Predator: *Uncloaks in a kitchen with a pack of wine coolers in hand.* Chris Hansen: "Hi, so what are you doing here?" Predator: *Begins sweating profusely.*
The Long life is also a disadvantage because … _Humans gain that ability by _*_eating_*_ Yautja._ Specifically Yautja blood grants any species long life, _IMMORTALITY_ if they keep using it. Now imagine what would happen if that became common knowledge amongst humanity? We would hunt them in a desperate attempt for more life right? *_Wrong_* How often do you eat meat that was hunted? Could hunting wild animals support all the humans currently on Earth in developed countries? _We would farm Yautja_ and just keep draining their blood over and over again, while a rapidly technologically advancing, space-faring Humanity spreads further and further. Our greatest scientist and engineers never growing old, just becoming more skilled. Our commanders being the experienced proven leaders and survivors, not just there because the talented and well trained leaders died of old age. Now you're thinking having a bunch of Yautja roaming around on farms would be a recipe for disaster when they inevitably escape and seek revenge. Like we would keep them _free range?_ *Factory Farms,* each Yautja in a cage unable to move it's entire life, having no contact with others, completely insane possibly catatonic with no concept of what reality even is. Maybe decerebrated (lobotomized) if it doesn't affect the blood and Humanity isn't totally psychopathic… although the knowledge that they've hunted us since we've existed and used us as incubators for Xenomorphs (at times risking all life on Earth) may silence *People* for the *Ethical Treatment* of *Aliens.* And where would we get all the stock for our Factory Farms? Simple, cloning. Any Yautja that fell into our hands (even a corpse) is DNA for cloning. The clones would never even understand the concept of life, having spent every moment held down in a life support cocoon with no stimulation except regular electric impulses to keep the muscles healthy enough. And if we ever got our hands on female Yautja and could begin IVF? [Or even if they have a XY system like ours, geneticist could create females by copying another X chromosome]. And then we never have to worry about cloning failure due to accumulated copying errors (clone of a clone of a clone). Humanity becomes far more formidable as a species and individually. And what if data transmitted from the failed United Systems Military experiment into harnessing the Xenomorphs is used to develop a way to clone humans that have all the memories and skills of the original? Insert the Xenomorph DNA sequence that was in Ripley 8 into a clone of someone useful and suddenly they're back as a person. And as a added bonus they're mildly superhuman and able to understand and fight Xenomorphs better. [Just don't use the same technique on the Yautja stock]. Eventually the Yautja lifespan sequences could be edited into Humans as well, but for all we know Yautja blood might taste great! Combine the two and Humanity has a endless supply of superhuman soldiers that come fully trained and battle hardened as soon as they're out of the tank and had a little therapy. They are always young, forever. And as time progresses, new duplicates can be taken from the latest most experienced version of the templates. And should a great individual die, well a copy from their latest tissue sample can be used assuming the corpse isn't recoverable (which is great for debriefing and investigations as well). Makes random accidents less of a hassle as well, and you can just keep running off copies of talented individuals in any field, now that would be a research team. A immortal Humanity that can back itself up and run endless copies that are ready to go. In war we could just swarm with elite units. And in society we are well… different, but definitely superior. Talk about *_Human Fuck Yea!_*
Good idea, one issue tho. On the very few occasions someone actually fucked with the Yautja and made them react in a way more than a mere hunt, they rapidly destroyed everyone who got in their way. There are 2 prime examples of this. When human scientists created the xenoborgs (alien tech hybrids), the predators hunted down their source and essentially blew the entire colony to hell, one if the usual honor hunting, or playing somewhat fair, they attacked en mass, and killed everything. The other example is the Rage War series, humans in it are far more advanced than ever, and can actually fight predators on a fairly even level (well ok, it still takes squads of marines to beat a Yautja, but it happens often enough). The Rage (exiled humans who control xenos with advanced tech), smash into human space and kick ass, the Yautja have a few scuffles with the Rage that they lose, due to trying to fight in melee (like they do) and the Rage having designed a counter to that. But once they stop playing fair, it's a very 1 sided affair, even small Yaujta scout ships can kill human heavy cruisers, the Yautja have much larger warships, and mobile space bases, some on comparable size to other scifi (high charity scale). There is also the whole their ships can fire while cloaked and the ships cloaking hides them from everything, not just light.
The high lords of terra are corrupt, Guardsman Ben of America has the blessings of His Holiness the Emperor to continue his actions in preparing all of humanity for first contact with Xeno scum.
Predator armor is actually only resistant to Xenomorph blood because elements from the Xenomorph dna is used to make the armor, or the Predator will actually carve its armor from Xenomorph resins, or even out of hull Xenomorph parts, though they must be care, the Xenomorph can easily super regenerate and or are very infectious.
In most of your videos, you mention a Humanity First codebook but I can't seem to find one. I would like if you released one so we can all benefit from your wisdom on our alien foes.
As a few other commenters have already pointed out, the Predators actually do use more advanced weapons and tactics whenever they are facing a foe or group of foes that they feel warrants it. It is just very rare that they feel the need to do so is all.
Actually the yautuja have a kit meant for full scale warfare. Such as heavy amour (which is not mobile, & not suite for hunt) & weapons like flame throws (which violates the honor code). Also if you are unlucky enough to run into rouges, you might have to fight Xneos (which are use like war dogs). So I give 4.5
Trandoshans beat 'em to it. They'd probably attempt to work together to get something worked out and end up going to war over the hunting grounds; they're just too aggressive to get something like that to workout.
Hunt =/= War They have the capability to use their super high tech weaponry, when they need to. They simply don't have to with anything we've seen them face. AvP: Extinction has plenty of examples.
Technically the only things we see them need to use those weapons against have been the Xenomorphs, and they when half the time. Considering how deadly said weapons of war are, thats a testament to how deadly the Xenomorph is.
There are actually books were the Yautja do go to war, its impressive how massively they handicap themselves during hunting. Their scout ships are armed better than human cruisers, and can fire while cloaked. Once a Yautja stops trying to give its prey a chance to defend itself, it becomes a very 1 sided slaughter. Admittedly to make them got to war, you basically have to commit some very specific acts, usually involving messing with their culture. The only examples I can recall are 2 times when humans modified Xenomorphs, once making them into Xenoborgs (Yautja called this a heracy) and the other time when the Rage actually gained control of them and modified them to explode when they died, which the Yautja took quite personally.
@@cgi2002 Their was also the War in AvP War, they almost lost if not for the human with the preds, and technically AvP 2 the game, as they did use weapons of war after things went south, or also in the AvPR movie.
@@lancer737 AvP war is actually not the Preds at war, it's just a single hunting pack, that's acting more aggressively than usual, and most of the pack were youngblood. It's also written to make Mako seem more like a badass. The book it replaced (Hunters Planet) has a more warlike Yautja pack. As for AvP 2 really they barely used weapons of war, and only a handful of Yautja appear again. Their only powerful weapons were shooting down a few dropships. It was mostly just a normal hunt with a side order of rescue mission. AvP Requim however, that's just a normal hunt, the only difference is the Yautja involved is an Elder. He specifically wants to hunt the Predialien, while at the same time limiting human exposure to Yautja tech and the xenomorphs (destroying the ship, bodies, etc). If that had been a war, it wouldn't have bothered hiding, it would basically have walked through town with the twin shoulder cannons cleaning house. As I said, Yautja don't go to war easily, and even then they are usually a bit slow to do it. They also tend to start off a bit incompetent at it, trying to be honorable still, it's only when the realise that there is actually a real threat (not to them individually, but to the entire species and culture) they tend to go all out.
