Imagine making a shooter game in 2023 and NOT hiring Jonathan or Ian from Forgotten Weapons to advise the weapon designers and animators.

Somewhere an H&K designer is raising a glass to Jonathan’s “you can fight me on that.”

The presence of Japanese and Chinese weapons in the game has actually fueled rumors that the game’s plot initially had China allying with Russia in the story. According to the rumor, China would have taken advantage of the US and NATO being busy with Russia to try and invade its neighbors, thus the plot would occasionally cut to Japanese Special Forces Pushing back the PLA across Asia. Truly making the games plot feel like WW3 and not just a war in America and Europe. But said idea would have taken more time and Activision really wanted to maintain an annual release schedule as well as capitalize on MW2’s success. So the weapons are now the only remaining aspect of the scrapped idea. Like I said though these are just rumors and there’s really no evidence for it besides the presence of Asian made weapons.

I really want to see Jonathan break down the guns from The Order 1886

About that 6:14 the cyclic rate of a conventional AR-15 will rise with use as the gas port widens due to erosion and the "recoil spring" weakens. Expect an M16A4 north of 900 RPM after 5,000 rounds

Ah yes, the superior MW3. I see what you did there.

I’d love to see Johnathan react to COD Ghosts, it has an interesting variety of guns, including an underwater rifle, and has a few gunfights in space

It is always a joy to watch Jonathan Ferguson in Firearms Expert Reacts videos

Would love to see Valkyria Chronicles covered, lots of WW2 Esque weapons with some funky designs thrown in.

Jonathan always being so passionate about the HK slap will always bring a lot of joy to my heart

“And you can fight me on that.” 😂

I remember filing a bug of Infinity Ward's issue database, stating that their naming was wrong for the MP5 in all variation they had. Sadly, they just dismissed the bug. Instead, they quipped about this bug in their database. The quote was "You don't need to be a gun nut to know what a MP5K is"... I wore it as a badge of honor, as it showed they didn't know much about what the MP5 family is.

I can't believe they didn't bring up the FAD. That gun was such a weird and random addition to the AR class vs some of the guns they touch on every single episode. A missed opportunity!

The type 95 is actually modeled after type 97 with the magazine well for a ar15 pattern magazine

Second time saying it'd be pretty fun to see Jonathan lose his mind over the weapons from Black (Criterion Games, 2006).

Please Jonathan, break down the weapons from *METAL GEAR SOLID 3* before the remake comes out. So many weapons in MGS3 to react and comment on like the Patriot's infinite ammo magazine, the EZ tranq gun, Snake's customized officer M1911A1, Snake whittling the pistol grip to use a knife for CQC, Ocelot's SAA juggling skills, The End's paratrooper tranquilizer Mosin Nagant, the Davey Crockett recoil-less nuclear launcher and Eva's chinese mauser clone. There are so many more other interesting trivias and weapons in MGS3 so please gamespot and Johnathan make a video for the game.

Doing any or all of the Metal Gear Solid 1/2/3 guns would be neat with the recent ports of them. They all have some pretty iconic weapon choices

Funny thing with the 249/minimi, is running and gunning is a common occurrence in battle drills. Especially for section attacks. I've personally had to run around with one of them, a C9, during attacks and drills, not the most ergonomic thing, but still portable enough to get the job done. One vivid memory I have is having to do it in 3 feet of snow, without snowshoes, and tripping face first into the snow, then having my MCpl scream at me. Good times. Going along with that, the C7 has a large latch extension for the charging handle, meant for use with big gloves in cold environments where it isn't feasible to grab onto it.

I really *really* want to see Jonathan react to the experimental guns from Generation Zero!

I'm surprised Jonathan didn't mention the odd 20-round STANAG for the M4 that was only ever in this game, then again I suppose it's hard to see in the first-person view, but it's very blatant in campaign especially in that first cutscene where your CO helps you out of the overturned humvee

I’ve not watched in several weeks. The current cameras and set are excellent. Keep it up.

I played so much of this game back in the day. The FAD was the infamous terror used by the enemies in Spec-Ops late in a run. My wish for Part 3!

8:34 speaking from experience, surprise automatic fire is the worst kind of automatic fire, especially from a specifically semiautomatic gun.

7:09 That sound tickled a part of my brain that's been dormant for years.

Thank God your back!!!! I was soooooo worried last week

3:53, love the rail discussion about the rail on a rail about the rail on the M4

1:18 It is like how they did the 1928 Thompson! A truly time-honoured tradition that always works.

Talking about the mp5, they weren’t completely using up all of their ammo in a magazine so there was still one in the chamber while changing, henceforth no slap to chamber a new round

That was perfect the next meme has to be Jonathan leaning forward toward you and saying "And you can fight me on that."

