Yes, it’s great because he can explain to you why it’s unrealistic and then concede that it adds to the gameplay, which so many of these guys don or can’t do
@@tenghiskhan2063 I’ve seen gun experts look at stylised anime pistols and say “these would never work” without realising that the guns in questions are used to hunt vampires or some shit.
And, as a consequence is actually able to do a reaction video on starwars weapons by commenting on the real-life weaponry used for their designs to evoke an aesthetic, rather than saying that star wars guns aren't guns end of.
@Sander R OT is inspired by Nazis, because people were scared of people like Vader, powerful, evil and ruthless. Sequels were based on an angry white boy with anger issues because thats modern society
I think gun collectors stopped selling their Sterling submachine guns, or at least showed more caution when doing so, largely because Star Wars fans kept buying them and converting them into E-11s.
IIRC, The funny thing about the Jawa's gun is it's litrally a real mod for a SMLE, except it's suppost to be mounted to the side of a tank turret with a string to fire it. It's an improvised smoke launcher for AFVs back in WW2.
@@Nomand55 Definitely a KvKK, though slightly odd looking compared to others I've seen. Maybe pre-production, maybe some changes to parts during different production runs.
Id love to hear jonathons take on the handmade guns from the metro games, the bastard gun and so forth, and if he thinks that they would actually work.
@@seniorordenanza2387 yeah, I think they’re going after the more currently popular games for views. So far most of what is covered is pretty popular. Though hopefully they will go to the metro series as one of the fan favorites.
The Cycler Rifle is part of a Star Wars weapon category known as “slugtrowers,” which are basically standard firearms. These can range anywhere from the Tusken Cycler Rifles to more sophisticated weapons made by ancient Mandalorians to counter the blaster-deflecting tendencies of the Jedi.
@@Rin-sj8ii IF you get the chance Iyou absolutely should. Lived in Leeds most of my life and always enjoyed visiting the armories. One of England's best collections of historic, modern and unusual arms, and free entry! (Runs on a recommended donation system)
One of my favorite things aesthetically about Star Wars is, thanks to it being a throwback to classic war and pulp movies, so many of the things in it are abstractions of real life weapons or vehicles or architecture and so on (in particular, WWI or WW2 stuff). It helps make the world of Star Wars really interesting to look at, and I bet all of these things were fun to design.
That would be extremely interesting considering he's an *author* of _"Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms, 1901-2020"_ so bullpups are actually one of his fields of expertise.
While not seen in the films, there are several different ballistic weapons in Star Wars generally called slugthrowers. There have even been characters that mention how they are particularly effective against Jedi. Instead of being deflected, the bullet melts and now the Jedi has to deal with a ball of molten metal flying at them.
Gamespot really lucked out with getting Jonathan on. A firearms expert and posseses an understanding of video games and even star wars as well. Keep this series up
One of my favorite "bloopers" in Star Wars: A New Hope is during the chasm scene with Luke and Leia. If you look closely when Leia is covering Luke you can actually see the shell casings being ejected from the gun and bouncing off the wall next to where she's firing.
I think you can also see blank cartridges being dispensed by the Stormtroopers on the Tantive IV As well as their muzzle flash in Behind the Scenes Footage
Petition for Jonathan for getting his own channel for all of this awesomeness, he's been carrying Gamestop for quite a while now but still, he needs his own channel
@@sike3000 Wouldn't it be interesting to see what he thinks about the models? It doesn't have to be good for him to cover them. Not that I personally noticed any issues with MGSV's gun models anyway
@@sike3000 It's not just a question of models. I wanna see what he thinks about the customization. Adding new barrels, magazines, scopes, muzles etc. There's none of that in MGS4.
@@sike3000 literally stopped playing MGSV after like 20 hours simply because it doesn't have real guns. MGS4 got me into a lot of the guns I now own and it was really sad to see that change.
It’s poking over his shoulder or on the speeder in a couple shots, but you can see it best in a promo photo. It’s quite a bit longer than he is tall, even at an angle.
Really cool idea. I knew I recognized real guns in star wars but wasent sure what they were. Also glad this guy is basically an Gamespot team member at this point. We all know his videos are the most popular on the channel. Dudes awesome.
This guy is just the best, I can't get enough of these videos. He's so knowledgeable about both the games, movies and weapons. It's really enjoyable to listen to someone who really knows their stuff.
This has been said many times, but it's so refreshing to see a firearms expert who clearly plays video games in addition to being an expert in his field. So many times *experts* consulted for videos like this know nothing about games or movies. It's nice that Jonathan is a Star Wars fan too 🙂
I absolutely love what he says around 5:05. Other people might take that opportunity to ridicule or call it silly that there are these pieces that serve no purpose or that they didn't add something on top of that. He, like I do, took it as a fan might, and turned it into "this isn't a mag mount in universe, it's fun to wonder what kind of part or mechanism it could represent!", which I think is way more fun.
