Why You Wouldn't Survive Horizon's Faro Plague

Deviating from zombies and viruses, we discuss a robot uprising by the rogue Chariot line that wiped out the planet so horrible, it was BASICALLY considered a plague for how the mechanical menace spread like wildfire across the globe. Today is PART ONE of WYWS Horizon Zero Dawn!
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[@WowSuchGaming]

will be on an extended hiatus from making long form videos for a bit so I can focus on 3 LONG videos for your viewing entertainment! Thanks for watching today and stay tuned for some streams here and there! Love ya and stay wow!

[@lolexplosions4214]

Hey wow such gaming

[@lolexplosions4214]

Can you do

[@lolexplosions4214]

Cyberpunk 2077

[@tallybarnie5453]

Wow Such Gaming Thank you!!

[@tankedwarthog6424]

More horizon please I would love to see your take on the lore before horizon 2 comes out

[@JustSilverCh]

Honestly the Faro Plague is one of the most brutal and terrifying apocalypses in fictiom

[@RyukaXV]

reminds me of the Muv Luv universe

[@baldian3]

@@RyukaXV I was thinking about that as well. Conceptually the BETA and Faro's robots are similar. They both consume a planet's biomass and can be found in massive numbers.

[@theTerribleTyler]

The one part I never got was if the Chariot Line could hack and control other units. Couldn't another chariot line go against the other and it be an endless stalemate. To my knowledge it was only the one deployment that went rogue. Could ol Teddy just make a backdoor patch into the others that aren't rogue and then send them along to basic attrition the front lines of any fuel. Maybe I'm just remembering this all wrong or something.

[@kaelanirevyruun1676]

theTerrible Tyler I think they might be hack-proof even to each other, to prevent loss of profits for FAS

[@baldian3]

@@theTerribleTyler My memory of the story might be wrong but if I remember correctly at some point all of Faro's robots went rogue.

[@notsohumblebee5150]

One of the things that made horizon so unique to me was that they knew they couldn’t save the current humans. There was just no way. They were faced with something that was far too ravenous for them to deal with, so instead of saving the humans, they just tried to preserve them.

[@user-vf9sv1xu3v]

Ikr, imagine having a class in human history where at one point we didn't even exist. So cool

[@lee.as.in.l.e.e.7394]

@@user-vf9sv1xu3v Hopefully Apollo could be restored to educate the new generation of humans a thousand years after the Faro Plague

[@miarose7315]

@@lee.as.in.l.e.e.7394 and after Faro tried to erase history so that people wouldn't know what a piece of worthless trash he was

[@sparknazo]

@@miarose7315 that part was him being a straight marvel movie villain lmfaoo

[@natelee6061]

@@sparknazo Indeed

[@ikizbarabum202]

couple small things, the idea wasn't that the robots would run out of fuel, it was that after about 60 years or so, GAIA, the AI that was in fact Zero Dawn, would be able to decrypt the encryption and deactivate the robots permanently, the only reason why they didn't do that themselves is because they had 15 months left, where the decryption would take 60 years.

[@samuelm5140]

Good point. What was the point of having built in restart sequences again?

[@kyoza5069]

@@samuelm5140 The idea was that HADES (subfunction AI) would take over from GAIA if certain circumstances were met. Such as things like massive superstorms setting stuff alight, low amounts of oxygen, the like. Basically if something goes wrong, HADES had a signal to awaken the Faro robots, which would reconsume the biosphere and after they were finished, GAIA would take control again, send out the codes to shut them down, and start over. Basically a failsafe for if GAIA fucked up

[@treacherousjslither6920]

@@kyoza5069 Why would there be a need to reconsume the biosphere? If there were super storms or whatever, then that would destroy whatever life Gaia is attempting to seed. No need for Hades because that's just keeping around what caused the problem in the first place. Ridiculous.

[@nomireelnom4265]

@@treacherousjslither6920 destroy the biosphere to eliminate the impact of life on the environment so the machines don't have to compensate for them, such as bacteria or something releasing deadly gases, forests influencing the formation of those superstorms, or the basic ecology just becoming too damn hostile for humans to get settled

[@soulsemblance3163]

@@nomireelnom4265 I am dumb can you explain this is layman's terms

[@carldooley9344]

To be fair, no one survived the Faro plague. That was the whole point of Zero Dawn

[@perfredelius]

Ooooor did he?

[@t84t748748t6]

wel there where a few elite science guy's ho did survive those ho worked on the horizen zero dawn project on should have died from old age

[@dmnlord3469]

@@t84t748748t6 no faro killed them

[@kingsleyndam]

Yup

[@absolutejoy2702]

@Ruosong Gao I’m fairly sure Faro killed them. Under the notion that the alphas wouldn’t listen to him - Faro killed them. So if he had the power to kill the top scientists, he most likely killed everyone else who could potentially finish the work that he wanted to destroy

[@Error-ke1tf]

The Faro Plague is genuinely one of my favorite apocalypse scenario. It's just so grand in scale, and yet so smartly written. Add onto it the unique Aesthetic of tribal humanity rebooted and you've got yourself a world you genuinely want to preserve.

