@@tomatoesofdoomNot 1950s style. The future as envisioned by 1950s sci fi writers. That’s the key detail Bethesda gets wrong and why America looks like it’s stuck in the 50s, rather than looking like a brass and copper rocket-inspired futurescape.
The general rule is not to move someone with a spinal injury unless they are at risk of further danger. I think an active battleground qualifies as further danger.
Imagine being the poor bastard in one of those with a broken leg or arm, with the suit forcing you into motion. Good luck fixing a fracture that's been rubbing for hours...
Also, if you have the Wild Wasteland trait, they say, "Hey, who turned off the lights?" Referencing the scene in a Doctor Who episode where the living shadows devour a man, eyeballs first, so incredibly fast that not only does he not feel any pain, he simply thought that someone turned off the lights. Okay, no clue why this comment of mine is just blowing up right now, so let me set the record straight. I made this comment off of second hand information I got from someone who only saw that scene from Doctor Who. I _just recently_ picked up the show, only two or so episodes into the David Tenant era. This information is not accurate, I was wrong, please stop correcting me. Most of y'all are respectful, others I noticed were quite hurtful.
Old World Blues explores the sub genre of Movies and Fiction called “Sci-Fi Cosmic Horror”, I absolutely love this genre, especially with a 1950-60s vibe to it.
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat It does, but standard Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror falls more under the general umbrella of Fantasy, rather than Sci-Fi. Because generally speaking, this type of "Sci-Fi Cosmic Horror" has a degree of scientific plausibility about it, whereas Lovecraftian stories are rather distinct for how absurd and implausible some of the integral notions and conceptual elements they pose really are.
In Cosmic Horror stories, the source of horror is how the Universe itself is unfathomable and uncaring towards human life. Examples of Cosmic Horror stories include Alien, The Thing, Hellstar Remina by Junji Ito, and of course the works of H.P. Lovecraft. OWB better fits into the genre of Atomic Horror, in which the source of horror is reckless scientific & technological progress (robots, the atom bomb, genetic engineering, alien invaders, mutants, kaiju, etc). Other stories that fit neatly into the Atomic Horror genre include War of the Worlds, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Godzilla, Jurassic Park, The Terminator, and Resident Evil. Admittedly, there are cases where Cosmic Horror & Atomic Horror will overlap (usually when the antagonist is extraterrestrial or extradimentional in origin), but OWB is not one of those cases due to the fact that everything scary in it was created purely by humans (or transhumans) using science in an irresponsible manner.
For the suit to be able to lift and move a dead body, it would obviously need to have exoskeleton functions. So even though it is a bit painful to continually move the broken area until you get to the doctor, all the weight would not be on your legs. And as cruel as this may seem, it would still be better than dying on the battlefield from motor failure due to not receiving any treatment. Imagine, for example, a scenario where a soldier fell into a well and can't get out... The suit could be smarter and get him out using movements that a normal person wouldn't even think of. In the worst case, at least the family would receive the soldier's body... Which in many wars doesn't even happen.
@@chickishot8172 Probably because it's meant to be an Easter egg (the suits will say it if you have Wild Wild Wasteland enabled) which references that specific line from Doctor Who 😊
People might say that the Weeping Angels are the scariest creatures, some might say something else, but the Vashta Narada are truly the most terrifying.
If I had a nickle for every person in a fallout new vegas dlc that was trapped in a suit I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it happend twice.
It's the same suit right? I haven't played the game in a few years but I think the think tank sent some trauma harnasses and autodocs to Sinclair (owner of the Sierra Madre) for the opening of the Sierra Madre.
Reminds me of the comic “the suit” by Bad Space Comics which shows how horrifying it would be to be trapped in a living suit like this which is determined to keep you alive no matter what.
Yeah man if you are a redditor or have the brain of a child and think "Penis toes" and "penis hands" are hilarious, and you gotta love running the same tasks 3 times in a row to get the best upgrades and xp, such a well designed dlc with no filler...
@@jayeremy4456Only one of the characters talks about that, and if you dont like it mod that dialogue out or just skip it when that character starts talking. Don’t be a debbie downer.
