Jonathan Ferguson, an expert in firearms history, and the Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, reacts to the the weapons and missions of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 campaign, including the enormous Astaroth .57 anti-materiel rifle, THAT nightclub mission, and an absolutely cursed ‘modernised’ PPSh-41.
00:00 – Intro
01:09 – Haijin City Invasion
01:57 – Han 86
07:08 – Krait P68 / Nightclub Mission
09:41 – MAR-9
14:03 – PM-40 Anvil
16:48 – Why not check out our Patreon?
17:14 – Astaroth .57
19:41 – PPSh-41
25:49 – M4
28:15 – Type 73
30:55 – X-58 Nyx
34:04 – Patriot XMR
In this episode of Expert Reacts on EXP, Jonathan Ferguson–an expert in firearms history and the Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK–breaks down the guns of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 campaign, and compares them to their real-life counterparts with artefacts from the Royal Armouries archive.
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whats the diffrence of a m417 and G28?
9:20 Jonathan saying enemies reacting well to being shot
footage shows guy getting shot in his left shoulder and flinching right
9:03 There are no Hitmarker. They replaced it with excessive blood splats.
I'm surprised when the Patriot showed up, Mr. Ferguson didn't immediately pick up on it looking like the lovechild of a CZ 805, Beretta ARX-160 and Remington ACR.
Do Bodycam!
Its called the astaroth .57 becauase 14.5mm=.571 inches.
So when is Ian from Forgotten Weapons coming over for a full gun nerd 8+hr video?
This has probably been mentioned before and maybe Jonathan already knows this but the reason the guns are legally different as been mentioned is exactly that reason, I also read somewhere a while back that gun manufactures didn't want their name associated with CoD with how popular it is and didn't want any sort of bad publicity, not too sure how true this is but that's a possible reason. I also asked one of the devs while they were streaming and asked about the reasoning for name/ design changes and they also hinted towards needing to make these changes.
There's Deagle on the nightclub mission tho.
2:42 …Jonathan once again making me go "gee, it'd be neat to have one of those".
4:40 You have my attention.
10:09 I understood that reference.
13:55 Thank you, Dave!
24:20 This is actually a thing I considered seeing if someone makes. Rebuild a Three-Line with modern stuff.
35:47 As long as there's nothing from "the real old days", I'm fine. Don't want some vintage Korean pieces getting mangled.
Was really excited for this!
i get that it is a game but, having the names changed from the original and then the details just not there in the guns are kind of a blah to me
At first look, the AK looks like AK…..but the longer you look at it, the more it looks like an abomination. Its a milled type 3ish AK, with RIVETS in the rear, and a ton of folding stock options with no folding trunnion. It IS kinda amusing to see a Zenitco'd out Type 3
The guns of Elite Dangerous are pretty goofy. I'd love to see JFerg's take!
31:34 the b&t sten style one does have a folding version
31:35 B&T KH9S SBR? Only one that's modern that I could think of. @EXP
Would the folding mag well design you’re thinking of be the MAT49?
The short Assaulter 417 is in Battlefield 6 and is in the carbine category in game.
The emotional support PPSH is justified here
Modern 4fare
Why did CoD guns use to be real and now they're made-up?
29:10 Fun fact. NK gunners that do well get to chrome their Type 73s. They actually have prestige’s weapon skins IRL.
10:22 That’s not a normal hk-417 7.62 battle rifle it’s a hk G28 a modified 417 to become a designated marksman rifle
the real reason the NK troops use old garbage weapons is because CoD is US propaganda and it's intended to make their opponents look backwards and evil but still dangerous
31:40 As a French. The first SMG with a folding Mag that come in my mind was the MAT-49. Does Mr.Ferguson was searching for this one by any chance ?
The UXR (Patriot XMR) is 100% supposed to be a callback to the ACR. It even uses the MW2 ACR reload when the fast hands perk is used with the default magazine.
The M4 default tactical and AK defualt empty reloads are also callbacks to MW2 reloads in this game
I really want you to do a division video i do believe everyone's head will explode lol
28:30 Now I wish Royal Armouries would do a showcase of all of their North Korean weapons (even if it's just a handful). I wonder if some could be captured examples brought back by the British forces after 1953?
MW 4 was such an improvement from MW 3. Having Infinity Ward back at the helm of development and only one free roam mission that is really good and addicting to play; with all the collectibles and guns you can get. I think half of my time spent in the campaign was spent in that one mission alone just getting all the yellow supply crates, solving the keypad puzzles, clearing the outposts and looting the soldiers for new guns and attatchments for them
SACTARASS sounds a bit too Dr. Who
I hope they cover sulfur soon now that it hit 1.0.
Brandon Herrera (the ak guy) helped with the sounds for this game. Thats why it sounds so good.
by the time I got up the elevator on the john wick mission i immediately hit restart. the whole sequence leading up to the gunfighting is wicked playing on veteran. the last fight pissed me off though lol
I think Jonathan deserves to have his eyes cleaned with some medal of Honor: warfighter content. Way ahead of its time in 2012!
My personal head cannon is that the archer had one look at North Korea's arsenal and realized it was in such a dire state it would just be easier to send in as many aftermarket modernization kits into the country as possible.
I can’t believe Dave got away with that CARbine pun 😂
BSA Machine Carbine!!! is what I shouted at the screen when the side mounted silenced machine gun appeared on the screen. I only remember it from the royal armoury episode when Ian visited and picked three differ ant kinds of guns to compare to Johnathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history's chosen three weapons.
I love these videos. Well batted, gents.
I wanna know about that railgun
I remember hearing that word from transformers 2
As classified intel using the railgun on the devastator
I cant lie, when I first saw that "modernised" PPSH in the campaign, my first thought was "oh i cant wait for Jonathan to react to this"
On the modernized PPSh-41, makes you wonder why they just didn't use the Type-88, which is standard issue for KPA Soldiers.
48:18 My moms uncle was a firefighter and he also had access to fireworks and for a while we were launching them at home for christmas and new year, it was awesome. Even got to launch one as a kid