@@JacksonKillroy I think he talked about the AN-94 in about a hundred episodes by now so he no longer goes over all the details every time. But I wouldn't be surprised if they had a video on their own channel about it.
@@JacksonKillroy Forgotten Weapons has a video on it. tl;dr: uses a pully system to fire 2 rounds before the bolt hits from the first shot, so you have a two round burst with the recoil impulse of a single shot.
@@warlockiii1846 I enjoyed GarandThumb’s video on the AN-94. Lots of shooting the riffle and watching it operate alongside the history and information.
For your information, all weapons were modeled using encyclopedias, reference books, and books dedicated to weapons. They literally took pages with pictures, scanned them, and then recreated the weapons in 3D. For everything else, they relied on movies, books, and their own imagination, since they didn't have many actual weapons on hand . Fun fact: they once asked their fans to submit pictures of weapons. There was even a list of weapons they didn’t need.
Fun fact about the EM1 Gauss rifle. In the lore it was abandoned project because they simply couldn't get a reliable/portable power source for the weapon but with the suddent existence of the Zone along with its artifacts the project suddenly came back to life via usage of electric based anomalous artifacts. Extremely skilled gunsmiths in the zone with their artifact knowledge do make hand-crafted versions of it hence why the gun has normal weapon parts of conventionel firearms then suddenly have big blocky scif-fi stuff on the front and middle part of it. if you look at the mag there is 2, one is presumably batteries that gets its voltage amplified by the artifact inside the gun while the other houses the actuall projectile the ''bullets'' so to speak. edit: another fun fact its the only ''gun'' in the game that has absolutely 0 recoil.
Also the EM1 variant is a Clear Sky-exclusive variant, that shoots a focused beam of electromagnetic energy, used exclusively to shut down Strelok's psi-helmet. The standard issue Gauss Rifle is called either, well, Gauss Rifle, or Item 62.
no VSS Vintorez? No AS VAL? No "full" SVD? No covering how different types of ammo have different characteristics? No upgrading featured in Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat? No MODS? This game series has an absolutely phenomenal modding community that developed the gun side immensly.
@@KNURKonesur well, armour is probably a little bit outside of Jonathan Ferguson's, THE Weapon Expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery in the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK expertise
One of the coolest things about playing stalker when it came out was the eclectic arsenal of eastern bloc guns that you would never see in games at the time
@@samholdsworth420 thankfully the games are readily available as a bundle nowadays, also plenty of mods making the game much better, bringing features never finished in the official releases, check out Stalker Anomaly or Stalker Gamma.
I was surprised the designers went with a SPAS-12 rather than a Saiga-12 in the series. I would assume the Saiga shotguns would be more abundant in that region.
@@zhouwu9997 Dave is they guy doing the game recording and then sits and chats with the gun guy in the video, the company running the channel fired him from my understanding.
I can't believe you made Dave, the host of the show, redundant. Literally the most popular thing on this channel, and you boot off the creator of it. Absolutely absurd
I said come in, don't stand there. You really should play these games Jonathan, they're amazing. I remember finding the L85 when I played the game for the first time, back when it came out. I'd never seen one of those before, but it looked cool and used a new caliber, so I picked it up. It jammed after the second mag, and ever since then, I only used it when I had absolutely no other choice. Back then I thought it was some balancing choice, since it's practically the first 5.56 gun you find. Only years later did I find out that they just faithfully recreated the original's mechanics, lol. And that’s not the only anecdote I have about guns in these games. I was playing modded Clear Sky, and I stumbled upon a 10mm 1911 with a funky triangular logo on the grip. Turned out to be a really fun gun, so I planned to read up on the IRL one... A day later, what do I find in my YT subscriptions? A Forgotten Weapons video titled "10mm is the Best Millimeter: the Colt Delta Elite". That's some Zone fuckery right there.
@@mogo-wc7xw I know a lot of people don't like the weird accuracy system of Shadow of Chernobyl, but honestly i love it. The gunplay in that game feels so unique, getting a headshot is so satisfying.
@@rookiecf3399 I shot my Makarov straight up in CoP swamp and waited if the bullet falls down and it really did plop a few metres in front of me. Proceeded in shooting myself with falling bullets, required quite a few hits cause it does little damage when it's just gravity.
I want to make a small correction here, the LR300 is not a piston gun, its still using the stoner semi-direct impingement, but a modified version of it the designer called the 'Delayed Gas Impingement System' (DIGS). Basically the front of the gas key, which on a regular AR is fairly short and just covers the end of the gas tube, is massively extended and now sleeves over the gas tube and is in turn sleeved by the recoil spring which has been moved to the front instead of the buffer tube, the bolt is cut short and no longer projects into the (deleted) buffer tube when cycling, and the extended gas key never fully separates from the gas tube like a regular AR would. Allegedly the advantages of the design were to maintain better pressure during cycle with shorter barrelled setups (making it more reliable) and allowing a folding stock to be fitted for compactness.
@@thelastminuteman7513i think it is quite reliable. You can see the inspiration of the gas tube was taken in the 416. Shame the gun does not gain more recognition. I heard the same design is in the SIG MCX.
I'm pretty sure SOC is the first game to have AS-VAL and VSS as available guns, it is pnly after that game came out that BF and COD followed suit and started depicting them as well
In cases like this you can use IMFDB to check dates of stuff and most of the time their results are dead-on. Looks like they first started showing up in 2002.
Ya'll really shot yourselves in the foot removing one of your biggest hosts. I'm sure the investors and corporate won't see this since they just wanna see the funny number go up for the end of the year and don't have any long term goal.
Thank you for doing this! Possibly my favourite franchise ever. 4:46 I feel so much better knowing even Jonathan had to look up this one. Surprised he didn't mention using the sights wrong. 7:25 The LR300 also jams super early. 10:18 I suddenly want to book a flight to London. 11:17 Nerd correction: EM1 is only in Clear Sky. Which I'm nerdy enough about this to be able to tell from the HUD. The Gauss Rifle is in the other two (yes, it is obtainable in ShoC), and called Project 62 in CoP. 13:34 Nah, there's SPAS-12s and other better shotguns. If you want to be more realistic. 15:12 It was 19 when the game came out. Which, if it's as old as you, it's as old as me. So I guess it depends on how much work the "relatively" part is doing.
