game some praise in the mist of all the criticism just to watch come tearing down in the next 0.23 seconds made me die of laughter 🤣🤣

[@sunnex474]

Animarchy’s rant about how the real people the characters are based on deserve better honestly made me scared he would jump through the screen

[@tommykaung5882]

I never cared about historical accuracy of the guns until this game came out. That's how bad it is.

[@dannyzero692]

Damn bro this game must've shit so much to make you realized that you never cared about historical accuracy, that's a brand new low for Activision.

[@anm10wolvorinenotapanther32]

Absolutely, whenever I watch people review shooter games I always thought they are being too nit-picky with their criticism but this dumpster fire of a game really makes one realize how bad it gets when people that just doesn't even give a fuck anymore can make things go from decent to downright unacceptable.

[@ixaldok8379]

And go to the pvp side and you’ll see a whole other slew of crap. The stuff off the top of my head are red dot sights that didn’t exist then, an M1 garand with a 20 round drum that still makes the ping, a BAR in .50 BMG, mosins in .30-06, and like animarchy said, STGs with drums (which didn’t exist for 8mm Kurtz, the STG caliber, but in 8mm Mauser, the mg42 caliber)

[@deezboyeed6764]

The reason to care is because it sgows the effort and consideration they put into the game. If you claim it doesn't matter you discredit all the games where the devs try their hardest.

[@is2ismysenpai]

20:50, another great icon that could’ve been used was Mariya Oktyabrskaya a woman who sold her possessions to buy (build) a T-34 tank in 1941 after she learned of her husbands death, she got 50,000 rubles, which was the cost to manufacture a T-34 tank, basically donated the tank to the red army and made a telegram directly to Stalin with a request to be the driver and it to be named “Боевая подруга” (Fighting girlfriend) which Stalin accepted, she got standard training on top of what her husband had taught her, including small arms and how to operate a tank, and went into battle. Notable moment is mid battle the engine and hydraulics of her tank were hit by an antitank round and she got out of her tank mid battle and fixed it, then continuing the fight, she fought for a year until she was critically injured by artillery whilst fixing the tank and later died in 1944 aged 38 due to her injuries. They are certainly way more story’s like these that they COULD’VE USED but nooooooo gotta either make it up or twist it so bad that it seems made up.

[@SudrianTales]

Jesus christ that woman is terrifying and I wish we could play her

[@NepuSoggyMango]

This would've been killer, fire, this would've been a great opportunity (Very) unfortunate they had to throw out the values of world at war at the cost of cod players who also double as historians

[@kassi420]

@12:48 thank you for telling the world the truth. They killed 5 of my aunts and uncles during the war in Hong Kong and they were just children. My mother was lucky enough to be born after the war. I’m so sick at most western historians looking the other way and constantly not talking about the pacific front when it comes to Japanese war crimes.

[@Fuse1990]

I had a debate at work the other week with someone who said that the US was wrong to drop the 2 A-bombs on Japan and his reasoning was because they didn’t deserve it. I told him these facts and he changed his tune very quick

[@Zeroground300]

@@Fuse1990 Saying the Japanese civilians deserved to get nuked because of the war crimes of the Japanese army is the smoothest of smoothbrain takes. The Japanese civilians did not commit nor have any say in the actions of the Japanese army.

[@angellara7040]

@@Zeroground300 Japanese citizens weren't a thing. They were all ready to die for their empire but either way the nukes needed to happen

[@epicimages2784]

For real the Japanese don’t deserve respect

[@americankid7782]

Something I should mention is that most people in the west don’t really know anything about the war crimes Japan Committed. Our knowledge of war crimes in ww2 mainly extends to Germany and the Holocaust. It’s quite disappointing because while everyone talks about the Holocaust with no mentions of the Genocide in Asia.

[@tsuaririndoku]

Cod blind Fans: Oh come on it’s just a game. Me: Yes it is a game, a Horror Game for literally anyone who has functioning brains

[@voyager2230]

Wtf , ur pfp man Sauce ?

[@tsuaririndoku]

@@voyager2230 There is no Sauce. Because the Sauce is talking to you

[@voyager2230]

@@tsuaririndoku oh fuck , I couldn't believe you done this

[@ULarry2007]

Is it fine if i like mw19

[@sphexine]

New COD fans* they never seen COD World at war.

[@jabaited]

"DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH? " "NO SHIT SHERLOCK"

[@texan-american200]

That's where Hernandez needed to open up in Spanish to shut him up. 😬

[@Southerly93]

That type 11 part had me rolling because I was thinking the same exact thing. I haven't seen a non-fixed type 11 lmg since Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, so I was like "oh hey they got something pleasantly niche in there" just to be immediately betrayed by the reload animation

[@cadjebushey6524]

RS might be the only ww2 game i played that uses that gun.

[@DavidWallace-ed5un]

Badllilfielf 5er

[@Danjiano]

@@cadjebushey6524 Enlisted has it, too. You reload it with clips.

[@quadnudli1380]

39:24 Even worse, it's not only a flash hider, it's called a recoil booster. It literally *makes the gun work*

[@heinerheise703]

Looked for this comment regarding the Rückstoßverstärker! And Wtf, where are STG's front sights?

[@Kav.]

It's called a muzzle booster, not a recoil booster. It redirects gas back to increase bolt velocity which increases cyclic rate and aids in operating in adverse conditions. It's not required specifically to make the gun work, same reason an AKS74 can operate with or without its muzzle booster.

[@darkrai2007]

@@Kav. I like the idea that without the muzzle booster that mg42's end up being a huge bolt action belt fed gun.

[@Kav.]

@@darkrai2007 sadly it does not, as funny as it would be to watch Japanese soldiers in COD manually cycling it lmao. I think the guy in the original comment is confused thinking that the muzzle booster is similar to a bang style blow forward system or something.

[@darkrai2007]

@@Kav. yeah, I meant it hypothetically, but yeah it's supposed to help the cycling of the round. So without it, it does not stop it from firing full auto but does mean it has a higher chance of failing when recycling the bolt. So at worst it could but most likely it would fire slower with occasionally failing.

[@archangelofcoffee922]

The SBD scenes were adapted straight from 2019s Midway. A lot of smiliarities. Although, that movie is far better than this game in terms of historical accuracy.

[@rayvaul3539]

I saw that movie, and it was pretty good.

[@CmdrTyrael]

100% except the SBD gunner didn't get gibbed like he did in midway. 🤣

[@x-zaga4678]

The Midway movie isn’t entirely accurate. Biggest think and the Americans shitting their pants before Midway and the plane fights are not accurate.

[@percievalcrawford1555]

@@x-zaga4678 Well it's still hollywood so it does need some artistic licensing. However, I will say that it's accurate enough. Especially when compared to things like Pearl Harbor.

