When Devs Have Better Knowledge of History | Ops Overlord | 6th June 1944 

a few more details : 1. D-day at omaha beach actually took the whole day to pull off, but this inaccuracy is understandable because who wants to play/develop a level that took a whole damn day to finish 2. the weather cleared off by noon which means the ships could start shelling the beach, this is part of the reason why later waves have more success in their assault. 3. There where exactly 5 bunkers/MG nests guarding omaha, whether this is coincidentally or intentionally they got it right. 4. The trenches we're placed behind the bunker lines actually, but was placed at the front to give way to better gameplay pacing. 5. We see armored vehicles only after the first wave ascended on top the sea wall, this is because the soldiers have secured enough land of the sturdier 2nd part of the beach for the vehicles to move into, they also "cleared" enough mines for the vehicles to pass through ("cleared" as in triggered) 6. The glowing machinegun tracer may just be an gameplay effect, but actual d-day german gunners actually used tracer's because they ran out of normal belts from the first few waves, this gave their position out to the ships when the weather cleared. 7. Omaha was supposed to be a pincer attack from both front and rear (with paratroopers), you can actually see the transports at 2:05 (some might confuse them with lancasters, which have 4 engines). Although they we're dropped much more earlier, and most of them got captured, killed or lost

The reason that the MG-42 is nicknamed “Hitler’s Buzzsaw” is because it fires so fast that it can literally cut a man in half. The amount of dismemberment seen in this mission is just about accurate.

I think one of the few ways they could've made it better was if it had a system like Battlefield 1 where if the soldier got hit you'd actually see a death screen before moving to another a bit further back. It would be a bit more boring dying again and again, but it sure would've made clear the scale of death involved in the landings.

Their were meant to be Sherman and maybe even Cromwell DD tanks to go with the infantry but sunk to the bottom of the English Channel due to the bad weather only something around 20 tanks made it to the beach but were destroyed by flak KWK 36 88mm guns and mines and artillery

My great grandfather made it onto that beach, in a tank. He later fought through France, and participated in the Battle of the Bulge. In that timeframe he had 8 tanks shot out from under him, the last one leaving him with shrapnel in his back and stunting his ability to properly work as a crew member. He spent the rest of the war volunteering to drive supply trucks to the frontlines.

*throws a grenade right into a german who tries to kill an ally, runs back and watch them both blow up* game: HEROIC ACTION PERFORMED!!

@11:35, I was trying to Melee Kill him instead threw Grenade which really is a noob move, its bit tricky to remember keys when too often switching between different games. PRETEND LIKE YOU GUYS NEVER SEEN IT XD

I don't know if that's better knowledge. I live in Germany and when we had that in the 10th grade, we were told all the facts you listed and more. With us, the topic of World War II is taught very strongly and is also discussed and taught for a very long time. I don't know how it is in other countries. Nevertheless good video.

put yourself in the germans shoes.... i felt pure horror imagining it from their perspective. seeing destroyers and thousands of landing craft from the worlds most powerful military headed straight for me

10:26 There weren't any German tanks on Omaha but across all of D-Day there were some that would drive down onto the beach or fire onto the beaches. While there weren't tank on Omaha themselves there were tank turret emplacements.

War is hell, RIP all those young men, thank you for your service

2:27 Fun fact. Smoking wasn't allowed and almost all of the LCPV drivers were British

Also why the hell are there already destroyed M4 Shermans and M3 Halftracks on the beach when we should be the first wave?

i really never leave any comment under vids, but this one was really nice, enjoyed going back a few years to live this mission one more time. Thanks mate

I like that they have a ppsh-41 as there were some at Normandy but they dont look like there were repurposed for the german bullets (forgive me I dont remember which bullet the germans wanted to use for the ppsh 41) the game highlights the desperation for weapons and the germans shipped captured ppsh-41s to Normandy

