Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK has upgraded his background once again. (and has gotten a cold or something? Stay healthy)
@@albatrossjohnson i do not think he needs more protection, over 1000 unique guns and artillery pices and enough ammunition for a years' worth seige should be enough for a cold
Here we see Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries musuem in the UK is suffering from a cold or a cough. Wish him a speedy recovery, lads. Update: Ladies and gentlemen, we helped him got better.
Get well soon 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.
There is a bit of an explanation to the MG-42 barrel swap. DICE are well known to be fans of Forgotten Weapons, and when Ian had an MG-42 he demonstrated the quick change barrel feature right after shooting, so the barrel was hot. Ian used a spent casing to pull out the hot barrel to demonstrate how it is done.
It's rarely, if ever about sympathy. It's typically just to explain poor voice quality. Unless it's insta, in that event, please do yourself a favor and curate your content more.
Hey GameSpot, you should definitely let Jonathan take a look at Hunt Showdown again. They keep adding so many cool variants to weapons, like the obscure loading mechanism for the Martini Henry
It would be a treat to see another episode on Hunt, but if you didn't know, he's done an in depth video on the magazine fed Martini Henry (Lee Metford) on the Royal Armouries channel.
We all love Jonathan, but I also want to give a shoutout to Dave too. Not only does he have great chemistry with Jonathan, but it’s so cool to see how your knowledge has grown and how you start to point out things. This is one of the best series on TH-cam, thank you so much for making it!
The series, and Loadout, were Dave's ideas as well :) I think it was his colleague Adam's idea to start including some of the discussion in the edit and I agree it works really well.
The LS M/26 was, on the one hand, spectacularly accurate, and as long as it was oiled and kept up, very reliable. On the other hand, it was heavy at 20 pounds unloaded, and ran a 20-round magazine(there was a later version that could take a 75-round drum but that was never used in Finland), and most importantly....had one hundred and eighty eight parts. It was a misery and a half to clean. The soldiers nicknamed it the "Assorted Mistakes", and much preferred captured Degtyarov DP-27.
In the game its also the worst LMG damage wise. If I remember correctly they buffed all the others but some reason did nothing to LS M/26 so its the hardest LMG to get kills in the Battlefield V
@@Wezqu That's not true It has the same standard LMG damage (25.1 - 15 damage per hit) with a rate of fire slightly above average (most like the Lewis or Bren are between 500 & 550 rounds/minute, the LS26 shoots 600 rpm) The gun solely gets held back by the rather high recoil & small magazine
Of note, the version using the 75 round drum was planned to be used as a defensive gun for bombers and other aircraft with defensive gunners, but this never materialized, and iirc the guns were converted back to not being able to use the drums and put into regular service. Another interesting fact is that Lahti wanted to use a gas operated system from the start, but the Finnish army didn't trust it, and wanted it to be recoil operated because they had experience with the system from using Maxims. Later on Lahti would produce the significantly superior L34 and L41 LMGs, but neither got accepted into service because of pressures of war.
I have to say, the paint job on that Arisaka looked _really_ nice. It looked like someone had actually hand-painted the rifle white with a delicate sakura pattern, and then used the gun a bit resulting in a wear pattern. It looks _real_ even if it may not be very _realistic_ to use an embellished rifle like this in combat. Pity about the mistake with the cycling animation, though.
Of all the fine details that have been put into this game, of course it would be the one things flies back into the player’s face that makes it through
I also like its rearsight, which seems to be a high detailed model of a British target rifle sight for a No.4 rifle. The detail of the vernier scales is nice and even the 6-hole adjustable size rear aperture is shown. I once had the even more sophisticated version, the infintely adjustable diaphram with slot in colour filters.
Sadly this is an error in the special skin, since the Chrysanthemum embellishment is extra, and instead of getting attached to the bolt in the skin setup, it got attached to the receiver. Oops.
If im remembering correctly, the MG 42 barrel change actually came from an older Forgotten Weapons where Ian did the same if not similar thing during a barrel swap
I think for the side by side grenade launcher being canted, is to give the player a visual aide that they're switched to the grenade launcher.. just in case.
If the sights were to be used with it, the lifted rear sight leaf could do that job. Although I understand that having to blindly predict the arc, learn it by feel or "walk" fire with several shots with grenade launchers is part of the typical balancing equation in arcadey games.
Jonathon mentioned the floaty bipods; I just want to mention that Battlefield 3 came out 12 years ago and the bipods would actually anchor down when deployed and pivot about their center. it looked really good and it does upset that we don't see that anymore.
Half-Life mod called Day of Defeat had that feature already in yearly 2000. It really felt like you were set on place having restricted movement in the horizontal axis and other times you could only hip fire the gun like in Battlefield V.
