GAME SINS | Everything Wrong With Call of Duty Vanguard
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Subscribe on Patreon for CLASSIC SINS & DLC SINS: / dartigan
Low effort. That's Call of Duty in whatever form it takes. Modern Warfare. Black Ops. WWII. Same game, same sins. I count them so you don't have to.
Join my Discord fan community: / discord
Follow me on Twitch: / dartigan
Follow me on Twitter: / dartiganjones
Please Enjoy GAME SINS Call of Duty Vanguard!
Like if you did.
Subscribe for more.
Vote for the next game.
Intro animation created by Runestorm: runestormfilms....
Inspired by Cinema Sins: / cinemasins
#dartigan #gamesins
People are out here talking about how fun the series was in the past. I’m remembering the time when these newer games didn’t require you to delete damn near everything on any of your systems just to play them.
Exactly they are like 200gb now for one game that repeats the same formula of the past who knows how many games
@@danimal41014 even with the new menu system that allows you to go from game to game. Yes, I would like to leave this 200+ GB game to head over to the other 200+ GB game I had to delete just to get this one installed. The abysmal amount of storage they take up makes jumping from game to game utterly pointless.
@@Rclarke115 The High Definition revolution and its consequences have been disastrous for the storage space.
The original and 4 were great. Thr rest of the series? Bah
It's the ultra-realistic HD textures that bloats the game size. Games nowadays are made with the graphics as a second priority (the first would be monetization), that alone would bloat the size considerably, which especially annoying since it still consumes unnecessary space for textures files you didn't use. Personally, I don't mind having MW2019 gameplay with MW2007 graphic, because I value more gameplay than graphic
The history in this game is beyond insulting, but the premise of this game alone makes no sense as a nazi policy at the time of the time was to kill all allied special forces found within occupied territory, they would be all executed during the scene the SS Officer captured them and found none of them had a name they could ransom or use for a propaganda victory.
Yeah that was something that got me from the moment they got captured. Berlin is literally burning down around them while the Red Army is being barely inconvenienced by the mostly children and elderly conscripts that made up the bulk of the surviving German military at this point but for some reason main bad guy and his underlings feel it’s important to hang around and interrogate some random Special Forces team instead of just shooting them and fleeing the city.
@@Chaotic_Jackal Or use them as bargaining chips to get better terms when they surrender to the Americans which would be way better than surrendering to the Red Army.
Especially as the smart ass leader of the outfit could not resist boasting with his rudimentary knowledge of the German language and trying to humiliate the SS officer in front of his subordinates. This would have speeded up their demise.
Note from a retired career officer: When you are captured by the enemy try to be humble and cooperative. You might live to see the end of the war.
but the furher sent direct orders
@@Chaotic_Jackal giving how they were so oblivious to the condition of Berlin up until they report Hitler's death, maybe they were so head up in their ass they forgot to look outside and acknowledge that Berlin is on fire.
But then again, They are also cut their own budget and sit on their ass inside Gestapo HQ when they should've evacuate themselves two days ago, so I guess these were merely just a "convenienely stupid villain"
World at War handled the Pacific Front and jungle fighting much much better. Come to think of it, World at War handled just about everything better.
The last good WW2 CoD game, where you can see the true horror of WW2, the brutality and the price of victory, not some woke political bullshit or other historical revision
People think its just the swastikas and the black/female charachters but its more than that. Its little things like showing there is no good side. Japanese are torturing you in the begging, you are burning them alive with flamethrowers. The germans are going on killings sprees in Stalingrad, the soviets are going on killing sprees on Berlin. Then there is the fact about the eastern front where you can see from time to time lined up and executed soldiers, both germans and soviets, and in some cases (i think) both are killing their own (for being "cowards" and such). No ww2 single player game will come close to cod waw. As for multiplayer... there is rising storm/red orchestra 2, that game is plain ptsd
World At War actually respected WW2
@@georgemakrov6174 Absolutely great summary, well done!
Amen 🙏
Remember: This game had a team of writers who want this game to be the first of a trilogy.
No! Please no. I'd rather have an Infinite Warfare trilogy.
@@weirdeurasianboy8091 hell, at least IW tried to do something different and I found the story fun (sometimes in a so bad its good way but fun)
@@weirdeurasianboy8091
At least the guys that wrote IW campaign were trying to tell a story
Alittle late for a trilogy, considering this is the third game using Modern Warfare 2019's rebuilt engine.
I'd rather have COD:Ghosts sequels. I wanna see what happens to your character after he gets captured by Rourke.
Game Devs: “World War 2 like you’ve never seen it before”
Also Game Devs: “So, lets give the Japanese on Bougainville in 1943 some STG-44s with 5 attachments, even though the gun will come out a year later, and attachments weren’t equipped on the gun. You know what? Let’s be nice, give them MG-42s and some revolving shotguns!”
Also Also game Devs " We are bored with standard WW2 stuff, we give you bullshit alternative story and nothing original in terms of gameplay, just typical Michael Bay stuff and put Cod brand on it"
Also game devs: Cod doesn't have any known character's so here are some random generic soldiers, hope you'll remember them as established cod characters.
Well they weren’t lying bro
Well, they are true to their word. We’ve never seen something like this before!
not to mention the trailer having the Sten's entire internals phasing out the back
Game in a nutshell:
-Nazis REALLY evil
-Allied good
-Our mcs superheroes, very diverse and ofc VERY politically correct
It makes it so obvious it hurts
Funny how you call this game politically correct, because for the longest time, CoD had right-wing writers. Either they have been sufficiently shut up or payed enough to put on the progressive mask like China and America does.
Apart from having an unrealistically diverse cast (a female sniper and a black soldier in the same team), what's so "very" politically correct about this Call of Duty?
Anybody who needs CoD to tell them Nazis were really evil has issues
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Hahaha no, China doesn't put on a progressive mask. That's so wrong that I believe you only mentioned it to compare it with America as if they're on the same level.
@@giorgialadashvili4771 I mean they did based them on real people
"Big Angry Historian Energy", so that is why I feel both enraged and powerful.
Hell, I got it from just looking at the pants-on-head retarded weapon customization options in the multiplayer. How the fuck do you get away with rechambering your firearm in this time period, let alone into something that doesn't exist yet like .50AE and 5.7mm?
I almost had an aneurysm after hearing that dialogue. What disrespect to the Soviet Soldiers.
@@giguyjoe Especially when neither of those calibers were even invented yet. To re-chamber a gun would have required a master gunsmith with a full workshop and possibly correspondence with the weapon's designer himself.
Me correcting my teacher about ww2 because he though that only the Americans attacked Normandy “I AM A GOD”
@@giguyjoe they just jumped 50years ahead with the 5.7mm
"polina inspired the russians to take back their land"
victor reznov: *angry soviet URA*
The entire Soviet army: *insulted noises*
Exactly. Unlike Reznov, Polina was never interested in giving the Russians hope for winning the war. She just wanted revenge against the Germans, and in the end, she got it.
You could still say she inspired the Russians, but only indirectly, lol.
@@chimanruler15 lol thats what i was irritated about
@@derth9230 Indeed, though I should edit my comment to make that more obvious.
@@theguylivinginyourwalls
Reznov: "Fortune smiles on us. In Berlin the Germans will truly see what they have unleashed. But in the midst of all the blood, the bullets, and the dead... I found that an old friend was still very much alive... Dimitri Petrenko, I saw this man cheat death time after time at the siege of Stalingrad. As long as he lives the heart of this army cannot be broken, he makes us all proud."
The sin counter should be renamed to "insult counter" for this game and this game alone
Absolutly.
YESEIRRY
They are sin
Sin to the videogames and history of all mankind
Exactly
You realize how high that would go when you take into account of all of the cursed weapon customization the game has? I mean the M1 Garand in Vanguard can have a fucking drum magazine yet still do the iconic ping sound as if the clip's still being ejected.
The absolute biggest sin was them pretending this game was about hunting down Hitler's successor, when in reality it was about talking to a bumbling fool about the standard Call of Duty formula. It's basically the worst of Battlefield's story telling with the overwhelming and paradoxical boredom of Call of Duty explosions going off the entire time.
I think Hitler did have a successor, but it was some random General after Hitler killed himself, and he was Fuhrer for only a few months in charge of a practically nonexistent army.
Dog I high key forgot they advertised that🤣 this game is just full of tokenization and disappointment.
@@jakespacepiratee3740
It was Admiral Karl Dönitz, and he was in command for roughly a week as, when he was told that he was now in charge and that Hitler shot himself, he almost immediately opened talks to negotiate Germany's surrender with the Allies.
@@TheJokeKing33 Huh weird. I remember seeing a newspaper from the time (like a photo of a newspaper) with a quote from him saying "We will keep fighting" I guess that didnt happen.
