The proximity chat on this game was the best part of this game, nothing was better than when your friend walks around a corner, screams, and then is immediately muted, terrifying
The proxy chat was incredible. Even down to the echoey sound when inside compared to outside. More sophisticated than the proxy chat of COD and yet Lethal Company was made by one guy.
fun fact: lethal company's crunchy-ness and ability to run on pretty much any computer is owed to the fact it is rendered at roughly 1024 x 768 and then blown up to a larger resolution
It could be that when Sigurd wrote about the hoarding bugs 300 years ago they were actually harmless and in that span of time evolved to become more aggressive to the point of being a threat.
@@diego-uc5tenot if the theory present here is correct. He just reads his own log and fills in memory to believe they are still chill. That’s why he still thinks it’s 1968
i might've missed it but im surprised you never mentioned the toy robot scrap, which not only looks like a toy old bird, but also makes the sound of children laughing, which mirrors the child crying sound that the old bird makes
Wendigoon placing a hit on a guy in game was definitely not something I was expecting from this lmao. I've never played the game but I hope people do start messing with RTISDADDY lmao.
The best hoarding bug mod is the one that makes them quote Dracula Flow. Hearing “chanel optics got me seein’ shit” in the distance, echoing through the corridors NEVER gets old
Last guy who ran off on the pack got choked out by some Givenchy gloves The last thing he ever saw was the price tag on em. Slowly faded into darkness, and I let the archangels take him.
My impression of the 'toy' creatures is that they might have been intended as guardians for children. They would be designed to be appealing to the kids and lethal to trespassers. That would imply that the mansions may have been built specifically to house children, rather than just wealthy individuals in general. Of course, they were clearly unsuccessful in keeping the children safe.
Reminds me of the Turrets from the Portal games, how they look somewhat harmless in their deactivated state, and how they were meant for house and business security. It always stuck with me how the Turret has a innocent high pitched voiced, like it was a toy in some way.
Yes and the coilhead was designed specifically only to attack when it's not being looked at, so it could attack the children without the Nutcracker spotting it. Terrifying and sad
Feels like they failed because manequins and mosquitoes-butlers can past through security. Imagine being a kid in a mansion just for you and your friends under defence of toys and butlers-humans until war comes and jets dropping manequins that can ignore nut crackers and able pop butlers heads and jars with tons of biologically altered mosquitoes that replace those butlers and slowly infiltrate those children dorms one kid at a time
I've heard "the players are clones of Sigurd and his crew" to explain the memory loss but this is the first time I've seen both "the players are the *chewed-up-and-spit-out remnants* of Sigurd and his crew" and an actual incorporation of the "spitting out the rinds" line. I like this theory a lot.
Sigurd and his crew were probably chewed and spat out clones of others, and those others were also remnants. We are so far down this tree of uhhhh, birth? Or something? Think of it, if Sigurd died and was returned to the company, and the rest were ejected due to not meeting quota, that means there's a bit of Sigurd in all of us, there's a bit of the Golden Planet's people in all of us. This thing probably gargles up everything and shapes them into flesh beings then spits them out. So there's a bit of everyone in everyone. Flesh Ennard.
I want to also had the point that we get some kind of a penalty when we don’t get the dead body back to the ship, just why would it need to penalise us for dead body unless they are important and we get them back to the company for them to clone it the way you said it
@@wendychouxx idk if you didn’t know about slime deaths but the flesh and body dissolves leaving the suit which can still teleport, and has the same value as a full body, meaning the person inside has no value to the company, only the suit. People don’t matter to the company, that’s why they’re willing to eject, well, incompetent workers
I like the sci-fi trope of human clones being a subclass. The rich get to birth original and new beings where the labor class are cloned from the most successful original laborers. Considering we have gene editing a scary though is that the human genome could be more specialized for specific tasks. If clones weren't even considered human, the company could justify it's treatment of them. What if humans became different hive consciousnesses. They want the scraps so that memories can still give them a semblance of individuality. Just musing.
One of the most haunting experiences involving the ghost girl was me and my buddy, on Titan, were watching the cameras. The girl appeared on the camera, I started freaking out, I turned to him saying "Oh fuck, there's the girl." He said nothing, turned to the entrance of the ship, then looked at me straight in the eye. "Oh, goodbye." His head fucking exploded, everything fell to silence.
1:56:26 My RUclips gaming career landmark is having played with Wendigoon and my name being in his video. I shed a tear this day. Was fun playing with you haha!
The theory of the company reanimating corpses does actually make some sense when you look at the in-game corpse-retrieval system. When Richard was killed the Bracken took his body which forced the company to issue a replacement, this replacement-cost could be the 20% penalty we see ingame.
It could also possibly explain why the turrets attack us. The people that abandoned it, why would they bother to leave it on targeting anything non-human AND human. Unless...we're not actually people, just the remnants. Bit of a stretch but i still think it's a fun theory.
I have a theory on why the company would reanimate the corpse. If there is a beast that ate an entire planet of gold, why would only scraps satisfy it now, and why seemingly useless items. Its not the physical materials that the beast needs to consume. If so, there are plenty of thing it can eat that would satisfy it more, including trying to eat the building itself. What I think the beast eats is humanity itself. not just humans, but things human value. But the problem is that it already ate all of humanity and is now starving and picking at the crumbs left behind, or the scraps the player collects. The players are not humans, they are immitations of humans that the beast can’t eat. But are useful in the sense that they can pickout the crumbs of humanity, but are ultimately worthlesss.
Pretty sure theres a monster in the game that removes the body and only leaving the suit that you'd still need to retrieve so you don't get the penalty. It still only sells for 5 bucks which I think is funny cause it makes the crew worthless and the suits the only thing that the company wants back. Think he talked about it at the start or something idk
Wendi after getting attacked and defamed in a video essay seen by millions of people: don't send any hate guys. Also Wendi after getting bullied in a lethal company lobby: if you see him, make his experience miserable. this is too funny to me!
the coilheads emmiting radiation and old birds waking up after the apparatus gets taken out which increases radiation around the area meaning that old birds were made to counter against coil heads explaining them hiding inside of the facilities is my favorite theory
I don't know if making large war robots with flamethrower and missile launcher is the most efficient way of dealing with running mannequins. Seems a bit overkill to me
@@thegrunch6448 I think this idea lines up very well, since it's also stated in their bestiary entry that coilheads enter a "sleep mode" when exposed to very loud sounds or bright lights. For most of the game this was just a lore explanation for why flash bangs work on them, but the most noticeable characteristics of the Old Bird is the gigantic lamp on its head (capable of emitting 70000 something lumens) and their gigantic sound cannon on their chest designed for sonic warfare
I once played this game with the Skin walker mod turned on, and at one point I turned around, saw a Bracken it said: "Hey, you're South-African right?" and then snapped my neck and killed me. Best experience I ever had in this game.
I had a hoarding bug come around a corner and announce "A GIANT ENEMY SPIDER" in my friend's voice and I lost it laughing. This is a horror game but it will also give you the funniest experiences you will ever get playing online with friends.
Dude I would go as far away from people in game as possible and just SCREAM cries for help at the start so it got plenty to work with to psychologically torment my friends.
My first encounter with the Ghost girl went something like this: Me: "Has anyone ever encountered what looks like a little girl in a red dress?" My Team: "Did you actually see that?" Me: "Yes" My Team: "We need to leave immediately."
For me I didn't mention it at all. At the end of the trip, me and my friends all gathered back at the ship and everyone just saw me screaming before my head gets crushed.
That mod that makes the masked mimic your teammate's voices is called "Mirage" and it's soooo good. there's these constant coincidences where you'll say something and you'll hear your buddy respond, but it's not them anymore... it also removes the visual mask from the enemies so that it's harder to tell.
me and some friends played last night with mirage and skinwalker and few other mods. full on mimics of players can spawn, I was with one guy and a third friend followed us outside. I asked him if he was real and he say “yeah” and did an emote. we were relieved until the actual third guy screamed over a radio “THATS NOT ME FUCKING RUN” and the mimic grabbed me and vomitted blood into my face until I died
I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend either this mod or the Skinwalkers mod. The mask by itself is just a troll item, but those mods create mimics without the mask and is way more terrifying. Especially the mask removal part, that is what turns it from a somewhat cool item to a frighteningly amazing experience.
It's gotten even more advanced over the months. Not just removing the mask, but making them walk like players, having them mimic a specific player (in voice and, if installed, cosmetics), exact voice clips being synced up across the game, sometimes they even emote! It really adds a lot to the experience imo
I find the Butler so funny, like it’s just a British guy. Wanders around a mansion and sweeps but if you get too close he pulls out his knife and simply shanks you
Hey Wendigoon. My grandma has recently discovered the internet and is absolutely hooked by „Horror and cryptids“. Now she’s dusting up her English and watching your videos. I found out after I found like a 100 tabs of your videos on her computer.
@@dionstewart7394 Bro thats crazy!. Because one time I legit read your comment and the second I finished reading Windegoon said the phrase you'd commented. That's trippy af.😂
“I’m Sigurd, you’re Sigurd, he’s Sigurd?! Are there any other Sigurds I should know about?” *the sounds of dying humans screaming from the bowels of the beast*
Forever ago, I saw the creator asking for feedback on Lethal before the game was released, so I watched some of his videos. When I heard the drop ship come in, barely audible besides air hissing, I told him two things: make the mask crack easier to see through on screen and not as reflective and annoying as it was, and give the drop ship an ice-cream truck alarm so you could hear it coming easier. He was like "An ice-cream truck sound lol?" and I was like "Ye so you can hear it coming rather than just almost silent and you can't find it." So he made those changes. I'm happy I gave him feedback and I play this game often with my homies.
I had a similar moment in Planetside 2 (scifi shooter game) when the art director was talking about adding a resource players would mine from large crystal deposits on the map and they didnt look good and were hard to differentiate from the rest so I said make em black and glow white through the cracks and he did it. Not as iconic as the lethal company ice cream delivery though lol, but i remember how cool it felt.
Lethal company is both one of the scariest and funniest games I’ve ever played Nothing like hearing your friend round a corner and scream before absolute silence, masterpiece.
@@JamesWagner-vv9iz I've seen you post something like this all over the comments section. Not once have you explained yourself. Either your accusations are baseless or you just haven't presented any examples for some reason. That just reads as rage bait. So, which is it? How exactly is this video supposed to be transphobic when THE VIDEO HASN'T EVEN BEEN OUT LONG ENOUGH FOR YOU TO WATCH THE ENTIRE THING?!
you can sell dead bodies for 5$, but you can also sell the empty suits the blob leaves for 5$. you have no value as an employee, the suit is worth more than you.
@@MrTriedges yeah but if the theory is true then you are just body material. It would have a ton of that. Even if theory is wrong you are a disposable unit no one cares about
My guess is that the "Golden Planet" is Earth. Not golden as in literally made of gold, but rather a golden place to live and exist. The company/creature attacked Earth and consumed it, which lead to "The Boat" or an Ark traveling around the galaxy looking for a spot to rebuild.
Honestly that makes sense, to add to this something I also thought of is the possibility the company ship _is_ the boat, the idea that it was once humanity's last hope but was captured by the company with those on board forced to serve feels compelling, after all, outside of the company cruiser and jetpack, the ship is practically the only other form of travel we see or know of in game. In the context of the game I think it makes sense too, "ship" is just another term for boat and we are also ferrying this scrap back to the company much alike boats do irl with goods and cargo, while it is possible they're two separate things I think it makes sense given the "boat" is implied to be old and from the first galactic expeditions, which fits the description of the company ship considering there have been hundreds of years to further develop forms of space travel alike it and yet our ship is just as basic and barebones as possible, almost crudely made in a quick manner without time to adequately improve on the design..
The "Wendi goes on a three hour lore rant about a media he finds captivating" is my absolute favorite type of Wendi. This was a great video to watch and I was honestly sad when it ended.
Same. I don't care for horror type media but I will listen to Wendigoon talk for hours about his favourite video game or movie or book series. His passion and interest is so infectious.
My personal theory is that "The Company" is one giant containment device for something like SCP-169 (The giant underwater leviathan), who feeds off the memories of people, and spits up their bodies. "The Company" is a group of people on the other side of the solar system (to out range the memory devouring) who selects people to pick up various worthless objects as an excuse to keep them in close proximity to the creature so that it can feed on their memories, and thus keep itself content to remain contained. Essentially drip feeding it food so it won't eat more planets.
That's a really good one, my theory is that sigurd started out as human, but the rest of his crew were puppets or at least part of them. That's why his suit didn't fit at first, after he dies and his body and memories are fed to the company they are regurgitated into a new puppet and now the suit fits but his memories are all jumbled. The entity is simply using puppets to recruit real human, send them out on missions to be killed. Then have the experienced puppets with the combined memories and skills extract the bodies for it to consume. The scrap retrieval is simply busywork until something hopefully kills you. Hence the quota always rising
I think it feeds on scrap and metal and stuff. Not really memories, that's why it will be fine with the inanimate clothes of the body. Because they still have metal/material for the thing to eat.
@Sup_Aqualine369 the company monster actually eating the worthless objects themselves makes sense if zeekers is going for a critique of mindless consumerism
Whenever you doubt your content, i want you to remember that I just passed on a bunch of 20-30 mins videos, because they were too long, and opted for a 2h50min video of lore content because i know it will be good. Thanks for the video
There are 30 min videos with fuck all info because 3 hrs can't be squeezed into 30 min. Wendigoon is like 6 instances of 30 minutes put into 1 video that's why it's much more sensible.
My brother once had a glitch that made him invincible. A bracken went after him, but instead of killing him, just kept him from moving by repeatedly trying to snap his neck. I literally had to go in and get killed to free him. Keep in my the whole time he has a snare flea on his head, which he got rid of after I died by stepping onto a landmine, which blew up the flea but not him. Also he could run very fast and had no stamina drain (I can confirm he wasn't cheating). We called that glitch "The Supersoldier Glitch."
