Yao Guai | Fallout Lore
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- The irradiated wasteland has no shortage of mutants and abominations, many of which started life as recognisable pre-war creatures, including Yoa Guai, previously known as The American black bear. Although, thanks to the cruel touch of radiation released during The Great War their DNA was tainted, transforming them into one of the most fearsome creatures to ever roam The Wasteland…Now we know Yao Guai are mutated Black Bears, but what about their new name?
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Man or bear?
yao guai
Manbearpig
ManBearGuai 🤣
bear and bull
Enclave
I love the “animal friend” perk because you can just recruit these guys to be disposable organic tanks for combat
you mean best friends right?
@@crunchysalmons depend on the game m8
@@thomastempleman2029 and on the beastie, I suppose.
@thomastempleman2029 you still can friend animals In fallout 76 but idk about new vegas or older one's.
In all my play throughs I’ve never used that perk once. I’m the only killing machine needed.
I have it on good authority from Ranger Smith that the original Yao Guai mutated after stealing radiated picnic baskets. They are smarter than the average bear.
Yogi: Hey, hey, hey, Boo-Boo, wanna go steal some radioactive picanic baskets?!
Boo-boo: But Yogi, what if the Ranger catches us?
Yogi: screw the Ranger Boo-Boo we'll just eat him after we mutate!!
It was the Chinese! They doped the picnic baskets!
Yep. I like the explanation given for the name in video being misinformation.
The name Yogi just happened to phonetically sound like the Chinese characters and thus the Chinese called them yau guai.
This is a normal thing that happens in real world linguistics.
"Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!"
~ Knight Titus
And literally everyone else
@@vinnietedeschi5374nope have never run away from a yaoi, a DC damn straight I played one where they're light speed pack hunters, but a fallout bear nah I'll fight a legendary one with melee only. All y'all have to do is wait for its arm to raise with a quick reaction time and rotate to the opposite side of the first arm it raised slapping its ass endlessly to beat it.
After Deathclaw Concord encounter i thought i am ready for anything until i meet an assaultron....
@@chengkuoklee5734 damn 4 is your encounter of a deathclaw man you seen them at their weakest. We used to literally actively crap ourselves in real life fearing the beast chasing us. I used to play with my friends to see who can make the short cut to Vegas, even maxed out we still held our breath. Deathclaws used to be a mysterious beast nobody actively knows anything about because anyone who got close enough knowingly or not was claw dinner. wasn't until we got a side quest about hunting down a mysterious beast in I think 2 did we learn for the first time these mf are a more deadly mutated version of the USA military created deathclaws. Made to replace human soldiers in close environments. They are literally genetically modified to be ruthless killers and that's before the Master started playing his infect everything with FEV games. Howard completely ignored those parts and made fleshy tall lizards where a bullet easily rips its skin. I honestly expected him to change his views but he settled down on it now it takes an unmodified 10mm to take out a yao guai. A mutated black bear. That's like you bringing a 22. To fight a rock monster.
My favorite scene 💀💀💀
me and my homie tripping on dangerous amounts of psycho and we see a flaming yao guai
mfw the flaming yap guai multiplies into four other copies of itself when you piss it off
Ah yes, the natural apex predator of knight Titus.
😂😂❤
You also gotta watch out for them befriending frogs and tell really bad jokes.
* Michael Rappaport
Maaaaa, there's a weird bear in the caveeee!
Thought it was cool how the power armor in the show got scratched by the Yao guai , having claw of the bear on the front of it like the ncr , nice touch
I loved the battle damaged T-60. You can see by how deep those cuts were on the armour that Yao Guai are nothing to scoff about.
I hope for Fallout 5 they make power armor less durable and show wear and tear as it degrades. They should also make the fusion cores last longer.
@@BetaBreakingbrah it was so weak in fallout 4
I rarely used it because it was too strong for casual exploration to me. But I always upgrade everything I own asap.
