One thing that always confused me was Sam still being in Russia when the bombs dropped if things were already at that point. For those that don't know Sam was a US Marine stationed as a guard at the US Embassy in Moscow, managed to get into the metro and was about to be lynched by an angry mob but Miller saved him, taught him Russian and made him a Ranger.
@@TheOmegaInitiative still it’s our standard operating procedure to evacuate US embassies when the country is due to collapse. I.e. we just evacuated Sudan this month
@@user-kv5lq9xm8c with the way nuclear wars work, wouldn’t be surprised if it was only a couple days (if that) since the first signs of a nuclear apocalypse when the nukes hit moscow
@@Andrewbaysura1 In metro exodus, when going through the caspian radar bunker you can find notes of staff who see a big increase in signals down south towards the middle east
There's an underlying theme in both the novels and the games which you come close to touching on in this video many times. Wherever we find remnants of the old world, they are dead or dying. Abandoned vehicles, or command bunkers, or survivors turned feral... every instance of the old world has nothing left to offer the new world that has emerged after the catastrophe. Metro is a franchise about letting go of the past and forging a new future.
@@AS-np3yq well, less depression and more: "please stop glorifying the horrible past of our people turning on each other, and selling each other out, hiding it behind a veneer of patriotism" if depression is letting your worst emotions and vices fester and further harm you, then this would be cutting those out. I still think one of the greatest endings to any book is artyom feeling relieved he lased the botanical gardens, then feeling the psyhic connection, how they tell him theyre so glad humanity has someone who understands them, and that together the two can meet peacefully, and live together... only for the missiles to hit their target a moment later. intentional or not, its the perfect subversion of a heros journey style story. Artyom has achieved his quest, and realizes it was all a lie, however, it hasnt been fufilled yet. meaning he doesnt even get to enjoy the fact that he accomplished what he set out to. he killed moscows best hope. thats what happens elsewhere to some extent. in almost every human culture, heros are seen as people who kill the enemy, not those who feed the masses. this is because peaceful cultures usually get beaten in wars. but with the threat of mass extinction, this sort of message tells us "there cant be violent heros anymore. its too dangerous. our very existence is on the line"
The thing that hits really deep about the death of the old world is the meeting with Khan in metro 2033, Khan talking about the end of the afterlife is scary.
I find it kinda cool there could be other enclave kind of governments left, like in metro or maybe other former governments still holding on what’s left in fallout
There’s actually one more faction that possibly can be lead by military or at least local authorities, so called “Civil Protection Staff”. The only mention of this group is a radio transmission on level “Autumn” in Metro Exodus, where speaker in professional form informs survivors to stay away from cities Barnaul,Biysk, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk and Tomsk due to high radiation levels, then providing information about hazards of different highly radiated places such as countryside roads and railways. Speaker also tells if in case you left your shelter on your own you should immediately arrive to “evacuposts” for a deactivation procedure. The most strange part is with mentioned by speaker cities. Yes, some are actually exposed to mediocre radiation, but in Kemerovo according to Khlebnikov’s map radiation rate is not critical while Tomsk wasn’t effected by war almost at all. It’s hard to tell, but this announcement could be made to avoid people from coming into Tomsk. But why they recommend to search for outposts for deactivation if they’re likely placed in habitable semi safe places like Tomsk? I hope we will get to know more about this organization
Im very late, and assuming it isnt just a repeated transmission, what if they're cautioned because theyre only using estimated maps? Not the exact ones like the ones you get from the Caspian. Alternatively, maybe theyre cautioned because although they have low radioactive hazards, the wildllife may be more hazardous. I.e, the bear.
My friend, the government and certain influential individuals have a problem with Russia, not the people. We actually have many things in common, culture and interests/hobby wise most of the rest of the world has would have difficulties understanding, in my humble opinion. Much love, from the Midwest!
@@surlyunicorn9461 I would love to see a more brutal and dark Fallout though. Like one set in the NYC Metro and on the surface a very brutal war is raging between a Human faction that traces it's roots to the NYPD and USMC that was sent in before the Apocalypse started and that faction is fighting for power against an alliance of smart Mutans from all over the wasteland, Ghouls, former Minutemen and BoS.
@@Andrewbaysura1 I’d enjoy seeing Fallout go back to a more gritty and dark world without having to mod it into that myself. Scenarios like you mentioned could be a lot of fun. Especially with limited resources that makes you think a lot more tactically about your choices.
I remember hearing a story of a whole company of tanks surviving the war and forming a "settlement" of sorts by arranging their tanks in a circle as a sort of protective wall. If memory serves, they were eventually overrun by mutants.
It's mentioned in 2035 and Exodus. I don't recall the story exactly from 2035, as it's been a while since I read it, but in Exodus they say that the Company (it's called a Company in the game but a Troop in the book" managed to escape, and found a place to hunker down outside Moscow, and found survivors. they formed a small village, surrounding it with their tanks, turning them into armed bunkers. They state in Exodus that the Troop survived for a few years, regularly maintaining contact with Metro, but they lost contact at some point, which is believe was when Polis set up the jammers. In the book, the individual says they just lost contact one day, and ASSUMED that they were overrun by Mutants, while in the game it is directly stated that they were. Personally i subscribe to the theory that the book puts forward, that the settlement is still there, and they only think they were overrun because they lost contact, due to the jammers going online
Iirc, book "right to live" or one of two others from that series expands on this idea - basically people there eventually survived from what i remember and joined other settlements. But I read that book long ago and im not even sure its translated to english
@@andrewshepherd1537 a village with a wall of tanks surrounding them sounds pretty sick. an old mossy, rusty and almost buried tank moves it turret scanning a tree line. i can imagine one tank having a tree growing on its turret, and the tree sways as the turret moves.
My headcanon while playing the games was that the Metro factions correlated to what kind of people were in a certain section of Moscow. I would say it’s weird an initial group of each kind of radical got in if they were known before the war but then again it was the war and more importantly Russia or being free in the chaos diverting the doomed Russian government to evacuation they could’ve pushed their way in at the last minute and asserted their authority with some guns and this process replicated itself. Also something that gets me: people call the Order “Spartans” when only Miller’s soldiers are “Spartans” because they were based at Sparta station, named for the small number of elite soldiers inhabiting it, the rest of the actual Order living in Polis alongside civilians making Polis the safest (for non-scavengers) and most rounded inhabited station apart from D6 for the months before the attack. In Yamantau it’s explained the construction crew got desperate and and their insanity was from inevitability eating a man with a prion development and it spread rapidly though I’m skeptical it’d spread that fast. Cannibalism is rarely something that would spread like a normal infection from one guy unless most people that got there from the surface somehow developed the infection themselves via the background radiation on the surface explaining why the Metro lacks the same cannibal trend even without sufficient medical capabilities but how the cannibals aren’t suffering from deadly kuru just the Borderlands level insanity makes me extra skeptical.
Probably a cultural thing. Someone at the top of the hierarchy delved into cannibalism and given the all male population plus isolation, plus testosterone, plus cabin fever, plus, etc etc just continued the cannibalism and became part of their identity. There are still human populations that engage in cannibalism out of belief systems rather than food scarcity (SE Asian and South American tribes for instance). Killers who engage in cannibalism (Albert Fish and Bundy as examples) did it as a power thing combined with their mental illnesses. Wouldn't be a stretch for the personalities found at Yamantau in the Metro universe to do it for similar reasons.
@@Otterdisappointment they probably do but it's the people near them i.e same room and the like when someone dies from hunger, sickness, or natural causes we just dont see it plus they probably "have fun" with any of the women/girls that they catch
I believe that there was research done on a tribe that rutialistically ate their deceased as a kind of funural and that it is found that prolonged consuption of human flesh causes massive neurological issues in ourbrains but i cannot remember how or why - only that it causes deteriation
WOOOOO! Let’s go! More good old fashioned Metro lore! Here’s hoping you get into the extended universe lore as there’s even a story that goes over to the US!
@@marekjarabica6630 Honestly it’s hard to say which one specifically, all of them have something going for them whether it be their history or their design.
@@marekjarabica6630 Minsk metro is at least interesting one, with factions like remnants of American forces stationed in Lithuania prior to the war or hordes of parasite infected always happy cannibals!
Also Enclave was secret cabal before the war and had plenty of time to prepare several plans for post-nuclear reconstruction. From what we know in the Metro universe, Russian goverment was as surprised as their own citizens when bombs fell and didn't had enough resources or logistics for anything more than creating radio silence around the remnants of Moscow so that survivors won't know about the state of the rest of the world.
+@@Chosen_Ash+ The Reformist Enclave from the Hoi4 Old World Blues submod is best Enclave; Rebuilding America one Brick at a Time, for President Douglas Granite!
