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- Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the guns from Bloodborne, including the classic Evelyn pistol, the Boom Hammer, and a handheld Cannon!
00:00 - Opening
00:40 - Evelyn Pistol
02:49 - Reiterpallasch
04:29 - Gatling Gun
06:31 - Stake Driver
07:24 - Cannon
10:05 - Boom Hammer
12:00 - Piercing Rifle
13:05 - Ludwig’s Rifle
14:40 - Flamesprayer
15:29 - Hunter Blunderbuss
16:31 - Hunter Pistol
17:43 - Repeating Pistol
In the latest video in the Firearm Expert Reacts series, Jonathan Ferguson--a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries--breaks down the guns from Bloodborne and compares them to their real-life counterparts.
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Jonathon Ferguson, Keeper of Jackets and T-Shirts, whose wardrobe holds a collection of hundreds of T-Shirts from throughout History!
Apparently it's always casual Friday at the Royal armouries 😊
Keep calling him that, I'll use my "Keeper of birds and bird accessories only in his off time" would make the comment section more interesting
I dig it! Saw hime wearing a Ghost shirt and thought that was dope!
At least the punk rock era.
I keep asking for them to do an episode on his shirt collection.
Hoping that J.F. would read this, but the reason for the use of quicksilver/mercury was because they happened to be a key component in their magic bullets, with the other component being blood (especially Old Blood, basically magical blood used for healing).
The beasts depicted in Bloodborne are corrupted by overusing Old Blood, and while there are silver weapons in the game, none of them were explicitly effective against them. In fact, serrated blades are the most effective weapons against the Beasts.
Firearms are largely ineffective against them, but the Hunters' Quicksilver Bullets are very good at creating openings by staggering them.
Upvote this man so JF can see it
Also important to note that the art for quicksilver bullets actively show them melting, so they 100% meant mercury-based bullets.
That art also has a fingerprint embedded in the bullet which is a nice touch
@@mixmastermind I always assumed that the fingerprint was from pushing blood into the bullet with a cut finger, or something similar.
*Laughs in Bloodtinge build*
Actually, while the inhabitants of Yharnam have come to believe that they are transforming due to the consumption/injection of blood (hence bloodborne, like an illness), in reality they're being transformed into something hat was already part f their human essence by the proximity of the hidden red moon.
"Dr. Richard Gatling exists in this universe" The Souls games also often have a hammer called a "Lucerne" in-game, despite the weapon being named for Lucerne, Switzerland.
The Lucerne Hammer is a real world polearm, favoured by the Swiss around the 16th century.
Many people don't know this, but Lordran is in Switzerland. You need to have the doll to go in, like in 3, but it's there.
and the Zweihander, implying Germany also exists in Dark Souls
And Ludwig refers to his church hunters as "Spartans."
There's also Molotov cocktails, and Braille writing.
the funny thing is, the quicksilver bullets alone wouldn't do a thing to the beasts. one must mix blood in with the quicksilver to make them effective. This is why bloodtinge levels affect guns, you're literally improving the quality of your blood to make the bullets stronger.
and hunter tools essentially are using the quicksilver as a base for an arcane ritual, hence why most hunter tools rely on arcane to scale, but still use quicksilver bullets to activate.
It's not even some magic ritual. Mercury just absorbs and amalgamates other metals on contact. Seriously, pour some liquid mercury into some iron filings and it'll mix itself with them into a toxic silvery putty. It's likely doing the same thing with the iron a hunter's blood.
I always just assumed the bullets were hollow and had the quicksilver mixture in them.
It's one of those things where I wish there was someone clarifying things for them
@@sephytcd8349 There's a good video series that unpacks a lot of Bloodborne's themes using the history of English Medicine during the early Industrial era which makes the usage of mercury make more sense
@@sephytcd8349 There is usually another guy but he must have gone for a poo
We may not get Bloodborne on PC, but we can see Jonathan Ferguson talk about Bloodborne, on PC.
WE'LL TAKE WHAT WE CAN GET!
