Firearms Expert Reacts to Call Of Duty: WW2’s Guns

Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the iconic weaponry of Call of Duty: WW2, including the M1 Garand - complete with its iconic ‘ping’ sound, the Russian PPSh-41 submachine gun, and the German STG44 Assault Rifle.
Call of Duty: WW2 saw the COD franchise return to the Second World War with a ‘boots on the ground’ shooter experience, which was full to the brim with period WW2 guns like the American Thompson M1A1, the German MP40, and the Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol.
In the above video, Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weapons of Call of Duty: WW2, and compares their in-game depictions against their real-world counterparts.
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[@IrregularDave]

Thanks so much for watching this series everyone! We are looking forward to showcasing even more games with Jonathan! If there are any games and virtual firearms you want us to break down, make sure to let us know!

[@MorningGI0ry]

Verdun. Let’s get some WW1 love

[@krypticviper1613]

Just cause 4

[@theoxenakis6182]

I know a few other people have said this but insurgency sandstorm would be awesome to see! I really like the series keep it up!

[@OWLFRED-xj8vs]

rainbow six siege

[@sammni]

I want to see the VickerK never seen one fire or disassembled. The SAS jeep version. But I'll take the aircraft version if that's all you got lol

[@maruftim]

"Get your Modern Warfare out of my WWII" I love this guy

[@P51_mustang]

There were sniper sights for snipers

[@Thynexn]

@@P51_mustang r/wooosh oMg!?!,.!.,!,.!,,?,!,!

[@staticx2552]

I feel him tho

[@freedo7266]

It’s not his ww2 he should stfu

[@ChellanE]

@@freedo7266 you defo 12 who plays fortnite

[@tabkg5802]

What if you wanted to go into heaven, but God said "Pausing"

[@theviscount4622]

how

[@MausOfTheHouse]

I think it's a good thing.

[@tabkg5802]

@@MausOfTheHouse I agree lol

[@wolfgang6157]

as long as he is not going to send me to the hell because i am using modern era sights on my ww1 manufactured weapons he can pause

[@VIVALARAZABIANCONERA]

Game dev: *makes game* Jonathan: "Pausing" Game dev: "Oh, FFS, what did I do wrong this time?"

[@blackm4niac]

I was hoping you would show him the infamous "putting in the stripper clip at an angle into a sniper rilfe" clip and have him absolutely lose his shit over it.

[@imanidiot1725]

If he was shown by it, it would be like this: Physical recovery: 5 weeks Mental recovery: 8 weeks Therapy bill: 5 thousand dollars

[@dothwalrus370]

The ross rifle does have an angled stripper guide though.

[@KawaiiRazorBlade]

@@dothwalrus370 k98k never did, yet was depicted in the game

[@kingoftherevolution4855]

I don't remember this being a thing? I know the snipers generally only used clips at all rather than reloading 1 round at a time if you took the scope off of it

[@Trollo_Swaggins]

I love how he’s got a pile of historical weapons on the table and a P90

[@baggierbobcat3324]

It’s p90 or nothing!

[@yapalskippy1807]

basically predicted vanguard.

[@yosianderson4828]

My favorite WWII gun, so unique and ergonomic for its time.

[@tonypeppermint5329]

Yep.

[@iamsethhasting8911]

That's his PDW, pay it no mind

[@dannyzero692]

"Pausing", that is the word you would never want to hear from him

[@StayFractalesque]

hm. you would think it would be "reloading"

[@jonathanferguson1211]

I did not realise that GS were going to leave the wording 'pausing' in :)

[@daved2352]

Reminds me of that scene from Whiplash, I'm imagining Jonathan looming over an Activision exec asking "were you rushing or dragging?"

[@robertobernardo7117]

@@jonathanferguson1211 the admin

[@RiceLeYT]

Lol right...

[@dizzygunner]

i think BF1 would be an interesting one, lots of experimental and weird guns in that.

[@gagejohnathan9641]

And one that is practically a phantom.

[@dizzygunner]

@@gagejohnathan9641 yup the only evidence of it existing is ONE picture lmao

[@KevBoy3D]

BF1 would’ve been amazing without all the experimental questionable firearms

[@BaconJets]

Look up forgotten weapons, that dude looks at a lot of WW1 weapons including the experimental ones.

[@hirokjyotideka5571]

Ian from forgotten weapons did extensive reviews on those. All of them.

[@theplourde]

They should make a “pausing” t shirt and have the proceeds go towards the museum.

[@ghazghkullthraka9714]

Jacket with various lines instead, including ‘pausing’ and ‘get your modern warfare out of my WWII’

[@wikihowfrog9034]

I'd buy that

[@sircookie4081]

@@ghazghkullthraka9714 ngl that would be a good fundraiser

[@SerathDarklands]

"What does a battle rifle have in common with a microwave? They both go ping when they're done." - Ahoy on the M1 Garand, 2014

[@fadzlenkadir6014]

and typewriter....