[@mineshaft12]

​@@percievalcrawford1555 But the guns man. they got like... 2x 50 BMGs on their nose ? That's just not a good combat plane when compared to actual fighters like the F4F and P40. Let alone Zeros and at that point, I'm doubtful if the Pilots used it as an air combat plane since most of them tends to be escorted by F4Fs

[@SkorpionDoorman]

11:46 to 12:03 Perfect response. Not just towards the game but also in that situation IRL during WW2 if you knew the correct ammount of Japanese.

[@jmantime]

The most common japanese shotgun in WW2 were shotgun conversions of old 11mm and 8mm Murata Rifles, converted to either 10 gauge or japanese 13.5 gauge ammunition. The IJA and IJN used over 50;000 shotguns in WW2 including Bolt-action shotguns, Double barreled , Pump-action and even some semi-auto shotguns like the belgian FN M1900.

[@leonardotavaresdardenne9955]

Hunting weapons I assume?

[@jmantime]

@@leonardotavaresdardenne9955 at first they were used for hunting as IJA / IJN soldiers lived off the land. But as the war dragged on they were used for guard duty and other secondary task.

[@teslashark]

@@jmantime So the Browning Auto 5 is pretty common in Japanese civilian market, I reckon a few would be taken by soldiers. Also from Vietnam to China the lever action Winchester shotguns and 45-70s are used by civilians and police alike, they could have justified reintroducing MW2R 1887.

[@elfraca_06897]

Always learning something new with you man, hope u get to 100.000

[@BlueStone-qt9md]

Everyone using the Becker is just so weird since the other three shotguns in the game go almost unused. I only remember having the double barrel on the El Alamein mission and that it. I don't understand why the least used weapon of the catagory is suddenly the most ubiquitous

[@hossep2695]

The real people who took part in the events portrayed in games like this and Battlefield V deserve better. Exploiting their stories to box check on a diversity checklist or outright replacing them teenaged girls is as egregious a crime against them as can be committed. They deserve to be celebrated for what they did. This travesty can't be forgotten.

[@astromitediscontinued7627]

Yeah, if only there was like a law in American schools that mandated the teaching of World War 2 and Pearl Harbor in the history classes they have to take each year or something. I think the real exploitation comes from Kancolle and Girls Und Panzer, their stories to box check on a diversity checklist or outright replacing them teenaged girls is as egregious a crime against them as can be committed. Every time I play Vanguard it reminds me of the exploiting of my great father who was hit by a grenade in the war, how dare video games and cartoons not be historically accurate to him? Maybe that's why I watch documentaries and read books on the war my grandfather was in, because I realized maybe video games and cartoons shouldn't be used to represent literally anything, not even physics. Paying attention in history class also may possibly help.

[@EnigmaEnginseer]

@@astromitediscontinued7627 If you’re looking at Girls Und Panzer to accurately represent WW2 then you may want to rethink the sources you’re using. That’s like saying you’re going to play the Red Alert series to better understand the Cold War

[@astromitediscontinued7627]

​@@EnigmaEnginseer Do you understand satire? I'm just pointing out that's it's just as stupid to use a video game for portraying events.

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@astromitediscontinued7627 you don’t get it man

[@EnigmaEnginseer]

@@astromitediscontinued7627 Yes, because I can pick up all the subtle shifts in tone of voice and facial movements through a written message. My guy if I’m making a WW2 game and I say it’s going to be authentic/realistic and it’s not then I’m actively spitting on the event by taking my false portrayal and calling it accurate. That said there isn’t an issue with making a non-historically accurate piece of media based upon a real life event. Wolfenstein is a good example of taking an event like WW2 and spinning it into something different but people still love it. Wolfenstein doesn’t lie to you by claiming it’s realistic or by trying to tell a true story, it leans all the way into the insanity of its setting and does a damn good job of it. Video games and other pieces of media have the potential to portray conflicts like WW2 in ways that documentaries and books can’t, it’s such a damn shame however that the only thing these people see is dollar signs.

[@TrifectaMonkey]

I cracked up when you unironically said "I do extensive armour research for my girls und panzer videos"

[@AnimarchyHistory]

You'd be amazed at how much you have to do when making documentaries my guy. The whole point of this channel is to tell the real history and technology behind popular culture. To do that I need to research. For my video on the Tiger I read the entire Tiger Manual cover to cover and spent hours of simulator time in "Tank Crew". Followed by memoirs. Service Records. Technical reports. The original British Army testing data is available in the archive. You can look it up. The accuracy of that gun was astonishing.

[@TrifectaMonkey]

@@AnimarchyHistory damn appreciate the dedication. Got yourself a sub fr.

[@fernandomarques5166]

Dont apologise for you rant, it expressed everything that I had bottled up about this game. You know, I'm brazilian, I've met and talked with the "Pracinhas", how we call our WW2 vets, and they told us of how it was in Italy, this impressed little me since both my parents were in the military too, when I was a kid I always hoped I would see my country represented in a CoD, today I breathe a sigh of relief whenever they aren't, because I don't want to see our pracinhas stereotyped to hell.

[@im_flat]

The Força Expedicionária Brasileira was chock full of complete fucking badasses. I got nothing but respect for em. Brazil is such a unique and beautiful country and it pains me to see the disdain with how much of the world regards it and forgets it's history. I sincerely hope the problems Brazil faces are able to be overcome.

[@scoutman66]

Nah dude, the only countries that were involved in WW2 were Britain, USA, Germany and Russia... At least according to these historically accurate games.

[@im_flat]

@max omalley Any piece of media that features Brazil will feature Rio de Janeiro and its favelas or the Amazon. Literally no in between lol

[@CodeNameZ_935]

Remember kids War Crimes are better with friends 32:10

[@thisfaceisgreat]

Your emotional rant about tokenism is what made me realize that subbing to you was a great decision, it was very well said.

[@AnimarchyHistory]

I meant every single word my guy. As someone who marched in solidarity with BLM, watching my mates get their shit kicked in by the police. This sort of thing infuriates me.

[@TK_FHW]

@@AnimarchyHistory I agree, I might not fully agree with your political views, but that doesn't matter. You're bringing quality content about historical topics I enjoy from my favorite series and history itself, so please never stop doing what you're doing my friend. Its always a treat to watch it

[@BentAxlecroft]

@@AnimarchyHistory Don't march in solidarity with anything here in Vic they'll shoot you with rubber bullets. I don't care if I agree with a given protest or not, the government should not be deciding on which issues are ok to discuss and which groups of people are 'allowed' to hold protests.

[@Mr.X2019]

@@AnimarchyHistory Marching for what though? There's nothing to march for.

[@shoeby9273]

@@BentAxlecroft based

[@01Zipang]

I'd really love to see a game portray the Japanese-american 442nd infantry unit in world war II. They were absolute mad-lads in italy and just racked up decorations. even 5 presidential citations in 1 single month.

