Historian Reacts to Call of Duty Vanguard

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Retro Today

Retro Today

Күн бұрын

In this video, I'm trying out a new format where, as a historian / history buff, I get to explore the deeper meanings and stories behind certain games and react to how they're portrayed and how accurate they are. Thanks to the comments suggestions, I'm now looking at the campaign for Call of Duty Vanguard and oh boy is it inaccurate and a mess.
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Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Operation Tonga
10:43 - Stalingrad
15:11 - Lady Nightingale
20:42 - Bougainville
26:02 - Outro
28:15 - Bonus Round
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@AbstractS04
@AbstractS04 28 күн бұрын
I preferred World at War over this
@captainanon6849
@captainanon6849 23 күн бұрын
Pretty sure everyone did.
@CrossOfBayonne
@CrossOfBayonne 23 күн бұрын
Same, Any of the og COD games is better than this rubbish
@bigconvoy9850
@bigconvoy9850 23 күн бұрын
who doesn't?
@Ejecu-latte
@Ejecu-latte 19 күн бұрын
I rather play CoD WaW playing US Marine and Red Army, rather than Vanguard with forced non-sense Diversity Super Soldier with their non-senses shitty backstory
@ryanduncan6801
@ryanduncan6801 19 күн бұрын
I prefer truth over fabricated super man fairy tales
@SA_Pity
@SA_Pity 19 күн бұрын
5:54 was a pure “9mm rounds can blow the lungs out of your body” moment.
@unknown-and-known
@unknown-and-known 17 күн бұрын
so real
@taifkl7580
@taifkl7580 17 күн бұрын
I am sure those are the new Wunderwaffe , ´´experimental super 9x19 mm parabellum explosive incendiary rounds´´, what a ´´TOTALLY NOT MADE UP ACCURATE CONTENT ´´ . Germans used incediary , or armour piercing amunition for their guns, but incendiary for MG to fight planes, or anti air defences, armour piercing, here and there to a soldier, to damage enemy light vehicles, which someone mind get, but only in limited numbers, this is just EEWW .
@Autobotmatt428
@Autobotmatt428 10 күн бұрын
yeah I was like WTF was that
@user-mc6gf7gr2l
@user-mc6gf7gr2l 8 күн бұрын
Hey, but if it was a .22, you might be able to get it out
@longtallzach9
@longtallzach9 19 күн бұрын
By time I got to the end of the game I was half expecting to fight Hitler and his faithful mp7, one on one as a Aztec priest
@Panzer_links.
@Panzer_links. 7 күн бұрын
No. Instead, Stalin teamed up with the evil ice queen to freeze the sun, then push to Paris with the intent of using the Eiffel Tower as the frame for a massive laser. They met little resistance due to the panic by the Germans as to why the sun disappeared so they were quick to surrender. Then the Soviets encounter the Japanese Air Force, who didn’t want to loose the previously German occupied territory to the Soviets, just outside of Paris in the Battle of Britain, only for the Soviets to win because of a new plane they made the year prior: the MiG-21. We then end the campaign with American joining in the last days of the battle and then seeing cutscene where a British unit find hitler’s bunker and are very shocked by their secret weapon that was supposed to be deployed just the next week: the potato.
@Evan_G210
@Evan_G210 6 күн бұрын
​@@Panzer_links. Too much work to not have more likes 😂
@sss1111ify
@sss1111ify Ай бұрын
The Merville battery being under German control until August just floored me. Had no idea that the British paras had such tough luck on D-Day.
@samuel10125
@samuel10125 29 күн бұрын
At Merville yes at Pegasus Bridge they accomplished their objectives granted at steep cost.
@JennyS.E.
@JennyS.E. 26 күн бұрын
ikr
@AshtonWilliams-iu3cs
@AshtonWilliams-iu3cs 24 күн бұрын
@sss1111ify And to make it worse one of the characters is a female WW2 games need to stop adding fucking female soldiers
@JumpDaddy70
@JumpDaddy70 19 күн бұрын
American paratroopers, Devils in Baggy Pants, are so much better
@jonnyinch8158
@jonnyinch8158 15 күн бұрын
​@@JumpDaddy70not anymore they're not
@vax3138
@vax3138 23 күн бұрын
A Japanese man asking a white American man in the 1940s if he speaks Japanese is ridiculous😂
@CrossOfBayonne
@CrossOfBayonne 23 күн бұрын
Or any American for that matter
@glidershower
@glidershower 21 күн бұрын
*_"Ū speeko Japaneēs!?_** ME KŌWBOI TANAKĀ!!!"*
@pedjatrninic
@pedjatrninic 19 күн бұрын
He sho7ld ask him "do you want sushi?"
@ciscomartinez6092
@ciscomartinez6092 18 күн бұрын
@@glidershowerhello I am cowboy Tanaka
@BeansTheRaptorTheKingBeetle
@BeansTheRaptorTheKingBeetle 18 күн бұрын
*In English*
@themisfitbrigade
@themisfitbrigade 22 күн бұрын
The biggest issue with Henry is that he’s a fake character who replaces a REAL person and is used as a way to try saying “the black man is better than everyone”, he’s somehow just the best soldier who doesn’t need help from anyone during D-Day and he completely ignores rank structure. Tells his superiors what to do, rallies the scared Brits (who are absolutely mortified and shell shocked) by saying “we’ve got a job to do”. Edit: The 93rd didn’t fight as a rescue unit on the island when they were there.
@IncredibleMD
@IncredibleMD 21 күн бұрын
Which is doubly funny, considering that black soldiers in the British army had to defer (at least socially) to white soldiers, even if they were lower ranked.
@alekseev7646
@alekseev7646 Ай бұрын
Lyudmila Pavlichenko is clearly the prototype for the girl of Stalingrad. However, she was born not far away for Kyiv as an ethnical ukrainian. She was defending Sevastopol during the Crimean campaign in 1942. She was also there during Siege of Odessa. *She was never is Stalingrad, however.* The nickname given was 'Lady Death' and was used by western allies only due to its inappropriateness in USSR. The overarching plot of this sad game is bonkers ofc, but what's bothering me even more is that they came up with some imagined heroes when there are real ones
@DogeickBateman
@DogeickBateman Ай бұрын
Also the story claiming her sole actions somehow motivated the entire Soviet populace to counterattack is such a slap to the face of the real men and women who died in the national, emphasis, national effort in Stalingrad.
@arkgaharandan5881
@arkgaharandan5881 29 күн бұрын
kiev, we are not ukranian
@viperhunter7951
@viperhunter7951 13 күн бұрын
@@arkgaharandan5881 Google maps say otherwise
@user-ob1cm9jk6s
@user-ob1cm9jk6s Ай бұрын
Did that MP40 have explosive bullets? That enemy just got split in two.