Tbf both of those guns are not incredibly viable except the shorter French revolvers used by GIGN which is very viable, and the Knights Armament revolver is a giant revolver with attachments to make it a sniper, John's example of a bad sniper pistol is literally one where they just stuck a pistol onto a sniper shell and called it a day
Pointing out that the IQA-11 was first created for a CGI animated series (Clone Wars) before it was re-created in Battlefront 2, and noting that the animated series' 3D artist would not be required to precisely depict the exact design of the Arctic Warfare/L96A1's thumbhole stock while being inspired by it.. and then contrasting that with the other Star Wars weapons that have components which DO precisely mirror real life firearms because the physical props were built on those firearms.. that's an incredible observation, and a very interesting one. Jonathan Ferguson demonstrates sufficient familiarity with several different disciplines (including, of course, his expertise in his primary field) which lends a LOT of value to the quality of these videos. As many thumbs ups as I can find thumbs to raise.
The guilt of avoiding eye contact with Jonathan whenever there is a mention of donations...... And we lie to ourselves saying that "you know what maybe I will"
Came into this not really knowing what to expect, was not disappointed. This is a true expert who understands not only real world guns, but the creative processes and analogs in fictional work. Obviously these guns don't exist, and yet he had not only plenty of stuff to talk about but also real things to SHOW us!
@Ryzxn it would. Replicas are still working firearms, they just aren't "original". For example, a replica luger would be today by H&K or smth, while a real one would have been used during WW2, and therefore, much much more expensive
It would be interesting to see his thoughts on the weapons of the Titanfall/Apex Legends universe. There's a pretty wide range, with both realistic and completely sci-fi guns, as well as a combination of the two.
Fun fact about titanfall guns! Most bullets are electrically activated meaning that you don't need a gas operated firearm and you fan also easily modify the fire rate. The R-97 is just a cut down R101 with a jacked fire rate. An "assumed" exception to this is the wingman which some believe is smokeless black powder. Just in case they read your comment.
There is a Legends era book about Star Wars weapons, and it demonstrates that a stock can be deployed like the Sterling SMG. Funny thing is, like you said even though the folding stock being canon, they still don’t use it.
This has quickly become my favorite series on all of RUclips. If he decided to open a Patreon to support a full-time show, I'd absolutely love that, and I think many of you would too.
4:54 Genuinely think Mr. Ferguson might be interested or happy to hear that cartridges do still exist in the Star Wars universe, the firearms that use them are referred to as slug throwers.
@@winki012 GameSpot editors showed the wrong M60. Sir Ferguson: "Sorry gentlemen, but I was referring to the Vietnam era M60 machine gun manufactured by US Ordnance and made famous on popular media by the hands of Sylvester Stallone on Rambo: First Blood."
There are actually quite a few Star Wars slugthrowers. It's just that since Disney they are no longer canon. The only one that still exists in the current version of Star Wars is the Czerka Arms Adventurer Slugthrower Rifle. It was used by assassins and bounty hunters. As for the old canon? More than you can count. The Imperial Heavy Repeater is a good example. It's a heavy auto shotgun/grenade launcher. It used metal bolts for ammo. And as the name suggests it wasn't a one off, but an official weapon used by the Empire. Heck the Scatter gun from Battlefront (2004) was a slugthrower. It was a shotgun with the tube containing the ammo being on the left of the barrel. I mean that should still be canon, but these days who know.
Regular guns are called slug throwers in Star Wars. A fun fact is that in the canon they are considered obsolete and mostly a situational weapon. They were revived a bit during the Mandalorian Jedi war when the Mandalorians figured out that while Jedi Lightsabers could reflect and deflect blaster shots, a slug would simply go through the Lightsaber and melt into a shower of molten metal while maintaining it's trajectory making it a extremely useful weapon against Jedi.
If we'e doing scifi/non real guns can we take a look at Titanfall or Apex Legend's weaponry? I'd LOVE to see his reaction to the mess that is the Peacekeeper or the Wingman.
12:03 The CA-87 Shock Blaster, in the 2015 Battlefront was a high powered Shotgun, most effective at close range but with the _Focus Fire_ Star card could be used at long range, using one massive, yellow blast that had the same damage at range as up close And now it’s a high powered leaf blower
Indeed. I'm planning to go there all the way from Suffolk soon. If it wasn't for this and the Royal Armouries sponsorship of Extra history, I would of never known such a cool place would of existed.
I get endless entertainment out of looking at all the ridiculous bits added onto real guns to make Star Wars props, but the A180 being a Luger with the entire rest of the gun added on is news to me.
It was in battlefront 2015 with the rogue one update as a pistol, but it replaced all 3 star card slots to have the different configurations (sniper, repeating blaster and I think ion launcher) so you could ulternate better them
@@Will-22 The Rifle mode especially was glorious. High rate of fire and damage with no overheat for the duration... I played a disgusting amount of that game.