You haunt Hitler’s successor only for five minutes at the end of the game
I miss the old COD's where you were just an ordinary soldier fighting with you're nations army to fight the enemy, none of this stupid "Specialist" squad garbage
Yeah that’s the problem with post Cod 4/MW where pretty much every game since that (except WaW) abandoned you being just a regular grunt. Which was actually what made COD so unique back in the day. You weren’t a super soldier and needed your allies to back you up. Now thats gone and all it’s trying to do now is act like it’s gonna be “risky” and “controversial” when the writers are full of it. Hell, we saw this as early as MW2 when they allowed you to shoot foreign civilians but when it came to civilians in America there’s none to be found.
@@ryanelliott71698 at least MW2 was actually really good
@@marbl3d45 multiplayer, sure. Campaign, not really. The amount of leaps in logic the writers have to go through in that game is borderline crazy. I could go on a tangent on just how forced the conflict between Russia and America really is. Good thing that only Russians were killed in the airport and not a single civilian from another country. Or else there might have been an investigation into the matter that would have prevented war between the 2.
@@ryanelliott71698 To be fair, the switch happened after Medal of Honor died. In the series you were an OSS or Maquis agent. At the very least an elite Ranger officer.
When Medal of Honor petered out, Call of Duty took over that niche with all the action movie tropes you could cram into a game.
@@ryanelliott71698 the campaign for me is an explosive joyride imo although it’s unrealistic it’s charisma keeps the campaign remembered
It's such a shame how this series went from the peak of WaW portraying a gritty, horrible war in Asia and Europe with the necessary accuracy, gore and care the subject matter warrants, to this horseshit about super soldier covert squads saving the day because friendship or some nonsense.
I find it perplexing people consider WaW the peak of COD since it had its own share of flaws and not many people liked it at launch. Hell I even remember people complaining about having to go back to WW2 after dabbling in the present.
@@DarkPsychoMessiah That just small number of people think that way , put a poll and WaW will win a landslide .
@@kampfer91 Now it will. I meant back then.
Well Medal of Honor has you play as an OSS agent.
@@DarkPsychoMessiah almost ALL games are hated at launch
I laughed my ass off when I found out that Laura Bailey was portraying a Russian. Was it soo hard to CoD to bring a real Russian ?
After the utterly degenerate way CoD portrayed Russians in MW19, I'd be surprised if a Russian actually decides to collaborate with ActiBlizz again
@@weirdeurasianboy8091 Never played that game, what happened?
@@irgendeineperson5350 Used real US War Crimes but attributed them to the Russian Military if I recall correctly
@@Ripper455 modern Games are Just pure political Propaganda.
Laura Bailey pretty tho
"heres one of the wars greatest pilot"
*immediatly crashes his plane in the mission*
Can't believe that you didn't dropped at least 30 sins for those cringe death screens, that don't have historical characters, but those made up heroes and those made up quotes
"Polina scares the shit out of me..."
--Wade Jackson
Yeah, okay, these were pretty stupid quotes. XD XD XD
I couldn't believe it, the writers basicly quoted themselves smh
Fr. The og mw used quotes from presidents and other famous people. I think they also used quotes from their own characters but at least they weren’t cringe like this shithole of a game
What disturbs me most is the fact that not a single top manager at Activision looked at the half finished game some months ago and said "This is crap of the highest order, let´s bury it."
Braindead people buy it as shit as it is, so why would they waste energy in making it logical if this way works just fine for the idiots to love it?
@@muskularchicken
This is exactly the problem with modern AAA gaming. People are so content with paying top of the line money for sub par (mediocre at best) games. Which is why we are constantly fed low-mediocre quality games.
@@Badrecon33 good thing I am not buying any of this crap. I have a selected frw companies I buy from and I am happy (mostly Sony Studios and From Software)
@@muskularchicken
Same here. I ussually do a lot of research on games before I buy them. I NEVER pre order based off of a cinematic trailer, and I don't pay quality money for not quality games. When people start doing that, games will get mich better.
@@muskularchicken we should wait on Elden ring. And Miyazaki is superhuman, not only he managed to make George R. R. Martin finish something he started but he even managed to make him not fill this one with male genitals
If they wanted the hating the English bit to be more believable, they could have just made him Irish.
And the reason he gives, would also apply to kiwis, assuming that he's referring to Gallipoli
This.
Ireland was neutral in WW2 even though we did have Irish soldiers joining the British Army. But with Vanguard already being a crock of revisionist manure as it gets, you may as well say the Irish Army joined in WW2 to defeat the axis.
Jesus I could not stop laughing lmao. "How could they mistake Kingsley as a German soldier.......he's black" 😂🤣😂
There were some black colonial troops.
@@mallardofmodernia8092 Germans aren't black.
@@mallardofmodernia8092 there was like one black soldier in the German military during the war, this isn’t ww1 where tens of thousands were used in German colonies in Africa.
@@kritischertrinker9971 key term:colonial troops, not native germans ffs
@@hallu4696 there was a few because some had immigrated to germany before and after ww1
>Novak
>gets beaten to death with a chair
>all the guys hold back tears and anger
>be Polina
>be bitch
_"People die"_
This is not a strong woman..
Never really liked Polina, tbh.
@@chimanruler15 whats annoying is that shes not voiced by an actual russian. Leading to this stereotypical, cringe accent
@@norandomstuff They couldn't be bothered to find an actual Russian actress? My goodness.
@@norandomstuff My father's russian friend should have voiced she does this accent 100% better
@@chimanruler15 They couldn't even be bothered to find real germans for the nazis. Most have an english accent.
So COD had a pilot, a plane mission, and a female Russian soldier? Why in the hell didn't they consider making that woman a Night Witch, or something similar? The Night Witches are extremely underrepresented in WW2 media.
That would require competency on the dev's part.
Because that would require a little bit of research and its easier to just do stupid pandering
For real. Not just the Night Witches, we have a German guy that fights Germans. How come I don't get to play as a German soldier during the Battle for Castle Itter?
I'm just amazed they didn't do the French Resistance at any point, which was known for being an even split between men and women.
CoD WW2 did that aspect brilliantly. Liberation was a fantastic mission; and something the series needed for a while.
And while I found Polina's missions to be the most enjoyable, there were only 2 of them. I wanted more missions of trying to sneak through Nazi """occupied""" Stalingrad and Russia.
@@N-GinAndTonicTM yeah but no one talks about how awesome 2017's campaign was like they should've made a sequel in the korean war!
Just a random thought, but if they want a diverse "progressive" cast why not insert that squad into modern environment? not ww2, not future-tech, current tech... xD mistaking the token black character for a german soldier xD
Don't mind the future-tech
Probably because there would be no social-political soap box to yell from. Who would the racist bad-guys be? Al-Shabab? ISIS-K? FARC? It wouldn't fit the narrative. Also, everyone in modern war games are so covered in kit and gear that you probably wouldn't be able to tell what race or gender they are. In a modern setting, none of their social crap would fit into a story unless they made it "Call of Duty: Africa and Western Asia". Those places still have lots of sexism, totalitarianism, racism and religious divides. But, who would want to play as Israeli, Saudi Special forces, or Nigerian, Central African or Kurdish? Too many toes to step on. They better play it safe and just invent some made WW2 story that they used a liberal college history book for as reference. They stretched every fiber of realism to include race, gender, anti-imperialism and social justice.
I’m surprised you didn’t say anything about the lee endfeild holding 5 shots and not 10 and how in the beginning of the Africa mission the dude says “bugger that rpg” when it was invented in 1958
Yeah that RPG line I had to pause and laugh outloud for a while lol.
And they were invented in Russia
Or the gas masks the germans used on the flamer units were made in the 60’s by the Russians lmao sledgehammer should never make another cod game again
Well it is call of duty
The 5 rounds in the Enfield thing was so the British troop(s) not only did not die with his fully loaded rifle, but in case he were to run into the Jerry that he'd still be ready to fight and only need to load in the second stripper clip. Something like that anyway. Go look that up. It's real. Blew my mind they used their heads for once during the war.
"War. War never changes."
Activision: Write that down. WRITE THAT DOWN!!
Fallout 4?