[@Minnevan]

They’re both American inventions

[@abuelovinagres4411]

You can get more easily killed if you’ve got a high ping. :v

[@rwbynerd1012]

Actually not true and that’s one thing games get very wrong about the Garand rifle! There would be no way the enemy would be able to hear the ping of the rifle over the cacophony of gunfire around them it is much quieter than a gunshot

[@SerathDarklands]

@@rwbynerd1012 I never said that the ping was loud enough to hear over the roar of the battlefield. Just that there _was_ a ping.

[@haroldellis9721]

"This is Jonathan Ferguson" = This is me giving a thumbs up.

[@FirstnameLastname-wo2zq]

Why he obviously doesn't know a thing about firearms

[@FirstnameLastname-wo2zq]

Its not a debate idk how you think this guy knows what he is talking about he is a keeper of a museum

[@weatherthem]

@@FirstnameLastname-wo2zq yeah he’s the keeper of a museum, a museum of guns lol I don’t know what you are talking about.

[@FirstnameLastname-wo2zq]

@@weatherthem yea that dont mean shit and I know what im talking about

[@weatherthem]

@@FirstnameLastname-wo2zq lol it literally means everything because it’s his job to work with guns, also are you sure you know what you’re talking about?

[@thebombwillexplode1927]

This guy is definitely the best guest. And it's also great that he plays games. You need to get him to see insurgency.

[@jonathanferguson1211]

You are too kind!

[@soarinpenguinlive6372]

@@jonathanferguson1211 Are you the only people in the UK allowed to even own 90% of these guns. I know it really hard to even get a firearm in the UK

[@aa-ev6ud]

@@soarinpenguinlive6372 I’m pretty sure he doesn’t own the firearms, the museum does.

[@soarinpenguinlive6372]

@@aa-ev6ud Yeah I know that was just curios what the museum has to go through to even get all those gun. UK guns laws are dumb my friend legit couldn't get an old world war 2 firearm unless they removed the ability for it to fire. Im also a little curios how many of the guns he showed actually fire cause if they made those relics inoperable it be a shame and in my opinion a huge disrespect to the artifacts themselves

[@uniboio2437]

@@soarinpenguinlive6372 I don’t think U.K. gun laws are dumb, I’d say the vast majority of the population don’t have the same appetite for owning firearms as Americans do. Personally having been to the US myself on one occasion in an open carry state I found it to be a very unsettling experience. I don’t believe that people should be able to own firearms (unless there is a substantial reason for a person to own one) the cost of human life lost due to their accessibility far outweighs the freedom of owning such weapons. That’s not to say I don’t think guns aren’t interesting, but personally I’ve never had any ambition of owning one even if I could.

[@chris.3711]

"Get your modern warfare out of my world war two!" Thank you!

[@csm5040]

I am looking at you, BF V ...

[@ninjapants7688]

Except the sight that is on the gun is not modern. It is a Nydar sight which is a type of reflector sight. It existed in 1945. It is not the modern "Holo sight". Actually the one of the first reflector sight s was made in 1900, which is the "Grubb" sight.

[@phoen1x_cs]

@@ninjapants7688 but they were not used in ww2

[@ninjapants7688]

@@phoen1x_cs Never said they were. Last I checked ground troops couldn't call in nukes after killing a set amount of troops, but no one says anything about that either.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

@@ninjapants7688 Those sights would break after 3 shots on a rifle.

[@potato_warfare_424]

You know I really appreciate the fact that he recognizes it as a game and not everything has to be portrayed perfectly.

[@afallenhuman]

Exactly. I actually enjoyed Cod: World War 2 Campaign, even if there was some discrepancies here and there, a Game is not all about it being Realistic at times.

[@327legoman]

@@afallenhuman True but it's sad when both realism and gameplay would have made something fun and interesting, but it went cartoony due to lack of effort. Good example being when a terrifying gun like an MG42 Machine gun feels more like a sub-machine gun for long range instead of a fully automatic bolt action rifle. Or when in a multiplayer game the 'character' behind each nation is stripped apart by the ability for loadouts to equip any gun despite nation.

[@edwardking9359]

​@327legoman That's not due to lack of effort, that's a conscious decision.

[@stas7378]

I would like to see him finding anything wrong with Tarkov, Insurgency sandstorm, Arma 3 or Squad

[@armando_the_pianist3026]

Theres nothing wrong with those lol 😂😂

[@OhukaisMies_54]

@@armando_the_pianist3026 exactly

[@Kisseyhersh123]

he's immediately going to jump after the Katiba, the MX, and the Type 115

[@CultivatedDavid]

Everytime he'll say "pausing," it'll be because he's impressed

[@nh9136]

Bullet penetration in tarkov is very inaccurate in a lot of cases.

