Metro 2033 Watchmen Monster Morphology | Last Light and Exodus | Howl, Biology, Origins and Lore

The watchmen of the Metro universe are going to be the most encountered organism on the surface. However, just because they are abundant does not mean they are apex. They do posses many adaptations induced by radiation and successful breeding that have allowed them to thrive however! So Lets cover their lore and morphology!
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[@onyx6763]

Roanoke Gaming uploaded 1min ago, this comment was posted 2 hours ago? Ok I think that enough KZbin for me tonight.

[@javierrodriguezlopez4675]

Fallout creatures please. Pretty please.

[@KaiserDeclan]

Roanoke Gaming then are dogs because they’re so many dogs in Moscow

[@ecogreen123]

why wouldn't I leave a live? :D XD

[@hydroxide5507]

Unsubbed after that pun

[@wendigodrude5575]

I've heard Moscow has a stray dog issue and they've learned how to use the metro system

[@RoanokeGaming]

well there you go! now we know that if they really do have a stray dog issue that great, perhaps these really are canines

[@jasperzanovich2504]

Do the dogs run through the tunnels or do they ride the trains?

[@sujalumrikar2170]

Jasper Zanovich Both. The dogs have also learned to send the cutest members ahead to beg for scraps.

[@ursa_margo]

Roanoke Gaming Muscovite here. We don't have much stray dogs in Moscow these days. However, I read some notes about dogs who learned to puposefully ride metro trains. But seriously, those occurences are still anecdotal as far as frequency is concerned.

[@davidsolomie162]

@@ursa_margo That got me thinking: could the lurkers actually be mutated dogs instead of rats?

[@GONZOMAF]

It’d be cool to see domesticated watchmen in one of the later installments of metro

[@RoanokeGaming]

Maybe we will have that option in Exodus!

[@GONZOMAF]

Yeah especially since we’re seeing more survivors outside of the metro. We’ve already seen that some mutants can be trained to do tricks like in Venice. Keep up the work chief love the videos

[@tntsummers926]

Maybe later they can make a whole tribe, where they get one at a very, young age. They have a whole religion where the watchmen god is the god of war, loyalty, and strength. But i don't know how a tribe could develop like that, maybe orphans, or kids? Maybe orphans find art, like Egyptian looking art, that was developed before the bombs. after taming watchmen, although I think it has to take more than a generation. To develop a tribe like that, although it could be very much, possible. It would be cool, but to be honest, they probably won't do that.

[@GONZOMAF]

TNT Summers that’d be cool I’d like to see something like how scientists theorize wolves were domesticated. Like one starving watchmen breaks away from its pack and out of desperation approaches a human/child but instead attempting to eat the human because it’s weak from starvation it begs for the food. And the human being the empathetic creatures that we are share our food. And BANG that’s how it happens the lion with the thorn in its paw so to speak. The watchmen returns to be fed and once its strength is up it begins to leave gifts in the form of smaller prey which the human takes to his family. They then begin the long process of making the watchmen mans best friend

[@tntsummers926]

@@GONZOMAF yeah I hope they do that, and if the "tribe" resembles early humans, technology wise.1-2 years after the nukes, and the bio-weapons dropped, and mutated russia. orphans in Siberia meet the alone, starving, afraid watchman. And the orphans, in their infinite kindness, gives it food. And the watchmen informs it's pack, and it leaves them food. They in return help the pack hunt, they give the watchmen pack the scraps. and that's when the mutualistic relationship starts. Then artyom meets the tribe, they speak differently. Maybe because they split of from humanity when they were young. And they seem to worship watchmen, as Egypt worshiped cats.

[@TonyRedgrave]

4:12 I turned around and told my dog that he is a good boy.

[@RoanokeGaming]

Excellent!

[@artyom8905]

David S. It's pack member but ok

[@arthurmorgan5887]

David S. Me too

[@Servellion]

Honestly, I'd love to see you do some vids on Subnautica's fauna. Not just the big boys but the smaller ones that help flesh out the diverse ecosystem the devs created.

[@RoanokeGaming]

haven't played subnautica but that might be something for the future!

[@Servellion]

If you ever need a copy it's on Steam.

[@theonlyspartan34]

@@RoanokeGaming i think subnautica is right up your alley, it is an excellent, refreshing game.

[@lazyjosh47]

Yeeessss

[@khanlee1573]

I think the watchman monsters are actually mutated pigs because I like bacon and i want to eat bacon even if there is a nuclear disaster.

