Listing Every Historical Inaccuracy in Call Of Duty Vanguard

[@TheFrosty_1]

*PLEASE NOTE* At 2:35 the Inaccuracy counter skips from 13 to 15. This was because I was originally mislead by an unreality source which caused me to make a factually incorrect point here. I have since used the KZbin snipping tool to remove it from the video to prevent any spreading of incorrect information. *_____** Corrections **_____* 5:54: The Knights Cross of the Iron Cross was worn around the neck. Richter actually only has a Iron Cross 2nd class here, but still is a "combat medal" 8:23: These are not 20mm cannons, but 37mm cannons. 11:16: There actually was an altitude reader back there, the gunner could read it while the pilot focused on the target 21:00: The Panzer 4 F2 had a 75mm cannon, not a 76mm 23:33: These are not "Modern plate carriers". They are Italian ‘Samurai’ vests. still very misplaced for the German forces however. My apologies for these errors. This was my first ever Historical inaccuracy video and I have learned a lot since the publishing of this video years ago. I strive to create more factual, detailed and reliable sourced back information for all future content.

[@Totallynotabird90]

It’s alright dude! You didn’t know.

[@bros1183]

Also at 10:15 you stated that here we see an army Air Force poster, which the Air Force didn’t exist yet. Your correct the USAF did not exist until 1947, but this poster is accurate. It was the United States Army Air Force that existed throughout the war, most bombers and fighters have USAAF, not USAF. So you are correct the USAF didn’t exist, but you are switching up the USAAF and the USAF

[@bros1183]

And at 12:50 you ask what the airman was going to do shooting the plane with his .45, but seeing as his machine gun couldn’t move to get a shot I would not be surprised if an airman would do exactly this. They are issues sidearms, and in times of early war pilots have shot at each other with sidearms. You ask what the round will do, well, if it hits maybe a lot. Zeros where horribly armoured, so a shot to the fuel tank would certainly rupture it, and then all it takes is a spark to see the zero catch on fire. Zeros always caught on fire, and honestly shooting a .45 cal at the zero isn’t as far off as the British spitfires at the start of the war used .303 machine guns, and after all most us fighters used .50 cals. Now certainly the .50 is much better and more powerful, but at point blank range I think his pistol could hit something vital, make his attacker return to base.

[@rottytherottski522]

In regards to reloading one handed I will say that the sniper is doing it way too fast like in a lot of these games, but being able to reload magazines one handed is indeed possible. Its something ive even been trained in with multiple styles to stay in the fight if one arm has been wounded to the point it is inoperable. With a rifle it usually means kneeling down with the rifle in the crook of your knee for support and loading the magazine with your good arm, it could similarly work with a pistol but racking it would be difficult if it wasnt locked to the rear where you need to hit the slide release to send the next round into the chamber. So the way they are doing it is very false and deserves a inaccuracy, but the fact they did it to begin with isnt unheard of. I dont know of any training for it in WW2 but I would be surprised if people didnt do it to keep fighting with some weapons.

[@matthewcharles5867]

The loading 5 rounds in the Enfield due to spring failure is absolute bollocks. It did not happen. I'm surprised there's no lighsabres this game is one of the worst I've ever seen.

[@HazmattMorningstar]

My man did more research to make this 26 minute video than the entire Call of Duty team did making CoD Vanguard.

[@hudsonhornet6558]

Cod just doesn’t care these days like the visuals are great but half the time incorrect and the story would’ve been good if you were completed oblivious to reality but when you aren’t the storyline is just bad like the only thing you can really enjoy in this game is being able to be in a ww2 setting in a newer game that’s it like multiplayer has good maps but only the basic modes to play with zombie well not even gonna go there that’s strait ass and boredom it’s like cod only cares about war zone and just simply putting a game out if they want good reviews they need to put legit time into the game to make it proper realistic accurate and worth the players time

[@jaegermonster9549]

@@hudsonhornet6558 Merry Christmas! Here's a big bag of punctuation! I hope you make good use of it!

[@ghostfate4701]

Imagine if D-day was in the game

[@HazmattMorningstar]

@@jaegermonster9549 Heh that made me wheeze that's a good one

[@CommanderLongJohn]

@@ghostfate4701 Probably would've had 500 women singlehandedly storm and take the beach while the men coward in bombed out ditches

[@kiesarisunny13]

Imagine being so good as a soldier that you get a medal for a battle that hasn’t happened yet

[@lucasguenesmenezes6416]

LOL

[@ghostremnant_2499]

Я на четыре параллельные вселенные впереди тебя( I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you.

[@BreakingWhite]

@@lucasguenesmenezes6416 😐

[@BreakingWhite]

😐

[@B1g_B0sssss]

Duh

[@mediocrestreams3284]

The fact that the dev's put the stg44 in Japan AND before it was made is incredible. Like, did the dev's not question what the 44 in the rifles name ment?

[@F.Fox714]

Idiots maybe thought it stands for .44 caliber on a german assault rifle 😂

[@MRXrayfire]

My guess is that the devs wanted to put Assault rifles there for gameplay purpose, and went for the STG thinking "it's a game, no one care" 🤷‍♀

[@thegyroneer32]

Despite the Type 11 being in the game.

[@weed75black35]

stg44 with reflex sights.

[@UgandanAirForce]

but it was in service starting in 1943

[@dumbproto3749]

The worse thing about this game isnt the inaccurate weapons, its the disrespect they give to so many heros and good people in the war to the point they just make up lies about them to cast them in a bad light.

[@The_whales]

And try to use a fake secret project to tie it in with real events

[@ivanmonahhov2314]

RPG is first used with RPG-40 an Anti-Tank Grenade of 1940 design. A rather questionable thing as it was a massive high explosive capable of shattering a 40mm plate.

[@lovelylavenderr]

@@The_whalesMaking fake WW2 stories can work well, just look at Sniper Elite or Inglorious Basterds. The difference is with those, they both tried to be historically authentic (accurate uniforms, weapons, units, etc.) but they also don't try to pretend it was real. They know they're supposed to be historical fiction and they run with it.

[@tshelby5212]

Worst

[@GBomb9704]

Not only that, the campaign itself is just a shameless rip off of Inglorious Bastards

[@Astartes-6969]

I like how Activision, trying not to look racist or sexist since all the leaks & whistleblowers & employee walkouts happened, tried to be more inclusive in this game while forgetting all the real inclusive heroes & soldiers during WW2.

[@JoeyEX]

They also used a “diversity chart” to add in the most diverse cast by assigning number values to things like ethnicity, age, sexuality, gender, mental capability, etc. they used this for Vanguard and Overwatch 2 and probably some other games still in development under Activision

[@irenakaleva1171]

@@JoeyEX thats Blizzard. They are the same company but are still 2 destinct yet equally parts of it.

[@CMTechnica]

Or EA with Battlefield 5

[@LFGerm]

@@JoeyEX thats a norm for everything today, from TV shows to Movies, to Games

[@Astartes-6969]

@@CMTechnica Battlefield 5 at least had more realistic guns.

[@tardarsauce1842]

COD Vanguard expectations in Stalingrad: *Brutal house-to-house, urban combat* COD Vanguard Stalingrad in reality: *Assassin's Creed and Sniper Elite knock-off*

[@vanillarain3789]

It’s never house to house with Cod

[@thesniperhunter-ef3iz]

@@vanillarain3789 then you sir never played finest hour and up.

[@carlsonraywithers3368]

​@@vanillarain3789Play Call of Duty 2, it's a good game

[@nathandei1674]

@@vanillarain3789 World At War: Am I a joke to you?

[@solid7442]

​@@vanillarain3789 world at war enter the chat

[@KittyKatQA]

Hey there! I worked as a QA tester at Activision during the course of Vanguard's development and I can wholeheartedly say that I submitted a lot of these historical inaccuracies (specifically anachronistic/unrealistic weapon placements, weapon details, and smaller nitpicks like the "Bugger that RPG" line) to the developers via impressions surveys and bug reports. They all fell on deaf ears. You were just as frustrated as I was and I worked on the damn thing.

[@TheFrosty_1]

I'm gonna take your word on this, that is actually really cool my man, it's sad that they just didn't listen though. Typical Activision

[@someguywithnochallenger8178]

@@TheFrosty_1Activision is a factory of games they don't care love your videos I love history

[@kilovwdude6457]

@@someguywithnochallenger8178 is your name referring to a dodge challenger? Or are you looking for a fight if it's the latter, I challenge you to a duel.

[@someguywithnochallenger8178]

@@kilovwdude6457 lol it's the car I should probably change my name

[@kilovwdude6457]

@@someguywithnochallenger8178 yea. And like maybe up your standards the hellcat is awesome in a straight line but is a pretty cheaply built car. I'd rather have a Audi,BMW or mustang honestly maybe go test drive a challenger and then test drive a sport car/lux car not made in our amazing country. My duel offer still stands.

[@brackishwaters1247]

Activision: “we want diversity!” Also Activision: *Proceeds to ignore all the different possibilities for real diversity in favor of downright criminal levels of historical inaccuracy*

[@xXEGPXx]

I mean they literally called it an alternate history game and then yall got mad that the history is wrong. What did you expect?

[@applesandgrapesfordinner4626]

@@xXEGPXx They weren't clear about it either way

[@smoldoggy1005]

@@xXEGPXx Alternate history in this sense is garbage anyway. They should've done something way cooler and interesting, like if the USA took japans place in WW2 on the Axis. Something fresh and unique, instead of having blacks kill whites.

[@sandalogaming6766]

Hell, if they make a section of the campaign in the latter parts of the Italian front with a focus on the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, and make it somewhat right ofc, it would sell a ton. Hell, don’t even make a full COD, just a $5 tech demo would send Brazilians wild with the recognition that we fought in WW2. But no, the Brazilian Expeditionary Force mf we got is a goofy ahh guy in a winter ghillie suit and a goofy ahh mask.