Major spoilers from the books, so beware The situation under Moscow isn't delicate as it might seem. As stated in the video, there is a balance, and it's heavily enforced and regulated. The invisible watchers aren't some sort of governing body. They are just the "elite" 1%who stumbled upon a source of power and utilized it. They are self governed monarchs of the Moscow. Whilst most of their time is spent enjoying the luxuries, their main objective is to keep the balance, in order to enjoy their power longer. Polis, Hansa, Reich and line are all connected to the watchers. It is the Rangers who supplied ammo to the red line so that they could suppress the civilian uprising. Every "governor" collectively agreed to isolate Moscow, may it be the radio jammer or the mass graves near them housing countless wanderers from the outside world. The whole system isn't unlike The Matrix. It is just a forced reality upon the people to keep them in line whilst the top 1%clings onto their luxury. In the end, Spartans weren't the holy order to keep the balance in metro. If anything, they were the henchmen to the watchers and their puppets leading the stations. The watchers aren't just observers, they are the players whilst everyone else is just another piece on the board, playing against their enemy, time. And the ending of the books symbolize that really well. There is a rampant disease killing the mushrooms, the main source of nutrients in the tunnels. Whilst the watchers try to find a cure, the situation is only getting worse. Moscow is at the beginning of the end. And against all that, Artyom and Anna "break out of the matrix", and go on to venture the rest of the world, leaving the crumbling society of Moscow behind. Maybe there is a future to Moscow. Maybe there isn't. No one knows, and all they can do is to win a few more grains of sand against the endless sea of time.
Very cool video! I’ve heard of Metro before, but I didn’t know much about it. And I got to say, that biomass beneath the Kremlin and those people at that mountain bunker that are luring people there so they can cannibalize them is pure nightmare fuel.
Two very different games. FO is open world with 1950s inspired Sci-Fi. Metro is former Soviet bloc with its cultural influences. The metro universe is just darker and the games lack open world.
2:36 My theory is that indeed some officials from the Russian federation government survived and tried to re-establish a Metro-government but with the fallout and large scale chaos among the survivors it just failed. But some small groups like OSKOM survived but later on got destroyed in a riot by its own citizens due the shortage of “Green stuff”
I wounder if the sequel will follow artyom or sam depending on the different endings 🤔 if we play as artyom I think we'll try and go back to metro tunnels and bring all the people out and to the clean place they found or artyom and his friends go and find the invisible watchers and get answers as to why they kept the secret that Russia wasn't the only city that survived 🤔
@ismaelgingles9409 I like the idea of playing as Sam again (considering that we didn't blew up the sub), but at the same time, it wouldn't be Metro anymore... it would be just a fallout. Well, if they could make a spin-off with Sam in the USA and keep up with the quality that we know and love, man, Bethesda would be in great danger, hahaha, but would still be Metro?
Love seeing your content exploring other apocalyptic franchises beyond Fallout! Wouldn't mind seeing you cover The Last of Us and FEDRA as well, but anything you upload I'll watch.
The reason there is a 4th Reich in the Metro books and games is because such beliefs are common among Russian (and to be fair - Eastern European) youth in general. I know it is weird, but Moscow has a huge amount of such people with such beliefs. So this part of the book is probably quite accurate.
It should also be clarified that they swap out Germans/Aryans for Russians, they aren’t self hating or anything. Ethnonationalist beliefs are Russia’s bread and butter. Literally every politician with a shred of support is quite fervently ethnonationalist.
4th Reich at least in the games is more of an extremist anti-mutant faction. The racist elements were basically watered down or overshadowed by their genetic purity ideals
@@jonathanpfeffer3716it’s called Christian fascism and it’s has been popular in Russia (especially with Putin who quotes Christian fascists in his speeches) since the 1930’s
I may have found a good reason to why Metro didn't include the Kremlin's psychic ailments. Metro is made by former STALKER developers, and got into some hot water for copying STALKER's Xray Engine as well as other creative concepts (some still seen today). STALKER has (or had) something called Brainscorcher, a series of radio tower-like devices casting psychic energy which takes over the minds of people, turning them into zombies of the zone. I think the Metro developers thought the Kremlin's psychic inhibitors was similar to Brainscorcher.
20:56 Russia has a mandatory conscription service, techincly enlisted troops would be better trained and thus have a higher chance of survival but any men 18 or over before the nuclear war would have at least basic training
There's a difference between conscription and mandatory service. Conscription is the random drafting of eligible people into the military. Mandatory service is the requirement for anyone eligible to serve in the military.
Well, common sense. If random civilians can survive 20 years in the Metro, establishing complex society and governance. Then it only make sense that elite government officials also survive. My guess? The Rangers. Think about it, while most are trying to survive and the other are trying to enforce their ideology and rule, the Rangers just seem to be so out of place and being too organized, too equiped, too trained. And as noble as protecting the Metro and humanity as a whole, such mission are just too idealistic to be true on its own. My guess is that the government actually do survive in the Metro and they kept control through the Rangers. They are the only elite soldiers capable of influencing things from the shadow through force, if the government noticed the Reds are winning over the Reich they'll send Rangers to balance the scale again and blame it on some supernatural occurance, which almost never happened where groups of humans are present.
Always felt The biomass in the kremlin was just a metaphor. How the capital buildings with a giant black mass of sludge inside that entrance people, makes them do things, and swallows them.
They never tried and all died before anything could be done as far as I know. Everyone in Yamantau were construction workers, some soldiers, and a few high ranking officers overseeing construction since the bunker was not complete when the nukes hit
@@clownworld4655 Correct. As I recall, the tunnels that were supposed to connect the Yamantau complex to metro were never finished, and there was only a small staff of military officers on hand when the bombs fell, along with a hefty number of construction workers. Due to the bunker being incomplete, it was never stocked with food and only had two of the four water purifiers originally planned
Great video, you only made a minor mistake when talking about the kremlin. The pictures and game footage you showed were of the state historical museum. It's right next to the kremlin, but it is not the kremlin.
Well, in books there are a lot of mentions and direct descriptions of various military formations still present both Russian and NATO (The largest foreign commune that is written about, is located in Ulianovsk and is comprised mostly of american marines that were landed at the local airport hours before the missle strikes. It gets destroyed by 2027) , of course most of them have turned from being a full military organisations to just regular settlements or proto-governments (there is one called "Береговое братство" in russian or The brotherhood of shore if I were to translate it, a large organisation that was comprised of several military garrison personel and regular police around Atirau in Kazakhstan, they are really strong and have tonns of resources, if you compare them to other groups it will be the same as comparing a platoon against a brigade, they even managed to establish contact with dealers of high-tech exosuits somewhere in Asia, it's not stated where exactly. Unfortunately the group is wiped out by the end of the book cycle called "Конституция апокалипсиса" by a nuclear bomb fired by the main hero of the books). As for others, there is a commune of former russian 31 guardian-paratrooper brigade in ulianovsk present as of 2035, they were sent to eliminate the before mentioned NATO soldiers sent to capture the airport, but weren't able to because of the nuclear strikes and are now left with 50% of the amount of soldiers before the great war. Also there is a NATO descendent-government in the Minsk Metro, in the beginning they were stationed on a military base in Poland under command of Ray Slavinski but later decided to invade Minsk Metro for some reason (not stated in the books) the stations are completely run by american people, renamed to american names, the soldiers of it's army are mostly locals as there were not that many NATO soldiers invading. Also there is a settlement in Kraliningrad (Russian land near Germany) called " Krasnotorovka" it has a large core of ex-military personel from the local garrison, although most of the civilian population were not connected with military. So, there are actully a lot of the ex-military setttlements ranging from the tank crew mentioned in the video (BtW there is a detailed description of it in the "Право на жизнь" book where the main hero visits it) to several garrisons uniting into a large kind of-government. And that all is just from the 9 books of the "expanded" universe I've read and I'm sure there are more mentiones and descriptions of such communes in other books that take place in other parts of Russia. If you want to ask something about settlements I mentioned feel free to do it.
the invisible watchers were what was left of the governement after the bombs dropped, in bunkers or other places where they managed to hold out for some time and broadcast orders. They gave the orders to jam all the lines around moscow to make it look like the city was fully dead as to avoid more missile strikes
One thing krest mentioned in "exodus" sometime between volga and taiga chapter, he said that ex-government is worse than regular bandits as they become bandit themselves but difference always had to give speeches before doing anything.
From what we see in Metro Exodus is OSKOM was the only Military or Government force that survived the Bombs. It seemed like under the Government Control life in the Metro's was a lot better than in Moscow. The Ark for example was another reminder of the Russian Government so. It's very safe to say we will likely see the Russian Government in Future Metro Games.
We may see some form of the Russian government in a future installment of the Metro games, but they're probably gonna be portrayed very differently compared to their real life counterparts especially with all that's going on in the world right now.