[@RoanokeGaming]

STEAK > BACON

[@The_Commodore7151]

@@RoanokeGaming BACON WRAPPED STEAK > STEAK > BACON

[@kingsarues1586]

Pigs and mushrooms are the main agricultural products of the metro

[@Dualbladedscorpion7737]

@Jimmie Toyne BAKEN...AAAAAAAHHHHH

[@deathkorpswatchmaster2414]

Mmhmhmmmm bacon posssible last word of clay carmine

[@acetech091]

Man, your videos are getting a LOT better. They're sounding a lot less scripted, and the jokes are more natural and better timed. Keep it up!

[@RoanokeGaming]

Excellent! I have been trying to work on the flow of them so I am glad its paying off!

[@ryaquaza3offical]

I leaned more to the idea they’re mutated domestic dogs than wolves recently, not because domestic dogs are better at surviving, quite the opposite in fact, but because there’s relatively unchanged wolves in the Exodus trailer, of course this could just stem from a branch brought on by the radiation or this is sort of a replacement of the watcher in Exodus (I really hope not, I love these freaky rat dogs) but idk. As for breed, I’d go with boxer dog, already having relatively long limbs, is medium sized, short hair on most the body, similar facial structure and being quite active breeds, and let’s be real here, no matter how cute they are, I doubt a British bulldog or Pug is surviving a nuclear winter alone lol

[@klou6615]

There is also the fact that in exodus there is much less radiation so the animals wouldve been less altered. It may have both stemmed from wolves and watchmen just changed more.

[@ryaquaza3offical]

Wait really!? Where?, Ive seen the bear in game as well as a screen shot of the demon and shrimp (the demon looks like a vampire in this game and the shrimp, literally just looks like a shrimp lol, RIP shrimp jaws) but I haven’t seen the watchers anywhere, same with nosalis and all the others

[@klou6615]

@Ethan Lackey Go to metrothegame.com

[@angellara7040]

@@ryaquaza3offical kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGmanKxrgLN6fbs

[@Morgvl_Grim_Hive]

1. Watchen are the same in Exodus, do not worry. 2. In a far forest in Siberia, the radiation may have other effects on animals than in Moscow. Or maybe there is no serious radiation in that area at all.

[@martinxy1291]

"They can be domesticated" Me: *I WANT AN ARMY 50 STRONG*

[@freedragoons]

To me, the watchmen's howls were one of the most dreaded in the game. Sure, demons are absolutely terrifying, but if a single watchman howls, you've suddenly got eight of them attacking you. That being said, screw the Dark One child in Last Light for making me feel bad about killing all of the ones that I already did. Thanks for the video man. Informative and interesting as always.

[@ismaelgingles9409]

I didn't kill the watchmen in the building/church. And after seeing that lone watchmen in last light I just left it alone 😔

[@AveryHyena]

Nosalis: Cute boy who deserves love Watchmen: Stupid annoying fish face

[@RoanokeGaming]

their face are quite fishy lol

[@brig.gen.georgiiisserson7226]

MARK Ikr the fucking nosalis’s are dicks

[@samuelc.sthecapybara6618]

The nosalis's nose is bat alike

[@samuelc.sthecapybara6618]

But it's a shrew

[@Artik_Masterson]

2:25 and here, we see, the Oakman's mental state has degraded. Spending time with family has most definitely taken it's toll "With very humans being on the surface"

[@RoanokeGaming]

I have no idea where the "Few" went but I was hoping no one would notice! haha

[@Artik_Masterson]

@@RoanokeGaming took me a sec before I realized what I had heard lol

[@ryujigames2509]

There is one thing I don't understand. As we know, when bombs fell Artjom was still a little kid, right? Then in Metro Last Light in intro we see that little Artjom runs outside with friends and Watchmen about to attack him before Dark one saves him. And Artjom is still a little kid (maybe like 1-2 years passed since bombs fells). And yet we already see Demons and Watchmen. I know that rats have much faster evolution and adaptation process than human but can actually animal evolve so fast even under huge amount of radiation?

[@RoanokeGaming]

supposedly, there was something different with the bombs that may have induced evolution along with the radiation, as to what that actually is, I haven't found it yet but I am still looking for it

[@ryujigames2509]

Thank you for reply! Enjoying your videos a lot!

[@charesque]

At some point in the Metro's lore it was stated that Kremlin was hit with biological weaponry, thus creating the Biomass in the bunker underneath it. So it probably could've changed local nature quite a bit in a short period of time.