USS Texas in the opening is also correct for Omaha, some of the Tripod equipment I don't know about but one of those antennae is extremely correct, whether the devs knew why or not. Texas was part of a net of ships carrying radio jamming equipment. Intended to counter Henschel Hs 293's which could be dropped from altitudes far in excess of the fighter cover (Texas' kingfishers and pilots were left ashore in the UK, the pilots and flight crew trained in RAF Spitfires either as dedicated recon or part of the fleet aircover). The overwhelming majority of shore bombardment was directed and fire adjusted by attached RAF spotters and the USN pilots loaded to their units. The USN spent 2 weeks training their gunnery and radio crews in RAF and Royal Navy radio procedures for uniformity and standardisation. I don't think even the few nerdiest history buffs know how important the aerial artillery spotting was. Many ground units didn't or couldn't call for artillery, they had to trust the pilots overhead to direct fire as required. Even those units with radios with permission to request GFS/NGS would have had a spotter overhead or directed to them to assist in target precision. On a side note USS Northampton or Augusta can be seen off the coast in the game. Both of which were in Texas' squadron during the 14 days rehearsals and training exercises, but were not part of Texas' squadron during D-Day. Texas was paired and escorted by HMS Glasgow, covering the Western parts of Omaha, with USS Arkansas and a pair of Free French light cruisers supporting the east. Along with a large host of American and some British destroyers. I believe Nevada was the only other US BB involved in Op. Neptune.

I noticed that u missed a huge thing on the beach scene, u completely overlooked some of the staggering soldiers suffering from Shell Shock, u can see a few of them wandering around aimlessly before dropping.

With such attention to detail, it’s a bloody shame that the COD WW2 campaign and especially multiplayer was a mixed bag. And to be followed up by Vanguard.

also, the Fitch (DD-462) and Corry (DD-463) were at Utah beach and at times “Up to within a few hundred yards of the water’s edge,” “there was every reason to hope that the enemy shore defenses might have been neutralized. Then, many of the leading craft began to come under fire from automatic weapons and artillery, which increased in volume as they approached touchdown.” The difference was that they were positioned broadside and fought on one side, while rescuing people from the waves on the other side.

The ammount of "study" and knowledge depicted here is as deep as a 12 year old school project.

I visited Normandy as a Brit on a school trip in Year 10, and when we were visiting Omaha, you could feel the silence in the group as we stopped chatting and approached the cliff, walking down.

This mission was half of the way historically accurate. First the landing craft should be British as the Americans didnt have many of their own as they were in the pacific with the island hopping campaign. Second the beach is too short it is said Omaha was in low tide when the landing happened. Third the boats are too close too the beach, the German 88mm Guns would have had a blast if they were that close. Four You should be the second or third wave because the first wave was notoriously wiped out by the germans. There is more but I don't want to write a whole book. Edit: When I mean boats I mean the big ones like the U.S destroyers.

Another thing is that Red looks plain. I’m not sure if it was intentional but I feel like that made him more like he’s just another soldier and not the gruff, experienced and badass main character of call of duty.

Take a shot every time Willy says "buddy" in a reply challenge Good video, bud

an inaccuracy in the start was that the driver asked for a lighter to smoke, even though the real craft specifically said ''NO SMOKING'' on the door. still a sick game

I remember playing this when i was very young, it struck me because it was the first story driven campaign i ever played (besides WAW) and you can imagine how 8 year old me reacted to Turners death

I cant recall completely but I believe in the mission you can see Shermans with deep wading gear which is pretty cool attention to detail

What annoys me the most is that with the amount of historical knowledge about the war and the amount of interesting stories they could tell, corporate still manages to fumble it up with short, over-fictionalized single player campaigns (if there even is one). My childhood was the Medal of Honor and Call of Duty franchises in the PlayStation 2 era and I always kept imagining how much better games were going to be in the future... But in the end the only thing that matters is monetization and trends rather than story and experience. In the end, these games serve as nothing more than a piece of "what could be".

not gonna lie but Jan Smuts deserves more recognition for his role in WW2, not only was he the field marshal of the british army but Winston Churchill's personal advisor that helped him plan Operation Overlord and many other strategic battles that would help the allies win WW2

this video reminds me in enlisted we were fighting for the monastery in the battle of moscow and i parachuted out of my plane and got in the monastery then another guy came in. Everyone else was in the last point while we were in the germans vantage point because the point was a tower near the monastery and it was me and him only. We got outside but we were shot at by the germans so I shot at them with what I had so the other guy could get to the main forces while I got him time to do that. One of my best sacrifices

The fact they added plastic on the guns against the water is insane tho

I don't think that this game displays a good knowledge of history more than it shows the ability to rent "Saving Private Ryan"

imagine just dropping in the middle of a contested beach, upon lowering the ramp you are greeted with the sight of decapitated comrades and people getting cut in half in a milisecond from the mg-34 and seeing the cries of help and agony of people that survived.