I honestly think Hansa is the Former Russian Government, and here's the evidence WHY. 1. Hansa is NEVER attacked by factions (Reich, Red Line, Spartans, etc) even Bandits know not to even try. 2. They are well equipped with everything a militaristic faction would have, not even Artyom's home station had alot of what they have. 3. Above ground, there is evidence of radio interference as LR radios (Long Range) would pick up localee signals outside of Moscow, they can not. There is a conversation in Metro 2033 with two Spartan Order soldiers and one mentions that a SSBN in the artic was in contact with him, eventually it went dark either by it being hunted, scuttled or by other means. 4. A small base far out where Artyom in Exodus infiltrates what is then discovered to be a Military Radio Jammer, keeping them in the dark to prevent any other strikes. In conclusion, Hansa has to have dipped their toes in waters of diplomatic means in order to remain this way, either by threats of war or by peace talks or pacts, so they have to be the former Government
The Red Line did attack Hanza, before the events of the games and books. There was a war between them that cost a lot of lives and was only ended because fighting any longer wasn't feasible. The Invisible Watchers are the ones responsible for the radio jammers they just use The Order and Hanza to build and maintain them.
Maybe the Invisible Whatchers are some high raking officers, or maybe the president are controling people outside of russia?? Kgb maybe ?? Sorry if i had errors in the text.. much love ❤
You know when Artyom and Miller are riding the elevator in D6 after dealing with the Biomass in the Metro 2033 video game, there were some storage facilities that could be seen housing various types of tanks and light armored vehicles, a few that were probably designed for NBC warfare, which implies that Russia's military forces were preparing for a more conventional war rather than a nuclear one right off the bat. And in some ways they actually did wage a conventional war in the Middle East that managed to escalate into a nuclear skirmish that eventually caused NATO, and by extension the USA, to get involved with their own nukes as well.
Yo ngl it’s be dope if you did a what if video on if Artyom and the gang decided to stay in the metro to tell everyone of the conspiracy in the events of exodus. keep up the great work bro!!!
The idea given at the end of Exodus is that they will be going back to Moscow. In Metro 2035 Artyom tries to convince everyone about the conspiracy but in the end no one believes him.
@@TheOmegaInitiative true but we're talking Russians here, they could even turned a museum piece IS-3 to working states. Nice video btw mate im enjoyed it so far.
@@NathanPa-xo3zj In the books of the 2033 and 2035 subway universes, there is a whole lot of information about the use of land, sea or air vehicles by heroes or bystanders. I know what I'm saying, there are over 30 books from the Metro 2033/35 universe in Poland, over 60-70% are translated from Russian into Polish. :)
@TheOmegaInitiative I’m not an expert in military vehicles maintenance but I think they’ll probably be mostly fine, needing repairs but apart from some advanced systems they should work fine
all that old Soviet stuff was designed to survive in post nuclear conditions not to mention that Russian/soviet stuff is technologically inferior but extremely reliable and easy to fix
The metro book also mentions artyom and the other spartans encountering some kind of underground vehicle in the cannibal tunnels in the metro. Possibly a train or drilling machine as one of the characters mentions. Which makes me wonder who could have been operating it.
The idea of government bureaucrats becoming an inhuman sludge that consumes people to increase it's biomass is kind of poetic and in a sense very real 😅
Fun fact in the cut dialogue there is a line that one of the aurora crew cut off their ventilation systems as the group flees, so once the doors close breathing air will likely run out after some time, especially with all the rotting bodies.
Ngl i never all this i barley beaten exodus and ive been trying to get platinum for ps ,i am happy u covered this cuz u get really deep in the lore of it and ive been trying to piece it together myself and ive always wondered wat happened to the military especially in exodus where we can find cannibals in the bunker with the doctor or the Caspian sea on how it dried up straight up reminded of mad max🤔🤔
I haven't read the books and only played the games, but what happened to the spartan rangers after artiem, miller, and the gang fight with the Hansa over the radio jammers/stolen train and end up going cross-country? Did Hansa and polis/rangers go to war?
Most likely they still exist, but with Miller gone they've lost much of their independence and have become a puppet organization to Hanza or the Invisible watchers.
im pretty sure they will still use the governments as a source of lore and maybe we will get some actual remnants of the government that still try to rebuild russia or enstablish some kind of nation, even if the developers want to support ukraine the book was made by a russian and based in russia, and honestly making a metro game whitout the russian government involved in something wold be like making a fallout game whitout the BoS or the enclave
Huh! You forget about The Minuteman? Because thats the Only Good Faction try to Rebuild Society and Goverment in Huge Scale but Only have a Power of Militias and Farmers. Just like the End of Exodus, Try to rebuild Society in Clear Zone.
The book is made by a Russian But the game is made by Ukrainians. So if you want to see what else happens there - you're gonna have to read the books, not play the games Russians haven't released a single good game. Atomic Hearts comes to mind, but it's boring, bland and funded by the Russian government, so the game devs were newbies who had all the resources but no idea what to do. It's a shamble of half baked ideas from other games.
@@RazorsharpLT silent storm 2 and blitzkrieg series are from Russia, both very good games to be fair. Anyways I still believe it is necessary to include the Russian government in the game even if the developers are Ukrainian because it's what the original series are intended to show. Can you make a game about ww2 and exclude axis powers just because they sucked? Of course not
It's a good game, it has problems but without being offensive the whole thing about war and politics tainted it too much and it got an unnecessary boycott@@RazorsharpLT
I might look into playing/reading metro now! I've never really heard much outside the name, di didn't even k kw what it was about! Thanks for the inspiration!
whilst they hurt the biomass entity, what really "broke them free" of it's influence was when the rocketman's son sacrificed himself, it also woke him up from his coma that he entered into after the cannibal tunnels where they had an encounter with another psychic individual
if you want to do another fallout hypothetical you could probably do "what if sinclair wasn't sabotaged" and it could cover how things might've happened at the Sierra Madre if the construction workers didn't scam him and Big MT didn't release the cloud/they managed to contain and remove the cloud.
20:45 In Volga we find some Diary pages about some survivors there, idk how old is the diary on the lore, but its most likely is before the people there go crazy about Technology/Electricity
Major political correction on the 4th Reich in regards to the likelihood of former Russian servicement joining up: Neo-Nazi and neo-paganist ideologies have been spreading further and further into both the athletic and armed services spheres of Russia, case in point Wagner, as well as other various paramilitaries or units adopting WW2 German symbology meshed with Russian nationalism
Russia as a radiated wasteland: Hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now... But it's gonna get way worse. Ukraine as a radiated wasteland: A NUUUUUU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DANKE
Anomaly in Metro : Mythically dangerous Anomaly in the Zone : If you want to take a dump just go to the nearest space bubble anomaly But jokes aside, in Metro, humanity walking from the dark to the light. Meanwhile in Stalker it's the opposite.
@@RazorsharpLT It's probably for the best that Russia handles the writing before it gets adopted by the Ukrainians tbh. I've seen a few games that are written solely in Ukraine - they're usually not that great.
@@DoingTheBestICan STALKER is literally written by Ukrainians So idk what you're talking about. It has as much to do with Roadside picnic and the movie "STALKER" as Avatar the cartoon has to do with the movie.
@@АртемийЛаптев-и8к Having played the games recently, isn't there a line about somebody flying a Plane to St Petersburg? Or about some FROM St Petersburg flying to moscow. Can't remember.
@@E.V.A.N-COProductionsyep while in the church before being attacked by lesnistsky one of the guys talks about that and gets called a liar but claims it’s true
I love video speaking of speculation. And I always feel "sad" when i found out that, for example that nobody in the government survived or in series like the walking dead, that the army was completely wiped out. It is not cool and sad in my opinion
I've always kinda head conned the Metro and Fallout stories to be kinda in similar parallel worlds. The bit about the Sludge under the Kremlin sound almost exactly like Master. Almost like an early experimental version of the FEV was fired at it in the war but not quite the same FEV from Fallout 1 since in this world the Metro had the Great War early in 2013 instead of later in 2077
Can you make video about other countries in the Metro universe? Those who werent involved in the war like Vietnam, Laos, Australia, South Africa and the rest of the world
I've been a metro fan for 10 years. I keep seeing more and more videos about the series just from the past year or 2. I don't know what happened to make the game as popular as it deserves to be but it's epic that people are finally giving it attention. All 3 are masterpiece video game experiences. Gameplay, story, characters, graphics, and the best atmosphere and immersion in the history of gaming.
Well yes but I think not right away. It seems almost like a delayed reaction to me at least but definitely after exodus Maybe it was in a lot of people's backlogs for a couple years I know so few hardcore metro fans (almost none really) that it felt kinda like "my thing". The more people that get in on it the better
Don't know if this was said however during the end of Metro 2033 video game, sometime during Artyoms visit to the two or three last armorys before heading to the library (though I believe it was after meeting Miller and looking for the documents of D6) You can hear two three soldiers conversing around a map and talking. Sibberia is mentioned and then one solider says something along the lines of "[...] the same place where the government/government officials are situated". There might be some fact there that I got wrong or whatever but just wanted to say, and while it was still fresh in my mind as I just finished the game.