@@jayeremy4456it is hilarious though? im not a child. if you arent playing fallout for the layers of comedy, irony, satire etc.. you are just playing a bland shooter rpg. new vegas is also just a very repetitive game in the first place. pretty much no matter the faction you pick, you run back and forth. you dont play the game for that, you play the game for the set pieces in major moments and the dialogue with main characters. you can dislike the dlc, but im not sure why you would because your reasons dont make sense. if you played new vegas for say, 15 hrs before you went into the dlc, and the stupid penis toe joke is what made you so pressed? are you trying to fool yourself into thinking youre playing some gritty, edgy apocalypse game with no room for stupid jokes? you are playing a different game from everyone else lol
It just occurred to me that the trauma harnesses are for all intents and purposes animated skeletons in a sci-fi setting (or well as least the explanation is sci-fi)
That’s… terrifying, it reminds me of that one Doctor Who episode where they’re in the library and that bacteria is eating them, picking them off one by one when they enter the shadows. If I remember correctly it was called the “Vashnarada”
That was actually what inspired these. There’s even an Easter egg where they say “Hey, who turned off the lights” in the game (which is a quote from the Doctor Who story).
The Old World Blues experience was 80% just getting spotted by enemies that could discern minor color differences between 2 painted toothpicks at 400 yards
Of course like everything else they experimented on injured soldiers BEFORE having any kind of mannequin to play with. One of the most Fallout things ever.
When i first saw this thing it was 2am and it frightened the living ish out of me. Fallout is one of those games just like oblivion that you can make it an adventure game, a horror game, a rpg game, a character builder game or an item collectors game. Once you start sneaking around in the metro system or a where feral ghouls are, it becomes a horror game. Thing is, when you're not sneaking around youre back into adventure mode. So when it ran up on me it terrified me because I wasn't into horror mode at the time. I didn't expect it. During the bigEMPTY add on i was genuinely spooked.
Just think all the buffs that the Courier gets because of he losing Brain, Hearth and Spine + The Implants and training + the Ammount of skill he can get He would not only be a semi-god walking in the Mojave, he would also be a fine rival against the Dovakiin Something random i realized
I think they also made injuries worse. IE, walking back with a broken leg. Or if you were bleeding out, no one could stop the bleeding before the suit walked away.
When I played old world blues for the first time, I heard one say “hey? Who turned out the light”, referring to doctor who and scaring the shite outta me.
This reminds me of HEV Zombie from Black Mesa. The difference is only that the HEV suit futile tries to help, to revive and administer medication to a organism that used to be human inside, while Trauma Harness goes "IDC, you WILL function."
i wish they did a remake of all these old fallouts, a proper RE2 remake level remake using the most recent iteration of the engine. Starfield gets a lot of flak but it does look pretty good.
When I first found these guys, my mind put together the ghouls from repconn and the similar suits, until watched an old world blues video two years ago I thought the ghouls had crashed here, and the think tank had forced their corpses to be their unwilling slaves that went rogue
Man I love it when the suit just reanimates your skeleton with the fingers slightly farther away from it, implying that it has force magic or something
You should try the Ninja vest with the new boots / ghost So your silent, still with ghost and new movement You lose the gloves perk, but i think it could still work well.
I have a theory in fallout 4 we get a glimpse that there was a space war and the y 17 look like space suits even having a space helmet maybe these were used in some of the space fights and there could be even more y 17 skeletons roaming around in space
As someone getting into medicine, those suits are the stupidest idea for transporting injured soldiers. Imagine a broken leg or similar injuries that get worse while moving someone’s limbs!
I think I have a mandela effect about founding them in new vegas, in the place where you are supossed to see the aliens if you have the wild wasteland perk
I remember when I first player the dlc I had love and hate with piercing strike perk and it was spooky how it basically did nothing even though I could obliterate a legion assassin squads ( I already new the lore so it was pretty damb spooky)
I wonder if they ever just trapped a perfectly fine and healthy solider in them with no way to get out and slowly died from hunger, thirst, ect
yeah thats probably what happened a few times
They did according to the wiki I think
How else do you test it
It's Fallout, that's almost guaranteed.
