Hi everyone! Happy holidays and the happiest of New Years to you from Jonathan and all of us at GameSpot. Thanks for sharing another year of bizarre video game weaponry with us. For more of that be sure to check out our new series of Loadout, there's already 3 episodes for you to enjoy about SMGs, the RPG-7 and the Thompson. We will see you in 2024 for more blessed/cursed/blursed video game guns.
Babe wake up the new “Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at royal armouries museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history” just dropped.
Man I love seeing videos that include "Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum in the UK, wich houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history" they make my day
The MP5 in H3 was called the "MP5 Shadow" and it's a reference to Shadow the Hedgehog. Because in a cutscene he had an MP5 and cocked it like a shotgun.
Yeah, that would be the title screen cutscene. I love that game (and have unlocked expert mode a total of three times), but I did wonder about that since that was the first time I'd ever seen an SMG cocked like that. And later found out that no, that's not how that works. I think Jonathan should take a look at that game if he hasn't already. Nice mix of real and fantasy guns to look at (including the glorious Shadow Rifle).
@@jessegd6306 Tapped yes, twisted no. He twists his hand _around_ it, probably meant as a test of the fit, but the mag itself doesn't twist. I've seen that intro many, many, many, many times and I did not recall the magazine twisting, and I double-checked before writing this comment just to be extra-sure.
If I ever meet this man I'll say 'Hello Jonathan Ferguson, 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' just to see how he'll react.
Given he's British, he'd probably a) sigh deeply, pause, stare at the ground while he let the murderous rage subside, and then march off while muttering obscenities or b) smile wryly and tip his cap/beer at you. It'd all depend if it was Monday morning or Friday afternoon.
the budget arms cyberpunk disposable plastic gun is so funny. it is "cursed" in a way, but god do i love it and it fits so well in a cyberpunk dystopia post-collapse-of-USA setting
The Pump-Action MP5 is a reference to Shadow the Hedgehog's opening video where Shadow pumps the grip of an MP5. I believe the gun in HH&H is called the MP5 "Shadow".
Please Jonathan, 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.
The fact the Davey Crockett is a real weapon is the wildest thing about MGS3. A handheld nuclear missile seems the same sort of science fiction to a bipedal robot that fires lasers.
On the subject of the pump action MP5, I feel like an episode on the weapons of Shadow the Hedgehog would be absolutely friggin' hilarious. I'm not sure it'd be feasible as I don't know if the game lets you get a good look at the weapon models, but if it is then it would make for prime "cursed gun" material.
It’s always been a little weird to have a British host of a firearm-knowledge based channel, but it 100% works and as time goes on I actually think it’s the FAR superior option to every American ‘gun guy’ host, aka the backyard wannabe-operator with Oakleys and a beard+beerbelly that never served a day on active duty, gatekeeping and acting a combination of holier than thou & smug every time they pull out a gun. Jonathan’s just a humble, knowledgeable, consummate professional. Closest we’ve got to that on the US side is Ian McCollum (Forgotten Weapons). Anyway, love this channel and happy new year
Jonathan mentioned not seeing a mechanic of combining magazines before. There is a game called Project Zomboid where magazines and cartridges are all inventory items. So you can unload and reload magazines. So you can only reload as many magazines as you have managed to scavenge and add cartridges to.
7.62 High Calibre with the Hard Life mod also features this as a mechanic. An interesting sub-mechanic of that is that the third world country with morally bankrupt leadership the game takes place in has various mag limit laws. As a practical matter the government really only controls the central cluster of cities, but it does present some interesting issues where if you want to take your good magazines through the central area (not doing so adds an unhealthy amount of time going through an area with a high bandit spawn rate while costing fuel, and vehicle maintenance cost) you have to be prepared to bribe the cops, find a good fake ID maker, or do enough quests for the police to get a loiscence (which only deals with the mag restrictions, not FA ones, and generally requires working within the restrictions). There's actually a good amount of combat content (against gangs etc.) in the central cities. Stashes can be made on the world map and last forever without disappearing though, so it's not big an issue if you are leaving the same way you came in. The other element to this is the FA restrictions, which you can only be rid of by going fully into pro-government route. Getting a reasonable quality AK outside the government's sphere is overly easy, but getting a *good* SA only is a big money sink even if you do find one for sale (otherwise I hope you like the Mini 14's accuracy).