5:25 and that's why we need to see a return of the beloved Star Wars wimmelbooks! Those cross sections and tiny details were like crack to me as a kid, I'd love peeling through them and seeing little world building facts, probably the reason I love doing creative sci-fi stuff to this day.
I want to see Johnathan react to the Metro trilogy. Makeshift guns to be critique or talked about would be nice, maybe he can give insight that they're plausible like most weapons in it
I love this, I'm so used to video games going for either unique fantasy designs or (mostly) realism but the nature of star wars means that a lot of these guns are old movie props that were made by sticking parts on and otherwise modifying real-world weapons, so it's cool to see all the interesting quirks Jonathan points out like the bullet loading mechanism for that LMG which wouldn't make sense in-universe
One funny thing I noticed was for the death trooper blaster (I forget the name) one of the attachment options is to put a stock on it to reduce recoil. Like the E-11, it very clearly has a folding stock under the barrel, but for the stock attachment you instead just stick a collapsing stock on the back, meaning it now has 2 stocks.
The shotgun in the assault kit uses physical slugs/pellets, it was first introduced in SW Republic Commando. It was useful in the first game as the physical nature of the rounds meant in went through energy shields when fired
@@solthegamer3769 it was a star card in the outer rim pack, just like the cycler rifle. I would know, I hit the cap, and then the expanded cap for xp levels. It was called the scatter gun, its form was very similar to the one from RC
God I love the Lewis gun so much! It just looks so damn cool and interesting! That the c96, and the sterling guns have always been some of my favorites in star wars! Great stuff!
you can tell Jonathan is passionate about history as it seems he actually takes the time to do some background research on the weapons he's opining on. A lesser man would've stuck to the surface impressions, but he actually went into detail about the animated series' heritage of that one rifle.
"that don't exist in the Star Wars universe-- at least not anymore" I believe you mean 'not YET' it is, after all, set a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.
The reason Britain’s gun laws are so tight is so Jonathan can have all of them
This is correct
Also, so citizens don't get shot by other citizens
@@gonnsolo8506 lol
@@gonnsolo8506 They just get stabbed instead. Personal protection is a god given right. Not a privilege.
Our gun law isn’t tight it’s just usa gun laws are loose
This is one of the few "experts react" series' where the expert understands things like artistic license and game balance...
The amount of gun experts who don’t understand the artistic freedom games take with guns and only look at them in terms of real life use.
Yes, it’s great because he can explain to you why it’s unrealistic and then concede that it adds to the gameplay, which so many of these guys don or can’t do
@@tenghiskhan2063 I’ve seen gun experts look at stylised anime pistols and say “these would never work” without realising that the guns in questions are used to hunt vampires or some shit.
And, as a consequence is actually able to do a reaction video on starwars weapons by commenting on the real-life weaponry used for their designs to evoke an aesthetic, rather than saying that star wars guns aren't guns end of.
Yeah it’s cool that he likes games and only shakes his head at really dumb things
Jonathan knows his shit. As a hardcore Star Wars nerd, this was pleasantly accurate and informative.
I’d like you to know that I chuckled when I saw your profile pic
Amen
@Sander Røvik The name stormtroopers is actually from WW1
@Sander Røvik the stormtrooper's armour was inspired by German ww2 soldiers but if the OT was inspired by any war it would be Vietnam
@Sander R OT is inspired by Nazis, because people were scared of people like Vader, powerful, evil and ruthless. Sequels were based on an angry white boy with anger issues because thats modern society
10 year old me: "That Jawa gun is so cool!"
43 year old me: "Those heathens chopped up an SMLE for that?!?"
Wait til you hear about what the armourers did for The Empire Strikes Back 😲
I think gun collectors stopped selling their Sterling submachine guns, or at least showed more caution when doing so, largely because Star Wars fans kept buying them and converting them into E-11s.
hello there
@@generalgrievous2782 what a catastrophe
IIRC, The funny thing about the Jawa's gun is it's litrally a real mod for a SMLE, except it's suppost to be mounted to the side of a tank turret with a string to fire it. It's an improvised smoke launcher for AFVs back in WW2.
I wonder if Jonathon's back hurts from carrying this channel?
YEAH MAN DEFINITELY
The producer, editor, clip taker, and Jonathon are pallbearers for GameSpot
Hey you take that back! This channel has so much good content like...uh... Jonathan Ferguson's other videos.
owee. damn what a roast xd
No, but now everyone else's heart aches by this comment
I'd actually take a trip to the united kingdom just to visit the royal armory museum just cause he's such an educated and cool ass guy
I'd love to go to the UK one of these days in any case, but the Royal Armory has definitely been added to the list of reasons because of these videos.