[@prrobloxtrollgaming69advan12]

I haven't play it yet is it that really good?

[@Error-ke1tf]

@@prrobloxtrollgaming69advan12 The gameplay is top notch, the character is well written (with dialogue choices to express how you want them to in the moment) and the story is fantastic. You should play it if you are able to. Definite 9/10 experience.

[@prrobloxtrollgaming69advan12]

@@Error-ke1tf Ok i will definitely try it :)..

[@2kmichaeljordan438]

The only problem I had was that some boss rooms were too small

[@ALPHACIPHER]

@@2kmichaeljordan438 yep *looking at the Cauldron with the Thunderjaw*

[@marhip7182]

The lore in this game is a masterpiece.

[@kaelanirevyruun1676]

Not to mention, the main character is legit on par with the sexiness of say... Basically any top porn star right now 🤣 Oh and did I mention? That’s WITHOUT nudity 🤣 Aloy is just that hot 😍 No exaggeration, when I first saw the “growing up” timelapse, I actually said aloud “Holy shit she grew up HOT!”

[@yungmahon715]

Cringe moment

[@failandia]

@@kaelanirevyruun1676 that is the most virgin comment i've ever seen

[@Ntp_602]

This channel and game are masterpieces

[@justsomeguy6336]

Cewkaurai Zok'Aerrus Dude she’s not that hot.

[@BlackVulcan22]

I forgot how depressingly beautiful Horizon's story was... Its a wonder because of the setting and dinosaurs, but the back story was depressingly entertaining as it unfolded.

[@Jacob-zk1jy]

I cried ngl

[@BlackVulcan22]

@@Jacob-zk1jy The higher ups, and tech elite knowing its the end of it all...the soldier's audio logs, turning from cheerful to deperate, to hopeless, the betrayal by Faro...shit was heavy

[@RomanHistoryFan476AD]

you know what annoyed though is that maybe they over hyped how powerful the chariot robots were, i mean one woman with a bow and arrow can take them down easy enough people armed with better weapons failed.

[@sydneylawson484]

@@RomanHistoryFan476AD tbf she was only fighting a couple at a time, if that, never fought the HUGE ones, and they were no longer able to replicate. She definitely had a huge advantage.

[@zeratul____1228]

@@RomanHistoryFan476AD The Faro bots Aloy fought had been left for decades without any maintenance and lack the ability to replicate without a Horus, no wonder they were weakened.

[@mg-us7ug]

The best part of this game was how you slowly start to piece the clues together as you go along, trying to come up with ways humanity could've survived, and slowly realizing that it didn't. Humanity literally started over from scratch. Reminds me of a history podcast I was listening to about the Cold War, which posited: "It is worth considering the point at which our species becomes so good at conflict and warfare that we develop the ability to destroy ourselves."

[@omartheOni]

Humans possess the power to send humanity back to the Stone age

[@jordanfelt5978]

Which podcast was this? That sounds interesting.

[@michaeledmunds7266]

Meanwhile, many years in the future: "Wow, that's a scary looking robot. I'm going to shoot it with my bow."

[@Kinos141]

And win!!!

[@guycross493]

Mary Sue vs World Ending Mechanical Plague

[@Etzelsschizo]

@@guycross493 Aloy isn't a Mary Sue

[@ceve]

@@guycross493 They only fought small pieces of the original Chariots, never a completely functional one

[@extremelyboredtatsumaki.495]

@@guycross493 Aloy only ever faced 1 or 2 small foot-soldier type robots at a time. The ACTUAL Faro plague consisted of SWARMS of THOUSANDS of those robots, which walking factories making more of them while walking amongst them like mobile, land-walking aircraft carriers. So, not really a Mary Sue, she just never faced the Faro Plague. Modern Humanity actually took out a lot of robots, but the robots were simply endless and more were always created.

[@tidela4714]

Ted Faro was an absolute devil. we already knew that from the first game, but somehow, the second one just made him even worse

[@ZigZag-mw9ir]

The Zero Dawn project wasn’t just waiting, as it was an Artificial Intelligence, Gaia was able to break the encryption on the Faro Plague causing them to shut down. That is why all Hades needed was a signal to reactivate them, as they were the main tool to restart the biosphere it Gaia made a mistake.

[@KRYMauL]

That’s why the sequel will likely be about reanimating Gaia

[@keyboardtaskforcephi-3689]

@Troll uNeed it takes 50 years to decrypt. Thats why human leave the hacking for gaia. the faro plague will destroy the world in 15-18 months.

[@sandornagy3484]

@@keyboardtaskforcephi-3689 500*

[@rolan4dezwinz381]

@@KRYMauL I never understood why people wouldn’t upload their minds into cyborg bodies? They have the capability of making advanced AI, then they should have the capability to live among the new robots. Coexisting would be the best option, and humanity could make a renewable organic farm for the robot that’s desire to consume. If I had the option, that what I would opt-in for, hopefully by 2050 that will be a option.