Another great video! Would love to see this series look at RoboCop: Rogue City's weapons. Sticking with Taeyon's games, it would be cool to take a look at Terminator: Resistance.

Just when the world needed him the most, he came back. Welcome back Jonathan Ferguson.

I met Jonathan over the summer in this little country store and have to say he's a really good dude.

15:46 that double point pull is actually modeled on the skorpion but it only happens if you have a scope mounted on it. (Could be wrong if its in MW3 or if it's when using an ACOG on it in COD 4)

Pushing as always for you guys to have Jonathan cover Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and to cover the M8 and MRI Caseless specifically as well. I have been posting for you to do this in every video a year back now.

Would be cool if you covered Black Ops 2 since it's set a bit in the future

Skorpions look great in art pieces with the drama of the case ejection flying upwards.

Im curious: What does a typical day at work look like for Jonathan when he's not filming content for Gamespot or the Royal Armouries channel?

The Chinese QBZ-95 doesn’t have a 3 round burst mode but the in game version only comes in 3 round burst, I think the devs just found a reference image and went: “huh, it’s a bullpup rifle with a big carry handle so it must be a 3 round burst rifle.”

Went to go check and was surprised to see that you never did Black Ops 2. Maybe a good one to do next?

a lot of video games make the sight picture/irons ridiculous because you don't get the depth and perspective shift of stereo vision, that lets you see a bit around the irons on either side and focus targets beyond the sights. in vr you can go with regular iron sights and they work great.

I thought showing ground branch to Jonathan could somehow soothe his pain of seeing so many cursed stuff over the past few years but then I remembered that there’s no slap on any of the hk guns in that game (the operator just flicks the charging handle with his thumb) and that might even upset him even more so I think showing him signalis could help more

Jonathan had great energy in this one

I don't think I like how well Jonathan's new mic is covering up all the mechanical noises of the guns. Also you should definitely show him receiver 2

Love how I just noticed Johnathan is wearing a ghost shirt! great band. Also amazing content love seeing these videos.

The comment about the Luger depositing spent casings into your hair reminded of a time I fired a friend's Spanish Walther P38 (it has a mix of markings, some German some Spanish). I found a few casings in my hoodie's hood. Also, does the Royal Armouries have any of the modern Howa rifles?

Would love to see Jonathan cover the guns from Killzone! If I remember correctly they all feel very inspired by real life guns, and I think not a lot of people has seen the games!

finally . been waiting for this .

The M4 in this game is modeled after the ARMS SIRS rail system which was popular with US Navy EOD at the time. Same with Modern Warfare 2 (2009).

Played so many hours on those maps ! Good times 😊

Fun fact about the M4, its based off of an airsoft JG S-system m4, which is based off of the swan handguard. It uses a 'gooseneck' riser, hence the name, to secure the railed handguard, and the lower rail is clamped to the upper, making it technically free floated. Much like other video games of the time, the devs didnt have easy access to real firearms and had to use airsoft guns to make their models. There's a similar handguard called the RIS II thay i have used to put an m4 handguars on all sorts of things that shouldnt, purely because you can stick it on anything with a rail.

About the charging handle on the M4, issued Canadian C7s still have the raptor claw, and I assume it’s still the case for C7s and C8s.

I love that Johnathan is wearing a ghost shirt, love that band

I still use the badger tactical charging handle. I love it despite not being the most practical.

War Thunder - "don't share us your military secrets." Jonathan Ferguson , the Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries - "Share us your military secrets!"

"those have gone out of fashion as I have seen." Me looking at my rifle I installed that exact latch on a couple weeks ago... "Welp I guess I'm old"

gosh i would really love to see Jonathan react to Warframe's guns as they're all kind of unique

Im an indie dev and I'm starting to get into animation and 3D modelling. And I must say a lot of the considerations i need to make seemingly make sense for real rifles. for example if I have a crazy looking gun with wacky reloading, then I need to make sure its still ergonomic so i don't block the players screen, sights still need to line up, using multiple guns with similar reloads saves time on animating and irl while i was in the military we learned about all the different weapon systems and it was clear that they all worked very similar to the M4 we were issued so that we could just pick it up and use it if we had to. Things i do not have to take into consideration are things like weight. I mean I want to make the gun look like it carries weight but that's not the same. I don't need to worry about reliability or accuracy. depending on the game, i don't need to consider how it functions. It's interesting to hear him talk about what he believes to be developer limitations. I know he's worked with devs in the past and probably has more experience than I do in that regard, but I'd say most of the time it isn't a limitation, it's something the devs didn't know about or its too niche to worry about adding or its so small that the time it takes to make isn't worth it. Or just simply the real world example they're using just doesn't fit their art style! But at the end of the day the thing you're holding in the game is just a mesh and has nothing to do with how it works in the game haha. Most games don't even have the bullets come out of the gun!

