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In the end cutscene, Isaac isn't going from the planet surface to space/orbit. He is going from the chunk of the planet you see crash into the main portion of the planet to space because that chunk is where the Marker was. So the 5 seconds of travel is much more realistic... still probably not accurate because of how far from the chunk he ends up, but slightly more realistic than a planet surface to space travel time.
@@nathanlaleff4273That’s not the case. The final chapter takes place on Aegis 7. If you look up you can see the chunk falling and it’s visible in the last cutscene. The hive mind comes out of the hole that the planet crack was removed from. The whole colony is set up around the crack.
so to resume , the overall design of the ishimura is reasonably nice if it has to exist , not super bad , it's just that sharps industrial aesthetics doesn't look so pleasing to see when we would work on the ship for a long time as well as some other unpractical stuff and a lack of safer measures. yet those aesthetics adds to the charm of the Dead space universe. first the ship was build by a totalitarian government , and those types of regimes generally never really care for the well being of their people , who can be pretty expendable and they focus more on the productivities, so things are made in a strict minimum , most of the time. it would make sense the Ishimura would keep that industrialized aesthetic anywhere since it's basically a floating mine or factory, yet. also it has been on service for many decades already. some issues would finish to come and secondly when we think about those details and aesthetics, they're symbolical in the context of Dead space. even without some undead mutants , the ship looks ominous , cold and perhaps even gothic , which already reinforces an haunted feel. it strangely fits well with the designs of these creatures. all of those potential risks and unfriendly details from the design of the ship itself adds to the chiliness and the charm of Dead space
The scariest part of DeadSpace weren't the Necromorphs. The scariest part was the stress of playing tech support for the damn space ship and realizing that the simple solution wasn't going to work, so you'd have to slowly troubleshoot the problems piece by piece.
*>attempts to use the default mechanical mechanisms to simply open the door.* *>doesn't open, but instead domino chains into the worst necromorph filled hell of trouble shooting ever* Just another Tuesday..... but more bloody and teeth filled. Trust me I'm an engineer! 🧑🔧👍
Lol all the conversations in that game go something like good job issac we (insert action here)! Oh wait... (insert problem here) dammit! Issac says I'll fix it with the (insert action here) then a neceomorph pops in a vent and in a panic you use kinesis to grab a random chair
without mentioning that it was the first planet cracker so everything is basically a prototype. They don't tend to follow standards even from manufacturing.
it was illegal entirely, it's pretty much the reason aegis VII and the Ishimura went to shit because of they called for help then they'd be caught in the act
This is both legitimately interesting and utterly hilarious, because all I can picture is Isaac going around, not really phased by the actual horrors and necromorphs, just casually pointing out all the design flaws of the Ishimura and how things could be improved... like this is simply another day on the job.
*Isaac stepping over 5 bodies to straighten some papers on a table and make sure the pen is lined up parallel with the edge of the table.* Dear god that was close. This ship is pure chaos.
Yep, engineers are really great at pointing out what they think should be done but really bad it actually implementing anything that works for anyone but themselves
(Isaac encounters a dangerously broken door) "Oh, wow, okay. Just going freeze that and get through, that's incredibly dangerous, big no-no on the engineering side there.." (He walks through the frozen door and the time bubble closes, the door begins repeatedly crushing air once again. Isaac turns the corner.) "Woah, hey big guy! Sleepy time now alright? Alright. Night night!" (Isaac shoots it) "Unsecured volatile alien lifeform. Another major fail. I gotta say, so far this technical review of the Ishimura isn't looking too hot.." (Voices come out of Isaac's communicator.) "Isaac, what the fuck are you talking about? You're supposed to be repairing the gravitational drive!" "Isaac is a very important man, he doesn't need to hear this. I'm muting this end, carry on with your review.." (Isaac encounters the tentacle.) "Okay, there appears to be an extraterrestrial entity growing throughout the ship..." (He pokes it with a bit of metal scrap he fojnd on the floor. It twitches.) Yeah that's an immediate fail for the Ishimura. Sorry guys, but in hull breach potential alone that's a complete violation of the Engineer's Safety Certification Standards (E.S.C.S). I mean, what if someone not wearing their PPE encountered this?! Imagine the paperwork for that workplace accident!" ///// Enginnering Safety Report/Review: Vessel: The SS Ishimura Review: The SS Ishimura is a complete failure in terms of safety standards, to be honest I'm surprised it made it out of production in one piece. There's almost no muster stations, only one safety instructions panel on the whole ship, and a whole host of other violations just waiting to be written up. As soon as I get to the bridge and clear it of all the hostile extraterrestrials on board I'm bringing it back planetside for a complete decommissioning. Safety Rankings: Engineering Safety: (F) (A complete write-off in terms of health code violations alone.) Medical Safety: (D-) (I'm surprised any of the staff survived take off. Otherwise, not the worst I've seen.) Scientific Plausability: (C-) (Eh, you can hand wave a lot of the technology in here. It's not too ridiculous.) General Operation Capabilities: (F) (Would not actually function.) Lifeform Containment/Preventative Measures: (B+) (Eh, better than that one ship I reviewed. (I never want to see a Xenomorph again.))
14:09 for those who wonder what the message on the background is about, it is actually mandarin Chinese which means "Military personnel must undergo medical decontamination or face the financial cost of isolation" 军人必须要接受医疗净化，否则需要在经济上承担隔离费用
"Dammit Isaac! You dont know what you are doing!" RSG: "This is a flaw in the game, since engineers always know exactly what they are doing and should not be questioned by side charac- other people"
1:29:33 So you mean to tell me that you completed this game on the hardest difficulty,with just the Plasma cutter while casually examining every little engineering detail in the game? Well damn, engineers are truly just built different huh
Just plasma cutter is actually pretty optimal. Save money for armor, damage upgrades all in one place, all rng ammo drops are for your best (only) weapon.
@@Shin-e2w The damage output does matter though as higher damage separates the limbs quicker especially when dealing with the tanker enemies, luckily though once max upgraded the plasma cutter has very good damage output.
There is also an achievement (on console, anyway) for finishing the game without using anything else, so there are multiple ways they incentivize you to use it. I also find it to be the easiest to use
@playfulknife5422 Thing is everything is designed around good kinesis/stasis use and the plasma cutter. If you are good with it, you can kill anything before they kill you. Same can't be said for cough cough poolse rifle.
As a machine learning researcher/ECE doctoral student. It actually makes perfect sense to me that the ADS cannons would need to be trained and calibrated individually or at least 3 cannons would need to be trained like that. In particular, video image recognition systems are incredibly finnicky and they dont have straightforward mathematical relationships mapping 2D image pixel data to 3D position data. Furthermore when using 3 or more cameras to construct 3D plots of position, error is incredibly prone to drift and compounding. It makes perfect sense to me if the training data was lost then training 3 cannons would likley be the absolute minimum you needed to do in order for the cannons in the area to figure out how to process the visual data above them given the "known" information like the distance the cameras are from each other and what the three cameras are looking at. This whole concept is known as "sensor fusion" or "data assimilation" more generally, referring to using many sensors to know about a thing above you, and visual tracking in particular is a problem which can be very finnicky. In other words, once the three cannons figure out how to map their own visual feeds to a plot of 3D coordinates showing all asteroids seen by the camera, I could easily see that data able to be extapolated and applied across all cannons across the ship. It would be very unreasonable if Isaac only calibrated one cannon and every other cannon started functioning at peak efficiency.
Interesting take, but would that be necessary with the presence of a laser range finder and the ammunitions ballistic data inputted into the fire control system? You'd only need to train it to recognize rocks bad, ship good, shoot rocks only 🤔. I don't have a technical background but I was a tank gunner in the army so your explanation seems a bit complex for what appears to be a mechanical issue. To me a lack of calibration as well also indicates a lack of boresight data / gun sight zeroing which could be done by firing and adjusting the system until the you're able to consistently hit targets. 🤔 Which could be why each cannon had to be done individually.
In defense of the ship, it had been in service for 62 years straight and admittedly the interior had been totally overhauled on the fly by the crew as it had been repaired and upgraded over time to except new tech. to my knowledge the ship should of been decommissioned multiple times over. At least according to the wiki.
@@abloodraven3856 We're not that far off from CEC levels of corporate negligence. Just give the lobbyist some more years so slowly whittle away the amount of corporate oversight the government can have
"The suit upgrade station definitely has potential to cause serious injury to anyone who happens to be inside should it malfunction" Yeah, that's a nice way of saying "The person could be flayed, disemboweled, dismembered, or all of the above should the machine malfunction"
@@SplunkmastahYep, the guy that gets turned into the regenerating hunter necromorph kills a coworker that way in an audio log found during a side quest triggered by picking up a tissue sample.
The Dead Space universe clearly got rid of OSHA years ago because there are way too many safety hazards in every DS environment. It actually makes sense lore-wise-the human race is massively overpopulated and life is cheap. Additionally, they’re literally cloning limbs for replacement procedures, so the loss of a body part isn’t as big of an issue as it would be in reality.
As someone who's worked industrial most of his engineering career, none of the outright safety violations in dead space shock me, but yeah when you learn that the people in power in Dead Space are all members of a literal death cult, it all makes a lot of sense as well.
Amazon and Tesla have essentially got rid of OSHA. If the cruelty and greed of late stage capitalism is projected into the far future, the lack of workplace safety and easy wastage of human labour is completely believable
You may have already heard this before but I was watching a OG Dead Space dev talking about how they designed the ship and one of the main jokes / montras was that it was meant to be an OSHA nightmare.
@@thelvadam2884 hey to be fair I’d say it’s pretty accurate (having worked In an ugly ass factory myself) tons of black and grey, pretty unimpressive employee health and safety. Except there’s not enough yellow that doesn’t actually help 😭
Fun fact: at 1:29:16 where you say the Marker's affecting Isaac with radiation...yeah, the Marker doesn't generate or produce any radiation of any kind; it's a long established bit of lore that it doesn't emit radiation and instead just an eldritch signal that's strong enough to affect organic minds and reanimate necrotic flesh.
Not any radiation we can detect by that point, but whatever it is, it _does_ in fact radiate from the marker. Just because it isn't electromagnetic waves or energized particles doesn't mean it isn't radiation.
@@nullpoint3346you're clearly confusing definitions of the word "radiate" here. Do you think a radiator that heats water is remotely comparable to a nuclear reactor just because that also heats water? There are so many differences betweeb the two that comparing them is essentially pointless.
It's also lore that the marker isn't the source emitter. The marker is merely a relay point for the signal that originates from brethren moons. It still radiates, but I presume not by virtue of whatever the Marker is made of. I also assume it's not ionising radiation given its organic origins.
@@InhabitantOfOddworldThat is just people messing with jargon. Without getting too much into the weeds, a relay might not be the origin of a signal, but it is an emitter as well as a receiver. This is how it relays, it receives information, processes it into some capacity (otherwise you wouldn't need it), and re-transmits. unless they're using relay when they mean something else entirely, then it can be whatever.
