Firearms Expert Reacts to Fallout 4’s Guns PART 2
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- Опубліковано 5 тра 2024
- Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down more of the guns from Fallout 4, including the minigun-like Shredder, the awful Syringer Rifle, and the iconic Fat Man mini-nuke launcher.
00:00 - Opening
00:38 - Reba II
02:33 - Scoped Anti-Materiel Rifle
04:35 - CR-74L
06:30 - Fat Man
08:47 - Microwave Emitter
10:20 - Modular Laser Weapons
12:40 - Shredder
14:22 - Partystarter
15:56 - Marksman’s Syringer 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 more of the guns from Fallout 4 and compares them to their real-life counterparts.
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Jonathan used to study archeology? Now we have to have him cover an Indiana Jones game
Well one is coming up, i'm certain it will be covered.
Why not tomb raider? He can comment on her inaccuracy 😂
I’d watch it
@@steeleparr9995 probably because there was a tomb raider video like a week ago.
Indiana Jones never does any actual archaeology.
Someone needs to make Jonathan into a settlement weapon vendor for Fallout 4, where he is constantly disgusted by/critical of the weapons he has to sell.
😂😂😂
or make him sell only standard versions of non cursed weapons in the game
I think there's a Fall Out London mod coming out. Someone could make Jonathan at the Royal Armories! :)
@@MandalorV7 Jonathan as a ghoul would be _amazing_ .
@@leadpaintchips9461 Ghoulathan 😂
To be fair to New Vegas, it's indicated that a huge chunk of the "old" weapons there are actually new reproductions built on industrial scale (the Gun Runners greatly benefit the NCR and the NCR greatly benefits the Gun Runners).
Vegas is also said, explicitly, to have been spared a direct strike thanks to House's missile defense and is thus is remarkably good shape.
Just wait until you see what the TV series has done to New Vegas. Nothing is sacred anymore.
@@natk8541 Todd is seething about being mogged all these years later
@@natk8541 spill the tea. what did the tv series do to New Vegas?
@@BradTheAmerican Uhmm.. Basically there's a couple problems. [They said the show is canon to the games btw]
Mr. House apparently is complicit in helping Vault Tec nuke the earth so they could have a monopoly after the radiation dissapates which imo completely changes his character and motivations. But MUCH more importantly: The new antagonist nuked Shady Sands 3 years before New Vegas takes place. New Vegas as we know it simply couldn't have taken place under those circumstances. Not only do a ton of the NCR guys talk about "family back home" and a few even namedrop Shady Sands directly but... How could we have not known? And NCR is presented in NV as being very stable and resource rich, not exactly something that a group who's main base of operations got nuked would be.
Basically they've retconned the story as we know it.
The shredder bayonet attachment on the mini gun is supposed to be used with the manual spin. So the you just walk into your enemies with a spinning blender, but instead the guy filming didn't know that
I DIND'T KNOW THAT LOL and played the game for god know how long
@@ExecutorArtaris felt the same way before I put two and two together
@@ExecutorArtarisprobably because you are required to be completely empty on ammo, and it uses action points
@@bennyfromfalloutnewvegas7985 It doesn't use action points while wearing power armor though.
@@ExecutorArtarisit actually makes the minigun a really good melee weapon
Hearing Johnathan say "not to alarm you" followed by a sentence that includes "of questionable legality" is something I didn't expect to fill me with so much joy. But it does.
I mean it's basically them not naming the recent resurgence of Havana Syndrom in media.
12:50 i cannot believe they decided to show the shredder attachment, show clips of people being hit in melee with it but NOT a clip of the shredder actually being used properly.
It does not increase melee bash damage at all, it deals continuous damage to targets in front of you as you keep the barrels rotating.
Its like running at people with a blender taped to your gun, wicked fun.
I had no idea that's how it worked I thought it was just a bash upgrade too lol, I'll have to try it out
i cringed so hard
@@Magosspud lol i never used in fo4 but it is sooo fun in 76
I always thought using a drill bit in the center as a gatling bayonet would be fun.