8:45 the silence of that slap was deafening

It would be cool to see Jonathan react to the wacky guns of Warframe

That L118A you pulled out was a beaut

Does anyone else want to see Jonathan Ferguson as an Operator in MWIII? I haven't purchased a single Operator bundle from the store in MWII... but for Jonathan, I'd make an exception.

Loving the Ghost shirt Jonathan!

Rocking the Ghost t-shirt, nice

some of the modded dayz servers have a huge range of guns/ attachments so it may be interesting to get jonathan's perspective on them

I loved the metallic sound of the guns in MW3

Appreciate the new mic but where gun manipulation sounds from John

4:44 yeah i always wonder the purpose of that big yellow charging handle was. MW3 was the only game Ive seen it done.

jonathan is a cool dude

The tape+paracord mag pull thing is still better than the actual magpul brand mag pulls because it offers some flex when you're shooting from the prone or a bench or basically any situation where you might want to use the mag for a little bit of stability. The magpul ones are like a hard rubber and offer very little flex.

I doubt the Scorpion ejecting to the right was an oversight and more a gameplay decision, cause players wouldn’t use the scorpion if their vision is blocked when they shoot. Love the videos keep up the great work

it's pretty limited i suppose but i'd like to see him do Control

I'm curious about the type-95 5.8x42mm, it looks like a usual 7.62x39 with a smaller round an slightly larger neck, there isn't much data about it, interesting stuff is the weight of round, is heavier than the usual 5.45 and 5.56, is around 71 grains, more akin to a heavy 5.45 and 5.56, why? The answer I got from the internet is that they used is interchangeably with the marksman rifle and the LMG, at the beginning of the adoption they had different weights for each use, but they decided to standardize, is something like an infantry general purpose ammo, not dissimilar to the .280 and the 7.62x39 at the beginning.

Would love to seem him check out the guns from Enlisted. Its got a lot of quirky guns that ive never seen featured before in a game(Like the mosing with Diakonov grenade launcher, ERMA EMP, Colt Monitor, PPsh-2, FNAB,TZ-45 and a bunch of other.)

What a bait and switch, lovely

You hit it right the MW3 M4 uses the ARMS swan sleeve made for the M4

I’d love to see him break down the guns from The Finals beta. Or just wait for full release and review it then idk😂

Jonathan gets to go to work everyday and play with guns wearing a ghost tshirt and blazer combo, he's living the life

The MP5 picatinny hand guard is the Knight’s Armament RAS setup. And it’s a legit hand guard. I know. I have 5 MP5s and 2 of those hand guards.

The HK Slap actually comes from the User-manual of the MP5 and is the recommended way to reload it, from what I heard doing it the "normal" way isn't good for the gun.

6:56 It's the night-mode ironsight, it seems.

Lovin the ghost shirt!

Can you cover the older COD Games in future videos? World at War ,for example ,would be great.

"And you can fight me on that." lol

The last gun they dont have hands on the foregrip because thats hip fire and in cod its always one handed, when you ads the player will hold foregrip although u wont see it as your sights are closer

A thing about the type 95: that is NOT a carrying handle, instead its a guard for the action beneath it. It would break if you use it as a handle too much

Would love to see Jonathan react to the guns from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Would love to see breachers vr or into the radius

All i want for Christmas, is a review of either the STALKER games' weapons, or Operation Flashpoint/Arma Cold War Assault-Arma2's weapons 😂 Also if they do happen to make STALKER weapon reviews, make sure Jonathan hears the End Credit music, Firelake was such a good band, though i can't understand what they sing...

Was hoping Johnathan would have noticed the M4's magazine being modeled around a twenty bullet capacity, but it's thirty by default in game... ah well.

I would love to see a video on call of duty ghost, that game has some cool unique guns

Love the Ghost shirt!

0:01 That's a happy man.

This may sound erroneous of me but any lmg weapons I call lawnmowers mainly because of their capabilities and purposes and mainly if an enemy soldier or squad were to be caught up in the operator's line of fire then it mows them down just like a lawnmower mowing a lawn

2:16 That vid of the fighters in Iraq was crazy, straight up mad max.

God, seeing gameplay really makes me miss this game

When you get distracted by the ghost merch he is wearing ❤

Dave you monster, those chickens were non-combatants!

I love the Ghost shirt!

Receiver 2 next!!

I forgot had good the challenge complete music was in MW3