A good shooter doesn't just need fun weapons, it needs fun enemies to shoot with said weapons, and the absolute rainbow of creatures the Hollow provides gave Gears of War some *really* fun enemies. Personally, I enjoy the tickers. They're cute in a freaky, teeth-chattery sort of way.
Recently I started thinking about E-Day and the early stages of the war. From what I pieced together it seemed like the Kryll were crucial to the Locust victories in the early stages of the war. Due to the COGs demobilization and the surprise of the first two days of the war, the locust were able to overwhelm any resistance they faced. But the wiki states that when the COG mobilized they were able to check the Locusts advance, apparently turning the tide in Tyrus as well. But without the Kryll they wouldn't have been able to destroy cities as efficiently, or overwhelm COG strongholds. Personally, using Gears Tactics as a reference, the Hammer of Dawn Strikes were ineffective and the COG should have instead launched something akin to the Lightmass Offensive to try and destroy the kryll.
The lightmass bomb was a relatively new weapon at the time. Plus when you're getting attacked from everywhere including the air and under the ground it must be hard to figure out their weakness.
@@justiron2999 I think you and the op both have a point here. On one hand they should've used something simmilar to the lightmass bomb instead of the Hammer of Dawn but on the other, I think they were working with the best weapons they had at the time especially considering that they were being overwhelmed. The Hammer of Dawn just bought the Seran's enough time to not be outright destroyed.
@@jmsgridiron5628 To add onto this the novels made it clear that despite humanities best efforts during the first year of war the Locusts were constantly overwhelming humans with their superior numbers, and massive amounts of Hollow creatures (a Brumak alone could wipe out probably over a hundred soldiers.) They kept taking city by city in a short amount of time, and worse they were able to salvage and repurpose any left over weapons from all the human soldiers they killed. The Hammer of Dawn in the grand scheme of things was meant to put a stop to their unstoppable march on Sera. But the C.O.G knew that it was never going to kill them all, just buy them time to properly muster their defenses and try and hold them back from the few cities left standing.
I just had a thought: do you think the way General Raam controls the Kryll, he controls other creatures, (Corpsers, Brumaks, Reavers, Drones, etc.) telepathically as well? Maybe Queen Myrrah controls him as well? Maybe the entire Locust Horde has a telepathic bond that they hear like the COG's TAC-COM, you ever think of that?
Well the swarm in the newer gears games are a hive mind and can communicate within each other, so it wouldn’t be too far fetched if the locust had some ability to communicate as well, maybe to a weaker extent
Yes the queen can telepathically communicate with the locust but idk if locust can telepathically communicate to other locust or if they just speak to eachother
I wouldn't put it past them to be able to do so. Myrah is a sire so it is very possible. And Raam could be a very close descendant to a sire. Since Myrah is a direct descendant from a sire making her one and she can telepathically communicate with the Locust, I don't believe it's far fetched to believe that Raam has a similar ability but weaker than Myrah's
I feel like these creatures should have survived the emulsion bomb if they were the wild versions not tampered with by the locust. It could've made gears 4/5 more interesting if the COG then started using them to rebuild society. Plus Cole could've been seen as a type of equestrian with Reavers since he called the one he rode horsey and seemed to care about it.
The imulsion bomb had nothing to do with the locust. Adam Fenix designed it to kill imulsion cells. Certian humans (mainly Formers) were destroyed by the blast as well.
When you get to control a Brumak in Gears of War 2 will always be badass! Reeking havoc on the Locust horde was a power fantasy. *Rest in Peace Dom & Maria*
I hope in "E-Day" we see Reavers that are troop carriers. That'd be cool, seeing them with side saddles for up to four to six soldiers to ride in with loops for them to rappel down from. (I saw that in "Tactics" Reavers were used as troop carriers, and thought it made no sense that they didn't do that to begin with.)
I think Tempest's beam attack could be like the chemical based laser we use on modern warships. Just a thought, but imo it more interesting then just chalking it up to emulsion.
