Also MG42 is NOT a Mauser design. That’ll be equal to saying AR-15 is a Kalashnikov design.

@@qingyunwang3802 Not exactly, more like saying that an AR-15 is made by Smith & Wesson

An MG3 cannot cycle .308. Belt fed firearms are particularly sensitive to cartridge length and headspace. The difference in .308 vs 7.62x51 may be trivial in most mag fed and manual action guns, but belt-fed weapons cannot substitute one for the other. My Israeli converted 1919 in 7.62NATO won't cycle .308 ammo either, which is were I first learned about this phenomenon.

@@qingyunwang3802 no, it's a Swiss design, from Rhinemetal. Though Mauser did produce them under license during wartime. Just like how Singer (the sewing machine manufacturer) produced Thompson SMGs and M1 Carbines during WW2 but designed neither firearm.

isn't the mauser 8mm analogous to the 30 caliber????

Does punching the shop keeper and reloading the game still work?

If an unnamed COD game thought me anything, its that you don't need a mortar, just the shell itself.

@@The_Alt_Vault I’ve read stories of soldiers using mortar rounds in such a way. But I’m not in a mortar crew, so take that with a grain of salt. But theoretically I could see it working, just gonna arm it and throw it in a way where it lands nose down

@@stuglife5514 oh no that is true you can prime a ww2 style mortar shell by hand then its just a grande with no timer, just don't drop it.

It absolutely does. If I had to just guess what kind of weapon it was based on the looks, I would think some multi tube rocket launcher or something.

theres that german multi shot rocket launcher from WWII, the Fliegerfaust

Good attention to detail

The one from fallout 76?

@@whiskeyechomick1015 From NV

@@SockEater4293 oh gotcha

The overall shape of the light machine gun's receiver also closely resembles the M249.

The games seem to have come down on the side of energy weapons, even though I think you make a good point. I am sure it is because they have enough conventional "ballistic" weapons as it is.

@@Rad_King Makes sense.

@@Rad_King Why not use both types, being energy and ballistic, being broken in endgame is fine

All weapons use some form of energy, whether muscle, chemical or electrical. Electromagnetic coil and rail guns exist and they're energy weapons in exactly the same way that firearms are energy weapons: they use energy to accelerate projectiles. Usually, "energy weapon" is meant to be short for "directed energy weapon," implying that energy is transferred to the target without any intervening matter. AFAIK, the only real-world weapons that fit this description use lasers.

In fallout 2 gauss weapons wete added to serve as a ballistic counterpart to the energy weapons pulse rifle and pistol and as part of 2s atempt to diversify weapon choices in the end game and make small guns competitive with energy weapons as opposed to fallout 1 where energy is objectively the best you just can't find any early unless your meta gaming

Definitely. Technically a full-power rifle ammo like 762 in an MG makes it an MMG (medium machine gun;; for completeness, a HMG (heavy machine gun) is things like 50BMG, but 20mm+ is a cannon), but even I keep mixing up MMG with lower power rifle ammo like 556 the LMG's are.

@@rautamiekka No, light vs. heavy refers to how the gun is used, not the cartridge it fires. Light machine guns move with infantry, while heavy machine guns stay in fixed positions. Examples of light machine guns in WW1 and WWII that used the same full power cartridges as infantry rifles include the Lewis Gun, Chauchat, Bren Gun, and Browning Automatic Rifle. Intermediate cartridge machine guns like the RPD and Minimi weren't developed until after WWII. The Germans innovated by designing a single gun that could be used in light or heavy roles, the MG34. Later, they replaced it with the cheaper MG42. Both designs were universal machine guns, but became light or heavy depending on how they were mounted and used. Here's an MG34 used in the heavy role: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:German_Machine_Gunner_(7527779440).jpg Here's an MG42 configured for a light role: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1983-109-14A,_Frankreich,_MG-Sch%C3%BCtze.jpg

yes we use them to this day but saddly we have reduced the rate of fire from 1200 r/min to 800 r/min to make it more human

@@darthsidious9674 still pretty awesome to see tech from so long ago still thriving! A buddy of mine in the U.S. Army did a joint training exercise with the Bundeswehr a couple of years back. He said the MG3 was a lot of fun to shoot!

Yo, CJ? What are you doing in the radioactive wasteland fool?

@@buggy730 chillin

​@@buggy730 following the damn train

Nice! Great point about the MG-3!

I was just about to comment about the PIAT! Functionally it's quite similar to the Fat Man launcher, while the Davy Crockett launcher certainly is a conceptual inspiration.

It’s part of the changes I’ve been able to implement as I upgraded my computer

@@Rad_King congrats on the upgrade mate! Mine could use one too

You mean giving the big boy with exp mirv right?

The idea certainly could've been an inspiration, my issue is with the comparison is when people say it was designed after the Davey Crockett since really only the idea is what they have in common. There have been many attempts at using tactical nuclear weapons (artillery shells, backpack portable, etc) and I think that the idea to use these weapons had a lot of interest at a time that Fallout takes most of its inspiration from.

@@Rad_King took me a long time to respond, I was talking about the goss minigun (I'm using voice to text so that's why the grammar is bad)

It doesn't even make sense! The Davy Crockett looks so much like a recoiless rifle, or if you want to simplify it extremely: a nuke bazooka

Literally a PIAT, I couldn't agree more

I'm pretty sure it started because the concept art looks much more reminiscent of the Davy Crockett

Lmao

I believe the specs in game of 4 say pneumatic. Probably just conflating the two.