Jonathan Ferguson may be the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, but he will always be the keeper of our hearts ❤❤❤
Is there a Mrs. Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armories Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history? Asking for a friend 😉
There is a Keeper of the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK. She holds thousands of hours of listening to tales about iconic weapons.
Petition to revisit Squad. They’ve added several new factions since the last video (USMC, Canadian army, Chinese army and marines, the Turkish army), in addition to re-working the infantry combat system, so it would be interesting to hear Jonathan’s take on that as well.
Has Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK ever reacted to the weapons, better yet, the upgrades in TABG (Totally Accurate Battle Grounds)? That thing's a fever dream
The Nambu Type 1 utilized a pnuematic chamber to help reduce the tension of the action, according to gunwiki. The barrel itself stayed in place, but the front section came back with the bolt and returned forward with a return spring. It caught my eye too, so i had to check it out. Get better soon Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK !!
I can only speak as an former MG3 operator but, the barrel swap is not so easy. When the gun is canted to the left, it's very hard to get out with a casing. Therefore there are proper gloves issued with it. And it will NEVER be this smooth of a swap 😀
@jerrynaylor4092 doesnt change the fact that it *will* overheat and require a barrel swap, its still an LMG. Personally ive always thought the belgians mastered the barrel swap with the FN MAG, making the carry handle also used for changing the barrel seems better than relying on a spent casing or asbestos gloves. But for its time, the 34/42's barrel swap was pretty clever
@jerrynaylor4092You’re still instructed to swap after ~200 rounds. If your barrel is glowing,you’ve already damaged it beyond repair,which obviously isn’t great
Thank you Jonathan Ferguson (and everyone at GameSpot) for another entertaining and informative video. I wish the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK a swift recovery from their cold/cough.
The Lahti-Saloranta L26 was a really finicky piece of Finnish firearms' history. L26 was really maintenance intensive and jammed easily without proper maintenance. The best meme/rumor was, that a commander came to a LMG/MG unit and saw, that they hadn't used the "correct method" to maintain the L26. He was 100% sure the gun wouldn't fire and asked one of the gunners to shoot him at the cold weather of -40°C. The officer soiled his pants as the L26 worked flawlessly, because it had been maintained properly and it had been oiled with linseed oil instead of regular gun oil, because linseed oil was a better choise during those cold scenarios. The gunner shot at a pine over the commanders head.
That mg42 barrel change was definitely referenced to Ian's Forgotten Weapons video, where i think he may have just improvised using a spent casing and may have also accidentally burned himself a little bit as well lol
I'd love to see Jonathan react to some more Hunt: Showdown. Some really neat additions have come to the game since the last time he reviewed it. Specifically the Vetterli "Cyclone", Martini-Henry Ironside (Side-Mounted Magazine), Drilling, and Derringer Pennyshot. I'd also love to see Jonathan react to the various Bulletgrubber reload animations in the game, as they are very cool.
Thank you Jonathan. These videos have always been a sort of a safe space to me, where i can just stop thinking about things and watch something combining two things i really like. My girlfriend, the love of my life, broke up with me a few hours ago and I've not been having a fun time, but getting home and opening youtube to seeing this video, it's really helped. So I say it again, thank you Jonathan.
Pushing as always for you guys to have Jonathan cover Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and to cover the M8 and MRI Caseless specifically as well. I have been posting for you to do this in every video a year back now.
Near the end of Sino-Japanese war, a bunch of Type-2s were captured in the Northeast China and the local government built a .45 ACP version of it. The total number of the .45 variant is unknown, but you can literally see at least one sample in any mainland museum that has a civil war exhibit and they are always simply labeled as '.45 SMG'. There are even multiple guns that were converted to blank-fire only and you can occasionally see them in some TV shows.
"World War II-inspired" is a great way to describe the arsenal in modern "period" mainstream shooters. Battlefield has basically always taken place in an arcade/fantasy version of our world but it has reached a rather absurd level where you basically have to go "this game is not set in any version of our reality, it's a world with more in common with Wolfenstein, just don't worry about it".
I really don't know why they even bother gaslighting people its WWI or WWII. At this point, they might as well be making alternative history FPSs. Kind of a halfway historically accurate, half early Wolfenstein minus the occult/scifi.
@@KSmithwick1989 As mediocre as Battlefield 2042 is, it's probably their most believable setting in the franchise to accommodate the game mechanics they want to have because it's not set in any historical or modern period. They were able to just make up the rules of the world to explain why the game mechanics are the way they are. The same could be said about Battlefield 2142 which was a great and grounded hard scifi FPS. But I absolutely agree-when you depict a 1940s world that has practical infrared scopes and female German foot soldiers with prosthetics, just admit your game is set in an alternate setting and have some fun with it.
