Call of Duty WW2 was hyped up before its release to be an extremely ''researched'', ''scanned'' and ''historically authentic'' video game. So today we put that to the test by analyzing and listing every historical inaccuracy that I was able to find in Call Of Duty WWII. There are likely more inaccuracies than what I mentioned in the video so please comment if you have any more or any corrections.
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MP 28: • The Schmeisser MP-28,I...
MG 15: • German Machine Guns of...
M1 Garand grenade launcher: • Live Exploding Rifle G...
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*Massive thanks to everyone for watching the video!* Big thanks as well to FeReism, Panzerman, Halftrack, TheLoreOverseer and Munancho Inc for helping verify some of the inaccuracies listed in this video. If you have any corrections or inaccuracies to add then please comment them away!
I like your history content it cool
The thing is frosty one both of the German, werchmat , and German empire, never use shotguns in war, because it was a direct violation of the war rules, and even protest against shotguns
Please continue this series, it's not only funny but also very informative
The biggest inaccuracy is censoring the swastika. Like come on dude it's apart of history, and don't give me the "youtube will take it down crap" it's in a historical context so it's allowed. Even if it does get demonetized i'm sure you'll be fine money wise. I love your videos but you need to stand up for yourself/the historical community. Like you said, if you're going to censor it at least be consistent
AND THE PSSH IN D DAY DUDE
*This game might not be very historicaly accurate but it does a WAAAAY better job at portraying World War 2 than Vanguard did.*
And before that cod WaW did miles better than both games but ig we are talking about golden era treyarch
vanguard was very Woke so it was bad anyway
**6 years later** *This game (Vanguard) might not be very historically accurate but it does WAAAAY better job at portraying World War 2 than (insert new CoD WW2 game) did*
@@sooryan_1018 I stopped playing further modern CoD because of WWII and Vanguard.
Fuck any Game set in WW2 depicts the war better than vanguard.
I love the part in the campaign where the sargeant yells, "All you had to do was follow the damn train!", whenever you fail that one mission
Love the part when the Wehrmacht stopped for cluckin bell on the way to poland
US Sargeant Massive S. Moke One of the best soldiers in the war A true hero And a homie
"Don,t be a busta, private!"
Its called "historical accuracy" not "ehh...close enough"
Train go Boom!
What hurts the most is that most of there inaccuracies could’ve been avoided with a quick google search 💀
Their you mean🤓
They could've hired a history consultant for these with the money they got from the loot boxes.
They were using Microsoft edge
@@_MaZTeR_ I dont think CoD are supposed to be historically accurate in the first place.
They are@@Garother
HE GOT ME AT "what are they trying to blend in with, the God damn house plants?!' LMFAO
I mean don't blame the Germans blame the creators for being absolutely stupid while making them
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Hearing how the guns sounded in game versus real life when it comes to the delay between shots sent chills down my spine
Just emagine what it sounded like on d-day
@@animegeek-qz1rmnow I feel EVEN worse for the soldiers
It is funny because generally video game are buffing guns stats not smurfing them😂
U ruined it for me
At least it’s better than Vanguard that’s for sure. One cool detail I like in the multiplayer mode is the fact that the kill streaks have different models depending on what team you are currently on in a match. For example: for the glide bomb kill streak, the model for the Axis team is the Fritz X while the model for the Allies team is the Azon radio controlled bomb. The recon plane is the L-4 Grasshopper for the Allies and the Fieseler Fi 156 Stroch for the Axis. The bombing run is the B-26 Marauder for the Allies and the Heinkel 111 for the Axis.
Ball Turret gunner is a B-17 no matter what tho
@@alixon5009Luftwaffe did capture a few B-17s during the war.
@@josephhelgersonjoseph6115 yeah the Germans pretty much captured anything they could. Still worth pointing it out though.
@@josephhelgersonjoseph6115they were ballin, but at what cost?
Oh cool, they did the bare minimum of what I'd expect them to do.
At 4:24, OBVIOUSLY it took hours to capture the beach in real life but you also need to understand that this is a GAME, the missions just can’t take hours to complete!
Yeah that's such a bad point. Is the campaign supposed to take months to complete? That would be awesome but it's ridiculously unfeasible.
Play Arma III, you will see how that can be done
@@lollikabosso.w.n7153 Arma 3 is a simulation game.
@@Samm815Just ignore him, people like that will demand realism even in a Mario game
Looks like I found the only enclave of people who did not support one of the inaccuracies.
2:39 The M1928A1 Thompson, used early in the war, had a drum magazine and did in fact see combat with it. For certain I know it was used during Operation Torch and in the Pacific; there's a photo of a Thompson with a drum at Guadalcanal online, with the gunner standing in front of a Stuart, and another photo at Bougainville likewise in front of a Stuart.
Yeah. Homie has a real "sticking to the TO&E" problem and making absolute statements based on that. Were they common? No. But not improbable. You'd be amazed how many service members uhhh.. "tactically acquire" equipment that isn't issued or issued in small numbers.