I appreciate the nitpick. The wiki refers to a hydraulic system but it certainly makes more sense that it would be pneumatic since it uses pressurized air.

Also the launcher is partially based off the PIAT (projector, infantry, anti-tank), a British WWII-era anti-tank spigot mortar.

Well, to nitpick your nitpick, gases *are* actually considered fluids. You are still correct, though, but in the sense that hydraulics are *liquid* operated, while pneumatic is gas operated. Both pneumatic and hydraulic systems are technically "fluid" operated, however.

I feel like heavy weapons need to be too difficult for someone without max strength or power armor to wield effectively. Likewise I think it’s strange that a power armored soldier has no problem shouldering and getting their hands/fingers around grips and in trigger guards that were built for normal people, so certain firearms should not be available to those in power armor.

@@Rad_King I agree, some weapons make sense. Like the laser weapons have always had over sized grips and guards but someone in power armor that draws a snub nose 38 Special is never going to look right.

I knew if anyone could confirm, you could. The wording as to why doesn't make any sense so I wasn't sure if I was just missing or misunderstanding something.

@@Rad_King I didn’t completely understand the wording myself either. As you said, information on the weapon is scant, so honestly the best conclusion is “yep unlimited ammo”. Watching gameplay on the acquisition was neat, classic hidden location.

I honestly kind of miss this kinds of out there hidden locations in games that were popular in the 00s.

Thank you! Have a Happy New Year!

Ask and you shall receive.

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it

Thank you and I hope you had a great new year!

bro that's so not true, just use wiktionary do you comment just to get embarassed? how in seven hells can u believe something like that get ur facts straight

@@mambojambo4870 WTF are you commenting about? My proper use of pneumatic vs hydraulic, or my proper use of pronunciation? I learned both the pronunciation and the mechanical differences in elementary school, before I was 10. That knowledge was only reinforced when I learned about repairing both kinds of systems for my job as a tank turret mechanic in the U.S. Army. The only one who should be embarrassed here, is you.

So it's neither about the proper use of pneumatic n hydraulic or the pronunciation thereof, it's about ur presumptuous attempt at explaining something that u clearly have no knowledge of, which is the etymology of those terms.

Honestly, that is a great point! It is a much more realistic way for someone to hold and fire such a heavy weapon with a high rate of fire.

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@@ilovecrisps.7667 what

@@buggy730 massive gay.

@@ilovecrisps.7667 This has to be a troll. *At least I hope*

Happy New Year, stay safe!

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Well it could be east and west germen design as the prototype is found in F:NV and in theory could of been an Anti-tank experimental for the Germans during the resource war and unification didn't happened would leave it to both parties.

I believe its possible that multiple countries were working on the idea at the time, its all a matter of stealing designs and production. Its likely that the US's moving of resources to PA development and production. It likely that Chinese spy's found out about the PA and realizing that they couldn't develop their own PA equipment to match the US they instead chose to move towards Gauss tech, which may have been used for their stealth units, only to be captured and revers engineered by the US.

And to you! Have a great new year

Teach me your ways

Welcome!

I am doing my first ever survival playthrough right now... it has been a bit rough on my end too! We can form a survival support group :)

Happy New Year!

u high bro?

@@mambojambo4870 no why you asking?

@@alexhail9971 i think because of the typo's in your comment. Ah well.. i get what you where trying to say and getting your message across is the most important

@@jackdaw3822 20mm rifles would be cool and people have built them from hardware store parts so would be awesome if thay was a homemade 20mm in the games

@@alexhail9971 yeah that would indeed be pretty cool, i imagine a quest involving a weapon schematics and finding certain components in the SuperDuper Mart or maybe from RobCo factories for example

Hope you enjoyed it. Happy New Years!

It's the last, so hopefully it capped off the Big guns nicely.

@@Rad_King I'd say it did

@@Rad_King seesms like you forgot the gatling plasma from fallout 76 unless I missed it.

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Hope you enjoy it

Good point!

Well thanks for saying something awesome!

Are you playing it on an emulator?

@@Rad_King I got the ps2 version

Hope you enjoyed it!

@@Rad_King I did, as I do all of you vids happy new year and I wish you the best for 2022 with both your KZfaq channel and your personal life. Your vids bring me so much joy so I hope to see them continue to make me enjoy the fallout world and universe ✨

The piat was a spigot mortar. It used a spring to launch the projectile

Fallout 4 added some lore that said they had to add a small charge to give the mini nuke some extra push, but as far as I understand, most of the energy comes from the plunger.

Yes Messing up and dying in the sim results in death for your character player so idk if entertaining is a good word to use for that lol. If I was told to sit thru a few hours long simulator but if I messed up and died I would die in real life I wouldn't be entertained lol

I see where your coming from but by that logic a lot of guns can look like other guns, if it had a mod for a longer barrel then yeah it would be a chonkey B.A.R

@@The_Alt_Vault it also has the sight of a m249 SAW .

@@buggy730 I'll take your word for it, not that much or an expert on fire arms

That would make some sense but there is already a Bar in dead money

@@marcelllakatos3586 oh yeah the Automatic rifle (i think)

Thanks for the correction!

That is a good point.

@@Rad_King whoh no fucking way I love your content bro.