The Lore of Into the Radius | Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- The Lore of Into the Radius is convoluted; extremely hard to piece together. Making us the players piece it together. So, I decided to try my hand to put together the lore of the radius in a story telling way inspired by @VaatiVidya's incredible story telling of the Souls games. This is part 1 of 2 (or 3 LOL) starting from the very beginning including the Tutorial Zone. This is a very ambitious project and it's a long one, but I love the difficulty of the lore that Into the Radius has and I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks to Ōkami for helping me accumulate the pages and tapes to piece together the lore.
Edited by myself and Ivy
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Part 2 when?
@@thetreeboy. in the works 😁
I've always wondered if it's about a Russian soldier who's died and hes going through his old memories
@SoulBC I showed this video to a friend who writes really good storys and does it professionally and he said your hook was so good
@@travelerop that means a lot ❤️❤️🔥
This sounds silly, but I always just assumed that there were other explorers that lived in the compound with me, but I just never see them because our schedules clash
tbh thats what i do, so i feel safe and not go insane
I do the exact same thing
I go crazy from the orb I can’t look I feel like it’s absorbing me.
I named the next door neighbor vadim
@@Bla-ck4Crazy? I was crazy once....
Ah finally time someone did a proper lore breakdown of the game.
I tried my best :)
@@SoulBC well you did good 👍
Stalker. Roadside pinic. Dark souls iconography. The inspiration for this game.
10:46 "i do not have a smoking addiction"
Bro is bankrupt💀💀💀
"I can quit any time"
Thank god someone noticed that.
Tbh I cried when I saw the teddy bear when I played. I have one of my own and I know how it feels. So realizing that whoever owned that is either dead or in the same place as katja alone without it made me cry. Hell I’m tearing up writing this
Maybe because of my Bain not brain-ing idk what that rlly means :/
Must be a woman.
Could it maybe possibly be Katya's?
I just watched this entire vid on the subreddit, this is easily the most production quality I’ve seen on a lore video for this game, congratulations dude, I’m hyped for part two
Glad you enjoyed it ❤️
Ngl at first I thought the Radius was some sort of alternate dimension within Perchorsk that reflects real life, and sometimes the radius would take items from real life and put them into the Radius, which is why items like the film would be important. I didn’t pay too much attention to the lore when I was playing, so that was just my explanation lol.
Love this lore video! Looking forward to part 2…and maybe 3.
This was really good. My first play through I was too dense to pick up in the many implications of the lore, including the implications of when and where there are apparent discrepancies. What blew me off my feat (in a bad way) was the dang ending! Felt like a big shrug that says “oh it’s all just an illusion… you’re in the matrix so none of the lore matters.” I don’t know why but that is how it comes off to me. Now if the ending was somehow just another anomalous event however… or if the sequel can unpack things differently…
At any rate, it’s just about my favorite game of all time at this point.
god i literally finished it today and when the thing told me i wasnt real I just deadpanned :I But I would like to think maybe there's still something more to the story - like after some missions it drops notes in our backpacks - notably in the kids playground mission, where it mentions a long dead and rotten train suddenly powering up and killing some children playing a ghost train summoning game. I feel like it's either an odd recounting of events that happened in the past, or something more. Perhaps in some weird way, our explorer revealing that anomaly and summoning that train had a strange, parallel effect on the real world? Point is, I'm holding out hope that theres more to the story than just some weird simulation bullshit. I do massively enjoy the game and i feel like filling out certain unknowns with my own headcanons is a pretty interesting way to interperate the... story
I interpreted it that the game and lore itself was in fact real, but you are something of an anomaly that is close to human.
@@KincaidCalder-vn6bo like we were manifested out of the radius
Thank you for this, Doesn’t change the fact I’m probably going to die quickly in it anyways
The quality of this video is top notch man you deserve way more subscribers 🔝
Thank you :)
Thank you for this vid! Great to see lore of the game being covered in Detail
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Gained a sub bro. I can't wait for part 2. Just got the game and already dropped 20 hours easy just exploring doing side missions. It's nice getting some things cleared up🤙
i really hope into the radius 2 with its inclusion of mods and co-op play has a much large zone to explore id like to see some kind of old soviet city like pripyat but with a lot of loot enemies and places to crawl through and explore, i would also like to see them add some human ai to the game especially some sort of normal human enemy in the zone .