[@klou6615]

@@charesque thats a really cool theory

[@kingsarues1586]

He could’ve been attacked by a larger mangy dog, and since he hasn’t been exposed to dogs in such a long time the memory was altered over time into something more familiar.

[@swapertxking]

I’ve never understood the misconception about the watchmen being rats. Have you forgotten the lurkers are literally rats, and that natural wolves still exist in the wilds of Russia?

[@nothingissacrosanct]

from a purely visual standpoint, they have significantly more in common morphologically with rats than dogs. like, significantly more. there are certain physical traits like claws with clear opposable thumbs, not paws. same goes for the hind legs too, they are clearly not paws. their ability to easily stand on their hind legs is also a trait that it shares with rats, not dogs. also, pack hunting is a trait that can be developed. we developed pack hunting, it was not natural to hominids. yes, we were social, but we were scavengers before we were organized pack hunters. since rats are also group scavengers, its not a stretch to say that they could also develop the same pack hunting adaptation. if you, for whatever reason, genuinely cannot draw the connections between these and rats, either you must not have functioning eyes or you have never seen a dog before. these are clearly not dogs. the most concrete connection to dogs he cited were that they were pack hunters lol, thats nowhere near enough to draw a conclusion as the physical characteristics much more resemble rats or another species of rodent than dogs. it seems as though whenever roanoke talks about wolves, he gets something wrong. from genuinely still believing that alpha males in wolf packs were anything but myth to thinking that dogs look like rodents, its clear that his opinion isnt entirely reliable.

[@swapertxking]

@@nothingissacrosanct im sorry what the legitimate fuck are you rambling about. have you forgotten that all these biological changes take place within 20 years of nuclear and biological mutagenics weapons were dropped on Moscow and Novisibirsk? Ignoring even that, even the wiki and devs consider Watchmen as 'canids' and not rodents. Especially since we as humans took centuries to develop into a competent social network, while canids largely have kept to social networks save for a few exceptions. Rats in 20 years of large mutations and nuclear poisoning really wouldn't grow to such sizes as Watchmen, but probably into cat sized creatures like we see in... oh yeah, Lurkers; which canonically are the mutated descendants of the rats living in the Metro; though thats suspect to be true since normal...ish rats can be seen in hordes that would make Skaven blush. there are a lot more mysteries about the mutants of the Metro series, like what the fuck did demons/gargoyles evolve from when the bombs dropped, why there are such large differences between the shrimps, why are the Moscow Nosalises so similar to the Novisibrisk Nosalises. But instead, here you are, somehow oblivious to the weird faces of pugs and bulldogs, and using that ignorance to insult someone. Whatever really Watchmen are, they're just canonically assumed to be very mutated packs of dogs left behind in the wake of the war, horrifyingly twisted full of cancers, disease, and malformations. why are you replying this way to a 3 year old comment?

[@julianswinton5355]

@@nothingissacrosanct Not only that. But the newest watchmen are lot more rodent looking. I would understand if were talking about the giant bats from peter jackson being from normal bats except they evolved from rats to

[@WhenDevilsDuel]

Not only do they look like rats. But pack hunting is something we've already seen in cinema and gaming with rats. Almost everything about the black death has a swarm of rats devouring men in seconds.

[@swapertxking]

@@WhenDevilsDuel maybe just maybe actually read the lore. dumbass.

[@acious5510]

I don't really like games like this but I just find the biology of the creatures fascinating

[@RoanokeGaming]

well I am glad you enjoy the videos bro!

[@T-REX-KNIGHT]

You should get into xenomorph strains too!

[@RoanokeGaming]

May be doing that in the future!

[@T-REX-KNIGHT]

@@RoanokeGaming witch one you would work on first? Drone,Warrior,Queen?

[@fs5866]

There is already a pretty good channel with Allen lore

[@technology2598]

I imagine that the fur of the watchmen could also serve as camouflage in more grassy or bushy areas after all there is a reason why wolves have different coloured pelts much like polar bears and their counterparts. Anyway man good vid if by any chance you could do subnautica that would be awesome!

[@RoanokeGaming]

that's a possibility as well! I haven't played subnautica but it might be something I am able to do later!

[@ismaelgingles9409]

Nice theory/idea hopefully in thr sequel for exodus we'll see them again and maybe have a new design.

[@myggdestroyer6485]

Just discoverd your channel today to watch your metro videos!

[@RoanokeGaming]

Hope you enjoy the other ones too!