[@KRYMauL]

@@rolan4dezwinz381 How exactly do you make money from these "ghost?"

[@gorkhawarlord4943]

imagine if Mass effect Reapers comes to harvest earth because the cycle is about to be complete and all they find is a barren planet filled with FARO robots?

[@kyoza5069]

HAHAHA That'd honestly be funny as hell

[@josephdeliz3455]

They'd be like "Well...fuck...now what Carl?"

[@steppin-razor]

I could see them taking control of the robots

[@neroblack2704]

Integrate the technology, imagine a Horus/Metal Devil being able to transmit the conversion sound the reapers make.

[@Bhoddisatva]

The Reapers harvested the Galaxy every 50,000 years periodically for a billion years. I'm sure they ran into this scenario more than once on some devastated world or other. AI going rogue on its creators was a long standing problem and the impetus for the creation of the Intelligence (which then went rogue on its creators with the Reapers and started the cycles).

[@jellythejellyfish7035]

Robots: You can't defeat me Humans: I know, but he can *Rust* Edit: iT's a joKe gUys

[@roonkolos]

Self replicating

[@bigredwolf6]

Bots: haha titanium no rust

[@dat_gamerboiomg106]

@bigredwolf6 YOo, titanium no rust!

[@mysterio1967]

Gold robots be kings

[@mattycraig2938]

Rust: I have a better idea let’s have this big guy fight instead As glavenus jumps and slices the machine in half

[@bmouch1018]

"You wouldn't survive the Faro Plague!" Yea, I think that was a major plot point in the game. Like the whole point of ZD and Enduring Victory was because you wouldn't survive.

[@Eugenia123345]

Ikr.

[@LordofFullmetal]

He's fully aware of that. What I'm questioning is why you clicked the link to this video just to waste your time making a point he already knows.

[@BigPanda096]

It's because some people are under the impression they could have if they hid really well in the mountains or something. Not realizing the biosphere itself collapsed so bad that the Alphas were killed by venting their atmosphere out due to it being unbreathable at that point. No one outside the bunker was alive when Faro kills the Alphas. Everyone is already dead outside unless they made it to an atmosphere sealed and circulating bunker themselves, they did not live past that point. The naive think they would do better without understanding what was happening.

[@Dimitris4110]

This litteraly happened with the AI of Ghandi in Civ 5. A small mistake in his programming and he literally went on a nuke spree.

[@alexxander966]

Thanks for simultaneously refreshing my memory on the lore of Zero Dawn, now I feel ready enough to play the next game

[@kyoza5069]

Same even though Forbidden West doesn't come out until next year 😭😭

[@sleepyboi7542]

Horizon bots: *ZUCCS LIFE* The people: But why? Why would you do that? Bots: because screw you

[@mustachecake8071]

i mean, faro created them... so he's just holding a middle finger to everyone that lives

[@hex8881]

@@mustachecake8071 And to the future people with his idiotic reasoning, don't want to give spoilers but Faro is an even bigger asshole than you first believe

[@nicholasjonas2505]

Plus there's no plants. No plants means no oxygen.

[@ChiliFrog]

"Cuz we hungry"

[@guycross493]

Can't they, ya know, mine resources from the solar system? Biomass is an inefficient source of power as well as very scarce compared to the multitude of other ways of harvesting energy and materials.

[@thekiller7994]

Why you wouldn’t survive Terminator’s Judgement Day

[@jackbartholomaus6510]

I'm sorry, but he only does video game scenarios

[@matt36866]

Jack Bartholomaus not true

[@jackbartholomaus6510]

@@matt36866 What do you mean?

[@dustinsmile1896]

@@jackbartholomaus6510 means not true lmao

[@jackbartholomaus6510]

@colten bennion I've watched his videos for over a year already.

[@LucDutra92]

Another detail worth mentioning regarding the Chariot fuel solution: They didn't use biomass conversion as a primary source of fuel. This feature was only to be used in case of an emergency should something go wrong with their normal fuel supply line. But as the rogue army started to replicate and spread out of control, switching over to their alternate fuel solution was the first thing they did in order to keep going.

[@Mgl1206]

In the hologram in FAS HQ, Elisabet mentions "the real cause of the glitch" which leads me to believe that Faro tries to sneak a software patch into his swarm but there was a problem with the patch or there was an issue updating the swarm. Whatever the cause the update corrupted something causing the swarm to become unshackled from the chain of command. Meaning all their previous orders became null and void. Specifically the one to only self replicate/repair and refuel in emergencies. Meaning they no longer had schackles on that system thus leading to the extinction of life.

[@legend234567]

faro: Were gonna make a line of robots to end all war also faro: we made them self relipicating and gave us no way to shut it down from our side if anything went wrong.

[@vex9896]

We made a line of robots that are capable of making all life on earth extinct. But we don't think it will happen.

