Firearms Expert Reacts To Fortnite's Guns

Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down weapons from the world's biggest battle royale: Fortnite, including the SCAR/ Striker AR, Frenzy Auto Shotgun, Thunder Burst SMG, Ballistic Shield, and more.
In the latest video in the Firearm Expert Reacts series, Jonathan Ferguson--a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries--breaks down more of the guns of Fortnite and compares them to their potential real-life counterparts.
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If you're interested in seeing more of Jonathan's work, you can check out more from the Royal Armouries right here. - / royalarmouries
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:25 Frenzy Auto Shotgun
1:53 Pump Shotgun
3:32 Striker AR (SCAR)
8:01 Hyper SMG
10:33 Reaper Sniper Rifle
11:47 Ranger Pistol
13:32 Nemesis AR
16:33 Thunder Burst SMG
18:00 Cluster Clinger
18:36 Ballistic Shield

[@huunhanle3809]

Mad respect for Jonathan for his Focus, Commitment and Sheer Fu*king Will when reacting to those weapon, without being constantly distracted by Chun Li’s bakery.

[@JohnnyHawk740]

He did say he's not American lol

[@GaloKaineRey]

Brother, I cant even focus which guns are they reacting right now...

[@dredgenrur3190]

​@@JohnnyHawk740 I'm not american and my eyes automatically focus on the cake rather than the details they're talking about

[@MisterRose90]

My thoughts exactly 😂

[@josuearanzazu8607]

He needs to focus on the guns, that's his job after all

[@dcflake5645]

Having Jonathan Ferguson keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum in the UK in Fortnite feels like the most Fortnite thing they could do.

[@Flakjacket96]

I normally hate 3rd party skins but I would totally buy that in a heartbeat.

[@squidundertheinfluence]

Special styles with different T-shirts. Emotes when his character picks up a cursed firearm and he looks grieved by what the devs have done now. A wrap so all his weapons are the real world colours. Back bling of an emotional support StG44 (?) But what’s his glider and pickaxe?

[@connorbass4667]

The glide is just a big png of Dave and the pickaxes is that vampires killing kit

[@Cheesepuff8]

The skin should be titled with his “full name” like that too

[@paulsd9255]

Would make sense to make a POI for him too. What would they call it, ‘Munitions Museum’? Or some other alliterative name

[@saintjimmy_ajh]

Babe, wake up. Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms & artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, (which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history) has reacted to guns in Fortnite

[@Kaarl_Mills]

"Who watches Jonathan Ferguson at 4 am?!" *"OH BOY 4 AM!"*

[@jonnojaslowitz6235]

Why’s my sister name rose, well because your mother liked roses, thanks dad no problem Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms & artillery at the royal Armouries Museum in the uk (which houses a collection of iconic weapons throughout history)

[@VersedFlame]

Nice to see Jonathan actually kept that nerf from the SCAR episode. Also, it'd be great to see Jonathan react to the cursed guns of Criterion Games' 2006 "Black"

[@freetobe3]

Black's guns aren't really cursed, more like Magically Hollywood capable. Love the game.

[@scorpionscorpion9162]

Id like to see black in one of the episodes as well its a great game with some questionably cool guns

[@VersedFlame]

@@freetobe3 They are pretty cursed though, with all the extra picatinnies and all.

[@Ogaitnas900]

Black would be great

[@ShootAUT]

Of course he kept it. He's _the_ Keeper. But what if someone donated it to the museum? He'd have had to make it an official part of the inventory and can't get rid of it, even if he wanted to. 🤣

[@DAN_0000_]

If Jonathan actually end up in fornite i would genuinely play it

[@harrymorris2361]

It’s just a Massive Guntuber update, Johnathan, Ian McCulum, Kentucky Ballistics, etc

[@Bravo--6]

​@@harrymorris2361Brandon Herrera

[@andrefilipe5951]

So true would buy him

[@joogleplus6244]

That's how they get you.

[@Dom_Maretti]

He should have extra voice lines for if he picks up a gun with an especially garish skin...

[@xkumanekox]

"It's funny how COD are moving away from realistic firearms while Fortnite is moving towards realistic firearms". It's scarily accurate how Jonathan fully describes the current state of both games despite not playing them.

[@ChesterManfred]

Reminds me of the time where he criticized the "righteous bison" in TF2, because it looked weak. He was horribly right.

[@brandonganzman4684]

How is MW3 moving away from realistic guns?

