The Biomass Creature in Metro 2033 Redux | Crane, Proposed Infection, Lore, and Morphology

[@RoanokeGaming]

Thank you for watching guys! Hope everyone enjoyed my hypothesis about the video! If you did, hit the like and what not and if you are new, subbing is a great way to stay up to date on videos! Hope y'all have a good one!

[@boogie_bogus]

pretty cool video!

[@suwacc3237]

Imagine if Tyler1 became a necromorph

[@georgelindsay9447]

Is the tribe the same as the one based around the dead island games because that's what it sounds like

[@blainehiatt4213]

Please keep doing metro vids they're awesome!

[@CreedofDarkness]

So... Kuru as a BW. That... that is terrifying. Thanks for the nightmare fuel Roanoke.

[@cyclemono4286]

Roanoke: people have sixth sense Miller: misses every shot (2:38)

[@RoanokeGaming]

Truly a master marksman!

[@BanishedSilentShadow3318]

No wonder why his daughter is better shot then him.

[@orangypteco8858]

This level honestly infuriated me because of how retarded Miller's AI is.

[@ShishouDzukiZaManako]

he just needs more WAAAGH ya git WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH

[@sinwithagrin4243]

Well it is Miller

[@ryaquaza3offical]

And this children, is why you really want to avoid eating nervous tissue

[@deafnoisemarine6294]

Eat confident tissue instead!

[@frankyhorn2475]

Badum ch!

[@AnimeShinigami13]

the new guinea cannibals became the way they did because the highlands of new guinea are so poor in terms of protein that these people are stuck roasting tarantulas. Westerners brought them pigs, which they keep today but for most of their history they haven't had livestock.

[@Sev3617]

Lmfao

[@sinwithagrin4243]

What about lung tissue?

[@RangerOfTheOrder]

In the game, D6 it's is sealed up pretty well. Even if it was able to psychically lure people toward it, they'd certainly be eaten by the nosalises. Look at all the crap a well armed team of Rangers had to get through. A majority of the biomass in D6 was probably there from the start or soon after the war before D6 became inaccessible due to disrepair and mutants.

[@SauceStrider]

Ranger Of The Order I think it was probabaly some of the nosalises who got lured by it.

[@RangerOfTheOrder]

@@SauceStrider possibly, although I find it unlikely as it would be very difficult for them to get around all the locked doors and airlocks.

[@acanofbacon914]

i kinda wonder when the biomass showed up though, since in metro last light it is rumoured that some of polis council came from D6 a few years after the war.

[@RangerOfTheOrder]

@@acanofbacon914 i don't recall that bit. I have two theories though. The remaining inhabitants were exposed to the infection after the council members left. Or it's just a plot hole.

[@shadowro7]

​@@acanofbacon914 im 99% certain in canon it was launched at this area instead of a nuke, its a bioweapon, and its not literally psychic, it uses pheromones like a fly trap.

[@zeonmx]

Fun note: Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of Metro series is a huge fan of original Fallout games. Apparently, he said the idea of D6 biomass creature is heavily influenced by The Master from Fallout 1. The fact that both creatures can use psych to influence other creatures and growing in size by absorbing other tissues is pretty uncanny.

[@Endertoxin]

"Human minds in the state they are now, but connected" Me: You literally just described a hivemind

[@bravomike4734]

But isn't hivemind a central singular mind that controls other minds? This mind is more like multiple personality disorder mind.

[@6thsavage]

So it’s the Russian version of The Master in the Russian version of Fallout

[@catosicarius3368]

it was inspired by it

[@Sev3617]

@@catosicarius3368 any evidence?

[@newwordblues3030]

@@catosicarius3368 dmitri was writing metro long before fallout became a realitt

[@Scorecatron]

@@newwordblues3030 Metro 2033 was published in 2005. 8 years after the first Fallout was released.

[@dieseldouche7735]

Either way Metro blows shitty Bethesda fallout out of the water. Fallout 4 was nothing but a middle finger to fans. The constant on edge gameplay and fear that metro delivers is something fallout could never dream of.