If Kryll’s only vulnerability wasn’t UV, RAAM woulda been a bigger menace. Imagine you’re a freshly deployed COG, this is your first real battlefield and it’s broad daylight. You look out from cover and here comes a giant ass 10ft Locust walking through the battlefield with Kryll protecting him and eating anyone he points at.
Poor Benjamin Carmine, he made it too the chopper after showing slightly overzealous bravery to help the rest of Delta get there by giving cover fire to die one of the worst deaths of all Carmines, that's why I always played as him in horde so he could get sum well deserved revenge for him and his brother Anthony.
Those locust did a lot of sick and horrible stuff to both humans and the planets wildlife. It really reminds us that locust don’t just look like monsters.
Fun fact! Wretchs and Brumaks are not animals that lived on Cera like the Corspers. They were made like the Locust. I'm pretty sure the Brumak is something to do with gorilla DNA! I can't remember the Wretchs DNA but you get to see them in the new hope type place under ice. You get to see one In a pod Also disclaimer: I'm not sure about the Brumak being made by humans! I think I saw a theory I can't remember. But, Wretchs were definitely made by humans!
Those were Sires, the first experiments into making the Locust which was a mix of human DNA, a creature from the hollow, and Imulsion. It's possible wretches were used as the DNA from the hollow
The tickers are not exactly small. You left out that they can swallow any weapon which makes the gears believe they have a black whole inside them. When they are killed sometimes a weapon they swallow will pop out
Not all the locust were killed in the hive Buster's DLC for gears 5 you learn the islander chick was part of a unit that hunted the remaining locust into extinction even killing the babies It's even possible that maybe the locusts are still around in the swarm
Replaying all the gears on insane and truthfully your lore vids are the only thing keeping me from going insane, so thanks man. P.S really wish we got a spin-off game of the pendulum wars.
considering the fact that most of the locusts seigebeasts and mounts were just animals, I think it would've been cool to see them used by the cog. especially considering they were heavily abused. I felt so bad for the catapult beasts and the corpser broodmother
Kryll Grenades need to make a comeback, and i wonder why in "2" when we saw the Riftworm, we never got more insights into the Locust religion, like why we never saw Locust religious rituals, found Drones praying with Kantus, something?
A good what if episode would be if the lambant wouldn’t be able to infect things, meaning E day would never happen (maybe) and the locust would live in…peace?
Hey since the Locust were made by mixing human and hollow creature DNA, since the wretch is the most humanoid do you think it was wretch DNA that made the Locust?
Ukkon is intelligent and his experiments with hollow creatures did majorly strengthen the locust horde however Ukkon could not lead troops into battle like Karn or Raam. He couldn’t direct the riftworm like Scorge. So while Ukkon was an important figure for the locust he wasn’t the only one.
So does this mean all locust creatures are also descendants of the kids who were immune to imulsion and thats why we never see them again after gears 3 because we see the brumaks die, but never reavers, never tickers, never wretches.
A lot. The humans in Gears live on a world called Sera. Sera is not a colonized world like in Halo or Mass Effect, instead, its the world the people and creatures come from. Basically it's earth but much much different. Back to your question. The difference between a gear and normal human is the sheer amount of bulk that an average gear displays. A normal human would look like any average Joe here on earth. Not too tall, nor too weak. Here's when things start looking different. A long standing theory concerning why the people are so huge comes from the fact that Sera is not Earth. Meaning, that humans as a whole evolved slightly differently than how real life humans did. Since Sera is a naturally hostile and unforgiving place by it's own nature, the humans of Sera evolved to be much more muscular in order to compete with what else was living on the surface at that point. If the Hollows critters were deadly than imagine what other creatures lived on the surface at that time as well. Hopefully this long-winded explanation answers your question.
I will do lore videos on the swarm soon too! Based on all the lore and info we have so far, if there’s enough lore on them to turn into a movie then I will do that :) Stay tuned!!
Thank you, and thank you for the feedback. Most of this vid was many lore videos clustered together to create a movie. I chopped up any repeated info but may have missed a few, sorry!
Trying to listen to this guy explain his grasp on simple middle school concepts in biology is so starting to make my head hurt. Dude you could put any effort into trying to at least understand what you’re talking about?