[@benbenson1466]

I find it interesting how he was about to put his finger on the trigger at 5:34 out of habit but immediately corrected himself

[@solokom]

nice catch!

[@Bable012]

No finger on the bang switch

[@cortex8239]

@@Bable012 Yeah no shit

[@thejason755]

Trigger discipline is a real thing. He’s a credit to the britbong race.

[@casual_speedrunner1482]

@@Bable012 My mom when me and my gf are anywhere near each other.

[@kyletracht8276]

Was really hoping we'd get to see him react to the MG-42's atrocious rate of fire in this game

[@Ameritard]

Same thing with the Bren, thing shot like 3 rounds per day in this game

[@feryfrost8572]

@@Ameritard 3 round per day is hillarious i choked when im eating noodle

[@formoftherapy]

Yo Gamespot, the donation link doesn't work just a heads up! Typo in the link :)

[@athapratama55]

I’m genuinely surprised to come across you here

[@genericusername4206]

@@athapratama55 ok

[@daniellxnder]

omg PD-nim

[@GM55_Manilock]

1:12 there’s also the “Garand Thumb” problem in the game. The guy is not holding the bolt with the palm of the hand .

[@MrJwenselK]

that didn't/don't happen 100% of the time, sometimes it got "stuck" and you would have to hit it forward. but yea wished they'd included it

[@AlastorTheNPDemon]

I own one of these guns. Sometimes you do in fact have to shove the piece forward, but it usually just shuts closed when you touch and release pressure on the follower.

[@randomnobodovsky3692]

Maybe, just maybe, the character in a game is inhumanly fast.

[@dragonstormdipro1013]

Those were the case with early era Garands. By 1945, New Garands without the problem occured.

[@turkeyhamman4111]

You just think people's finger's get smashed all the time w those guns? Its not that common, as long as you're loadung the rifle appropiately

[@mistertililing5933]

One thing to note as well is that CoD's PPSH-41's magwell uses the PPS-43's for some reason. Too bad he didn't touch on the usage of clips through the scoped rifles.

[@ycgoh603]

I'm kinda surprised that he didn't touch on that one since he did notice the weird magwell on that one AKS-74U in BOCW

[@randomnobodovsky3692]

"CoD's PPSH-41's magwell uses the PPS-43's for some reason" - I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean that magwell design (looks) in PPSh41 is modelled after PPS43?

[@mistertililing5933]

@@ycgoh603 The fake AS VAL magwell? I think he said it looked like the ACE magwell if I remember correctly.

[@mistertililing5933]

@@randomnobodovsky3692 Yeah.

[@SahiPie]

@@mistertililing5933 It was a AKS that had the magwell.

[@Peter-ur3yy]

They should have shown him the Lewis gun and lee Enfield Cus their reloads were horrid

[@jameswalsh8262]

they probably did and couldn't edit out the rage

[@Lisztomaniac1022]

The Lee Enfield one though... your chracter only puts in one stripper clip worth of ammo which holds 5 rnds and it refills your gun with 10

[@andreasottohansen7338]

@@Lisztomaniac1022 How did they fuck that up, considering CoD2 from 2004 gets that right?!

[@TragicTester034]

@@andreasottohansen7338 the original Call of duty gets it correct

[@andreasottohansen7338]

@@TragicTester034 i will admit, i got into video games with CoD2, so that is what I am more familiar with.

[@billybob804]

Mr. Ferguson is quite the treasure. Really love this "series" with him!

[@6enesix]

*ENEMY AC-13O INBOU-- "pausing..."

[@Jay_Akyman]

That browning and Bar in the background was such a blue ball

[@BallMuncher555]

what

[@Jay_Akyman]

@@BallMuncher555 The “Browning” and the “Bar” were other weapons used in WWII, and are some of the fan favourites, yet they didn’t review them so it was a big tease.

[@BallMuncher555]

@@Jay_Akyman oooh

[@Cbrmkn98xs]

@@Jay_Akyman that was the .30 Browning right. Or is it the .50?

[@Jay_Akyman]

@@Cbrmkn98xs I believe it was .30 Browning

[@Sun-Tzu-]

The "Cone Hammer" thing when talking about the C96 must have been taken out of context, the "Cone Hammer" is the name for a very specific type of early C96 from a Turkish contract. I imagine he got off on a tangent and the editor misunderstood what he was talking about.