@SX41799
@SX41799 Ай бұрын
The MP40 is as strong as Micah Bells legs
@flaviapunktexe6924
@flaviapunktexe6924 26 күн бұрын
I think they stole the ammo from Wolfenstein (2009)
@poymannyng1845
@poymannyng1845 24 күн бұрын
the mp stands for murder pulverizer
@CrossOfBayonne
@CrossOfBayonne 23 күн бұрын
It might be hollow points but I don't think it existed during WWII or I can be wrong
@Gen_ShadowCompany_203
@Gen_ShadowCompany_203 21 күн бұрын
The gore and impacts from bullets are overexaggerated All rounds in the Campaign can be like that
@ItzKenzo420
@ItzKenzo420 26 күн бұрын
Just a lil point when Arthur falls in the water he drops his ......M1 Garand.....
@CrossOfBayonne
@CrossOfBayonne 23 күн бұрын
Believe it or not there were M1 Garands that did see service with the British Army alongside the Lee Enfield but not in large numbers like in game
@czwarty7878
@czwarty7878 16 күн бұрын
@@CrossOfBayonne only one small unit in British military used Garands, that is 6. Commando, and that is only because they """borrowed""" them from US in Africa. It's like saying MP40 and MG42s "did see service with the British Army" because sometimes they used captured ones. And honestly it would still be more true than claiming Garands were... No British paratrooper unit ever used Garands.
@CrossOfBayonne
@CrossOfBayonne 16 күн бұрын
@czwarty7878 True but my point is that it was actually not inaccurate to see one among the arsenal of the British military at the time
@user-mc6gf7gr2l
@user-mc6gf7gr2l 8 күн бұрын
@@CrossOfBayonneyes but I highly doubt rifles would be deployed with paratroopers, if it was a carbine or submachine gun, it would be more believable
@USAFreewayROTF
@USAFreewayROTF 20 күн бұрын
My favorite pet peeve is when they censor the flag for Germany. Look at World at War on multiplayer, it was a RESOUNDING success when it was uncensored and bare for all to see. I hate it when they censor the flags, I hate it when they censor anything really. I hate it when they change something for the comforts of society. I say, I don't care about the comforts of society. They should be uncomfortable, they should be uneasy, they should be ANGRY at the horrors mankind has wrought. So it will never be repreated again. History, whether it be in a game, movie, or book, should never be censored for any reason. Period. I know it sounds petty of me to be focused on the flag, but to me, it reflects what kind of game company we're dealing with. Those who are more likely to cave to the pressures of mainstream media and society.
@retro_today
@retro_today 19 күн бұрын
100% Agree with you. The censoring and lightening up of WW2 media is actually something I hate so much. Entertainment products like movies and games really dumb everything down and for some reason nobody wants to match the brutality and realistic views from films such as Schindler's list or the soviet film come and see. Even schindlers list had to somewhat lessened because the real brutality was considered "unbelievable". I understand games and media need to be graded for public consumption, but surely there comes a point where we have to portray the real history they're trying to rewrite.
@Khenfu_Cake
@Khenfu_Cake 10 күн бұрын
That is a thing WW2 games have been doing for quite awhile though. I remember the old MoH games such as European Assault doing it. I think the reasoning was to prevent the games from being banned in countries like Germany where Nazi symbols are not permitted in media unless it's specifically for educational purposes. It is silly, of course. Censorship laws generally are.
@オニックス
@オニックス 8 күн бұрын
Thing is, WaW stat’s had more sells in Germany than famous censored Nazi fighting games, even today in the stats it almost reached newer cods
@caseycole6551
@caseycole6551 Ай бұрын
Didn't it also take the Germans many days to take over Stalingrad? The game shows that they took control in a matter of hours.
@retro_today
@retro_today Ай бұрын
That is true in a sense, the first German units to enter Stalingrad in a sense would be the 16th Panzer division, as they entered the northern suburbs of Stalingrad the same day of the aerial attack, August 23rd. However the main push into Stalingrad would start mid September. So unless Polina laid unconscious for half a month you are correct!
@DogeickBateman
@DogeickBateman Ай бұрын
@@retro_today Those darn Nazi coma bombs
@AshtonWilliams-iu3cs
@AshtonWilliams-iu3cs 24 күн бұрын
@caseycole6551 The Russian character should be male
@seff6533
@seff6533 17 күн бұрын
​@@AshtonWilliams-iu3csno they shouldn't? There was an entire battalion of female snipers.
@mobiusone6994
@mobiusone6994 13 күн бұрын
@@seff6533 the woman they're pretending was in stalingrad, based on Lyudmila Pavlichenko, was never in stalingrad. It's a slap in the nuts for anyone who actually fought there.
@redaug4212
@redaug4212 Ай бұрын
Worth A Buy made an excellent observation about the Operation Tonga mission. According to the developers Richard Webb is based on Lt. Col. Terence Otway, who was actually the CO of the 9th Parachute Battalion and was actually the one who led the assault on the Merville battery. Having a black main character in a WWII game is perfectly fine, but what isn't fine is elevating the representation of black soldiers by deliberately devaluing the achievements and sacrifices of actual men who were there; basically calling Otway a coward and awarding his role in the Normandy invasion to someone else. It's really shameful, and that can be said to be a woke part of the game.
@retro_today
@retro_today Ай бұрын
That’s fascinating as I was reading about Lt Col Otway during my research and I had no idea they based Webb on him. That’s so interesting as in that case that they would mess with the ranks to ensure Arthur outranks Webb.
@Mechanized85
@Mechanized85 28 күн бұрын
if only thing are get right and in order, otherwise, I won't dare to do it.
@CrossOfBayonne
@CrossOfBayonne 23 күн бұрын
Yup true, I do like the fact they included people other backgrounds despite the inaccuracies
@IncredibleMD
@IncredibleMD 21 күн бұрын
What got me about Arthur wasn't so much his very presence, because there WERE black paratroopers in the British forces, so much as... everything else. The historical figure he was supposedly based on only seems to share the fact that he was a black paratrooper. Sidney Cornell was a common man, the son of an African-American, who joined the army in 1943, became a runner in the seventh parachute battalion, and was a sergeant at the time of his death. Arthur Kingsley is a nobleman of the Duala people of Cameroon who attended Cambridge at 16, participated in the Dunkirk evacuation, returned to Britain to become a sergeant in the ninth parachute battalion, dropped into Normandy as a squad leader, making it to Lieutenant by the end of the war. Arthur Kingsley wasn't, in any way, based on Cornell. They weren't even in the same damn unit for Christ's sake. They just said he was so they could point to Cornell and say "see, there were black paratroopers!" and pretend that the racism and classism of the British army (and British society at large) didn't exist.
@GarrettsGear
@GarrettsGear 19 күн бұрын
​@@IncredibleMDso well said. They pretty much are doing the same thing with assassin's creed now.
@TheWezurd
@TheWezurd 14 күн бұрын
Also in the Stalingrad mission they call Molotov cocktails, well, Molotovs. That doesn't seem realistic, if we think about where the nickname comes from, but I'm not that educated on the topic. (Point being I doubt Soviets would call a weapon by a nickname that came from the enemy that is mocking a high ranking member in the party)
@CrossOfBayonne
@CrossOfBayonne 23 күн бұрын
The reason why they made Vanguard into what it was is because they wanted to have the feel of the Modern Warfare series in a WWII setting, This was also done for World At War and COD WWII but it was done way better. There was also a mention of an RPG but that term didn't exist until the 50s during the Cold War years
@skxlter5747
@skxlter5747 19 күн бұрын
A sledgehammer Dev was at the ww2 museum for research for this game, and an employee from that place wrote that they said that they were only looking for thencoold stuff, not the historical accurate stuff...