@carsonm7292 Which is still a questionable decision at best. When they already made Battlefield 2142. They could have remade that and gone full sci-fi. The specialist on specialist combat was another bad decision. I know people who left the game over that mechanic. The confusing part is that the same studio also made Star Wars Battlefront. They should have kept regular classes and just copied the Hero mechanics from Battlefront.
Great video. I'd formally like to suggest you guys do a video reacting to the firearms in "Holdfast: Nations at War" next. I think it would be cool to learn about Napoleonic era weaponry!
Both My brother and 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), seem to both be suffering from a cold or laryngitis, hoping for a speedy recovery!
back in the day we used our standard issue leather gloves to change the barrel of our MG3 when overheating, you wouldnt feel any heat, but it takes longer than in the game with the MG42, for which I assume they wouldve had gloves also
I really hope that Jonathon Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the royal armories Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history makes a fast recovery 🫡
Why they put Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in some kind of half-empty storehouse? And also he sounds kinda sick (of course, after they left him in such conditions - cold concrete room) get well Jonathan!
Aww, i was kinda hoping for Jonathan Ferguson, The keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum in the UK to discuss the fact that the Lee Enfield is held in a mad minute style, probably see his mind blown or just talk about it in terms of historical accuracy/interesting points, maybe something for the Royal Armouries channel?
wishing Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries musuem in the UK a speedy recovery. Always a good day when TH-cam's curator gets a GameSpot video up.
Love the content. Would also love to see the full rundown by Royal Armories of ALL the gear available to folks in Ready Or Not now that it is released. This includes the armor, and tactical equipment, as well as the guns. Think this would make a great string of vids that many from the Armories, including Jonathan could get involved in.
id like to see jonathan critique the guns of enlisted; its got a lot of the historical classics (the garand, the stg44, etc) but also a few of the less famous guns in it (the johnson m1941, the volkssturmgewehr, etc) so it would maybe make an interesting video.
Feel better 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 throughout history.
When Jonathan is talking about the symbol on the back of the Arisaka, it reminds me, my great aunt has one that was captured during WW2, and it still has the symbol.
If memory serves me right the late R Lee Ermy did a show that showed the mg42 barrel being changed and they did use a spent cartridge in order to remove the barrel. Scratch that I've just saw another video that says it's a mix of what germans actually did and also a nod to forgotten weapons host ian
I'd like to see Jonathan review the guns of Prey (2017), Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops Campaign, Classic Tomb Raider, The Callisto Protocol and/or Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth 👽🪖🔥💀🚀🐙
I do want to point out that the type 99 did not have a floral design on the cocking piece but early war ones did have a knurled design because the cocking piece also worked as a safety. Late war/last ditch rifles they dropped it in favor of nothing because they needed to safe costs in every way imaginable
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 and Eva's chinese mauser clone. There are so many more other interesting trivias and weapons in MGS3 so please gamespot and Johnathan make a video for the game.
Having not played BF5 I appreciate these videos for shining a light on some of the more obscure weapons of world war 2. Having mostly played early Call of Duty games, you'd think it was all Garands, Karabiners and Mosin Nagants
CoD WW2, the last WW2 CoD, has a really nice list of obscure weapons and less used weapons, from the polish Blyscawica smg to german and soviet prototype rifles
Does Jonathan get a list of firearms that are in the video so he can go and get them out of storage BEFORE recording or does he watch it, run through the shelves, find the gun and then talk about it? I just have an image of him going "we have one of these, one moment" then disappearing among the shelves and reappearing with the gun 😅
Game mechanic idea: An FPS where early level weapons operate under arcade rules and unrealistic shooting and loading physics, but as they progress the weapons become more and more realistic and true to life in function and capability to present more challenge to the player.
The Lahti-Saloranta reminded me that it'd be interesting to hear Jonathan's comments on guns in Enlisted. Especially some of the weirder or rarer stuff like Japanese SMGs (also has a type 1 and type 2) and the semi-auto rifles like the Armaguerra.
I do hope they would show the base version of the gun first, to show what attention or not the dev´s paid in making it. Feels a bit sad when a gun is being questioned on cosmetics or a sight that are not the baseline, showing the different options is fine of course and can lead to interesting notes or discussions but i do think showing the standard version first would be nice.
Sweet! Another weapons video where this guy says after holding a pistol “Well we don’t have that EXACT gun here we DO have this” *and pulls out a scoped double barrel shotgun*
I was really disappointed that there was a lack of guns in this game and half of them were recycled over from BF1. Where’s the Hi Power? Nambu? Springfield?
On the point about floating bi-pods, that was one detail the old Half-Life mod Day of Defeat did well, machine guns were horribly inaccurate when standing but if you went prone or crouched behind sandbags you could snap out the bi-pod for better aiming and were stuck in position with your view rotating around where the bi-pod sits rather than the rotating from the player perspective.