War has changed our time is over
-Solid snake and just about anyone who remembers cod world at war
No
@@th1n923 every fallout game in existence
Well shoot now I want Ron Perlman in one of these
Cod never was the most realistic. But at least the injuries were. Now every cod character is an action hero shrugging off multiple bullets and stab wounds like it's nothing. I would like to remind everyone that soap the MAIN character of the mw series. Died from ONE stab wound. A wound he didn't even get from the game he died in. His activities caused the wound to open and he bled out. Look how different the series is now. It's the same thing with last of us when Joel was bed ridden from the stab wound while Ellie can walk off a similar wound easily
But even then Soap wouldn't surivie a knife to the chest
Soap didn't die of a stab wound, he died of a giant Michael Bay explosion that threw him off of 25 floor building, which he did survive the fall and explosion but died because there was no immediate medical treatment. *Gotta love the realism*
@@rupers5988 At the start of the MW3 campaign he is getting medical attention from the stab wound in the chest Shepard gives him in MW2. He is sent out of a building with Yuri down a 5-6 story tower by a bomb. He survives the fall because he goes through scaffolding, but the shock reopens the wound from the beginning of the game. He dies because he bleeds out.
From what I remember immediately after the explosion some debris fell on top of Soap's chest re-opening the wound
Soap didnt die of a stab wound, in the last episode of CoDMW in a mission after destructing nuclear war heads, Cpt Price and Soap try to escape from the soldiers of Imran Zakhaev, then a Russian chopper starts to chase them and just on a bridge, the chopper sends rockets causing the bridge to collapse, thus shrapnels and probably a rebar stuck in Soap. He's taken to somewhere safe by Kamarov, after killing Imran Zakhaev, but unfortunately passed away in India due to lack of required medical treatments in good conditions
Speaking of corporate products, There will never be a COD specifically about the Korean War or Vietnam. Given that Communist China was heavily involved in both conflicts, I'm sure Activision doesn't want to upset their Chinese masters by depicting their true role in the conflicts.
the most IRONIC thing is that After the Vietnam War China said "eh whatever" and Betrayed the Soviets Union and invaded Vietcong Territory to attack the Vietcong in 1979, it's call the Sino Vietnamese war and it was SO bad the Vietnamese Americans were fighting becomes the United States new current allies.
@@someblackguy7371 What you're referring to goes back to the Sino Soviet split in the 1960s where China & Soviets had essentially began mini Cold War on who was the better communist country. The Cambodian-Vietnamese War & the Sino-Vietnamese War are good examples of that.
@@westernspirit6399 saddest thing about it is the China's evil rise to power was thanks to the USA aiding China, same with the Soviet Union as USA provides logistics for Soviets against the Nazis, and same thing with the Nazis when American corporations also helped Nazi Germany.... hell it isn't just ex nations but insurgencies the fight too, they were also Former American allies, Taliban use to be members of resistance fighters against the Soviets in the Soviet afgan war, and The Vietcong Helped the Americans against the Japanese Empire in ww2....
.... I feel like every nation secretly hate themselves or something.
@@someblackguy7371 Everyone hates themselves because governments are aligned to their own self interests which change frequently.
It isn't about wright or wrong or whatever ideology works best its about ensuring your nation is at the top of the pecking order by any means necessary. Some succeed and some fail
People's Republic of China. If it were on Taiwan (aka Republic of China), I guess they would be fine
Remember lads: this "elite team" was created because the dev team stated that the franchise had no interesting characters of its own.
Then they go on to create the most generic and boring cast of characters ever put together.
BO 2 , with all its flaws, gave me a villian that was interesting and made you think who is actually good or bad in this story? WW2 and Vanguard give us a fuckton of cliches, including characters, baysplosions and actions taken straight from FF movies and developers can,t understand why CoD became a meme and people don,t give a fuck about this franchise.
Mason, Reznov, Price, SOAP, Dempsey, Gaz, MacMillian......that’s just a few memorable characters. Now they think this crap will be so memorable that it warrants a trilogy.
@@Bravo-Too-Much ...how...how did you forget ghost?
@@reaganmemes6510 Rorke is one of the best villians of all COD history. Also one of the best twist villians inside games.
“no interesting characters”
price
gaz
soap
roach
ghost
woods
mason
hudson
reznov
shepard
adler
and a bunch more
Cod Vanguard: *Says or does anything pertaining to history*
Me: "Wtf that's like wrong in eight different ways"
Seriously did they hire the old history channel writers that talked about Nazi UFOs? This crap is so far disconnected from reality I have to ask why even make it a WWII game if you're not even gonna half ass the setting
COD: Vanguard written and directed by Giorgio Tsoukalos
@@jordangarcia465 My Dr. Pepper came just thru my nose. Thanks for making my day. :)
@@jordangarcia465 you would have gotten a better story. With aliens.
I hate when they don't get real German actors to play German characters. That black guy says "wow your accent sounds like you're from Neustadt" but that American actor trying to croak out a few German words sounds about as German as Borat sounds British.
Can they just stop shitting on one of the most tragic events in human history and make that alternate universe dieselpunk game *THEY OBVIOUSLY WANT TO?*
All this wild imagination and fantasy suffering for being crammed into tight historical setting that is obviously no place for it, but the publisher obviously demands "WWII historically accurate" sticker on the box or it won't sell that well.
Damn shame
I'd play the shit out of a dieselpunk WW2 CoD.
@@theguylivinginyourwalls why ?
You wouldnjust have another wolfesntein...
@@infernoreviews2529 Eh, you have a point. I'm just sad they wasted potential like they've done here.
@@theguylivinginyourwalls Yeah I agree.
But for these type of games I have since long moved on.
If you play on consoles and if youbare fkrtunate enough to own one of the new generations of console I suggest you play hell let loose instead of this crap.
It doesn't have a campaign but the multyplayer isn't full kf the nonsense like a cod or battlefield game is.
If you also play on PC just go for hell let loose, post scriptum, or if you like the vietnam war era play my favorite rising storm 2.
@@infernoreviews2529 you say this like it's a bad thing
Vanguard's guns in a nutshell could be summarized as: Let's take MW19 and 'Cold-warify' it for Black ops Cold War, and the 'WW-ify' it for Vanguard. Because I am convinced they literally cannot resist putting red dot sight or holosight in all their games since they felt that modern CoD players can't use the damn iron sight
The funny thing is in MW1 and 2 multiplayer most people running around with open iron sights instead of optics. AK, UMP, ACR, SCAR, Tar21, all the meta guns were player with irons in MW2.
I have the feeling that the amount of guns in COD decreased with WW2, Cold War and now Vanguard, and in all of those games guns were out of place. WW2 did the best job (I guess), some guns I didn’t even know what they are exactly (Auto 5, Toggle Action (?) ,…) , the PPSCH felt a bit out of place at the western front but I think I read stories that these weapons were used by the Germans from captured Soviets, yet I don’t believe they made their way from the eastern to the western front, still an okay setting for me. Cold War triggered me (as an eastern German), the StaSi most likely didn’t used MP5Ks (no, despite being a „German“ weapon), East Germany was soviet territory, MP5 was issued to westerns and NATO members. They also didn’t use a „Krieg 6“ (or GALIL). I was also shocked that there were only like 3 pistols in the game. Vanguard took the cake, experimental weapons with colorful red dot sights, drum magazines, etc. STG44 in Japan and so on…
@@christiandanzig7677 what I'm pissed off about CoD Vanguard is because the Devs are labeling it as 'the most authentic, immersive WW2 experience', yet the guns in the game doesn't even feel remotely immersive or outright logical, which as a gun enthusiast, absolutely TRIGGERED me (magazine-feed revolver shotgun? IN JAPAN, no less). Good luck having customization in an era where every weapons are standardized, cheap and mass produced. The fact they even put 'war machine' (handheld revolver grenade launcher) in the game where the closest you can get for a grenade launcher as an average soldier in real WW2 was a rifle grenade, clearly showed their lack of creativity: they simply can't release new CoD without stuff from previous games, even if the era it's put in make absolutely no sense
@@fabianhenrich4697 care to elaborate why iron sights were meta in MW series? I'm not really into MW multiplayer (I'm more on WaW or BO) so I don't know why having no optics are meta
@@arsmariastarlight3567 couldn’t agree more
I still think the biggest sin is the Lee Enfield in one of those intros (FYI a bolt action rifle) being fired as a semi-auto, even though the character LITERALLY cycles the bolt before firing.
How does this even pass development?
Also, it only holds 5 bullets in the game but 10 in real life
The MG42 in the Pacific mission was pretty jarring too
Because activists don't do any actual research
This game is like letting a 10 year old kid feast on Cocaine and only give him FanFictions about WW2 to read to make this game as accurately as possible...
Pathetic.
how did you get this insider information about the developing process?
@@saladasss2092 i once was an 10 YO Kiddo on Cocaine (not actual Cocaine, but same effect)
@@legitscoper3259 no offense but it sounds 🧢
@@natsoy1786 Blue hat ??? What ?
@@legitscoper3259 it's a cap. Cap mean lying
As someone who loves history the historical inaccuracy of this game pisses me off.
As someone who was never taught real history being from the inner city education system the glaring historical inaccuracies piss me off.
