The Terrifying Automoton Lore and Anatomy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 เม.ย. 2024
- The Automotons are a massive threat to Super Earth. They are scary, loud, and smell a bit like motor oil. In this video I cover the lore of the Automotons in Helldivers 2, and where they likely came from based on the lore of Helldivers 1.
#gaming #helldivers2 #lore - เกม
So what you're saying is, they can feel fear......
It's afraid...... IT'S AFRAID!!!!
IT MEANS THEY CAN FEEL FREEDOM
YEAAAH FOR SUPER EAAAAAARRRTHHHH
THEY'RE PROBABLY FEARING YOU MORE THAN YOU FEAR THEM
Good. They should fear that 500kg of pure managed democracy coming their way
Legendary reference right here lol
It's interesting that every Automaton unit shares the same head, from standard marauders to berserkers and devastators. I bet the hulk has a skull head behind its faceplate.
My theory is that Hulk’s are their mechsuits, devastators would be heavy armor
@jonathangarcia9204 no in the first game hulks were epitome of the cyborg armies. The more upgraded you become the higher your rank is
@@SuppositoryPerc ahhhh Okok, so the higher their rank -> more pieces/armor gets added to them?
Sounds like communist phrenology.
Just yesterday I blasted a hulk. I passed him and thought it was clear than a standard unit was standing on top of the dead hulk. So in my head they are a mech suit.
Undemocratic Theory:
Super Earth uses the headsets within our helmets to scramble the bot’s words and make them feel less human.
Sounds very treasonous... ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
“So they can’t spread their foul socialism”
Ngl that kinda makes sense.
Do you mean they change what words we hear, or they just make it hard to understand?
@@LectromachineA bit of both.
The Factory Strider spits out Devastators. Good gods is it terrifying.
therapist: and how does that make you feel?
helldiver: DEVASTATED CLEARLY!!
Wendigoon needs to cover this
That could mean there are hundreds, if not thousands of human brains stored in the belly of that monstrosity, awaiting fabrication.
Dude i went to solo it and it took 2 orbital lasers and an orbital railcannon to kill it i think. Absolute UNIT.
i see the factory strider less as a walking factory and more as a walking gun platform that can generate infantry to protect its flanks
Great to see someone talking about Helldivers lore. There is a lot more then people think because it's not in the form of expostion dumps.
The first game had science officer and have an enemy almanac with how to kill them with some lore.
Your support of such misinformation has been noted. Report to your nearest democracy officer for judgement.
I need more lore
Finding anything concrete is like trying to find Atlantis because pretty much every source was written by people larping as Super Earth loyalists.
Can i interest you in vids of lore on the technician and dissidents, ( I made them)
2:15 missed opportunity to make dave the leg wizard some random adeptus mechanicus tech priest
DANG! You're 100% right. That feels like a perfect representation for Dave lol. Some wacky space scientist from Mars.
Back when I fought the Cyborgs in the first war I didn’t think they’d get any worse, but at least we aren’t fighting Cyber Hounds…yet
I don't care if the treadonous propaganda may hold some half-truths, if the automatons start roboticizing humanity's best friend I will helldive on them twice as hard.
Automaton Sympathizer: BUT THERE ARE AUTOMATONS THAT NEVER TRIED TO KILL ME!
Me: THEY'RE LOBOTOMIZED HELLDIVERS AND CIVILIANS!
All the talk of friendly bots is simply a matter of bots that have ran out of ammo. When the automaton has no more ammo, it simply walks towards the enemy and awaits destruction.
Me: WE MUST PUT THEM OUT OF THEIR MISERY!
THIS MEANS ITS NO LONGER A WAR! BUT A MERCY KILLING
@@ion_force honestly it would be really awesome to have the automaton, once it runs out of ammo, switch over to berserker behavior and just go in for that meele kill or activate a self destruction sequence while sprinting Torwarts the nearest player.
That's why the Comissar shoot then stop and make a salute, human brain must be trying to fight the programming.
Wow that gave me chills good thinking soldier.