For Jonathan and any other non German speakers: The "chs" in "Panzerbüchse" is actually pronounced like X. Basically It's pronounced "Panzerbewxe". Also I wish Jonathan Ferguson a speedy recovery!
if Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK hasn't been told yet; in the game most of the guns have a set of sights for each weapon class so most assault rifles let you pick one of the 3 or 4 sights and the same goes for SMGs and LMGs which is why those anti air sights are on the LMGs is mainly because they are one of the ones you can choose and not there by default.
The term suppressor didn't replace silencer because it is more correct, it is not. The US silencer association started using it in the 80s to make it seem less scary. It wasnt very successful and it wasnt widely used until the internets tacticool gang picked it up. From there it spread. It's still wrong, it doesn't suppress, it muffles if anything. Sound moderator is good too. Suppressor isn't any better than silencer anyway. Forgotten Weapons had a great video about it.
Btw Drilling isn’t just from the german word for three (Drei) but actual is the german word for triplet, following on from the word for twin (Zwilling) which also corresponds to the word for two (zwei). Love your content. Really want to come visit one day!
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. should do Metal gear solid 3, like snakes M1911 and Mk 22 tranq pistol. Ocelots Single action army and Makarov, Eva's type 17 Chinese pistol and the gun the Boss uses, the Patriot. Also an opinion on snake critiquing ocelots Makarov technique would be legendary.
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Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK has upgraded his background once again. (and has gotten a cold or something? Stay healthy)
Yeah, the UK is having an issue with the 100 day cough and other colds at the moment
It was only a matter of time before Johnathan got it
Protect jonathan at all costs 😡😡😡😡
@@albatrossjohnson^
@@albatrossjohnson i do not think he needs more protection, over 1000 unique guns and artillery pices and enough ammunition for a years' worth seige should be enough for a cold
@@taskfailedsuccessfully4791we still need him to be able to defend us 😅
Here we see Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries musuem in the UK is suffering from a cold or a cough.
Wish him a speedy recovery, lads.
Update: Ladies and gentlemen, we helped him got better.
Get well Jonathan
Get well soon 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.
imma have him in my prayers too
get well soon mr Ferguson.
Maybe he just had a long night out :D
There is a bit of an explanation to the MG-42 barrel swap. DICE are well known to be fans of Forgotten Weapons, and when Ian had an MG-42 he demonstrated the quick change barrel feature right after shooting, so the barrel was hot. Ian used a spent casing to pull out the hot barrel to demonstrate how it is done.
Ian is the best.
Who is Ian?
@@a7t0r98forgotten weapons real name is ian
@@mr.randomperson9900 oh his name is Ian? I never his name just knew he had that huge mustache.
@@a7t0r98 The guy who runs forgotten weapons. The guy with the pony tail and goatee.
He didn't even mention he was sick to try and get sympathy, what a trooper
That's because Jonathan doesn't get sick, sick gets Jonathan
@@connormartin1618 I freaking died lol
It's rarely, if ever about sympathy. It's typically just to explain poor voice quality. Unless it's insta, in that event, please do yourself a favor and curate your content more.
Hey GameSpot, you should definitely let Jonathan take a look at Hunt Showdown again. They keep adding so many cool variants to weapons, like the obscure loading mechanism for the Martini Henry
Yeah and maybe even look at some of the skins show different heat treatments and stuff like that!
just do a video where he reacts to every gun in the game
Yes definitely!
It would be a treat to see another episode on Hunt, but if you didn't know, he's done an in depth video on the magazine fed Martini Henry (Lee Metford) on the Royal Armouries channel.
Absolutely agree with this, more on Hunt Showdown please!
We all love Jonathan, but I also want to give a shoutout to Dave too. Not only does he have great chemistry with Jonathan, but it’s so cool to see how your knowledge has grown and how you start to point out things. This is one of the best series on TH-cam, thank you so much for making it!
The series, and Loadout, were Dave's ideas as well :) I think it was his colleague Adam's idea to start including some of the discussion in the edit and I agree it works really well.
@@JonathanFergusonRoyalArmouries Great tidbits! And definitely the right answers.
Also, the king replies!
The LS M/26 was, on the one hand, spectacularly accurate, and as long as it was oiled and kept up, very reliable. On the other hand, it was heavy at 20 pounds unloaded, and ran a 20-round magazine(there was a later version that could take a 75-round drum but that was never used in Finland), and most importantly....had one hundred and eighty eight parts. It was a misery and a half to clean. The soldiers nicknamed it the "Assorted Mistakes", and much preferred captured Degtyarov DP-27.