Considering the lack of any OSHA compliance and how cheap life is in the future (plus the emphasis on limb regeneration, which is so common that literal hundreds of clones and cell growth areas are present in the medical bay), it sort of makes sense that mining and engineering suits are so heavily armored, especially the facial region. It seems like a way to cut costs: it’s much cheaper to just mass produce those suits than to actually implement safe working conditions, and by designing them to protect vital organs and lead to ‘clean’ amputations, you can just replace the poor worker’s limb and keep him working with a gravity saw the next day. Whether that’s actually viable economically is another matter, but given the lore it seems that raw material and energy is way more valuable than flesh and blood, so in that case it may very well be economically sound to plan around your workers getting their arms cut off versus actually safe railings and working conditions.
While it sounds great and plausible, I don't see a future in which it is cheaper to regrow limbs instead of a few safety changes, especially with the virtual infinite resources that come with FTL travel. But I like the idea that megacorpos just don't care about the drone worker (which could be solved with AI) and with current events IRL, more probable.
You're forgetting the operating conditions for the Ishimora there going to be dust micro debris and Boulder sized pieces of rock an up their literally ripping apart planets quit literally a hell for a space ship. I'm surprised things aren't more armored.
The problem is that FTL does not in any way shape or form grant access to unlimited resources-let along give those resources for free- while also being obscenely expensive both in terms of very rare resources (ruby semiconductors comes to mind, a rare material that will have tolerances that probably preclude most of the little material mined from being usable) and energy. It’s worth noting that in universe they HAD a materials crisis. At some point, materials become too cost prohibitive to aquire compared to the costs; there may be more resources than humanity will need for thousands of years in the Oort Cloud alone, but if you have to pay for years long voyages or FTL jumps on top of the years spent mining,… Also and far more importantly if the energy crisis, which is the primary concern; unlike Star Trek and Star Wars, it is acknowledged that FTL ain’t cheap. It takes an infinite amount of energy to reach light speed by conventional means,… so no surprise that the infinitely dense main component of their FTL drives are singularity cores which must be disgustingly expensive, like miniature particle accelerator levels of “fuck my wallet.” But they don’t seem to enjoy the +90% efficiency ratings of most sci-fi series either, so you’re looking at small ships costing as much as CERN and requiring top of the line bleeding edge power plants vomiting Giga watts of power at a rate of “let’s vaporize an entire island in an instant.” Avatar does a good job putting it into perspective; even with the near perfect abilities of units jump and antimatter it still takes hundred to a thousand fusion reactors running non-stop just to keep one or two ships moving at a steady pace without FTL,… Combined with the fact that there is even an actual overpopulation problem in universe, the logical (an even more grim conclusion if you ask me) isn’t even that people are expendable, it’s that they’re little more than disposable parts no more valuable the plastic wrapping. The only worth a person has is their skill set. Your meat, mind and soul be damned, and we can already see examples of that in real life.
46:50 Little error. From IRL railguns we know that they also have muzzle flashes, since electrical sparks and small amounts of plasma created by the high voltage follow the projectile out the barrel. Also the Asteroid Defense Cannons are actually Mass driver cannons, so a form of railgun
Nice catch, I didn't know that about railguns, and mass drivers would probably make more sense here too. Although, I might argue that for such a muzzle flash to occur, there would need to be air (or some other medium) for the arcs to form the plasma from, although I suppose there are a number of ways to explain that (coolant gas, spark build-up, chipping/sublimation of projectiles, ...).
@@RocketScienceGallery That's fair, I didn't account for Vacuum(wrote that late at night) though I still believe they're electromagnetic mass driver. That's because if it was convential munition the proppelant charge would make the ammo require 2-3 times as much storage space. Also with propably aphe warheads it already would needs safe storage, add and propeelant charge it and you have ship destroying accident waiting to happen (you can ask the HMS Hood about that).
since this is right where all the mineral debris is pulverized, the ionized dust would be an explanation. Aswell as the refraction of the light beams @RocketScienceGallery pointed out 47:00
The traces the bullets leave in vacuum can also only really be explained by friction that probably heats up something like a plastic layer around the projectile that decomposes mechanically or chemically if theres no chemical propellant, as far as i can imagine, but feel free to correct me
I'm in my last year of mechanical engineering studies and I'm listening to the video while working on the assembly drawing for my cold stamping die project. Perfection
My guy, I just found your channel and holy fuck, I honestly believe that you should turn this into a series, exploring different video games and movies' "Realism". Like Roanoke Gaming but engineer version. You pretty much already have all the bases covered: Solid editing style, great humor, knack for storytelling and explaining stuff, a podcast length video perfect for listening while doing chores, and a nigh-infinite source of materials to work with. You got your niche carved out here, bro. Just keep digging. That being said, I would love for you to review Prey (2017) video game. I got obsessed with that game due to it's focus on the human elements of the crew living spaces. It was a veritable sci-fi space hotel. I'll be watching your channel with great interest!
Thank you very much! I'd certainly like to do more of these, and multiple people have suggested Prey now, which would be a great time. I am currently working my way through another game for a similar review, as well as some various other projects. There will definitely be more where this came from!
@@RocketScienceGalleryPrey would be amazing! Looking Glass is one of those "mmmaybe it could work?" type of techs you see in sci-fi. Like the communicator from Star Trek. I outright stole it for use as "windows" for my sci-fi ships. No structural weak points in mine. Speaking of which you could potentially do an entire series on the ships from Star Citizen. Morphologist's architect reviews are awesome, though I often wonder if some aspects make more or less sense from an engineering point of view.
It’s funny that in this universe this ship is old and on its last legs but the reality is that something like this existing is so technically advanced we can’t even think to develop anything like this anytime soon. But that’s what so amazing about the ishimura .. it’s because one day in the future we probably could make a replica
@RetroRadianceLight we almost certainly never will do it that way unless we're on an absolute rampage for material lol. Planet cracking doesn't make much sense compared to asteroid mining, which is easier and offers more abundant and valuable material. Then again, if you have essentially learned the secrets of gravity and can simply rip chunks out of planets with ease then..I guess you do you.
I mean, we could get most of it done actually, it'd just be the building it in in orbit that'd be hard. Probably not anything /this/ big, tho that's not impossible either, but at least the size of a carrier or warship. We do have most of the tech, humanity just hasn't worked together the way we did during the space race since about just then..
The pa system is speaking in Chinese, however it doesn't sound very clear and are probably machine translated. What it roughly means however, should be: "New commers must go through decontamination process, or you will be quarantined and fined."
One thing I will point out is that the Ishimura is a first-of-class vessel, and has likely been the testbed for many of the technologies it utilizes, this can explain why it's so labyrinthine as well: she's been reconfigured more times that are probably recorded as damage has occurred or as new technologies have had the kinks worked out. 26:30 it's not that it can't maintain an orbit because it's not moving fast enough, it's that it never had a stable orbit to begin with, the engines were being used to push away from the planet like they were a VTOL, it's absolutely moronic, but from how it looks like shit went down in the movie, they probably didn't have time to tow the mass into a proper orbit before shit hit the fan and automated systems have been doing heavy station-keeping, the whole thing with getting to orbit through the debris field is because they're moving into a parking orbit, with the amount of weight they're lugging around it'd take weeks. My best guess is they have to drop down to pick up the load and then haul it up to a more stable orbit. 30:00 This is something we're pretty sure is possible, it's called a plasma window, we don't have a working unit, but the math apparently seems to work out. There is a similar technology that is used in particle accelerators called plasma valves, they're used to give time for the accelerated particles to seal the internal vacuum chamber in the event of a breach so the accelerator has enough time to decelerate the particles so they don't, and I'm oversimplifying here, explode air molecules and shred billions of dollars of equipment. 36:20 Best guess, A tank is full, there are four. 43:30 This is 100% gamification, they were originally malfunctioning gravity plating that would instantly splatter the player if they messed up around them, it was changed to arcing so the player isn't INSTANTLY killed and can, in theory, survive a mistake. 47:00 Railguns can have muzzle flash, it's the arcing from the rails to the projectile, as the projectile was part of the circuit before being launched. Though the recoiling barrels hint more toward it being more conventional, could be a hybrid chemical-coil launch system though. Also, dust from obliterated space rock would reflect the light. 48:40 They're using hydroponics (48:58 The room is the Hydroponics Central Hub) so they can also grow fish in a stable manner, so crop rotation wouldn't a factor. Dietary issues ARE absolutely an issue. 54:36 Looking at them, they're probably not bit identifiers, the lights are probably a network or drive activity monitor of some kind. 55:53 Ease of transport, the ship is designed to support the setup of ground stations in the early stages, shuttle flies in, they move food onboard, and it immediately goes for the ground station. 1:00:15 This one pisses me off, in the original it would pull the asteroid into the processor, not detonate it instantly. 1:06:00 Yea, I'm chalking all of the labeling issues here to 'it's government issue'. 1:24:00 You are absolutely correct, the movie showed the system in action.
44:39 Coming from an electrician. While a lock-out tag-out system will provide information as to how long it's being worked on, its main purpose is to physically "lock-out" a specific cicuit from being turned on while maintenence is being performed. If a circuit is being worked on and someone else turns on that breaker, it could easily cause the person working on the circuit to be shocked or even electrocuted as they are not expecting to have to treat the circuit as if it live. The "tag" is the secondary function that lets the person at the breaker panel know who might be working on it, how to contact them, and let them know when the work is expected to be completed.
The safety aspects are basically waived by how the CEC operates. They put the Ishimura in the space equivalent of international waters specifically so that they couldnt be sued by crew members for these kind of things.
I think things starting to float off the ground when the gravity is turned off is due to the vibrations that permeate throughout the ship from the various mechanical systems. The vibrations could provide enough force to kick things off the ground.
1:16:52 In an audio log it's explained why the force gun doesn't kill Mercer Mercer asks Temple to help him build something for the Marker Temple insits he needs his force gun for it Mercer doubts it but lets him take it however he has him remove several modifications that make the force gun lethal Which is why it only injures Mercer in the cutscene
I didn't play DS but it was the inspiration for the first mod system in warframe(it was replaced year after launch with a lot more flexible system except which also got multiple improvements since, except for the stupid polarities we still have) and the old UI.
Yeah, but I feel like the Force Gun blast would have still knocked Mercer on his ass. It's still a powerful weapon, even if it's been altered to be non-lethal. It would have done more than just lightly push Mercer back a few steps.
To me, USS Ishimura always seemed like "pretty on the outside, rotten on the inside" type of a situation. It had the basic necessities and sometimes a little bit of extra, but it clearly had a lot of violations going. It was purposely made to be very imperfect to signal something bad was going on, not just with the necromorphs.
"In Dead Space, you're not playing as a highly-trained soldier that has a lot of luck." No, the opposite actually. Instead of the "hero character solves all issues without a problem" trope, Dead Space has the "everything that can possibly go wrong, will go wrong" trope that is often seen in action films, disaster films, and sci-fi films. "Isaac! The tram system is broken! It needs to be fixed!" "Nice, you fixed it, Isaac! Great work! But now, the air filtration system just broke down! We need to fix that before we all suffocate!" "Great work, Isaac! You fixed it! Unfortunately, just as you fixed that, this other thing broke on the opposite side of the ship. And now you need to go fix that too!" "Done fixing that, Isaac? Nice, because - yup, you guess it. Now we have this other issue that just started. You need to go fix that now." "ISAAC! HURRY FIXING THAT! THIS OTHER THING JUST BROKE TOO!" One thing after another. Non-stop. You just gotta laugh after a while. Main characters in these types of stories have the absolute worst luck in the world.
