Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down the guns of Starfield, including the Novalight, the Orion, and the Urban Eagle.
0:00 Intro
0:40 AA-99
3:07 Lawgiver
4:38 Maelstrom
8:12 Magshear
9:44 Microgun
12:15 Novalight
13:41 Old Earth Assault Rifle
16:15 Orion
17:34 Explosive Calibrated Razorback
19:41 Shotty
20:48 Urban Eagle
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 Starfield and compares them to their real-life counterparts.
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One potential reason for the telescoping ammo especially in a vacuum is that it can insulate the chamber from heating. Instead of relying on the brass case to carry away the heat you rely on the polymer to prevent that heat from transfering to the chamber.
Guess he never heard of Metal Storm, which I believe was the actual inspiration for the Magshear and its cousins.
I'm curious why its not mentioned that energy weapons shooting lasers or particles, have recoil.
Part 3! REGULATOR!
Bethesta should stick with melee weapons and spells.
The gunplay in their games is so bad it feels like an afterthought.
Wouldn't all those exposed wires on the futuristic rifles be a design flaw?
NO TOMBSTONE, I RIOT! Great ep though 🙂
im about to spray paint my scorpion in vaporwave leopard print , because vibes…i was gonna do a space/tech theme, but nah
are we not going to talk about that gun that was on future weapons that had the grid of barrels? much more likely of a candidate for where it came from.
That magstorm is based on the Metal Storm concept that was messed around with for a while.
the lawgiver makes perfect sense because you basically need a big game rifle for a world with very large aggressive animals
I think the most similar firearm to the magshear is actually a project from a couple of decades ago called MetalStorm. Was hoping Jonathon was going to mention it in this series from the moment I saw it in game.
Kind of irrelevant but the Lawgiver double-barrelled shotgun makes the baffling choice of having squared shells. Changing your orientation of shell when inserting from infinite to four. Looks cool, less than useless since it hinders operation.
I've loved every single one of the videos that he has done for the channel so far, but these starfield ones are just baffling to me. He takes issue with so many of the bulkier design decisions from the weapons in this game, but while he raises many interesting and valid points about weapons designed for space, he never seemed to connect the idea that those larger aspects of the weapon are to accommodate the bulky, hard to manoveure space suit gloves everyone has to wear when they use these guns in space. Like the 1911, he hated how large the trigger guard was, but it's clearly to accommodate a large glove around the finger. Again, with the Shotty, he took issue with the charging handles being so large, but if you were wearing large spacesuit gloves you'd want larger charging hardware too, right?
Does anyone know where that shirt comes from? Its amazing.
The orion ammo acts like caseless shotgun ammo 12mm x 15 i think. its been my gun of choice in my game and does a huge amount of damage once you make it use slugs with a suppressor.
u know all deez trigger guards would bother me if I were wearing a glove. I'd either remove dem all, or make them… swing out of the way when you're ready to actually go.
caseless vs. cased – some colonies might not have the manufacture capability for caseless ammo. and cased ammo makes reloading rounds easier, maybe preferable for new and less sophisticated new settlements. just my 2 calibers.
The Magshear always reminded me of the Metal Storm project.
Large charging handles might be due to space suit larger gloves.
Iron sights are a modable thing btw.
Saw the 🐐 on Cunk on Earth!
The background music is too loud, struggling to hear Jonathan at times
Have any game developers ever reached out to Jonathan to have his unput on some in-game weapons?
09:30 the Metal storm is a concept weapon with a similar idea i assume that is were the devs borrowed the idea. Looks like it is a pretty old concept I probably saw it on the history channel back in like 2008 I wonder why it never went anywhere i assume the manufacturing cost / complexity.
Why do laser guns have recoil?
So.ething to remember is the designers and bethesda itself is used to making a post apocolyptic retro world. So the iron sites make sense.