[@cccycling5835]

Black people, according to SJWs, were/are more ‘oppressed’ than Asian-americans, and thus are more represented. Asian americans will never get representation in modern Progressive media. We are too ‘white-adjacent’ since we don’t complain about huuuwhite-privilege while still working hard and being more successful.

[@WynnofThule]

37:35 75mm Shermans were actually preferred by the US military in the Eastern theater because their HE shells were much more effective than those of the 76mm. Tankers didn't need the extra penetration to fight Japanese tanks. But they could definitely use the extra HE punch. On that front, the 75mm was actually the top tier.

[@welkingunther5417]

The Sherman might as well have been a Tiger to the Japanese tbh, their AT was...not exactly good

[@justineallandevelos6491]

@@welkingunther5417 actually there was one Japanese AT gun that was capable of taking on the Sherman...the Type 1 47mm AT gun but yeah most of the time the Shermans and Grant tanks were mostly unmatched in the pacific that's why the grant tank lasted longer in the asian theater

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

@@welkingunther5417 the tiger was shit

[@Makex_]

How come the 75mm HE is better than 76mm one?

[@WynnofThule]

@@Makex_ The 75mm shell had less powder behind it, therefore it didn't have to be built as strongly with thick shell walls. More room was left inside to pack with high explosive making for a more effective shell.

[@soundclock2939]

I wonder if the acquisition of Activision by Microsoft will end this horseshit. I doubt Cod will change drastically but at least a little more care and attention to history rather than this politically correct garbage that does more harm to the actual men and women from different colors, nationalities who existed in the war. This makes World At War look like it came right off the pages of history. And I love waw and I know that has some issues. Just....man. it's really upsetting and depressing.

[@BearWithAnUzi]

Nah now they just have more money to be even more woke

[@helldiverintelligencehighcom]

@@BearWithAnUzi I think it might stop soon because if one company they own gets a bad rap Microsoft will lose a lot of money

[@comradekenobi6908]

Ngl I think world at war is the most realistic in its depiction of world war 2 (story wise) and should be a textbook of depicting the brutality of ww2 example if any game dev is going to make a ww2 game

[@bias_remover7229]

Something you missed when talking about the Shermans, not only are the 76 ahead of their time, but they are Frankenshermans! The Hulls are M4A3 (HVSS) but the turrets are cast, M4 standard shipped to the UK and fitted with a 17-Pounder! You can see at 41:33 the Welded box on the back off the turret they need to fit the radio, and the small muzzle break at the end of the comedic long barrel compared to the beefed up break on the M3 gun. So how the hell did a A3 hull from the US ended up being equipped with a British modification in the Pacific in '43?

[@theweebthatyouknow2269]

I always thought something looked off about those Sherman's besides the 76 gun

[@hellshigh9895]

The cutscenes the Sherman's look like they have the t14 turret rather then an actual sherman turret as well, at least that what it looks like to me. Thanks for pointing out the game play turrets it was bothering me.

[@Sreven199]

Ehhhh not quite. The hulls are indeed later war type M4A3s, but they're not using HVSS suspension. The turrets are the mid war "high bustle" 75mm turret (part number D78461), but for some reason have the flat mantlet of a T23 turret and 76mm gun instead the rounded mantlet and 75mm that should be on there. Also those guns are way too fucking long to even be 76mms. Those are almost 17lbr length, but they do have the correct muzzle brake for the 76mm.

[@decarus834]

@@Sreven199 Even then thats a stretch has the Chassis looks like the early production model M4 chassis as it doesnt have the Driver/Radio op* "bulges" that all A2 and later models had to give more breathing room for those guys.

[@Sreven199]

@@decarus834 not sure what you're talking about. The early model welded hulls had more angled (56°) front plates with the bulges for the driver and bow gunner, and small hatches. Those bulges proved to be weak points in the armor and the small hatches made it hard to get in and out of the vehicle. When the later variants of the A2 and the A3 came out, the glacis plate was changed to 47 degrees and thickened. This allowed them to make the front plate uniform in shape, removing the bulges, and introduced larger hatches for the driver and bog. This is the hull seen in the game, as it lacks the bulges.

[@C.A._Old]

*Game developers of the 2000s always pay attention to detail in the game.* *Game developers of the 2020s always pay attention to money.*

[@cheesecakeisgross4645]

Not even that. Attention to 'the message ™'

[@gramboni0624]

One of my bigges things is the fact that they mentioned they were there to save the airmen. But the second they save them they immediately go: "Hey you useless hunks of deadweight we were sent to retreive. We know you likely just experienced horrifying things but we also need to risk your lives to assault a fortified Japanese position with a heavily depleted fighting force."

[@timsellers4946]

“COD Vanguard; a game where a white pilot is captured by English speaking Japanese soldiers using German late-war equipment in 1943 and is rescued by a unit that shouldn’t even arrive until a year later. Embark on this epic journey as pilot Schmucatelly and his Hispanic friend assault heavily armed positions with 6 dudes, and where said pilot is all of a sudden a master with a flamethrower. Purchase your copy today!”

[@terminallumbago6465]

@@timsellers4946 I was thinking that too. Flamethrower troops were, I’m guessing, heavily trained to use it. It’s not like picking up another weapon and using it. He would have had to go through rigorous training, not just “I’m a fast learner.”

[@timsellers4946]

@@terminallumbago6465 not only that, they’re as much a hazard to the user as the enemy if improperly used, AND flamethrower troops were usually the biggest guys in the unit. I don’t think some scrawny flyboy is gonna be able to go running around with it

[@terminallumbago6465]

@@timsellers4946 Then he’s also so great he knows how to fly an enemy aircraft he’s had no training on.

[@terminallumbago6465]

@@timsellers4946 I think the campaign was a great idea in theory, and I loved getting to play the various different theatres of the war, but the execution and narrative tying it all together wasn’t good.

[@brian6898]

Appreciate your rant regarding the 93rd. Getting really tired of these video game developers 'saving' the poor minorities by displaying them as incredibly brave, constantly persecuted victims, as opposed to showing the very real and significant stuff they actually did. It comes off as insulting, implying they couldn't manage anything like this if not for the enlightened developers

[@chazzer7564]

23:00 Your reaction here was my reaction when I saw this mission for the first time. I heavily study WW2 (specialising in tanks and armour mostly but I study WW2 as a whole) and the, essentially, besmirching of those brave men who fought regardless of stigma of the time. Using them as a vessel for virtue is the most disrespectful shit I've ever seen. They fought and died for our freedoms, in a time when we would not give them theirs.

[@shoeby9273]

Branching off this, Putin's propaganda about Ukrainian Nazis stings really hard when you know seven million of them served in the Red Army and this is the thanks they get.