This was the last spooky game we played with a friend of ours who suddenly passed due to undetected stomach cancer at 29. We had so much fun and scares with this game and it’s sad that we will most likely never touch it again. He would always be pulling high jinks like staying on top of the ship while it was taking off after turning in the loot or constantly sounding the air horn. RIP Hunter, and thanks Wendigoon for bringing back fond memories of an awesome game. ❤
The fact the lights on the Old Birds heads are specifically searchlights makes me think they're searching for the planet the company is on, and they stay on each planet they land on to wait for signs of the company, which is why they attack the player, they don't still think they're at war, they just recognise the player as an extension of the company and eliminate it. The little girl as well, monsters attack as they're monsters and however they've been mutated they get hungry or don't have control over their impulses (even if they did they'd still attack the company). But why would a little girl specifically who's dead suddenly start attacking people for exploring and trying to find things they need? She attacks the player because she knows what they are, that they're just a puppet of the company that wiped out seemingly all human life, potentially trying to put us out of our misery. I imagine everything we encounter knows what the crew is, like some cruel joke only we aren't in on. The fact we look for useless bits of scrap, which appear to get more valuable to us the more they indicate human life (engines, energy supplies, jars of pickles, gold, cash register), makes me believe that we aren't there for scrap, we're being sent to check for survivors and if we ever found one the company would tighten its grip and the player would drag it back to the company planet for consumption and repurposing... Desmond may be categorically built different, having at some point worked out what was happening and in each subsequent lifetime either finding the drill or working it out on his own and having the same idea, to use the scrap they bring back to try to break into the company and learn the truth. On the basis we might be searching for living people rather than scrap the Old Birds though described as war machines were likely repurposed for finding the company by some potential survivors at one point in time, whether they still survive is a different conversation. I wonder if there are some survivors hidden on the planet littered by Old Birds, and they're there as a frontline security measure. It might be similar for the masks, as you say they might not be supernatural, I wonder if they are a biological or mechanical weapon also developed by humans as a booby trap specifically to take control of and incapacitate curious employees before they manage to find anyone. As for why even if you kill the entities and monsters the company doesn't seem to want them, well, would you eat a radioactive steak? Possibly some gaps there but that's my current headcanon. Imagine war between space empires is going on to the degree people are mutating into monsters and then some planet sized monster (or perhaps it wasn't originally planet sized) starts consuming humans in the background, harvesting their bodies then spits them back out of some evangelion style mind meld where they don't know anything else but working for the company, maybe just me but I don't want to be dead, a monster, OR a pile of confused organic matter in a suit - this is a universe where being a ghost is the best option for existence.
I love the idea that all our operations is just a cover (and an unnarural one) for looking for survivors! Really explains a strange value of many objects!
Something that struck me about the implications of the butler is that, in the context of a mansion being full of people, it can be guessed it was made as a bio-weapon used either as an assassin, or a spy detector. Assuming it was designed to look human (years and years making the skin sag and the body rot resulting in its current look) it could be deployed into an enemy base, designed to target isolated members, kill them, clean up after, only to rinse and repeat until the base was cleared. In the other scenario it could be used in ones own base to target infiltrating spies and catch them when they're alone, and if the spy survived the butler's attack, it would be obvious there was a spy seeing as they would now be followed by hornets. Also can't help but feel like there's a play on the '' the butler did it'' trope.
See my interpretation was it’s just mutant bugs that evolved to prey on company members looking for loot. It looks harmless at first, then as soon as you’re alone it attacks, and if you’re near others it pretends to be harmless again. And it’s not robotic, it’s bugs in a flesh suit.
What caught me about the butler is that its face looks like a blobfish that's died due to the pressure change of hitting the surface of the water. Which made me think that these butlers are people, perhaps, or perhaps frankenstein creations, that died due to exposure in space but the company refused to leave anything of value - their bodies - behind, and used them as the butlers after experimentation
The one thing i want to note is about TITAN. Once you get to the entrance and look out into the skyline you see what appears to me be a city. This was moths ago so i could be fuzzy on it. But there was a whole city of the horizon and it's completely abandoned.
Yeah it's just a skybox. Likely even a placeholder, as it's literally just a rip of a random street view from Google Maps. That same skybox exists on all maps, even at the company itself. I wouldn't read too much into it
@@bbbbbbb51 alternate reading, we aren't going to moons, we are being lied to and just bouncing around abandoned facilities on the same planet. any weird views are just halucinogens.
This game is the best played when not knowing anything and with a group. I was playing with some coworkers and we decided to go onto the rig map. About halfway through our round, I said I noticed some girl following us. I asked if they had noticed her or not, and they of course said no. Cautiously I got up to the girl and asked again, this time saying she was right in front of me, give or take a few feet. I start hearing the heartbeat sound, confirming to me that she was some sort of entity. They looked where I was staring and said nothing was there, they didn't even hear the heartbeat. She didn't do anything, so I thought her to be either bugged or some sort of benevolent enemy. Then she ran away. Now we're towards the end of the run. I am outside tossing stuff off the railing to get it easier to the ship. I get all the stuff to the bottom, then I go down. Other than the blizzard conditions, I hear nothing. No eyeless dogs. No leviathan. Altogether safe. The other guys are still in the rig, so I decided to go down and wait for them in the ship. I'm looking at the map, safe as could be, door closed. Steadily, the guys are making their way back to ship. Good. Then I hear that heartbeat sound again. Confused, I look around and see nothing on the ship. Then the door opens. Then the skipping. I literally screamed in local chat that the damn girl was here before she broke my neck and splattered my blood onto the console. Not even a minute later, one of the lads come by, talking about their nice haul and how they encountered almost no monsters. Everything is good until he enters the ship and notices my body on the ground and my blood on the wall. Silence. He closes the door and asks if anyone had seen anything. Silence. Finally the last two come by and open the door, joyously talking about their nice haul, until they see my dead ass body. Immediately, they close the door and get the hell out of there.
Love the organically funny and scary moments this game creates. A tip for dealing with the girl if you are inclined: if you move the terminal as close as you can to the monitors, but facing the doors, the ghost cannot spawn and end you as long as you are on the terminal. Since she always spawns behind you, if you have your back up against the monitors on the terminal, you are safe!
had a blast from Lethal then Phasmo by switching one another. non beats playing a co-op game blindly, its part of the fun learning even how bad the playthrough was, its all about the experience.
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i also find it interesting that one of the rare voice lines when you finish submitting your items to the monster at the company building says "this wall can not contain it"
i heard that one a little while back! it was while i was sprinting away from the counter, and i doubled back and asked my brother if he had heard it too, but he said he heard a regular line thanking us for our service or something. i thought i misheard, so it's nice to know that i didn't and it definitely adds a layer of interest!
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Just goes to show: good to be careful how devoid of empathy and volatile you are, even behind online “anonymity” Something, blah, blah, something, he’s playing pong while Wendi’s playing 4D chess, something, blah, blah, blah
Funny til RITSDADDY finds this video and has justified reason to take this video down for harassment as it's sending an entire audience after one individual 🤣
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I like how Wendigoon throughout the vid is just praising Zeekers for coming up with ways to change up strategies and the wrenches that are often thrown in those strategies and I'm just sat here thinking; "So when's he gonna talk about the unstoppable, uncounterable, annoying bastard that is the Tree Giant?"
1. Easter Eggs. They one shot Giants. If you understand how eggs work on a technical level, killing them is easy. 2. Giants can be killed with 2 shotgun shots (gotta hit the hitbox though). 3. Giants are initially slow, then accelerate to their top speed. You can use this to your advantage, especially around wide corners. 4. Giants work entirely off LOS. They also mostly appear on moons with large trees and/or obstacles (Artifice, for example). If you're just running straight towards the ship, then obviously you'll suffer. 5. On Artifice, you can easily trap Giants in the two large sheds.
@@roysamuels9468 1. easter eggs are finicky and aren guarenteed to work, especially if its chasing you. 2. that was patched last update 3. I didnt know this, so good to know 4. that works, but what about on rend or dine? or any foggy moon? youll have no idea where its looking at you from 5. yes, this is a solid strategy
Giants are still the hardest enemy for me to deal with by far, and I understand I have privilege in countering them because I have a glitch that removes all fog from my game (I didn't put that glitch there, it just happened on its own) so I can see where giants are at all times. HOWEVER. You can avoid them much easier by sneaking, in my experience. It seems that sneaking makes it harder for them to see you, and it also prevents you from accidentally running up on them without paying attention. Sneaking has allowed me to get into the ship more often than not when giants are roaming about. The thing that kills me is actually oftentimes the AI that was lingering around the area I started sneaking in. For example, if I need to sneak while I'm near baboon hawks, they start to get antsy after a bit and begin attacking me- forcing me to just sprint to the ship even though a giant is near, or die.
@catpoke9557 This is correct. Alter Ego has a great video going into the details of the Giant's AI. Sneaking reduces the rate at which Giants will aggro. Think of their aggro as a meter that goes up and down depending on your actions, and only as long as the Giant can see you. Once it reaches the top of that meter, you'll see/hear the fear effect, and the Giant locks on. Turning corners is the best way to deal with them. They quickly lose aggro when not in LOS, and will give up chase. Obviously, though, this is super effective on all maps.
Holy hell finally. I spent all day not finding anything to watch on youtube to the point I went "Man, I need one of those 2 hours long video only channels to upload" and here we are
An alternative to your “Puppet Rinds” Theory, I was thinking that all the employees are regular humans, but that the scraps they are collecting are in a way busy work, and that the Company actually consumes memory. The golden planet I think could instead represent a utopian planetary civilization, say in its “Golden Age”, which drew the hunger of some form of mind/memory devouring entity, drawn in by the beacon of happiness and prosperity. But to keep a constant supply of minds and memories to eat, the Company created this effective busy work to keep a constant amount of ever recycling fresh minds to feed on. The value of each item isn’t from its material value, but instead that it either triggers positive memories of the individuals past, or it simply brings capitalistic joy in the crew at such a big pay day, the value of the item being the value of the item, creating more and more positive memories to feed the Company. As it feeds it grows more and more numb to the memory of happiness and utopia until finally one of its supplies dies and it is hit with a crash unless another crew can keep it “topped up” on the high positive memories, even as the crews willow in misery, the slim pickings of memory and the panicked joy of simply having enough money to live being all the Company can now create after it swallowed the utopian “Golden Planet” in a fit of hunger and ecstasy, only in its hunger to have plunged the nebula into an eternal cycle of war and chaos where the only bitter bits of joy and nostalgia it can creat are from a bunch of overworked corporate slaves and the little joy they get by not dying on the job. Just a random alternative theory, also had some thoughts on memories leaking back out of the company, perhaps slowly forming over time longer lasting crews into the original “prime crew” we have the logs of, leading crews the longer they last down the potential road to end the suffering of the Company.
I loooooove your theory. This makes a lot of sense. This means the person on the other side of the wall, he was probably living in a memory of his bedroom, living room or smth. He was casually speaking of the monster that the moment Sigurd told him he was on the other side of the wall, he freaked out. He freaked out because it all became clear to him. He was living in a memory then the fake filter came off? He snapped back to reality? If we consider that the monster feeds on memories, and to feed on the memories it has to make the person's brain run the memory one last or one few times before they're ready to be used as flesh material for new employees, then the person Sigurd talked to was in the process of his memories being fed upon. My mini addon-theory with yours says that the monster puts you in a memory you exprienced and feeds upon it as you relieve or exprience it.
What if it's a similar situation to what we had with radiated steel? Where we had to get steel from sunken warships to get steel that had no background radiation as they where built b4 the age of nuclear weapons. Perhaps we colonized space, meet aliens, used nuclear weapons and now 1% of humanity lives as an under class not holding any power. The company is really a company that just collects scrap of non radioactive metal and artifacts of humanity. The monster at the company would just be a normal citizen of that empire
Kinda random, but a small tip for the Earth Leviathan. You actually don’t have to turn around to run if that’s the closest side. Lethal Company has basic Omni-movement, so you can actually sprint backwards without taking the precious time to look that way. Also, drop your items! Items held by a devoured player will be devoured with them. Ones caught in the grounded attacks won’t be. Help the company.
0:00 Intro 0:56 What we know for fact 2:33 Ad Break 4:34 Game introduction 6:08 The ship and structures 8:27 Junk Collection? 9:02 Terminal Montage 9:58 The Moons 10:50 Moon 1. EXPERIMENTATION 12:06 Moon 2: ASSURANCE 12:47 Moon 3: A Moon known as Vow 16:35 Moon 4: I take Offense to that! 19:15 Moon 5: March Madness 21:10 Moon 6: Adamance 22:21 Moon 7: Rend Rum 23:22 Moon 8: Dine and Whine 24:45 Moon 9: Titan ic 2 by Asylum Entertainment 26:35 The weather 27:12 The interiors of buildings 27:43 The Facility/Factory 29:36 Snareflea (Face Hugger) 32:50 Spore Lizard (Honky Tonky Doggy) 35:37 Thumper (Gotta Go Fast) 38:17 Bunker Spider (I counted 10 legs! Not a spider!) 39:52 Arachnaphobia mode (Never been so scared of letters) 41:18 The BOAT 44:33 Hoarding Bug (Yippee!!!) 49:27 Hydrogere (Loves to Jam) 54:18 Harmless bugs and birds (Locusts and Manticoils) 1:01:20 Earth Leviathan (We're gonna need a bigger ship) 1:04:07 Circuit Bees (Shockingly Beelievable) 1:05:28 RTisdaddy Callout 1:06:28 Mineshaft (Jack Block) 1:08:57 Maneater (Watch out, boy) 1:09:46 Maneater adult (It'll chew you up!) 1:19:28 Power Outage blooper 1:19:48 Mansion (Money! It's a crime!) 1:22:22 Coilheads (Good thing you don't need to blink!) 1:24:30 Nutcracker (Shotgun Christmas!) 1:27:58 Jester (Freeee biiiiirrrrrddddd!!) 1:31:08 Dramatic Mask (SCP-035 says hello) 1:37:54 Ghost Girl (Alma Wade) 1:42:17 Barber (A little off the top? How about sliced in half!) 1:43:39 The Butler (Sherlock Holmes' Scapegoat) 1:45:25 Masked Hornets (The guys in the masks killed the butler?! What a twist!) 1:47:50 Old Birds (Giant robots that cry like little babies) 1:55:26 Secret Moons! 1:55:34 Embryon (Baby robots on Embryon... poor taste) 1:57:51 Artifice 1:59:50 Bracken (The most popular neck snapper)
1:03:53 This is a fair and good point, personally I assumed they were called 'Earth Leviathans' because earth can also just mean like, the ground, although I suppose it wouldn't be called that if Earth the planet didn't exist
1:50:50 being called “the walking ransom letter” goes unbelievably hard. Ngl I’m probably gonna steal that name for an enemy or character in a dnd campaign
I just picture it as a group of seemingly normal looking knights of varios armors and weapons when seen from a distance, but when up close you just see that its a giant black ooze that is bassicaly wearing the armor, they stand perfectly still or as close to still as they can be, unless you get close to it, wich the ooze will scence either body heat or vibrations in the ground and will imeditialy book it along with other oozes on the group if you capture a group of these guys and send them too a town they would just kill every one and be harder to kill the any actual guy wearing armor because they dont have organs and can regenerate or something like that
I think the company moon being named gordion is a reference to the gordian knot from greek myth, a huge tangled knot that's impossible to untangle, being a metaphor either for the mystery of the game's story, or the monster itself, a huge, unmanagable mess that's impossible to untangle The gordion knot was cut in half by alexander the great, which could also be an allegory for desmond's drill
Really? I mean, Wendigoons theory fits both the general vibe, and mention of "Golden Planet", but you just changed a letter and got a stretched, jumbled explanation for yours. Gordion and Gordian are two different words, Roguenarwhal*
Love how in the sponsorship segment he said "fresh, never frozen food" and then when he showed the packages on his counter my dad said "why's he cooking frozen food with a kitchen like that?"