Ive said that too!! Since Jonathan has said he wanted a game where each button corresponds to certain firearm functions. So I do HOPE they actually do Receiver 2
I made one of the early mods for STALKER: SoC (released on FilePlanet, if anyone remembers them) - a texture mod for the SA80 to take the bleedin' dust cover off the barrel (looking at that was driving me nuts) and give it a proper SUSAT reticle. I think I also increased the accuracy, because it was/is a reasonably accurate service rifle, despite its other deficiencies.
Gamespot you guys might have just bankrupted yourselves with this move. Yall are going in the Escapist barrel with irrelevant gaming news with no views.
Considering this game was mostly developed before UA-cam existed, and at least some portion of the development cycle went on during dial-up modem era with pay-per-minute access, i wonder if some of those guns were modeled after images from paper books or movies.
Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK: "I've never played S.T.A.L.K.E.R." Me: Whaat? Go do it, do it now. And watch the movie, it's phenomenal.
@@The_great_M0N0LITH Aside from both being based on Roadside Picnic and the games being influenced by the film, you're absolutely right. Directly related, no, but since the film is absolutely relevant to the games it's worth the mention and the watch.
@@tshafe069 the game's not "based on" but "inspired by". S.T.A.L.K.E.R. & Roadside Picnic only share the general concept of the Anomalous Zone, that's pretty much all.
Regarding chopping off the top sight of the MP5, that I believe that may be because pin hole or other small aperture sights don't work in 3D scenes which have been rendered via rasterization. At least not without a lot of shader work. Those types of sights rely on physics of light which is not properly modeled by rasterization resulting in them being almost unusable in video games.
How have you let go of the guy who made the most popular videos on this barren channel? Hopefully there isn't a none compete clause against Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK and Dave working together outside of this.
Played this game when it first released, i was in cellege, it blew me away. It's crazy that I'm getting to play a sequel to it 17 years later and so cool to see a video of someone breaking down a video about it.
Fun fact: the GL on the SG 550 is actually the GL modeleled after the SIG GL 5040. In the game they named it M203, leading to a lot of confusion lol. But an interesting bit nonetheless, that on the "SGI-5k" it aesthetically fits the best due to the fact that the 5040 was designed specifically for the SG 550.
15:45 As a Swiss guy I can confirm that the SIG550 grenade launcher looks to be correct from what I can see (except maybe length). It basically replaces the bottom part of the handguard.
Firearms Expert videos - hundreds of thousands to millions of views Other GameSpot videos - Usually maxing out at tens of thousands views GameStop proceeds to fire Davey...
Just some trivia: I've been playing Fallout 3 recently and got the Gauss rifle after the Anchorage DLC, which I never gotten before. It was so similar to Stalker Gauss rifle that it prompted me to do a little research. First time Gauss rifle featured in Fallout games was in 1998 Fallout 2, and the design of that original weapon is quite similar to the one seen throughout Stalker games. It even had a codename "M72", which could've inspired "Item 62". Although different Fallout games implemented various designs, Stalker's Gauss remained virtually untouched since SoC, keeping that slapdash lab prototype look which it was in Stalker universe, in contrast to Fallout Gauss which was factory produced in different countries and thus more refined.
Jonathan is 100% correct about the Protecta - when the gun actually functions the way it's designed, the arduous reload makes it nearly impossible to get enough shots off in time to stop the second wave of Zone-mutated creatures coming after you.
In case anyone wonders why you'd cut off the top of the front sight protector/hood: When you use a low profile red dot sight on the MP5, the dot ends up being projected right on that part of the sight hood. Cutting it off improves the sight picture through red dots, holographic sights and etched reticle optics. This is a universal thing across the entire family of the G3, HK33, MP5 and their derivatives
@@Apocolypse88 the G-36 features very heavily in the later game stages, the F-2000 is kind of the "end game have it all" rifle that you can pick up towards the end of the game. There are several guns in the game(s) they didn't talk about (the "full" SVD, the VSS Vintorez which is an absolute legend in the franchise, the AS VAL, just to name a few), hopefully will do in part 2 or 3, as there were 3 games in the series and the later ones feature modifications and upgrades, this video only covered some guns from the very first game. Also STALKER was one of the very first (AFAIR) games to feature different types of ammo that had a different effect, would be cool to cover that bit as well.
F2000 and the VSS were pretty remarkable in how they outclassed pretty much every other rifle caliber weapon in the game, too. If we're going to bring up stuff like in-game differences in rate of degradation
3:21 The AN94 absolutely does model the 2 round hyper-burst mode in the game on the Obokan rifles. It's the main reason they were always my favorite in the vanilla games. Thinking you probably should have played the game!
If we're talking older Eurojank shooters, I recommend E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy. It's from the same guys who did Necromunda: Hired Gun and it has some wild weapons like an smg with a BAR style fire selector for "full auto" and "fuller auto".
Hey gamespot, you do realize Dave Jewitt is the one reason for the heavy traffic to your channel every Weekends right? He and Jonathan Ferguson carried your channel. I could've easily gone to any and many of the other gaming channels for trailers but I stuck to gamespot because of Dave's contribution and hardwork on the Firearms Expert React series... and you people have the gull to fire the man who made your channel popular? Even if this series were to continue it wouldn't be the same without Dave...
Awesome. My absolute favorite shooter games absolutely deserved this examination and Dave delivered a great selection of guns for commentary and Jonathan once again made me appreciate or see games I love in a deeper way.
The fun fact about the EM1 is that IIRC it does fire little artifact bits. But it's true STALKER is pretty tame on the idea of those things defying the laws of physics when you think on how they use them most of the time.