In the game its also the worst LMG damage wise. If I remember correctly they buffed all the others but some reason did nothing to LS M/26 so its the hardest LMG to get kills in the Battlefield V
@@Wezqu That's not true
It has the same standard LMG damage (25.1 - 15 damage per hit) with a rate of fire slightly above average (most like the Lewis or Bren are between 500 & 550 rounds/minute, the LS26 shoots 600 rpm)
The gun solely gets held back by the rather high recoil & small magazine
Of note, the version using the 75 round drum was planned to be used as a defensive gun for bombers and other aircraft with defensive gunners, but this never materialized, and iirc the guns were converted back to not being able to use the drums and put into regular service. Another interesting fact is that Lahti wanted to use a gas operated system from the start, but the Finnish army didn't trust it, and wanted it to be recoil operated because they had experience with the system from using Maxims. Later on Lahti would produce the significantly superior L34 and L41 LMGs, but neither got accepted into service because of pressures of war.
I have to say, the paint job on that Arisaka looked _really_ nice. It looked like someone had actually hand-painted the rifle white with a delicate sakura pattern, and then used the gun a bit resulting in a wear pattern.
It looks _real_ even if it may not be very _realistic_ to use an embellished rifle like this in combat.
Pity about the mistake with the cycling animation, though.
Of all the fine details that have been put into this game, of course it would be the one things flies back into the player’s face that makes it through
I also like its rearsight, which seems to be a high detailed model of a British target rifle sight for a No.4 rifle.
The detail of the vernier scales is nice and even the 6-hole adjustable size rear aperture is shown. I once had the even more sophisticated version, the infintely adjustable diaphram with slot in colour filters.
Sadly this is an error in the special skin, since the Chrysanthemum embellishment is extra, and instead of getting attached to the bolt in the skin setup, it got attached to the receiver. Oops.
@@alankertz5951It's also been changed to a cherry blossom instead of a chrysanthemum
was that related to cosmetic being the animation of the cockin? and they forgot to add the cosmetic inthe animation 🤔🤔
If im remembering correctly, the MG 42 barrel change actually came from an older Forgotten Weapons where Ian did the same if not similar thing during a barrel swap
th-cam.com/video/GfJkU4Sah8I/w-d-xo.htmlsi=wH6OlI0RWkMMptyg 5:40. Not as slick as the one in game
@@SuitsTheRedcoat What a blast from the past! I'd totally forgotten about the old intro 😄
@@Pauna2896 Has that public-access television production quality to it
I think for the side by side grenade launcher being canted, is to give the player a visual aide that they're switched to the grenade launcher.. just in case.
If the sights were to be used with it, the lifted rear sight leaf could do that job. Although I understand that having to blindly predict the arc, learn it by feel or "walk" fire with several shots with grenade launchers is part of the typical balancing equation in arcadey games.
The lifted sides and the weapon going on an angle should be plenty of indication. Also the crosshair changes as well.
Pretty good finnish with Lahti-Saloranta. Great job.
Jonathon mentioned the floaty bipods; I just want to mention that Battlefield 3 came out 12 years ago and the bipods would actually anchor down when deployed and pivot about their center. it looked really good and it does upset that we don't see that anymore.
Half-Life mod called Day of Defeat had that feature already in yearly 2000. It really felt like you were set on place having restricted movement in the horizontal axis and other times you could only hip fire the gun like in Battlefield V.
@@Wezqu Day of defeat: source also had that, and it was fantastic. Mounting up and mowing down infantry was such a fun experience
Jonathan Ferguson may be the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, but he will always be the keeper of our hearts ❤❤❤
Is there a Mrs. Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armories Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history? Asking for a friend 😉
Im sure i remember him mentioning a wife before
There is a Keeper of the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK. She holds thousands of hours of listening to tales about iconic weapons.
@@chasehoffman8057 *Throughout history
Are you suggesting that she is a larger lady, capable of housing a collection of thousands of firearms? Bit rude
I believe he mentioned about his wife during the Gears of War video, as a side note of the two of them putting hours into it together?
The Lahti magazine design gives me 40k bolter vibes.
Petition to revisit Squad. They’ve added several new factions since the last video (USMC, Canadian army, Chinese army and marines, the Turkish army), in addition to re-working the infantry combat system, so it would be interesting to hear Jonathan’s take on that as well.
The Lahti almost looks like a gun from a comic or something. Almost looks like WH40k based the bolter off of it.
Has Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK ever reacted to the weapons, better yet, the upgrades in TABG (Totally Accurate Battle Grounds)? That thing's a fever dream
The Nambu Type 1 utilized a pnuematic chamber to help reduce the tension of the action, according to gunwiki. The barrel itself stayed in place, but the front section came back with the bolt and returned forward with a return spring. It caught my eye too, so i had to check it out. Get better soon Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK !!
I can only speak as an former MG3 operator but, the barrel swap is not so easy. When the gun is canted to the left, it's very hard to get out with a casing. Therefore there are proper gloves issued with it.