You’re going to need to grasp it
So, fun fact about the laser weapons in fallout. All of their 'batteries' are essentially contained miniature fusion reactors. The fallout universe was literally on the precipice of going from major scarcity to a post scarcity society with a lot of their tech. But yeah, inside those miniature fusion reactors is the same insane amount of power, but the barrel of each laser weapon is what decides the range/firing mode, while the capacitor in the back is what really increases power by deciding how much power per shot you're drawing.
And the laser emitters are pretty much just 1980s laser gun-aiming devices scaled up, when laser "sights" were new they were big chonky rectangular boxes on top of a .44 Magnum revolver or a rifle.
"So this thing is...weird."
When Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armories museum in the UK, says that about a _Fallout_ weapon, that carries so much weight it's overencumbered.
Archaeologist AND firearms expert? What can't Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history do?
Welding?
Finishing fallout 4, it seems. I don't blame him, it's really easy to get sidetracked.
Archaeology and firearms do sort of go hand in hand though.
@@waltonsimons9082 I mean, it's a bit of a stretch, but sure. Not really though. I'd imagine that most firearms from history are already well-documented and while they'd probably be a good find for an archaeologist, it probably wouldn't shed new light on anything that is already known.
@samuelsmith2247 Finding rounds can be useful in battlefield archaeology, especially if they are date stamped like British. 303 rounds. Note it doesn't have to provide new information to be useful, but it gives physical confirmation to the written record. The dig team I worked with used this as a means to confirm context when excavating trenches on the Western Front.
So I keep hearing him mention that guns in fallout should be rusted to nothing and basically unusable, however, he may not be aware of it but there are weapon manufacturers that are still active in the wasteland like the Gun Runners from Fallout New Vegas.
What Fall Out needs is more black powder weapons/ muzzle loaders . I think it would be reasonable for people to revert back to that sort of tech.
@@MandalorV7. I think that'd be even harder to do.
@@MandalorV7 Naw. Once the formula for smokeless gunpowder was discovered, there's not really any reason to go back to blackpowder. Smokeless gunpowder is superior in just about every way, and just as easy to make. The reason that black powder pre-dates smokeless gunpowder is simply because it was easier to discover black powder. Same thing for muzzle loaders. I could see going back to breach loaders, but not muzzle loaders. The Victorian era tech for muzzle loaders could've easily produced breach loading guns. They just didn't.
Yeah. The NCR service rifle is manufactured by them, for example.
@@alexsawickismokeless propellants aren’t easy to make though, you can mix up black powder from ingredients found at a hardware store while nitrocellulose requires an actual chemistry facility
Fun fact Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armories museum in the UK, in Fallout 1 and 2 most of the people and also enemies you met that was not part of a major faction would be wery light on the firearm side. With most average raiders, slavers and others being armed with some form of melee weapon. And when they had a firearm it would usually be a 10mm pistol, dual barreled shotgun or a .223 hunting rifle. Anything better than that would be wery rare. In a group of ten raiders only two or three would have firearms. Likewise they would be wery limited on how much ammo they would have, Some would not even have a single reload for ther weapon. It would not be unlimited as it is for the NPC´s in the Bethesda games.
Even in F1, that kinda depends on location. Sure, bandsits of all sorts are rather poorly armed. Brotherood or supermutant patrols you can also encounter definietly pack some major heat . F2 goes even further with Enclave patrols or bounty hunters really beeing armed to the teeth with some of game best guns.
@@ComissarYarrick The Enclave is a major faction, and can make ther own weapons, armor and ammo. And most of the mutants may pack some major heat, but rarely have any spare ammo for ther weapons. And you kinda expect bounthunters to both know what they do, and be wellarmed with guns they have got from either Reno, NCR or San Francisco. Good guns and armor is rather costly tho, and for good reason.
This could also be applied to Caesar's Legion. The Legion is definitely a strong, capable, post-apocalyptic army. But we're also told that Legion recruits aren't given guns, and have to "earn" them. While there are certainly ideological and political explanations for that, it wouldn't surprise me if that policy was also economically motivated. It could well be that the Legion just... doesn't have that many guns to give out, or not enough skilled gunsmiths to keep up with demand.
thats wery interesting
@@tbotalpha8133 Legion definitely dont have big enough industry nor armory. Tribes that raided pre war military armory enjoyed a lot of autonomy even if they are technically under Legion banner.
In fallout, especially fallout 4, stuff is weirdly well preserved.