[@brandonganzman4684]

(I haven’t played it)

[@Abvoyx]

​@@brandonganzman4684well the Jak kit explained it very well,there is no way a kit can change the fire rate irl (unless you pay the Auto Tax on your weapon)

[@abcdefg5459]

cod is moving towards diversity

[@d3rpybac0n83]

Shell ejections do exist within Fortnite, but at lower graphics settings, the particle effect that displays them gets disabled

[@deadhead_01]

Yeah editor must have a potato pc

[@massgunner4152]

Common David L

[@kitsune_jones]

A Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the U.K. skin in Fortnite would go unbelievably hard.

[@whyiwakeup6460]

An emotional support mp5 emote where he’s just sobbing over one would be perfect

[@Ash0512]

And Emotional Support STG 44@@whyiwakeup6460

[@vDullahan]

The skin absolutely has to have that full title too, just because.

[@sophiamarchildon3998]

I'm loving this idea! But seriously, don't.

[@vDullahan]

@@sophiamarchildon3998 No reason not to, others even suggested the proceeds could go to helping fund the museum

[@SirDylan23]

Props to the editor for actually pointing out specific parts of the gun that Johnathan was talking about. Certainly makes it easier to follow along.

[@fredbyoutubing]

On the other hand, the person capturing gameplay for him didn't remove the gun "wraps" (skins) which aren't part of the design but a player choice. I hate when they do that and not tell Johnathan that it's a skin and not part of the design.

[@bonshfff]

@@fredbyoutubingthat and (although it’s been a few years since I played) iirc guns do eject shells, but they turned down some graphical settings, so they’re not visible in the video

[@skelreal]

@@fredbyoutubing none of the guns have wraps, that just how they look this season

[@fredbyoutubing]

@@skelreal M'y bad, I didn't even notice while using wraps myself. It's an odd choice but maybe that's to make them legally distinct and more cartoonist?

[@StewartBuchanan]

The one thing I have always enjoyed is the lack of “old man shouts at the sky” with JF. Came across really well with these guns.

[@matthewzimmerman9618]

The Creative mode to Fortnite has a LOT more guns, I'd be lying if I didn't say I was curious on Johnathan's thoughts on those guns, especially since a bunch of them are a lot more cartoony than what this episode had

[@notimportant768]

Yeah didnt know fortnite patched the silly out of the guns.

[@sophiamarchildon3998]

"No, please no! No more! I'm not strong enough for this" -- (probably) some Keeper of Firearms and Artillery.

[@Sawblade10]

Save the world also has a lot

[@paulsd9255]

As a very late arrival to Fortnite (only came in because of Festival) I’m very surprised that this cartoony take on battle royale would have guns as detailed or moreso than PUBG.

[@matthewzimmerman9618]

@paulsd9255 originally the guns were extremely cartoony, but epic has gotten better at making them realistic (somewhat)

[@hansburbon01]

My son and I briefly met Mr. Ferguson last summer at the Royal Armoury in Leeds. We didn't want to take up a lot of his time, so my son forgot to ask him if they were going to make a Fortnite episode. Thanks for reading his mind!

[@dakotapriem]

Can't overstate how much I like the back and forth between these two.

[@ethinos2719]

It is getting better as Dave is learning more about firearms as well. He's come a long way from the earliest videos where he first started chiming in. He's regularly making insightful comments and references of late.

[@borismuller86]

@@ethinos2719he’s always known a lot about games, so he’s a great interpreter for Jonathan.

[@mavvh1054]

Saying "We actually don't (have plungers), we have brushes because we're not American," is probably one of the funniest asides I've heard in this series.

[@restart426]

They don’t have readily available access to in n out, five guys, or Mexican food 🤣

[@TheSundayShooter]

I like how the thumbnail pose outtakes have been making the final edit lately

[@samholdsworth420]

I like irregular Dave being part of the show now

[@rotz394]

I'm pretty sure the lack of case ejection might be a replay issue, it shows in-game.

[@kirkmcgill]

They ought to make a Jonathan skin with most or all of the proceeds going to the museum. Honor the man and his work at the same time. Now someone go tell Epic :-)

[@mikemezz7448]

Ya know I was thinking I'd hope they'd compensate him but honestly that's a really good idea and I hope that if they do end up adding him at least part of the proceeds do end up going to the museum that'd be fantastic

[@SadWario1234]

There is different reload animations depending on what magazine you pick. If you pick the quick mag for the pump shotgun, they quad load it, and with the Scar, if you put a drum on it, they pull the actual charging handle, not just the bolt catch

[@C0RRUPT3DITOR]

In Creative, you can take any guns from every single season. Could be a fun to have a community post letting fans decide on weapons from Fortnite for Jonathan to view.