[@yulsummers5807]

This is the same for me. I love the history of the war and it is very close to home because i am a jewish person and it pisses me off that they put the people who had significant contributions to the survival of my people (and the world for that matter) into these stereotypes, and barely even recognize them as important people. My mom is chinese and these men helped stop the japanese who committed tons of war crimes and it pisses me off because it makes me think they do not care about the people saved by these people.

[@StormTrooperTK-1138]

Glad that I ain’t the only one that got mad about most if not the entire game pretty much

[@courier.66]

*DO YOU SPEAK JAPANESE*

[@StormTrooperTK-1138]

Nein

[@StormTrooperTK-1138]

He could be better but I ain’t goin to elaborate cause I like living

[@visassess8607]

It's no secret that this game got massively shit on

[@devastater97]

@@StormTrooperTK-1138 Keep up the good work Trooper.

[@tangero3462]

The Arisaka was modeled decently but it was totally modeled after a late war GI bringback. Japanese troops would not have removed the dust cover or monopod, the rear aperture is cut like their No. 4 model, and it appears the AA sights aren't present. The bayonet model also seems to float in space. Besides that, it's passable.

[@shuukenji6585]

Wait till you see the Arisaka Drum Magazine version on multiplayer...

[@dragonace119]

@@shuukenji6585 Like the Garand with a drum mag, one is worst than the other but both are terrible.

[@dragonace119]

@LOAN NGUYEN Oh god thats an abomination, the god damn recoil spring is in the stock ahhhhhhhh.

[@dragonace119]

@LOAN NGUYEN Please no.

[@dragonace119]

@LOAN NGUYEN Yikes.

[@flamingsteve5883]

Claims to know history yet supports communism hmm

[@flamingsteve5883]

@@kamikazepilot4889 you dont get paid equal to your work

[@flamingsteve5883]

@@kamikazepilot4889 capitalism = you work for $ communism = you work and dont get paid, just because people abuse the system (which is prevalent in communism too) doesn't mean capitalism is bad

[@welfomoment5975]

Beautiful rant, Animarchy. But sadly, I'm afraid you're asking too much when the entire subject of ww2 has become little more than a loose subject around which to base an epileptic arcade shooter

[@rithvikmuthyalapati9754]

13:21 Also don't forget, Shiro Ishi made a plan called Operation Cherry Blossom at Night where they were planning to wage biological warfare on San Diego. Ironically, the operation name is similar to that of the Allied operation to invade Bougainville.

[@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826]

I'll add to that the fact that the biolabs manufacturing the bio-weapons were located in..... Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese also successfully used a weather balloon to drop a firebomb on a BBQ in the US. (Sorry if I spelt them wrong)

[@ardantop132na6]

@@nunceccemortiferiscultu7826About that weather balloon, I think they are consider as failure as many of those balloons were swayed away from their target and even 2-3 of them hit their own land.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

@@ardantop132na6 Least accurate weapon in the world, the target was an entire continent, and they still missed most of the time.

[@ardantop132na6]

@@worldcomicsreview354 This is why you don't rely on nature as a weapon. They're praying that the _Kamikaze_ (Divine wind) would favor them in guiding those balloons but _Kamikaze_ decided to do a little trolling.

[@river4088]

A good chunk of my childhood was in Papua New Guinea. The village elders remembered the Japanese very well, called them something that translates to the "neck-cutters" because of their fondness for cutting off heads for the most minor things. Horrifying.

[@Harry-yx2on]

Sorry brother love from Australia

[@nuggs4snuggs516]

The Nisei Brigade is one of my favorite US units from WWII. Fun fact, one of their officers was a Korean American, who the Nisei initially DID NOT get along with, due to the biases their parents gave them. However, after a bunch of heroics in Italy, they ended up nicknaming him "Samurai Kim" to show their newfound respect for the man.

[@texan-american200]

Here's another fun fact, because of what they did to save the Texas National Guard's 1st Battalion of the 141st Regiment, The Lost Battalion’ Of World War II when they were trapped behind German enemy lines, In 1962, then Governor John Connelly awarded every Nisei/American veteran the title of Honorary Texans.

[@CodytheHun123]

My favorite Koreans who served during World War II were two men in Carlson’s Second Raiders. I don’t know their names but the raiders nicknamed them ‘Gung’ and ‘Ho’.

[@MrGksarathy]

Wait, was this officer from Korea or a zainichi? Or was the Army to racist to distinguish between the two?

[@bismark7108]

The name of the AA guns of the japanese were type 96 25mm guns and the type 89 127mm gun. Sorry for my bad english i'm french.

[@AnimarchyHistory]

It's ok, I'm sorry for making fun of France all the time so let's call it even :)

[@bismark7108]

@@AnimarchyHistory don't worry, for WW2 out soldiers did what they could with what they have but our strategies were outdated and the hight was mainly compose of WW1 generals who were still thinking that trench Warfare was still a thing. However some soldiers did things that are nuts, for exemple : when italy try to invade France, 9 french soldiers manage to hold 3000 italians with only 1 machine gun and 1 anti-tank gun for 15 days. The name of that battle was the battle for Menton.

[@devastater97]

You type better English than some native English speakers

[@yanisbaker881]

@@devastater97 yeah I’m English and I have some real bad dyslexia so bad where autocorrect and the suggestion thing on Microsoft programs struggle

[@Kerbiecommando]

I’m glad you know about the 442nd regimental combat team.I had 3 great uncles in that unit. If you want some crazy Medal of Honor citations look up the 21 they had, Daniel Inouye’s in particular. It’s always crazy to me how under represented they are.

[@AnimarchyHistory]

GO FOR BROKE!

[@RunawayTrain2502]

Is that the guy Honolulu's airport is named for?

[@classifiedad1]

@@RunawayTrain2502Yeah. After the war, he became a US Senator for Hawaii, and served for decades as one. In this, he is generally regarded in a positive light.

[@trollman3894]

25:48 lmao mans spent all thst time explaining just for wade to reload it like a normal drum. Atleast thanks for the knowledge you bestowed upon us mate!

[@zeus28frenzy]

Im just more pissed about historical accuracy, NO MATTER the unit engaging in combat, treating history with OUTSTANDING respect is a must. Its why i like BF1 alot. They got a BADASS history channel to do info for the game

[@kabedonovan5555]

The rant about Tokenism is spot on and honestly needs to be brought up more. If they truly cared about any of this they would actually take time to flesh out these stories and roles. There’s real history and real people that deserve to be honored, instead they just water down these people into stereotypes for twitter points and money.

[@dos_gringos9853]

It really wouldn't be that hard either to make an authentic feeling story with minority characters if you just spend a little bit of time actually thinking about the characters and events that happen.