I thought they were reloading
@@timuknown4438I think they are just sentient robots also I have noticed they have human heads on pikes around their base and some units have humans skulls on them I don’t think they are using there brains but using them to spread fear sense fear will make people less effective which the robots don’t feel also they may have prisoners to get information and the body parts we see grouped together might just be to dispose of them or to harvest there skulls for ordainments on there units they could just have very advanced and sentient ai which isn’t far fetched in sci fi and the cyborgs probably were really good engineers so.
Yo I've been wondering why they do that but literally just realized they do salute just like helldiver's salute.
I always thought it was so weird how they would do that then freeze up. I thought you know it makes it easier to shoot you like that right? Are you trying to be a sneaky ninja or something?
Also robots haven't always chanted or marched heck they didn't talk at all for the longest time.But a couple months ago I swear I heard die helldiver scum. And when I saved some scientists the other day. The scientist said thank God helldiver's are here we are saved
Then a robot with a jet pack came outta nowhere and said no not safe helldivers are never safe.
Then we got swormed with bots when before it had been clear with t
no one there in sight. Then boom surprise attack.
If you ask me they are learning and adapting. And that is scary.
I believe that the factory striders were made as a form of insurance. The normal factories are extremely easy to pinpoint and then destroy, but having one that is constantly moving would make it much harder to pinpoint, making it easier to repopulate.
Not to mention they’re great for invasion. They’re intimidating, tall, heavily armored, and your average defense force probably can’t deal with one easily. Also, while factories mostly make lighter automation units, this one (if I heard correctly) makes devastators.
Although they just came out so they might still be in the early stages , with the armor and all the guns, the factory strider is meant for a battlefield .
@@Goofy364-Real My head canon the factory strider is that not much of a factory but maybe transport with limited production as in my head canon fabricators are actually mostly underground like bug holes. You throw a grenade through the vent to destroy it from the inside or maybe to just block the entry like a bug hole.
That would make sense, however I always think of it as an actual factory due to its name.
DONT THINK ABOUT IT TOO HARD HELLDIVER, JUST SPREAD DEMOCRACY!!
Commissars (in history) also force soldiers to fight and can resort to executing soldiers and so suggest they have brains and free will.
and also one of the older MOs say that they tortured the bots for information, which means they’re sentient and can act individually
They're probably called commissars because the bots are socialists and there were commissars in the Russian revolution. It'd probably be linked to that
I think the idea of “why would the robots try to instill fear” could work, but there are MULTIPLE human effigies visible in and around bot outposts. Even some hulks have effigies on their frames.
Y'all notice how the grunts are getting more advanced scifi looking as the Automaton resistance grows?
Wut
@@shiggermetimbers If you've seen I Am Robot, the Automaton soldiers are looking more N3 (streamlined alloy and electronics) and less N2 (mechanical pistons) .
They are a tad smarter as well..and even better shots i've been getting tagged at some considerable distances even mid dive
Yea they are evolving there tactics and soldiers i have noticed that that bots are putting up more of a fight then the bots in leate February @alostkommando7420
Do you mean how the helldivers are becoming more mechanized to fight the bots?
From the Steel Troopers to the Mechs, it's like the real robots were the friends we made along the way.
💀💀 When you trade your body for the certainty of steel but the human Helldivers are still stronger than you 💀💀
Still don't age
@@cyberpunk-2O77still gonna go brain dead, the human brain only has enough storage for about 300 years of memories.
@@greglynas52 I'll take 300 without cancer or most degenerative diseases but get dementia at the end over 80 with all those things.
@@greglynas52maybe they have some tech to cull some past shit
Super drugs that instantly heal you and reconnect your broken bones....
The automatons have skulls so that suggests that they are extracting the brain AND skull to use in their robots.
Arguably a good choice to keep the brain in it's protective shell but the thing we see is clearly a metal faceplate.
I just love the fact how advanced everything is and the automatons are like 'fuck it we're putting chainsaws on our arms'. Very grimdank
While commissars are more likely to call a drop. All raiders minus the double sword one I think can call in drops
I noticed that too. According to devs, all were able to like the bugs but they removed it just a bit before launch. I believe only specific guards (poi spawns) can do it. It might be an oversight. I've seen MG raiders, double swords and rocket raiders do it, but the condition is utterly unknown to me, as you can also aggro most of these guards forever without triggering a drop.
