Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Schlock and Awe

[@agbrenv]

18:48 if you don't kill the 2 officers in the wine cellar they will talk about having to seal the crypt to prevent the zombies from coming out, that's why the ladder is destroyed in the zombie level

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

You can also break the entrance with things besides dynamite, it just takes a lot more strikes.

[@agbrenv]

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine yes, every object has a health bar if you go close to it, kicking and stabbing with the knife does the trick as well, though the crypt entrance doesn't get the same damage model if you break it without dynamite

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Yup! Some did learn from NOLF(2000)

[@alerojas2952]

Civie is quite lazy when it comes to everything really.

[@agbrenv]

@@alerojas2952 to be fair, I have the benefit of playing this game for a very long time, I probably stealthed my way through every level to hear all the possible unique dialogue enemies have, so I mostly know the whole game like the back of my hand

[@upnorthreloading2214]

Quick frame of reference: This game came out around the same time as Grand Theft Auto III, Max Payne, Baldur's Gate II, and Black and White. (Clive Barker's Undying, as well.) It was released approximately three years before Half-Life II and DOOM 3. There were a lot of things this game did right, especially for the era.

[@J.DeLaPoer]

This was the golden age of PC gaming, I think (c1994-2004) especially for the fps genre. RtCW had some incredible classic gameplay that was the perfect mix of retro "boomer shooter" and cinematic WWII realism imo... Also some incredible art direction, eerie atmosphere, and the story: _Occult Nazis resurrecting an ancient Germanic warrior! Secret wonderweapons! Ghosts, gold, graves & ancient artifacts!_ I mean the whole game could've almost been an Indiana Jones movie. Yet it also stayed true to the Wolfenstein lineage. Basically Civvie's right, other than the last couple maps it's a masterpiece. Special mention goes to the weapons being top notch, and I still listen to the OST. EDIT: mp_beach remains one of the greatest multiplayer maps of all time too. Almost forgot to mention it, and I must've spent hundreds of hours in the multi when RtCW was new.

[@upnorthreloading2214]

@@djchristian82 It did! And it was the expansion, Throne of Bhaal, that was released directly in 2001. (Close enough, right?)

[@dorpth]

Golden Age? It was more...exiting the Dark Ages. 2001 was when 3D FINALLY stopped being the horrendous triangles of the mid to late 90s, and finally became an acceptable alternative to sprites. There was still a ton of jank. Most FPS games of the era seemed like one-third of their triggers were broken. And don't forget the bloom. Dear god, the obsession with bloom.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

NOLF

[@michaelandreipalon359]

We sure came a long way...

[@MiniMackeroni]

"After a thousand years, I have returned! The world will tremble bef- Wait, what the hell is that? OH JESUS CHRIST, IT'S SIX BARRELED AND RAPID-FIRE!"

[@planescaped]

This is my *Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp* stick!

[@DinsRune]

I've seen this Buffy episode

[@Asmallcorneroftheinternet]

BJ Bloskawitz: I've probably accidentally fucked you're child as well. Heinrich: I had only sons. BJ Bloskawitz: Did I stutter?

[@ItsTheFizz]

​@@DinsRune "What's that do?"

[@s.p.d.magentaranger1822]

"AH! AFTER 10,000 YEARS I'M FREE!!!!! IT'S TIME TO CONQUER EARTH!!!!"

[@feedfancier]

21:44 the Germans captured Suppressed Stens from British commandos. They then used them as their commando weapon, designated MP 751(e).

[@ferdinand12390]

they also made their own version of the STEN called the MP 3008

[@DashingSteel]

You did it, you madman! You actually explained it!

[@WastelandWanderer1216]

The Germans also used captured PPSHs since they easily take 7.63 Mauser Ammo with just a different Mag.

[@dannyboi5887]

Wasn't the Sten basically a much cheaper version of the Lanchester, which itself was pretty much a ripoff of the MP 28?

[@KnoxCarbon]

Not the first time the Nazis stole shit from other cultures and claimed it was theirs.

[@Kyntteri]

32:42 You know it costs 400,000 Reichsmarks to fire that weapon for 12 seconds.

[@Strawberry92fs]

During the interwar period it cost that much to fire a kar 98k for 12 seconds

[@thiscontent9621]

@@Strawberry92fs if you were lucky lol

[@rocket_hops]

barely enough for a crumb of bread

[@PA_Sword]

Ah, this is the comment I came looking for.

[@mitchellerickson7919]

The castle, the cable car, and the village barroom are all very reminiscent of the sets/scenes from the Clint Eastwood-Richard Burton film Where Eagles Dare. The whole concept of commandos assaulting (or breaking out of) a castle in Wolfenstein gets a lot of its aesthetics from this movie (as well as history)

[@Danny15877]

Same with Der Eisendrache in Black Ops 3, which just makes both games automatically just better on top of how good they already are, great movie

[@doublep1980]

Also, the Castle Wolfenstein, is inspired by an real life castle called Wewelsburg, which housed a "school" for SS-officers. They also held various meetings, celebrations there. It was set on fire and partially destroyed by the SS, during the last days of WWII when US forces approached and looted. There are many crazy stories & myths surrounding it, allegedly the SS conducted various occult ceremonies in the castle or they did experiments there and what not. (SS-Commander Himmler was in fact very into occultism). Nowadays it´s a museum and you can visit it.

[@Chris.in.taiwan]

Haha reminds me of this! 😂 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3fOgJp3nbSin7c

[@elcobra98]

Man that was a good movie.

[@swordofdanu]

Actually it's Burton/Eastwood. Silly you.

[@Douglasfirsandnoiselessdrapes]

One, I guess funny, thing worth mentioning is, that in one of the first mission briefings Blaskovitz is advised to take his own life if captured by using the cyanide capsule hidden in his tooth since he is a secret super spy. Well what do you know, there is a hotkey in the game for taking cyanide. It does what it does. Also it will bug me if I dont say it. The entrance to the crypt can be destroyed with anything ( kick, knife doesnt matter), it just has a ton of hp. Same goes for the radar station. But yeah, I also consider the dynamite to be the proper way of doing it.

[@juanandresmendezmartinez8024]

I believe in "make Olaric eat TNT from the beginning of the level" supremacy, thank you

[@danielwordsworth1843]

If you save those dynamites, you can use them later against 2 fire zombie minibosses very effective

[@chinoyomaji288]

Oh! That explains why in console key bindings, there's an unmarket binding called cyanide, which kills the player auto. That's crazy how overlooked that detail is for the game.

[@drowningin]

Take cyanide if captured. First scene-he’s was captured but will escape

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Disobeying direct orders because they know it's BS for them. Yep, that's Blazkowicz, all right. Dynamite. Thank Blood for popularizing those.

[@Elkantar_Rostorgh231]

Fun fact: the Night Vision sniper is a M3 Carbine, an experimental version of the M1, just with a massive scope that has night vision. It also needed a car battery to power in real life.

[@ArnieMcStranglehold]

Early wartime tech was as amazing as it was terrifying. Can you imagine the physical stress and also hazard of carrying around a car battery, of all things, for your scope?

[@Elkantar_Rostorgh231]

@@ArnieMcStranglehold My bet is most of the time, those that did used this weapon were in stationary positions

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

fun fact, saying fun facts is cringe gay and not fun

[@mothweb8088]

@@girlsdrinkfeck Dude, who gives a shit?

[@papayer]

The almight Snooper Roofle.

