Little correction: You said millions died from the kharaa bacteria, and while that is correct, a PDA says that over 143 billion(!) people died just in the early stages of the virus. "Millions" is just a silent wet fart compared to the actual scales of mortality. Great video though! :D
The Last Bacon yes just worded poorly because implying solar systems afterwards implies that they are larger. Just some friendly criticism tho :) amazing video!
In my first playthrough I saw that robot thing and my brother told me it was a cure dispenser. Went up and it attacked me. I scanned it and now i call it a robot roomba
Can you make a video about the old leviathans like gargantuan leviathan. I think that they might still be alive in other parts of the planet since we have only discovered a shallow volcanic crater so far and the rest of the planet definitely has extremely deep oceans which should provide ample space for large leviathan class creatures to exist.
The last bacon: usually we look at creature that are easy to observe Me: excuse me but, what about the ghost leviathan and reaper leviathan and other big predators
That's true, after recording - I was actually able to find a few places which have one or two steps in them :) probably just means that while they were capable of walking up stairs, they much preferred ramps.
The precursors couldn’t have heard the sea emperor because the telepathic communication is on a different wave length. If you have a radio, you can’t put on two frequencies at the same time. Precursors are also about 8 feet tall, looking at the doorways and the heights of the tables.
Watching these videos after Below Zero and getting to see a live Precursor and the anatomy of his body, it is really funny to hear the "slug-like" theory.
Speaking about warpers the first time i saw them i freaked out so much then when i was leaving the lost river 5 of them started attacking my prawn suit which made me stressed and annoyed but now there not as scary as i thought they were
Another youtuber made the theroy that maybe the Precursors were able to hear her but simply for some unknown reason choose and pretended not to. But don’t really know.
TBH I would doubt that but there is a theory: The precursors are very advanced and probably used high-tech shit to enhance their brains,un-enabling them to be able to hear the sea emporer
There is a evidence of conversation between precursors and the emperor.. "The others built a passage to reach the world outside. I asked them for this freedom,but they could not hear me."
@@noizepusher7594 they said their mind is like a network so maybe it was just like a whisper compared to everything else. Plus they don’t have organs like humans so their brains were probably all computer chips and would have different properties
Interesting. The mention of "slug" reminded me of the thrasian dudes from the elder scrolls. Can you do a lore video about alterra ? We never learn too much about them in subnautica
Made me think maybe if they were like that or snake like, and used different postures, that might explain the height discrepancy between the tables and terminals.
Nice video as always. Not many games have lore as interesting as Subnautica but I don't think we got enough of it. Hopefully Below Zero will expand on it because after finishing the game, although it was one of the best experiences I've ever played through, I feel like the game still had a lot more potential.
Look i know you praised the game and said it's good and all but are you kidding me ? We didn't get enough of it ? This game is way beyond anything people can make these days, these days some games don't even have good lore or have lore at all. They only have plotholes that just contradicts each other or just doesn't work well when you start to really process it. How much more can this game give ?
I agree, this game stands out when compared to most titles that come out nowadays. And it's an indie game so that makes it even more impressive. But I can't help and compare the lore to a game that has mastered this aspect, Dark souls. Whenever I revisit an area in a Souls game, I always feel like I haven't quite explored it to 100%. This way all the areas keep their charm, even though I've been through there dozens of times, it's still mysterious, eerie and hostile, there is always some detail I've missed all the last times I've been there and it always adds something to the area. On the other hand after finishing Subnautica just once, I already know what to expect, I know which mobs spawn at which areas, I've already found all the secrets and I know all the lore just by paying attention. I've been mildly disappointed every time I clicked on a lore video about Subnautica. I used to watch Dark souls lore videos and there was always so many things in them I haven't noticed in my playthrough, things like items, quests, dialogues, details in the environment, hints hidden in plain sight or even entire huge areas I just missed. But when I watch a video about Subnautica's lore, I realize, I already knew everything from just one single playthrough and the areas just don't feel as atmospheric as they once did. Still a great, one of a kind game, I will replay it some day after I forget most of what I know about it now so I can get some of the first time playthrough charm back, also probably on hardcore, to get back the suspense and fear the game was once able to trigger in me.