*laughs in person living in the uk*
@@archiep3821 laughs hard
I live a ten minute train ride from the armouries and go once or twice a year, definitely worth it.
@@jaspermccarthy1436 I'll attempt to pass by there at some point not sure when but it definitely seems like my cup of tea (no pun intended)
Does anyone know why Jonathan Ferguson's channel is called GameSpot?
Not sure,I think other people are hacking into it and uploading content aswell, weird.
No idea 😂
It was 998 but now it’s 1k
He didn't want to take all the attention, so he opened it up for other people to make videos.
He does have an alt for more in depth showcases. Go check out Royal Armories!
Expert: "It's very obviously an M60 Machine gun" Editor: *Shows something that is very obviously NOT an M60 machine gun*
I was beginning to think I was the only one who noticed that.
I think they showed a KvK62 Finnish machine gun. Cool gun, but I don't know why. Has nothing to do with the M60
@@Nomand55 Definitely a KvKK, though slightly odd looking compared to others I've seen. Maybe pre-production, maybe some changes to parts during different production runs.
There IS an M60, It's even called "The Roba" (Robas are basically space-pigs) I don't know why they grabbed the wrong gun.
Damn it's almost like the editor isn't a firearms expert. Crazy
Wow, the solo 'balance' stance was a real thing. Would never have guessed that in million years!
yeah you see it in a lot of 70's and 80's films
Maybe 5 parsecs on Kessal run,which was never a measure of distance but time....nerd alert🤪✌👍😂🤣
You can find old FBI training videos. They're unintentionally hilarious.
Old Jeff Cooper videos, otoh, age like fine wine.
i always assmed that 1960s/70s shooting Stance was a "movie thing"
@@charlesboots6508 "Remember men, shoot like Clint Eastwood. That'll put the fear of god into them hippies!"
It makes me so happy that he knows his blasters like he knows his firearms
Id love to hear jonathons take on the handmade guns from the metro games, the bastard gun and so forth, and if he thinks that they would actually work.
Excellent idea.
Honestly I’m surprised they haven’t done that yet
Big brain idea?
@@seniorordenanza2387 yeah, I think they’re going after the more currently popular games for views. So far most of what is covered is pretty popular. Though hopefully they will go to the metro series as one of the fan favorites.
@@darkest_eclipse8271 that makes sense. Really hope they do, would be really interesting to hear Jonathan’s take on all the makeshift weapons.
The Cycler Rifle is part of a Star Wars weapon category known as “slugtrowers,” which are basically standard firearms. These can range anywhere from the Tusken Cycler Rifles to more sophisticated weapons made by ancient Mandalorians to counter the blaster-deflecting tendencies of the Jedi.
The Mandolorians: The Jedi can deflect lasers? Alright, have fun with this buckshot.
Then they showed the Tusken guys live on TV and their guns just shot normal Star Wars "blaster" glow effects
*¯\_(ツ)_/¯*
@g cartm you've never watched therussianbadger have you.
Jonathan: exists
GameSpot: "I can milk you."
im not mad
tbh im not mad. good videos, and they really do promote a great museum :)
I think its win-win situation. GameSpot's chanel have more viewers and his museum get more donation to make it through the covid lockdown.
@@tonybeaumont8289 yeah true just by watching this kinda video, it makes me want to visit the museum.
@@Rin-sj8ii IF you get the chance Iyou absolutely should. Lived in Leeds most of my life and always enjoyed visiting the armories. One of England's best collections of historic, modern and unusual arms, and free entry! (Runs on a recommended donation system)
One of my favorite things aesthetically about Star Wars is, thanks to it being a throwback to classic war and pulp movies, so many of the things in it are abstractions of real life weapons or vehicles or architecture and so on (in particular, WWI or WW2 stuff). It helps make the world of Star Wars really interesting to look at, and I bet all of these things were fun to design.
I would like to see Jonathan react to all of Halo’s UNSC guns.
None of the Halo guns exist in real life, so that's probably not gonna happen
@@Courtesyflush52 i mean they made a video on Cyberpunk 2077 weapons, so i don’t see why not with Halo.
@@Courtesyflush52 I think it'd be interesting for him to look at the Halo Weapons and be like "This rifle is suppose to shoot 50cal!?" Lol.
That would be extremely interesting considering he's an *author* of _"Thorneycroft to SA80: British Bullpup Firearms, 1901-2020"_ so bullpups are actually one of his fields of expertise.
@retrobeats Desert Eagle for the M6 Pistol(Halo CE)
USP For the M6 Pistol(Halo2/Odst)
While not seen in the films, there are several different ballistic weapons in Star Wars generally called slugthrowers. There have even been characters that mention how they are particularly effective against Jedi. Instead of being deflected, the bullet melts and now the Jedi has to deal with a ball of molten metal flying at them.