[@jaydenogden3064]

You should cover some of the supernatural things in metro eg: anomaly, ghosts, river of fate, voices in the pipes, great door

[@watercownumba1542]

Maybe all these are hallucinations.You know how people eat mushrooms there.Maybe they are hallucinogenic,but from ears of eating people started seeing hallucinations as reality

[@Joe125g20]

@@watercownumba1542 Or maybe Khan was right, and the nuclear bombs 'atomised' people and their spirits are left as the shadows on the wall...

[@jaydenogden3064]

It's possible but the anomaly, ghosts, and voices can damage or kill

[@ognjenivanovic7871]

Remind me, what's the great door?

[@jaydenogden3064]

It's the gate you go through with Bourbon and it tries to keep you from leaving

[@TheVojvoda]

Writer: we need a New obstacle Some dude walking out of an old movie theater high af: you know the blob?

[@Reznor1974]

Prion strong! There was a case where the Dept. Of Fish and Game in my state did an experiment with one strain of Prion known as "Wasting Disease" where they buried a Deer corpse infected with it, cordoned the area around the burial plot off and a year later introduced Hamsters to eat the grass that had grown directly over the grave. All the Hamsters died from the same Prion, which had left the corpse and was carried by the root system of the grass. Prions are incredible strong and durable withstanding super heated steam they use to disinfected hospital waste before its shipped off, to the point that we don't know how to "kill" it, so much as we atleast know how to make it noninfectious enough to render it safe.

[@embersaffron5522]

I'm sure we know how to kill it... but that is absoutly terrifying

[@Numitronic]

Well, we know how to "kill" it, I mean it's a protein. It's just really hard to selectively eliminate it without destroying everything else. We got a few cases of wasting disease around here. Hope we can get it under control before it gets out of hand. The local populace however seems quite hostile to the current efforts. Most people have a hard time understanding the nature of prion disease.

[@jackadevil9746]

Nah its easy get a prion designed to kill prions

[@jackadevil9746]

@OrangeManBad No you need a incendiary flamethrower

[@limitedbytimee7103]

You do realize prions are just defective protein strands right? Lmao making it not “infectious” is impossible

[@johnivanoplimo5172]

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream Cyka Blyat.

[@ognjenivanovic7871]

I have no thumbs and i must drink vodka Cyka blyat

[@lmao.3661]

They always find a way.

[@ognjenivanovic7871]

@Pepe The Platypus to hold the bottle. Duh

[@ohwell6422]

@@ognjenivanovic7871 kind of actually. I can tgink of about 3 ways.

[@CriminalGamingHimself]

Where has it gone, comrade John?

[@gunnargunnarsson5963]

Headcrabs,combine soldiers and the combine's war machines.A few suggestions

[@baldmendressedlikeeachothe4294]

I learn much more important info in your videos than what i learn in school. You deserve WAY more subs imo. Keep it up!

[@anonamouse1957]

Bald Men Dressed Like Each Other that’s because it’s about a topic that your interested in. Try to put a more positive spin on your school subjects, maybe even find something specific within them that you enjoy and you should have an easier time learning. :)

[@NeumaghAnon]

Bald Men Dressed Like Each Other I may not know how to plan a 401k but phew good thing they taught me the Pythagorean Theorum

[@Captain_Crump]

Fyrewound the Pythagorean Heiden will save your life one day

[@Captain_Crump]

Theorem*

[@davidjohnson7741]

@@anonamouse1957 "So, why did you choose biology?" "Learning how to cure the flood."

[@patrickholt2270]

The book assumes very rapid mutation in the wake of the nuclear war, such that survivors are being attacked by fully developed, stable mutant species within 3 years of the war, depopulating the surface world, according to the knowledge available to the people of the Metro. The Kremlin is taboo for the Metro's rangers, because anyone who sees the glowing stars atop the Kremlin's roofs is hypnotically compelled to run toward and into the building, disregarding all dangers in their way, and is never seen again. How the mass in the basement is able to make the stars glow and exercise a charm-like ability through them is never explained, but it affects Artyom, so it's true. Fortunately for Artyom, he is intercepted having seperated from his group, having glanced at the stars instead of avoiding doing so, and is knocked unconscious so he can be restored to his senses. Later, his team enter the Kremlin from below, via tunnel, and while looking for a way through it to their destination trigger the mass into attacking them. The grey mass activates the escalators leading up from below the secret government metro station and floods the station concourse. It is only driven away by copious flamethrower fire, so it is susceptible to burning.