Like, you've got preserved foods and stuff, but there's stuff like signed baseballs that are just sitting around untouched, to say nothing of piles of newspapers or Environmental Storytelling Skeletons still posed in the position that they were in when they died.
Honestly, the whole world feels like the apocalypse happened about 30 years ago, tops.
Agreed. I used to headcanon that and ignore references to 200+ years :)
Yeah, the 20 year timeframe of Fallout 76 is much more realistic than the 200 year timeframe of the rest of the franchise
@@pocketpc_ 20 years after the nukes the world would probably still be in nuclear winter.
New Vegas just looks like regular Vegas so
Please Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK, break down the weapons from *METAL GEAR SOLID 3* before the remake comes out.
So many weapons in MGS3 to react and comment on like the Patriot's infinite ammo magazine, the EZ tranq gun, Snake's customized officer M1911A1, Snake whittling the pistol grip to use a knife for CQC, Ocelot's SAA juggling skills, The End's paratrooper tranquilizer Mosin Nagant, the Davey Crockett recoil-less nuclear launcher, Eva's chinese Type 17 mauser clone with her "bandit shooting" technique and Volgin's electricity discharging the 7.62mm bullets.
There are so many more other interesting trivias and weapons in MGS3 so please Dave and Johnathan, please consider making a video for the MGS3.
I second this.
Along with the scene of Snake nerding out over the M1911 Custom.
ya Boy is dedicated
And MGS 4 as well
The “Shredder” barrel attachment makes the gun act like a chainsaw when you have no ammo. Keep that barrel spinning and “LEROOYYYY JENNNNKINNNS!!!” the enemy 😂
1:05 I’m pretty sure the red dot is attached in the most stable way possible with the all mighty flex seal
The Davy Crockett had a jeep mounted version. So you drive up to the enemy, fire off the munition, and then your driver floors it with the hope of getting a decent distance.
lorewise there is a reason for weapons looing this new: there are several factions that have startet forging new weapons (the machinists/gunrunners for instance) and there are factions that have startet producing metal (like in the Pitt)
Yes, I had forgotten about that. Not all of them though, presumably, and there's lots lying around in FO games that is meant to be 200+ years old, not just weapons. Most of the structures, cars, cans etc should be dust.
@@jonathanferguson1211 In general I think you're correct.
However, there are some abandoned machines today that have been sitting to rust for 100 years, like the Ghost Trains of the Eagle Lake and West Branch Railroad, and for 100 years in a rainy forest in Maine without restoration, they're looking not that bad. Combining that with the idea of alloys that create oxides that serve as a protective layer, like aluminiumoxides do, then 200+ years might just be possible in a fictional world
@@theredestbull Wow, I didn't know about those trains - remarkable! But they were abandoned in 1933 *inside a shed* until the late 60s and have been painted since being outdoors at least once. Even then they're unusually well-preserved. The condition of most stuff in Fallout is maybe 50 years max. They have rooms in houses still with wallpaper for goodness sake :)
@@jonathanferguson1211 one could argue that atleast some of the stuff has been kept in good condition by the people who survived, but yeah...
but then I remember the B-29 that the courier lifted from the bottom of lake mead in new vegas, which was in better shape in 2281 in the game than the actual plane down that lake is today
“If your microwave does this, you need to get it serviced.” 😂😂
When your microwave literally nukes your food.
12:52 fun fact, the shredder is supposed to be used with a minigun that has no ammo, making it a melee weapon that shreds enemies with the rusty metal spining around on the barrels and yes. this works in the game!
I think I've mentioned it in a previous video, but Fallout's laser weapons actually have a lot of thought put into why they look and act like that. By the time the bombs fell the AER-12 laser guns we see in the 3D Fallouts were already woefully obsolete and almost completely replaced by the Wattz rifles seen in the isometric games. The thing is that Wattz laser rifles are much more fragile and difficult to repair so the chunky obsolete models outlived them. There's also a tiny detail on the AER-14 Prototype in New Vegas that explains that most of the laser's light is in high infrared but they use second harmonic generation to give it a visible tracer.
Yeah, so about that recoil...
@DamnedSilly The recoil is entirely artificial. The logic was that soldiers would expect recoil and ran into issues in trials when they ended up attempting to counter recoil, which wasn't actually there.
