Firearms Expert Reacts To Fallout: New Vegas’ Guns
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weaponry of Fallout: New Vegas, including the franchise’s iconic Nuka Launcher, the cumbersome Minigun, and the Gauss Rifle.
In the latest video in the Firearm Expert Reacts series, Jonathan Ferguson--a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries--breaks down the guns of Fallout: New Vegas and compares them to their real-life counterparts.
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Sorry guys, I done goofed on the BFR. It is of course available in. 45-70, which was why I picked that brass beast in the first place. At some point my brain decided to let me down :)
understandable. have a great day!
Totally fine! Even experts are human.
Ehh, we all have brain farts.
Great overview and I appreciate that you recognize where some choices are simply done as gameplay tradeoffs. 5.56x45mm NATO vs. .223 Rem is a perfect example. If they were functionally identical in-game, there'd be no reason to have them both in game. We often offered an "underpowered" round so players could spend less money/get less wear/etc. All of the .357 Mags can fire .38 Special, all of the 5.56mm guns can shoot .223, etc.
With semi-autos like the 9mm pistol, we couldn't really do reload animation variants, so we had to handle the standard case where the mag empties, the chamber is clear, and the slide locks back, but that ALSO has to work in a case where you reload with a round in the chamber and the slide is forward/hammer back. With the .357 Mag revolver, the left hand actually does push the extractor rod with each round -- yet another feat of incredible dexterity, but done to try to blend some realism with speed. The Laser RCW shared firing animations with other automatic rifles, so we had recoil even though it makes no sense for a laser weapon.
On some things, like the machinegun, we just didn't have time to iterate on/design iron sights that were screwed up. Thanks again!
@@fancytyme wow it is actually the real Joshua Sawyer.
He may be the keeper of firearms at the Royal Firearms Museum, but he is also the keeper of the keys to our hearts.
They should have him discuss the weapons of Kingdom Hearts next
I agree he seems like a nice dude I’ve never fired a gun but I’d like to be him that teachs me😊
:D
Keeper of your chasity belt's key
Pure poetry, my good man!
He actually hit the nail on the head with the plasma discussion there. In the Fallout universe, they just discovered the plasma stuff before the war as he said. That's why the plasma rifle you see in the game is basically just a prototype built in a lab, not meant for consumer nor military markets. The only ones who use plasma rifles regularly is the Enclave, which makes sense.
Plus plasma has a close range bias, while lasers have a long range bias in effectiveness. 9/10 times a laser rifle is “good enough” for most situations.
Seems like ionized gas would be more practical as a propellant than as a projectile IRL though. Plus you have to consider how cost-effective it would be to mass produce enough of a certain weapon to equip a military force.
The plasma defender is one of the very few refined plasma weapons in the series, of course used by an Enclave character.
Technically, there are also the F1/F2 plasma guns and the Plasma Caster, which look less like prototypes, although they also are far less compact.
@@kubaGR8 that’s because to my memory the original roles of the plasma casters was a welding kinda tool?
The Laser weaponry is said to have simulated recoil to ensure that soldiers who were used to accounting for recoil in ballistic weaponry would have an easier time transitioning between the two types.
That's true, but I think we can also say that they have recoil so make the weapons feel more powerful
that's a good fact
@@markhirsch6301 definitely a combination. The simulated recoil really does makes sense though because the game takes place in a time where prior to the bombs, the military did use a combination and was in a sort of transition period using both ballistic firearms and energy weapons
@@markhirsch6301 this is actually sensible too. Maybe they did intentionally put something like weights moved by electromagnets or some fancy thing to simulate recoil everytime you pull the trigger.
Something similar was done in the Rifts RPG for their Western setting. The "cowboys" were so used to having a report from their revolvers firing that the weapon manufacturers had to add a sound chip to the laser weapons made to look like revolvers.
VATS - "2% chance to hit"
Player, with Fatman - "That's all I need"
Deathclaws: We have you four to one!
Me, with fatman launcher: I like those odds
@@minelafft5660 just dont let them get too close to you, unless you enjoy crippled limbs!
Who said anything about hitting them?
"Close only counts for horseshoes, handgrenades, and modern convinces like nuclear weapons"
@@KingLich451 or eternal vacation to the afterlife
“This is John Ferguson the only man keeping our channel alive”
Too accurate
Guys please give us a topic to cover. We're desperate.
So he's the Ryan George of their channel?
Oh God it's true
Is it embarassing that after having watched like 6 videos of this man, only NOW, thanks to you comment, did I notice it is a Gamespot video? xD
I would just like to take a moment to say that *'The Keeper of Firearms and Artillery'* is quite possibly one of the most badass titles I've ever heard
It sounds like the guy John Wick goes to for guns
Hi, so this is my favorite Canon and this is my favorite Davy Crockett tactical nuclear launcher
The holy keeper of the artillery
Gun Jesus is better lol
Better than the unglamourous "armskoteman".
can we appreciate that whoever got this footage spawned in every gun and a few thousand bullets and went on a rampage across the Mojave, every single scene is another faction being decimated
my average playthrough tho
it doesnt seem like they just spawned in the weapons, in the rcw clips they appear to have meltdown, unless they just cheated their way up to level 16 and teleported to mead
@@qhu3878 I'd bet it was a previous save dug up for the video. It's not difficult to get all of these in a normal playthrough
What I really like about this guy is that he talks about the model's flaw but also puts into consideration that games do certain things for balancing sakes.