Wouldn't have it any other way 🎉
Lies of P
Enough said
@@903strikerunit I love Lies of P, and the similarities are certainly there, but by the end I felt that I liked both titles for different reasons. It's no replacement for Bloodborne, but still awesome in its own way.
I was not expecting the Boom Hammer of all things to have a close enough real world analog that they would have at hand from the museum
Boom Hammer stays winning
Now, it's funny there's that with an okay parallel, but then the same concept is somewhat poopoo'd for the stake driver, which is roughly the same: a captive bolt system propelled by explosions. It's made a bit fancier given the elements at play, but a pilebunker is such a common implement (in media at least) that I'm surprised these two couldn't have been conflated into roughly the same spot.
That and I'd more think the boom hammer uses the explosion to propel either itself for a harder or even "double" hit, or perhaps fires it into the poor target for cavitation and conflagration, but I really don't know, even as an amateur professional fantasy overthinker!
Absolutely no need for a fight. Dog soldiers is without a doubt the best werewolf movie of all time.
An American Werewolf in London has the best transformation hands down though
I will stand on that hill
Wolf cop has the most memorable transformation I can think of
Stephen King's Silver Bullet
And great Action scenes like throwing the torch (flashlight).
The thing about the Quicksilver bullets is that they're not only used as ammo for guns, but as a resource expended for arcane tools. In other words, it's a reference to alchemy, as mercury is notorious throughout history as a "magical" catalyst. It's also far, FAR more toxic than silver, which is handy considering that your enemies quickly rise beyond werewolves and become eldritch, cosmic horrors.
So I don't think the developers arbitrarily added words and hoped no one would notice how wrong they were, but rather decided to put a unique (but logical) spin on things while still paying homage to the familiar "silver bullet" trope from folklore and monster movies.
What's weird is if you look at the Quicksilver Bullet icon in-game, it's oozing a silvery metal. So it's even shown as a liquid metal in-game, which makes me think it probably is intended to be mercury. Which makes sense in a weird way, because that's probably how they're able to be combined with the hunter's blood. They're literally made from a mixture of mercury and blood. Real question is, how do you shoot liquid bullets? Magic I suppose lol.
@@yewtewbstew547 I like to imagine we're shooting bunch of tiny, highly toxic T-1000s that harden into solid projectiles as needed.
It's translated as mercury in other languages
@@yewtewbstew547 is by the blood it apparently is a really good propellent
@@yewtewbstew547supposedly, the bullet would expand in the barrel and by the time you shoot, itd have fitted the barrel as intended. its quite an odd form for a bullet to take, but being that its mostly fictionalized crazy blood, sure whatever.
Reiterpallasch's mechanism isn't an extending barrel, it's an extending blade. It swaps between a full rapier, but then gets tucked down to enable the hidden gun (while still using the blade like a bayonet dagger).
why tho lol?
Because transforming weapons go brrrrrrrrt.
@@TheBuddel because is made for nobles
@@yokai1235 bruh I know. But why would the blade retract? It basically weakens the entire thing for no reason
@@TheBuddel I think it has to do with gameplay, since the fame has also pvp, the opponent player should be able to see when you can shoot and when not.
"Tonight, Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, joins the hunt."
Dear, oh dear
@@user-hx5oe9iz1h "It always comes down to the Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at Royal Armouries to clean up after Gamespot's messes."
Also, you pulled out the "Cash Knocker" during the Boom Hammer part, but I think the Stake Driver is intended to be used as an 'impact weapon', using an explosive to drive a stake. The Boom Hammer appears to use it's furnace parts simply to add a burst of fire to the weapon.
(Also, there's literally a Rifle Spear, odd that that was passed over)
I agree. It's a homage to the pile bunker of mech media, a big captive spike which is explosively driven into the target.
Bonus fact: another common use of gunpowder driven captive piston is the Ramset, which is a tool which uses blanks to nail things into concrete.
If I remember correctly, the Quicksilver bullets aren't there to hurt the beasts, it's just the only ammunition that can make them recoil like they just got shot
Yeah, I think normal bullets do literally nothing so quicksilver bullets "infused with the wielders blood" are used to make them stagger instead
In this video, Jonathan gets a rare opportunity to exercise the "and Artillery" part of his professional title, and the cannon just goes _plunk_ >_<
His disappointment is entirely justified and understandable. Also, the scene nearly made me spit out my tea.