[@lanxcapo7496]

i do agree that they look pretty much like my dog when it was still a puppy and i bathe it and that that pack mentality does fit with the one of a dog, but i can not help noticing the tail is way longer than any type of dog i have consciousness of

[@RoanokeGaming]

I imagine its still has to do with radiation, it lengthened the arms, I imagine it could do the same for the tails

[@willtheway9691]

@@RoanokeGaming ik this is 2 years later but the mutants appeared because of a bio weapon launched by the US not the nuke

[@iamrichrocker]

these developers put a lot of time and effort and study into their zoo of animals in these games..an in depth knowledge of zoology, biology and kinesiology ...and mechanical movements of them too..you have to be impressed with their efforts for sure..it makes sense in the roles that these monsters play..just another stellar effort to produce a fantastic game..thanks for these videos..

[@Black_shadow1996]

I think you should be forbidden from making puns from this point on...

[@RoanokeGaming]

Oh common you KNOW that was a good pun!

[@SnlDrako]

You could say that didn't pun out well.

[@sinwithagrin4243]

@@SnlDrako why do i deserve the PUNishment

[@Morgvl_Grim_Hive]

This is the worst thread in here... xD

[@SnlDrako]

@@Morgvl_Grim_Hive You've tuned into the wrong PUNisher movie kiddo.

[@pnk9639]

Yesss !!! More METRO !!! love every video on that topic and every video of your's as well !!!

[@RoanokeGaming]

I am glad to hear that!

[@FearlessLeader2001]

Well...they’re doggos and I hope you can tame one in the upcoming game

[@RoanokeGaming]

how cool would that be!

[@christophershrimplin1849]

You and both

[@NXDf7]

the thing I don't get is that huge amounts of uncontrolled radiation can produce unpredicted mutations, I want to know how these watchmen all look similar, isn't there supposed to be different breeds, different types and classes of watchmen considering how unpredicted the mutations can be?

[@RoanokeGaming]

perhaps mutations induced many different creatures at the beginning, but only the successful mutations were around 20 years later, like a quick form of natural selection

[@Artik_Masterson]

Adding on to Roanoke's comment, the time in the game is a factor too. The main character existed before the war and during it. He was very young as well. So from the start of the war to present day, that's more than 20 years of radiation and natural selection. Given those two things, they breed and the successful are the ones who survive. So it's bound to be that there's cross-breeding and these creatures could be a large mix of canines with some prominent features.

[@kingsarues1586]

The other species/mutations may of also been expelled from the area due to disliking the climate or lack of prey/food. There could be even larger watchmen for example out their who left Moscow because there favourite prey migrated elsewhere. Thus new species moved in while others died and flourished due to a change in the ecosystem which is clearly imbalanced in metro.

[@h3nder]

It was a biological weapon, not a pure nuclear one.

[@Munjab]

Bro your voice is so soothing😂

[@RoanokeGaming]

haha thanks man! I am glad people think so because personally its nails on the chalkboard to me!

[@Munjab]

Na my voice is more like that lol

[@RoanokeGaming]

Maybe not!

[@silverace4741]

"watch's to pick out the oldest and weakest" proceeds to pick the hardest man to kill in the metro

[@Lidilly]

Good video! excited for the rhino one

[@RoanokeGaming]

Thank you! I am excited to make it!

[@Lidilly]

I've never known much about the metro universe, your channel is pretty much what got me interested in it, and so far i love it.

[@RoanokeGaming]

if you enjoy games with great story lines I bet you would enjoy metro!

[@Lidilly]

yea, i probably would, cant really afford anything rn though. Guess ill just replay the dead space trilogy, speaing of which dead space morphology was the thing leading me to your channel

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

The books aren’t half bad either.

[@juggernaut7591]

I think exodus gives a more distinct and obvious correlation between the mutant and real world creatures at least in appearance

[@tristanhelgerson7964]

Please please Please! Do the little stingray birds

[@RoanokeGaming]

I am actually currently trying to figure out what those are and if I can get some good footage of them!

[@tristanhelgerson7964]

@@RoanokeGaming please let me know if I can help in any way!

[@LordOfTheEyebots]

You mean the radioactive crows?

[@SussyFortnite]

Do all the misc creatures

[@sinwithagrin4243]

What even are those anyway? They're so cool looking

[@onyx6763]

Imagine mass effect lore mate pls consider that because I would binge watch the absolute hell out of that!

[@RoanokeGaming]

mass effect is planned for the future!

[@onyx6763]

Roanoke Gaming you absolute ledgend much appreciation from your only Aussie viewer!

[@jasperzanovich2504]

+Roanoke Gaming Only the animals or the aliens aswell?