@@OldschoolHIT360 bro I'm currently playing through vanilla Fallout 4 with X-01. I barely get damaged on Very Hard. At most, it's like a slight inconvenience and I pop a stimpack. The power armor needs to be re-tuned, at least for Fallout 5
@@BetaBreaking I mean, you have the best power armor in the game, think there’s a reason why you don’t take damage lol?
in fallout 4 there are MANY caves mouths that you can approach and when you do it spawns a lone yao gui somewhere close by to simulate it returning home from a hunt. this behavior shows that yes most adult yao gui chose to live alone in small caves
Its as synonymous says, if there is a abundent of food sources they will most likely live alone, if food id scarce they group up to take on bigger prey (deathclaws merchant caravans i assume etc)
Yeah, Boston has a lot of food sources so they don't really have to work together
Strange Demon is very fitting for the creatures.
The fallout 3 Yao guai are easily the scariest. But it’s funny when you shoot one while it’s midair and it goes flying 😂
If Yao Guai are mutated black bears, I don't want to know what mutated polar bears look like.
Anyone who is in arctic places in fallout are fucked
I still want Radspiders to be added to the game.
Probably not as bad, considering their polar habitat wouldn't have been as badly impacted by radiation as the temperate habitat of black bears
@@pokeyscorpion8224 Want to point out that, with the rate of fossil fuel consumption in the Old World (to the point of running out of it across most of the globe), I wouldn't be surprised if climate change destroyed tundra environments forcing animals like Polar Bear to migrate south, making it more likely large numbers of them got Yao-Guaiified.
Still, the idea of a mutated polar bear is terrifying.
@@concept5631 Oh it absolutely is terrifying to think about
THE reason to get the Animal Friend perk!
At least in 3 and 4. Not New Vegas.
@@thehandsomeone8369You get it in new vegas for the nightstalker in big MT
You know it’s a good day when there’s a new Synonymous video.
A wise man once said "bear, bear. bull, bull, bull"
Bearbullman
the bear can bull the bull….. but can the west east the west?
“How much bull could a bull bear bear if a bull bear could bear bull?”
-A Postman
I think the bear besting knight titus is an omen for things to come. The bear isn’t dead yet it still has one more head…
Lol personally I'm more afraid to fight Yao Guai than Death claws they always gave me the chills
For me they are harder to kill then deathclaws
I don’t know what it is about your videos but I love them so much and your voice just makes them better.
I am a simple man. I see a Synonymous video, i click it.
I JUST finished bingeing all the past episodes last week and was hoping for a new episode! Made my day thank you!!!
Funny thing is as an Asian this mutant was the exact reason i decided to try out fallout.
I remember going "What ? You mean Yao guai, as in 妖怪?" when talking to a friend about fallout lore. Then badgers video, where he fought the ghost of she. The sight of a giant flaming bear got my neurons all fired up.
Nice to finally know the meaning behind the name.
Another awesome episode! As always, Great work!
You know I wouldn’t mind to see the original bear-like design for the deathclaws be brought back as a new post war mutant similar to the Yao Guai
They actually did add them into 76. Blue Devils they're called. They look scary as hell
@@deepism would not be that much of a problem if they did not also give it the fear effect of the wendigo boss Earl, I hate running into blue devils anywhere near fissure sites or burning areas, the fear effect kills you more often than anything else in the game in those situations.
@@allster0crowlyfear effect? I've had little desire to play 76, I don't like MMOs, but now I'm curious.
@@megatronjenkins2473 the effect is done by it's howl and causes you to lose control of your character for a few seconds in which time your character runs in a random direction including into death falls like the fissure and burning ground during this time you cannot stop or use chems, the only way to avoid this is to take a special drink before the fight to negate the fear effect for a set period of time.
@allster0crowly well, I admit, that's actually a really neat mechanic! Imagine that in New Vegas first time seeing the Deathclaw Alpha Male!👀👀👀👀👀👀
Oh wow, I'm on time for one of these for the first time. Absolutely love your work.
I'll never forget getting jumpscared by a Yao Guai in Fallout 3. I was exploring when this wastelander came up to me. When i was done talking, this Yao Guai was behind me all of a sudden.
my favorite thing the PC can say when pacifying yao guai is "s'okay, big bear" like how one would talk to a dog.