So just VR STALKER?
Hell . Yes.
I got a theory about the missions and notes after finishing em, though it probably doesnt make much sense lol. I believe that your actions affect the real world, something along the lines of you are hallucinating or similar, this is sorta supported by the train mission, though it probably means nothing lol.
Litteraly every missions ends with a letter saying it as an impact on the past, due to the radius, artefacts etc etc
Me personally, I believe that you aren’t really influencing the past but merely seeing echos of it. Like, the stealing of the salary or valuable items (like tape recorders) could be explained by people getting desperate.
I’m not too far in the video, but I like to think Mimics are survivors who’ve ventured into the radius, and died or stayed too long and became corrupted.
Theoretically, that could be true. I can discuss it more once I complete the lore videos
@@SoulBC still planning on finishing it/making more parts?
@@Thatoneman5 yes. August 13th
Incredible video bro! Wow. This must have taken so much time. More of these
Appreciate you brother. Much love ❤️
Great lore coverage, I love this game
This is amazing!
Wow this is awesome! Definitely subbed.
Glad you enjoyed it ❤️
in the second mission that note said Katya is crazy about photography and like you said how the white teddy bear and Katya could be related well you can find a white camera (photography) i think some where in the factory area chances are the camera and Katya are related to.
You can find it in the Castle.
It’s in the hideout right outside, in a desk.
I was playing a new run earlier today, and found a paper somewhere inside the building where you find the “yellow film” writing about a film full of pictures from a grandparents trip to Japan. I am writing this off of poor memory so don’t take this word for word. It also noted how Katya wanted to have the photos.
Just finished ITR and im seeking to learn more about the radius, your videos are well made and are very nice to listen to, thank u for this masterpiece
Ready for part two!
WE NEED OUR PART TWO
August 13th
This video made me want to try the game again, I liked it i just dont like horror games lol this video is such high quality. I would love to see a lore video for ghost of tabor if there is some kind of story there. Or paradox of hope. Great job bro
There is a story for Tabor. I want to do one. Never really thought about doing one for Paradox of Hope but I think it’d be nice to do
It is not horror. Like stalker, just let yourself and your mind be governed by desire and curiosity. I am kind of shitting myself playing horror games, but stalker.... I just had to make a wish, you know.
Unravel the mysteries of the zone.
Those games brought some kind of courage out of me. Of course i was scared sh*tless, but i had to know what was down there in the X labs. 😮
So i was exploring Pervomay Route and decided to explore the mini watch tower to the right of you when you first spawn into Pervomay route, there was a chest on the tower and i opened it, and it was like „If you are here then you are suffering from the Pechorsk Effect, with the symptoms of: Mental illusions, audio illusions, etc.“ and i was like, „wait, so if it’s mental and audio illusions, then is it just us effected by it, and are we so mentally sick that it makes us believe everything is falling apart and that there are ‚entities‘ trying to kill us? And if we are mentally ill, then would that mean WE really are the bad guys because what if those ‚entities‘ are just thriving locals, unharmed….or are they?“ but the anomaly log could disprove of it, because it states under one of their descriptions, ‚What used to be a local‘ still tbd tho
I hate those theories it just feels lazy
Maybe the radius is a fragment that is gathering power to reform itself.
After it got destroyed by the impact from outer space. Horrifying thought. Good one mate.
maybe we were former inhabitants of pechorsk??? and only people that lived there can go there so thats why i think the white girl said “lead from your memories”
What if the radius is actually a gravitational weapon that was detonated, that causes a timeline that isn’t linear; rather a more infinite (♾️) shaped timeline with the radius being the threshold withholding the ability to travel to the other side. However your actions on your side of the anomaly will travel through time on a linear scale down the lemniscate (infinite sign shape). Think of the movie interstellar, the black hole distorted time and allowed coop to interact with his past. What if this is the same way? you’re interacting with your own past events, causing changes in the past that would further change your future, this would cause issues with any actions you have in the radius as it would be paradoxical. These paradoxical actions would result in molecular decomposition in previous explorers actions. Thus theory could also explain how you can’t die, as if you die you just past through the radius and end up back where you started.