[@stokedmetal1839]

The part with the Australian player character being discriminated against even though it doesn’t make any sense what so ever historically is just hilarious. You can tell they were just going for diversity and civil rights points on WW2 battlefields where it doesn’t make any sense.

[@owenwolfco.8344]

And another thing regarding the Stalingrad mission, the whole city looked too luxurious for an industrial powerhouse

[@magicman3163]

Probably because Russia called MW2019 Russophobic so they gotta make the past they idolize look like a utopia

[@emulation2369]

At that time in Staligrad, things were already grim , unlike sunshine and rainbows in vanguard

[@marcusaurelius4941]

who could have guessed that in a big corporation such as Activision there would be people inclined to depict life in socialist countries better than it actually was?

[@jhorn64]

in the SOVIET UNION to boot which was not known for its citizens having luxurious anything to begin with

[@captainfreedom3649]

@@marcusaurelius4941 yeah who could have guessed? becuase what you say does not happen.

[@mrperson6773]

so basically it's like as if the people in those "stolen valor" compilation videos on KZbin got together and made a game... 🤣

[@TheFrosty_1]

Indeed, both comedically butcher and disrespect servicemen and the real events. I've seen comedy movies that portray WW2 better than this game 😆

[@redchiron6647]

Take note that this game was written by the same person who wrote Mass Effect: Andromeda

[@abiyusadu9974]

@@TheFrosty_1 actually having 5 round in the lee enfield is more historically accurate, since you fully load the rifle with 2 clips of 5 rounds each you do get the option to load 5 rounds to either avoid getting the rifle jammed or save time under enemy fire, soldiers did this in both world wars. also since these characters based on real paople but has some made up things doesnt bother me, cuz these ware fictional people so its perfectly fine to give them fictional facts

[@abiyusadu9974]

@Aveteran Playeroh

[@voin5371]

@@redchiron6647 Also remember that one of the writers specifically stated Call of Duty has no memorable or iconic characters, considering said writer has no knowledge of the company they work for let alone played any of them to understand what the target audience has enjoyed in past, its no surprise that they lacked the ability to read beyond the summary section of WW2 conflicts on Wikipedia before trying to rewrite history to fit in their ridiculous narratives and characters.

[@Pyke64]

Makes Return to Castle Wolfenstein look like a documentary.

[@spearshake4771]

A real red flag for me was when, I think it was a voice actor for this CoD, said "We want to give CoD iconic and recognisable characters because they never really had that before this game" when there are a whole array of characters: Price, Soap, Ghost, Gaz, Roach, Makarov, Woods, Bowman, Hudson, Weaver, Alex, David and Harper to name just a few.

[@silverskull7669]

Maybe he was thinking about WW2 characters, but then he would be wrong again, since we already have: Reznov, Dimitri Petrenko, Roebuck, Miller, Polonsky.

[@Wanys123]

Well none of them were "diverse enough"... you need a black guy, a chick, etc.... I reckon when Vanguard 2 or something along those lines comes around there will be black translesbian.

[@lieutenantratman748]

@@silverskull7669 don't forget the entire ultimis crew

[@falaramal3979]

@@silverskull7669 winters, Simpson, mad bill guarnarre. The list of wwii heroes is longer then the war itself

[@lieutenantratman748]

@@falaramal3979 the guy meant characters from the games not real life

[@MUSTANG_P51]

The inaccuracies in Vanguard hurt me both as a historian, and as a gamer. the amount of inaccuracies and how noticeable they were, just added to the amount hatred I had for this game.

[@crossing9892]

nerd

[@user-mg7wh8zq6v]

Gamer

[@lanxy2398]

It’s a video game. Stop living in a game. There’s a world outside

[@anoriginalname410]

@@lanxy2398 What, is it illegal to criticize a game that is meant to be historical?

[@lanxy2398]

@@anoriginalname410 Of course it’s not illegal dont be dumb but it is stupid and weird to be critiquing video game historical accuracies in a game that literally never claims it will be accurate to actual history. Also at the end of the day it’s a GAME who cares.

[@Rex-go6gb]

Lovely how the whole reason CoD began with WWII era games was to honor the memory of the soldiers who had fought, and newer CoD games such as Vanguard basically mock the purpose it was to uphold

[@Jimbotheone]

The new games try to champion empowerment and the adversity of discrimination. They care about implanting "the message", while numbing the player with fast pace action. History is just a plaything to them.

[@a6pukoc113]

Not because WW2 shooters were popular in first half of 2000s and CoD developers are ex-devs of Medal of Honor?

[@ricochetos5019]

​@@a6pukoc113 En parte si pero también respetaban lo que paso en la vida real, vanguard no.

[@NALTOHQ]

Makes total sense that a game series meant to honor soldiers adds a new playable character in Nicki f**king Minaj. Ick.

[@ricochetos5019]

@@NALTOHQ En efecto bro

[@BlazedLizurd]

stalingrad citizens just chilling while the front line is moving towards them is crazy, was there a single historian consulted while making this game?

[@polskabalaclava]

Nope

[@petermmm42]

google

[@queuedjar4578]

@@petermmm42 Wikipedia has ruined an entire generation of historians.

[@bievs]

The best thing about Vanguard is that it makes playing World at War so much better

[@Voucher765]

And the original CODs too.

[@ibelieveingaming3562]

Vanguard was so bad it even made WW2 good retroactively 😂

[@M3a4Stuart]

Fr Fr

[@Pogger927]

And COD WW2

[@Thebroshow13]

And hell let loose .

[@randomguy7951]

5:44 damn this dude rolled a natural 20 on charisma, he made his fellow soldier having a panic attack throw himself to certain death in the EXACT moment he said "just go lmao"

[@LuvzToLol21]

It's also funny that Kingsley says "we've got a job to do", which was Bell's sleeper agent activation phrase after being brainwashed in Black Ops Cold War. Maybe it's a callback, lol.

[@floydy8359]

@@LuvzToLol21 what do the numbers mean mason?

[@herrdoctor2895]

Man was literally slapped someone's head he is Patton and said "get up lol"

[@depressoespresso8116]

@@LuvzToLol21 Cold War was 1000 times better then this

[@konankunoichi94]

@@depressoespresso8116 I'm so glad I didn't buy this game.

[@abridgedreality9232]

When a game released in 2008 has better historical accuracy, continuity, game content, overall fun level, better multiplayer and better telling of a war story than a game released almost 13 years later, world at war is fucking epic

[@Voucher765]

Even COD WW2 was better than this bullshit

[@farhanrizkiahnafa7404]

The first CoD, WaW, and WW2, while they were better than Vanguard, still had a lot of inaccuracies. So well, what do you expect from a simple arcade shooter that turned into one of the most famous and controversial franchise?

[@Voucher765]

@@farhanrizkiahnafa7404 WW2 was a bit off but WAW and the first COD games were historically correct almost 100%

[@The_GK1]

@@farhanrizkiahnafa7404 Bro did you even play WAW? List some actual inaccuracies then (Not including the couple of reused assets in the Stalingrad mission)

[@TheMessiahOfThe99Percent]

@@CRT_YT trench gun

[@screengraphy]

When a 26 minutes long video was more entertanining than multi million dollars video game. You deserved more views.

[@TheFrosty_1]

Thank you dearly :>

[@sircleishere385]

the amount of inaccuracies is downright disrespectful at this point

[@thehomiepatchez]

fr. theres a activision employee that makes KZbin videos. i feel he is the embodiment of activision: arrogant, and too comfortable at the top. activision used to care back when the previous generation was working there. nowadays its all lazy ass people around my age in there 20s or 30s bunch of arrogant mf who think anything they make is a masterpiece when it actually is crap.dont take the time to research or even cross check their facts.

[@NetralFN]

@@sircleishere385 yeah like bro everyone that learned basic WW2 history knows that it's not possible to have a Japanese weapon in Germany in a train

[@captaingalaxy5265]

@@NetralFN At this point I don't think Activision even did very basic history

[@tanybrachid]

The devs of this game were so obsessed on adding racial, national and gender diversity that they ended up ridiculing every group they were trying to appeal to with such cartoonish inaccuracies. Not to mention the total disregard for every other form of historical accuracy.

[@Jean_Jacques148]

Exactly. WWll was a diverse war with people of all colors, but represent them accurately and don’t do it willy nilly. So glad this game failed.

[@palestinianchildrenannihilator]

i know bf5 also isnt an historical masterpiece, but if the cod devs wanted to show heroic african soldier they really should have did the same move as bf5 did with the Tirailleurs campaign, depicting a somehow historically accurate battle that was won by black legions. Of course imo at least african troops stood no chance against german paratroopers, but that is one way of showing that africans also fought in ww2. i personally think that it would have been a lot more smarter to show how africans fought in africa, or show the story of the The red tails squadron

[@yoshikagebuma7941]

@@palestinianchildrenannihilator or what they did in bf1 which honored the black soldiers of WW1 when you first enter the campaign

[@purplebatdragon]

I'd be SO down for showcasing the real stories of diverse soldiers, but I truly wasn't expecting blatant racism. Seriously, the entirety of Bougainville is worse than a Family Guy skit. How was it at all considered "inclusive"?

[@palestinianchildrenannihilator]

@@purplebatdragon dont shit on family guy

[@kalleousvoncheez]

Another fun fact: Almost every detail in the older CoD titles were more realistic with better attention paid to detail. Edit: I have over 7.5k likes on this comment and I'm not going to add "Mom,..." get the camera or "I'm famous." Bc that's not cool😎 Edit 2: Bruh, I'm not saying the older CoD titles were realistic, just more so in comparison. Pls stop with the hate

[@berkuh_eu]

But we have anime tracer bundles

[@Il_Principessa]

Most funny part is the midway and the japanese weapons

[@deralbtraumritter8573]

This looks like MW2019 with COD WW2 skin

[@kelpking4484]

Well they didn't have a weird feminist as a writer in the other ones vanguard was made buy weird feminists

[@DerAllerEchte45]

All the reload Animations are from MW19 like pistoles or mp‘s

[@1manzpeople]

Some of these inaccuracies are so bad it makes you think that they intentionally went out of their way to mess up everything.