[@schmorgus4592]

Calling the sten a government power fallout pipe gun is really accurate

[@user_imyarek]

American M3 Grease gun, British STEN, Australian Owen - the holy trinity of pipe guns.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

​@@user_imyarek Except somehow the Grease Gun is excellent. That's practically anathema to being called a pipe gun. I don't know how they did it.

[@fredsterling3774]

In case anyone didn't know, in the rocket base. if you wait long enough in the garage (1st room). you can ride the tanks down and skip half the level.

[@bluebay0]

Thanks for the tip. I've played the game a bazillion times and did not know you could.

[@rilluma]

yoes. did you know that you can VenomGun the uber soldat boss. and live because all the armor and hp near by. i first tried to fight it "normally" but i lost and lost. then i just shoot him with bazooka and venomgunned him from pointblank. he died before me;)

[@DeafeningCha]

You really just skip a tiny hallway and a side room, which is maybe a tenth of the level, but it's still cool that they made it an option to go down.

[@fredsterling3774]

@@DeafeningCha just got "realrtcw" running, if you do it in that port of the game it gives you a steam achievement "the infiltrator".

[@CoreMaster111]

I was wondering for few minutes what tanks you are talking about and now I realized that by "tanks" you mean the gas tanks that go down the elevator.

[@fonkyfesh-old]

Seeing RTCW helps me realize how cool DN2001 could've been in another timeline.

[@csabaszabo6859]

thats what I thought too lol

[@TimHoekstra]

and then you play realrtcw, just amazing.

[@kozlorog]

@@TimHoekstra realRTCW is an amazing hub for downloading addons. Achievements and extra gameplay mods are great! But the artstyle. Holy shit, it was butchered. The guy responsible is an amazing, passionate programmer, but he is a talentless and, worse of all, tasteless artist.

[@thegrimreaper7]

@@kozlorog Let's see you make something better then, instead of crying about it on a youtube comment section.

[@kozlorog]

@@thegrimreaper7 what kind of logic is that? One only is allowed to critique something if he can exceed this something himself? You can't critique a cook if he spits into your soup because you can't cook a better soup? You can't critique a corrupt politician because you can't govern better? You can't critique a drunk builder because you can't build any better? The thing is, yes, you absolutely can critique results of someone's activity even if you are not able to do any better. You can't TEACH someone how to do their job without being able to do better, but you absolutely can critique. I can't make better textures, HUD, sounds, animations or 3D models. What I can is to use my experience to create a judgement and then vocalize this judgement. And in my judgement, having experienced RtCW back in 2001 and being deeply impacted by its artstyle, atmosphere and sounddesign, I testify that realRtCW butchers the original feel and replaces it with hollow, 'modernized', sterile rubbish. Don't like my judgement? Well, write a better one.

[@3114Cancerbero]

Who would have thought a 1000 years old evil warlock could succumb to 20th century firepower?

[@napalmpudding]

Shooting liquid napalm at someone is pretty effective

[@concept5631]

Not the 1000 year old evil warlock that's for sure.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

Reminds me of this old quote from Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She hits an all-powerful demon with a crossbow bolt and he laughs saying "No mortal weapon can hurt me!", to which she replies "That was then. This is now." before swapping out to a (stolen) rocket launcher and promptly destroying him in a second. I think the lesson here is ancient evils require modern solutions.

[@DefinitelyFroggyDioBrando]

​@@WolfyFancyLads Turns out adapting to all known weaponry doesn't work when there's like 5 types of weapons known

[@Green24152]

THE FUTURE IS NOW OLD MAN

[@Gojirilla]

There is such a high level of authenticity and genuine effort that goes into each of these videos. I'm so glad I discovered this channel back in 2018 it's only continued to get better and better and better.

[@csabaszabo6859]

and better

[@0uttaS1TE]

@@csabaszabo6859 and better

[@endig4501]

There was a brief dip where the "hating the audience" joke(?) got a bit overused, but that went away when he stopped using twitter as much. Funny, that.

[@Artersa]

@@endig4501 I don’t recall that period, which videos was that prevalent in?

[@csabaszabo6859]

@@0uttaS1TE I saw ya last night at the premier of the Sage Evangelion video. In fact I saw you every where for a while. Are you one of those "comment on every YT video ever" type guy?

[@kingdomkey2262]

Fun fact: Crouching while firing your weapon pretty much gets rid of all the spread it would have and makes it laser accurate, except the venom gun

[@Icewallowcome012]

just like real life!

[@DrWaffle.]

Not in the ps2 version, learned that the hard way.

[@dante666jt]

"laser accurate" alright buddy 👌😂

[@XxDemon23xX]

@@dante666jt elaborate

[@dante666jt]

@@XxDemon23xX no

[@MFewwy]

This was one of the favorite games of my dad. I miss him :(

[@tributetolost]

Sorry for your loss bro

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

Mine too :(

[@DiamondStratosphere]

Hey same! Grew up playing the OG shooters with my dad. This year will be 10 years. RIP our fathers homie ❤‍🩹

[@Bloodletter8]

Sorry to hear about your losses, everyone.

[@zls9890]

My dad had this game. Great times. Sorry for your loss man :(

[@coaxill4059]

So, the Germans didn't exactly use the Sten, but the Sten was a simplification of the Lanchester, and the Lanchester was essentially a British MP28, and the MP28 was the updated version of the MP18, because the MP18 was the first submachine gun, and as a result it's magazine had problems. Fun fact: at the very VERY end of the war, the Germans actually did kinda copy the Sten with minor modifications, dubbing it the MP3008 (Gerät Neumünster). It's just a Sten with a vertical magazine. They also created what was dubbed the Gerät Potsdam, which was a carbon copy of the Sten, right down to the manufacturing marks. This weapon was specifically for clandestine operations, making it actually semi-plausible for the elite SS in this game. Or... at least it would be, if it wasn't for the fact that the Gerät Potsdam was developed in September of 1944, while this game starts in March of 1943. This has been your resident gun pedant reporting for duty. I'll see you on the next video.

[@sentrysapper45]

I mean, it's an alt history WW2 game that features zombies, portable miniguns and Nazi supersoldiers. Pushing up the manufacturing date of a gun by a year and a half is pretty minor by comparison.

[@richardmetcalf3972]

What do you think of the Mauser in this game? BJ fires it so fast, at first I thought it was a semi-automatic rifle until I saw it in other games.

[@deanwoodward1353]

Thank you history nerd! We appreciate your input. ...not being sarcastic, I genuinely appreciate your input

[@johndoe7270]

Theres a weapon slot on the M2A2 Bradley pronounced the same as your name, but I think spelled differently. M240C.

[@MANTARD]

Okay now go comment on a Forgotten Weapons video about a video game

[@ElGordoBandito]

You know, it broke my heart when I researched it and found out that The Reich had little to no interest in supernatural occult stuff in real life. Adolf waved it all off as overblown superstition. I felt so lied to.

[@davidchez513]

Himmler did have interest in occult things but other than that nah.

[@akaroth7542]

@@davidchez513 Huge interest. He was trying to create a Blood religion through the SS. Wait till you find out about Blavatsky, the Nepal expeditions, and the statue made out of Dead SS rings.

[@chaimafaghet7343]

Wow I wonder what else the media could have lied about...

[@dirpyturtle69]

@@chaimafaghet7343 let me guess you think the holocaust was fake? Sorry to bust your bubble but it wasn’t. The media didn’t lie, Hollywood over represented the occult interests of a handful of officers

[@chaimafaghet7343]

@@dirpyturtle69 Funny that's where your mind immediately goes. I didn't say shit.