Whatever can happen, will happen.
I love that the devs came up with a lore justification to justify having a skeleton in a spacesuit as an ennemy
From a design standpoint it seems the lore explanation came first and the spacesuit was chosen as a visual modifier to enhance the 1950's artstyle
Gives me Dr Who Silence in the Library vibes.
@@Daktangle The suits actually say "Who turned out the lights?" if you have Wild Wasteland
@@tomatoesofdoomNot 1950s style. The future as envisioned by 1950s sci fi writers. That’s the key detail Bethesda gets wrong and why America looks like it’s stuck in the 50s, rather than looking like a brass and copper rocket-inspired futurescape.
@@kman9884 I have also watched "Bethesda NEVER Understood Fallout", thanks.
"his spine is broken, dont move him"
Robot suit: "come with me if you want to live"
Is…is that a terminator reference?
...or don't. Because they apparently died anyways.
The general rule is not to move someone with a spinal injury unless they are at risk of further danger. I think an active battleground qualifies as further danger.
Imagine being the poor bastard in one of those with a broken leg or arm, with the suit forcing you into motion. Good luck fixing a fracture that's been rubbing for hours...
It’s the fallout universe bro hell probably just drink some water and be fine
@@newtybot Ha, true. Maybe just cook up the nearest roaches for food.
Iirc that was actually referenced in game.
@@literallyanangrymoose7717 I think it was too, as far as the suit not knowing how injured the wearer was, as well as getting lost.
Knowing big mountain, they didn't care
Also, if you have the Wild Wasteland trait, they say, "Hey, who turned off the lights?" Referencing the scene in a Doctor Who episode where the living shadows devour a man, eyeballs first, so incredibly fast that not only does he not feel any pain, he simply thought that someone turned off the lights.
Okay, no clue why this comment of mine is just blowing up right now, so let me set the record straight. I made this comment off of second hand information I got from someone who only saw that scene from Doctor Who. I _just recently_ picked up the show, only two or so episodes into the David Tenant era. This information is not accurate, I was wrong, please stop correcting me. Most of y'all are respectful, others I noticed were quite hurtful.
Dude... I freaked out. I had played OWB many times and they never spoke. I thought I was going crazy or stress from the fighting was getting to me.
@@indianaowensbonez Honestly don't blame you, it's kinda freaky. OWB is probably my fav dlc for this game, simply because of that fact.
Can someone send a video link please
I don’t even know what your talking about
Also while not OWB, with the ghosts in the Sierra madre you can find "are you my mommy" written on the walls, which is also a dr.who reference
Dead Money, OWB, and then Far Harbor. Best Bethesda DLC ever.....fight me for it. Lol
Old World Blues explores the sub genre of Movies and Fiction called “Sci-Fi Cosmic Horror”, I absolutely love this genre, especially with a 1950-60s vibe to it.
I thought cosmic horror referred to Lovecraft
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat Lovecraft is one of the most famous Cosmic Horror writers. There are many great authors who wrote Cosmic Horror too.
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat It does, but standard Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror falls more under the general umbrella of Fantasy, rather than Sci-Fi. Because generally speaking, this type of "Sci-Fi Cosmic Horror" has a degree of scientific plausibility about it, whereas Lovecraftian stories are rather distinct for how absurd and implausible some of the integral notions and conceptual elements they pose really are.
In Cosmic Horror stories, the source of horror is how the Universe itself is unfathomable and uncaring towards human life. Examples of Cosmic Horror stories include Alien, The Thing, Hellstar Remina by Junji Ito, and of course the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
OWB better fits into the genre of Atomic Horror, in which the source of horror is reckless scientific & technological progress (robots, the atom bomb, genetic engineering, alien invaders, mutants, kaiju, etc). Other stories that fit neatly into the Atomic Horror genre include War of the Worlds, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Godzilla, Jurassic Park, The Terminator, and Resident Evil.
Admittedly, there are cases where Cosmic Horror & Atomic Horror will overlap (usually when the antagonist is extraterrestrial or extradimentional in origin), but OWB is not one of those cases due to the fact that everything scary in it was created purely by humans (or transhumans) using science in an irresponsible manner.