You’re right, Wendi, the spore lizard is sad :( The fact they just run away, don’t even fight back until absolutely cornered, shows how afraid of humans they are 😢
Hoarding bugs own 70% of the scrap despite being only 2% of the population. Refreshing to see a RUclipsr asking the controversial questions. The HQ should be discussed.
I like the character design of the Coil Heads. With the head on a spring that ragdolls a bit from their movement, so you can actually see they moved when you aren't looking.
I don't know anything about the game beyond this video, but I found it interesting that it's set in a "nebula". As far as I was aware, a nebula is essentially a space nursery for forming stars, whereas moons would imply planets, which would imply solar system. I looked it up and there's a type of nebula called a "planetary nebula", which forms when a star turns into a red giant and "the ultraviolet radiation it emits can ionize the surrounding nebula that it has thrown off". Our sun is going to become a red giant, and Titan is the name of one of Saturn's moons. Could be something that ties into the irradiated evolution theory, could be an oversight of astronomy terms ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i actually really enjoy the theory wendi has about how our player characters are no longer human and are simply regurgitated homonculi created by the company monster. i hadn't considered it before and it does seem to make sense within the story. i hope that the drill under the company building platform isn't just a cheeky easter egg and we actually get to interact with it at some point. maybe there could be a campaign where you try to get all the scrap resources necessary to power it up and use it, and there's an endgame of killing/freeing/whatevering the thing or things inside the building.
That would be awesome although I feel like the ending would have to be sort of cryptic. Like let’s say you drill into the wall and you hear the monster roar and see tentacles spilling out and it just wipes everyone out. Then we could be left to speculate what happened. Maybe the monster broke out and went on its inevitable rampage. Or maybe we gave our lives to expose it and now other colonies can see it as an opportunity to strike. I don’t feel like a concrete ending would be satisfying enough for all the hype
I don’t see there being any good way to say “you killed the monster” unless Desmond knows more about the monster than he has revealed and maybe it’s aimed at a weak point?
Some issues with your "bag of bones" hypothesis -- Sigurd's logs do reference seeing the faces of Desmond and Jess ('"their faces are blank like idiots" when Rich gets Bracken'd). So at least at that point, there were faces to be seen through the suits. Maybe that was Original Sigurd and they were still in their first incarnation then, but then that calls into question your use of Rich's smell as evidence that he was already dead. Also, the fact that Rich has a notable smell implies that Sigurd and his crew weren't always fully sealed into their suits. The suit is airtight since you can survive (at least for a little while) in the vacuum of space, so how could Rich-Stink escape and also enter Sigurd's suit? Given the lower lethality of Sigurd's logs, I think that in his time the job was easier. Less monsters, more loot. But as crew after crew takes the easy stuff, we have to search harder and harder for enough things to sell. Plus the monsters are probably quite happily breeding and growing on the delicious meat delivered to them. This would explain at least in part the difference between Sigurd's experiences with some creatures and yours, if there was a ton of stuff and less Hoarding Bugs, then you don't have to compete with them as much for loot, there's enough for everyone. I agree that we're feeding The Beast, but I'm not sure I agree that we're agents of The Beast. A possible alternative explanation is that The Beast is typically sedentary unless hungry and the galactic community figured out they could build a structure around it and then feed it junk instead of letting it get so hungry it eats planets. It's sad that you're treated as worthless under that system but if there are multiple planets with populations in the billions, a few dozen dead poor people a week to prevent an entire planet from being eaten makes for a coldly logical deal. (This also doesn't entirely rule out multiple incarnations; it could be clones of the same five-plus people and Sigurd's memories are slowly being corrupted. The originals may have completely voluntarily started this job, but the fine text said "oh yeah we get control of your genetic data forever kthxbai"). This explanation does solve for why the quotas go up until they're impossible and you die. The Beast is being very carefully kept at just over starvation. In it's sedentary state a little bit of food keeps it quiet but it needs more and more as it returns to wakefulness. Eventually it would fully awaken, but by cutting off the supply it's forced back into dormancy for a little longer, so the next crew can be recruited/conscripted/printed to start the cycle over at a feasible level. This explains why you aren't just given useful equipment and have to pay to visit the high value moon's, they don't want a team being able to feed it too much too fast, that throws off the schedule. The pronouns on the conversation over the walkie-talkie are also somewhat ambiguous. The voice doesn't clearly identify itself as being digested by The Beast, just that "they were", which could mean the population of the Golden Planet. I dunno if that has any further meaning, but thought it's worth mentioning.
Presumably the monster behind the company walls could replicate a full human form, I doubt the crew are actually just skeletons in suits, sort of like the doctor who episode with the "possessed" astronaut suits.
I agree with your theory mostly but i still think the monster is an agent or the company itself. Normally selling your stuff gets a hook to grab it in but the monster is very clearly just behind it and gets annoyed quite fast ready to eat anyone close. I dont think its asleep at the very least.
I never thought about it but the currency in the game may be more akin to company tokens than actual money. When company towns were first created in the United States they had currency they'd give to workers instead of actual money so that they could just funnel their 'expenses' back to the company.
You move 15 tons, and what do you get another day Older and deeper and debt, A wind saying Peter comes to take my soul.I've sold it off to the company store
1:26:42 "it seems to me, at least from my limited knowledge of the game and lore and stuff like that” he says in the middle of a THREE HOUR LONG VIDEO he made aBOUT exactly these themes
I’m surprised you didn’t make the connection between the old birds and the coilheads. The latter’s notes say that it emits radiation and can be stunned by bright flashes or loud sounds, both of which are countered by the former’s radiation sensors which lead to activation (further supported by the fact that rad levels rise when you remove the apparatus, which activate ALL mechs on the map), and the fact that old birds have a super bright headlamp and a “sound cannon” My take is that the Anglens may have attacked the Buemoch first using coilheads and the Beus retaliated with old birds after researching and understanding their adversary’s weapons (to mixed levels of success (coilheads are known to explode on autopsies))
I think even at the time Sigurd writes the log, Desmond is somewhat aware. The log were Sigurd talks about how Desmond wanting to get the junk back to the company building because it had an insane return rate, He specifically says its rare. How would Desmond know that if they all started working around the same time. Sure they have been at it for a while at that point but not enough to probably know what the rare rates are. I think that even at the time Sigurd writes the log, Desmond has been at it for a while OR what if memory loss is happening but your memory gets reset every time like its your first day. Desmond doesnt bother to explain it because its just a waste of time at this point or cant really recall himself yet. They even mention in the logs that they dont understand Desmonds actions like trying to trace the call. To them it seems pointless or useless but to Desmond its really important. I also think the reason Desmond spends more time with the terminal is because he might have discovered his previous logs and is basically trying to learn as much as possible before they all die again and they forget. I think your memory resetting is also necessary, If the company brought you back and your last memory was being eaten by a forest giant or being grabbed by a bunker spider then you having PTSD would be an understatement. Or even worse, remembering that the reason you died the last time was because your crew left you on a moon, That could cause some issues with the team going forward. It is in the companies and your best interest to not remember what happened.
Also think about how Wendi talks about "I don't any of us specifically are Sigurd". I think it's more possible that we as the individual player is Desmond. See, for us as players we kinda treat it as a roguelike. We go in, we get stuff, but we also die, a lot. But we as players learn something new every time. We are aware of how we died last time etc. Just like how Wendi's theory suggests that Desmond is, or becomes aware of the 'respawning'.
2:04:24 there exists a clip on one of my livestreams where I accidentally flip the company car while running from a giant, hop out and run away, only reaching the minimum safe distance at the very last moment before the car explodes and sends me flying away, simultaneously killing the giant off pure luck
The first time I went to Gordion I immediately thought of the story of the Gordian Knot (due to the similar name) from the legends of Alexander the Great. The story is about a knot that's really complex that's tied to an oxcart and the legend goes that whoever can untie the knot will be destined to rule all Asia. Alexander looks at the knot and promptly cuts through it with his sword rather than untying it like everyone before him had been trying to do. The metaphor is that seemingly unsolvable problems can be solved by brute force, or by thinking outside the box. I think this would fit into the drill theory pretty well too.
Hey Wendigoon, in your talk about the player's home base aka the spaceship, you forgot to mention how there's a squeaking/leaking/tapping noise in the background ambience. Sometimes, if you focus really hard, you can hear a faint . . . . . . . "It's so floppy"
When I first found the Pastra video on It Steals, I never thought I'd then find another game by Zeekers, The Upturned (10/10 horror comedy game, go play it), then immediately have Zeekers make Lethal Company and explode in popularity (deserved), and THEN eventually have Wendigoon cover LC's story in a 3 hour video. The gaming community is funny sometimes.
9:35 in lethal actually if you take enough damage and survive your visor will start to crack a bit. It's not as noticeable, but you can notice the more dim lines in certain lighting that weren't there before, specifically in the top right of the screen and lower left
@@EJIM09 Either that's an unfortunate mistype or you need to stop eating whatever is making your feces emit Cherenkov radiation. Because most of us don't have lights there.
@@EJIM09 When you're fatally injured, more cracks appear onscreen (temporarily) as well as the screen going red, you bleeding, and whatnot, which I'm fairly sure that's what the original comment is talking about. I don't remember if the video mentions this either but in similar situations where fatal injury may occur there's the fear mechanic which adds a green tint and a low or high sfx (depending on the severity of the situation) which indicates that you are either A) in danger or B) should be shitting yourself or C) both. (it's quite faint but there's a heartbeat sfx as well) which are more things the game does to try to immerse the player
It took me a while to get through this video. Really enjoyed it. I'm not a fan of online stuff like Lethal Company, but your breakdown is great. Any speculation that Earth is the Golden Planet? Maybe the Boat is the ark escaping the Company? Maybe people got so distant from the memory of the Boat and Earth, that rivalrous factions got distracted and took each out?
I was so shocked that there was lore to this game. While watching gameplay, it felt like there was something there - the atmosphere, the logs hinted. But everything was so random. I just thought this was an epic (fad) game created by an impressively skilled individual. You tied all the loose end together in the longest- yet most engaging video I've ever watched. Thanks to you, Zeekers will forever hold a place in my memory as a genius storyteller and game developer. And I will be eternally grateful to you for telling me all about this legendary game. Thank you Wendigoon.
Don't forget that if you put the other crew members' names into the terminal, one of them is called a creature that has yet to be scanned by the player!
Lethal Company player and "fan" since November 2023 here (haven't been in 6th grade since 2015, long since graduated) - I've decided to note down my nitpicks, because why not? (All info below is accurate as of v69) 21:36 There are two windows located on the back wall of the cottage, it's totally possible to view this message on the wall without using a key or lock pick to open the door. 27:35 He showed the Factory interior twice lol. 28:42 Not entirely true. By unplugging the apparatus, every security door will automatically open permanently. (It will not disable traps though, implying that they all utilize their own separate power source) 39:52 This wasn't added in a recent update to the game, not at all. As far as I'm aware the Arachnophobia Mode setting has existed in the game for as long as I've been playing it since 2023. 46:46 It is a good idea to drop your loot outside whenever possible. However, there are certain situations where you can, or really should, keep your loot indoors; Firstly, if you drop your loot outside the main entrance of Adamance, Baboon Hawks will run off with your loot most of the time. I've never had Baboon Hawks steal loot left outside of the fire exit on Adamance, however, so that spot is fine. Secondly, Hoarding Bugs do not spawn on Rend, so leaving loot indoors on Rend is fine. Thirdly, if the weather is stormy, it's perfectly fine to leave loot, even if it's conductive, outside as long as you're smart about where you place it (off to the side, far enough away from the entrance door as to not accidentally get your team killed by lightning), however I'd understand leaving loot inside during stormy weather as well. I will also note, however, that when leaving loot outside of Titan's main entrance, yes, there is a ceiling above you that blocks lightning, but you should remain vividly aware about how far under that ceiling you are when dealing with an incoming lightning strike. I've gotten killed holding conductive loot on Titan multiple times while being absolutely certain that I was far enough under the ceiling and perfectly safe, but even though the lightning never struck me directly, I was too far from the ceiling's cover to avoid being killed. Basically, when it's stormy on Titan, leave all the loot right against the wall next to the door, where you and your team will be safe from lightning strikes 100% of the time. 51:33 This is straight up not true. How do I know? I've died to the Hygrodere by trying to stand up high to avoid it and was still killed. Wendigoon will be responsible for the deaths of hundreds with this misinformation, I'm sure. 57:35 this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this Holy fuck it is so infuriating that people still don't know that noise attracts the dogs, even after it's explained to them 50 times. They should be the easiest outdoor enemies to deal with, but I guess if your team isn't super experienced, they're really the worst. 59:09 Speaking of inexperience, I'm still baffled that only 1% of players seemingly know about this nifty little trick, that both reduces your chances of being killed by Eyeless Dogs AND makes it easier for other teammates to listen to you speak: There's a nice little option in the game's menu called "Settings." In this "Settings Menu" you can find another option called "Push to Talk." What does "Push to Talk" do? It makes it so that none of your microphone inputs are transmitted into the game unless you're actively holding down a specific button. I personally use the "MOUSE4" or "BACK" button on my mouse, which I use for push to talk in every game I play, actually. You can even change which key you want to use for push to talk in Lethal Company by clicking on another option within the settings menu called "Keybinds" and changing the key from there. It's really convenient, and if you're a Lethal Company player reading this, you should enable Push to Talk now. 1:00:22 I actually didn't know about this before watching this video. Ever since I saw those spikes in the game one day, I always just assumed they were just another randomly spawning purely aesthetical structure. (Which is still true, I guess, I just didn't know that they directly influenced other entities). 1:03:26 I think this is simply ridiculous. "Earth" does not strictly refer to the "planet Earth," but can also refer to the "earth" as in dirt, soil, ground, rock, etc. I think the "Earth Leviathan" is only called that because the earth (aka the dirt, soil, ground, rock, etc.) is where it resides, as can be seen in-game. I think immediately assuming that it is somehow directly related to the planet Earth just because "earth" is in the creature's name is really overthinking things. 1:05:29 Fun fact, and this goes not only for lobby trolls, but for save scumming in general: The game does not save your progress until the ship has fully left the current moon, and everyone has respawned back on the ship, and you are free to redirect to another moon. This means that if the host quits back to the menu, they can restart the save, and continue playing from the last save. 1:35:04 This intrigued me, as I've never ever seen a Masked spawn in via a dead body randomly placed on the map, so I looked it up, and this is false. Masks or Masked, like any other indoor enemy, can only spawn in through vents over time. 1:43:54 Butler's are indeed not restricted to the Mansion interior, as I have personally encountered them in all three current interiors. In fact, the only monster in the game who's spawn chance is affected by the type of interior is the Maneater, and even then, it simply has a higher chance of spawning if the interior is a Mineshaft. No monster is set to not spawn depending on the interior. 1:47:39 Newer, but still, Old Birds were added back in April 2024.