I also like to see Jonathan react to the guns of Binary Domain, which is a cyberpunk game taking place in 2080 in Japan, and the weapons that the main character squad, the Rust crew, are equipped with are basically futurized version of modern guns. And the robots that you fight also have their own standard issue guns, there's also the underground Resistance, who built their own guns. The game was developed by the same people behind the Yakuza games. I would also like to see Jonathan take a look at the guns of Vanquish, a 3rd Person Shooter from Platinum Games, the weapons ranged from futuristic assault rifles, shotguns, LMGs and pistols to energy weapons that actually use the main character's suit energy to fire, too bad Vanquish didn't sell well enough to warrant a sequel, which is a huge shame since the ending is quite abrupt. For an April's Fools special, it would be nice to see Jonathan react to the guns of Plant vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, eventhough only the zombie characters carry guns. Or maybe Advance Wars 1 and 2 reboot on the Switch since they 3D models carry guns that can easily made out, perhaps get Fam over at The Tank Museum to do a reaction on them too. For the laughs mostly.
Where is the new episode, 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???
Loved playing STALKER back in the day - it has a vicious learning curve. Do not be discouraged by its difficulty. You'll be a master of the Zone in no time! CHEEKY BREEKY!!!
Finally, I been wanting him to look at this game series for a bit. I haven't played those games in a bit, but with how many hours I've played I know there are still more guns to explore. Can't wait to see the next game.
16:00 airsoft sg550s (atleast the one I had) also only have the charging handle come back just before the rubber gasket, so they mightve modeled it off of that
About the real life Groza Jonathan was carrying: I know that the Groza can be chambered in 9x39mm, and it normally uses its own curved proprietary mags, but the one Jonathan has looks like it's using a straight mag from a 9A-91/VSK-94. I'll need to do some research about this later. *EDIT* Just saw the Forgotten Weapons video on the Groza, where Ian McCollum was literally at Royal Armories using the same Groza Jonathan was, and yes, later iterations of the 9x39 Groza used 9A-91/VSK-94 mags; the curved proprietary mags I mentioned were issued with earlier versions, but the Groza can supposedly use both interchangeably.
3:25 In Shadow of Chernobyl, the AN-94 does have a 2 and I believe 3 shot burst mode, with most of the weapons being able to switch fire modes. By default that should be the 9 or 0 key to toggle fire modes.
Hey Johnathan and GameSpot, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is legendary and I'm glad you guys covered it, but as a dedicated fan of this game I must say, you missed a LOT. Not only some of the guns in the original games, but also each S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series entry has it's own host of mods that entirely change the guns, making them more realistic, reanimating them, and remodeling them. Check out some of these mods because they contain amazing content that was passionately made by fans of this series just out of pure enjoyment, and it's very clear that they are a labor of love. The Gunslinger mod for Call of Pripyat is a good place to start. Much love from the Zone.
If Jonathan is reading this, the zone nose very isolated from the rest of the world (your suspicion of the 550 being new to the zone specifically is correct) and there are also gunsmith that can do and have made things that wouldn't normally fit, fit. Up to and including a spas12 being rifled for more accurate slugs (losing buckshot use) a desert eagle firing a rifle calibre and 5.56mm nato guns using the Russian equivalent.
But not that isolated. Big factions can get weapons from outside quite easily. The modded guns are mostly from the Free Stalkers as their links to outside are not as robust
3:35 - AN-94 absolutelly has "hyper-bust" in game, unlike other weapons in the game in configuration it has 2 separate values for rate of fire (all the rest of the guns have 1). By default I believe in game they are set very similar, something like 600 and 700 (maybe 800, so the difference is not really noticeable), but that could be modified to represent "hyper-burst", one can set the second rate of fire which only applies to that 2-round burst mode to be something like 1800. So inherently the game is developed with capability to do it. Also I would note - anyone who ever played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. would have modified gun names, one of the earliest mod to the game was "text-update", especially because English version of the game had all sorts of mistakes in it... and almost nobody plays this game unmodified (except of recent console release), so this sort of "QOL" mod is really first thing everyone does and then weapon names are all correct. That said probably second mod is texture pack and weapons mods, and that instantly replaces all weapon models to nearly perfectly correct ones and removed the mirroring (which is just weird quirk of games from that period - Counter Strike also had weapons mirrored, I assume it is also for legal reasons). 5:36 - not quite... more like 30 years ago, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is 17 years old game.
I also recall the AN-94 having a burst mode in the game, also wasn't there a modified version with super fast rate of fire in one of the storyline stashes under Agroprom?
@@AA30996502 I said that... I am not criticizing this video for looking at the original game. I am just saying - yes there is hyper-burst on AN94... yes the names are wrong (although they they were correct in beta game and in game files), so it is correct to say they were changed for legal reasons, but can be changed back easily by user.
Just some context about CS guns being mirrored. Gooseman, the main developer of the original mod, was left handed and animated the Counter-Strike weapons with left-handed operation as that is more natural for him
Interesting design note about the Fort12, it was designed in collaboration with CZ UB that also makes the CZ75. It wasnt a CZ75 clone though. But the CZ PCR is aesthetically pretty similar, although design wise its completely different.
I bet you know it, the name "Tunder S14" was chosen so it sounds close to the original name in russian. Tunder, or, I guess, tHunder will be "grom" and the real name "groza" means "storm". So, in russian grom and groza are very close in spelling, sounding and meaning (thunder and storm accordingly)
The reason the guns in the Stalker series eject to the left and are close models is so that GSC wouldn't have to pay to use licensed* material. It's why some games use car models that are recognizable but change the name. *Not sure if licensed is the right word I'm looking for, but you get the point.
Isn't the "left side" thing common in a lot of older games just because it's cooler to see the animation of ejecting shells while shooting? Unsure it makes a difference in terms of legality
Want to see Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries in the UK breaking down the weapons of COD Ghosts (including the DLC Ripper Hybrid AR/SMG) and Advanced Warfare, maybe in one single video?🤨🤨
I would love to see Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries in the UK react to cod ghosts guns, especially the honeybadger
Love this series, CoP will always sit in my heart as one of the best action RPG style games. I'm cautiously optimistic about the sequel. I really hope they manage to make a worthy continuation.
Oh, such a shame, I was brimming with anticipation when I saw the thumbnail, because I was hoping to see a Fort showcase. "Fora" is secretly the most lethal gun in the game at level 3, it has no spread and the game turns into Counter Strike.