@Serpentking789 jesus... Thank you for sorting that 😂 some people lol
Imagine if you fell off a cliff and broke both your legs. Imagine the suit forcing you to walk back to base with both your broken legs…
Naturally the suit would take pressure off your body with Servos and shit, or Itd be essentially worthless
Do a handstand to base
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat You never had a broken bone before. My guess yes by that "different" question
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeatmoving a broken bone would still be agony, even if someone else is moving it for you
For the suit to be able to lift and move a dead body, it would obviously need to have exoskeleton functions. So even though it is a bit painful to continually move the broken area until you get to the doctor, all the weight would not be on your legs.
And as cruel as this may seem, it would still be better than dying on the battlefield from motor failure due to not receiving any treatment.
Imagine, for example, a scenario where a soldier fell into a well and can't get out... The suit could be smarter and get him out using movements that a normal person wouldn't even think of.
In the worst case, at least the family would receive the soldier's body... Which in many wars doesn't even happen.
Hey who turned out the lights
I was thinking that exact same thing! It’s so similar to that Doctor Who episode. 😂
Good everything all around
@@chickishot8172 if you have wild wasteland the suits will say that too.
Donna Noble has left the library, Donna Noble has been saved
@@chickishot8172 Probably because it's meant to be an Easter egg (the suits will say it if you have Wild Wild Wasteland enabled) which references that specific line from Doctor Who 😊
"Daleks, aim for the eye; Sontarans, back to the neck; Vashta Nerada... Run"
These skeletons, daily: resisting the urge to run a bone over their ribcage, and sing show tunes
"Spooky scary skeletons, send shivers down your spine."
i see the wanderer RATTLE EM BOYS
Give me a listen, you corpses of cheer
born for song and dance, forced to wear this gaudy p.o.s
-a skeleton im nearly certain
@@mercwiththemouthsnewphone6798 corpse bride, hell yeah!
There will ALWAYS be something utterly creepy about a skeleton that moves and acts like it’s still alive
Never actually played the dlcs but just the concept alone always creeped me out.
Reminds me of the Vashta Nerada from Doctor Who
Who turned off the lights?
They actually say that if you have wild wasteland.
That’s because they were based on the Vashta Neruda.
People might say that the Weeping Angels are the scariest creatures, some might say something else, but the Vashta Narada are truly the most terrifying.
The dlc for new Vegas is excellent you should play. Release order tbh.
If I had a nickle for every person in a fallout new vegas dlc that was trapped in a suit I'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it happend twice.
What's the second time?
@@cone8042 Ghost people
Tbf both were due to Big MT
@@metalpotatoe537 or maybe Elijah
It's the same suit right? I haven't played the game in a few years but I think the think tank sent some trauma harnasses and autodocs to Sinclair (owner of the Sierra Madre) for the opening of the Sierra Madre.
I like how you can eventually cause the suits to stop working so it frees those people who have been trapped in them for a long time
Reminds me of the comic “the suit” by Bad Space Comics which shows how horrifying it would be to be trapped in a living suit like this which is determined to keep you alive no matter what.
"And finally...it took my eyes, so I never knew if we made it home."
I would love to see these suits in the tv series!
When I first saw these, I thought it was a wild wasteland enemy
Also, bonus points, they’re a reference to Quiet in the Library from Doctor who
Hey who turned out the lights
"I have more than one shadow"
Imagine having like...broken legs and these suits force you to walk back to base.
Totally can imagine them in Dead Space. Would fit so perfectly with another suit.
I wish they hadn’t shown these in the trailer. It would have been complete nightmare fuel for us to stumble upon these w/o seeing them in the trailer.
Yeah, trailers mostly for anything nowadays is a detriment and even risk stumbling upon even if getting deserved hype. Slippery slope
OWB is still unmatched
King of fallout dlcs, in the king of fallout games.
Yeah man if you are a redditor or have the brain of a child and think "Penis toes" and "penis hands" are hilarious, and you gotta love running the same tasks 3 times in a row to get the best upgrades and xp, such a well designed dlc with no filler...
