Firearms Expert Reacts To Battlefield 1’s Guns 

Everyone complained i always played recon :c Because its the only class that has period avcurate arms. Cavalry is awesome too though

I almost never use a weapon outside of the nation that uses it. I actually do better that way, despite the pain of adjusting setups each time. BF4, BF1, BFV, you name it.

@@kugelblitzkrieg bfv has an option for that at least

@@zvezda7137 it does? Are you talking about combat roles?

@@kugelblitzkrieg Same, i do that eveytime i jump on. Unless there's a bunch of sweats on the other team, then that's when i whip out the smg 08/18. By then my day is ruined for casual playing.

Ian's already got 2 chauchats, If he was gonna steal anything from the RA it'd be a MAT-49 or full-auto FAMAS

"Hi I'm Ian from Forgotten Weapons and today I'm gonna steal some of Jonathan's firearms from his collection"

I thought that too, and imagine Ian dual wielding it with the one he already owns.

For all the Forgotten Weapons fans: Has Ian ever had Jonathan on? I feel like he would have fit into the conversation about museums quite nicely.

@@Smiththebat yes, and they've published books together. I believe they co-own Headstamp Publishing. Jonathan was feature on a vid promoting his British Bullpup Rifles book.

One of my proudest moments was when I managed to get three kills with that thing in one match.

@@PackthatcameBack i havent gotten any and i have spent like 20 hours trying

@@dammbenderisgreat I'll admit, it was a bit of a luck thing. That damn thing does like I think it is 3 damage per bullet, so in order to kill people with it you basically have to headshot them with the whole mag while they're low in health. Yeah, I still don't know how _I_ managed, it just sort of happened. I get stubborn like that sometimes.

Comically large spoon vs comically small gun

@@XtreemAlan the spoon wins

Maybe if you're lucky, and managed to shot right to your opponent ear lobe. They can die from ear drum infection. Just maybe tho!

@@fajaradi1223 or into their eardrum going through the eardrum and hitting the brain

Not even that the kolibri was designed as a Suicide weapon it Was issued to officers And officials in higher command so if thay ever got captured thay would hid it in thare socks and pull it out and kms but it didn't have the power to penetrate the skull not even the softest part of the temple it Is literally a gun that cant kill

@@astorasolaire9942 it was designed and marketed as a 'ladies self defense weapon' small enough to fit in a purse and just about enough to chase away a mugger

@@fajaradi1223 The ear lobe is nowhere near the ear drum?

He has one

@@omnissiah7859 what is it

@@omnissiah7859 i hope your not referring to the royal armory RU-vid channel lol

@@coolfrymaster No, ive seen him comment with his own account under one of the earlier videos

Forgotten weapons is close enough. Go check him out.

I once got a behemoth kill with it by shooting an AT mine. Absolutely hilarious to see their reactions in chat when they saw the kill cam that a dude with the weakest gun in the game had somehow taken down their armored train.

@@handlesarecringe957 How to humiliate enemies 101.

@@mercenarygundam1487 I remember challenging a tank out in the open within 5-10 meters with k bullets in my Gewher M95. I was jumps and sliding around and I destroyed the whole tank without it damaging me! Then I got killed by a Model 10-A...

@@namelol.mp4561 I feel this. You’re in the zone absolutely bodying everyone and then bam, shotgun or rifle sweet spot.

@@handlesarecringe957 - That might be the most humiliating ways to die in BF1.

O i get it now Ian from forgotten Weapons

Laissez moi vous présenter ses caractéristiques!

That's literally what BF games are, haha. Alternative history timelines

@@ISAAC607 Not the OG Battlefields

@@georgewhitworth9742 the jetpack in 1942?

@@canadianbluepants9446 Do people like to pretend as if that whole thing WASN'T just a silly, goofy expansion, focused on "secret weapons" and "what if" scenarios?

@@georgewhitworth9742 American with AKs, Middle-Eastern that somehow united under MEC banner, helicopter on WW2? Which one is OG Battlefield?

You are the true expert

You are the true expert

You are the true expert

tell me, how broken was the automatico

You are the true expert

YES. I love Back to Basics. That's Battlefield 1 at its finest. because it makes it feel more like an actual WWI battle.

A lot of Hellriegal users going to be mad at this one!

I love back to basics with my hud off

@@AbsoluteyAmerican True, it is funny to see people complaining about that mod.