@rayvaul3539
@rayvaul3539 11 күн бұрын
A sign of mad disinterest and disrespect to history. I’m sick of these companies and part of society is so dumbed down made soft. I don’t blame some of these people not liking a lot of brutality, but it is so important for us to get uncomfortable that we can learn and get stronger. We live in a world of snowflakes.
@dereksun3258
@dereksun3258 20 күн бұрын
I understand they need a black character to fit the modern narrative, but also ignoring the hundreds of thousands of Indians and Nepalese Gurkhas that fought during the war for the British empire is just pathetic…
@retro_today
@retro_today 19 күн бұрын
I'd love to see a game represent either of those two, both are fascinating and were some of the hardest fighting soldiers out there
@michaelweems679
@michaelweems679 12 күн бұрын
That's a great point. They just care about representing blacks. Everyone else can just suck it, apparently. Edit: if I remember correctly, those factions were in Cod2. I know that way more people were represented in that game, compared to today. And the best part, it wasn't forced. It was part of the story, so it doesn't have to be forced. It fits right in. Unlike modern COD.
@Man77772
@Man77772 7 күн бұрын
Even Battlefield 1 showed Indian troops in the game.
@czaczaczar
@czaczaczar 18 сағат бұрын
@@retro_today Only black people matter for DEI so they will never do that.
Ай бұрын
20:07 that old cod 2 shout its perfect.
@petepeterson5917
@petepeterson5917 2 күн бұрын
Think I heard some WAW ones as well.
@stevenyarnell
@stevenyarnell 29 күн бұрын
The Japanese soldiers didn't give a hoot about the POWs! Not that they killed them en masse like the Germans did to the Jews. They saw surrender as dishonorable and forfeit of life. At best, the POWs would go through hard labor and/or torture. At worst, certain death. Really makes the first American mission in ''COD: World At War'' pretty darn accurate by comparison!
@RaRmAn
@RaRmAn 28 күн бұрын
There was even one Japanese garrison where POWs were used as a practice targets for bayonet attacks and the other prisoners were forced to watch. Sometimes killed prisoners were even eaten. Officers from said garrison were executed after the war because of it. Vanguard's depiction is pathetic compared to World at War.
@XtreemAlan
@XtreemAlan 24 күн бұрын
The only instance that made the Japanese act differently than what they usually do to POWs is when they captured the Ghost of Bataan, and that was because Arthur Wermoth literally fought until he passed out, and the Japanese were still afraid of him despite being captured
@Lucas-xj3fh
@Lucas-xj3fh 20 күн бұрын
Adding animals in Stalingrad is propably a wasted opportunity to show that pretty much every animal was eaten by the Russian and German to survive.
@jacobitewiseman3696
@jacobitewiseman3696 Ай бұрын
On the Japanese why not show the japanese psychopathic warfare on atrocities and also why not show the Tuskegee if you want a black man.
@IncredibleMD
@IncredibleMD 21 күн бұрын
The problem with the Tuskegee airmen (and the airman you play in the game, for that matter) is... why the hell would you be playing an airman in a first person shooter? Sure, the idea of a downed airman having to fight his way to safety has some merit, but... not in a game about some dude assembling a crack team of commandos. It could've worked in CoD2 or WaW, but not this game. Instead of that, why not just have one of the main characters be one of the black soldiers you encounter?
@Man77772
@Man77772 7 күн бұрын
@@IncredibleMDSo ? Wade was a pilot during midway plus the Tuskegee were shot down sometimes and still saw air combat
@IncredibleMD
@IncredibleMD 7 күн бұрын
@@Man77772 Playing as an pilot AT ALL makes zero sense for the kind of story Vanguard is trying to tell. Why would a pilot be recruited to be part of some kind of secret group of commando operators?
@Man77772
@Man77772 7 күн бұрын
@@IncredibleMD I don’t know that was one of my first thoughts about this campaign
@christiancalma3394
@christiancalma3394 22 күн бұрын
Also it’s Stalingrad, a KZfaqr pointed out that it’s should be hands on deck and that everyone and I mean everyone should raise up defences and civilians are to be trained or at war since Stalin wants no retreat. But if you look a lot of people are just living in chill mode. Again, that’s what I’ve heard from a KZfaqr and from what I can gather and learned.
@JJumper8888
@JJumper8888 21 күн бұрын
Might that KZfaqr be a certain aussie?
@user-mc6gf7gr2l
@user-mc6gf7gr2l 8 күн бұрын
I might also heard (maybe) the same KZfaqr say that one Russian talked about Movltov Cocktails, even though they’re Finnish
@christiancalma3394
@christiancalma3394 8 күн бұрын
@@user-mc6gf7gr2l yes, the Finnish people named it after a Soviet foreign minister
@IncredibleMD
@IncredibleMD 21 күн бұрын
I really feel like you should've mentioned the Einhorn Revolving Shotgun in the actual video. I know you said you weren't gonna nitpick the guns, but oh man, the Einhorn Revolving Shotgun.
@retro_today
@retro_today 21 күн бұрын
If I were to expand on the guns, oh boy would that shotgun be top of the list. I really want to know why it was included, out of all the guns around that time, they chose one that was incredibly niche, literally only 100 were made.
@IncredibleMD
@IncredibleMD 21 күн бұрын
@@retro_today I wouldn't have a problem with it if it was only something Steiner carried in his boss fight. I could imagine a high ranking SS (I believe) officer bringing an expensive hunting shotgun with him. That's at least decently plausible, if extremely unlikely. It probably DIDN'T happen, but it COULD'VE. What makes it inexcusable is that it's the default shotgun for... basically everywhere, from Normandy to Tobruk to Stalingrad to Bougainville. You encounter more of those shotguns in Stalingrad alone than were ever made total.
@user-mc6gf7gr2l
@user-mc6gf7gr2l 8 күн бұрын
Speaking of guns, why are there German guns in the pacific front
@apieceofbread1
@apieceofbread1 25 күн бұрын
This game just makes me miss the days of CoD Finest Hour, where you played as a female Russian sniper and a black tank commander, and it wasn’t some awful forced commentary, you just played them and learned something neat about that time in history. Where did all the subtlety and nuance go?
@CrossOfBayonne
@CrossOfBayonne 23 күн бұрын
Or World At War and the og CODs like COD 1 2 and 3, You also had the Medal Of Honor series which had some of the best campaigns
@dynagaming2693
@dynagaming2693 17 күн бұрын
Because they focus on forcing social politics of today on a game meant to depict WWII. They also make the weapons and equipment to cater to the gamer of today. Back during the old games, you never had red dots and drum magazines on them. The only exception would be the Thompson which did in fact accept drum magazines, but the ones issued in WWII were given 20 or 30 round stick magazines, primarily because of weight and reliability concerns.