Its like the contrivances are suppose to annoy me I just don't know in what way yet.
Same
"Maybe this could have all been prevented had the Axis won."
Now I know why he didnt like Wolfenstein that much...
Ouch
I would give your comment a like but it already has 88 likes
@@christiandanzig7677 that probably makes no sense but ok
@@derth9230 no cause he would’ve liked it but it was at 88 so he didn’t want to ruin it. So he decided to comment
@@derth9230 I presume Christian Danzig is German or maybe Polish. The 88 in Germany is often used by Neo-Nazis as a way of saying HH(H being the 8th Sign) or "Heil Hitler"
There’s a hundred ways this story could’ve worked AND made sense historically, but they decided to “woke” the sh!t out of it for some reason.
That's the funny part. Could work, but they screwed it royally. It's unbelievable.
I am just waiting for a future Transexxual protagonist because that is the only logical outcome!!
1 word: investors.
Investors have a huge influence in game development since they bankroll most of the development process. So what usually happens is that investors(who's origin and intentions can only be guessed at) invest their money IF the product turns into a virtue signaling cringe fest.
Pretty much every big triple A developer that refuses to diversify and make their game woke will have big trouble getting any kind of investments. So usually those developers end up ruining their games just so that they can develop a game, get a paycheck. just to do the same over and over again.
@@rajendrashetti2363 you yee haws are all the same. Takes anything at all and finds someway to make it about trans people. I’ve heard you freaks connect us to the war in Ukraine somehow. Open your mind up a little bit. Trans people aren’t responsible for every negative thing in life. Stop being so ovsessed with us. Literally it’s all u talk about. Eww.
@@weaponizedautism6589 While a good guess, I don't think that's it, or at least the whole reason. Investors are usually rich and don't give a fuck about Virtue Signaling. At least not the good kind, if there is such a thing.
The funniest thing about this is that Germans pretty much banned shotguns among their troops. The exception? The M30 Luftwaffe Drilling. It has a double barrel shotgun on top and a 9.3×74mmR rifle barrel underneath. German officers used the rifle barrel against infantry and the shotgun against game. The Germans actually said that shotguns were inhumane and caused unjust suffering against their enemies.
Shhhh next thing you we hear you are a white supremacist. There a rabbit hole. Like USA doing genocide on citizens after both wars
"Shotguns? Thats so inhumane!
"Mass-executions, purges, and systematic extermination? Go ahead!"
sorry that just wrong. the m30 is called luftwaffen drilling becaus it a surival gun for luftwaffen(airforce) pilots in north africa. there were not even meant to shoot people. the 9.3x74 barrel is meant for lions and rhinos. the shotgun to hunt food. the is no document case of a a use of that weapon aginst humans
I thought the shotgun ban/protest thing was only in ww1 had no idea it extended to ww2
@@dbk_kvd it still till today the german army do has shotguns. but they for the mp. not the general soldier. it highly recommed to not use shotguns aginst human targets. same goes for 50 caliber rifle and mgs.
5:55 I will add my own sin here:
I'm German. That accent is *horrible* - I had to switch from "Doing stuff, watching this from the corner of my eye" to "actively listen in order to understand what's being said"; that's saying something, when I have to concentrate more in order to understand my mother tongue, when the 5 minutes before that I could understand a foreign language without too much of a hassle.
Yes, yes, languages in visual media can be difficult, but COME ON, the voice actors could've been paid the extra hours for them to try some at least decent pronunciation - or alternatively they could've just skipped the two sentences of "Oooh, it's German, so historically accurate!" 🙄
And apparently that is a rhineland accent, from Neustadt? I've been to Mannheim before, which is somewhat close to Neustadt - surprisingly enough no one had such an accent.
well don't you see? It's progressive to make bad guys so stupid with Fictional accents that it makes real life bad guys seem like Cartoon villains in our future generations eyes that no one will take seriously.... Surely NOTHING will go with with that.
Activision just needs to do a Ubisoft and state that these games are works of fiction. Acknowledge that these are just blockbuster video games. Coded movies with decent multiplayer. Then go full on Michael Bay with these things. There is a market for this stuff. We know what we are getting. Make big bombastic action movies with the option to do a little stealth. Manage the pacing better. Tell better stories. We will buy that ish. They always look increasingly better on our flat screen TVs and 4K resolutions. Skipped the crap out of this. I’ll pick it up in time. Modern Warfare still has me.
You guys remember when we used to be able to argue that video games taught us about history to our history teachers?
LOL RIGHT, I remember when I got to school and told to my teacher how the Allies invaded Sicily, what the beach landing of D-day was, how the germans pretty much fought house to house in Stalingrad against the soviets and how the soviets were brutal in Berlin.
It was like dude the best feeling ever.
Villain: Talks in German with a horrible English Accent
Protagonist: "Your Rhineland Accent, you must be from Neustadt!"
Not only are there around 20 towns in Germany called Neustadt, there's only two very small ones in the Rhineland, so he can't possibly narrow his dialect down to just the two of them.
And for fucks sake, and this goes to all American developers, but Activision in particular: if you want to go smart on a character's accent or dialect, at least make the effort to hire a voice actor from that region or at least the same country. It's not that hard to find German voice actors that would be willing to take part in an AAA game. It's so fucking annoying to have to listen to a Nazi speaking German with an English Accent.
When the black American soldier speaks better German than the Nazi villain. Absoluetely pathetic production.
„Eer sprickt auck Deitsch!“
7:50 careful not to get canceled there bud. What if Arthur identifies as a white German? You can’t just assume people’s identity and race and gender nowadays. This is why diversity and identity is important! Big thanks to activision for making a game full of diverse super soldiers who are definitely not generic af or forced into being created
This is what happens when purple haired kids who skipped history class to play Fortnite write a plot for a WWII game.
Me: Can I get COD: World at War?
Mom: We have World at War at home.
COD: World at War at home:
why do they still not get a native german to speak the germans in videogames. he dont sounds german he speak german with a very hard accent. probly american or canadien not sure wich he dont talk that much
I will keep saying Call of Duty’s last year of triumph was 2012
So we're gonna skip Modern Warfare 2019 that literally updated the whole FPS genre with that tacticool style ?
@@samueljones3668 Modern Warfare 2019 is the only exception because they actually innovated and made a call of duty that was different from the ones that came before, that and maybe Cold War because as much problems as that game had the campaign was pretty fun
@@craigsteward1166 What has Halo or Battlefield innovated?
@@gangstagummybear3432 Battlefield’s last year of triumph: 2016
Halo is kinda tricky for me to say though because I personally think it’s last year on top was 2007 but with Halo Infinite releasing soon it’s kinda up in the air. Another thing is Halo 4 and 5, despite their issues there were some things that I liked about them.
@@craigsteward1166 battlefields last year of triumph was not 2016. Last year of triumph was when it released 2142. All other have not been to the same standard. The refractor engine games were the best.
I don't get why there is a SA insignia on the letter Polina pulls from the dead body at 16:44, since most of the SA was dissolved after the night of the long knives and by 1941 just was considered a military training school, definitly not operating in Russia. Or is this just alternative history again?
It’s simple, they went “ohhhh that looks cool!” And with zero understanding or research just threw it in there as some secret society. Hell they could have at least gone with Thule since they were weird and real, but that would have required even a tiny bit of research.
No you are mistaken allies don't win ww2 my team did
Thanks for the PTSD buddy
*This game just feels SJWish. It’s always going around telling us how the protagonists are black or a women.*
*And c’mon, a WW2 game and not ONE SINGLE mention of the Jews? CoD WW2 tackled that subject way better.*
CoD has always been a white kighters dream. I try to ignore that shit and just play the game, but now it's like 80% cutscene speeches and 20% quick time events.... Ugh.
Give me Inglorious Basterds as a game please!! None more of this cut and pasted crap.
@@DailyCorvid that was a good movie
@@CMTechnica imagine how good the game could be if it was done right, with the budget of Vanguard ...
@@DailyCorvid
Whats funny is that Tarantino would be a great director for a video game.
@@samueljones3668 Yeah agreed! Perhaps any director with such badass strong ADHD is bound to be hitting the spot often when it comes to creativity.
That guys ADHD makes mine look like a minor blip on the psychotics radar 😂 But I love all his work I would be terrified of him in person
A black 'Special Forces' soldier working for Britain is almost impossible in WW2. The War Office had a low opinion of black soldiers (e.g. withdrawing the 81st West African Division from Burma) and SOE usually employed people who had connections to an occupied country or who 'pass' as a citizen of that nation. Sending a black soldier into Nazi Germany is absurd for these reasons.