The darkest part of the lore is that every ship crew is ran by people running 1000 mods and/or randoms that have the competency of an office worker in a lithium mine.
I do have a theory that Jeb (the name most of the people I've played with use for the monster behind the Company walls) is genuinely trapped, it might be just a fun easter egg but when you're selling your loot you usually get generic voice lines from the speaker praising your performance etc, but on rare occasions the voice shifts into something deeper and more sinister and asks "do you truly believe these walls will hold me?" or something to that affect. I think there is a larger galactic story with warring empires but at some point they found some Cthulhu-esque Eldritch Godlike being that consumed worlds and minds. Maybe the reason that so many moons were forgotten/purged of life was Jebs doing, but atleast some faction of humanity managed to subdue and imprison him within the Company building and now the workers are just nessecary sacrifices to keep Jeb pacified like some Lovecraftian sleeping god, we bring ancient materials for him to devour, possibly even devouring the items history the way he devours memories and minds so that he's sated and remains dormant, should we fail to keep him in this state he will awaken and I imagine it's true that the company could not truly contain him should he ever try for a genuine escape. I suspect given that he was able to be confined humanity atleast had enough power to put him in that position but one would imagine if we were capable of it, we would've simply killed him, but perhaps either we were unable to or he simply cannot die so we did the next best thing, trapped him in a big box and throw as many bodies as we can at the problem to keep the slumbering giant content and docile.
Another sidenote on my thoughts on why so much of the Company, from the hiring to the ships, is automated is because Jeb devours the minds and memories of those in proximity so they automated the whole process because if they had've had actual workers doing that job they likely would've lost their minds and forgotten what they were doing and why, however the one aspect they couldn't automate was the salvage operation that required boots on the ground.
@@TwoFlower02 Actually really well thought out. I was getting the same kinda vibe of Humans are alive but far away and keeping the beat trapped over that side of the galaxy thing to.
@ Given the implication of The Boat seeding human life solar system to solar system we don't really know how long it's been going or how many systems it's gone through already, centuries are considered a measely timeframe so there could be multiple human empires far enough away they don't even know or care about the nebula the Company is set up in. It is kind of hopeful to consider that there could be entire branches of humanity unaffected throughout the galaxy, though I doubt it would stay that way if the Beast within the Company walls woke up.
I’ve never actually heard of this game before but my theory is that in like the new year 0 is the year that humans settled in the nebula, but eventually with the exploration they found the monster behind the walls of the company, and since they needed to focus as much energy as possible to coming up with a plan to end the monster, they locked it up best they could and decided the best way to ensure it was fed with the least amount man power possible they then they decided to export the labor to 21st century gamers. They designed the cage to be the mysterious company building, programmed 4 avatars, and set up a system that would allow players from the past to unknowingly help out the future of humanity. To make it more interesting and believable to us, they made up a bunch of lore about all these other worldly creatures + the Sigurd storyline to keep people coming back to play the game while they figured out a more long term solution to fighting the beast. That’s why all the timelines are kinda funky, they aren’t real. They just want us to continue playing but in order to do that they have to keep us guessing , because if there is anything that humanity loves to devote our time to more than video games it’s scaring the crap out of ourselves and solving mysteries.
To the people who think Wendigoon is wrong for calling out a player, what they did wasn’t even trolling. It’s just ruining a game experience for other people. 1:05:28
perfect video to listen to while im deep cleaning! can always trust you my guy to have longass videos with interesting topics to listen to while doing something mundane ❤ also, sounds like a cool game- definitely gonna try it out!!
32:20 haven't finished watching yet but I am a marine biologist that hates taxonomy with a passion. Technically scolopendra is being used as the species name for the snare flea and Dolus should be the genus. The genus is based on evolutionary relationships while the species is usually just whatever the discovering scientist wants to name it... That being said, it is really weird because it being named with a hyphen in between the two, I have only ever seen being used to refer to hybrid species (think of mules being a horse-donkey hybrid). Dolus being capitalized means it should technically be the genus but that hyphen confuses me. Interestingly enough, there IS indeed a couple species of bugs that are named dolus, the most likely reference is to the small, flea-like leafhopper native to NA. Wikipedia also tells me that Dolus also seems to refer to the roman mythological figure, name based on deciet/deception. Verrrry interesting >.>
You beat me to it. I was going to say that you can in fact use an unrelated animal's genus name as a species name, if whoever named it thought there was a resemblance. The hyphen would never be allowed in our current nomenclature system, though. Is the ICZN still a thing in the far future?
There is a vídeo here on RUclips already about books that no long exist/didn't survive time and the only evidence of them and It's contents are mentions on other very old books, registers etc. It's very interesting, hits ALL the buttons for me as a literature student.
This Game's lore has genuinely captivated me more than any sci-fi movie franchise. The way Zeekerss writes, designs, and worldbuilds scratches an itch I don't think any other creator will ever scratch.
@@jamespaul6315 When I refer to 'Lore', I'm not just referring to the story, although the logs from the previous crew do tell a captivating story imo. I'm talking about the implications you can gleam from the items and monsters. A phone that always emits the sound of someone screaming, a Toy Robot that has a lot in common with the deadly old bird enemies. I also love reading the information about the different planets and creatures. It feels like Pikmin lore if it was for a horror game and not by a company that doesn't care about stories.
Honestly the theory seems like a no brainer. The second you mentioned hyper evolution during the bunker spider entry note my mind immidietly made the connection "if all these animals and creatures have evolved into monsters due to the Thistle Nebula what's stopping that exact same thing happening to humans?". From that point in the video onward I was just waiting in anticipation for when you would talk about that exact possibility.
Man this game is great. Was monitoring my mates in Titan when one dog got in the ship and bit me. Bastard got me fast i was not able to scream in comms. As soon as i started spectating the lads on the inside called for evac as they got cornered by 2 coilheads with an extra thumper running around in the background. The silence that followed as they realized i died is brilliant. Anyways they died as a blob forced them to move into the loving embrace of the coilheads.
Something I feel like was missed was how Sigurd mentioned his dad living on titan and how they used to go see waterfalls. That implies that the planet wasn’t always snowy and desolate as it is now.
Some fun details about the Barber! It is immune to damage and is invisible to players outside of a small range. The only warning you get before seeing it up close is the comical snare drum and horns that sound as it moves. In terms of lore, imagine your last line of defense in your home is a Nutcracker that relies on seeing movement… There’s definitely a lot that could be speculated, but as a manmade creature that could be used to target civilians? Terrifying to think about…
42:94 weelllll, not ENTIRELY unheard of... Back in earth's history when there was more oxygen, A tarantula-like arachnid the size of a mountain lion existed, and the ocean-dwelling Sea Scorpions were some of the first arachnid-like arthropods, all the way back in the Cambrian Era. They were the size of a smart car, and already had the scorpion's venomous tail. They also developed internal gill-like lungs that could operate outside of the water. Let me reiterate that; within earth's own history, there was a scorpion the size of a CAR that could chase you onto land and inject you with a veritable sprite can of venom. Maybe the bunker spiders aren't so unrealistic.
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The proximity chat on this game was the best part of this game, nothing was better than when your friend walks around a corner, screams, and then is immediately muted, terrifying
The proxy chat was incredible. Even down to the echoey sound when inside compared to outside. More sophisticated than the proxy chat of COD and yet Lethal Company was made by one guy.
@@Jimov Lethal company really is an impressively well made game for one guy to make
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are these comments bots or what theres a comment below thats almost the same
@@vivious_ No it's just that it happens a lot i guess, when i commented i saw no other comments cause it had just posted a few minutes prior
fun fact: lethal company's crunchy-ness and ability to run on pretty much any computer is owed to the fact it is rendered at roughly 1024 x 768 and then blown up to a larger resolution
The crunchyness is stylistic and fun :)
Good to know and I love it ☺️❤❤❤
"run" bc for a game on which most models are made from a total of 10 polygons, its really unoptimized 💀🙏
a e s t h e t i c lives on
I love how accessible it is :)
It could be that when Sigurd wrote about the hoarding bugs 300 years ago they were actually harmless and in that span of time evolved to become more aggressive to the point of being a threat.
to be fair to sigurd, I didn't even know they could be aggressive for ages, which surprised the hell out of me when one did eventually aggro on me
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Couldn't he just change the log?
@@diego-uc5te maybe hes dead
@@diego-uc5tenot if the theory present here is correct. He just reads his own log and fills in memory to believe they are still chill. That’s why he still thinks it’s 1968
i might've missed it but im surprised you never mentioned the toy robot scrap, which not only looks like a toy old bird, but also makes the sound of children laughing, which mirrors the child crying sound that the old bird makes
Maybe the old bird was made as a guard for some colonies and the toy was made to make children not fear the old birds
Well that’s quietly horrifying.
@@TheActualMrLinkis it tho?
I like the idea of a horde of bugs walking around a corner snapping like 1950s greasers saying "look here see, this is our loot now capiche?"
EY, IM HOARDIN ‘ERE!
@@lorenzooliveira1157 lmaooooo ts had me dead
Need this and I haven't even played the game yet.
I just imagine them in their motorcycle jackets passing a switchblade between their little spike-hands.
Soundsike something out of a Courage the Cowarsly Dog episode.
Wendigoon placing a hit on a guy in game was definitely not something I was expecting from this lmao. I've never played the game but I hope people do start messing with RTISDADDY lmao.
Their needs to be a discord server made to find this man and get him kick in every game. We will weaponize autism.
Man put a bounty out on RTISDADDY
That got me laughing hard when he called that person out but good
Honestly, I don't play Lethal Company, but now I want to because assassin side quests are fun
This made me laugh so much!
The best hoarding bug mod is the one that makes them quote Dracula Flow. Hearing “chanel optics got me seein’ shit” in the distance, echoing through the corridors NEVER gets old
Last guy who ran off on the pack got choked out by some Givenchy gloves
The last thing he ever saw was the price tag on em.
Slowly faded into darkness, and I let the archangels take him.
my fav mod is the one that makes them say "yippee!!!"
@@flarithen My favorite Lethal Company clip is a guy dropping a shotgun for a bug and saying "Go do some crime"
"YIPPEE!"
@@flarithen the most overused meme of 2024, to each their own.
@@LolGamer5yippee!!! yippee!!! yippee!!! yippee!!! yippee!!! yippee!!! yippee!!!
My impression of the 'toy' creatures is that they might have been intended as guardians for children. They would be designed to be appealing to the kids and lethal to trespassers. That would imply that the mansions may have been built specifically to house children, rather than just wealthy individuals in general. Of course, they were clearly unsuccessful in keeping the children safe.
Reminds me of the Turrets from the Portal games, how they look somewhat harmless in their deactivated state, and how they were meant for house and business security. It always stuck with me how the Turret has a innocent high pitched voiced, like it was a toy in some way.
Yes and the coilhead was designed specifically only to attack when it's not being looked at, so it could attack the children without the Nutcracker spotting it. Terrifying and sad
Feels like they failed because manequins and mosquitoes-butlers can past through security. Imagine being a kid in a mansion just for you and your friends under defence of toys and butlers-humans until war comes and jets dropping manequins that can ignore nut crackers and able pop butlers heads and jars with tons of biologically altered mosquitoes that replace those butlers and slowly infiltrate those children dorms one kid at a time
I've heard "the players are clones of Sigurd and his crew" to explain the memory loss but this is the first time I've seen both "the players are the *chewed-up-and-spit-out remnants* of Sigurd and his crew" and an actual incorporation of the "spitting out the rinds" line. I like this theory a lot.
Sigurd and his crew were probably chewed and spat out clones of others, and those others were also remnants.
We are so far down this tree of uhhhh, birth? Or something? Think of it, if Sigurd died and was returned to the company, and the rest were ejected due to not meeting quota, that means there's a bit of Sigurd in all of us, there's a bit of the Golden Planet's people in all of us.
This thing probably gargles up everything and shapes them into flesh beings then spits them out. So there's a bit of everyone in everyone.
Flesh Ennard.
@@xm214-aminigun9 there's a bit of [Sigurd's daddy problems] in every body...
I want to also had the point that we get some kind of a penalty when we don’t get the dead body back to the ship, just why would it need to penalise us for dead body unless they are important and we get them back to the company for them to clone it the way you said it
@@wendychouxx idk if you didn’t know about slime deaths but the flesh and body dissolves leaving the suit which can still teleport, and has the same value as a full body, meaning the person inside has no value to the company, only the suit. People don’t matter to the company, that’s why they’re willing to eject, well, incompetent workers
I like the sci-fi trope of human clones being a subclass. The rich get to birth original and new beings where the labor class are cloned from the most successful original laborers. Considering we have gene editing a scary though is that the human genome could be more specialized for specific tasks. If clones weren't even considered human, the company could justify it's treatment of them. What if humans became different hive consciousnesses. They want the scraps so that memories can still give them a semblance of individuality. Just musing.
Wendigoon talking about Lethal Company lore for three hours? I don’t know what I did right today, but this feels like a reward for doing it.
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Seriously, I was actually just watching Everberon’s Lethal Company Iceberg last night!!
God felt bad that the lions lost the playoffs so he gave us a wendigoon video
You didn't do anything, it was all me. You're welcome
you did the best thing. You were you.
One of the most haunting experiences involving the ghost girl was me and my buddy, on Titan, were watching the cameras. The girl appeared on the camera, I started freaking out, I turned to him saying "Oh fuck, there's the girl." He said nothing, turned to the entrance of the ship, then looked at me straight in the eye.
"Oh, goodbye."
His head fucking exploded, everything fell to silence.
That's kinda funny. I'd have went with "I don't feel good Mr. Stark."
Was this in the game or real-life?
@@billblaski9523 irl
@@billblaski9523 And then I came home and play Lethal Company
@@comradesmilefucking hilarious
1:56:26 My RUclips gaming career landmark is having played with Wendigoon and my name being in his video. I shed a tear this day. Was fun playing with you haha!