[@alexgaming9101]

He had a way to shut them all down, but something malfunctioned and they stopped responding.

[@reddemon6668]

@@alexgaming9101 no he didn’t. Faro had told all his scientists that he specifically did not want any way to hack the system, this included no back doors or emergency failsafe

[@Boris_V]

@@reddemon6668 Yes he did. As long as you have control over the robots you can shut them down, so he did have a way to shut them down. However they lost control because of a glitch and they didn't have en emergency failsafe in case something like that happened.

[@RaidFiftyOne]

@Virgus-vj3xr Really late but, I don't think this is gonna happen any time soon, because 1: Nobody is STUPID enough to not add ANY fail safes 2. Nobody is STUPID enough to allow them to make biomasses fuel, WHEN WOULD THAT EVER BE NEEDED BESIDES YOU WANT TO CUT THERE POWER?! 3. Nobody is STUPID enough to make "peace keepers" that can CONSUME LIFE!!! (This is the most likely to happen irl ngl) 4. Nobody is STUPID enough to give them guns and the ability to absorb life, YOU ONL NEED ON BOTH IS JUST OVERKILL!!! Ted Faro was not very smart. Well other then wiping Apollo, I agree with him there. Letting them create robots will only lead to history repeating itself.

[@jackbartholomaus6510]

Why you wouldn’t survive Resistance's Chimera Invasion.

[@miniatureben3558]

YES

[@miniatureben3558]

Daedalus Agrees to this puny human

[@galacticyeet2732]

Oh my god yes

[@georgesavino3305]

Yes

[@tmaher9085]

YES

[@deinonychus6674]

That game was insanely amazing. Loved every minute of it, and the DLC was fantastic too. Fair to say I wouldn't last a day in either the apocalypse or the new earth.

[@Vector-777]

Me too

[@deinonychus6674]

@regular youtube account The Frozen Wilds

[@stfylopspoot8285]

@regular youtube account You, must buy it it's Fantastic.

[@omartheOni]

Spoiler alert: Don’t read if you didn’t finish horizon zero dawn or forbidden west You would survive New Earth, if the Far Zeniths didn’t make the mind experiment. That means nemesis wouldn’t have been created, which also means the far zenith base wouldn’t have been destroyed, which means the few Far zeniths that left wouldn’t have went to earth, which means Nemesis wouldn’t have sent the extinction signal to Earth, which means Hades wouldn’t have gotten his own consciousness, which means Gaia wouldn’t have self destructed, which means Gaia’s subordinate functions wouldn’t have escaped, which means HEPHAESTUS (Controller of Cauldrons that make means) wouldn’t have made his machines more combat-y. Short answer: You would’ve survived any day on New Earth if the Far Zeniths didn’t exist.

[@fdl88]

Actualy Faro was playing with DOS and accidentally entered "format Earth:"

[@Alice_Haukea]

Yeah, I can't wait for this to hit Steam. The game caught my eye back when it first came out. I love how the machines look like ZOIDS. But everything you just talked about is stuff I had no idea of being in the game. I can't wait to find out how they went from normal looking war machines to animal machines.

[@kyoza5069]

That was their inspiration actually IIRC And definitely. I have the game on PS4, just recently finished it. I think you'll love it.

[@Lonelysandman]

Late but play on one of the harder difficulties so you can take advantage of all the systems of the combat

[@kevingarcia-gz7or]

@Minili Oni *Hephestus made them, the subfunction. Gaia as a whole self destructed remember?

[@organiclettuce6163]

@Minili Oni the one in control of the machines is actually Hephaestus, a sub AI. It's more looked into in the Frozen Wilds expansion, but it was the one that made the machines in the cauldrons I think :D

[@andresmarrero8666]

It is a bit sad that there really isn't any organic life to accompany them other than the plants and humans. We do have a gaint gene bank in the artic. Figured that at some point that would be used for more than just the seeds within.

[@stupid3551]

*looks at phone with a weird face* *puts my phone to sleep* *google suddenly opens* Google: hello, how may i help you? Me: STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ME

[@deandane589]

🤣😂😂

[@ilhanthediamondcrafter9767]

Lol XD

[@fxfijjcgck4567]

can we just appreciate the little intos/summary he gives to each game before the name?

[@TheChryystal]

"Why You Wouldn't Survive in a Monster Hunter's World" .... Giant Monsters with crazy abilities. Do i need to say more?

[@CheshireDCat]

That and world ending dragons.

[@TheChryystal]

@Super Simba6 That's why it's a "You wouldn't survive..." as opposed to "Humanity wouldn't survive..." Idk about you but I can't remember that last time I javelined on a double bladed staff to capture T-rex's cousin.

[@daneverharen1694]

Just not on ps

[@BrokensoulRider]

@Brotato Chip From what I've heard, the humans we see in MH are not technically 'humans' in the way we know what humans to be.