And it will NEVER be this smooth of a swap 😀
@jerrynaylor4092 doesnt change the fact that it *will* overheat and require a barrel swap, its still an LMG. Personally ive always thought the belgians mastered the barrel swap with the FN MAG, making the carry handle also used for changing the barrel seems better than relying on a spent casing or asbestos gloves. But for its time, the 34/42's barrel swap was pretty clever
@jerrynaylor4092You’re still instructed to swap after ~200 rounds. If your barrel is glowing,you’ve already damaged it beyond repair,which obviously isn’t great
the only effective way would be pointing the barrel to the up buit it's heavy
Forgotten Weapons be like:
I really want him to do the guns of Enlisted.
Things like the PPD-1929 and the Maxim Tokarev would be awesome to see given a rundown.
Thank you Jonathan Ferguson (and everyone at GameSpot) for another entertaining and informative video. I wish the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK a swift recovery from their cold/cough.
The Lahti-Saloranta L26 was a really finicky piece of Finnish firearms' history. L26 was really maintenance intensive and jammed easily without proper maintenance. The best meme/rumor was, that a commander came to a LMG/MG unit and saw, that they hadn't used the "correct method" to maintain the L26. He was 100% sure the gun wouldn't fire and asked one of the gunners to shoot him at the cold weather of -40°C. The officer soiled his pants as the L26 worked flawlessly, because it had been maintained properly and it had been oiled with linseed oil instead of regular gun oil, because linseed oil was a better choise during those cold scenarios. The gunner shot at a pine over the commanders head.
That mg42 barrel change was definitely referenced to Ian's Forgotten Weapons video, where i think he may have just improvised using a spent casing and may have also accidentally burned himself a little bit as well lol
Shame you didn't point out the mad-minute grip on the Lee-Enfield, it's a very interesting detail that many people missed.
Hope Jonathan Ferguson has a speedy recover but here is the lad sick on day of recording and still did it, wonderful. Hope you're well mate!
I'd love to see Jonathan react to some more Hunt: Showdown. Some really neat additions have come to the game since the last time he reviewed it. Specifically the Vetterli "Cyclone", Martini-Henry Ironside (Side-Mounted Magazine), Drilling, and Derringer Pennyshot.
I'd also love to see Jonathan react to the various Bulletgrubber reload animations in the game, as they are very cool.
Thank you Jonathan. These videos have always been a sort of a safe space to me, where i can just stop thinking about things and watch something combining two things i really like. My girlfriend, the love of my life, broke up with me a few hours ago and I've not been having a fun time, but getting home and opening youtube to seeing this video, it's really helped. So I say it again, thank you Jonathan.
Also our buddy sounds so sick. I'm in the same boat, get better soon!
Thank you Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of the arms and artilery at the Royal Armory in the UK.
Pushing as always for you guys to have Jonathan cover Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and to cover the M8 and MRI Caseless specifically as well.
I have been posting for you to do this in every video a year back now.
Near the end of Sino-Japanese war, a bunch of Type-2s were captured in the Northeast China and the local government built a .45 ACP version of it. The total number of the .45 variant is unknown, but you can literally see at least one sample in any mainland museum that has a civil war exhibit and they are always simply labeled as '.45 SMG'. There are even multiple guns that were converted to blank-fire only and you can occasionally see them in some TV shows.
Always good to see you Jonathan! Wishing you many a throat lozenge from the other side of the pond.
this makes me very happy to see! 100,000 people were playing this game a few weeks ago and ive been enjoying it very much
"World War II-inspired" is a great way to describe the arsenal in modern "period" mainstream shooters. Battlefield has basically always taken place in an arcade/fantasy version of our world but it has reached a rather absurd level where you basically have to go "this game is not set in any version of our reality, it's a world with more in common with Wolfenstein, just don't worry about it".
I really don't know why they even bother gaslighting people its WWI or WWII. At this point, they might as well be making alternative history FPSs. Kind of a halfway historically accurate, half early Wolfenstein minus the occult/scifi.
@@KSmithwick1989 As mediocre as Battlefield 2042 is, it's probably their most believable setting in the franchise to accommodate the game mechanics they want to have because it's not set in any historical or modern period. They were able to just make up the rules of the world to explain why the game mechanics are the way they are. The same could be said about Battlefield 2142 which was a great and grounded hard scifi FPS. But I absolutely agree-when you depict a 1940s world that has practical infrared scopes and female German foot soldiers with prosthetics, just admit your game is set in an alternate setting and have some fun with it.
@carsonm7292 Which is still a questionable decision at best. When they already made Battlefield 2142. They could have remade that and gone full sci-fi.
The specialist on specialist combat was another bad decision. I know people who left the game over that mechanic. The confusing part is that the same studio also made Star Wars Battlefront. They should have kept regular classes and just copied the Hero mechanics from Battlefront.