[@WendiGonerLH]

The overheat mechanic with the sten is actually pretty cool considering it’s the suppressed variant (Mk 2S). Irl one of the issues the British had with it was when firing full auto they would heat up VERY rapidly, which is why they often had a canvas sleeve laced up for the user to hold

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

The suppressor used for the Mk.II S model really couldn't handle much full-auto fire, so it was more than just a risk of burning your hands, you could easily damage the thing and ruin it with a few long bursts in short sequence, or magdump or two, so often the fire selector would be permanently fixed in place to semi-auto. Looking at the American counterpart, the Greasegun, it had a suppressor unit available for it as an accessory. It was essentially a complete replacement barrel assembly, the barrel had a bunch of holes drilled out, venting into the suppressor body as to reduce velocity, and for baffling it used a roll of metal wire mesh, like you'd use for a screen door, along with a stack of donut shaped cutouts of the same material. This worked, and it was inexpensive, but cleaning the wire mesh material was a real pain, and it was pretty sensitive to full-auto fire, that pattern of thin little metal wires only held up to so much heat before it's ruined, so that's why silencers aren't made that way anymore. The Sten Mk.II S uses a more conventional design with a series of solid metal discs (with holes in them for the bullet, obviously), which is a lot better, but you always need to be careful with full-auto fire mixed with suppressors.

[@DavidRYates-tk2tq]

So what you're saying is it's like when you get a cup of coffee and it's got that thing on it you're supposed to be able to hold that will keep the hot coffee from burning your hands.

[@siralcatraz9049]

31:19 "This tank actually provides good cover." That's a HALFTRACK, Civvie. #FreeCivvie

[@Bluehawk2008]

I like how instead of modeling working doors on the back, they just stuck a ladder there.

[@Mario_bland]

Gun pedants sidekick appears: armor pedant.

[@Treblaine]

"Oh excuse me, I will use this ARMORED FIGHTING VEHICLE as sufficient cover"

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Does this mean the armor pendant has their own sidekick, the airplane pendant? No, seriously, the game does show off the likes of (slightly modified) Horten Ho 229s and a Natter rocket plane in the rocket base.

[@siralcatraz9049]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Now you got me thinking.

[@alexdemoya2119]

As for the STEN being used by the elite guard women: SS had to supply their own gear. hence why Waffen-SS had an eclectic mix of stuff. its believable that a witch’s coven of occultists would use captured STENs as the proper fighting divisions of the SS got the first pick after the army.

[@garrettsattem4799]

Also, look up Gerät-Potsdam. The STEN MK II’s in this game are likely bootleg copies.

[@weedmanwestvancouverbc9266]

My mom's neighbor gladys, a UK immigrant in the 50s drove documents around Southern England on a motorcycle. When she moved up to more sensitive documents, she was giving training in the use of a sten gun and there's an amazing photograph of her posing with it beside her motorbike and the family dining room

[@jonathontrejo5427]

Gerät-Pottsdam manufactured approximations from captured Allied items with the Pottsdam Sten Mk II being of note. People’s Republic of China copied what they could post-war as well. Thanks Para-Medic, SIGINT.

[@NKWittmann]

The SS used weapons produced under license in allied countries, that's why they had "foreign" weapons like CZ and Belgian models. They weren't supplied with captured gear, they sometimes used some that the soldier personally recovered on their enemy because they had no ammo left. Nothing to do with quality. Their Browning HPs weren't captured allied ones but Belgian GP35 pistols that Browning produced for the allies under license. German soldiers considered the MP40 superior to the Thompson and I don't see why they'd consider using a Sten.

[@NKWittmann]

And by the way, the Waffen SS was the army - it was not a part of the Heer, but it was under the orders of the Wehrmacht high command. Conscripts had to choose between Waffen SS, Heer or Luftwaffe / Kriegsmarine, it was just another branch or the army, administratively it's exactly like the Marine Corps is to the US military. It had some ceremonial duties but that was it. During the war SS soldiers weren't even required to be members of the NSDAP. The pay was the same and the gear was similar to Heer units like the Grossdeutschland Division, and it included foreign volunteers units exactly like the Heer.

[@shawn576]

RTCW is still one of the best games of all time. The sound is incredible. The first time you hear someone shooting at you with a Mauser rifle is crazy because it actually has that cracking sound of a gun fired at a long distance. Everything about the sound is perfect in this game.

[@paulie561]

Thought he would never make a video on this, thanks CV

[@twistednemo]

Right? This was long awaited!

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

I've been waiting for a Halo CE video so he can tear it apart for accidently starting a minor dark age of PC fps games.

[@MrDrManPerson]

I have waited years

[@RaptorShadow]

As someone with way, way too many plastic Orks, hearing Civvie say 'dakka' made my heart jump.

[@owen723]

I think you forgot to mention that you have an equal number of dice too.

[@RaptorShadow]

@@owen723 The size of my dice collection is a private matter.

[@owen723]

@@RaptorShadow I shall not pry, for the number of melee weapons I have for my Black templars is as Eternal as their crusade.

[@spanishnameisjesus]

I've never played the actual tabletop game, but I AM currently playing a Dark Heresy 2e game where we're all Orks and it's... it's just fucking amazing. Our big shoota fires 40 rounds with one pull of the trigger and if it hits then there's nothing left to bury.

[@morbidone88]

Nice guys, I'm a nurgle man myself

[@coaxill4059]

The MG42 of the time had a fire rate between 1,000 and 1,500 rounds, depending on the weight of the bolt used. As they'd wear down, the rate of fire would slowly increase as a result. Ultimately the Venom Gun is a needlessly complicated MG42, accomplishing the same thing but now with a rotary barrel and ammunition chute/backpack. However, it is also entirely badass and thus understandable. I'm sure the MG42 felt like a sci-fi gun when it's shooting at you.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

The Gatling action would ensure vastly slower heat buildup, as you're dividing up the high rate of fire with six barrels taking turns (the cluster spinning so fast would also ensure more cooling from the ambient air as well). Compare to the MG42, where there's one barrel, which gets hot fast, and where you need to take it out and put in a quick change spare to get back to shooting. A hand held Gatling machinegun is dubious from a practical standpoint, but the design would fullfil a function here, and have a specific advantage.

[@longlivetheking1065]

You spent 20 minutes on Google instead of coming to the obvious conclusion that it's the Id Software minigun in a more realistic presentation.

[@coaxill4059]

@@longlivetheking1065 I did not spend any time on google for that particular comment. I'm not sure why anyone would, unless they knew almost nothing about the MG42. The fire rate is the main thing people know about that weapon. What I did was watch the video, then when I got the chance to look at the venom gun frame by frame I realized how little sense it made even for a videogame gun.

[@planescaped]

Man... watching the footage of this game, namely the early levels, was a real treat. Haven't played RTCW since I was in 8th grade... The multiplayer of RTCW was so much fun, the endless airstrikes of Beach, the panzer spam of Depot, the spraying and praying of Town... ahhh, good times. my favorite map though was the download "Tank MP" map. That bridge in the middle, the two side paths, the multi-stage interior leading down to the tank on 60v60... man, the memories of that. Defend The Objective! I'm an Engineer Disarm The Dynamite! Nein

[@spudd86]

Enemy Territory was also great

[@darksoulsismycity]

"CONSTRUCT THE COMMAND POST!"