[@Ojajjajaj]

I feel like they just found random things and just threw them I hoping they would be cool

[@kylc3299]

As far as the pilot with the 1911 is concerned, there is one recorded pilot to pilot kill with a 1911. His name was Owen Baggett and he shot the pilot of a Japanese Zero in the head killing the pilot and resulting in the plane crashing. The odds might not have been great, but not zero. Otherwise top tier man!

[@coolsceegaming6178]

Heh… not Zero… nice one.

[@LusciousLebel86]

He was also not in a plane but descending down in a parachute

[@TouhouFan]

The guy was in a parachute The japanese pilot was checking on him with the canopy open bc he was hit with a bullet and he was making sure the guy was dead The american in that moment, shot the japanese while exposed

[@kylc3299]

@@coolsceegaming6178 Didn't even realize I did it. lmao

[@kylc3299]

@@TouhouFan @Sgt Stalinium, Both very valid additions. I was more focused on the handgun vs. pilot more than I was every detail, but those details do decrease the chances for it ever being repeated while helping Baggett the first time around for sure.

[@TheRaccoonDealer98]

its a damn crime that this video only has 700 views. Very well put together

[@TheFrosty_1]

Thank you so much! :>

[@CarlinJacks]

It has around 17600 of the time of wrighting this comment

[@drawingrobot9255]

21k now

[@teru797]

It's because he wasn't woke enough. They certainly dont want that fact about black french soldiers being known

[@yeahrightok.3975]

It's not though is it, most people are not stupid enough to buy a cod game and expect it to be historically accurate. Pointless video. It's cod, get a grip.

[@clover4522]

The shell shocked soldiers that you just say "let's go we got a job to do" and they immediately get up and start fighting is so hilariously bad, what an awful attempt to show PTSD

[@pop000690]

I saw that and went "That's just General Patton's wet dream"

[@petermmm42]

nah hes just so good he can cure panic attacks, shellshock, and ptsd with pure words

[@J.D.Stephens]

I was actually watching this video while playing call of duty vanguard to see all the things that you pointed out, which were historically inaccurate. This was a great video!

[@maxcomstock1831]

I’m fine with sacrificing some accuracies for fun/balance. But this is just completely unbelievable

[@farhanrizkiahnafa7404]

Would make sense if it was a deliberate alternate timeline like Wolfenstein.

[@inspecthergadget4503]

@Farhan Rizki Ahnafa even Wolfenstein were more believable. Alternate timeline sure, but still makes more sense than this woke dumpster fire.

[@MrFusion]

BF1 is the perfect example of this. Yeah it has some inaccuracies, but they're almost always for the sake of gameplay, and even then, it's mostly just the weapons and vehicles that are somewhat inaccurate.

[@PFCMittens]

It was the reloading panzerfäust that got me to angrily type 22:39

[@temperspace]

​@@PFCMittensi was expecting a lot of inaccuracies, but that one made me physically chuckle

[@MostlyAliveGaming]

Fun fact: The revolving shotgun was scrapped after multiple occasions of the chamber firing back onto people.

[@ShudowWolf]

This shotgun was chosen over the Trench Gun. Fascinating.

[@picklejho69]

not to mention the issue with it firing out of the Chambers that weren't lined up with the barrel. Which sounds like fun until you remember one of your hands is in the way.

[@twiztedmind209]

@@picklejho69 that's why you never use revolving rifles/shotguns. Chain fire will mess you up if your hand gets in the way

[@zielonythewolf5069]

Source?

[@MostlyAliveGaming]

@@zielonythewolf5069 it had a port for the shell to come out and sometimes it would actually waste a round by firing the gas back at you through the hole. Not hurting you really, but a fatal design flaw.

[@RevWarGuy]

The Shell-Shocked Soldier: I'm depressed! Kingsley: No, you're not! The Soldier: Yes Sarge!

[@McYumFucksHobbitsInIsengard]

If there were more Kingsleys depression won't exist

[@TheExperienceYT]

George "I slap the PTSD out of my soldiers" Patton would be proud

[@flickcentergaming680]

The fact that the cruisers were missing their turrets is plain inexcusable.

[@mylan4071]

The hull was of the later variants completely, while the turret is the 2 pdr version of the earlier ones.

[@Dude-zn5be]

Reality:stalingrad was retaken because of soviet solders holding the line and waiting for reinforcements to encircle the city Cod:a single person held stalingrad and inspired all 11 million solders to go on the offensive

[@EnclaveChad]

When Cod WaW and the original cod is more accurate than this "game" and they are both over 10 years old

[@yoavmend1909]

@@EnclaveChad didn't the Stalingrad mission in cod waw had the exact same thing tho? You sneaking around with one other guy and taking out half of the Nazi occupiers?

[@lordkfc1297]

@@yoavmend1909 in that mission you meet by chance another survivor from the fountain massacre that then convinces you to help him hunt a german general. Your actions in that mission don't lead to the liberation of the city.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

@@yoavmend1909 No, and no. Any other question?

[@Typhoon_Lex]

​@@lordkfc1297Finest Hour. Hell of an intro

[@eisenhower527]

I don't know if others pointed this out, but the mission "The Rats of Tobruk" were set in the middle of the desert. Tobruk is a Seaport City and we see no coastlines anywhere in the game.

[@Hamburger_SV]

history legends did

[@arklados3596]

President Eisenhower back at it

[@michaelwiff2576]

There were no tactical reloads during WWII, they hadn't been developed yet till much later.

[@TheFrosty_1]

That's is a good point too actually ya thanks

[@michaelwiff2576]

@@TheFrosty_1 Your welcome.

[@cckiller0053]

What's a tactical reload?

[@michaelwiff2576]

@@cckiller0053 it's a little hard to explain, but a new mag is in one hand and the pistol is in the other hand, release the empty mag and slide in the new on in less then 5 seconds, its kinda like a fast mag reload.

[@aleksilepisto7282]

@@michaelwiff2576 Im not sure where that ever became a tactical reload. You're talking about combat reloading/speed loading. Tactical reloading is the practice of changing the magazine before it's empty, thereby keeping your weapon full and trying not to run out of ammunition in a gunfight. When you're doing CQB for example, when you enter a target, you perform a tactical reload if you've fired your weapon so you don't enter and clear a structure without a full magazine.

[@stevensonsteven5965]

11:58 there actually was an altitude reader back there, the gunner could read it while the pilot focused on the target

[@brandaobasudarao]

The fact that, in this game, you become an ace in a day with just a dive bomber after shooting down the Pacific Theatre's best fighters at that time (before Corsairs & Hellcats took the stage) is beyond hillarious

[@seskorirkeashimrui3556]

There was a case where three zeros attacked two dive bombers that already dropped their bombs and the dustless bombers were maneuverable enough to scare them away. But no one was shot down during that engagement.

[@thericepotato5847]

I'm a pilot. Prolly under the radar for this one but jumping into some random ass plane you've never flown before like that? Good luck. Every plane has different controls, gauges, procedures for takeoff, landing tolerances... Startup procedures. And they did it as if they've flown a hundred hours on the plane. There's a reason you don't really hear many stories about soldiers "commandeering" planes as opposed to other sorts of vehicles.

[@joshu4776]

The ammount of battleships defending those carriers was also comical xD

[@Nr15121]

@@thericepotato5847 facts

[@jordanaron9029]

I remember when people said that holographic scopes are historically inaccurate in Battlefield V...Well in Vanguard almost all of the scopes are holo...

[@rebelgaming1.5.14]

And even BFV had the guts to put an actual historical reflector scope on most of them to explain the holos. Reflector scopes first saw very limited service during the Second World War. Here they're literally just holo scopes.

[@anuszbizsergetokommentek2171]

Game devs really like holograms

[@JavaScrapper]

@Roniixx how is this whataboutism?

[@JavaScrapper]

@Roniixx doesn’t that refer to accusations and like arguments? This doesn’t sound like one

[@samscopeproductionz]

Got to love how this game managed to insult literally every nation depicted in the game: •America by ruining Midway and making it look like the war was lead by African Americans, somehow insulting both white and black Americans who fought •Britain especially in the El Alamein mission, all with cockney accents and insulting the characters based on real people, making the high command look like they’re still in the 19th century. •Australia and New Zealand by forgetting that New Zealand exists and making Australians wear bush hats, surprised you weren’t armed with a boomerang too. USSR completely shit on the bloodiest battle in history and has the Gaul to say that the only reason they won was because of 1 person, and not the 100s of thousands who sacrificed themselves. •Germany, cartoonishly villainous, yet somehow despite making them all evil, they don’t actually depict how bad the bad ones really were at Stalingrad. •Japan ‘dO yOu SpEAk jApaNEsE?’ •Italy, like New Zealand they forgot they were at Tobruk and El Alamein, although not enough to forget to include the guns. I don’t expect much from a CoD game, especially in terms of historical accuracy, but how the fuck is World at War more accurate even when they made sure that their characters weren’t based off real people? Vanguard literally advertised their game as a depiction of real life heroes.

[@klutzspecter3470]

Didn't take you for a snowflake.

[@SeismicGuide]

To be fair, Aussies *did* wear Slouch Hats in the war, there are photos of this. Just as many if not more of said photos than ones where they’re wearing helmets, in fact. Mind, the Slouch hat is a modified Bush hat, from memory.

[@Krondon-SSR]

woah hows black soldiers fighting at midway an insult to america xd

[@Dude-zn5be]

@@Krondon-SSR i think it was more of an insult to the solders the white ones by making it seem they didnt do shit idk about the black solders since i didnt bother to buy another ww2 game after playing cod ww2

[@TheByQQ]

The only nation they didn't insult is Poland, because they forgot Poles took part in the war too.