@@cgi2002 What are you talking about, AvP War is them at War, they even say so in the intro, they even go over all the weapons and tactics they are using during war vs a Hunt. AvP2 was a hunt that turns into a War because they are caught between 6 Hives, 6 Queens, and one Empress vs a Battalion of Marines and Probably a Battalion of WY Russian mercs and sizable group of Combat Synthetics. The Plasma pistol and mines are weapons of war. AvPR is not a hunt, they said it behind the scenes over and over again that Wolf is a cleaner for mistakes other clans go through. They dont hunt Predaliens, they are considered a religious abomination as it has "stolen the soul of the hunter it comes from" thats how they view the genetic memory of the creatures that come from hosts. Anyway Wolf is armed with what appears to be Dark Plasma, thats used only for war, he has laser beam cutter mines, thats not a normal weapon at all, he has a power gauntlet and other weapons that cause massive amounts of damage.
I would like to point out, lots of Clans and tribes have very lethal weapons of war, they wave all hunting rights when at war with a Species. Some weapons include Heat Beam Blazer that are so hot, they are as hot as multiple Star cores. Two clans at least use Dark Plasma, just two cups of it will completely consume anything very quickly, no matter its material composition and mass. Two- three cups consumed an entire swimming pool within 10 minutes.
Theres a Renegade tribe that likes to EMP planets they invade so they have no weapons they can use to fight, and then they drop Xenomorphs on the planets and watch the carnage from afar. Black Predators when at war do similar things.
Average nameless Predators tend to average an Adeptus Astartes Marine's level of kills versus human enemies and are reasonably comparable to a Space Marine as well. Massive strength, advanced technology, distaste for xenos; they make up for lack of armour coverage with the cloaking device as well. A Predator vs a Space Marine would be a very interesting fight.
One thing that generation films failed to touch on is the fact that all of these Yautja are the equivalent of civilians . The predators do in fact have a military that is vastly more powerful with more advanced weapons , equipment and ships . The predators that you see in the movies are trophy hunters , like the dentist that goes to africa to bag a lion .
We have mastered interstellar travel and are the most prolific killing machines the universe has ever known. So much so in fact that we have no wars to fight. Only trophies to collect...
You obviously never saw Predator 2, because you made the same mistake the government agents made about the Yautja vision they made. While they primarily use infra-red they can see in multiply spectrums of light. In Predator 2 the agents try to blind the Yautja by luring him into a freezer, he figures out what they are doing. The Yautja then changes his vision spectrum & kills all the agents easily
Technically the video is correct. The yautja only see in infrared, but they have technology in their masks to let them see other ways, and not just in light spectrums, they can see pheromones and EM wavelengths.
@@buzzdroid8325, They're Silicon lifeforms, yeah if somehow in real life neutralize they're Acid, they're polarized silicon body will became a pile of glass,quartz or sand.
Likely infuriating for officers of the Astra Militarum to deal with and frightening for conscripts, but they sound like nothing more than less agile/uglier/not as nearly extinct versions of the Eldar. Ultimately, they will pose no threat to mankind. Exterminatus and/or crusade fleets can be reserved for another foe of more importance. Next file, American Ben.
i'd sum them up as Ugly honorable Eldar without the psychic powers, and crappier tech. Potential as mercenaries, and possibly easy enough manipulate with the promise of a strong foe to hunt
These Yautja hunt for joy and fun but are still more honorable than the Eldar, intelligent yes but sometimes cocky, Eldars will make an alliance only to back stab, then wonder why they are being killed horribly however searching for those hidden Eldar settlement worlds is more tiresome than purging a rising cult
@@Phoenixguyver Yeah. I mean, it is Generation _Films,_ not Generation Fiction, but still - there are Macross/Robotech movies... Who knows, though: maybe we'll see the Zentraedi in this lineup?
They have done a lot if games and a few anime in their lists, but personally I'd live to see Macross/Robotech represented. I know they'd need a whole other channel just for anime but it'd appeal more to me than the 40K stuff.
@@Phoenixguyver I put up the UN Spacey because the RDF from Robotech kinda had deus ex Alien interventions a lot. Also unlike the UN Spacey who had one moment of massive phyric loss was in the first series( I know that seems cold but there were 25 colony fleets by 2045 so they knew the dangers of long distance travel). Unlike the Deus ex Invit in New Generations.
I'm more of a Macross fan, but more people know Robotech. Never liked the southern cross and mospeda stuff. Always thought the best mech lists were lacking without veritech fighters and stuff.
Let's clear something out. - Predators Don't work together during The Hunt. We've never seen them during combat/warfare! - We've ONLY seen their scout ships! In the AvP 2010 game one of their larger ships took out a Conestoga ( or Bougainville) class with 3 plasma bursts .
FYI: 1. "Predators are limited by their own rules" only during the hunt. During war rules go into a dumpster. 2. They're not limited to IR view, their helmets allow them to see in all sorts of frequencies, including x-ray, which is an enormous advantage on its own. 3. No mention of their ability to genetically modify themselves and take on features of encountered species? Or adopting alien creatures for their own purposes? (heck: they even had xenomorph hounds)
While undeniably terrifying for the average human to face, especially if said human is alone or part of a small group, I can’t make myself see the Yautja as an actual threat. Yes, their habitual drive to seek out challenging prey would make them a nuisance (and possibly something of a boogeyman) for worlds on the fringes of human territory. However, they seem utterly indifferent to the idea of conquest, and their honor code causes them to view anything approaching what we would consider to be “war” as dishonorable. The Yautja are masterful hunters, decent infiltrators and consummate survivors, but they are *not* soldiers. My personal opinion? The Yautja are not a threat. Sure, it’s annoying to have a few of our colonists brutally killed like game animals, but that’s barely a pinprick compared to the fatalities caused by mundane factors (disease, environmental hazards, etc) on most colony worlds. And to be perfectly honest? They aren’t even worth the effort or resources we would need to expend in order to purge them. They aren’t interested in conquering our worlds, and if we were to take the fight to them, all we would achieve would be an endless, expensive, and demoralizing guerilla war. We have far worse horrors to deal with. The Yautja are a nuisance, not a threat. Leave them to their meaningless hunts, ignore and bypass them when possible. There are far more pressing matters to attend to.
Yautja's *extreme* reliance on hand-to-hand combat; and their lack of durability on more tech-environments; makes them *weak* They exclusively depend on more less urbanized environments; and are suffocated on highly civil city areas
@@lancer737 Either Extremely Rarely; or we seen it almost inconsistently. I mean predators aren't developing their technology; they stagnated on this level
@@thedoruk6324 Not from what they show in the lore. They all hunt aliens using tech they feel is fair, when they go to war they all have extremely deadly weapons, they don't follow the rules of the hunt. They show in the lore their tech isn't stagnated ether.
@@thedoruk6324 No where near it, One clan has Purple Laser beam rifles they use for War that are pretty much like a Spartan Laser from Halo only as a rifle, while using Plasma Beam Casters, its like the Plasma Caster only is a constant Plasma beam. You got the Dark Plasma, which acts just like the Plasma from the first Star Trek movie, only it does what it does with only 2 - 3 cups of Plasma. Nothing is left of the target at all. In fact, one clan uses Dark Plasma allot, including a Dark Plasma Scyth that not only kills every faster than the Dark Plasma from an Omni Caster, it uses the Dark Plasmas unstable particles to intercept small projectiles from ballistic weapons and consumes it. They have heat beams that are as hot as multiple star cores use by a Blazer weapon system that is automated, and a similar system called "The Hydra" and it fires lots of drone guided Missiles that cause massive EMP damage, its meant to be used against machine heavy forces during war. Their a Bad Blood clan that flat out just like to EMP planets to oblivion, and then when it has no tech at all, drop off Xenomorphs on it and watch everyone die.