[@keyboardtaskforcephi-3689]

@Super Simba6normal missiles wont do anything. U need missiles that penetrat Underground bunker for those monsters. I dont think even US have many of those. Our missiles mostly for destruction on the surface rather than piercing armor. Nowadays every monster can survive jet missiles explosion like it is nothing in the cinematic.

[@SparrowwithaMachinegun]

I love that all this happend long before the games events but you can feel it. there's a subtle sadness that runs throughout the games world. Beautiful and full of life but also dead underneath.

[@strahd7864]

"The only feesable way of surviving the plague would be to find a bunker that could somehow block all tracking" so, you either stop using technology or just wrap the bunker in tinfoil(tinfoil completely blocks wifi)

[@FamousPopeBlackie]

Bro this is one of my favorite videos of yours, this is so interesting and thought provoking, I can see this really happening.

[@roonkolos]

How did you finish it already

[@mustachecake8071]

@@roonkolos either they didn't watch, or just put it on 2x speed

[@miniatureben3558]

Meanwhile Elon along with his self sustaining colony in Mars: *Who keeps posting Memes of The End of the World?*

[@Da_Shark]

Apocalypse bingo intensifies

[@gustavomoralesarcos5628]

Probably stole the ISS and built an outpost on the moon

[@happyguardsman8510]

I played the game quite a long time ago but im pretty sure that somewhere it says that the mars colonisation and relocation project failed massively due to external and internal factors.

[@eveorthyniusnova8259]

to be honest, elon would be faro, or close to it

[@j0hn00]

@@happyguardsman8510 if I remember correctly Ted Faro himself sabotaged the spaceship that was supposed to colonize the stars

[@Armand-ue7om]

was thinking though... imagining a sequel for Horizon Zero Dawn. What if a survivor from that modern era was found from a space station frozen in cryo-sleep, like they manage to break all computer and digital contact relying on analogue radio to avoid hacks when the message of the impending doom was received. The thought came to mind from the movie Oblivion (Tom Cruise movie) where his wife survived that apocalypse while in stasis in space.

[@happyguardsman8510]

Sounds cool but the likelihood of a space station surviving by itself (even with an ai to manage it) for tens of thousands of years would be very low. Edit: its apparently 1000 years not tens of thousands, but still

[@Fenixmaian7]

Better hope that station functions perfectly for 1000 years

[@jjrollins313]

That's a long time to be in cryostasis. I dont think they'd even have the technology for that...well unless people part of the zero dawn project worked on it.

[@GunlessSnake]

@@jjrollins313 Sylens explicitly says that there were a lot of problems that made cryogenic stasis unfeasible according to his research.

[@justincoltharp9701]

@@GunlessSnake yes but it was clearly shown that sylensnhadnt learned everything

[@DJCooL4]

See title Me who played and beat the game: I already know what you're about to say and I 100% agree

[@silenthero2795]

Faro Plague so strong that not even Ted Faro's browser history survived.

[@arandomhecugrunt.4500]

Next Episode on why you wouldn't survive "why you wouldn't survive SCP."

[@dr.calamity2079]

He's already done that before on the keter class

[@arandomhecugrunt.4500]

@@dr.calamity2079 I was referencing that he a lot of times does scenarios we know we wouldn't survive

[@xxOblivionxx]

Next please: Why you wouldn’t survive the Matrix Why you wouldn’t survive Terminator Why you wouldn’t survive Attack on Titan Why you wouldn’t survive The book of eli Why you wouldn’t survive Annihilation

[@daneverharen1694]

AOT fuck yeah

[@happyguardsman8510]

Man the book of eli was a great movie, but it really was pretentious with its religious messages

[@rolan4dezwinz381]

@@daneverharen1694 You can easily survive AOT. Find somewhere high, exclusive, build a renewable energy and food source, bam you survive. Actually, just make a city in the trees and Titans can’t even touch you..

[@Shawn-il4cw]

@@rolan4dezwinz381 that isnt as easy as you think, also a colossal titan could probably tower it lmao

[@BigPanda096]

​@@Shawn-il4cwmodern day buildings make collosal titans look rather small. 50 meters is 164 foot tall, most modern buildings are THOUSANDS of foot tall. It's really not even comparable. We can also build in ways that the titans can't supercede especially the mindless marching wall titans.

[@DanGod07]

My head-canon for why the chariot line of robots exists in this game is that at the design meeting someone threw a Tyranid codex on the table and went "this but robots"

[@JJsiN84]

Such amazing lore, and the first apocalypse where it really was the end of the world. Humans could not even survive outside without hazardous suits. Scary stuff, brilliant game.

[@luisfuentes3012]

I immediately thought "Well, no one did, so..."

[@Crimsomreaf5555]

sad that corporations are already deeply rooted in government workings. lobbying (legal bribing) should never have came into this world.

[@davevd9944]

If anything those with the most wealth and power are control of the governments. Some are more blatant about it then others.

[@andresmarrero8666]

It is scary when big tech and those corporations are all owned by a small group of people that you can count on the palm of your hand.