@@TheOmegaInitiative I see, will enjoy the scary ride as I finish last light and then continuing onto exodus and discover more about the lore as I go on
From what i understand from the game notes the goverment never even arrivec to yamantau and the workers say they now get why because there was almost no food.
I believe that pre war goverment and military still exist because in exodus when anna and artyom find out about other metros surviving there 2 cities that surviver and are on the map which one of them is Archangelsk and other one in kamchatka and i think that goverment and military maybe even navy exists because Archangelsk is a large military port and army base and on kamchatka its probably somewhere where some military facility is
What an amazing video game/book universe. I’d like to think just like the enclave, the Russian goverment is out there. I mean the country is massive. But honestly the old world is gone, and it’s probably gone everywhere. Excited to see what Happens next.
All soviet/Russian tanks were built with anti-radiation “shielding” i don’t know the exact term but the point been they have the ability to operate and survive in the radiation, one tank example of this is the T-72.
while the game dont explain much the book, 2035 revails the govnerment is still active and in fact the world is not destroyed, but they use jamming equipment to seal off moscow radio frequencies to contact the outside world, "protecting" the remaining people in the metro
Metro is basically like Donbass rn, there's literal Sparta Battalion that takes its symbols and inspiration from the game, but also far right faction like Rusich, Hamza like Wagner, red line like DPR/LPR government and the RF gov
Idk how it was in the books, but the games don't make sense and basically just exist to show the Russian government in bad light. Clearly something Ukrainian devs were interested in. - The Novosibirsk tank crew was shooting at the metro entrance for some reason right before nukes fall. To achieve what? Never explained. - The whole blocking airwaves around Moscow to keep people inside - clear allusion to Iron Curtain and makes no sense. Radio jamming is done by strong noise pollution on the radio frequencies. A very narrow band of frequencies at that. First of all, its not possible to jam all frequencies. Second, if there was a bunch of jammers installed around that specific area, the "enemy" could just deduct someone is hiding out there. Because there's a massive field of random noise on specific frequencies, that would clearly stand out over white noise caused by radiation. - The Ural bunkers don't make sense, the bunker wasn't nuked and people were clearly able to reach it. But if there's no food, then why not leave it? In fact, in general it is a terrible idea to try to reach army-run places even if they weren't nuked. If they weren't nuked initially, they are probably low priority target. But that can still happen and you want to get away from that location, not try to go into it. - A lot of land in southern Siberia is used for farming, and Siberia itself is massive. so even if the major cities got nuked, the rest of the land wouldn't be affected. There are still massive chunks of population spread out over massive areas. So why would Baikal lake be completely empty? It's literally the number 1 place to go to for clean water. It would be full of people. But not in a Ukrainian game where every Russian is just too dumb to think logically. Idk, in general Metro series are very bad games. Cool concept, but terrible non-sense plot when you think about it. Full of plot holes too.
-with limited resources they had to stop endless hordes of civilians get to metro. In other stations and in Moscow they used guards and steel gates, here they had to use tank. -There wasn´t an enemy trying to get them and so couldn´t deduct that someone was hiding there, no one cared. About not blocking all frequencies (I guess that with such high quality of signal jammers they might block quite alot) there were people who got some signal. Authorities probably didn´t have big problem to silence few of those "crazy people". -leave it and do what? Grow food in mountains? It would grow after long time and not very much. Hunt animals for hundreds of people in post-apo wasteland? Attack others? That or just stay there, record few lines about offering help and wait until food gets to you, while you wait in your super safe bunker sounds better. -Ending of main characters on nice cliff above the lake is pretty nice, having some random villages down there might make it look worse... but it wouldn´t really change anything, it would be just weird to have to explain during dramatic ending that they actually met people there,why do that? The fact that you take this as an attempt to make Russians look stupid sounds quite paranoid.
@@angellara7040 do you know what a sabot round is? It's a very fast light projectile specifically designed to penetrate armor. It doesn't do a lot of damage, it basically slices through leaving a nice little hole. How is shooting a sabot into a gate supposed to open it?
@@angellara7040 How is a 2 inch hole supposed to open anything? The story shouldn't be written in a way where you a separate compendium and a bunch of wiki pages trying to explain the plot. This is why the game has a terrible story telling. All 3 of them actually. Just terrible writing.
"Given their history with Germany, tge fourth reich is the furthest cry from pre war Russia." I see you've not been paying much attention to Russia have you...
Had to reupload after I realized the last 3 videos were capped at 480p 😭
Sh!t happens. I’m happy to rewatch again.
144p would make it an authentic Russian quality video.
It wasn't for me... So it was just a RUclips bug.
I had the video paused halfway through for a couple hours and came back to it being private... was worried I was never going to see the rest 😅
@@GreenBlueWalkthrough No it was on my end, my editing software was set to 480.
One thing that always confused me was Sam still being in Russia when the bombs dropped if things were already at that point. For those that don't know Sam was a US Marine stationed as a guard at the US Embassy in Moscow, managed to get into the metro and was about to be lynched by an angry mob but Miller saved him, taught him Russian and made him a Ranger.
Russia wasn't at war with the US, WW3 was started with nuclear exchanges in the Middle East that started a chain reaction over the rest of the world.
@@TheOmegaInitiative wait really? Can you do a video on it please. Also new subscriber, love the video!
@@TheOmegaInitiative still it’s our standard operating procedure to evacuate US embassies when the country is due to collapse. I.e. we just evacuated Sudan this month
@@user-kv5lq9xm8c with the way nuclear wars work, wouldn’t be surprised if it was only a couple days (if that) since the first signs of a nuclear apocalypse when the nukes hit moscow
@@Andrewbaysura1 In metro exodus, when going through the caspian radar bunker you can find notes of staff who see a big increase in signals down south towards the middle east
There's an underlying theme in both the novels and the games which you come close to touching on in this video many times. Wherever we find remnants of the old world, they are dead or dying. Abandoned vehicles, or command bunkers, or survivors turned feral... every instance of the old world has nothing left to offer the new world that has emerged after the catastrophe. Metro is a franchise about letting go of the past and forging a new future.
No, Metro is a franchise depicting how absolutely fucking shitty Russia is. The entire saga shits on the soviet union and the russian federation.
It is typical russian/east european depression lore.
@@AS-np3yq well, less depression and more: "please stop glorifying the horrible past of our people turning on each other, and selling each other out, hiding it behind a veneer of patriotism"
if depression is letting your worst emotions and vices fester and further harm you, then this would be cutting those out. I still think one of the greatest endings to any book is artyom feeling relieved he lased the botanical gardens, then feeling the psyhic connection, how they tell him theyre so glad humanity has someone who understands them, and that together the two can meet peacefully, and live together... only for the missiles to hit their target a moment later.
intentional or not, its the perfect subversion of a heros journey style story. Artyom has achieved his quest, and realizes it was all a lie, however, it hasnt been fufilled yet. meaning he doesnt even get to enjoy the fact that he accomplished what he set out to. he killed moscows best hope.
thats what happens elsewhere to some extent. in almost every human culture, heros are seen as people who kill the enemy, not those who feed the masses. this is because peaceful cultures usually get beaten in wars. but with the threat of mass extinction, this sort of message tells us "there cant be violent heros anymore. its too dangerous. our very existence is on the line"
Yeah, no wonder. ;)
The thing that hits really deep about the death of the old world is the meeting with Khan in metro 2033, Khan talking about the end of the afterlife is scary.
I find it kinda cool there could be other enclave kind of governments left, like in metro or maybe other former governments still holding on what’s left in fallout
The Watchers...
Spartans? The only Faith of the Goverment is them.
that's kinda the plot of Metro 2035
Yeah was kind of excited in exodus when you go into what was supposed to be that goverment bunker. Until it was revealed as a trap
The Enclave but Russian.
There’s actually one more faction that possibly can be lead by military or at least local authorities, so called “Civil Protection Staff”. The only mention of this group is a radio transmission on level “Autumn” in Metro Exodus, where speaker in professional form informs survivors to stay away from cities Barnaul,Biysk, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Novosibirsk and Tomsk due to high radiation levels, then providing information about hazards of different highly radiated places such as countryside roads and railways. Speaker also tells if in case you left your shelter on your own you should immediately arrive to “evacuposts” for a deactivation procedure. The most strange part is with mentioned by speaker cities. Yes, some are actually exposed to mediocre radiation, but in Kemerovo according to Khlebnikov’s map radiation rate is not critical while Tomsk wasn’t effected by war almost at all. It’s hard to tell, but this announcement could be made to avoid people from coming into Tomsk. But why they recommend to search for outposts for deactivation if they’re likely placed in habitable semi safe places like Tomsk? I hope we will get to know more about this organization
Those broadcasts would be repeating from just after the war when some government bodies were still acting.