In this case it makes sense story wise since Kyne set it up this way. I actually love how they integrated this seemingly silly series of unfortunate events into the narrative.
Not sure if anyone’s said it already, but the Centrifuge’s room does have a walkway provided above the Spinning arms. It’s just blocked by Necromorph growths once the gravity is turned on to provide the player some stress.
15:30 there is an audio file somewhere in Mining/Engineering where a Unitologist stuffed another guy in the upgrade station during an episode and you can hear the guy screaming
The armor on the suits actually has in world meaning outside of gameplay. The suit Issac is wearing at the start is a basic Engineers suit, mildly armored to protect from lower level hazards, all the way up to the Lvl3 suit and beyond, the Lvl 3 suit being specifically for hazardous enviornments such as working in space and granted to Class 4 Engineers with a lot of experience in these scenarios
I guess personally I never thought about the system’s infrastructure and integrity that much until you brought this up and this video is a very good and needed reminder on how we should treat our future tech and environments if we are to achieve the things that are still seen as science fictional at the moment at least. We have to be smart on our builds if we hope to maintain explorations in space and creating better suits that aren’t just for looks and show
Wasn't the Ishimura; a cheap, mass-produced ship that was service in for 60 years and modified to accept new tech on fly, when it should've been decommissioned instead? I also heard similar things about Issac's suit in the canon of Dead Space.
The idea that an engineer might click on this video, buy this game and get put off by all the blood and gore when they just want to check out how the space ship is put together is so damn funny to me
The first 15 minutes of things you were talking about were literally how plenty of the deaths you come across happen, right down to the dude who was stuffed into the suit kiosk by a crazed individual. It’s neat to see how these safety things sound like they were purposely omitted for the purpose of showing off the deaths and hazards of a space ship
I am working on a sci-fi horror game like Dead Space, and my biggest fear is that an engineer will check whether my artistic props actually make sense from an engineering perspective.
In the Harris side quest, after arriving in the mining deck, you find an audio log where Harris shoves a miner into the suit change station and gets ripped to shreds.
I made the mistake of making dinner without picking a video to watch beforehand. Before my food could even think about getting cold you popped up in my recommended. This type of niche content is right up my alley. You saved my life
1:29:32 seeing the achievements for beating the game with only the plasma cutter AND impossible mode show up at the same time was the biggest plot twist of them all. Well done
As someone who works offshore, I'm really glad to see video like this. I wish that for next Dead Space game all devs would go live in off-shore instalation for few weeks to see how places like Ishimura should work and add more fricking stairs.
Regarding those cut corners in terms of safety, with band-aid solutions like "Watch out!"-posters: It puts that impressive three year deadline for building the ship into perspective. Like when Microsoft installed a red LED to tell you your XBox360 is broken so they could be shipped for christmas with the known hardware problem still intact.
It's very common for a temporary solution like a warning sticker to end up as a permanent solution, at least until someone gets hurt or a regulatory agency finds out there's tomfoolery about.
@@Pacemaker_fgc Yeah I guess so. My workplace still has half a meter of drywall missing from when someone needed to access the pipes behind it a few years ago. With a hand written sheet of paper to not touch the pipes or slip a foot down the hole.
at 14:50 i would disagree, the PA system was likely used for people entering the docking bay. meaning that they could be from anywhere and would not likely be crew members but visitors, necessitating the multiple languages. The crew probably did not have language issues as evidenced by how the entire ship has everything written in english.
The idea of Isaac going through a quarantined ship surviving numerous life-or-death situations just to perform an OSHA inspection is genuinely so funny to me
This is a really cool idea for a video about Dead Space - naturally most others are about the cosmic horror zombies, but in truth the Ishimura's environments themselves are as important a part of the game as the necromorphs. The ship may as well be a character in its own right
Giving everyone on board a RIG and ample access to Biotic gel and cloned limbs was probably cheaper for the CEC than completely remoddelling a ship that had already served the better half of a century to meet at least the minimum of safety standards. That being said it's also worth noting that in many of the areas with an abundance of unsafe conditions the general level of protective equipment used by the workers in those levels increases. Engineering may be a deathtrap but the suits used by workers in those areas are built to at least mitigate some of the danger. Meanwhile the hydroponics area you see more padding and fewer random spikes and moving parts correlating with the somewhat lesser protective gear worn by their staff.
18:28 from my somewhat limited electrical experience this actually looks pretty ok. it's looks to be a wiring diagram instead of a ladder diagram which i'm more used to which tripped me up a bit, but the 3 phase motor in the bottom left is wired fairly standardly with overload protection and everything. coming off of that on the bottom is a control circuit, wired to 2 of the 3 phases (not through a transformer which isn't common but could happen). the 3 phase lines don't seem to originate from anywhere, which is fairly standard, but connected to where they start is what i assume is the coil for the motor starter (with overload protection again so points) but that should be over with the control circuit not connected up there. top right is a mess of connections that i don't recognize but does have all the symbols right
Biggest issue I saw firsthand was that this diagram has no labels. Wiring this would be quite annoying imo and I'd probably just go ahead and redline labels into there for my and whoever else's convenience 😅 I mostly work with control cabinets that do not employ much motors but the top left is a bit confusing to me since it appears the button above the throw switch would short L1 and L3. I'm pretty sure that would cause an arc flash event if those legs were energized but anyone else can weigh in haha 💥
@@LoverOfLaughs also the three fuses to the motor are drawn separate, they're supposed to be drawn connected since having one phase short and fry can still let the motor run with 2 phases and increased wear, heating and potential damage. I worked in a metal working industry as electrical maintenance. Also the whole right side is basically utter nonsense connected to a circle.
Didn’t even know this channel was a thing but glad I was recommended it. Not an engineer by any means, but I’ve worked in the oil field, construction, maintenance, forestry, warehouses, been in the military, and currently work hospital maintenance. Within all those occupations and in the future it seems the safety man is always needed and hated 😂. Lock out tag out people.
For a spoiler reason for the hazardous gasses being left about unsecured: I think the crew going crazy from the spire played a massive part. People who had access to these hazardous chemicals being urged by the spire to kill each other and themselves could have been carrying them about to use on themselves or others. Also, stuff like medical logs being left about in random places are where the person writing it left it during an emergency, being killed, or going mad.
Why does no one ever talk about the “sucked into a vacuum” myth. The delta p between simulated earth atmosphere inside a spacecraft and space is 14psi. That’s 1 atmosphere to 0 atmospheres. The air rushing out from behind you would not exert a great enough force to rip you off your feet from across the room and drag you out, especially if you’re in artificial gravity. I can imagine that if you were standing by the airlock you would teeter off your feet slightly but a Leviathan being dragged into space?!
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As Commander Data pointed out in one episode, "Correction, commander - blown out".
I love how this doubles as like an OSHA inspector's walkthrough of the Ishimura. Something which has undoubtedly never happened before from the look of it 😂
I always found fascinating that the "guns" are bypassed tools or just tools,line gun (bigger plasma cutter) and plasma cutter are bypassed cuting tools, the force gun is a tool to clean debris from the excavation, the ripper or whatever the circular saw is called its just that, the big ass laser canon seems to be an equivalent to something like an sds hammer drill for drilling into ore/rock,
51:54 as a civil, I immediately got pressed when you said that mechanicals the best a second before you said don’t tell civils with that cheeky fnet != 0 popping up😭
6:36 “during an emergency situation, the path should be illuminated as well.” They could honestly even go above and beyond in this world with the line based Holographic Locater found in RIGs to point out your objectives. They could have such projectors built into rooms and in the event of an emergency, a line is projected to lead the way to the nearest evacuation route.
This is such a fantastic video analysis! I would also like to add that when it comes to lighting, there was a study done that blue light also contributed to lower amounts of anxiety and depression. This would be beneficial on long space flights. Looking forward to your analysis of the weapons and suit riggings.
Don’t know if you’ll see this. But 46:26 is explained in the spinoff rail shooter Dead Space Extraction. A Wii game that was later ported to PS3. Basically, the story follows a small group of colonists and crew aboard the ishimura attempting to escape amidst the start/middle of the outbreak. To do so, one of the characters ventures out to disable the ADS cannons so the defense system doesn’t target their escape shuttle. Hence why Isaac had to come in and recalibrate them after the fact. Dead Space Extraction also features a closer look at the Aegis VII Colony (like the concurring prequel comics) and both the vent systems on the Ishimura, as well as a waste disposal sub-level (plumbing sewers etc.). So make with that info what you will.
Wanted to say great video. Looking at the logistics of engineering in Dead Space is such a brilliant idea. As for the safety aspect, I always assumed it was intentional. To help add to the atmosphere of the series’ grim world.
14:15 Maybe we're making the assumption that humans don't already know all those languages. Maybe Chinese is a better language for communicating culinary items while English has become the language of engineering? I like the way The Expanse universe has taken this on. Where the Belters (humans who grew up and live the majority of their lives in micro-gravity) have developed a cant that is basically an amalgam of all the most technologically advanced cultures that pushed out into space first (English, Chinese, Indian, German, Spanish, Italian... etc.)
Belter language is a single language, a creole language like multiple current day languages. So a stable language that developed naturally over time from a combination and simplification of multiple parent languages, probably with a simpler/non stable pidgin language first that slowly stabilized into a single common language as people who spoke those different languages natively learned to communicate. Over a base of English being presumed to still be a fairly common language of business, so it had the heaviest influence (and obviously for the show it had to be mostly understandable to the broadest audience possible). You wouldn’t see sets of information consistently sticking to one language for entire thoughts/messages, by their nature creole languages are a mixture throughout. All of that said because the belter creole is one of a lot of reasons I love that show. Many of them admittedly more physics/engineering related as the screen name probably suggests.
While I’m no engineer of any caliber, I SOOOOOO MUCH enjoyed this video! It made me feel like I understood a lot more due to your quick explanations. I definitely want this as a series if it’s not already. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'd guess they once had more than one tram on the ship but the one we access is likely an emergency one that still works. As there is enough parts of the ship locked off to us that also have other characters moving about with them making me think we just see either the main maintenance tram or a emergency one used for the event of a disaster that runs on its own line that doesn't often get used compared to what I assume would be a larger system with a few more trams for the main transport of the Doctors, scientists, miners & security forces as well as the bridge crew & officers basically all the people who aren't the engineers & such use likely a kinda larger tram that can hold more people as the one we use in game only could hold like 4 people & maybe a bit more if you crammed it but it defiantly could carry tools & stuff as well. I remember a part in the original game where you pass through an area that looks like it once held two tram lines round the area where you need to repair the tram to progress at the start. Also I think the second game also implies this. There likely also is slower ways around the ship which most people would be using as I'd assume only the engineers & stuff have to take the long trips across the ship on the regular. I also want to add about the grimy industrial look it kinda makes sense for the ship to have as well its the mining ship that's very old & on its last mission before its going to be made into a museum or scrapped. So its not like I'd guess its much more than an old ship falling apart. Like in its hayday it probably didn't have all these exposed panels & stuff but now that its so old & things break so often the engineers just go like F*ck it it'll break soon enough again & doing the whole panel thing is time consuming. Also the ships damage from the current alien zombie situation could help cause more of this. I do like it as a old falling apart ship. But the colony is another thing which kinda seems unsafe for what it is. Edit: on the centrifuge. At least in the original game it made sense why Isaac had to take such a dangerous gamble by passing the area where the arms where moving. You could see that some Necromorph growth was over the area & I think part of it had broken off making the area have saftey in the before times but since you don't have time you've just gotta start the thing up instead of how in a time when they didn't have monsters trying to kill them they could make a makeshift bridge to help the person reach the button & then get back over & later on when they are safe they could turn it off & rebuild the walkway. I guess the remake missed that detail leading to a nonsensical area.