So a minor note the LM 300 it's still a direct impingement system it's the buffer system that's moved over the barrel it's still uses a varient of the Direct Impingement ststem
14:11 it is caused by engine limitations. There may be maximum of 64 bones which is not enough to animate the whole belt so it's the best way to hide this issue while keeping the giggling
This brought back memories, I spent a ton of time in the original game. I liked that the guns wore out with use, and because you couldn't repair them (or I don't think you could if memory serves correctly) it was always super exciting if you found a really good gun that was also in good condition. Plus the fact a lot of the guns in this were slightly oddball things you didn't see in a bunch of other games at the time was pretty cool.
I don't have anything witty or poignant to say, so I'll just comment that this series is basically singlehandedly propping up Gamespot. And I'm loving each entry
I would like to see Jonathan Ferguson react to Gumsmith Simulator. It actively shows the in and outs of firearms maintenance and even allows you to make guns from scratch.
Jonathan just casually lifting an actual AN-94 from his lap for comparison as if that rifle isn't a complete unicorn outside Russia. Honestly the same vibe as Ian, who sometimes pulls an FG42 out from under the table when relevant.
Buzz off, Stalker. We don't let every loser go through. Buzz off, Stalker. We don't let every loser go through. Buzz off, Stalker. We don't let every loser go through.
Hey, from a game from 2005, this was mindblowing accurate, back then we didn't had the extremely accurate gun models we have today, man I love this game so much.
I'm really stoked that there finally is one... but also disappointed how surface level it was and how few guns it featured. Maybe they're keeping that info for part 2 or 3, but the franchise had so many more interesting guns and mechanics, different types of ammo, gun upgrades...
I was wondering when you guys were gonna cover these games :D I'd love to see you cover the rest of the guns in these games [the funny deagle chambered in 9x39 for example]
1. looks confused
2. "thats weird"
3. casually pulls out an AN94 like its his phone
Yeah, I was so surprised they actually had one of those. Way cool!!
@@warlockiii1846 i was a bit sad he didn't talk more about the weapon itself, just said it was "weird" but not why.
@@JacksonKillroy I think he talked about the AN-94 in about a hundred episodes by now so he no longer goes over all the details every time. But I wouldn't be surprised if they had a video on their own channel about it.
@@JacksonKillroy Forgotten Weapons has a video on it. tl;dr: uses a pully system to fire 2 rounds before the bolt hits from the first shot, so you have a two round burst with the recoil impulse of a single shot.
@@warlockiii1846 I enjoyed GarandThumb’s video on the AN-94. Lots of shooting the riffle and watching it operate alongside the history and information.
I think that's Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK
How do you know?
@@KeksimusMaximus lucky guess
Which houses thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history?!
I LOVE that title, he's THE Keeper of Firearms and Artillery.
You are correct
For your information, all weapons were modeled using encyclopedias, reference books, and books dedicated to weapons. They literally took pages with pictures, scanned them, and then recreated the weapons in 3D. For everything else, they relied on movies, books, and their own imagination, since they didn't have many actual weapons on hand . Fun fact: they once asked their fans to submit pictures of weapons. There was even a list of weapons they didn’t need.
Some of the earlier weapon rosters included the GM-94 which was recreated in some mods.
That's just the normal workflow to recreate anything accurately into a 3D model.
@@null643 stalker predates PBR. or does this workflow predate PBR and people doing it in different ways are an exception to the rule?
isnt that how model commonly created? i dont think artist can make a model with his memory alone
@@flanovskiydtauskiy5870PBR is for textures, not 3D modeling.
Fun fact about the EM1 Gauss rifle. In the lore it was abandoned project because they simply couldn't get a reliable/portable power source for the weapon but with the suddent existence of the Zone along with its artifacts the project suddenly came back to life via usage of electric based anomalous artifacts. Extremely skilled gunsmiths in the zone with their artifact knowledge do make hand-crafted versions of it hence why the gun has normal weapon parts of conventionel firearms then suddenly have big blocky scif-fi stuff on the front and middle part of it. if you look at the mag there is 2, one is presumably batteries that gets its voltage amplified by the artifact inside the gun while the other houses the actuall projectile the ''bullets'' so to speak.
edit: another fun fact its the only ''gun'' in the game that has absolutely 0 recoil.
Gauss riffle for sale! Only 800 rubles! Don’t miss deal of the week!
@@mniakan754 heres a handfull of grenates for colective retirment fund.
@noobguy9973 The "electric based artifacts" there using, is in fact fragments of the "Flash" artifact!
Ahh to be a young stalker again, and tagging 8 men over 11 dollars canadian, what a wonderful place the zone is
Also the EM1 variant is a Clear Sky-exclusive variant, that shoots a focused beam of electromagnetic energy, used exclusively to shut down Strelok's psi-helmet.
The standard issue Gauss Rifle is called either, well, Gauss Rifle, or Item 62.
We need a sequel to this. No FN2000? No G36? Not even something silly like showing a Deagle or the double barrel rifles?
no VSS Vintorez? No AS VAL? No "full" SVD? No covering how different types of ammo have different characteristics? No upgrading featured in Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat? No MODS? This game series has an absolutely phenomenal modding community that developed the gun side immensly.
@@KNURKonesur well, armour is probably a little bit outside of Jonathan Ferguson's, THE Weapon Expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery in the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK expertise
@@NiCoNiCoNiCola Yes, for this we would like to have Tobias Capwell, the curator of arms and armor at The Wallace Collection in London
The 9x39 Deagle probably would've hurt
Hmmm How far with F2000 we'd go? ... I'd Go as far as "The Build" Version with a Weird UFO thingy on top of a scope :D
One of the coolest things about playing stalker when it came out was the eclectic arsenal of eastern bloc guns that you would never see in games at the time
My computer sturggled with stalker. Didn't get to enjoy it 😔
@@samholdsworth420 thankfully the games are readily available as a bundle nowadays, also plenty of mods making the game much better, bringing features never finished in the official releases, check out Stalker Anomaly or Stalker Gamma.