Though he was based on a real life Afro-British soldier
@@brndonlu9635 You're referring to Sidney Cornell who was only a paratrooper. He wasn't an SOE operative and he wasn't sent on any secret missions to Berlin in 1945. In fact, he was killed in April 1945. Activision and Sledgehammer shouldn't have distorted Cornell's career into unrealistic nonsense.
Honestly, imagine seeing the war through the eyes of a pole fighting for the allies. I mean, you are fighting for your occupied home.
@@cdmon3221 I was refering to his story but over then that, I see your point
Well the germans did have a plan in case of occupation it was cooperation werewolf. Pretty much it was Germany training a special forces to fight a insurgent/guerrilla warfare in case of occupation, two things of note was they killed a politician in Holland and sew seeds of doubt and paranoia to the allies in West Berlin about retaliation. They will have been more successful if they knew how many of them were out there, Who was in command and know where were weapons and supplies were buried. Today German farmers and construction crew are still finding the missing stock pile of weapons, grenades and supplies that belong to Operation werewolf.
the original call of duty’s set in WW2 honor the veterans who fought in it and portray and mostly realistically and then sledge hammer comes along and ruins it
Well I wouldn't say Sledgehammer, the CEO or the creators. Also even the old WW2 had some hollywood influence like enemy at the gates
The irony of it is, the better the solider, the less information he will be willing to go into war with (or at least i think so, would make sense). And if the writers had two brain cells committed to logic, Vanguard story would never happen.
@16:20 Actually that fight is more likely a rip off from Modern Warfare. You know when your that lillte girl versus that big Russian dude? So the sin should come from reusing a reused scene from somewhere game. It two levels deep baby
I would’ve given it 100 sins for all the historical inaccuracies and their attempt to rewrite history. This game is the biggest insult to World War 2 I have ever seen.
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” - J.R.R.Tolkien
the japanese are using MG42s in the part where wade takes off 🤦♂️ what makes it worse is that in the following cutscene they're actually using their own machine guns but the devs just didn't bother to actually include them in the missions for whatever reason. and i was watching a stream of the campaign that had this ak-47 looking gun at one point, wtf.
the AK looking one is the AS-44, an actual gun that was essentially a bridge between the SKS and AK. It's extremely obscure so I'm glad that the devs did their research for at least ONE part of the game. However, a prototype batch was only sent for testing in the summer of 1945 so there's no real way you'd be seeing them on the front lines.
21:46
"All you did was keep some deluded Nazis from flying to Argentina"
lmao caught me off gaurd
Oh yes a fresh slice of Dartigan savagery to get me through my day. Can always count on the tripe that is Cod to produce good material for this channel.
World at War was the last best WW2 Game in Call of Duty.
A sin I think Dartigan missed was when Arthur Kingsley says “This was supposed to be our first and only mission.” Who the actual hell throws some of the nation’s “best” fighters for just one mission. Arthur also says “a coalition of allied commandos.” Commandos are usually Special Forces personnel, like exactly what World At War (an infinitely superior title) did with having the Marine Raiders operate in the Pacific Theater. Most of them are just regular army or personnel. I also did like how you mentioned Wade Jackson was a fucking pilot on a ground mission and none of their skill sets actually benefited or complimented the other’s.
Iirc only the UK had special forces (SRS) back then, right ? I know NKVD and Waffen SS could be considered special forces, but they got that status because of their rabid devotion to their respective ideologies and not their combat abilities. CoD writers really don't know what to do with their game, that's sad.
Also, Zombies and Warzone, using the same task force, take place in 1944. It's like different writers handle each mode.
@@jeanhamilton3296 Special Forces go all the way back to WW1, depending on whom you ask. You had the Italian Arditi and the German Stormtroopers in that conflict. In WWII, not exactly! The Marine Raiders as I previously mentioned were an actual SF unit during that time for America and I know the Imperial Japanese had their own in the form of Teishin Shudan and Giretsu Kuteitai as well. For the other nations, I know the Soviets had sappers but as for the others, I'm not sure. Oh! And the US Army Rangers as well I believe. I actually got to see that memorial on the coast of France in 2018. Place called Pointe du Hoc. It's stunning there. You can actually see the formation of the top edge of France exactly like it's shown on maps, and the waves crashing in just add onto it too. Funny enough, you can even see the old barbed wire that's still there too. Anyways, I hope this answers your question! Also, good point! But the NKVD is more like a secret police force. You have very strong points there.
@@LAST_STAND_FAN Right? It's disjointed as fuck.
@@officercat7907 interesting, thanks for all this trivia :)
This team could have been better if it was composed of
Reznov,
Dimitri,
Roebuck(Alt ending),
Miller
and Chernov
Yeah,also Sullivan
I think chernov died on the last mission.
One thing I noticed is that the older CODs had real war-related quotes that try to remind you about the realities of war and how much it costs to do so. I think in COD Vanguard, whenever you die, you instead get quotes that all revolve around the fictional characters or the game's story. Not that it's a serious flaw, but the real war-related quotes was something I missed in the newer CODs. Kind of adds a sense of realism and grounded-ness to the games
I'm thankful for a Dartigan sins video. I vote for Guardians of The Galaxy.
About the first mission with the trains, Dartigan should've added that this level begins with a very vague date. All it says was Hamburg, 1945. In past COD games set in WW2, every level begins with a specific date that happened to have battles on it in real life. Here, it gives the players a location and year, but not even a friggin month. I was kept guessing when the battle of Hamburg happened until the very last mission when the Nazis mentioned a specific event that I then figured out what was the actual date.
3:12: Dartigan should've pointed out that while black British soldiers did serve in integrated units and it was possible for them to achieve the officer ranks, not one black person served in the SOE during the war.
5:08: That weapon is a real weapon called the Becker Revolving Shotgun and they were made in the 1920's, however, as to their usage in WW2, I could not find any.
6:25: I caught two instances of bullshit in Arthur's monologue to the German officer. The first was that Arthur gave away a fact that he knows German. Had he not done so, he could have picked up some intel without them being none the wiser. The second was a complete historical travesty committed by Sledgehammer to purposely propagate their poppycock agenda into the game. Arthur mentioned black soldiers walking around the place where the German used to live with guns and marrying the local women. That is a historical coverup committed by a company that was just commissioned to develop a real life event game. The soldiers with guns were black colonial French troops, part of a contingent to occupy the Rhineland from 1920 to 1923 after the end of WW1. When Arthur added in "marry your women", that would have earned him a bullet to the head in real life. In reality, a minority did marry the local women, but the majority of what happened with regards to German women was that there were 65+ cases of rape committed by the same black French colonial troops. This omission by Sledgehammer shows that they have no balls in presenting history, especially before WW2, in how things were that would make their "diversity inclusive" image look very bad.
7:49: Not that this has anything to do with race, it has everything to do with anxiety. These guys have just jumped out of a plane into enemy territory and are behind enemy lines. The whole act with Arthur saying "Thunder" is what they're supposed to say when encountering friendly units so that they don't shoot their own.
8:32: Even though the US sent weapons to England as part of the Lend Lease Act, the BAR was distributed mainly to the British Home Guard. Arthur could have been using a Bren LMG in that mission.
9:11: Sure, that or the other book that's titled The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem by Henry Ford.
9:14: Another problem that's prevalent throughout these cutscenes: these German officials, whenever they speak to each other, never speak German.
9:56: Two instances of bullshit here. The first is what Dartigan pointed out: this annoying interchange of languages. The second is that Sledgehammer dared to bring back the most pointless action command in this game from Advanced Warfare: Hold Square To Eat With Your Family. Also, I noticed that before Polina's name was the rank Private. Seeing as how Polina originally was a medic at the beginning of her story, I don't think medics would be given ranks. I tried finding some examples of ranked medics in the Soviet army, but none came up.
10:04: Hell, this was the most baffling thing to be implemented in a Call Of Duty game, no less. The way Polina climbs up the wall, runs across the rooftops, even jumps from place to place made me think I was playing a segment straight out of Mirror's Edge. One TH-camr, Lack Of Entertainment, called Polina's agilities "Spiderman abilities". Also, I've seen videos of this level titled " Battle Of Stalingrad". This is not a battle, this is an assault on the city. Lack Of Entertainment also pointed that before the assault begins, there's not one banner flying Soviet sayings and there's no picture of the guy the city is named after. Jesus tap dancing Christ, Sledgehammer was criticized before for not having the swastika on any of the Nazi flags in COD WW2. Here, they did the same thing. Was the excuse the same as last time? They didn't want to "offend" anyone? Offend who? The Neo Nazis?