[@mooneyes2k478]

Actually, no, they're not. While the Ottoman Turks indeed did order Mausers, the "1314s", and those were conehammers, that order was a mere 1000 units. There were about 13000 conehammers made.

[@kepofshangri-la8942]

Actually, he got charging the Thompson M1 wrong as it has a bolt hold open mechanism which virtually removes the need to recock the gun after reloading.

[@gunsmithgeoff8218]

Yes, I was surprised he missed that. The game shows the correct reload. All the select-fire open-bolt Thompsons feature a "sear trip" which disconnects the trigger and leaves the bolt locked to the rear. It is activated by the follower of an empty stick mag. This makes reloading very simple, and I'm not aware of any other open-bolt SMGs which copied this innovative feature.

[@no-legjohnny3691]

@@gunsmithgeoff8218 - They probably didn't copy it because it was complex and expensive, two things that you don't want a service SMG to be, especially after WWII.

[@tavish4699]

I think that only came with the m1a1

[@gunsmithgeoff8218]

@@tavish4699 Nope, all the Thompson models had it.

[@gunsmithgeoff8218]

@@NarutoninjaXV Maybe he was, but the M1 and M1A1 cannot accept drum mags. There were several good reasons the military stopped procuring drum mags. The Soviets did the same thing with the PPSh-41, favoring only stick mags by the end of the war.

[@MorningGI0ry]

Casually flexing with the p90 amongst WW2 weapons.

[@BallMuncher555]

as well as that five seven

[@basedmax9029]

Death machine spinning up

[@graytoby1]

He defs sneaks them home sometimes takes them out the museum. Flashes a bit of steel to scare some Kids on the way home

[@Jebu911]

He needs it to rush B with.

[@allahm-ast3mnlywlatstbdlny164]

Mashallah tbark Allah alhamudillah inshallah better astgfrallah

[@chrisidoo]

"Get your Modern Warfare out of my World War II." *HEAR, HEAR!*

[@michaelmckinnon1591]

And then he points out the Vietnam Era Colt M1A1 Commando (first made in 1970)

[@FATxAZZxGONExCRAZZZY]

i remember my grandpa's practice rifle grenades from when i was a kid, he was born right after world war 2 and they still practiced with them in bootcamp in the danish military for a good while after

[@lefr33man]

11:58 or, as Ian Mccollum said, "like watering the yard".

[@yahyamusseb]

Praise to gun Jesus

[@kalebbeer3526]

MOOOORRREE, i seriously cannot get enough of this man right here. I wish I could erase my memory so I can watch all the videos he's in again and again

[@rjdonohue90]

Go watch forgotten weapons

[@joemontgomery6658]

If you like this you will love forgotten weapons, Jonathan has been in some videos there as well

[@jc_da_killa7132]

I really like how he doesn’t talk shit about the games for there inaccuracies, just explains what it’s like irl. He understands that there entertainment and it sounds like he plays and enjoys these games too.

[@benhislop1458]

Can't wait to see Jonathan's reaction to Vanguard's weapons.

[@MrJHM007]

I would love to hear his views on the game "Killing Floor 2", as the developers prided themselves on its authenticity.

[@monauralsnail0669]

10:21 not to mention if you tried to remove a suppressor after you just ran a few magazines through it your hand would get severely burned. I’m really liking these videos.

[@theironcross2933]

So, when I first played the game, I found it odd that the ppsh was in Normandy, but I did some research and found that when a bunch of eastern front units were transferred too the western front in 1943(i think), they took the ppsh they had captured and rechambered them to 9mm parabellum( used in luger, p38s mp 40s and is one of the most common pistol calibers today) and toom them with them to France

[@comeatmebro3229]

yes and no, some PPSh were rechambered for 9mm (MP 41(r)) but most of them were not (MP 717(r)) , the Germans captured so many PPSH throughout the war that they were widely distributed and even units who did not serve on the eastern front were issued them. these unaltered versions of the gun were issued with 7.63×25mm Mauser ammunition instead of the soviet Soviet 7.62x25mm. So yes contrary to popular belief the PPSH was actually reletively common on the western front so the game in this isntance is accurate (they also didn't use the drum mag on the western front due the the ammo they needed to use)

[@jig5044]

COD needs to hire this guy to be their weapons guy immediately.

[@treefingers1183]

Ah yes, COD, the company, the one company that makes every COD game and definitely just goes by the name COD. can't wait for Call of Duty Black Ops 5, developed and produced by COD

[@methmonster]

@@treefingers1183 bruh.

[@Root174]

Supposedly, Tom Clancy had someone who would check a game's authenticity back when he was still around. The license was eventually sold to Ubisoft, who doesn't care much about authenticity.

[@dillonc7955]

Whenever I saw this man and CoD WW2, I knew this was going to be good. Bad for CoD WW2, but still good.