Actually some of the sand people use cycler rifles in ep 1 and if im not mistaken, luke takes one with him when he goes to look for r2z
@@rafaelroriz6622 also used by The Mandalorians during a war they had with Jedi’s
In rouge one wasn’t the a revolver that used bullets I know it was in battle front 1
Gamespot really lucked out with getting Jonathan on. A firearms expert and posseses an understanding of video games and even star wars as well. Keep this series up
If John ever retires I'm certainly qualified, I should send them a resume.
One of my favorite "bloopers" in Star Wars: A New Hope is during the chasm scene with Luke and Leia. If you look closely when Leia is covering Luke you can actually see the shell casings being ejected from the gun and bouncing off the wall next to where she's firing.
I think you can also see blank cartridges being dispensed by the Stormtroopers on the Tantive IV
As well as their muzzle flash in Behind the Scenes Footage
Jonathan: It's a space luger!
*visible confusion and happiness*
Obi? Obi?! OBIIII!
Inb4 “hello there”
Hello there
General Kenobi
Spuger
Petition for Jonathan for getting his own channel for all of this awesomeness, he's been carrying Gamestop for quite a while now but still, he needs his own channel
He's not gonna pull out the royal armory's lightsaber?
😢
He can't that's still classiffie-
They may not have that but they’ve got a load of swords
@@pirig-gal Hacksmith created it.
Jonathan is one of the only civilians in the UK who is allowed to handle and curate these firearms. Lucky man
*Do the Metro Trilogy! I wanna see his reaction to the makeshift, yet plausible guns*
Yes I agree!
Funnily enough I just bought Metro 2033 and Last Light today and am playing them now haha
Marvellous idea!
The weapon I really want his opinion on is the Tikhar, followed by the shambler and lastly bastard gun
@@ParkerDai Nice. Replaying it for the 5th time now. I recently re-installed Last Light Redux now that I've got a much better PC. Haha.
Normie Hagrid: Keeper of keys
Chad Jonathon: Keeper of firearms and artillery
God I love Jonathan’s breakdowns and I still want to see him breakdown payday 2 and the customization options!
Was just about to comment the same thing, would love to see that too
Team Fortress 2
L4D
40K
@@mercenarygundam1487 why would he do tf2 and 40k... tf2 has a total of 6 real guns and 40k is science fantasy with no ties to the real world..
Imagine his reaction to the cursed .50 cal with the CQB barrel lol
@@Kisseyhersh123 but so is star wars yes the blasters are based of guns but it is still science fiction and tf2 why the fuck not
His smile makes me feel so happy....idk how to explain it but its just wholesome
He knows the Star Wars weapon lore as well as he knows the real guns - damn
I love that this is becoming a permanent series on this channel, jonathan is such a cool guy
He should definitely take a look at Metal Gear Solid V. There's a lot to choose from in that game.
the guns in that game have god awful models, they really went away from the realism. id say react to MGS4 instead
@@sike3000 Wouldn't it be interesting to see what he thinks about the models? It doesn't have to be good for him to cover them. Not that I personally noticed any issues with MGSV's gun models anyway
@@sike3000 It's not just a question of models. I wanna see what he thinks about the customization. Adding new barrels, magazines, scopes, muzles etc. There's none of that in MGS4.
@@sike3000 literally stopped playing MGSV after like 20 hours simply because it doesn't have real guns. MGS4 got me into a lot of the guns I now own and it was really sad to see that change.
@@Existential_Carousel you can add some attachments in MGS4. Off memory I can think is suppressors (muzzled as you say) and I think lasers?
Luke actually uses a Cycler rifle in A New Hope when he goes to look for R2D2
It’s poking over his shoulder or on the speeder in a couple shots, but you can see it best in a promo photo. It’s quite a bit longer than he is tall, even at an angle.
deeper knowledge into Star Wars lore past what is seen in the movies? Mr Ferguson is getting more interesting by the minute.
The man runs a gun museum. You don't get into a position like that WITHOUT being a nerd of some form.
John has actually inspired me to pursue a career similar, but not the same as his- military history absolutely fascinates me.
Really cool idea. I knew I recognized real guns in star wars but wasent sure what they were. Also glad this guy is basically an Gamespot team member at this point. We all know his videos are the most popular on the channel. Dudes awesome.
This isn't ign it's Gamespot
@@sajidurrahman8018 oh yea lol.
E-11 (in _Blue Harvest,_ I think)
"Hey, have we hit anything with these?"
"I hit a bird once."
They eventually hit their targets in Rogue One.
there are certainly a fair number of "slug throwers" in canon. in Legends they were used by mandalorians to fight jedi.
I knew someone would beat me to it!!
Cant deflect lead
@@SkellyBones9341 they would explode into molten slag. Was savage
They show up in a handful of games, I believe.
I know they're in Republic Commando.