[@Hans_landa-kz]

16:40 blud thinks he's in warthunder fun fact: 10 December 1943, there was this Tiger Tank gunner (Kramer) that got angry about the sound of Russian fighter bullets bouncing off the tank. So his commander, Carius, let him shoot at them. On the second shot he got lucky and hit one in the wing, bringing it down.

[@user-qf4du7lc4z]

What happened in Stalingrad according to the game: This one strong female sniper was so heroic and brave that her actions single handedly changed the course of the war! What happened in Stalingrad in reality: you run you die

[@sherlybrizuela2072]

#nomoreweed

[@IGuyAF]

Skill issue

[@camaroneedsanewdesign4892]

Mary sue moment

[@ladywaffle2210]

The one with the rifle...

[@catchcan221]

The disgusting PC world we live in. Pretty soon they’re gonna make games where transgendered, Muslims in wheelchairs single handedly won the Korean War.

[@sarmatiancougar7556]

You know it’s kind of funny. Every decade the depictions of WW2 Germany become more and more cartoonish and ridiculous. It’s like they are some fictional supervillain faction. Mark my words, in the 40's people will know them as a fantasy-tier race with soldiers casually drinking blood and shooting red lasers of evil demonic power out of their eyes.

[@juannicastro8598]

Agreed.

[@HickmanJu00]

Who the fuck cares? Nazi are BAD people. I imagine not all the soldiers agreed with them. But, for Hilter to get in power, he was well like. By the people, not the government. He spoke to the Germans in a very vulnerable time. It kind of mirrors what is happening right now, with the far right in the USA.

[@lollikabosso.w.n7153]

By 2050, i guarantee we will no longer have reason to hate nazis, as the bastards of today shall make them seem fictional

[@juannicastro8598]

@@lollikabosso.w.n7153 At one point, they will make us hate more Activision itself more than the soviets.

[@EchosTackyTiki]

Space Nazis with and army of Mechahitlers. That's what I envision them as in 20 years.

[@killerbug05]

Love how we went from one of the most realistic cods in mw, to the most unrealistic cods in cold war and vanguard, it's evolving just backwards.

[@MrDueltube]

Well Cold War was a far better game than Vanguard at least regardless of realism.

[@godlymonkey]

Even if cold war is unrealistic its fun unlike this piece of dog shit named vanguard and most of the historical inaccuracies can be dismissed in cold war

[@negan2128]

@@MrDueltube Even though it is really fictionalized I agree with the cold war part. At least the story is a lot more enjoyable

[@MadChristoph]

COD 4 and WaW on Veteran difficulty made you feel like you were in a war, it was really hard to complete

[@MrDueltube]

@@MadChristoph Very true.

[@ChocoDonutzz1657]

Reject gaming, embrace reality Honestly the actual stories of what they’re based on is really awesome

[@GregoySilalahi]

I'll add some: 1. The Brits cannot and WILL NOT put a Black soldier in a special forces. The black soldier cannot even reach the higher rank. 2. The Type 95 Ha-Go only armed 37mm gun, only one Japanese tank, the Type 97 Chi-Ha later variant CAN destroy a Sherman, but in a close range.(Side note: If you trying to destroy a Sherman with Type 95, you can only destroy it by attacking it's back from close range). 3. On the German helmet, it should be a Swastika or a SS emblem, not the Imperial emblem. 4. The He-177 'Greif' was a unreliable heavy bomber, it was mostly used to bomb Moscow. 5. If you notice, during the North Africa mission, you see a the plane already used the black and white stripes, this is very inaccurate. The black and with stripes was used in 1944 to prevent friendly fire. 6. The Mitsubishi A6 Zero was easily to catch on fire, so it's impossible that Zero can keep flying even though it was shot. 7. The Japanese should wear helmet, not a normal cap. Reason is, because they were in a battle. 8. Really a soldier fight keep fighting even though that soldier already burned?? 9. STG-44 in Pacific? It was impossible. All German Navy almost ceased to exist because of blockade and air raids in 1943-1945. 10. The Battle of Stalingrad involved not only German Army. Romanian, Hungarian, Italian, and other Axis country involved during this battle. 11. If you realize, there is a goddamn Panzerschreck in North Africa. This is inaccurate. The first Panzerschreck was used in 1943. 12. The SA or even SS doesn't participate in the North African Campaign. 13. The main antagonist should already a Reichsführer SS, not a lieutenant. 14. There is no way a German plane can fly get out from Berlin during the Battle of Berlin. It's only possible if you fly the Me-262 and Arado Ar-234. There is actually still lot of historical inaccuracies, but I cannot write it all because it will take days.

[@TheFrosty_1]

Thank you for pointing these out, I respect to commitment

[@KIA_--]

The imperial colours on the Helmets are historical accurate for a Wehrmacht soldier,only the Waffen-SS had Swastika and SS Emblems on their Helmets and even that only in the earlier stages of the War. Japanese soldiers often wore their field caps in Battle due to better protection against sunstrokes and other aspects of the tropical pacific clima. The minor Axis forces in Stalingrad (italy,Hungary) dindt take Part in the House to house combat shown in the game they were stationed at the outskirts of Stalingrad and to the end of the Battle in the begining of 1943 they were mostly destroyed and the only one really left at the end were the Germans.

[@GregoySilalahi]

@@KIA_-- ah, thank you for correcting. I appreciate that.

[@AManWithNoName]

Stalingrad also had volunteer forces such as Bosnians and Croatians aswell due to mostly Axis empty promises to Croatia and the Bosnians.

[@greysonholtzclaw5276]

@@AManWithNoName Would be cool to see the Battle of Leningrad so we could fight the Azul Division, which was the Spanish volunteer division that Franco sent because of obligations due to Germany supporting him in the Spanish civil war.

[@terranceachilotem4325]

It’s disgusting that they said that the colonial African soldiers simply “married” the German women there. That’s like saying the Japanese soldiers simply married the Chinese women during their occupation of China. But of course, you can’t say anything remotely bad about their crimes at all or you’re considered a racist. The writers 100% knew what they were doing when writing this in, and it’s astonishing how less people have pointed this out. Also, with all of these historical inaccuracies in the game, with many of them so simple a 10 year old could probably notice it, as well as the disrespect for many of the real life people displayed in this game, it’s safe to say COD games don’t have any thought or care behind them anymore. Well made video.

[@TheDigitalApple]

I guess the developers considers rape to be ok if the perpetrator was black.

[@bobjohnson9806]

equall as bad american soldiers “marrying” vietnamese GIRLS (children)

[@MeanBeanComedy]

They're People of Magic. Can't criticise their crimes. Did you know it's actually your fault they did that?

[@datboy1628]

Given what I have read about it, it feels like the it was over exaggerated

[@klm9440]

@@MeanBeanComedy Also it’s alternate history; the ideal universe that makes them look good is the only true one

[@dvabliss]

This is like a fantasy world war 2 novel.. I miss the old call of duty where it was accurate even though graphics were limited I miss doing the missions that actually happen with old war footage as part of the cut scene

[@olegdemianenko3054]

I believe accurate isn't the right word, authentic is. Older CoD games feel authentic, they focus heavily on the atmosphere and create a sort of background story (knowing characters is optional, gameplay comes first). There is no "message", no political statement to be made, no complexity in the older games. Because they were not about any of the things mentioned. Whenever I play almost any mission in CoD 1, 2, WaW, I think "Yeah, something like that probably happened during the war. Something more grim and less lighthearted, but it happened." I don't get the same thing when it comes to Vanguard or even WW2.

[@Jeyeyeyey]

who cares about muh grapheecks

[@garrettsattem4799]

@@olegdemianenko3054Hell, the original COD was how I first heard of Pavlov’s House.

[@Voucher765]

My friend August Caccavone 7th Army fought in Southern France and Germany with an M4A1 SOPMOD that somehow ended up in WWII with his squadmates using F2000s w ACOG and suppressor with dubstep camo. During one of his missions towards the end of the European War his squadmate got killed with a Nazi EM3 laser gun that vaporized him like something out of HYDRA in Captain America.

[@davedog0984]

@olegdemianenko3054 CoD 1 is shockingly accurate, down to the times that certain events happened, at least on a surface level. Idk anything specific about gun types, but it was really good.

[@AwkwrdPrtMskrt]

This video was posted on the 14th of January 2022. And then on the 28th of September the same year, Sledgehammer added a modern-day bullpup assault rifle and a futuristic plasma cannon into a WWII game.

[@LordyT34]

The disrespect towards Australian troops by trying to make them "victims of prejudice" is beyond insulting and I'm not even Australian

[@floydy8359]

I am Australian, can confirm it's insulting.

[@StoutProper]

Quit whining you roo fiddler

[@konankunoichi94]

I'm not Australian, but I can also confirm it's insulting.

[@nealang9520]

I too am not Australian, but can confirm it's insulting

[@BreakingWhite]

I am not Australian, can confirm it’s insulting.

[@sudodski]

I think the one thing that pissed me off the most was the replacement of Charles Upham. Now, I'm from New Zealand myself so that probably had a hand in my reaction, but erasing my entire country's existence in the game is disrespectful and disgusting to every ANZAC soldier who fought in WW2. Also, the erasure of the British commander in the D-Day mission and making him out to be a coward is horrid, as is rewriting every Soviet soldier to be inspired by a single female sniper rather than love of their country and brotherhood of their army. This game looks pretty and that's about all it has going for it.

[@jadonlimoges1830]

Heh it looks pretty when there aren't 17 enemies clipped through each other

[@Vanishingink4]

Also the Soviet soldiers fought the way they did because Stalin read Mein Kamf and understood Hitler meant to exterminate the Soviet’s. So Soviet soldiers knew it was die fighting or die under occupation.