@@h4xorzist I normally avoid patrols and even airstriking them because I think patrols bots can call in bot drops when attacked. I think smaller patrols of stray bots and those random pois don't but larger groups with berserkers and devastators and on 7+ hulks can and will if they can sniff you out. Which is why I prefer to stealth and break contact whenever possible.
@@heakhaek I'm absolutely sure that in patrols only commissars can call (as intended).
It's a great thing that you too understand fighting the bots is not about trying to kill everything you see.
One possibility is that automatons are similar to the simulacrums from the Titanfall/Apex Legends series in that they are controlled by a human brain, but the brain itself is in another location, with the automaton's head acting as an antenna of sorts. I suspect this because no matter where you shoot an automaton, it will always bleed oil and scrap. If it had an actual human brain inside, I would expect it to bleed a different color if you shot it.
Another possibility is that the Automatons are like the robots depicted in the game SOMA, in that they use human brains as a "source code" which they then create digital copies of in order to give life to their troops.
Soma was a great game, I loved it
My headcanon is that the automatoms are similar to the Cyber Lin Kuei similar to Sektor.
its likely that they are like in soma, because very, very often the dead civilians in cages are missing their heads...
@@trolly4233 yeah this would make a lot of sense. It also would explain how they can just churn out bots like crazy in their factories
if its like in soma then why would the need so many brains tho. You could just use one good specimen and duplicate the brainscan to use in as many bots as you like. Also if the citizens of superearth are the sourcecodes, wouldnt that be detrimental to the bots since all the superearth folk are super brainwashed and patriotic lol (unless they can manipulate the brain and force their own conditioning ofc)
It would explain why I am absolutely COATED in blood after missions against the bots.
I’m pretty sure that’s YOUR blood 💀
@@JLLullabyidk I doubt, you have almost 0 red on you when you do a Tyranid mission.
@@thebizzareczar that’s cause If they touch you, you end up dead most of the time. If you live enough encounters you notice it stacks up 2
@@thebizzareczar @benjaminfox5400 I always thought that the red was just weirdly colored oil
@user-id3gi1cy4l I thought the same for a while but I actually did a droplet test of your blood when you explode and the automatons "blood" and it's nearly identical in color
After 14 quintillion dollars worth of drop ships they might be seeking out..alternative ways to deploy troops on difficulties where helldivers are significantly more of a threat.
I doubt they need money as far as we know they attack from outside of the galactic map so it’s reasonable to assume they have many planets just turned into massive bot factories and we know the cyborgs made them so some cyborgs had to have escaped justice in the first war fled to deep space and made the automatons.
I mean, factory striders, do make sense to a certain extent- you need to expand across a planet that already has defenses and resistance ready? aint gonna have any open space to just plop factories down, so a mobile armored factory, that can also defend itself? downright fiendish.
The gear symbol could be a represent for Syndicalism. It might be a hint of their ideology that Automatons wasn't completely align themselves with their predecessor. And I guess E3N "Ethan" wasn't kidding, he is indeed carry a brain of human farmer.
Idk if this is coincidence or not but.. Has anyone noticed the automatons heads are shaped suuuuper similarly to the helldivers skull? It almost feels deliberate to me. Not much of a reason to make a robots head look like a skull unless its there to instill fear, or send a message
the only thing that makes the brain theory a bit questionable to me are the factories imo. They can just spit out bots in seconds - do they really have such a huge amount of brains stored in there? Sure they could use the whole population from the planets theyve conquered but still - the prisoners and body parts make it seem like it would be a more elaborate process then the feactories suggest
Not to mention the factory is the size of a small shack yet can produce so many bots pretty fast
This makes me wonder if all bots could be human or maybe just some use human parts. Just food for thought.
I mean at some outposts we can see a lot of decapitated humans and corpses stored in boxes. So it's fair to say they at least have a lot of brains they can put into the factories, beside the brains that can be stored in them. Still not a whole lot of brains to produce them in such a quick time on mass, but yea.