@michaelweems679
@michaelweems679 12 күн бұрын
I still long for Finest Hour multiplayer. It's what got me into shooters. That and Medal of Honor. I used to play on a server called "The Dog Pound". It was bolt action rifles only, and no scopes. All iron sights. God I loved that game. Are there still active COD1 servers?
@michaelweems679
@michaelweems679 12 күн бұрын
​@@CrossOfBayonne"Finest Hour" IS COD1.
@michaelweems679
@michaelweems679 12 күн бұрын
​@@dynagaming2693exactly. Liberals are ruining gaming. Some social commentary has to be included in everything these days. How about just tell the story.
@army2207
@army2207 16 күн бұрын
Another big reason why historical accuracy is important is that kids learn a lot from games and movies, and if you are pushing garbage kids won't know what's real and what's made up crap
@bassmasta123454
@bassmasta123454 19 күн бұрын
I cannot with the red dot sights.
@user-mc6gf7gr2l
@user-mc6gf7gr2l 8 күн бұрын
Ah yes, I too have a futuristic attachment on my gun
@czaczaczar
@czaczaczar 18 сағат бұрын
FYI there's a grenade launcher in the game. There's also a concept prototype of the AK47 that never saw combat. Also a flashbang that was invented in the 60s.
@sebastiandemichelis2933
@sebastiandemichelis2933 14 күн бұрын
Felix Steiner didn't die in stalingrad, he was never there... he lived past the war
@sephuris5555
@sephuris5555 20 күн бұрын
I got over the historical inaccuracies by calling the game alt-history, I kinda want to see you break down WW2
@IncredibleMD
@IncredibleMD 21 күн бұрын
The black soldiers were so tokenistic, at times it almost felt like they were intentionally playing up their blackness as a joke on their white rescuee. And that's probably the most charitable interpretation of them. Mhm hmmm, I sure do loves me some grits, Messeh Wade.
@retro_today
@retro_today 21 күн бұрын
I hated those lines, as I said it really degrades them as a representation to just pure tokenisation. I understand trying to make them seem relatable, but god it’s so disrespectfully done
@michaelweems679
@michaelweems679 12 күн бұрын
As if white people don't eat grits as well. I LOVE grits!!!!!!!!!!! They are being sooooooo tokenistic, that they are being racist. Worst part is, the developers are too blind to see it. I think they believe they are actually doing a good thing, but it seemed almost racist to me. That "I hope they have grits" line struck me weird. I surprised they didn't go with " I sho wud like me some cone bread". What idiots.
@thegamecorner3216
@thegamecorner3216 12 күн бұрын
I know I'm probably gonna get crucified for this, but in my own opinion I've gathered from having mostly southern heritage, I don't think the grits line was completely off especially in the 1940's, but I'm just a stranger on the internet so take my word with a grain of salt
@IncredibleMD
@IncredibleMD 11 күн бұрын
@@thegamecorner3216 It's more a combination of everything that one specific line.
@naps_878
@naps_878 26 күн бұрын
5:02 one thing i'm confused about is how the fuck he's still wearing po8 webbing like he just brought that from ww1.
@skxlter5747
@skxlter5747 19 күн бұрын
We need world at war remake asap
@rayvaul3539
@rayvaul3539 11 күн бұрын
They’d probably make it woke and whittled down. I think it’s fine as it is, we just gotta get it hyped up again and convince others that games don’t have to have such high level graphics to be good, every game like Medal of Honor and Brothers in Arms can be good, you just gotta look deeper unlike those that just gloss over it and ignore it. Developers try so hard to make good games only for only some people to not be ignorant and realize how hard it is to make a good game. There’s many who do realize and understand how hard it is to make a good game.
@オニックス
@オニックス 8 күн бұрын
They’d fuck it up too
@Anatoli-fn6io
@Anatoli-fn6io 5 күн бұрын
Being able to commit barbaric war crimes is the key to a successful WW2 game. Definitely ain’t happening with today’s woke game developers
@jdng86
@jdng86 12 күн бұрын
They put in so much effort to make levels look smoky and dirty and muddy and yet all the characters look so clean and immaculate.
@samzorn4656
@samzorn4656 4 күн бұрын
"Yes, I paid money for this experience" As a fellow history buff and aspiring historian from across the pond, I know that pain well, friend. I usually go into and experience a Call of Duty game by playing the campaign first. I was one of those unfortunates who bought the game, believing that the campaign was going to be like the stories told in prior Medal of Honor games and Blazing Angels 2: a WW2 story that is fictional in nature, but rooted in the deep historical authenticity that has been cultivated by not only past WW2 CoD titles, but also past WW2 games and other WW2 media. A WW2 story that was going to tell the story of the first special forces, such as the SAS, the British Commandos, the Devil's Brigade, the SOE, and the OSS just to name a few. I even bought a book about the secret operations in WW2 thanks to this damn game. Instead, what we got is a stinking pile of historically inaccurate, historically inauthentic nonsense I have ever had the misfortune of ever playing in my 28 years of existence, as well as the most cursed gun attachment combinations I have ever seen. Call of Duty: World at War on Veteran difficulty (yes, including the incessant grenade spam) was more entertaining than this mess. I feel bad for Jonathan Ferguson for having to endure those cursed guns, but at least he has his emotional support STG-44 to rely on. www.reddit.com/r/CODVanguard/comments/qt5nvb/vanguard_a_review_from_a_historians_perspective/ This review of Vanguard I found on Reddit goes into more detail about the game's flaws in historical accuracy and authenticity than I could ever on a single KZfaq comment. One thing was how the 93rd Infantry, the segregated unit featured in the 1943 Bougainville mission, was not deployed there until March of 1944 and did not see much action throughout the war, mostly due to how segregated units were treated by US military command at that time. The Reddit user said it best: "What is really frustrating about this decision by Sledgehammer to use the 93rd is the opposite of what they probably intended. They wanted to show some of the underbelly of the Greatest Generation, that there still existed this perverse system of segregation and that while colored soldiers could fight and die no different than their fair skinned counterparts, they were often denied that right. While a great idea and something I'd love to see in a video game, they chose to pick some random unit that didn't even fight in this campaign at the time portrayed. They could have honored an actual colored unit and the actual sacrifices they made for a country that marginalized them. Good examples would have been the 17th Special Seabee or the 16th Marine Field Depot which were two segregated Marine units that fought so bravely during a counterattack on Peleliu Island that the 7th Marines may not have repulsed the enemy without them. They received a Presidential Unit Citation for their actions." (Yes, I understand the 93rd Infantry did see some action against the Japanese, as shown by the Silver Stars awarded to Pvt. Isaac Sermon and SSgt. Rothschild Webb respectively, but I would like to further reiterate the Reddit user's posts by saying this was after the 93rd deployed in March 1944, not 1943 as Vanguard so haphazardly proliferates) On another matter, one of the lead writers for Vanguard told in a panel the following: "We came into this process saying, 'how do we make the iconic CoD characters?', because you don't really have that in Call of Duty right now." After reading that, I can hear characters like WWII-era characters (Cpt. Price, Maj. Ingram, Sgt. Sullivan, Cpl. Roebuck, Pvt. Polonsky, Sgt. Reznov, Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko, and Pvt. Chernov) and the other characters from the MW and BO series saying, "Are we a joke to you?!" On a happier note, I have watched Guy Ritchie's "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" and, while still heavily fictionalizing the events of Operation Postmaster, there is also a deep abiding respect to the historical events the movie is based upon, which Vanguard clearly lacks. It instilled in me a desire to learn more about Operation Postmaster, Gus March-Phillips, and other operations conducted by the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services.