The biomass is blocking the path in the remake centrifuge too, or else he could simply just walk back the way he came and go back through the door he came through.
@@Krosstic Oh I was confused by his comment on this part? I hadn't played it back then But I played it recently & was confused by why that guy said that.
14:15 I suppose it kinda make sense if you consider that the stations was designed with safety and comfort has a lesser priority then profitability and stuff like that.
This is a fantastic idea and format for a video. I could easily see this being an entire series where you break down other games exactly like this. I would watch every single one.
To be fair regarding tk in zero g areas, there is inherent risks when using many real life items such as cars, or in the case of miners something like dynamite. Its possible the tech is so ubiquitous in the setting that it is just an accepted part of life at this point. I say that because in the second game, a seemingly random guy has a tk module and leaves the tk tutorial video.
i like that you make things that are so obscure seem like common knowledge, like how liquid nitrogen can be used for radiation protection. dude you are crazy smart??!!!!!!!
I like it how much attention you put to detail, how you express alternative or speculative explanations when some things are unclear or put of your field, and the tangents and humour you include. I'll be taking notes of your observations to better learn more.
I'm making up a headcannon that the entire time Issac was fighting for his life and everyone else he was just casually taking notes on the poor operations of the ship to report them or some shit just -beheads necromorph and used one of its arms to impale another - As you can during that fight on a narrow walkway with no ralling if I hadn't been aware and careful I could have fallen off!
32:51 it is however handy for when you are letting your suit dry after use. 35:50 Lighting can actually be very important on a vessel, especially if you dont have your own with you. When the lights on a ship go out you cant even see your hand infont of you. But there should be two separate lighting circuits, normal and emergency/vital that has a lower power draw. 46:00 theoretically, could the laser be reflecting back off the the dust and debeir created by destroying the asteroids and the propellent gasses following the projectiles? 51:31 Could the Hallway be held at positive pressure, that could explain why the gas isn't evacuating into the hallway (However it would imply the gases gets pushed to the opposite side of the room i guess) 56:00 This ship looks to be primarily engineering/ machinery rooms. It's common to have low railings and exposed machinery. There are only two places on the ship that I was on that was highly guarded/protected and they were the hydraulic rams responsible for moving the control surfaces. Heck you could freely crawl under the main shaft while it was spinning far faster then something that size has the right to be spinning. (watched a mad lad dryhump the shaft while we were going near max speed.)
42:50 8 vertical, however one would assume that each individual light might represent channels and system chatter instead of representing individual bits and bytes
Please make more videos like this! There's so much potential in this format! I think it's an interesting as well as a fun way to remember and appreciate the small details in these games. I however think avoiding spoilers is not needed, as a video like this is mostly fruitful for those who have already played the game. Otherwise there's too much to take in, if the game is unfamiliar. Review of black mesa research facility next?
Thanks! I suppose you're right about spoilers, I'd just hate to ruin a great game like this for someone who's only halfway through. But seeing how many people have mentioned the Harris side quest I guess it would allow for a more complete review.
As an aspiring mechanical engineering major, the most beautiful thing about this video to me is your ability to see the absolutely crazy, highly unethical designs in this game and be like, "Well, there *might* be a good reason why it's built this way." Awesome stuff, man!
This is the first time I watched a video from you, with the only reason being that it is a Dead Space related content. I especially love your style of presenting your own ideas with minimal repetitive editing throughout the video on top of your sense of humor. Especially love the part where you slip in the *∑F ≠ 0* expression in 51:54; classic joke.
40:28 in the original demo of the game you would play this part of chapter 3 and i believe you had a time limit. After your start the engine like in the original you had to go back to the tram station , little did you know that after you open the door , there is the hunter waiting behind that door waiting to insta kill you.
As a PSM Coordinator who just finished my PHA training, this video makes me sooo happy. The setting of Dead Space is a safety nightmare beyond all imagining! That’s before you add in the damn necromorphs!
I always love these kinds of videos because it reminds me of how, in the scifi scene, historically people have always known about how things were going to be years before they ever happened. 2001 A Space Odyssey comes to mind in how they had face-to-face long distance communication, tablets, and the like. Eventually, humanity's going to space to colonize other planets and mine for resources. Eventually, humanity's going to figure out gravity and zero-point energy/the unified field. I always find it cool how people are already thinking ahead about things like this. Solid video, nice job.
Gleise Beach could also be another star trek reference of Risa, the beachside vacation planet they go to a few times in Star Trek TNG. just a thought. The 'Air screens' in the landing bays actually makes sense to me. In the same vein as Kenesis tech, it could be a narrow field specifically designed to only affect particles or molecules of a specific density or less?
There is a point that i wanted to make about the grav-ball court that you talk about later in the video. All of your points about it are very correct but one use case that you overlooked was its usefulness for training people to move in zero gravity, in many books that I've read, while still being used for exercise and play, antigravity sports are also used to train space movement and painful impacts with walls/ceilings/floors are great learning tools.
Now I want to see a game where you're an MBA on a spaceship, trying to solve problems. Maybe you just play as the dude who usually yells at the main character and tells them what to do over the radio in a safe room.
3:28 Small note, jumping between systems does not use the FSD's Alcubierre drive mode, it uses some form of higher dimensional travel, based on reverse-engineered alien tech. Supercruise inside systems does use the Alcubierre drive mode of the FSD, however.
I always appreciated the different fields of science being portrayed in scifi franchises. If a franchise decided to take every field, i.e. engineering, within its universe seriously while also having events like dead space happening, I think it would make for a very compelling and thought provoking atmosphere, especially if they nailed their presentation like dead space did.
55:48 It’s mentioned in one of the logs that the ship is currently producing more food than it needs. The way they say that makes it sound like usually it doesn’t, so they would still need to be able bring in food and having a loading bay close to food storage would make things quick and simple.
48:26 Um, akschually there is no hydroponics going on here, even if the deck is called that. These plants are clearly planted in soil, while hydroponics implies exposed plant roots being sprayed with nutritious liquids
For the 'Atmospheric Shields' at 29:40ish, I think it's very plausible that it does indeed make use of the unified field theory; Specifically, Stasis. A very finely controlled stasis field applied only to small particles with enough strength to resist the natural atmospheric pressure being restrained would of course be strong enough to contain the stagnant/mostly unmoving atmosphere of the area- But would Not be strong enough to halt objects of larger mass that has force actively being applied to it, ie, a person walking and pushing off with their foot as they step into it. Similarly, but I think less plausibly due to atmospheric pressure, computer controlled stasis 'lasers' outlining the shield being produced could, hypothetically at least, re-form the field in real time to allow larger objects to pass while retaining the seal.
Love the video and hope to see more like it in the future, really glad this blew up for you. You’ve probably gotten this comment a lot (though I didn’t see any after a skim) but the largest nuclear detonation was 50 megatons, so a 12 megaton yield being 10 times larger is pretty inaccurate. You might have been looking at the WWII information, those were around 20 kilotons iirc Edit: I didn’t catch the “by the United States” part, that was 15 megatons, so still very inaccurate. I had to double check a ton because it was so wrong I felt like I had to be missing something, haha
What would be really funny would be if they designed spacecraft irl to have hazards that had no basis except to be atmospheric because of something the engineers saw in a video game, like that scene in Galaxy Quest.
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be neat to see you review the engineering of Dead Space 2 and 3 as well, this vid was fun.
1:09:20 it's so radioactive that the warning sign looks like a hot sauce bottle logo... That's really bad.
In the end cutscene, Isaac isn't going from the planet surface to space/orbit. He is going from the chunk of the planet you see crash into the main portion of the planet to space because that chunk is where the Marker was. So the 5 seconds of travel is much more realistic... still probably not accurate because of how far from the chunk he ends up, but slightly more realistic than a planet surface to space travel time.
@@nathanlaleff4273That’s not the case. The final chapter takes place on Aegis 7. If you look up you can see the chunk falling and it’s visible in the last cutscene. The hive mind comes out of the hole that the planet crack was removed from. The whole colony is set up around the crack.
so to resume , the overall design of the ishimura is reasonably nice if it has to exist , not super bad , it's just that sharps industrial aesthetics doesn't look so pleasing to see when we would work on the ship for a long time as well as some other unpractical stuff and a lack of safer measures. yet those aesthetics adds to the charm of the Dead space universe.
first the ship was build by a totalitarian government , and those types of regimes generally never really care for the well being of their people , who can be pretty expendable and they focus more on the productivities, so things are made in a strict minimum , most of the time. it would make sense the Ishimura would keep that industrialized aesthetic anywhere since it's basically a floating mine or factory, yet. also it has been on service for many decades already. some issues would finish to come
and secondly when we think about those details and aesthetics, they're symbolical in the context of Dead space. even without some undead mutants , the ship looks ominous , cold and perhaps even gothic , which already reinforces an haunted feel. it strangely fits well with the designs of these creatures. all of those potential risks and unfriendly details from the design of the ship itself adds to the chiliness and the charm of Dead space
The scariest part of DeadSpace weren't the Necromorphs. The scariest part was the stress of playing tech support for the damn space ship and realizing that the simple solution wasn't going to work, so you'd have to slowly troubleshoot the problems piece by piece.
*>attempts to use the default mechanical mechanisms to simply open the door.*
*>doesn't open, but instead domino chains into the worst necromorph filled hell of trouble shooting ever*
Just another Tuesday..... but more bloody and teeth filled.
Trust me I'm an engineer! 🧑🔧👍
Facts i was always too tried from doing all the back tracking to complete the simple original task
Ok
Lol all the conversations in that game go something like good job issac we (insert action here)! Oh wait... (insert problem here) dammit! Issac says I'll fix it with the (insert action here) then a neceomorph pops in a vent and in a panic you use kinesis to grab a random chair
The real enemy was waiting for the engineers and maintenance people to have done their last shift.
the Ishimura was notorious for not following safety standards, even the operation they were doing was highly illegal.
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without mentioning that it was the first planet cracker so everything is basically a prototype. They don't tend to follow standards even from manufacturing.
That is the CEC in its entirety.
it was illegal entirely, it's pretty much the reason aegis VII and the Ishimura went to shit because of they called for help then they'd be caught in the act
This is both legitimately interesting and utterly hilarious, because all I can picture is Isaac going around, not really phased by the actual horrors and necromorphs, just casually pointing out all the design flaws of the Ishimura and how things could be improved... like this is simply another day on the job.
if Isaac still lives and necromorphs being as pesky as flies than that would be a plausible scenario
There could be a cool little mini series of that like freeman’s mind.