@@kanrakucheese i assume the mod just makes it easier to do because individual rounds were already modeled in the base game, same as E5 but i would go earlier - jagged alliance
I've mentioned it here before, but infamous Doom mod Hideous Destructor also has magazine management as a major mechanic. It's straightforward with some weapons, like the 9mm pistols & SMG, but the 4mm caseless assault rifle has finicky magazines and if you're not careful there's a chance you'll damage the rounds when trying to reload them.
I love the satirical humour of the Budget Arms disposable pistol. I wonder if it was inspired by old Kodak and Fujifilm disposable cameras. Those could be bought very cheaply. They were made of very cheap parts. They couldn't be reloaded. And by the time you got to the last few shots, you weren't even sure it was going to work or not. Maybe your last few photos would be double exposed, or the film would just jam. Too bad if that was when the bride and groom kissed, right? Should have bought a better camera!
Yep, vacuum welding is a thing. Due to what is known as "van der Waals force", two similar metals will, if brought into contact on clean, flat surfaces, adhere very strongly together. Also known as "cold welding", it has led to issues in early satellites and in the design of space crafts.
At least in some cases, I believe it involves metallic bonding, not just van der Waals forces, with the surfaces joining much like they would if ultrasonic welded. Given the high pressures experienced by many firearms components, I wonder if the weld could be strong enough that components could only be separated by literally cutting them apart, potentially not just jamming but _destroying_ the weapon.
Physics-based explanation why a 1911 is a bad choice for space. I did not see that coming, impressive. I would like to see a gunblade episode with Jonathan. I'm currently playing FF XIII with Lightning's famous gunblade, but I guess there are not many occurrences of gunblades in video games, even though I know there have been some similar real-world weapons and I bet they have one or two in the Royal Armouries.
Now I want to gift Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, a real pink Firearm with 3 EOTech red dot sights, 2 tactical flashlights, a drum magazine and have it all sprinkled in violet and blue glitter. Loaded with pink tracer ammunition of course. Sadly, my home country doesn't even allow pellet guns over a certain power limit.
Thanks to Dave and Adam and Jonathan and David for a great year of breaking down guns of video game 😊I love this show 👏 I have learned great deal from you guys thank you Jonathan and the team at Gamespot😊
Just a minor thing, but (as of writing) your description refers to "some of the most cursed weapons of 2022" - is this a typo? Still, thanks to everyone at GameSpot for these top-tier vids!
Can we all just agree that Jonathan Ferguson, 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 has the coolest shirts ever? Cheers for the video and happy new year folks!
14:00 The tall trigger guard is to accommodate spacesuit gloves, the spacesuit models in-game have fairly thin gloves, but it's made pretty clear that they very much are still largely traditional spacesuits, not the classic trope of sci-fi skin tight suits.
Thank you Dave, David, Adam and Jonathan Ferguson, 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 for keeping us informed and entertained over the year.
> ...metal barrel and bolt or breech, which it probably ought to have. @5:17 Reminds me of those 1980s cap guns styled after Beretta 92 for example (before the bright red cap at the barrel end to denote it a toy), complete with magazines that you could "load" with strips of caps. The gun's slide portion in addition to popping the individual caps had a metal blade that would slice and then eject the spent cap, but that piece would impact against the *plastic* magazine as well as the *plastic* internals of the gun, eventually leading to one or both crumbling from the stress. On the plus side for the manufacturers, that would encourage kids to beg their parents for replacement gear after the inevitable failures.
As much as I love _Warframe,_ its weapons go way, way, _way_ past goofy, and most aren't animated with much detail. It would basically just be an episode of Jonathan going, "Huh. Weird. Makes no sense. Next."
@@irrelevantfish1978 There's plenty of detailed Warframe guns. The Cornith pump action shotgun being just one of many. He'd get a kick out of the Grineer weapons.
@@The1337guy1 Hmm ... I don't recall the Corinth animations having much to them, but maybe it's been too long. For that matter, now that I think about it, I might be wrong about the lack of animation detail. I may have just missed it due to it being third person and me not being interested in Captura. I do know there's a gun which reloads with this really cool spin that is entirely pointless, though. Can't remember which one, as I've been on a break for about 6 months now.
So, HUGE destiny nerd here. The first gun shown (Khavostov) has a bolt where it is purely so it can share a reload animation with every other auto rifle in the game, purely for the purpose of having as little animations to import into the game as possible.