Really enjoyed this video despite never playing the game, I might end up buying this game as it looks outstanding!

Not really the sort of guy to leave comments but this video is pretty excellent for a small channel, you should be proud dude!

A fact : you can't actually hear the garand ping sound in the midst of battle because it's loud as a your neighbors lawnmower 6am in a Saturday

also the unforgiving ammount of field caps and trench coats with ppsh41s in the mission along with allied armor in the first wave:

cod ww2 is one few cod game that the mc is actually speak during play time, the second is cod black ops

When I played this game and played it over time again I noticed how one destroyer was to close to the beach and I thought how is that ship hasn’t run aground

Ever since Battlefield V released I had a lot more appreciation for this title

I think maybe making the player arrive in a later wave would have made more sense. Because the battle took so long, and in the first wave like you said so many died so most of the squad you’re familiar with should have died. Still very cool!

The most underrated Call Of Duty

I really thought WW2 games were just simply avoiding bullets and some shootings. This game put so much detail to that

Also note that the ppsh sub-machine gun in the level are not historically innacurate because german equipment is prioritized for the Eastern Front. Western front german units rely on captured or old equipment.

Ok. What? The inaccuracies in this game are through the roof. 1. Smoking on the landing craft was against fire regulations on board. 2. Destroyed Vehicles are clearly visible on the beach yet this is supposedly the 1st attacking wave? 3. Vessels are way too close. Irl they were 11 miles off shore. 4. M1 garand sights look wrong. 5. A 3m tube of tnt that close would be devastating...to yourself. 6. The insignia on the German helmets, the German empire colours, was never used on helmets after 1940. 7. The us are wearing uniforms that weren't introduced until a few months after Normandy. 8. Pierson using a Thompson gun with a drum mag and grip was never used by us soldiers. 9. There is no evidence of M2 flamethrowers being used on Omaha beach. (At this point, I realise there are too many to put in 1 comment. I give up here)

the saddest part about this whole thing, is he never got to light his cigarette

CoD WWII seems more like a masterpiece after Vanguard launched.

"Pause the video if you can't read the captions" right at the end of the quickest frames ever lol

Very interesting breakdown

the German's helmets have the Imperial tricolor emblem on them, which was removed by OKW mandate in 1940

3:50 Totally chaotic,bullets raining, soldiers getting massacred...meanwhile stiles survives by running in the front

Loved COD WW2

loved the video !

they focused so much on that mission they forgot to research the rest

11:35 You really did not need to do that man THAT dirty. I think that this was well done. It be nice if maybe it skipped along so it wasn't a whole 15 minutes, but it still taught me more about D-Day than my US History teacher so it's all good. 🥇🥇

7:52 I still do not understand why you swapped a perfectly good on ammo m1 garand and an m1911 I went through the whole level just using those two alone

11:04 im pretty sure there is a book series on it too. I've seen it at a book fair before.

Of course there were many INACCURACIES, but I mean, they did AWESOME.

Their were tanks during the battle of Normandy but the 12 SS Panzer division was still on rout but the armor was more focused in the north with the British and candied forces the only armor the Americans faced were panthers and panzer 4s the British and Canadien forces had to deal with some of Germans biggest cats such as the tiger 1 ausf E and king tiger ausf H and panthers and panzer 4s

There were no flamethrowers on the dday landings on either side

Finally a channel that doesn't use voice.

All of this was in Medal of Honor like 16 years ago. And in Saving Private Ryan before that.

At 11:35 this is a historically accurate event. Allies weren't given knifes and had to use grenades instead.

U know, the issue with this game really stems from, most of the time, crappy weapons depiction. From sounds to mechanics.

Well the US did have d-day tanks which would have been perfect, but the waves were to unstable for them to operate in the water at that time.