*Isaac stepping over 5 bodies to straighten some papers on a table and make sure the pen is lined up parallel with the edge of the table.*
Dear god that was close. This ship is pure chaos.
Yep, engineers are really great at pointing out what they think should be done but really bad it actually implementing anything that works for anyone but themselves
(Isaac encounters a dangerously broken door)
"Oh, wow, okay. Just going freeze that and get through, that's incredibly dangerous, big no-no on the engineering side there.."
(He walks through the frozen door and the time bubble closes, the door begins repeatedly crushing air once again. Isaac turns the corner.)
"Woah, hey big guy! Sleepy time now alright? Alright. Night night!"
(Isaac shoots it)
"Unsecured volatile alien lifeform. Another major fail. I gotta say, so far this technical review of the Ishimura isn't looking too hot.."
(Voices come out of Isaac's communicator.)
"Isaac, what the fuck are you talking about? You're supposed to be repairing the gravitational drive!"
"Isaac is a very important man, he doesn't need to hear this. I'm muting this end, carry on with your review.."
(Isaac encounters the tentacle.)
"Okay, there appears to be an extraterrestrial entity growing throughout the ship..."
(He pokes it with a bit of metal scrap he fojnd on the floor. It twitches.)
Yeah that's an immediate fail for the Ishimura. Sorry guys, but in hull breach potential alone that's a complete violation of the Engineer's Safety Certification Standards (E.S.C.S). I mean, what if someone not wearing their PPE encountered this?! Imagine the paperwork for that workplace accident!"
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Enginnering Safety Report/Review:
Vessel: The SS Ishimura
Review: The SS Ishimura is a complete failure in terms of safety standards, to be honest I'm surprised it made it out of production in one piece. There's almost no muster stations, only one safety instructions panel on the whole ship, and a whole host of other violations just waiting to be written up.
As soon as I get to the bridge and clear it of all the hostile extraterrestrials on board I'm bringing it back planetside for a complete decommissioning.
Safety Rankings:
Engineering Safety: (F) (A complete write-off in terms of health code violations alone.)
Medical Safety: (D-) (I'm surprised any of the staff survived take off. Otherwise, not the worst I've seen.)
Scientific Plausability: (C-) (Eh, you can hand wave a lot of the technology in here. It's not too ridiculous.)
General Operation Capabilities: (F) (Would not actually function.)
Lifeform Containment/Preventative Measures: (B+) (Eh, better than that one ship I reviewed. (I never want to see a Xenomorph again.))
14:09 for those who wonder what the message on the background is about, it is actually mandarin Chinese which means "Military personnel must undergo medical decontamination or face the financial cost of isolation" 军人必须要接受医疗净化，否则需要在经济上承担隔离费用
Thank you.
pretty chinease situation to be. Obey or face - credit score. (sorry, jj)
More like you'll be charged for quarantine.
Which is a very American thing! 🤣
Good to see a united humanity in a grim future.
Almost every country on the planet instituted qurantine laws, many far more stringent than the US. No fucking clue what you're on about@@LEJAOHAN
@@LEJAOHANEarthgov was super corrupt. CEC who owns the ship was basically a mega corporation directly linked to the government.
"Dammit Isaac! You dont know what you are doing!"
RSG: "This is a flaw in the game, since engineers always know exactly what they are doing and should not be questioned by side charac- other people"
Well Isaac is supposedly in a reputable position, it would be better to listen to professional that hasn't failed yet.
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And when they don't know what they're doing, they do, they're just figuring it out.
1:29:33 So you mean to tell me that you completed this game on the hardest difficulty,with just the Plasma cutter while casually examining every little engineering detail in the game?
Well damn, engineers are truly just built different huh
Just plasma cutter is actually pretty optimal.
Save money for armor, damage upgrades all in one place, all rng ammo drops are for your best (only) weapon.
@@craig01001 also the plasma cutter is probably the optimal tool. Damage output doesn’t matter because you need to separate the limbs
@@Shin-e2w The damage output does matter though as higher damage separates the limbs quicker especially when dealing with the tanker enemies, luckily though once max upgraded the plasma cutter has very good damage output.
There is also an achievement (on console, anyway) for finishing the game without using anything else, so there are multiple ways they incentivize you to use it. I also find it to be the easiest to use
@playfulknife5422 Thing is everything is designed around good kinesis/stasis use and the plasma cutter. If you are good with it, you can kill anything before they kill you. Same can't be said for cough cough poolse rifle.
As a machine learning researcher/ECE doctoral student. It actually makes perfect sense to me that the ADS cannons would need to be trained and calibrated individually or at least 3 cannons would need to be trained like that.
In particular, video image recognition systems are incredibly finnicky and they dont have straightforward mathematical relationships mapping 2D image pixel data to 3D position data. Furthermore when using 3 or more cameras to construct 3D plots of position, error is incredibly prone to drift and compounding.
It makes perfect sense to me if the training data was lost then training 3 cannons would likley be the absolute minimum you needed to do in order for the cannons in the area to figure out how to process the visual data above them given the "known" information like the distance the cameras are from each other and what the three cameras are looking at. This whole concept is known as "sensor fusion" or "data assimilation" more generally, referring to using many sensors to know about a thing above you, and visual tracking in particular is a problem which can be very finnicky.
In other words, once the three cannons figure out how to map their own visual feeds to a plot of 3D coordinates showing all asteroids seen by the camera, I could easily see that data able to be extapolated and applied across all cannons across the ship. It would be very unreasonable if Isaac only calibrated one cannon and every other cannon started functioning at peak efficiency.
Interesting take, but would that be necessary with the presence of a laser range finder and the ammunitions ballistic data inputted into the fire control system? You'd only need to train it to recognize rocks bad, ship good, shoot rocks only 🤔.
I don't have a technical background but I was a tank gunner in the army so your explanation seems a bit complex for what appears to be a mechanical issue. To me a lack of calibration as well also indicates a lack of boresight data / gun sight zeroing which could be done by firing and adjusting the system until the you're able to consistently hit targets. 🤔 Which could be why each cannon had to be done individually.
Thank you for the insight.
@@TheSynchronizer Rock bad works until you encounter a spaceship that looks like a rock
Kinda surprised this doesnt have more views. Even more surprised i caught a video so fresh!
In defense of the ship, it had been in service for 62 years straight and admittedly the interior had been totally overhauled on the fly by the crew as it had been repaired and upgraded over time to except new tech.
to my knowledge the ship should of been decommissioned multiple times over.
At least according to the wiki.
The elevators haven't been serviced since two years before the ship even first launched. CEC are hilariously negligent.
@@abloodraven3856 We're not that far off from CEC levels of corporate negligence. Just give the lobbyist some more years so slowly whittle away the amount of corporate oversight the government can have
@@RetroRadianceLight I mean considering the mining of Aegis vii is an illegal operation...
@abloodraven3856 FYI you don't need to be certified to be an elevator tech. Source: spouse worker for an elevator parts manufacturer.
@@abloodraven3856 You just know the workers on the Ishimura routinely get "free pizza" from management
"The suit upgrade station definitely has potential to cause serious injury to anyone who happens to be inside should it malfunction"
Yeah, that's a nice way of saying "The person could be flayed, disemboweled, dismembered, or all of the above should the machine malfunction"
One of the characters is heard killing someone that way in an audio log
@@MylesKillis Oh really?
@@SplunkmastahYep, the guy that gets turned into the regenerating hunter necromorph kills a coworker that way in an audio log found during a side quest triggered by picking up a tissue sample.
@@Lee-cu1nn Hell, you can even find that specific lethal station
As a fellow mechanical engineer I would love to see you breakdown the suits / rigs in the franchise or the tools. Great video !
Not a mechanical engineer but i would love to see a breakdown of the suits too!
Not yet an engineer but I'm with these guys
I’d like to see *your* breakdown of the equipment
As a mechanic i'd also like to see that
The Dead Space universe clearly got rid of OSHA years ago because there are way too many safety hazards in every DS environment.
It actually makes sense lore-wise-the human race is massively overpopulated and life is cheap. Additionally, they’re literally cloning limbs for replacement procedures, so the loss of a body part isn’t as big of an issue as it would be in reality.
As someone who's worked industrial most of his engineering career, none of the outright safety violations in dead space shock me, but yeah when you learn that the people in power in Dead Space are all members of a literal death cult, it all makes a lot of sense as well.
To be fair, the Ishimura was the oldest ship in the fleet. In comparison to Titan Station, the Ishimura was a run-down shit hole.
they can also claim the protective gear is good enough, but still the lack of railing is still weird
Amazon and Tesla have essentially got rid of OSHA. If the cruelty and greed of late stage capitalism is projected into the far future, the lack of workplace safety and easy wastage of human labour is completely believable
Hmm... a lot of things could be explained by complacency. They dont care about grav failing coz it never failed, hence lackluster countermeasures.
15:32 *spoiler* : there is a side mission later on where you discover an audio log of such “accident”
I will be that guy, which audio log is it?
@@L_Nivale it’s in the side quest were you figure out how the hunter came to be
You may have already heard this before but I was watching a OG Dead Space dev talking about how they designed the ship and one of the main jokes / montras was that it was meant to be an OSHA nightmare.
Dude that’s hilarious actually
@@excuseme2770 something something social commentary and critique of the lack of safety regulations out of greed.
Don't have to worry about space OSHA inspections when everything about your operation is secret and highly illegal I guess.
I think they exceeded the expectations hahahahahahaha most crew should have been dead by the time the necros arrived...
@@thelvadam2884 hey to be fair I’d say it’s pretty accurate (having worked In an ugly ass factory myself) tons of black and grey, pretty unimpressive employee health and safety. Except there’s not enough yellow that doesn’t actually help 😭
Fun fact: at 1:29:16 where you say the Marker's affecting Isaac with radiation...yeah, the Marker doesn't generate or produce any radiation of any kind; it's a long established bit of lore that it doesn't emit radiation and instead just an eldritch signal that's strong enough to affect organic minds and reanimate necrotic flesh.
Not any radiation we can detect by that point, but whatever it is, it _does_ in fact radiate from the marker.
Just because it isn't electromagnetic waves or energized particles doesn't mean it isn't radiation.
@@nullpoint3346you're clearly confusing definitions of the word "radiate" here.
Do you think a radiator that heats water is remotely comparable to a nuclear reactor just because that also heats water? There are so many differences betweeb the two that comparing them is essentially pointless.
@@apictureoffunction Actually, they _are_ comparable. At least in terms of how effectively they heat the water.
It's also lore that the marker isn't the source emitter. The marker is merely a relay point for the signal that originates from brethren moons. It still radiates, but I presume not by virtue of whatever the Marker is made of. I also assume it's not ionising radiation given its organic origins.
@@InhabitantOfOddworldThat is just people messing with jargon. Without getting too much into the weeds, a relay might not be the origin of a signal, but it is an emitter as well as a receiver. This is how it relays, it receives information, processes it into some capacity (otherwise you wouldn't need it), and re-transmits. unless they're using relay when they mean something else entirely, then it can be whatever.
