I have seriously mixed feelings about ARC Raiders' weaponry, more specifically how that stuff looks.
The idea was to go for a cobbled together look, shit built in a cave with a box of scraps. Yeah, sure, I get it. Except this is a cobbled together look designed by someone who knows somewhere between fuck-all and jack shit about guns.
The Anvil is, supposedly, a revolver. The reload animations look like a revolver, the model... doesn't. The hammer is ridiculously far from what's supposed to be the cylinder, even with the separate firing pin that was introduced for safety fairly early after a couple of cowboys too many shot themselves in the foot by accident. There's a fucking rear sight on top of the cylinder. There's that wire connected to the hammer for no fucking reason at all. But at least the ergonomics, with the Ruger Mk1-like grip, are there. Unlike...
...Ferro. God. Fucking. Damnit. You have a break-action elephant gun, a Martini-Henry kind of monstrosity apparently built from leftover anti-air cannon parts, and you take a big runny shit on the ergonomics.
Look at that grip. What grip? The fucking grip that isn't even there! The whole thing looks like a crutch, with some unexplained flat metal bars sticking out above the muzzle, nothing to put your main hand on, absolute nonsense.
I'm not sure if I told you about the collection of homemade firearms confiscated by the local police and kept in the office where my dad worked in the Central Forensic Labs of the National Police Headquarters. Even the most primitive clunkers built out of a length of pipe, a spring, a bent nail and a lump of firewood for the grip had better ergonomics than the Ferro. And the more complex stuff? Man.
For comparison, this is a very nice render of the Luty Submachine Gun, made by Alexander Kirby. This firearm, designed by British activist Philip Luty, can be made out of stuff easily found in hardware stores, like box profiles, sheet metal, pipes, bar stock and so on. If it reminds you of the pipe guns of Fallout 4, you're not that far off.
This is even more inexcusable if you are a gaming industry insider and you know about the existence of Rmory Studios, people who design fictional video game guns with all the necessary bits, bobs, knobs and levers in their proper places.