I was surprised the designers went with a SPAS-12 rather than a Saiga-12 in the series. I would assume the Saiga shotguns would be more abundant in that region.
@@timmooney7528 to be fair the spas 12 is iconic. Probably my favourate shotgun ever
@@crwydryny That's why they also have a Winchester 1200 shotty in the game - it's what a lot of people picture when they think of a pump shotgun.
Can't believe y'all fired Dave, this was by far the most popular content on your channel and you thought it would be a good idea to fire him.
200k views is not the most popular content
@@1001-i4yit is when non dave related videos struggle to break 10k/20k while daves skyrockets over 100k/200k
Who is dave?
@@1001-i4y They specified on their channel, which is true.
@@zhouwu9997 Dave is they guy doing the game recording and then sits and chats with the gun guy in the video, the company running the channel fired him from my understanding.
I can't believe you made Dave, the host of the show, redundant. Literally the most popular thing on this channel, and you boot off the creator of it. Absolutely absurd
Dave?
@@horsegangstudios7557 the other person who talks to Jonathan who made this series a thing.
Dave and Johnathan were carrying this channel 😂😂
So gamespot just fired Dave who gets their biggest hits on UA-cam. Gamespot L.
I hope he starts his own channel and takes Jonathan with him. Dave was great and the only reason I was still subscribed
Weird, since they keep trying to recapture this series
I said come in, don't stand there. You really should play these games Jonathan, they're amazing.
I remember finding the L85 when I played the game for the first time, back when it came out. I'd never seen one of those before, but it looked cool and used a new caliber, so I picked it up. It jammed after the second mag, and ever since then, I only used it when I had absolutely no other choice. Back then I thought it was some balancing choice, since it's practically the first 5.56 gun you find. Only years later did I find out that they just faithfully recreated the original's mechanics, lol.
And that’s not the only anecdote I have about guns in these games. I was playing modded Clear Sky, and I stumbled upon a 10mm 1911 with a funky triangular logo on the grip. Turned out to be a really fun gun, so I planned to read up on the IRL one... A day later, what do I find in my YT subscriptions? A Forgotten Weapons video titled "10mm is the Best Millimeter: the Colt Delta Elite". That's some Zone fuckery right there.
the gunfights are really enjoyable in a way i cannot describe
beware the one and only, nuclear google spyware algorithm gun!
@@mogo-wc7xw I know a lot of people don't like the weird accuracy system of Shadow of Chernobyl, but honestly i love it. The gunplay in that game feels so unique, getting a headshot is so satisfying.
@@rookiecf3399 I shot my Makarov straight up in CoP swamp and waited if the bullet falls down and it really did plop a few metres in front of me.
Proceeded in shooting myself with falling bullets, required quite a few hits cause it does little damage when it's just gravity.
I want to make a small correction here, the LR300 is not a piston gun, its still using the stoner semi-direct impingement, but a modified version of it the designer called the 'Delayed Gas Impingement System' (DIGS). Basically the front of the gas key, which on a regular AR is fairly short and just covers the end of the gas tube, is massively extended and now sleeves over the gas tube and is in turn sleeved by the recoil spring which has been moved to the front instead of the buffer tube, the bolt is cut short and no longer projects into the (deleted) buffer tube when cycling, and the extended gas key never fully separates from the gas tube like a regular AR would. Allegedly the advantages of the design were to maintain better pressure during cycle with shorter barrelled setups (making it more reliable) and allowing a folding stock to be fitted for compactness.
I wonder how reliable it really is. It's an interesting set up. It's a shame a more accessible company hasn't used the same idea.
@@thelastminuteman7513i think it is quite reliable. You can see the inspiration of the gas tube was taken in the 416.
Shame the gun does not gain more recognition. I heard the same design is in the SIG MCX.
also saying "makarov PB" isn't correct since PB was designed by Deryagin
You cant keep it from me, i know you're just an alternate account of Jonathan
@@largeman2316There's only one H in Jonathan
I'm pretty sure SOC is the first game to have AS-VAL and VSS as available guns, it is pnly after that game came out that BF and COD followed suit and started depicting them as well
There were a few games that had both before stalker came out
@@zXPeterz14name them
In cases like this you can use IMFDB to check dates of stuff and most of the time their results are dead-on. Looks like they first started showing up in 2002.
@@Gigadweeb Games we actually played?
Pity VSS isn't covered.
Oh my God, finally.
I was waiting for this episode for 2 years.
You and me too!
Me too man.
Commented like 4 times for it but they've been waiting for the second game to be released to maximise views.
Me too.
@@Jibriltz I commented like 15x :D
Ya'll really shot yourselves in the foot removing one of your biggest hosts. I'm sure the investors and corporate won't see this since they just wanna see the funny number go up for the end of the year and don't have any long term goal.
Such a classic series, remember loading up the disc for Shadow of Chernobyl 10 years ago
2:49 casually whips out a an-94 like its a common collector item.
Thank you for doing this! Possibly my favourite franchise ever.
4:46 I feel so much better knowing even Jonathan had to look up this one. Surprised he didn't mention using the sights wrong.
7:25 The LR300 also jams super early.
10:18 I suddenly want to book a flight to London.
11:17 Nerd correction: EM1 is only in Clear Sky. Which I'm nerdy enough about this to be able to tell from the HUD. The Gauss Rifle is in the other two (yes, it is obtainable in ShoC), and called Project 62 in CoP.
13:34 Nah, there's SPAS-12s and other better shotguns. If you want to be more realistic.
15:12 It was 19 when the game came out. Which, if it's as old as you, it's as old as me. So I guess it depends on how much work the "relatively" part is doing.
We’ve played around the spleen, kidneys, and lungs of Chernobyl, time to play around in the heart
My wife used to watch this series and she used to comment to showcase weapons from the Stalker series and she's overjoyed to know it's finally here.
So the guy that’s kept your channel relevant these last handful of years ….. you fired them?
Brain dead move
Well time to take this concept to their own channel, big L on gamespot
It'd be interesting to see Jonathan look at the guns of SULFUR and its recent collaboration with H3VR. The 50. BMG P90 is sure to get him confused :)
Honestly they should get him to play it at this point, so he can interact with the guns.