Considering the lack of any OSHA compliance and how cheap life is in the future (plus the emphasis on limb regeneration, which is so common that literal hundreds of clones and cell growth areas are present in the medical bay), it sort of makes sense that mining and engineering suits are so heavily armored, especially the facial region. It seems like a way to cut costs: it’s much cheaper to just mass produce those suits than to actually implement safe working conditions, and by designing them to protect vital organs and lead to ‘clean’ amputations, you can just replace the poor worker’s limb and keep him working with a gravity saw the next day. Whether that’s actually viable economically is another matter, but given the lore it seems that raw material and energy is way more valuable than flesh and blood, so in that case it may very well be economically sound to plan around your workers getting their arms cut off versus actually safe railings and working conditions.
Exactly, if you can literally mass produce your workers then what’s the point in safety?
While it sounds great and plausible, I don't see a future in which it is cheaper to regrow limbs instead of a few safety changes, especially with the virtual infinite resources that come with FTL travel. But I like the idea that megacorpos just don't care about the drone worker (which could be solved with AI) and with current events IRL, more probable.
You're forgetting the operating conditions for the Ishimora there going to be dust micro debris and Boulder sized pieces of rock an up their literally ripping apart planets quit literally a hell for a space ship. I'm surprised things aren't more armored.
Just like irl
The problem is that FTL does not in any way shape or form grant access to unlimited resources-let along give those resources for free- while also being obscenely expensive both in terms of very rare resources (ruby semiconductors comes to mind, a rare material that will have tolerances that probably preclude most of the little material mined from being usable) and energy.
It’s worth noting that in universe they HAD a materials crisis. At some point, materials become too cost prohibitive to aquire compared to the costs; there may be more resources than humanity will need for thousands of years in the Oort Cloud alone, but if you have to pay for years long voyages or FTL jumps on top of the years spent mining,…
Also and far more importantly if the energy crisis, which is the primary concern; unlike Star Trek and Star Wars, it is acknowledged that FTL ain’t cheap. It takes an infinite amount of energy to reach light speed by conventional means,… so no surprise that the infinitely dense main component of their FTL drives are singularity cores which must be disgustingly expensive, like miniature particle accelerator levels of “fuck my wallet.” But they don’t seem to enjoy the +90% efficiency ratings of most sci-fi series either, so you’re looking at small ships costing as much as CERN and requiring top of the line bleeding edge power plants vomiting Giga watts of power at a rate of “let’s vaporize an entire island in an instant.”
Avatar does a good job putting it into perspective; even with the near perfect abilities of units jump and antimatter it still takes hundred to a thousand fusion reactors running non-stop just to keep one or two ships moving at a steady pace without FTL,…
Combined with the fact that there is even an actual overpopulation problem in universe, the logical (an even more grim conclusion if you ask me) isn’t even that people are expendable, it’s that they’re little more than disposable parts no more valuable the plastic wrapping. The only worth a person has is their skill set. Your meat, mind and soul be damned, and we can already see examples of that in real life.
46:50 Little error. From IRL railguns we know that they also have muzzle flashes, since electrical sparks and small amounts of plasma created by the high voltage follow the projectile out the barrel. Also the Asteroid Defense Cannons are actually Mass driver cannons, so a form of railgun
Nice catch, I didn't know that about railguns, and mass drivers would probably make more sense here too. Although, I might argue that for such a muzzle flash to occur, there would need to be air (or some other medium) for the arcs to form the plasma from, although I suppose there are a number of ways to explain that (coolant gas, spark build-up, chipping/sublimation of projectiles, ...).
@@RocketScienceGallery That's fair, I didn't account for Vacuum(wrote that late at night) though I still believe they're electromagnetic mass driver. That's because if it was convential munition the proppelant charge would make the ammo require 2-3 times as much storage space. Also with propably aphe warheads it already would needs safe storage, add and propeelant charge it and you have ship destroying accident waiting to happen (you can ask the HMS Hood about that).
since this is right where all the mineral debris is pulverized, the ionized dust would be an explanation. Aswell as the refraction of the light beams @RocketScienceGallery pointed out 47:00
The traces the bullets leave in vacuum can also only really be explained by friction that probably heats up something like a plastic layer around the projectile that decomposes mechanically or chemically if theres no chemical propellant, as far as i can imagine, but feel free to correct me
I'm in my last year of mechanical engineering studies and I'm listening to the video while working on the assembly drawing for my cold stamping die project. Perfection
Best of luck to you, and great work getting this far!
Go forth and do well. Also, don't forget about your Von Mises.
Mokey
Your what project?
@@jakedanielsen4512 Stamping die, a die used with large presses to stamp / cut shapes out of sheet metal.
My guy, I just found your channel and holy fuck, I honestly believe that you should turn this into a series, exploring different video games and movies' "Realism". Like Roanoke Gaming but engineer version. You pretty much already have all the bases covered: Solid editing style, great humor, knack for storytelling and explaining stuff, a podcast length video perfect for listening while doing chores, and a nigh-infinite source of materials to work with. You got your niche carved out here, bro. Just keep digging.
That being said, I would love for you to review Prey (2017) video game. I got obsessed with that game due to it's focus on the human elements of the crew living spaces. It was a veritable sci-fi space hotel.
I'll be watching your channel with great interest!
Thank you very much! I'd certainly like to do more of these, and multiple people have suggested Prey now, which would be a great time. I am currently working my way through another game for a similar review, as well as some various other projects. There will definitely be more where this came from!
@@RocketScienceGalleryPrey would be amazing! Looking Glass is one of those "mmmaybe it could work?" type of techs you see in sci-fi. Like the communicator from Star Trek. I outright stole it for use as "windows" for my sci-fi ships. No structural weak points in mine.
Speaking of which you could potentially do an entire series on the ships from Star Citizen. Morphologist's architect reviews are awesome, though I often wonder if some aspects make more or less sense from an engineering point of view.
@@RocketScienceGalleryhey, I think it would be cool if you could do something like this on StarCraft! The Terrans have some cool stuff!
man, his obviously amateur, who doesn't know how physics work
I second this motion
It’s funny that in this universe this ship is old and on its last legs but the reality is that something like this existing is so technically advanced we can’t even think to develop anything like this anytime soon. But that’s what so amazing about the ishimura .. it’s because one day in the future we probably could make a replica
I don't want to be a part of a future we need to resort to cracking open planets to satisfy our infinite resource hunger
I mean it won't happen in our lifetime but it probably will in someone else's.
@RetroRadianceLight we almost certainly never will do it that way unless we're on an absolute rampage for material lol. Planet cracking doesn't make much sense compared to asteroid mining, which is easier and offers more abundant and valuable material.
Then again, if you have essentially learned the secrets of gravity and can simply rip chunks out of planets with ease then..I guess you do you.
@@RetroRadianceLight unless you plan on living for over 4 or more centuries... i think you are safe.
I mean, we could get most of it done actually, it'd just be the building it in in orbit that'd be hard. Probably not anything /this/ big, tho that's not impossible either, but at least the size of a carrier or warship.
We do have most of the tech, humanity just hasn't worked together the way we did during the space race since about just then..
The pa system is speaking in Chinese, however it doesn't sound very clear and are probably machine translated. What it roughly means however, should be: "New commers must go through decontamination process, or you will be quarantined and fined."
One thing I will point out is that the Ishimura is a first-of-class vessel, and has likely been the testbed for many of the technologies it utilizes, this can explain why it's so labyrinthine as well: she's been reconfigured more times that are probably recorded as damage has occurred or as new technologies have had the kinks worked out.
26:30 it's not that it can't maintain an orbit because it's not moving fast enough, it's that it never had a stable orbit to begin with, the engines were being used to push away from the planet like they were a VTOL, it's absolutely moronic, but from how it looks like shit went down in the movie, they probably didn't have time to tow the mass into a proper orbit before shit hit the fan and automated systems have been doing heavy station-keeping, the whole thing with getting to orbit through the debris field is because they're moving into a parking orbit, with the amount of weight they're lugging around it'd take weeks. My best guess is they have to drop down to pick up the load and then haul it up to a more stable orbit.
30:00 This is something we're pretty sure is possible, it's called a plasma window, we don't have a working unit, but the math apparently seems to work out. There is a similar technology that is used in particle accelerators called plasma valves, they're used to give time for the accelerated particles to seal the internal vacuum chamber in the event of a breach so the accelerator has enough time to decelerate the particles so they don't, and I'm oversimplifying here, explode air molecules and shred billions of dollars of equipment.
36:20 Best guess, A tank is full, there are four.
43:30 This is 100% gamification, they were originally malfunctioning gravity plating that would instantly splatter the player if they messed up around them, it was changed to arcing so the player isn't INSTANTLY killed and can, in theory, survive a mistake.
47:00 Railguns can have muzzle flash, it's the arcing from the rails to the projectile, as the projectile was part of the circuit before being launched. Though the recoiling barrels hint more toward it being more conventional, could be a hybrid chemical-coil launch system though. Also, dust from obliterated space rock would reflect the light.
48:40 They're using hydroponics (48:58 The room is the Hydroponics Central Hub) so they can also grow fish in a stable manner, so crop rotation wouldn't a factor. Dietary issues ARE absolutely an issue.
54:36 Looking at them, they're probably not bit identifiers, the lights are probably a network or drive activity monitor of some kind.
55:53 Ease of transport, the ship is designed to support the setup of ground stations in the early stages, shuttle flies in, they move food onboard, and it immediately goes for the ground station.
1:00:15 This one pisses me off, in the original it would pull the asteroid into the processor, not detonate it instantly.
1:06:00 Yea, I'm chalking all of the labeling issues here to 'it's government issue'.
1:24:00 You are absolutely correct, the movie showed the system in action.
44:39 Coming from an electrician. While a lock-out tag-out system will provide information as to how long it's being worked on, its main purpose is to physically "lock-out" a specific cicuit from being turned on while maintenence is being performed. If a circuit is being worked on and someone else turns on that breaker, it could easily cause the person working on the circuit to be shocked or even electrocuted as they are not expecting to have to treat the circuit as if it live. The "tag" is the secondary function that lets the person at the breaker panel know who might be working on it, how to contact them, and let them know when the work is expected to be completed.
The safety aspects are basically waived by how the CEC operates. They put the Ishimura in the space equivalent of international waters specifically so that they couldnt be sued by crew members for these kind of things.
I think things starting to float off the ground when the gravity is turned off is due to the vibrations that permeate throughout the ship from the various mechanical systems. The vibrations could provide enough force to kick things off the ground.
1:16:52
In an audio log it's explained why the force gun doesn't kill Mercer
Mercer asks Temple to help him build something for the Marker
Temple insits he needs his force gun for it
Mercer doubts it but lets him take it however he has him remove several modifications that make the force gun lethal
Which is why it only injures Mercer in the cutscene
which audio log is this and where can it be found
I didn't play DS but it was the inspiration for the first mod system in warframe(it was replaced year after launch with a lot more flexible system except which also got multiple improvements since, except for the stupid polarities we still have) and the old UI.
@@CJ-gg2ex Very late, but it's an audio log that can be found in the cargo hold (just finished the remake, and found it there).