[@leafyniko3237]

Love the fact that he still keeps the gloves on when holding the toy scar

[@tag4042]

There's two SCARs in Fortnite. The Striker variant is the new and the regular assult rifle is the old scar. Also the guns not ejecting shels is a replay bug

[@Mr_T_Badger]

I’ve been a huge fan of the H&K Mk23 ever since Metal Gear Solid used it but this is the first time I’ve ever seen just how HUGE the blasted thing actually is.

[@TheFirstCurse1]

It's designed to be an offensive pistol and to be used as a primary weapon. It's larger than most full-sized pistols besides maybe the Desert Eagle.

[@Mr_T_Badger]

@@TheFirstCurse1 I know. But knowing that and actually SEEING one up close, especially compared to its baby brother the USP, are two different things.

[@LET4M4RU]

As a french, I appreciate the very respectful reference about the Bataclan and GIGN's "Sarcophagus" ballistic shield that was used.

[@koalaunknown]

We need a new tarkov episode! The recent update completely reworked recoil, added the 9A-91, VSK-94, MCX SPEAR, RPD, RPDN, and overhauled the SKS and OP-SKS.

[@Black-nf3tx]

Agreed. I hope they show him some of the optics as well

[@georgehuff218]

I would love to see Jonathan react to some of the exotics from The Division 2. A barb wire covered SMG, a shotgun with pellets coated in poison, I’d love to hear his take on them

[@adenkyramud5005]

Dear god that sounds cursed

[@Orinslayer]

Would you do a video on the legal reasons why game guns have to be different than production models? Its becoming something of a huge issue in games like Call of Duty and such.

[@EpicMatthew]

After seeing him pull out the Nerf gun, it made me think he should do an episode looking at Nerf guns and their real-life inspirations

[@DaraGaming42]

That’s what i just i thought

[@Optimusprime809]

Ah excellent, I've been asking for this for ages! You could easily makes tens of videos on this game, there's literally hundreds of weapons in the game at this point, definitely would like to see more featured!

[@EzraEpic]

18:31 You learn something every day, I didn't know the British use brushes instead of grenades.

[@bigfuze320]

One of my favorite series on KZbin

[@HQ_Default]

I'd absolutely love to see one of these episodes done live. Have Dave playing the game on one side of the screen, let Jonathan ask if he can try different guns or attachments, let chat have some input as well, I think that would be really fun.

[@SomaticApparition]

I'd love to see Jonathan react to the guns and mechanics of Receiver 2!!!

[@tee_the_vee]

Jonathan would go insane if he saw some of save the world's weapons

[@toomerboomer2772]

ikr

[@Ulricsworkshop]

Brilliant! Would love to see a look at the weapons of Brink. A mix of real elements and future styling along with post apocalyptic mods

[@ltdessdu2503]

My guess as to why the characters hold the guns gears of war style is probably because if they were to rig/animate every new character to hold the gun perfectly it would probably take way more time then it would be worth considering how many people even pay attention to that stuff.

[@steventarsitano3209]

I really love these videos. they're so fun. Fortnite has become one of my favorite games over the course of the last year, and I've been waiting for this!

[@AE1OU]

Please Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK, break down the weapons from *METAL GEAR SOLID 3* before the remake comes out. So many weapons in MGS3 to react and comment on like the Patriot's infinite ammo magazine, the EZ tranq gun, Snake's customized officer M1911A1, Snake whittling the pistol grip to use a knife for CQC, Ocelot's SAA juggling skills, The End's paratrooper tranquilizer Mosin Nagant, the Davey Crockett recoil-less nuclear launcher and Eva's chinese mauser clone. There are so many more other interesting trivias and weapons in MGS3 so please gamespot and Johnathan make a video for the game.

[@GraysonUhlman-ju8dg]

I never I would live to see the day where Jonathan reacts to Fortnite

[@ChalK1918]

I would highly recommend having Jonathan take a look at the handguns in Receiver 2. As well as what the tape narrator has to say about the history of each.

[@chuckEcheddarcheese]

6:25 from what I’ve seen fortnite has had pretty inconsistent shell ejection between graphics settings.