Im very late, and assuming it isnt just a repeated transmission, what if they're cautioned because theyre only using estimated maps? Not the exact ones like the ones you get from the Caspian. Alternatively, maybe theyre cautioned because although they have low radioactive hazards, the wildllife may be more hazardous. I.e, the bear.
@@BlightfulProductionsthat or their base is set up there and so don’t want to run the risk of being randomly attacked.
As Russian, I quite surprised that the Metro universe has a certain popularity in Western countries.
It’s a really well done story and an interesting game.
My friend, the government and certain influential individuals have a problem with Russia, not the people. We actually have many things in common, culture and interests/hobby wise most of the rest of the world has would have difficulties understanding, in my humble opinion. Much love, from the Midwest!
@@surlyunicorn9461 STALKER would definitely give you that feeling. You're a nobody.
@@surlyunicorn9461 I would love to see a more brutal and dark Fallout though. Like one set in the NYC Metro and on the surface a very brutal war is raging between a Human faction that traces it's roots to the NYPD and USMC that was sent in before the Apocalypse started and that faction is fighting for power against an alliance of smart Mutans from all over the wasteland, Ghouls, former Minutemen and BoS.
@@Andrewbaysura1 I’d enjoy seeing Fallout go back to a more gritty and dark world without having to mod it into that myself. Scenarios like you mentioned could be a lot of fun. Especially with limited resources that makes you think a lot more tactically about your choices.
I remember hearing a story of a whole company of tanks surviving the war and forming a "settlement" of sorts by arranging their tanks in a circle as a sort of protective wall. If memory serves, they were eventually overrun by mutants.
It's mentioned in 2035 and Exodus. I don't recall the story exactly from 2035, as it's been a while since I read it, but in Exodus they say that the Company (it's called a Company in the game but a Troop in the book" managed to escape, and found a place to hunker down outside Moscow, and found survivors. they formed a small village, surrounding it with their tanks, turning them into armed bunkers. They state in Exodus that the Troop survived for a few years, regularly maintaining contact with Metro, but they lost contact at some point, which is believe was when Polis set up the jammers. In the book, the individual says they just lost contact one day, and ASSUMED that they were overrun by Mutants, while in the game it is directly stated that they were. Personally i subscribe to the theory that the book puts forward, that the settlement is still there, and they only think they were overrun because they lost contact, due to the jammers going online
Iirc, book "right to live" or one of two others from that series expands on this idea - basically people there eventually survived from what i remember and joined other settlements. But I read that book long ago and im not even sure its translated to english
@@andrewshepherd1537 a village with a wall of tanks surrounding them sounds pretty sick. an old mossy, rusty and almost buried tank moves it turret scanning a tree line. i can imagine one tank having a tree growing on its turret, and the tree sways as the turret moves.
GHOST DIVISION
My headcanon while playing the games was that the Metro factions correlated to what kind of people were in a certain section of Moscow. I would say it’s weird an initial group of each kind of radical got in if they were known before the war but then again it was the war and more importantly Russia or being free in the chaos diverting the doomed Russian government to evacuation they could’ve pushed their way in at the last minute and asserted their authority with some guns and this process replicated itself.
Also something that gets me: people call the Order “Spartans” when only Miller’s soldiers are “Spartans” because they were based at Sparta station, named for the small number of elite soldiers inhabiting it, the rest of the actual Order living in Polis alongside civilians making Polis the safest (for non-scavengers) and most rounded inhabited station apart from D6 for the months before the attack.
In Yamantau it’s explained the construction crew got desperate and and their insanity was from inevitability eating a man with a prion development and it spread rapidly though I’m skeptical it’d spread that fast. Cannibalism is rarely something that would spread like a normal infection from one guy unless most people that got there from the surface somehow developed the infection themselves via the background radiation on the surface explaining why the Metro lacks the same cannibal trend even without sufficient medical capabilities but how the cannibals aren’t suffering from deadly kuru just the Borderlands level insanity makes me extra skeptical.
Probably a cultural thing. Someone at the top of the hierarchy delved into cannibalism and given the all male population plus isolation, plus testosterone, plus cabin fever, plus, etc etc just continued the cannibalism and became part of their identity. There are still human populations that engage in cannibalism out of belief systems rather than food scarcity (SE Asian and South American tribes for instance).
Killers who engage in cannibalism (Albert Fish and Bundy as examples) did it as a power thing combined with their mental illnesses. Wouldn't be a stretch for the personalities found at Yamantau in the Metro universe to do it for similar reasons.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 but there’s so goddamn many of them how are they not eating each other unless they only want clean human protein
@@Otterdisappointment they probably do but it's the people near them i.e same room and the like when someone dies from hunger, sickness, or natural causes we just dont see it plus they probably "have fun" with any of the women/girls that they catch
I believe that there was research done on a tribe that rutialistically ate their deceased as a kind of funural and that it is found that prolonged consuption of human flesh causes massive neurological issues in ourbrains but i cannot remember how or why - only that it causes deteriation
@@Whoami691 in Papua New Guinea where the name Kuru came from
WOOOOO! Let’s go! More good old fashioned Metro lore! Here’s hoping you get into the extended universe lore as there’s even a story that goes over to the US!
Tell me friend what is your favorite faction my is hanza or polish because of spartans in england sub they are calld rangers.
@@marekjarabica6630 Honestly it’s hard to say which one specifically, all of them have something going for them whether it be their history or their design.
@@Destroyerofnations good point.
@@marekjarabica6630 Minsk metro is at least interesting one, with factions like remnants of American forces stationed in Lithuania prior to the war or hordes of parasite infected always happy cannibals!
Yeah, I'm planning on buying that and hopefully making a video about America in Metro.
It's like the Enclave but Russian
The Enclave didn't go any where near as batshit as the Ural Bunker after nearly 10 times as long after the apocalypse.
Also Enclave was secret cabal before the war and had plenty of time to prepare several plans for post-nuclear reconstruction. From what we know in the Metro universe, Russian goverment was as surprised as their own citizens when bombs fell and didn't had enough resources or logistics for anything more than creating radio silence around the remnants of Moscow so that survivors won't know about the state of the rest of the world.
Enclavikov*
@@cnlbenmc well of course not the Enclave is based The Russikas are not (im kinding sorta Enclave is based_
+@@Chosen_Ash+ The Reformist Enclave from the Hoi4 Old World Blues submod is best Enclave; Rebuilding America one Brick at a Time, for President Douglas Granite!
Oh boy, Metro Lore! The book universe is super complex, with 70+ books about the whole universe
Really?!
3 OFFICIAL translated.
But, there's much, much more.
@natehiggers4439You could look it up yourself before accusing him of bringing shame to his bloodline.
Search up "Universe of Metro 2033"
@natehiggers4439 I've read & heard so much of it ,that i can't stand it !!!
Buuuuut,it all in Russian -surprisingly,right???
Major spoilers from the books, so beware
The situation under Moscow isn't delicate as it might seem. As stated in the video, there is a balance, and it's heavily enforced and regulated.
The invisible watchers aren't some sort of governing body. They are just the "elite" 1%who stumbled upon a source of power and utilized it. They are self governed monarchs of the Moscow. Whilst most of their time is spent enjoying the luxuries, their main objective is to keep the balance, in order to enjoy their power longer.
Polis, Hansa, Reich and line are all connected to the watchers. It is the Rangers who supplied ammo to the red line so that they could suppress the civilian uprising. Every "governor" collectively agreed to isolate Moscow, may it be the radio jammer or the mass graves near them housing countless wanderers from the outside world. The whole system isn't unlike The Matrix. It is just a forced reality upon the people to keep them in line whilst the top 1%clings onto their luxury.
In the end, Spartans weren't the holy order to keep the balance in metro. If anything, they were the henchmen to the watchers and their puppets leading the stations. The watchers aren't just observers, they are the players whilst everyone else is just another piece on the board, playing against their enemy, time.
And the ending of the books symbolize that really well. There is a rampant disease killing the mushrooms, the main source of nutrients in the tunnels. Whilst the watchers try to find a cure, the situation is only getting worse. Moscow is at the beginning of the end. And against all that, Artyom and Anna "break out of the matrix", and go on to venture the rest of the world, leaving the crumbling society of Moscow behind.
Maybe there is a future to Moscow. Maybe there isn't. No one knows, and all they can do is to win a few more grains of sand against the endless sea of time.
So did they quite literally isolate itself and the karma come for them to bite them in the ass after a decade?
@@barbussyasschandler yup.