Yeah, but I feel like the Force Gun blast would have still knocked Mercer on his ass. It's still a powerful weapon, even if it's been altered to be non-lethal. It would have done more than just lightly push Mercer back a few steps.
To me, USS Ishimura always seemed like "pretty on the outside, rotten on the inside" type of a situation. It had the basic necessities and sometimes a little bit of extra, but it clearly had a lot of violations going. It was purposely made to be very imperfect to signal something bad was going on, not just with the necromorphs.
"In Dead Space, you're not playing as a highly-trained soldier that has a lot of luck."
No, the opposite actually. Instead of the "hero character solves all issues without a problem" trope, Dead Space has the "everything that can possibly go wrong, will go wrong" trope that is often seen in action films, disaster films, and sci-fi films.
"Isaac! The tram system is broken! It needs to be fixed!"
"Nice, you fixed it, Isaac! Great work! But now, the air filtration system just broke down! We need to fix that before we all suffocate!"
"Great work, Isaac! You fixed it! Unfortunately, just as you fixed that, this other thing broke on the opposite side of the ship. And now you need to go fix that too!"
"Done fixing that, Isaac? Nice, because - yup, you guess it. Now we have this other issue that just started. You need to go fix that now."
"ISAAC! HURRY FIXING THAT! THIS OTHER THING JUST BROKE TOO!"
One thing after another. Non-stop. You just gotta laugh after a while. Main characters in these types of stories have the absolute worst luck in the world.
In this case it makes sense story wise since Kyne set it up this way. I actually love how they integrated this seemingly silly series of unfortunate events into the narrative.
Not sure if anyone’s said it already, but the Centrifuge’s room does have a walkway provided above the Spinning arms. It’s just blocked by Necromorph growths once the gravity is turned on to provide the player some stress.
Yeah, without the growth it would be a straight walk right back to safety.
i love at 12:23 he explains the possible dangerous outcomes of that door while stepping around bloody body pieces from said such door
15:30 there is an audio file somewhere in Mining/Engineering where a Unitologist stuffed another guy in the upgrade station during an episode and you can hear the guy screaming
The armor on the suits actually has in world meaning outside of gameplay. The suit Issac is wearing at the start is a basic Engineers suit, mildly armored to protect from lower level hazards, all the way up to the Lvl3 suit and beyond, the Lvl 3 suit being specifically for hazardous enviornments such as working in space and granted to Class 4 Engineers with a lot of experience in these scenarios
I guess personally I never thought about the system’s infrastructure and integrity that much until you brought this up and this video is a very good and needed reminder on how we should treat our future tech and environments if we are to achieve the things that are still seen as science fictional at the moment at least.
We have to be smart on our builds if we hope to maintain explorations in space and creating better suits that aren’t just for looks and show
Wasn't the Ishimura; a cheap, mass-produced ship that was service in for 60 years and modified to accept new tech on fly, when it should've been decommissioned instead? I also heard similar things about Issac's suit in the canon of Dead Space.
@@lakshaykochhar6799
IIRC Ishimura is the first planet-cracker ever
@@steelbear2063 That's gotta be very old.
@@lakshaykochhar6799 it still would’ve needed some form of safety. It wasn’t designed on the 18th century it’s still in OUR future
@@Airdash5678 I don't think the company behind Ishimura cares about that.
The idea that an engineer might click on this video, buy this game and get put off by all the blood and gore when they just want to check out how the space ship is put together is so damn funny to me
The first 15 minutes of things you were talking about were literally how plenty of the deaths you come across happen, right down to the dude who was stuffed into the suit kiosk by a crazed individual. It’s neat to see how these safety things sound like they were purposely omitted for the purpose of showing off the deaths and hazards of a space ship
I am working on a sci-fi horror game like Dead Space, and my biggest fear is that an engineer will check whether my artistic props actually make sense from an engineering perspective.
RIP. lol
Better do your research.
Listening
you got a channel for the game or is it still NDA type dealio
Whats the name?
RSG: "This engine clearly suggests advanced fusion propulsion technology"
DS devs: "Hehe blocky rocket go brrrr"
In the Harris side quest, after arriving in the mining deck, you find an audio log where Harris shoves a miner into the suit change station and gets ripped to shreds.
I made the mistake of making dinner without picking a video to watch beforehand. Before my food could even think about getting cold you popped up in my recommended. This type of niche content is right up my alley. You saved my life
1:29:32 seeing the achievements for beating the game with only the plasma cutter AND impossible mode show up at the same time was the biggest plot twist of them all. Well done
As someone who works offshore, I'm really glad to see video like this. I wish that for next Dead Space game all devs would go live in off-shore instalation for few weeks to see how places like Ishimura should work and add more fricking stairs.
Regarding those cut corners in terms of safety, with band-aid solutions like "Watch out!"-posters: It puts that impressive three year deadline for building the ship into perspective. Like when Microsoft installed a red LED to tell you your XBox360 is broken so they could be shipped for christmas with the known hardware problem still intact.
It's very common for a temporary solution like a warning sticker to end up as a permanent solution, at least until someone gets hurt or a regulatory agency finds out there's tomfoolery about.
@@Pacemaker_fgc Yeah I guess so. My workplace still has half a meter of drywall missing from when someone needed to access the pipes behind it a few years ago. With a hand written sheet of paper to not touch the pipes or slip a foot down the hole.
at 14:50 i would disagree, the PA system was likely used for people entering the docking bay. meaning that they could be from anywhere and would not likely be crew members but visitors, necessitating the multiple languages. The crew probably did not have language issues as evidenced by how the entire ship has everything written in english.
The idea of Isaac going through a quarantined ship surviving numerous life-or-death situations just to perform an OSHA inspection is genuinely so funny to me
This is a really cool idea for a video about Dead Space - naturally most others are about the cosmic horror zombies, but in truth the Ishimura's environments themselves are as important a part of the game as the necromorphs. The ship may as well be a character in its own right
Giving everyone on board a RIG and ample access to Biotic gel and cloned limbs was probably cheaper for the CEC than completely remoddelling a ship that had already served the better half of a century to meet at least the minimum of safety standards.
That being said it's also worth noting that in many of the areas with an abundance of unsafe conditions the general level of protective equipment used by the workers in those levels increases.
Engineering may be a deathtrap but the suits used by workers in those areas are built to at least mitigate some of the danger.
Meanwhile the hydroponics area you see more padding and fewer random spikes and moving parts correlating with the somewhat lesser protective gear worn by their staff.
18:28 from my somewhat limited electrical experience this actually looks pretty ok. it's looks to be a wiring diagram instead of a ladder diagram which i'm more used to which tripped me up a bit, but the 3 phase motor in the bottom left is wired fairly standardly with overload protection and everything. coming off of that on the bottom is a control circuit, wired to 2 of the 3 phases (not through a transformer which isn't common but could happen). the 3 phase lines don't seem to originate from anywhere, which is fairly standard, but connected to where they start is what i assume is the coil for the motor starter (with overload protection again so points) but that should be over with the control circuit not connected up there. top right is a mess of connections that i don't recognize but does have all the symbols right
Biggest issue I saw firsthand was that this diagram has no labels. Wiring this would be quite annoying imo and I'd probably just go ahead and redline labels into there for my and whoever else's convenience 😅
I mostly work with control cabinets that do not employ much motors but the top left is a bit confusing to me since it appears the button above the throw switch would short L1 and L3. I'm pretty sure that would cause an arc flash event if those legs were energized but anyone else can weigh in haha 💥
@@LoverOfLaughs also the three fuses to the motor are drawn separate, they're supposed to be drawn connected since having one phase short and fry can still let the motor run with 2 phases and increased wear, heating and potential damage. I worked in a metal working industry as electrical maintenance.
Also the whole right side is basically utter nonsense connected to a circle.
An OSHA based Dead Space video wasn't what I was expecting, but it genuinely made me smile with the way you elaborated with great detail.
Didn’t even know this channel was a thing but glad I was recommended it. Not an engineer by any means, but I’ve worked in the oil field, construction, maintenance, forestry, warehouses, been in the military, and currently work hospital maintenance. Within all those occupations and in the future it seems the safety man is always needed and hated 😂. Lock out tag out people.
For a spoiler reason for the hazardous gasses being left about unsecured:
I think the crew going crazy from the spire played a massive part. People who had access to these hazardous chemicals being urged by the spire to kill each other and themselves could have been carrying them about to use on themselves or others. Also, stuff like medical logs being left about in random places are where the person writing it left it during an emergency, being killed, or going mad.
The spire? You mean The Marker?
@DeadPixel1105 Yes, whatever it's called.
As someone who performed some computer science I can simply state that the lights are just simple blikenlights that don't correlate to anything.
Why does no one ever talk about the “sucked into a vacuum” myth.
The delta p between simulated earth atmosphere inside a spacecraft and space is 14psi.
That’s 1 atmosphere to 0 atmospheres. The air rushing out from behind you would not exert a great enough force to rip you off your feet from across the room and drag you out, especially if you’re in artificial gravity. I can imagine that if you were standing by the airlock you would teeter off your feet slightly but a Leviathan being dragged into space?!
As Commander Data pointed out in one episode, "Correction, commander - blown out".
I love how this doubles as like an OSHA inspector's walkthrough of the Ishimura. Something which has undoubtedly never happened before from the look of it 😂
I always found fascinating that the "guns" are bypassed tools or just tools,line gun (bigger plasma cutter) and plasma cutter are bypassed cuting tools, the force gun is a tool to clean debris from the excavation, the ripper or whatever the circular saw is called its just that, the big ass laser canon seems to be an equivalent to something like an sds hammer drill for drilling into ore/rock,
I kinda want to see one of these for alien isolation.
51:54 as a civil, I immediately got pressed when you said that mechanicals the best a second before you said don’t tell civils with that cheeky fnet != 0 popping up😭
6:36 “during an emergency situation, the path should be illuminated as well.”
They could honestly even go above and beyond in this world with the line based Holographic Locater found in RIGs to point out your objectives. They could have such projectors built into rooms and in the event of an emergency, a line is projected to lead the way to the nearest evacuation route.
This is such a fantastic video analysis! I would also like to add that when it comes to lighting, there was a study done that blue light also contributed to lower amounts of anxiety and depression. This would be beneficial on long space flights. Looking forward to your analysis of the weapons and suit riggings.
Don’t know if you’ll see this. But 46:26 is explained in the spinoff rail shooter Dead Space Extraction. A Wii game that was later ported to PS3. Basically, the story follows a small group of colonists and crew aboard the ishimura attempting to escape amidst the start/middle of the outbreak. To do so, one of the characters ventures out to disable the ADS cannons so the defense system doesn’t target their escape shuttle. Hence why Isaac had to come in and recalibrate them after the fact.
Dead Space Extraction also features a closer look at the Aegis VII Colony (like the concurring prequel comics) and both the vent systems on the Ishimura, as well as a waste disposal sub-level (plumbing sewers etc.). So make with that info what you will.
Wanted to say great video. Looking at the logistics of engineering in Dead Space is such a brilliant idea. As for the safety aspect, I always assumed it was intentional. To help add to the atmosphere of the series’ grim world.