Exactly
Only people who play know this, it's a dead giveaway.
He play games, he know how it works
Yup. Shows he's a genuine firearms and game expert.
Yeah people who freak because someone loads a musket fast piss me off who would want to wait a realistic time
Fun fact they picked that anti-material rifle because they where sick of Barrett like snipers
Funnily enough it's more accurate to real life because the Barret isn't a sniper rifle. It's an anti material rifle.
No matter the case, I just love how utterly insane the universe must be to casualize people walking around with Anti-Tank weapons as Anti-personale.
For christ sake, AMRs can blow through feet of concrete and during ww2 (For several reasons) where some of the best ways to slow down tanks.
@@kyokyodisaster4842 in a universe with hostile, 10 foot tall armored lizards and men wearing advanced armor capable of eating most small arms fire. I think walking around with an AMR is entirely practical.
The hecate is really cool looking
@@kyokyodisaster4842 Anti-Tank rifles and Anti-Materiel Rifles are two entirely different things, and most of the Anti-Tank Rifles from WW2 make modern AMR's look like weak pea-shooters, ofc they became obsolete in the anti-tank role really quickly in WW2 and pretty much stopped being able to do much against tanks half way through the war when tanks got better armoured.
Fun fact, a standard 12 gauge shotgun shell can effectively hold $1.10 in dimes.
For legal reasons, this is a joke.
A dollar ten shot 😂
Now that’s what you call a “buck shot”…
What's that in Legion denarii?
@@Anon26535 I ran and did the math on that quick. So a single ancient roman Denarii (Denarius) is worth $43.50 in today's USD. Assuming you can fit 11 in a single 12 gauge 2 3/4 inch shell, that's $478.50 in real money.
Also, 69 likes.
Nice...
“The tommy gun in spaaaaaaaaacce” is now one my favorite lines from Jonathan. I’m glad GameSpot realize what a great thing they have with him and that he’s such a good dude to pick to just talk about guns for 15 minutes+ at a time
Laser RCW is my favorite energy weapon in the game. Works great as Cazador spray.
the space tommy gun means one thing, space mob guys.
Did anyone else have a mini heart attack when they saw this in their recommended?
I was hoping it would be something about a remaster of the game☹
Bro I damn near spilled my coffe and dropped my bacon!!! What a good day is it not? Lol I'm going to start again today
Yes
YEAH, MAN! I was actually going to do something but then i saw this when i opened my phone
Still waiting for them to do borderlands
Small arms [100] : That guy's a pro, Gun Runners are small fry to him.
@@ben_dover33 he’s just saying what it was in New Vegas doesn’t sound douchey
@@ben_dover33 still fallout tho
@Степан Рушкис There is in the earlier fallouts which Fnv is a direct sequel to.
@@jcrossan1351 nah dudes an ass his comment isn't informative or helpful just ruins the joke
*guns Small Arms was a 1, 2, and 3 thing
The Laser RCW (the laser SMG) has the drum because of how it operates, "RCW" means "Rapid Capacitor Weapon" and the capacitors actually rotate inside that drum, so the mechanism always has a charged capacitor on the way, sort of like how a Gatling's barrel cluster works, which is also how the Gatling Laser works
This is correct, though I'd argue it's only half of the reason. The other half of the reason is that Fallout's USA is this hellish blur of some of the worst parts of the USA from the 50's and 60's Cold War era that the game's retrofuturism hails from, and one of the things about that USA was being obsessed with image and with its own past self. The RCW probably could have been visually designed differently, but the little details on it that would be completely nonfunctional on a weapon of this type tell you that it was deliberately designed to ape the iconic weapon, which is entirely in character with the USA of that universe.
Thanks, I always thought it was a radiator
yep because if you were look at a regular laser weapon, it is rectangular and long, with prisms, all that tho is stored in the drum. sorta like the drum is a mini reactor to get the ball rolling.
I'm glad that you mentioned the backpack on the minigun, because my best guess as to what it is is either where you keep your extra magazines, or just a literal counterweight for the gun
in fallout 3 there is a belt going from the pack to the minigun, so maybe they forgot it in NV but that should be an ammo pack, Capitol wasteland muties use miniguns with belts connected to the backpacks.
What is with the Star Trek nerd comments. They should have beamed a bomb onto the Borg ship, the central and critical narrative premises of the best episode are preposterous.
@@gibberconfirm425 he just said they might have missed a bullet strap, not that complicated
Johnathan's got his spurs and he's ready to jingle jangle jingle
*🅱️ingle 🅱️angle*
Hahahaha good one
It’s either the spurs or the Big Iron on his hip.
@@marmite8959 And I go riding merrily along...
I got heartaches by the number!
The Davy Crockett was actually scrapped because the effective range of the nuke was higher than the maximum range of the launcher. It was like trying to shoot a grenade with a nerf gun.
They mention that problem in the “army development team” logs in fallout 4 for the fat man. They stripped the nuke down (it’s a post-fusion society, so I guess they could make REALLY small nukes). They still weren’t able to get it past the blast range until they used a charge to speed up the projectile along the launcher.