@@barbussyasschandleryes
the 1% of the elite is real to our own reality.... its the banking families and financial system also knowned as NWO, masons etc
Very cool video! I’ve heard of Metro before, but I didn’t know much about it. And I got to say, that biomass beneath the Kremlin and those people at that mountain bunker that are luring people there so they can cannibalize them is pure nightmare fuel.
Metro's always had better horror than Fallout, especially because it takes its self more seriously.
Two very different games. FO is open world with 1950s inspired Sci-Fi. Metro is former Soviet bloc with its cultural influences. The metro universe is just darker and the games lack open world.
2:36 My theory is that indeed some officials from the Russian federation government survived and tried to re-establish a Metro-government but with the fallout and large scale chaos among the survivors it just failed.
But some small groups like OSKOM survived but later on got destroyed in a riot by its own citizens due the shortage of “Green stuff”
I wounder if the sequel will follow artyom or sam depending on the different endings 🤔 if we play as artyom I think we'll try and go back to metro tunnels and bring all the people out and to the clean place they found or artyom and his friends go and find the invisible watchers and get answers as to why they kept the secret that Russia wasn't the only city that survived 🤔
@ismaelgingles9409 I like the idea of playing as Sam again (considering that we didn't blew up the sub), but at the same time, it wouldn't be Metro anymore... it would be just a fallout. Well, if they could make a spin-off with Sam in the USA and keep up with the quality that we know and love, man, Bethesda would be in great danger, hahaha, but would still be Metro?
Love seeing your content exploring other apocalyptic franchises beyond Fallout! Wouldn't mind seeing you cover The Last of Us and FEDRA as well, but anything you upload I'll watch.
That game sucks
I would love to see a lore video on cataclysm dark days ahead
@@exploratory-fordora9672 Never heard of it
@@TheOmegaInitiative Just keep doing Metro. It is a solid game and I see a good future ahead of it. Metro 4 is excepted to launch in 2024.
@@TheOmegaInitiativebased
The reason there is a 4th Reich in the Metro books and games is because such beliefs are common among Russian (and to be fair - Eastern European) youth in general. I know it is weird, but Moscow has a huge amount of such people with such beliefs.
So this part of the book is probably quite accurate.
Wtf ?
Lol based
It should also be clarified that they swap out Germans/Aryans for Russians, they aren’t self hating or anything. Ethnonationalist beliefs are Russia’s bread and butter. Literally every politician with a shred of support is quite fervently ethnonationalist.
4th Reich at least in the games is more of an extremist anti-mutant faction. The racist elements were basically watered down or overshadowed by their genetic purity ideals
@@jonathanpfeffer3716it’s called Christian fascism and it’s has been popular in Russia (especially with Putin who quotes Christian fascists in his speeches) since the 1930’s
It's rare to see lore videos of metro. Nice to see my fav series getting the recognition it deserves.
I may have found a good reason to why Metro didn't include the Kremlin's psychic ailments.
Metro is made by former STALKER developers, and got into some hot water for copying STALKER's Xray Engine as well as other creative concepts (some still seen today).
STALKER has (or had) something called Brainscorcher, a series of radio tower-like devices casting psychic energy which takes over the minds of people, turning them into zombies of the zone.
I think the Metro developers thought the Kremlin's psychic inhibitors was similar to Brainscorcher.
To be honest that sounds pretty different, especially considering the Metro games were adaptations of pre-existing books.
@@TheOmegaInitiativei mean technically Stalker was also based on a book albeit loosely
20:56 Russia has a mandatory conscription service, techincly enlisted troops would be better trained and thus have a higher chance of survival but any men 18 or over before the nuclear war would have at least basic training
There's a difference between conscription and mandatory service. Conscription is the random drafting of eligible people into the military. Mandatory service is the requirement for anyone eligible to serve in the military.
@@TheOmegaInitiativeConscription and mandatory service is the same?
The other is draft?
@@slin2903 conscription - you have a chance to avoid being conscripted into the army
Mandatory - you WILL serve want it ot not.
@@fozzy6632 thank you English is a second language to me so thank you for expanding my knowledge
@@slin2903 You are most welcome! English is my second too
One prevailing theme I notice is that the Government is always mysterious but also the one being looked for.
Well, common sense.
If random civilians can survive 20 years in the Metro, establishing complex society and governance. Then it only make sense that elite government officials also survive.
My guess? The Rangers. Think about it, while most are trying to survive and the other are trying to enforce their ideology and rule, the Rangers just seem to be so out of place and being too organized, too equiped, too trained. And as noble as protecting the Metro and humanity as a whole, such mission are just too idealistic to be true on its own.
My guess is that the government actually do survive in the Metro and they kept control through the Rangers. They are the only elite soldiers capable of influencing things from the shadow through force, if the government noticed the Reds are winning over the Reich they'll send Rangers to balance the scale again and blame it on some supernatural occurance, which almost never happened where groups of humans are present.
Always felt The biomass in the kremlin was just a metaphor. How the capital buildings with a giant black mass of sludge inside that entrance people, makes them do things, and swallows them.
no I think it’s just a black sludge that eats people
wasn’t it that the government died while trying to reach Yamantau.
They never tried and all died before anything could be done as far as I know. Everyone in Yamantau were construction workers, some soldiers, and a few high ranking officers overseeing construction since the bunker was not complete when the nukes hit
@@clownworld4655 Correct. As I recall, the tunnels that were supposed to connect the Yamantau complex to metro were never finished, and there was only a small staff of military officers on hand when the bombs fell, along with a hefty number of construction workers. Due to the bunker being incomplete, it was never stocked with food and only had two of the four water purifiers originally planned
Great video, you only made a minor mistake when talking about the kremlin. The pictures and game footage you showed were of the state historical museum. It's right next to the kremlin, but it is not the kremlin.
Glad to know that someone is releasing lores about Metro still! It is truely a masterpiece.
Real fans remember the 480P version ✊
Well, in books there are a lot of mentions and direct descriptions of various military formations still present both Russian and NATO (The largest foreign commune that is written about, is located in Ulianovsk and is comprised mostly of american marines that were landed at the local airport hours before the missle strikes. It gets destroyed by 2027) , of course most of them have turned from being a full military organisations to just regular settlements or proto-governments (there is one called "Береговое братство" in russian or The brotherhood of shore if I were to translate it, a large organisation that was comprised of several military garrison personel and regular police around Atirau in Kazakhstan, they are really strong and have tonns of resources, if you compare them to other groups it will be the same as comparing a platoon against a brigade, they even managed to establish contact with dealers of high-tech exosuits somewhere in Asia, it's not stated where exactly. Unfortunately the group is wiped out by the end of the book cycle called "Конституция апокалипсиса" by a nuclear bomb fired by the main hero of the books). As for others, there is a commune of former russian 31 guardian-paratrooper brigade in ulianovsk present as of 2035, they were sent to eliminate the before mentioned NATO soldiers sent to capture the airport, but weren't able to because of the nuclear strikes and are now left with 50% of the amount of soldiers before the great war. Also there is a NATO descendent-government in the Minsk Metro, in the beginning they were stationed on a military base in Poland under command of Ray Slavinski but later decided to invade Minsk Metro for some reason (not stated in the books) the stations are completely run by american people, renamed to american names, the soldiers of it's army are mostly locals as there were not that many NATO soldiers invading. Also there is a settlement in Kraliningrad (Russian land near Germany) called " Krasnotorovka" it has a large core of ex-military personel from the local garrison, although most of the civilian population were not connected with military. So, there are actully a lot of the ex-military setttlements ranging from the tank crew mentioned in the video (BtW there is a detailed description of it in the "Право на жизнь" book where the main hero visits it) to several garrisons uniting into a large kind of-government. And that all is just from the 9 books of the "expanded" universe I've read and I'm sure there are more mentiones and descriptions of such communes in other books that take place in other parts of Russia. If you want to ask something about settlements I mentioned feel free to do it.
That should be explored in the next game
On. tak
Can you do some more videos on the metro series? I'm a big fan of it and would quite like to know some of the stuff to do with it
Ok
@@TheOmegaInitiative second that
The invisible watchers may be the oligarhs or the rich individuals before the war
the invisible watchers were what was left of the governement after the bombs dropped, in bunkers or other places where they managed to hold out for some time and broadcast orders.
They gave the orders to jam all the lines around moscow to make it look like the city was fully dead as to avoid more missile strikes
And they are still doing it on the Ukraine War.
One thing krest mentioned in "exodus" sometime between volga and taiga chapter, he said that ex-government is worse than regular bandits as they become bandit themselves but difference always had to give speeches before doing anything.
From what we see in Metro Exodus is OSKOM was the only Military or Government force that survived the Bombs.
It seemed like under the Government Control life in the Metro's was a lot better than in Moscow.
The Ark for example was another reminder of the Russian Government so.
It's very safe to say we will likely see the Russian Government in Future Metro Games.