[@connor7x978]

@James LaBrie yes, this games depiction of real life ww2 weaponry is bad, how could you tell?

[@trager8933]

@@connor7x978 so who cares ? I want to play a game. Not to participate in ww2.

[@WorkInProgressX]

@@connor7x978 game was good tho. It has a pretty interesting selection of firearms as of now. It pulled off a bf1 with the guns

[@connor7x978]

@@WorkInProgressX the game is great. just pisses me off it could of been a bit better. for Instance ppsh and waffe fire rate are swapped for absolutely no reason

[@howdoichangemyusername9802]

@@trager8933 the game should’ve at least made it a bit more immersive. That’s like someone complaining there’s semi-auto rifles in a Revolutionary War game and you saying the same excuse. If you’re gonna make a game in a specific time, then adhere to that time if the game is going to be somewhat realistic and not a fantasy.

[@brendonprice5194]

I would let this man raise my children

[@ompawar4050]

....children He:"pausing"

[@FlyboyHelosim]

You would let this guy father your children.

[@RiceLeYT]

🤣🤣

[@NEELZE99]

@@FlyboyHelosim he's probably twelve

[@TimmySquibs]

@@NEELZE99 or it’s just a joke

[@mockingbird5832]

"Get your MW out of my WW2" thats my Man!

[@ninjapants7688]

It's a 1945 Nydar sight. Not a modern sight. Dummy.

[@octopussmasher2694]

Ian McCollum might be interested in assisting with this series.

[@ShinoCoffee]

Papashas shown in the Normandy campaign has always bugged me so its nice to have an expert weigh in on that particular scene.

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

Yeah makes no sense. "Let's give the badly trained second rate static defense troops high ROF submachine guns for which we don't produce any ammo."

[@monsterkitty6921]

@@G-Mastah-Fash Most of the PPSh guns that ended up being captured actually were rechambered in 9x19mm Parabellum, They were designated MP41(r) and surprisingly enough they *did* see a lot of service on both the western and eastern fronts. The version shown in game is not an MP41(r) however, so I personally think the devs just wanted to put a PPSh in the game.

[@UFCMania155]

The ppsh was complete shit. It had a high rate of fire but its accuracy was horrible past 50 meters. The MP40 was better in every way except rate of fire

[@christianhaegler4817]

@@UFCMania155 ...and that's exactly why it was a better SMG than the MP-40. You aren't trying to win sniping contests with it or anything like that. All you want from your SMG is that high volume of fire so you can clean out enemies at low ranges. Now all that aside...I personally was much more bugged by practically half the german army in the West being armed with am SVT instead of a G43 in that game. That one was ridiculous.

[@UFCMania155]

@@christianhaegler4817 the point of an smg isn't to have rates of fire of almost 1000 rounds/min...that's for machine guns. The MP40 could room clear as well as be accurate from further away

[@vizzy61]

Look at all those beauties behind him, he's a lucky lucky man

[@dannyzero692]

He does not own any of them sadly

[@hfl_]

No, you've got it backwards. Those guns are lucky to be cared for by a glorious man such as him, this wonderful chad.

[@Guillermo-bz5qp]

@@dcfv0001 exactly what I was thinking. They have to preserve them

[@Sonny2299]

@@dcfv0001 it’s ok to me, as long as I’m surrounded by them 😂

[@HO-bndk]

Lucky, or more likely worked really hard to get to where he is.

[@TommyT_]

3:57 me the first time she sees it

[@menacingdonutz]

I love how he delivers information and how he points out issues with guns but also understands that some of the inaccuracies are gameplay related to make the game more enjoyable.

[@youonlylivenever]

Finally someone else pointed put that the Thompson in the game, aside from a couple multiplayer variants, was the M1A1 and not the 1928.

[@frank3732]

So you've never been on reddit or any other youtube video comment section when WW2 came out?

[@youonlylivenever]

Reddit yes, the COD subreddits no. Yes I do remember people mentioning it, but it's been 3 years since WW2 came out. Most of the people I know didn't seem to care. Granted, most of them aren't as well versed in firearms as I am so it stands to reason that they wouldn't know the difference.

[@frank3732]

@@youonlylivenever Wait, so didn't you just contradict yourself?

[@youonlylivenever]

I mean on some level yes, but after more thought I do how it can see how it would be ridiculous of me to act like I've never heard someone mention it. To my knowledge though, I didnt see it brought up very often. I'm not saying that it wasn't ever brought up, I'm just saying that I didn't really see it.

[@_kommandant_3055]

He actually got the Thompson wrong. The Thompson is an open bolt gun, like he said, but it also has a bolt hold-open. So when you fire the last round the bolt stays back/open. You then insert a full magazine and DO NOT need to pull the bolt back because it is still being held back after emptying the previous magazine.