I read your comment in Sigint's voice from MGS3.
😂👍
actually it wasn't the EXPLOSIVE yield that was the problem, which iirc was 10 or 17 tons TNT??
it was the NEUTRON shower that was the problem, as that was lethal to 500 yards
actually, that was the real point of the weapon they didn't want folk to realize:
it was an actual "neutron bomb" (by default not exactly by advanced design, while later actual neutron bombs were designed but they were still meant to take out armoured brigades, NOT cities)
it would irradiate tank crews, killing the poor berks through the hull causing radiation sickness, and those quite close, within 150 metres would be almost instantly incapacitated as the dose would be so extreme :(
AND convert enough of the hull into radioactive isotopes the vehicle would be dangerously radioactive itself
and then you had the fallout...
@@russfoulkes5490 Auh a man of fellow culture.
I loved MGS3 I still have my copy on PS2 in mint condition, I am very happy about that.
It was one of the games that was not lost throughout my childhood lol.
That didn't stop the army from deploying it to a number of test units anyways. It's also why they compensated by strapping the launcher to a jeep. You'd drive into range, fire, and get the heck out of dodge.
He doesn’t seem to notice that when the currier is reloading the .357 revolver, or colt army, the pointer finger on the left hand is pressing down on the ejector rod to push the cartridges out, he just does it really fast cause he’s the courier and is a gun master lol. But seriously the reloading animation for the .357 revolver is really well done.
I noticed that it was a legit animation when the game launched and I was 19. I'm surprised he didn't catch that.
*courier
@@cursedcliff7562 he could also be a currier, mailman can like spices too
@@MediumRareOpinions”I’m going to new vegas to find the spice of life”
@@cursedcliff7562 No, he meant the guy that makes the curries! 😁
Something to keep in mind is in fallout New Vegas most of humanity had managed to go beyond just surviving and scavenging to actually forming new countries & manufacturing on a moderate scale. So some of the weapons and mods might actually been made post war by companies like the gun runners who could've reverse engineered pre war relics or salvaged schematics & plans to bring these weapons & gear back to existance.
Every gun bought from the Gun Runners was in fact explicitly made in their facility on the outskirts of New Vegas. That's why they're all 100% condition, because they're freshly made.
Me: disappointed Jonathan doesn't own a personal nuke
Shame on Royal Armories!
welp, you can help them by donating to the armoury some money...or a nuke :D
*sad Ancap noises*
I'm more disappointed he didn't show off the Tire Iron. Best weapon in the game.
I wish he owned a Davie Crockett portable nuke launcher
I love how he played this and has a genuine smile when talking about this game
Fallout New Vegas transcends all.
@@Jo-un6es truly it does
After Super Mario World it's going to be the first game my kid plays
@@hodgindaylon Hopefully some better games are out by then
@@hodgindaylon There are few games that have aged as disturbingly well as Super Mario World. Amazing game. And I only played it for the first time in the last year or two.
Amazing that 20 minutes of this only scratches the surface of the game's arsenal
Yep. That's not including the DLC weapons like the Holorifle, Survivalist Rifle, K9000 Cyberdog Gun, LAER, Red Glare, etc.
@@nomad_boreal the Survivalist Rifle its actually a service rifle with different ammo, I don't think he needs to analyse again
@@gamemaster1608 The closest real-world equivalent we have is a modified AR-15 chambered in .50 Beowulf.
I'm not saying he's obligated to review it. I'm just mentioning weapons he hasn't already covered.
@@nomad_boreal imagine a wood furniture ar with upper .50 beowolf and with the customization that would be sick
@@gamemaster1608 yes he does the .... .50 beowulf is a hoot to shoot
that is what the Survivalist Rifle is based on
fun fact:
when seen from the right angle, the reload animation from the Single-Action Army actually has the character pulling the extractor down along the barrel.
Yeah, go pick one up and try unloading and reloading simultaneously like that. Try it super slow. It is ridiculous.
One small nitpick: there are the Gun Runners in the game who have their own weapon factory. So some of the weapons don't have to be 200 year old, but actual reproductions using pre war blueprints. Great vid
I'd say cut him some slack on that, he might not know about the lore on the gun runners, since it's fairly easy to miss if your a casual player
@@fallout0624 I knew it at the time - but I had forgotten about it. It's been many years since I played the game :)
@@jonathanferguson1211 it's a forgivable oversight because of how few times its mentioned in game. I'm honestly suprised you guys didnt mention the Trail Carbine and Brush gun with there designs being copied from Marlin models that arent commonly seen.
@@fallout0624 or you forgot about them untill someone mentions it.
like the colt pistol because your like start the game whit a cold 9mm pistol and somewhere when you get to the southern cheakpoint (the gate that is closed at the end of the south western map edge) and somewhere around there you more or less stops using it or a bit later.
@@Zack_Wester That's a browning hi-power.
How did Jonathan not win a pc gamer yet? He almost literally carries GameSpot on his back
Yeah lmao, as of now the video is 2 hours old and already surpassing the view counts on other videos that are days old. Jonathan MVP
He's gonna need to win a back brace if he keeps carry this hard lmao
Been saying this for months
You're the first to say this
@@YourPalKindred He's becoming Gamespot's Yhatzee.