@@rubenlopez3364i like to think its the opening of huge underground factory's
Yeah thought about that too but then maybe the bots have a vast underground network connecting all their different outposts and supplying brains from all over the planet 24/7 anywhere they feel it might be needed. Maybe the reason they even invade human controlled planets is because they're looking for brains to harvest in order to produce more soldiers.
The cages were actually first made by Super Earth for dissident colonists. I saw a flavor text for it in the game somewhere. But the automatons could definitely be using the cages ofc
Maybe they are making the dissidents join them and use illegal broadcasts to make more dissidents.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they made the cages, what I do know is that there are super earth points of interest that are straight up execution sites for civilians. Of course there are two deployable turrets we can call down their facing into the death pit and I’ve only found 1 on an automation world.
TREASON!!
I’ve seen automaton based with cages full of dead super earth citizens/workers lying in them
I have a small idea to contribute.
What if they turn normal prisoners into standard troopers, but turn automaton sympathisers or just people against super earth in general,
Into the more heavy, more tanky and deadly automatons?
Like Hulks.
Also adding to your theory,
I think the automatons were originally peaceful, and thus all people sized, but made striders and bodies like the Berserker once they realised super earth was still brainwashing helldivers into believing they’re mindless AI.
I like this idea!! Thank you for the comment. That would make some sense. The Automoton loyalists would likely be far better at piloting the larger vehicles since they would be willing to learn to use them.
Does having a metal that replace a bone makes me a cyborg?
technically, yes
Steeled veteran armors: *confused screaming*
I love how he instantly changes his voice at the beginning lol
2:12 why is the rock crawling away 2:25 why is that dude doing backflips. I fucking love this channel.
Glad you enjoy the chaos!! Thank you!!
When I edit a video, I literally just turn my brain off and say “what would make me laugh here” and just start adding moving rocks lol.
@@natesgamebox That's actually really cool. Being genuine pays off.
@@bikerboy3k Thank you!!! I'm glad that's the way it is coming across!
I swear I’ve heard a bot saying “Bro/he killed himself” when my friend accidentally throw an impact at his feet instead of using a stim
You don't duck from suppressive fire because you're scared, you duck from suppressive fire because you'll be shredded if you don't.
We don't swap to blanks for that role.
yea from the start I thought the bots had human brains attest, from the dismembered bodies, how the cyborgs got driven out of the known map to the unknown in the first game, the cadences, and the taunts
I've seen the "emotionless" bots in the eyes and only saw hate
No they're just all in cyberstan and the automatons are their kids, they mentioned this on Twitter
the irony of useing AI generated images for a topic like this is not lost on me
Where's an ai picture?
@@danielaverbuck5475the first frame, both the grandfather and child clip art along with the background is AI
@@RaisinHookoh i see that. Shit's messy as hell lol
Hmm I like to think
Logically brains who are originally loyal to automatons/ cyborgs control those newly manufactured bots.
Hell it could be a complicated matter too, if I was automatons make sure all those who are turned into bot are given the full evidence and reason for their warpath. Many will understand, most will refuse to believe. Depending on the variations some fight willingly, begrudgingly or controlled.
Also like to imagine the automatons generally want to save their parent model. A mix of humanity in the sense respect your elders.
Why do you think they have commissars to instill obedience I don't know how confirmed this is but I've seen commenters say they've heard automations especially berserkers say things like "you can do it or they're making me do this"
I found an automaton outpost once that had a trail of blood leading from the human cages straight to one of the fabricators...
My headcanon is that they're turning the humans (citizens and Helldivers) into automatons like the Lin Kuei, Sektor, Sub Zero and Cyrax (MK10 and 11) got cyberized into Cyber Lin Kuei.
Wait a second... the Helldivers took about 10 million casualties retaking Malevelon Creek. And Malevelon Creek was almost immediately retaken by the automatons.
Ohhhh s***!
not gonna lie here but having a robot body is goals would let them turn be into a sexy machine of war.
So the reason automatons start to deploy walking factories miiiight be a hint that they are preparing to go from the defence into offence... And also an awfull lot of heldivers have been blowing up the stationary factories.. but thats alot harder to do if the factory shoots back and can walk.
