Firearms Expert Reacts to Helldivers 2's Guns PART 2
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Published 2024-03-09
00:00 - Opening
00:40 - P-4 Senator Pistol
02:17 - Stalwart Stratagem
03:35 - Adjustable Rates of Fire
04:37 - Autocannon Stratagem
08:19 - Autocannon Sentry Stratagem
09:00 - SG-225 Breaker Shotgun
09:48 - SG-225IE Breaker Incendiary Shotgun
10:50 - LAS-5 Scythe Energy-Based Weapon
11:54 - Railcannon Stratagem
13:02 - Break-Action Shotgun
14:13 - JAR-5 Dominator Explosive Weapon
15:49 - P-2 Peacemaker
16:38 - Arc Thrower Stratagem
17:26 - Mortar Sentry Stratagem
18:31 - ICBM Missile
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 more of the guns of Helldivers 2 and compares them to their potential real-life counterparts.
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If you're interested in seeing more of Jonathan's work, you can check out more from the Royal Armouries right here. - youtube.com/user/RoyalArmouries
If you would like to support the Royal Armouries, you can make a charitable donation to the museum here. - royalarmouries.org/support-us/donations/
And if you would like to become a member of the Royal Armouries, you can get a membership here. - royalarmouries.org/support-us/membership/
You can either purchase Jonathan's book here. - www.headstamppublishing.com/bullpup-rifle-book
Or at the Royal Armouries shop here. - shop.royalarmouries.org/collections/thorneycroft-t…
You can subscribe to the Armax Journal that Jonathan Associate Edited here: www.armaxjournal.org/
All Comments (21)
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“Is he a robot, or is that a robot arm?” “He’s a veteran.” Smiles in Democracy.
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A funny thing in regards to the front loading mortar; One of the ship upgrades is "Zero-G Breech loading: Replaces the current method of loading cannons - manual shell insertion down the front of the barrel - with rear loading, which is much faster."
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For the amount of environmentally interactive details they put into the game, that the capes don't billow violently as the nuke shockwave passes seems like a glaring miss.
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Finally, our Autocannon will be analyzed! :D Been looking forward to this! /A HD2 dev
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casually pulling out a Pedersen rifle like it's nothing and then dropping that they have TWO
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That giggle after Jonathan whips out that SR-9 thing is priceless.
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I genuinely thought John was being wistful about not having a nuclear missile ready to show
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If you want to see a nuclear weapon in a museum, the Swedish War museum in Stockholm has one. Right next to stone-age axeheads. A very powerful exhibit.
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To be fair: a lightning strike could make bugs explode. The radical increase in heat coupled with a chitin exoskeleton (assuming it's chitin or a similar material) could conceivably cause the same sort of intense pressure increase that makes trees explode during a lightning strike.
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"One of out two, (because we greedy) maxim machinegun prototypes...". Jonathan might be locomitive of Gamespot but in hearts he still is british museum worker.
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It has been an honour and privilege to bring you these episodes, fellow Helldivers! Many bugs and bots met their end to record the gmeplay, and many more will fall!
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"It's a rule in our group that you have to salute as the missile detonates." You sir, are a true patriot and I commend your dedication to democracy.
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An autoloading mortar that uses an arm to "drop" shells down the tube isn't as outlandish as you'd think. The swedish "Mjølner" and South Korean Wia 120mm both use a system like this.
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one thing that I have noticed is that if you use an action mid reload that prevents you from using the charging handle the gun won't actually be considered reloaded until you give it a second to do that animation.
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Lightning tends to superheat and fluids inside a target, causing them to rapidly expand and effectively explode. A tree near my home was hit by lightning and the superheated sap sent splinters as big as my arm flying across our garden. I imagine bugs would react similarly.
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"I'm doing my part"
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I find it really funny that Ferguson is basically just a video game gun reviewer at this point. He's done SO MANY
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Concerning the Sentinels, I came to the conclusion that it was not an AI per turret built in... but in fact, the command post from our Destroyers, as we sent the sentinels, who take control of the turrets deployed and blast all ennemies on the ship's radar sight. Which would explain as well why they don't make much difference between allies and foes, as they could only be dots on a screen.
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I love how casually Jonathan mentions where we can check a museum's nuke
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As a Swedish company, Arrowhead seems to have taken quite a few design cues from Swedish weaponry of today. The EAT and the recoilless rifle are the most obvious examples, but there are several others aswell. The mortar sentry is basically just an automated, scaled-down version of the recently introduced mortar system in the Swedish Army.