Timestamps for Lore Movie:
0:00 Start
0:48 Tickers & Wild Tickers
3:47 Wretches & Variations
6:29 Corpsers, Shibboleth & Savage Corpsers
11:14 Reavers & Hydras
14:44 Brumaks & Variations
20:17 Tempest & Shriekers
24:34 Giant Serapedes
26:59 Bloodmounts
30:56 Gas Barges
32:51 Siegebeasts
34:53 Kryll
40:52 Riftworms & Nemacytes
45:01 Diggers
45:50 Heart Leeches
46:51 Imulsion
50:12 Seeders & Nemacysts
51:47 Leviathans
53:41 Manglers
54:31 Rockworms
56:23 Beast Barges
59:08 Honourable Mentions & Conclusion
Thank you for the the time stamps
I know it's a bit late but this is actually pretty cool of you to timestamps everything
am I fucked up, or is this little bastard cute asf? 1:38
Are you going to make a video on the Swarm Leeches?
Sera would be a frightening place to live in
If Australia is a planet...
@Just Some Guy without a Mustache you're literally everywhere
Honestly
@@陳潔明-w6y hahahahaha yep
Really?
A good shooter doesn't just need fun weapons, it needs fun enemies to shoot with said weapons, and the absolute rainbow of creatures the Hollow provides gave Gears of War some *really* fun enemies.
Personally, I enjoy the tickers. They're cute in a freaky, teeth-chattery sort of way.
The fact you can kick them and send them flying was also a fun bonus.
@@Lotan_ bonus points if you shoot one in midair
@@curtismcpsycho8212 bet grab your Snub first person to get three gets to eat Spaghetti with Dom
The Corpser Hatchlings are kinda cute like some spiders can be too.
Terrifying that these wild beasts are just…wild animals and even without armor, there’s just either too many or they are too durable
No matter how many times I hear it, "they're sinking cities with a GIANT WOOÖRM" will always make me laugh
😂😂
Recently I started thinking about E-Day and the early stages of the war. From what I pieced together it seemed like the Kryll were crucial to the Locust victories in the early stages of the war. Due to the COGs demobilization and the surprise of the first two days of the war, the locust were able to overwhelm any resistance they faced. But the wiki states that when the COG mobilized they were able to check the Locusts advance, apparently turning the tide in Tyrus as well. But without the Kryll they wouldn't have been able to destroy cities as efficiently, or overwhelm COG strongholds. Personally, using Gears Tactics as a reference, the Hammer of Dawn Strikes were ineffective and the COG should have instead launched something akin to the Lightmass Offensive to try and destroy the kryll.
The lightmass bomb was a relatively new weapon at the time. Plus when you're getting attacked from everywhere including the air and under the ground it must be hard to figure out their weakness.
@@justiron2999 I think you and the op both have a point here. On one hand they should've used something simmilar to the lightmass bomb instead of the Hammer of Dawn but on the other, I think they were working with the best weapons they had at the time especially considering that they were being overwhelmed. The Hammer of Dawn just bought the Seran's enough time to not be outright destroyed.
@@jmsgridiron5628 To add onto this the novels made it clear that despite humanities best efforts during the first year of war the Locusts were constantly overwhelming humans with their superior numbers, and massive amounts of Hollow creatures (a Brumak alone could wipe out probably over a hundred soldiers.)
They kept taking city by city in a short amount of time, and worse they were able to salvage and repurpose any left over weapons from all the human soldiers they killed.
The Hammer of Dawn in the grand scheme of things was meant to put a stop to their unstoppable march on Sera. But the C.O.G knew that it was never going to kill them all, just buy them time to properly muster their defenses and try and hold them back from the few cities left standing.
Desperate times comes with desperate solutions
The COG was authoritarian and like most authoritarian states its military was mostly underwhelming with bad leadership to the top
Damn comics make the locust seem sm more intelligent and organized, definitely gotta read them now
I just had a thought: do you think the way General Raam controls the Kryll, he controls other creatures, (Corpsers, Brumaks, Reavers, Drones, etc.) telepathically as well? Maybe Queen Myrrah controls him as well? Maybe the entire Locust Horde has a telepathic bond that they hear like the COG's TAC-COM, you ever think of that?
