I remember refusing to move or carry on playing because of that mission. Looking behind me and watching the berzerker running after me shat me up so much I couldn't sleep properly for a good day or two.
Declan West I would always call it too. I would mentally prepare myself for fucking Big Bertha to smash through the wall. But when she did it always made me jump, no matter how many times I prepared.
B. Carmine: "if you had a helmet, you wouldn't have to breathe in the dust." Dom: "if I had a helmet I wouldn't be able to spot snipers so easily." Marcus: "Dom chill."
@@christiangibson2733 imagine a locust horde in high populated areas like china and india..... Those countries will be nearly impossible to evacuate and the death of 25% of just their countries is already over 700 000 000 people. Dont forget countries like in africa with little to no organized military or any large at that.... Africa would be completely annihilated. Europe would be absolute hell. Countries like russia, canada and the U.S.A with the biggest territory could never defend it all and would probably end up forcing to defend key cities. Leaving anyone in the middle of nowhere waiting to just get ripped apart... Nah wed be fucked
Actually, armies in Africa are pretty organized. Nigerian sends military aid to other African countries so saying that their militaries are not organized is pretty ignorant. Not to mention it doesn't even have the largest military in Africa. Egypt has the largest military in Africa who have fought in a good amount of wars and are hardened veterans. South Africa military used to be really good, but now it's okay. This is coming from the grandson of a Nigerian colonel so I know they were organized.
i played gears of war with my friend down the street when I was five, I was suppose to stay the night but had nightmares and went home :/ Still, totally worth it now, and I'm a huge fan of the franchise...Gears 5 HYPE
Just imagine getting out of a devastating war that lasted 79 years only to fight another war against horrifying creatures and nearly having your entire species exterminated.
B. Carmine: "if you had a helmet, you wouldn't have to breathe in the dust." Dom: "if I had a helmet I wouldn't be able to spot snipers so easily." Marcus: "Dom chill."
Fun facts: Lancer Rifle has chainsaw bayonet specifically to tear through Locust hide. Locust's insane durability is very noticeable in game. In GoW 1 even Drones take almost full clip from Lancer to kill. Better go for headshots. Kantus priests are mutated so much, they need to saw off bone growths on their appendages (spikes on elbows for example) to actually move and wear armor. General RAAM is actually a Drone by caste. He was big and cunning enough to become a general. Locusts can control creatures from the Hollow through some unknown means, presumably through Emulsion. RAAM's Krylls are one example. Brumaks aren't native to Hollow, they are genetically and Emulsion-modified species of apes. Kantus priests actually can heal other Locust with their chants somehow. Most likely, they activate the Emulsion inside their bodies, and Emulsion is capable of rapidly repairing and mutating the host. COG are never painted as good guys, just the only ones left. Books, games and comics show what would a fascist-socialist government like COG do in war for survival. Spoiler: what they do is not pretty. At all. As is 'human breeding farms' level of not pretty. Anya Stroud, the female lead in GoW 3 and Marcus' love interest, is only able to serve in military because they thought she can't bear children. Otherwise? Off to the human farms you go. Chairman Prescott, for all his cowardice, hypocrisy and other questionable qualities, was the one to push the button when they ordered Hammer of Dawn strikes. He knew full well all the implication of doing it, too. How exactly do Locust reproduce is never explained, but heavily implied in one of the books, The Slab, IIRC. It is most likely that there's no rape involved, and they don't even mate. There are a few facts that help us paint the picture: After E-Day Locust actually stopped their advance, or at least slowed, even before Hammer of Dawn strikes, as if they didn't have the numbers to push forward. There are no known records of Locust children, even in their capital, the Nexus. Even after parts of the Horde go savage, they never seem to establish any sort of reproductive cycle. Yet there are always fresh drones to throw into meatgrinder. No known records of Berserker rape, Berserkers being pregnant or anything else. Thank god for that, but still. Locust just let Berserkers loose on enemy, not caring if they live or die. Considering how rare Berserkers are, it's kind of counterproductive. After certain amount of time passed, Locust started taking prisoners, something they never did before on principle. A lot of prisoners. They have Torture Barges in Hollows, where they, well, torture and mutilate prisoners for no apparent reason. Locust also lobotomize their victims, process taking place presumably on Torture Barges. After that, they have special pods for transporting these poor souls to somewhere. Part of the Locust religious mantra is "Queen creates drones". Together with mutated children there were a lot of scientists exiled. Most likely explanation is that Locust make more Locust from captured humans.
I always though it was a mix of both since the Locust kind of waged a war of genocide against humanity, but that wouldn't make sense if they need humans to reproduce
@@sharkhead1177 its hilarious how whenever a fan brings up warhammer its always how the something thats actually being talked about pales in comparison to warhammer no one was talking about warhammer that sht is irrelevant
Mr. Cat what does that even mean, the Imperial Guard alone could take the UNSC, let alone Space Marines, covenant are nothing to Tao or Eldar and tyranids and flood would be fun to watch. But Chaos wins all
The main campaign is actually quite similar to gears of war (Fortnite Save the World) just more cartoon and dumbed down. Smashers are basically (Berserkers) Lobbers are snipers The midget zombies are wretches/tickers The normal zombies are drones Blasters are basically kactus. Also Marcus Fenix's voiceactor is Jonesy and most soldiers
@@SouthDakotanDrifter i couldnt do the first one for the longest time. I just kept having anxiety attacks when it screamed and i was never good at dodging it
If you're really interested, I recommend reading the books and the comics. There's alot of new info on the locust from the comics that came out this year.
To anyone that thinks Myrrah is mother of Marcus: if Queen Myrrah is the mother of Marcus, and Kait is her grandaughter, That would mean Reyna (Kaits mother) is the half sister of Marcus, making Kait Marcus's niece. Therefore, James is in love with his cousin.
@@bengooding4084 I've only played the games. I dont think Myrrah is Marcus's mother, but I've always had the idea that Adam might be Reyna's father. Does that make more sense?
@@Chuked I might be getting one this month because my Xbox 360 don’t work anymore (Rip Xbox 360 2013-2021 always made me happy and rage at the same time and will be missed) Idk why I just made a whole funeral
How dare you insinuate that i, an untrained male with no experience in combat or survival in alien lands not be able to destroy demonic monsters, and possess a long life in such conditions.
My mighty six inches of fat will provide an inpenitrable bullet sponge! I will then slowly fight my way through hordes of locusts with my stainless steel rake from the garden
I love Gears but hate the toxic community. Everyone you meet "used to be a pro", "played for OpTic", "is the best player to have lived" or "is the second coming of Christ" when it comes to Gears.
Don’t forget that the locust was fighting a two front war so imagine if they didn’t have to fight the lambent and focused all there forces on the humans
Actually if I remember correctly the locust did just fine with the lambent in gears 1 and they didn't become a problem until the lightmass bomb destroyed the outer hollow allowing for the lambent to go on the offensive closer to nexus
@@UzilKryll06 They were on an even playing field in gears one, not getting slaughtered but still falling in numbers to lambent. But the imulsion was what made the lambet very hard to deal with since the locusts were dying of sickness as well as the lambent. That is why the locusts invaded in the first place actually since staying closer to the imulsion was killing them each day.