We may see some form of the Russian government in a future installment of the Metro games, but they're probably gonna be portrayed very differently compared to their real life counterparts especially with all that's going on in the world right now.
I honestly think Hansa is the Former Russian Government, and here's the evidence WHY.
1. Hansa is NEVER attacked by factions (Reich, Red Line, Spartans, etc) even Bandits know not to even try.
2. They are well equipped with everything a militaristic faction would have, not even Artyom's home station had alot of what they have.
3. Above ground, there is evidence of radio interference as LR radios (Long Range) would pick up localee signals outside of Moscow, they can not.
There is a conversation in Metro 2033 with two Spartan Order soldiers and one mentions that a SSBN in the artic was in contact with him, eventually it went dark either by it being hunted, scuttled or by other means.
4. A small base far out where Artyom in Exodus infiltrates what is then discovered to be a Military Radio Jammer, keeping them in the dark to prevent any other strikes.
In conclusion, Hansa has to have dipped their toes in waters of diplomatic means in order to remain this way, either by threats of war or by peace talks or pacts, so they have to be the former Government
The Red Line did attack Hanza, before the events of the games and books. There was a war between them that cost a lot of lives and was only ended because fighting any longer wasn't feasible. The Invisible Watchers are the ones responsible for the radio jammers they just use The Order and Hanza to build and maintain them.
Maybe the Invisible Whatchers are some high raking officers, or maybe the president are controling people outside of russia?? Kgb maybe ?? Sorry if i had errors in the text.. much love ❤
You know when Artyom and Miller are riding the elevator in D6 after dealing with the Biomass in the Metro 2033 video game, there were some storage facilities that could be seen housing various types of tanks and light armored vehicles, a few that were probably designed for NBC warfare, which implies that Russia's military forces were preparing for a more conventional war rather than a nuclear one right off the bat.
And in some ways they actually did wage a conventional war in the Middle East that managed to escalate into a nuclear skirmish that eventually caused NATO, and by extension the USA, to get involved with their own nukes as well.
Yo ngl it’s be dope if you did a what if video on if Artyom and the gang decided to stay in the metro to tell everyone of the conspiracy in the events of exodus. keep up the great work bro!!!
The idea given at the end of Exodus is that they will be going back to Moscow. In Metro 2035 Artyom tries to convince everyone about the conspiracy but in the end no one believes him.
He'd have been lynched, it comes up in the books
In the DLC - The Tale of Two Colonels - The Main Character is sent to burn all sorts of Bio mass.
Came back after reupload to say this is great keep up the good work 👍
I'm still suprised there's no military vehicles like helicopter and tank or even APC left in Metro Universe
There's plenty lying around, but 20 years without maintenance in constant snow or sand storms would wreck most beyond repair.
@@TheOmegaInitiative true but we're talking Russians here, they could even turned a museum piece IS-3 to working states. Nice video btw mate im enjoyed it so far.
@@NathanPa-xo3zj In the books of the 2033 and 2035 subway universes, there is a whole lot of information about the use of land, sea or air vehicles by heroes or bystanders. I know what I'm saying, there are over 30 books from the Metro 2033/35 universe in Poland, over 60-70% are translated from Russian into Polish.
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@TheOmegaInitiative I’m not an expert in military vehicles maintenance but I think they’ll probably be mostly fine, needing repairs but apart from some advanced systems they should work fine
all that old Soviet stuff was designed to survive in post nuclear conditions not to mention that Russian/soviet stuff is technologically inferior but extremely reliable and easy to fix
The metro book also mentions artyom and the other spartans encountering some kind of underground vehicle in the cannibal tunnels in the metro. Possibly a train or drilling machine as one of the characters mentions. Which makes me wonder who could have been operating it.
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The idea of government bureaucrats becoming an inhuman sludge that consumes people to increase it's biomass is kind of poetic and in a sense very real 😅
I love fallout.
But I cannot help but be enthralled by Metro.
invisible watchers sound like the remnants of the fsb
Possibly
@@TheOmegaInitiative Whats the FSB? Is in the real world or Metro exclusive?
@@theemeraldking3251 FSB is the real life Russian Security Agency, like the American FBI.
@@TheOmegaInitiative FSB is more like CIA
Great video! Liked and subbed.
Fun fact in the cut dialogue there is a line that one of the aurora crew cut off their ventilation systems as the group flees, so once the doors close breathing air will likely run out after some time, especially with all the rotting bodies.
would love to see more metro content, great video
Ngl i never all this i barley beaten exodus and ive been trying to get platinum for ps ,i am happy u covered this cuz u get really deep in the lore of it and ive been trying to piece it together myself and ive always wondered wat happened to the military especially in exodus where we can find cannibals in the bunker with the doctor or the Caspian sea on how it dried up straight up reminded of mad max🤔🤔
I only have to play the entire game again to get the bad ending for Platinum
Great video man!
Let's not forget we ain't THAT far away from 2033 now...
I haven't read the books and only played the games, but what happened to the spartan rangers after artiem, miller, and the gang fight with the Hansa over the radio jammers/stolen train and end up going cross-country? Did Hansa and polis/rangers go to war?
Most likely they still exist, but with Miller gone they've lost much of their independence and have become a puppet organization to Hanza or the Invisible watchers.
Omega just remember your the definition of worth the wait. Your nest video I’m very excited for
Holy fuck those bio weapons are fucking terrifying.
Bless those Military Personel who uphold their Ideals and Honor by Protecting the Innocent by Turning into Spartan Rangers.
Great video!
im pretty sure they will still use the governments as a source of lore and maybe we will get some actual remnants of the government that still try to rebuild russia or enstablish some kind of nation, even if the developers want to support ukraine the book was made by a russian and based in russia, and honestly making a metro game whitout the russian government involved in something wold be like making a fallout game whitout the BoS or the enclave
Huh! You forget about The Minuteman? Because thats the Only Good Faction try to Rebuild Society and Goverment in Huge Scale but Only have a Power of Militias and Farmers. Just like the End of Exodus, Try to rebuild Society in Clear Zone.
The book is made by a Russian
But the game is made by Ukrainians. So if you want to see what else happens there - you're gonna have to read the books, not play the games
Russians haven't released a single good game. Atomic Hearts comes to mind, but it's boring, bland and funded by the Russian government, so the game devs were newbies who had all the resources but no idea what to do.
It's a shamble of half baked ideas from other games.
@@RazorsharpLT silent storm 2 and blitzkrieg series are from Russia, both very good games to be fair. Anyways I still believe it is necessary to include the Russian government in the game even if the developers are Ukrainian because it's what the original series are intended to show. Can you make a game about ww2 and exclude axis powers just because they sucked? Of course not
@@mercscar8579well EA made a WW2 game without the Soviet Union and we all know how that turned out
It's a good game, it has problems but without being offensive the whole thing about war and politics tainted it too much and it got an unnecessary boycott@@RazorsharpLT
never played the games but i always like watching good lore videos.
I might look into playing/reading metro now! I've never really heard much outside the name, di didn't even k kw what it was about! Thanks for the inspiration!
whilst they hurt the biomass entity, what really "broke them free" of it's influence was when the rocketman's son sacrificed himself, it also woke him up from his coma that he entered into after the cannibal tunnels where they had an encounter with another psychic individual
if you want to do another fallout hypothetical you could probably do "what if sinclair wasn't sabotaged" and it could cover how things might've happened at the Sierra Madre if the construction workers didn't scam him and Big MT didn't release the cloud/they managed to contain and remove the cloud.
20:45 In Volga we find some Diary pages about some survivors there, idk how old is the diary on the lore, but its most likely is before the people there go crazy about Technology/Electricity
Major political correction on the 4th Reich in regards to the likelihood of former Russian servicement joining up: Neo-Nazi and neo-paganist ideologies have been spreading further and further into both the athletic and armed services spheres of Russia, case in point Wagner, as well as other various paramilitaries or units adopting WW2 German symbology meshed with Russian nationalism
Amazing video
Russia as a radiated wasteland: Hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now... But it's gonna get way worse.
Ukraine as a radiated wasteland: A NUUUUUU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DANKE
Haha Funi glowing Crystal giving me Power
The ironic part is that both games - Metro and Stalker - were released by Ukrainians.
Anomaly in Metro : Mythically dangerous
Anomaly in the Zone : If you want to take a dump just go to the nearest space bubble anomaly
But jokes aside, in Metro, humanity walking from the dark to the light. Meanwhile in Stalker it's the opposite.
@@RazorsharpLT It's probably for the best that Russia handles the writing before it gets adopted by the Ukrainians tbh. I've seen a few games that are written solely in Ukraine - they're usually not that great.
@@DoingTheBestICan STALKER is literally written by Ukrainians
So idk what you're talking about. It has as much to do with Roadside picnic and the movie "STALKER" as Avatar the cartoon has to do with the movie.
