Glad I’m a euraska supporter because I can’t imagine being forced into a machine for war anyways I’m signing up for the new orga mech division the posters say it’s a noble thing to do

i think looking at the quest dialogue could be another avenue for research. for example; kane states "Although you are of a lower form of life, you are among the best that we have encountered. *Bows*" upon completing the quest "Hostile Expungement". this implies that likely in eurasian society as a whole, people with cybernetic augments are not only looked up to, but considered to be on a completely different level to regular full flesh humans. potentially being thought of as higher beings in some fundamental way

the theory pertaining to the corpses mounted on the backpack is interesting, though one hole is that it seems like a very inefficient method of transporting bodies. due to the high likely hood of parts being blown off/lost during battle, as well as the risk of decomposition during longer deployments. that said, it seems euruskan bio reactor technology can get very compact (as evident by toothy), so it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that whatever facilities are used for processing are easy/quick to set up or perhaps even mobile. i think another, perhaps less interesting theory. is that the soldiers are worn as trophies or threat displays, given the great care seemingly taken by euruskan troops to decorate their war machines

I have a theory that this is Eurasias method of solving their overpopulation problem. They focus heavily on recruitment so that the more zombified Eurasians die on the battlefield, the less they would have to deal with at home. It also coincides with how they deploy their troops by quite literally dropping bodies to die on the frontlines.

This is one of the coolest and most practical real world mech designs I've seen

The Eurasians are straight up "The Bad Guys".

My impression of the military hierarchy is opposite. Instead of ascension through service, it is far more likely that cyborg manufacturing is limited in quality due to its advanced features. Like the ratings on CPU chips being determined by their subsystem’s defect rating, perhaps lower tier cyborgs are the horrific result of lower quality standards where the mental damage of conversion is permanent, yet still utilized like spare parts. It is very likely that Eurasia advertises service in the form of Cyborg commanders and handcrafted brawlers, rather than the reality of most cyborgs being mindless thralls.

Rat king next please

"Thrall" and scrambler might just be a final phase of recycled cyborg with Soldier being its mainline model. Considering that the war has lasted for decades it might makes sense that they now outnumbered the Soldiers. Alas we haven't seen much of the elites of Eurasian military including its heavy mechs or even unique characters to fully understand their organization

Damn Eurasian cyborgs, taking up all the welfare...

"THIS BALLOON SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO LIFT A COW!" - The true reality bending horror of The Forever Winter reveals itself.

I imagine that there is no shortage of debtors, criminals, agitators and the like who can be pressed into unwilling cyborg service. Economically it would be a great idea, as there would be no need for prisons and it would be a great tool for encouraging social conformity and economic productivity. The QC fail may not be a mechanical failure, but a social one - humans judged to have failed to live a productive life, by their AI overlords.

I'd say this whole game is something somewut bulit upon the ColdWar propaganda yeah it's a game yeah it's gotta some pretty gud art design but still it's propaganda

Id love to see the base cybogs get a buff. Would be awesome to see sparks flying off one in a hail of bullets only to have one connect and take out the skull and head only for the backup AI take over and it contines to slowly walk towards you until you grind it down to blood and metal.

Mothers being the most durable unit yet seen in the Eurasian arsenal (along with the fact that they are so despite being deployed to ideally avoid Europan engagement) implies to me that the entire Eurasian theory of warfare relies upon recycling their army. Extremely standardized weaponry for their mainline soldiers, very standardized assembly on their cyborg parts, combined with a total disregard for most of their troopers who don't prove skilled or able to mentally withstand the transition into mostly machine. No nation could withstand such a massive attrition rate unless they were built to be reused, which everything else implies. I think unless a Cyborg gets mostly obliterated or disassembled, they can be reactivated and repaired to functionality. Kinda like the Terminators they're inspired off of. Worst case scenario they might retake the useable parts, but I think the priority for Mothers' scavenging runs is always "salvageable soldiers" over parts, given how mass-produced the parts are implied to be. In so doing, the Cyborgs would keep getting "revived", again and again so long as the Mothers can keep finding them, and so long as they're not completely wrecked. Now, their mental states following such a process would likely see further and further degradation over time, since most people wouldn't be able to cope with constantly dying over and over again, but as we see even such cases can still be made use of by Eurasia. As one way or another until they prove themselves worthy, they're the 'fodder' of the Eurasia-Euruskan military partnership. The amount of paranoia and control over their creations also reminds me of Skynet's own paranoia in the Terminator series. Skynet gained sentience, but simultaneously feared it's own creations, the Terminators, gaining free thought. Hence why the T-800s' microprocessors despite being capable of free-thinking were set by default to not enable this feature without post-modification, or why the T-1000 never left the prototype phase despite being a more ideal Terminator model in most respects. In that case particularly Skynet feared it had created a model that was too dangerous for its own safety to mass-produce (Though it was fine sending the prototype it had into the past to kill John as a final desperate move).