@@heroinboblivesagain5478yeah, I like these videos but this guy doesn’t give the context of “suspending your belief to have a fun time” I liked WW2, it had a good campaign and a decent multiplayer. Vanguard is ass so that doesn’t count, but for others who cares if there’s a few inaccuracies that doesn’t take away from the war itself?
Volkssturngewehrs and Revolver shotguns in Japan? Absolutely whack. Seeing weapons like the T-34/85, Tiger II, Owen SMG and other small arms early in the war while predating their existence? Also whack. People using equipment from other countries they should not have, like the M2 flamethrower in German hands in Stalingrad? Whack af. The existence of the AS-44 (which iteration I can't recall, most of the early models for the prototype only weapon had a bipod so guessing later version) is already whack but seeing it at Stalingrad 2-3 years before it's development, much less the development of the 7.62x39mm round used for the SKS and eventually 1945 RPD is cool for multiplayer but I excusable in campaign. Stuff like that, I agree with frosty 100%. But the "there was just 100 Falschirmjaeger at Stalingrad, why are there FG-42s?" Can kind of be explained and if you see COD as a movie you experience, the idea of "oh we've got T-34s out here" but they're using the 85 variants is silly, but kind of understandable in some of the games as the 85 was iconic, sexier, and is more easily identifiable. So it makes sense why the game devs would choose it and save time on getting the right versions out, they're trying to communicate "they had T-34s attacking." The TIGER-II in Stalingrad was dumb for WaW since the Panzer IV would have been more iconic and actually used, but a lot of the decisions can be explained by the prioritization of cinematic value over historical precision. I disagree with that philosophy, especially since they grab more interesting and compelling FACTUAL stories and replace it with Hollywood garbage is dumb. Like I know the ideas are "go with what's cool" and "are we really going to delay game launch to make certain that we're using the correct variant of this vehicle? Will anyone notice?" has likely been said a good amount by the devs, especially considering the fan base for a long time were casual players who cared more about "which gun is best/looks coolest/fits the national load out I'm going for?" In multiplayer. But I feel like we could have very EASILY wrote better stories while being total plebs or, in my and many others cases, went to Uni and took classes covering the war and even have discussions about how their equipment changed overtime as armies modernized. Soviets using more semi-auto rifles as they were trying to do since the mid-1930s with a lull between July 1941 early in Barbarossa where Mosins and PPSh-41s were cheaper and the AVS-36 was entirely phased out after the winter war. There are ways to introduce weapons into the game, like if we had been the first Australian units being given the Owen SMG in a warzone at the start of a mission and everyone is like "the fuck is this?" or playing Soviet units retreating into the Soviet Union, grabbing weapons from caches and finding the phased out AVS-36 in a stockpile. There are ways we could see weapons introduced to our units, having some missions being purely defensive like Kursk where we have enemy tanks firing at us with MGs without being able to hit back and forced to pull back. We're always advancing in COD when defensive missions with scripted moments to pull back would be accurate and make sense. Having weapons introduced to units and even having NPCs commenting on them like "oh, you got an M1?" "I think that's the M2." "What's the difference?" "That one can fire full auto and semi-auto, it's supposed to be for paratroopers. Must have been mixed in by mistake? We've got .30 carbine ammo so it should work fine." Or if they explained "this is an alt-history version of the war, that's why we're seeing these unique weapons. Lore-wise the AVS-36 did well but the recoil made it less effective so the Stavka commissioned for a similar type of weapon using an intermediary round." Something g like that would be interesting and justify the existence of these proto-type weapons, it wouldn't be what we wanted but it COULD work if there were historic campaigns with alt-history ones akin to Red Alert where COD is like "so this is what it was like for real, kind of. But right next to it is the story we WANT to tell with the cool stuff we never saw in the war." There would be room for creative freedom and the ability to showcase stuff for multiplayer. But as COD is, they either make generic garbage for a campaign while white washing history, or they feel like it's a waste of time and resources to give us an authentic experience. And while it's entertaining to watch Frosty dissecting everything wrong, mostly being right a out their choices are either silly to bother over or know they have a deadline from Activision. We shouldn't worry about drum mags when we should be saying "he Enfield had 10 rounds, it would be neat to press reload to get that full 10 while keeping the 5 optional" or "be accurate about the stories you tell while stepping away from the Western front for once. Maybe have Chinese campaigns for Chinese and Czech weapons for multiplayer, having an alt history campaign that unlocks prototype weapons like the AS-44 or even the modified aircraft browning HMG by marines in the Pacific to offset the disadvantages of. The standard issue hardware with very slow firerstes. Have flamethrowers in multiplayer that clear places out while risking instadeath from an enemy hitting your flamethrower
There’s a photo of the First Ranger Battalion soldier with an M1928 Thompson with a drum mag and I’m pretty sure the photo is dated to either 1943 or 1944 in Italy.
@@ThisIsBoogieJar “suspending your belief to have a fun time” Yeah sure that's great. But did you read the title of this video? I think you're missing the point here. No one ever said you're not allowed to have fun
It's funny how a game that claims to base itself so much on ww2 gets everything wrong about ww2
At least its not vanguard💀
I mean, its cod. They care more about the gameplay and realistic details then the accuracy most of the time
@@anomalousmemer5524 no its just sledge hammer xD
Cause Sledgehammer is devoid of historical integrity and attention to detail. I’ve been saying they should be demoted strictly to a support studio.