Literally my favourite animal in the fallout universe! I wish they called it a Yao Guai (mutated bear) in the show :)
Maybe one cool idea for a video would be about the different modes of transportation that exist in the wasteland? I know you did the video about horses which was very good. There’s plenty to talk about between the boats at Far Harbor, the Vertiberds and Airships(?), the monorail. It always struck me as a little weird with the fallout games ive played that despite certain vehicle options no one seems interested in cars, despite the fact that in places like the commonwealth they are literally everywhere. Maybe the explanation is simple like “the roads are all messed up” or “the resource wars made cars untenable” but I would love to watch a video tackling some of that.
From a background perspective there is probably a level of technical skill, resources and infrastructure required to make cars useful, which so far has only been seen in the NCR. From a game perspective moving from the old style lots of separate locations model (which did feature a car in fallout 2) to everything being on the same map means cars wouldn't work. The map would have to be huge to make travelling by car worthwhile, which would make is very empty and dull to cross on foot.
wastelanders getting pre war vehicles up and running is so damn cool but it’s also very interesting that these factions are also able to manufacture entire new vertibirds and airships in the post war world
As it is often mentioned in Fallout 1 when you look at a Car, they are just Trash and it is extremely unlikely that they will ever drive again. Maybe there are 1-3 still working Cars at most.
What I like about the Caravans in Fallout 1 is that they use a Carriage, pulled by a Brahmin and made out of a sawed off Truck Bed or a Vehicle Trailer
The NCR has cars, they have an entire mechanized brigade/division who uses trucks and also also use horses as well as trains
@@LewisB3217 🤔 when was that? Aren't Horses extinct? I know they must've survived for some Time after the War, but probably not long
Banger video as usual
Love your videos man keep it up
I always though Yao guai was a play on Yogi. As in Yogi bear.
dumb me, thought it was a play on words on "yogi" the bear
No I see it lol
I still think it was, there's just a convenient in game explanation as well 😅
That's probably part of it too
my goodness gracious another banger lore video
I literally just got off work and got this jem. I'm happy🎉.
Synonymous, these videos are👏 amazing, and you can count on me to watch every video.
Hell yeah. Babe wake up, new synonymous video just dropped.
Love the vid, I'm binge watching your fallout playlist ☕🗿👍
Me need mutatated mountain lions.
I want a Fallout game set in or around Yellowstone, I wanna see what mutated bison, moose, elk, wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, grizzly bears, and ravens look like.
I know we technically got wolves in Far Harbor, but those are a completely different subspecies assuming they're even really wolves to begin with and not coywolves
Synonymous, I love your videos, keep up the good work!!
1:44 and Japanese called them 'Yohkai' after the chinese characters writing the creature's name
Imagine an entry throwing you a curveball, & in place of a dog, you can tame/acquire a unique Yao Guai companion (perhaps a juvenile you aid/save from death claws, or something)
Knight titus basically summed up an average encounter with the these creatures 😂
“And remember kids, dont feed the yao guai!”
Finally! Another video to replenish my dopamine. Thanx!
Great video! I'd love to see you cover the smaller Vaults in a single video. The vaults with too little history and lore to make a video on their own.
How in Atom's name did Joshua Graham not only survive a burning fall into the Grand Canyon, but how is he immune to chems? Was that a pre-existing condition, or did the burning pitch have something to do with it?
Also, i opened up a locker this morning, and there were THREE DAMN FRESH APPLES WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM?!?
A king returns!! Pls more content!!
I feel like if the Lone Wanderer could take a Yao Guai, I could fend off a black bear.
Considering that American black bears are very skittish, yeah you probably could. just make a lot of noise and it would just leave
Instructions unclear.
Fed the Yao Guai.
That is all.
Hey Syn, I know it would be difficult to do because we have little to no known/canon backstory but a video on Courier Six from Fallout NV would be something I'd love to watch, especially as I've noticed an increase in the number of people commenting on how the Courier is connected to the Vault Dweller and Chosen One through blood (which is total b.s based on what lore I know).
Hey, I'm waiting for Season 2 to hopefully shed some light on the Couriers choices so I can make a video, but it is on my radar! 😁👍
Cool video as always
"One of the most dangerous creatures known to man after the dombs dropped."
Howard: "make that mf gets one shoted by a unmodified 10mm."
Maximus was lucky the bear was distracted!