[@lanxcapo7496]

i don´t know if i would get hooked to a mass effect lore series, but i do admit i would love to see a reapers video

[@SnlDrako]

Dude, just let me give a respectful pointer in the Asari race, those sneaky lasses seem to have some sort of subtle psychological manipulation that they appear to be having the features of whatever race is looking at them. This can be observed in action in the first Mass Effect when a turian and a salarian patron at the strip club argue over an asari dancer, more specifically if it looks like one or the other. Or was two other race? The point is, SOMEHOW they appear to have the features of a different race FOR EVERYONE. I mean a human, a turian and a salarian has VERY different facial structures, and the asaris look oddly humanoid for such a realistic setting. So my point is I think we don't actually know how they look like really. Even weirder this effect seem to persist even in images of asari, which can be observed in Mass Effect 2 if you wooed Liara in 1 and imported your save, there is a picture of her on your desk. Which truly boggles my mind and all kinds of lovecraftian warning bells go off in my mind about "sexy females, who seems to be attractive for literally everyone, regardless of race, gender, or any sort of previous encounter". It might be that you know a way it's biologically possible for something to be sexy for literally everything EVEN IN PICTURE, but I'd like to point to another possible explanation, the Rekni. The Rekni has telepathy. How? Beats the fuck outta me. But the queens telepathic ability is strong enough to manipulate a DEAD asari into a sort of speaking device to communicate with Sheperd in Mass Effect 1 AND hear his answers AND understand it. Also Liara literally shared her memories and consciousness with Shepard to help him decipher the message from the beacon in Mass Effect 1. So since it's clearly established that telepathy is real, and the asari has it, it might be that it's some sort of subconscious (or conscious, and it's just low effort, and they use it practically constantly) telepathic suggestion, that's so strong that it affects and alters peoples perception even after leaving the presence of the asari.

[@phelyckz3845]

Mate, at around 9:30 you forgot the metric system again :D

[@RoanokeGaming]

CRAP.

[@RhynnMedia]

Metric just complicates things ,

[@irememberjeepz]

I love these Metro lore vids! May I suggest you do vids on the electric anomalies and the Novosibirsk anomaly? Perhaps even a vid on the supernatural aspects? The invisible watchers? The politics of the Metro? I can’t get enough of these fantastically well done vids.

[@irememberjeepz]

BulletKingIsHere Tesla? Haha. It seems almost sentient. Hence why I’d like to see Roanoke do a vid.

[@findknightthesecond4317]

Dang your channel is growing fast

[@RoanokeGaming]

its settling down now but it definitely was!

[@killmour2359]

I find it interesting how all animals for the most part grew immensely with the radiation when in reality it usually stunts flesh and growth

[@umbranmierex2413]

Tbh, I don’t know if this makes sense but your voice makes me less scared for some reason. Especially with dead space 💀

[@RoanokeGaming]

Knowledge kills fear! but I think you are the first person to ever say that haha

[@CrispyChaos38]

Love these vids. Also how cool would it be if in exodus we could tame a certain number of creatures. Like a demon or a pack of watchmen/nosalis.

[@RoanokeGaming]

since its more open environment that would be awesome!

[@CrispyChaos38]

Roanoke Gaming can’t help but wonder just to what extent a watchmens intelligence goes since it may allow them to be taught how to use tools thanks to their hands. This plus taming means they could be used for many more functions than just killing, again depending on intelligence. Same might go for nosalisis to a lesser degree.

[@Discolittle]

Do a creature from bloodborn or dark souls

[@ShawndaPrawn]

I didn't think a Dead Space quote could be so applicable, but on Metro mutants: "They're not monsters, they're animals."

[@longboi8540]

*FORM A CIRCLE*

[@RoanokeGaming]

NO A LARGER CIRCLE

[@owynpeschke5964]

Roanoke Gaming NO, AN EVEN LARGER CIRCLE!

[@TheIronHordesman2]

Me: Looks at the kangal of my neighbour and he looks at me Also me: autistic smile and he hugs me. Good pack mate ain't he?

[@bogoid]

I support the dog/wolf theory, apart from the evidence you presented, in the novel when artyom is alone on the surface he's being chased by serveral dog-like monsters, which I assume the game's watchers are based on, and they behave like wolves (stalking the prey, moving cautiously, etc... actually that part is probably on of the creepiest in the entire novel)

[@jellyray1686]

i think its dogs since there already are rats in the metro i mean it could be a diffrent kind of rodent but i still believe its a dog

[@craigyoung3895]

But can we eat them?