[@flickcentergaming680]

Literally. Like he said, all they had to do was have the 93rd be there and talk with the main character about what they've done.

[@ruskijames4887]

The Flamethrower tube wasn't even hooked up! 30:35 swear to god, not hooked up

[@strangewolf1261]

Thank you for getting angry about all this. Good to know I'm not the only person whose "Unreasonably" annoyed by this nonsensical tokenism. There are SOOOO many BAD ASS stories regarding men & women of different culture, color... etc from the war. My fav being the 588th Bomber group of the Soviet Airforce, God the Night Witches were awesome!

[@JayStrun]

One of my favorite unsung stories were the Polish and Czech pilots during the Battle of Britain. 1/5th of every airman that took part was Polish. And the Polish/Czech squadron downed the most enemy planes of any other squadron present.

[@strangewolf1261]

@@JayStrun OH for sure! There were some straight Aces among the Polish/Czech of the RAF.

[@bignickenergy2042]

Apparently the night witches were mostly propaganda used by the soviets against the Germans in order to belittle them that they were being bested by women.

[@strangewolf1261]

@@bignickenergy2042 Ummm... no. In fact wtf are u smoking dude? The 588th Night Bomber Regiment was more than real. With over 23'000 sorties & 3000 tons worth of bombs dropped throughout the course of the war. They're literally one of the most decorated Soviet Bomber squadrons around!

[@strangewolf1261]

They even received the BLOODY GUARDS DESIGNATION!! That's pretty much as high as recognition can GET in the USSR. Also... the entire idea of Mother Russia making up stories of Women fighting to dissuade the Germans. I SPIT on you sir! The Russians of all people would not have issue with Women taking credit where deserved.

[@soldatdaniels8738]

I haven't found many history nerds who get this pissed at public misrepresentations of WW2. It's entertaining, but also understandable and informative. Keep it up. Nice that people found solice in our whereaboo getting genuinely pissed at this bad price of media.

[@gearsfan6669]

my dad is that way about games when they claim to be historically accurate but aren't (such as the online "heroes" for this very game) but if a game never claims to be he goes in expecting Hollywood/Anime (in the case of any Warriors game) bullshit, where he gets the most mad is with the fact that KZbin actively demonetizes history channels because the refuse to censor themselves to accurately portray the history, I get the same way with anime about the Sengoku period that claim to be about an interesting and somewhat obscure figure from that time and then decide to throw mecha shit into it (*cough*Yasuke*cough*), I mean even the tv mini series based off a book of the same name, Shogun does a better job of portraying the time and it uses completely fictional versions of real people, including Anjin Miura (William Adams, in the show John Blackthore) one of the first foreigners to be given the rank of Samurai

[@permafrost8322]

26:33 WOW! Good job! COD did something that Battlefield did *S I X F U C K I N G Y E A R S A G O*

[@kwc0435]

And verdun did 10 years ago, albeit with ww1 rifles

[@truehdvision9147]

All the historian that reacts to this game's campaign is so dissapointed, they got ptsd.

[@MrPolicekarim]

Johnathan Fergusson did!

[@demonknight7510]

And are ya surprised? I am not.

[@leandroperezfelix78]

Even if you want to honor the hispanic aportation in ww2, there are more historicly accured ways to do that with the example of the 201 squad of mexican pilots who fougth in the philipins or the bracilian who fougth in ww2

[@randomstormtrooper3345]

Brazilians aren't hispanic, but they did great during ww2, and sadly everybody kinda forgets they even existed...

[@Nightdare]

@@randomstormtrooper3345 They sure did great, being one of Nazi Germany's largest trading partners until the Nazi's were losing, then teaming up with the sure fought winners for -hopefully, a piece of the spoils

[@randomstormtrooper3345]

​@@Nightdare You're talking like no country did some f-up stuff during ww2

[@Nightdare]

@@randomstormtrooper3345 You mean being opportunistic leeches? Sure But at least Sweden had the balls to remain neutral beginning to end, even though it could have declared war on Germany as well to save face towards the allies

[@randomstormtrooper3345]

@@Nightdare Not specifically that, just fucked up things in general. That's actually pretty based

[@Twelvegage30]

I remember watching Zach Hazard doing his gun rants in the Multiplayer beta for this game, and he was pissed for the most part, also he said that the piece at the end of the MG42 muzzle was called a Recoil Booster so the weapon would Cycle properly, so it basically wouldn't work without it.

[@bosunbill9059]

13:17 The most heart wrenching part of Unit 731 is that after the war they were given amnesty by the American Government, the CIA used these war criminals to develop chemical weaponry. These monster killed and was allowed to continue commit their crimes after the war under a different banner. It was like what Viktor Reznov from COD said : "Different flags, same methods."

[@anm10wolvorinenotapanther32]

As the overused quote on history memes forums always said: "It's not a war crime, if you're on the winning side..."

[@bosunbill9059]

@@anm10wolvorinenotapanther32 Let me add on it "And Sometimes switching sides is a option."

[@willamnewell3508]

Have you ever heard of op paperclip where us government recruits nazis after nazi Germany surrounded

[@smiley3554]

Did that with the Nazi's also. Say what you will but those types of horrific experiments also advance the science and medical field when ethics are put to the wayside. Sadly unlike in movies there is a morbid value to the knowledge they got that is useful even to the "good guys"

[@Bocchi-the-Rock_]

Yeah, except no, they didn't make it okay to continue doing, they spared the life of the man in charge in exchange for the data he had collected up to that point, which was hugely amazing for public health concerning billions of people, including you

[@knghtcmdr]

Fun fact, the SBD was the only dedicated bomber that had a positive kill ratio against the Zero.

[@krakenpots5693]

Unbelievable!!!

[@Nightdare]

SBD "Slow But Deadly"

[@hahabrrrrr4465]

It’s prob hard to fight a diehard Japanese who’s willing to do anything for their country even dying. Like if you’re a B-17 and a Japanese zero is out of ammo you’re a big squishy target for Air kamikaze. It’s just my opinion

[@garrettsattem4799]

18:22 I especially love your rip into the developers’ thought process. It’s a perfect example of them trying so hard to please everyone, that they end up pleasing no one.

[@50megatondiplomat28]

40:00 - I'm not sure the MG-42 even functions without it's flash hider because it has a little chamber that utilizes gas pressure to help the bolt cycle. I appreciate you playing this and giving me hilarious commentary; I know it was painful.

[@friendlysnoworb6091]

if I'm remembering correctly, it wasn't even a flash hider. it was to boost the recoil/gas pressure from the rounds.

[@Kav.]

It would function, just slower and less reliably.