The theory of the company reanimating corpses does actually make some sense when you look at the in-game corpse-retrieval system. When Richard was killed the Bracken took his body which forced the company to issue a replacement, this replacement-cost could be the 20% penalty we see ingame.
It could also possibly explain why the turrets attack us. The people that abandoned it, why would they bother to leave it on targeting anything non-human AND human. Unless...we're not actually people, just the remnants. Bit of a stretch but i still think it's a fun theory.
I have a theory on why the company would reanimate the corpse. If there is a beast that ate an entire planet of gold, why would only scraps satisfy it now, and why seemingly useless items.
Its not the physical materials that the beast needs to consume. If so, there are plenty of thing it can eat that would satisfy it more, including trying to eat the building itself.
What I think the beast eats is humanity itself. not just humans, but things human value. But the problem is that it already ate all of humanity and is now starving and picking at the crumbs left behind, or the scraps the player collects.
The players are not humans, they are immitations of humans that the beast can’t eat. But are useful in the sense that they can pickout the crumbs of humanity, but are ultimately worthlesss.
beast.... mr.beast
Bro cooked in 2 sentences
Pretty sure theres a monster in the game that removes the body and only leaving the suit that you'd still need to retrieve so you don't get the penalty. It still only sells for 5 bucks which I think is funny cause it makes the crew worthless and the suits the only thing that the company wants back. Think he talked about it at the start or something idk
Wendi after getting attacked and defamed in a video essay seen by millions of people: don't send any hate guys.
Also Wendi after getting bullied in a lethal company lobby: if you see him, make his experience miserable.
this is too funny to me!
Company FIRST!
Wait what? What video essay?
Tbf everyone was already clowning on that guy, no one knew who RTISDADDY was
@caitycat66 some guy tried and failed to slander wendigoon, honestly not important
@@caitycat66 a crazy leftist
the coilheads emmiting radiation and old birds waking up after the apparatus gets taken out which increases radiation around the area meaning that old birds were made to counter against coil heads explaining them hiding inside of the facilities is my favorite theory
I don't know if making large war robots with flamethrower and missile launcher is the most efficient way of dealing with running mannequins. Seems a bit overkill to me
@@thegrunch6448 I think this idea lines up very well, since it's also stated in their bestiary entry that coilheads enter a "sleep mode" when exposed to very loud sounds or bright lights. For most of the game this was just a lore explanation for why flash bangs work on them, but the most noticeable characteristics of the Old Bird is the gigantic lamp on its head (capable of emitting 70000 something lumens) and their gigantic sound cannon on their chest designed for sonic warfare
okay the idea that desmond is aware and constantly having to place new sticky notes to remember his mission is kinda metal asf
Desmond is like the person in planescape torment
I once played this game with the Skin walker mod turned on, and at one point I turned around, saw a Bracken it said: "Hey, you're South-African right?" and then snapped my neck and killed me. Best experience I ever had in this game.
I had a hoarding bug come around a corner and announce "A GIANT ENEMY SPIDER" in my friend's voice and I lost it laughing. This is a horror game but it will also give you the funniest experiences you will ever get playing online with friends.
Bracken hate crime
@@IceFireofVoidthe bunker spider in question:
👁️👄👁️
Dude I would go as far away from people in game as possible and just SCREAM cries for help at the start so it got plenty to work with to psychologically torment my friends.
@@snowlep3152 bro same that's the funniest way to play with that mod lmao
My first encounter with the Ghost girl went something like this:
Me: "Has anyone ever encountered what looks like a little girl in a red dress?"
My Team: "Did you actually see that?"
Me: "Yes"
My Team: "We need to leave immediately."
Actual horror movie moment what the hell.
For me I didn't mention it at all. At the end of the trip, me and my friends all gathered back at the ship and everyone just saw me screaming before my head gets crushed.
Your team was very responsible, glad to hear it
My team just told me to find it and bring it back to the ship for rescue... my friends are assholes
Event Horizon moment
That mod that makes the masked mimic your teammate's voices is called "Mirage" and it's soooo good. there's these constant coincidences where you'll say something and you'll hear your buddy respond, but it's not them anymore... it also removes the visual mask from the enemies so that it's harder to tell.
me and some friends played last night with mirage and skinwalker and few other mods. full on mimics of players can spawn, I was with one guy and a third friend followed us outside. I asked him if he was real and he say “yeah” and did an emote. we were relieved until the actual third guy screamed over a radio “THATS NOT ME FUCKING RUN” and the mimic grabbed me and vomitted blood into my face until I died
I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend either this mod or the Skinwalkers mod. The mask by itself is just a troll item, but those mods create mimics without the mask and is way more terrifying. Especially the mask removal part, that is what turns it from a somewhat cool item to a frighteningly amazing experience.
It's gotten even more advanced over the months. Not just removing the mask, but making them walk like players, having them mimic a specific player (in voice and, if installed, cosmetics), exact voice clips being synced up across the game, sometimes they even emote!
It really adds a lot to the experience imo
Afaik it was called the wendigo mod... until a bunch of SJW's got their nickers in a twist about appropriation.
I know nothing about this game and I haven't reached that part of the vid yet but this sounds utterly terrifying to come across in the game
I find the Butler so funny, like it’s just a British guy. Wanders around a mansion and sweeps but if you get too close he pulls out his knife and simply shanks you
London experience
Hey Wendigoon. My grandma has recently discovered the internet and is absolutely hooked by „Horror and cryptids“. Now she’s dusting up her English and watching your videos. I found out after I found like a 100 tabs of your videos on her computer.
This is awesome you guys should watch a couple videos together!
Wholesome
Cuuuute
Based grandma
Where did you learn to use quotation marks? "This" is how you use them, not ,,this".
_Démerdez-vous!_
My headcanon was always that lethal company was a "red rising" situation, humanity is doing fine but we are told its dying so we'll do grunt work
Shut up and serve the company
Company policy forbids independent thought, report to the company headquarters for rehabilitation.
Perhaps a visit with the Care Hound will alleviate these silly thoughts
Dude I love red rising. So humanity was ended by itself in this scenario?
DHMIS MENTIONED
“Later game upgrades; like the Fanny pack” is a sentence I never expected to hear, let alone hear wendigoon say
Wow, I legit read your comment and the second I finished reading Windegoon said the phrase you'd commented. That's trippy af.😂
@@dionstewart7394 Bro thats crazy!. Because one time I legit read your comment and the second I finished reading Windegoon said the phrase you'd commented. That's trippy af.😂
None of this is real. You need to wake up. All fake.
2025 and I still don't have my flying fanny pack
@@dionstewart7394it’s cosmic
“I’m Sigurd, you’re Sigurd, he’s Sigurd?! Are there any other Sigurds I should know about?”
*the sounds of dying humans screaming from the bowels of the beast*
Forever ago, I saw the creator asking for feedback on Lethal before the game was released, so I watched some of his videos. When I heard the drop ship come in, barely audible besides air hissing, I told him two things: make the mask crack easier to see through on screen and not as reflective and annoying as it was, and give the drop ship an ice-cream truck alarm so you could hear it coming easier. He was like "An ice-cream truck sound lol?" and I was like "Ye so you can hear it coming rather than just almost silent and you can't find it." So he made those changes. I'm happy I gave him feedback and I play this game often with my homies.
wow, you’re part of history i see
The ice cream truck sound is iconic. You led to the creation of probably the most iconic sound in the game
@@catpoke9557 assuming they're telling the truth, they are a random person on the internet after all
I had a similar moment in Planetside 2 (scifi shooter game) when the art director was talking about adding a resource players would mine from large crystal deposits on the map and they didnt look good and were hard to differentiate from the rest so I said make em black and glow white through the cracks and he did it. Not as iconic as the lethal company ice cream delivery though lol, but i remember how cool it felt.
You are a a furry, bird of a feather flock together
Lethal company is both one of the scariest and funniest games I’ve ever played
Nothing like hearing your friend round a corner and scream before absolute silence, masterpiece.
Another classic is the "Oh shi-" followed by the sounds of a mine.
Heard bzzzzzz and then Yipee!
I felt as if this video was transphobic in more than one way
@@JamesWagner-vv9iz mid bait
@@JamesWagner-vv9iz I've seen you post something like this all over the comments section. Not once have you explained yourself. Either your accusations are baseless or you just haven't presented any examples for some reason. That just reads as rage bait.
So, which is it? How exactly is this video supposed to be transphobic when THE VIDEO HASN'T EVEN BEEN OUT LONG ENOUGH FOR YOU TO WATCH THE ENTIRE THING?!
you can sell dead bodies for 5$, but you can also sell the empty suits the blob leaves for 5$.
you have no value as an employee, the suit is worth more than you.
AWESOME, SO IT WAS THE UNIFORM THAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY SAVING LOLLLL
Should be more with the body since the "company" will likely eat it
Hey real fabric is hard to come by!! You need either plant or animal life
@@MrTriedges yeah but if the theory is true then you are just body material. It would have a ton of that. Even if theory is wrong you are a disposable unit no one cares about
Well, a corpse has less use than a perfectly usable suit
My guess is that the "Golden Planet" is Earth. Not golden as in literally made of gold, but rather a golden place to live and exist. The company/creature attacked Earth and consumed it, which lead to "The Boat" or an Ark traveling around the galaxy looking for a spot to rebuild.
Maybe golden planet is another word for Gordian
Honestly that makes sense, to add to this something I also thought of is the possibility the company ship _is_ the boat, the idea that it was once humanity's last hope but was captured by the company with those on board forced to serve feels compelling, after all, outside of the company cruiser and jetpack, the ship is practically the only other form of travel we see or know of in game.
In the context of the game I think it makes sense too, "ship" is just another term for boat and we are also ferrying this scrap back to the company much alike boats do irl with goods and cargo, while it is possible they're two separate things I think it makes sense given the "boat" is implied to be old and from the first galactic expeditions, which fits the description of the company ship considering there have been hundreds of years to further develop forms of space travel alike it and yet our ship is just as basic and barebones as possible, almost crudely made in a quick manner without time to adequately improve on the design..
The "Wendi goes on a three hour lore rant about a media he finds captivating" is my absolute favorite type of Wendi. This was a great video to watch and I was honestly sad when it ended.
Same. I don't care for horror type media but I will listen to Wendigoon talk for hours about his favourite video game or movie or book series. His passion and interest is so infectious.
My personal theory is that "The Company" is one giant containment device for something like SCP-169 (The giant underwater leviathan), who feeds off the memories of people, and spits up their bodies. "The Company" is a group of people on the other side of the solar system (to out range the memory devouring) who selects people to pick up various worthless objects as an excuse to keep them in close proximity to the creature so that it can feed on their memories, and thus keep itself content to remain contained. Essentially drip feeding it food so it won't eat more planets.
That's a really good one, my theory is that sigurd started out as human, but the rest of his crew were puppets or at least part of them. That's why his suit didn't fit at first, after he dies and his body and memories are fed to the company they are regurgitated into a new puppet and now the suit fits but his memories are all jumbled. The entity is simply using puppets to recruit real human, send them out on missions to be killed. Then have the experienced puppets with the combined memories and skills extract the bodies for it to consume. The scrap retrieval is simply busywork until something hopefully kills you. Hence the quota always rising
Isn’t the memory thing what 3000 does?
I think it feeds on scrap and metal and stuff. Not really memories, that's why it will be fine with the inanimate clothes of the body. Because they still have metal/material for the thing to eat.
But I do believe it has some effect on the minds of people around it like scp 169.
@Sup_Aqualine369 the company monster actually eating the worthless objects themselves makes sense if zeekers is going for a critique of mindless consumerism
Whenever you doubt your content, i want you to remember that I just passed on a bunch of 20-30 mins videos, because they were too long, and opted for a 2h50min video of lore content because i know it will be good.
Thanks for the video
very true i scroll past video opting for a shorter and more to the point but these videos always rope me in so easy
Cause that 3 hours isn't padding, he's genuinely just that passionate, and you feel it in the video.
Bro is a millionaire and does not doubt his content.
it's because you know you're getting your money's worth instead of wasting half an hour watching something less interesting
There are 30 min videos with fuck all info because 3 hrs can't be squeezed into
30 min.
Wendigoon is like 6 instances of 30 minutes put into 1 video that's why it's much more sensible.
My brother once had a glitch that made him invincible. A bracken went after him, but instead of killing him, just kept him from moving by repeatedly trying to snap his neck. I literally had to go in and get killed to free him. Keep in my the whole time he has a snare flea on his head, which he got rid of after I died by stepping onto a landmine, which blew up the flea but not him. Also he could run very fast and had no stamina drain (I can confirm he wasn't cheating). We called that glitch "The Supersoldier Glitch."
Captain Company
John Lethal
A three hour video on Lethal Company lore??? We eatin' good
My farts are better than Iceberg Boy’s farts 💨
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3 meandering hours about some indie sewage
you eatin' american
Yeah, honestly some parts were kind of transphobic
@@JamesWagner-vv9iz ❤️
This was the last spooky game we played with a friend of ours who suddenly passed due to undetected stomach cancer at 29. We had so much fun and scares with this game and it’s sad that we will most likely never touch it again. He would always be pulling high jinks like staying on top of the ship while it was taking off after turning in the loot or constantly sounding the air horn. RIP Hunter, and thanks Wendigoon for bringing back fond memories of an awesome game. ❤
RIP Hunter, sounds like he was truly a joy to work and chill with! ❤️
Sorry about your friend! Cancer sucks so bad!
Fuck Cancer.
RIP Hunter
RIP to Hunter. Hold on to these pleasant memories forever
RITSDADDY has made a powerful enemy today
Funny enough is that RT is the name for one of the biggest propaganda channels in russia, lol.
@@richiestarostin4418 Also the name of a well known youtuber
@@richiestarostin4418 probably referring to RTgame tho.
Around 1:05:30 for anyone wondering
Imagine trolling random people and then getting called out by one of the biggest youtubers around lmfao
The fact the lights on the Old Birds heads are specifically searchlights makes me think they're searching for the planet the company is on, and they stay on each planet they land on to wait for signs of the company, which is why they attack the player, they don't still think they're at war, they just recognise the player as an extension of the company and eliminate it.
The little girl as well, monsters attack as they're monsters and however they've been mutated they get hungry or don't have control over their impulses (even if they did they'd still attack the company). But why would a little girl specifically who's dead suddenly start attacking people for exploring and trying to find things they need? She attacks the player because she knows what they are, that they're just a puppet of the company that wiped out seemingly all human life, potentially trying to put us out of our misery. I imagine everything we encounter knows what the crew is, like some cruel joke only we aren't in on.