When it shoots at you, it has far better reach lol
that was the most laughable cannon i have ever seen in a video game
"Hey me, are you going to ask again for a F.E.A.R. video?"
"You know it me"
F.E.A.R and Killzone series for me. Both franchise have cool guns
The juciest SPAS-12 in gaming history. Absolutely fvcking love it!
@@CalamityCain That's an odd way to spell "Vaporizer".
@@CalamityCain Amen! Monster of a shotgun
The cannons that were used as bollards in Old Portsmouth seemed to disappear overnight (one day I noticed they had gone), and I was quite sad about it. For years I never noticed them as they were just normal, and when I learned that they were likely captured from any of the hundreds of battles the navy fought I went looking for them and it was too late
Jonathan is about to go all Anton Chigurh. But a "knocker" was the guy in a slaughterhouse that swung the sledgehammer back in the day.
You guys could have done Elden Ring. It has jar cannon, jar cannon, and jar cannon. Gimme a second, I'm forgetting one. Ah, it also has jar cannon. There are so many firearms in Elden Ring to cover.
don’t forget about the jar cannon, that’s pretty important
SotE Spoilers: [it now has two cannons so surely that's a full episode right? ]
One eyed shield also has a built in cannon
@@heibk-2019 I actually forgot about that thing. There's also the visage shield. My joke has become misinformation.
@@rin-joh8644 See? THREE entire guns, that is more than enough for an entire video FOUR if you count the shield with a flamethrower and since they included the BB flamethrower, I do.
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.
Binary Domain does not get enough love. That game was actually kinda peak. I didn’t know it was made by the Yakuza crew but that explains why the characters and script were like, unnecessarily good for what is otherwise kinda just a high octane shooter.
@@spiraljumper74 and it came out in that era where everybody tries to make their own Gears of War, the market was oversaturated with 3rd person cover shooters like Uncharted, Army of Two, Mass Effect, Ghost Recon games like Advanced Warfighter 1 and 2, Future Soldier, etc. So it's understandable why people would give it a pass.
Another third person shooter that came out at the time that I want to be covered in this series is Vanquish, which is a TPS made by Platinum Games, the guys behind Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising, I wouldn't call Vanquish a 3rd person cover shooter because it would be a disservice, the cover system exists but you are encouraged to run and gun, (or slide and gun in this case). And Shinji Mikami also worked on it as well, but like many games from Platinum, it didn't sell well.
The shovel punchy thingy (Stake Driver) could be a captive bolt system, such as is used by Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. Wait, never mind, you have one of those.
I'm not going to fight Jonathan on Dog Soldiers. It has Kevin McKidd, the original Soap MacTavish, in it
Kevin Mckidd, Sean Pertwee and Liam Cunnigham! Awesome film
My favorite werewolf movie
I like to imagine the john just walks around with a little bag that contains *every single* gun and *artillery piece* that has ever existed and ever will exist
The "Stake Driver" basically also works like a giant captive bolt pistol. It's not actually shooting a projectile, it's a detonator that propels the stake forward about 6 inches on impact when you punch with it.
I hate the fact that they didn't talk about the rifle spear
i know, i was waiting for that exact one, especially after he talks about one of them being a half rifle, half spear thing.
im like, oh buddy, just you wait.
@@claytonparfumorse3101 Hopefully they're saving it for another episode... perhaps for the day when Bloodborne 2 or PC get announced.
Everybody forgets the rifle spear exists.
@@juanausensi499 its usually my main weapon. its easily my favorite in the game.
10:49 I honestly thought that the "humane killer" weapon was just a big explosive hammer you'd whack an animal with until Jonathan showed the lever
I'm assuming the lever is basically a safety. You have to hold the lever closed while you swing for the trigger to engage on contact, to avoid drops causing accidental discharge.
4:35 Vyacheslav Molotov also exists in the same universe as Yharnam.