11:08: Which is the most stupidest game mechanic anyone could ever place in an event that happened in real life. If the developers wanted the players to have fun flying a plane, they could have the plane be stocked with unlimited ammo. But if they wanted the plane have limited ammo, it would have provided a good enough challenge to the player to conserve their ammo for important parts. The computer game Aircraft Carriers: Pacific Assault perfectly captures the mechanics of fighter, dive bomber and torpedo planes.
11:21: During the flight towards the carriers, the player gets ambushed by Japanese Zeros. However, the plane never strays off course while it happens. The player is allowed to move to the sides, but nonetheless, stays on the flight route. No chance for an actual dogfight is ever given in this game making this whole flying level less of a thrill to experience combat from the air into a pretty boring standard of "fly from point A to point B". Also, the battle at Midway was way more intense in real life and in Aircraft Carriers: Pacific Assault. Here, Sledgehammer has the player just sit tightly until a command is given to drop ONE bomb that supposedly sunk a full size carrier. Had Sledgehammer given a shit about historical authenticity, they would program this to have the player and the NPCs take turns dropping bombs on 4 Japanese carriers, not just have it be one plane dropping one bomb with the impact force of a freaking bunker buster.
12:59: Once again, the game was being vague again when it came to a specific month out of a specific year. In the game's Wikipedia page, it mentions only this for the level: November 1943 ( a day would have been nice).
13:38: Dartigan misspelled the word naval.
13:58: Japanese animation can be traced back to at least the 1920's, Dartigan. It wouldn't matter to anyone outside of Japan between then and the 40's if they had seen it or not. Also, this game just pulled a very asenine moment. Normally, in situations like this, a Japanese officer would conduct an interrogation and in the POW's language, no less. However, an enlisted translator can be used as well. However, this stupid ass scene had the translator come up to you and with a straight face, asked "Do you speak Japanese" in plain fucking English. If this idiot wanted to know if I speak Japanese, he would have asked me the same thing in Japanese to see if I understood. What's the point of asking a POW if they know YOUR certain language if you asked them in THEIR own language? Such an approach makes the interrogater look stupid as hell. Whoever at Sledgehammer thought this was good to be in the game is a fucking retard.
14:09: Wade went through basic training with a pistol and with planes, not with any other forms of conventional weapons. This is common to teach pilots how to use a sidearm whenever they get shot down in enemy territory as a last way to defend themselves. But here, the basic principle of sidearm training is the same for rifles and machine guns.
14:14: That shot looked like it grazed him from the side to me.
14:21: Dartigan has a point with the grenade. A grenade will cook for 5 seconds before exploding and that little scene there would have had Wade's arm full of shrapnel. However, there is a trick to hold down the mechanism of the grenade after the pin has been pulled giving the thrower more than 5 seconds.
15:04: Finally, everyone, we've now seen a new level of absurdity with the way Sledgehammer and Activision have handled this game and that is in the Numa Numa Trail mission. Keep in mind that this level is set in November 1943 which is the first month of the battle of Bougainville that lasted all the way to August '45 and here we have units of the 93rd Division making their appearance. The absurdly with this is that throughout all of 1943, the 93rd Division were still going through basic training back at their camps in California. The 93rd would not be sent out overseas until January '44 and they would not be sent to Bougainville until March of '44. So here we have a huge historical discrepancy between historical facts and piss poor scholarly research. I remember back in the day, there was a company that did WW2 justice and that company was called Treyarch. What in the fucking hell did Activision do to it? Sledgehammer has consistently disappointed me with how it handled most of Modern Warfare 3, Advanced Warfare, Infinite Warfare and WW2. When will Activision get the fucking message that Sledgehammer is terribly unfit to make a WW2 game? As long as Treyarch keeps getting bypassed on every WW2 project coming out, Activision will be seen as a corporation that's unworthy of respect and their products as things that belongs in the garbage.
16:40: I'm curious as to this Steiner guy being someone Sledgehammer made up as a possible villain or someone who was a real person during the war. My money's on this guy being a fictional character.
16:57: Shit yeah, especially since in real life, the Soviets gave credit to one sniper in helping turn the tide against the Germans at Stalingrad: Vasily Zaitsev, a man. This further proves that Sledgehammer could care less about historical authenticity in favor of a genderwash version they presented all because they FEEL that a woman should have done that.
Excellent breakdown. I also wanted to add that Polina's house would be considered borderline luxury for 1940s Soviet Union and it would have been a miracle if she didn't get into trouble for that during Stalin's reign when everything was communalized.
IW was made by Infinity Ward and excellent breakdown btw
Sledgehammer is without a doubt the worst cod studio
@@giorgialadashvili4771 That's a very good point. I was also surprised when I saw Polina's house. I thought it looked a little too nice, considering the state the country was in at the time.
When you look at the rest of the game's issues regarding historical inaccuracy, my fucking God, there are so many of them. Some of them I noticed but never gave a second thought, so I didn't even realize how bad the campaign was until I watched this video and read the comments.
Even if you push the historical inaccuracies aside, the game's structure and plot make no sense, as Dartigan pointed out. We spend more time on the characters' backstories than on the mission of defeating Freisinger and his army. And, even when we finally do that, it barely affected anything in the war because Germany was already on the brink of losing!
Why did Activision allow such a mess of the campaign to exist?
Well at least the sniper was based on a real person though I see your point.
All those lights in the windows during the train ride. Havn't they heard there's a blackout?
6:23 "marrying your women" Lmfao that is horribly insulting considering how the French colonial troops occupation of Neustadt caused such a horrific mass rape that even the other nations of the Entente demanded that the French government took action to punish them, look it up
Indeed, it was actually outrage from the British public and the press which forced the French to take action, who quite naturally, and rightly, accused them of being party to barbarism and a crime against humanity.
I have the feeling that the amount of guns in COD decreased with WW2, Cold War and now Vanguard, and in all of those games guns were out of place. WW2 did the best job (I guess), some guns I didn’t even know what they are exactly (Auto 5, Toggle Action (?) ,…) , the PPSCH felt a bit out of place at the western front but I think I read stories that these weapons were used by the Germans from captured Soviets, yet I don’t believe they made their way from the eastern to the western front, still an okay setting for me. Cold War triggered me (as an eastern German), the StaSi most likely didn’t used MP5Ks (no, despite being a „German“ weapon), East Germany was soviet territory, MP5 was issued to westerns and NATO members. They also didn’t use a „Krieg 6“ (or GALIL). I was also shocked that there were only like 3 pistols in the game. Vanguard took the cake, experimental weapons with colorful red dot sights, drum magazines, etc. STG44 in Japan and so on…
The Krig 6 is the AK5.
They could have made something cool out of this very basic premise of " hitlers successor" by fully committing to the Dieselpunk setup and just go full Wolfenstein. Actually alternative history/timeline thing. Then the suspension of disbelief would be easier in some cases. But instead they try to shoehorn this all in as some story that " Might as well have happened" , triggering angry historians.
idk. Its this halfway in the middle kind of approach that absolutly misses the mark by a mile.
As a real soldier in the VDV Airborne, the level of wokeness in this game is so cringe
The biggest thing wrong with Call of Duty Vanguard is that exist
The use of Black African soldiers by the French during occupation of the Rhineland and Hitler being influenced by Madison Grant's _The Passing of The Great Race_ are true to this game's credit.
So now we know that at least some pennies from those hundreds of millions they had went to actual research.
I think they just set up a dart board some with true historical events and others a pile of shite blindfolded the devs and told them to throw and what they landed on was what the narrative would be
Yeah except the occupation wasn’t “we married your women” and more an international crisis when the troops had a massive wave of sexual assaults on the occupied German women. It’s taking a major historical crime and saying “nah it was all bubblegum and roses, we were only ever good guys.”
16:20 Double that sin, that was a sequence back in MW19 and it felt much better there.
I was thinking the same thing! That sequence there made far more sense than it did here.
*black solider laughing as german women and children are bombed* pretty much sums up modern day cod
Ive read COD comics, but for the zombies mode, since some were needed for context and characterization, they weren't that bad
Maybe so, but you should never have to look outside the game for any of that "context and characterization". Even then Call of Duty is shit anyway.
@@MLPIceberg well it was more revealing past events that are referenced in the games, like how the Chaos crew met and relates to Alistair Rhodes, and for the other set of comics what happened with Victis/Tranzit crew after their story concluded in Buried and what had been implied to have happened off screen when you finished the Zetsubou no shima EE, a lot of the comics aren't entirely necessary to understand the overall plot and characters, but you will miss some of the changes made in them that get referenced later
@@Brian-tn4cd What the hell did you try feeding me? You've lost me at Chaos Crew. Who is Alistair Rhodes? A smarter version of the Grey Warden Alistair from Dragon Age? I'm sorry... but I have no idea what you typed up. This is like trying to learn college classes back when I was in 7th grade... my head hurts. Except this time it's fanfic and not some form of math designed as some fucked up Chinese Torture... or watching 70s/80s Italian horror films.