@@Aertpoi64Honestly they fired Dave so this series is probably died soon
I love how incredulous Jonathan is at the SG 552 being called “relatively new”
Also please make a video covering Receiver 2
And more videos about STALKER guns! :D
Ive said that too!! Since Jonathan has said he wanted a game where each button corresponds to certain firearm functions. So I do HOPE they actually do Receiver 2
Imma be the nerd in this situation, but it's actually a sig 550
SG550, aka "StG.90"
@@gentilmandra Correction: SIG SG550
I made one of the early mods for STALKER: SoC (released on FilePlanet, if anyone remembers them) - a texture mod for the SA80 to take the bleedin' dust cover off the barrel (looking at that was driving me nuts) and give it a proper SUSAT reticle. I think I also increased the accuracy, because it was/is a reasonably accurate service rifle, despite its other deficiencies.
Gamespot you guys might have just bankrupted yourselves with this move. Yall are going in the Escapist barrel with irrelevant gaming news with no views.
YO IS THAT Johnathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries in the UK?!
...maybe.
I believe that actually may be Jonathan Ferguson, weapons expert and keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries in the UK!
Considering this game was mostly developed before UA-cam existed, and at least some portion of the development cycle went on during dial-up modem era with pay-per-minute access, i wonder if some of those guns were modeled after images from paper books or movies.
Розробники навіть просили - присилати їм фізичні та електронні фото зброї )
Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK: "I've never played S.T.A.L.K.E.R."
Me: Whaat? Go do it, do it now. And watch the movie, it's phenomenal.
The movie has nothing to do with the franchise
@@The_great_M0N0LITH Aside from both being based on Roadside Picnic and the games being influenced by the film, you're absolutely right. Directly related, no, but since the film is absolutely relevant to the games it's worth the mention and the watch.
@@tshafe069 the game's not "based on" but "inspired by". S.T.A.L.K.E.R. & Roadside Picnic only share the general concept of the Anomalous Zone, that's pretty much all.
They share the Zone, but also the thematics
Regarding chopping off the top sight of the MP5, that I believe that may be because pin hole or other small aperture sights don't work in 3D scenes which have been rendered via rasterization. At least not without a lot of shader work. Those types of sights rely on physics of light which is not properly modeled by rasterization resulting in them being almost unusable in video games.
How have you let go of the guy who made the most popular videos on this barren channel?
Hopefully there isn't a none compete clause against Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK and Dave working together outside of this.
Played this game when it first released, i was in cellege, it blew me away. It's crazy that I'm getting to play a sequel to it 17 years later and so cool to see a video of someone breaking down a video about it.
Fun fact: the GL on the SG 550 is actually the GL modeleled after the SIG GL 5040. In the game they named it M203, leading to a lot of confusion lol. But an interesting bit nonetheless, that on the "SGI-5k" it aesthetically fits the best due to the fact that the 5040 was designed specifically for the SG 550.
15:45 As a Swiss guy I can confirm that the SIG550 grenade launcher looks to be correct from what I can see (except maybe length). It basically replaces the bottom part of the handguard.
Yeah, somewhat correct, but looks kind of wrong here. Been a while since my time in the military though.
Jonathan has been such a gift to the channel and gun community, I love him.
Firearms Expert videos - hundreds of thousands to millions of views
Other GameSpot videos - Usually maxing out at tens of thousands views
GameStop proceeds to fire Davey...
gauss rifle (EM1) is powered by artefacts IIRC, basically a big ol' physics breaker.
Just some trivia: I've been playing Fallout 3 recently and got the Gauss rifle after the Anchorage DLC, which I never gotten before. It was so similar to Stalker Gauss rifle that it prompted me to do a little research. First time Gauss rifle featured in Fallout games was in 1998 Fallout 2, and the design of that original weapon is quite similar to the one seen throughout Stalker games. It even had a codename "M72", which could've inspired "Item 62". Although different Fallout games implemented various designs, Stalker's Gauss remained virtually untouched since SoC, keeping that slapdash lab prototype look which it was in Stalker universe, in contrast to Fallout Gauss which was factory produced in different countries and thus more refined.
As a stalker player, this is awesome, seeing this series get so much recognition is amazing
I would absolutely gorb myself if you guys made a video on the guns of Cruelty Squad
Jonathan is 100% correct about the Protecta - when the gun actually functions the way it's designed, the arduous reload makes it nearly impossible to get enough shots off in time to stop the second wave of Zone-mutated creatures coming after you.
In case anyone wonders why you'd cut off the top of the front sight protector/hood: When you use a low profile red dot sight on the MP5, the dot ends up being projected right on that part of the sight hood. Cutting it off improves the sight picture through red dots, holographic sights and etched reticle optics. This is a universal thing across the entire family of the G3, HK33, MP5 and their derivatives
Absolute braindead move firing Dave. You'll sink like IGN.
Why no F-2000 and actual G-36?
good question. not sure what year the game is supposed to take place, but maybe they weren't common yet. 🤔
@@Apocolypse88 both of those are in all three games as some of the best guns you can get
@@Apocolypse88 the G-36 features very heavily in the later game stages, the F-2000 is kind of the "end game have it all" rifle that you can pick up towards the end of the game. There are several guns in the game(s) they didn't talk about (the "full" SVD, the VSS Vintorez which is an absolute legend in the franchise, the AS VAL, just to name a few), hopefully will do in part 2 or 3, as there were 3 games in the series and the later ones feature modifications and upgrades, this video only covered some guns from the very first game. Also STALKER was one of the very first (AFAIR) games to feature different types of ammo that had a different effect, would be cool to cover that bit as well.
@@KNURKonesur By different ammo effects you mean something like fallout 1 and 2 ammo types like AP and HP ammo?
F2000 and the VSS were pretty remarkable in how they outclassed pretty much every other rifle caliber weapon in the game, too. If we're going to bring up stuff like in-game differences in rate of degradation
3:21 The AN94 absolutely does model the 2 round hyper-burst mode in the game on the Obokan rifles. It's the main reason they were always my favorite in the vanilla games. Thinking you probably should have played the game!