A gun spear combo makes a lot of sense ie the eventual development of the bayonet. I'm actually surprised during the early matchlock days that this wasn't a more common thing
Johnathan, all the main weapons in the game transform. And also, you can do a build to boost Bloodtinge, (gun damage) but the guns are primarily used to counter enemies and to interrupt attacks, since there is really no way to block. Especially the early game guns, which do very little damage.
Evelyn does pretty respectable damage at high bloodtinge. Especially with some ash
Dog Soldiers reference! Yes, I'm with you on that hill; best werewolf film of all time :D
Gunfire Reborn, Roboquest, and Planetside 2 all deserve a look. Very different, but all very cool.
PlanetSide seems like it'd need different episodes for each faction + a few NS ones each episode
The Stake Driver is more of a callback to mecha anime than anything else, the "pile bunker" specifically.
Here's hoping they touch on it again in the Armored Core video!~
And on ramming a stake into a vampires heart..here used against werewolves tho
Dog Soldiers is not only absolutely the best werewolf movie ever, it’s just one of the best movies ever.
The stake driver is a melee weapon not a fire arm.
I also think its underrated.
Well yes, but same as the boomhammer it uses a gun-like mechanism but just to make a big ol boom
@@punlshedsnake8210 but to cover that and not the rifle spear doesn't make sense
The Gatling gun and other moving weapons like the whirligig have high strength requirements not only because they’re heavy, but because to get the to actuate the character is actively cranking the gun with their hand to make it spin. Hunters have some monstrous grip strength
Another note on Quicksilver bullets. Mercury used to be treated by those who has severe congenital syphilis. One of the symptoms of the disease were people who seemed to resemble what was depicted as the inspiration for werewolves. Hence: using quicksilver bullets against enemies in Bloodborne.
Quicksilver Bullets being mercury wouldn't be very effective on beasts or the other Eldritch horrors in the game.
The real damage dealer would be the blood that is added to the Quicksilver bullets. It's also why when you make or synthesize new QS bullets, you lose a bit of health. As in you're actually injuring yourself and using your own blood for the bullets. With blood being responsible for causing damage, it also makes sense as to why bullet damage increases with increase in Bloodtinge stats.
The Quicksilver is meant as a catalyst - or wait "catalyst" may not be the right word if its used up, but point is it's for- for the various arcane arts. And as the various Hunter Tools are meant for casting arcane rituals, it also makes sense that the Quicksilver bullets are used up as you make use of them, even though at a glance it looks you're using magic and you'd expect something like "mana" to be its fuel...
wait... gatling guns are named after a person named gatling
its not because they gattle
always assumed gatling was just the word for firing a lot, but i guess that came after the gun
kindof cool to be so revolutionary you become a word even if you are forgotten
going to have a fun time following the wiki links on this guy
poor man. his aim was to invent a Gun so horriffic, it would end all war...
Maybe I misread you, but gattle isn't a word for firing a lot. Or for anything else for that matter
I thought like you once upon a time, and man was I disappointed to find out the creator's name was simply Gatling as well.
Please Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK, please deconstruct and analyze 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 and drum magazine resembling an (∞) symbol as well as the tumbling bullets.
- The EZ tranq gun based off a Liberator pistol.
- Snake's customized officer M1911A1 and him whittling the pistol grip to use a knife for CQC.
- Ocelot's dual Single Action Army and his revolver juggling skills.
- The End's custom paratrooper Mosin Nagant with tranquilizer rounds.
- The Davey Crockett recoil-less nuclear launcher.
- Eva's chinese Type 17 mauser clone with her "bandit shooting" technique.
- Volgin using his electricity to ignite and fire off 7.62mm bullets from his hands.
- The Boss's quick ability to disarm and disassemble Snake's pistols.
These are a few examples and there are so many more other interesting trivias and weapons in MGS3 so please Dave and Jonathan, please consider making a video for MGS3.
Make it happen, Daverino
sounds like it would make more sense to do a video after the remake comes out
Doubt they're going to do it before the remake, they always use the "boom" of something to get more views
Johnathan has said he actually wants to play Metal Gear Solid before he does a weapon review for it.