[@ramonandrajo6348]

Oh yeah; I remember playing this game. Playing as one of the coolest, as well as kick ass, German agent against communist soldiers, crooked monsters and supernatural beings in Russian territory during the Soviet Union is one of the best experiences of my life.

[@Splozy]

I thought ET was the multiplayer component of this game, did RTCW have its own MP?

[@tonizamboni7362]

@@Splozy it did, there was a multiplayer demo with the beach level before the game came out that i poured countless hours into in middle school as my first online multiplayer experience before my dad bought the full game just based on the multiplayer, ET came out some time after the game's release

[@barrag3463]

21:53 "Gun pedant" summoned No, Stens weren't officially used en masse by the germans even though they did capture some Stens and had a habit of using whatever they could get their hands on because they never had enough equipment. This is down to the very simple fact that Stens (the Mk II and III, which were the most common) weren't very pleasant guns to use, the most common variants being as you said basically pipe guns. However, the MP 40 took more time and material to make than most guns (really most SMGs at the time did) so the germans were always looking for something more mass-producible through the war, and actually towards the end had some SMG designs that were very reminiscent (see, rip offs) of the Sten, specifically the MP 3008. This is ironic because the Sten's design lineage was basically ripping off an earlier german SMG, the MP 28. Additional unasked for fun facts; Your Sten is "overheating" because it's a special version with a silencer, probably smuggled in for resistance fighters. The Tommy Gun does slightly more damage to reflect the fact that it's in .45 ACP (insert the eternal argument here) The FG 42 was designed as a requirement for the Fallschirmjager to have a weapon that could be carried with them and serve as both a regular rifle and an LMG. Previously Fallschirmjager jumped only with pistols, with their weapons being dropped separately, and they'd have to go find their weapons on landing. The Rocket plane you fly on is a mash up of 2 last ditch planes; the overall form is that of the Fi 103R (manned V1, so technically a jet) and the front of The Natter, a rocket interceptor with a bunch of air-to-air rockets in the very front (which is why the front looks like in has a bunch of holes- those are rocket tubes). The Germans wanted to replace the luger, but couldn't because they couldn't retool enough factories to make the new Walther P38.*

[@Ragedaonenlonely]

The Luger was far from a crappy pistol by WW2. It was still a very high quality weapon. The problem though is it was an expensive weapon to manufacture and thus not economical for wartime use. They still used the ones they had already manufactured before the war though, as as mentioned they were very high quality weapons. The P38 is just cheaper for mass production.

[@cakeboss4194]

The P38 was pretty meh (in my opinion). Not as bad as the Nambu pistols over in the Pacific theatre, but I'd rather have a P08 than a P38. Heck, I'd take a C96 Red 9 (y'know, the 9mm Parabellum variant) over an original-model P38, but that's because I'm weird and like older and jankier guns.

[@Austin-gj7zj]

@@cakeboss4194 I don't think you'd like a "jank gun" if your life depended on it's reliability.

[@BigWheel.]

The luger and Walther bit is completely inaccurate, sorry. Lugers were high quality and well liked, but expensive, the p38 was cheaper to make, and was adopted because of that alone. Many soldiers and officers sometimes opt to carry their old lugers, or even the c96 As opposed to using their p38. Other handguns from various countries were also used because the Germans simply never adopted hand guns that were both well rounded and well liked by the troops (it would appear at least.)

[@robertharris6092]

Shoulda mentioned records of stens firing off the whole magazine from just being dropped.

[@AceStrife]

Tony Jay's iconic voice. How I wish he had another 20 years..

[@lionocyborg6030]

We’ve GOT to have… _money._

[@liquidsnake23]

I feel this way when I think of a an actual reboot of reboot or finally getting a new episode and no one comes to mind who would play megabyte just as great as he did. Oh and he made Shere khan to me.

[@Dzuno18]

Hell Fire

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Yeah, seeing him live at least four more years could have made us see ReBoot Season 4 be properly resolved.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

He voiced the big bad of Planescape Torment.

[@violentbeetle2441]

The briefing for the stealth mission explicitly tells you about dropping a sniper rifle for you on a parachute. So it's only a curveball if you aren't paying attention.

[@ogoferael]

I really like Tony Jay's voice he played a lot of great characters including the Elder God from the legacy of Kain. Rest in peace you magnificent man!

[@aedwynn6474]

Kresselack the Black from Icewind Dale is one of my favourite Tony Jay voices.

[@simondaniel4028]

King Forrest from Armed and Dangerous, good lord what a funny game. Worth playing for fans of Giants: Citizen Kabuto, but the cutscenes are available online as a hour long "movie" in super low res :)

[@johngleeman8347]

Also the Transcendent One from PS:T. :D

[@redman9493]

God Tier voice actor. May he rest in peace.

[@kevinwillems8720]

How could you forget Frollo

[@outerfroggy1]

Hell yeah everytime I think civvie has covered most of my gaming youth he pulls out a gem I had almost forgotten about

[@KnoxCarbon]

You forgot about RtCW?

[@fnkyron]

Now we just gotta hit Timesplitters

[@yuyutopt]

The real forgotten gem of wolfenstein is wolfenstein 2009 (now unavailable to acquire digitally). Its has up and down, but really overlooked by people at that time, the game is fun as hell, literally giving you shit ton of weapons to kill nazi in creative way.

[@JakeTalksGamesYT]

Right after indiemaus covered the same game

[@beufaledef]

tribes vengeance solo i would like to see that but civvie dont fly sadly !

[@Mech4]

I had a fantastic thing happen during the end boss fight. I was taking a moment in the tunnel just before his arena and he stomped his way over into the entrance. Surprised I ran out and the rocks fell, blocking the entrance and one shotting Heinrich. Enjoyable game overall, can recommend.

[@csabaszabo6859]

yeah that is a pretty common speedrun tactic

[@SirDavid290]

XD

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Hehe, patologTV actually did this in his redux playthrough of the game. Really humorous.

[@KarlStolls]

One of my favorite little details in this game is a safety notice in the V2 rocket mission by a "Major B. Vorsichtig," with 'vorsichtig' meaning careful or cautious. It's fun imagining that either some very fittingly-named Nazi got assigned to workplace safety, or there's some mascot character whose name is literally "Major Be Careful" invented for the purpose. Anyway, great video on probably my favorite game of the series. There are minor issues here and there, but the core of it - the weapons, enemy reactivity, level design, music - it's all just rock-solid. The game itself is the incentive to keep playing.

[@alexdemoya2119]

24:56 Theres a parachute nearby in the tree. I always assumed the box was supposed to be dropped near you but failed to do so, landing over there and thankfully not alerting the guards. Funnily dropping gear separately is what sunk the Fallshimjager on Crete. Leading to the development of the FG-42

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Huh, nice historical trivia there.

[@BurgleArsonLarceny]

those night vision scopes were very rare, but did exist. small addition to the whole "for some reason" bit there.

[@szczypawa]

It says in the briefing that your equipment will be dropped separately for some reason

[@skullrevolver3848]

So my take away from this is that in between Heretic and Heretic 2. Corvus while trying to dimension hop home landed in ours, saved it from a big bad then found a fair maiden that had a thing for pointy ears before dipping. That maiden then have a half elf child that would be the first of the legendary bloodline that would become known as Blaskowitz.

[@lordmuhehe4605]

Sounds plausible

[@daskmorn]

Don't give id software more meme cannon ideas. We already have to deal with B.J. being doom guys Grandfather somehoe

[@tartoflan]

meh

[@MrDevious88]

@@daskmorn Nah, he was Commander Ken's grandfather. BJ is the ancestor of Doom Guy since Doom is centuries after Wolfenstein.