@@DamnedSillywhat's the issue with recoil?
@@tommarsdon5644 Given the damage they do in game lasers should produce virtually no recoil. Of course, they shouldn't be able to randomly turn things into a pile of ash either as that would require vastly more energy. So, why do lasers in games have recoil? Because it's a game.
@@DamnedSilly but if they can turn people into ash, then surely it does have enough energy? I guess the game is just consistently inconsistent.
7:32 "fairly terrifying if you're a child in the 80s to learn about this"
I wonder if Jonathan saw Threads as a child
I like how nuclear weapons, that could destroy the planet, are only scary to kids in the 80's. Good thing we live in a time of cool heads and non-crazy dictatorships- oh.
I didn't thankfully, not until my early 20s. All I saw as a kid was When the Wind Blows (bad enough!), my dad's copy of 'Protect & Survive' and various news/documentary TV things.
We watched The War Game in class in the 80s. That was frightening.
@@timothy8428 I didn't see that until last year would you believe. But I watched it in an actual nuclear bunker so that makes up for it :)
@@jonathanferguson1211 Oh wow. That would have been intense.
I'd love to see Jonathan reacting to the dlc weapons of Fallout New Vegas like the LAER, Holorifle, Red Glare, Shoulder Mounted Machine Gun and K9000 Machine Gun.
Yes! I would love to see Jonathan react to the gun with a "live" dog brain in it
I really like Walton Ghoulins' revolver-shotgun-slug thingy in the show.
It’s the coolest weapon in the show, and it’s DEVASTATING. I hope someone mods it into FO4
He's just a ghoul gunslingin a bolter from 40k around lol
And Maximus has the iconic 10mm revolver from Fallout 1&2. That was a real blast from the past for me.
@@TheCODster16 There's already a mod . MTs - 255 Revolver Shotgun from 2018
@@PrototypeSpaceMonkey That pun better have been intended 😈
In a BoS quest you're explicitly told the FM has a third of the power of a ballistic missile's warhead. Bethesda has no sense of scale. As for Fallout's "5mm", it has *always* existed alongside 5.56 in the series (in Fallout 1 and 2 a .223 semi-auto "hunting rifle" is one of the first weapons you find better than the starting pistol while the "assault rifle" in 5mm, said to have been out of service by 2077, is an end-game weapon) which just raises further questions. New Vegas had the only real attempt to explain what it was by giving it the ability to ignore a lot of armor, implying it's some kind of high velocity narrow diameter round specialized in anti-armor at the cost of everything else. (the Mophideous pen and paper RPG continued its feast or famine with lore explanations by confirming a lot of our history of 5.56 is still true in Fallout, but the only lore it has on "5mm" is that it was used by the military and is found in large stashes when it is found)
79th week of asking for Bullet Girls Phantasia to be covered, 10th week of asking for Loadout on how games handle character progression mixed with guns (characters stats, finding new weapons)
Fallout's 5mm make sense to me. In order to fire minigun handheld, irl, you need to reduce recoil. To do that you need to reduce impulse, which equals to m*v. If you cut down weight of bullet in half and increase velocity at least 50% You will end up with 25% less recoil, but 12.5% more muzzle energy. Also thinner bullet might be better at armor piercing. That and also them being ap rounds make up for convincing idea of why they ignore armor this much.
@@VK-sz4itrecoil can be mitigated by power armor as well though. Ammo supply is a fairly convincing reason for a smaller caliber and the low rate of fire at least. Those drums of 500 we get in game would fit even fewer rounds and be chewed through very fast at the correct rate of fire with the regular caliber.
Though I dont really know what benefit they are getting over a more conventional LMG or why they have these when gattling lasers exist. And also all this gets thrown out the window because the one on the helicopter mount at the start of fo4 is also in 5mm.
@@misterperson3469 True. It's not that consistent, but still better then in many games. Josh Sawyer was gun enthusiast, so he designed ammo quite well in Fallout New Vegas, while still they were rooted in stylistic choices of previous Fallouts.
Minigun has benefit over LMG in only thing. It is 250% more cool.
