Gun historian left speechless by CoD: Vanguard\u2019s \u201csilly\u201d weapons Activision \/ PixabayCall of Duty: Vanguard is set during World War II and its guns are inspired by that period. Testing just how much that inspiration was stretched, a firearms historian broke down just how \u201csilly\u201d some of the game\u2019s loadouts are. The Royal Armouries is the United Kingdom\u2019s National Museum of Arms and Armour. As such, their Keeper of Firearms and Artillery, Jonathan Ferguson, is about as well-versed in historical weaponry as anyone. So, who better to judge Call of Duty on the historical accuracy of Vanguard\u2019s guns? You, or your history-buff friends, may have already noticed some\u2026 timeline inconsistencies. But Ferguson certainly has a keener eye than most. Analyzing customized loadouts for guns like the M1 Garand, Sten, and M1928 \u2014 the historian broke down where CoD went right and, more often than not, incredibly wrong. Gun historian exposes \u201csilly\u201d Call of Duty Vanguard guns To be fair, Sledgehammer Games did decide to give each weapon 10 attachment slots this year. So there is a lot of additional room to go wrong. One such attachment was problematic for Ferguson, practically across all weapons: the grip tape. As he explained, there\u2019s a lot of \u201c21st century grip tape\u201d used on these WW2 guns in the Rear Grip slot. And\u2026 that type of material simply didn\u2019t exist back then, so it\u2019s a bit odd. Similarly, he was not a fan of the game\u2019s reticles, or as he called them: \u201cheinous optical sights.\u201d He elaborated that \u201cwe can barely make optical sights with a field of view like this now, so we certainly didn\u2019t have them in the 1940s.\u201d Ferguson also gave some more-specific critiques. For the Sten, he noted that the gun seems to be a mesh of multiple different types of original and experimental Stens. For the M1 Garand, he wondered why the traditional \u201cping\u201d sound when the magazine emptied was actually\u2026 not accompanied by anything dropping out. Although there were some \u201cahistorical\u201d abominations that left him speechless, not all of Ferguson\u2019s reactions were negative. While Vanguard\u2019s 10-attachment Gunsmith allows for some outlandish setups, the base versions of each weapon aren\u2019t horrendous. As Ferguson summarized about the AS44, \u201cit looks pretty good \u2026 well-modeled, well-textured.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gun historian left speechless by CoD: Vanguard\u2019s \u201csilly\u201d weapons Activision \/ PixabayCall of Duty: Vanguard is set during World War II and its guns are inspired by that period. Testing just how much that inspiration was stretched, a firearms historian broke down just how \u201csilly\u201d some of the game\u2019s loadouts are. The Royal Armouries is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}