Too bad it takes ten years to find a game

Hey iron

And that is period accurate as the scope was in the way of the bolt and needed to keep an eye on the bolt, unlike straight pull bolts that did not require one to stop ADS

That’s actually wrong, their are a few specific rifles that give you the “straight pull buff” where you can pull the bolt with the sights still up, but not all iron sights give you that buff

The most appealing benefit of iron sights is no scope glint revealed to the enemy down range.

Indeed

Yep! It kinds of make sense considering there's *lots* of weapons to choose in the game too :D

Seeing 1920+ made me think of Iron Harvest and honestly i wish we had a BF1 style game in the Iron Harvest universe, the prototype and rare weapons in BF1 fit really well in that setting

Yeah it appears that he can really appreciate both history and the game. When I've watched or read other accuracy breakdowns of the game people tear it apart. But they seem to forget that it still has to be a game and that it does a good job of emerssing you and making you appreciate ww1.

@@chawnce1 How does it do that? Having a plethora of weapons that didn't actually exist can't possibly by definition, increase immersion. People just need to get over EVERYTHING needing to be an arcade game. You don't get a ww1 game going "oh boy I hope there is a bunch of stuff that never actually existed in the game." If you don't like bolt actions and semi-auto rifles then maybe instead of turning the game into a run and gun cod copy you should just stick to playing cod and leave battlefield where it was supposed to be, a more historically accurate tactics and team based shooter with large scale warfare. All adding these extra guns did was end up filling battlefield with the same foul mouthed out of control 12 year olds that cod has who have ZERO business in these games.

@KDC RunThat So me pointing out that things that never existed being put in a game purely to attract younger players, for a rated M game, means I have the downs?

@@Konghammer1 Battlefield was never meant to be realistic or tactical. If someone wants a realistic shooter that relies on tactics, then can play ARMA, Squad, or maybe (and this is a stretch) insurgency. The Battlefield franchise was always arcade. For fucks sake, Battlefield 1942 had a jetpack. Remember when the Japanese used German weapons to fight US soldiers on the legendary battle of Wake Island? Made up for the game. How realistic. The lead designer of 1942 even states that it was made as an action romp first and foremost. He even stated that historical accuracy was a spice always trumped by the gameplay.

@@Konghammer1 As @GrazingLemur already said Battlefield has never been super realistic. Its an arcade/sim, a step higher than COD but a far cry from ARMA or similar full sims. At the end of the day even those are far from real war. Personally I think BF1 still has a lot of good tactics and team play, people don't use mics and squad play like they used too but get a group of friends and youre golden. And I didnt realize that people had a problem with map size being too small. I thought most maps were pretty good and I've actually heard some complaints about maps being too big. On the immersion front I simply meant the gun selection makes the game easier to play and funner for most people to play. As least for me it made it more approachable and got me to play more of the game. After that the tactics of the game modes, the fantastic graphics, and great sound design got me imerrsed. To the level where sometimes when I run around a corner and see a tank or see a squad of the enemy my heart drops a little. Thats what I mean by immersion. And as a sidenote, enjoying the game encouraged me to read more books about the war and learn the history.

A man of culture, literally!

They should make him react to that godawful bolt action reload animation of Far Cry 2

@@grazecoin9854 this

I hated the jamming for the M4..Just hit the bloody unjam thingy- stop looking at the jam-

@@Thatboxlady I really hope you're not referring to the forward assist.

A very Italian conversation.

Lol oh you

I hate you

You clever bastard

Good one.

Lmaooooo why didnt I think of that, touche sir!

Same!

He’s like the English version of Ian from Forgotten Weapons (a brilliant channel) They’re kinda weedy nerds but I think they’re just lovely and can , as you say, ramble as much as they like about these interesting firearms. I’m all ears. It’s fascinating stuff. As much as I agree on the weapons bans we have in UK I’d love to have a go with some if this stuff as my dad did way back when. Quite envious. Top bloke m.

You can get very similar content on CNArsenal who go through all of the weapons of WW1, and I do mean all of them.

Hey man lookup Hunter S Thompson shooting at his neighbor with...you guessed it an Artillery Luger!

You're in luck! There's a channel called C&Rsenal that does just that.

Well, Battlefield 1 is like 2% realistic.

I like it a lot actually, its like a "what if this crazy prototype actually worked" is fun

Wish the players would act the same way. They played BF1 without saying a word but BFV adds female character models to multiplayer and it was like the world ended. Saw a video just a few days ago where the person was saying BF2042 was "finally going to give us the realistic WWII game we always wanted" with portal because it doesn't have women or customizable uniforms. The fact that those WWII men can fight against desert storm guys with harrier jets was seemingly not an issue though.