A correction, there is 5,56mm in the Fallout universe, Fallout 3 introduced those as F1 and F2 had only .223. In the game lore 5mm was a cartridge that was superseded by 5,56 but it found its niche in the Minigun series of guns. So 5mm is not in game analog of 5,56, they coexist in this world.
Hearing you mix up the microwave emitter from fallout 3 and gamma gun from 4 was precious
Whoops...
Hearing the Davy Crocket mentioned instantly just had me going oh hey, MGS3 episode.
If it's not too much, I have a request for Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armories museum in the UK to take a look at the weapons and weaponised vehicles from Pandemic's The Saboteur. The game recently got a re-release on steam, and while it features a lot of the usual WW2 arsenal it also has a lot of interesting vehicles, artillery pieces (including some massive building-sized guns), fictional and prototype-esque guns and tanks. There is also an opportunity to talk about the real life inspiration for the game and its protagonist and assess if explosives you use throughout the game would actually be able to do that amount of damage.
Will it get a re-release for Consoles though?
It would be cool to see Jonathan reacting to the weapons of Warframe
Agreed. Especially the Braton and Karak because of the similar designs of the Famas and M16
Eh
been asking for this for like the past 4 months
@@negativemaidens me too
Imo the grineer weapons would make the most sense for that, Karak, gorgon, hek, brakk, buzzlok, ignis, quartok, all fantastical concepts but at least rooted in reality somewhat. Can't really see them trying to dissect what makes tla lanka, lenz, or incarnons tick 😅
If you put the "bayonet" on the minigun barrel and you fire it off with no ammo, your gun effectively becomes a chainsaw.
Jonathan Ferguson keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries in the UK, i'd love to see you react to Generation Zero, the guns are greatly represented (to me atleast) and i'd love your opinion on it. As well as the sounds.
repicented? the qwerty keys are not even near each other when spelling represented, how does that happen?
good game that. i would watch that video if Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK and the guys at GameSpot would make it
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The thick handguard like thing for AMR mimicks FR-F2's heat shield. It's to hide the hot barrel from heat vision cameras.
Heat Shields like that are so you don't get heat waves coming off the barrel and affecting your optic picture. It also helps the barrel from heating in the sun and affecting accuracy. I'm sure there's some applications for IR stealth, but its not common.
9:20 "my microwave doesn't do this, if yours does this you need to get it serviced"
Always good to see a new video with Jonathan Ferguson, The Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armories Museum in the UK, home to thousands of iconic weapons throughout history; and looking at Fallout guns makes it instantly better :D
There are numerous active gunsmiths throughout fallout, some on even an industrial scale, so that's why guns are still prevalent
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You got the Gamma Gun and Microwave Emitter mixed up. Microwave Emitter is in Fallout 3 + New Vegas
I think thats a Creation Club version of the Microwave gun using the Gamma gun model cos from memory a Gamma gun just isnt going to cut it against something rad resistant like a Mirelurk
Hmm I wonder which will happen first: I go old and gray, die, or get a video on F.E.A.R?
Johnatan was in a video about different game depictions of the SPAS-12. Fear was one of them.
Me with Killzone.
@@vaclavhejtmanec3320 I'll have to look for that video
@@EdibleClown Don't bother. I just found out that was Ian from forgotten weapons, not Johnatan.
I like how Jonathan acknowledges that weapons make little sense IRL but still appreciates their context in-universe. Not a lot of experts make that distinction!
16:33 I love keeping the syringer handy for when I want to sit back on a nearby hill and have the bad guys to fight eachother. Also great for a sentry on a ledge to try to make them fall a far distance
On the BAR: You can get one in New Vegas in the Dead Money DLC as the "Automatic Rifle" and fires .308 because the devs decided against making an ammo type for a unique gun locked behind an unmarked side quest in the base game
That's why one of my 1st FO4 mods was a weapon overhaul with ammo mods and turned as many weapons to "righthanded" as possible. (no a big fan of this over modular-ed crafting system. sure u can tinker with equipment in real too, and even go crazy with it, but it a bit too "extreme")
Also that's why i only upgrade the rocket-launcher (i think its called "Rockwell"... something) to fire maximum 3 rockets, the 4X mod makes no sense!
Lasers in most (99%) games and sci-fi is a visible slow projectile, so no hard feeling for that. Tough in Star Trek and Star Wars they try not use the word "laser" when it comes for weapons.