Loadout and Jonathn's Expert Reacts on Gamespot have quickly become my favorite thing to watch on TH-cam. I've been an firearm fanatic for as long as I've been a gamer, and I'm old enough to get literally 100% of the games, movies, and tv shows referenced in these two series! I'm looking forward to a big 2024 with these series, keep up the great work!
I’m not the only one who wants to go to the museum, find Jonathan and go “are you Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum here in the uk?”, right?
I am still hope to see Generation Zero sometime, i think jonathan would find it interesting, and the experimental guns might be cursed. Overall, the guns on the robots would be extremely interesting to have an expert opinion on. Also, Saints Row The Third Remastered.
10:07 Arma 3's Advanced Combat Environment mod (ACE), a fairly universal realism mod used by most every group out there, includes magazine packing. Usually at unrealistic speeds, but you cant move or really look around while doing it.
I can only assume that the trigger guard on the 1911 pistol is extended in starfield so that someone with a space suit on can fit their gloved finger into it.
I believe that Pump Action MP5 is a reference to the Shadow The Hedgehog intro where he does pump-action load MP5 (yes, that intro is that cursed and shows that creators had no idea what they were doing XD )
The pain in seeing the MP5 is very real, seeing your favorite gun modified into something else and you have to comment and analyze how it works, jonathan must've been in PTSD after experiencing seeing many cursed MP5
i would still love to see him react to the guns of boundary, especially as that's a shooter set in space with a sort of realistic aesthetic, so it may appeal to Jonathan how the guns seem build for space specifically and the detail that most of them include.
Wow.. That information of "welding" of metals in the vacuum of space is totally recompensating the fact that he overlooked that the 1911 is missing plunger tube on the side.
As I grow older, my preference for original-looking weapons in games becomes more and more obvious. And as a highly functioning autist, it is very relatable when Jonathan cringes from the cursed weapons you present him in episodes like this one. I can only imagine the extra vocabulary offered by Jonathan off camera/ in person for you guys in the GameSpot team. Thank you for sharing these highly entertaining experiences, good job everyone. I would also like to take the opportunity to wish you a happy new year and thank you for all of 2023. 🥳
I know you guys have done videos on Escape from Tarkov again but they just did a big update to the recoil and I would love to hear his reaction to the changes love the videos!
Good to see another video about Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of fireams and artillery at royal armouries museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history. His charisma and love for guns never fails to enteetain me.
If you don't regularly shoot 1911s, you might not understand that so long as metallic cased firearms are made, some of them are going to be 1911s, even in another hundred years, possibly in 200 years. The pistol has a miraculous combination of incredible history and amazing shootability and only 52 simple parts any good metal shop can fab out in bulk and, each one of which is available in infinite variety on the aftermarket.
Would you be willing to take a look at the guns in Enlisted? They have a lot of unique prototype guns I've never seen in any other game and, despite their inclusion being ahistorical to WWII, they seem to have a relatively realistic take on how they'd operate.
I remember playing warface many many years ago when it pretty much just came out. As far as I know the game has completely changed now, But there used to be a 'finger gun' that I thought was the coolest thing ever at the time, it did the same ok-sign for the back sight and used the thumb as the front.
"Jonathan Ferguson, 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" Man has a long name...
The excessively large trigger and guard actually seem potentially plausible in an environment where people are wearing EVA suits of varying bulkiness. That change isn't made to look like a later modification on the Starfield model(which makes it less plausible as a retrofit for space use); but in a world where some guns have trigger guards with special provision for use in winter gloves it seem fairly plausible that spacesuit users would probably need real sausage finger tolerances at least some of the time. For purpose-built designs I'd expect to see a lot more interchangeable parts to accommodate the preferences of everything from temperate environment terrestrial users to big bulky EVA hard suit ones; but erring on the side of big is probably the safest default.
Is there a Division 2 episode? Recently started playing, love the game, love Jonathan and would love to see him react to some of the exotics like the ‘diamondback’! There’s even a sidearm that somehow makes enemies more flammable so you can use a flamethrower on them? Would love to hear if there is a real world explanation for that and I’m sure he’d “love” the fold away minigun you can get👀
Back in the day there was an airsoft spring powered pump action MP5 SD and an elongated spring powered MP5k perhaps this is where they got the idea from for that forbidden MP5?
Dad why is my sister named Rose? Becuse your mother loves roses. Thanks dad! No problem this is Jonathan Ferguson , keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK,which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons throughout history
Hi everyone! Happy holidays and the happiest of New Years to you from Jonathan and all of us at GameSpot.
