Firearms Expert Reacts To Fallout 3’s Guns
Firearms Expert Reacts To Fallout 3’s Guns
Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weaponry of Fallout 3, including the ridiculous Railway Rifle, the Alien Blaster, and the clunky Microwave Emitter.
In the latest video in the Firearm Expert Reacts series, Jonathan Ferguson–a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries–breaks down the guns of Fallout 3 and compares them to their potential real-life counterparts.
If you’re interested in seeing more of Jonathan’s work, you can check out more from the Royal Armouries right here. – https://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalArmouries
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You can check out Jonathan on the Fighting on Film podcast here – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNsrU8HuCAzaizIqbAcNZ5VUQW789z3ZF
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I want this guy to be my daddy
Ahem Microwave emitter in game is actually a brain control experiment gone Topsy, either way the subject becomes hostile aggressive irrational or stunned subdued compliant first…in game handy for that Sniper Arkansas he really is a grade a pain in the side shooting at you while you avoid explosions and landmines.
Ah yes the experimental M.I.R.V. such a fun Fat Man launcher
Payday 2?
The railway rifle is indeed the most steampunk weapon ever invented.
The alien blaster was originally in Fallout 1 as a random encounter where you loot a crashed flying saucer if your luck is 7 or higher.
HeyJohnathan, the type 17 was not the .45 acp Chinese handgun, it’s the type 15 as I’ve seen one at a shop before
This man wearing a mouse rat t-shirt?
fallout doesn’t have great reloads
Halo weapons would be cool
Disagree about the fat man. It resembles a PIAT imo
Johnathon always looks so gosh darn happy to be on camera, and kinda bashful about it too, and that’s probably one of the bigger reasons I find this series so compelling.
I’ve always hated the Combat Shotgun’s design.
Hey Jonathan i wanna see your reaction to the halo series ill let comments pick halo ce, h2, or h3
Fallout is Deisel/Atom Punk
I think I finally figured out Havana Syndrome. It’s not a bunch of babies sublimating guilt, they’re getting hit with the microwave emitter from Fallout! Mad respect to the Cuban military for pulling that one off, completely secretly. Nailed it
amusingly jonthan mentions the rocket launcher being made of a "wood chipper" but its actually a leaf blower. there IS an incredibly rare "Wood Chipper" item that visually is identical to the "Leaf Blower" item (or vice versa, given the "mr chipper" logo on both items) except weighing 50 pounds
2:35 So THATS what’s been bothering me about the Chinese Rifle! It’s an RPD, not an AK! Wow! Who would’ve thought?
7:00 Also Pres. Lincoln’s actual rifle was a Spencer, not a Henry, and is on display in one of the museums in Springfield, Illinois. I guess we’ll just call that a style choice.
Fat man= nuclear piat
I would speculate that the idea of loading nails into a blunderbus may have come about from any situation where such a weapon would be use and where nails would be easily obtained – so that might be onboard a sailing vessel, at a dock or in a construction yard. But you know what they say Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.
In a similar mind another thing that may work from a dock and that may be entirely more practical is the sort lead weights used on fishing lines or nets. those would make very good shot too.
At Fallout 1 and 2 is a gun called Alien Blaster.
Can he do the order of 1886
atom punk. hell yeah.
Any chance of Johnathon analizing the arms in the Movie Starship Troopers ? Tnx
Love the Mouse Rat shirt
Love the parks and rec shirt😂💪🏻
From what I can tell the Divergence point was at the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But I don’t believe the Divergence didn’t become too significant until later on.
And on the point of the Alien Blaster there is actually a full DLC that effectively confirms aliens as canon in the universe.
Fallout 3’s Fat Man was actually based off the British PIAT of WWII infamy.
In universe, the railway rifle was created by the railroad, more as a kind of emergency/last resort weapon.
the Rock-It reminds me of the scene from Monty Python: Holy Grail at the french castle where they start lobbing random shit over the walls
please review halo
Aliens are a pretty big part of Fallout lore along with the giant mind control monster I’d say the Alien Blaster fits into the series Rather well
Funfact: microwaves are not called microwaves because there wavelength is in a micrometer magnitude. In fact they range between 3mm and 30cm. They are just smaller than radio waves, which makes them micro. Apparently.
"Switchology" is such a good phrase for things like that, I’m definitely stealing that.
U didn’t use a piat for the fat man?
I wait all this time for the assault rifle, and he doesn’t even mention the CETME
That museum is pretty great me and mate went just to see if he was around haha
On note with his remarks on the "rock-it launcher," I actually saw a video of a guy who had basically engineered the "junk jet" from fo4 using a car air bag and a metal tube and dammit it actually worked!
I like the parks and rec shirt
The fallout divergence is related to when microchips become a thing. So I think we see trending divergence from like 1960.
I like to think the AK in game as an old Type 56, that over the years the handguard has been damaged/rotted. So one of the previous owners stumbled on an RPD foregrip and was like, "Well this kinda works…"
Fallout 3 for switch!
Love these movies from Johnathan. Keep it up!
I’m pretty sure that the 10mm smg is based on the Shipka smg
wasn’t the backstory of the missle launcher that it was actually guided, but when the bombs fell all the guidance systems got fried?
I feel like there was one in fallout NV that you could repair the guidance system for, or the gun runners built a guidance system that you could add on
Ah yes you love the Chinese pistol..? MMMasochistttt!!
why are the chinese using a german pistol from the 1800s chambered in the modern 10mm
I’m disappointed that you guys don’t have a Rock-It Launcher or an alien pistol at your armoury! Get to it!
would actually love to see this guy tackle some destiny guns