You're pretty much spot on about the plasma weapon technology being in its infancy when the bombs dropped. Plasma weapons weren't being developed fully until after the war when the Enclave refined the technology.
Also, the 10mm Pistol was a Colt weapon in universe. I believe that a plasma Glock also existed, though I could be wrong.
My favourite gum from the whole series though is definitely the Anti-Materiel Rifle. The reliable and powerful Hecate II
Plasma Defender. Also the og fallout version of the Plasma Pistol is basically the Plasma Defender.
@@Bova-Fett I was under the impression that the Plasma Defender/pistol was left over by the Enclave, but I suppose that wouldn't make much sense in the first Fallout as the Enclave weren't in Fallout 1
the original 10mm pistol from Fallout 1/2 is called the Colt 6520, the ones in Fallout 3/NV/4/76 are the N99
also yeh the Plasma Pistol from the first two games is called the Glock 86, and its said to have been made by an AI version of Gaston Glock
Due to tech limitations they couldn't do a double reload animation for the gauss rifle but it is explained in the lore. The magazine at the bottom holds what is essentially .50 caliber bullets which are loaded and shot using a gauss firing system. What you are reloading in the animation in the microfusion cell, which are essentially small nuclear reactors, that powers this weapon.
Care to explain how nuclear material decaying and boiling water creates massive amount of electromagnetic energy in that little gun?
@@bobjohnson1633Game magic.
Stop asking questions, you'll get us all killed.
@@bobjohnson1633 What boiling water? It probably works like RTG used in space exploration.
@@bobjohnson1633 It's a fusion reactor, i think they don't use water maybe?
We won’t go quietly, the Legion can count on that.
RETRIBUTION
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
When I got this assignment, I thought there'd be more gambling.
“The Legion awaits at the gates of HELL AND THE NCR IS GOING TO SEND THEM IN”.
The NCR is my second favorite faction in the entire known wasteland.
The brotherhood has no future because they have no plans for the future.
The legion are a bunch cultists being lead by a narcissist sociopath.
The Enclave save for possibly Augustus Autumn Junior are irredeemable Nazis.
The institute same as the brotherhood.
The minutemen too broken and outmanned and outgunned.
The only true hope humanity has as a whole or the wasteland has is Robert Edwin House, or a benevolent super genius courier with cybernetics ruling over an independent New Vegas with this courier using all of the resources under his/her control to leverage and force stability into existence.
Such resources include, Hoover Dam, fresh water and electricity, caps earned from the casinos and various industries.
Than we have the super duper advanced Sierra madre matter recombination technologies that can be used manufacture pretty much anything provided there’s enough electricity which can be generated easily enough thanks to fusion power of which it’s key component is deuterium is found in water.
Hold your tongue, wastrel.
This man knows fallout well...
A man of culture.
as if we didn't love him enough already
Guy knows his guns but I feel like he maybe did one FNV playthrough, just from little errors like assuming the MFC packs in the rail gun/coil gun were the projectiles, but that's nitpicky.
Cyperpunk 2077 was shit
@@henrycrabs3497 whohhh chill out dude
@@henrycrabs3497 I enjoy it so yeah sod off
This is basically Zach from Mikeburnfire without the roleplaying.
I was going say the same damn thing.
This is Zach from an alternate universe where he was sent to a respectable firearms institution instead of Fort Polk
@@bendelundead " I hate Louisiana and it's just because of Ft. Polk. " - Zach.
@@Khornecussion from what I've heard, 99% of soldiers hate Fort Polk
Someone should send this to him.
One interesting thing that I was a little surprised Johnathan failed to notice about the Gauss Rifle was the fact that it was actually based on a real-world firearm! The entire gun, excluding the sci-fi bits and some other small details, is actually based on the Finnish L-39 AT rifle. The jamming animation even has the player rotate the cocking handle, which is specifically like that on the real gun due to the heavy amount of pressure you'd need to exert on the spring in the first place to pull the bolt straight back.
Good video though-- I really hope Johnathan considers making his own channel, since I'd love to see this kind of content on a regular basis.
Jonathan is a scholar and a gentleman. Firearms expert and a Fallout: New Vegas enjoyer. Good man.
"Light doesn't recoil"
Yeah, tell that to Fallout 4.
Well, actually light has momentum so it does recoil although for this kind of gun you shouldn't be able to feel it but there was some video about the Death Star fling away because of the discharge.
@@sddayord Kinda right. It has momentum but not mass so therefore no recoil.
@Oskar there wouldn't be a shockwave in the way you are thinking(laser wouldn't super heat the air but plasma could) and if there was one outside the barrel you wouldn't feel it due to it dispensing evenly. Kinda how if you set off a round outside a gun the bullet won't go far.
i was about to say that the lazer guns from star wars use gases but then i remembered that they are called blasters
@@asdrake1327 if they use gases then its technically a plasma gun, not a laser gun.
I love how much he has a big smile on his face when he mentions it being a favorite game and when he is showcasing the guns. Same feels Jonathan, I love F:NV that I smile every time too.
Love this type of content. FYI with the Gauss guns...I believe it was suggested that the reload isn't for the ammunition, but for the battery. You're consuming all the power, and the single projectile in one shot.