EDIT: A more in depth explanation,
The zone is the result of a massive chain reaction implosion device. This resulted in a “micro black hole”, this being the radius in the game. This is a real thing that scientists have been working on. The immense amount of gravitational pull the black hole has even on a small scale, results in extreme time dilation. This is backed by entering the zone and time speeding up. The radiation, also known as Hawking radiation causes some particles to have their positive charges escape the event horizon and the negative charges that can result (not real but in a fictional world) in form of the anomalies we see in the game. From the fractured land scape, the entities we find, they’re all fractured from losing half of there particles. We’re fighting literal shadows.
Moving back to the time dilation, the fact that it’s cannon (to my knowledge) that when we die we respawn back at vannon, and have to go look at our porcelain like bodies, leads me to believe that time around the radius isn’t linear. Think of the movie interstellar, when coop went to the water planet time slowed down for them. My theory is that ITR, the timeline is more of lemniscate, (♾️) with the center point of the lemniscate being the radius. When we die we cross through the other side of the radius, the normal world. But since both sides are connected, the past is the present and so is the future. This would explain why our actions appear to be affecting a mirror dimension as shown by the missions in the factory and the notes that appear as a result. (The blast doors and the tape recorder) Out actions move down the timeline in a way that would resemble our future and change what had happened previously. The past is happening at the same point as the present, just at a different physical geographical point. That point being the other side of the radius in which the implosion device hadn’t been detonated yet. Think of how coop in interstellar interacted with the black hole to communicate with murphy about the data of the black hole. Being in the gravitational pull and gravitational distortion of time allowed access to the fourth dimension, allowing movement down the lemniscate. This could also explain why the molecular distortion of explorers and entities happened. There could be two reasons for the distortion, hawking radiation, and a second more SiFi explanation. The SiFi explanation could be a result of paradoxical actions taken by the explorers that when making a full circle through the timeline resulted in their molecular structure being erased. Or, the timeline running full circle and their molecular structure resuming to the front of the lemniscate essentially restarting their existence around the radius, and their matter can’t be destroyed, and their can’t be two separate timelines.
Your explanation would be very stalker-esque. There is no mystery, there always was nothing but human hubris. Technology we were able to invent without thinking if we should or even if we would be able to control it. As if we havent learned a thing or two from hydrogen bombs.
Cant wait for part two
It's in the works! :)
I feel like what the devs were going for with these hints of missing items in the letters is that we would turn out to be the monster at the end. Doing some devastating stuff and somehow affecting the real world with it. And not only stealing items - there's a mission where our actions (placing grenades on the table) resulted in civilian casualties in the real world. And the soldiers and policemen are radius-wise representations of real law enforcement, trying to take us down. Katya could've been just an intricate anomaly trying to convince us that we're on the good side here. The end did disappoint me, though, completely unrelated to what they were building up throughout the game.
This video is the reason why I subbed. Do you know when part 2 is coming out??
4 to 6 weeks. I need more research lol
@@SoulBC okay, I think it's safe to say we're all excited
Hope they add multiplayer for the sequel
Saaame
Concept art has shown 3 explorers with the radius in the background… so it may be NPCs but I don’t think so… highly likley
@@thecobra45 Even if those are just NPCs, it's still much better than the radius being completely devoid of life. Well, except those monsters, if you can call them living. NPCs will add an interactive touch to the game, and make visiting the radius not such a lonely experience.
*Loved this game. Fantastic ending. Just wish they had stuck with this protagonists story for the sequel.*
hey man really good break down and vr content!
Almost forgot to say you did a really good job with cinematic shots and video editing. You also have nice clear audio quality and a great balance between game audio and your voice-over. You speak very clearly and articulate very nicely (you have a nice podcast voice too!) keep it up!
Love the theories but I have something I haven’t built on. If you look at the radius and a photo of a black hole side by side you can see they look extremely similar my theory is that the “red orb” is a black hole that formed out of the asteroid
not a black hole at all
10/10 more please
YES ITR IS ONE OF THE BEST VR GAMES AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA its good, plz give lore
This was great 👌
I always think of the Radius as something that could start spreading to the rest of the world as a type of punishment from the beings above, doesnt matter religion, our gods in general
Thank you Agent Smith.