Pretty sure the closer we get to release we’ll get a video at some point. It’d be in Konami’s best interests if they did the video closer to release as well.
After all, Konami hasn’t been doing much in the way of outside PR with other groups for Delta or SH2R, most of the PR has been in house, by Konami themselves. Hayter is in an NDA with Konami and has only been doing PR for Delta for the last month or so for the official Konami channel.
Konami is playing things way too close to the chest for my liking.
I would like to see Jonathan reacting to the guns of Warframe
I've been asking for this for a while, thank you so much for covering it!
To be fair the reiterpallach doesn't fire in the extended form
Hipfiring pimps at Bloodborne being a part of this episode is truly an experience
Looks like Jonathan will need to add emotional support cannon to his emotional support weapon arsenal XD
Also, just generally, as a museum person myself, this is some of the absolute best museum-related content on TH-cam. I love it, please keep up the good work.
I know who I'm modeling my next Bloodborne playthrough after
I have wanted this episode for the last 2 years
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i would love to see Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, in the UK, react to Generation Zero. the guns look good and have nice sounds, also some pretty cursed guns to terror Jonathan with XD. the robots look good too.
Also The Resistance Series, especially 3, they look good and iteresting and i'd love to hear his opionion on it.
Dog Soldiers is indeed the best werewolf movie of all time.
"Dog Soldiers" is absolutely the best werewolf movie ever.
Jonathon Ferguson. I probably would have to agree, Dog Soldiers is an awesome film.
The guns, the majority of them anyways, were how you perry an attacks in Bloodborne actually.
The quicksilver bullets are actually supposed to be mercury, that's very much intentional. It's a _play_ on the whole "silver bullet" thing, while not being literally the same thing, think of it as one method out of many that they used to make the universe feel more unique while still paying homage to the classics, rather than just making another bog standard gothic horror universe, which they were trying to avoid. There's also a mechanic in the game where the player can draw some of their blood, which removes part of their health, in order to refill five of their quicksilver bullets, the lore implication there being that the average hunter has tons of mercury in their blood, and that can be pulled out to make more quicksilver bullets in a pinch. That, plus the range being super low because mercury wouldn't make a great projectile even if it were encased in something, and I'm pretty sure it's even mentioned multiple times in the lore (been a while since I played it though, but I'm pretty sure that's the case), all point to the naming being intentional.
I also think it's worth pointing out that the quicksilver bullets aren't necessarily magical, at least not when used in the firearms. They are a reference to mercury's historical use in alchemy, but that's only really for their use as a catalyst for the magical tools (and even then I'm pretty sure it's just the tool that's magical, not the mercury itself, it's just needed to use the tool), in the firearms they're really only used to stun enemies, not really to deal damage. The gun is how you parry enemy attacks so you can temporarily stun them and then go in with your melee weapon, since bullets aren't really effective against beasts and the variety of monsters you fight in the game (lore wise at least, there is a specific build you can make to solely use firearms to deal damage if you want though).
Not a big deal by any means of course, but I felt like that's worth correcting. Fromsoftware puts a ton of thought into their worlds, Miyazaki and his team are extremely detail oriented when it comes to building them, if there's something that feels off, there's a solid chance it's still done that way on purpose, it might just take some digging for it to make sense. EDIT: Though I will admit the guns are still a bit on the ridiculous side lol.
Still hoping to see Jonathan go over the weapons of Valkyria Chronicles 1 and 4.
@MrFerguson RE: Your questions.
For the Reiterspallasche, the "normal mode" has the blade in the barrel like a "plug type" bayonette, in "trick mode" the plug is in a socket in the handle and the blade runs "under" the barrel.
Boom-hammer - those are caled "slaughter-house hammers", the ones you showed are the 1st ones I've seen that didn't run on compressed air.
"Dr. Richard Gatling exists in this universe." That's nothing. Molotov Cocktails exist in this universe.