IT's both. the 2mm EC mags used for gauss rifles in earlier fallout games and 4/76 is described as a magazine and battery pack combined.
@@cheesebucket142 but you're loading a microfusion cell into it; microf's have power, lots of it, but no physical 'ammunition rounds'.
So the gun itself just loads powercells to power the mag-coils. Based off the fact is uses energy weapons skill and has a blue energy corona on impact, it may be plausable that the gun instead fires small but intense energy packets; which may be an explanation for using microfusion but no physical rounds.
Also, this is the older variant from prewar anchorage. There is newer variant in fo4 time that uses 2mm EC.
@@aeureus It does actually fire physical rounds. In VATS you can see underneath the blue effect it fires metal projectiles
In lore I think that this Gauss rifle model uses two ammo types: Microfusion cells which power the weapon,
Then some electromagnetic cartridge (probably 2mm) as the projectile itself.
When this Gauss rifle was originally added to Fallout 3 by DLC, the developers didn't want to add a separate ammo type just for the Gauss which would've probably been 2mm so they settled in having it functionally utilize microfusion cells too so that it could be classed as an energy weapon for those types of players
If you look at the model for the gauss rifle, it has a large magazine hanging out on the right side of the gun. My guess is that that is where the 2mm ammo is. Since 2mm is small, you can pack many rounds into the magazine and not worry about reloading often.
At least GameSpot out here recognizing that we want more content about an (almost) 11 year old game.
New Vegas is a timeless classic.
It never ages in our hearts
Fallout 4 would be hilarious, I can’t imagine Jonathan’s reaction to the assault rifle
Fallout 4 weapon designs are awful, except plasma and laser, they actually fixed plasma. Fun fact: F4 plasma weapons design is the one that was meant to be in F3
We'd have to let him recover from trying to workout how the FO3 combat shotgun operates first.
Probably not as bad as Zach's
@@snarkamedes you can actually make it in real life, but it would be incredibly unreliable due to being needlessly complicated.
yeah fallout 4's assault rifle I just kind of either ignore, give to settlers, or scrap for more screws. Its screws are now loose in my workshop. ;) lol
The Laser RCW's drum is explained away as how it achieves the high-rate of fire. Technically it's supposed to spin, with each capacitor discharging and recharging, much as the Gatling Laser does, whenever the capacitor comes into 'firing position'.
Light actually does have momentum, meaning that in theory it could induce recoil (or push something that it hits). It's just that the number would be so small you wouldn't notice it at this scale; certainly much less recoil than is shown in the laser weapons. Despite having no mass, photons do have momentum of p = E/c, with p being momentum, E being the photon's total energy, and c being the speed of light.
With shown recoil, Fallout weapons are anti-tank weapons. For kamikazes - you pull the trigger and die. Hope that you hit the target.
Which is why solar sails work.
Pratically 3 years of Zach's rantings in some minutes
Zachs gun rants are probably my favorite thing on UA-cam
@@springpanda9393 i see, i love that zach and mike are getting recognition for how much they did to this game
Zach almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter in the mojave
I see you are one of culture as well
@@tachyon8317 but of course. I don't always need my m16 fixed but when I do I go to fort polk and ask for zach
Even after 10 years people are still talking about Fallout New Vegas.
there have actually been a lot of new Vegas videos being released for some reason I just watched the lead watch a speed run
because it's great and stood the test of time.
Best fallout game
and even after 2500 years some people still talk about the first persian empire; so who really won here
it's because War.... war never changes.
Aww man
They didn’t talk about the service rifle
9:44 We don't know what ammunition _that_ gun was chambered in.
Oh, you mean, _That Gun?_
“This is Jonathan Ferguson, he keeps our channel alive”
True
"The Laser RCW, or the tommy gun in SpAcE!"
Me: finally someone who gets it!
Yes finally!
Finally a worthy Memer
Space gangster
If I recall, RCW is Rotating Capacitive Weapon. The center cell charges a drum of capacitors, and it rotates the drum to fire from the capacitors. If it was a bit more realistic, you'd have to wait for the capacitors to charge before you could fire it.
Played this game so much and never realized it,i just knew if it says rcw it shoots laser beams or something
If this guy ever found himself in the apocalypse I think he’d just smile and open up every single case he’s been carefully tending to, and single handled conquer the remains of the UK
The Gauss Rifle is actually a projectile weapon, I don't remember exactly where it is stated (might be in the Prima Official Game Guide) but the large magazine on the right side of the gun is pre-loaded with 2mm bearings, which are fired using the energy of the microfusion cell you reload with. So the ammo itself is already magically in the gun, and the "ammo" you use is only to power the coils.
I actually remember the justification for the Gauss rifle from way back when Bethesda added it in the first FO3 dlc. The magazine on the right hand side is supposed to hold a functionally infinite pile of 2mm projectiles, whilst the microfusion battery that the player 'reloads' is what powers the magnets that propel the rounds. They designed it that way because a) whilst Gauss weapons in FO1/2 were established as using 2mm ammo, they were uncertain about how the engine would handle adding a new ammunition type through DLC, so they decided to switch it to the existing microfusion cells from the base game and b) they wanted to fill the niche of a slow firing but high damage energy sniper, and the microfusion cell ammunition provided a thin pretext to classify it as such.