[@anthonyapuzzo811]

The biomass was way better in the book, especially how it kinda hypnotises people with the gas and makes them jump in it. Especially when the kid jumped in, goddamn that was crazy.

[@MIKENIKEanimation]

Expanding on the “sixth sense” thing, have you ever *felt* someone looking at you and you turn to see them doing exactly that? Or have you ever looked at your friend trying to tell them something and they turn around without you ever needing to say anything? Pretty crazy to think these may not be coincidences.

[@BuggaBoy69]

Or when you think of a friend that you haven’t seen in a while and they call you/text you later

[@dabitodoroki6386]

Or have you ever had dream about something happening to you and then it happens the next day

[@essex3777]

I think part of that is instinct, for instance, I've had a steak of not trusting people in movies and games, starting to suspect and betrayal or something, and having said suspicions confirmed. The yamantau complex, that one asshole from The Darkest Mind, and a few T.V. shows. I'm not saying I can pick out a traitor instantly but i just have noticed that pattern.

[@BuggaBoy69]

@@essex3777 that’s a little different. Storytelling always hints at the ending throughout the story. Poorly written stories are easy to guess the endings to, a well written story will hint at the ending throughout but will be a lot more subtle. A good example was in Avengers age of ultron. I’m on my 10min break rn though so I’ll finish explaining later

[@parvislupisnavis1209]

Bugga Boy that’s a long ass ten minutes

[@SnlDrako]

A prion infection would not be more, it would be even LESS resistant to ionizing radiation. Think of prions as "naked", virii as "heavily armoured soldier" and bacteria as "heavily armoured soldier behind a sandbag". Radiation is a high powered tank shell. It's gonna shoot straight through the first two, but the third has a meagre chance of survival. Radiation damages the molecules of a cell, and a prion has no protective covering for it, it's simply absorbing the radiation , while bacteria has 1) protective covering, making at least somewhat resistant to rads (compared to the others), and can mutate to utilize the radiation. That all being said, now I'll completely abandon all of it, and propose a wildly different solution. Radiotrophic Fungus. Radiotrophy can develop pretty much spontaneously in certain conditions (Chernobyl has it, and part of the reason the rads are dropping so fast in the area) especially in fungus. Fungi can be carnivorous, can be chemolithotrophyc (eating non-organic stuff), and it's spores can affect the minds of creatures to do pretty complex stuff (like Ophiocordyceps, which forces an ant to climb some sort of height above their own hive, kill said ant once it's in position, and rains spores down on the unwitting hive). Fungi can develop all sorts of nasty defensive capabilities, and a carnivorous fungus can even evolve snare traps to capture prey. Fungi are known to converge in evolution in many ways, so a fleshy outlook is not out of the picture. This would simply bypass the necessity for Magic in it's entirety. It's weird, but but this is the opposite end of the Shrimps. Shrimps look plausible, but actually are bloody nuts. This looks nuts, but actually plausible.

[@unfortunateson1938]

This thing is either a fungal growth or a weaponized Amoeba.

[@SnlDrako]

@Mr Smiley Mold than you can imagine ;)

[@jakubolah7117]

First really scientific comment Ive found. Also from what I know prion is just badly made protein which the cells replicate badly so everything goes to shit but it isn´t sentient in a way that its alive. That´s why I think this really might be fungi, it makes much more sense

[@Scientist118]

Yes, I'm glad you covered this odd creature. What makes it neat was that this creature was inspired by the Master in Fallout 1.

[@andrewmolot3950]

U know the book was written before mass effect 1 was released right ?

[@baker90338]

Fallout 1 was in the 1990s

[@Scientist118]

@@andrewmolot3950 Yeah, I own the book.

[@Scientist118]

@@baker90338 I said inspired.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@andrewmolot3950 What's Mass Effect got anything to do with anything? I am so confused.

[@twopiecehoxton]

I heard of an experiment with a rng involving a plant in a dark room with a uv bulb. They put a plant in one corner of the room and set the bulb to shine on a random corner in the room multiple times. More times than not, it favored the corner of the room where the plant was placed.

[@mankdemelord6974]

You fools, it’s a Flood Proto-Gravemind!