[@RoanokeGaming]

we should be able to

[@notatruck2640]

@@RoanokeGaming good

[@RoanokeGaming]

thats a big steak lol

[@craigyoung3895]

Just add montreal steak spice any meat would taste good.

[@ananddhanola4623]

Everybody gangsta till they hear a watchmen howl No seriously that howl gives me chills

[@FrogEnjoyer17]

Russian Version of DC's Watchmen

[@RoanokeGaming]

somehow more horrifying haha

[@aeonianargos4284]

The Watchmen have always reminded me of the packs of wild dogs/pseudodogs in STALKER. It'd be interesting to see some lore on STALKER as well. It still is up for debate whether the two series are in the same universe.

[@RahatTheKiller]

Great analysis! Definitely do sound more like canines. I was hoping you'd touch on their similarity to Lurkers. Are the Lurkers baby Watchmen? Or are the Lurkers the REAL mutated rats?

[@RoanokeGaming]

glad you enjoyed it bro! I will be covering lurkers in a future video so maybe I can make that connection then!

[@aBANDIT.]

I first thought nosalis wear pigs and the dark nosalis wear hogs but after watching ur videos I agree they are probably shrews or moles

[@RoanokeGaming]

Glad I could convert you to my way of thinking! haha

[@aBANDIT.]

Roanoke Gaming holy shit thank you for replying to both my comments love from Australia 🇦🇺

[@RoanokeGaming]

absolutely my dude! and love from the US! haha

[@flapdaplap1537]

Nice

[@RoanokeGaming]

glad you like it man!

[@Vegito_Fanpage]

Person: Oh my god your pug is so cute! Their pug:

[@commissarstanley3055]

What does it eat? Everything

[@RoanokeGaming]

Omnivores will eat meat and vegetation, though I doubt these creatures are above scavenging too

[@commissarstanley3055]

Roanoke Gaming I can't help but imagine it's like some sharks in that it'll eat stuff that it can't even digest as we have seen when they pull tin cans and liscense plates out of the stomach of sharks

[@maxwellvindman7212]

I think I heard one of the npc stalkers say something about larger herds of watchmen with up to 300 members

[@kaukaz6621]

Pls,do a film about what kind of bomb was use to kill people in bulding in 1:14,beacose in the game we know is that was't atomic bomb.

[@RoanokeGaming]

Might be able to do that later!

[@kaukaz6621]

Thank you.I just was wery interested in this when i was play metro.

[@RoanokeGaming]

absolutely man!

[@kaukaz6621]

Roanoke Gaming thanks again,you are done a great job!

[@SussyFortnite]

Yes please

[@theimmortalsuperbeing549]

Demons are my fav and oh damn when you said fish that's what I thought when I fist saw that face because to me it looked like The Creature from the Blacklogoon.

[@RoanokeGaming]

demons are pretty cool, but watchmen have hands

[@theimmortalsuperbeing549]

@@RoanokeGaming So do people but that dose not help much if a Polar Bear is attacking you 😄.

[@KrugerTheFox]

WITNESS ME!!!

[@KrugerTheFox]

LMFAO

[@RoanokeGaming]

You have been witnessed!

[@KrugerTheFox]

Haha!

[@jasonscarborough94]

I lean slightly more towards massively mutated rat, but, Dog to Watchman would be a shorter process, at one point I thought they might be a descendant of one or more monkey species, but, it seems the Watchmen have lost to many traits you think a monkey would find advantageous for living in a Post-Apocalyptic city, and that's assuming they could survive winter in Russia with their climate controlled zoo enclosures destroyed or non-functional

[@TDenterpriser]

Do a cazador lore video please

[@RoanokeGaming]

Cazador, sounds familiar, cant remember exactly what that is

[@Snauss]

Big mutant insects from Fallout New Vegas. Based on the tarantula hawk.

[@technology2598]

Roanoke Gaming Cazador’s are from Fallout New Vegas and they are nasty all things considered. They are enlarged tarantula hawk spider wasps add to the fact that their sting can make a grown man cry for his mother and Fallouts density for mutated creatures I imagine the sting is far more effective since they were created at the Big Mountain research facility in the hopes of using them for war against the Chinese. There are two unique variants that are a bit tougher than most the Legendary Caz located at Silver Peak Mine being humongous and a more poisonous variation in Big Mt. If anything I hope that this helps ^^

[@runegud]

yay! more metro lore

[@RoanokeGaming]

hope you liked it!