I like to think they chop the brain into smaller parts and re-program it. Say… 1 brain makes 5 or 6 bots. Maybe a bigger piece of brain for the Hulk, or perhaps brain assisted internal processing, or computer assisted processing, like the neuro brain thing Elon Musk made. Also making people sized and shaped bots, skips having to go through the process of re-designing stuff for the bots to use, like guns, vehicles, stairs, doorways, doors, ladders, washing machines, etc, and at the same time there are nearly infinite advantages to being tall and bi-pedal.
I'm not sure this would be possible because every part of the brain has its own function
@@thebakedtoast yeah but at the same time its all just neurons. Thay could be re-written with new neural pathways. on a rare occasion, people who lose function due to brain damage sometimes completely recover (fairly rare, like REALLY rare) and return to normal life.
the eruptor, with a well placed shot in that glaring red light, can potentially knock a gunship out of the sky in one hit
I believe the hulks are a sort of mech suit for the automatons.
The factory strider makes Devastators (4 at one time) while the map fabricators do regular bots.
I think the Automatons understand fear and try to use that in many ways. The Chainsaw man is a good example. Chainsaw men are incredibly terrible at killing hell divers (think I've neve actually been killed by them) but make a great loud and scary distraction to draw fire away from the rocket snipers.
They're suicidal with their charges they have lots of spikes but I've heard people say that they can hear them say things like "you can do it or they're making me do this" so maybe the brains that are being put in the berserkers (the chainsaw guys) are ones still loyal to super Earth the theory is that they're using human brains not that the human brains are in control of robot bodies
Yea they use a lot of psychological war. Why do robots need to speak English at all. To get into our heads
I have killed myself shooting them and I've been sliced when stuck due to being ragdolled. But yes, they have human skulls on spikes on them, they are there for fear factor.
Chainsaw men as you call them are called Berserkers by the game when you spot them.
@@alericantonelli4656 when I spot them I usually call them a conga line of chainsaw bastards
9:11 Ah, yes. It's perfectly normal for us, humans, to walk on digitigrate legs.
this could also explain why out of all the logical leaps
the GAS can damage the automatons
The day draws nearer, my brothers, where the iron gaze of Liberty reveals Dave The Leg Wizard’s hideout and we can finally commit Zero Dark Thirty.
One day. One day we will find him
the berzerkers cry when you fire at them, they actively suffer under fire as if they have a person inside them
The human brain theory explains why for how well armored and tough most bots are a head headshot can kill them. Big thonk.
Very Informative, Very Freedomlike.. Maybe you and i can take a short trip to the local Liberty and freedom assurance officer..
After all, that's the reason so many are vulnerable to headshots.
I'm just gonna go ahead and assume that Cyberstan was named after its population, and as such did not recieve the name of Cyberstan until after the vast majority of said population had already embraced the certainty of steel.
Damn I hate clankers
Even though this is based on opinion, we can’t become more advanced as a species until we let go of the thought process that the human brain is the most advanced form of learning and knowledge that exists
All that blood on my suit during robot missions is definitely not all mine
I swear I heard one today say I can’t escape they took me from earth.
Every helldivers death turns them into a automaton
Interesting to note that if you shoot off an automaton's head it immediately shuts them down. For a combat robot it would actually make more sense to put the sensitive main control bits in the more armored torso regions. Even the hulk goes down to losing its head. The head should just be sensors with backup sensors distributed around the body however they immediately shut down upon loss of the head.
yep plus if you shot hulk faceplate with antisomething rifle the faceplate goes off and you can see its head im not sure if its standard automaton head i didnt payed attention i will take a closer look next time that is if i wont be burned alive taking a look i will provide full raport from the mission or raport about getting K.I.A.
@@mendoyy600 You are doing Democracy's work, soldier!
The air ship has a much MUCH larger scanner that ever Automaton has, to say the least, its scary asf.