The lambent exists for the same reason the locust do, and there is a reason locust are more susceptible to it. The lambent come *from* imulsion. and the locust mutate *because* of imulsion. You can't have one without the other.
Not really they are seasoned vets and highly skilled regular soldiers and they do not underestimate the enemy a mistake colonel Loomis made in judgement and nearly paid for it Plus stranded survived just fine just hard times
@@michaelmorse4444 I support Trump but I agree with OP, a channel that isn't political shouldn't be talking about politics either left or right, unless he's neutral about it.
@@CaoscapeRevival Watch The Greatest Story Never Told, Europa: The Last Battle, and Hellstorm. Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin, same as "right wing" and "left wing". Embrace the third position.
I was there in the offices working on the UT2004 Onslaught vehicles when the 1st GoW was being made. Late in the evenings, I'd sometimes go over to the main Epic side when they were in the Capital Center, and talk with Chris and Steve and Cliff about what they were doing. It remains to this day the most professionally superlative job in my life, that year plus of time.
Excellent work. Talks about why, but exposes more about what & how becoming a very well done historical exposition for the series better than %99.9 percent of any reviews I've witnessed prior. Phenomenal job.
i am a 65 kg, lazy af, middle management drug addict living in central europe. i wouldn't survive the average 3rd world french kiss, much less monster-alien-snake-moles on plutonium-oil-steroids.
@@RJBuildsPcs That's not the reason they switched moron. Gears of war became too big and expensive for them to manage and produce so it was either the series dies or they hand it over to Microsoft who has the resources to deal with such a huge title.
I have no idea why ppl say gears does not have a good story or hell no story Also we can easily survive this by running on whole grain baby WHOOOOO So excited for gears 5 Dang I didn’t know about the human breeding farm wtf I guess it was necessary we were going extinct
MasterJazz09 I think the breeding was touched on a bit in Gears 4. I didn’t play much of it but I think one of the females were trying to get away from the government
When Carmine said he had nightmares about grubs coming up from the ground at any time I thought, oh shit, everyone should already be dead, and still think so. They'd just pull you underground in your sleep.
One thing that both the game and this video undervalue are the mortars- holy cow, are GoW mortars good! They're like a cross between airburst and artillery, and can kill the big guys with ease. Against swarms of infantry, mortar barrages are a murderously effective countermeasure. If every human squad (8-15 soldiers) had a mortar team, then the locusts would have sustained even higher casualties. Also, flooding the hollows with ocean water was the right choice, but how did it take 14 years and a scientific prodigy to think of that? And how come the researchers who studied immulsion never performed chemical analyses (which would have shown that it's a living organism)? It's great for plot, but even the USSR wasn't that scientifically backwards.
Good point on the mortars, but the issue about them was that they couldn't simply start pouring hell because of the number of casualties it would have caused(not that it stopped them from using the Hammer of Dawn). On E-Day the locusts moved quickly and by sunset the kryll had covered most of the sky which blocked radio communications and made it next to impossible to know if it was safe to again launch mortar attacks. As for the flooding, it ultimately failed because they didn't know the extent of the hollows and just how big a network of caves it was. The only 2 scientists that knew about the immulsion where the parents of Marcus, but the mom was killed off before being able to disclose her discovery and the dad kept it hidden for unknown reasons. The rest of the world only saw the immulsion as oil from our perspective so they didn't know what was going on.
@@jaimegarcia4436 I'll grant that in the first few weeks of combat, the COG was not fully mobilized and couldn't rapidly respond to the locust attacks. But the war dragged on for almost 2 decades, so it wasn't won or lost in a single stroke. Once the initial shock wore off, then the COG should have had no difficulty employing mortars en masse, before or after using the hammer of dawn. I can also understand that not all of the tunnels would be flooded at once, but once flooded, it's no longer usable, and dangerous to work next to. So even if they only flooded tunnels as they popped up, over time the effects would add up. As for the immulsion, any scientific research on its chemical properties would have discovered it to be a living organism. Oil today is processed and refined using techniques derived from hundreds of experiments. Even if most experiments were for the purpose of optimization, they discovered lots of other useful things in the process. So in order to be totally ignorant as to the source of the fuel (oil or immulsion), there would have to be zero experimentation, and no attempts to improve efficiency or cost-effectiveness.
@@michaelmccabe3079 You make very good points, I wasn't really going in on trying to think of it like that. I was simply answering the overall question with regards to the lore known, my bad if it seemed otherwise ignorant on my part.
@@jaimegarcia4436 According to the lore, the leaders of the COG have no scientific interests, nor any military competence beyond 'Carmine Jenkins!' charges. X'D This is also why I think Gears of War: Judgement was particularly fitting: it's a bunch of political officers who care more about procedure than results.
Michael McCabe GOW characters are hilariously retarded. I'm pretty sure the extended lore only exists to cover up any plot holes the games make, and it shows in this video too.
Apparently you gonna do a 3 part series on the gears universe. Gotta do the locust. Then lambent. Then fudging swarm. But more details when the gotdang gears 5 come out cause clearly there's more killables in that game then gears 4...
Honestly, I'd prefer getting a bullet from the Locust over turning Lambent or going through whatever hell the people trapped in the Swarm pods end up experiencing. But then again, the Locust have those torture barges, so I guess there's no winning.
@@kamikazelemming1552 i'd wanna be a swarm cause there is a chance i can gotdang mutate and look cool and stuff but that is just bad logic right there in my end.
@@LOLAP95 THAT MAY BE TRUE but they all got different skills. And some combine with machines. And others are literal animals. C'mon man locust have variations in their fucked up evolution.
Who is here after the Gears of war E day trailer? ✋ Seing marcus barely survive a 1v1 againts a drone really shows how screwed where the seran’s at the start of emergance day.
Seeing that female COG armor is giving my love of tough soldier girls a boost also i sometimes stop to think how cool this setting is. It's a world built for total war
As someone who’s dedicated her free time since 2011 to scouring wikis about Gears, I’m impressed with how thorough this video is. I’m glad to have clicked on this.
Gears 5 rewrite and recontextualization of the lore was crazy. Myrrah, being rewritten as a sort of rare-form queen-type locust with queen-types all being mostly human and slow aging but being psychically linked to the entire horde was pretty cool.
Myrrah was not a scientist but a patient, and she became rogue 'cause she had a kid with a scientist, and that the scientist was killed and she thought her daughter was killed too
“The mystery” is almost always a bs excuse for lazy writing. Don’t want to explain anything in your story? Just have a character say “we may never know the answer” or something akin to that. Boom, now you can explain absolutely nothing about anything and people will praise you for it.
I must admit, I'd love to see an alternate reality spin-off game/trilogy where Myrrah decides her best hope is to warn the Humans about the Lambent and ally with them. Imagine the Locust and the COG working together against the Lambent infection?