If you ever do a part 4 of battlefield V, I’d like to see Johnathans take on the Johnson rifle and Bren gun.
Still hoping for that Valkyria Chronicles video. One of these days. Hopefully. Hope you get well soon, Jonathan.
Great video. I'd formally like to suggest you guys do a video reacting to the firearms in "Holdfast: Nations at War" next. I think it would be cool to learn about Napoleonic era weaponry!
Both My brother and 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), seem to both be suffering from a cold or laryngitis, hoping for a speedy recovery!
it is imperative that we give Mr. Ferguson a speedy recovery immediately.
back in the day we used our standard issue leather gloves to change the barrel of our MG3 when overheating, you wouldnt feel any heat, but it takes longer than in the game with the MG42, for which I assume they wouldve had gloves also
Here's an neat episode idea. How about having Jonathan answering viewer questions about game guns and such?
Sick Jonathan is much more frank than usual it seems, and honestly I’m here for it
Johnathan, are you sick? If you are, i can hear it but it is nice from you that even tho you are not feeling well, you are making great videos for us!
I really hope that Jonathon Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the royal armories Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history makes a fast recovery 🫡
Always excited every Saturday for these episodes :)
Why they put Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in some kind of half-empty storehouse? And also he sounds kinda sick (of course, after they left him in such conditions - cold concrete room) get well Jonathan!
Because that's the backrooms of the museum
@@rubberwoody Oh no, Jonathan fell into the Backrooms!
So I have an example of a m28 tromboncino myself and you don’t need to depress the linkage. The pulling the trigger works fine.
Aww, i was kinda hoping for Jonathan Ferguson, The keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum in the UK to discuss the fact that the Lee Enfield is held in a mad minute style, probably see his mind blown or just talk about it in terms of historical accuracy/interesting points, maybe something for the Royal Armouries channel?
wishing Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries musuem in the UK a speedy recovery. Always a good day when TH-cam's curator gets a GameSpot video up.
Love the content. Would also love to see the full rundown by Royal Armories of ALL the gear available to folks in Ready Or Not now that it is released. This includes the armor, and tactical equipment, as well as the guns. Think this would make a great string of vids that many from the Armories, including Jonathan could get involved in.
Johnathan wish you a speedy recovery brother
With the Arisaka, it's also a sakura here, not a chrysanthemum. The proper chrysanthemum has 16 petals.
id like to see jonathan critique the guns of enlisted; its got a lot of the historical classics (the garand, the stg44, etc) but also a few of the less famous guns in it (the johnson m1941, the volkssturmgewehr, etc) so it would maybe make an interesting video.
Feel better 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 throughout history.
Get well soon Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum
Jonathan should look at the guns of SAO Fatal Bullet and COD Advanced Warfare
get well soon, Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK!
I’d love for Jonathan to look at Red Orchestra 2, that had the barrel change as well for the MG42.
Look at that detailed red hot Rückstoßverstärker on the MG42.
That's amazing
When Jonathan is talking about the symbol on the back of the Arisaka, it reminds me, my great aunt has one that was captured during WW2, and it still has the symbol.
If memory serves me right the late R Lee Ermy did a show that showed the mg42 barrel being changed and they did use a spent cartridge in order to remove the barrel. Scratch that I've just saw another video that says it's a mix of what germans actually did and also a nod to forgotten weapons host ian
I would love a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video. Also, I wish Jonathan a quick recovery :)
I'd like to see Jonathan review the guns of Prey (2017), Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops Campaign, Classic Tomb Raider, The Callisto Protocol and/or Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth 👽🪖🔥💀🚀🐙
I do want to point out that the type 99 did not have a floral design on the cocking piece but early war ones did have a knurled design because the cocking piece also worked as a safety. Late war/last ditch rifles they dropped it in favor of nothing because they needed to safe costs in every way imaginable
I like how every time we seem him, Jonathan's always in a different location in the armory.
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 and Eva's chinese mauser clone.
There are so many more other interesting trivias and weapons in MGS3 so please gamespot and Johnathan make a video for the game.
Mr Jonathan Sounds Sick, Hopefully he feels better soon!
Seems like there are no chapters in the video where the name of the in-game gun is displayed.
Realistically the 42 should be doing a barrel change every 250 rounds. So it’s really just done for game balance.
Yep, most of the MMGs have an overheat mechanic to balance them
Having not played BF5 I appreciate these videos for shining a light on some of the more obscure weapons of world war 2. Having mostly played early Call of Duty games, you'd think it was all Garands, Karabiners and Mosin Nagants
CoD WW2, the last WW2 CoD, has a really nice list of obscure weapons and less used weapons, from the polish Blyscawica smg to german and soviet prototype rifles
I still can’t believe there hasn’t been a CoD World at War episode yet
The animation for using an empty casing to change the barrel on the mg 42 was the way Ian from forgotten weapons changed the barrel.