This is just my speculation, but I also suspect the 5mm ammunition for the minigun was a game balancing decision, the high rate of fire means that the player needs a ton of ammo for it (and ammo scavenging/management is in theory a core mechanic of Fallout). This means a lot of 5mm ammo has to spawn in the world to be looted (much more than ammo from lower rate of fire weapons). If the minigun used 5.56, then there would need to be a similarly high spawn rate, but since assault rifles also use 5.56, this would strongly buff assault rifles. Since you'd always be overflowing with ammo for them, and each round would have higher damage/price of round ratio coming out of an assault rifle too.
I never read any official material on weapon design in fallout, but that's how I read the Gauss functioning as well. You don't load ammo, you load batteries (through the incredibly powerful microfusion cells), and fire a (superheated? that could account for the blue blast on impact) small projectile.
My headcanon is that the projectile is made out of steel, as it's magnetic, turns blue when (super)heated, and has a similar enough mass to lead to be used as projectile. It checks almost all boxes for how the Gauss rifle works (minus the projectile exploding instead of penetrating the target)
Nerd
@@Lawfaito Lmao, anyone who saw "firearms expert reacts to Fallout" and clicked on it is a nerd. No point in splitting hairs after that point.
@@BenthiccBiomancer nerd
So...
The Gauss Rifle, to be perfectly accurate, should use both Microfusion Cells AND BB's, but have an infinite clip of BB's.
And BB's need to spawn much more readily.
Instead of gamespot introducing Jonathan, Jonathan should introduce gamestop as lets face it, he's the only reason we watch this channel
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
9:23 "that gun" looked completely different in 1&2. It was basically cut down .233 rifle, to a pistol size. The thing was a beast, though, and with plenty of ammo to loot/buy. Unlike gauss pistol munition. Working horse of gun.
Plus, it was an even more obvious Blade Runner reference.
Someone needs to make a mod where you can elect Jonathan Ferguson to be the new sheriff of Primm
Oh yes! What about the strip though?
Or the robot of the gun runners replaced by him.
@@isaacsrandomvideos667 That was my first thought too.
@@yewtewbstew547 he obviously loves the game. He’d probably do the voice lines 😂
He should be a ghoul though so it's realistic its the same Jonathan, He came to America on the same boat as Allistair Tenpenny and used his expertise to get a job with the gun runners.
The "RCW" in Laser RCW stands for Rapid Capacitor Weapon.
Those things on the drum are capacitors that rapidly charge and discharge, it's actually a pretty neat excuse to make it look like a Thompson.
Yep. Seems like an incredibly short recharge time for each of the six capacitors though, depending on the wattage/energy/whatever of each shot. But still a cool weapon concept overall.
I've always guessed that the minigun backpack was a battery to operate the motor in the barrels. I remember hearing that during the filming of Terminator 2 they had used car batteries to power the Minigun prop's barrels.
Jonathan never fails to make me smile. Man needs his own channel
I can't control myself. I have.... to.... I'm sorry...
"Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter"
Nelson's back in our hands. I hope we can defend it this time
The Caesar has marked you for death, and the Legion obeys! Ready yourself for battle!
@@dwormf Bring it
Well i'm really sorry for this but i used to patrol the mojave and wish for a nuclear winter like you but then i took a spear to the knee
@@brucewayne33497 ok
Yes this is the cowboy repeater most commonly called a Winchester. It was famous for allowing cowboys to fly off to distant lands when reloading.
damn, I just get Lucky for that.
Who needs a Big Iron on their hip when Speed McRunner can take flight with their trusty lever-action.
Johnathan: "Yes. ludicrous, massively powerful and impractical revolvers do get made."
S&W500: "Hold my beer"
I believe the Gauss Rifle's reload only switches out the power cells - hence why it uses Microfusion Cores instead of a seperate projectile. That magazine sticking out the side is where a (mysteriously infinite) amount of darts reside.
Could work similarly to the weapons in Mass Effect. In Mass Effect 1 (the original) there were no "thermal clips" yet, you had to wait for your weapon to cool off between shots. This is because they're all basically micro-railguns on steroids, drawing power from an "element zero" core (which is the same stuff that makes the FTL drives in the game work, and the same stuff that gives the "biotics" aka magicians their magic), and the projectile itself is basically a few million atoms of metal shaved off of a block of metal via nanotech.
Then again, the game is set a thousand or so years in the future.
@@44R0Ndin Well, the thing is, in Fallout New Vegas you can actually see a magazine of what look like darts sticking out the opposite side of the Gauss Rifle from the side the player normally sees. Usually you see it in third person, but there is an open 'basket' of darts that never depletes.
@@RedShocktrooperRST Well, I guess that's just sacrificing more realism to get good gameplay. Pretty complex to have to keep track of TWO types of ammo just to make the gun fire ONE way. Or it could have been an oversight, or something they wanted to do but ran out of development time before they could implement it.
@@44R0Ndin It seems more likely given the giant crank on the side of the gun the plan was to use the darts as the ammo. I can mentally abstract those as being nails anyway, and I imagine there's no shortage of nails in Fallout as a setting.
Seeing him talk about the guns in New Vegas makes me curious how he'd respond to "Zach's Gun Rants".
Good idea.