Infared vision may not be really good but we have seen them use other vision modes like the mode that let's them detect/see a human's or animal's heartbeat. So you can't just stand near a heat source. But all of those other flaws I agree with.
What they have is _spectrum filters_ on their mask. So they can change what part of the light spectrum it sees. In the film Predator 2 the Predator felt the UV sensitive particles falling from the ceiling and heard the capture team moving about, so it kept cycling through different modes till it hit UV, which is what the capture team were using to penetrate the Predators chameleon cloak. At that point every team member was screwed as they had a bright UV spotlight mounted on their shoulder. The mask has a bunch of presets for common situations, such as advanced infrared for humans and a different frequency where Xenomorphs show up nicely as shown in AVP2. But without their mask Yautja are limited to infrared vision, with much less clarity than the mask provides with its image intensifiers and enhanced zoom. It can be seen in the original where it strips down for a final fistfight and in #2 after its mask is removed while it's playing possum after eating a lot of shotgun rounds ("you is one ugly…"). *Basically they all wear high tech glasses cause they're short sighted - the **_nerds._*
When something is slaughtering all the human characters in a story, especially the hero's companions, its purpose is to be defeated. Same as zombies and killer robots do.
Chris Hansen : Take a seat ... Predator : (Sweating) I thought this was the house of a decorated warhero ... Chris Hansen : You tracked down and tried to kill a father of 2 over a Call of duty game just because he owned you despite your invisibility hack ...
A lot of assumption going on. We've only seen big game hunters, that dose not mean they don't have a military, they obviously have scientists. The end of The Predator movie shows that the Yautja have impressive armor and weapons capabilities and the Three World War comic shows a warrior clan of Yautja that use weaponized Xenomorphs. I think they would score rather high.
They had flaw, Genetic modifications is banned in they're society and they aren't a sapient species, they are just an modified species of disgusting Therapsids to be work as slaves. The Yautja has flaw.
The seeing in Infrared isn't really a weakness. Humans can only see in a limited spectrum as well and we have tech that allows us to see in other spectrum's, so do the Predators.
When I got this video the likes were 999. I got the 1k like. It's probably lame, but it's the 1st time I've seen it. Yay me. Highlight of my day. Thank you.
they can see more than just infrared, if you watch p2, you actually get to see one scan through different emission ranges their helmets have some cool tech
The biggest flaw with the Yautja ( predators ) is that hunting other intelligent species for sport is bound to tick them off and if the predators weren't so much more advanced than humans in their universe, them hunting us for fun and games would be bound to start an all out war, and humans, and probably most other aliens, I would imagine, would not be bound by their "honor code" especially after multiple predators hunted down and killed what their prey would regard as innocent victims who just got murdered by a hostile alien creature who sneaked into their territory. If anything the Yautja would just be turning potential allies into enemies and for no good reason.
Yautja have masks/helmets that actually help them see with vision modes in order to find unusual prey or hostiles. But... These kinds of masks are so high tech that they are not as common one might think. Yautja clans differ, where some clans have more tech and others simply dismiss it as cheating even though Code of Honor never truly bans these technologies.
They would get slaughtered by most 40K factions, but that is because 40K factions habitually fight devastating interplanetary wars on huge scales against other powerful species also capable of such large scale interstellar combat. Each 40K faction has to hone its ability to fight and survive against other incredibly deadly species. By comparison, the Yautja have grown soft since they rarely face any foe who can even come close to matching them on an even footing. If the Yautja picked a full scale fight with the Imperium, they would be toast in short order too. The difference being the Yautja would probably enjoy hunting the more powerful Tyranids initially since they are so obscenely deadly and thus such honourable 'prey' (despite the vast number of Yuatja who would certainly die and be consumed in the process), only realising how bad the situation was when their own worlds started falling in quick succession and they realise there was nothing they could do to stop the Swarm, doubly so since they have handed the Tyranids such prime example of their own species' DNA for assimilation and analysis on a platter during the hunts. Much the same would happen if they fought a foe like the Zerg, the Flood, the Necromorphs, or ( the John Carpenter version of) the Thing.
Perediors are like Sangheli Elites both honorable and superior to many around them they also have formed alliances with humanity in there respected universe
Just finished the Dark Forest Trilogy (Cixin Liu - excellent read) and it opened my mind: an alien attack likely is nothing what have seen from Hollywood (...): “Dark forest attacks all share two qualities: one, they’re casual; two, they’re economical.” We have to understand one thing, if humanity has been able to manipulate atoms within 5000 years of civilization (and just about 150 years Industrial Age) - how advanced are “aliens” when they’d have a civilization which is able to do interstellar flights? If there are aliens, earth would probably have no chance as soon as it is discovered and would be destroyed before we even realize the attack! So the predators are as unrealistic and as “child play” as it goes. Not necessarily against humanity- but they are exposing themselves to be destroyed by a far more developed world... hence their sport is as stupid as it is unrealistic! A so active civilization, which shows also extremely aggressive tendencies would have been destroyed by another civilization probably thousand of years before...
more advantages: 1 - they are so much more advanced than what is shown in the movies, they have control over time and space, can travel the galaxy in seconds, can create a stasis field, see the surface of planets light years away, and could even be able to time travel (if covenant and avp are set in the same universe). 2 - they develop new technology, weapons and gadgets really fast, in a matter of days, to adapt to lessons learnt during hunt. 3 - they incorporate the genes of the most dangerous creatures of the universe into their dna. 4 - their ships are technologically superior to the UNSC ones (avp) 5 - they have homing disks and advanced targeting technology in their plasma weapons. more flaws: 1 - the portable version of the cloaking device does not work in water.
U didnt understand predator ships quite well , normal predator ship has wormhole tech which enables them to travel throw time and space almost instantly , that requires great understanding of both time and space , yautja ship is also equiped with cloacking tech and force fields that include plasma cannons , they have won wars against even more dangerous and more advanced species like engineers and drukathi
The predators vision isn't naturally infared, hell in the first film it goes to show that the mask is what gives them that option and their actual vision is something I can't even guess at, the mask has several vision modes, even one specifically designed to pick up a unique radiation given off by xenomorphs since they don't seem to give off much if any natural body heat
What you're missing is that these are hunters, not soldiers Its very likely that their official military is both far more varied and dangerous Its been shown that predators tend to tone down their abilities in the name of honor, so their military might be far more powerful
The Yautja get a 3 in my opinion given their inflexible social structure and narrow minded code of honor. They would thrive if in addition to their Hunters, they developed Military, Worker, Diplomatic, and Scientific castes.
@@lancer737 Yes, but they were woefully underutilized. They should have put less emphasis on the "honorable hunt" and more emphasis around developing a cohesive Military/Industrial complex. They could also offer protection to less advanced civilizations in exchange for agricultural goods.