You get a slugthrower shotgun, at a minimum, in that one.
@@nebuchadnezzer2436 Negative. Boss (your character) actually says that the shotgun is "an energy weapon made to look like a slugthrower."
Jonathan NEEDS his own channel where he records high quality in person videos
Check out the royal armouries chanell
This guy is just the best, I can't get enough of these videos. He's so knowledgeable about both the games, movies and weapons. It's really enjoyable to listen to someone who really knows their stuff.
This has been said many times, but it's so refreshing to see a firearms expert who clearly plays video games in addition to being an expert in his field. So many times *experts* consulted for videos like this know nothing about games or movies. It's nice that Jonathan is a Star Wars fan too 🙂
When is Johnathan Ferguson going to start his own channel? I'd pay to watch him talk about his work in a format like this
the royal armouries has their own channel
He does have his own channel lol
His channel is called gamespot 😂😂
The royal armories channel is mostly his
I absolutely love what he says around 5:05. Other people might take that opportunity to ridicule or call it silly that there are these pieces that serve no purpose or that they didn't add something on top of that. He, like I do, took it as a fan might, and turned it into "this isn't a mag mount in universe, it's fun to wonder what kind of part or mechanism it could represent!", which I think is way more fun.
I’d like to see how they actually use the scope on the Cycler Rifle 😂
It would be fine if it was fired from the left shoulder, but, alas :D
This is a good point...
Step 1: Lie down on your back.
Step 2: Fold yourself three times.
Turn gun slightly.
Kind of like how you use 45° offset optics.
Very carefully
Jonathans smile is priceless. I absolutely love it
"[IRL] You can't put a longer barrel on a pistol to make it a sniper." (Paraphrased)
The French sniper revolver would like a word
The knights armament company revolver rifle would also like a word
Tbf both of those guns are not incredibly viable except the shorter French revolvers used by GIGN which is very viable, and the Knights Armament revolver is a giant revolver with attachments to make it a sniper, John's example of a bad sniper pistol is literally one where they just stuck a pistol onto a sniper shell and called it a day
Pointing out that the IQA-11 was first created for a CGI animated series (Clone Wars) before it was re-created in Battlefront 2, and noting that the animated series' 3D artist would not be required to precisely depict the exact design of the Arctic Warfare/L96A1's thumbhole stock while being inspired by it.. and then contrasting that with the other Star Wars weapons that have components which DO precisely mirror real life firearms because the physical props were built on those firearms.. that's an incredible observation, and a very interesting one.
Jonathan Ferguson demonstrates sufficient familiarity with several different disciplines (including, of course, his expertise in his primary field) which lends a LOT of value to the quality of these videos.
As many thumbs ups as I can find thumbs to raise.
The guilt of avoiding eye contact with Jonathan whenever there is a mention of donations...... And we lie to ourselves saying that "you know what maybe I will"
stop reading my mind!!
That’s why Imma go to the Museum when stuff reopens on June 21st.
Donate to the museum and give a little extra to buy the man a beer
Came into this not really knowing what to expect, was not disappointed. This is a true expert who understands not only real world guns, but the creative processes and analogs in fictional work. Obviously these guns don't exist, and yet he had not only plenty of stuff to talk about but also real things to SHOW us!
its all fun and games until he pulled out a real and working replica of a Star Wars Blaster
@Ryzxn it would. Replicas are still working firearms, they just aren't "original". For example, a replica luger would be today by H&K or smth, while a real one would have been used during WW2, and therefore, much much more expensive
@Ryzxn no worries. I'm not 100% sure in my words, so do check it on Google
@@Azachor i think you got it right. Replica is something someone else makes based on some design
It would be interesting to see his thoughts on the weapons of the Titanfall/Apex Legends universe. There's a pretty wide range, with both realistic and completely sci-fi guns, as well as a combination of the two.
Fun fact about titanfall guns! Most bullets are electrically activated meaning that you don't need a gas operated firearm and you fan also easily modify the fire rate. The R-97 is just a cut down R101 with a jacked fire rate. An "assumed" exception to this is the wingman which some believe is smokeless black powder. Just in case they read your comment.
You can just tell Jonathan enjoyed every part of this video
“You do not want to shoot a hole through your hand” with the guns in that game you’d only be able to get a slight burn on your hand.
Everyone else watching Rogue One: the ending was so sad :((
Jonathan: is that a space Luger?
I think like John lol
Looking at the 3d model of the two Luger guns in bf2 I would never have guessed they were Lugers
I thought the ending was funny...
Well, it's a movie with a sad ending, which also had space Lugers in it!
I did not expect so much lore and knowledge on Star Wars weapons. Love Jonathan and what he's doing at the Royal Armouries.
I love how all the E11s have folding stocks but no one m uses them
Dont they in the clone wars?