[@burtbiggum499]

Those are called boosters

[@australianbloke6732]

The colt kill is literally just an Ariel drive by or should I say fly by

[@jejeakle]

I was thinking the same thing

[@sloppyoyster5779]

Fly by shooting

[@christianbethel]

'Jesse Owens made headlines for being snubbed by Hitler.' Jesse Owens (paraphrasing): 'When I passed the Chancellor's box he arose, and waved his hand at me, and I waved it back at him. I think the press was in bad taste criticizing the man of the hour.' Jesse Owens (paraphrasing): 'Hitler didn't snub me; it was FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the then president during the 1936 Olympics) who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.' You can also check Owens' Wikipedia page. Hitler did not snub Jesse Owens. And don't believe anything Albert Speer says. He was a traitor.

[@MistahFox]

The real life Owen Baggett was an absolute hero for what surviving being shot down, surviving a Japanese POW camp and being extremely charitable with children, but he did not shoot down a Japanese plane with a pistol. The Japanese records show no losses at that time, so either the part of the story where he shot at the plane wasn't true, or it did happen but he just didn't damage the plane or kill the pilot like he thought. I personally believe the second story, where he was ballsy enough to shoot at a plane with his pistol and the story got exaggerated over time to be him actually killing it.

[@manhphuc4335]

The front of the MG42 that was missing was called a recoil sth sth. I forgot. But it's purpose was to strengthen the recoil of the MG42, because it's a recoil operated gun, without sufficiently strong recoil, the MG42 would be a bolt action. That's why without that front part, the MG42 WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO BE SHOT.

[@leoaraujo8590]

it would shoot, but it would be a very complex operated bolt action

[@FrontlinerCdV]

Rückstoßverstärker is the word you're looking for. Recoil booster might be an apt translation.

[@bignickenergy2042]

Yeah its called a booster for a reason

[@ijnyuudachi4917]

As I tell myself and my friends whenever we even touch this game "you need to go monke brain" Shit like this is gonna kill the gaming market even more then it already has and then the groups are gonna wonder why everything's failing and when we say why their gonna mark us as hateful or pushing false narratives.

[@Cold_Cactus]

No its not , people are dumb as fuck and will buy any game as long as its shiny and has boom booms , thats why games suck now its because they know they can put out shit and people will just gobble it up

[@Cold_Cactus]

Look at rdr2 , ghost of tsushima, cyberpunk 2077 , squad , these games are incredible but where almost commercial failures, but look at apex , fortnight , cod , destiny games that are fucking trash but have extreme commercial success, people love these shitty games and trash talk genuine gems , its because the videogame community is 80% dumb ass kids , play cod its all squeakers , play squad its all adults like 99.99% and another 60% are actual vets , once I switched to pc I stopped having issues like I did on console with shit games and shittier lobbies but its still sad seeing gems like cyberpunk get shit on from performance issues on old consoles that stopped being a problem after a week and apex or what ever stupid shit is hot right now just gets universal praise

[@asancoon2363]

3:14 little known fact about the zero: they had an emergency power setting that was similar in nature to WEP. It ran the supercharger at a higher boost pressure for more power, but it would also produce a lot of oil smoke too, leading to many cases of US pilots believing they had scored a hit/kill where in actuality it was the zero pilot engaging emergency power in response to being shot at

[@noobepro_7146]

Japanese soldier : Do you speak japanese Main character : Omae wa mou shindeiru

[@austinmoore8894]

Nani?! *gunshots*

[@soumilsingh8530]

24:10 best part of the whole video. Animarchy explains how the gun works in great detail only for the game to take a big steaming dump on it immediately after. 25:45 I laughed for like 3 minutes straight. 😂🤣 Great video btw. Watching all the vanguard videos on this channel.

[@ryanpayne7707]

TBF, the first time I picked up my SMLE IRL and saw that the mag was detachable, I had the idea to load it more like an AR. I'm guessing Vanguard's developers had a similar idea with the type 11.

[@benjamintherogue2421]

26:13 Ooof, they actually didn't animate the rifle being loaded right. You need to push on the base or at least the middle of the rounds to push them down off of the stripper clip. If you push on the nose of the rounds you end up totally screwing up the load as they don't slide down right.

[@Scruffy72]

Look at the bayonet too its not even looped around the barrel its just floating there.

[@TheAmazingSpiderman87]

If by some ungodly miracle the Japanese were able to get their hands on and deploy sufficient numbers of mg42s the war, unfortunately, might have actually gone more favorably for them. So that tells me somebody at Activision would prefer the Japanese winning.

[@S1deshowRob]

Imagine if there were MG42s on Iwo Jima, as if that wasn’t enough of a fucking massacre

[@V-V1875-h]

Well the japanese squad mg wasn't that horrible from what I heard and were a lot lighter, still as static defense that would have been devastating

[@magni5648]

@@V-V1875-h Type 96 and Type 99 LMG were basically on par with the Bren, and some of the best small arms the Japanese produced during the war. Their earlier LMGs and their HMGs were pretty garbage, though.

[@V-V1875-h]

@@magni5648 yea

[@tinman3586]

Since we're talking about historical accuracy, Hitler never snubbed Jesse Owens. That was Franklin Roosevelt.

[@cheng3580]

Ngl. As someone who is a mixed Chinese and Japanese. Its hard for me to come to defend either side. I dislike how sometimes my families don't see eye to eye due to the atrocities almost a century old by this point. And yes both sides of my family did have families who fought during ww2 and earlier on.

[@rawrmcsaurs6052]

Its about time to let bygones be bygones

[@oberleutnanttai4343]

I'm half Vietnamese half American but luckily my grandparents fought for the south.

[@EnigmaEnginseer]

@@oberleutnanttai4343 South Vietnam or the Confederacy? Sorry it was a bit unclear you probably are referring to Vietnam

[@texan-american200]

@@EnigmaEnginseer Wakeup dude. I saw what he meant immediately. Stop overthinking this

[@yulinjun9961]

Dont feel so bad my man, we will always remember history, because we want to make sure these hard times never happen again, not to use history as a reason to hurt someone. It feels hard to look back, and it is normal.

[@tramlink8544]

at 27:05 anyone else notice after reloading he never touched the bolt handle and it closed the bolt on its own?

[@Nugire]

I was distracted by the floating bayonet, just hanging in the air under the barrel.....

[@Nugire]

45:44 That looks like a 17 pounder gun on that Sherman, doesn't it? Also that drum on the MG42 is must be a bag of holdings, given how much he shoots without reloading once.....

[@krakenpots5693]

I think he does, but not with his hand on the handle: I think the character is pushing the back of the bolt assembly, making it be out of shot (you can kinda see his hand move in time to the action, bottom right hand corner of the screen)

[@ah64apoche]

yeah, and where's the dust cover? the Japanese soldiers would be punished if they threw the dust cover away. and also, what the heck is wrong with the bayonet? there seems like there's an additional ring attached to it

[@MinAwY377]

Limited edition auto-bolt action

[@skeletonguts313]

When i first played the campaign i was walking around thinking where all the arisaka rifles and t100 smgs were. All I was finding were stg44s, k98s, "klaiser" pistols, etc. It really bugged me.