Yeah I am a gun nut but I accepted it because I'm also a history buff and I was just happy they did a world war one game and I knew they probably wouldn't get much correct since most guns are probably gone and most ww1 weapons were just bolt actions and they needed a variety

The developers are actually very aware that the game is not genuine WWI. One of them says in a video that this is their vision of what the war could have looked like. In the game menu you can actually read about each gun and like he says in this video, a lot were experimental and/or super rare

Definitely giving it a visit once all this blows over

@@H31MU7 i visited it in November. A lot of the museum is closed (around the 3rd floor) but even then, it was probably one of the best I’ve been to.

👆🏻

Yes!

Yeah!

All the reloads are 20x too fast to be anywhere realistic just so you know

@@reahs4815 Shh

Technically you're not wrong

Went looking for this comment before I posted it, was not disappointed

Usually, they're supposed to stick INTO your enemy.

get this man a medal

Unless you're Italian and you fold it up.

wait for cs 1.6 lmao

Oh god no, it would kill the man

If you're suggesting CS:S or 1.6 due to the left hand features on virtually all the weapons in the game (IE AK, Scout, and AWM bolts on the left, AR ejection port and forward assist on left), it's simply because all the weapons were modeled and animated from the left side and were mirrored to the right for a more traditional look.

And….done. Good episode. So glad he actually played those back when they were fresh.

*musket Rifled muskets weren't being used until the 1800s because of the technology available

Id love to go Is there onr near London

@@sumvs5992 Actually... There were the rare rifled muskets used in the American Revolution. That was in the 1770's. So technically he could've been loading a rifle.

Lucky bastard! I would kill to visit the royal armoury museum as a fan of both medieval arms and armour and historical firearms. Not so easy when you live across the pond though :(

It's a great place. I'm friends with the guys that repair the armour that they use in fights. They really go for it and batter the shit out of each other.

And the Browning Auto 5, which as the C96 didn't exist back in 1895 as it was designed in around 1898 and produced in 1902.

@@invictusangelica There's also a giant spider demon, which to my knowledge never existed.

@@invictusangelica Still a fictional game *sigh*

Yeah, please do Hunt!

@@abartcorruption3780 Then?

I loved using the M1917 rifle when they finally added it

Martini henry Is a fucking great experience too

@@stevemc6010 I just hate the Webley Revolver (MKVI Revolver). Why does he character just shoves the iron sights right next to his eyes and the gap between it is 1cm

I was a Mosin irons guy. I more or less am in real life too. I can reach out to 300 yards with a Mosin pretty confidently, and in game 500m was a regular shot with irons for me lol

@@JohnSmith-xv2ob fucking Niceeee man!

would be mad

would be mad

I was just thinking about that. But most of the weapons in the games are made up and overall would be just repeating what has been said on Tarkov videos

@@TheKenji2221 The made up metro exodus ones are all really intricately designed out of like real world mechanisms, so I think that would work

@@Cheesepuff8 yeah it would be interesting to get a firearm experts opinion on some of these hypothetical guns

This

I wanna see some more unrealistic games too, to see what guns they're inspired by and see what he thinks of them, like Doom, Titanfall, half life, maybe some warhammer games

@@Cheesepuff8 is fortnite good enough for you?

And Rising Storms...both of them...and the future one once it comes out xD

@@Cheesepuff8 How about Counter Strike then?

come back then! its worth it. Im playing it every single day since like 1 year it still has plenty servers and a lot of people play it right now. So beautyful and cinematic ! :)

@@younggunna4089 Agreed

@@younggunna4089 wouldn't say plenty of servers. On playstation i often struggle to find a filled enough server to be worth it, and even still it's like the same 3/4 maps. I like st. Quentin scar, amiens and ballroom blitz but damn do they get repetitive. Also i feel like I've peaked, got to rank 100+ with lvl 50 on all infantry classes. Sure i could focus on tanker and pilots but i don't care to play as them and don't have much fun sitting at the back in an artillery truck being a shitlark. Also shits way too easy now, every game I'm top (or near top of leaderboard) by just fucking around with my dear Martini henry. I would buy bf5..... but nah I'm good. Bf1 truly is a well made battlefield game, i hoped bfv could replicate it and i doubt bf6 can either

You misspelled BF3.