2:15 calling a Sgt “sir” is a good way to get yelled at😂

I think nobody mentioned the ppsh 41 somewhere in the trenches. Probably from the Ostlegion troops around the beach

The game is good and this level is OK overall, but it's mostly if not everything leaned more on Saving Private Ryan than the real landings in Omaha, like most media that came out after 1998. The intensity of the battle and the heavy casualities on the first wave are pretty accurate, but the geography, landmarks, defenses layout, time of the battle, and a few of the weapons are a bit off. The best depiction of Omaha in a game is still Forgotten Hope 2

even though theres inaccuracies in this game, COD WW2 did a better job being a WW2 theme than Vanguard especially the campaign

Fun fact: Red Daniels was in the 2nd wave on D-Day

Sad part is most of those boats never managed to get away cuz all the drivers are dead

Dude just from this video alone I can tell I love the content you make and put out. Just subscribed, I cannot wait to see what else you've made 😤🤌

how'd they went from this to vanguard is absolutely mind boggling

The pilots of the Higgins were actually British as well

What trips me up is that, there was no 'videos of a car crash'. No colorized war footage. No clicking on a bad link and seeing a dude getting flayed alive by the cartel, in middle school. For all intents and purposes, you just graduated highschool of all places. You did all your training and whatnot - And everyone who you've spent X amount of time with on a ship, just got turned into _chunks_ in front of you. Like how do you even f•cking quantity that? Even though it wasn't reflected in the base gameplay, what they captured in the scripted sequences really drove that home. It's do or die time, and you _best_ steady your hands enough to make it out alive.

The only thing i see wrong is the glowing shafts of light as tracers wouldnt be used on infantry

the game also has german ncos carrying ppshs random destroyed trucks on the beach during the first wave, german soldiers with there helmets having 2nd reich colours, pierson with a m1928 with foregrip and drum, and for the record there is no evidence of m2 flamethrowers being used at omaha. the game has more innacuracy then accuracy

it's war, it has no mercy, either you or them

dont forget the paratroopers who jumped into enemy territory before d-day

Not gonna lie, wasn’t too happy when the player ditched the M1.

3:03 its so funny how the game always announces "INCOMING" when a mortar or rocket is about to hit as if the soldiers on the ground had any frame of reference when they were about to get shelled

You what know what’s inaccurate about call of duty ww2’s D day, that there no tanks on the first wave, and one of the battle ships were gonna bring out the Sherman tanks and get it across to the beach but instead it sank to the bottom of the sea.

It's surprising that this game kinda respects WW2 unlike Vanguard despite developed by the same studio.

Those mg42s definitely earned their nickname Hitlers buzzsaw, they were for sure saw thru allied troops like a saw

This video just proves they’ve done WW2 so much specifically the DDay landing so much that it’s difficult to fuck it up. There’s discrepancies when it comes to guns and even certain levels are inaccurate.

Too bad they got the map horribly wrong. They didn't have giant bunkers sticking out blatantly in the front. They had machine guns in the side. Very few games and films get this correctly

Is that the Texas? She was there. They flooded her portside compartments to give the guns a little more elevation.

Looking back at this game, I realize I judged (at least some parts of it) too harshly, this first part really shows the brutality of the war along with the Death camp scene

So accurate you can even find ppsh's in the german army

what cod is this?

I mean it's the only thing the devs actually got right in the entire game

Yeah they really must know something I don’t since the Germans on the beach are armed with PPSH’s and revolving shotguns

Cant wait to make bbq party using m2 flamethrower

it seems the bombers are flying way too low here if it’s omaha beach, not only this but there were only b24s at omaha, not b26s as depicted here. The b26s flew on utah beach and bombed parallel rather than perpendicular to the coast to avoid risking friendly fire on the ground troops. the tank obstacles and barbed wire too, appear to be all over the place, while in reality they were placed in separate sections. The landing craft were also supposed to carry way more soldiers than here, usually more or less 30 men. And finally, the layout of the bunkers and trenches seem way too intricate, large, gritty and complex compared to the reality. But thats just what ive seen that hasnt already been pointed out. Overall, cod gets the main points across alright but simply dramatizes some of the facts a bit much like saving private ryan. last note: the aperture sight of the garand is way too damn big.

Wasn‘t the reason why the air force missed so many targets that they were afraid of hitting their own troops and dropped the bombs too late be ause of that?

No armor support? There’s a tank in the background 4:14

Hobart's funnies were truly funny. The madman asked to slap flamethrower to a HEAVY TANK! Then he asked to get tanks some SWIMMING SKIRTS! Also he asked for a HUGE FUCKING BARREL OF EXPLOSIVE be thrown from tank! What's even funnier? IT WORKED NICELY! 10/10 british engineering

What game is this?

but they somewhat failed on the gun animations department, nonetheless, this game was hella accurate in terms of the details

11:38 heroic action performed : )