@gidi3250
@gidi3250 20 күн бұрын
17:26 Paulus did not surrender his men, he ordered them to do what they think is best (he had also at that point lost contact with about half of the remaining German soldiers still fighting in Stalingrad) the Soviet generals where angry and demanded he order his men's total surrender and he simply told them that he couldn't. Tldr Paulus only surrendered himself and his immediate staff who where found surrounded by food, warmth and plenty of cigars while the lower ranks where out in Stalingrad fighting in the snow and ruins, some where even reported trying to walk back to the German frontlines, some Soviet soldiers where left Stalingrad to mop up the few Germans who remained while the rest left to fight against the main German army in the east. 19:22 there are also German records of digging out frozen horses around Christmas to eat them as back when they died the men still had an incoming supply of food, but as they where cut of from food supplies from back home they made due with even the dead carcass of their animals. 21:10 some Japanese soldiers could speak English, as they did study pre ww2 in UK and US higher education schools, however these by the time of ww2 where higher ranking officers usually at the rank of captain in the navy or higher, some more successful army officers in the Pacific knew of the American tactics due to studying in America and orderd their men to wait untill the Americans had landed in full force before opening fire rather than try and physically remove them from the beach as soon as they landed as some officers fresh out of thr Imperial Japanese military academy did, only resulted in mass casualties and their own deaths as they led from the front with their katana.
@Lornext
@Lornext 22 күн бұрын
This game is racist as hell
@miguelgarcia6170
@miguelgarcia6170 19 күн бұрын
It was accurate on how it happened in real life, with the Americans doing racist propaganda but it was a different time.
@blackhatfreak
@blackhatfreak 19 күн бұрын
​@@miguelgarcia6170 lop no
@michaelweems679
@michaelweems679 12 күн бұрын
​@@miguelgarcia6170you have ZERO idea what you're talking about. The game is incredibly inaccurate on so many levels.
@CodytheHun123
@CodytheHun123 28 күн бұрын
They could have done so much more with Bougainville. 2nd and 3rd Raiders have Latino and Native Americans in its ranks so they have their diversity. The Battles through Cape Torakina to the Piva Forks and Hellzapoppin Ridge are filled with action (in my opinion at least) and Bougainville itself was the stuff of nightmare fuel. They could have done so much with it but they chose to shoehorn the 93rd division in a fictional encounter that what their real battles were like on the Numa Numa trail.
@michaelweems679
@michaelweems679 12 күн бұрын
They only want to represent black people. The Latinos and Natives can kick rocks as far as COD is concerned. There was better representation of EVERYONE in the old COD games.
@CodytheHun123
@CodytheHun123 12 күн бұрын
@@michaelweems679 right? Alway bring up Finest Hour when they want diversity
@dutchvanderlinde1277
@dutchvanderlinde1277 16 күн бұрын
Little fun fact: In WaW according to a cutscene the Miller, Roebuck and Sullivan have also fought in Bougainville in 1943. Kinda shame that they weren't seen or mentioned since Vanguard shares the same timeline with waw and black ops
@phillipschouw2462
@phillipschouw2462 Ай бұрын
Call of duty lost their touch since Black ops 1. Yes 2 was good but this is where it all went down Hill.
@JumpDaddy70
@JumpDaddy70 19 күн бұрын
Operation Neptune was the overall airborne operation on D day. It occurred several hours before overlord
@FoxxSiltman
@FoxxSiltman 2 күн бұрын
As an American I can appreciate how a foreigner can stand up for our stupid injustices so thank you
@blu3508
@blu3508 Ай бұрын
good video yet again, would defo be interested in a weapons inaccuracy follow up video
@tgd2984
@tgd2984 Ай бұрын
What 9mm does to the lungs
@brandonhughes4571
@brandonhughes4571 13 күн бұрын
Something to mention as well is the T-34-85 in Stalingrad. A tank that if I'm recalling correctly was only invented/deployed in 1944. (Or was it 1943? I can't recall currently rn but i suspect I'm right with 1944)
@WolfJarl
@WolfJarl 25 күн бұрын
"Fourth Reich"? This isn't bloody Wolfenstein, it's World War 2. If you want to make an alternate history of World War 2 like Wolfenstein then sure but if it's purportedly World War 2 then make it ABOUT World War 2. I didn't know about Sidney Cornell myself so I actually learned something new so that's neat. Sort of like how in that one World War 1 game they showed the Harlem Hell Fighters whose history I find really interesting. Other than that, people really need to do their research when it comes to actual battlefield protocol. And they just assume every single white person back then was racist and acted like it even during moments where they could very well be killed.
@SamuraiAkechi
@SamuraiAkechi 17 күн бұрын
Silent Storm had quite interesting alternative history storyline, IMO, even though some of the technical stuff out there looks way too modern, like the laser gun satellite that looks like it was built in 2000s.
@jhorn64
@jhorn64 17 күн бұрын
I am a huge firearm enthusiast and as far as the guns are concerned two of the most stupid ones are removing the stocks from both the MG-42 and STG-44, they would flat out not work as the recoil spring that the bolt pushes against to eject the spent round and pickup the next extends into said stock. No stock = no spring, no spring = a single shot weapon at best and at worst without the spring to slow the mass of the bolt down you would fire it once and get a heavy chunk of steel punching a big hole in your shoulder or face. they literally put 0 thought into how real firearms work when they made the weapon customizations and purely went with the rule of cool or what shooters set in modern times do. Not to mention that removing the stock from an MG-42 even if it COULD function would be totally uncontrollable due to the recoil of 1200 rounds per minute of 7.92x57mm when fired from anything but a mounted position, with a stock it is possible to fire it while standing in very short bursts but anything more than that would knock you on your ass due to the muzzle rise.
@czwarty7878
@czwarty7878 16 күн бұрын
First of all why would anybody remove stock from anything... apart from some unique cases like sawn-off weapons which is only to make them easier to disguise, stocks are there to help you aim and control weapon better. What madman thought up removal of stock as some kind of "upgrade"?