[@runegud]

I loved it!

[@FrogEnjoyer17]

Maybe they are mutated Dog/Rat Hybrid

[@mr.angryman3599]

Nice Meme if they were part rat they would be cannibalistic which makes sense if they can't find food they just eat themselves

[@RoanokeGaming]

you never know!

[@renejaensch8723]

somehow their howl is one of the things i love the most about Metro :)

[@RoanokeGaming]

Its almost a staple of the game at this point!

[@KaiserDeclan]

Metro or fallout

[@RoanokeGaming]

BOTH

[@whoknows7337]

New Vegas

[@gold664]

I'ma have to go with Metro for the deeper atmosphere

[@juusohamalainen1346]

Metrout new exodus

[@ognjenivanovic7871]

Metro. Bc fallout is bs

[@sierra597]

Hey congrats on being featured on the Official Metro Facebook Page!

[@RoanokeGaming]

Thanks man! its really cool that they found my videos and thought they were done well enough to warrant the promotion!

[@adhdaiden6297]

*gets on knee* Roanoke will you marry me? No homo

[@RoanokeGaming]

We shall be wed on the first warm spring day

[@adhdaiden6297]

@@RoanokeGaming I await for that time my love

[@ognjenivanovic7871]

*The grooms best friend* WHAT UP FUCKERS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[@joshmatzner9332]

This made my day.

[@tycoonraptor7052]

I told my dog she was a good pack mate and she looked at me like I offended her great ancestors

[@P1K3L]

I think they're kinda cute, I wouldn't mind trying to domesticate one.

[@timreynolds292]

The howling when you are near, ringing the dinner Bell in a sense, leads me to believe that they are coyotes. I live in an area with packs of coyotes and they do the same thing when they find food.

[@seanhaskin4226]

dogs

[@RoanokeGaming]

they are indeed puppers!

[@sidhionoakbranch4871]

You had me convinced for a little bit, and granted, this subject isn't even anything I've pondered before, but this is a tough one. At around 5:30 you mention a few things that rats don't do, but if you actually look at them, they do something that dogs seldom do, but is very common amongst most types of small rodents: it stands up on its hind legs with its "arms" tucked close to the body. Besides that, the overall body language and animations seem to me to be a clear hint towards rats, especially in the walk animations, with its body and especially head relatively low and close to the ground with the joints in its legs significantly bent, as well as the sprint which looks more like a sequence of skips or jumps just like a rat would run, as opposed to a canine which would keep its body and head relatively steady and level to the ground even when running. However.. I agree with many of the other things you mention, so, yet again, this is a tough one. I'm also a complete amateur when it comes to this and am quite possibly talking out of my ass, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

[@marvelouschester4104]

You really like pinning comments don’t you?

[@RoanokeGaming]

LOVE IT

[@matthewfritz4629]

They seem more dog liked in rat like. Makes you wonder is radiation causing these mutations in these animals or was it more than just nukes that were dropped?

[@feralprocessor9853]

Right off the bat Papa Roanoke was done with family for the momment

[@codyrisling1718]

I am loving your channnel! You do lore and explain creatures from my favourite games know one else does! Keep up the amazing work.

[@RoanokeGaming]

Thanks bro! I am glad to hear you are enjoying the videos!

[@edwardkelliher4039]

Well at least you used the 4. Barrel shotgun #Quadshotbestshot

[@brodycaldwell9678]

This music has me on edge and listening for the first JoJo's Bizarre Adventures theme

[@user-gq4dy7ds4y]

So Where'd you get your.... Dog? Oh, Rufus? Yeah he's a rescue, we found him limping after he had a run-in with a Russian yao-guai.

[@Batflapers]

The laugh at 0:31, I'm sold

[@zmanthekiller6536]

I always thought closer to K9s. Thanks for showing more evidence for this!

[@RoanokeGaming]

Eggcellent! glad you agree my dude!

[@m1l22]

*_They look like a rat got jiggy with a Boxer and got a major growth spurt._*

[@RoanokeGaming]

the face is very similar!

[@m1l22]

Roanoke Gaming Holy shit you still reply to comments

[@tokenfinnishguy8714]

I hope you could tame one of these creatures in Metro Exodus- we'll see next year. (also I hope we get to meet the great bear we got to save from the watchmen in one of the past metro games as an easter egg or something. Hopefully.)

[@RoanokeGaming]

that would be cool! for both things!