I always hated how the Locust was “created” instead of “evolved.” It never made sense how the locusts had have made their own religion, culture, mutate to have a unique biology to no longer be considered human, rise to the numbers to rival the surface world and tame such underground creatures like the corpser, brumak and berserk near flawlessly ALL within a single human lifetime. It would have been cooler if they evoled to be like that then we could have had a underground universe before E day like how we got the world before the Prendrumn wars
David the locust and most of its beast were humans and animals that started mutating because of their exposure to impulsion. Less then 70 years is all it took for them to mutate into the locusts, then forget their human organs completely, create their own culture underground then make a war machine that topples the surface sole supper power. If it took 300 or a thousand years before the locust showed up then I wouldn’t be complaining. All I’m saying is that I hate how so much happened in so few years that it is physically impossible. They did evolved from humans, dogs, apes and whatever made the reavers from exposure to immersions but happened in such a small amount of time you can’t actually call it natural evolution. Thats why I say they’re created even by accident.
@@ReaperofValhalla No one said the lost all their human physiology, it just mutated because they were part lambent. The lambent supercell is not similar to humans at all. If anything, they are closer to human-lambent hybrids.
DivideByZero your not wrong but my point is that it happened all to fast. If the locust were the descendants of humans who got trapped underground because a large part of land got sunken hundreds of years ago then thats fine but they were humans that were locked underground by the government sometime during the predruim wars. Why they didn’t just turn into lambant straight away is a plot hole in the lore. They were created by accident by human influence circumstances. Yes they mutated but mutations are unstable, locust are stable enough that can (though dangerously) breed reliably
Now now! We may not have ground troops built like four brick shithouses plastered together, but we do have way more practical toys than the COG does, I don't care how many redundant organs a gribbly has, if it's made of meat, an Mk19 automatic grenade launcher will sort it out, as will an M2 Browning.
We also have the good sense to support infantry with vehicles - like, three to five tanks working in tandem with mechanized infantry units and close air support. That's something the COG really doesn't seem to be good at. I have yet to even mention our ultimate weapon: we have guns...With flashlights ATTACHED to them! I have every confidence that a modern military would prevail without nuking the planet into a helllscape (mostly because deep tunnels are pretty good at containing radiation) but we, the general populace, would still be rather screwed.
No our military will be desimated, you're overestimating our military and talking as if locust aren't fucking massive buff creatures who are 7 feet tall, have heightened senses, tough skin that can take a variety of small to medium rounds and can't be punctured by blades, night vision, are just as intelligent as us, have a variety of massive and extremely deadly creatures at their disposal, and like they dont know tactics at all. They're bread for war, they will slaughter all of us. Even without a Queen they were still extremely deadly, resourceful, and managed plenty of tactical genius. Locusts are also very well trained, fearless, and never back down until all the puny humans in sight are dead. They also use weaponry with high caliber rounds our armor today is still shit. You can go ahead and attempt to defeat Locust Drones, theron guards, boomers, wretches, Brumaks, corpsers, beast riders, blood mounts, berserkers, reavers, etc your with your tanks, air, and infantry support. I bet if they were real you along with myself and everyone else we all know n love would either be food for their bellies or just ripped to shreds by their powerful weaponry or their own hands
@@makavelishakur9394 They're still made of meat, they're large targets and they apparently have no concept of camouflage, vehicles or armor that isn't inspired by a heavy metal album cover. I agree that ground troops with small arms would be boned - that's why we, unlike the COG, don't send out unsupported infantry squads. A Brumak can be killed with a mortar. I don't like their odds against a 120mm HEAT round. or a Hellfire missile.
@@Leafy1-j1l You have a valid point, but our toys won't be enough hell it took a global bombing to delay the locust, even then they came back to slaughter people. I doubt brumaks will be killed by a single mortar when you put it this way. Locust skin can easily handle blades and small arms fire, now tho brumaks aren't locust, they themselves have powerful skin just you know up to their scale. They take on and destroy COG tanks at all ranges, COG tanks, im willing to bet are much more powerful than ours in terms of fire power yet brumaks can tank those rounds. (Brumaks are killed in game by the player controled tank for gameplay purposes balance, so dont even use that shit argument) the COG has extremely powerful weaponry standard COG weaponry packs heavy firepower that doesn't stop locust from ripping into them does as little difference as the heavy armor they wear. I know our marines are badasses but against locust?? I don't think moral will last against these beasts.
@@makavelishakur9394 How 'bout the fact that the snub pistol is stamped as a .50 caliber sidearm? vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/gearsofwar/images/2/2e/Snub_Pistol_Caliber.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090324050552 We do have .50 caliber sidearms, so that gives us a baseline to extrapolate from. Let's be generous and assume the snub is an autoloader that fires rounds comparable to .500 S&W magnum, not .50 AE. That's probably not possible on that frame, but I'm going to assume future tech somehow fixes that. That means the snub puts out 3091 joules of energy at best. The fact that the locust are able to take more than one of those is impressive! But a 30-06 can easily manage 4050, and a 12 gauge slug gets around 4453. If you don't think we can issue hunting rifles quickly enough? Firing .50 Beowulf out of an AR platform is just a matter of swapping in parts, and that'll get .3092. The lancer is clearly a less powerful weapon than the snub, considering the amount of ammo it takes to down a drone, but it still penetrates. I'll leave what that means for the AKM to you.
The cog used to be a benevolent representative government but the war with the locust forced Marshal law and extreme measures for survival such as the breeding farms and hammer strikes were taken
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"They're sinking cities with a giant worm!"
One of the most unforgettable moments in Gears.
Its an ALASKAN BULL WORM
@@jacobnolan510 😂😂😂😁😖😖😂😂😂
We should take Jacinto and push it somewhere else!
Wait a minute... Have I seen you somewhere before... ?
@@jacobnolan510 XDDDDD
Don’t lie, you all had a stroke when that first berserker busted through the wall in the tombs
Berserker: runs and screams
Me: 💩
I probably would be too scared to move. Lolz.
I remember refusing to move or carry on playing because of that mission. Looking behind me and watching the berzerker running after me shat me up so much I couldn't sleep properly for a good day or two.
Declan West I would always call it too. I would mentally prepare myself for fucking Big Bertha to smash through the wall. But when she did it always made me jump, no matter how many times I prepared.
Declan West Yes, holy shit
B. Carmine: "if you had a helmet, you wouldn't have to breathe in the dust."
Dom: "if I had a helmet I wouldn't be able to spot snipers so easily."
Marcus: "Dom chill."
@Mussell Bestbrook yes
@@geoxev9423 marcus says cool it dom
“Cool it, Dom...”
James Bleasdale yes he does in the second chapter first or second act I believe right after you regroup with Ben Carmine
Legendary Larpy that’s messed up lol he wouldn’t like if carmine pokes fun of Maria 👀
4:58 "25% of the total human race was exterminated..."
Me: "That doesn't sound so bad"
"Within the first day"
Me: 0_0
Aunt Jemima MonKas
*Hey uhh Thanos I think we're good here.*
we have 7 billion people, I think we have a higher population
@@christiangibson2733 imagine a locust horde in high populated areas like china and india..... Those countries will be nearly impossible to evacuate and the death of 25% of just their countries is already over 700 000 000 people. Dont forget countries like in africa with little to no organized military or any large at that.... Africa would be completely annihilated. Europe would be absolute hell. Countries like russia, canada and the U.S.A with the biggest territory could never defend it all and would probably end up forcing to defend key cities. Leaving anyone in the middle of nowhere waiting to just get ripped apart... Nah wed be fucked
Actually, armies in Africa are pretty organized. Nigerian sends military aid to other African countries so saying that their militaries are not organized is pretty ignorant. Not to mention it doesn't even have the largest military in Africa. Egypt has the largest military in Africa who have fought in a good amount of wars and are hardened veterans. South Africa military used to be really good, but now it's okay. This is coming from the grandson of a Nigerian colonel so I know they were organized.