[@yocapo32]

@@MrDevious88 Actually, the original Doom is set in 2022. We still got a two months left, I would stock up on shotgun shells, just in case.

[@rickwong9049]

I remember the PS2 version there is a level where you fight in Egypt and shows more backstory to your British partner before he got electrocuted to death in the opening level. Interesting to see the other version level plays out.

[@michaelbanks2401]

Blasphemy PS ruined the PC.

[@countvronsky4025]

The PS2 version runs like shit

[@papayer]

Damn why are y'all so angry lol

[@austinblack7991]

In the Xbox version you get a shotgun

[@chefdeth7993]

All consoles ruined pc gaming. As a pc gamer, I didn't know there were other versions nor do I care.

[@agbrenv]

24:55 they are dropped for you with a parachute, same as the pistols and tommy gun ammo at the start of the level over the river, the one that the 2 guards are having a conversation about, also, if you don't kill the officer at 24:41 going to the right, he will notice said ammo and weapon supply and alert the guards

[@Douglasfirsandnoiselessdrapes]

I think it is also a mission objective to pick it up.

[@agbrenv]

@@Douglasfirsandnoiselessdrapes it is

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Can agree, it's a bonus objective, albeit a bit hassly.

[@agbrenv]

@@michaelandreipalon359 I don't think it's a bonus one, it's a mandatory objective, since if you reach the truck the level objective won't be completed and the level won't end, just like when you don't kill all the officers in the Paderborn Village level

[@fatemaccutcheon7892]

@@Douglasfirsandnoiselessdrapes Yes it's a level objective and in the pre-mission briefing it tells you why. The weapon is experimental and you need to pick it up so it doesn't get recovered by the Germans.

[@danielwordsworth1843]

I love that many gamers share the same story of being young, playing this game and being hella scared by the crypt level and getting someone else to play it for them

[@_ObsidianLily_]

I have finished the lvl myself. Though it had to be during daytime.

[@WTFisTingispingis]

Turns out all it takes to kill a Germanic Death Knight is a LOT of bullets! Score one for modern day firepower.

[@SoldierOfFate]

Funny thing is that the Uber Soldats you face (who can either mincemeat you with the Venom or splatter you with one Panzerfaust hit) are actually more dangerous than him!

[@WTFisTingispingis]

@@SoldierOfFate What did the game mean by this

[@AbaddonOnGanja]

Let's all appreciate the fact that creators of redneck rampage technically made Enemy Territory happen. That was the best multiplayer FPS ever and you can't change my mind about it.

[@michaelfishman6082]

Hours upon house of my childhood were spent playing ET

[@whuzzzup]

I always felt ET to be extremely one-sided. I loved the mission style and progress you could make in a level though.

[@mcspud]

Can confirm. Theres a ~18 year old frag video of mine out there somewhere

[@ExplosionRadius]

After ET died down I begrudgingly tried to make the switch to TF2 since it was the hot new thing in the late 00's, but I couldn't stand it. That game is such a wet fart compared to Wolf ET.

[@zaholykrusedar1459]

@@ExplosionRadius well tbf tf2 try to be as dumb fun as possible, so the way they take the fps class-based is also different from ET, and just like you said, a wet fart Oh and just wanna say this but the dev used to make tf2 first as a military class-based fps game, then valve said it won't work so they scraped it

[@TheBloodswordsman]

"Holy shit he found some Tommy Gun ammo!" Spent like 8 minutes laughing. Once again, just gold from Civvie.

[@DannyBPlays]

It was a funny ending line but laughing for 8 minutes? Gtfo

[@judgeprime3730]

@@DannyBPlays LOL!! I laughed for 3 seconds

[@CommanderLongJohn]

10:55 if you hit the alt fire key you can attach suppressor to the Luger (making it quite useful for if/when you have no sten), and if you have the M1911 then BJ dual wields two of them making it damn near as powerful as the Thompson.

[@nauticaldebautical4837]

This is what I love about this civvie, aside from being the only channel that caters almost exclusively to my 30 year old gamer brain with these succulent old shooters, he frequently awakens ancient memories in my smooth chicken breast of a brain. I got halfway through this video thinking I had never seen this game before, only for some random sound and the HUD to explode it back into my thoughts. Thanks for plucking at my subconscious!

[@electricmiragemedia]

I don't even know how to quantify how much I would love a doom-engine version of the Lighthouse🙃

[@junibug6790]

Why'd ya spill yer beans ta me?!

[@hypno5690]

Its called "No One Lives Under the Lighthouse"

[@WhoTookMyMirr]

I mean there's an old Sierra adventure game called The Lighthouse but it has nothing to do with the movie. Super weird though.

[@snakepliskin7519]

A Civvie video being in 4K is one of the signs of the apocalypse. The definition is too crisp, my eyes are melting out of my skull

[@flexydex8754]

its not 4K

[@snakepliskin7519]

@@flexydex8754 you’re right, it’s actually 2160p!

[@uria3679]

Are you sure you shouldn’t visit an eye doctor?

[@sjfs231]

@@flexydex8754 3840 x 2160 is 4k

[@Bloodletter8]

RIP, Your Eyes

[@CaseyRedgrave]

I remember fighting that super soldier boss, I got him stuck on a corner of that control room somehow and just killed him with a Mauser, only reason why I was able to kill him was cause he couldn't hit me, but I could hit his shoulder. I was so happy that I finally killed him. I can't recall how many times I've died to him. Then once I reached the final boss, I was shocked how easy he was compared to super soldier.

[@Currrby]

lol did the exact same thing!

[@richardmetcalf3972]

There's actually a spot on the catwalk just a few paces away from the starting point where you can shoot him and he'll just stand there, unable to hit you due to the catwalk railing. If you look around KZbin for his boss strategy, you'll find the video demonstrating how to do it. He's a cheap boss, so cheesing him is fair imo.

[@swordnboard677]

@St. Haborym He's talking about the Mauser rifle my dude.

[@BigPuddin]

I always sniped the super soldiers in the ankle as a kid because I thought it was a weak point. And also because I was terrified of them.

[@CaseyRedgrave]

@St. Haborym I am talking about the rifle you get at the very first level, the sniper one. It's called mauser in the game.

[@st0nedpenguin]

Man, remember when we had object based positional audio in PC games back in the day until Microsoft killed it only for Dolby to sell it to us decades later as Atmos? What a time to be alive.

[@joe--cool]

EAX2 also had Occlusion Effects. Guards behind a door actually sounded like behind wood. And footsteps sounded different when the walls had tapestry.

[@st0nedpenguin]

@@joe--cool Yup. And now we have developers proudly crowing about implementing something we had decades ago lol.

[@TyrannoWright]

I think OpenAL Soft made it better with ioRTCW supporting OpenAL as a backend. Would be going the extra mile if modders managed to implement EAX effects into the game.

[@st0nedpenguin]

@@TyrannoWright I'm just hoping Atmos does well so object based audio in SOME FORM makes it back lol.

[@TyrannoWright]

I don't count on it too much since people nowadays take audio immersion for granted.

[@cinimatics]

Dude that opening was amazing. The amount of nostalgia for all the old movies I watched as a kid I felt was unexpected but welcome.

[@J.DeLaPoer]

RTCW was a goddam masterpiece of gameplay, art direction and eerie atmosphere that still hasn't been outdone by the sequels. Truly this was the golden age... Now where the hell is Kingpin Civvie!?