The fact we look for useless bits of scrap, which appear to get more valuable to us the more they indicate human life (engines, energy supplies, jars of pickles, gold, cash register), makes me believe that we aren't there for scrap, we're being sent to check for survivors and if we ever found one the company would tighten its grip and the player would drag it back to the company planet for consumption and repurposing...
Desmond may be categorically built different, having at some point worked out what was happening and in each subsequent lifetime either finding the drill or working it out on his own and having the same idea, to use the scrap they bring back to try to break into the company and learn the truth.
On the basis we might be searching for living people rather than scrap the Old Birds though described as war machines were likely repurposed for finding the company by some potential survivors at one point in time, whether they still survive is a different conversation. I wonder if there are some survivors hidden on the planet littered by Old Birds, and they're there as a frontline security measure. It might be similar for the masks, as you say they might not be supernatural, I wonder if they are a biological or mechanical weapon also developed by humans as a booby trap specifically to take control of and incapacitate curious employees before they manage to find anyone.
As for why even if you kill the entities and monsters the company doesn't seem to want them, well, would you eat a radioactive steak?
Possibly some gaps there but that's my current headcanon. Imagine war between space empires is going on to the degree people are mutating into monsters and then some planet sized monster (or perhaps it wasn't originally planet sized) starts consuming humans in the background, harvesting their bodies then spits them back out of some evangelion style mind meld where they don't know anything else but working for the company, maybe just me but I don't want to be dead, a monster, OR a pile of confused organic matter in a suit - this is a universe where being a ghost is the best option for existence.
I love the idea that all our operations is just a cover (and an unnarural one) for looking for survivors! Really explains a strange value of many objects!
The idea that everything in the universe except us knows the truth is terrifying and fascinating. I love this idea!
Cutting off the "Great great asset, to the company, asset, great great asset" part of the jingle is CRIMINAL
I hate the jingle, I always cut off all speaker announcements.
me and my friends trying to talk but being interrupted by the same exact song for the 200th time (it's criminal to skip the song)
@falco5148We hate you.
@falco5148 Lamo alert
Something that struck me about the implications of the butler is that, in the context of a mansion being full of people, it can be guessed it was made as a bio-weapon used either as an assassin, or a spy detector.
Assuming it was designed to look human (years and years making the skin sag and the body rot resulting in its current look) it could be deployed into an enemy base, designed to target isolated members, kill them, clean up after, only to rinse and repeat until the base was cleared.
In the other scenario it could be used in ones own base to target infiltrating spies and catch them when they're alone, and if the spy survived the butler's attack, it would be obvious there was a spy seeing as they would now be followed by hornets.
Also can't help but feel like there's a play on the '' the butler did it'' trope.
See my interpretation was it’s just mutant bugs that evolved to prey on company members looking for loot. It looks harmless at first, then as soon as you’re alone it attacks, and if you’re near others it pretends to be harmless again. And it’s not robotic, it’s bugs in a flesh suit.
Lore aside, yes, the dev Zeekers confirmed that the butler is a reference to “the butler did it”
What caught me about the butler is that its face looks like a blobfish that's died due to the pressure change of hitting the surface of the water. Which made me think that these butlers are people, perhaps, or perhaps frankenstein creations, that died due to exposure in space but the company refused to leave anything of value - their bodies - behind, and used them as the butlers after experimentation
@@ashes405 I like that theory
Yeah killer hornets mimicing human behavior in such a specific way seems too artificial to just happen randomly through evolution
The one thing i want to note is about TITAN. Once you get to the entrance and look out into the skyline you see what appears to me be a city. This was moths ago so i could be fuzzy on it. But there was a whole city of the horizon and it's completely abandoned.
yeah, you can only see it in Titan because it goes so high, but all the other maps use that image as a skybox
Yeah it's just a skybox. Likely even a placeholder, as it's literally just a rip of a random street view from Google Maps. That same skybox exists on all maps, even at the company itself. I wouldn't read too much into it
@@bbbbbbb51 alternate reading, we aren't going to moons, we are being lied to and just bouncing around abandoned facilities on the same planet. any weird views are just halucinogens.
Ah yes, the most primal fear. The fear of having to get back into job searching. I understand completely, Sigurd.
This game is the best played when not knowing anything and with a group. I was playing with some coworkers and we decided to go onto the rig map. About halfway through our round, I said I noticed some girl following us. I asked if they had noticed her or not, and they of course said no. Cautiously I got up to the girl and asked again, this time saying she was right in front of me, give or take a few feet. I start hearing the heartbeat sound, confirming to me that she was some sort of entity. They looked where I was staring and said nothing was there, they didn't even hear the heartbeat. She didn't do anything, so I thought her to be either bugged or some sort of benevolent enemy. Then she ran away. Now we're towards the end of the run. I am outside tossing stuff off the railing to get it easier to the ship. I get all the stuff to the bottom, then I go down. Other than the blizzard conditions, I hear nothing. No eyeless dogs. No leviathan. Altogether safe. The other guys are still in the rig, so I decided to go down and wait for them in the ship. I'm looking at the map, safe as could be, door closed. Steadily, the guys are making their way back to ship. Good. Then I hear that heartbeat sound again. Confused, I look around and see nothing on the ship. Then the door opens. Then the skipping. I literally screamed in local chat that the damn girl was here before she broke my neck and splattered my blood onto the console.
Not even a minute later, one of the lads come by, talking about their nice haul and how they encountered almost no monsters. Everything is good until he enters the ship and notices my body on the ground and my blood on the wall. Silence. He closes the door and asks if anyone had seen anything. Silence. Finally the last two come by and open the door, joyously talking about their nice haul, until they see my dead ass body. Immediately, they close the door and get the hell out of there.
damn. note to self: chicks these days won't give head, but they'll gladly remove yours
Horror short story right there.
Love the organically funny and scary moments this game creates. A tip for dealing with the girl if you are inclined: if you move the terminal as close as you can to the monitors, but facing the doors, the ghost cannot spawn and end you as long as you are on the terminal. Since she always spawns behind you, if you have your back up against the monitors on the terminal, you are safe!
had a blast from Lethal then Phasmo by switching one another. non beats playing a co-op game blindly, its part of the fun learning even how bad the playthrough was, its all about the experience.
8:34: "Other times you'll find seemingly useless items like laser pointers or a whisk. Or other times, more hauntingly..."
AD: "THE NEW LUXE CRAVINGS BOXES FROM TACO BELL!!!"
That’s goated timing
i also find it interesting that one of the rare voice lines when you finish submitting your items to the monster at the company building says "this wall can not contain it"
O_o How delightfully ominous...
i heard that one a little while back! it was while i was sprinting away from the counter, and i doubled back and asked my brother if he had heard it too, but he said he heard a regular line thanking us for our service or something. i thought i misheard, so it's nice to know that i didn't and it definitely adds a layer of interest!
Hey, sorry for a random comment, but I've been one of your biggest fans since, like 2021-2022 and now after bonding with my ex last year who loved your videos as much as me, i feel a sense of peace a little as i watch them now because it reminds me of him❤ i know weird but i felt like i had to say something
siccing an audience of four million on a specific griefer is such a chad move lmfao
Just goes to show: good to be careful how devoid of empathy and volatile you are, even behind online “anonymity”
Something, blah, blah, something, he’s playing pong while Wendi’s playing 4D chess, something, blah, blah, blah
Funny til RITSDADDY finds this video and has justified reason to take this video down for harassment as it's sending an entire audience after one individual 🤣
@@justcommoncurtan individual with no identifying characteristics beyond a username on a platform on which nobody can interact with them outside of the immediate game
I like how Wendigoon throughout the vid is just praising Zeekers for coming up with ways to change up strategies and the wrenches that are often thrown in those strategies and I'm just sat here thinking; "So when's he gonna talk about the unstoppable, uncounterable, annoying bastard that is the Tree Giant?"
1. Easter Eggs. They one shot Giants. If you understand how eggs work on a technical level, killing them is easy.
2. Giants can be killed with 2 shotgun shots (gotta hit the hitbox though).
3. Giants are initially slow, then accelerate to their top speed. You can use this to your advantage, especially around wide corners.
4. Giants work entirely off LOS. They also mostly appear on moons with large trees and/or obstacles (Artifice, for example). If you're just running straight towards the ship, then obviously you'll suffer.
5. On Artifice, you can easily trap Giants in the two large sheds.
@@roysamuels9468 1. easter eggs are finicky and aren guarenteed to work, especially if its chasing you.
2. that was patched last update
3. I didnt know this, so good to know
4. that works, but what about on rend or dine? or any foggy moon? youll have no idea where its looking at you from
5. yes, this is a solid strategy
@@roysamuels9468you can also use flash bangs to stop them from eating you
Giants are still the hardest enemy for me to deal with by far, and I understand I have privilege in countering them because I have a glitch that removes all fog from my game (I didn't put that glitch there, it just happened on its own) so I can see where giants are at all times. HOWEVER. You can avoid them much easier by sneaking, in my experience. It seems that sneaking makes it harder for them to see you, and it also prevents you from accidentally running up on them without paying attention. Sneaking has allowed me to get into the ship more often than not when giants are roaming about. The thing that kills me is actually oftentimes the AI that was lingering around the area I started sneaking in. For example, if I need to sneak while I'm near baboon hawks, they start to get antsy after a bit and begin attacking me- forcing me to just sprint to the ship even though a giant is near, or die.
@catpoke9557 This is correct. Alter Ego has a great video going into the details of the Giant's AI. Sneaking reduces the rate at which Giants will aggro. Think of their aggro as a meter that goes up and down depending on your actions, and only as long as the Giant can see you. Once it reaches the top of that meter, you'll see/hear the fear effect, and the Giant locks on.
Turning corners is the best way to deal with them. They quickly lose aggro when not in LOS, and will give up chase. Obviously, though, this is super effective on all maps.
Holy hell finally. I spent all day not finding anything to watch on youtube to the point I went "Man, I need one of those 2 hours long video only channels to upload" and here we are
I think making long videos is perfect for RUclipsrs who don’t post often. It’s like a reward for waiting.
I really felt like some parts of this video were transphobic though
Same
@@JamesWagner-vv9iztimestamps?
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a 3 hour video on a game that i had no idea that had lore, im in.
An alternative to your “Puppet Rinds” Theory, I was thinking that all the employees are regular humans, but that the scraps they are collecting are in a way busy work, and that the Company actually consumes memory.
The golden planet I think could instead represent a utopian planetary civilization, say in its “Golden Age”, which drew the hunger of some form of mind/memory devouring entity, drawn in by the beacon of happiness and prosperity.
But to keep a constant supply of minds and memories to eat, the Company created this effective busy work to keep a constant amount of ever recycling fresh minds to feed on.
The value of each item isn’t from its material value, but instead that it either triggers positive memories of the individuals past, or it simply brings capitalistic joy in the crew at such a big pay day, the value of the item being the value of the item, creating more and more positive memories to feed the Company.
As it feeds it grows more and more numb to the memory of happiness and utopia until finally one of its supplies dies and it is hit with a crash unless another crew can keep it “topped up” on the high positive memories, even as the crews willow in misery, the slim pickings of memory and the panicked joy of simply having enough money to live being all the Company can now create after it swallowed the utopian “Golden Planet” in a fit of hunger and ecstasy, only in its hunger to have plunged the nebula into an eternal cycle of war and chaos where the only bitter bits of joy and nostalgia it can creat are from a bunch of overworked corporate slaves and the little joy they get by not dying on the job.
Just a random alternative theory, also had some thoughts on memories leaking back out of the company, perhaps slowly forming over time longer lasting crews into the original “prime crew” we have the logs of, leading crews the longer they last down the potential road to end the suffering of the Company.
That's a really cool theory actually
I loooooove your theory.
This makes a lot of sense.
This means the person on the other side of the wall, he was probably living in a memory of his bedroom, living room or smth.
He was casually speaking of the monster that the moment Sigurd told him he was on the other side of the wall, he freaked out.
He freaked out because it all became clear to him.
He was living in a memory then the fake filter came off? He snapped back to reality?
If we consider that the monster feeds on memories, and to feed on the memories it has to make the person's brain run the memory one last or one few times before they're ready to be used as flesh material for new employees, then the person Sigurd talked to was in the process of his memories being fed upon.
My mini addon-theory with yours says that the monster puts you in a memory you exprienced and feeds upon it as you relieve or exprience it.
What if it's a similar situation to what we had with radiated steel? Where we had to get steel from sunken warships to get steel that had no background radiation as they where built b4 the age of nuclear weapons. Perhaps we colonized space, meet aliens, used nuclear weapons and now 1% of humanity lives as an under class not holding any power. The company is really a company that just collects scrap of non radioactive metal and artifacts of humanity. The monster at the company would just be a normal citizen of that empire
No
It’s be cheaper and easier to just keep humans drugged up then…. A sheet of tattered scrap metal isn’t feeding memories to an Erich god….. wtf
Kinda random, but a small tip for the Earth Leviathan. You actually don’t have to turn around to run if that’s the closest side. Lethal Company has basic Omni-movement, so you can actually sprint backwards without taking the precious time to look that way. Also, drop your items! Items held by a devoured player will be devoured with them. Ones caught in the grounded attacks won’t be. Help the company.
0:00 Intro
0:56 What we know for fact
2:33 Ad Break
4:34 Game introduction
6:08 The ship and structures
8:27 Junk Collection?
9:02 Terminal Montage
9:58 The Moons
10:50 Moon 1. EXPERIMENTATION
12:06 Moon 2: ASSURANCE
12:47 Moon 3: A Moon known as Vow
16:35 Moon 4: I take Offense to that!
19:15 Moon 5: March Madness
21:10 Moon 6: Adamance
22:21 Moon 7: Rend Rum
23:22 Moon 8: Dine and Whine
24:45 Moon 9: Titan ic 2 by Asylum Entertainment
26:35 The weather
27:12 The interiors of buildings
27:43 The Facility/Factory
29:36 Snareflea (Face Hugger)
32:50 Spore Lizard (Honky Tonky Doggy)
35:37 Thumper (Gotta Go Fast)
38:17 Bunker Spider (I counted 10 legs! Not a spider!)
39:52 Arachnaphobia mode (Never been so scared of letters)
41:18 The BOAT
44:33 Hoarding Bug (Yippee!!!)
49:27 Hydrogere (Loves to Jam)
54:18 Harmless bugs and birds (Locusts and Manticoils)
1:01:20 Earth Leviathan (We're gonna need a bigger ship)
1:04:07 Circuit Bees (Shockingly Beelievable)
1:05:28 RTisdaddy Callout
1:06:28 Mineshaft (Jack Block)
1:08:57 Maneater (Watch out, boy)
1:09:46 Maneater adult (It'll chew you up!)
1:19:28 Power Outage blooper
1:19:48 Mansion (Money! It's a crime!)