We wouldnt survive... Because we are not 200 kilo 2 meters high mountains of muscle and balls
@ihateoregonians emphasis on shit tho they all look like it
@@JimmyDean59 wut?
@@JimmyDean59 tf? Navy seals would wipe their boots with a russian reserves teeth.
@@voorlees7956 agreed
VoorLees The dude is actually right, you mad?
Imagine growing up playing Fortnite instead of Gears of War 1
That game scared the shit out of me when I was little but it was totally worth it
ILLuminated Onxy same I i was 4 or 5 when I played gears 1
@@nokompot4682 Me too. When I saw that berserker though....
i played gears of war with my friend down the street when I was five, I was suppose to stay the night but had nightmares and went home :/ Still, totally worth it now, and I'm a huge fan of the franchise...Gears 5 HYPE
ILLuminated Onxy everyone crying about fortnite is a fucking virgin
Fortnite scares the shit outta me! Realizing what a shit hole this world has become.
The Cole train runs on whole grain, baby! WHOOO!
*takes hat off of truck puts it on backwards and goes down the slide on the play ground*
@@jin_godsblood2002 are you having a stroke?
@@codypatton2859 lmao, its literally one of the most known easter eggs in gears of war..but okay I guess
play through the pain
The cole train is a smooth ride
3:40 "hundreds of thousands of casualties" bounced grenade off a wall back at himself lol
Statistically that has to have happened before.
lol thought the same thing
Lol im glad I wasnt the only one who caught that! 🤔
Add 1 more casualty
"Throwin' grenade"
*bounces off wall*
"OH SHI-"
“This war would see hundreds of thousands of casualties.” misses grenade throw
I thought it was more
@@francispabai9562 more like millions
@@Chuked 3 billion serans died on Eday
@@hanserfratz oh so that means there was 12 million serans before e day
Epic went from the Gears trilogy to the creation of the largest digital daycare on the planet.
😂😂😂
Epic is making BANK from forknife. Imagine what kickass game they can actually afford to make next.
to true
The also created ya know UNREAL ENGINE! Which I think is the biggest accomplishment
MassFragment Dead. 💀😂👍
Don’t think we didn’t see that toss at 3:40
I was like: c'mon man it was right there! how can you miss!?
Bambi
It looked like Polygon tried playing Gears of War too.
KM- 19 fr huh lmao
"not my fault, someone put a wall in my way"
25% percent of humanity was exterminated during the first day.
Thanos: *quits job*
ultra instinct shaggy this could’ve been a good comment but got that horrible grammar fucked this whole thing up smh
@@TheFapFactory his grammars fine idiot
@@deathbyunicorn5213 no it's really not
@@howspizzagonnagetajobnow452 his grammar was absolutely perfect but he used poor wording
@@howspizzagonnagetajobnow452 instead of humanity he used human
As long as your surname ain't carmine... You'll be fine.
RIP Ben & Anthony 😭
What ya on about clayton survived
Every single carmine
@@Scullex did he die in gears 4?
@@OmegaRafy nah just overexagerating clayton from gears 3 lived too
Just imagine getting out of a devastating war that lasted 79 years only to fight another war against horrifying creatures and nearly having your entire species exterminated.
Imagine meeting a veteran from the start of the Pendulum War who then fought the Locust Horde
When I first heard about the Locust Berserker, I was like, “wait, THAT THING’S A SHE?!”
Yeah I knew when she came to kill me didn't feel bad about spit roasting her through
@@realshit3605 lmao I'm weak 😂
I like berserkers myself (not that way) They cool👌
Literally my reaction too 😂
@@xvenomxreap3rx lol
the berserker was definately a shot at one of the devs gf's
alajsj T
God must've been dominated, pegged hard by one of his GFs, how the hell else would he come up with Hyenas?
So the creator talks about how he was in a dark place with his ex wife and his divorce etc etc. and attributes that to the creation of the berserkers.
alajsj T probably 😂😂😂
Zing
B. Carmine: "if you had a helmet, you wouldn't have to breathe in the dust."
Dom: "if I had a helmet I wouldn't be able to spot snipers so easily."
Marcus: "Dom chill."
Fun facts:
Lancer Rifle has chainsaw bayonet specifically to tear through Locust hide.
Locust's insane durability is very noticeable in game. In GoW 1 even Drones take almost full clip from Lancer to kill. Better go for headshots.
Kantus priests are mutated so much, they need to saw off bone growths on their appendages (spikes on elbows for example) to actually move and wear armor.
General RAAM is actually a Drone by caste. He was big and cunning enough to become a general.
Locusts can control creatures from the Hollow through some unknown means, presumably through Emulsion. RAAM's Krylls are one example.
Brumaks aren't native to Hollow, they are genetically and Emulsion-modified species of apes.
Kantus priests actually can heal other Locust with their chants somehow. Most likely, they activate the Emulsion inside their bodies, and Emulsion is capable of rapidly repairing and mutating the host.
COG are never painted as good guys, just the only ones left. Books, games and comics show what would a fascist-socialist government like COG do in war for survival. Spoiler: what they do is not pretty. At all. As is 'human breeding farms' level of not pretty.
Anya Stroud, the female lead in GoW 3 and Marcus' love interest, is only able to serve in military because they thought she can't bear children. Otherwise? Off to the human farms you go.
Chairman Prescott, for all his cowardice, hypocrisy and other questionable qualities, was the one to push the button when they ordered Hammer of Dawn strikes. He knew full well all the implication of doing it, too.
How exactly do Locust reproduce is never explained, but heavily implied in one of the books, The Slab, IIRC. It is most likely that there's no rape involved, and they don't even mate. There are a few facts that help us paint the picture:
After E-Day Locust actually stopped their advance, or at least slowed, even before Hammer of Dawn strikes, as if they didn't have the numbers to push forward.
There are no known records of Locust children, even in their capital, the Nexus. Even after parts of the Horde go savage, they never seem to establish any sort of reproductive cycle. Yet there are always fresh drones to throw into meatgrinder.
No known records of Berserker rape, Berserkers being pregnant or anything else. Thank god for that, but still. Locust just let Berserkers loose on enemy, not caring if they live or die. Considering how rare Berserkers are, it's kind of counterproductive.
After certain amount of time passed, Locust started taking prisoners, something they never did before on principle. A lot of prisoners.
They have Torture Barges in Hollows, where they, well, torture and mutilate prisoners for no apparent reason. Locust also lobotomize their victims, process taking place presumably on Torture Barges. After that, they have special pods for transporting these poor souls to somewhere.
Part of the Locust religious mantra is "Queen creates drones".
Together with mutated children there were a lot of scientists exiled.
Most likely explanation is that Locust make more Locust from captured humans.