@@UncleMikeDrop Not really, they use those weapons only when they feel their whole tribe is at risk of danger. Their whole tribe is the cohesive Military, the only thing they have fought and lost against in full out wars have been the Alien, and the lore shows them ether being made or being used to clean universes, because they are good at it, by the Pilots and Engineers, they are so good at it that in the last great cataclysm, all space traveling life in the universe was wiped out by the Alien. During the next cycle, the Humans and Predators barely survived the universal extinction caused by the Xenomorphs. The Alien, Predator, Prometheus universes is extremely hostile, their isnt going to be an exchanges of any sort practically. The only species Humans are in good standing with is so alien that they can barely communicate with them, and during an accident, they easily killed lots of Colonial Military personal. The Black Predators purposely gave Predator tech to the United Americas for the soul purpose of screwing over a rival tribe, as they then had tech designed to see cloaked Predators. They had plans to kill them all very likely, based on the Black Predators culture. The Dog like aliens are just as hostile as the Pilots and Engineers, they only interact with other species, like Humans, to position them to have them exterminated, and they were semi part of the next Universal Extinction via the Xenomorphs.
If im not mistaken, the dont generally conquer. They just let things evolve and hunt whatever happens. Even on early earth they didnt take over. And as far as ive ever seen they have planets, but no other sentient life on em. Kinda a perverted starfleet outlook lol
I think you missed a little on predators. They aren’t limited to seeing in the infrared and at least two occasions we see a predator shift through different bands on the electromagnetic (and sonic) spectrum. A good example is seen in Predators 2 in the cold storage room. And secondly on different occasions you refer to the predators saying “he”, “becomes a man”, “toxic masculinity”. In the book series about the Rage War it’s clear the predators have very little sexual differentiation and in fact humans can’t tell male from female predators. Certainly size, hunting prowess, social status and strength are not sex dependent.
Also that many clans do hunt in packs as we'll as different specialist predators and different types of vision systems in their helmets. Also predators have different customs on how they hunt depending on the clan
Not sure if it's bad that they don't care about dominating the galaxy/universe. I like them specifically because of their honor code. Sure if they wanted to they could switch to a conquering mentality and easily wipe out everything else, but at the end what would really be the point. They don't have materialistic goals. So controlling the whole universe means nothing to them.
as said in the video predators dont work in group that often making them weaker on the battlefield and that is why i gave them a 2. They are some of the best fighters but in war you need to work together and if they did i would have given them a 4 maybe even 5
Their code of honor and tendency to fight for fun and glory rather than for military purposes makes them least of the dangers I can see... lets face it, the only way they would become true threat would be if humans themselves militarized to the point vast majority of society is armed and combat-trained.
I'm not sure how Cannon this is but in the extended lord of the predators hunting and warfare is different. When they go to war or they specifically go to capture a xenomorph Queen it is No holds barred. They go in with heavy energy weapons and full sets of armor made from the strongest materials including completely acid resistant.
As a single enemy they are right near the top of the list depending on what Tyranid, Eldar or Xenomorph they are fighting. As a danger to humanity they are near the bottom of the list as they have other worries and care for sport and honor more then destruction of other species
I see most of the newer movies info were rightly left out. As much fun as I thought Predators and The Predator were to watch, they screwed the canon almost as much as the alien prequels.
Now I'm curious as to how in the Universe they were even able to make a proper society. Then again with how our most recent movie basically made it so that they no longer hunt so much for sport but for DNA to modify future generations with they could've started as a fairly civilized race that was after that juicy DNA so that they could better defend themselves, with using spears and shit being seen as a way to show how cool your DNA is as a thing that continued once they were in a fairly safe position, with it eventually becoming law in what is basically a samurai cult that formed over the countless generations.
And then you see Antifa has taken it out while screaming "No America at all, we welcome all unregistered aliens." Before you die, you see the glimmer of the cloaked Predator crossing the boarder while it laughs, like Woody Wood Pecker!
The predators greatest flaw is their culture. I'm not sure they even have any interest in domination. If any species does put up a good fight, chances are they would leave them be so that they could continue hunting them whenever they fancy. Can't enjoy hunting a species if you exterminate them. Now if the predators could be used as an elite force by some species with loftier goals and greater drive for conquest over simple hunting, I think they could help them win the war. You would need a tongue that makes the devil's look like pot metal to convince them to abandon their entire culture and belief system. They have far too much pride, they would fight to the last man against any odds.
one question? are the predator and alien movies in the same universe? if so than why does it look like in aliens that before they made contact with the xenomorphs it looks like they didnt knew there were other alien species? someone please explain.
Before you guys do the Tyranids advantage video you need to go over Devastation of Baal Basically ever tyranid in a swarm IS the same creature and they share a single psykic signature There is only one of each tyranid all the Millions of Lictor's IS the same Lictor all the trillions of Warriors IS the same Warrior Every Tyranid Keeps all the different traits it has evolved over the millennia of there existence in its genome Giving them an unimaginable complex Genome
Predator: *Uncloaks in a kitchen with a pack of wine coolers in hand.*
Chris Hansen: "Hi, so what are you doing here?"
Predator: *Begins sweating profusely.*
Predator: Then precedes to activate nuclear warhead out of fear of being on "Catching a Predator"
Greg Whoops! 😀
Would have been better than the last movie.
@@teeprice7499 So true!!!!!!!
The Long life is also a disadvantage because …
_Humans gain that ability by _*_eating_*_ Yautja._
Specifically Yautja blood grants any species long life, _IMMORTALITY_ if they keep using it.
Now imagine what would happen if that became common knowledge amongst humanity?
We would hunt them in a desperate attempt for more life right?
*_Wrong_*
How often do you eat meat that was hunted? Could hunting wild animals support all the humans currently on Earth in developed countries?
_We would farm Yautja_ and just keep draining their blood over and over again, while a rapidly technologically advancing, space-faring Humanity spreads further and further. Our greatest scientist and engineers never growing old, just becoming more skilled.
Our commanders being the experienced proven leaders and survivors, not just there because the talented and well trained leaders died of old age.
Now you're thinking having a bunch of Yautja roaming around on farms would be a recipe for disaster when they inevitably escape and seek revenge.
Like we would keep them _free range?_
*Factory Farms,* each Yautja in a cage unable to move it's entire life, having no contact with others, completely insane possibly catatonic with no concept of what reality even is. Maybe decerebrated (lobotomized) if it doesn't affect the blood and Humanity isn't totally psychopathic… although the knowledge that they've hunted us since we've existed and used us as incubators for Xenomorphs (at times risking all life on Earth) may silence *People* for the *Ethical Treatment* of *Aliens.*
And where would we get all the stock for our Factory Farms?
Simple, cloning.
Any Yautja that fell into our hands (even a corpse) is DNA for cloning. The clones would never even understand the concept of life, having spent every moment held down in a life support cocoon with no stimulation except regular electric impulses to keep the muscles healthy enough.
And if we ever got our hands on female Yautja and could begin IVF? [Or even if they have a XY system like ours, geneticist could create females by copying another X chromosome]. And then we never have to worry about cloning failure due to accumulated copying errors (clone of a clone of a clone).
Humanity becomes far more formidable as a species and individually.
And what if data transmitted from the failed United Systems Military experiment into harnessing the Xenomorphs is used to develop a way to clone humans that have all the memories and skills of the original?
Insert the Xenomorph DNA sequence that was in Ripley 8 into a clone of someone useful and suddenly they're back as a person. And as a added bonus they're mildly superhuman and able to understand and fight Xenomorphs better.
[Just don't use the same technique on the Yautja stock].
Eventually the Yautja lifespan sequences could be edited into Humans as well, but for all we know Yautja blood might taste great!
Combine the two and Humanity has a endless supply of superhuman soldiers that come fully trained and battle hardened as soon as they're out of the tank and had a little therapy. They are always young, forever.
And as time progresses, new duplicates can be taken from the latest most experienced version of the templates.
And should a great individual die, well a copy from their latest tissue sample can be used assuming the corpse isn't recoverable (which is great for debriefing and investigations as well).