[@danitron4096]

Luckily corporations have nowhere near the power the ones in H:ZD have

[@andresmarrero8666]

@@danitron4096 Big Tech. The ones or one in control of that come scarily close.

[@deandane589]

The Horizon Zero Dawn soundtrack touches my soul when I hear it everytime. I feel like crying I don't know why... 💔😭😭

[@gowatchbsdpls]

S A M E couldn't relate more😭😭😭😭😭idk how but its so emotional😭

[@TheKazragore]

It hits so hard.

[@snowflakefawn8892]

Forbidden West spoilers: I really love the aspect that the creator of these robots actually survived and turned into a real monster, it's a fate worse than death

[@duckman9467]

The reality of Enduring Victory is so fucked up, I couldn’t imagine being the general buddy there who had to sell that lie.

[@loganswalk8621]

Ted Faro thought unhackable,bio-fuel converting,self-replicating war bots was a good idea. Reminder he studied business not robotics he’s not a doctor he dropped out of college.

[@abcguy1]

Me:'see title' Wait, I thought that no one survived. Like litterally zero people lived

[@galvaboy1114]

Just yesterday I did end this game, oh my god, what a sync

[@kyoza5069]

Same I did it a few days ago

[@kristijanmadhukar516]

If you searched for a review of this before buying it, or some kind of tutorial, the KZbin ai will notice that. Find the average time it takes for a person to finish the game, and then send you this video at that time, or it looks at your other searches on google, cause google owns youtibe. Ive also just finished horizon zero dawn yesterday and i saw this.

[@damianmorningstar4127]

Had no idea this game had so much in depth storytelling

[@ace_of_cups4096]

UGH I love this game so MUCH I recently finished Forbidden West, and theyre SO good. I love the world building, the story, the graphics, Gaia's whole purpose is genius 😍

[@dljworks]

In the end, there is always a SMALL collective of greedy people responsible for the demise of humans.

[@extremelyboredtatsumaki.495]

I love the design of the Horus type robot; the giant lobster shaped machine god.

[@marcusmassey965]

This game is a masterpiece, Lore, and moments in game where you must do a dramatic circle around the character!

[@gateauxq4604]

One small point missed-because of the robots further evolving their own code one of Gaia’s subsystems was devoted to breaking that encryption to shut down the machine army This was believed to have a timeframe of at least 100 years IIRC. Gaia didn’t need to just to wait for the machines to power down before rebuilding but actively needed to shut them

[@t76a2d]

You wouldn’t survive Horizon Zero Dawn’s Faro plague. Ted Faro and Far Zenith: Hold my beer.

[@kalamies.]

To be Fair Far Zenith just straight up wasn't on the planet at the time

[@parkercarpy810]

Let us look to the movie independence day. There would be the one dude to jump on a horse with a nuke and attempt to charge and manually detonate it under the big mofo

[@craftysmithkeith3653]

i like how a highly advanced military was out performed by some goober with a bow and arrow

[@JamesBrisnehan]

Never F#$% with a main character.

[@Bloomingtide]

I mean, this was one of the game's (quite ironically) points ;), but same, ofc.

[@GunlessSnake]

It took over a century for GAIA to develop the codes necessary to break through the Faro Plague robots, and Aloy had Elisabet Sobeck's genetic access to said codes. If HADES had completed, the world would've been over. Mitigating circumstances, and all that.

[@gracecalis5421]

Kopesh and Scarabs were underground collecting rust for a thousand years, they're not at their best. Also they were strong in numbers; Old One soldiers had to engage hundreds of them at a time.

[@xxswormxxfjd132]

Is it just me or is the music in this game nostalgic?

[@jeannedarc3440]

This plague calls for only 1 solution: Warframes

[@neroblack2704]

But Warframes are biomass.

[@PugnaciousProductions]

Nero Black Exactly, biomass, not machinery.

[@butterflyenjoyer230]

@@PugnaciousProductions nanobots: hippity hoppity your biomass is now my property

[@jerrjohnpresti]

Warframes are biomass, but the chariots are a threat effectively equal to the sentients, so the Tenno could take them on

[@lukewennlund7391]

This… is a given. No one DID survive, except for the 1% Zeniths who bailed.

[@federicoalfero9287]

I wouldn't survive the Faro Plague because no one did. That is literally the premise of HDZ.

[@quickman2663]

Why you wouldn't survive Killzone's Helghan war!

[@jjrollins313]

All I can think of is the weapon that annihilated their planet in seconds and forced then to live on the enemy's planet when I saw your comment

[@johncraft7329]

How would the chariots fair against the Flood since the chariots can't be infected nor hacked .

[@megawaffle612]

If you are referring to Halo's Flood, it would be a slaughter in favour of the Chariots. They literally eat Flood for breakfast.