If we're talking older Eurojank shooters, I recommend E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy. It's from the same guys who did Necromunda: Hired Gun and it has some wild weapons like an smg with a BAR style fire selector for "full auto" and "fuller auto".
Hey gamespot, you do realize Dave Jewitt is the one reason for the heavy traffic to your channel every Weekends right? He and Jonathan Ferguson carried your channel. I could've easily gone to any and many of the other gaming channels for trailers but I stuck to gamespot because of Dave's contribution and hardwork on the Firearms Expert React series... and you people have the gull to fire the man who made your channel popular?
Even if this series were to continue it wouldn't be the same without Dave...
Awesome. My absolute favorite shooter games absolutely deserved this examination and Dave delivered a great selection of guns for commentary and Jonathan once again made me appreciate or see games I love in a deeper way.
The fun fact about the EM1 is that IIRC it does fire little artifact bits. But it's true STALKER is pretty tame on the idea of those things defying the laws of physics when you think on how they use them most of the time.
I also like to see Jonathan react to the guns of Binary Domain, which is a cyberpunk game taking place in 2080 in Japan, and the weapons that the main character squad, the Rust crew, are equipped with are basically futurized version of modern guns. And the robots that you fight also have their own standard issue guns, there's also the underground Resistance, who built their own guns. The game was developed by the same people behind the Yakuza games.
I would also like to see Jonathan take a look at the guns of Vanquish, a 3rd Person Shooter from Platinum Games, the weapons ranged from futuristic assault rifles, shotguns, LMGs and pistols to energy weapons that actually use the main character's suit energy to fire, too bad Vanquish didn't sell well enough to warrant a sequel, which is a huge shame since the ending is quite abrupt.
For an April's Fools special, it would be nice to see Jonathan react to the guns of Plant vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, eventhough only the zombie characters carry guns. Or maybe Advance Wars 1 and 2 reboot on the Switch since they 3D models carry guns that can easily made out, perhaps get Fam over at The Tank Museum to do a reaction on them too. For the laughs mostly.
I've played these games a lot but I never noticed the left handed cocking handles and ejection ports until you mentioned it.
Greetings from Hungary!
Thank you for doing this series :) I asked for it, about a year or so ago and now "my heathen prayers have been answered".
🙌🏼 Rejoice 🙌🏼
Valkyria Chronicles please c:
We'll miss you Dave, Wont be the same without you!
Where is the new episode, 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???
A friend shot his AR with a muzzle cover in place, and it not only blew off, but also turned inside out.
Our usually just flew off, but I could certainly see it happening
Bro prolapsed the muzzle cover
Loved playing STALKER back in the day - it has a vicious learning curve. Do not be discouraged by its difficulty. You'll be a master of the Zone in no time! CHEEKY BREEKY!!!
Finally, I been wanting him to look at this game series for a bit. I haven't played those games in a bit, but with how many hours I've played I know there are still more guns to explore. Can't wait to see the next game.
16:00 airsoft sg550s (atleast the one I had) also only have the charging handle come back just before the rubber gasket, so they mightve modeled it off of that
We need a Part 2. There are so many more weapons to show off.🧐🤩
About the real life Groza Jonathan was carrying: I know that the Groza can be chambered in 9x39mm, and it normally uses its own curved proprietary mags, but the one Jonathan has looks like it's using a straight mag from a 9A-91/VSK-94. I'll need to do some research about this later.
*EDIT* Just saw the Forgotten Weapons video on the Groza, where Ian McCollum was literally at Royal Armories using the same Groza Jonathan was, and yes, later iterations of the 9x39 Groza used 9A-91/VSK-94 mags; the curved proprietary mags I mentioned were issued with earlier versions, but the Groza can supposedly use both interchangeably.
took a break from it, but back to asking for a reaction to GTFO's guns 🙏
I think they'd be super interesting for him to check out
Honestly the dumbest decision you guys have made in YEARS.
3:25 In Shadow of Chernobyl, the AN-94 does have a 2 and I believe 3 shot burst mode, with most of the weapons being able to switch fire modes. By default that should be the 9 or 0 key to toggle fire modes.
11:32 a bit disappointed you didn't pull this one out
SA80 my beloved. the perfect plinking gun when you didn't have the money for svu ammo
Hey Johnathan and GameSpot, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is legendary and I'm glad you guys covered it, but as a dedicated fan of this game I must say, you missed a LOT. Not only some of the guns in the original games, but also each S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series entry has it's own host of mods that entirely change the guns, making them more realistic, reanimating them, and remodeling them. Check out some of these mods because they contain amazing content that was passionately made by fans of this series just out of pure enjoyment, and it's very clear that they are a labor of love. The Gunslinger mod for Call of Pripyat is a good place to start. Much love from the Zone.
Tbf a lot of these mods just use models and/or animations from other games (typically Tarkov), so he could just cover these games directly instead
If Jonathan is reading this, the zone nose very isolated from the rest of the world (your suspicion of the 550 being new to the zone specifically is correct) and there are also gunsmith that can do and have made things that wouldn't normally fit, fit. Up to and including a spas12 being rifled for more accurate slugs (losing buckshot use) a desert eagle firing a rifle calibre and 5.56mm nato guns using the Russian equivalent.
But not that isolated.
Big factions can get weapons from outside quite easily.
The modded guns are mostly from the Free Stalkers as their links to outside are not as robust
PLEASE do a video on Receiver 2. Jonathan wants a game where each button corresponds to certain firearm functions and that game does it
3:35 - AN-94 absolutelly has "hyper-bust" in game, unlike other weapons in the game in configuration it has 2 separate values for rate of fire (all the rest of the guns have 1). By default I believe in game they are set very similar, something like 600 and 700 (maybe 800, so the difference is not really noticeable), but that could be modified to represent "hyper-burst", one can set the second rate of fire which only applies to that 2-round burst mode to be something like 1800. So inherently the game is developed with capability to do it.
Also I would note - anyone who ever played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. would have modified gun names, one of the earliest mod to the game was "text-update", especially because English version of the game had all sorts of mistakes in it... and almost nobody plays this game unmodified (except of recent console release), so this sort of "QOL" mod is really first thing everyone does and then weapon names are all correct.