[@dallesamllhals9161]

NOLF?

[@misterkefir]

Truth. All of it.

[@Tyrian3k]

And I can't play it. :(

[@Taffer-bx7uc]

Kek thinking this game is good.

[@CallOfEuropeanSpirit]

It's a good game but far from perfect.

[@LowSkillSurvival]

32:55 Actually 1200 rpm is the real life fire rate of the MG42, hence its nickname "Hitlers Buzzsaw"

[@Kurahaara86]

Ah, there we go. I'm sure Civvie will care one day, and what a grand day it shall be!

[@planescaped]

@@Kurahaara86 He just needs to start watching Forgotten Weapons, maybe C&Rsenal if he's really into it. I love C&Rsenal, more a history based show with guns as a talking point. Such a shame that youtube algorithm quashes their channel.

[@Treblaine]

I swear Civvie knows more about guns that he lets on, he baits us way too well.

[@Kurahaara86]

@@planescaped Well, that's why I support Forgotten Weapons and C&Rsenal on Utreon. I should sub to InRange too, one of these days.

[@Kurahaara86]

@@Treblaine Could be, but he'll never tell. I mean, he makes bad jokes knowing it'll lead to electroshock punishment...

[@HQ_Default]

I like that Civvie is completely aware that the hallucinations telling him to blow up the planet are, in fact, hallucinations. But he's still trying to blow up the world anyway because he just wants to.

[@kyon813]

23:55: Ok, no joke, I was _just_ thinking about Hunter Thompson right before Civvie quoted the Great Wave monologue. As always, he is a man of culture.

[@ShadesMan]

Due to special conditions of security pertaining to the upcoming ceremony, absolutely no traffic is to go in or out of the vicinity of the village of Paderborn, by order of General Von Stauff.... 6:22 - yeah, that hooded guy with the yellow staff reminded me, too, of the Heretic protag back in the day! 9:10 - Tony Jay, RIP. From Rugrats to Mihhty Max to Red Sky Turtles's Lord Dregg... lots of voices.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Here, have a bottle of the '32 Latour 🍾🍷

[@jamesduncan6729]

Thanks, I totally forgot I heard him in Rugrats. It was killing me trying to remember. 👍🏻 You're aces, mate

[@Jinballify]

Lest we forget, our big bad german king is voiced by the voice of Sarevok as well? And the music in the cutscene reminded me of Baldur's Gate as well.

[@kingstarscream320]

Some other amazing Tony Jay roles: - Megabyte from Reboot - The Elder God from Legacy of Kain

[@Renegade666]

THESE ARE THE TALES OF THE SKELETON WARRIORS!!!!!

[@John-ro3vu]

I remember watching SS Doomtrooper premier on SciFi channel while crushing a 30 pack of Miller Genuine Draft with my friends. It was probably one of the lowest points in my life 😂

[@sorrenblitz805]

Could be worse you could be alone on mushrooms watching old episodes of WWE raw from the 90's.

[@OckhamAsylum]

​@@sorrenblitz805Ahh, mushrooms alone with nobody else to be your frame of reference for what is and isn't reality... Nostalgia 😊

[@averageeclairenjoyer3010]

What kind of high life you must lead that watching a schlocky movie with friends and beer is its lowest point?

[@andystegall7407]

A neat detail is how as you're cutting through the last of the Black Guards and Elite Guards towards the end of the game, they're all cut up and bloodied from their fight with the zombies. This game excelled at environmental storytelling

[@MattDemers]

I'm glad you got to mention Enemy Territory. For a broke kid with a barely-competent family PC, a free FPS was just amazing. It was my first time playing with clans and groups of people I haven't talked to in over a decade, but there's still very good memories there. 24/7 Fuel Dump for life. Also it's weird seeing Tony Jay in a *non-sinister* role.

[@ExplosionRadius]

Wolf ET would still be going strong to this day if only it had received more than 3 updates from the devs. In general, multiplayer on the wolfenstein games in the 00's was the best of it's genre back then, but was crippled by a lack of official support.

[@Karter_Blackpaw]

When I was a kid, the catacombs level scared the absolute hell out of me that I was utterly terrified of even moving to a new room. The music was so creepy and the sound was just magnificently done to add that eerie effect to everything. 10/10, one of the best childhood memories to laugh at now as an adult.

[@comanclaudiu5622]

Fun fact: right before you get to those elite guards fighting that one single zombie in the penultimate level, if you try to jump down thinking you will get past some enemies, the wall behind that statue gets smashed by 3 zombies acompanied by a badass soundtrack. Game punishes you for thinking that you are smart. Love it!

[@dank6554]

This was my first FPS from when I was a kid. I've cleared it countless times with many, many mods. All the sound effects and music tracks are hardwired into my mind. Lopers still freak me out to this day. Fucking masterpiece.

[@blakeprocter5818]

What good mods are there? I recently tried the RealRTCW mod, but found it quite underwhelming.

[@TyrannoWright]

Dark Army and Enemy Territory Singleplayer are some notably good mods. Stupidity 3 if you want to absolutely turn your brain off during the RTCW campaign.

[@dank6554]

@@blakeprocter5818 60% of the mods supported in the RealRTCW steam listing are worth checking out. Dark Army Uprising, operation trondheim, etc. Lots of mid 2000's jank, but it's quite nostalgic for me.

[@timmer919hep]

God I miss Tony Jay's voice acting. He was so good. Rest in peace T-T

[@joerister]

24:54 getting sniper rifle is the mission objective and it's explained why its there in the briefing I personally loved this level, it was pretty well done imo

[@MikeBison_]

Oh hey, that rocket plane you steal was an actual late-war prototype built by the Germans, the Ba 349 Natter, or Grasshopper. It was one of those last-minute kind of things that was almost entirely made out of wood, and was meant to be basically half-disposable. The nose of it held a ton of rockets that were meant to be fired into Allied bomber formations above Germany, and then jettisoned, where a new one could be fitted if the thing managed to make it back to the ground. That's super neat that the devs included an actual prototype, rather than making something up like the later Wolf games did.

[@EnclaveSOC-102]

I always thought the Elite Guards with Stens were inspired by the Female Assassins from Half-Life considering both are wearing black leather outfits, are very agile, and have silenced weaponry.

[@GorilieVR]

6:40 that opening cutscene was so mind blowing when the game came out. The graphics were so stunning i had to show any random person visiting my family 🤤

[@foggygolem]

19:33 Remember kids: 9mm kills the body, but .45 kills the soul

[@kabob0077]

Unless they're French, then they just come back and hound you until you die.

[@Soundwave04]

Funny, I'd just finished talking to someone about RtCw! The Uber-Soldats are probably one of my all time favourite enemies in terms of appearance/theme - They're just cemented in my consciousness. That capstone joke was excellent too!

[@Vulkan1998]

They look like Nazi-space marines tbh. Which is a win for me

[@TheMadAfrican1]

Never expected Civvie to remind me of SS Doomtrooper, a film I saw years and years ago that had slipped from my memory - until a scene of it here dredged it up. Weird nostalgia wave there. Thanks Civvie.

[@oz_jones]

I REALLY need to watch that. Seems fun.

[@TheGary108]

@@oz_jones It was bad, in a fun way.

[@aleksavuletic6128]

This was the first game i've ever played in my life. 22 years later i still play it once a year,what a fantastic video game!