His rant about the Jackhammer being ugly is great.
I'd love to see him and Zach sit down for a few hours and chat about the guns in the Fallout universe and their practicality or lack thereof.
Part 2 is out now
Gotta have Ian in there for MAXIMUM GUN KNOWLEDGE
I knew this was gonna be a goofy fun one, the janky weirdness in which guns are depicted in fallout, from bizarre reload animations that skip steps, to parts of the guns being used for completely incorrect functions, some of which don't even exist in real life/aren't possible... I love it. It's part of the charm of Fallout for me.
I always imagine someone with his approach of having fun with the field he loves being the people that naturally were drawn to and excelled in whatever field they're experts in. They truly enjoy what they do and love every facet of it. Whereas the people that get irritated are those that aspired to mimic people like mentioned prior but never really got their.
Quick thing. The “drum” on the laser RCW is actually an assembly of rotating capacitors. Each one charges up and then discharges to make the beam.
11 years old, and yet New Vegas stand as the best apocalyptic RPG game in gaming history.
Thank you Obsidian, without you, we will never feel an experience of RPG with this masterpiece.
3d post-apocalyptic game, NV is good, but 1 and 2 are better (my opinion)
@@artifex_gm2653Post-apocalyptic* Fallout NV's core is what comes AFTER the apocalypse
This game has the highest crash to hours played ratio I have ever seen.
I've never really played a Fallout game except a bit of 3 to which I got lost off on rather quickly. Is New Vegas standalone so fine to just play?
@@MartinT In NV your choice actually matters. Could be fun, but you still could get lost. That's all you need to know, fella.
1:00 from that moment on this is my favorite episode. I just can't get enough of him saying "Tommy gun in spAaAaAce"
1) Quarters won't fit into a "normal" shotgun. Dimes can be fired from a 12 gauge shotgun... not even a 10 gauge can fit quarters
2) A 10mm pistol is a silly choice for a suppressed weapon, as the rounds exceed the speed of sound... Thus the sonic boom would generate a loud "crack" even if the sound of the gas escaping the muzzle was quiet. (That is why the Welrod referenced was supplied with special, underpowered 9mm ammunition that didn't exceed the speed of sound)
2) The .50cal anti-materiel rifle appears to be inspired by the Barrett .50 (hint - look at the muzzle brake)... not a Browning machinegun
3) The China Lake 40mm Grenade Launcher holds 3 rounds in the tube, but can also have one placed into the chamber... resulting in a 4 round capacity
4) The M134 "minigun" needs a 24 volt power source to operate, as it uses an electric motor to cycle the action (vs. gas, recoil, etc.) and would thus need a bunch of big batteries to be used to provide power if used in a non-static or non-vehicle scenario. Where else would one put the batteries, except in a backpack?
5) The M134 or XM214 "miniguns" fire up to 6000 rounds per minute (ie 100 rounds per second)... thus... yes... there is actually a "storm of brass" from the ejection port.
6) 🤦♂️
Next up, ethicist reacts to fallout 3's karma system
Goody two shoes or spawn of Satan himself, no room for moral ambiguity here
@@henrycrabs3497 It's perfectly clear that you can murder, main and sell children into slavery, but if you give enough hobos purified water you're still the good guy.
There is no flaws in this system.
@@henrycrabs3497 I love how you can be a Saint the entire game, but if you torture the people in the simulation, 3Dog talks about you like you're a monster. I mean, how did he find out?
@@nostanater1 Three dogs a psyker lmao
@@sb6675 thats actually how billionaire philanthropy works in real life tho
"you take a sip from your trusty vault 13 canteen"
*sips from CANTEEN!!!*
"While you watch the horizon you see several mini nukes going off"
@@LucMon27 *Sips from CANTEEN!!!!*
@@Dartchone *Your canteen is empty... somehow...
5:53 I'd say, it's a bigger version of a PIAT 😊
Taking a second look at the revolver reload, the player’s hand actually does push the ejector rod, it’s quite hard to notice tho
The fact that the fatman was real at some point is scary
Like much of Fallout, it's an exaggeration that makes something of a social point as well as being fun, but it is interesting how rarely it's talked about otherwise, the mildly desperate attempt to fit relatively low-powered nuclear weapons into something like a conventional battlefield role.
The really scary part is that the reason Davy Crockett was discontinued is that the range of the fallout exceeds the range of the weapon.
Still, some maniac said "Hey, what if we lauch mini Nagasaki terminators toward our enemies," and someone said yes
Davy Crockett combined with an antitank spigot mortar honestly. I was terribly amused when I realized that the Fat Man relied upon a big ol' spring to launch it.
But that it was a failed experament is slightly less scary since it was well, you know, failed, but yeah, a mobile nuke lobber is by far the most terrifying thing behind Thomas the tank engine
I love how seamlessly he switches from talking about the real history of weapons to talking about the evolution of the Bladerunner gun and its representation in the Fallout universe.
A Fallout 4 version would be cool. I would love to hear what he has to say about the lever action rifle, gauss rifle, combat rifle and so on.
"Laser guns shouldn't recoil."
A man after Austin Horrigan's heart...
I think an argument against lasers not having recoil is that it doesn't make the weapon feel as good to shoot imo
@@markhirsch6301 No, the actual reason is that the developers didn't believe people would understand a gun that doesn't have recoil.