[@kaspersaldell]

Exactly

[@ShishouDzukiZaManako]

its ork fungus ya git

[@ThatEffinMonke]

GLASSING TIME

[@veronicaclark3303]

Glassing time is right, get the imperum of man they will kill it.

[@nbharty7896]

Naw its the flesh that hates

[@KahunaSR]

I want to point out specific fact about your statement on 3:00. Humans can't influence computer generated random number, as this number is not truly random, but pseudorandom (calculated from seed, if you run your generator two times, with same starting seed, you get same values). BUT your statement is not invalid, if you use physical random generators (for example generation based on Brown Motion of particle in water OR neutron decay of isotopes). Not contradicting your statement, just pointing out some clarification information. Obligatory sorry for bad English.

[@viktorbihar629]

I really hate when your teacher says, "you need to learn proper English", but then you get a job in biology or something learning all these other cool words, to find that your grammar was just a bunch of rotting junk you were taught. I'm not saying that you don't need to know grammar, I'm just saying its not even that important, because if your smart, you will understand what someone is saying, even with bad grammar.

[@TheTrueFeleas]

Metro 2033: The Flesh That Hates, The Game

[@sGeeMoney]

So talking about the 6th sense... I looked around on the internet and couldn’t really find any good info on it. Maybe that could be a video idea? I am sure others are interested in it too.

[@ISAAC607]

The 6th sense is a combination of multiple undeveloped senses

[@NorthernNorthdude91749]

@@ISAAC607 It's psychic influence.

[@mumeisapostleiforgorwhatnu3207]

0:47 In the Metro 2033 [ NOT REMASTERED ] It was a Tail popping out and whipping the structure , Not shooting a blob

[@mattiasberglund6731]

Its not a tumor! - Arnold

[@guilhermehank4938]

Mattias Berglund *tumah

[@LanaYudistira]

cant wait for you to explain that human creature in Metro Exodus

[@ognjenivanovic7871]

You mean the winged humanoid?

[@UndyingSiren]

@@ognjenivanovic7871 the humanimals

[@kjj26k]

There are plenty of new creatures in Exodus I'm exited to see him tackle, especially The Blind Ones... Novosibirsk was a fuckin' Trip.

[@ognjenivanovic7871]

@@kjj26k those are LITERALY gorilas

[@sGeeMoney]

He made a video on them a little bit ago, if you haven’t seen it yet.

[@Mana-z6k]

1:18 that wrist doesn’t seem right

[@Stormtrooper-xp4yt]

I thought I was the only one that noticed that, damn you already beat me to that

[@Luna_LU6546]

HE'S CHANGING

[@theretard5825]

Ow

[@mr420quickscops2]

Probably should’ve read the comments before I screamed it into everyone’s faces :L

[@theretard5825]

@@mr420quickscops2 oof, I hate when I create an original comment and then I scroll down and see the same comment two years ago

[@singularity1130]

I figured the blob to have a pair of very sensitive touch neurons for feeling the shift in air when a creature is walking by. It would be able to tell what, where and when there is something in the area by feeling the displacement of air in that shape and direction. Since it lines the halls it gets a 3 dimensional view for accuracy if there are pores for sensing touch in various parts of its anatomy similar to how we can tell direction and distance based on sound and our head/ear configuration. Alternatively, sensing heat is something Snakes do proficiently for hunting at night. This creature may have the same pit organs for finding its prey which would help in a dark environment like the underground. There are many methods of sight. Our way of allowing light reflected off a surface to fall into our eyes is fairly powerful but not the only one and why I love looking at how species like these have adapted to newer heights of evolutionary potential! Of course if you don't dissect, test and recreate these phenomena I can see how attributing supernatural powers or even agency would make sense. Which is saddening that the only evidence for a 6th sense is anecdotal. I'd kill to be able to see through a kaleidoscope of dimensions! Whats more likely happening is a combination of our sensory organs hidden feats and our brains ability to think deeper than our consciousness. Knowing something is missing but not knowing what because your brain has processed it after seeing the room, cutting out the extra features, assembling it and bringing up the core things for your higher consciousness to work with; it still knows that previously this doesn't match previous images. Knowing when someones behind you because you feel the sudden shift of temperature, change in ambient audio from the presence of another blocking those waves, and feeling the air displacement. Knowing a loved one died because your brain has been collecting information about the individual over time and while you've ignored the details it hasn't understanding a likely timeline and the learned conditions for death to meetup with the conclusion that they are most likely gone thus creating the feeling of dread. All of these things help you survive by giving you "foreknowledge." I mean isn't it cool that we have practically two people inside of us?! The two hemispheres of our brains are for all purposes their own beings working through a single connection! Check out Dr. Strange Loves Evil Hand for understanding or any patient whose corpus callosum has been severed. tl;dr I'm a nerd who knows the most useless of details fangirling over these videos! Please keep it up I love your work!