Thanks for sharing another year of bizarre video game weaponry with us. For more of that be sure to check out our new series of Loadout, there's already 3 episodes for you to enjoy about SMGs, the RPG-7 and the Thompson.
We will see you in 2024 for more blessed/cursed/blursed video game guns.
Your welcome good sir 😅
You're welcome, Dave
great year of experts react. evolutionary biologist reacts to video game creatures when?
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cover the weopons of decaying winter
Babe wake up the new “Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at royal armouries museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history” just dropped.
I read this as he was saying it and it was perfect
Dead meme
Museums are full of dead things and yet people are still interested@@GabeTheGrump
Man I love seeing videos that include "Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum in the UK, wich houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history" they make my day
@@GabeTheGrumplike your love life
"Warranty valid for 20 rounds" on the side of a 32 round disposable machine pistol is a wonderful cyberpunk choice
The single best Easter Egg in Cyberpunk.
Truly genius and a good laugh.
I thought it was the fact that a warranty on a vending machine gun was even implied was the best dystopian cyberpunk choice.
God I love this game
I want to see Ferguson design his own fictional gun for a movie or video game
The MP5 in H3 was called the "MP5 Shadow" and it's a reference to Shadow the Hedgehog. Because in a cutscene he had an MP5 and cocked it like a shotgun.
Ow the edge
Don't forget that he also twisted and then tapped the magazine after inserting it.
Yeah, that would be the title screen cutscene.
I love that game (and have unlocked expert mode a total of three times), but I did wonder about that since that was the first time I'd ever seen an SMG cocked like that. And later found out that no, that's not how that works.
I think Jonathan should take a look at that game if he hasn't already. Nice mix of real and fantasy guns to look at (including the glorious Shadow Rifle).
@@jessegd6306 Tapped yes, twisted no. He twists his hand _around_ it, probably meant as a test of the fit, but the mag itself doesn't twist. I've seen that intro many, many, many, many times and I did not recall the magazine twisting, and I double-checked before writing this comment just to be extra-sure.
Someone brought up the fact that the pump action was smart for that character as his hands are WAY too large to reload a normal one
Jonathan: "what? its just an ordinary MP-"
*pumps*
Jonathan: "OH MY GOODNESS"
"Heresy. Heresy. More MP5 Heresy."
Didn't know Johnathan is an Inquisitor for the Imperium and part of Ordo MP5
He's the chief inquisitor of the Ordo Subachineus Gunus. He specialises in MP5 heresy
He speaks the Omnissiah's truth
Blessed be the Omnissiah's' MP5 STC
"Fetch the Mp5, brother. THE HEAVY MP5!!!!"
"By the Emperor... no... Not the MC51..." 😱
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If I ever meet this man I'll say 'Hello Jonathan Ferguson, 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' just to see how he'll react.
he probably gets it all the time from fans
Given he's British, he'd probably a) sigh deeply, pause, stare at the ground while he let the murderous rage subside, and then march off while muttering obscenities or b) smile wryly and tip his cap/beer at you.
It'd all depend if it was Monday morning or Friday afternoon.
@@peterclarke7006 ... and if you provided the beer.
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Halfway through, he’d probably start laughing, then applaud your ability to memorize and recite the whole line verbatim upon completion.
The sheer horror and disgust on Johnathan's face whenever someone messes with his beloved MP5 will never not be priceless.
It's his emotional support submachine gun!
There needs to be one that’s a lever action with the trigger like that cursed AK 47
@@tacomas9602 I want a break action, single shot MP5.
The pump action MP 5 was too much for poor Jonathan 😂
So much that He had to get his emotional support MP5.
better never show him what uk shooting ranges have to do to their ar15s. He´d probably drop dead on the spot
What happens to MP5s when they go to California.
God, someone needs to show him the first 10 seconds of the Shadow the Hedgehog opening cinematic.
@@IBrowneeI Actually entire game would do.
I imagine Jonathan as an arcane gun wizard that no longer leaves the Royal Armoury out of fear for the cursed guns that upstart mortals have created.
Apparently when that camera isn’t on he just rocks back and forth with his beloved emotional support stg 🤷🏻♂️
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@@anthonyslaughter4689😂😂 spot on
the budget arms cyberpunk disposable plastic gun is so funny. it is "cursed" in a way, but god do i love it and it fits so well in a cyberpunk dystopia post-collapse-of-USA setting
Everybody will think that it's a toy gun.