That said probably second mod is texture pack and weapons mods, and that instantly replaces all weapon models to nearly perfectly correct ones and removed the mirroring (which is just weird quirk of games from that period - Counter Strike also had weapons mirrored, I assume it is also for legal reasons).
5:36 - not quite... more like 30 years ago, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is 17 years old game.
I also recall the AN-94 having a burst mode in the game, also wasn't there a modified version with super fast rate of fire in one of the storyline stashes under Agroprom?
@@KNURKonesur That was the "Fast-shooting Akm 74/2", so really an AKS-74.
But like the game has them that way. A mod in the game is not the stalker game and what was intended
@@AA30996502 I said that... I am not criticizing this video for looking at the original game. I am just saying - yes there is hyper-burst on AN94...
yes the names are wrong (although they they were correct in beta game and in game files), so it is correct to say they were changed for legal reasons, but can be changed back easily by user.
Just some context about CS guns being mirrored. Gooseman, the main developer of the original mod, was left handed and animated the Counter-Strike weapons with left-handed operation as that is more natural for him
Interesting design note about the Fort12, it was designed in collaboration with CZ UB that also makes the CZ75. It wasnt a CZ75 clone though. But the CZ PCR is aesthetically pretty similar, although design wise its completely different.
Stalker does take place in alternate reality, might be why naming some stuff is diff too
naming is different because it was meant to be in russian
I bet you know it, the name "Tunder S14" was chosen so it sounds close to the original name in russian. Tunder, or, I guess, tHunder will be "grom" and the real name "groza" means "storm". So, in russian grom and groza are very close in spelling, sounding and meaning (thunder and storm accordingly)
The reason the guns in the Stalker series eject to the left and are close models is so that GSC wouldn't have to pay to use licensed* material. It's why some games use car models that are recognizable but change the name.
*Not sure if licensed is the right word I'm looking for, but you get the point.
Isn't the "left side" thing common in a lot of older games just because it's cooler to see the animation of ejecting shells while shooting? Unsure it makes a difference in terms of legality
Want to see Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries in the UK breaking down the weapons of COD Ghosts (including the DLC Ripper Hybrid AR/SMG) and Advanced Warfare, maybe in one single video?🤨🤨
I would love to see Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries in the UK react to cod ghosts guns, especially the honeybadger
LR 300 is still an internal piston gun, they just extend the gas key out to the handguard, and put the recoil spring assembly around near the gas key
Love this series, CoP will always sit in my heart as one of the best action RPG style games. I'm cautiously optimistic about the sequel. I really hope they manage to make a worthy continuation.
I just noticed the derringer pin on his lapel. A class act this man :D
Oh how could we have ever seen this coming? You guys are really killing it recently, would like to see more Toby too
Oh, such a shame, I was brimming with anticipation when I saw the thumbnail, because I was hoping to see a Fort showcase.
"Fora" is secretly the most lethal gun in the game at level 3, it has no spread and the game turns into Counter Strike.
So a minor note the LM 300 it's still a direct impingement system it's the buffer system that's moved over the barrel it's still uses a varient of the Direct Impingement ststem
My favorite weapon is the "viper" , the most comfortable and I knew a secret cache of almost 1000 rounds of ammunition in a landfill for it
🤫
The 9x18mm MP5 is my rookie magdumper against fleshes, boars, dogs and bandits.
14:11 it is caused by engine limitations. There may be maximum of 64 bones which is not enough to animate the whole belt so it's the best way to hide this issue while keeping the giggling
This brought back memories, I spent a ton of time in the original game. I liked that the guns wore out with use, and because you couldn't repair them (or I don't think you could if memory serves correctly) it was always super exciting if you found a really good gun that was also in good condition. Plus the fact a lot of the guns in this were slightly oddball things you didn't see in a bunch of other games at the time was pretty cool.
as a swiss guy i loved starting image with the stgw 90 and a smiling jonathan
I’m pretty sure that the SiG550 has a short bolt throw because that’s where it stops moving on the Marui-based airsoft rifle.
Whoever organized this video is brilliant! Great job everyone who made it happen :D
The release date (hopefully final) of S2 is set 2 days after my birthday.
I don't have anything witty or poignant to say, so I'll just comment that this series is basically singlehandedly propping up Gamespot.
And I'm loving each entry
@@thekraken1909 they have few other good ones. It's not entirely a Yahtzee tier situation
Would love to see Jonathan's reaction to Enlisted's vast collection of weapons, especially the experimental and prototypes ones!
Can we get Jonathan Ferguson reacting to all of Zack Hazards gun rants
I would like to see Jonathan Ferguson react to Gumsmith Simulator. It actively shows the in and outs of firearms maintenance and even allows you to make guns from scratch.
Thank you Jonathan for covering one of my favorite series!
Nothing can beat the over and under toz. Stuff of legends
i been wanting this series a long time, glad to see it finally
Jonathan just casually lifting an actual AN-94 from his lap for comparison as if that rifle isn't a complete unicorn outside Russia.
Honestly the same vibe as Ian, who sometimes pulls an FG42 out from under the table when relevant.
"Get out of here,stalker"
Anuuu cheeki breeki iv damke!
Aaaaa, ya maslinu paymal!
Buzz off, Stalker. We don't let every loser go through.
Buzz off, Stalker. We don't let every loser go through.
Buzz off, Stalker. We don't let every loser go through.
"I said come in, don't stand there!"
"What have you got there?"
Hey, from a game from 2005, this was mindblowing accurate, back then we didn't had the extremely accurate gun models we have today, man I love this game so much.
Finally a Stalker gun video. Thank You Jonathan Ferguson:)
I'm really stoked that there finally is one... but also disappointed how surface level it was and how few guns it featured. Maybe they're keeping that info for part 2 or 3, but the franchise had so many more interesting guns and mechanics, different types of ammo, gun upgrades...
I was wondering when you guys were gonna cover these games :D
I'd love to see you cover the rest of the guns in these games [the funny deagle chambered in 9x39 for example]