Would be super cool to see some of Jonathan's takes on weapons featured in the TV series (although to be fair many of them are simply real world guns too) . Can't recall if Fallout 76 has been covered as part of this series before but it's ripe for picking as well, with a good amount of weapon designs from the real world as well as the Fallout universe.
Someone might be reviewing the TV series guns soon ;)
Oh! I know the answer for the weird reloads on the Laser weapons - they're greebled like that because they're re-creations of pre-war prototypes that hadn't made it to mass production; all of them are made using parts copied from the design that was found, and few people have made good replacers; the batteries are ejected weirdly because it's using a standardized power cell intended for military use in frontline equipment like radios and the like.
One fun game that I don't think has gotten brought up yet (or much at all generally) is Brigador. It's got a ton of real-life vehicle-mounted weapons like M2 HMGs GAU-8 Avengers but also a ton of really fascinating sci-fi stuff that at least seems rooted in reality.
I didn't know ... the Fatman always reminded me of some sort of semi pneumatic slingshot (due to the bands and tanks at the sides and what seems to be a pressure gauge) sized up to launch the mini nukes.
Love your stuff m8 keep the weapons coming
Love watching the Royal armory videos. They had one with him and Ian from Forgotten weapons.
I tend to have a hunting rifle with a short barrel and full stock as an early game weapon, since it feels much easier to handle in close quarters. I usually replace it with a lever-action after starting Far Harbor, and the hunting rifle then gets a scope and a longer barrel
I did exactly this in FO4 early on. I must go back and finish it.
Honestly, I'd like to see both the backpack and drum fed mini guns together in the same game. The back mounted ones are for squad support, while the drum fed ones are designed exclusively for Power Armor assault teams with jump packs. The limited capacity compared to an ammo pack wouldn't matter, as they'd be using hit and fade tactics. Maybe carry a heavy pistol to pick off stragglers once the drum is depleted.
I’d love to see Mr. Ferguson take a look at the weapons and mechanics of Receiver 2!
I'm pretty sure the Reba 2 rifle shown is not stock, it's supposed to have a legendary effect of some sort (bonus to mirelurks IIRC) and by default comes with a long barrel (dunno which one though)
not sure if jonathan reads this but if i remember correctly in universe the Fatman works as a pneumatic and pushing type of weapon, the munition moves in a sled that is powered pneumatic power. and there is some mechanical assist. so in essanse its a sholder fired catapult. with pneumatic systems
Yeah its got more in common with assisted take-off systems on aircraft carriers than it does a firearm really
@@misterperson3469 I *think* (hope!) I made the steam catapult comparison in a previous FO review.
6:38, the fatman takes inspiration from the M38/M39 Davy Crockett launcher which was sort of a shoulder or crew fired nuke launcher firing the M388 device which roughly looks like the fatman rounds.
given that there we Green Light Teams that were supposed to deploy with Special Atomic Demolition Munitions, i.e. man-portable nuclear bombs, behind enemy lines, perhaps having a shoulder-launched nuclear missile would not have been that far-off, since those atomic demolition munitions had a relatively short timer making the chances of survival rather slim.
Ooh, I didn't know about that! Fascinating, thanks.
Syringer particularly the “Endangeral Syringe” is really useful on very hard and survival difficulties. You shoot it to get the 25% damage resistance debuff on target then swap to your main weapon. Works really well in 76 on bosses too.
In game you can visit the base that developed the fatman launcher, there you find that the fatman does have a rocket asist engine that is fired when the weapon is fired. turning the fatman into a shoulder mounted mortor.
important to note, firearms haven't just been lying around for 200 years. some people who wasn't sheltered by the vaults also survived out in the world (a lot turned to ghouls but sone function fine without turning feral) some vaults also never closed or were designed to let people out right after the bombs dropped. some vaults were also stocked with guns. and New Vegas was spared from most of the nukes thanks to Mr. House. and also Super Mutants could have taken care of some guns i guess (a few of them are smart)
I wish Jonathan would voice a gunsmith in a game where he compliments or roasts your gun builds
May I say, I’m pleased to see the PIAT getting some love in this series.