But with REAL bullets.
I feel like, if I lived in Night City, it would be a comfort knowing I could get a functional gun in any vending machine. That place is insane
The Pump-Action MP5 is a reference to Shadow the Hedgehog's opening video where Shadow pumps the grip of an MP5.
I believe the gun in HH&H is called the MP5 "Shadow".
The gun in the shadow the hedgehog intro is not a mp5 but rather a really cursed ar15.
Please Jonathan, 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.
The fact the Davey Crockett is a real weapon is the wildest thing about MGS3. A handheld nuclear missile seems the same sort of science fiction to a bipedal robot that fires lasers.
Yesssssss. let's go!
I could see this becoming a recurring thing before Gamespot does so.
This 1000 times. Want to hear all about those 1911 customizations and Ocelots gun jamming
“THE FEED RAMP IS POLISHED TO A MIRROR SHEEN!” 😹
02:42 If you squint you can see Jonathan health bar taking damage 😂
Lol 😂
I feel like he needs to see the Shadow the Hedgehog trailer to *truly* grasp the existential horror of the pump MP5
On the subject of the pump action MP5, I feel like an episode on the weapons of Shadow the Hedgehog would be absolutely friggin' hilarious. I'm not sure it'd be feasible as I don't know if the game lets you get a good look at the weapon models, but if it is then it would make for prime "cursed gun" material.
It's a GCN game. Dolphin's free look solves that.
Iirc, there is a pump action rifle, Troy PAR 308
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Wait till sonic x shadow generations.
Loved the budget arms from cyberpunk. I played a melee build but occasionally would grab a vending machine gun to dispatch some thugs.
It's an interesting element to add to the game, single use weapons aren't something you normally see in games, apart from RPGS
It’s always been a little weird to have a British host of a firearm-knowledge based channel, but it 100% works and as time goes on I actually think it’s the FAR superior option to every American ‘gun guy’ host, aka the backyard wannabe-operator with Oakleys and a beard+beerbelly that never served a day on active duty, gatekeeping and acting a combination of holier than thou & smug every time they pull out a gun.
Jonathan’s just a humble, knowledgeable, consummate professional. Closest we’ve got to that on the US side is Ian McCollum (Forgotten Weapons).
Anyway, love this channel and happy new year
18:08 POV: You just showed Johnathan a cursed gun
Jonathan mentioned not seeing a mechanic of combining magazines before. There is a game called Project Zomboid where magazines and cartridges are all inventory items. So you can unload and reload magazines. So you can only reload as many magazines as you have managed to scavenge and add cartridges to.
Heck, unturned does that too, the silly blocky zombie survival game made by like, one guy.
7.62 High Calibre with the Hard Life mod also features this as a mechanic. An interesting sub-mechanic of that is that the third world country with morally bankrupt leadership the game takes place in has various mag limit laws. As a practical matter the government really only controls the central cluster of cities, but it does present some interesting issues where if you want to take your good magazines through the central area (not doing so adds an unhealthy amount of time going through an area with a high bandit spawn rate while costing fuel, and vehicle maintenance cost) you have to be prepared to bribe the cops, find a good fake ID maker, or do enough quests for the police to get a loiscence (which only deals with the mag restrictions, not FA ones, and generally requires working within the restrictions). There's actually a good amount of combat content (against gangs etc.) in the central cities. Stashes can be made on the world map and last forever without disappearing though, so it's not big an issue if you are leaving the same way you came in.
The other element to this is the FA restrictions, which you can only be rid of by going fully into pro-government route. Getting a reasonable quality AK outside the government's sphere is overly easy, but getting a *good* SA only is a big money sink even if you do find one for sale (otherwise I hope you like the Mini 14's accuracy).
@@kanrakucheese i assume the mod just makes it easier to do because individual rounds were already modeled in the base game, same as E5
but i would go earlier - jagged alliance
One of the OG HL1 mods also featured this. I think it was Firearms. (Or Global Warfare it's been awhile). The One with the Ak-47 and AK-74.
I've mentioned it here before, but infamous Doom mod Hideous Destructor also has magazine management as a major mechanic.
It's straightforward with some weapons, like the 9mm pistols & SMG, but the 4mm caseless assault rifle has finicky magazines and if you're not careful there's a chance you'll damage the rounds when trying to reload them.
2:49 “look how to massacred my boy!”