@@anomalousmemer5524Dude World at War which was made in like 2007. had less inaccuracies then WWll
Regarding the Stuka bit, An interesting fact also is that if this takes place on D-DAY, it's unrealistic in that there were only THREE Luftwaffle aircraft in Northern France at the time. THREE.
The mission took place a couple weeks after D-Day.
@@alixon5009I think you've missed the point dude...
@@CrispyPratt What exactly? He's saying on D-Day, not after.
There were aircraft in Normandy (or nearby), but the only ones to fly over the beaches on D-Day were FW-190s
I believe this mission takes place during Operation Cobra but idk if more aircraft were moved to Normandy during this time
7:38 fun fact: in old CODs, the MG42 has that sound but harder, because you're supose to hear that directly with your ears
Hey, M1 owner here (I own 4) and it is actually really rare for an M1 to chamber a round automatically like it's supposed to. The overwhelming majority of the time, I have to smack the oprod handle forward to chamber a round. I have replaced every spring outside the trigger group in two of my M1s and even the bullet guide on one rifle and it still doesn't work "right". But it looks cooler that way, in my opinion. Also, in the Battle of the Bulge, there WERE a number of black troops mixed in with white troops near the end of the battle due to a shortage of manpower. Although, again that was near the end of the battle and to my knowledge, no black troops led white troops into battle. But they did impress the people in charge all the way up to Truman as it proved that not only could black troops fight, they could work well in integrated units.
I don’t own a Garand so maybe you can confirm but I have heard that soldiers would hold the bolt back with the edge of their palm while inserting a fresh clip specifically to prevent it from slamming forward and giving them “Garand thumb” which would then require them to manually drive the bolt forward
Honestly I played this alot when it came out an looking back it was entertaining, but it's sad how little this actually gets right compared to waw
I mean if you watch his WAW video, this game and it are around as historically accurate as the other. WAW had some huge flaws that no one ever talked about while the COD of late is lambasted over things WAW got wrong too.
@@ramblingsofadash5159 the difference is we have a bit higher standards now, along with newer games trying so hard to market based on historical accuracy. Kinda leaves a bad taste
@@Tman2bard If you have higher standards for a series which is now a mostly multiplayer that now uses the singleplayer as a place to copy over multiplayer assets for quicker dev time I don't know what to tell you. My standards for call of duty have dropped to understanding that it isn't a Historically accurate gaming series but a power fantasy FPS. If you believe the marketing, you are being swindled. Stop believing marketing. Never believe marketing. Call of duty is what it is now because they found out like EA that brand equals money. That people will pre order and buy their games day 1. Why fix bugs when you can fix it after release. People will complain but they still bought the game and most likely will keep the game and buy the next game. I personally don't understand how you would have higher standards when call of duty is a cash grab because people who yell, scream, and bitch the most are the ones who spend the most on their games. TLDR: if you go to little caesars, don't expect to get real italian sauce.
@@ramblingsofadash5159 I can agree to that. Truly. WaW doesn't feel off with it's inaccuracies as WW2 and the others does. Idk if we just have a stick up our asses or there is something more egregious with the recent releases.
@@Tman2bard To me WW2 doesn't feel off. Everything in it is in the realm of possibility tho at times very exagerated. The PPSH caused so much bitching and moaning when WW2 came out to then find out that it was in fact historically accurate. Exagerated but accurate. The concentration camp was bitched about because it didn't go far enough. Which to me shows that Mainstream AAA Gamers just want to complain. Their standards are too high and to me should just be ignored for what they are asking of TODAY's AAA industry. An industry they create by not speaking with their wallets but with their keyboard. Vanguard on the other hand is a perfect game to look towards as a standard for bad historical accuracy. It is not of this reality or the reality of world war 2. A 4th reigh is possible. There are Stgs in japan years before they even existed. Fake characters to be awarded the achievements of real people. (Don't get me started on the disrespectful quotes when you die). It is a game that without knowledge of WW2 looks fine but with just a bit of knowledge the whole thing falls apart. It is so far out below my standard which is low for COD. YET its fun. When you turn your brain off and just focus on the gunplay and gameplay its fun. It shows how much they focus on the gameplay because they sell the game by its multiplayer.
I love how the more inaccuracies he encounters the more angrier he gets
This comment made me laugh 🤣
+ everything is accurate😂
The Thompson used by Pearson could’ve been a gun sent to the front lines from his family since that was what most families did during World War II
Unlikely though, The Army still had the M1928 alongside the M1A1 in Europe and in the Pacific
@@CrossOfBayonneif something is entirely possible then it's not an inaccuracy
@@calebbarnhouse496 The nazis could have liked anime
@@calebbarnhouse496 Just bc I could have happened doesn’t mean it is accurate JFK COULD have been a nazi
@@WhatsUp-fe8jc the nazis as a group couldn't have liked anime as K-on wasn't released yet.