All the talk about “the changed” biology confining them to the zone sounds like a rouse to keep explorer from trying to leave at all.
Hear me out on this one... The Radius did create an alternate reality but doesn't run parallel to the previous reality. The previous reality is probably in a time loop constantly reliving the day of the event and that explains why you can return to the black figures and they'll repeat the same dialogue they always say. The new reality is a branch, and our actions in the branch influence the previous reality stuck in the time loop. Maybe the second game we can free both realities from the grip of the radius.
damn, this is crazy high top content
Appreciate it :)
Is nobody gonna ask about the massive pile of cigarettes?
I would like to put in my idea for the lore, and something that I think is really interesting to think about
Pechorsk never existed. None of this ever existed. The UNPSC isn’t real. Nobody knows about the radius. It’s a fake town frozen in time constantly being refreshed and given life by the Radius. The player isn’t real, nor is Katya, nor is any other explorer. Everything you find, everything you do, it’s all a lie. And you are doomed to repeat it for all eternity. You can’t leave, and you can’t settle down. It’s an infinite loop of missions, fear, and anomalies. You are the first explorer to realize you are not real, and that’s why you are so different, that’s why you remember what happens after death, that’s why you remember what happens between playthroughs, you are the only one who can.
A dark explanation for the lore but one that I think makes the most sense
well done vid ty
26:51 just so I can remember where I left off
The mirrored world is a very interesting concept. I imagine that through rumors and investigations by intelligence agencies, foreign governments found out about the strange events in Pechorsk and forced the CCCP to admit that the anomaly actually existed. This is how the UNPSC was created. What we perceive as an explorer is a "silent hill-like dimension" where actions have an impact on the outside world even on the past, present and the future. What if the strange disappearances and appearances of objects and unexplained events were caused by explorers and the UNPSC actually taking measurements on completely confused inhabitants? It is as if after these events Pechorsk was turned into an experimental zone. This could explain some of the comments, such as the wedding event.
AMAZING pleaasse more
Subscribing was the easiest decision i have ever made
Ayeeeee appreciate you ❤️❤️
the best game with lore
Brooooo, when's the next nideo coming out?? You did such a good job... if something's going on personally, take your time, well take your time wither way, ah you know what I mean lol
It's in the works rn. Just a matter of storytelling, b-roll, etc. Normal editing stuff :)
@@SoulBC bro, I'm excited. I made my gf watch the first one with me lol
You sound that the ghost of tabor RUclips guy
It’s cause I am that guy 😂
4 km across feels too small for the games playable area, it’s more likely that the entire playable area you are exploring is considered as apart of the anomaly. Therefore it would require one of the inhabitants leave the anomaly before the 2km count down begins.
Yo my friend told me to watch this and I just didn’t for some reason but I just decided to and I’m only half way through and it’s a good. Video. 😮
Read 1972's Roadside Picnic and it will explain more about what is going on. Leaving more questions than answers I am afraid.
God it’s such a good book imo
Whats with the amount of smokes laying by the terminal
Okami helped me out and that’s his clip he recorded LOL
C A N C E R
@@goomy__6420 😂😂
What music were you using? Is it the official into the radius music? This is a great video by the way.
No it wasn’t, it’s music gathered from Epidemic Sound :)
Thank you!
We already feel how much he is suffering
What version is this? Because the first expeditions letter as well as Pervomay looks much different than what I’m playing. Then again, it could be that I’m on quest.
10:28 i think bro has a smoking addiction
TRU💀💀💀
Well done! This is also the topic of my channel! Ill be using you as a reserch tool as i make my videos! Looking forward to the next one!