Well the swarm in the newer gears games are a hive mind and can communicate within each other, so it wouldn’t be too far fetched if the locust had some ability to communicate as well, maybe to a weaker extent
Yes the queen can telepathically communicate with the locust but idk if locust can telepathically communicate to other locust or if they just speak to eachother
I wouldn't put it past them to be able to do so. Myrah is a sire so it is very possible. And Raam could be a very close descendant to a sire. Since Myrah is a direct descendant from a sire making her one and she can telepathically communicate with the Locust, I don't believe it's far fetched to believe that Raam has a similar ability but weaker than Myrah's
I feel like these creatures should have survived the emulsion bomb if they were the wild versions not tampered with by the locust. It could've made gears 4/5 more interesting if the COG then started using them to rebuild society. Plus Cole could've been seen as a type of equestrian with Reavers since he called the one he rode horsey and seemed to care about it.
Considering the Imulsion itself is a parasite I doubt nothing would have survived if nothing was done about it
The imulsion bomb had nothing to do with the locust. Adam Fenix designed it to kill imulsion cells. Certian humans (mainly Formers) were destroyed by the blast as well.
Another legend in the making! This is exactly the video I have been waiting for!
When you get to control a Brumak in Gears of War 2 will always be badass! Reeking havoc on the Locust horde was a power fantasy.
*Rest in Peace Dom & Maria*
Gears of War 2 is probably one of the best sequels to a video game that I've ever played.
I hope in "E-Day" we see Reavers that are troop carriers. That'd be cool, seeing them with side saddles for up to four to six soldiers to ride in with loops for them to rappel down from. (I saw that in "Tactics" Reavers were used as troop carriers, and thought it made no sense that they didn't do that to begin with.)
me seeing the bloodmount: so technically when it's using it's talons it's kicking the enemy? cool.
You deserve much more views and subs ! Honestly keep it up !
Thank you that really means a lot!!
Not many dedicated Gears channels out there, unfortunately. Luckily, we got this guy killing’ it every time! Love the work man.
I think Tempest's beam attack could be like the chemical based laser we use on modern warships. Just a thought, but imo it more interesting then just chalking it up to emulsion.
If you lived on sera you would probably wake up to a brumak shooting a machine gun in your face
Let’s go Abz !
😁hope u enjoyed!
I just found this video and it's a awesome video you did an amazing job
Thank you I’m v glad you enjoyed it 😁working on more content just as good!
If Australia was a planet, it would be Sera
The corpser is how big Americans think our spiders are like
Sera is basically if Australia was a planet
Lmao sounds about right.
I’ve always loved and feared brumaks
If Kryll’s only vulnerability wasn’t UV, RAAM woulda been a bigger menace. Imagine you’re a freshly deployed COG, this is your first real battlefield and it’s broad daylight. You look out from cover and here comes a giant ass 10ft Locust walking through the battlefield with Kryll protecting him and eating anyone he points at.
Poor Benjamin Carmine, he made it too the chopper after showing slightly overzealous bravery to help the rest of Delta get there by giving cover fire to die one of the worst deaths of all Carmines, that's why I always played as him in horde so he could get sum well deserved revenge for him and his brother Anthony.
There is something really unsettling and creepy with that „Geist Wretch“ picture
2:00 If you ever saw a team of these in Overrun just know that you’re going to have a blast
Fantastic video bro!
Thank you bro, glad you enjoyed it 🤝
I would love to see the gears 1 to 3 get remastered
Gears of wars ultimate is gears 1 remastered
But yes, absolutely, The Coalition should do that. I've been saying as much since Ultimate Edition came out.
We already know what Brumaks, corpsers, and, tickers look like without armor but what do the others look like?
You know, I kinda feel bad for the siege beasts
Imagine being forced to do weaponized yoga for your entire life
Those locust did a lot of sick and horrible stuff to both humans and the planets wildlife. It really reminds us that locust don’t just look like monsters.