[@shagarumagala710]

THATS WHAT I THOUGHT

[@biscuit3397]

cry more about new zealand. NZ sucks balls

[@m.m.124]

Love... "not one step back" "order 227"

[@elderboy2128]

Ottoway’s mistake wasn’t just an inaccuracy. That is a flat-out insult to his courage. Very sad, given what call of duty had been

[@The_whales]

The person above has a point^ | |

[@WillysStuff]

The Fourth Reich scene killed me. As I love the WW2 German uniforms, seeing any inaccuracies puts me into cardiac arrest. The main antagonist (Forgot his name) was wearing the Golden Nazi Party badge, but it was huge, the random Army General to the right when they salute is also wearing it, but it is much more accurate. Also the badge would have been worn above all chest decorations besides the combat clasp. Also the aforementioned Army General was wearing a bunch of medals, and whilst I’m not 100% sure, some of them definitely do not exist. Also his service medals (the two blue squares) should have silver or gold eagles to denote their grade. Also the 1939 clasp to denote that the person earned the Iron Cross in WW1 (Seen above his iron cross on the chest and on the tunic button) are inaccurate, they look more like the breast Eagle insignia that was part of the standard uniform, as their wings were too wide and they lacked the plaque underneath. Also he for some reason has a sleeve Eagle and breast Eagle even though for regular army, their eagles were worn only on the breast

[@chrismoore488]

Obviously this game is terribly historically inaccurate but some of these details are so specific. It’s crazy how much this guy knows about ww2.

[@gumslice]

And I thought I knew a lot.

[@luckyluciano1584]

This guy did more research than the devs

[@chrismoore488]

@@luckyluciano1584 clearly

[@chrismoore488]

@@luckyluciano1584 I don’t think it’s that the devs didn’t do their research I think it’s just they literally don’t care about the history.

[@The_whales]

I know it’s not made in the unreal engine but due to how historically inaccurate vanguard is, I wish it was

[@Weariedsteam85]

This has an inaccuracy of its own. The "not a step back" order wasn't a blanket execution of retreating men, it disallowed retreat past their starting position, and even tactical retreats past that initial point could be allowed if you could successfully argue why it was necessary.

[@hellhoundrpg548]

Partially correct 227 also made blocking detachments which meant no retreat under any circumstance, also to note obviously there were execution in the beginning then they realized not to follow it because of manpower of killing their own troops and the blocking detachments

[@iexist.imnotjoking5700]

There's another one at 10:54. It is true, that the United States Air Force did not become its own branch until 1947, but IT LITERALLY SAYS "ARMY AIR FORCES" on the poster. It became the United States Army Air Force in 1941, and the Battle of Midway took place in June 1942. So I don't know what he's talking about there.

[@herrdoctor2895]

@@iexist.imnotjoking5700 wait, Army Air Forces on a Navy Ship must be weird too doesn't it?

[@iexist.imnotjoking5700]

@@herrdoctor2895 I think so, but the point he makes about the air force name thing is not based in reality.

[@Unknown.Skymaster]

@@iexist.imnotjoking5700 so we're just going to ignore the fact that he says it should be a Navy aviation poster?

[@crusaderofthemoistening9096]

I’m not into cod but I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for this. It was cool and you clearly put in effort with research. Nice one mate.

[@tigrebleu7458]

23:57 While the U.S. soldiers were trained to use the M1911 with one hand, interviewed veterans often mentioned they used it with both hands because it was inefficient to use it one-handed. This doesn't mean all WWII soldiers who used the M1911 did so with both hands, but it makes such a practice plausible.

[@yocapo32]

It still doesn't really change the fact that they're using a thumbs forward technique that was invented about 60 years after WW2 ended, *and* modern magazine retention reloads.

[@kattengustavsson9821]

@@yocapo32 You dont "invent" ways to hold weapons, the soldiers are traind one way but in the field the use them the way they work best for each individual. So amongst all the good points this was bad.

[@the_real_Kurt_Yarish]

​@@kattengustavsson9821 You literally do invent ways to hold weapons. Every fighting style and technique had to originate from someone, or from several people over a range of time. This includes operating firearms. While yes, a soldier may improvise their own techniques in certain situations, this doesn't change the fact that it would be an unusual departure from their highly specific training. It would be even more unusual that these improvised techniques "just happened" to be nearly identical to the specialized pistol handling techniques that were primarily developed and implemented during the 1970's, and yet somehow make an appearance during the Second World War.

[@eggabacon]

It's not the historical innacuracies that surprise me, it's the knowledge of this guy to notice them that does, noice job

[@TheFrosty_1]

Thank you! :>

[@foxtrotsierraproductions8626]

He does not know any of this, he have guys to research stuff and he just repeats it

[@thatgamerbitch24]

​@@foxtrotsierraproductions8626Actually, the narrator DOES have a lot of historical knowledge, but the campaigns have so many inaccuracies and they are in very small details that you need a team to find then all.

[@Enzo_0425]

most of them r pretty obvious, and also he seachers for them, he doesn't just know all of them

[@skylol6258]

Replaying WAW I realized that most of of the inaccuracies you mentioned here was never a thing back then. Just goes to show how well made a game from 14 years ago is compared to a fairly modern one.

[@someguy7629]

It also did not shy away from all the war crimes comitted by the allied forces (U.S and Russians).

[@skylol6258]

@@someguy7629 definitely. I remember reading a book one time that said something along the lines of "a proper war story will not romanticize any part of war. It will not hide the flaws of any sides nor will it hide from the atrocities and horrors of war. A true war story will show war for what it truly is: death. There is no real victory in war." WAW portrayed this PERFECTLY, while WW2 and Vanguard does the complete opposite.

[@Acetilcystein]

Actually, i have noticed some inaccuracies. In my 6th run of the game. 8 years after i first played it. Honestly, those problems (a.e. mortar shell not having timed fuse, flamethrowers have endless fuel or Soviet 12.7 AT rifle having scope ) are not very easy to pick up, because you dive head deep in the game and some unrealistic moments just slip out of your zeitgeist in favor of story and horrors of war

[@bldontmatter5319]

@@Acetilcystein which really says a lot when those are the mistakes made. And the flamethrower is infinite ammo because of gameplay design, meant to last the whole level. They programmed all fire weapons to run on "gas" which actually can't run out in the coding. Very strange

[@obiwaankenobi4460]

WAW was filled with inaccuracies, no one points them out because it *felt* accurate. Vanguard doesn't.

[@supermattd5819]

You know it's sad when Enlisted more accurately matches these battles with only like 1/4 the buget of CoD

[@alirezashojaei4634]

22:41 fun fact: in the first COD game, you get rid of the panzerfaust after you use it. so basically panzerfaust is depicted correctly in a 2003 game but not in a 2021 game lol 24:10 another fun fact: in world at war, these tunnels are actually flooded and you get caught in the flood

[@The_GK1]

Yes I loved the original CoDs for doing that. Not to mention you would be required to be sitting near a stack of Panzerfaust crates in order to replace them and not just grab them out of thin air according to some ammo count

[@nicholasnguyen5181]

Not to mention that there’d be soviets, not a single elite made up group.

[@akasspyna]

Being an Italian, I feel bad for the constant lack of representation of Italian troops in almost every game presenting the Nort Africa front. This does not only occur in Cod Vanguard, but also in other games such as Battlefield V. Medal of Honor Airborne was probably one of the few games to do this, which I gave them props for.

[@justacanadianguy07]

enlisted would make you happy.

[@pyromphh]

wish they had more axis soldiers instead of japanese and german soldiers only

[@MasterChief968]

Wish they had Indian soldiers in the games . They never portray them

[@simple-commentator-not-rea7345]

I gave Call of Duty 3 props for featuring Polish soldiers during the battle of Normandy, but given how mid THAT game was overall, and how insultingly dumb this one is, I'm actually kinda glad Call of Duty's not interested in other countries.

[@minorfirebrine2429]

Mafia 2 features a ww2 mission at the beginning where you fight Italians also. Crazy how a single mission in a game about being a criminal is more historically accurate.

[@loslobos786]

Another inaccuracy is Lyudmila Pavlichenko nickname in the game she's called lady Nightingale while in real life she was known more commonly as “Lady Death".

[@FreedomFighter76-sw40aw]

That is true #respect lady death

[@СергейСердюк94]

Just one of the many women who fought for mother Russia 🪆❤️🇷🇺

[@Sapphiregamer8605]

@@СергейСердюк94at the time it was the Soviet Union, not mother russia.

[@СергейСердюк94]

@@Sapphiregamer8605 she was Russian though and it was Russia that was being ethnically cleansed, same for Belarus.

[@samzorn4656]

I usually got into CoD by playing the campaign first. I was one of those unfortunates who bought the game, believing that the campaign was going to be like the stories told in Medal of Honor and Blazing Angels 2: a WW2 story that is fictional in nature, but rooted in the deep historical authenticity that has been cultivated by not only past WW2 CoD titles, but also past WW2 games and other WW2 media. A WW2 story that was going to tell the story of the first special forces, such as the SAS, the British Commandos, the Devil's Brigade, the SOE, and the OSS just to name a few. Instead, what we got is a stinking pile of the most politically correct nonsense I have ever had the misfortune of ever playing in my 26 years of existence, as well as the most cursed gun attachment combinations I have ever seen. I feel bad for Jonathan Ferguson for having to endure those cursed guns, but at least he has his emotional support STG-44 to rely on.

[@FireFly7961]

Hey man, I was writing a master thesis about WW2 games and I am happy that I had done it before Vanguard got released - there's not enough paper in the world to cover all BS from the game. :) Great content, you've earned the sub.

[@TheFrosty_1]

Thank you

[@dariozganec4885]

Ayo could you link the thesis, that sounds cool as fuck, the only interesting thesis I got to write was an admittedly half-assed Tiananmen Square one and a almost-decent-but-not-really thesis on Frankenstein.

[@FireFly7961]

@@dariozganec4885 Sadly it was only written in my native language (Polish). Nevertheless, thesis was simply about games depicting western front 1944-1945. Not all of them of course (it'd take ages), but mostly crucial ones (e.g. CoD, Company of Heroes).

[@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078]

20:24 Fun fact, they misspelled "Mittelmeer" (Mediterranean Sea in German) as "Mittlemeer". They couldn't even look up a single word.

