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Jonathan Ferguson, an expert in firearms history and the Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, breaks down some of the demon-slaying weaponry from Doom: The Dark Ages, including the thunderous Chainshot, the lever action/demon claw flintlock hybrid Super Shotgun and the already iconic and utterly brilliant Skullcrusher Pulverizer.

Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
01:19 Welcome to The Dark Ages
02:04 Combat Shotgun
04:15 A word from this week's sponsor...
05:42 Super Shotgun
11:25 Shredder
13:20 Impaler
17:02 Skullcrusher Pulverizer
19:51 Ravager
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22:06 Accelerator
23:20 Cycler
24:06 Chainshot
25:53 Grenade Launcher
26:50 Rocket Launcher
27:58 Ballistic Force Crossbow
30:09 Outro
31:18 Time for Headbanging

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In this episode of Expert Reacts on EXP, Jonathan Ferguson--an expert in firearms history and the Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK--breaks down the guns of the DOOM franchise, and compares them to their real-life counterparts with artefacts from the Royal Armouries archive.

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20 Comments

@WatchEXP Creator 1 year ago (edited) Pinned

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@dovahkiin6105 1 year ago

"I actually have two skulls, and I refuse to elaborate on that."
He was not the first keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK.. that title is won through a long and bloody battle that uses every weapon within the museums collection.
The skulls of past keepers are kept as sacred relics, and as trophies.
It's a very hushed topic in the UK.

@DR01D_Qs 1 year ago (edited)

The thing that was missed with the super shotgun is that there are 2 loading gates on the bottom of its wooden foregrip, so the mechanism is supposed to be of M1887's - this is a TUBE FED, DUAL MAGAZINES, DOUBLE BARREL, LEVER ACTION, FLINTLOCK shotgun

@envittutiia 1 year ago

You can't escape the Cruelty Squad episode forever Dave

@enby_bayani 1 year ago

Long story short, The Dark Ages takes place on a different planet. The humans who evolved there essentially speedran from medieval technology to energy weapons because of intervention from other alien races, so that explains the clash of aesthetics. That's also why the shotguns are described in the codex as "primitive," because they were based on designs that the Doomguy brought there with him (the pump action and double barrel). Everything else he uses in this game is either adopted alien tech, or homegrown weapon designs from the natives of the Night Sentinel Empire.

@rosky1932 1 year ago

28:43 He almost said “The Big Fcking Crossbow” 😂😂😂

@SollowP 1 year ago (edited)

8:21 To quote Doom Eternal.
"There is only one dominant life form in this universe and it carries a steel-barreled sword of vengeance."
So the double barreled shotgun IS his Sword.

@libertysmaug767 1 year ago

I absolutely loved how Jonathan was more about having fun in this video, rather than trying to figure everything out. He basically just said “this is DOOM. It’s not supposed to make sense” and I loved it. And I loved that he still tried to figure out how some of the weapons worked while still having fun with it

@ItsChevnotJeff 1 year ago

Crazy thing about the skull crusher guns: Apparently the crushing part is more of a sacrifice to some eldritch power, and that is what causes the shards to become even more lethal and actually shoot to harm demons

@kalythai 1 year ago

12:50 Same technology that propels the bullets from the turrets in Portal; by launching the entire bullet with a spring hammer.

@lordadamant 1 year ago

18:35 "glorious metal nonsense" you just described the entirety of DOOM and at least half of Wolfenstein.

@BetonerickN 1 year ago (edited)

17:00 Fun fact: There is, in DOOM Eternal you could see a magazine on the ground that says "Why the DOOM Slayer owes the demon society an apology"

@VinzentC 1 year ago

19:21 "I actually have two skulls" so I see Jonathan got his hands on the two people at Gamespot who decided to bin you guys off then

@randomizethisthing 1 year ago

19:21 This Is Jonathan Fergusen, The Keeper of Human Skulls

@sethisnoisage9029 1 year ago (edited)

19:35 the skull crusher is a weird weapon Because it doesn’t actually shoot the skull as projectiles they’re just the ammunition. It sacrifices them in a demonic magic ritual creating skull fragments coated in demonic energies. It is a really weird weapon.

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