Great video!
Thank you!!
Fun fact! Wretchs and Brumaks are not animals that lived on Cera like the Corspers. They were made like the Locust. I'm pretty sure the Brumak is something to do with gorilla DNA! I can't remember the Wretchs DNA but you get to see them in the new hope type place under ice. You get to see one In a pod
Also disclaimer: I'm not sure about the Brumak being made by humans! I think I saw a theory I can't remember. But, Wretchs were definitely made by humans!
I think the things in the pods were sides which were primitive expirements of the locust
@@black-nv5lh Are you sure? They have the facial features?
@@Nelty. they were the first of the locuats and wretches came after the locust forst were made.
Those were Sires, the first experiments into making the Locust which was a mix of human DNA, a creature from the hollow, and Imulsion. It's possible wretches were used as the DNA from the hollow
Thought you were going by size, so was very thrown off when you went straight to corpser lmao
The tickers are not exactly small. You left out that they can swallow any weapon which makes the gears believe they have a black whole inside them. When they are killed sometimes a weapon they swallow will pop out
So to simply put it Marcus and his squad killed one of the Locust gods and still they thought they’d have a chance? 😂
Not all the locust were killed in the hive Buster's DLC for gears 5 you learn the islander chick was part of a unit that hunted the remaining locust into extinction even killing the babies
It's even possible that maybe the locusts are still around in the swarm
Replaying all the gears on insane and truthfully your lore vids are the only thing keeping me from going insane, so thanks man.
P.S really wish we got a spin-off game of the pendulum wars.
The ticker fighting ring could be seen I think during a solo play of gears of war 3
My guy omg this is fucking awesome!!! Nobody like you brother. Keep ‘em coming! 💙💪🏼
Thank you bro that really means a lot! 💙
Time to get the 🍿
51:05 so what I'm gathering from this is that Seeders literally shat on the COG. Kinda funny.
Did you know that the rock worm in gears of war 2 was sensitive on his rare end thet if you shoot him here he will walk faster to escape
Time to bust out the popcorn
BAD reminds me of Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myth, and Legends. Now that was violent television!
i made it here brother, another great video. Really, you do good with these.
considering the fact that most of the locusts seigebeasts and mounts were just animals, I think it would've been cool to see them used by the cog.
especially considering they were heavily abused. I felt so bad for the catapult beasts and the corpser broodmother
The locust barges in 3 were abused animals too. You can see that they have two spikes picking at them constantly.
I wonder why in "2" when we went to the Queen's Palace, we never saw Wretch kennels? Or even little "doggy doors" in the walls?
Off course you noticed that Sera is Ares backwards?! The god off war! Greetings from Austria 🙂
In the hollow it was called the hollow and in the hollow lived hollow creatures that were called hollow creatures which were found in the hollow
The siege beast looks like a seeder without a secondary mouth maybe the seige beast is a seeder variant
I like to think that general raam befriended the kryll during his childhood
Kryll Grenades need to make a comeback, and i wonder why in "2" when we saw the Riftworm, we never got more insights into the Locust religion, like why we never saw Locust religious rituals, found Drones praying with Kantus, something?
A good what if episode would be if the lambant wouldn’t be able to infect things, meaning E day would never happen (maybe) and the locust would live in…peace?
There would be no locusts
@@xeltransusanoo I didn’t think abt that one
There would be locus', rust lung would still exist, just not turn things into mond controled zombies@@xeltransusanoo
So when a riftworm poops you can Harvest that for resources and no one ever discovered these creatures before the Locust emerged
Hey since the Locust were made by mixing human and hollow creature DNA, since the wretch is the most humanoid do you think it was wretch DNA that made the Locust?
Ukkon is intelligent and his experiments with hollow creatures did majorly strengthen the locust horde however Ukkon could not lead troops into battle like Karn or Raam. He couldn’t direct the riftworm like Scorge. So while Ukkon was an important figure for the locust he wasn’t the only one.
41:45 I think Carmine was understandable in his reaction here.