Makes random accidents less of a hassle as well, and you can just keep running off copies of talented individuals in any field, now that would be a research team.
A immortal Humanity that can back itself up and run endless copies that are ready to go.
In war we could just swarm with elite units. And in society we are well… different, but definitely superior.
Talk about *_Human Fuck Yea!_*
This is pretty much the plot of The Promised Neverland with a few twists.
Good idea, one issue tho. On the very few occasions someone actually fucked with the Yautja and made them react in a way more than a mere hunt, they rapidly destroyed everyone who got in their way. There are 2 prime examples of this. When human scientists created the xenoborgs (alien tech hybrids), the predators hunted down their source and essentially blew the entire colony to hell, one if the usual honor hunting, or playing somewhat fair, they attacked en mass, and killed everything.
The other example is the Rage War series, humans in it are far more advanced than ever, and can actually fight predators on a fairly even level (well ok, it still takes squads of marines to beat a Yautja, but it happens often enough). The Rage (exiled humans who control xenos with advanced tech), smash into human space and kick ass, the Yautja have a few scuffles with the Rage that they lose, due to trying to fight in melee (like they do) and the Rage having designed a counter to that. But once they stop playing fair, it's a very 1 sided affair, even small Yaujta scout ships can kill human heavy cruisers, the Yautja have much larger warships, and mobile space bases, some on comparable size to other scifi (high charity scale).
There is also the whole their ships can fire while cloaked and the ships cloaking hides them from everything, not just light.
Keyboard knight
What if we manage to create Human-Yautja hybrids?! XD
@@PerfectAlibi1 there's actually a game about that. And if that is anything to go by then the Yautja will send someone to kill it.
I've said this again and again but I won't stop; Irkens from Invader Zim or the Furons from Destroy all Humans
You do the Imperium of Man proud citizen I just hope you got permission from the High Lords of Terra for this Voxcast before hand 😕
The high lords of terra are corrupt, Guardsman Ben of America has the blessings of His Holiness the Emperor to continue his actions in preparing all of humanity for first contact with Xeno scum.
Predator armor is actually only resistant to Xenomorph blood because elements from the Xenomorph dna is used to make the armor, or the Predator will actually carve its armor from Xenomorph resins, or even out of hull Xenomorph parts, though they must be care, the Xenomorph can easily super regenerate and or are very infectious.
Guys, this sounds like an "All the reasons fighting predators sucks" video.
As they say in the ranking video the videos are 5 advantages and 5 flaws
In most of your videos, you mention a Humanity First codebook but I can't seem to find one. I would like if you released one so we can all benefit from your wisdom on our alien foes.
I've included a excerpt from the codebook in another thread.
As a few other commenters have already pointed out, the Predators actually do use more advanced weapons and tactics whenever they are facing a foe or group of foes that they feel warrants it. It is just very rare that they feel the need to do so is all.
I give them a two, because while they are individually powerful, they are not equipped for full scale warfare.
I gave them the same rating for the same reason.
I give them a four. Individually they make extremely effective spec ops units for assassination and seek and destroy missions if properly motivated
nick regetz I should have waited I meant a 4 on a 1 to 10 scale not 5
Idk about that but i think they would be fairly dangerous for war
Actually the yautuja have a kit meant for full scale warfare. Such as heavy amour (which is not mobile, & not suite for hunt) & weapons like flame throws (which violates the honor code). Also if you are unlucky enough to run into rouges, you might have to fight Xneos (which are use like war dogs). So I give 4.5
There are several star wars planets perfect for the Yautja to hunt on such as Ryloth and Kashyyyk.
Your forgetting trandosha, though the trandoshans are very similar to predators and would probably end up working together
@@osets2117 Perhaps they will, perhaps they won't.
Trandoshans beat 'em to it. They'd probably attempt to work together to get something worked out and end up going to war over the hunting grounds; they're just too aggressive to get something like that to workout.
@Slick 96 Are you saying Endor is a good place or a bad place for the Yautja?
@Slick 96 Fair enough. Plus Ewok meat is so delicious.
Hunt =/= War
They have the capability to use their super high tech weaponry, when they need to. They simply don't have to with anything we've seen them face. AvP: Extinction has plenty of examples.
Technically the only things we see them need to use those weapons against have been the Xenomorphs, and they when half the time. Considering how deadly said weapons of war are, thats a testament to how deadly the Xenomorph is.
There are actually books were the Yautja do go to war, its impressive how massively they handicap themselves during hunting. Their scout ships are armed better than human cruisers, and can fire while cloaked. Once a Yautja stops trying to give its prey a chance to defend itself, it becomes a very 1 sided slaughter.
Admittedly to make them got to war, you basically have to commit some very specific acts, usually involving messing with their culture. The only examples I can recall are 2 times when humans modified Xenomorphs, once making them into Xenoborgs (Yautja called this a heracy) and the other time when the Rage actually gained control of them and modified them to explode when they died, which the Yautja took quite personally.
@@cgi2002 Their was also the War in AvP War, they almost lost if not for the human with the preds, and technically AvP 2 the game, as they did use weapons of war after things went south, or also in the AvPR movie.
@@lancer737 AvP war is actually not the Preds at war, it's just a single hunting pack, that's acting more aggressively than usual, and most of the pack were youngblood. It's also written to make Mako seem more like a badass. The book it replaced (Hunters Planet) has a more warlike Yautja pack. As for AvP 2 really they barely used weapons of war, and only a handful of Yautja appear again. Their only powerful weapons were shooting down a few dropships. It was mostly just a normal hunt with a side order of rescue mission. AvP Requim however, that's just a normal hunt, the only difference is the Yautja involved is an Elder. He specifically wants to hunt the Predialien, while at the same time limiting human exposure to Yautja tech and the xenomorphs (destroying the ship, bodies, etc). If that had been a war, it wouldn't have bothered hiding, it would basically have walked through town with the twin shoulder cannons cleaning house. As I said, Yautja don't go to war easily, and even then they are usually a bit slow to do it. They also tend to start off a bit incompetent at it, trying to be honorable still, it's only when the realise that there is actually a real threat (not to them individually, but to the entire species and culture) they tend to go all out.
@@cgi2002 What are you talking about, AvP War is them at War, they even say so in the intro, they even go over all the weapons and tactics they are using during war vs a Hunt.
AvP2 was a hunt that turns into a War because they are caught between 6 Hives, 6 Queens, and one Empress vs a Battalion of Marines and Probably a Battalion of WY Russian mercs and sizable group of Combat Synthetics. The Plasma pistol and mines are weapons of war.
AvPR is not a hunt, they said it behind the scenes over and over again that Wolf is a cleaner for mistakes other clans go through. They dont hunt Predaliens, they are considered a religious abomination as it has "stolen the soul of the hunter it comes from" thats how they view the genetic memory of the creatures that come from hosts.
Anyway Wolf is armed with what appears to be Dark Plasma, thats used only for war, he has laser beam cutter mines, thats not a normal weapon at all, he has a power gauntlet and other weapons that cause massive amounts of damage.
Yautja meets Tyranid
Yautja: hey, that prey looks similar but obviously legally distinct from a xenomorph
I would like to point out, lots of Clans and tribes have very lethal weapons of war, they wave all hunting rights when at war with a Species.
Some weapons include Heat Beam Blazer that are so hot, they are as hot as multiple Star cores.
Two clans at least use Dark Plasma, just two cups of it will completely consume anything very quickly, no matter its material composition and mass. Two- three cups consumed an entire swimming pool within 10 minutes.