@@gijsvandorp5871 no that's a different (earlier) variant anyways. I don't think it has a folding stock.
They have full length rifle versions though
Maybe stormtroopers would actually hit something lol
@@mandaloredare2135 Stormtroopers do hit their targets, the problem is that main characters are way too protected by their plot shield
There is a Legends era book about Star Wars weapons, and it demonstrates that a stock can be deployed like the Sterling SMG. Funny thing is, like you said even though the folding stock being canon, they still don’t use it.
This has quickly become my favorite series on all of RUclips. If he decided to open a Patreon to support a full-time show, I'd absolutely love that, and I think many of you would too.
Patreon is a big no to me dog.
Jonathan: react at battlefront weapons
Me: I have been looking forward to this
I love how he still has the weapons laid out from the RE4 video. Love this lad
4:54 Genuinely think Mr. Ferguson might be interested or happy to hear that cartridges do still exist in the Star Wars universe, the firearms that use them are referred to as slug throwers.
More of these, please. I don't care what game he talks about. Any game will do.
Battlefield 1
Kappa.
xD
Why’d they put the wrong gun when he said m60? Like that clearly wasn’t an m60
Well, the picture they showed is labeled as Valmet M60 type b (google it). Correct name, wrong gun.
@@winki012 my question is how tf did they google m60 machine gun and manage to pick the most obscure picture
@@winki012 GameSpot editors showed the wrong M60.
Sir Ferguson: "Sorry gentlemen, but I was referring to the Vietnam era M60 machine gun manufactured by US Ordnance and made famous on popular media by the hands of Sylvester Stallone on Rambo: First Blood."
@@winki012 Correct name is 7.62 kvkk 62. 😉
@@winki012 We have a winner👏🏼
"ITS A SPACE LUGER" BEST. LINE. EVER.
There are actually quite a few Star Wars slugthrowers. It's just that since Disney they are no longer canon. The only one that still exists in the current version of Star Wars is the Czerka Arms Adventurer Slugthrower Rifle. It was used by assassins and bounty hunters.
As for the old canon?
More than you can count. The Imperial Heavy Repeater is a good example. It's a heavy auto shotgun/grenade launcher. It used metal bolts for ammo. And as the name suggests it wasn't a one off, but an official weapon used by the Empire.
Heck the Scatter gun from Battlefront (2004) was a slugthrower. It was a shotgun with the tube containing the ammo being on the left of the barrel. I mean that should still be canon, but these days who know.
Don't forget the Verpine weapons, snipers and other assassin favored guns that were slug throwers so fine they were literally handmade works of art.
Never really been a big “gun” guy, but I LOVE all the Star Wars guns. My favorite is the one that’s like a bayonets
Regular guns are called slug throwers in Star Wars. A fun fact is that in the canon they are considered obsolete and mostly a situational weapon. They were revived a bit during the Mandalorian Jedi war when the Mandalorians figured out that while Jedi Lightsabers could reflect and deflect blaster shots, a slug would simply go through the Lightsaber and melt into a shower of molten metal while maintaining it's trajectory making it a extremely useful weapon against Jedi.
People in Star Wars after Jedi-Sith Wars Era: "Why we didn't think of this before?"
Doesn't real bullets also goes through shields?
No
If we'e doing scifi/non real guns can we take a look at Titanfall or Apex Legend's weaponry? I'd LOVE to see his reaction to the mess that is the Peacekeeper or the Wingman.
Every week man, an instant watch.
Jonathon: Right here at the royal armories museum we actually have a lightsaber here let me show you.
"It's a bit large for the main gallery, but we do actually have a Death Star in storage."
A gun enthusiast and a Star Wars enthusiast? What a great combination.
Edit: Wars was Sars
Ikr
I certainly wouldn't like to catch star sars
*Star Sars*
_Return of the Virus_
@@lettherebegames8 lol just noticed that now.
12:03
The CA-87 Shock Blaster, in the 2015 Battlefront was a high powered Shotgun, most effective at close range but with the _Focus Fire_ Star card could be used at long range, using one massive, yellow blast that had the same damage at range as up close
And now it’s a high powered leaf blower
I swear, post-COVID, this museum is going to get an influx of visitors thanks to these videos
Yeah lol
Indeed. I'm planning to go there all the way from Suffolk soon. If it wasn't for this and the Royal Armouries sponsorship of Extra history, I would of never known such a cool place would of existed.
This is a great series. Keep it up!
I get endless entertainment out of looking at all the ridiculous bits added onto real guns to make Star Wars props, but the A180 being a Luger with the entire rest of the gun added on is news to me.
It was in battlefront 2015 with the rogue one update as a pistol, but it replaced all 3 star card slots to have the different configurations (sniper, repeating blaster and I think ion launcher) so you could ulternate better them
@@Will-22 The Rifle mode especially was glorious. High rate of fire and damage with no overheat for the duration... I played a disgusting amount of that game.