I always though it was a mix of both since the Locust kind of waged a war of genocide against humanity, but that wouldn't make sense if they need humans to reproduce
@@sharkhead1177 its hilarious how whenever a fan brings up warhammer its always how the something thats actually being talked about pales in comparison to warhammer
no one was talking about warhammer that sht is irrelevant
It's a shame Coalition changed the hammerburst in gow4 I've always liked the iron sights an semi auto firing.
@@HeroOfJusticeYT Every time someone starts comparing something to Warhammer for no reason, just mention Halo. Works like a fucking charm.
Mr. Cat what does that even mean, the Imperial Guard alone could take the UNSC, let alone Space Marines, covenant are nothing to Tao or Eldar and tyranids and flood would be fun to watch. But Chaos wins all
You don’t have to take 21mins to tell me I’d get completely and utterly murdered by a wretch
Yeah. I still watched it though
Let’s be real, we’d die from a ticker
@@Rocinante2300 that'd be a better way to go than a damn wretch
I would get mauled by a beserker, definitely
Viixity that’s quite a way to go out
Reason #1: I'm not buffed up with steriods
MagnaGuy mor roids
I'm glad I'm as big as Marcus already.
@@mongooseunleashed X to doubt
@@PeachDragon_ Don't worry, when I save you from the Locust, you'll never doubt me again.
You’ll be in use in reproduction
Still can't believe that the studio behind Gears of War ended up making Fortnite.
The main campaign is actually quite similar to gears of war (Fortnite Save the World) just more cartoon and dumbed down.
Smashers are basically (Berserkers)
Lobbers are snipers
The midget zombies are wretches/tickers
The normal zombies are drones
Blasters are basically kactus.
Also Marcus Fenix's voiceactor is Jonesy and most soldiers
@@l_will_be_great1326 kactus haha
I know right.
More importantly, Unreal Tournament
l_Will_Be_Great get out of it, nothing like it
The first Gears still has the most intense atmosphere out of all of them!
@@sgt.flippy2389
Damn 🤣
@@sgt.flippy2389 lmfaoo damn down that bad?
@@dontcarelol9138 Turns out I just sucked at gears. Got back on and beat him. Might even try hardest difficulty
@@sgt.flippy2389 ayyy that’s what’s up bro I bet it felt amazing finally beating him lol
When that "BOOM" voice played, I kinda panicked. Have a history with that shit. Even on easy
Gave me ptsd
The second time I saw a berserker I just stopped there. Dont even know how gears 1 ends
@@SouthDakotanDrifter you fight a third one
@@SouthDakotanDrifter i couldnt do the first one for the longest time. I just kept having anxiety attacks when it screamed and i was never good at dodging it
@@SoulTransient same, but the second time was more of I dont want to do this bullshit
What if we never planned to survive them?
Fuck you.
@@Dorkeydaze sallttyyyyy
Why u stalking me justin XD
justin y's comment: an hour ago
madison knight's comment: two hours ago
makes sense.
@@miloman9998 i hate justin with a passion.
Me, looking at the title: I never said I could.
Me looking at the title: he never actually discussed that topic at all he just talked about the shit that happens in the games.
Me, looking at the title: wanna know why?
Who else had no idea Gears of War had such deep lore
Ive been around since gears 1 and learn sumething new
Oh defiantly not me. Marcus phoenix has his own damn comic! The lore of sera is crazy detailed.
The queen is definitely Marcus's mother
If you're really interested, I recommend reading the books and the comics. There's alot of new info on the locust from the comics that came out this year.
Go to the gears wiki, this isn't even the tip of the iceberg
To anyone that thinks Myrrah is mother of Marcus: if Queen Myrrah is the mother of Marcus, and Kait is her grandaughter, That would mean Reyna (Kaits mother) is the half sister of Marcus, making Kait Marcus's niece. Therefore, James is in love with his cousin.
SWEET HOME ALABAMA
HOLEY DOULEY!!!
Also his mother is in the comics
if you actually play the games and read the comics and books, you would not have any reason to believe this shit
@@bengooding4084 I've only played the games. I dont think Myrrah is Marcus's mother, but I've always had the idea that Adam might be Reyna's father. Does that make more sense?
Gears 5 fully explains the Locust's origins, for anyone who comes across this ;)
JettzCGI
Just beat the campaign today, really happy to see the explanation
@@nukehobo so who did you killed? jd or the other guy :c I killed jd and felt sad for Marcus
@@Joel3D1 I just finished yesterday. I couldn't kill JD cuz I'm tryna smash Kait and that guy was cock blocking
Orion Neguse hhahhahaha
Nighty night...
People talking about the Boomers 'BOOM!' being terrifying clearly haven't played beast mode on insane. 'WOOO!'
BruteSparta YES OMFG!! COLE always has a dang boomshot and it’s fatal.
Playing beast ON INSANE,Are you fucking crazy!?!!?
Beast mode was the best. I love playing as the berserker. Horde mode just crazy tho
Average Eugene best way to beat it is keeping spawning as a ticker and keep trying to kill things until you have lots of money
wait wait wait, people thought the BOOM from Boomers was terrifying?
That grenade throw at 3:40
Let's not talk about that
We do not mention that in the history books.
@@Soul_Alpha Damn! You right
That was God awful throw
He had a lazor guide and *still* missed. -_-
I liked in the multiplayer clip at 10:43 there is a username as "A Vagina Doctor." This is the most XBox 360 name ever.
Chicken Nuggets #4 I remember playing COD: Blacks Ops 2 and seeing FaZe clan everywhere lol
360 era was amazing… sadly that era is gone now
Xbox 360 Was amazing and I still use mine (cause I can’t get an Xbox one or series x)
@@bennystinks3442 Xbox one is way more common than a series x
@@Chuked I might be getting one this month because my Xbox 360 don’t work anymore
(Rip Xbox 360 2013-2021 always made me happy and rage at the same time and will be missed)
Idk why I just made a whole funeral
Of all the apocalyptic situations I feel I'm prepared for, I'm definitely screwed if the Locust ever arrive.
For a fact I'm gonna die against these ugly looking ass monsters. BOOM!
Nah, man. I got you. 😎
We all got each other. Chainsaw those bitches.
Or zombies from Left4dead
@@grinninggreen6750 are you the real Marcus Fenix
How dare you insinuate that i, an untrained male with no experience in combat or survival in alien lands not be able to destroy demonic monsters, and possess a long life in such conditions.
My mighty six inches of fat will provide an inpenitrable bullet sponge! I will then slowly fight my way through hordes of locusts with my stainless steel rake from the garden
@@deathbyunicorn5213 Yet that did not saved Tai. If they can't kill you, they can break you.
@@RandalfElVikingo remember my 9 inches of fat? My bones are practically rubber and thus unbreakable
@@deathbyunicorn5213 Tai had fat+muscle, he was tortured to the point he killed himself.
But he was a badass, he killed a Brumak all by himself.
@@RandalfElVikingo also Brumaks are really easy to kill
Ya'll know who can survive this?
THE COLE TRAIN BABY! WOOOOOO!
Woooo
The Cole train runs on whole grain baby
@@Horibline THE COLE TRAIN DON'T GO "Woooo", BABY. HE GOES WOOOOOOOO!!!!
mPotatoLord boi cringe
@@miniivano69 it's facts whether you like it or not.