[@your_jacket4723]

The Sherman's at 36:51 are way too tall and way too thin, they look like somebody's shitty attempt at making a Sherman out of clay, The Sherman in the cutscene is a little bit too long, unless that's supposed to be an M4A4 Sherman which the US Army / Marines never used . The M4A4 was an export to allies like China and the USSR edit: the shermans have fucking 17 pdrs. 17 POUNDERS ON AN M4 SHERMAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACIFIC WITH THE FUCKING STANDARD-TURRET THEY DIDN'T EVEN TRY WITH THESE FUCKING TANKS

[@liladoodle]

Plus France too.

[@anm10wolvorinenotapanther32]

This just shows how Call of Duty developers don't even give a fuck anymore. They've been using the M4 Sherman, MG42, Lee-Enfield, MP-40, etc. since the very first game of the franchise and they still manage to completely fuck them up

[@stonecutter3172]

I know that the fire rate of the 50 cal for aircraft was at 1500 rpm. So let me get this straight; Game character just flew off in a Japanese plane with the possible intent of flying back to base WITHOUT getting shot to hell by the whole of the US Military?

[@drakron]

Well they had radios, the Val had a Type 96 Mk2 that was a Japanese copy of the Fairchild Aero Compass. I am more curious on how they took out those Sherman because Japanese tanks did rather poorly against American tanks ...

[@Nobody10115]

I think on the airfield the only plausible thing is getting shot from the side or back, or infantry anti tank grenades, on the cutscene maybe, somehow, some kind of direct fire artillery or AT gun emplacement, idk the people who made it probably thought “If the tanks are exploding it will look cool and make it seem like your character is doing something important.”

[@cattledog901]

Completely incorrect. The aircraft version of the M2 in WW2 fired at 750 RPM. Do some basic research.

[@drakron]

@LibtardsStillCant SilenceMe20 I am going to quote this ... The interesting thing about the Type 1-3 is that it was a copy of the Fairchild Aero Compass, manufactured in New York by the Fairchild Aerial Camera division of Fairchild Aircraft Company. The Zero coded AI-154, which was shot down at Fort Kamehmeha during the Pearl Harbor attack had a Fairchild-built direction finder Model RC-4, serial number 484 installed in it, as did the Zero, which was captured in the Aleutian Islands seven months later. Illustration 4 (see below) shows the faces of the Fairchild control box and one manufactured by the Naval Aerial Navigation Technical Depot. The dimensions of these units are tentative ones made by comparing them with known dimensions of airframe components in photos. The control box appears to be 140mm long by 108mm wide by 80mm deep. According to the TAIC manual these units operated in the 160 to 385 kilohertz range, which is in the Low to Medium Frequency bands. The selector switches on a captured unit are labeled from 170 to 1200 kHz, however. In the IJN the Type 1-3 was known as the ‘Kruesi’ after its designer, Geoffrey Kruesi of Dayton, Ohio.

[@CG87343]

You had me at “a dedicated marine with a Swiss Army knife”. I was on the floor when I heard that. 🤣🤣

[@jmantime]

Instead of the STG-44 , the developers should have used the Nambu Type I and Type II SMG's , two super rare SMGs that were actually used by the japanese. or maybe the japanese pedersen rifles.

[@zacbergman3551]

Pedersens were American

[@jmantime]

@@zacbergman3551 there were Japanese Petersen rifles too in 6.5mm arisaka. They were Japanese copies made between 1934 - 1941.

[@magni5648]

@@zacbergman3551 One of the entrants in early 30's rifle trials for the IJA was an improved Pedersen developed by Nippon Special Steel. Forgotten Weapons has a video on it.

[@SmilingGator96]

I would like to point out that the dude is reloading the sniper by hand with individual bullets. Now, this normally wouldn't be a problem, however, the sniper has an offset site. Offset sites were made with the sole purpose of keeping the ability to load your rifle with the clips.

[@UNOwen-gl8cg]

Ha, you absolute fool, everyone knows that the the rifles of WWII only take individual rounds and magazines, especially the ones without external mags. Clearly the devs made sure they did their research.

[@anonymoust0077]

OK OK chill man chill we understand call of duty does another fucking history just take a chill pill

[@plagu3tank836]

50:26 I have to destroy your hopes here: these are M4A3 with the 105mm howitzer, which were not used until February 1944. Also the Sherman M4A3 didn't have the additional side armour the M4, the M4A2 and the M4A4 used. And yes... the turret us too small. You could never fit 3 men AND a 105mm howitzer in that turret...

[@PandaMan-xy1he]

It does seem like the scale is off on the turret, doesn’t it?

[@stuglife5514]

No, no you are entirely incorrect. The guns are too thin and long to be the 105. There’s a fucking muzzle break on some of them. They have the firefly turrets, with the box in the back for the radio. They have a 76 gun mantle as well. Not the 105 mantle. While yes, the 105 and M4A3 were box weld hull Sherman’s, the turrets and guns are completely wrong. Get up close to one of those tanks in game. You’ll see what I mean. Also, it was quite common for Sherman’s that didn’t need the additional armor to have it anyways by crews mounting them just for extra safty. Fuck, crews put anything they could on their tank to help.

[@andrewhendrix2297]

As a southerner, I really appreciate the 'hope there's grits in heaven' line. I too wish this.

[@Bobobo-bo-bo-bobobo]

I too hope there's grits in heaven. And sweet tea

[@liamweaver2944]

Instant grits?

[@Justin-pe9cl]

@@liamweaver2944 “No self respecting southerner uses instant grits.”

[@liamweaver2944]

@@Justin-pe9cl Yesss finally someone acknowledged my reference

[@Chief12314]

Thank you for mentioning the Japanese Americans in the U.S. Military! My great uncle was in the 442nd and fought in the battle of the Lost Battalion, earned 3 purple hearts, and was Knighted in France in 2012. "Go For Broke!"

[@MidasMakeItRain]

A dedicated Marine with a swiss army knife can do anything. Never underestimate a Marine's drive to fuck shit up.

[@CowMaster9001]

It's like John Wick, except they stole his crayons.

[@MrPolicekarim]

@@CowMaster9001 lol!

[@adamgrimm4310]

Don't know if it was mentioned already, but its not a muzzle break missing on the MG42, its a recoil booster. It was designed to make the gun run more reliably with the high rate of fire.