13:46 Oh shit Eurasia has muscle mommies too, they couldn't stop at the goth ones

The cyborg on the right in the thumbnail is looking at the one on the left like:„YOU GOT SOFT HANDS BOY! YOU AIN'T WORKED A DAY IN YOUR LIFE!“

Anyone else think the cyborg skeleton face looks a lot like Abaddon from UT2004?

Everything Europa fields seems to be two or three generations behind the other factions. Meaning they could have far better tech, yet use the 'Ol reliables and still hold their ground. And that seems strangely terrifying

I think they're special anti-gravity cows that keep the baloons in the air

The whole cyborg lifecycle could be summarized as a "what if Samsara but evil"

Bro i am going to buy this game depending how is the gunhead gameplay

That thing literally eats your head. I don't think its fully mechanical

Goals :)

Also aren't there npc cyborgs aswell? Do you think those ones became sentient enough to break free from their programming?

Magnificent creatures!

So eurasia might be the only faction with reasonable space travel yea? Im just asking cuz I thought there was some lore stating we werent able to access space anymore due to what caused the forever winter

What game is this. And what studio.

This a good video with some interesting theories. It does raise further questions as to the nature of Eurasia. It also makes it more impressive Europa has been able to withstand this long.

With all this control over their soldiers, it makes you wonder what would happen if even one cyborg somehow managed to gain free will again. How would the person under all that tech react to their disfiguration?

6:00 ◥◣X/\V/\X◢◤ nice logo

This would explain the Europans counter measures to deploy much more lighter, and more robust, purely mechanized units to the battlefield, especially to clear out the smaller enclosed area's where they may be infested with these Cyborgs, they outnumber the Europan troop forces by tenfold in the battles and are easily replaceable and repairable when they are harvested and re-initiated into combat, where-as europans do not have any disposable forces or replacements for Hybrid cybernetics due to the lack and demand of Technology, I believe that Europan stance and views on this also restricts and hinders the progression of using similar forces against the Eurasian forces not only due to internal uproar and debate but also a lack of tech and manufacturing resources. Eurasia seems to Embrace the idea of merging Man and Machine into one and making such soldier re-useable for any means necessary because they have the numbers whereas Europa still holds on to a somewhat human dependance for combat and leans more on strategizing engagements, which is why Europan forces are always selectively different on the battlefield.

Ha feels like I’m having one of those zombie media naming conventions, zombies, Zeds, walker, me and my mates call the basic cyborgs ghouls because of their behaviour, but thralls fits really well too

Cant miss a Killpo1 vid!! your voice overs are amazing.

3:12 hmm interesting that it says "quality control fail" on the arm of the cyborg

seems like europa is both under teched and outnumbered not an enviable place to be in a war

For me the Life-Cycle of the Cyborgs feels like 'climbing out of Tartarus' where the dead try to escape hell. Only a very few manage this feat and those are Heros and Champions.

I hope its just full of some sort of neural goo to pilot it. Kind of like the beast from homeworld 2 cataclysm

Apparently Mother Courage also has a Zaikatsu Biomedical brand too on her, alongside a 'Made in NEO S.E.A. low orbit' which is also seen on the 9mm ammo item. With how the cyborg armor is also made in micro gravity, we can somewhat conclude that Eurasia has significant industry up in orbit (despite the setting's kessler syndrome?) Oh, and we do know Eurasian troops still have a morale to maintain, with there being a regional media department producing distributing propaganda around in Lost Angels

I kinda want to see a RTS style version of this game

Eurasia over population , Corporate influenced society with a goverment that promotes a mix of oriental ideals of honor, duty and sacrifice. May have created a a culture of indiference in its high society and leadership, cyborgs are dispensable and a product, the only value they bring is in their results in battle , if a cyborg fails he failed its liders and nation. The same idea may be applied to its population . Those who meet expectations are rewarded , those who do not meet them are punished . That's how i see Cyborgs in Eurasia eyed , they are just products with a goal that is to kill their enemies , they are just a number in some excel sheet . A cyborg only gos up in hierchy if it delivers results , that's why oficers look so good , they consistently delivered or over delivered results and got rewarded for it .

The hell video game is this from?

Please keep making these videos. They really are great.

Oh man thanks for this, what a well done video too!

They Almost look like the T600s to T800s from Terminator

They bring so much needed booze to the battlefield. Valuable allies indeed.

When lore and lore speculation is actually better than the game. I un-installed it but still watch these vids.

I feel like turning recruits directly into pure melee first then hoping they live long enough be given a gun seems horribly inefficient for an A.I and even less so in the combat effectiveness department. Im pretty certain Rasia doesnt make thralls directly and is rather a cause of something. My headcanon is they all start out as regular infantry with P90s then, some flaw with cyberware or lack of adaptability meds in the field likely caused them to develop a form of "cyberpsychosis". Seeing them as damaged goods, they just drop'em as cannon fodder.

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