[@Gnar05]

Okay, das tat weh..

[@chriss7005]

omfg that one really hurt me as a german. Thank you for pointing it out

[@yungtdkmcvert7100]

Keep in mind that this game's campaign is fictional and the average Joe probably isn't going to know that any of this is not true so basically my friend you are doing a public service by teaching people about world war II and I commend your efforts my dude

[@TheFrosty_1]

Thanks!

[@poopyjoe7435]

Every world war based game shouldn’t have to be exactly history correct but just the majority; if it was exactly correct then the game wouldn’t be fun

[@TheNeon-rh4kk]

No the devs basically highlighted this as "historically accurate" back at the reveal. 🤡

[@Balls1335]

@@poopyjoe7435 It’s entirely possible to make a WW2 game as realistic and historically accurate [as possible] without ruining it’s gameplay value. EA DICE did it with Battlefield 1, where there was a perfect blend of realism and historical inaccuracies for the sake of additional content (with the only exception being the Hellriegel 1915, which literally only existed as a speculated prototype, evidenced by soldiers field testing the weapon in a few pictures but that’s the only evidence of it’s existence).

[@VexingWeeb]

@@Balls1335 cod waw I felt was historically accurate enough. it doesn't need to be completely accurate, but enough to suspend disbelief and not give false information about key aspects of history

[@sethmcavoy1800]

15:32 Also, it was pretty unlikely for a bullet to fully penetrate a flamethrower tank, let alone fly out its user's chest after.

[@dagwood6703]

BTW, when you get to the Russian sniper's apartment, you’ll hear Steiner say “We’ve already taken Stalingrad”. Did they even have actual historians help with the game?

[@owen2x917]

Why even ask that. It’s evident that they didn’t lol

[@loganicfilms1388]

No.

[@Shotgun_Only]

They did take Stalingrad, actually. They just got cut off from the back due to weaker Romanian and Italian forces guarding their rear, and then they failed to break out of it

[@loganicfilms1388]

@@Shotgun_Only It took them like 3 weeks to get to the end of the city while in the game it’s been like 3 hours maybe.

[@Shotgun_Only]

@@loganicfilms1388 blitzkrieg!!!

[@ThePlasmafirestudios]

I can’t imagine how you went through the research process for all this but great video man

[@TheFrosty_1]

Thank you so much! Yea this video took so long to make 😂

[@redthewarrior1569]

The “Not one step back” rule didn’t 100% mean to kill all retreating soldiers. It also meant to send out soldiers to regroup all the retreated soldiers and put them back into combat

[@ComradeKits]

it's an incredibly misunderstood order

[@matiasfpm]

@@ComradeKits for propaganda reasons. Everyone loves the commies 😏

[@jeanhamilton3296]

@@ComradeKits Yeah Enemy at the gates really blew it out of proportions.

[@reecedignan8365]

You are correct sir. The order made it so that each army would form what was the “blocking detachment” but at the same time these weren’t these massive military unit but around 200-300 men supposed to supervise close to 10,000+ Their primary duty if a major retreat happened by a unit would be to find the instigators of it and hold a trial for them - with usually the primary instigator being shot - and the remaining instigators sent to the new penal battalions. The rest would be sent back to their unit or another unit as reinforcements - tho sometimes they made sure to split them up to prevent similar collapses in morale. But yes primary duty would be to scour the lines and find people who were either hiding or kind of sitting away from the fights. They didn’t always accuse these guys of retreating or cowardliness but sometimes it was just a person getting left behind during a advance or retreat on accident or having been in such a dangerous situation that they stayed put and missed the main advance. Sometimes it was runners and such that got lost or scouts who had become cut off or even full on teams/squads of men who have been hunkered down doing their job but didn’t catch a communication for a thousand reasons. But yeah their primary duty wasn’t to shoot people and even the order itself instead was more focused towards high ranking commander who continued to misplace/retreat their armies and brigades from combat out of fear they’d get overrun and abandoned some pretty decent positions due to it and in many times got more men killed on the retreat vs standing and holding.

[@akosbarati2239]

It is hotly debated if the order was real and how often it was carried out and it is not being made easier by Russia denying access to non-Russian researchers. Well, even Russian researchers can't publish anything that paints Soviet Russia in a bad light. Hell they have a standing law jailing anyone who denotes the Katyn Massacre anything other than a Nazi war crime.

[@MarshallGrunwell]

My son and I do ww2 living history. We had a great laugh watching this video. Good job!!!

[@huntclanhunt9697]

If you look closely in the carrier at midway, one of the Navy officers has the following: A US Army Swordsmanship Qualification Patch. A USAAF Wings patch. Airborne jump school Wings. And a WW2 Victory medal.

[@thinkingboi9508]

He liked the war so much he built a time machine to experience it all over again

[@flickcentergaming680]

​@@thinkingboi9508and in different branches of the US military.

[@MatthewMcBride-p6l]

Achievement unlocked: how did we get here?

[@anm10wolvorinenotapanther32]

Dude was going for that 100% completion achievement

[@canibezeroun1988]

Does the army still teach swordsmanship? While part of me thinks there should be a lesson for officers, it was useless after the Indian Wars in most situations.

[@2ndrangersww2]

Growing up with mainly ww2 based call of duty games, this makes me sad more than anything. Sure those games weren't very historically accurate, but the battles and overall gameplay seemed fairly accurate. Now they clearly don't even try to make an attempt for accuracy. It's a massive disservice to actual events and the real life bravery of troops. Especially from a game developer that has been making ww2 games for over 20 years

[@2ndrangersww2]

@Señor Quack sledgehammer made call of duty wwii, which compared to vanguard, which sledgehammer also made, is leaps and bounds more accurate than this. Trayarch also made Call of Duty 3 and World at War, both fairly accurate wwii games. And obviously infinity ward started call of duty with the first 3 installments being placed in WWII. All the developers have experience with World War Two shooters and it's not hard to hire historians and advisers to direct them in the right path. If indie games like Hell Let Loose can do it, a AAA developer can do it

[@Ashen_Night116]

​@Señor Quack It doesn't change the fact that every game now that is made is an amazingly mediocre.

[@2ndrangersww2]

@Señor Quack cod wwii isn't accurate, I was just saying that in comparison to vanguard, cod wwii is drastically more accurate. Sledgehammer took 5 steps back in historical accuracy

[@Mitchery]

@@2ndrangersww2 Let's not forget that COD originally began as a spiritual successor to the Medal of Honor series.

[@2ndrangersww2]

@@Mitchery they're just not even trying at this point. If not wwii, make a game during a time period we haven't seen much of. Vietnam era is a great era to place a game. Both the original black ops and the new black ops dip their toes in Vietnam, but it's only a segment of the game. If we got a full Vietnam conflict as a boots on the ground marine or soldier, I think it would make for a great game. How ever they care more about multi player customization and warzone so I doubt we will see that from them. We can only hope on a small indie developer at this point

[@대한민국정부-l8q]

You missed two inaccuracies in Operation Tonga. The british word for germans was jerries and they used "Kraut", which is a American word for the germans. And it was rarely used by the british. Second, Rommel, who was stationed in Normandy, went to his wife to suprise her birthday (?) so there is absolutely no way the germans would've shooting at the planes.

[@Voucher765]

The term kraut was first used in World War 1 by doughboys fighting in Europe then again in World War 2 by their sons.

[@yeffweykins3283]

If you are talking about the Germans firing at the C47s dropping paratroopers then you are very wrong, Rommel was already gone the day before the invasion. The allied airborne troops were shot at very heavily by German anti air

[@magicman3163]

@@Voucher765 yeah and the British called the Germans huns and some other name in WW1

[@JohnJohn-pe5kr]

Watch this interviews with Airborne vets and they will tell you that the Germans were shooting at the planes.

[@randycheow4268]

Not to mention some of the British paratroopers are seen wearing WW1 era equipment such as the P08 webbing and boots with puttees instead of the P37 webbing and the boots with gaiters

[@redthewarrior1569]

Volkssturumgewhers were semi-automatic, however they’re portrayed as fully-automatic in the game

[@averageperson8882]

They literally got every detail wrong. I can understand some levels of creativity to make a game fun, but this level of inaccuracy is just terrible. Also, what really bugged me is that they claimed that they’d be exploring “new and forgotten” theatres of war when it was announced, yet every theatre (Dday, Stalingrad, the Pacific and North Africa) have all either been done at least once or done to death in the COD franchise. I’m thankful I didn’t buy this mess and just watched the campaign on KZbin.

[@Austin.D]

Ikr it made me want to go back and play all the older cod ww2 games like 2&3

[@hentielover]

so true. Like what about the burma and chinese fronts? such forgotten fronts in WW2 pop media and about India and China, the two largest countries today. such big markets to market towards. So even from a corporate point of view it would've been nice. But no

[@dootmarine1140]

That latter point so much! I wish they explored things like the Italian campaign, the 1939 polish campaign and the liberation of poland by the red army, hell I'd have loved a paratrooper operation surrounding D-Day (I don't think those have been done in a CoD before?), Chinese campaign, god... There are so many stories in WWII and they really chose the worst

[@Someone-lr6gu]

@@hentielover >the two largest countries today Did you mean countries with the most population? Also, Chinese and Indian markets have their own specifics. Just because there's a lot of people in there doesn't mean they can afford your game (cough cough, india) or even be able to buy it in the first place due to local restrictions (cough cough, china).

[@USAirsoft]

I thoroughly enjoyed this! Now I shall binge your videos if you don’t mind.

[@TheFrosty_1]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it, it is truly an honour to have you here USAirsoft, I love your videos! :)

[@Dclerkin17]

Wassup Scott?

[@thejourney6347]

What ever he said

[@romaniangypsy3640]

My man

[@niggasinanutshell6590]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaaVga2BjKuDrMk It’s finally here

[@giants2k8]

As if the 88 wasn’t deadly enough as a flak gun, somehow the developers had to ridiculously turn it into a fully automatic 88. I can’t stop laughing.