[@cinnamonsunshine9653]

Nice jojo reference

[@raamskrill4813]

When I look at the biomass I just remember the infested from the game Warframe for some reason.

[@tinde2070]

For me, it always stood out more as the redlight or blacklight virus from the Prototype games, but The Infested aren't too far off either. Now I want Roanoke to cover some Warframe lore. Could take a while if he didn't just google the facts but played the story instead.

[@Dualbladedscorpion7737]

For me it looks like an scp creature.

[@Fanrak-2700]

It is Nidus-time

[@tinde2070]

@@Dualbladedscorpion7737 Like SCP-610?

[@tinde2070]

@@Fanrak-2700 its always Nidus time

[@ianhines2302]

Less than a month until Exodus

[@yourarseismine1016]

One week left 😭

[@kjj26k]

Just finished it. Masterpiece, plenty new creatures too.

[@trelly-cc1pk]

Fucking sad

[@sobolanul96]

In the metro universe "bad" things existed even before the war. There is a mention of another city where the stations had installed automated doors that sealed the tunnels when there was no train stopped. They did this after a few work teams went missing and all that they found were the boots with feet inside.

[@theimmortalsuperbeing549]

This reminds me off SCP-2059.

[@SaberusTerras]

More like a sessile 610 to me.

[@Valkyries733]

The Immortal Super Being What about the Vore Hole. Which is a mputh in the ground with attracts humans using memetic hazards

[@prosyndication21]

That or the Apollyon SCP-001.

[@theimmortalsuperbeing549]

@@Valkyries733 I know that one too this is like it as well.

[@ryaquaza3offical]

Idk why but it reminds me of that huge thing at the end of the film Evolution (If anyone remembers it)

[@ADR69]

I liked your inclusion of the brain study. That was a nice touch.

[@flyingsquid6062]

Considering it's in the depths of the facility and it's an enigmatic blob it's probably inspired by the "elephant's foot"

[@lmao.3661]

Oh dear god

[@thedoruk6324]

Russians, especially soviet era, did so many tests about 6th sense/medium-pscyhics/ they explained-reveailed none of them ! D:

[@camillecirrus3977]

Dude, stop spamming 50 comments under a single video. Edit option exists.

[@thedoruk6324]

@@camillecirrus3977 Don't get so *triggered* , I just written different opinions about the topic, as I don't like write everything under one section.

[@maarten9272]

@@camillecirrus3977 Buddy, he has like 4-5 comments in this comment section. It's not all that much.

[@maarten9272]

But creating comment chains might be better than creating half a dozens individual comments.

[@lestatzapata6393]

project MK ultra, project stargate, project Phoenix 2 just to name a few

[@g0urd_dude246]

This creature always interested me. I can't wait for the Summoner vid

[@VanityOfEliCLee]

Can I just say I love how scientific this series of lore videos is?

[@omaririzarry4256]

Your metro lore videos are the best. Please do a video on the Anomaly. Keep up the great videos.

[@MandSup]

R.I.P. Oleg what a way to go... Legit made me cry The game is great but it didn't do justice what the biomass is and what it's capable off

[@MPDEAR6060]

In the game it's heavily implied that the Biomass was a Soviet experiment gone haywire. When teh Rangers first enter the control room they use teh computer and read out experiment results: 1. Died, 2. Destroyed, 3. Died etc These are clearly failed or terminated early instances of the biomass. I'd say it safe to assume that further mutation as a result of increased background radiation is possible. But the core of the biomass' biology was a result of Soveit genetic experiments.