@JakvsMetalheads999
@JakvsMetalheads999 Ай бұрын
You should check out Call of Duty 2. I don’t know exactly how accurate it is but it’s got to be miles better than Vanguard. It’s my personal favorite WW2 CoD (and CoD in general), and maybe my favorite single player WW2 campaign in general out of any game. It’s so underrated and forgotten compared to World at War, which is a shame because from an accuracy and authenticity standpoint I actually think it does a better job in every department besides blood and gore, something I don’t think is quite as important as people make it out to be
@angusmitchell4026
@angusmitchell4026 26 күн бұрын
It’s like 50-60 percent accurate in my opinion but historically authentic accurate idk about uniforms , weapons etc and yes it’s way better than vanshit
@griz312
@griz312 22 күн бұрын
@@angusmitchell4026 I would say there’s a lot of nitpicks of inaccuracies in COD2’s but nothing to the degree of Vanguards. 2 did have some interesting subtle accuracies that like Fat German Soldiers in the Western front.
@angusmitchell4026
@angusmitchell4026 21 күн бұрын
​@@griz312 agreed but its better to be a historical authetic game than it is to say the game is 100 percent accurate
@michaelweems679
@michaelweems679 12 күн бұрын
COD1 and 2 were both amazing. I really wish they still had active servers. I love the multiplayer on both.
@alekseev7646
@alekseev7646 Ай бұрын
17:50 the optics is also bonkers, she wouldn't have anything better than ПУ'42. However, binocs are prob cause field of view
@KristijanRisteski-zp7bx
@KristijanRisteski-zp7bx 28 күн бұрын
a PU scope is 3.5 zoom. WW2 Soviet binoculars were 4x at the very least and went up to 8x. it's realistic that she uses binoculars, it's unrealistic that her rifle has variable zoom. WW2 snipers were designated marksmen by today's standards, not assassins.
@prinzalbatross9526
@prinzalbatross9526 19 күн бұрын
It's probably supposed to be the PE or PEM scope which were produced earlier than the PU and a copy of the Zeiss. I believe that's actually the scope Zaitsev used so not inaccurate for a Stalingrad setting.
@aaronlaughter6471
@aaronlaughter6471 17 күн бұрын
One of my biggest issues with this game is the pushing of agendas. Old CoDs like Finest Hour had Black and Female characters, but they made sense, like Tanya Pavelona who was a female Russian Sniper or Sam Rivers a Black Tanker in Patton's 3rd army. This stuff actually happened, yet they instead want to change history, when History is already diverse.
@czwarty7878
@czwarty7878 16 күн бұрын
Even old Medal of Honor Allied Assault had black and female characters. This is what infuriates me about this woke shit, they always overdo it and it's so obvious this entire thing is "look! we have colored men added here! give us money now"; while also pretending like they're breaking some massive taboo and being "first" while it's a thing that has been done for ages - just nobody was so morally bankrupt before to try and make such thing their selling point.
@derkylos
@derkylos 12 күн бұрын
@@czwarty7878 This is what you get when the decisions are made by people in boardrooms who have never used the product or spoken to someone who does. They don't care about the quality of the product, just whether it makes money. Typical capitalists.
@jirikupr2599
@jirikupr2599 19 күн бұрын
17:50 because soviet binoculars had better magnification and light transmission than sniper scope, and i think, she uses standard PE/PEM scope which had magnification ×3,87
@XtreemAlan
@XtreemAlan 24 күн бұрын
I ready want a WWII game where we play as the hero’s of WWII Hell that first mission could’ve been Jake “McNasty” McNeice’s drop
@SBrown-ti8xe
@SBrown-ti8xe 9 күн бұрын
I just want one where we play as the good guys
@XtreemAlan
@XtreemAlan 9 күн бұрын
@@SBrown-ti8xe 🤨
@Gravity_studioss
@Gravity_studioss 6 күн бұрын
​@@SBrown-ti8xe Civilian gaming 🗣💯
@tylerlogan7530
@tylerlogan7530 5 күн бұрын
How is it i wrote a long ass historically accurate scipt for highschool and yet a AAA game company cannot.
@ChiefCrewin
@ChiefCrewin 21 күн бұрын
See, a lot of people do jump the gun on calling everything"woke" but this game is also one of the first textbook examples of why it's such a bad idea to force diversity. Most of the things depicted in this game are somewhat based on truth, but the writers and designers ham fisted true history into whatever garbage story they were telling.
@youknowwhoelsecantthinkofagood
@youknowwhoelsecantthinkofagood 17 күн бұрын
I don’t even mind historical inaccuracies as long as it doesn’t completely pull me out of the atmosphere. Battlefield 1 is a perfect example of this in action. But in the case of Vanguard’s campaign, I had to stop and question why the developers made half the choices that ended up in the game. Why did a Japanese soldier ask an American in perfect English if he spoke Japanese? Why did the Soviet Union agree to put one of their supposed best soldiers on a team with an American, instead of on their own frontlines? Why does said team have a fighter pilot on it when they’re a ground-based unit? Aren’t they kinda wasting his skill set by not having him in a plane? Why are they called the vanguard anyway when they seem to run infiltration missions, which is pretty much the opposite of what a vanguard does? How did this team even get assembled? Wouldn’t their countries want them to be fighting on their own lines, that way their efforts would be more spread out? It’s like they wanted to make the game zany like Wolfenstein, but still retain the ability to brag about how it portrays perspectives of all fronts of the war.
@Winniethepoo1998
@Winniethepoo1998 17 күн бұрын
Thank you for having the patience of making this video and playing the game properly. I could Never....
@Alex-so9vn
@Alex-so9vn 21 күн бұрын
Diversity over quality. They’re not trying to make good games anymore. It’s all about the message.
@michaelweems679
@michaelweems679 12 күн бұрын
Diversity over "equality" as well. I just want good games. I'm 44 and have been gaming for a long time. I miss COD1&2. If they were still active, I'd be playing them, not any new COD. They were just, better. Storyline and all. COD1 was sooooooo immersive for me. What happened to gaming?
@Gravity_studioss
@Gravity_studioss 6 күн бұрын
Not even message, its about the quota and money. This BS is not how you push a well-written Diversity narrative
@501scar
@501scar 15 күн бұрын
Great video. I like this series alot. Can you do Battlefield 1 next? We haven't seen a WW1 game yet and I bet it'll be great seeing one as that game is one of my all time favorites.
@valentinlopatko
@valentinlopatko 14 күн бұрын
Stalingrad had huge strategic importance. Not only because it was an industrial center, but also because it was a major point in logistics between Baku (source of most of the oil in USSR at a time) and Central USSR/Russia
@derkylos
@derkylos 12 күн бұрын
It _was_ important in the sense that it was on the axis to the Caucasian oil fields (which, at various times, were some of Hitler's objectives. I believe at one point he even envisioned a huge pincer maneuver beginning in Stalingrad and the Middle East and converging through Turkey and the Caucasus), but its name ended up drawing in more troops than it warranted on both sides, due to the egos of the national leaders.
@thegamecorner3216
@thegamecorner3216 12 күн бұрын
in my personal opinion and my father being Southern, the grits in heaven line wouldn't be too of point especially for a southerner in the 1940's but thats just my opinion so take it with a grain of salt
@retro_today
@retro_today 11 күн бұрын
Of course, I can hardly comment on it as much being British, but I think my problem was that they crammed that line in alongside the cookout line and the Jesse Owen’s line and all felt like they were trying to stereotype them too much so soon after meeting them.