[@itsmeanormalperson205]

Nah, man. The crew has one jacked loader

[@YataTheFifteenth]

sequel to the WaW full auto Mosin

[@Number1Irishlad]

Nahh they just overclocked their 88. They plugged it in to an outlet and it just went fuckin off the rails

[@coval5694]

Another addition to the Australian Soldiers wearing slouch hats at 22:16. They are wearing the 7th Gen pattern Rising Sun badge which was put into service from 1991 onwards. The one they should be using is the 3rd gen pattern which is bronze coloured and not gold plated

[@Jetiko27]

What do you wanna bet they looked at the New Zealand flag and said: "Ah, yes, Australia"?

[@Typhoon_Lex]

Modern Americans struggle to name states in their own country. You really think they could figure out the differences between Aussies and Kiwi's?

[@CMDRGRAVES01]

@@Typhoon_Lexsthu

[@tire_iron488]

​@@CMDRGRAVES01 you got em bro

[@jonahulichny9874]

@@Typhoon_Lex as an American, I couldn’t agree more.

[@NapBoney]

I haven’t played the game in months, but here’s a few that I remember cringing to: 1. Dive bombers at the battle of midway did not re-climb to higher altitudes to attack again on the same mission. They also wouldn’t have had bombs remaining after the first dive. 2. The pilot disregarded a large fire in his left wing’s fuel tank like it was nothing. Even with self-sealing fuel tanks, his plane was likely finished. 3. There are far to many enlisted men ordering around the pilot, who was an officer. 4. The SBD Dauntless could hold its own in the air, but was by no means a fighter. The amount of zeros being shot down by this dive bomber pilot is extremely unrealistic. Not to mention the amount of ammo and the ability to reload the nose machine guns. 5. This entire game is a historical inaccuracy.

[@BasePuma4007]

COD: World at War is actually a very historically accurate campaign, at least with how it portrays the Pacific war. I can't speak as much about the missions depicting the Soviets fighting Germany (though I think they did a good job with that) but I can tell that the writers of the game based the Pacific war campaign missions on a bunch of books. I have read a few books on the Pacific war - a lot of the details seem so similar to the details in books I've read, such as "The Conquering Tide," "The Things our Fathers Saw," "Japan at War: An Oral History," and "With the Old Breed." The assault of on Peleliu Island in the campaign was directly inspired by what's written in "With the Old Breed." It makes me really respect the writers of that game, they were very scholarly with their research; basing the game off the work of historians and collections of primary source material. I don't care much about certain weapons appearing in theaters of war or years where they were not present (it is done for obvious gameplay purposes), but the details and essence of the combat and real history is well depicted in that game. The Japanese conquest in South East Asia, the naval and air war, and American island hopping campaign were utterly horrific and World at War did good at depicting bits and peices of it all either in the mission gameplay or the games excellent loading cutscenes. Vanguard on the other hand is a typical example of what one of my university profs used to call "historical rubbish;" made for the childish sensibilities and low attention span of modern people.

[@klutzspecter3470]

World at Wars accuracy of WW2 is like saying every action flick in ww2 is 100% accurate. I don't remember German soldiers in World at War using Type 100s or playing CTF with the red army.

[@BasePuma4007]

@@klutzspecter3470 Yes genius, I'm talking about the campaign. Read what I said again, the essence of the combat portrayed in the Pacific war missions was clearly based off many books that catalog primary source material as well as secondary writing from historians.

[@Dude-zn5be]

Only inaccuracy for the eastern front that i remember was the flag over the Reichstag which was a staged picture

[@Lin-ij9vk]

World at war made me realize, "hey a horror game in the pacific theatre would be pretty cool"

[@DarcelMavis2und2]

dO YoU SpEaK JaPaNeSe ???-_-

[@ClutchMcshift]

I recently decided to finish vanguard’s singleplayer campaign since i mainly played multiplayer on this one…. I ain’t no WW2 expert but i consider myself well informed about it …Your video kinda confirmed this weird feeling i had playing all along, that A LOT of stuff in this game was odd and clearly not accurate. The japanese guns in the train in the first mission did trigger my « historic-sense » haha

[@huntclanhunt9697]

There are two accounts of men shooting down enemy aircraft with their sidearms. One was WW1, Where a German Pilot show down a Frenchman with his Luger. The other was a US Pilot shooting down a Zero with his M1911. Both were freak incidents of sheer luck.

[@queuedjar4578]

The World War 2 case was also unconfirmed. Pilots were never trained to shoot at other moving enemy aircraft with their sidearm, but I could see it being done out of sheer desperation despite it having no chance of being effective.

[@huntclanhunt9697]

@@queuedjar4578 It was confirmed. The guy got a medal for it. He was parachuting down because his Dive Bomber was hit and he jumped.

[@marcosgonzalez4207]

The US pilot was ejected He didn't tried to shoot in the plane

[@huntclanhunt9697]

@@marcosgonzalez4207 Also true yes.

[@jimzeez]

@@huntclanhunt9697 IIRC, he was playing dead because japanese pilots were known to machinegun parachuting enemies, and as this particular zero did a nearby pass on him with his canopy open to see if he was alive, the american pulled his pistol and shot wildly. The plane veered off and crashed. Something like that I think

[@WraithOfMan]

I remember back when the first Medal of Honor game was being developed and how their devs were under a lot of pressure to show respect for the events and people they were portraying - Nowadays we get THIS. If this disgraceful developer put as much effort into research as it did pushing THE MESSAGE, this game would've been as good as a documentary...

[@farhanrizkiahnafa7404]

It was never meant to be documentary

[@hahabrrrrr4465]

@@farhanrizkiahnafa7404 but it was dishonorable to the heroes of ww2

[@EneTheGene]

@@farhanrizkiahnafa7404 Sure, but when you are depicting historical events... well... you are depicting historical events.

[@thejamaicanpolak3988]

@@farhanrizkiahnafa7404 it's called respect. I would love to see how you react to the horrors of WW2. Maybe it's because some were still alive when I was growing up.

[@johnmonroe8557]

you missed one during the "do you speak Japanese" ambush you can see a full auto M1 garand

[@Slava_Ukraini1991]

ping!

[@quinnholloway5400]

That exists though, it's called the Bar As it's effectively a Full Auto M1 Garand

[@rebeccacummings6697]

@@quinnholloway5400 You can distinguish between the two.

[@gavinortengren3273]

There was actually a division in the army that fucked round with their garands, and made one of them full auto, well, one that didn't explode. There we a few previous attempts that went boom or broke.

[@Voucher765]

@@quinnholloway5400 And M14

[@astosarro6184]

23:33. I'm a year late but I have to correct it. The vest that the German is wearing existed. It's called a samurai vest, used by the 185th Folgore Paratroopers. It stored MAB 38 magazines so idk what it's doing in the hands of the Germans. It's Italian though so it is an inaccuracy.

[@ДаниилСтепанов-р1и]

For me - the real inaccuracy, as russian - was about Stalingrad: 1)Father of Petrova girl - have a RUSSIAN EMPIRE medals, and also a Portrait of him with Russian Empire Army Suit. THIS - can easily - make him to arrest as Political Dissident/Prisoner, and easily go to - not ordianary Soviet Prison, but a GULAG. 2)He have a almost Penthouse-type apartment - which NOT existed in USSR even. Also - in USSR? After our Bloodiest, Russian Civil War - having THIS(!!) TYPE of apartment?! You got to be joking - bcs, IRL - if people would know, HE live in such luxurious Apart. - it's gonna be a suicide/deathwish to live here. 3)Whole this Ap. - have stuff -which ordinary Soviet citizen, CAN'T HAVE: Gold Samovar, not only one Samovar - BUT MANY of them, GOLD-skinned(?)/plated electric wires, Gold Teaplates and etc. B_tch! I think WE ARE FOUND A SOME RICH RUSSIAN EMPIRE "kulak" here!!! If NKVD would know about this Ap. - he srsly AFTER that, is gonna be found dead. 4)Stalingrad - was not European-styled City... it actually was - somewhat a Technological City/MonoCity, or how we called - "MonoGorod"-type . Many panel house, AND MANY(!) Factories/plants and etc. For Americans or Westerners - just imagine a Detroit. Or even just New-Jersey... That's it. For example - how, this city was a MonoGorod with many factories: PPSh's was mainly been produced in Stalingrad... even then Germans invaded Stalingrad - PPSh's Factories was still in active(!!!). Even in blockade of this city...

[@VexingWeeb]

i honeslty can hardly read your post

[@stargazer4326]

@@VexingWeeb Don’t be obtuse, it’s ESL but readable

[@lemons1559]

@@VexingWeeb tldr: the man was wearing and possessing items that would have gotten him to the gallows a dozen times over.

[@AManWithNoName]

Your grammar sucks fucking ass, barely was able to read your points. Use grammarly or spellcheck fucking jesus

[@F.Fox714]

Тоже у их лица просто не русская :)

[@slightlyistorical1776]

18:24 There’s a reason why COD: WaW did an infinitely better job at the genre than Vanguard. WaW was created to show the brutalities of war and how horrible and agonizing it truly is while paying tribute the real heroes who fought and died in World War II, regardless of their nationality, color, or beliefs. Vanguard, on the other hand, glorifies war and worships completely fictional characters loosely based on real people trying desperately to push an agenda of how only people of a certain diverse color or gender are the ones who make history, epitomized in the following clip where Lady Nightingale was able to magically change the course of the battle and the entire goddamned war singlehandedly. The series has shifted entirely from illustrating the horrors of industrialized warfare to actively endorsing it by means to make a quick buck, and this mindset will have _horrible_ ramifications for future generations, who will most likely regress society back into thinking that war is an awesome and fun-filled adventure. This goes for all future servicemen, generals, commanders, and leaders, who would probably try to replicate World War II-era tactics because “they looked cool”, resulting in exceedingly high losses of real human life. *War is a cold and calculated slaughter of human beings, not a video game.*

[@NebLleb]

*based* Like, I have a game in my mind, which plays like Descent but underwater, where the plot is VERY Anti-War. My fictitious game is basically "war is bad and people who force other countries which want nothing to do with it are even worse". I guaran-damn-tee you that this game will never see the light of day as a Western AAA production, because they've become so ideologically driven that they will shun anything Anti-War. In fact, a major plot point serves as a dig at the "Slava Ukraine" Proxy War which is going on and about to get much worse, that being select governments trying to capitalise on the opportunity and dragging their nations down in the process. This? Totally gonna burn at the AAA stake if Vanguard is anything to go by. Oh, well, at least we have This War of Mine.