I'd say it was BF4. BF1 is a fun game, don't get me wrong, but it feels nothing like BC2, 3 or 4, which i consider the peak of the franchise. Hardline was also quite decent, but i don't really consider it part of the series

Yes that would be epic and he would probably lose his shit over how accurately the guns are modelled

Well the video is made

I wish people still played the game. I have trouble finding lobbies in 2021

@@larrymcjones game’s doing really well a year later, just don’t expect to find games with matchmaking. I always thought the server browser was the better way to find games anyway

It is not trying it’s best to be historical. Far from it, many people wanted and expected that from Battlefield but a lot has changed since the days of 1943.

@@theramblinmahoney2316 It did ok at being historical but it tried having fun with it (but I was a little disappointed at how there's a lot of non trench maps)

@@pandathecrusader5658 Tried to have a little too much fun with it. Yeah honestly, if they cut down on the unnecessary and inaccurate unlocks and instead focused on giving us some hardcore WW1 trench warfare I guarantee people would love the game. Imagine being forced into melee confrontations in the trenches with groups of others. That would be hell of intense.

@@theramblinmahoney2316 In "accurate" trench warfare there would be snipers and LMGs camping everywhere and you wouldn't be able to step one foot out of your trench before you get shot at. Is it inaccurate? Definitely, but no one plays multiplayer videogames for their historical accuracy, because of how hard it is to make something balanced and fun.

@@advaybajpai7940 That in no way disproves my point. People wanted it to be more realistic then it was. You can attempt to split hairs all you want.

Yeah i'm gonna have a visit as soon as this blasted lockdown ends.

It’s really good and was free last time I went in 2016

@@ninjaunknown1093 Still free when I went in 2019!

You'll love it.

The imperial War museum is worth a visit too. There was a picture of me on display with my muckers, taken during the Kosovo/ Balkans operation. (IFOR).

What's a Louis gun?

@@tonymetalfan Lewis*

Lewis is efficient

@@josephray7255 Same number of letters.

@@myopicthunder Correct sir, never have tried to correct anyone on spelling in social media. Just pointing it's a good lmg.

Wait, really? That’s amazing! Years later and there’s still so much detail in this game that blows my mind

good on you!

We are indeed real

That's probably why those guns weren't chosen because they're so well documented and their use in the war is also well documented that they can be seen as not as interesting as the lesser known guns of the time.

Hunt: Showdown is also a lot of period-accurate but rare and kinda steampunky designs, isn't it?

@@KillahMate nah. All the weapons in the game exist irl. Even automatic mosin

@@joyousmuffin Yeah sure, but all the weapons in Battlefield 1 also 'exist in real life'. They didn't make anything up. It's just a bit fanciful.

@@KillahMate ur wrong the weapons in battlefield 1 never existed they are fake

@@KillahMate You could say that about a few of the guns in the game. I wouldn't classify all the weapons as 'steampunky' or 'fanciful', save for the auto-mosin and bomb lance. I think everything else is fairly realistic otherwise

Right?!? He also commented on the SMLE but didn't mention anything on the G98, Ross rifle, Springfield 1903, or the M1917.

Mushroom mushroom

Maybe he is apart of Soviet Wombles Arma Unit "The Badgers".

None of the guns in MGSV are real, so I'm unsure what he'd talk about. Maybe pick out which features look like which mashups of guns, but thats pretty easy to do on your own.

@@aubrey_d thats true but snakes main weapon is actually based off the JSDF's assault rifle

@@overlordedsithii The AM MRS-4? Doesnt really look anything like the Howa Type 89 to me, if anything it looks like a mix of a FN FAL (In the charging handle and part of the upper reciever) and the ZM LR-300 thats mostly popular in games and is unobtanium in real life. Its all approximations though, you'll find features that look like other guns but it all comes together to make a different gun. Like the Karbaga-83, obviously inspired by the Saiga or Vepr 12, but there are parts in it that remind me of the tube stock Valmets, and parts that dont look like any gun in particular at all.

Sees a 20-round revolver 'Pauuuuusing'

@@user-yy3dy4jh5l yeah lol, Hunt is known for having lots of bizarre guns

@@fracturedmirror4300 most of them are real though and the loading animations are pretty well done

Agreed a video on hunt would be fun.

YES

We actually advised on SE:4; Rebellion are great guys.

I've been with the game since their first release (in 2005 I believe?) and it grew so well! Now I know why :D