Yes, I did try college classes back then. A regret that will hang over me for as long as I still have brain cells left in my head.
@@MLPIceberg ok so there's two sets of comics one concludes plot points from COD BO2&3 zombies, and the other set are preludes to a new story introduced and ended in BO4 Zombies called Chaos, the characters you play as in the story are refered as the Chaos Crew (Scarlet Rhodes, Diego Necali, Bruno Delacroix and Stanton Shaw), they are brought together by knowing Alistair Rhodes, Scarlet's father, who in the game is mostly mentioned of by the crew and only seen in 3 cutscenes, Scarlet is estranged from him but just before he disappeared (revealed in game to have been kidnapped) she received a letter from him that made her want to find him to answer some questions the letters posed about herself, so she gathered a team with her father's old companions. The Chaos comics mostly show how Alistair met with the other members of the crew and their relationships + backstory for Scarlet, does that clear some things up?
The title is 100% accurate, Everything is wrong with COD Vanguard.
Reminds me of "Everything wrong with The Rise of Skywalker" people wrote exactly the same stuff XD
I also love how each member of the team is wearing the uniforms of their previous roles: the Russian is wearing her red army quilted winter gear, the pilot is still wearing his leather bomber jacket, the Aussie is wearing North African campaign desert equipment etc. Wouldn't you equip the whole team with the same commando gear that's specifically designed for the theatre they're fighting in?
this game is a insult to everyone who fought and died in ww2 on both sides of war.
I have absolutely loved learning about WW2 history since I was young. I don't want to sound racist but as far as I know there were never any black soldiers in the British Airborne. On top of that they have added in all these thermal/canted sights, as well as an Orbital VSAT type thing in multiplayer. I know the Germans had the Vampir sight but it was barely a prototype. This was all added in even after the devs said they would be things accurate. Aside from all the historical inaccuracies the story in this game had no flow for me. The mission didn't really relate to each other at all, and there was no information on how they all met/were recruited to the Vanguard. Thank God WaW was made so we at least have a fairly historically accurate game to go back to.
There was one dude (and pretty much only him) who was a paratrooper for the British. Turns out, they only needed the one, because Sergent Sidney Cornell was such a badass they literally ran out of room to describe all his acts of gallantry for his Victoria Cross. But yeah, you ain't racist, there just were a tiny handful of non-whites in that part of the British military.
Not defending this garbage, but the VSAT streak is called local confidents, atleast they found a decent excuse.
@@elpiedra1596 Yeah I forgot about that actually. They just couldve done so much better with this game.
It's hilarious how racist these progressive writers actually are. There were black divisions and colonial divisions but instead of focusing on them the writers just create a false history with the main Allied forces because apparently they just find the European front more interesting.
It's no different than when they portray English monarchs as black. We're just supposed to ignore this nonsense.
"Thats what corporate products engage in"
Well, other than EA, Activision/Blizzard is about as corporate as it get's when it comes to video games these days, so this definitely fits.
Well I've never clicked so fast on a video in my life
Just remember:
This game is in the same timeline as Cold War, which is in the same timeline as OG Black Ops, which is in the same timeline as World at War. So basically, we could have had another story around WAW but we got this woks mess instead. They should have separated the timelines because I just can’t imagine this happening at the same time Dmitri Petrenko and the 3rd Shock Army are storming the Reichstag.
"They actually made zombies Canon in the campaign." Yeah. Cold War did it too. And did it well. Sure, the scene in the actual campaign was an MKUltra-type hallucination, but the actual timeline of the game, from the campaign to the multiplayer, even has overlap with the zombies mode. So technically, Cold War did it first. Plus, why not make it canon? I personally think it works. Granted, I PREFER the original zombies, where it was a separate story from the campaign, but I still enjoy it being canon to the campaign. 🤷♂️
I wish they would do a Korean War game.
That would mean having some of the enemies be Chinese, and I doubt that Activision would want to do that.
A Vietnam War game too could be great.
I doubt Activisions Chinese overlords would allow a game where they’re not on the winning team.
@@Gruntvc hah yeah gotta have the war the us lost while bayoneting babies ans burning villages alive
I don't. It's all the same cliches and dumb tropes either way.
Here’s a video I’ve been waiting for since the release of vanguard, but I’m kinda amazed how he managed to sum up everything wrong with this in less then 25 minutes cause i couldn’t bring my lecture about this game’s campaign under two hours
So they found intel on Project Nova? The plan that's the plot of Call of Duty: Black Ops? A plan that wouldn't exist for another 20 years
Incorrect! During Reznov's flashback in Black Ops we learn that Germany had developed Nova 6 during the war, but as Steiner tells us the war was simply lost before they could use it. Steiner contacts Dragovich to give the Nova 6 to the Soviet Union, meanwhile Arthur and his team find the relevant documents at the end of the campaign which leads to the SAS finding Nova 6 at roughly the same time as the soviets. And the rest is history. So the timeline basically works out.
@@davidsolomie162 Great, now they are sodomizing Black Ops too.
Yet you never knew project Phoenix is.. Either it is a weapon or certain Individuals in every major Allied or Red Army sleeper agents.
Did you not play black ops?
Then what is project Phoenix?
When you brought up the holding someone while using a God pistol I thought back to Advanced Warfare and how you actually couldn’t reload for that one mission because your arm was messed up. I really enjoyed that game….
9:35 To elaborate a little: Molotov denied that the Soviet air force was bombing Finnish villages (targets of no military value); since the existence of Soviet aircraft flying in the regions in question was undeniable, he claimed that they were dropping food to starving Finnish villagers, as a humanitarian operation. This led to Soviet bombs being sarcastically nicknamed "Molotov breadbaskets," which in turn led to the use of the term "Molotov cocktails" for the wine -bottle petrol bombs that the outgunned Finns used to disable Soviet tanks.
Honestly this game would have been better if they would have taken the Battlefield route and done separate war stories.
Each person’s story had potential with some fleshing out and reworking imo.
If they wanted to make a statement about the contributions of POCs in the war: They could have swapped Arthur with a member of the 93rd. As they’re performing their usual duties, they could have come under fire and rose to the occasion and fended off the Japanese despite being outnumbered, with more limited ammo, or whatever other challenge. Wafe would be an NPC in this scenario and Mateo wouldn’t be there at all. Then they see Wade’s flare and they set out to investigate. They find him and again engage the enemy. Wade initially dismisses them because of his racism, but he has to work with them to get himself off the island. After fighting with them to take the ridge and seeing the sacrifices they made for each other and for him, Wade overcomes his racism.
To make a statement about the contributions of women in the war: They could have started with a flashback of Polina and Misha as kids when their father taught them to hunt and use a rifle. During the war, Misha is fighting on the front lines and Polina is a medic and stretcher bearer. During a skirmish and air raid, she actually has to rescue people while under fire (rather than just running away like she does in the game). Afterwards, she returns home to find her father murdered and a German officer rummaging through their apartment. The officer is holding her father’s rifle, which he took as a war souvenir. She, being unarmed, is forced to hide and he leaves without noticing her. During another skirmish in the city, she is running through an apartment when a Soviet sniper is hit in front of her. She tries to save him but she can’t. She picks up his rifle and remembers her father teaching her how to use one. She joins the battle as one of the female snipers in Stalingrad. Over the course of the fighting, she racks up a ton of kills and eliminates several obstacles hindering the Soviet defenses, but she goes unnoticed, especially compared to male snipers like Zaitsev. Nobody even knows her name. During the closing days of the Battle of Stalingrad, she witnesses a German officer executing POWs, one of whom happens to be Misha. The officer happens to be the same one who murdered her father, and he’s holding her father’s rifle. She eliminates him, but not before he gets Misha. She goes out and picks up the rifle. The war story ends with her as an old woman writing her memoir and hoping someone will be interested in her story. She looks at the rifle hanging on her wall as the scene ends.
It is outright offensive and disrespectful to the literal MILLIONS of people who lost their lives to end the war with the Nazis.
And to prop up a nobody, a SINGULAR nobody, that never existed as the sole reason why the fucking war was won, or in this case an entire battle leading up to the end of the war is the most despicable thing someone can do. -- Battlefield did this with BF5 with the Norwegian operation, and now COD.
I'm so done with video games for a good minute.
