Firearms Expert Reacts To Titanfall 2’s Guns

Jonathan Ferguson, a weapons expert and Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries, breaks down more of the weaponry of Titanfall 2, including the Smart Pistol, EM-4 Cold War and the 40mm Tracker Cannon!

0:00 - Opening
0:34 - C.A.R
2:38 - 40mm Tracker Cannon
04:43 - EM-4 Cold War
06:18 - D-2 Double Take
07:28 - V-47 Flatline
9:50 - L-Star
10:49 - XO-16
12:00 - MGL Mag Launcher
13:08 - Predator Cannon
13:50 - R-101 Carbine
14:42 - T-203 Thermite Launcher
15:34 - Smart Pistol
16:29 - Leadwall
17:21 - Ending

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 the guns of Titanfall 2 and compares them to their potential real-life counterparts.

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[owenkegg]

The mechs not having autoloaders is also kind of explained in lore:

The titans were originally built as farming equipment, and due to lack of resources to build dedicated war machines in the frontier, the existing titans were reworked to be weapons.

[VideoticCritic]

The effort that Respawn put into the guns in this game is truly astonishing. Makes me wish that they hadn't scrapped that 3rd game that was purely fps singleplayer.

[Tyberes]

Fun Fact about the double barreled rifle, the Double Take. It fires three bullets!

In game anyways.

there's an invisible third shot in the middle of the gun because in testing they found that modelling the ballistics of the two shots being so slightly off center on a marksman's weapon felt awkward to use, so they added a third shot so it felt more like a traditional long range rifle.

Canonically it's still 2 barrels and 2 bullets.

[scronchgoose]

The crispness of these reload animations never fails to satisfy me

[virgilhoffman]

15:35 the reason for the smart gun is in a pistol form is that it’s mainly used for deep cover operations and a weapon of assassinations. Better concealing a pistol than say an AR or LMG. Besides, the smart gun you were hoping for is the smart core ability of the legion titan.

[Alpha_Synergy]

One thing I always appreciated in this game is the progressive reload system. For most guns, there were three stages to the reload: remove the old mag, insert the fresh mag, and if necessary, charge the gun. If interrupted by switching weapons, melee, grenades, etc., you would continue from the step you interrupted. Just a detail I wish was in more games.

[TuShan]

I adore titanfall's aesthetic so much because despite the sci fi setting, it all has a grounded militaristic look. The guns always struck me as being made by guys that know how guns work.

[wazkangz]

3:00 Seeing John looking offscreen, smiling like a school-child while waiting to get it and pulling that mammoth AGS-17 on camera is just too good.

[brunonowicki]

This guy's energy is insane I'm not really interested in firearms but he's really doing great job explaining similarities between sci-fi guns and real world ones. Love you man incredible content

[dan_loeb]

in terms of the singleplayer, the reason the smart pistol is a pistol is because it's part of the emergency kit that includes the backup/memory module of the titan when it's destroyed. it has to fit inside a cylinder about the size of a small umbrella stand.

[AnOrdinaryLobster]

To any who may not know, the Scorch's T-203 Thermite Launcher is an emergency flare gun, yep.

[AKIS_Proto]

16:30 Small bit of trivia, the Leadwall shotgun was originally a grenade launcher in the original Titanfall, dubbed the "triple threat" and had the unique ability to rotate the barrel to either fire a vertical spread of grenades or a horizontal spread.

[roninsghost]

The youtube channel AHOY did a breakdown of the weapons from the original titanfall game which covered a few of the guns featured here. And he explains the mechanics behind the smart pistol and how it functions. From memory, the round the smart pistol fires is similar in function to the EXACTO rounds used in powerful high calibre weaponry of today. And the smart pistol uses the SMART bullets as they're called in conjunction with the laser sight under the barrel and the pilots UI in they're helmet.

[dangerlus]

Fun fact about Titanfall's V-47 Flatline is that the gun is designed to only recoil horizontallly hence the name Flatline, and the crosshair of the weapon is made in such way to reflect that and help you aim with it. Unlike Apex's rendition of the weapon...

[Scentient]

I'm so glad I've been seeing more stuff about Titanfall 2 recently. Maybe one day we'll see the third game

[theroguenob]

You guys have put more effort into titanfall than respawn has in the past 4 years

[MythicMagus]

If any of the weapon designers ever watch these videos I'm sure they appreciate you noticing the continuity between the designs. I hope we get a Titanfall 3 at some point.

[chockdynamite]

The fact that Jonathan actually played Titanfall 2 is awesome. Certified gamer

[wulfleyn]

The interesting thing with titans in titanfall is that they're generally retrofitted civilian work mechs. So the reason they have to use guns and weapons they way the do is because the don't have storage areas for the ammunition.

They're basically really fancy technicals.

[vepaS]

softball or sidewinder would've been cool to cover