What was the video of the wretches taking from looked so realistic
I think the corpsers turned in snachers and bloodmounts turned in to pouncers
We need gears of war 2 and 3 remaster. The hype is strong after e day announcement
How tall were the regular humans? All of the creatures are huge for them to be under the ground and be undetected. The humans must be pretty big too.
Great Video 👍
Great video and...
Ticker lives matter lol
Tickers lives do indeed matter
So does this mean all locust creatures are also descendants of the kids who were immune to imulsion and thats why we never see them again after gears 3 because we see the brumaks die, but never reavers, never tickers, never wretches.
No we just flooded the inner and outer hollow, they probably exist but almost extinct
41:45 my favorite level was killing the rift worm from the inside
Tickers are the grunts of gears imo. Also where was that cutscene ive never seen that!
What about wretches?
I miss the creatures from the hollow
I hope Siege Beasts are in "E-Day."
Nah that seemed more like a savage locust type weapon.
12:17
When you have 1197 words for a 1200 word document.
If the helmets control the bloodmounts why dont they run wild when you shoot them off
Gameplay reasons obviously
I think it’s because you’re the first thing they see and being a wild animal, it continues to attack you
Bro, what game allows you to play as a cerapede? Please tell me
Gears of war 3 beast mode
Judgement
Ukkon was the real mvp for the locust
Only see this video now Great job some effort out of you in fairness
Thank you brother!
Yes it just started like 5 minutes ago
Wait what’s the difference between a normal human and a gear
A lot. The humans in Gears live on a world called Sera. Sera is not a colonized world like in Halo or Mass Effect, instead, its the world the people and creatures come from. Basically it's earth but much much different. Back to your question. The difference between a gear and normal human is the sheer amount of bulk that an average gear displays. A normal human would look like any average Joe here on earth. Not too tall, nor too weak. Here's when things start looking different. A long standing theory concerning why the people are so huge comes from the fact that Sera is not Earth. Meaning, that humans as a whole evolved slightly differently than how real life humans did. Since Sera is a naturally hostile and unforgiving place by it's own nature, the humans of Sera evolved to be much more muscular in order to compete with what else was living on the surface at that point. If the Hollows critters were deadly than imagine what other creatures lived on the surface at that time as well. Hopefully this long-winded explanation answers your question.
@@nikosc97 and here I am thinking they were modified like space Marines
I feel like a mutated blood mount is a carrier
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how were those clips of the locust serapedes fighting the humans made? are those mods?
21:04 couldve easily taken him out but flies away
I thought the siege beasts were just repurposed Seeders tho
You didn’t have to show Tai dying 🤧 that was a big hurt piece
17:00 I am sorry but that brumack concept art is so much better then the one in the game
Than*
Sera is just Australia DLC
What about Berserkers?
They aren’t hollow creatures, they are locust.
What game was that for the tickers ? Can anyone help
Gears 2 was the best hands down
I wont lie Gas Barges are cute
26:51 I wonder why an acid spit wasn't considered as a Giant Serapede's second ability?
Will you do a movie about the swarm and scions?
I will do lore videos on the swarm soon too! Based on all the lore and info we have so far, if there’s enough lore on them to turn into a movie then I will do that :)
Stay tuned!!
@@KingAbzTV awesome
Man they look weird without armorand weapons
What happened to them after gears of war 3?
Thank god they were diverse otherwise the creatures would of been cancelled.
Why weren't the heart leached in the game ?
Qrill = flying pirhanas
I feel like the Hollow creatures are still out there
Which Gears of war is this
great video but you seem to repeat the same point in a few instances
Thank you, and thank you for the feedback.
Most of this vid was many lore videos clustered together to create a movie. I chopped up any repeated info but may have missed a few, sorry!
Hey how do I buy a monkey dog.
Swarm lore is fan fictiony cringe. Og gears trilogy lore is so epic and coherent
It is not fan fiction or cringe. They’re both very interesting and coherent.
So kantus arent hollow creatures?
No they’re like locust officers
Trying to listen to this guy explain his grasp on simple middle school concepts in biology is so starting to make my head hurt. Dude you could put any effort into trying to at least understand what you’re talking about?