When you look at the automaton designs, especially the berserker they’re a bit creepy
Dont forget, quick way to kill the Strider is to call reinforcements on them, the hellpods do massive damage!
outside of helldiver democracy larping, the automatons have such amazing designs. so does the rest of the game but especially automatons, making something with its own identity as unique and *iconic* as this is nearly impossible.
the art style of helldivers literally competes with iconic legends like halo (trilogy), metal gear solid, doom. i hope this IP succeeds like they did for the long-term
100% agree. They did such an awesome job craft the enemies, level design, and music all together. it just FEELS stressful to be in a match of the game. And the enemies designs are iconic. Both the bots and bugs just are immediately recognizable, while still having call backs to other popular games/media. I'm so happy the game is doing as well as it is.
And seeing how the devs are adding new content and developing the story, I think this game will be around for a long time. Maybe not the extreme highs it's at right now. But it will definitely have a dedicated fan base like Destiny does.
@@natesgamebox i legit have not been more hyped for a game's story and it's theories since fnaf, i'm hoping we start to see some illuminate soon since they look FEROCIOUS. can't wait to fight that half life strider looking enemy.
i fully expect the game to have a loyal fanbase like TF2 does and i'll be one of them 💪
you could say the factory walker basically serves the same purpose as a patrol does for lore, just a roaming lookout
When the automatons traded their body for steel they lost what made them human, they lost the indomitable human spirit that lies within every single human, every single helldiver, they lost what truly makes man so powerful.
Everytime when a bot sees you or aims at you and doesnt shoot? Yeah thats the human brain fighting back
This would make sense. We put them or their creators into slavery so they have figured out how to do it back and fight against super earth.
"Hulks are harder to deal with than tanks"
Me one shotting like... 6 hulks with my railgun in one game: "not... really. I despise their tanks"
I’m the exact opposite lmao
I can’t oneshot hulks with the spear but I can absolutely oneshot tanks
That and the spear shits itself when the lock on target is closer then 10m
11:56 "this is the scariest automaton i've ever seen"
Factory Stryder:
You know that tweet could be interpreted to support the automatons being the cyborgs, they refer to the automatons as their children, that could be literal as in they fully mechanized their offspring
the berserkers also laugh and scream in high pitched noises, which is used to strike fear into the divers, which is also kind of a human tactic. (they also use totems of dismembered divers)
The moment i under stood the weakness of my flesh....
The automatons gave up their humanity to fight against democracy.
Another reason human shape has an advantage is that every human tool or machine was designed for it. The biggest problem the military currently has with exosuits is the extra bulk making it harder to fit through doors and interact with tools they weren't made for. And exosuits don't even change the shape, they just add a little bulk.
Also, the reason they're slow is because they were made mainly to work mines and carry heavy rocks wothout breaking their backs. The transports being converred onto airships is another example of this.
IRL Scientists have mushed up rat brains and then stimulated the soup to create a very basic bio computer... I could easily see something similar happening: keep the instinctual parts, soup'ify the memory sections and use it as the interface between nerves & wires. Boom, a drone is born.
I've seen people make ice sculptures with chainsaws.... Berserkers are just misunderstood artists
Love that one kid just floating away
imagine being the brain in a Hulk unit, firing a barrage of rockets at some fleshy alien - only for them to get back up, stick something in their neck, and scream in a forgotten language as they charge right back at you.
even as a Hulk I think the fear response would be kicking in
My new favorite character in this universe is Dave the leg wizard
i very much enjoyed this video thank you Nate!
Very interesting and thought out points. I believe that.
To add my two cents, a reason as to why they made the factory strider was for an offensive campaign. They can plop down plenty of factories on their own planets and ferry their troops around with dropships, but that wouldn't work on a SE planet. They'd need to get an initial foothold, and a mobile fabricator would be great for that.
also, a comment to support the idea that they have brains, automatons guarding bases, will not know your there even if another one spots you, you can stealth, they will investigate if they hear or see you shoot one and will search where you where, but only the ones who saw or heard
Imagine if when you stand on top of a tanks cannon a commissar would pop its head out and try to shoot/stab you and if you scrap it then the cannon doesn't shoot anymore because its operator is dead
The tank is the robot though. Makes no sense to add a pilot robot as well.
Though they kind of do this with the striders...
Good video broham, look forward to you getting more recognition.
automatons have human brains, and now, today, we know they were probably sony staffers.