@theprofburg
@theprofburg 21 күн бұрын
I really appreciate that despite talking about the various inaccuracieis you were really respectful to the colored and female soldiers that fought in the war acknowledging that they did play a big part. Most youtubers who talk about this game just brush them off as "woke propaganda".
@retro_today
@retro_today 21 күн бұрын
Thank you! I do think it’s important to highlight their importance in the war effort and while vanguard did this horribly, I wanted to expand on the real stories throughout the war and I wish they could have tried to portray those rather than this complete rewrite.
@swempytimes
@swempytimes 20 күн бұрын
I agree, you were also very reserved and only criticized and used examples when necessary. A lot of KZfaqrs make lazy complaints to extend the video's time. You've got my sub, thank you. I also bought this with real money and I should have waited for a sale 🤣
@czwarty7878
@czwarty7878 16 күн бұрын
They don't "brush off" actual colored and female soldiers who actually fought, they just notice what is in this game is tokenistic and, actually, woke. That is definition of such fake virtue signalling. There were black and female soldiers already in Medal of Honor Allied Assault, in 2002. Nobody had a problem with it. But people do have a problem when their inclusion is obviously tokenistic and politically motivated, it's just fake, annoying and insulting to any thinking person
@TheUndeadTaost
@TheUndeadTaost 3 күн бұрын
also, when chort gets shot, it was a headshot but IRL snipers avoided headshots, as they were a lot more likely to miss
@JADEK111
@JADEK111 12 күн бұрын
Vanguard was never meant to showcase or respect historical accuracy, which the same can be said about almost any other CoD title, especially the "historical" ones, like all the WWII titles and the Black Ops subseries (minus the futuristic ones). Funnily enough, just like some other WWII games that came out in recent years, the devs claimed and marketed these games as "historical accuracy" and "realistic", whereas both claims were found to be completely false and almost far from reality. Vanguard can be perceived as an "alternate history" version of WWII, while trying hard to take inspiration from actual events and people during the war, without really caring about what people may think about the final product: "Oh, your favorite weapon of that era is using a magazine that was never invented for? Boo-hoo. One of the main characters, who is based on a real person, has a different nationality? Not our problem." That's the current take of modern game devs. They didn't even try to hide their lack of understanding of history or realism, and they surely didn't care about public opinion. You get what you paid for. Now, any professional historian or just the typical history buff can easily identify the many inaccuracies such games contain, without blinking once. This content may be interesting for us, but definitely doesn't serve anyone in the high castles, which are, obviously, the AAA/AAAA companies. Anyone with enough brain cells can run a quick Google search on whatever inaccurate content there's in the game and find many sources that show otherwise. Finally, and no offense, but I cannot ignore the "X Reacts to..." titles. They turn out to be tiring, repetitive and, at times, cringe. Not trying to assume anything about you or your knowledge, but I needed to express that. I do appreciate this video , though. It's always good to learn new things.
@americanjohnny4814
@americanjohnny4814 4 күн бұрын
Given all the weapon inaccuracies and horrid abominations that could be made with the attachments I felt as if I was about to have an aneurysm
@evancraft2721
@evancraft2721 8 күн бұрын
You can see that T-34-85 in the background too in 1942. They weren't in service until much later in the war.
@jaydons7602
@jaydons7602 18 күн бұрын
The rear irons on the 1911 were also too narow and wide
@Panzer_links.
@Panzer_links. 7 күн бұрын
From what I can tell, this game would have been far more realistic if they showed how Stalin teamed up with the evil ice queen to freeze the sun, then push to Paris with the intent of using the Eiffel Tower as the frame for a massive laser. They met little resistance due to the panic by the Germans as to why the sun disappeared so they were quick to surrender. Then the Soviets encounter the Japanese Air Force, who didn’t want to loose the previously German occupied territory to the Soviets, just outside of Paris in the Battle of Britain, only for the Soviets to win because of a new plane they made the year prior: the MiG-21. We then end the campaign with American joining in the last days of the battle and then seeing cutscene where a British unit find hitler’s bunker and are very shocked by their secret weapon that was supposed to be deployed just the next week: the potato. I guarantee you that would be more realistic and historically accurate.
@DogeickBateman
@DogeickBateman Ай бұрын
Obscure trivia but the Project Phoenix logo is literally just the repurposed Sturmabteilung, SA emblem. By the 40s the organization was a shadow of itself following Hitler's purge in the Night of the Long Knives nearly a decade ago. Freisinger's rank indicated on his collar tabs is lower than the glasses German which makes their dynamic pretty stupid, especially when you consider that the latter German has a SD diamond on his left sleeve, basically the SS' own police unit to police themselves, and one of the most nastiest of the Nazi's security agencies. But then again these are minor compared to the major historical rewrites this game has done.
@Miltypooh2001
@Miltypooh2001 12 күн бұрын
The Japanese soldier at the beginning of bougainville made me chuckle abit, he kinda reminded me of the one from world at war except the one from that made spoke very little English and was more intimidating
@GLitchesHaxandBadAudio
@GLitchesHaxandBadAudio 12 күн бұрын
The T-34 variant depicted in Stalingrad at 13:35 would not be made until well after the Battle of Stalingrad, almost a year after the battle had ended no less, with production of the T-34-85 only beginning in January 1944. Why they did this, I have no idea. It makes no sense to substitute actual T-34 variants that would have been in Stalingrad at the time, or the use of other Soviet Armor, with a model that wouldn't even exist as a prototype, let alone a production model, until well after the battle scene it is depicted in.
@nathanrowe1542
@nathanrowe1542 10 күн бұрын
Question have you ever played enlisted? If so what are your opinions on the accuracy of it?