Second time I can claim I’ve seen Jonathan like this. The STG-44 from warzone and this pump MP5
Vanguard*** not warzone
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When I saw the bit about combining magazines, it struck me:
Jonathan hasn't reacted to *Receiver 2* has he???
That would be an interesting episode :)
I love the satirical humour of the Budget Arms disposable pistol. I wonder if it was inspired by old Kodak and Fujifilm disposable cameras. Those could be bought very cheaply. They were made of very cheap parts. They couldn't be reloaded. And by the time you got to the last few shots, you weren't even sure it was going to work or not. Maybe your last few photos would be double exposed, or the film would just jam. Too bad if that was when the bride and groom kissed, right? Should have bought a better camera!
Yep, vacuum welding is a thing. Due to what is known as "van der Waals force", two similar metals will, if brought into contact on clean, flat surfaces, adhere very strongly together. Also known as "cold welding", it has led to issues in early satellites and in the design of space crafts.
At least in some cases, I believe it involves metallic bonding, not just van der Waals forces, with the surfaces joining much like they would if ultrasonic welded. Given the high pressures experienced by many firearms components, I wonder if the weld could be strong enough that components could only be separated by literally cutting them apart, potentially not just jamming but _destroying_ the weapon.
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Starfield 1911 is also missing the plunger tube for the slide stop and thumb safety. It’s literally just not there.
Also its hammer never drops when you shoot it.
All of the guns in starfield work on sci-fi magic
It also holds too many rounds
The pump action MP5 where Jonathan realizes what he's looking at is my all time favorite moment on this show.
Please don’t give them any more ideas with that abominable California-legal MP5
I hate that California gun stuff, all it's done is ruin the perfect gun designs
More like south Africa legal, no? With their pump action Galils and such
Magazine is too large
That's actually the Shadow the Hedgehog MP5
@@adamgill9730 You can blame Reagan for that. He signed California's dumb gun legislation when he was governor to disarm the Black Panthers.
Physics-based explanation why a 1911 is a bad choice for space. I did not see that coming, impressive. I would like to see a gunblade episode with Jonathan. I'm currently playing FF XIII with Lightning's famous gunblade, but I guess there are not many occurrences of gunblades in video games, even though I know there have been some similar real-world weapons and I bet they have one or two in the Royal Armouries.
Now I want to gift Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, a real pink Firearm with 3 EOTech red dot sights, 2 tactical flashlights, a drum magazine and have it all sprinkled in violet and blue glitter. Loaded with pink tracer ammunition of course. Sadly, my home country doesn't even allow pellet guns over a certain power limit.
Thanks to Dave and Adam and Jonathan and David for a great year of breaking down guns of video game 😊I love this show 👏 I have learned great deal from you guys thank you Jonathan and the team at Gamespot😊
@@IrregularDave happy new year dave
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Just a minor thing, but (as of writing) your description refers to "some of the most cursed weapons of 2022" - is this a typo? Still, thanks to everyone at GameSpot for these top-tier vids!
They probably recycled the description from last year's video and forgot to change the number.
Loved him mentioning Van Der Waals force for consideration in using a firearm in space.
Can we all just agree that Jonathan Ferguson, 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 has the coolest shirts ever? Cheers for the video and happy new year folks!
I love the pump MP5 so much. Really making Shadow the Hedgehog proud.
like how this is just a game weapons channel now,
its like game theory but only with weapons
14:00 The tall trigger guard is to accommodate spacesuit gloves, the spacesuit models in-game have fairly thin gloves, but it's made pretty clear that they very much are still largely traditional spacesuits, not the classic trope of sci-fi skin tight suits.
Thank you Dave, David, Adam and Jonathan Ferguson, 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 for keeping us informed and entertained over the year.
I think Jonathan should check out the revamped recoil mechanics and new guns in Escape from Tarkov!
His mind: Emotional damage
Going to need copies of that 0:25 for post cards and an office frame
You can freeze frame the moment his heart breaks...
My god... The overarching pun of the FU AK: It's a _hand_ gun. I both hate and love someone for this. LOL
> ...metal barrel and bolt or breech, which it probably ought to have.
@5:17 Reminds me of those 1980s cap guns styled after Beretta 92 for example (before the bright red cap at the barrel end to denote it a toy), complete with magazines that you could "load" with strips of caps. The gun's slide portion in addition to popping the individual caps had a metal blade that would slice and then eject the spent cap, but that piece would impact against the *plastic* magazine as well as the *plastic* internals of the gun, eventually leading to one or both crumbling from the stress.
