Firearms Expert Reacts To Isonzo’s Guns

Isonzo designers saw the title and started to watch. Five minutes later: Isonzo designers sweating bullets and making notes furiously for the next major patch.

From what I understand the lanciabombe mortar the fuse is for the munition, so the fuse is lit, and then the "pipebomb" is klaunched with it's fuse lit and it isn't impact detonated, but that fuse is what detonates it so you want it launched as soon as the fuse is lit

I think the thing that sets this series apart where other 'Gun experts review video games' series have failed is that it really does seem like he's having fun. He's not all dour or judgemental, he's like 'yeah that's wrong, it would be right if you did this, but hey'. He's fun to watch, and all his criticisms are respectful.

I love how the expert is not afraid to use the mecanisms in the guns he is showing. It demonstrates how good care and good condition this guns are kept 😁

It’s crazy how the Madsen was still used until relatively recently in South America. I think it was Brazil who used it for their police.

3:45 That Madsen has Portuguese markings. "RP" for "Republica Portuguesa", and the coat of arms. Probable just scanned from what they could find, but we didn't get them till the 1930s.

I'm surprised that Jonathan didn't point out a fun little feature of the Rast & Gasser revolver that improved its reload time compared to other gate-loading revolvers the was still in use: With the loading gate open, the gun has a mechanism that allows the trigger to rotate the cylinder without actuating the hammer, letting you skip one of the normally clunky steps of reloading a gate-loaded revolver. In practice, this can let an experienced user reload the thing quite rapidly.

Italy did have a ton of prior generation rifles laying around before the war and when it started they hadn't had the time to issue everyone with new rifles. So they grabbed out the old ones, re chambered them to the current cartridge and send them out. This resulted in a ton of funky, odd ball loading systems.

18:20 - The fingerprints on the Carcano: You are witnessing the effect of a PBR (Physically-Based Rendering) Pipeline. Older forms of material shading were handled by having a simple colour texture map which handles all details, but with PBR, there are multiple textures that each control a different parameter. There's still a Colour(aka Albedo) map, but now there is also a Normal map which governs the surface angling at a pixel level which is used to deform reflections (to create the effects of small scratches and dents or bumps and grooves), a Metalness map (which allows for a material to crossfade between a traditional eggshell-paint/plastic/diffuse material to a shiny metallic one, and there are also specular maps to govern how shiny a material is. These texture maps allow for a variation of surface rendering parameters at the subpixel level and PBR workflows have become quite commonplace in video games.

I'm quite happy to see all the WWI games that have come out the last few years. Although I was born in the late 1960s, my paternal grandfather was a soldier in WWI, seriously wounded in France before coming back home to Alabama. I never got to meet him but I've always had an affinity for things related to the Great War.

Battlefield 1’s bayoneting is pretty brutal.

As someone who moved to Leeds a few years ago - I cannot recommend the Royal Armouries enough; it's got five floors of incredible displays from early spears to modern firearms and armour, as well as live performances and competitive jousting tournaments.

This dude knows his stuff. Very humble also, plays down errors made in game.

This is my favorite YouTube series. I can't wait for each week's episode and I hope the whole team knows how much I cherish these works. And even when I wait for the new episodes, I simply watch the older ones to pass the time :) cheers!

On Jonathan's note on deviations from training in the real modern military (at least in the one I serve in) absolutely troops deviate from training and many find their own slight variations to drills to better suit the individual soldier. On the use of issued kit, many troops use buy, swap, or otherwise (tactically) aquire tons of unissued kit or things a rivet counter might say it "makes so sense" for us to be using so always remember in games and movies soldiers are still people at their core and people love to get gucci kit

15:17 every game has the skewer-a-potato effect with the exception of battlefield 1, which was one of the reasons it was so good

As an Austrian firearms collector, seeing the bolt of the M.95 serialized broke my heart! This was only done after the war to refurbished rifles.

At first, I thought Isonzo was just the manufacturer of the guns and the game footage was from the most recent battlefield game. Then i realised that Isonzo was the game and I was honestly so impressed with how it looked that i might just go check it out and see if it could fill the gap in my heart that the Battlefield franchise left.

Jon great job in mentioning/identifying spigot mortars! Probably still one of if not the easiest way to improvise artillery in many conditions. Although modern conflict zones seem to leave enough functional artillery detritus on the field to make some pretty interesting Toyotas. Re: Fuse/Lanyard. Could it be a punk (could be idiomatic term, it's a wick for lighting fuses)? Igniting a very small fuse affixed to the munition itself? You do light a punk with a lighter, then stow the lighter.

This was really interesting to watch, really enjoy listening to some info on lesser known and obscure firearms instead of of a reaction video to game with an AK47 or M4 for the 10th time