11:35 “Drilling” actually just means “triplet”; with “Zwilling” being “twin”.
That's a nice model of a Giant Wurzburg radar at 14:12.
PS - Jonathan get well soon.
Wishing for a speedy recovery Jonathan
Johnathan Ferguson, Keeper of firearms and artillery at The Royal Armories Museum in the UK, has taught me much about guns
Hope you're okay Jonathan, keeper of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK
Does Jonathan get a list of firearms that are in the video so he can go and get them out of storage BEFORE recording or does he watch it, run through the shelves, find the gun and then talk about it? I just have an image of him going "we have one of these, one moment" then disappearing among the shelves and reappearing with the gun 😅
I’m pretty sure he said that he gets tips about the guns that will be viewed before the recording.
Game mechanic idea: An FPS where early level weapons operate under arcade rules and unrealistic shooting and loading physics, but as they progress the weapons become more and more realistic and true to life in function and capability to present more challenge to the player.
The Lahti-Saloranta reminded me that it'd be interesting to hear Jonathan's comments on guns in Enlisted. Especially some of the weirder or rarer stuff like Japanese SMGs (also has a type 1 and type 2) and the semi-auto rifles like the Armaguerra.
I do hope they would show the base version of the gun first, to show what attention or not the dev´s paid in making it.
Feels a bit sad when a gun is being questioned on cosmetics or a sight that are not the baseline, showing the different options is fine of course and can lead to interesting notes or discussions but i do think showing the standard version first would be nice.
Agree, Nonathan Ferguson is being trolled with the non-standard cosmetics
Sweet! Another weapons video where this guy says after holding a pistol “Well we don’t have that EXACT gun here we DO have this” *and pulls out a scoped double barrel shotgun*
Hope Johnathan is feeling ok he sounds like he has a bit of a cold, all the best from Serbia ❤
I was really disappointed that there was a lack of guns in this game and half of them were recycled over from BF1. Where’s the Hi Power? Nambu? Springfield?
He's covered both BF1 and BFV in multiple parts and somehow still has not seen the Ross Rifle
Nice love the de lisle designed near me! Do Ground Branch when you get a chance, great game and weapon choice.
“This is Jonathan Ferguson”
Ahhh, sweet serotonin
The detail of the barrel change for the MG42 is also included in Easy Red 2
Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries musuem in the UK sounds really cool in this video
Your attention to detail is great and I hope you’re doing well now, John.
On the point about floating bi-pods, that was one detail the old Half-Life mod Day of Defeat did well, machine guns were horribly inaccurate when standing but if you went prone or crouched behind sandbags you could snap out the bi-pod for better aiming and were stuck in position with your view rotating around where the bi-pod sits rather than the rotating from the player perspective.
For Jonathan and any other non German speakers: The "chs" in "Panzerbüchse" is actually pronounced like X. Basically It's pronounced "Panzerbewxe".
Also I wish Jonathan Ferguson a speedy recovery!
So... "panzerbuecks" is what you're suggesting.
Since that's how we all say x.
@@macdaddymario No No it's PanzerbuecksE. E is basically pronounced like the french é.
For the mg42 there was evidence and accounts that they used expended casings to remove the barrel
DICE actually used a Forgotten Weapons video of Ian doing this as reference. Can’t remember if Ian said it was something they did in the field or not
if Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK hasn't been told yet; in the game most of the guns have a set of sights for each weapon class so most assault rifles let you pick one of the 3 or 4 sights and the same goes for SMGs and LMGs which is why those anti air sights are on the LMGs is mainly because they are one of the ones you can choose and not there by default.
The term suppressor didn't replace silencer because it is more correct, it is not. The US silencer association started using it in the 80s to make it seem less scary.
It wasnt very successful and it wasnt widely used until the internets tacticool gang picked it up. From there it spread. It's still wrong, it doesn't suppress, it muffles if anything. Sound moderator is good too. Suppressor isn't any better than silencer anyway. Forgotten Weapons had a great video about it.
Btw Drilling isn’t just from the german word for three (Drei) but actual is the german word for triplet, following on from the word for twin (Zwilling) which also corresponds to the word for two (zwei). Love your content. Really want to come visit one day!
Can we do jonathan's reaction to guns in the video game enlisted! They are extremely niche, accurate and would love to see his take on him!
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. should do Metal gear solid 3, like snakes M1911 and Mk 22 tranq pistol. Ocelots Single action army and Makarov, Eva's type 17 Chinese pistol and the gun the Boss uses, the Patriot. Also an opinion on snake critiquing ocelots Makarov technique would be legendary.
We wish Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries musuem in the UK, to get well soon!