The MP28’s are actually more likely than you may think, on the western front towards the end of the war the German army would often give our response forces outdated or captured weapons in order to save the more modern equipment for the far more desperate eastern front, this mainly happened due to (unsurprisingly) the Atlantic wall being believed to be unbreakable, and in terms of the trench mag K98 well it should be a G98 but those would have the same story as the MP28. (Edit: the fire rate is way off though so you can keep it as an inaccuracy)
As someone who had a friend who studied history, this video is truly incredible.
@@AustrianPainter420_waste of oxygen
@@AustrianPainter420_ yeah we know you finished yourself, no need to tell
@@pizzaeater56 💀
Is this comment a joke? I don’t get it.
Eh not really. He criticizes a lot of things that were done for gameplay. Like the fire rate of the MG. If it actually had a realistic fire rate then it wouldn't be balanced.
17:51 A more hilarious inaccuracy is that in the cutscene where we switch to Perez it shows that the tank is using the 76mm gun. However once we take control of the tank the barrel length and width magically became shorter and wider make it looks more like the 105mm gun
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@@Toy1err/Ihadastroke Oh wait, reddits dead, oh well. *YOU HAD A MASSIVE FRICKING STROKE*
GUN IS GUN
I miss when CoD games shifted between a few different perspectives throughout the game. My favorite one that did this was CoD 3 where you shifted between American, Canadian, British, and Polish soldiers all in one game. Not to even mention that campaign all was depicting only the Battle of the Falaise Gap. There really should be more media like that depicting the roles all the Allied nations had even in small parts of the war like that.
Although the Thompson used here is a M1921A instead of a M1A1, some 1921 or 28 models were still used in the war.
M1928 actually
@@CrossOfBayonne also some 1921 ones also saw action in the war
Shit on the east front they were using bare hands. And slingshots at some points lmao. Wish they taught more about the Eastern front. Really would put war into perspective a bit more than the romanticized western front.
1:19 This is of course done for gameplay reasons but the reason why the sight aperture is so small is because it limits the amount of light going through the sigh, which allows the user to see it's target better in bright, high contrast environments, and many iron sights even today also do this
and to be fair, waw does the same thing as well
@@gabeanddave7904yeah but WaW’s M1 had reasonably smaller iron sights.
It has been a common thing in a lot of shooter games to nerf the fire rate of certain guns, probably for balancing but idk. Two guns that get this treatment a lot are the AKs and the KRISS VECTOR. Also the Vector in many games has near unforgiving recoil while the real counterpart has a mechanism put in place to eliminate recoil nearly completely.
Shout out the pph in world at war, that was a monster
@@ThisShitIsDumbAndYouKnow my favorite gun in that game.
It's completely for balancing reasons because people would complain heavily about the guns being too good otherwise. Common thing in triple A games and usually the devs cave
@@thedarkspawnshooter3717 i know lol. Basically guns too op in real life that they nerf them hard. Shotguns say hello.
@@mayteexxis rip to shotguns. My favorite weapons lol
Love your enthusiasm and annoyance at pointing out the inaccuracies. I feel that. I would love to see you cover the Sniper Elite series as well.
"What are they trying to blend in with, THE GOD-DAMN HOUSE PLANTS?!" got me dead Fr. 💀
8:15 "What are they trying to blend in with, the god damn house plants?!?" Best line in the video lol
i could bet that there was this one house in normandy full of houseplants and they saw this as a trivia and decided to outfit entire unit with woodland camo
@@ryszakowyWoodland camo?I highly doubt
"If I don't move, ze American von't see me"
For the iron sights I pretty sure manly for the rear sights enlarged to make it easer for the player to use. I know there usually the biggest things devs get wrong with the guns, but i would rather have iron sights in games i can damn see through then more realistic.
Things like this that are obviously decided for gameplay reasons make sense, from a developer's point of view. But when lumped into the steaming pile of crap they tried to pass off as "historically accurate", you've got to wonder if things like this were decided for gameplay reasons, or because they didn't know better.
Fun fact, the reason the rear sight is small, as well as on many other guns even today, is to limit the amount of light getting through the sight, allowing for the user to see it's target better in bright, high contrast environments
@@Maria_Erias There is no wondering. For years, CoD and other FPS games alter sights to make then actually usable for gameplay reasons.
Fr. One time I shot a 9mm carbine and the irons were borderline unusable because where you lined it up your target was BARELY visible. If it was on screen it would be about 3 visible pixels💀
@@jthablaiddgit gud
Another thing that I think is weird is that the helmets of your allies are extremely clean.
Except for Zussman. He's a new guy and his uniform already looks worn out even on the dday landing. Everyone else is fresh out of the dryer.
2:43 Something else I noticed about the Thompson there is that it appears to have the 16.5 inch barrel of a modern civilian semi-auto Thompson instead of the shorter historical length
Despite this game’s many inaccuracies, I love the campaign! Compared to Vanguard it looks like Saving Private Ryan. It’s not perfect and gets absolutely ridiculous many times. But I love the characters and gameplay. It was super fun on Veteran
I'm to much of a wuss to play it on veteran
I played Veteran and it was hard… I went through a lot of rage episodes.