[@Mister_Kourkoutas]

Matthewdeargameaudio nah they’re checking on the status of missile launchers controlled by D6.

[@Lorenzo_631]

"The possibility that there is a poorly understood disease out right now with similar effects if altered"....thanks for making me even more paranoid.

[@bandanasnek]

Who else cant wait till he covers the biology of the fallout creatures

[@azfk]

Disgusting amoeba :(. Hurtful. #notallamoebas

[@thedoruk6324]

Great Upload ! I remember even the Book mentioned in a chapter a similiar bio-engineered creature, a type of Slime. Under the hypnotic Red star. But, we all know that the mighty *exodus* will gave so many Creature and Monsters ! :D

[@luridus584]

This video is super informatove, i really admire Your knowledge, we need more in depth biology like in this video!

[@thechaptermasterkodiak2710]

It kind of reminds me of the Master from fallout 1

[@sleepyslipper9208]

1:19 Holy crap that right wrist.

[@danielclarke3280]

When you like the video before it even starts because you already know it's good

[@lucasgordon7232]

love the channel and all the lore videos !

[@HankJ666]

0:15 -Even so far as to attract the most inteligent creature... -Oh, dolphins! -Humans -Huh?

[@alexradice8163]

Ya Dolphins can enter the metro

[@sofiadragon1979]

With the way that you do your explanations there is no way to be bored, honestly I'd love even more details if possible, its so fascinating.

[@RangerOfTheOrder]

I've been waiting for this one

[@classydemongaming847]

Finally another addition to the metro info series, absolutely love your channel man.

[@thedoruk6324]

4:15 - *clap! clap!* Roanoke/Biology Review *clap! clap!* I have to write this down XD

[@OnePolishMoFo]

Before I watched the video I told myself I was gonna be real impressed if he can find the feet on this thing.

[@RoanokeGaming]

Well, Im sure there are feet in there somewhere, probs just melted down lmao

[@tylerdunn9683]

@@RoanokeGaming yeah we know you got a feet fetish 😏

[@Toast-com]

*"Hey look it's a Wall Guardian."*

[@alexboehm3919]

Such a fascinating creature. It’s interesting how the blob is in important locations like D6 or the Kremlin. Like what are the chances it would be there instead of a hole somewhere. The creature must be massive if it can spread out all over D6

[@igodreamer7096]

Good hypothesis, man! =)

[@DarkwolfRedsoul]

It had never crossed my mind that it could be a prion based disease that was the beginning of this creatures creation but it all seems to be possible. I love your channel. You often seem to find possibilities that most people hadn't thought of.

[@calebsessions1095]

Hey Roanoke nice video man. Keep it up, your videos get better and better with each upload. I don't think I've watched a video of yours that I haven't enjoyed. I've recently been playing the first dead space game. I beat the game and liked the ending but something is bothering me. Why didn't the Hive Mind flat out kill Isaac? It does attack and fight you with intent to kill, but with it's massive size and show of power it could easily destroy your ship and wipe the floor with you. Also just to add on I have seen dead space 2 and 3's story but still have this question. I feel like the Makers or Brother Moons would have won pretty easily if Isaac was out of the picture.

[@daveeverett3169]

isaac was wearing plot armor

[@calebsessions1095]

@@daveeverett3169 Lol I'm starting to think that's the reason

[@DarksteelHeart]

Stalkers? Don't you mean the Rangers? It's been a long time since I beat Metro 2033 but I think they were called the Ranger Order.

[@jiggler1-1]

You do actually have a sixth sense, but it's not anywhere near approaching psychic. It's simply the ability to sense where parts of your body are in relation to other parts (I.e. if you close your eyes and put your hand on a specific body part, you're using this sense. I forget what it's called, exactly.

[@-Ski1-]

Isn’t there also another sense? the sense of time

[@lmao.3661]

There are lots of senses

[@-Ski1-]

Yeah, I heard there are some where around 30

[@markusseiler2693]

Proprioseptive sensation, it's what police check during field sobriety tests to see if you're drunk

[@Subsaibot2526]

When you were talking about our minds being more connected to the universe, I just pictured Eric (from Tim and Eric) Doing that mind blown movement from their space segment. Kudos to anyone who knows what I'm walking about.