[@aleksavuletic6128]

And that Lighthouse transition...damn that was perfect! The Lighthouse might be my favorite movie of all time

[@szhadjii8363]

Literally the same for me. RTCW, Call of Duty 2 and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault is what got me not only into FPS games but gaming in general.

[@TheBreadB]

Jeste brate

[@acewolfgang276]

For me it was RTCW and the first Call of Duty that got me into gaming

[@sevenproxies4255]

I can see why Kingpin has a cult following. It was a very early "open world" type of FPS, which also contained areas and characters that weren't necessarily for shooting or who tried to attack you (you COULD start shooting, but it wasn't required). It's part of the reason why I found it to be so cool, since my only frame if reference before that had been doom, quake and quake 2 where the rule was always: "If it moves: shoot it"

[@MiniMackeroni]

Plus, hiring your own little posse to help you was so fun.

[@AxelHunterTwitch]

I bought this on Original Xbox back in the day, and gave up in a sniper level. The port to Oculus Quest was what finally got me to finish this game this year! It's very very satisfying in VR.

[@MrTheil]

Oh shit there’s an Oculus port of this game? I gotta try that out

[@LordsOfSalem666]

Forest Compound by any chance? Pick up the night vision sniper and then proceed to sneak your way through the level. Or was it Paderborn Village where you have to eliminate all of the senior SS operatives?

[@NinjaRunningWild]

I beat it on Xbox on the hardest difficulty. But, yeah, that level was a bitch. I basically had to memorize where they were (after being insta killed the 1st time) & cheese them.

[@NinjaRunningWild]

@@LordsOfSalem666 I believe he means the village. I recall dying more on that level than any other.

[@lutherheggs451]

People clearly don't get the point of VR with all these games that look like PS2 games but with VR mods..Games are actually supposed to look good to be in VR. Its kinda like all the herp derps who keep port begging for VR ports of 3rd person games because they grasp even less that a game has to be 1st person.

[@upinarms79]

Gun pedant here. They could have intended them to be captured Stens, or those "Stens" may have been either the MP3008 or the Gerät Potsdam, which were produced by Mauser in Germany in the last years of the war, depends on how much the developers knew about WWII weaponry. They were 9x19 and pretty much reverse-engineered Stens. One way to know is if the mag is sticking out of the side or the bottom. If it's on the side, it's a Sten. Ian did a review of them on Forgotten Weapons that's worth watching. If you don't watch his channel you probably should, considering how many guns he has covered that appear in older FPS games. Also, the 1911 came in both .45 ACP and .38 Super during WWII, though nowadays you can get them chambered in 9x19 as well. You're welcome.

[@ocnarf40]

many thanks

[@michaelandreipalon359]

You're right, I should check that channel out. Say, any cases of notable German weaponry in this game getting mass stolen by the Allies?

[@upinarms79]

@@michaelandreipalon359 It did happen sometimes but I don't think it was that common for the allies. British Enfield .303 battle rifles were excellent quality and Stens and Brens were good machine guns, same with American M1s, Thompsons, and Colt 1911s, so they didn't really need them.

[@dirpyturtle69]

@@michaelandreipalon359 not in mass but they were taken as war trophies frequently enough. The German weapons were to expensive to produce for little if any benefit over the Ally equivalents. It’s why they started stealing ally designs towards the end of the war when they couldn’t afford to keep producing their own weapons anymore

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

From what I've read, MP3008s had magazines sticking out of the bottom, and Gerät Potsdams, being literal copies of Stens (for clandestine operations) out of the side.

[@hrothgardevaitos8330]

You want to know what my favorite part of a forced stealth section? The moment when the music picks up, and you break the stealth. Those parts are so satisfying, and almost, almost make up for the torture of the previous section.

[@royalwolf4223]

Literally my favorite game of all time, I remember playing this online with my Uncle in 2004, love your content Civvie.

[@JuggernautSPQR]

I was just about to write something similar :D It was so amazing, the sound design was so iconic, I can still hear most of the guns, enemies, alarms etc. ^^

[@Hinokassaudifan1]

@@cobriobri2139 well, fighting Nazis never gets old.

[@qty1315]

I remember playing the shareware version of it, or the demo if you want to call it that. I played the Catacombs level over and over again because it was so cool.

[@JuggernautSPQR]

@@qty1315 i played the catacombs with the notarget cheat, one the were terrifiyng to me and I absolutely loved watching the AI fight :D the dialogue before they get attacked was a lovely touch too

[@Hinokassaudifan1]

@@JuggernautSPQR first time playing the catacombs made me jump. It was freaky.

[@predcon1]

If it's Activision, it's Corvus. You can find Tomes of Power in the Sanctum Sanctorum in Marvel Ultimate Alliance, too.

[@darthcinema4262]

God I miss the original Ultimate Alliance games.

[@ShingenNolaan]

​@@darthcinema4262yup,those were the days...

[@sorrenblitz805]

Man I loved those games

[@SaintMichaelOfficial]

To this day this game's Supersoldat reveal is still one of the most understated and simultaneously sickest FUCKING entrances of a special enemy in gaming history.

[@MKfoxbat]

Funnily enough this is the game I go to for showing how far graphics came. (Wondering if that will get mentioned) In under a decade we went from Wolfenstein 3D to this game

[@yapflipthegrunt4687]

And under a decade later we had Crysis. Also, hello superintendent/funny huragok!

[@ThePathStrider]

Probably the best one in the series. The intro cinematic and soundtrack are core memories.

[@ramonandrajo6348]

Oh yeah; I remember playing this game. Playing as one of the coolest, as well as kick ass, German agent against communist soldiers, crooked monsters and supernatural beings in Russian territory during the Soviet Union is one of the best experiences of my life.

[@HiCZoK]

Love the game. The 2009 wolf is also VERY underrated and better than the new ones

[@pushytub]

It is definitely the best aside from Blade Of Agony if you count that.

[@ramonandrajo6348]

@@pushytub Blade Of Agony got worse during its development; not worth it.

[@s3dchr]

Please don't let nostalgia rape your judgement and actually say New Order and New Colossus are worse...

[@hexadecimal973]

Something so nice about those starting cutscenes, those rooms look so nostalgic to me for whatever reason

[@TheGreatPooyah]

My grandfather bought me this game when it first came out… really got me into FPS games

[@ramonandrajo6348]

Oh yeah; I remember playing this game. Playing as one of the coolest, as well as kick ass, German agent against communist soldiers, crooked monsters and supernatural beings in Russian territory during the Soviet Union is one of the best experiences of my life.

[@Rauser142]

@@ramonandrajo6348 What?

[@dirtfriend]

what a cool granddad

[@ramonandrajo6348]

@@Rauser142 ?

[@richardmetcalf3972]

I wish my great grandfather bought me WW2 games, considering he actually fought nazis in real life

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

There's definitely a bit of a Grindhouse exploitation feel to this game, especially in some of the later levels.

[@DSFARGEG00]

It does successfully and deftly what TNC aspires to while typically landing with both feet in a puddle of pure cringe.

[@GeneralTantzu]

@@DSFARGEG00 The New Colossus was indeed pure cringe. I would call this Pulp more than Grindhouse.

[@offYears]

I remember laying with my dad watching him play this, as he would tell me about old Unreal competitions at work. I distinctly remember watching him beat the final boss during a rainy day one vacation. Miss him.

[@Jetiko27]

When I was 8 basically my whole family played this. Yes, including me, despite the fact that you can gib enemies or burn them to death. Our parents would play late at night, when all the chores were done. The catacomb stages were absolutely horrifying to all of us back then. It's probably still my favourite Wolfenstein game, though The New Order isn't far behind.