For what it's worth, every time I've seen or heard a conversation about bear protection, 10mm is brought up. So there's gotta be something to it that does the job.
Since I had the "Fist of the North Rawr" gauntlet I ended up selling my Yao Guai gauntlet, guess that says much about me.
As a former resident of Montana, I look forward to a rural Northwest setting for Fallout that lets us have Grizzly-based Yao Guai as frequent enemy encounters
Give me the Yao Grizz
Im surprised we haven't had a cocaine yau guai easter egg
I must admit being a little disappointed that at no point were the Sorrows accused of fighting "Bear Handed".
you make me feel like I'm watching proper documentary on Nat Geo or History lol👌
Dude that thumbnail looked like something else
yea a pain. right in the ass
Congrats on 300k bro❤
Another great one, dude!
Oh hell yes new video
Fallout 3 Yao Guai are by far the most terrifying and difficult to kill.
I have always thought that they were Brown bears, the more you know
"take drugs, kill a bear"
I love your lore videos. I dislike the lore videos where youtubers just show gameplay and overexplain everything. Keep the lore coming! Ps. please make some fo76 lore vids.
And here I thought it was just a bastardization of Yogi. Ran into my first one by picnic tables.
I would enjoy more lore about The Institute in the commonwealth and how their future could be up to the player character in the Institute ending.
ROFL Last time I played I was visiting Starlight with Nick (I'm using Sim Settlements) to see how Piper was progressing with city development. We got hit twice by Yoa Guai packs (many thanks to NPCs Travel) and I almost got whumped because of course they're ALL coming right to me. So I'm cleaning up on Yoa Guai meat and Nick just has to say something snarky about "I guess we'll find a use for that" or something, and I'm like bro... we're having Yogi Bear for dinner! 🤣
Yao Guai... Yo Gi... Yogi bear. I'm no longer scared.
I dont know this video made me think about it but its really weird that the ncr bear has two heads despite yao guai having one, and the legion bull having one head despite brahmin having two heads
Lore reason: Yao Guai is two Chinese characters
Head cannon: people forgot how to say Yogi bear
Would you rather encounter a Yao Guai or a Ghoul alone in the wasteland?
Is the ghoul feral?
@@Synonymous101 that's the thing, you can't be sure
@@The_Stranger-A3 I'd bring a chicken. Everyone knows a feral ghoul can't abide a chicken!
@@Synonymous101 good point
synonymous droped a videooo!
Datura is a wild ride.
I really want to see other bear species as yao guai like a polar yao guai or a panda yao guai.
Solitary bears could be roaming males, where groups could be harems.
You know what, while there's no discernible difference between male and female bears in the game, I bet that's exactly what it is!
Highly unlikely, no species of bear has social behavior like that, and American black bears DEFINITELY don't
@@pokeyscorpion8224 Ok bear expert, why do the Yao Guai act the way they do.
@@funkkymonkey6924 Exactly like the video suggests, it depends on resources and threat levels. Bears in general are usually solitary but will occasionally group up to improve their hunting success against large prey, Yao Guai are no different
I like how you keep using the MTG card artwork for your thumbnails
The thumbnail is from the show, but I have used a lot of them for previous videos. I can't resist, they are so good!
@Synonymous101 I know they look great, don't they? Wizards of the Coast's artists did a superb job on making them resemble the franchise as close as possible. I bought the decks they came out with just because I love Fallout and wanted them so bad. I really couldn't resist them haha. Have a great day mate enjoy your videos they're always good.
I always assumed the "rabid" animals didn't actially have rabies because none of them have ever infected me.
i looked it up cause i dont know chinese but yao guai in chinese characters is 妖怪
would honestly be kinda cool to see that printed on a sign or something somewhere at a place we know chinese people where at when the great war happened and they had an issue with one so they painted that on a board or something and stuck it up on the cave entrance or somewhere.
Yao Guai v Tunneler. Lets make it happen.
tunnelers hunt in packs my guy….. so how many?
iirc, Yao Guai was already a Chinese term for demons/monsters. Some descriptions of which match the Fallout Yao Guai in a lot closer detail than just mere name similarity. Such as demons in Chinese myth arriving due to human disturbance of the natural world, which perfectly matches the Fallout Yao Guai.