Theres a Renegade tribe that likes to EMP planets they invade so they have no weapons they can use to fight, and then they drop Xenomorphs on the planets and watch the carnage from afar.
Black Predators when at war do similar things.
Average nameless Predators tend to average an Adeptus Astartes Marine's level of kills versus human enemies and are reasonably comparable to a Space Marine as well. Massive strength, advanced technology, distaste for xenos; they make up for lack of armour coverage with the cloaking device as well. A Predator vs a Space Marine would be a very interesting fight.
One thing that generation films failed to touch on is the fact that all of these Yautja are the equivalent of civilians . The predators do in fact have a military that is vastly more powerful with more advanced weapons , equipment and ships . The predators that you see in the movies are trophy hunters , like the dentist that goes to africa to bag a lion .
We have mastered interstellar travel and are the most prolific killing machines the universe has ever known. So much so in fact that we have no wars to fight. Only trophies to collect...
You obviously never saw Predator 2, because you made the same mistake the government agents made about the Yautja vision they made. While they primarily use infra-red they can see in multiply spectrums of light. In Predator 2 the agents try to blind the Yautja by luring him into a freezer, he figures out what they are doing. The Yautja then changes his vision spectrum & kills all the agents easily
Technically the video is correct. The yautja only see in infrared, but they have technology in their masks to let them see other ways, and not just in light spectrums, they can see pheromones and EM wavelengths.
generation films/tech video idea: thargoid advantages and disadvantages, as well as those of the humans/guardian tech
Can you do the xenomorphs and talk about their strengths and weaknesses cause they are most deadliest life forms in the galaxy!!!
They are the perfect lifeforms
@@buzzdroid8325, They're Silicon lifeforms, yeah if somehow in real life neutralize they're Acid, they're polarized silicon body will became a pile of glass,quartz or sand.
Likely infuriating for officers of the Astra Militarum to deal with and frightening for conscripts, but they sound like nothing more than less agile/uglier/not as nearly extinct versions of the Eldar. Ultimately, they will pose no threat to mankind. Exterminatus and/or crusade fleets can be reserved for another foe of more importance.
Next file, American Ben.
i'd sum them up as Ugly honorable Eldar without the psychic powers, and crappier tech. Potential as mercenaries, and possibly easy enough manipulate with the promise of a strong foe to hunt
These Yautja hunt for joy and fun but are still more honorable than the Eldar, intelligent yes but sometimes cocky, Eldars will make an alliance only to back stab, then wonder why they are being killed horribly however searching for those hidden Eldar settlement worlds is more tiresome than purging a rising cult
"If you suspect a Yautja is nearby _immediately_ discard all weapons and adopt a pacifist posture."
*Guidebook for Dealing with the Alien Menace*
Or prostrate yourself before them and treat them as a god
That's why no-one will remember your name...
The predators arnt out to conquer the earth, but they would change thier ways if need be. It's like comparing a hunter to a soldier really.
Best mech based armies in sci-fi please. My suggestion is the UN Spacey from SDF Macross.
I was disappointed the UN Spacey wasnt mentioned in the best space navy series. Most of the focus seems to be movies not anime though.
@@Phoenixguyver Yeah. I mean, it is Generation _Films,_ not Generation Fiction, but still - there are Macross/Robotech movies...
Who knows, though: maybe we'll see the Zentraedi in this lineup?
They have done a lot if games and a few anime in their lists, but personally I'd live to see Macross/Robotech represented. I know they'd need a whole other channel just for anime but it'd appeal more to me than the 40K stuff.
@@Phoenixguyver I put up the UN Spacey because the RDF from Robotech kinda had deus ex Alien interventions a lot. Also unlike the UN Spacey who had one moment of massive phyric loss was in the first series( I know that seems cold but there were 25 colony fleets by 2045 so they knew the dangers of long distance travel). Unlike the Deus ex Invit in New Generations.
I'm more of a Macross fan, but more people know Robotech. Never liked the southern cross and mospeda stuff. Always thought the best mech lists were lacking without veritech fighters and stuff.
Let's clear something out.
- Predators Don't work together during The Hunt. We've never seen them during combat/warfare!
- We've ONLY seen their scout ships! In the AvP 2010 game one of their larger ships took out a Conestoga ( or Bougainville) class with 3 plasma bursts .
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FYI:
1. "Predators are limited by their own rules" only during the hunt. During war rules go into a dumpster.
2. They're not limited to IR view, their helmets allow them to see in all sorts of frequencies, including x-ray, which is an enormous advantage on its own.
3. No mention of their ability to genetically modify themselves and take on features of encountered species? Or adopting alien creatures for their own purposes? (heck: they even had xenomorph hounds)
While undeniably terrifying for the average human to face, especially if said human is alone or part of a small group, I can’t make myself see the Yautja as an actual threat. Yes, their habitual drive to seek out challenging prey would make them a nuisance (and possibly something of a boogeyman) for worlds on the fringes of human territory. However, they seem utterly indifferent to the idea of conquest, and their honor code causes them to view anything approaching what we would consider to be “war” as dishonorable. The Yautja are masterful hunters, decent infiltrators and consummate survivors, but they are *not* soldiers.
My personal opinion? The Yautja are not a threat. Sure, it’s annoying to have a few of our colonists brutally killed like game animals, but that’s barely a pinprick compared to the fatalities caused by mundane factors (disease, environmental hazards, etc) on most colony worlds. And to be perfectly honest? They aren’t even worth the effort or resources we would need to expend in order to purge them. They aren’t interested in conquering our worlds, and if we were to take the fight to them, all we would achieve would be an endless, expensive, and demoralizing guerilla war.
We have far worse horrors to deal with. The Yautja are a nuisance, not a threat. Leave them to their meaningless hunts, ignore and bypass them when possible. There are far more pressing matters to attend to.
Yautja's *extreme* reliance on hand-to-hand combat; and their lack of durability on more tech-environments; makes them *weak*
They exclusively depend on more less urbanized environments; and are suffocated on highly civil city areas
Not when they use their weapons and armor mentioned for war.
@@lancer737 Either Extremely Rarely; or we seen it almost inconsistently. I mean predators aren't developing their technology; they stagnated on this level
@@thedoruk6324 Not from what they show in the lore. They all hunt aliens using tech they feel is fair, when they go to war they all have extremely deadly weapons, they don't follow the rules of the hunt. They show in the lore their tech isn't stagnated ether.
@@lancer737 I mean the 2010 yautja tech and the future killer clan tech levels seem almost similiar
@@thedoruk6324 No where near it, One clan has Purple Laser beam rifles they use for War that are pretty much like a Spartan Laser from Halo only as a rifle, while using Plasma Beam Casters, its like the Plasma Caster only is a constant Plasma beam.
You got the Dark Plasma, which acts just like the Plasma from the first Star Trek movie, only it does what it does with only 2 - 3 cups of Plasma. Nothing is left of the target at all. In fact, one clan uses Dark Plasma allot, including a Dark Plasma Scyth that not only kills every faster than the Dark Plasma from an Omni Caster, it uses the Dark Plasmas unstable particles to intercept small projectiles from ballistic weapons and consumes it.
They have heat beams that are as hot as multiple star cores use by a Blazer weapon system that is automated, and a similar system called "The Hydra" and it fires lots of drone guided Missiles that cause massive EMP damage, its meant to be used against machine heavy forces during war.
Their a Bad Blood clan that flat out just like to EMP planets to oblivion, and then when it has no tech at all, drop off Xenomorphs on it and watch everyone die.
Wait didn't Predator 2 confirm that the preds can see in a variety of light within the spectrum?