On the plus side for the manufacturers, that would encourage kids to beg their parents for replacement gear after the inevitable failures.
Warframe has some goofy weapons and it would be cool to see Jonathan reacting to them
As much as I love _Warframe,_ its weapons go way, way, _way_ past goofy, and most aren't animated with much detail. It would basically just be an episode of Jonathan going, "Huh. Weird. Makes no sense. Next."
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@@irrelevantfish1978 Destiny has some wacky space guns too and he reacted to them.
@@irrelevantfish1978 There's plenty of detailed Warframe guns. The Cornith pump action shotgun being just one of many. He'd get a kick out of the Grineer weapons.
@@The1337guy1 Hmm ... I don't recall the Corinth animations having much to them, but maybe it's been too long. For that matter, now that I think about it, I might be wrong about the lack of animation detail. I may have just missed it due to it being third person and me not being interested in Captura.
I do know there's a gun which reloads with this really cool spin that is entirely pointless, though. Can't remember which one, as I've been on a break for about 6 months now.
I think he died inside when he saw his beloved MP5 as a pump action!
9:00 as far as i remember. This custom made finger targets have been available since last 2022.
17:13 bruh the destiny devs really made a Bad Dragon into a gun 😂😂😂
H3 designers: "What if mp5... but pump action?"
Jonathan: [suffers a ruptured aneurysm]
So, HUGE destiny nerd here. The first gun shown (Khavostov) has a bolt where it is purely so it can share a reload animation with every other auto rifle in the game, purely for the purpose of having as little animations to import into the game as possible.
Loadout and Jonathn's Expert Reacts on Gamespot have quickly become my favorite thing to watch on TH-cam. I've been an firearm fanatic for as long as I've been a gamer, and I'm old enough to get literally 100% of the games, movies, and tv shows referenced in these two series! I'm looking forward to a big 2024 with these series, keep up the great work!
I’m not the only one who wants to go to the museum, find Jonathan and go “are you Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armouries museum here in the uk?”, right?
I am still hope to see Generation Zero sometime, i think jonathan would find it interesting, and the experimental guns might be cursed. Overall, the guns on the robots would be extremely interesting to have an expert opinion on.
Also, Saints Row The Third Remastered.
That Ghost t-shirt looking real good, Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms...
hes also the Keeper of Cool Shirts.
Cheers for another great year of videos! Hope to see much more of Jonathan and Dave in 2024!
2:52 is that the shadow gun
it is.
10:07 Arma 3's Advanced Combat Environment mod (ACE), a fairly universal realism mod used by most every group out there, includes magazine packing. Usually at unrealistic speeds, but you cant move or really look around while doing it.
2:50 I realized at the same time Mr. Ferguson did, and I was like like "What!?"
So many instances of a designer going "haha gun go brrr" without looking at how guns go brrr. It boggles the mind.
To quote the ak guy "where da bolt go?"
I can only assume that the trigger guard on the 1911 pistol is extended in starfield so that someone with a space suit on can fit their gloved finger into it.
"Cosmic horror Milkor" is a good line, honestly
If we want more cursed weapons, I once again kindly ask for a video on the Valkyria Chronicles series. It would be a lot of fun!
This series and Loadout got me through 2023. Here's to 2024.
I believe that Pump Action MP5 is a reference to the Shadow The Hedgehog intro where he does pump-action load MP5 (yes, that intro is that cursed and shows that creators had no idea what they were doing XD )
The pain in seeing the MP5 is very real, seeing your favorite gun modified into something else and you have to comment and analyze how it works, jonathan must've been in PTSD after experiencing seeing many cursed MP5
i would still love to see him react to the guns of boundary, especially as that's a shooter set in space with a sort of realistic aesthetic, so it may appeal to Jonathan how the guns seem build for space specifically and the detail that most of them include.
Dave, you really outdid yourself when describing some of the guns in this video. A bucket of squid down some stairs indeed.
I wonder if the almost-1911's tall trigger was so astronauts could fire the gun while wearing thick spacesuit gloves?
Hey- I have every weapon in Aliens: Fireteam Elite unlocked, so if you ever wanted to cover that game again I could gladly capture footage for you.
That pump-action, roller-lock-delay HK is sick AF, bro.... My favorite part is, how it completely defeats the purpose of an SMG...
Still highly recommend the guns of the F.E.A.R. games, especially the first.
What's the sad piano song playing behind poor distressed Jonathan at 2:48?