Maybe they went feral cause someone drank the last of the coffee?
I always thought that all Yao Guai were Ghoulified bears, as there are glowing ones
I feel like man bear pig could have easily been added to the fallout universe and it would have fit right in lol
Synonymous!!! When are you going to do more fallout 4 lore? Vault 75, 81 etc!
All in good time! 😁👍
@Synonymous101 you've just made my day!! Excited to see what's ahead
The battle I want to see is: Metro post apocaliptical radioactive bear (T54 Size) vs Fallout post apocaliptical yao guai bear (Corvega size)
And I want for the commentators of that battle: Ulysses and Three dog.
Genuinely thought yau guai was just a play on yogi, as in yogi bear
Fun fact, the Japanese term "yōkai" is a loanword from the Chinese "yaoguai"
@9:43 Anyone else notice that The Roach King has a third leg in the background?
Double checking to make sure I heard it right, he said that in the east where there is less food, the bears gather in packs, but in the West where there is more food, they don't? Maybe somebody has more science than I do and can correct me on this, but that makes no sense to me. Sheerly on a logic of ecological efficiency, when there is a dearth of biomass to be distributed, an Apex predator like a bear would want to be farther away from its fellow apex predator siblings in is areas with less consumeable biomass. It would make more sense for them to be gathered in packs amongst areas with more biomass to sustain a whole pack versus a single bear.
I dont have a scientific background, but i had a thought, Maybe the bears need to group together for safety since they are hardly apex predators when there's deathclaws and other bigger tougher things around. Maybe we should think of them more like a wolf equivalent on the food chain? Maybe they are evolving to be in groups because it's so dangerous. Like one bear couldn't take out a deathclaw or other huge things, but a group of them could. But it is true that irl the biggest predators don't group up generally in low food areas from my knowledge. Maybe a few exceptions? But I guess he's just trying to explain what we see in game, doesn't necessarily have to match up with our world.
But my best guess is group behaviour to help hunt down big creatures, like deathclaws, so they can all eat. Or just live together in a group for safety and hunt separately. Like a little bear village haha. Some go hunt some look after cubs, I dunno haha. That's just my 2 cents anyway.
@@YianKutKu2 I understand where you are coming from, but they are the *size* of an apex predator, in an environment with even less biomass to sustain them. That is my main issue with them being in packs. it seems unfesable that they could sustain themselves while that large.
@hopefulbadger2160 I know In some environments where there is very little food like the deep sea and islands animals can get very huge. Like giant squid and dodo birds. It's probably a different phenomenon, tho. Deep sea, they get bigger to preserve energy. And the island one happens because of no predation if I remember correctly. Maybe preserving energy would be more likely?
I guess in the end, it is just a game. Not everything has gotta make sense as our world would.
Maybe the radioactivity plays a part. Maybe they didn't even really think anyone would think about it this much and just wanted to make that cave stand out from the others in some way. Who knows man haha.
@hopefulbadger2160 bigger animals are more energy efficient and need less to sustain themselves. So combine that with whatever the radiation is doing and it's quite possible. There's also evidence of bears congregating around big enough food supplies where the stronger bears get first dibs on food. I guess it's not as unlikely as you'd think.
Night stalker lore from New Vegas next?
I always thought it was a play on Yogi, now i know i was wrong 🤣
Still looking for that 2 headed version.
The Yao Guai scratching the power armor wouldn't be cannon no matter how much they say it is as the Power Armor is designed to take a strike from a tactical nuclear weapon.
I wonder if Yao Guai was also supposed to be kind of a play on words in that in sounds similar to "Yogi" like Yogi Bear
Fresh fallout vid 😮😮😮😮 yes!!!
Manbearpig
"He's real you guys! I'm being cereal!"
We got Yao guai lore before gta 6
Don’t feed the Yao Guai! That is all.
Was wondering ol' top if we could have a look at mile miners, unless you've already made one. There an odd thing I'd like to know about. Can't even see what they look like or hear what there saying. There very wierd indeed.
“Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck”
My reaction when one spawns outta nowhere and runs up on me😂
Another great video!