[@JSDFEnthusiast]

WWII The little P90 on the back table: *hehe*

[@justsomeguywithasurprisede4059]

I don't know why But this comment made me laugh

[@uncledan9453]

I think there's also a Five-Seven next to it

[@ipie13579]

3:19 Thought it would be interesting to mention that to my knowledge the largest reason rifle grenades where phased out was the MASSIVE recoil and lack of range. Also of course it is very dangerous if you where to misload with standard ammunition at which point you have a grenade on a stick that will go off when you pull the trigger.

[@skilled5475]

Honestly my new favorite set of videos right now

[@luciusrex]

there was this Samurai dude who reviewed samurai movies and he was super humble about it all. I was hoping Jonathan was going to be the same. and he was for the most part! Keep it up!

[@justmrak2690]

He should do escape from tarkov taking a look at weapon modding (in the recent patch and not videos from the closed alpha like other channels did), and gameplay from a competetent eft player

[@IrregularDave]

Stay tuned 👀....

[@justmrak2690]

@@IrregularDave also another suggestion would be taking a look at the different animations for each weapon (rechambering, emptying the chamber, the different reload styles etc) tho it would most likely be a really lengthy video but he would have a tons of stuff to look at in eft

[@Rommel_209]

I remember a German ww2 veteran said that German soldiers love to take the ppsh as a trophy gun or as an extra secondary weapon. Also is it possible that perhaps, at that stage of the war that the German soldiers using confiscated weapons due to their limited supplies of weapons & ammunitions

[@kingcrimson9171]

one thing i love about this guy over other reaction guys is that he recognizes design decisions made to keep the game enjoyable, like the widened rear sight of the garand

[@clockworkmansion1855]

Game dev: Makes game with gun This guy: I'm about to end this devs whole career

[@TheDelta016]

I wouldn't say so, he doesn't belittle them for it like other experts do, he does point out their inaccuracies but basically forgives/pardons them realising its just a game

[@_kommandant_3055]

He actually got the Thompson wrong though. The Thompson is an open bolt gun, like he said, but it also has a bolt hold-open. So when you fire the last round the bolt stays back/open. You then insert a full magazine and DO NOT need to pull the bolt back because it is still being held back after emptying the previous magazine.

[@clockworkmansion1855]

@@_kommandant_3055 Ok

[@bluecaptainIT]

See? He's human, like the devs, so it's fine. I used to think the same he said in the video until I stumbled upon a video from Gun Jesus and came to know the truth. Shrug it off, carry on.

[@cosmicdude8282]

@@bluecaptainIT no, Activision is just lazy af

[@g935g]

When the museum opens again im going to it

[@GrievousReborn]

Jonathan is going to have a heart attack when he sees the guns in Call of Duty Vanguard

[@erattas]

Keep doing this love this series

[@Jramirezi97]

I’m liking this series a lot so far

[@Pusher97]

Oof, there was a lot of the dreaded “pausing” in this one.

[@cottonballs185]

He is also mistaken at 12:00, the *Nydar Reflex Sight* confirms the historical plausibility of such optics.

[@TheFkgood]

@@cottonballs185 ...which was introduced in 1945.... so he is kinda right.

[@RoyalDog214]

@@cottonballs185 Which wouldn't have been fielded to the majority of troops fighting overseas. I don't think most World War II veterans even realize that optics even remotely exist, beside that night vision w/e it's called being used in the Pacific theater.

[@cottonballs185]

@@TheFkgood @Fox The Grubb reflector was patented before World War II and I specified *historical plausibility* not *documented fact*

[@CuongNguyen-eg1pu]

@@cottonballs185 but they weren't used in small arms

[@kurttank_1909]

In regards to the PPSH in this game, it appears they modeled it with a PPS mag-well when using 35 rounders

[@giftheck]

"Get your modern warfare out of my world war 2" in the search bar actually brings up this video as the third result 🤣

[@acnash27]

I would recommend CoD: Infinite Warfare, because it has futuristic takes on modern guns which would be cool for him to break down.

[@Fridgemasters]

that game has such cool ass weapons

[@dooderbug2437]

The shotguns are mostly ass tho.

[@bobsponge1998]

He should’ve covered the mg42 in this game, its nothing like the real life counterpart with that rate of fire

[@alephkasai9384]

What'd they do to my boy?

[@ycgoh603]

@@alephkasai9384 SHG messed up the fire rate of the MG42. The rate of fire is significantly slower than the real life counterpart. They also messed up a bunch of other guns' fire rate. MP28 shouldn't be firing that fast, PPSh shouldn't be firing that slow, Stinger LMG's fire rate was toned down a lot etc.