[@LAST_STAND_FAN]

War is about cool guys with guns and explosions.

[@d30n6]

*This is war and we’re having fun in war*

[@mafikdew78]

No one should be taking call of duty this seriously

[@NebLleb]

@@mafikdew78 Well, considering it was the hot shit, the biggest multiplayer event, the fastest-selling FPS franchise once, we should.

[@comradesascha3734]

13:30 There was a parachuting us pilot in WWII Owen John Baggett actually is believed to have hit and possibly wounded a zero pilot with his service pistol, its better than not trying anything

[@maulidahsap]

Well yeah but the only reason that He even manage to kill the zero pilot was because the pilot was opening His Hatch and Owen capitalize on that chance

[@benque7491]

Good to know I’m the only one who came out with him in my mind at this time

[@BodieB]

Should never disrespect real life heroes and make them look like cowards for "reasons", it's terrible to the struggle they went through.

[@DanilaR07]

4:15 Sidney Cornell was issued an M1 Garand as apart of his kit, so technically it is accurate, even if he wasn’t there

[@GingerofMassDestruction]

I would not be surprised if the people who made this game got a D or an F in history class.

[@jirja3192]

Actually main wirter and director Sam Meggs is educated in history but cares only about women...

[@TankMasterGo]

Why did they just hire an actual historian instead of a kid who write the Vanguard storyline

[@jirja3192]

@@TankMasterGo Because an actual historian would turn their project and all of their ideas upside down...

[@b-2994]

I just want to say, first this video is amazing, second love the garand ping after each inaccuracy.

[@TheFrosty_1]

Thanks! :)

[@falconlewitteducation4941]

Due to the immense number of inaccuracies, we should just say that the existence of CoD Vanguard is a historical inaccuracy.

[@farhanrizkiahnafa7404]

You can say that on the 1st CoD, WaW, and WW2

[@shock226]

7:57 *casually walks in-front of a tank*

[@_crosby_3811]

some of the mistakes are pretty hard to notice, like the boots in different uniforms, but in terms of weapons, Activision really disappointed, games like WAW had weapons historically accurate, Since there were no German weapons in the American campaign in the Pacific, and there were also no rare and experimental weapons that almost never appeared in combat, something that is literally the opposite What happens in this game,seeing an mg42 on a japanese plane makes my eyes hurt, there are so many things wrong with that, 1st: what a german machine gun was doing on a japanese army plane, 2nd: what a mg42 was doing on a plane considering that they were more common to use weapons like the mg15 or the mg34, 3rd: Why is Activision lowering itself so much??

[@Smokey348]

also they had mg42 gun emplacements in that japanese mission.

[@threemays]

To be completely fair, Japan did license produce a few German aircraft machine guns for use as defensive weapons such as the MG 15 (Type 1/Type 98) and the MG 131 (Type 2). I'm not defending the game, though, the MG42 is a ground gun so it wouldn't be on an aircraft regardless.

[@tvardet9060]

Another hard to notice mistake Is that every Mosin Nagant rifle Is sniper variant

[@michaeltaylor815]

This, and also the fact that Wade, an American pilot carries a Type 100, a Japanese SMG during the task force mission in Germany, in the Pacific I can understand because you are limited to what you have, but shouldn't American soldiers naturally choose American loadouts, like the Thompson since American weapons are more reliable and familiar to him, also where do you expect to get bullets for Type 100 in Germany

[@_crosby_3811]

@@michaeltaylor815 Exactly, one of the things that are unfortunately quite common in games these days are characters using weapons that didn't exist back then, weapons from enemy countries as their default weapon, and rarely used experimental weapons.

[@paradoxinraindrops141]

Good video. It felt like they put no effort into fact checking this setting which is strange considering COD originally broke ground with WW2 games. You’d think they would give the era the respect it’s due. It also would’ve been nice actually getting a WW2 game about the “untold stories of WW2” that actually told said stories. Have a story about an African American unit and spotlight other underrepresented stories from the war. Instead? They managed to hit all the WW2 gimmes (D-Day, Siege of Stalingrad, Pacific) like they were going down a checklist.

[@DakotaofRaptors]

The Pacific is relatively underutilized in media, and can offer a host of lesser known stories: I've yet to see a game cover Guam or Saipan for example.

[@flickcentergaming680]

They could have done Warsaw, North Africa, Guam, the possibilities are endless! I'd like to see a North Africa campaign mission in one of these, maybe as a crew member on a bomber shot down over Tunisia like my great great uncle was. (He was the pilot, but still)

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

According to another comment claiming to be quality control for the game, there was effort in fact checking, Activision simply proceeded to ignore said effort

[@Frostaltered]

Well they also assume most people will not fact check them, which let’s be honest, most do not. But also I doubt a lot of the game designers themselves are history buffs. There definitely may be some, but not enough traction to put more care into the games. Plus in the very first COD game they had STG44s in the battle of Stalingrad so even those games had pretty bad historical inaccuracies, just not as much or as blatant as Vanguard

[@paradoxinraindrops141]

@@Frostaltered It’s one thing with guns, like an STG44 at Stalingrad. Those are changes made for gameplay diversity even as simple as just letting you use more iconic guns more often. And at least it’s a Russian gun. Vanguard tried to be pulpy but also historically accurate, with the characters being insured by real heroes. And yet, the characters are so badass & unflinchingly brave, they come off as cheesy & nothing like the actual people who are inspiration not because they’re superheroes. But because they were real, vulnerable people who went above and beyond the call of duty.

[@VaporCun]

I like how the cure to shellshock is actually the power of friendship

[@romanromis7180]

21:43 you're right about the lee enfield capacity, but the problem is that the soldiers wouldn't fill the magazine to max capacity because that would make the spring to fail, just like they did on the bren lmg

[@owenbever4689]

24:17 Those are actually "Samurai" magazine vests. They were a thing... used by Italian Paratroopers and Marines. So, still inaccurate for Fallschirmjager use, but not plate carriers and at least historical. 20:42 It is also worth noting that the PC and other notable Australian NPCs are wearing WW1-era uniforms like what they would have worn if they were at the Battle of Gallipoli. 6:55 Also, the family's apartment is way too nice. This is the USSR, and the average citizen was not that wealthy. It could be that the Father is well-connected, but then why would he be living in such a small apartment? 2:35 Why is an officer in (Presumably) the Waffen-SS wearing an Algamine-SS uniform so late in the war? Also, if this guy is the head of Project Pheonix, why is he wearing the uniform of an Untersturmfurher. This is especially noticeable because, at 6:35, we get a look at Richters collar tabs, which says he is an Hauptsturmfurher, the rough equivalent of Captain for the SS. And yet Richter, who by the merit of their collar tabs outranks Freisinger by a decent bit, is a subordinate and takes orders from Freisinger all throughout the game. If I could find out the info about SS collar tabs with a Wikipedia article, then the Game Devs have literally no excuse. 20:08 The Breda was a prototype weapon with limited fielding to Italian troops, with most being sold to Costa Rica. 22:36 You can also see a Gewehr 43 as a dropped weapon here, which was never issued to the Afrika Korps. 9:47 The Germans were still using the M35 Side Cap, while this has a visor. So, either this is an anachronistic M43 Field Cap, or these are Gebirsjager Mountain Troopers... In Stalingrad. I don't think I need to point out the issue here. 13:52 The Japanese soldier with the Type 100 SMG has rifle ammo pouches. These aren't even Japanese ammo pouches; they look to be either German or Soviet. 22:35 It's an Ordnance SBML 2-inch, a British Light Mortar. They were a thing, commonly employed in a support role typical of light mortars. They were not, however, used as Direct-Fire weapons, and most certainly didn't have drum magazines as depicted here. 5:28 This paratrooper here has a Slavic last name. Best case scenario, this is supposed to be a Polish Paratrooper (Who did not participate in the Merville battery assault, and in fact operated in their own units). Worst case scenario, the game devs couldn't be bothered to use a British name generator, and recycled some off of the Russian name list. Also the typical things: German soldiers (Outside of North Africa) wearing face scarves/Balaclavas on the regular, Heer and Luftwaffe soldiers serving directly under Waffen-SS Officers, the whole insane attachment shtick this game has going, etc. I was honestly waiting for Freisinger or one of the other Germans to yell "Hail Hydra!"

[@TheFrosty_1]

These are some excellent observations, thank you for the information

[@digitaal_boog]

@@TheFrosty_1 also, the Lee Enfield in game has its rear sight chopped, and the Owen gun has its sights on the wrong side

[@digitaal_boog]

@@TheFrosty_1 on top of that, flamethrowers don’t explode. The chances of a flamethrower exploding was minute, and it wouldn’t cause the user and talk to catch fire, flail around for a minute, and then explode in a fireball taking out anyone nearby

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

@@digitaal_boog dont forget that the magazine for the lee enfield is capped at 5 rounds, you can't charge in another stripper clip to top off the mag to 10 rounds

[@benhood5492]

This campaign is honestly disgusting, I dont understand how you could fuck something up so bad unless you were really trying (which they probably were)

[@themissouriranger2829]

Another historical inaccuracy: During the bougainville mission, the "76" Shermans was mounted in a 75mm Sherman turret, which the US never even bothered using due to sheer inconvenience and unergonomic operability. For actual info on it, I highly recommend Nicholas Morans "The Chieftain" videos on the Shermans