I have a love hate relationship with this campaign. On one hand, it’s pretty inaccurate and has a lot of weird quirks - Red being fixated on the Rhine River from June 6th 1944 to the point of obsession, Red’s unit getting permission to comb POW camp after POW camp for one random private (even going as far as to frame the objective of capturing the Bridge at Remagen as getting across the Rhine for access to more POW camps to find Zussman), or the fact they were too scared to show a concentration camp and ended up trying to equate western front POW camps to the death camps. All that said - it is the last best mainstream WW2 campaign we ever got. BFV and Vanguard were garbage. I also do like a lot of the missions and characters, and the overall story does work for me. I have good memories of this game overall, and I especially view it far less harshly in more recent years, looking at what followed it. We didn’t know how good we had it in 2017 I guess…
I love it too But Pierson should've FUCKING DIED-
@@zainhussain1420I bet liberation was the easiest
At 6:30, the Springfield being used was only used by the marines in the pacific. The way you can tell is the scope length
It's a unertl scope and it was also used in Korea
It was also used on m2 machine guns post war 👌🏼
You should do the inaccuracies of the BF 5 war stories, would be interesting to see!
Very good quality video, you covered so much that never even occurred to me. I absolutely love COD WW2, so seeing someone go into detail what they got wrong with it's presentation is very interesting to me. Thank you for this video
2:30, while removal of the tri-color decal was mandated of the OKH, it was reportedly still common to see older NCOs and officers continuing to wear them in defiance of regulations as a mark of seniority.
That is true, but I doubt there would be *that many* veteran soldiers still using those helmets by that point.
Finally we get to see Frosty made a video about historical innacuracy in COD WW2, i have been waiting for this since 1 year ago. Now i can't wait to see him making a video about Historical Innacuracy of older COD games like COD 1-3. Appreaciated it man
There's hardly any on the older games
@@declangaming24 Same could be thought with World At War, but even It has inaccuracies. Didn't stop it from being a success and creating both the Black Ops timeline and original Zombies timeline, though. CoD 1, 2, 2: Big Red One, and 3 do deserve the equally strict assessment that 5: WaW, WWII, and Vanguard got.
@@martinmethod427 the old ones had unique battles the one where your in French africa fighting Vichy France troops I think you fight Italians as you invade Italy in lots of missions you also fight Germans call of duty 3 had the polish exiled tank squad, playing as a Canadian soldier, a British SAS soldier call of duty 1 had a mission where you and one of captain prices grandads Are on the German ship but he dies at the end in call of duty 2 it's his dad that's my theory. Basically his grandad is in the 1st game his father /dad fights in north africa and in Europe in call of duty 2 the captain price we don't know when was born I would say around 1950 making him about 61 years old by the time of call of duty 4 modern warfare og 2009 MW2 he's 66 years old and MW3 he's 67 but the game goes up to 2027 he's 77 at the end of the game.
Also something to note here is that weapon sounds can differ vastly from video to video based on audio equipment used. Weaponry in a lot of gun channel content is not recorded with specialist microphones with covers… Just the built in audio devices of the Camera. What you hear in the video may not be how it was heard in person. A gun can sound differently based on environmental factors like wind, ambient noise, proximity to you or a recording device or even the direction it is heard from, varying indoors vs outdoors etc. That is why every single game has identical weapons that sound very different side by side and the older the game was the cruder the audio becomes due to advances in recording, or it simply relied on a stock library of sounds. They went out and recorded many of these weapons with professional audio equipment in a variety of settings and then had to balance them in the game for compliance with commercial audio standards/regulations and for the purposes of an effective sound mix.
The part you said about the vast majority of landing craft operators being British is semi true, my grandpa was a American landing craft operator and went back and forth from Omaha throughout d-day and got quite a few medals for it
Agreed, I will also point out that he said “vast majority of landing craft drivers were British” that implies there are some that are controlled by Americans (which is the one daniels is on)
@@assassinproject5586yeah this person did a major problem that a lot of people have, where they assume a general principle is wrong based on their own personal experience.
Does kids these days not understand what “vast majority” implies? That it isn’t the same as “all”?
I mean, it’s not ‘semi true’ it’s just true, your grandad was just not part of the ‘vast majority’
Ok? The point is still true, the vast majority were british
This was really fun to watch, and I’m willing to forgive a few of the details they missed purely because it’s a video game. Like iron sight sizes or fire rates. I don’t think players wanna look through pinholes and get killed by “broken smgs”
One thing that kind of pissed me off is the sin where he says “it took minutes in game to take Omaha beach instead of the hours it took in reality” like so? You really want the first part of the game to be 12 hours long?
@@ThisIsBoogieJar I still appreciate the history lesson. I wouldn't want a 12 hour D-Day mission but it's interesting knowing the fact that an operation such as that one can take a long time. I personally thought it had lasted longer.
I think WaW had small sights for some weapons like the Garand, though, and that was fine.
@@ThisIsBoogieJarPerhaps one could make effective use of time skips here, cutting to key moments in the event and thus showing the player a more condensed form of the landings. Show the first minutes of the first landing wave, show another wave moving up to clear the wire, then skip ahead to breaching the bunkers. Shows all the interesting parts of the battle, but spaced out and giving the player some breathing room.