[@Woud_]

I really like his videos, also that he knows and realizes that they are just videogames and that some things that are done 'wrong' are mainly for gameplay/aesthetics and analyze the gun anyway.

[@luissantiago5163]

These videos are amazing. Thanks

[@mattcollins383]

Would be interesting to see him do an episode on Escape from Tarkov, with that game's obsessive detail down to ammunition types etc.

[@Riimaachan]

"There were no optical sights on small arms in ww2" *pulls out an stg44 with an optical sight* *laughs in german engineering*

[@DannyMNL]

He corrected himself mid-sentence. He said there were no reflex sights on small arms and he is right. A reflex sight is a reflector sight, and those were at the time mostly used as aircraft gunsights.

[@dylanokarman5048]

🤣🤣

[@kino_61]

* with night vision sight

[@bigvinnie3]

@@DannyMNL i think some aa guns had them as well but those arent small arms either lol

[@neruneri]

The best thing about Mr Ferguson in this series really is that everything that shows up in the game that is real, he has access to a real one. It's lovely.

[@Leviathan02464]

Great video. If I ever make it to the uk I will be sure to visit that museum and view its amazing collection. Gun nuts and video game lovers need more of this historical information

[@Thomas-tc7hp]

Come on Gamespot send this man a good camera and mic right now

[@lockey88]

I remember how excited I was hearing cod was going back to ww2, then my subsequent disappointment when I saw gameplay with optical sights on the guns.

[@arod6079able]

When I was stationed at Ft Sill we had some important people visit and the museum brought out some of their guns I fired the M1 Garand. It's was such a great experience. Even got a picture of the shell ejecting and it looks blurred. The M1 had been my favorite WW2 gun since play MOH rising sun on ps2

[@Keichwoud357]

Despite being open-bolt, the Thompson actually locks open when empty. So a reload would indeed consist of just a magazine change, since the bolt is already back. The Thompson is pretty much the only open-bolt subgun this applies to, so I don't blame him on that one.

[@fromthebackseat4865]

Good catch!

[@krypticviper1613]

It’s so nice that he realizes that it’s a video game and doesn’t harp too hard

[@The.Original.Potatocakes]

"Get your modern warfare out of my WW2." Has a FN P90 in the background.

[@VanadzorImSirac]

ok?

[@karamelflan1838]

wut

[@The.Original.Potatocakes]

Jesus its sarcasm. You ppl that commented are fucking nutz!

[@karamelflan1838]

>inb4 sounding like a rart to bait We didn't even know what you were comparing it to, it sounded more like a rambling of a schizo

[@celebalert5616]

Lol I don't know what you're talking about, the p1890 is a perfectly accurate WW2 gun

[@bulbobaggins]

1:10 I like how it’s all historical weapons and that p90 just vibin’

[@LilSWeezy37]

I like how he has all those WWII guns on the table in the back and then just a p90

[@ryanpaumier8041]

He needs to go over the expansive multi-player weapons added into the game. He'd have a field day. Definitely could be a multi-part series.

[@21owlgirl72]

"There are no optical sights in WW2." Battlefield1 *Sweats nervously*

[@21owlgirl72]

@@VeyprskFAL congrats, thats the *joke*

[@magentuspriest]

I think they had like experimental sights although they basically were just a magnifying glass the size of a quarter

[@_SP64_]

I thought they looked more makeshift in game

[@valmm666vampire]

The Nambu Type II is depicted with a charging handle to the right side of the weapon that does not exist in reality; in reality, the Type II operated on a principle similar to the Gustloff Volkssturmgewehr, where the entire front section of the gun and the barrel shroud would recoil when firing (which too is not depicted in-game). The actual charging handle is the tab extended to the left side of the weapon (which would pull back the entire barrel shroud when pulled), depicted as a sling mount in-game.

[@timothyholly1289]

I saw a wartime information video on the thompson. And it has a hold open mechanism. The training video goes into great detail on how it operates, and its on youtube to watch.

[@solomonpachowiak106]

I love how Jonathan focuses strictly on the weapons as opposed to ripping on the game or the developers - he isn't a developer or a game tester, he's a firearms expert and that's what he focuses on. Games are for entertainment and nothing more, and he recognizes that instead of just going "durhr this is so unrealistic, this game is totally unplayable durhr".

[@reapordeath]

I bet watching this after Vanguard must be a blast. I certainly thought WW2 was bad. But holy smokes batman Vanguard punched me so hard I had to do a double take. That makes this game look ULTRA REALISTIC by how bad it is lol

[@GingerBeard24]

@reapordeath Another really bad WW2 game is Battlefield 5...