@@jayeremy4456Only one of the characters talks about that, and if you dont like it mod that dialogue out or just skip it when that character starts talking. Don’t be a debbie downer.
@@jayeremy4456it is hilarious though? im not a child. if you arent playing fallout for the layers of comedy, irony, satire etc.. you are just playing a bland shooter rpg. new vegas is also just a very repetitive game in the first place. pretty much no matter the faction you pick, you run back and forth. you dont play the game for that, you play the game for the set pieces in major moments and the dialogue with main characters. you can dislike the dlc, but im not sure why you would because your reasons dont make sense. if you played new vegas for say, 15 hrs before you went into the dlc, and the stupid penis toe joke is what made you so pressed? are you trying to fool yourself into thinking youre playing some gritty, edgy apocalypse game with no room for stupid jokes? you are playing a different game from everyone else lol
Personally I preferred The Pitt and Far Harbour
Imagine one of these getting out of the big MT and ruining some poor farmers day.
Silence in the library
"Hey, who turned out the lights?"
ATTACK OF THE DEAD HUNDRED MEN-
Sabaton reference, I love it.
FACING THE LEAD ONCE AGAIN
I never realized how similar the trauma harness looked to the design of buzz' suit..lol
Honestly this was one of my favorite enemies cause its lore was so cool
It just occurred to me that the trauma harnesses are for all intents and purposes animated skeletons in a sci-fi setting (or well as least the explanation is sci-fi)
That’s… terrifying, it reminds me of that one Doctor Who episode where they’re in the library and that bacteria is eating them, picking them off one by one when they enter the shadows.
If I remember correctly it was called the “Vashnarada”
That was actually what inspired these. There’s even an Easter egg where they say “Hey, who turned off the lights” in the game (which is a quote from the Doctor Who story).
The Old World Blues experience was 80% just getting spotted by enemies that could discern minor color differences between 2 painted toothpicks at 400 yards
I always wonder how they can still shoot.
I would just have given them gloves to fix it.
Of course like everything else they experimented on injured soldiers BEFORE having any kind of mannequin to play with. One of the most Fallout things ever.
The same tech is also responsible for the Dead Money ghost people, according to a few terminal entries in OWB.
Rememinds me of the doctor who episode silence in the library
Imagine having explosive diarrhea in one of these full body suits and the trauma harness kicks in.
they just remind me of the classic Scooby-Doo episode with a skeleton ghost that wears a space suit
Lmao when I was a kid that shit scared me. I always thought it would pop up in my kitchen at night time.
Pretty much zombie Buzz Lightyear
When i first saw this thing it was 2am and it frightened the living ish out of me.
Fallout is one of those games just like oblivion that you can make it an adventure game, a horror game, a rpg game, a character builder game or an item collectors game.
Once you start sneaking around in the metro system or a where feral ghouls are, it becomes a horror game.
Thing is, when you're not sneaking around youre back into adventure mode. So when it ran up on me it terrified me because I wasn't into horror mode at the time. I didn't expect it.
During the bigEMPTY add on i was genuinely spooked.
Reminds me of this webcomic i saw once where a person's spacesuit effectively ate him alive over time in order to keep him from starving.
What was it called?
Just think all the buffs that the Courier gets because of he losing Brain, Hearth and Spine
+ The Implants and training + the Ammount of skill he can get
He would not only be a semi-god walking in the Mojave, he would also be a fine rival against the Dovakiin
Something random i realized
Then the Nerevarine just flies in and nukes em both with a massive spell
*rattling bone noises*
I think they also made injuries worse. IE, walking back with a broken leg. Or if you were bleeding out, no one could stop the bleeding before the suit walked away.
When I played old world blues for the first time, I heard one say “hey? Who turned out the light”, referring to doctor who and scaring the shite outta me.
Very creepy, I like this
Trauma Harness is like. One of my absolute favorite pieces of fallout lore
i like how if i didn’t read the one random terminal in the dlc where i skipped most of them, i would have been so confused by these guys
Wow what a smart and realistic way to implement a reanimation concept
They had some awesome loot tho
One of my favorite enemies with terrifying lore.