Regarding microwave weaponry, I think I saw a video on it - it's a riot control vehicle with microwave emitter, which is not lethal in any capacity, but makes the targets just uncomfortably hot, like in a desert hot. The vid is called "Non-Lethal Weapon: Active Denial System (ADS)" and it was on YT for at least 12 years now.
Would've loved them talking about the musket laser and the continuous-crank version from FO4.
"We shouldn't have many guns in fallout" Pretty sure some factions started forming almost immediately after the immediate chaos from the bombs calmed down, and it's feasible that some factories and other production facilities survived relatively intact. Such new factions would likely fight to take control of them and restore them to at least partial operation.
We know that the BOS was founded 57 years after the world ended, and they certainly had the capacity to restore production facilities to full operation, so likely most of the weapons you find in the wasteland probably aren't from the war itself, but produced after the fact. Weapons that were from the war likely managed to be maintained by whatever faction originally acquired it.
You'd also have factions like the Gun runners, founded in 2155 whose entire thing is the production and sale of weapons to anyone, including the production of entirely new weapons. With all these factions and suppliers dotted throughout the wasteland, it makes total sense that there are still usable guns everywhere, because war, war never changes.
I hope and wish that Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history will do a reaction video on the weapons from Red Orchestra 2 at some point.
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Even back in the original Fallout there is a area where the Gun Runners repaired and operate a weapons and ammo factory. Using scrap metal and other scavanged materials.
They are referenced in NV as well. So there is weapon manufacturing in the West coast. The NCR even has a mechanised Division in the Army, but they have supply issues with tires and other degradabla materiel, severly limiting them.
Bethesda makes ppl live in 200+ year old runis with the skeletons intact so yeah ... no comment for the East Coast.
i have become a big fan of Jonathan Ferguson weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries. I hope to see many more videos.
Oh, nice take on these; now I miss playing it again; doesn't help that; my friends and I decided to binge watch the entire Fallout series awhile ago. ;-;7
Still hoping to have Jonathan take a look at Valkyria Chronicles’ guns. I’d love to hear his opinions on the weapons of that series.
My thoughts on the Miniguns ammunition being generic 5mm is that it’s inspired by Colt’s 5.56x30 MARS experimental munitions. The basic idea of making a shorter 5.56x45 NATO cartridge that was optimized for shorter 10 inch barrels instead of a longer 20 inch. Fallout 1 and 5.56x30 MARS were both in development at the same time in the 90’s, so awareness is possible.
Always happy to see more Fallout content.
The rocket launcher actually has a three round version that uses a horizontal clip/magazine mechanism which seems much more mechanically plausible. The four round version is the highest tier of the rocket launcher, but I always prefer the three round for aesthetic reasons.
The Tactical High-powered Operational Responder (THOR) is a microwave directed energy demonstrator that was successfully tested against drone swarms with a follow-on project to develop this capability called Mjolnir.
8:40, to be fair, not even the Davey Crockett had enough range to avoid killing you aswell. In any case, after you shot it, you'd always be in range for a lethal dose of radiation
And yeah, Microwave weapons do exist. Darpa has a design that is meant to evaporate the enemie's water stores from afar, even though that violates the Geneva convention
I really appreciate that he can review and compare against real world weapons and have a realistic critical take while also understanding and acknowledging that all that really matters with fictional weapons is that they fit their setting and look sweet
the use of the nuke launcher in game is 100% accurate to what Jonathan is saying about it. if you don't have like a 100ft drop for it to be sent over, you will die 6/8 shots and thats without the MIRV.
Something I considered with fallout weapons was with ammo probably being extremely rare; would there be a return to black power, paper cartridges, and far less automatic weapons.
It wouldn’t be as fun of course but it’s interesting to consider at least.
Me: "It reminds me of a BAR"
Jon: "It's kind of like the Fallout take on a BAR"
Me: "I'M SO SMART!"
i think the combat rifle from fo4 is already kinda based on the BAR heavily, and judging by the name of it, the CR-74L is just like a fancy version of the CR so yeah its just a BAR with greeblies on it
Dave Barrak's wonderful GrrlPower comic has a handheld minigun with bayonets on it. It is called 'The Auger' for VERY good reason as we see a couple of times. Super powers meet super gun. Ouch!