@@ThisIsBoogieJaryk I had an idea for a video game that would be like that (and just super ambitious with how narrative is presented in WW2 games) but I just couldn’t think of how it would actually work. Like I’d want the game to take forever to complete to elicit that same feeling that soldiers probably had all the time. I just feel like something that really captures the intensity and depth of a war like that would be fun. I think it would also be interesting that if your player character died then you’d get moved to a different character and that other one would be dead for good.
Also in scenes 16:40 to 16:52 it actually didnt take 4 headshotshots to kill the german soldier, it actually took 5 cause you fired one before counting and said 4.
Why the hell was he so tanky anyway? In every other Call of Duty game, NPCs (including friendlies sadly) die from a single headshot.
He missed the first shot
I mentioned in the previous version how he did not touch on the uniforms that much and now he did. Thank you, the uniforms are the most infuriating part for me
Love these videos! A sin I think might be also there is when Davis said (around the 87th mistake), "In World War I" that term did come into use in 1939, but I doubt an old-fashioned fella like Davis would use that term.
At that time it would've been referred to as The World War or Great War. Although the term WW1 was actually in use and then WW2
Great work with the historical analysis. Learning a lot of WWII history by you tearing apart these games. Wonder which Call of Duty campaign you will cover next.
Modern Warfare
I've learnt a lot thanks to the COD games, just not from the games themselves unfortunately😅
Yeah Frosty is a legend! Also recommend History Legends, he debunked some of Battlefield, and some political agendas...
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11:20 “T R A I N G O B O O M”
You know what would be cool. If you did a mini-episode on the historical accuracy of the 1980s mission of bo2. I know theirs only 4 of them but I would like to see what inaccuracies you can find in those 4 mission.
It seems like for some reason the game devs might have switched the MP28 and PPSH-41's fire rates
They switched a lot of fire rates for the sake of "Balance". A worse example is the fire rate of the Breda mod 30 or the GPMG in the game, it literally have the fire rate of a MG42 when it shouldn't
And the mg 34 and 42
I just love your “Listing Every Historical Inaccuracy in Call of Duty” videos!! Keep them coming!!
Thanks! Will do!
@@TheFrosty_1do rdr 2 next 😊
@@TheFrosty_1 Are you going to make one on call of duty 2. It's my favourite and I think it has the best campaign after mw 1 and mw 2.
Actually the nazis still used the tri color on some helmets all the way up until may 1945, they still had them on police units but your still partially right, ALSO they did use drum mags in different theaters of war because of terrain or environment purposes. So its possible a drum Thompson still could end up in normandy if the soldier might have fought in italy and kept the same drum Thompson
I think Daniels is not Human, that's why he's doing what happened in 8:32
9:33 Only british shermans were equipped with skirts for desert combat, not in france and not for the americans
11:25 that corpse launch will never not make me laugh.
I never noticed that till now. But that's funny as hell
Brilliant, same as always. Do you plan on making a similar video like this where you react to CoD 2?
I will indeed!
16:40 4 rounds of 30-06 to the face, and he finally dies. I had to laugh at this. Apparently the development team doesn't realize that the 30-06 has some serious fire power to it.
They can survive a few rounds to the head from an mg42 😭😭😭
18:42 Fun fact: the Gewehr is in the game, it was part of the first batch of lootbox weapons along with a full auto volksturmgewehr if i remember right
It was first dlc rifle added in the winter siege update, it’s super op and arguably the best rifle in game if you can consistently hit the 550 rpm cap (obviously exaggerated from the real G43)
Full auto volksturmgewehr... WHAT THE FUC..
Small correction at around 3:36 , if you just spam the gun, you will actually see a reload animation once all 7 rounds are used, i would assume that once we start moving our character reloads off camera. Just a little thing I wanted to add ^_^
Yeah he only shot 6 bullets, not 7, you can even reload without shooting 7 bullets by pressing the reload button.
The British RM were landing craft drivers for the Rangers. Most landing craft drivers for US troops were US Coast Guard personal.
You missed the part where Heinrich didn't manage to get a single Sentence in german right and is talking a lot of gibberish.
4:55 also the fact that about a minute before this scene plays, the player saw literally dozens and dozens of P47 Thunderbolts flying ahead of them, yet somehow all these Stukas still manage to get through?
11:21 legendary moment: train go boom
I still love the train crash scene
🚂 💥
As a brit, I hate the fact that in movies and games alike, the d-day landings are portrayed as an american operation and that the US army carried the operation whilst in reality most of the soldiers were british.