@@jmaster2855 good times. I remember going round on scarif with it so many memories
Excellent video. Thank you Mr. Ferguson and Royal Armouries!
Jonathan: talks about the m60
*kk62 is shown*
Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed
It’s in fact a KVKK 62 prototype called Valmet model m/60 (maybe type B, but not sure)
@@finnisheagle1733 sounds pretty cool, thanks for clarifying
5:25 and that's why we need to see a return of the beloved Star Wars wimmelbooks! Those cross sections and tiny details were like crack to me as a kid, I'd love peeling through them and seeing little world building facts, probably the reason I love doing creative sci-fi stuff to this day.
I want to see Johnathan react to the Metro trilogy. Makeshift guns to be critique or talked about would be nice, maybe he can give insight that they're plausible like most weapons in it
I love this, I'm so used to video games going for either unique fantasy designs or (mostly) realism but the nature of star wars means that a lot of these guns are old movie props that were made by sticking parts on and otherwise modifying real-world weapons, so it's cool to see all the interesting quirks Jonathan points out like the bullet loading mechanism for that LMG which wouldn't make sense in-universe
It realy gives star wars guns a distinct feel that i like
"you're free to steal this design" 😂😂
Fantastic video once again Jonathan! This has definitely been my favorite. Looking forward to seeing more of you!
Who else was playing guess the firearm before he told you the answer?
I am and I’m losing miserably
One funny thing I noticed was for the death trooper blaster (I forget the name) one of the attachment options is to put a stock on it to reduce recoil. Like the E-11, it very clearly has a folding stock under the barrel, but for the stock attachment you instead just stick a collapsing stock on the back, meaning it now has 2 stocks.
Some further games I think he'd like:
Metro: last Exodus
Payday 2
Warhammer: Space Marine
he should cover mario odyssey
@@redphoenix2m101 he should cover crash bandicoot next
The shotgun in the assault kit uses physical slugs/pellets, it was first introduced in SW Republic Commando. It was useful in the first game as the physical nature of the rounds meant in went through energy shields when fired
It's not. Even in Republic Commando they specifically mention is a blaster still, but made to look like a slug thrower as the 'lizards are nostalgic'
@@solthegamer3769 Battlefront 2015 was misleading in that regard then since its bolts passed through shields
@@DaDoom1 That was the cycler rifle. The Trandoshan Shotgun doesn't appear in BF1
@@solthegamer3769 it was a star card in the outer rim pack, just like the cycler rifle. I would know, I hit the cap, and then the expanded cap for xp levels. It was called the scatter gun, its form was very similar to the one from RC
@@solthegamer3769 well it wasn't the one I was initially thinking of but it there is a projectile based shotgun in the star wars universe lol
I don’t need a title. Just a thumbnail with Jonathon in it.
God I love the Lewis gun so much! It just looks so damn cool and interesting! That the c96, and the sterling guns have always been some of my favorites in star wars! Great stuff!
10:03 That's not an M60... looks like a crude version of 7.62 KvKK 62. What the...
Could be a kvkk prototype of some sort or early model, has the vz.52/57 muzzle device and other weird details.
I would say the barrel is the one from the M1919A4, at least a part of that.
I've never wanted to sit in a pub and geek out with a bloke as much as I want to with this fella
10:03 come on editor, you had one job
you can tell Jonathan is passionate about history as it seems he actually takes the time to do some background research on the weapons he's opining on. A lesser man would've stuck to the surface impressions, but he actually went into detail about the animated series' heritage of that one rifle.
Jonathan should react to Star Wars Republic Commando!
Man I could honestly watch Jonathan videos all day!
Love his content!
I've said it many times but I'll say it again. You should look at Battlefield 3 and 4. There are a number of interesting, strange and unique weapons.
Slugthrowers (firearms) do occur in Star Wars cannon, but mostly for armies fighting Jedi, since Jedi mostly view blasters as fun lightsaber practice.
I shall keep trying to get you guys to have Jonathan react to the weapon handling mechanics of Receiver 2
This series taught me so much about weapon design it's unreal
"that don't exist in the Star Wars universe-- at least not anymore"
I believe you mean 'not YET'
it is, after all, set a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away.
That long time ago line is in reference to R2 telling the stories in a different galaxy to the Star Wars one hundreds of years in the future
This was actually the most interesting video of the series so far!
I want him to look at the guns from metro and have a mental breakdown about how they work
Fun Fact: Ammo magazines/clips/cartridges were shown in the Clone Wars S1, a magazineless DC-15 Blaster was setup to lure in a clone.
If y'all are dipping into sci-fi, y'all gotta do an episode where Jonathan reacts to Halo weaponry
Nice to see a weapons expert who knows the source material and isn’t a snob about the weapon’s real world counterpart.