I wonder if he knows how important he is for the Gamespot channel right now
No shit
@@ZaveAres why the aggressive behavior
@@ZaveAres ????
@@ZaveAres That's not a proper response to OP's question. They were asking if Jonathan knew how important he was to Gamespot, not stating that he is important to Gamespot (because thats already common knowledge)
@@nutball3756 I said "no shit" because Jonathan definitely knows. He comments on these videos. People have been praising him with thousands of comments for months now. The most repeated is his back hurting from carrying this channel. For Jonathan not to know, he'd probably have to be blind.
The Davy Crockett reminded me that the Metal Gear series would be great to cover
Damn, yah.
Remember the Alamo!
Kuwabara, kuwabara!
I love how he mentioned a laser weapon shouldn’t recoil made me laugh since I remember shoddycast going on a whole rant about the science behind fallouts laser and plasma weapons lol
"You can miss the warhead and still fuck the target up"- the guy who designed the Davy Crocket probably
Man, Jonathan must be tired carrying this channel all of the time
I guess it's lighter than the Anti-Materiel Rifle?
Honestly he should keep doing this but on his own channel instead of here
@@Skelosk I think part of the reason he's doing this here is to help drive traffic to the National Armouries UA-cam page, where he does some more of this kind of stuff, along with other curators.
@@Chasmodius also he probably doesn’t do any editing or anything himself
04:20 Incredibly adept yes, and also incredibly resilient if they can keep their fingers on hot barrel like that.
0:54 "This has been one of my favorite games, but we're not here to talk about that"
Alright, now I want to see a playthrough of New Vegas (or any other game) by Jonathan Ferguson.
I know it's almost impossible, but a man can dream.
The guns of Payday 2 would probably put a smile on his face
Omg yes
There's so many good representation on payday
He will geek out at the matever
i wanna see what he thinks about dual krinkovs
I'll raise you the double grimm's
"Of all the machine guns to survive the apocalypse, I'm not sure the M249 would be one of them"
That's an understatement
Uh...how did you hear "M249"?
@@Bocchi-the-Rock_ M249 is the US military designation for FN minimi
I'm more familiar with it being called the M249 and I think minimi looks funny when typed out so.... M tWo Fo NyNe beeeeeitch
@@josephthomas8318 Wasn't the FN the original though? Like it's supposed to be a Belgian gun. I just imagine there are some differences between the original and the U.S. version. Besides that, the New Vegas version does not remind me of a SAW at all, though that's probably just because of the wooden parts, never seen that on a SAW
@@Bocchi-the-Rock_ the one in the game is a mix between the M60 and the SAW
@@josephthomas8318 Incorrect. The M249 is not another name for the FN Minimi, it's a specific variant of the FN Minimi. It has a few design differences from the original gun. The FN Minimi itself is not the M249.
My personal headcanon for the laser tommy gun is that the drum is supposed to contain something that spins, like a particle accelerator that’s used to produce the beam.
14:55 satisfying sound
Just correcting a few misconceptions:
The laser RCW is an early version of the gatling laser, the drum mag is actually a system of capacitors that spins and discharges, getting around the slow charge rate and giving the weapon it's high fire rate that a single-capacitor laser rifle couldn't achieve. It was designed after the thompson to give soldiers a familiar laser weapon.
The sawed-off shotgun IS cut down, it's based off of the double-barrel full-length shotgun from Point Lookout in Fallout 3.
Most weapons and mods DIDN'T come from prewar, they were made by the Gunrunners, whose main factory is right outside of the Strip. They have professional machining tools.
The gauss rifle uses a battery, the thing that you reload, and the box mag on the right side holds the spikes.
Finally! Someone who understands!
“Has been one of my favorite games” I knew there was a reason I liked this guy
It turns out that light actually does have momentum despite not having mass, and so projecting enough energy to cause harm could very well have recoil.
9:27 I loved the “That gun”
This mans charisma has become my guilty pleasure of the Lockdown I swear to god
He tried to test his charisma on a vig-o-matic vigor tester and it just burst into flames
You're still in lockdown?
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you appreciate the fact that they decided to cover NV's weapons
16:23 "Remember, *NO CHAIRMEN*
10:20 not gonna comment on how a revolver like pistol just chambered 5.56 ammo?
Taurus actually made a 5.56 revolver..... for obvious reasons, it was never released
@@goateecusbilly1823 could something like that even work? Or be effective?
seeing him talk about tf2's guns would make me smile. I love fnv too, so thank y'all for making this
I'd like to see him try to comprehend how every Rocket Launcher, sniper rifle and lever action shotgun from the game would work in reality
Yes please, the animations would be hilarious
12:15 "The best way of improving a gun is to improve its ammunition."
-Adeptus Mechanicus
And da Orkz too!
The movie Elysium is a good example.
@@burninsherman7196 Nah. The Orks just go for more dakka.
14:23 “similar to the bfr”
It obviously doesn’t stand for what I think it stands for but: big f@cking revolver
7:50 the modifications are actually produced by gun runners
Irwins pistol (blade runner gun) was a quest reward for clearing a farm of raiders in Fallout 1
In Fallout 2 placed in the hand of Sulik it was devastating.