Well all of the soldiers at gold and sword, the ones in Utah and Omaha were American and the ones at Juno were Canadian
26:14 Pierson gets scared when Daniel shows his nerdy knowledge, tells him to stop and eventually tries to run away LoL
Another inaccuracy is the ammo supply tossed to you. They picture a standard p37 british ammo pouch with brass stud closures, Instead of the GP bag used to carry ammo
Hey man, great video, I loved the campaign of COD WW2, it was a really good story but I still really liked your video, keep it up
I really liked the headquarters and how you could just walk into the firing range wish they’d bring that back
Just 2 small things about the M1 Garand: the sights on the M1 generally have a bit larger aperture than the photo you posted (that is a Post-WWII sight, and might be a national match sight, which had a smaller aperture), and when looking down the sight, as in aiming to shoot, the aperture on a standard sight looks pretty accurate to how the game portrays, just alot closer to your face. As for the "Sledgehammer" engraved in the receiver, that was likely done for both copyright and serial number reasons. Not all of the companies that made M1s are still in business, but companies like Winchester and International Harvester still are (or at least the rights are owned by someone else), and Sledgehammer likely didn't want to pay the royalties to use them.
Been watching your other COD historical reviews the last few days and this is perfect timing! This one seems a bit more accurate than Vanguard at least. I'd be very interested to see one of these on Battlefield 1, as I remember that at least appearing quite accurate (except for no gun jams). Keep up the great work!
Having automatic and experimental weapons for both side sure is historical don't you think. but when cod does it everyone loses their minds over it
Battlefield 1 didn't even try
@@bingolos9063 there's a difference between BF1 having few experimental guns that never saw combat and COD going complete batshit crazy with impossible modifcations and bullshit events
@@1upproductions423Tbh never say that amount of stupidity again, you can easily suspend your desbelief if you are having fun with the game. Battlefield 1 might not have everything accurate, but the cordex and briephings about the history is all there to add to actual historical knowledge of the time period. Making it look like an actual historical game despite having its flaws. You don't need to depict everything as it gets, you need to depict it as how it feels to be in it and the stories that were told to us from that time. So yeah, they did tried.
@@aveteranplayer6403 it was like 4 am when i made that reply and i remember reading a comment about how battlefield respects and has their games always "100% historically correct". And he said "Cod ww2 didn't even try" so i tried mocking him by saying the same thing. I have no idea how this reply got here all i could say is that i replied too the wrong comment. Also yeah no Triple A game actually trys to be 100% historically correct. Its impossible if your trying to appeal to the masses. Also i like bf1.
21:20 Also the ingame name of the guns is translated from Polish to just "rifle". It should've been called Karabin wz. 38M (Translated to Rifle model 38M) or kbsp wz. 38M (Self-loading Rifle Model 38M)
20:00 That's a little unfair; Davis was pretty clearly talking about the biggest Allied operation... which was Overlord, not the drive across the Rhine, unless I am about twice as stupid as I think I am.
25:35 I recalled there was a German jet bomber the AR 234B that was involved in the bombing of the bridge of Remagen. Even Mark Felton addressed this.
Yeah, only one bomber and a jet one at that
@@fajagaming5969 could have been a good boss battle. 😂
my favorite part of this game is how it seemed to follow the plot of Saving Private Ryan
Not really, like at all lmao
Like evety other ww2 game from the early 2000s, except those games were actually good.
You mean, it started with D-day.... anything else?
Recently found your channel and I’m already hooked on these videos lmao I knew COD was historically inaccurate but jaysus… Also fellow Irishman 🇮🇪
My highest of thanks lad
This is the kind of content I've been waiting for!
Love the videos and the ideas! Keep up the good work man!
Thanks! Will do!
7:40 There's a reason that it was called "Hitler's Buzzsaw"
“ what are they trying to blend into the goddamn house plants” got me 😂😂😂
8:17 I like when he gets angry
The irony of them telling us “know you history” never ceases to amaze me.
3:40 i'd nix that as an inaccuracy, it was relatively common for troops in combat areas to "tactically acquite" whatever weapons they felt necessary, swapping out a garand for a carbine, or a carbine for a thompson, or grabbing a pistol off of a body, someone's rack, or bribing a quartermaster. Ive even heard of troops winning pistols while gambling. And of course, family back homs could send a pistol in a care package (though this was more common for the pacific theater and would likely be a revolver). 4:20 it was more common for soldiers to remove rank insignia in a combat zone, to better prevent enemy snipers or machine gunners from targeting squad or platoon leaders. In a platoon-sized unit, you knew most men by sight or sound anyway.
“The beach was taken in minutes instead of hours” Well I don’t think you’d want to spend hours on the first mission.
That's true, to be fair the game could have had you be a soldier in the wave that took the beach.
6:22 In COD 5 WaW, bolt action rifles (regular or sniper) can use same ammo. But different reload animation. That's attention to details.
honestly when first call of duty has you switch mosin nagant for scoped version and not only they do not share ammo but entire clip goes in the gun at once i can accept it ONYL THERE but when a AAA multi billion dollar franchise does that shit it's unacceptable
@@ryszakowyTbf blame person who didn't know license of gun because similar to MW2 rebooted, Gun wasn't correctly function or even realistic
6:45 No, you see they're revealing their secret 'Windkanone' wunderwaffe.
In regards to the pistol , U.S soldiers were aloud to bring personal sidearms (this did vary from unit to unit). You would also see machine gunners carry pistols as well.