[@thegamiac9539]

Accurate answer when they see flood they will just use them for food cause the flood are organic matter

[@gorkhawarlord4943]

i think mass effect reapers would be a better match

[@PhineasKSliderVT]

Without the Primordial's help, the poor Flood wouldn't stand much of a chance... However, if he WAS here, and he DID get close enough to the "Hive Queen" of the Chariots to "infect" her with his "logic virus"... Then maybe.

[@davevd9944]

Well they can't be hacked by our standards but remember the Flood could defeat the forerunners who has tech tens of thousands of years more advanced then Faro. So saying they can't be hacked is completely wrong it just takes to much time for the tech and expertise of it's setting. Yeet the Faro AI in a FAR more advanced setting and it can be bypassed without an issue. It would a war of attrition to see which side caves in first. Seeing as their AI is all machine the flood would have a hard time getting more troops. And the flood is basically an all you can snaccc buffet for the Faro machines. Machines hard counter the flood that relies on organic matter to reproduce and replenish.

[@lion9f452]

The lore in this game is magnificent. Would absolutely love a follow up on this one!

[@jf_kein_k8590]

One thing to note is that the out of control didn't even gain malicious sentience. The glitch just caused it to see everything as a threat, with it's programming than following that view by attacking everything.

[@Putrefrye]

Basically robots where build to work in factory but they became the factory them selves makin there own machinations and live

[@Catvader-cz8qp]

I really enjoyed this video and would love a part 2, keep up the good work.

[@strudeloftroy9838]

I love this game and I’m so ready for the sequel. Thank you for doing this one🙏💕

[@nourayman2314]

Great video as always. I really would like a part 2 if possible. Thank you

[@syzorst]

In all honestly the Chariot Line wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for Biomass consumption as fuel. Seriously, who the hell would make robots that consume biomass as fuel? What the hell happened to solar power?

[@PRchris13]

🤣 “imma explain why you wouldn’t Survive something that destroyed humanity to 0%”

[@cornbread2952]

Horizon zero dawn is one of the best games out there

[@Justelusivethings]

Horizon is my absolute favorite game. This has been the first game I've genuinely fell in love with/been obsessed with since a kid playing spyro on ps2❤️

[@CompetitionChris]

Probably the best backstory ever created in a game. At least top 3

[@lexiheneck6912]

Bro this guy combined all my favorite things into one video. Horizon, Jurassic park references, Godzilla and Star Trek next generation references

[@323starlight]

I hate to be that guy, but in Horizon Zero Dawn, the world ended because the CEO of the world’s largest robotics industry thought machines that consumed biomass to recharge was a good idea. You also skimmed over some other bits of lore. Humanity recovered during an event called the Claw Back which saw rapid advancement in green technology. Much of which was funded by Faro Automated Solutions. The AI from the Frozen Wilds dlc even stated the media dubbed him “the man who saved the world” at the time.

[@jaydenlopez8165]

I finished and platinumed Horizon recently and would love more videos on the game!

[@billcipher1756]

the story of this game is so good! im sad people dont talk about it more because as someone who ussually does not collect the lore collectables in other games, i collected all of them in horizen. its just so interesting to read about!

[@Lorddanglypartz]

Phantom Dust, i feel like more people need to know about this game

[@thadz2493]

Robots that turn Bio-mass into fuel? No way in Hell would we survive. Even their creators didn't. They new it themselves lol so they started working on project zero dawn. They weren't even fighting for existence anymore lol. They were fighting so that Atleast a little just a TINY bit of life could flourish

[@ahmadkhilfi2620]

Just imagine seeing your comrade died fighting against the swarm and soon after, a bunch of machine just came and transforming his dead body into some flying particles as biomass fuel

[@lost2weeks245]

🙂

[@brocksnider5452]

I'd like to see the Calamity from Breath of the Wild, or the Great Flood from Windwaker and other games.

[@boingboingerson1649]

"why you wouldnt be the ONE exception to literally ALL life on earth being eaten as fuel for killer robots as was stated in the games lore" ....really?

[@weskintime4177]

Horizon Zero: Dawn is the first game I complete 100% of in game. However I’m only missing one trophy to truly 100% the game.

[@treymtz]

My only option would be a counter creation. If you create an equal destructive ai/robotics system that fights again the fero AI that creates it's fuel and soldiers out of dead machinery, you would have an unstoppable force meeting an immobile wall. With all the same flaws as before to remove any possibly of Fero hacking them.

[@therealmrsteve]

They had 1 year before extinction... they wouldn't have the time to make them and even if they do it would probably be already to late with earth ecosystem completely fucked and life doom anyway... And what are you gona do when they are fighting forever destroying the earth?

[@bmoon9007]

Do not curse this year further!!! But seriously, I do not think the world is at that point already. In the game world, they already had pervious A.I that were WAY more advanced then what we have now. However, I also think that the humans will eventually cause our own downfall, just not yet.

[@woundyenri5121]

No, we depend heavily on tech already. If this happened, even now, we are effed.