[@tokenfinnishguy8714]

Agreed

[@tntsummers926]

Maybe you can tame the bear and it will help fight against another bear. Maybe a pack of wolves could help and you can make a pack (by sparing animals.). Ah that be just so cool, and imagine riding it, so manly.

[@dawgjit1111]

When you brought up dogs and how we should go and like talk to our pet or whatever i straight away went to my cat and cuddled her

[@COctagons]

"Watchmen may be able to be domesticated." Hope that works out better than that one performing Lurker...!

[@RoanokeGaming]

well the lurker worked....kind of haha I believe it would be like now, Hamsters are domesticated but not too many shrews, but dogs were more easily trained, may it would carry over into their mutated form?

[@googleuser5062]

i love the soft guitar music for the metro videos you do

[@RoanokeGaming]

I am glad you like the music! I feel it goes well with the metro series

[@googleuser5062]

​@@RoanokeGaming totally does, yeah.

[@nukafanatic2398]

I'm in love with the metro series keep doing the more videos plz they're very good

[@RoanokeGaming]

Glad you like them my dude! I will for sure have more coming out In the future!

[@rpinfernalpt7300]

Keep going with this amazing concept man👍🏻

[@RoanokeGaming]

Absolutely bro!

[@muggers]

Dude I dont even have this game but ur videos make me so wanna play it.

[@SkylerB17]

i prefer the facial design of the watchmen from the first 2 games as opposed to Exodus. i believe they appeared much more savage and dangerous in the first 2 games with how wild their teeth and eyes appeared.

[@rexyrex1599]

I am loving your videos dude,I am a big fan of creatures and monsters in video games and hearing the explanation and what they are is always cool. I’ve never even heard of metro 2030 but with all these really cool mutated animals I might have to check it out. Keep up the awesome work 😁!!!!

[@RoanokeGaming]

Glad you enjoy the videos bro! I would highly suggest playing the series, they have a great storyline in each game!

[@abrahamschuman1692]

You should be proud of your videos! They're very interesting but the thing I like most about them is how sincerer you are. You're making videos about things you like because you want to, something that is found less and less these days. Again, you should be proud of all of it!

[@RoanokeGaming]

I am very proud and fortunate my videos have found so many people! I definitely enjoy making them and dropping my humor into them whenever I can!

[@wolfman675]

My theory is that they’re probably a mixture between stray dogs and wolves that early On just after the bombs when food was scares stray dogs and wolves mixed to stay alive then through mutations cross breeding and survival of the fittest you eventually get a watcher

[@ismaelgingles9409]

Sounds like a good theory 👌 I hope in the next game we get more lore on the different mutants/monsters of the wasteland.

[@tylerbaum4236]

Your gonna like outlast . Do a video on the wall rider.

[@RoanokeGaming]

I am considering that!

[@claytonpatterson4249]

I love this channel because it combines biology and gaming in the best possible way(to me)

[@RoanokeGaming]

I am glad you like the content bro!

[@claytonpatterson4249]

@@RoanokeGaming Almost forgot, what do you think of a subnatica video

[@Rqptor_omega]

Dev:good job man but why are the creatures so weird and look nothing like our animals expect for the bears? Creature designer:oh I don't expect any madlad to try to explain which animals they are from Roanoke gaming:Hold my beer

[@gagaplex]

The claws are a good argument against canine heritage. Those are a massive change from dogs' paws.

[@RoanokeGaming]

thats the main issue I have figuring out exactly what it is, some people have said monkeys, but I wonder how true that is

[@lorisscianna7209]

This guy is seriously underrated

[@RoanokeGaming]

I hope one day to be up there with the greats!

[@chriswandell3570]

Dogs, I remember one scene in Last Light, where you hear watchmen howl, and its exactly like a dog does.

[@homeboyfuckedanalien]

You've seriously never heard of the grasshopper mouse? It howls and hunts scorpions at night.

[@deadmanzland]

Then there was me, playing hardcore ranger difficulty on survivor mode, near beat, filterless, and ammoless all through the initial encounter of the dark one. Let's just say, it was real *dark* for my sanity once Pavel decided to uh, "*dismiss*" my existence.

[@redimperator2527]

great vid keep up the good lore

[@RoanokeGaming]

Thanks bro! I am happy to hear you enjoyed it!

[@sikito2541]

Why are you so clever xd? Awesome video as always!

[@RoanokeGaming]

haha thanks for the compliment bro! dad jokes are my jam!

[@phil__e_cheesesteak5024]

I always got ferret vibes from the watchmen. The elbows and face match up slightly better. There is potential that they are a non solitary members of the mustelid family such as an otter.