Also, if you need help with the reserch of the radius lore, i would be happy to help. I've been researching it fr months and would love to share what I've found.
you got a whole stuff wrong btw
MOST IMPORTANT 1.pechorsk is pronounced without a rolled r and vanno is pronounced vanno not vahno and the DVL 10 was first created in 2010 so idk where you got 2015 from
2.the notes at the start are from Katya and explorer 61 actually was lost in the fog for a while before the game and then finding his way back which is when the game starts
3.all of the anomalies, including the hands and the ashy figures arent old inhabitants of pechorsk, they are solely produced by the big anomaly in the sky
4.the transluscent figures for tutorials arent your memories, they're just for tutorial sake
I'm Hispanic. I roll my R's all the time LOL
@@SoulBCI'm half Russian and half Hispanic lol so i get it it's just my lizard brain getting upset, good video tho
@@DingusBingus-cw9xl say your edited comment. I hope you know, for the sake of story telling I purposely left questions behind to answer them in the next one.
@@SoulBC Ohhhhhhhh sorry I'm slow and i have ADHD so i used the video as background noise while I was doing homework and i guess I wasn't listening lol
@@DingusBingus-cw9xl nah nah, you’re good lol. I have ADHD too, I know the feeling😁
Why can’t I find that knife anywhere (the machete with holes in it for rope I guess, it’s kind of shaped like a billhook in the video), and why does my gas masks look different (it’s white)
I think the base is in the 2km zone from the radius where inhabitants can still survive... Because it's outside of the fog..
I think the walls stop you from going past the 2km zone
@@djdbdbsbs No, in the lore there is stories about people dying of organ failure when leaving the radius and go further than a few (more than 2) kilometers from the actual radius.. In fact the base/UNPSC facility is actually located just outside the actual radius... but in the 2km zone around it...
But in the game you are right... except for the base, that is actually outside the radius.. But there the walls keep you in pretty much too.. so for effectively in the game you are right, lore-wise not...
@@jazzdirt e
@jazzdirt I agreed with you and basically what I meant was you are inside the fog more or less but it stops you from going past the safe point of 2km
@@jazzdirt I made new reply
T H E L O R E
Please a part 2
in the works :)
What mods did you use for those camera controls?
Please make a pt 2 😭
It’s in the works rn
😃🙏🫡
I’m going to confuse a lot of redditors by linking the word “radius” to this video every time I type it
Part 2!
Tried to explore it myself but dam VR broke.
WHO SHIT MY PANTS!?!!?!!?
Here within an hour
Thanks for watching :)
Why does it look so fucking good!? What mods you got!?
No mods to the world or landscapes
11:00 minutes did anyone eles notice the gigantic pile of cigarettes
How you say the radius has the same energy as the nozzle from venture bros.
the bite of 87 was the cause*
Where's Markiplier when you need 'em
isnt this the guy from ghosts of tabor
The blackened statues are not ash...they are carbon. Those figures are what would happen if only carbon was left behind.
Based
10:30 WHY IS THERE SO MANY
takes place in 1987?!
Are you the narrator in a bunch of official ghosts of tabor vids
Yes
😮
W
Hi slushy
Hey man I watched a video a little bit ago and there is a supposed way to get a 4th secret ending involving bring all of the glowing objects to the end area and placing them on a stand in a a certain way edit: mb bro I’m stupid it’s not a thing
I think you mean tablespoons Video but it was a joke/prank. He reveals it in the end of the vid
@@Somebody_smnNgl it was an amazing troll.
Part 2?
WHEN IS PART 2 COMING OUT
It’s in the works. Scripting, storytelling, and editing takes a lot of time :)
youtube tryna tell me i cant use a ad blocker like what they gonna do sue me
Sad that you don't get arms on quest
You do actually, it’s an option in the settings. Be warned, it’s really janky and the arms are oddly long.
Well, kind of janky,
To be honest, this game could be a lot more interesting if you could climb buildings and mountains.
soulllllll wats up
How do you flip your flashlight to hold it differently
🤦
What if Chernobyl caused the radius think about it they happened in the 1980s both in Russia and cause liver failure
bro is speaking like his moms going to wake up
Bro thinks I live with my mother.
Read it the way I did for storytelling purposes
@@SoulBC Ok man well its not working, just talk naturally, not rasping your voice super quite lol
@@JesusChristTheHoly I will do what I like, thanks for your input tho :).
@@SoulBC Your welcome :D
@@SoulBCgotta agree with Jesus, the voice is a bit annoying. Good video tho
I don't trust uspc