Yes, and AvP 2 saw they have more advanced tracking modes than just light spectrum switching.
That's all from their masks not their actual vision
I wonder how the Predators would do against the Borg in ground combat. 🤔
Excellent video on one of my favorite races. In light of the evidence, I have to give a "3" at best to the Predators .
Infared vision may not be really good but we have seen them use other vision modes like the mode that let's them detect/see a human's or animal's heartbeat. So you can't just stand near a heat source. But all of those other flaws I agree with.
What they have is _spectrum filters_ on their mask. So they can change what part of the light spectrum it sees. In the film Predator 2 the Predator felt the UV sensitive particles falling from the ceiling and heard the capture team moving about, so it kept cycling through different modes till it hit UV, which is what the capture team were using to penetrate the Predators chameleon cloak.
At that point every team member was screwed as they had a bright UV spotlight mounted on their shoulder.
The mask has a bunch of presets for common situations, such as advanced infrared for humans and a different frequency where Xenomorphs show up nicely as shown in AVP2.
But without their mask Yautja are limited to infrared vision, with much less clarity than the mask provides with its image intensifiers and enhanced zoom.
It can be seen in the original where it strips down for a final fistfight and in #2 after its mask is removed while it's playing possum after eating a lot of shotgun rounds ("you is one ugly…").
*Basically they all wear high tech glasses cause they're short sighted - the **_nerds._*
@@casbot71 Yes, that too
The predators are the best hunters in the galaxy. I love them and wish they got more love instead of killing them off each movie.
When something is slaughtering all the human characters in a story, especially the hero's companions, its purpose is to be defeated. Same as zombies and killer robots do.
I think the they are most cooperable ones among the dangerous ones atleast you can convince one to work with you for coommon goal.
Chris Hansen : Take a seat ...
Predator : (Sweating) I thought this was the house of a decorated warhero ...
Chris Hansen : You tracked down and tried to kill a father of 2 over a Call of duty game just because he owned you despite your invisibility hack ...
You have done well Ordos Xenos inquistor.
I have good news in two weeks arma 3 will have a dlc for increased zeno including
"Toxic Masculinity is bad"
And yet it's one of few advantages we have over xenos.
A lot of assumption going on. We've only seen big game hunters, that dose not mean they don't have a military, they obviously have scientists. The end of The Predator movie shows that the Yautja have impressive armor and weapons capabilities and the
Three World War comic shows a warrior clan of Yautja that use weaponized Xenomorphs. I think they would score rather high.
Hello American Ben. I hope you're having a great day. I love you so much.
Fake news, they have no flaws
They had flaw, Genetic modifications is banned in they're society and they aren't a sapient species, they are just an modified species of disgusting Therapsids to be work as slaves.
The Yautja has flaw.
The seeing in Infrared isn't really a weakness. Humans can only see in a limited spectrum as well and we have tech that allows us to see in other spectrum's, so do the Predators.
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When I got this video the likes were 999. I got the 1k like. It's probably lame, but it's the 1st time I've seen it. Yay me. Highlight of my day. Thank you.
Krogan. Do a video on the Krogan.
They can change what visual spectrum they see.
Not really the changes are from their masks not their own vision changing
@@osets2117 it is not made clear whether the infrared is their natural vision or the tech. Either way, they can change how they see.
ok, this video gets a like, you got me with the Chris Hansen Joke
they can see more than just infrared, if you watch p2, you actually get to see one scan through different emission ranges
their helmets have some cool tech
The biggest flaw with the Yautja ( predators ) is that hunting other intelligent species for sport is bound to tick them off and if the predators weren't so much more advanced than humans in their universe, them hunting us for fun and games would be bound to start an all out war, and humans, and probably most other aliens, I would imagine, would not be bound by their "honor code" especially after multiple predators hunted down and killed what their prey would regard as innocent victims who just got murdered by a hostile alien creature who sneaked into their territory. If anything the Yautja would just be turning potential allies into enemies and for no good reason.
Yautja have masks/helmets that actually help them see with vision modes in order to find unusual prey or hostiles. But... These kinds of masks are so high tech that they are not as common one might think. Yautja clans differ, where some clans have more tech and others simply dismiss it as cheating even though Code of Honor never truly bans these technologies.
The would get rekt by the Tryanids
They would get slaughtered by most 40K factions, but that is because 40K factions habitually fight devastating interplanetary wars on huge scales against other powerful species also capable of such large scale interstellar combat. Each 40K faction has to hone its ability to fight and survive against other incredibly deadly species. By comparison, the Yautja have grown soft since they rarely face any foe who can even come close to matching them on an even footing. If the Yautja picked a full scale fight with the Imperium, they would be toast in short order too. The difference being the Yautja would probably enjoy hunting the more powerful Tyranids initially since they are so obscenely deadly and thus such honourable 'prey' (despite the vast number of Yuatja who would certainly die and be consumed in the process), only realising how bad the situation was when their own worlds started falling in quick succession and they realise there was nothing they could do to stop the Swarm, doubly so since they have handed the Tyranids such prime example of their own species' DNA for assimilation and analysis on a platter during the hunts. Much the same would happen if they fought a foe like the Zerg, the Flood, the Necromorphs, or ( the John Carpenter version of) the Thing.
Perediors are like Sangheli Elites both honorable and superior to many around them they also have formed alliances with humanity in there respected universe
Just finished the Dark Forest Trilogy (Cixin Liu - excellent read) and it opened my mind: an alien attack likely is nothing what have seen from Hollywood (...): “Dark forest attacks all share two qualities: one, they’re casual; two, they’re economical.”
We have to understand one thing, if humanity has been able to manipulate atoms within 5000 years of civilization (and just about 150 years Industrial Age) - how advanced are “aliens” when they’d have a civilization which is able to do interstellar flights?
If there are aliens, earth would probably have no chance as soon as it is discovered and would be destroyed before we even realize the attack! So the predators are as unrealistic and as “child play” as it goes. Not necessarily against humanity- but they are exposing themselves to be destroyed by a far more developed world... hence their sport is as stupid as it is unrealistic! A so active civilization, which shows also extremely aggressive tendencies would have been destroyed by another civilization probably thousand of years before...
You lost me at toxic masculinity bub
I didn’t know Arnold’s character was named Dutch until recently.
The Zerg from Starcraft
more advantages:
1 - they are so much more advanced than what is shown in the movies, they have control over time and space, can travel the galaxy in seconds, can create a stasis field, see the surface of planets light years away, and could even be able to time travel (if covenant and avp are set in the same universe).
2 - they develop new technology, weapons and gadgets really fast, in a matter of days, to adapt to lessons learnt during hunt.
3 - they incorporate the genes of the most dangerous creatures of the universe into their dna.
4 - their ships are technologically superior to the UNSC ones (avp)
5 - they have homing disks and advanced targeting technology in their plasma weapons.
more flaws:
1 - the portable version of the cloaking device does not work in water.
U didnt understand predator ships quite well , normal predator ship has wormhole tech which enables them to travel throw time and space almost instantly , that requires great understanding of both time and space , yautja ship is also equiped with cloacking tech and force fields that include plasma cannons , they have won wars against even more dangerous and more advanced species like engineers and drukathi
Amazing work!
The predators vision isn't naturally infared, hell in the first film it goes to show that the mask is what gives them that option and their actual vision is something I can't even guess at, the mask has several vision modes, even one specifically designed to pick up a unique radiation given off by xenomorphs since they don't seem to give off much if any natural body heat
I think they are my favorite Just because they are honorable and individuals with different classes
What you're missing is that these are hunters, not soldiers
Its very likely that their official military is both far more varied and dangerous
Its been shown that predators tend to tone down their abilities in the name of honor, so their military might be far more powerful
The Yautja get a 3 in my opinion given their inflexible social structure and narrow minded code of honor. They would thrive if in addition to their Hunters, they developed Military, Worker, Diplomatic, and Scientific castes.