[@lucabuckley5643]

Something I noticed is the m1 reload mechanic, the animation has the character push the bolt forward rather than the bold being released once the pressure is released from the top round

[@SaulOfTheMoleMen]

With regards to the PPsh-41, I have heard an interesting account of some Allied troops encountering this weapon in the possession of German troops in Normandy, likely captured on the Eastern front. An American paratrooper by the name of Richard Ladd (502nd PIR, 101st Airborne) managed to recover a PPsh-41 from a German supply wagon (having lost his own weapon previously) in the early hours of June 6th, and shortly after used it to kill three German soldiers in a brief firefight. Obviously such a weapon would not have been used very commonly (at least not as depicted in COD: WW2), but I guess there is a *slight* historical basis for such a thing. Just an interesting tidbit I thought I would share.

[@tyleringle268]

The German division at Omaha beach had been brought to Normandy from the eastern so seeing Russian weapons in France at that time was possible.

[@Yoshi278]

He definitely sounded disappointed that the StG didn't swing the war back into Germany's favor lol.

[@RiceLeYT]

Well this sure brings back memories..

[@Josue-wj2uf]

It would be interesting to have him breakdown and try to make sense of the guns from futuristic Call of Dutys or just any futuristic military shooter

[@danteinpuro319]

I learn so much about guns from these videos, not complaining really

[@ironraccoon3536]

I'd love to see him react to Insurgency: Sandstorm. You should tell him which faction and class has which weapon, though.

[@admiraldesto2170]

You would think that he would have pointed out some of the more glaring historic inaccuracies or how all the guns sound exactly the same, but no

[@gasolineandwine]

This is an issue that pretty much every game faces, and it seems that he's aware of stylistic and functional decisions being made in the design of an FPS. So.

[@user-ns3vs3bp3e]

Anybody wondering why they’d use the smaller PPSH mags, the drums were hard to produce and slowed production of the guns a lot. Also they were finicky, they would run fine on some guns and jam on others so you’d have to find a few that ran on each gun and package them together so yeah those combined reasons are why they moved to stick mags

[@ifound15min]

I like this guy. He points out obvious historical errors but he doesn't lose sight of the fact that these are games with entertainment in mind and that for most people, historical inaccuracies do not factor especially in the heat of gameplay.

[@HellDuke-]

The reflex sights were what turned me away from the recent WW1 and WW2 games. It was basically Modern Warfare with a WW1 or WW2 skin on top of it. What is even the point of doing either WW if you are just going to throw the era out of the window.

[@theankotze1292]

Have him react to the modern warfare multiplayer Guns, gunsmith and killstreaks!

[@0anesthetic4u70]

If I'm not wrong, the Thompson had an automatic bolt hold open on empty, that allowed you to just re-insert a magazine, and immediately begin firing again without doing anything else, since it's open bolt there was no bolt dropping or anything like that. I could be wrong, but I did read that some where.

[@vahidmoosavian6313]

When the first games (even with their dated graphics) got more details right than the specifically named "WWII"😏. And it's always good to watch Jonathan go through them (literally and metaphorically😉). Well done!

[@loganblanton843]

I thought the M1 sights were off that's why, I was wondering why they could see what there aiming at

[@loganblanton843]

With a M1 mod for Fallout 4 I like to use a half moon sight for it

[@TreacherousFennec]

Doesn't thompsons have a bolt hold open on an empty mag? I think it's correct in cod ww2 since player doesn't dry fire it after taking the mag off

[@brokko_le3]

You're right. There's a video from Arms Unlimited about the Thomson M1A1 Submachinegun where at 5:40 he empties a magazine and tells about this unique feature.

[@Tompie913]

The issue of peep sights on game guns not accurately showing the pinhole effect is one I remember cropping up in the mid 2000s as, for whatever reason, 2d overlays in ADS mode fell out of vogue and fully 3d ADS became popular. I had always argued that the hybrid 2d rear sights x 3d front sights was best, because a 2d overlay could be blurred to replicate the eye’s blurring of the foreground when using iron sights, while games at that time could not replicate that in 3d. I remember America’s Army having fully 2d sights for the M16 and fully 3d sights on the M4 and much preferring the M16’s. Also in the Forgotten Hope 2 mod for Battlefield 2, there was some debate because partway through development, the devs decided to switch from hybrid to fully 3d sights. This particularly affected the Thompson, because as I recall the size of the peep hole was originally modeled life size which made the ADS in full 3d almost unusable. Their solution, like COD, was simply to make the peep hole bigger. Most games really never took the time to get iron sights right, but it’s largely a moot point today because every game, even BATTLEFIELD 1 set in the bloody First World War, mostly use optical sights.

[@BasicallyPie]

Can't wait for him to do Vangaurd, he is going to go HAM on that game.