Actually, I don't either, I am not into the Soviets, I pretty much hate the Soviets. Though I don't use terms like "commie bastards" to describe them, it is not those ideals that bother me about them. I had been trying to identify that camera for a while, I finally asked my wife for help and she nailed it in like five minutes...
The F21 was just the final model, it has it's origins during WW2 (which is the only reason I still play the camera levels
), it would have been a prototype of the MF1. Being Soviet, is not a stretch that we have it, but was it "physically impossible," in late 1942? Sadly I think so. From the information I can gather, the UFA manufactured during the war at a factory founded in 1942, succeeded by the UFA MF1, which I believe was also Ajax 9, which would have been in 1949, the Ajax 10 in 1950, and the F21, also an Ajax, in 1951.
The camera in the game, most resembles the F21, but it has three large nobs on the top, each version of the F21 that I have seen, each type has only one large nob, two smaller and a lever. So, while likely just a modeling deformity, it leaves room for me to wonder if it is a version I have not seen. Lack of information gives me more room to imagine.
The knobs on the model in game, most resemble the knob on the MF1; Ajax 1 through 8, if they exist, are missing from my research. Any of these could have been a step in the direction of the F21. A camera like this would be available to the developers I believe, or it could just be something else that the Soviets copied pretty well.
You do remember the Easter egg on Africa 1? With the portal from the future, men with lucha libre masks come through and attack you with MP/StG 43/44s.
I have already known what HD3 is gonna be about.
I know, I tried to find something earlier on it, but I couldn't. I am pretty sure that I did a few years back. It would have been a more extensive search.
Capt. Stirling wrote:I meant units from the 1st Ukrainian Army Group not Front. The 1st, 2nd and 4th UF were under that command.
I am also confused by this, The Soviet "Fronts", were their "Army Groups." The 1st Front, was the 1st Army Group by our terms. So each did not fall under a single Army Group, each was a separate Army Group. The 1stUF was to the North, the 2ndUF to the south, and the 4thUF to the East, of Prague at the time.