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Firearms Expert Reacts To Halo Franchise Guns
Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the weaponry of the Halo franchise, including the iconic Assault Rifle, the BR55 Battle Rifle, and of course, the Covenant Needler.
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See they could t make the shotgun self loading because we hadn't designed a shotgun in that caliber in 600 years
Ok, ouch on hearing the ODSTs do NOT have augs.
They may not be obvious, but most UNSC infantry have neural uplinks, commanders especially. It's how UNSC personnel identify friend from foe.
ODSTs all have them for *consistent comms & location monitoring, as well as a few biotic enhancements, though nowhere near as extensive as Spartans.
16:30 In earlier Halo games it was a lot clearer that this in fact the case. There was a pretty visible tube above the barrel. In this game it’s hidden by the gun’s housing.
JONATHAN, PLAY ODST. Its the BEST Halo.
I love how no one told him that the part on to of the magnum is the visor scope uplink
should make a separate video on infinite
The halo assualt rifle shoots 7.62 nato. The kick must be hefty for normal humans.
I love that this guy has actually played the game
Can you please do Ghost Recon: Breakpoint now that the game has been massively overhauled and is basically like a new game? The game has one of the best and largest, comprehensive lists on modern weapons out of any game.
16:30 The design for the shotgun you're seeing is a retconed design from Halos 4 and 5.
In the original Halo games the shotgun had the ammo tube mounted above the barrel.
Looks at my Collector’s Edition copy of Halo 2 and my Original XBOX.
“Oh this is gonna be good.”
I love the fact that half the people that are gun experts don’t realize that any secondary is magnetized on the Spartans thigh. (Don’t ask me how)
Doesn't feel like a magnum because master chief is 7ft/2.134m
Fun fact- not even lore knows how the NEEDLER works.
So… mr. Ferguson- it's not that bad to not know how this purple hedghog gun works, because even lore doesn't know
In Halo Wars you can get a good look at the plasma rifle in the hand of the sangheili. It gives you a good look at the ergonomics of the rifle and how it pertains to the culture of the elites.
In the hands of the sangheili, it is an elegant weapon, that's more of an extension of the arm then it is an actual gun. It's like a katar that fires projectiles. An accurate automatic machine pistol with a wrist brace
I like that Whoever played for the b roll appears to have never played a fps before.
Halo universe the was 300 years of no conflict no war just actuall peace, that's why weapon were never advanced.
Have him react to cursed halo weapons. Would be a blast!
I know how the needler works
The needler uses a gravitic impulse in the housing to accelerate the needle. Basically a railgun but with gravity.
6:12 Actually, it IS canon that they have super advanced propellants in the Halo universe that are better than what we have.
You know what? Jonathan should totally get a cameo or role in a game where he plays an armorer or arms dealer that's based on him.
Gamespot must have found the absolute worst player to shoot the gameplay clips haha. The average 8 year-old could play better than whoever did these clips.
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Grunt : What I am gonna do now is called a pro gamer move.
Master Chief : Understandable, have a great d…. afterlife….
Ian just stand up dude trust my life to him if I had too he good dude
Why didn’t he cover the Spartan Laser?
The battle rifle uses an experimental propellant that provides more pressure and allows similar velocity with a higher diameter projectile. It was also the first weapon that drew covenant blood that humanity used.
7:20 I was always under the impression that this was a grenade launcher…so more akin to the M-32 ?
Waitr people have thought the CE Halo AR is like an F2000 as a person who LITERALLY played Halo since I was 4 with my dad and still plays Halo CE campaign regularly, not 1 time did I think that.
I hate the in game clips. It's no big deal at all, they the purpose of showing off the guns but my dodge and land those headshots so bad
lol, I never thought about the fact that you literally just shake the needler to "reload"
This guy gets it
Allow me to correct him on the Brute Shot. It's not a "portable cannon". When it debuted in Halo 2, it was the franchise's answer to the Grenade Launcher.
When the arbiter holds the plasma pistol he holds it with one hand, while chief holds it with 2. Guess chief isn’t badass enough to hold it like arbiter
Fear the pink mist
Everything in halo was bulky and unnecessary lol but you gotta love it
The ODST's that you play from Halo 3: ODST are actual augmented. They are the orion project aka Spartan I's where as the master cheif who you play in the other games is a Spartan II
I would love to hear his thoughts on the Spider The Video Game Mini Weapons especially the Machine Gun limb which has some laser gun that's part of the section of the Spider Limb, picture your elbow with a band that has a gun at the end, that's what the limb is.
I don't see how he's confused about the iron sights on the DMR… in theory you can take off the sights from the Halo 4 DMR and fire it with iron sights…
"You need a warrior culture that is always wanting the ability to hit people in the face with knives" to justify two bayonets.
[The US Marines enter chat]
Make him react to bloodborne guns/ gun-melee combination.
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"But there's no visible suppressor"
THEN WHAT'S THAT ON THE FRONT? DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WASN'T THERE A MINUTE AGO WHEN YOU WERE LOOKING AT THE HALO 2 MAGNUM
So, I appreciate the vid, but… you have to remember how large Spartans are. Their suit weight is like 1000 ponds alone so of course the weapon recoil is less than what the gun would seem simply because they are so large and powerful. Them shooting a 9mm is like a human shooting a bb gunt
The M6C Magnum from Halo:CE is not a small gun, look at a marine holding it, your player model is a 7 foot tall walking tank with gauntleted hands, that think fires 12.7x40mm bullets, not 9x19mm. The bulbous thing at the top is a scope with a camera, which allows Spartans and ODSTs to see use it with a scope, it has a 100m range thanks to it's huge, heavy projecile.
Love to see Jonathon do a video of the firearms in the Killzone series. They're some of my favourite sci-fi small arms.
In the lore and books the common ammo makes sense with some thought. All the countries of earth finally banned together to fight the common foe, and form the UNSC(united nations space command) so just like all military’s, interchangeable parts and ammunition are a must. As far as things not being futuristic, like still using old lead bullets, up until the Covenant attacked it was humans on humans and if it ain’t broke, don’t reinvent the wheel(is that how it goes?)
“Firearms expert” that doesn’t understand weight mitigates recoil…….right……