1:22:22 Coilheads (Good thing you don't need to blink!)
1:24:30 Nutcracker (Shotgun Christmas!)
1:27:58 Jester (Freeee biiiiirrrrrddddd!!)
1:31:08 Dramatic Mask (SCP-035 says hello)
1:37:54 Ghost Girl (Alma Wade)
1:42:17 Barber (A little off the top? How about sliced in half!)
1:43:39 The Butler (Sherlock Holmes' Scapegoat)
1:45:25 Masked Hornets (The guys in the masks killed the butler?! What a twist!)
1:47:50 Old Birds (Giant robots that cry like little babies)
1:55:26 Secret Moons!
1:55:34 Embryon (Baby robots on Embryon... poor taste)
1:57:51 Artifice
1:59:50 Bracken (The most popular neck snapper)
Thank you!
You skipped the most important part. If you play a public lobby, immediately kick a guy named RTISDADDY
This needs to be pinned.
3:40 3:55 doggy
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1:03:53 This is a fair and good point, personally I assumed they were called 'Earth Leviathans' because earth can also just mean like, the ground, although I suppose it wouldn't be called that if Earth the planet didn't exist
1:50:50 being called “the walking ransom letter” goes unbelievably hard. Ngl I’m probably gonna steal that name for an enemy or character in a dnd campaign
I just picture it as a group of seemingly normal looking knights of varios armors and weapons when seen from a distance, but when up close you just see that its a giant black ooze that is bassicaly wearing the armor, they stand perfectly still or as close to still as they can be, unless you get close to it, wich the ooze will scence either body heat or vibrations in the ground and will imeditialy book it along with other oozes on the group
if you capture a group of these guys and send them too a town they would just kill every one and be harder to kill the any actual guy wearing armor because they dont have organs and can regenerate or something like that
to know that wendigoon was also victim to rtisdaddy comforts me so much.
An infamous villian
Does this player have a reputation in lethal company?
@whatever-dq3dw he might now lmao, i was just unlucky and met the same fate
i also probably had him in out lobby i just dont remember the dudes name
I think the company moon being named gordion is a reference to the gordian knot from greek myth, a huge tangled knot that's impossible to untangle, being a metaphor either for the mystery of the game's story, or the monster itself, a huge, unmanagable mess that's impossible to untangle
The gordion knot was cut in half by alexander the great, which could also be an allegory for desmond's drill
that's actually really well thought out and likely
Really? I mean, Wendigoons theory fits both the general vibe, and mention of "Golden Planet", but you just changed a letter and got a stretched, jumbled explanation for yours. Gordion and Gordian are two different words, Roguenarwhal*
@@AJIEKC777 oh, I didn't realize it was spelled differently, my mistake
Love how in the sponsorship segment he said "fresh, never frozen food" and then when he showed the packages on his counter my dad said "why's he cooking frozen food with a kitchen like that?"
1:13 you missed the opportunity to say “who is the company that is forcing us into these lethal scenarios”
“We truly are a Lethal Company.”
Say that again
The ghost girl’s right behind me, isn’t she
I hate you….. like
Like this comment wendigoon
1:05:55 Imagine being that guy, and unknowingly making a mortal enemy of one of the most popular and beloved internet personalities. He dun goofed.
He has no idea the hounds of hell have just been unleashed upon him
You’re right, Wendi, the spore lizard is sad :( The fact they just run away, don’t even fight back until absolutely cornered, shows how afraid of humans they are 😢
Like pigeons 🥲
Wendigoon makes a 3 hour video on lethal company: Aww you’re sweet
Pyrocynjcal makes 2 hour video on lethal company: HELLO? HUMAN RESOURCES??
Hoarding bugs own 70% of the scrap despite being only 2% of the population. Refreshing to see a RUclipsr asking the controversial questions. The HQ should be discussed.
Exterminated from a 109 moons...
Don't even get me started on 40% of bracken committing 50% of neck snapping
Nobody questions the tiny arms
Still doubt the New Bug Order, lolberal? N00ticed
Perhaps the funny mustached intern had a point after all
I like the character design of the Coil Heads. With the head on a spring that ragdolls a bit from their movement, so you can actually see they moved when you aren't looking.
I don't know anything about the game beyond this video, but I found it interesting that it's set in a "nebula". As far as I was aware, a nebula is essentially a space nursery for forming stars, whereas moons would imply planets, which would imply solar system. I looked it up and there's a type of nebula called a "planetary nebula", which forms when a star turns into a red giant and "the ultraviolet radiation it emits can ionize the surrounding nebula that it has thrown off". Our sun is going to become a red giant, and Titan is the name of one of Saturn's moons. Could be something that ties into the irradiated evolution theory, could be an oversight of astronomy terms ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My theory I just now thought of is that the “golden planet” was Earth, so your mentioning of Titan being one of Saturn’s moons makes sense to me
i actually really enjoy the theory wendi has about how our player characters are no longer human and are simply regurgitated homonculi created by the company monster. i hadn't considered it before and it does seem to make sense within the story. i hope that the drill under the company building platform isn't just a cheeky easter egg and we actually get to interact with it at some point. maybe there could be a campaign where you try to get all the scrap resources necessary to power it up and use it, and there's an endgame of killing/freeing/whatevering the thing or things inside the building.
That would be awesome although I feel like the ending would have to be sort of cryptic. Like let’s say you drill into the wall and you hear the monster roar and see tentacles spilling out and it just wipes everyone out. Then we could be left to speculate what happened. Maybe the monster broke out and went on its inevitable rampage. Or maybe we gave our lives to expose it and now other colonies can see it as an opportunity to strike. I don’t feel like a concrete ending would be satisfying enough for all the hype
I don’t see there being any good way to say “you killed the monster” unless Desmond knows more about the monster than he has revealed and maybe it’s aimed at a weak point?
Honestly I thought the whole thing about Sigurd losing his memory was because he literally had brain damage from constantly scanning
@@arandomyoutubecommenter728 why would scanning give him brain damage? (genuine question)
Artificial life being the only thing left oof
Some issues with your "bag of bones" hypothesis -- Sigurd's logs do reference seeing the faces of Desmond and Jess ('"their faces are blank like idiots" when Rich gets Bracken'd). So at least at that point, there were faces to be seen through the suits. Maybe that was Original Sigurd and they were still in their first incarnation then, but then that calls into question your use of Rich's smell as evidence that he was already dead. Also, the fact that Rich has a notable smell implies that Sigurd and his crew weren't always fully sealed into their suits. The suit is airtight since you can survive (at least for a little while) in the vacuum of space, so how could Rich-Stink escape and also enter Sigurd's suit?
Given the lower lethality of Sigurd's logs, I think that in his time the job was easier. Less monsters, more loot. But as crew after crew takes the easy stuff, we have to search harder and harder for enough things to sell. Plus the monsters are probably quite happily breeding and growing on the delicious meat delivered to them. This would explain at least in part the difference between Sigurd's experiences with some creatures and yours, if there was a ton of stuff and less Hoarding Bugs, then you don't have to compete with them as much for loot, there's enough for everyone.
I agree that we're feeding The Beast, but I'm not sure I agree that we're agents of The Beast. A possible alternative explanation is that The Beast is typically sedentary unless hungry and the galactic community figured out they could build a structure around it and then feed it junk instead of letting it get so hungry it eats planets. It's sad that you're treated as worthless under that system but if there are multiple planets with populations in the billions, a few dozen dead poor people a week to prevent an entire planet from being eaten makes for a coldly logical deal.
(This also doesn't entirely rule out multiple incarnations; it could be clones of the same five-plus people and Sigurd's memories are slowly being corrupted. The originals may have completely voluntarily started this job, but the fine text said "oh yeah we get control of your genetic data forever kthxbai").
This explanation does solve for why the quotas go up until they're impossible and you die. The Beast is being very carefully kept at just over starvation. In it's sedentary state a little bit of food keeps it quiet but it needs more and more as it returns to wakefulness. Eventually it would fully awaken, but by cutting off the supply it's forced back into dormancy for a little longer, so the next crew can be recruited/conscripted/printed to start the cycle over at a feasible level. This explains why you aren't just given useful equipment and have to pay to visit the high value moon's, they don't want a team being able to feed it too much too fast, that throws off the schedule.
The pronouns on the conversation over the walkie-talkie are also somewhat ambiguous. The voice doesn't clearly identify itself as being digested by The Beast, just that "they were", which could mean the population of the Golden Planet. I dunno if that has any further meaning, but thought it's worth mentioning.
These are some good points, well written.
Presumably the monster behind the company walls could replicate a full human form, I doubt the crew are actually just skeletons in suits, sort of like the doctor who episode with the "possessed" astronaut suits.
I agree with your theory mostly but i still think the monster is an agent or the company itself. Normally selling your stuff gets a hook to grab it in but the monster is very clearly just behind it and gets annoyed quite fast ready to eat anyone close. I dont think its asleep at the very least.
I never thought about it but the currency in the game may be more akin to company tokens than actual money. When company towns were first created in the United States they had currency they'd give to workers instead of actual money so that they could just funnel their 'expenses' back to the company.
You move 15 tons, and what do you get another day Older and deeper and debt, A wind saying Peter comes to take my soul.I've sold it off to the company store
@lornbaker1083 Huh, didn't think I'd see a Wish version of "16 Tons" today, but here we are!
♪ I sold my soul to the company sto~re ♫
What I love most is no matter what darkness is out there, it doesn't kill the genuine kindness you sense in Wendi.
1:26:42 "it seems to me, at least from my limited knowledge of the game and lore and stuff like that” he says in the middle of a THREE HOUR LONG VIDEO he made aBOUT exactly these themes
I’m surprised you didn’t make the connection between the old birds and the coilheads. The latter’s notes say that it emits radiation and can be stunned by bright flashes or loud sounds, both of which are countered by the former’s radiation sensors which lead to activation (further supported by the fact that rad levels rise when you remove the apparatus, which activate ALL mechs on the map), and the fact that old birds have a super bright headlamp and a “sound cannon”
My take is that the Anglens may have attacked the Buemoch first using coilheads and the Beus retaliated with old birds after researching and understanding their adversary’s weapons (to mixed levels of success (coilheads are known to explode on autopsies))
yeah, especially since he noticed the connection between the coilheads and nutcrackers.
I think even at the time Sigurd writes the log, Desmond is somewhat aware. The log were Sigurd talks about how Desmond wanting to get the junk back to the company building because it had an insane return rate, He specifically says its rare. How would Desmond know that if they all started working around the same time. Sure they have been at it for a while at that point but not enough to probably know what the rare rates are.
I think that even at the time Sigurd writes the log, Desmond has been at it for a while OR what if memory loss is happening but your memory gets reset every time like its your first day. Desmond doesnt bother to explain it because its just a waste of time at this point or cant really recall himself yet. They even mention in the logs that they dont understand Desmonds actions like trying to trace the call. To them it seems pointless or useless but to Desmond its really important.
I also think the reason Desmond spends more time with the terminal is because he might have discovered his previous logs and is basically trying to learn as much as possible before they all die again and they forget.
I think your memory resetting is also necessary, If the company brought you back and your last memory was being eaten by a forest giant or being grabbed by a bunker spider then you having PTSD would be an understatement. Or even worse, remembering that the reason you died the last time was because your crew left you on a moon, That could cause some issues with the team going forward. It is in the companies and your best interest to not remember what happened.
Also think about how Wendi talks about "I don't any of us specifically are Sigurd". I think it's more possible that we as the individual player is Desmond. See, for us as players we kinda treat it as a roguelike. We go in, we get stuff, but we also die, a lot. But we as players learn something new every time. We are aware of how we died last time etc. Just like how Wendi's theory suggests that Desmond is, or becomes aware of the 'respawning'.
@@torrix_4595 I like that idea, Its cool that you can treat reincarnation as a lore explanation as to why you learn from your mistakes
2:04:24 there exists a clip on one of my livestreams where I accidentally flip the company car while running from a giant, hop out and run away, only reaching the minimum safe distance at the very last moment before the car explodes and sends me flying away, simultaneously killing the giant off pure luck
The first time I went to Gordion I immediately thought of the story of the Gordian Knot (due to the similar name) from the legends of Alexander the Great. The story is about a knot that's really complex that's tied to an oxcart and the legend goes that whoever can untie the knot will be destined to rule all Asia. Alexander looks at the knot and promptly cuts through it with his sword rather than untying it like everyone before him had been trying to do. The metaphor is that seemingly unsolvable problems can be solved by brute force, or by thinking outside the box. I think this would fit into the drill theory pretty well too.
33:52 Literally yesterday I was fighting a nutcracker when a slug puppy did it's funny smoke thing. I lost the nutcracker but it didn't lose me.
Hey Wendigoon, in your talk about the player's home base aka the spaceship, you forgot to mention how there's a squeaking/leaking/tapping noise in the background ambience.
Sometimes, if you focus really hard, you can hear a faint
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"It's so floppy"
We're getting floppy with this one.
@@PhantomGato-v- really :3
I see, you're getting floppy with it
flop :з
The Dionaea Company: *exists*
Wendigoon: "Squash me like a lootbug"
I get the whole green screen thing but... nothing beats Wendi standing in front of a whiteboard
i mean he’s covering a game which changes stuff a bit, i still agree though
if you like kookie dad energy with whiteboards check out flawed peacock, it's like if wendigoon had jontron/tomska style skits in between
Agreed. The background flickered a lot, and it was really distracting.
Then we know it's CLASS TIME
@@thedragslay1my adhd enjoyed it lol
When I first found the Pastra video on It Steals, I never thought I'd then find another game by Zeekers, The Upturned (10/10 horror comedy game, go play it), then immediately have Zeekers make Lethal Company and explode in popularity (deserved), and THEN eventually have Wendigoon cover LC's story in a 3 hour video.
The gaming community is funny sometimes.
Pastra mentioned 🗣🗣🗣
I found it via pastra too!!
9:35 in lethal actually if you take enough damage and survive your visor will start to crack a bit. It's not as noticeable, but you can notice the more dim lines in certain lighting that weren't there before, specifically in the top right of the screen and lower left
Those cracks are always there tho
Just look into one of the lights in your shit and you can see them
@@EJIM09 Either that's an unfortunate mistype or you need to stop eating whatever is making your feces emit Cherenkov radiation.
Because most of us don't have lights there.
@@EJIM09 When you're fatally injured, more cracks appear onscreen (temporarily) as well as the screen going red, you bleeding, and whatnot, which I'm fairly sure that's what the original comment is talking about.