I love Gears but hate the toxic community. Everyone you meet "used to be a pro", "played for OpTic", "is the best player to have lived" or "is the second coming of Christ" when it comes to Gears.
Too. Fucking. True.
Nah not really. I just hate that everyone I ever played against was better than me
So true, or when you use any other weapon apart from the Gnasher and everyone in the match loses their mind over it even your own team.
Honestly I play gears just for the story and horde mode. I hope they bring back beast mode loved it
If he wall bounces, he’s most likely toxic
Never quite understood this entire gears universe. This was so well done my guy. Two big thumbs up
3:39 that aim, Is just completely awful, what the hell was that?!?!? 😂🤣😂🤣
As soon as I saw its I checked the comments
Lmaoo
Lmfaooo
How do you miss that
Why he won't survive the gears of wars locust horde... poor aim
Mom said it's my turn to survive the locust horde.
No
Don’t forget that the locust was fighting a two front war so imagine if they didn’t have to fight the lambent and focused all there forces on the humans
Actually if I remember correctly the locust did just fine with the lambent in gears 1 and they didn't become a problem until the lightmass bomb destroyed the outer hollow allowing for the lambent to go on the offensive closer to nexus
@@UzilKryll06 They were on an even playing field in gears one, not getting slaughtered but still falling in numbers to lambent. But the imulsion was what made the lambet very hard to deal with since the locusts were dying of sickness as well as the lambent.
That is why the locusts invaded in the first place actually since staying closer to the imulsion was killing them each day.
Nothing would happen. The lambent was the reason they rose from the surface and wage war with the humans.
The lambent exists for the same reason the locust do, and there is a reason locust are more susceptible to it. The lambent come *from* imulsion. and the locust mutate *because* of imulsion.
You can't have one without the other.
DivideByZero all I was saying was imagine how strong the locust army would be if they wasn’t fighting a war on two fronts
If Marcus and crew didn’t have plot armor, they would have died long ago
Not really they are seasoned vets and highly skilled regular soldiers and they do not underestimate the enemy a mistake colonel Loomis made in judgement and nearly paid for it
Plus stranded survived just fine just hard times
@@GnosisZX yup
yeah, that's what plot armor means
@@GnosisZX are they the only ones lmao?
@@AxlFG no if cog was that incompetent they loses to uir
Bruh I'd probably just be a Cog Corpse somewhere
Yea same, all the random bodies u find during gameplay
the fact that you didnt talk about politics cured my head ache. thanks for the chill experience dude
You can "chill" in your safe space all you want. Typical communist liberal. Trump will make america great again.
I just said the most obnoxious political shit I could think of just to troll you.
@@michaelmorse4444 I support Trump but I agree with OP, a channel that isn't political shouldn't be talking about politics either left or right, unless he's neutral about it.
@@CaoscapeRevival Watch The Greatest Story Never Told, Europa: The Last Battle, and Hellstorm. Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin, same as "right wing" and "left wing". Embrace the third position.
@@michaelmorse4444 surprised you're not triggered he said the word "socialist" at the beginning of the video (^:
I was there in the offices working on the UT2004 Onslaught vehicles when the 1st GoW was being made. Late in the evenings, I'd sometimes go over to the main Epic side when they were in the Capital Center, and talk with Chris and Steve and Cliff about what they were doing. It remains to this day the most professionally superlative job in my life, that year plus of time.
I’m still waiting for a game that really captures the feeling of being a small, insignificant grunt facing a Locust onslaught. Gears 2 came close...
Dead Space lol.
If they never found his father in the third game then it could've been that
Like halo ODST?
Judgment tried but failed to do that...
Excellent work.
Talks about why, but exposes more about what & how becoming a very well done historical exposition for the series better than %99.9 percent of any reviews I've witnessed prior. Phenomenal job.
'5 centuries before current timeline'.... 'then peace came lasting 1000 years'
Me: ????
i am a 65 kg, lazy af, middle management drug addict living in central europe.
i wouldn't survive the average 3rd world french kiss, much less monster-alien-snake-moles on plutonium-oil-steroids.
lol sad. maybe the muslims taking over europe is a good thing
neves bird that's racist
@@codenamehalo9847 cool go eat some mcdonalds
neves bird did you just say that because Americans are over weight? because that's very offensive.
@@codenamehalo9847 oh shit youre messing with me lol you almost got me
These guys went from badass chainsaw guns to fortnite...smh
lil bit the mighty really have fallen
When you make like 10 gears of war I could imagine you’d wanna do some thing else eventually
@@RJBuildsPcs That's not the reason they switched moron. Gears of war became too big and expensive for them to manage and produce so it was either the series dies or they hand it over to Microsoft who has the resources to deal with such a huge title.
lil bit wdym?
Different creators just using the same engine. So you're wrong my child
4:58 that gave me the chills. Imagining something like this happening gives me chills down my spine. I don't think I would survive 2 seconds.
THE COLE TRAIN IS A SMOOTH RIDE
That's right everyone wants to see the train baby 😁👍
WWWOOO is that it I don't know
THE COLE TRAIN RUNS ON WHOLE GRAIN BABY, WOOOO!
Who remembers the Cole Train Rap?
“WOOOOOO!!!! I’m A Limo Ridin Cole Train Glidin Jet Flyin SON OF A GUN!!!
I have no idea why ppl say gears does not have a good story or hell no story
Also we can easily survive this by running on whole grain baby WHOOOOO
So excited for gears 5
Dang I didn’t know about the human breeding farm wtf I guess it was necessary we were going extinct
MasterJazz09 I think the breeding was touched on a bit in Gears 4. I didn’t play much of it but I think one of the females were trying to get away from the government
In Gears 4 Kait talks about being tired of everyone telling her to go to the breeding farms
Sign me up
Joking
@Darth Armageddon The men rape the women it's not consentual
We were all scared of the wretches in the first years of war. Walking on those planks and hoping we wouldn’t have fallen
Nah it was the Berserker for me
@@dovahkiin7253 for me it was both
that screech
When Carmine said he had nightmares about grubs coming up from the ground at any time I thought, oh shit, everyone should already be dead, and still think so. They'd just pull you underground in your sleep.
Raam will make damn sure you don't survive that World 😂
Wouldn't karn kill us first? I believe he was the first general in gears judgement which was 2 weeks after Eday
But yea raam would annihilate us
@@UzilKryll06 either way we'd all day in some way from either of them or from the damn Kryll at night 😂
We have a marcus
@@ThisMelonHead not if he's somewhere else where you aren't then we're screwed 😂
You forgot to mention that you have to be built like a tank if you want to survive.
All the skinny gears get wacked.
I guess your right I wouldn't survive
I would thrive.
I didnt know a lot of this, thanks for making this, I love this game series and it's cool to learn more about the lore
Check the gears wiki or the comics there is So much to learn
I just realized that 17:53 was the day one map on gears 2
This was insanely interesting to watch. Love these videos explaining the strengths and lore of game universes
7:19 I thought every creature had multiple internal organs
3:38, I can't believe you threw that and missed lol.