0:52 Destiny's Khvostov auto rifle - What episode is this from? I can't seem to find it.
after the shock of pump-action MP5 Jonathan didn't even notice the pink derriner has a double action trigger.
Wow.. That information of "welding" of metals in the vacuum of space is totally recompensating the fact that he overlooked that the 1911 is missing plunger tube on the side.
As I grow older, my preference for original-looking weapons in games becomes more and more obvious. And as a highly functioning autist, it is very relatable when Jonathan cringes from the cursed weapons you present him in episodes like this one. I can only imagine the extra vocabulary offered by Jonathan off camera/ in person for you guys in the GameSpot team. Thank you for sharing these highly entertaining experiences, good job everyone. I would also like to take the opportunity to wish you a happy new year and thank you for all of 2023. 🥳
I know you guys have done videos on Escape from Tarkov again but they just did a big update to the recoil and I would love to hear his reaction to the changes love the videos!
Happy New Year Mr Ferguson, The keeper of firearms and artillery.
Good to see another video about Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of fireams and artillery at royal armouries museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history. His charisma and love for guns never fails to enteetain me.
If you don't regularly shoot 1911s, you might not understand that so long as metallic cased firearms are made, some of them are going to be 1911s, even in another hundred years, possibly in 200 years.
The pistol has a miraculous combination of incredible history and amazing shootability and only 52 simple parts any good metal shop can fab out in bulk and, each one of which is available in infinite variety on the aftermarket.
Gotta love seeing Johnathan try to make sense of Bungie space magic
The pump-action MP5 broke him 😅
Would you be willing to take a look at the guns in Enlisted? They have a lot of unique prototype guns I've never seen in any other game and, despite their inclusion being ahistorical to WWII, they seem to have a relatively realistic take on how they'd operate.
I remember playing warface many many years ago when it pretty much just came out. As far as I know the game has completely changed now, But there used to be a 'finger gun' that I thought was the coolest thing ever at the time, it did the same ok-sign for the back sight and used the thumb as the front.
His reaction to the Mp5 shotgun was so funny lol
Abnormal trigger guard on the 1911 pistol looks like it was needed to accommodate the oversize gloves?
That’s pretty amazing that taking an Earth firearm into space would make it jam up because it would literally weld together.
"Jonathan Ferguson, 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" Man has a long name...
His poor reaction to the MP5 shotgun... I felt that... it's my favorite SMG.
I think they've changed the 1911's trigger guard and trigger to make it look usable while wearing a bulky spacesuit with sausage fingers, basically.
1911 Trigger guard change reason is actually really simple and also makes sense. So you can fit your finger in while wearing thick space gloves.
The excessively large trigger and guard actually seem potentially plausible in an environment where people are wearing EVA suits of varying bulkiness.
That change isn't made to look like a later modification on the Starfield model(which makes it less plausible as a retrofit for space use); but in a world where some guns have trigger guards with special provision for use in winter gloves it seem fairly plausible that spacesuit users would probably need real sausage finger tolerances at least some of the time. For purpose-built designs I'd expect to see a lot more interchangeable parts to accommodate the preferences of everything from temperate environment terrestrial users to big bulky EVA hard suit ones; but erring on the side of big is probably the safest default.
Is there a Division 2 episode? Recently started playing, love the game, love Jonathan and would love to see him react to some of the exotics like the ‘diamondback’! There’s even a sidearm that somehow makes enemies more flammable so you can use a flamethrower on them? Would love to hear if there is a real world explanation for that and I’m sure he’d “love” the fold away minigun you can get👀
Jonathan needs to be in a film as a weapon dealer. Because unlike actors, he wouldn’t need a script. Just give him a gun and keep the camera on.
Back in the day there was an airsoft spring powered pump action MP5 SD and an elongated spring powered MP5k perhaps this is where they got the idea from for that forbidden MP5?
Would love to see a collab with Forgotten Weapons.
They actually did do some with the Christmas crackers
Have you not seen the Christmas Special that was released on 20th December by the Royal Armouries channel?
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Vacuum welding is an interesting piece of information that gets overlooked. Great info!
Would love to see Jonathan review the VR game Pavlov!
I love How dead inside he looked when he saw the shadow's built mp5
Pump Action MP5 had me rolling💀💀
Dad why is my sister named Rose?
Becuse your mother loves roses.
Thanks dad!
No problem this is Jonathan Ferguson , keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK,which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons throughout history