Fun fact: there are unused animations in Bloodborne for reloading some of the guns that reveals they were actually meant to be these weird breech-loaders that would break open like a shotgun to be reloaded. You can find the concept art for the Hunter Pistol online which shows the functionality. Very early test footage actually has the player holding a straight up double-barrel shotgun instead of the more flintlock style firearms used in the final game, which is probably where this idea came from.
A relic of this remains in the final game, as Father Gascoigne has a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reload animation for his own gun where he breaks it open to reload it.
I definitely think you need to do cruelty squad next
God I want to see him do EDF Fencer weapons. The Blasthole Spear would be amazing.
100% agree. I love Dog Soldiers. John Pertwee's son is in it for Tardis' sake!
Fyi " quicksilver " bullets are filled with liquid mercury and this essentially acts like a self-defense ammo of modern times the soft center mixed with a hard shell expand better .also there essentially self lubed makeing reloading without a ramrod easier
Would be cool to look into killzone series weapons, there's a lot of good weapon design there
I don't have a saucepan full of boiling water handy, hence I'm not going to fight Mr Ferguson about his opinion on "Dog Soldiers".
Oh, whom I'm kidding! "Dog Soldiers" is THE best werewolf movie. And it has both ser Davos Seaworth and Lucius Vorenius!
I would love to see Jonathan react to the weapons of Cruelty Squad
about flamethrower, its a flame version of another item, that sprays toxic myst, which is inspired by victorian era cloud spreader, that would spread acid to sanitize body during the medical procedure.
The pistol with the spinning barrels is for easier reloading like a revolver i assume, spin the barrel for rear loading and then keep spin to lock the barrels in place for the next shot.
If you look at the icon for quicksilver bullets you do see the liquid mercury dripping off the bullets. So they definitely didn't get the terms confused in that regard
Man ,that captive bolt sledge hammer is crazy.
The butches pistols from England are really cool looking captive bolt guns as well.
Regarding the Reiterpallasch, it's not an extending barrel. When the sword transforms, the blade moves out of the way and the entire pistol is pushed into its place, aligning the muzzle with the hunter's wrist. In its normal orientation, the pistol is retracted behind the guard.
Jonathan Ferguson made it to legendary states with "Dog Soldiers, which is the best Werwolf film of all time. Fight me".
owe this will be good cant wait to see what he brings out
I still have yet to finish this game. That said, I do still love the aesthetic of Bloodborne's world.
The Reiterpallasch doesn't have an extending barrel, if I remember correctly the transforming mechanism is the Blade, normally it actually covers the Barrel, and when you Transform it the Blade moves aside
I do remember the Reiterpallasch can only fire when it's transformed in-game, you fire the gun with the R2 Button which is the Heavy Attack Button when the weapon is untransformed
5:47 Depending on the brand of fantasy, lead or iron is also quite effective, but yeah silver is the way to go
if i was to guess how the stake driver works i'd say it seems like the powerfist from Fallout, but instead of pneumatics pushing the punchy bit forward its powder, like those nail guns that are powered with blanks
I would really love to see Firearms Expert Reacts to KIllzone Firearms
That sword and pistol combo reveal was insane, I didn't actually expect it to be real
the repeating pistol was probably modeled and animated to be capable of firing faster, 1 bullet fires barrel spins, fire the next, but was changed to just shoot 2 bullets instead, but they never changed the animation or name
The repeating pistol was a change of function in the game. It was not originally supposed to fire both barrels "at the same time."
The blunderbuss pistol reminds me of the Webley signal pistol Mk II. Mostly because of the flared muzzle and how it looks like 3 sections. I also just think the signal pistol looks cool.
with Killing Floor 3 behind the corner I would like to see Jonathan react to akimbo 1858 revolvers reload in Killing Floor 2 as well as many other interesting weapons from first Killing Floor
6:31 The Stake Driver's origins are more than likely connected to the Pile Bunker from the Mecha genre of manga and anime. Its use being in close quarters for precise armor piercing attacks on vital system like the cockpit. See something like, "Armored Trooper VOTOMS" for an example.
As for a real world object, the "humane killing" tools for livestock work on a similar principle just with compressed air. This is featured prominently in the movie, "No Country for Old Men."