If you watch both Band Of Brothers and The Pacific as well Fury the Colt .45 revolver was a popular favorite among soldiers and marines as backup guns from home
@@CrossOfBayonne "According to movies..."
@@andyfriederichsenyou know that those shows are based and tell the stories of real soldiers right?
@@breninbaron1140 And yet those movies still get things wrong. Unless The Pacific and Band of Brothers are narrated docuseries/documentaries, I don't see how they would be good sources. The movie Lawrence of Arabia is based off a real story and is about a real person. It still gets stuff wrong.
@@andyfriederichsen It is true that they did bring guns from there homes. Do some research.
The "ghillie suits" are actually pretty accurate. Obviously not in urban combat, but the Germans were probably the top user of natural camouflage in the war, and the sniper uniform (when closely observed using the multiplayer customization) shows a dark green splittertanmuster covered helmet, with added foliage, as well as a uniform of the same camo with some foliage. Though the sniper mask would not have been used, rather the tablecloth like veil put on some helmets, the uniform is actually pretty accurate.
These videos will always be enjoyable, love seeing your reaction to some of the most absurd historical inaccuracies, keep it up!
As someone who served in my team, i can confirm i defeated the enemy team
Personally, I didn't really mind the historical inaccuracies, as I was focusing on the story and the squad of soldiers you get to know throughout the campaign. Despite that, if I had to change anything, it would be the bomber escort mission, as P51s would have made more sense, since they had a longer range, and were more maneuverable. Also, I would have the campaign longer, focusing on other characters and soldiers via DLC content, going to the Pacific, Africa, and the Eastern Front.
Personally I would extend it to the Balkans and Italy
@@Tommy55_officialYes my great grandpa was a Yugoslavian Partisan,so I would like his faction to make its way into COD
Other things: - German vehicles seen in the Blitzkrieg scene should not have camouflage patterns as those weren’t adopted until at least 1942 (iirc) - On the topic of camo, more of it should be seen amongst german infantry because SS units were also present.
6:30 this version of the Springfield with the 8x scope, was used by the Marines not the Army
One thing I noticed was that Oberst Fischer in the mission Liberation has the rank insignia of a Major despite Oberst being equal to a Colonel. In fact even Heinrich also wears the same rank insignia despite his position being achievable by [typically] those who held the rank of SS-Oberführer or SS-Brigadeführer [or maybe higher].
Five minutes into this game when I encountered a PPSH on Omaha Beach I knew this game was going to be a historical joke.
In reality the m43 cap was relatively common to be seen in combat. Stahlhelms were much more common in active combat but many soldiers wore their caps in combat, similar to feldmütze usage in ww1
The ping and the shot is satisfying 3:48
It was perfectly timed too
@@MondoIDK facts
It’s funny when you mention the gray uniform, looking heavy and not looking like the original uniforms they would wear their during the spring or summer time. I actually thought of the uniforms the Germans were wearing in the beginning of the game as similar to the finnish uniform. When I first played the game on Omaha beach seeing the Germans for the first time. I was like am I fighting the Finn’s? Historically, they never fought in Normandy or on the western front. The only place they ever fight was on the Eastern front and around this time I believe they signed a treaty with Russia and stayed out of the war that year. I don’t know who decided to go ahead and make the Germans uniforms looking more and more similar to what the Finnish we’re wearing? But it was completely wrong.
It might not be that far off seeing as how the majority of the static coastal defense units were "ost truppen"
24:00 Turners revolver was a U.S. M1917 Revolver chambered for 45 ACP, the U.S. did issue them out during WW2, I’m not sure if US enlisted or commissioned officers would have received them during WW2.
5:30 The wheels are also sideways on the Stuka, or Ju 87 G/R/D (in-game cause of the 37mm gun pods on the G 1 & 2 variant, and the R cause of the sirens, D cause the G was modified from the D, but should just be a D variant, but from the model in-game would be more likely the D-3 as it lacks the long 20mm gun barrels the D-5 has, so this D-3 is equipped with 2 7.92mm MG 17 machine guns with 1000 rounds each) The Stukas are also flying really fast, especially for that payload, and are not that maneuverable, though I'd wager a Stuka could outturn a fighter plane due to it's slow speed and if it had a good pilot too
bruh i was just binge watching your other versions of these!!! holy moly perfect timing
17:04 thats a negligible mistake, because you can always load a round in the chamber after loading a full mag
No, it had only 6 rounds including the chamber, so you're wrong now
That's more with magazines, tubes have a built in shell limit to not destroy the internals
@@cringelord2875 lmao modificators existed at WW2
21:52 the cuff title is also the wrong side if they are SS as the title show is the Großdeutshland units as they were the only unit with the title on the right side. GD was also on the Eastern front at this point in the war.
I love the "WHAT IS THAT!?" meme during the outros lmao 🤣
6:34 This is actually the case of weapons in this game being totally separate only because of an attachment change, even by ammo, despite it being the same gun I've noticed that an M1 Garand and another M1 Garand with a bayonet weren't ammo linked when walking over either and picking up both of them The case still remains in the Multiplayer, which is kind of a pain in the ass since all guns are gonna be customized anyways
16:50 this guy has god mode on for a few seconds