3:40 So we gonna ignore this
Hahahaha no Jesus fuck he sucks with a simple throw
One thing that both the game and this video undervalue are the mortars- holy cow, are GoW mortars good! They're like a cross between airburst and artillery, and can kill the big guys with ease. Against swarms of infantry, mortar barrages are a murderously effective countermeasure. If every human squad (8-15 soldiers) had a mortar team, then the locusts would have sustained even higher casualties.
Also, flooding the hollows with ocean water was the right choice, but how did it take 14 years and a scientific prodigy to think of that? And how come the researchers who studied immulsion never performed chemical analyses (which would have shown that it's a living organism)? It's great for plot, but even the USSR wasn't that scientifically backwards.
Good point on the mortars, but the issue about them was that they couldn't simply start pouring hell because of the number of casualties it would have caused(not that it stopped them from using the Hammer of Dawn). On E-Day the locusts moved quickly and by sunset the kryll had covered most of the sky which blocked radio communications and made it next to impossible to know if it was safe to again launch mortar attacks.
As for the flooding, it ultimately failed because they didn't know the extent of the hollows and just how big a network of caves it was. The only 2 scientists that knew about the immulsion where the parents of Marcus, but the mom was killed off before being able to disclose her discovery and the dad kept it hidden for unknown reasons. The rest of the world only saw the immulsion as oil from our perspective so they didn't know what was going on.
@@jaimegarcia4436 I'll grant that in the first few weeks of combat, the COG was not fully mobilized and couldn't rapidly respond to the locust attacks. But the war dragged on for almost 2 decades, so it wasn't won or lost in a single stroke. Once the initial shock wore off, then the COG should have had no difficulty employing mortars en masse, before or after using the hammer of dawn.
I can also understand that not all of the tunnels would be flooded at once, but once flooded, it's no longer usable, and dangerous to work next to. So even if they only flooded tunnels as they popped up, over time the effects would add up. As for the immulsion, any scientific research on its chemical properties would have discovered it to be a living organism. Oil today is processed and refined using techniques derived from hundreds of experiments. Even if most experiments were for the purpose of optimization, they discovered lots of other useful things in the process. So in order to be totally ignorant as to the source of the fuel (oil or immulsion), there would have to be zero experimentation, and no attempts to improve efficiency or cost-effectiveness.
@@michaelmccabe3079 You make very good points, I wasn't really going in on trying to think of it like that. I was simply answering the overall question with regards to the lore known, my bad if it seemed otherwise ignorant on my part.
@@jaimegarcia4436 According to the lore, the leaders of the COG have no scientific interests, nor any military competence beyond 'Carmine Jenkins!' charges. X'D This is also why I think Gears of War: Judgement was particularly fitting: it's a bunch of political officers who care more about procedure than results.
Michael McCabe GOW characters are hilariously retarded. I'm pretty sure the extended lore only exists to cover up any plot holes the games make, and it shows in this video too.
Wow, wasn't expecting such a nuanced critique on industrialization from GoW.
I wouldn't survive because I'm not a 400 lb power lifter with high tech weapons and armor also with zero military training
Apparently you gonna do a 3 part series on the gears universe. Gotta do the locust. Then lambent. Then fudging swarm. But more details when the gotdang gears 5 come out cause clearly there's more killables in that game then gears 4...
Honestly, I'd prefer getting a bullet from the Locust over turning Lambent or going through whatever hell the people trapped in the Swarm pods end up experiencing. But then again, the Locust have those torture barges, so I guess there's no winning.
@@kamikazelemming1552 i'd wanna be a swarm cause there is a chance i can gotdang mutate and look cool and stuff but that is just bad logic right there in my end.
They're ALL locust.. just mutated.
@@LOLAP95 THAT MAY BE TRUE but they all got different skills. And some combine with machines. And others are literal animals. C'mon man locust have variations in their fucked up evolution.
Who is here after the Gears of war E day trailer? ✋ Seing marcus barely survive a 1v1 againts a drone really shows how screwed where the seran’s at the start of emergance day.
Me
8:40
Berserkers=Team Four Stars version of Dodoria
Change my mind
MY BIG. MEATY. VAGIIIIINAAAAA
What about why you wouldn’t survive killing floor 2 zed outbreak
yesssss
So just Killing Floor
eh i agree with that!
Yessss
Yes
"Why wouldn't you survive the locust horde"
Carmines: yes
Next video “why the locust won’t survive DOOMGUY”
XD
Literally
You can't hide inside either, those damn brumaks would get you.
“Why you wouldn’t survive the locust horde”
“Number one: Locust horde.”
Seeing that female COG armor is giving my love of tough soldier girls a boost
also i sometimes stop to think how cool this setting is. It's a world built for total war
Eh...a universe that ups the violence and death/unsurvivability...?
Warhammer 40k: Hold my Ammsac...
*Chaos space marine Laughs evilly*
L̳a̳u̳g̳h̳s̳ ̳i̳n̳ ̳O̳r̳k̳i̳s̳h̳
Please leave sir you’re no longer welcome here.
*did someone say die for the emperor?*
Warhammer 40k has the best super soldier?
Keanu reaves: Hold my beer!
Excellent video, excellent analysis, excellent setting of Gears of War. Truly isn't like Warhammer 40k light on only one world but still so GRIM DARK.
Wowsuchgaming: *sees RAAM* "Ram"
Wowsuchgaming: *sees Brumak* "Bru MAKK
LOGIC
Ill just head to the winchester and have a pint and wait for all this to blow over . :]
I understood that reference. How's that for a slice of fried gold?
Shawn of the dead
As someone who’s dedicated her free time since 2011 to scouring wikis about Gears, I’m impressed with how thorough this video is. I’m glad to have clicked on this.
Why you wouldn't survive a last of us cordycep outbreak
Cause the dumbass military would shoot all the non infected humans left.
Mostly likely die of starvation due to surviors and government being to stupid to stop fighting and work in solutions
@@donnellebarfield3964 probably
You have missed the most important thing... no one would survive because none of us would be able to move in the CoG armour
I've played all these games and read three of the tie-in novels and this video still had a better explanation of Sera's history. Well done!
7:20 "They have multiple internal organs"
Yeah, I would think so
3:40 how he miss that grenade shot. What a bad player😂
Gears 5 rewrite and recontextualization of the lore was crazy. Myrrah, being rewritten as a sort of rare-form queen-type locust with queen-types all being mostly human and slow aging but being psychically linked to the entire horde was pretty cool.
Myrrah was not a scientist but a patient, and she became rogue 'cause she had a kid with a scientist, and that the scientist was killed and she thought her daughter was killed too
6:14 you said "the earth's crust" instead of "seras crust" lmao
"What about a plague of locusts?"
"What?"
"LOCUUUUSTS!!!"
The Amazing World of Gumball - The Pizza
Can you survive the SCP Foundation universe?
SCPs are random chances and are too...Specific. Almost any Keter class could have it's own video.
No then everyone would be a neck beard nerd with their imagination
Scp-001 would kill everything
@@GeneratedPerson
Which one?
Swann's Proposal the Authors?
There is an scp that is going to destroy the world at some point I forgot the name
i dont like the "Locusts were human all along twist!" its so contrived and takes away from there mystery
It's okay, 90 percent of the fan base didn't pay attention during that mission and didn't catch it.
