Lore And Biology Of The Moloch in Barotrauma! (Theories and Conjecture)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- sorry if there is anything wrong with the video I'm using a weaker editing setup as I'm on vacation and wanted to do what I could with what I could take with me, thanks for all the support and thanks for the 88 subs!!!!
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I remember my first expedition as a captain.
Humpback, just shuttling between stations. Suddenly there’s a ping on the radar, the cavern tunnels were narrow and it’s big. No way around it. I radio the crew to prepare for a fight.
Shortly thereafter, I am sent flying across the bridge. Wondering what cruelty possessed the devs to put a moloch at the begging of the game. I was also wondering if my soul would still be part of my anatomy after I collide with the deck, maybe the medic could check on that? Whatever. We lost HARD.
It could also be that the frequency a sonar uses is the same one molochs use to challenge each other
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Or maybe its the same as the baby molochs distress call
Maybe molochs eat sonar flora and the sonar of a sub could just make the molochs think it’s food?
Or it could mimic the sound of a distressed baby moloch and when the moloch can’t find any kids it thinks the sub killed/ate them?
Molochs couldn't possibly react so agressively when eating.
It probably just thinks the sub is a rival or something
Or, just like sonar hurts whales in our planet, it hurts them too, but instead of doing like whales they go "Imma make it your problem too"
I agree, I think it either hurts them or is a the same as a challenge between molochs. Since it appears they use echolocation like whales do, both are possible.
I feel I should've dded something here much sooner. I had an.... odd encounter with baby moloch. I had been apart of a crew for a certain time, mostly to check if a sub I had helped designed was working properly. The crew had been transporting something from between two colonies until we somehow ended up between a ruin and a wreck, probably what remained of a dive team that had been husked while exploring the ruin and then infecting the whole sub, causing it to become wrecked. Anyways as we sent our own dive team to explore the ruin, we heard strange noises from outside the hull. Turns out those noises were from baby moloch rubbing against the hull. Given that they weren't doing anything other then rubbing against the hull doing no damage, I advised the captain to leave them alone. We spent a really long time gathering resources from both the wreck and ruin and were relatively left alone. I am unsure whether it was the momma moloch hovering above us or the babies hiding us, but we had a really quiet trip going to the next station.
That sounds kinda cute.
I remember the first time me and my crew encountered a group of baby molochs.
Routine trip through the Great Sea, nothing too unusual until I got near what seemed like a dead end in the system.
Then, the wailing. That told me to immediately reverse out and take the downwards route instead.
I believe the adults were off doing something else, because as we were ascending to the next station, we got hit on the topside by not one, but three molochs, and one was the EMP variant.
I feel bad for having to shell those three, but they were completely blocking the route.
I thought that the skirt of the moloch was a filter to catch microscopic nutrients in the water and well micro organisms kind of like a fishing net
That is a possibility Portuguese man o' War had a very similar type of behavior though due to the size of the moloch i would assume it would be more likely that they filterfeed through their water intake
Great work! Keep it up, i'm subscribing in anticipation of more Barotrauma lore and analysis of it's wildlife.
I never thought people would care this much but I'm thankful and it's such a good game
When you cover the Husks, what parts of the infection will you cover? Also; I'm really excited to see more of these videos! They're all super great!
I'll try to cover the entirety of the husks
@@hailstone7470 Freaking awesome.
Could the skirt be a rudimentary biological trawler net?
Interesting I hadn't thought about that... perhaps if they once lived deeper down... yeah I would say there would be a fair chance at that!
Love these as they bring more life to Barotrauma I really hope this game only gets more popular it's pretty great, the customization and sense of danger really just makes for a great game.
i suspect the life of eruropa is as follows
moloch: filter feeder
mudraptor: carnivore
crawler: carnivore
spineling: potentially a filder feeder that hunts in swarms for better food aquisition and protection or could be a leech-type creature that causes bleeding hits and drinks up the blood
watcher: unsure yet, possibly also a filter feeder
the husk parasite: population control, kinda like the cordyceps with ants
This so great I’ve been looking for barotruama lore I’ve been enraptured by this game.
Your videos are so enjoyable and simultaneously are somewhat educational
Do you have a Twitch channel?
I do not
Hilarious love the commentary especially the part when you change your voice part of the recording great😊 very entertaining
Something interesting about the campaign. Several previous campaign I fought molochs in the first area I've started another campaign I don't know if they changed difficulty but I haven't seen a single moloch I'm in area 3now
The gunner that didn't shoot the molochs was actually smart, why waste ammunition when they are not trying to be a threat, just keep an eye on the thing while moving away. I'd say the guy deserves a medal, but too much compassion towards these abominations takes that medal away.
At the time of me watching this video, I managed to kill 5 molochs (4 Regular and 1 Black) while a school of Moloch younglings were screaming for more to come in spite of me not firing upon the younglings. It feels almost coincidental that they showed up just as you were explaining them to me.
this is remarkably professional and enjoyable to listen to
Barotrauma is still direly under-covered on TH-cam, so I really appreciate this!
Also, I think you meant "baleen whales and basking sharks", as sperm whales are the type with regular teeth!
I love these you really deserve more recognition
great work, almost at 100 subs!
God, it's good I'm not the only one that finds those things terrifying
well sonars In real life suck major balls to be near, so maybe they don't want 200 or so decibels pinging off of them
That's my thought, like the realistic sonar mod, IRL submarine sonar is painful or deadly to be around - so I could see a large animal treating it as a threat.
@@lv2943 exactlyyy
That story at about 8:00, where'd you get that from? 10/10 storytelling!
Your channel is awesome man, keep it up!
great video! im suppressed your channel isnt bigger, your content is so good!
Good stuff!
Классная аналитика. Обожаю эту игру, а теперь и эти видео
these are so dam good vids
Thank you so much!
Nice video. Not a lot of stuff about barotrauma out there little alone the lore
make a video on interesting characters like ignatius may and aunt dorhi im sure the rebels have famous people too
there a time similar thing happened to me, molochs being in between their youngs and me.
I shot them more but unlike other fight, molochs did not move toward my ship.
I don't know how to response to this so I sail away.
Easy subscribe.
Please continue to upload
how about hammerheads next?
Kinda feel bad killing Moloch in front of their young but I had no choice just because they attacked first 🙃
Thank you for the video the audio is great but where do you find all this lore?
There isn't a lot of real lore in barotrauma as theories and conjecture is in the title. The bits at the end are stories from my own experience in barotrauma. And the biology of the animals is guesswork based on how the animals behave and the models move a lot of it is pure theorizing and gleaning info from what few sources we have available.
But that's also what makes this a lot of fun for me trying to stitch together reasonable theories
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sonar its horrible to be around if you are outside a submarine in real life and its uses it sonar youl die in a horrible painfull way