Wow, what a fantastic and dark piece of lore. Never played that DLC but love this idea!
Everybody gangsta until an army of spooky space kooks show up
It was a great Dr. Who reference
i LOVE their design, super pulpy and 50s sci fi
One of the coolest enemies in the series lore-wise
Buzz lightyear
This reminds me of HEV Zombie from Black Mesa. The difference is only that the HEV suit futile tries to help, to revive and administer medication to a organism that used to be human inside, while Trauma Harness goes "IDC, you WILL function."
Not sure how the suit articulates the bare exposed hand-bones...
PANR has tuned in. We are very intrigued.
The only thing that truly horrified me in Fallout.
i wish they did a remake of all these old fallouts, a proper RE2 remake level remake using the most recent iteration of the engine. Starfield gets a lot of flak but it does look pretty good.
"I've got a BONE to pick with you! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
When I first found these guys, my mind put together the ghouls from repconn and the similar suits, until watched an old world blues video two years ago I thought the ghouls had crashed here, and the think tank had forced their corpses to be their unwilling slaves that went rogue
Man I love it when the suit just reanimates your skeleton with the fingers slightly farther away from it, implying that it has force magic or something
Spooky skellimans are one of the reasons this is antop tier of any dlc for any fallout ever
The buzz lightyear suit is craaazy.
I wonder how their hands and fingers work.
That would make sense if there weren't literal un-gloved skeleton hands grasping the guns and pulling the triggers.
First time I saw one, I thought it was a glitch and screamed lol
it's scary because this is a real world concept. these suits have been talked about being used in real life combat
Do they move injured soldiers? If they do, how does it not cause more trauma?
soldiers after having a horrible death but creepy suit turns them into goofy ass skeletons: 💀
Any combat medic with a functioning brain and ethics: there is no way I am letting my soldiers wear this
Well actually theres a book about this were the suit had taken over the function of the person and slowly killed the guy to try and keep him alive
They became the ghost people in Dead Money.
One of the coolest enemies
Ya they creeped tf out of me, fallout month
You should try the Ninja vest with the new boots / ghost
So your silent, still with ghost and new movement
You lose the gloves perk, but i think it could still work well.
"The big dam they do..."
Just say the whole damn word.
those enemies creep me out the worst
This enemy is one of the most brilliant ideas in the lore. It's simultaneously hilarious/absurd and absolutely terrifying.
I have a theory in fallout 4 we get a glimpse that there was a space war and the y 17 look like space suits even having a space helmet maybe these were used in some of the space fights and there could be even more y 17 skeletons roaming around in space
The first time I seen the trauma harness I had to pause the game because I couldn’t believe it.
When the human body dies the brain still active.
Adam Strange-looking-ass suit
Creepiest thing about them is: how do they move their fingers to pull triggers with no muscles or suit over the hands?
"Hey who turned out the lights?" 😵💫
Seeing them for the first time in Big MT, was in my top 3 most terrifying moments in gaming.
Id love a port of old world blues into the fallout 4 engine.. Hell fallout 3 redone in the fallout 4 engine would be awesome.
As someone getting into medicine, those suits are the stupidest idea for transporting injured soldiers. Imagine a broken leg or similar injuries that get worse while moving someone’s limbs!
I'm so close to allowing my self to start the DLC I'm just tryna get to level 30 before I run through the DLC, in order of release
I think I have a mandela effect about founding them in new vegas, in the place where you are supossed to see the aliens if you have the wild wasteland perk
so that's probably where the exo suits in ''space force '' come from XD
Thats sucha cool concept
I remember when I first player the dlc I had love and hate with piercing strike perk and it was spooky how it basically did nothing even though I could obliterate a legion assassin squads ( I already new the lore so it was pretty damb spooky)
Another problem that they faced was Big MT was turned into a Crater!
I think "Deathed" should be the new term for an undead creature being created.
I feel like building walking stretchers would be more useful
I get the concept behind the suit, but wouldn't something like a modified Mr. Handy or Sentry Bot be a little more _suited_ to the job?
sounds like Bethesda wanted to do zombies without zombies twice.
Interesting information about the fallout