Isn't the Saint Petersburg Metro even deeper underground than the one in Moscow? That's another enclave
Saint Petersburg isn't explored in the mainline Metro series and there's not any reason for the government to be there either.
@@TheOmegaInitiative Maybe not for the government, but civilians
@@TheOmegaInitiative there're some books about saint petresburg metro. U can read them.
@@АртемийЛаптев-и8к Having played the games recently, isn't there a line about somebody flying a Plane to St Petersburg? Or about some FROM St Petersburg flying to moscow. Can't remember.
@@E.V.A.N-COProductionsyep while in the church before being attacked by lesnistsky one of the guys talks about that and gets called a liar but claims it’s true
Why did they cut the Kremlin Goo monster, its such a cool idea
I love video speaking of speculation. And I always feel "sad" when i found out that, for example that nobody in the government survived or in series like the walking dead, that the army was completely wiped out.
It is not cool and sad in my opinion
Obviously the government is on Svalbard in the city is Barentsburg with the rest of the navy and airforce that survived the war.
the currency is Military grade ammo
Still functional too
Excellent presentation, as always, New subscriber here :)
I've always kinda head conned the Metro and Fallout stories to be kinda in similar parallel worlds. The bit about the Sludge under the Kremlin sound almost exactly like Master. Almost like an early experimental version of the FEV was fired at it in the war but not quite the same FEV from Fallout 1 since in this world the Metro had the Great War early in 2013 instead of later in 2077
The author of the books admitted that the Kremlin monster was inspired by The Master.
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Great Video love Metro
3:56 That's not so unlikely now.
Can you make video about other countries in the Metro universe?
Those who werent involved in the war like Vietnam, Laos, Australia, South Africa and the rest of the world
Ok
I've been a metro fan for 10 years. I keep seeing more and more videos about the series just from the past year or 2.
I don't know what happened to make the game as popular as it deserves to be but it's epic that people are finally giving it attention. All 3 are masterpiece video game experiences. Gameplay, story, characters, graphics, and the best atmosphere and immersion in the history of gaming.
It definitely became more popular after Exodus.
Well yes but I think not right away. It seems almost like a delayed reaction to me at least but definitely after exodus
Maybe it was in a lot of people's backlogs for a couple years
I know so few hardcore metro fans (almost none really) that it felt kinda like "my thing". The more people that get in on it the better
Some of Toronto’s subway double as a shelter too
Don't know if this was said however during the end of Metro 2033 video game, sometime during Artyoms visit to the two or three last armorys before heading to the library (though I believe it was after meeting Miller and looking for the documents of D6) You can hear two three soldiers conversing around a map and talking. Sibberia is mentioned and then one solider says something along the lines of "[...] the same place where the government/government officials are situated".
There might be some fact there that I got wrong or whatever but just wanted to say, and while it was still fresh in my mind as I just finished the game.
Much of the background conversations are references to the book, it likely is talking about Yamantau.
@@TheOmegaInitiative I see, will enjoy the scary ride as I finish last light and then continuing onto exodus and discover more about the lore as I go on
From what i understand from the game notes the goverment never even arrivec to yamantau and the workers say they now get why because there was almost no food.
When does the next Appalachian enclave video come out?
Next video
Yaaasss thank you
I wonder if the next metro game will focus on the military or government 🤔
Wait, 2013? I thought it ended earlier than that
I believe that pre war goverment and military still exist because in exodus when anna and artyom find out about other metros surviving there 2 cities that surviver and are on the map which one of them is Archangelsk and other one in kamchatka and i think that goverment and military maybe even navy exists because Archangelsk is a large military port and army base and on kamchatka its probably somewhere where some military facility is
What an amazing video game/book universe. I’d like to think just like the enclave, the Russian goverment is out there. I mean the country is massive. But honestly the old world is gone, and it’s probably gone everywhere. Excited to see what Happens next.
Dang , a preestablished gang of Warlords might really thrive in that kind of environment .
Let's all appreciate that one guy who decided that eating people wasn't a last resort
All soviet/Russian tanks were built with anti-radiation “shielding” i don’t know the exact term but the point been they have the ability to operate and survive in the radiation, one tank example of this is the T-72.
Loved the video! thanks for making this! great (pardon my French) fucking content!
It was also mentioned in the 3rd book that the Kremlins stars no longer glowed
What if the Quincy Massacre was a minutemen victory and they never fell into infighting
while the game dont explain much the book, 2035 revails the govnerment is still active and in fact the world is not destroyed, but they use jamming equipment to seal off moscow radio frequencies to contact the outside world, "protecting" the remaining people in the metro
Good Video, i Like
I got one month of RUclips premium left perfect for one more video
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-The Kremlin
*shows the national history museum*
Metro is basically like Donbass rn, there's literal Sparta Battalion that takes its symbols and inspiration from the game, but also far right faction like Rusich, Hamza like Wagner, red line like DPR/LPR government and the RF gov
Idk how it was in the books, but the games don't make sense and basically just exist to show the Russian government in bad light. Clearly something Ukrainian devs were interested in.
- The Novosibirsk tank crew was shooting at the metro entrance for some reason right before nukes fall. To achieve what? Never explained.
- The whole blocking airwaves around Moscow to keep people inside - clear allusion to Iron Curtain and makes no sense. Radio jamming is done by strong noise pollution on the radio frequencies. A very narrow band of frequencies at that. First of all, its not possible to jam all frequencies. Second, if there was a bunch of jammers installed around that specific area, the "enemy" could just deduct someone is hiding out there. Because there's a massive field of random noise on specific frequencies, that would clearly stand out over white noise caused by radiation.
- The Ural bunkers don't make sense, the bunker wasn't nuked and people were clearly able to reach it. But if there's no food, then why not leave it? In fact, in general it is a terrible idea to try to reach army-run places even if they weren't nuked. If they weren't nuked initially, they are probably low priority target. But that can still happen and you want to get away from that location, not try to go into it.
- A lot of land in southern Siberia is used for farming, and Siberia itself is massive. so even if the major cities got nuked, the rest of the land wouldn't be affected. There are still massive chunks of population spread out over massive areas. So why would Baikal lake be completely empty? It's literally the number 1 place to go to for clean water. It would be full of people. But not in a Ukrainian game where every Russian is just too dumb to think logically.
Idk, in general Metro series are very bad games. Cool concept, but terrible non-sense plot when you think about it. Full of plot holes too.
-with limited resources they had to stop endless hordes of civilians get to metro. In other stations and in Moscow they used guards and steel gates, here they had to use tank.
-There wasn´t an enemy trying to get them and so couldn´t deduct that someone was hiding there, no one cared. About not blocking all frequencies (I guess that with such high quality of signal jammers they might block quite alot) there were people who got some signal. Authorities probably didn´t have big problem to silence few of those "crazy people".
-leave it and do what? Grow food in mountains? It would grow after long time and not very much. Hunt animals for hundreds of people in post-apo wasteland? Attack others? That or just stay there, record few lines about offering help and wait until food gets to you, while you wait in your super safe bunker sounds better.
-Ending of main characters on nice cliff above the lake is pretty nice, having some random villages down there might make it look worse... but it wouldn´t really change anything, it would be just weird to have to explain during dramatic ending that they actually met people there,why do that? The fact that you take this as an attempt to make Russians look stupid sounds quite paranoid.
The tank commander explicitly asked for a sabot round to destroy the gate. He's letting people into the metro.
@@angellara7040 do you know what a sabot round is? It's a very fast light projectile specifically designed to penetrate armor. It doesn't do a lot of damage, it basically slices through leaving a nice little hole.
How is shooting a sabot into a gate supposed to open it?
@@harryshuman9637 they used on because they don't want shrapnel. We don't actually know what the commanders plan was because they didn't get that far
@@angellara7040 How is a 2 inch hole supposed to open anything?
The story shouldn't be written in a way where you a separate compendium and a bunch of wiki pages trying to explain the plot. This is why the game has a terrible story telling. All 3 of them actually. Just terrible writing.
I think the biomass was injured by the fire and lost its psychological influence but thats also too convenient
slavs do love their psychic mutants
how good would a dlc or side game where you play as the son of one of the tank crew
ETA for Enclave surviving fallout 76 part 2?
Next video, whenever that is.
+@@TheOmegaInitiative+ Yay!
at 1:10 you're showing some live action footage, what movie or series is this from? :o
Metro: Last Light live action trailer
@@TheOmegaInitiative thank you
Ther ia a radio transmișion after the Taiga mision in wich it transmits All the posibil dead citis just like Novasibirsc.
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And i em sory fore my bad English
Novosibirsk
"Given their history with Germany, tge fourth reich is the furthest cry from pre war Russia."
I see you've not been paying much attention to Russia have you...
You are talking about that tank crew from metro written by Denis Szabalov?