David so true hahaha
David deadass
It makes sense..... Smh
“The mystery” is almost always a bs excuse for lazy writing. Don’t want to explain anything in your story? Just have a character say “we may never know the answer” or something akin to that. Boom, now you can explain absolutely nothing about anything and people will praise you for it.
I must admit, I'd love to see an alternate reality spin-off game/trilogy where Myrrah decides her best hope is to warn the Humans about the Lambent and ally with them. Imagine the Locust and the COG working together against the Lambent infection?
I always hated how the Locust was “created” instead of “evolved.” It never made sense how the locusts had have made their own religion, culture, mutate to have a unique biology to no longer be considered human, rise to the numbers to rival the surface world and tame such underground creatures like the corpser, brumak and berserk near flawlessly ALL within a single human lifetime. It would have been cooler if they evoled to be like that then we could have had a underground universe before E day like how we got the world before the Prendrumn wars
But we still don't know where they came from or what they really are
They did evolve, did you not watch the video?
David the locust and most of its beast were humans and animals that started mutating because of their exposure to impulsion. Less then 70 years is all it took for them to mutate into the locusts, then forget their human organs completely, create their own culture underground then make a war machine that topples the surface sole supper power. If it took 300 or a thousand years before the locust showed up then I wouldn’t be complaining. All I’m saying is that I hate how so much happened in so few years that it is physically impossible. They did evolved from humans, dogs, apes and whatever made the reavers from exposure to immersions but happened in such a small amount of time you can’t actually call it natural evolution. Thats why I say they’re created even by accident.
@@ReaperofValhalla No one said the lost all their human physiology, it just mutated because they were part lambent. The lambent supercell is not similar to humans at all. If anything, they are closer to human-lambent hybrids.
DivideByZero your not wrong but my point is that it happened all to fast. If the locust were the descendants of humans who got trapped underground because a large part of land got sunken hundreds of years ago then thats fine but they were humans that were locked underground by the government sometime during the predruim wars. Why they didn’t just turn into lambant straight away is a plot hole in the lore. They were created by accident by human influence circumstances. Yes they mutated but mutations are unstable, locust are stable enough that can (though dangerously) breed reliably
“Why you wouldn’t survive a Pokémon, war,” was gold.
I love the lore you give with the videos, keep up the good work.
You always kick some BUNZ bro. Keep this AWESOME series coming. PS luvd the Pokemon ones TOO. rock on
Now now! We may not have ground troops built like four brick shithouses plastered together, but we do have way more practical toys than the COG does, I don't care how many redundant organs a gribbly has, if it's made of meat, an Mk19 automatic grenade launcher will sort it out, as will an M2 Browning.
We also have the good sense to support infantry with vehicles - like, three to five tanks working in tandem with mechanized infantry units and close air support. That's something the COG really doesn't seem to be good at.
I have yet to even mention our ultimate weapon: we have guns...With flashlights ATTACHED to them!
I have every confidence that a modern military would prevail without nuking the planet into a helllscape (mostly because deep tunnels are pretty good at containing radiation) but we, the general populace, would still be rather screwed.
No our military will be desimated, you're overestimating our military and talking as if locust aren't fucking massive buff creatures who are 7 feet tall, have heightened senses, tough skin that can take a variety of small to medium rounds and can't be punctured by blades, night vision, are just as intelligent as us, have a variety of massive and extremely deadly creatures at their disposal, and like they dont know tactics at all. They're bread for war, they will slaughter all of us. Even without a Queen they were still extremely deadly, resourceful, and managed plenty of tactical genius. Locusts are also very well trained, fearless, and never back down until all the puny humans in sight are dead. They also use weaponry with high caliber rounds our armor today is still shit. You can go ahead and attempt to defeat Locust Drones, theron guards, boomers, wretches, Brumaks, corpsers, beast riders, blood mounts, berserkers, reavers, etc your with your tanks, air, and infantry support. I bet if they were real you along with myself and everyone else we all know n love would either be food for their bellies or just ripped to shreds by their powerful weaponry or their own hands
@@makavelishakur9394 They're still made of meat, they're large targets and they apparently have no concept of camouflage, vehicles or armor that isn't inspired by a heavy metal album cover. I agree that ground troops with small arms would be boned - that's why we, unlike the COG, don't send out unsupported infantry squads.
A Brumak can be killed with a mortar. I don't like their odds against a 120mm HEAT round. or a Hellfire missile.
@@Leafy1-j1l You have a valid point, but our toys won't be enough hell it took a global bombing to delay the locust, even then they came back to slaughter people. I doubt brumaks will be killed by a single mortar when you put it this way. Locust skin can easily handle blades and small arms fire, now tho brumaks aren't locust, they themselves have powerful skin just you know up to their scale. They take on and destroy COG tanks at all ranges, COG tanks, im willing to bet are much more powerful than ours in terms of fire power yet brumaks can tank those rounds. (Brumaks are killed in game by the player controled tank for gameplay purposes balance, so dont even use that shit argument) the COG has extremely powerful weaponry standard COG weaponry packs heavy firepower that doesn't stop locust from ripping into them does as little difference as the heavy armor they wear. I know our marines are badasses but against locust?? I don't think moral will last against these beasts.
@@makavelishakur9394 So analyzing a video game using the gameplay is a "shit argument"? What sources would you have me use, then?
@@makavelishakur9394 How 'bout the fact that the snub pistol is stamped as a .50 caliber sidearm?
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We do have .50 caliber sidearms, so that gives us a baseline to extrapolate from. Let's be generous and assume the snub is an autoloader that fires rounds comparable to .500 S&W magnum, not .50 AE. That's probably not possible on that frame, but I'm going to assume future tech somehow fixes that.
That means the snub puts out 3091 joules of energy at best. The fact that the locust are able to take more than one of those is impressive! But a 30-06 can easily manage 4050, and a 12 gauge slug gets around 4453. If you don't think we can issue hunting rifles quickly enough? Firing .50 Beowulf out of an AR platform is just a matter of swapping in parts, and that'll get .3092.
The lancer is clearly a less powerful weapon than the snub, considering the amount of ammo it takes to down a drone, but it still penetrates. I'll leave what that means for the AKM to you.
Imagine on the battlefield you hear the word "BOOM" and the dude next to you gets blown the fuck up
Why You Wouldn't Survive a digimon invasion
Joseph Soledad depends on which digimon invade
@@DarthHavoc1 all
We woukd have to find a whole bunch digidestin kids
"SHOW ME THE LOCUST R34"
You're gonna regret that.(?)
I'm playing gears 1, it's 2 years older than me bro and that berserker at the start gave me a stroke and a seizure
Breeding farms kind of explains the physical stature of the human soldiers in the lore, and roids of course. Also the UIR sounds better than the COGS.
The way I read it, UIR is as bad as late 2000’s Russia, while COG is an Orwellian totalitarian state. So yeah, ‘better.’
The cog used to be a benevolent representative government but the war with the locust forced Marshal law and extreme measures for survival such as the breeding farms and hammer strikes were taken
COG is more memorable. UIR kind of sounds like a catchy thing a bank would make to get you to spend money