@Cotac_Rastic
@Cotac_Rastic 10 күн бұрын
Berlin mission is one of the most harrowing and somewhat reakistic depeictions lmao
@nathanrowe1542
@nathanrowe1542 10 күн бұрын
@@Cotac_Rastic what
@shock226
@shock226 19 күн бұрын
I think it’d be pretty cool if someone made a game where it’s a “what if” scenario. Like “what if the Allie’s failed to capture the beaches of Normandy”. First they’d give a history lesson on actual events like “on June 6 1944 the Allie’s invaded the beaches of Normandy and successfully did so, this is a what if scenario if they wasn’t the case and the German army successfully repelled them”
@C.A._Old
@C.A._Old 10 күн бұрын
*reason: they are greed. they want money for they are hungry.*
@SamuraiAkechi
@SamuraiAkechi 17 күн бұрын
11:50 - a major railroad artery, an industrial powerhouse, a large tank and tractor plant, and a river port - and it's not a strategic target, don't bullshit me. It's true that at the same time Germans have sent troops to charge the Caucasus and take over oil fields in Chechnya, but saying that Stalingrad had no strategic value for german high command is nonsense. 12:09 never heard about Stalingrad being a model city for the country. There were many other cities and establishments named after Stalin - Stalinabad (modern day Dushanbe, Tajikistan), Stalinogorsk (Novomoskovsk, Russia) and so on. There were other cities that have been experimented with as the ways to try out the new ways of urban planning, most notably Moscow and Leningrad, as well as new cities that were a part of massive industrialization campaign, like Magnitogorsk. One of the main reasons for naming the city Stalingrad was the fact that it was called Tsarytsin (the Tsarina's city) before and because of Stalin's accomplishments as the man in charge of the city defense during Civil War. The battle of Tsarytsin has been one of the major points of Civil War. 12:45 Komsomol never conducted firearms training for civilians. Osoaviakhim (Society for defence, air force and chemical defence) did, though. The "Voroshilov's riflemen" were the civilians that went through the training and participated in various shooting competitions. The rifle, though, is an actual sign of status there. Before WWI and up until 1980s most of the civilian hunters used to own shotguns. During Civil War most of the rifles owned by civilians and undesireable groups (bandits, deserters) were to be confiscated, and only local Party members could keep a handgun and a rifle for protection. After Civil War many regulations were softened, in 1930s there were many rimfire rifles available for trainees and hunters, but getting a full power centerfire rifle was still difficult, unless you were a professional hunter who used to sell large game meat to the food factories, provided wildlife security or been a person of status. Though even so most of soviet VIP hunters preferred double shotguns. The first rifle scope made for civilian market was introduced some time before the gernan invasion, it was a version of a soviet PE military scope, so it fits the time just right 13:38 what bothers me is that in the game there seem to be little to no anti air defense whatsoever. The air raid was massive, there were heavy bombers with fighter escort, but there had to be some AA guns on the ground. 14:05 not to mention that they got so far right after the bombing 17:55 the scope offers less FOV and lower magnification. And it's not Zeiss, it's a variant of PE sight. Which was inspired by Zeiss and Busch Visar scopes. The scope mount is based on German side rail mounts manufactured by Geco back then and today similar mounts are offered by EAW Apel
@bentrofimuk3192
@bentrofimuk3192 Ай бұрын
Another banger
@huntersilzer3812
@huntersilzer3812 16 күн бұрын
you forgot to mention the T-34-85's in the Stalingrad mission
@ThatRandomGamer_Main
@ThatRandomGamer_Main 12 күн бұрын
Also the F2000 is in this game for some reason. Might as well add an M4
@Zerog65
@Zerog65 17 күн бұрын
I really wish they would have had a whole arc with the 93rd va a majority of this game.
@Overlord99762
@Overlord99762 21 күн бұрын
Who made the closed captions? These things are full of mistakes
@billtree52
@billtree52 14 күн бұрын
I feel bad for anyone getting their history lessons from CoD. When there have been hundreds of history books published probably every year since 1945 on the subject of WW2.
@Kellimegaming-oe4ji
@Kellimegaming-oe4ji Ай бұрын
great vid
@jbbradford9847
@jbbradford9847 13 күн бұрын
I agree 100% that when you teach or make a show or make a video game about world war II and needs to be accurate no matter which side you're talking about or anything else it needs to be accurate
@nathanmitchell7961
@nathanmitchell7961 25 күн бұрын
BF1 would be great to analyze next!
@BIOSHOCKFOXX
@BIOSHOCKFOXX 11 күн бұрын
Sounds more like the real life story of the Operation Tonga was enough dramatic to actually dig into it and make it an interactive story of the real life, rather than inspiration and make fake drama with inaccuracies.
@xenocyde8498
@xenocyde8498 20 күн бұрын
i would be very much inclined to say that the rewrite of Stalingrad was done for woke female empowerment as its the only justification i can see for that and later on as well for the relationship between white Americans and black Americans. this is exactly how i felt with the god aweful rewrite of history with battlefield 5 as well
@HotDogReviews
@HotDogReviews 14 күн бұрын
Every ww2 game and movie gets criticism for underrepresented British support during D Day, but when an AAA game finally gives the tea drinkers some credit, we get these freshman Brirish video essays created from a chatgpt outline.
@blackhatfreak
@blackhatfreak 19 күн бұрын
You'll have to agree that the historical inaccuracies pail in comparison to BFV lol
@furiouskillerdal4550
@furiouskillerdal4550 15 күн бұрын
You forgot to add the panzerfaust which was smh RELOADABLE IN THE DESERT MISSION
@beaglebombergaming4117
@beaglebombergaming4117 16 күн бұрын
The whole 93rd infantry and Stalingrad made me so mad why is this even allowed to be a ww2 game it is such an important war in human history and yet every time it is just romanticized it's so infuriating
@FunkInTheTrunk
@FunkInTheTrunk 18 күн бұрын
One note about the Stalingrad mission is that you can hear civilians talk of leaving the city before the bombardment… Stalin would never have allowed that
@purplestrawberrysunset
@purplestrawberrysunset 22 күн бұрын
It looks like the Germans always have Sd.Kfz.231 6 rad armored cars but they stopped using them after invading poland and france and they were replaced with Sd.Kfz.231 8 rads. So that's inaccurate too.
@masonhenderson3467
@masonhenderson3467 12 күн бұрын
They should remake world at war with updated graphics. Just don’t let sledgehammer games do any of it
@gopnikgaming
@gopnikgaming 9 күн бұрын
21:11 what if he only knew that phrase so that if you spoke japanese he could talk with you like that
@HonorguyXNL
@HonorguyXNL 15 күн бұрын
This game was the first of many to receive much flak and all deserved. I had the same with BFV where some characters did exist IRL but got replaced or changed by current day 'politics'.
@pvtjohntowle4081
@pvtjohntowle4081 7 күн бұрын
Its now daylight and Operation Overlord is in full swing but cant hear any battle sounds 06:28 the Germans would be on full alert😅😅😅. I can even hear birds whistling but no guns or any vehicles 😮😮😮
@rodolfohernandez3303
@rodolfohernandez3303 23 күн бұрын
Where's the Midway Part of the Campaign? There are also innacuracies in that part
@retro_today
@retro_today 21 күн бұрын
It had its inaccuracies, but I didn’t feel that there was nearly as many compared to the rest of the missions.
@Makaroon00
@Makaroon00 17 күн бұрын
Stalingrad was an strategic bc of Volga. By taking Stalingrad OKH wanted to disrupt river transport
@zemanishere
@zemanishere 18 күн бұрын
5:49 Also, Webbs real counterpart was actually extremely brave and daring. Not cautious and against protocol
@cybrains3824
@cybrains3824 Күн бұрын
23:35 the Nazis treating Owens better than his own country does is wild.
@Edgar-or8yh
@Edgar-or8yh 14 күн бұрын
I don’t think people know some Japanese soldiers learned to speak English and graduated in the US
@huskyrs9395
@huskyrs9395 13 күн бұрын
I know exactly why they failed to portray acurate eventd and chatacters. Its cheaper, faster and takes less effort
@brettpresson8192
@brettpresson8192 14 күн бұрын
The fact the Japanese were using German guns was mind blowing
@CENTENOMONTOYA
@CENTENOMONTOYA 14 күн бұрын
Can you do Medal of Honor European assault?
@SILOPshuvambanerjee
@SILOPshuvambanerjee 13 күн бұрын
5:54 Was it gun or Anti Aircraft Cannon
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