[@Spark1est]

Jonathan Ferguson as next season's gaming icon outfit that would be great

[@khathaway414]

Johnathon in Fortnite MAKE IT HAPPEN!

[@mr.monkey3522]

No

[@RioFordays]

No, what weird take. Why would they put that John-a-thon person in Fortnite, he's a nobody. They should however put Jonathan in the game. That would be awesome.

[@Verminion777]

I'd love to see Jonathan react to Receiver 2, the attention to detail in that game is insane

[@kanrakucheese]

Looking through footage of pre-Doom FPS, I think Doom actually *is* the first FPS with cartridge cases ejecting. Surprisingly few even show the player's current gun in their "hand" (Wolf 3D may actually be the first). 68th week of asking for episode on Bullet Girls Phantasia. 44th week of asking for Loadout on games not keeping track of the round in the chamber between reloads.

[@cyprus2083]

You guys should get Johnathon to take a look at the weapons from Receiver 2 one day. They're hands down the most realistic guns I've seen in any game, especially since every part of the gun has to be manually operated by the player.

[@DollyRanch]

Great idea, especially with how the crappiness of the hi point actually makes it dangerous to the player haha

[@DrUmbreon]

17:34 It is funny seeing the arc Jonathan went through in this episode

[@dreamcatcher4202]

This episode was awesome 😂 Was hoping you guys would eventually look at Fortnite’s weapons. Hoping for a part 2 if you guys go into Creative, you can look at a lot more of the original and wackier guns in game 😅

[@DiamondDrew1]

I believe case ejections show up if you are on a higher graphics setting than the player showing was. Great video.

[@aaronsmith4940]

im very surprised and amazed by how functional that shield design is.

[@houndura]

I've been waiting for this video

[@mentalshatter]

17:38 This. This is why I love watching Jonathan.

[@batcat4136]

I haven’t seen a video from Fortnite in years, watched a bunch in the first few seasons, and man that game looks different now. Impressive how it’s changed so much but is still so recognisable.

[@garrettbunting4963]

I would LOVE to see you cover some of the weapons in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series.

[@grandadmiralthrawn11]

would love to see you do the weapons from squad 44

[@bebo76338]

I'd like to see Jonathan review the guns of Prey (2017), Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops Campaign, Classic Tomb Raider, The Callisto Protocol and/or Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth 👽🪖🔥💀🚀🐙

[@RangerHouston]

“Who is that character?” “Oh no” 😂

[@bradleydeans192]

I'd love to hear Johnathan's thoughts on Easy Red 2.

[@EntityDJI]

I'd like to see the Guns from the Devil May Cry series please! I know Ebony and Ivory's specific customizations were detailed online and there's a bunch of neat guns referenced in game!

[@spacecrash]

That “burst only” smg has been a burst only type of weapon since 2019 BUT they did make a fully automatic one in 2020 I believe it’s all black and orange

[@HIT14MAN2]

Jonathan should look at the guns of SAO Fatal Bullet and COD Advanced Warfare

[@juny_pr]

Cool fact about the c5 weapons: most are revamped ane reimagined older models from the OG classic fortnite weapons.

[@nioiv9531]

Is it ok to suggest previous gen games for reaction/review? Namely: Killzone, Resistance Franchise, Brink, Turok, Timeshift, etc? Perhaps just a compilation of the each series more memorable or iconic weapons, since the games mentioned are mainly comprised of sci-fi elements.

[@justandy333]

I have to say the description of the Scar's Buttstock is hilarious! The friggin ugg boot buttstock 🤣 And also "Here's an emotional support weapon", That gave me a good rib tickling chuckle! 🤣

[@dawndeather9553]

If they put our favorite keeper of firearms and artillery into Fortnite, maybe with his emotional support Sturmgewehr as a back bling I'd totally buy it

[@gtbest5417]

I know it's odd but I wanna have Jonathan to react to guns of Phantom Forces. A Roblox game.

[@Cats-TM]

I was just watching the SCAR episode of Loadout and it apparently the firearms used to eject cases when that was filmed…do wonder when that feature/effect was removed.

[@under-chonker]

I would be cool to see Jonathan reacting to the guns of Warframe

[@vzerby]

Pushing as always for you guys to have Jonathan cover Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and to cover the M8 and MRI Caseless specifically as well. I have been posting for you to do this in every video a year back now.