9:02 I actually saw that tip that you're talking abt. It says something like "blah blah blah sensors of some kind, blah blah blah alot of shooting at them makes them less accurate"
This is the greatest "How It's made" video I've ever seen. I didn't know this was how Sony Exec's are made!
this video is professional in quality
One of the PA announcements on the super destroyers is a long the lines of "What makes you human? Your skull!". Thus is why all the bots still have skulls.
As for the ATAT walkers, it helps in guerrilla warfare. A normal manufactorium is a static structure and thus once discovered, can be bombed from orbit. Albeit cheaper and easier to stock. An ATAT walker makes bots on the go and can strike or rebuild from unforseen directions. Which is really helpful in default or shortening supply lines for offense.
Yeah you're telling me dumb bugs like the brood commander can survive without a head for a bit but a hulk instantly dies when its teeny weeny skull gets punched by a laser canon? Yeah definitely not a squishy human brain in there.
Also undemocratic theory:
The Hulks are set to self-destruct to prevent us from reverse engineering their walker/mech suits. We've only developed one mech suit so far and its fairly prelimenary compared to the Bot varieties (and yes Im aware we had more mech suits and vehicles in the 1st game Im just trying to offer a diagetic explanation).
So, the reason the bots are suppressed by fire, according to the tooltip, is dye to sensors being too fine and getting thrown off.
Has to be in lore propaganda though, the automatons are deaf and blind as hell, their only real advantage being numbers
@@elkpants1280That's probably more likely due to AI restrictions in programming on Arrowhead's side, the Automatons would be even harder to fight if they had the ears and eyes of a hawk.
The bots aren’t just full of oil if you ask me…I always come back from those dives covered in blood, even when I haven’t needed to stim.
Ur blood
@@PRODGOSHA-oh7xn "even when I haven't needed to stim" if it were my blood in these cases my health would have indicated as much
i love how the bots have scout striders, gunships, tanks, hulks, and factory striders and we basically have the same loadouts from the beginning 😂 we need those vehicles soon!
Actually sometimes when you get close to them in combat they say something in line of "END THIS" like they are being tortured and they have no complete control.
one thing that let me immediately know the bots had brains and they were forcibly harvested brains is when I've heard MULTIPLE berserkers when charging at me say "Im sorry! I can't control what Im doing! Kill me!!"
I ran into a bot that had clothes on. At first I thought it was a civilian. I stood looking at it for a few secs and I was like o shit it's a bot. It had no weapon but I killed it.
Automatons die instantly when their heads are destroyed, wouldn’t make sense if they were fully robot
8:53 I remember this one, it says the have a Suppressive Protocol built into their programming idk why they would do that but they did
What if the red tubes on automatons are blood, and they partially need it.
Blood is fuel
One thing I've noticed about both of the Automaton tanks is that if you look on all of its sides and top of its turret there is no discernible hatch for personnel to enter/exit.
This can mean either one of two things, either the tank is built around the crew or the tanks are just fully automated.
Either one is likely but I personally favor the latter as there is just something hilarious about an automated tank trying to gun you down and run you over.
Always thought of the factory strider as a cross between a factory and heavily armored troop transport it could be easier to pack more troops in there if you could disassembled them for more storage efficiency and assemble and drop them when needed.
"PRAH PAH GANN DAH"
The Automaton March. Now that's spooky
I think this theory does make sense, I've encountered weird behaviors from automaton sometimes, from waving to saluted at me, to straight up following me and standing still without fighting back, as if they asked to be killed and thankful for it. I think if this theory is correct, then these automatons still have humanity within them and fighting back the programming, which is the reason why some of them giving me a salute, they're thanking me for the service as I freeing them from their mechanical prison with death.
Ive been paying more attention to the commissary’s lately. Unknowingly albeit, I’ve just been looking for the single sword bot. Ive seemed to notice when a Commissary is near you and you start running away to stim, he’s the one thats 6-10 feet behind you. The rest of the bots seem to hesitate. I don’t notice this often if Im in good health, most of the time I get a good 12-18 feet away from the dual swords before they chase.