2:00 I'm reading a book now that Jonathan helped write about guns from 200 years in the past that have survived, some in beautiful condition, until present day. 13:52 I thought you were going to say Type 96 and/or Type 99 light machine guns with bayonets.
there is a fair amount of lore on why guns are still a big thing in the fallout world, (aside from the cheap pipe guns) menny factions after the war that lived on the surface horded and rebuilt weapons to survive, on top of the idea that not EVERY building and factory that could produce firearms were destroyed during the bomb's, lets not forget the vaults as well, most if not ALL of the vaults were more or less non-regulated test labs and in even some case's used entirely for military purpose or weapon testing, some robots would also build and maintain things as well for 100's of years or longer even with out human presence. just food for thought.
Re: microwaves: I remember reading stories of kids in Eastern Europe in the 1990s disabling the door safeties and ripping the doors off microwave ovens to watch the fireworks when radar-homing anti-SAM missiles locked on to the cookers.
Upon a cursory Wikipedia search, the good ol' Soviet S-75 (NATO: SA-2 Guideline) had a guidance radar that overlapped with commercial-grade microwave oven frequencies, so ... plausible?
There is a BAR in New Vegas. It's just called the Automatic Rifle and found in the Sierra Madre DLC. Also with hand loaded 7.62 jacketed soft points it's one of the best guns in FO:NV. There is also a non lethal micromave weapon used for crowd control called an ADS (Area Denial System) in use in the current day. Just look up ADS on wikipedia.
incredible missed opportunity to play the it just works! todd soundboard at 12:18. editor needs more chems
Jonathan might like the old book series Deathlands, which itself is about as close to a Fallout book series as we've got. Got a bunch of unique weapons, some real world and some alt history, but overall firearms are very scarce in the world with most long since being used up. The only ones really available are with the very power or found in big underground bunkers.
Watching this made me miss things from fallout 3... the backpacks you had with the minigun and gatling laser were awesome concepts and actually made sense- with the minigun, it stored all the ammo you had for the weapon, so you could essentially fire until completely dry. And the gatling laser just looked like one giant 9v battery xD. I also miss the missile launchers overall design.. it was sleek and space age looking..
i feel like the ability to move while wielding the minigun, and equivalent weapons, should only be plausible while in power armor; also, the electricity needed to fire the rounds could be supplied by hooking the gun up to the armor
Nice video as always!
I hope we see jonathan looking at helldivers again given the new strategem support weapons and the two new warbonds.
I'd like to think the CR-74L could be used sorta like a Mini-14. While it looks nothing like the Ruger mini-14, but it does have that rifle stock/grip setup and is at least magazine fed.
14:02 Also worth mentioning: The advanced technique of controlling the recoil by using ones knee
Probably because I skipped some parts, but I haven't heard him say anything about the bolt being on the left for most bolt-actions in the video lol
Can we get an MGS 3 episode, I just want to see Jonathan react to the cutscene where snake is talking about the custom M1911
that new next gen patch might be a good time to revisit
They must of updated the minigun reload animation.
I always thought the character detached the whole ammo barrel from the mini gun and replaced it with another one from their backpack.
10:20 thats like "oxidized weathered cut copper stairs" but a gun
I smply love your work guys.
The Syringer Rifle CAN do damage... but you need to harvest Radscorpion venom to make that particular ammo. It CAN be a great weapon for creating chaos though.
Find an enemy among a crowd of enemies, shoot them while sneaking, where you won't be found with the Syringer ammo that injects Bloatfly larva, or heck, if you have enough and it's a big enough crowd, 3 or 4 of them.
Then wait for things to calm down. Try to remember which ones you hit with the larva, then with a proper rifle for sniping. Shoot each larva host in the head for quick kills.
Many, MANY times I've watched this generate a Legendary Bloatfly that will burst out of the corpse.
Nice game mechanic in Fallout, is each enemy type belongs to its own faction, and will throw aggro at other factions. So putting a swarm of bloatflies into a raider camp, means they'll tear each other apart, and you get the experience for the kills.
I would love to see a video on the weapons of squad 44
jesus christ, and i was searching for his Aliens M41A pulse rifle video. talk about good timing.
i would like to mention that there are still running manufacteors that make guns
Jonathan is the only guy that has an automatic American passport. True.