A thing I think is interesting to note, is that based on concept art and a boss named Gascoigne, the default Hunter Pistol is actually a break action firing cartridges, just not animated as such when the player uses it for gameplay reasons
For anyone wondering: the bullets are made of mercury but synthesized into hardened bullets. The reason for this os theres mercury(or this universes version of it) in everyones blood, and you can actually synthesize bullets from your own blood one the spot. Its a means of getting more bullets when youre out of ammo by sacrificing some health.
the "Stake Driver" I think is supposed to be a pile bunker, a mostly fictional weapon where a gunpowder charge (or electricity or sci-fi power source) drives a sturdy stake forward, which is then retained by the system.
The quicksilver thing is interesting because Bloodborne borrows at least as much from alchemical tradition and historical medical practice as it does from gothic horror. Some of your weapons are inlaid with silver, but those are mostly useful against the vampiric style enemies. Werewolves in the game are afflicted by a malady of the blood, so you need to quickly balance their humours with emergency bloodletting or apply some (mostly mercury) medicine.
I believe the quicksilver bullets are actually made from a mercurial substance mixed with blood in a ritual to create the slugs and are only able to be used by hunters who have gone through their special old blood transfusion, if I remember correctly
"Dog Soldiers, which is the best werewolf film of all time. Fight me." Hands down! Jonathan spitting facts there!
Not sure why he covered melee weapons like the boom hammer and stake drivers but not the rifle spear which has a gun on it and the rosemarius which is a counter part to the flame sprayer
huh now that he mentioned it the art for the bullets does have them melting so makes sense, never clicked until now that it was mercury. since i know thats what quicksilver is just too use to mcguffins.
I wonder if that final spinny barrel gun is supposed to signify automatic reload...a twin spiral feed mechanism with a wound spring, the force of the double shot literally forcing the barrels back enough to charge the spring and force a mechanism to rotate through a pair of divots? Don't ask where the new cartridges are coming from...
This is cool you're going back to older games recently. Can you go back to Ghost Recon Advanced Warfare and to cover weapons like the M8 series and the MRC Caseless Rifle please? I have been asking this consistently for nearly 3 years now.
Never did understand why they're using flintlocks and blunderbusses in a setting that already has brass cartridges machine guns and is going for the aesthetics of an era long after they stopped seeing widespread use.
Concerning the strength requirements of most weapons - main running theory is that player character is not human, but rather a vampire as Bloodborne has werewolves and eldritch monsters, but all the references to vampires lead to player and other NPCs. You're a vampire hunting werevolves.
Who is supplying that theory? The game outright tells you that a hunter is someone infused with a measure of the old blood, the arcane blood of the Eldritch gods. The reason a character can become superhuman in strength or speed in-universe is due to the ongoing influence of leveling through blood echoes or by experimentation through exposure to the old ones. Heck, they even have a vampire faction in the game that is specifically listed as different (and operate differently) from the hunter (player character).
@@Azteceda that's the point, they don't. Cainhurst isn't different from the player. Vampires just are miraculously absent unless the most obvious explanation is true.
Regarding quicksilver, its mostly for its alchemical symbolism and use on hermeneutic schools which all soul games take from.
Johnny should cover ULTRAKILL I want to see him get over stimulated
In some folklore, both mercury and silver have the damaging effect on unholy creatures. Possibly because at the time they didn't understand the difference.
I think John would get a kick out of Guns of Icarus considering there are no small arms persay and the steam punk theme is used to remove the crew from the crew served weapons.
Bloodborne has cool guns and even cooler close combat weapons.
You know what else could be cool? That Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of firearm and artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK would review the Gund or Deus Ex
Hunt Showdown is having a big update on august 15th, since the last episode of expert reacts they've added a lot of new and interesting firearms. Please do another episode covering them
This is wild i was just watching toby review armory in video games looking for a bloodborne one. then this drops the same night! This game is still well alive and should be cherished forever.
Jonathan Ferguson put out more Bloodborne content than we've gotten in 9 years.