[@uncledoctor6920]

I'm still gonna call it "the Master" since it looks like it is meant to make super mutants.

[@falloutwubb557]

Incredible video my dude. I "studied" this disease a while back for an essay just because it was interesting. Super cool to see it possibly have an effect in Metro

[@starsilverinfinity]

_loud food noises_ lol great vid

[@Dapper0Scrapper]

This is really cool and clever, was not bored at all during the video but kept me fascinated :D

[@GunlessSnake]

At least the Order purged this thing right quick after setting up shop in D6! Who knows what else it could've done had it been left to linger?

[@GunlessSnake]

@ZMan1471 I believe that it was stated in *Metro: Last Light* somewhere that the Biomass was purged once the Order moved in to secure D6.

[@GunlessSnake]

@ZMan1471 Have you SEEN D6? The place is just FILLED with weapons of all kinds. Pretty sure that a few chemical weapons or flamethrowers got the job done. It's not a retcon if there was never anything to conflicting information to begin with.

[@kjj26k]

@ZMan1471 HOW did you spend ALL your ammo on the ameobas?! They take like 3 bullets to kill, and you have Miller helping!

[@kjj26k]

@ZMan1471 What scientist? That was a Red Line Double Agent of course he could get out.

[@williamnixon3994]

From what I heard, I always thought that what was dropped on the Kremlin was a neutron bomb, as it 'kills everything within it's radius but leaves the buildings intact'

[@oc4583]

Does anybody remember in this game when Khan told you that you could listen to the voices in the pipes, for me that was 10/10 the scariest thing that happend

[@samuelsansregret9746]

Its scarier in the books, especially when it lures children into the tunnels never to be seen again

[@kjj26k]

@@samuelsansregret9746 well that turned out to be a cannibal cult.

[@kjj26k]

This is in Exodus! At the _Very_ start of the game, you walk past pipes and childrens laughter can be heard, I stopped, crouch down, and stayed for a bit listening for more, waiting...but nothing else. A chilling, but also really comforting ina way? Its a great callback.

[@greatsim95]

This thing was waaaay more dark in the book! I remember reading the scene when the biomass hypnotize artyom and his squad, and then the hypnotized kid jump in the biomass and Artyom hear the thing eating him while the kid still laughing....that creeps me out

[@Blockinstaller12]

So... what is more massive, the Biomass or the Leviathan from Dead Space?

[@thedoruk6324]

Leviathan made from thousands of human material, meanwhile biomass slowly 'constructed'. By biology wide, the biomass. But by the sheer immense size & strenght, Leviathan.

[@amf1435]

As always: your mom.

[@fantom8713]

Dang man.. I love your channel. This has been an amazing video.

[@velrzvertigo8215]

wait russia? SCP 610 CONFIRMED

[@1bossofbosses]

Nice video so its basically like a miniature Hive Mind of unknown possibilities. It would suck to live in a time like that. I learn more and more from your channel each day. Your channel is like a well made sandwich that give great sustenance and a pleasurable feeling after wards.

[@Inquisitor_Redacted]

Drop some science on us.

[@singularity1130]

PrPsc's problem is that the plaques formed get in-between the Dendrite of a Neruon cutting off the connection meaning that part of the body can no longer function. The larger the pile of Misfolded Prion's the more they block even up to capillaries leading to lack of oxygen and brain function in that area + atrophy (Which causes the holes to develop). It's incurable because it's 17-20nm in size and can be considered more a force of nature than biological. The only way to "cure" it is to cut it out, out-heal the damage done or discover a way to inject an Enzyme capable of reversing one of the 3 parallel beta pleated sheets so it loses the property to stick together and change others. But the first one doesn't work too well because prions are too small to hope you got them all; the second, neurons don't go through mitosis so no "healing"; third good luck finding an Enzyme altering agent that doesn't alter something else critical in the body because anything going in you will affect all of you as it passes through the Circulatory System Highway. This is why this disease is so frustrating to deal with. It's a force and not something alive we can just melt, eat or send bacteriophages to kill. The body has no systems for allowing or denying it's creation like we can do against viruses and killing the host cell just spreads the "infection". PrPsc is like our bodies true self-destruct button. In which case the same could hold true for that monstrosity. If we choose to go the Prion "Bio"-Weapon route we might be able to reconstruct a mis-folded Prion that misfolds it's unique Prions killing it. The cool thing is, unlike a virus, there *should* be no chance of mutation and/or cross species transfer to us; likened to the plastic floating in our bodies, we can't break it down or use it but it doesn't kill us so it just hangs around no probs.