They do have super advanced weapons of war. I made a post above about it.
@@lancer737 Yes, but they were woefully underutilized. They should have put less emphasis on the "honorable hunt" and more emphasis around developing a cohesive Military/Industrial complex. They could also offer protection to less advanced civilizations in exchange for agricultural goods.
@@UncleMikeDrop Not really, they use those weapons only when they feel their whole tribe is at risk of danger. Their whole tribe is the cohesive Military, the only thing they have fought and lost against in full out wars have been the Alien, and the lore shows them ether being made or being used to clean universes, because they are good at it, by the Pilots and Engineers, they are so good at it that in the last great cataclysm, all space traveling life in the universe was wiped out by the Alien. During the next cycle, the Humans and Predators barely survived the universal extinction caused by the Xenomorphs.
The Alien, Predator, Prometheus universes is extremely hostile, their isnt going to be an exchanges of any sort practically. The only species Humans are in good standing with is so alien that they can barely communicate with them, and during an accident, they easily killed lots of Colonial Military personal. The Black Predators purposely gave Predator tech to the United Americas for the soul purpose of screwing over a rival tribe, as they then had tech designed to see cloaked Predators. They had plans to kill them all very likely, based on the Black Predators culture. The Dog like aliens are just as hostile as the Pilots and Engineers, they only interact with other species, like Humans, to position them to have them exterminated, and they were semi part of the next Universal Extinction via the Xenomorphs.
@@lancer737 TLDR they are stagnant.
@@UncleMikeDrop TLDR they are not Stagnant.
If im not mistaken, the dont generally conquer. They just let things evolve and hunt whatever happens. Even on early earth they didnt take over. And as far as ive ever seen they have planets, but no other sentient life on em.
Kinda a perverted starfleet outlook lol
I think you missed a little on predators. They aren’t limited to seeing in the infrared and at least two occasions we see a predator shift through different bands on the electromagnetic (and sonic) spectrum. A good example is seen in Predators 2 in the cold storage room. And secondly on different occasions you refer to the predators saying “he”, “becomes a man”, “toxic masculinity”. In the book series about the Rage War it’s clear the predators have very little sexual differentiation and in fact humans can’t tell male from female predators. Certainly size, hunting prowess, social status and strength are not sex dependent.
They say Pluto is a dwarf planet then say its just an asteroid. Wish they'd make up their minds
The Tau gathers in strength we must find out how to defeat them.
I’m a fan boy, so 5. At least I admit it
Also that many clans do hunt in packs as we'll as different specialist predators and different types of vision systems in their helmets. Also predators have different customs on how they hunt depending on the clan
It just occurred to me-- if the Predator isn't camouflaged against certain backgrounds, you'd have to be damn near blind to not see it.
Not sure if it's bad that they don't care about dominating the galaxy/universe. I like them specifically because of their honor code. Sure if they wanted to they could switch to a conquering mentality and easily wipe out everything else, but at the end what would really be the point. They don't have materialistic goals. So controlling the whole universe means nothing to them.
Wait isn't there a predator human hybrid
So the Predators can’t see well in hot environments? Texans finally have a race we can defend against!!
agggghhh that dwarf pun, you should feel ashamed
as said in the video predators dont work in group that often making them weaker on the battlefield and that is why i gave them a 2. They are some of the best fighters but in war you need to work together and if they did i would have given them a 4 maybe even 5
The Yautja have have another postie ,as they to my knowledge, do not hunt species to extiinctioninlike some other species I could mention.
@@rohacha9iin40 Homo Sapians
Hansen used lifelike human dolls to capture yautja.also one that would say " I'm talking Tina"....
This video will turn you into a goddamn sexual tyrannosaur. Just like me.
Their code of honor and tendency to fight for fun and glory rather than for military purposes makes them least of the dangers I can see... lets face it, the only way they would become true threat would be if humans themselves militarized to the point vast majority of society is armed and combat-trained.
You also forgot to mention there in the star trek universe.
sinse you mentioned dwarfs do list of best allies of humanity
you mean squats?
it's ok there are no inquisitors around
@@BIGBOSS-bu1jt squats were bless theyre hearts part of imperium not allies
I'm not sure how Cannon this is but in the extended lord of the predators hunting and warfare is different. When they go to war or they specifically go to capture a xenomorph Queen it is No holds barred. They go in with heavy energy weapons and full sets of armor made from the strongest materials including completely acid resistant.
Hay I worship the yautja
Predator mask have an alternate vision modes.
What a coincidence. I just killed a Yautja in Ghost Recon today.
As a single enemy they are right near the top of the list depending on what Tyranid, Eldar or Xenomorph they are fighting. As a danger to humanity they are near the bottom of the list as they have other worries and care for sport and honor more then destruction of other species
I see most of the newer movies info were rightly left out. As much fun as I thought Predators and The Predator were to watch, they screwed the canon almost as much as the alien prequels.
Great vid
Purge the XENOS
Now I'm curious as to how in the Universe they were even able to make a proper society. Then again with how our most recent movie basically made it so that they no longer hunt so much for sport but for DNA to modify future generations with they could've started as a fairly civilized race that was after that juicy DNA so that they could better defend themselves, with using spears and shit being seen as a way to show how cool your DNA is as a thing that continued once they were in a fairly safe position, with it eventually becoming law in what is basically a samurai cult that formed over the countless generations.
Yeah I can see the Predators have some advantages and flaws but they're still physically stronger than us but they like brains
I think they would use boardings parties in naval combat.
Any strategy which depends upon getting in point-blank range is a fairly bad one.
G E T T O T H E A M E R I C A N C H O P E R
And then you see Antifa has taken it out while screaming "No America at all, we welcome all unregistered aliens." Before you die, you see the glimmer of the cloaked Predator crossing the boarder while it laughs, like Woody Wood Pecker!
So close yet so far.
@@thatdoppioguy1825 It happens, but dont worry, this leads to "Illegal Aliens vs the Predator."
Pluto is actually a space egg
Umm, you missed the two obvious weaknesses. They refuse to kill the un-armed and pregnant.
The predators greatest flaw is their culture. I'm not sure they even have any interest in domination. If any species does put up a good fight, chances are they would leave them be so that they could continue hunting them whenever they fancy. Can't enjoy hunting a species if you exterminate them.
Now if the predators could be used as an elite force by some species with loftier goals and greater drive for conquest over simple hunting, I think they could help them win the war.
You would need a tongue that makes the devil's look like pot metal to convince them to abandon their entire culture and belief system. They have far too much pride, they would fight to the last man against any odds.
I hope NECA give us of the predator of 4:09
one question? are the predator and alien movies in the same universe? if so than why does it look like in aliens that before they made contact with the xenomorphs it looks like they didnt knew there were other alien species? someone please explain.
So what are times predators have gone to war and where can i read about it
Before you guys do the Tyranids advantage video you need to go over Devastation of Baal
Basically ever tyranid in a swarm IS the same creature and they share a single psykic signature
There is only one of each tyranid all the Millions of Lictor's IS the same Lictor all the trillions of Warriors IS the same Warrior
Every Tyranid Keeps all the different traits it has evolved over the millennia of there existence in its genome Giving them an unimaginable complex Genome
who builds and desings their ships and tech havent seen any engineer yautja yet in the movies :D