I don't remember if the video mentions this either but in similar situations where fatal injury may occur there's the fear mechanic which adds a green tint and a low or high sfx (depending on the severity of the situation) which indicates that you are either A) in danger or B) should be shitting yourself or C) both. (it's quite faint but there's a heartbeat sfx as well) which are more things the game does to try to immerse the player
@ ah ok thank you
It took me a while to get through this video. Really enjoyed it. I'm not a fan of online stuff like Lethal Company, but your breakdown is great.
Any speculation that Earth is the Golden Planet? Maybe the Boat is the ark escaping the Company? Maybe people got so distant from the memory of the Boat and Earth, that rivalrous factions got distracted and took each out?
The arachnophobia mode being just *SPIDER* might be one of the funniest ways I’ve seen that done
I was so shocked that there was lore to this game. While watching gameplay, it felt like there was something there - the atmosphere, the logs hinted. But everything was so random. I just thought this was an epic (fad) game created by an impressively skilled individual. You tied all the loose end together in the longest- yet most engaging video I've ever watched. Thanks to you, Zeekers will forever hold a place in my memory as a genius storyteller and game developer. And I will be eternally grateful to you for telling me all about this legendary game.
Thank you Wendigoon.
Don't forget that if you put the other crew members' names into the terminal, one of them is called a creature that has yet to be scanned by the player!
Scan them
That's the Jester, scan it.
I’m so confused (I don’t play the game)
Lethal Company player and "fan" since November 2023 here (haven't been in 6th grade since 2015, long since graduated) - I've decided to note down my nitpicks, because why not?
(All info below is accurate as of v69)
21:36 There are two windows located on the back wall of the cottage, it's totally possible to view this message on the wall without using a key or lock pick to open the door.
27:35 He showed the Factory interior twice lol.
28:42 Not entirely true. By unplugging the apparatus, every security door will automatically open permanently. (It will not disable traps though, implying that they all utilize their own separate power source)
39:52 This wasn't added in a recent update to the game, not at all. As far as I'm aware the Arachnophobia Mode setting has existed in the game for as long as I've been playing it since 2023.
46:46 It is a good idea to drop your loot outside whenever possible. However, there are certain situations where you can, or really should, keep your loot indoors;
Firstly, if you drop your loot outside the main entrance of Adamance, Baboon Hawks will run off with your loot most of the time. I've never had Baboon Hawks steal loot left outside of the fire exit on Adamance, however, so that spot is fine.
Secondly, Hoarding Bugs do not spawn on Rend, so leaving loot indoors on Rend is fine.
Thirdly, if the weather is stormy, it's perfectly fine to leave loot, even if it's conductive, outside as long as you're smart about where you place it (off to the side, far enough away from the entrance door as to not accidentally get your team killed by lightning), however I'd understand leaving loot inside during stormy weather as well.
I will also note, however, that when leaving loot outside of Titan's main entrance, yes, there is a ceiling above you that blocks lightning, but you should remain vividly aware about how far under that ceiling you are when dealing with an incoming lightning strike. I've gotten killed holding conductive loot on Titan multiple times while being absolutely certain that I was far enough under the ceiling and perfectly safe, but even though the lightning never struck me directly, I was too far from the ceiling's cover to avoid being killed.
Basically, when it's stormy on Titan, leave all the loot right against the wall next to the door, where you and your team will be safe from lightning strikes 100% of the time.
51:33 This is straight up not true. How do I know? I've died to the Hygrodere by trying to stand up high to avoid it and was still killed. Wendigoon will be responsible for the deaths of hundreds with this misinformation, I'm sure.
57:35 this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this this
Holy fuck it is so infuriating that people still don't know that noise attracts the dogs, even after it's explained to them 50 times. They should be the easiest outdoor enemies to deal with, but I guess if your team isn't super experienced, they're really the worst.
59:09 Speaking of inexperience, I'm still baffled that only 1% of players seemingly know about this nifty little trick, that both reduces your chances of being killed by Eyeless Dogs AND makes it easier for other teammates to listen to you speak:
There's a nice little option in the game's menu called "Settings." In this "Settings Menu" you can find another option called "Push to Talk."
What does "Push to Talk" do? It makes it so that none of your microphone inputs are transmitted into the game unless you're actively holding down a specific button. I personally use the "MOUSE4" or "BACK" button on my mouse, which I use for push to talk in every game I play, actually.
You can even change which key you want to use for push to talk in Lethal Company by clicking on another option within the settings menu called "Keybinds" and changing the key from there. It's really convenient, and if you're a Lethal Company player reading this, you should enable Push to Talk now.
1:00:22 I actually didn't know about this before watching this video. Ever since I saw those spikes in the game one day, I always just assumed they were just another randomly spawning purely aesthetical structure. (Which is still true, I guess, I just didn't know that they directly influenced other entities).
1:03:26 I think this is simply ridiculous. "Earth" does not strictly refer to the "planet Earth," but can also refer to the "earth" as in dirt, soil, ground, rock, etc.
I think the "Earth Leviathan" is only called that because the earth (aka the dirt, soil, ground, rock, etc.) is where it resides, as can be seen in-game. I think immediately assuming that it is somehow directly related to the planet Earth just because "earth" is in the creature's name is really overthinking things.
1:05:29 Fun fact, and this goes not only for lobby trolls, but for save scumming in general: The game does not save your progress until the ship has fully left the current moon, and everyone has respawned back on the ship, and you are free to redirect to another moon. This means that if the host quits back to the menu, they can restart the save, and continue playing from the last save.
1:35:04 This intrigued me, as I've never ever seen a Masked spawn in via a dead body randomly placed on the map, so I looked it up, and this is false. Masks or Masked, like any other indoor enemy, can only spawn in through vents over time.
1:43:54 Butler's are indeed not restricted to the Mansion interior, as I have personally encountered them in all three current interiors. In fact, the only monster in the game who's spawn chance is affected by the type of interior is the Maneater, and even then, it simply has a higher chance of spawning if the interior is a Mineshaft. No monster is set to not spawn depending on the interior.
1:47:39 Newer, but still, Old Birds were added back in April 2024.
The darkest part of the lore is that every ship crew is ran by people running 1000 mods and/or randoms that have the competency of an office worker in a lithium mine.
I do have a theory that Jeb (the name most of the people I've played with use for the monster behind the Company walls) is genuinely trapped, it might be just a fun easter egg but when you're selling your loot you usually get generic voice lines from the speaker praising your performance etc, but on rare occasions the voice shifts into something deeper and more sinister and asks "do you truly believe these walls will hold me?" or something to that affect. I think there is a larger galactic story with warring empires but at some point they found some Cthulhu-esque Eldritch Godlike being that consumed worlds and minds. Maybe the reason that so many moons were forgotten/purged of life was Jebs doing, but atleast some faction of humanity managed to subdue and imprison him within the Company building and now the workers are just nessecary sacrifices to keep Jeb pacified like some Lovecraftian sleeping god, we bring ancient materials for him to devour, possibly even devouring the items history the way he devours memories and minds so that he's sated and remains dormant, should we fail to keep him in this state he will awaken and I imagine it's true that the company could not truly contain him should he ever try for a genuine escape. I suspect given that he was able to be confined humanity atleast had enough power to put him in that position but one would imagine if we were capable of it, we would've simply killed him, but perhaps either we were unable to or he simply cannot die so we did the next best thing, trapped him in a big box and throw as many bodies as we can at the problem to keep the slumbering giant content and docile.
Another sidenote on my thoughts on why so much of the Company, from the hiring to the ships, is automated is because Jeb devours the minds and memories of those in proximity so they automated the whole process because if they had've had actual workers doing that job they likely would've lost their minds and forgotten what they were doing and why, however the one aspect they couldn't automate was the salvage operation that required boots on the ground.
@@TwoFlower02 Actually really well thought out. I was getting the same kinda vibe of Humans are alive but far away and keeping the beat trapped over that side of the galaxy thing to.
@ Given the implication of The Boat seeding human life solar system to solar system we don't really know how long it's been going or how many systems it's gone through already, centuries are considered a measely timeframe so there could be multiple human empires far enough away they don't even know or care about the nebula the Company is set up in. It is kind of hopeful to consider that there could be entire branches of humanity unaffected throughout the galaxy, though I doubt it would stay that way if the Beast within the Company walls woke up.
"My name Jeb" -Lethal Company.
I’ve never actually heard of this game before but my theory is that in like the new year 0 is the year that humans settled in the nebula, but eventually with the exploration they found the monster behind the walls of the company, and since they needed to focus as much energy as possible to coming up with a plan to end the monster, they locked it up best they could and decided the best way to ensure it was fed with the least amount man power possible they then they decided to export the labor to 21st century gamers. They designed the cage to be the mysterious company building, programmed 4 avatars, and set up a system that would allow players from the past to unknowingly help out the future of humanity. To make it more interesting and believable to us, they made up a bunch of lore about all these other worldly creatures + the Sigurd storyline to keep people coming back to play the game while they figured out a more long term solution to fighting the beast. That’s why all the timelines are kinda funky, they aren’t real. They just want us to continue playing but in order to do that they have to keep us guessing , because if there is anything that humanity loves to devote our time to more than video games it’s scaring the crap out of ourselves and solving mysteries.
To the people who think Wendigoon is wrong for calling out a player, what they did wasn’t even trolling. It’s just ruining a game experience for other people.
1:05:28
yeah such type of people isn't the only one; generally they're just griefers. But mans must've been persistent if it deserved a callout, too
You all seem to be a bunch of dorks.
@@rohanplantboyjames6812found RTISDADDY’s alt
That's quite literally trolling tho...
perfect video to listen to while im deep cleaning! can always trust you my guy to have longass videos with interesting topics to listen to while doing something mundane ❤ also, sounds like a cool game- definitely gonna try it out!!
32:20 haven't finished watching yet but I am a marine biologist that hates taxonomy with a passion. Technically scolopendra is being used as the species name for the snare flea and Dolus should be the genus. The genus is based on evolutionary relationships while the species is usually just whatever the discovering scientist wants to name it... That being said, it is really weird because it being named with a hyphen in between the two, I have only ever seen being used to refer to hybrid species (think of mules being a horse-donkey hybrid). Dolus being capitalized means it should technically be the genus but that hyphen confuses me. Interestingly enough, there IS indeed a couple species of bugs that are named dolus, the most likely reference is to the small, flea-like leafhopper native to NA. Wikipedia also tells me that Dolus also seems to refer to the roman mythological figure, name based on deciet/deception. Verrrry interesting >.>
This is exactly what I came to search for in the comments. I feel an itch to start fact checking when these things get mentioned. Thanks!
YOLOpendra
cool
You beat me to it. I was going to say that you can in fact use an unrelated animal's genus name as a species name, if whoever named it thought there was a resemblance. The hyphen would never be allowed in our current nomenclature system, though. Is the ICZN still a thing in the far future?
how do you do, fellow phylogeny enjoyer
I would love to have an entire video talking about lost art
Like sculptures, monuments, and art pieces that have proof to exist but have gone missing
One could even say... an iceberg of lost art?
@grahamvaneck8906
Eh, I feel like those don't get too deep into the background story of them
I would love an hour long vid talking about one lost art
There is a vídeo here on RUclips already about books that no long exist/didn't survive time and the only evidence of them and It's contents are mentions on other very old books, registers etc. It's very interesting, hits ALL the buttons for me as a literature student.
@jacig720
Do you know who made it?
Sounds really interesting
@@ARTIV1ST "Books you Can (never) read" by TREY the explainer.
This Game's lore has genuinely captivated me more than any sci-fi movie franchise. The way Zeekerss writes, designs, and worldbuilds scratches an itch I don't think any other creator will ever scratch.
It sounds like theres not much actual lore just what people read into it
@@jamespaul6315tbh it's pretty much the same for a lot of horror sci-fi.
@@jamespaul6315 When I refer to 'Lore', I'm not just referring to the story, although the logs from the previous crew do tell a captivating story imo. I'm talking about the implications you can gleam from the items and monsters. A phone that always emits the sound of someone screaming, a Toy Robot that has a lot in common with the deadly old bird enemies. I also love reading the information about the different planets and creatures. It feels like Pikmin lore if it was for a horror game and not by a company that doesn't care about stories.
@@jamespaul6315 Theres this great 3 hour video that goes over all the lore, you actually clicked on it 🙄
@@jamespaul6315 that’s what lore is.
Honestly the theory seems like a no brainer. The second you mentioned hyper evolution during the bunker spider entry note my mind immidietly made the connection "if all these animals and creatures have evolved into monsters due to the Thistle Nebula what's stopping that exact same thing happening to humans?". From that point in the video onward I was just waiting in anticipation for when you would talk about that exact possibility.
Wendigoon putting a BOLO out on a player who ruined his game is the most Wendigoon thing ever. Thought the feds had already gotten to him…
Bro is literally a pastor that teaches children in sunday school calling out revenge hits on kids griefing him 😂
@@ajax3310sounds like the ideal life to me.
Bolo and Yolo
The ultimate definition of "A suprise, to be sure, but a welcome one."
Man, how long has it been?
3 weeks
"We'll get to that"
He has to take time to make the video...
3 weeks little bro
To clarify, I meant: "How long has it been since I've seen anything about Lethal Company."
I can see why it'd be confusing.
Man this game is great. Was monitoring my mates in Titan when one dog got in the ship and bit me. Bastard got me fast i was not able to scream in comms. As soon as i started spectating the lads on the inside called for evac as they got cornered by 2 coilheads with an extra thumper running around in the background. The silence that followed as they realized i died is brilliant. Anyways they died as a blob forced them to move into the loving embrace of the coilheads.
Something I feel like was missed was how Sigurd mentioned his dad living on titan and how they used to go see waterfalls. That implies that the planet wasn’t always snowy and desolate as it is now.
RITSDADDY: *exists*
One million people from youtube: Wendigoon sends his reguards! *shanks*
CONGRATULATIONS ON 4 MILLION WENDI WE LOVE YOU!!!
Some fun details about the Barber! It is immune to damage and is invisible to players outside of a small range. The only warning you get before seeing it up close is the comical snare drum and horns that sound as it moves. In terms of lore, imagine your last line of defense in your home is a Nutcracker that relies on seeing movement… There’s definitely a lot that could be speculated, but as a manmade creature that could be used to target civilians? Terrifying to think about…
42:94 weelllll, not ENTIRELY unheard of... Back in earth's history when there was more oxygen, A tarantula-like arachnid the size of a mountain lion existed, and the ocean-dwelling Sea Scorpions were some of the first arachnid-like arthropods, all the way back in the Cambrian Era.
They were the size of a smart car, and already had the scorpion's venomous tail. They also developed internal gill-like lungs that could operate outside of the water.
Let me reiterate that; within earth's own history, there was a scorpion the size of a CAR that could chase you onto land and inject you with a veritable sprite can of venom.
Maybe the bunker spiders aren't so unrealistic.