[@danegambill9379]

Calm down and have a laugh dude, damn

[@joshuadarrow]

An American in the 1940s not knowing who Jessie Owens is would be like someone from the modern US not knowing who LeBron James is. This is almost certainly because they fully expect the player to not have heard of Jessie Owens, which I would say is disrespecting your audience’s understanding of history.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

I bet more people know who Jesse Owens is than know who LeBron James is, even in modern times.

[@tramlink8544]

also, Dragonsteeth were used by more than just germany. I live near the second line of defence in Switzerland facing north towards germany and theres litterally a row of Dragonsteeth and a tank ditch with rebar built in 1940 300m behind my house

[@AnimarchyHistory]

Switzerland is kind of Germany, my Great Grandfather was from Zurich :) I should have clarified and said "extensive use" I checked and couldn't find any evidence of the Japanese or the Allies using them. Nor any of the Soviets. The Japanese and the USSR preferred ditches. The Allies used Hedgehogs.

[@oreohalfrican]

As a black man who had to search out my own idols and historical figures of color throughout school, video games were one of the few places I could see POC be badasses. The rant at 20:00 really hit, we barely get enough representation, and I would just take it at face value. Glad someone’s calling it out. You would assume they would be able to do basic research.

[@cursedhawkins1305]

I'm surprised that there wasn't a comment about the ambush performance because I can tell you right now it wasn't correct, those Marines shouldn't have exposed themselves while enemies were still alive, standard protocol for ambushes like that was that every single soldier in the squad were to choose a single target until all of the targets were picked by someone, then start the ambush because it ensured that everyone gets killed without the chance of an alarm being raised or a sentry slipping away. Edit: just to clarify the scope on the Type 99, yes, they did exist usually given to snipers of the Imperial Army as they are more likely to be hidden either in the branches of a tree (when they have a perch to stand on) or when they're on the ground, however Vanguard also got another detail wrong with this version of the Type 99, you noticed the scope is offset to the left, it's because it allowed the user to still be able to use stripper clips so they didn't have to sit there loading every single round individually like their Allied and German counterparts who all had the scope on top of the rifle.

[@YeahItsYourBoyG]

funny enough a friend of mine just got his hands on an arisaka with a factory mounted scope and his first comment to me was "..AND YOU CAN EVEN STILL USE THE STRIPPER CLIP UNLIKE ON MY MOSIN!" no idea how or where he got the thing but he spent a pretty penny on it

[@siras2]

I'm afraid your comment re ambush "protocol" and "every soldier choosing a [different] target" is complete and utter tripe - please explain how individual soldiers are supposed to know which targets have already been selected!?. Even on today's battle field, where individual soldiers might (just MIGHT) have personal radios, this would be all but impossible to achieve in a combat situation where the "targets" don't parade themselves in line in order to be shot. Setting up an effective ambush is a matter of deploying fire teams and gun groups to lay down as much ammunition into the killing zone as possible in the first few seconds of the engagement - and then try and prevent anyone from escaping.

[@derekmensch3601]

@@siras2 in an Ambush you get a sector of fire and you engage whatever is within that sector.

[@siras2]

@@derekmensch3601 Correct, but the initial few seconds always require maximum "shock effect" - in a deliberate ambush the arcs of fire of most of those involved need to interlock within the killing zone. This is not simply a matter of allocating arcs of fire to cover the whole frontage (and open flanks) as is normally the case. My point was that it's pretty ridiculous to say that there's some kind of "protocol" in place where each individual soldier should be instructed to engage one particular target prior to opening fire. This might work in video games but real combat isn't like that.

[@mr.monhon5179]

Also a dude got hit in the nut and continue to fight, without a drop of blood. Even a game from 1997 can do better.

[@MrAlex_Raven]

13:35 I cannot count for you how many channels I used to follow that reviewed media or games and kind of handwave away this or say "Well they were culturally different."; but to quote Indy Neidell "So where in the Japanese Army manuals, or their books of culture does it say to murder women and children?" So, I appreciate your firm stance on this. Keep up your work.

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

I thought their books did say that but in a more cryptic way, Look taking your prizes of war or the weak deserve no mercy. I know the Nazis did.

[@HeliSniper479]

34:08 why do they have their own cannon looking over their own airfield?

[@sirnurtle657]

"And this is a myth because *Japanese AA actually hit something* " **D E S T R U C T I O N 100** Also at 50:00 those appear to actually be (maybe?) M4A3 HVSS 105 howitzer Sherman's judging by the fact the gun is a bit fatter, though the hull looks like that of an M4A4 as its way to long

[@fernandomarques5166]

Which is even worse because for the sh*t the type 96 25mm AA gun is it has a higher RPM than what the game shows

[@Ingaming_Coma246]

Probably the Cinematic team weren’t looking for specific tank models that were known To be at the battle or didn’t know exactly which Sherman they should be looking for. But they know that long barrel muzzle breaks on the Sherman isn’t historically accurate.

[@ConkerVonZap]

I love how they try so hard to make the 93rd division look badass...12 kills in action in the entire of the war. It really is insulting.

[@questionmaker5666]

Likely got confused with the 93rd Division from WWI, which was badass, as the French would say.

[@beerten202]

19:50 Absolutly definitly my viewpoint If they want more woke and shit thats fine but try instead of stereotyping the shit try something that has already existed but needs a spotlight on it

[@Kocurek1921]

Incendiary weapons weren't banned yet in WWII, so technically not a war crime. Also, if the sight is to the side... why load rounds individually. Is it some multiplayer balance thing?

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

Half of this game was a cheap ripoff of that movie.

[@chrsnknrankin11]

He's virtue signaling because hes a comie i bet he denys the holodomor and russian or Chinese war crimes Its ok to do war crimes on a nationalist or nazi etc

[@fernandomarques5166]

And incendiary weapon are not banned today either, they're just more regulated than normal weapons. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III says: "1. It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by incendiary weapons. 2. It is prohibited in all circumstances to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons. 3. It is further prohibited to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by means of incendiary weapons other than air-delivered incendiary weapons, except when such military objective is clearly separated from the concentration of civilians and all feasible precautions are taken with a view to limiting the incendiary effects to the military objective and to avoiding, and in any event to minimizing, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects. 4. It is prohibited to make forests or other kinds of plant cover the object of attack by incendiary weapons except when such natural elements are used to cover, conceal or camouflage combatants or other military objectives, or are themselves military objectives." Basically you can used incendiary weapons as long as your target isn't a civilian population, isn't located within a civilian population, isn't the forest itself (but can be used in a forest if said forest is being used as cover). Tldr: Incendiary weapons are valid as long as you don't crisp civies. This is detailed on the UNODA treaties acessible by the wiki page on Protocol III.

[@punic4045]

@@chrsnknrankin11 what? Earlier in the video the guy was literally talking about the horrible warcrimes of Unit 731, which was a Japanese unit. He was even praising the cutscene where they lit up the Japanese soldiers with a flame thrower.