[@t0xcn253]

That sounds like great fun, I'm glad your parents gave you a chance to experience Wolfenstein. I was around 8 years old when I first played 3D with my grandad. I'll always treasure those memories and the best part is we can relive them any time!

[@amanofwar1]

A day off and a new civvie, that's how you start a day.

[@vsznv]

A couple of days ago I went through the mission at the Chateau in stealth mode. Seriously. The first rumble was a scripted Panzerfaust grenade into my face at the very end of the level.

[@parkerreed9849]

The boss that ripped Helga apart is named Olaric. Just sharing my knowledge.

[@arkintarwn9542]

I've always thought that it's Helga herself. As if she sacrifices herself with the dagger in order to become a more dangerous being but it's not what she thought it would be.

[@ATP2555ify]

@@arkintarwn9542 Yeah the objective says Eliminate Helga von Bulow but she's already dead. The devs derped out when making that.

[@alastair852]

@@arkintarwn9542 this was the impression I had for the last 20 years, until this video happened.

[@papayer]

@@ATP2555ify well the OSA would have no way to know she was dead long before you got to her. it's cooler that way.

[@GPRidley]

I played through this game once, when it came out. I remember the levels like it was a month ago. It's a testament to great design.

[@TheMisterGuy]

I'm glad you didn't feel obligated to trash this one. It was really great, and memorable.

[@epwafer]

RTCW was easily one of the best multiplayer experiences I ever had. The maps were perfect and the class system and objective based gameplay was well ahead of its time. I still miss it dearly and wish any Call of Duty could even come close to that level of gameplay. Great video Civ!

[@quarreneverett4767]

You can still play it

[@Ozzianman]

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory still got active servers and was released for free way back in the day. I recommend the client ET: Legacy.

[@epwafer]

@@Ozzianman gonna be straight with you, I live in Australia and it’s extremely unlikely there will be enough people playing to fill a server. Thank you though!

[@twonunpackmule]

I remember buying this at Circuit City. I still have my steel case big box. This game is glorious.

[@wtfsamusidk7574]

Circuit City was awesome

[@asininerealms]

the kick animation and it's odd visual scaling when done near walls was what made me coin the term "Danny DeVito Kick"

[@12coudak000]

When I was little I was really scared of the Catacombs levels. I always replayed Return to castle Wolfenstein only up till the Catacombs level and then I had to stop, I went to my friends house who bought the game but he was bad at it so we never finished it. Scary, good times.

[@xXDeiviDXx]

I remember watching my dad play and complete the level for me while I was cowering behind his shoulder, the same happened to Halo CE with the Flood levels A.K.A. the later half of the game

[@evilmiera]

The first thing I thought of the moment you hit that rocket base was "This feels a lot like Goldeneye" and not a minute later, you say that exact thing. Neat that my brain was trained this much on that game.

[@technoturnovers7072]

Piggybacking off of this comment: the key to making a good stealth mission isn't to *force* stealth, it is to make it so that breaking stealth sends an absolute fuckton of enemies that are better equipped than you to your exact location. That way, breaking stealth doesn't just fuck you over for no reason, it just makes it so you're *almost* guaranteed to die, while still being able to save yourself if you are skilled enough and react quickly enough. That's what Metal Gear does, and Metal Gear literally wrote the Fucking Book on how to do good stealth in video games.

[@Tbone9344]

S tier shooter game. Absolute masterpiece.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

I think the kick is very useful for the undead specifically, riddle a zombie with short repeated bursts from the Sten, and then rush in to kick him in the face over and over when he flinches (backing off when he recovers, not letting up your gunfire), when he finally keels over, rush in and boot him until his dried out dusty body shatters into a hundred pieces. It can even help against the zombie warriors, when they raise their shields, get in and start circling around them close, kicking their shins over and over until they try to hack at you with their axe or sword, then fall back and feed them some hot lead, rush in to kick them in the shins more when they flinch. As they fall down, shoot and kick his corpse to pieces. The Lopers are FUCKING fiends, and I love it. They look appropriately mean and menacing for their role, a fast rushing beast who can also zap you from a distance with perfect aim, almost like a cross between Doom's Lost Soul and Arch-Vile. My preferred tool for handling them is the flamethrower, hurriedly give them a short spray of flaming fuel, then run and hide before he can retaliate with his high voltage. Listen from behind cover as he sears away and collapses. I think it's a shame he isn't in the game more, he's such a wonderful asshole enemy. I really love the monster design in RTCW.

[@juanandresmendezmartinez8024]

I always hated the lopers, so much that I would use panzer ammo unless there were ubersoldats present. This is from the guy who would kick/knife the wall to enter the crypt and save the TNT for Olaric at the church. I will start using the flamethrower from now on, thanks...

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@@juanandresmendezmartinez8024 I used the rockets at times for Lopers, but they move really quick, so it's easy to miss, which sucks for such rare ammo. They feel better suited for the Super Soldiers, since they move much slower (conversely, the Super Soldiers seem to be highly resistant or immune to the flamethrower). You can also use the rockets for deleting some of the sniper nests.

[@sneek1015]

Kick is an overall great tool for when you're very close to an enemy. It adds an additional source of damage with no drawbacks, aside from the obvious one, which is that you have to be close to the enemy. Especially effective against zombie knights. Stabbing with a knife and kicking will kill them faster than just stabbing.

[@xDShot9000]

Yup, kick and stab with knife until it is dissolved (unarmed undead) or fallen down (shielded)

[@juanandresmendezmartinez8024]

@@sneek1015 "Remember B.J., switching to your boot is faster than using your knife."

[@Danny15877]

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS CIVVIE LET'S GO

[@Vincent-S]

That M3 sniper variant of the M1 carbine was a surprise! Not many games have them, through not many of the kits (3000ish) were made

[@daemonofdecay]

To this day I can still remember some of the set pieces and level layout. What a classic game.

[@krazislav]

These cutscenes were eyecandy! I remember something about Radeon having a special feature that made the characters more round and realistic.

[@joe--cool]

ATI TruForm. They had tessellation way before DirectX 11

[@TyrannoWright]

The game had two vendor-exclusive features in the graphics settings. One with ATI's TruForm tech that allowed for tesselation of models. Tried this with UT2004 with dgVoodoo2 and the results were very nice on player models. The second being NVIDIA's radial fog. Nothing amazing, tbh. Just makes the foggy levels more convincing by not rendering the fog in a planar form. The only thing that would be missing is EAX/A3D support, but ioRTCW allows for OpenAL Soft audio and HRTF when configured. So not all is lost.

[@pianospawn1]

I played the multiplayer of this game “Enemy Territory” EVERYDAY without fail. It was insanely good. WW2 themed, objective mode quake with a class system and super high skill ceiling. SO GOOD. Edit; kudos for that Fear & Loathing quote

[@incremental_failure]

RTCW also had multiplayer, it was even better as it was fresh at that time.

[@NaviciaAbbot]

ET is still played today and Bethesda finally put it on Steam after being a random download on Splash Damage's website for so long.

[@sintua]

30:44 Nice to see Sewer Count is looking better! It was all rotting bones last time, seems to be on the mend. Some nice short sewer levels must be good for it! ⚕

[@Alex13501]

Now this, this is a game of my youth, the catacombs still haunts my dreams, those amazing times at the V 1 complex and experiments i did with tesla boys in X-labs. Also para-rifle is one of the best rifles in games, period.