[@thedoruk6324]

Suggestions for the next video, Deacon and/or Black Pathogen from Alien/Prometheus Trolls and/or Wurgen-Werewolf - esque monsters from God of War Watchmen, Lurker or Demon from Metro 2033, they have glorious re-designs of Exodus.

[@spirameowmeow]

Black pathogen will be cool

[@thedoruk6324]

@@spirameowmeow Agreed. Its the mutation & Faster Evolution Virus combined !

[@demokebab2314]

Me after i heard of this disesase:hans get ze FLAMMENLAUNCHER

[@texslav9896]

Not trying to be rude but there not stalkers there rangers

[@icetide9411]

1:17 watch the right hand, I always found this cutscene's model glitch funny

[@djcuevas1057]

In the fanfic fallout Equestria project horizon they actually used a prion disease as a source of a significant amount of raiders. Like the absolute worst canibals rapists murderers were often infected by the raider disease. It was often spread to groups of people through infected animals and such and people being forced to be converted. Such as imagine a Yao guai ate a raider once and then later a group of settlers killed and ate it. Therefore another group of raiders. It was a really serious problem in a place called hoofington and the enclave of the fic actually tried to weaponize it.

[@djcuevas1057]

Whether ponies or humans you can always trust the enclave to be the biggest fucking assholes around.

[@totalyspy1]

Dj Cuevas true

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

I wonder if the mass might be partially feral?

[@diggernick901]

God damnit, I was lured by a cool lore video into studying about IRL biology yet again.

[@albertwesker4053]

Great video! In the books, it does talk about the mass having an insane influence on the brain. However, it also talks about how the mass consumed waste and even people (supposedly) months before the bombs even dropped. And some character ( I think) said something about entire city blocks being deserted because of it.

[@FR-577]

I had to go through this whole level, the spiderbug area when you’re separated, and the nosalis fight from the prologue with no ammo in any weapons after I went all gung-ho right at the beginning of the final levels. As a result of knifing these guys my gas mask was also completely shattered, with no human enemies around to take one from. 90% of this was just running away as Miller killed them so I appreciate the chance to actually take a closer look, great video as always!

[@kulovicz3152]

I can still remember how in book it was described as black liguid somehow totally blocking any racional thinking and replacing it only with desire to jump into it. Nice video about something so missed, keep it up.

[@Maxwell_Brune]

0:19 Dark ones: Excuse me?

[@888bluefish]

Glad you covered this, I was wondering what these things are. Keep up the videos! I'll be sure to watch your future Metro Exodus Videos!

[@djcezcez8120]

In game in different stations, you can hear chatter about "the kremlin" and its tendency to draw stalkers in. I think it is related to this.

[@cecarter10]

Reminds me of that gigantic single cell in the movie evolution.

[@maulwurfmitgasmaske5271]

I have been waiting for this video and it's great ^^ good job and thanks that you did go with the book

[@Will-hp5mb]

tfw you first find this channel and you fall in love so you begin to binge watch each and every lore video.

[@512TheWolf512]

it's interesting how probability manipulation is exactly how ESPers in "a certain magical index" anime series get their super powers

[@igorjovanovic3106]

Didn't know I singed up for a biology lesson

[@glenngriffon8032]

i would love to hear you analyze The Many from System Shock 2

[@bogoid]

a very intersting video again thanks Roa. I have to add the biomass chapter in the book was probably one of the creepiests.

[@gamersanomaly215]

Dude your videos are so great! I have commented on a few just because i want to say i really like what you do.

[@theforcedpharmacist9470]

Your videos are at there best when they go philosophical keep up the great work

[@kittymaster3210]

Absolutely love your content. look forward to it every time.

[@levizinck3139]

I'm super happy you used to novel for reference when it comes to the blob. That section of the book for me was just unbelievably interesting and frightening all in the same go. I'd have to say our stalkers going to the Kremlin was by far the best experience for me and the best depiction of how odd and terrifying the wasteland is.