[@dinodude6992]

Do a why you wouldn't survive an unbidden invasion of our dimension, the unbidden are from stellaris

[@buddhapimp8890]

Primitives don’t survive at all in that game

[@happyguardsman8510]

You would probably survive the unbidden, as half way through their Invasion an ancient guardian faction would awaken to fight them.

[@SuperiorStudios]

I didn’t like the horizon gameplay so I didn’t stick with it but this Lore is just WOW😳

[@Lolilol01]

When I first played horizon, I hated the game play and just learned about the plot from videos, but ever since I learned it i completed it 4 times

[@kamalkrgupta5995]

i love the fact that he loops the footage to make the video spoiler free only exploring the particular lore of the topic

[@dazzaMusic]

What’s scariest of all is that you listen to a datapoint from the 9th MRB of a titan most likely feeding on humans to what seem like the sound of drilling and it ends abruptly

[@thatoneoreoornot4021]

I have an idea, "Why you wouldn't survive 2020."

[@shadowguardian3612]

Why you wouldn't survive 536/1348*

[@zaidahmed5464]

this is one of the most important reasons why elon musk wants to make life multiplanetary

[@realmcafee]

or he is a scammer and wants money, mhmm?

[@PseudonymUltimate]

@@realmcafee well he created reusable rockets a d has plans to colonize mars so no

[@PseudonymUltimate]

@@realmcafee elon musk technologies are probably most advanced in the world.

[@realmcafee]

@@PseudonymUltimate do you think im not aware of this? i dont like to discuss, how about you research and have a look on the opinion of the other site? most easy way is to type it in youtube or start with a thunderfoot video.

[@realmcafee]

@@PseudonymUltimate did you do it now? have you found out about the astonishing technologies of hyperloop, boring company, traffic solution and why does he lie about numbers at SpaceX? ah, nevermind, too hard, liking a person means to not ask or do criticism

[@AlfredoPuente8]

This game has a incredible deep lore

[@sambothefate3462]

The fero plague is one of the most reilisic ways AI can destroy us because it's a simple glich in the programming that makes the robots think they need to replicate at all cost it's a massive emergency and they must do it so they get everything in sight and that glich can't be edited out due to no back doors bilt in if Ted had way to access the code it would have been a simple fix somthing like this could achuly happen they should make a movie or a prequel game to zero dawn and make it about the war It won't play like normal horizon but having a loosing war where everyone is dying and you lose at the end that would be an interesting thing to do

[@Lumberjack_king]

Imagine in another timeline where this happened and centuries later aliens discovered our barren planet covered by dormant machines then a chariot detects them and kills them

[@baytom95]

All of Humanity using energy weapons and nukes lost the war against machines ALOY DESTROYS with a BOW

[@RicochetForce]

Gaia deactivated the biomass conversion function 60 years after life went extinct. If they had that function active again, they'd just fucking consume her to heal.

[@baytom95]

@@RicochetForce oh yeah i understand that but the issue i have is theyre walking super tanks with rockets and heavy machine guns and Aloys main weapon is a bow. I fucking loved horizon zero dawn and i cant wait for forbidden west but i hope Aloy has a better main weapon or just dont have basic arrows with the bow lol

[@RicochetForce]

@@baytom95 Nah, I doubt we're getting "proper" weaponry in the sequel either. BTW, the stuff we were getting in Frozen Wilds was bordering on sci-fi. Remember the ice rail? Or the straight up railgun? Also, things like proximity bombs are a lot more high tech than you think and this is on standard issue Carja and Shadow Carja slings.

[@skully6274]

It is very interesting how all of the events that lead up to Horizon Zero dawn are way more interesting than what happens during the game. Although the gameplay is also really fun. Until you get a bow with overpowered modifications that 2 shot thunderjaws.

[@skully6274]

@@adk7165 it's a dlc bow with some special add-ons. I don't know how or where I got the add-ons, but it is really powerful!

[@pastelpillbug]

@@skully6274 for no specific reason at all which dlc bow would this be

[@skully6274]

@@pastelpillbug I bought it from a Banuk merchant.

[@skully6274]

@@pastelpillbug I think it was the Banuk striker bow

[@OMGitsTerasu]

How would a HZD movie play out? Im thinking they can explore the events leading to HZD1. The deterioration of the earth, the first of the chariot line of machines, the war, the 250 years condensed into 2 1/2 hours.

[@tanthokg]

Why is that 250 years?

[@Xinder720]

Wow, just think about the origin of the 'Matrix' world and how that mankind eventually is defeated by the machines they created...

[@coloradohikertrash9958]

Yeah but in the matrix the machines had to basically suffer the same fate. The machines used to have unique humanoid forms and even the ability to express themselves(think of the two ambassadors from Zero-One) .They gave their individuality and free-will to administrative programs like the Architect so they could defeat the humans. Now they are all identical insect-like war machines. I believe the bulk of machines are sentient AIs that are basically slaved as suborant functions to other Programs, fully aware they are being controlled and unable to do anything about it.

[@mcbeardthebat8589]

This should have been a 30 second video saying 'because literally no one did'