14:15 Maybe we're making the assumption that humans don't already know all those languages. Maybe Chinese is a better language for communicating culinary items while English has become the language of engineering? I like the way The Expanse universe has taken this on. Where the Belters (humans who grew up and live the majority of their lives in micro-gravity) have developed a cant that is basically an amalgam of all the most technologically advanced cultures that pushed out into space first (English, Chinese, Indian, German, Spanish, Italian... etc.)
Belter language is a single language, a creole language like multiple current day languages. So a stable language that developed naturally over time from a combination and simplification of multiple parent languages, probably with a simpler/non stable pidgin language first that slowly stabilized into a single common language as people who spoke those different languages natively learned to communicate. Over a base of English being presumed to still be a fairly common language of business, so it had the heaviest influence (and obviously for the show it had to be mostly understandable to the broadest audience possible). You wouldn’t see sets of information consistently sticking to one language for entire thoughts/messages, by their nature creole languages are a mixture throughout.
All of that said because the belter creole is one of a lot of reasons I love that show. Many of them admittedly more physics/engineering related as the screen name probably suggests.
While I’m no engineer of any caliber, I SOOOOOO MUCH enjoyed this video! It made me feel like I understood a lot more due to your quick explanations. I definitely want this as a series if it’s not already. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'd guess they once had more than one tram on the ship but the one we access is likely an emergency one that still works. As there is enough parts of the ship locked off to us that also have other characters moving about with them making me think we just see either the main maintenance tram or a emergency one used for the event of a disaster that runs on its own line that doesn't often get used compared to what I assume would be a larger system with a few more trams for the main transport of the Doctors, scientists, miners & security forces as well as the bridge crew & officers basically all the people who aren't the engineers & such use likely a kinda larger tram that can hold more people as the one we use in game only could hold like 4 people & maybe a bit more if you crammed it but it defiantly could carry tools & stuff as well. I remember a part in the original game where you pass through an area that looks like it once held two tram lines round the area where you need to repair the tram to progress at the start. Also I think the second game also implies this. There likely also is slower ways around the ship which most people would be using as I'd assume only the engineers & stuff have to take the long trips across the ship on the regular. I also want to add about the grimy industrial look it kinda makes sense for the ship to have as well its the mining ship that's very old & on its last mission before its going to be made into a museum or scrapped. So its not like I'd guess its much more than an old ship falling apart. Like in its hayday it probably didn't have all these exposed panels & stuff but now that its so old & things break so often the engineers just go like F*ck it it'll break soon enough again & doing the whole panel thing is time consuming. Also the ships damage from the current alien zombie situation could help cause more of this. I do like it as a old falling apart ship. But the colony is another thing which kinda seems unsafe for what it is.
Edit: on the centrifuge. At least in the original game it made sense why Isaac had to take such a dangerous gamble by passing the area where the arms where moving. You could see that some Necromorph growth was over the area & I think part of it had broken off making the area have saftey in the before times but since you don't have time you've just gotta start the thing up instead of how in a time when they didn't have monsters trying to kill them they could make a makeshift bridge to help the person reach the button & then get back over & later on when they are safe they could turn it off & rebuild the walkway. I guess the remake missed that detail leading to a nonsensical area.
The biomass is blocking the path in the remake centrifuge too, or else he could simply just walk back the way he came and go back through the door he came through.
@@Krosstic Oh I was confused by his comment on this part? I hadn't played it back then But I played it recently & was confused by why that guy said that.
Please sir, cover the suits and weapons next.
Yes!
3:11 Warpdrive
11:27 Stasis
13:16 Readily available circuit breakers
Engineers have gotta be some of my favorite people man, no chance could i actually go through all that schooling but they all seem awesome
This video is amazing, both in concept and in execution. I, for one, am thrilled you put this much love and effort into such a niche topic.
14:15 I suppose it kinda make sense if you consider that the stations was designed with safety and comfort has a lesser priority then profitability and stuff like that.
This is a fantastic idea and format for a video. I could easily see this being an entire series where you break down other games exactly like this.
I would watch every single one.
In the centerfurge, the walkway to get out is blocked by the biomass, so it makes sense that the engineers didn't account for
To be fair regarding tk in zero g areas, there is inherent risks when using many real life items such as cars, or in the case of miners something like dynamite. Its possible the tech is so ubiquitous in the setting that it is just an accepted part of life at this point. I say that because in the second game, a seemingly random guy has a tk module and leaves the tk tutorial video.
i like that you make things that are so obscure seem like common knowledge, like how liquid nitrogen can be used for radiation protection. dude you are crazy smart??!!!!!!!
I like it how much attention you put to detail, how you express alternative or speculative explanations when some things are unclear or put of your field, and the tangents and humour you include.
I'll be taking notes of your observations to better learn more.
I'm making up a headcannon that the entire time Issac was fighting for his life and everyone else he was just casually taking notes on the poor operations of the ship to report them or some shit just
-beheads necromorph and used one of its arms to impale another -
As you can during that fight on a narrow walkway with no ralling if I hadn't been aware and careful I could have fallen off!
32:51 it is however handy for when you are letting your suit dry after use.
35:50 Lighting can actually be very important on a vessel, especially if you dont have your own with you. When the lights on a ship go out you cant even see your hand infont of you. But there should be two separate lighting circuits, normal and emergency/vital that has a lower power draw.
46:00 theoretically, could the laser be reflecting back off the the dust and debeir created by destroying the asteroids and the propellent gasses following the projectiles?
51:31 Could the Hallway be held at positive pressure, that could explain why the gas isn't evacuating into the hallway (However it would imply the gases gets pushed to the opposite side of the room i guess)
56:00 This ship looks to be primarily engineering/ machinery rooms. It's common to have low railings and exposed machinery. There are only two places on the ship that I was on that was highly guarded/protected and they were the hydraulic rams responsible for moving the control surfaces. Heck you could freely crawl under the main shaft while it was spinning far faster then something that size has the right to be spinning. (watched a mad lad dryhump the shaft while we were going near max speed.)
42:50 8 vertical, however one would assume that each individual light might represent channels and system chatter instead of representing individual bits and bytes
Please make more videos like this! There's so much potential in this format! I think it's an interesting as well as a fun way to remember and appreciate the small details in these games.
I however think avoiding spoilers is not needed, as a video like this is mostly fruitful for those who have already played the game. Otherwise there's too much to take in, if the game is unfamiliar.
Review of black mesa research facility next?
Thanks! I suppose you're right about spoilers, I'd just hate to ruin a great game like this for someone who's only halfway through. But seeing how many people have mentioned the Harris side quest I guess it would allow for a more complete review.
As an aspiring mechanical engineering major, the most beautiful thing about this video to me is your ability to see the absolutely crazy, highly unethical designs in this game and be like, "Well, there *might* be a good reason why it's built this way." Awesome stuff, man!
This is the first time I watched a video from you, with the only reason being that it is a Dead Space related content. I especially love your style of presenting your own ideas with minimal repetitive editing throughout the video on top of your sense of humor. Especially love the part where you slip in the *∑F ≠ 0* expression in 51:54; classic joke.
40:28 in the original demo of the game you would play this part of chapter 3 and i believe you had a time limit. After your start the engine like in the original you had to go back to the tram station , little did you know that after you open the door , there is the hunter waiting behind that door waiting to insta kill you.
55:08 really loving the subtle humor in these cuts.
As a PSM Coordinator who just finished my PHA training, this video makes me sooo happy. The setting of Dead Space is a safety nightmare beyond all imagining! That’s before you add in the damn necromorphs!
I really, really appreciate that you're not judging sci-fi stuff based on irl physics or technology.
After the “remove marker” clip- I knew I was staying for the whole video
I always love these kinds of videos because it reminds me of how, in the scifi scene, historically people have always known about how things were going to be years before they ever happened. 2001 A Space Odyssey comes to mind in how they had face-to-face long distance communication, tablets, and the like. Eventually, humanity's going to space to colonize other planets and mine for resources. Eventually, humanity's going to figure out gravity and zero-point energy/the unified field. I always find it cool how people are already thinking ahead about things like this. Solid video, nice job.
Gleise Beach could also be another star trek reference of Risa, the beachside vacation planet they go to a few times in Star Trek TNG. just a thought.
The 'Air screens' in the landing bays actually makes sense to me. In the same vein as Kenesis tech, it could be a narrow field specifically designed to only affect particles or molecules of a specific density or less?
There is a point that i wanted to make about the grav-ball court that you talk about later in the video. All of your points about it are very correct but one use case that you overlooked was its usefulness for training people to move in zero gravity, in many books that I've read, while still being used for exercise and play, antigravity sports are also used to train space movement and painful impacts with walls/ceilings/floors are great learning tools.
Great video
Would love to see your take on the suits and weapons next
Now I want to see a game where you're an MBA on a spaceship, trying to solve problems. Maybe you just play as the dude who usually yells at the main character and tells them what to do over the radio in a safe room.
3:28 Small note, jumping between systems does not use the FSD's Alcubierre drive mode, it uses some form of higher dimensional travel, based on reverse-engineered alien tech. Supercruise inside systems does use the Alcubierre drive mode of the FSD, however.
I always appreciated the different fields of science being portrayed in scifi franchises. If a franchise decided to take every field, i.e. engineering, within its universe seriously while also having events like dead space happening, I think it would make for a very compelling and thought provoking atmosphere, especially if they nailed their presentation like dead space did.
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55:48 It’s mentioned in one of the logs that the ship is currently producing more food than it needs. The way they say that makes it sound like usually it doesn’t, so they would still need to be able bring in food and having a loading bay close to food storage would make things quick and simple.
55:45 maybe the door to the outside has a use in filling food storage from a cargo vessel or vice versa.
48:26 Um, akschually there is no hydroponics going on here, even if the deck is called that. These plants are clearly planted in soil, while hydroponics implies exposed plant roots being sprayed with nutritious liquids
For the 'Atmospheric Shields' at 29:40ish, I think it's very plausible that it does indeed make use of the unified field theory; Specifically, Stasis. A very finely controlled stasis field applied only to small particles with enough strength to resist the natural atmospheric pressure being restrained would of course be strong enough to contain the stagnant/mostly unmoving atmosphere of the area- But would Not be strong enough to halt objects of larger mass that has force actively being applied to it, ie, a person walking and pushing off with their foot as they step into it.
Similarly, but I think less plausibly due to atmospheric pressure, computer controlled stasis 'lasers' outlining the shield being produced could, hypothetically at least, re-form the field in real time to allow larger objects to pass while retaining the seal.
Love the video and hope to see more like it in the future, really glad this blew up for you. You’ve probably gotten this comment a lot (though I didn’t see any after a skim) but the largest nuclear detonation was 50 megatons, so a 12 megaton yield being 10 times larger is pretty inaccurate. You might have been looking at the WWII information, those were around 20 kilotons iirc
Edit: I didn’t catch the “by the United States” part, that was 15 megatons, so still very inaccurate. I had to double check a ton because it was so wrong I felt like I had to be missing something, haha
This was absolutely fascinating man, and very well put together. Keep it up!
What i learned from this video: in the future, stairs are expensive, and cargo lifts are cheap.
What would be really funny would be if they designed spacecraft irl to have hazards that had no basis except to be atmospheric because of something the engineers saw in a video game, like that scene in Galaxy Quest.