[@brandonacamarena2197]

I NEED A JONATHAN SKIN YOOOO

[@TheBsmith97]

Love that he treats the NERF gun with the same safety and care of a real firearm

[@HKSFMinerva]

I'm actually glad that the Fortnite MP5 is finally correct in this Chapter after 4 chapters of getting it wrong. (HK Slap vs AK/right side charging handle)

[@TacticalBaguette]

Up until the John Wick collab added the Tac AR MPX pretty much every rifle had some variation of the same right side charging animations, and from Chapter 3 onwards unique animations became the norm

[@nottodaydevilshindowraithe501]

Casings have been ejecting, the Fortnite replay is just buggy, hence the mag, and sights disappearing due to the modifications weapons can now have. Mags have been disappearing due to the reload animations too, now just more common.

[@RioFordays]

Casings not showing is also related to graphics settings. It's highly probable they were playing on low graphics settings. It's unfortunate, as Jonathan couldn't really judge the game on its actual merits.

[@EDXMechDreamer]

They do have case ejecting shells, it just depends on your in-game graphics settings.

[@atlasofthealps]

Before you said "MP5" I was like: this looks MP5ish I am really learning something here :D

[@ExUSSailor]

If they added Johnathan to Fortnite, I would play it.

[@lampshade6579]

You should totally do Palworld, both the guns the Pals use and the ones you can make.

[@ergomedasa1362]

The "closest" types of equipment i can think off in regards to the "Cluster Clinger" must be either the german "Panzerknacker" anti tank mine or the japanese "lunge mine", at least in terms of resembling a toilet plunger

[@EclipseAnimates]

I live just 5 minutes away from that museum, thats mad!

[@dapaintgoblin]

6:48 i think this is because different characters have different body shapes so they would have to animate every gun for every character

[@kingofcrimson4177]

Could Johnathan cover the guns from the Killzone and Resistance games please? (Each series might need 2 parts)

[@MasterChiefSnake19910128]

I’m happy when Jonathan checking out about weapons from Fortnite but many weapons we missed are Accuracy International Arctic Warfare rifle, Barrett .50 rifle, AR-15 rifle, and more.

[@renzo7725]

Finally he reacts to fortnite. i've waited so long for this

[@somebody_JB]

this thing has been cooking for a while I could have sworn you had already made this before

[@kj64gaming19]

The bolt action looks more like an Accuracy International AXMC, which also appears in Escape From Tarkov.

[@TotallyNotAFox]

"We do have toilet plungers and we DO HAVE grenades" - And then the whole plan falls apart because it's too hard to get some plungers....

[@TheKiingkiller]

i don't even play Fortnite but i would pay for a Jonathan character pack, the melee weapon is a emotional support mp5, gun is a em2. glider is his jacket

[@AtomPunk]

I have somehow never thought about Jonathan (insert introduction here) getting a Fortnite skin, and now that I've heard someone say it, I can think of nothing else. Let's make it happen. 👍

[@ForestRaptor]

Ah the Emotional Support MP5, gotta love it

[@generalmcshooty397]

Would be awesome for him to cover the mix of kind of cursed and kind of good guns of marauders.

[@Vermilleno]

How about Soldier of Fortune/Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix? I am actually curious for the second game specifically, because it has experimental weapon named XM29 OICW.

[@TheThunderkaos]

If Jonathan ended up getting a skin in Fortnite ill go to play the game again and surelly buy it

[@kayleborner471]

I always forget how MASSIVE the mk23 is, thing is an absolute unit

[@DFloyd84]

Another reason Jonathan maybe didn't recognize Chun-Li is that this is her Street Fighter Alpha (1995) outfit instead of her iconic Street Fighter II outfit.

[@RioFordays]

The buns and the color scheme should be a dead giveaway, though.

[@FromThe9thDimension]

Would like to see Jonathan react to Perfect Dark Zero 👏

[@JTawesome92]

I always wanted Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK to react to fortnite's arsenal. Never expected for it to actually happen. Love to see him react to some of the more wacky weapons in the game. This was a really entertaining video, Dave and Johnathan. Bravo!

[@Rorzors]

Tomb Raider remaster is coming, you know what I recommend next reactions

[@davydatwood3158]

Does the UK really not do toilet plungers? They're used for a completely differnt task than a brush. Brushes are for cleaning; plungers are for clearing jams.

[@k90v85]

we do

[@maxwell6881]

The first one looks like a mix of the aa12 and the berneli m4, because of the charging handle on the side.

[@tarmok3756]

Would love to see Jonathan make another Tarkov vid, so many was added since the last one.

[@user-vv1gt8ge1z]

love the content