Project Phoenix sounds like Operation Wehrwolf but with a way less cool name
I like how call of duty used to be like waw. The mission was to survive lol
Operation Tonga:
+Great Jump scene
+Racism shown and addressed
+Accurate depiction of D Day drop
-Weapons
-no mention of american paratroopers
-too damned short
Rest of the game
+ fun gameplay, no qte's
+ good mission design
-historical blunders
-steiner bossfight
-Stalingrad not depicted correctly, stick to COD2
I see what Activision was going for with the whole commander ability. It reminds me of Star Wars Commandos. But unlike commandos they didnt commit to actually making it an in-depth part of the game.
it was straight up trying to copy bf4 commando, it didn't work out very well
14:53 I didn't notice this in my playthrough but these appear to be 76mm Sherman M4 tanks present in the Pacific Theatre in like 42-43ish, which is a bit of an oopsie as they did not even become a thing until near the end of WW2 and I believe only in the European theatre. As the US was invading Germany / France and had to contend with heavy German armor such as the Tiger and Panther, they quickly realized their current 75mm and 54mm Shermans weren't able to reliably penetrate the much thicker frontal armor on these heavy German tanks. As such, the 76mm Sherman M4 (the tank in Fury, if you need a reference) was fielded to solve this issue when it came up.. and it very much did. Needless to say, seeing a version of the Sherman that wasn't even a thing until like '44 and likely only in the European theatre driving around in the Pacific in like '42 or '43, bit odd. I really doubt any 76's were deployed to the Pacific as the very little armor Japan had was.. pretty pathetic. Even the 54mm Shermans could've mopped those.
Add another sin for that. Also why is there a German machine gun on this Japanese plane? An MG42 at that, which was by far the more infantry-suited MG between the 34 and 42.
15:37 holy shit what is going on with her pinky?
I noticed her fucked up pinky as well, maybe she broke it in an earlier mission or something but I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't know how joints worked
Also with the shermans on the Pacific, idk if it was the quality of the video that I saw... But some of the shermans had 76mm cannon with the rounded turret... So it looked like a Firefly, in the Pacific..... I repeat, maybe it was the quality of the video, but there's big differences between the sherman early turret, and the turret uses for the 76mm gun
Wait, is COD zombies actualy cannon or was that just an easter egg?
for me it's not canon because it sound more like a badly done fanservice, take the third Predator movie for exemple, it look morelike a modernized version of the first movie with some achieved people's wishes and fetish, right? then it's the same thing with Vanguard, the mentionning of Project Nova and etc is just to keep the game on the tracks of their linking of Black ops and Modern Warfare but waste that opportunity by the mentionning of the zombies because the zombie mode is taking place in an alternate timeline from their games, but by breaking up the chains they've just made for the linking.
I always considered the zombies to be am alternative timeline to the main game otherwise why wouldn't every soldier be running around with jug quick revive speed cola and packapunch rayguns
I feel like Vanguard is a step backwards, they literally took out several features that we had in modern warfare and cold war, simple things like being able to mark an item for ur team mate, and zombies, I won’t even go there, it’s a joke
13:58 " I'm sorry, I don't speak Japanese." Edward Rictofen ZNS
17:16: This Nazi official was made to be a friggin idiot. If he was smart, he would have asked Polina what kind of secret project Steiner was being recruited for until he heard her say Project Phoenix. Instead, he blatantly says the name after Polina mentioned it, thus confirming its existence to the team.
18:23: Despite Sledgehammer making another simple mistake that could have been easily fixed, they chose not to which led to pissed off Kiwis angry about their most legendary hero turned into someone from a country they have a rivalry with, an insulting gesture from Sledgehammer.
18:32: Even though the weapon Lucas is carrying is real, they were mainly used in South Asian jungles against the Japanese. On North Africa, Lucas and the other soldiers of the Commonwealth would have been using standard Stens, Brens and Lee-Enfields. Also, on a minor note, during the opening sequence for El-Alamein, the British major in charge called a Panzershreck rocket an RPG. That acronym would not be used until a decade after the war, until the Soviets developed it in 1958. Just goes to show that Sledgehammer has no business developing WW2 games since they treat this from a modern perspective.
19:37: This official is having a realization of what Project Phoenix is, but stupidly mouths it off while a member of the opposing faction calmly listens. Before, the team barely had an inkling on what Phoenix could mean, now one of them has a front row seat on what it finally is from the stupid official.
19:49: What the hell are you talking about, Dartigan? The Germans in charge now don't have to worry about taking over their own country again since they're just continuing on with the war, even after Hitler killed himself and Nazism still would have been continued by these guys because that's been the country's flag since 1933. "It would have been a harder sell in the wake of WW2"? Does Dartigan not know what year Nazi Germany came into existence and what year war was declared on them that began WW2? The German people accepted Hitler's plan to revive Germany back from the economic depression because they were desperate, it wasn't much a hard sell. By the wake of WW2, the German people were ecstatic that Hitler had claimed back lands that belonged to the Germans because of how many Germans lived there like Austria and the Sudetenland regions of Czechoslovakia and East Prussia that was divided by the Polish Corridor. What this game is saying that as long as remnants of the Nazi gov't still live on, it's likely the people are willing to go along.
20:46: Though Dartigan did not show it, anyone who has played this point in the mission between fighting the armored flamethrower guy and sweeping the building of Germans remembered another BS moment. In order to get into the building, someone has to throw a grenade through a window where a cutscene will play. The grenade lands some several feet away from Panzershreck soldiers and sprinted away once they saw it. The next scene shows the front of the building now having its entire first floor explode and burst into flames as if it was hit by a missile. Not only does Sledgehammer not respect historical authenticity, they don't respect real world scenarios in a war game.
21:32: Therein lies another reason why the campaign mode in this game is garbage. The developers purposely had the whole team do only just 2 missions together while the rest of the levels were just flashbacks triggered as the team sat on their asses throughout the majority of the game. Another reason this game was bound to be lousy was because it was confirmed by the people who had a part in this game. One lady at a Q&A segment announced that they were planning on making a Vanguard 2 and 3. Was that the reason why Vanguard had so little of any new content? Were they saving those new contents for the next installments? Giving more focus to a future project instead of devoting those same focuses to the current one has got to be the most worst example of developing video games. Video games, like movies, are judged based on not only how well they're sold, but on how many people enjoyed it. We all remembered how "well" Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, Black Ops 3, Infinite Warfare, WW2, Black Ops 4 and Cold War did. Even though Ghosts ended with the protagonist going through the same brain washing method that the main antagonist went through, we'll never get a Ghosts 2 because this game was trash that only served to disrespect a memorable character from a previous game that had no connections to it. I played it only twice and never played it again. In Advanced Warfare's ending, Troy Baker talks about how everything that he went through at the end won't be over. Turns out it was over when Sledgehammer created this game to be another crappy futuristic game nobody asked for, so, so much for the possibility for an Advanced Warfare 2. Played it twice, never picked it up again. Black Ops 3 goes further into the future so much that the references to the first and second black ops were so small, I was wondering if what I was playing really connected to Treyarch's last two games. It felt like it wasn't. Infinite Warfare was a god awful abomination. The whole time, I've felt like this game was a ripoff of Killzone with the way the story and characters were framed. Played it once, never touched it again. Black Ops 4 would take a different route, putting in all the extra modes, but leaving out completely the campaign. That showed where Activision's priorities really were. WW2 was what we as COD fans were really hoping to be a good change from all the bullshit futuristic games shoved down our throats. However, WW2 failed to live up to my expectations because instead of the game having the same atmosphere as Big Red One, the atmosphere was that of Modern Warfare with over the top events in most parts of the game and the tank and plane missions being given only a set amount of minutes instead of their own levels. What really annoyed me was the character's excessive reference to his dead brother that I didn't know of until near the end as well as the useless flashbacks of the main guy's childhood that only served to implicate that the sole reason he joined the army was to get some closure over his brother's death, not for duty or patriotism, just to soothe his guilt. Cold War could have been a fresh take on doing the Cold War setting differently, but that was too big a challenge for Sledgehammer to accomplish, so instead, we were given the same tired formula of America good, Russia bad. If they're serious of pushing more of the same shit in the next Vanguard games, I might as well start playing my old games of Medal Of Honor and Call Of Duty pre-2010 everytime Activision announces new garbage.
5:15 Well there's being a bit off and then there's "Unless I booted up a modern Wolfenstein game by accident, there is no way in hell I should be seeing this many holographic sights, alternate magazine types/sizes, glowing yellow reticles, and silencers". What's worse is that in the multiplayer, you can even rechamber weapons to take different calibers. Can someone please explain to me how anyone was able to get away with making the MG42 take 30-06 or a C96 take 5.7?
also the .50 BMG BAR for whatever reason
History is fluid to them, it can be changed for the sake of nartive
This campaign didn’t have to be believable or accurate for me, it just had to be good- or at least fun. Unfortunately, it was uninteresting and I didn’t enjoy it. Well, that’s the way it is.
Also Guardians seems like a good choice.