@@DADDA I kinda think dark souls is not a game you should compare to subnautica at all really. They have nothing in common in terms of directions that they choose. I understand what you're saying and what your point is but it's really not comparable. It was a different story for me tho, every new playthrough i watched and new page site i opened i found out new stuff that i didn't even realize or knew before. I guess what i'm saying is everyone has a different experience and Subnautica is a game that shows that in a way that everybody can enjoy in thwir own way. Besides, it's like you said, for an indie game made by a small group of devs that only have made 2 games under their belt (which one of them is actually a mod) it's pretty impressive for a gamethat only costing $25 at best and one some sites FOR FREE whivh such high quality and quantity.
I would thought this game has so much details when I first installed it. And the fact that makes you bypass your fears to explore and find out more is genius
Dude this video was amazing and I have suggested you to all my friends who play Subnautica (they all finished the game and we have base contests and go to each others houses to judge) . Keep up the good work man !
Well that sounds horrifying :) - I keep secretly hoping that despite all of our theorizing, they in fact just look completely different from what anyone would imagine - like they're just giant cubes with small legs or sth.
@@TheLastBacon Or snake-like, that would explain different heights for work stations and data downloads. Snakes can rise up if they want, or stay low. Would also probably prefer ramps over stairs.
We‘re going to talk about a creature that not once has made physical appearance in the game. - The Last Bacon Al-An: Allow me to introduce myself✨ Idk why this just came into my head. By the way are you planning on doing more Lore videos in the future? Since I really enjoy them and they really help if you want to shortly remember something from the game without watching a gameplay for 3hours
My theory precursors where technopaths but not telepaths... they could communicate with their computers according to the data bank, they fused themselves, their building and other living things with organic AND mechanical materials that can communicate from afar kinda like radio(remember the warper messages) that's why the sea emperor could not get them to understand her because they were part machine...
Interesting idea, so what if the precursors communicate via a radio frequency and as such all of their devices can do so aswell since we never really see a terminal or a way to operate most of their devices physically.
@@smoothhexagon7903 there is one data bank that says the scans show that they communicated with unknown means with the machinery, not an exact quote but i remembered it was heavily implied they could communicate with their equipment to operate it... i'll look for the quote in-game
@@mariovasquez3188 I wonder if it would be like a system where they can transmit binary over high frequency radio waves, or something similar. Since the in game Radio is able to pick it up but the player character can't.
@@smoothhexagon7903 the player understands a small part of the message and other times we got what sounded like giberish... Maybe the sea emperor couldn't get the telepathic message across since it sounded incomplete or like giberish to the precursors who were connected to a radio frequency for communication
@@TheLastBacon also now that I think about the moon pool for the enforcement platform can fit a cyclops so perhaps precursor submersible vehicles is just a regular size for them
I have a question when the sunbeam was in orbit why wasn’t the gun shooting since the degassi and aurora was near orbit when they got shot ? And why would the gun shoot at that spot cause the sunbeam was already close and when they got shot there is a 90% chance that the debris would hit the gun and a 10% chance that it would not
While I'd love to give you a good lore-related explanation, honestly - I just think they did it so the player can see Sunbeam getting shot and get the cinematic effect of it :)
i think because the sunbeam was a smaller ship than the degasi and aurora you know this because the aurora crashed and didn't fully explode like the sunbeam and probably degasi did
I can give you good lore..if you manage to escape the attack,you can survive..Aurora did enter the atmosphere and because is a larger ship,many lifepods were ejected and had time to escape..how many survivors get out of this shenanigans i don't need to tell..
AL-AN was a precursor before the entire race died of but he still had some sort of cube body and had a conciencness so was technicely still alive and the main character (robin) had found bodys from other precursor and had used their bodys to create AL-AN
Wow ! First of all youre soo underrated and your videos are always interesting...and second of all , i scrolled through the comments and saw that u actually answered every comment! SOOO Cooolll
Couldn't you technically make a version 2 of this including Below Zero when it is fully released? I googled a bit and found below zero pics of them apparently. if I am wrong just say so and not spoil preferably :)
Shame the devs didn't make precursor and human skeletal remains or corpses. Precursor i can understand as they may have wanted to keep what they were like a secret but it would still be cool to find the corpses of some Aurora crew in the ship and inside or outside nearby the lifepods. And Bart's skeletal remains laying against the wall near where his last voice mail was at. Maybe even Paul's in a cave near the final base with a crabsquid in it as its presumed a crabsquid got him. It imo would have made the game a bit darker and thus create a bit scarier athmosphere than it already may have in some areas to be actually able to see people that have died.
I know I’m two years late, but I love your content so damn much. You’re now at least 85% of my TH-cam recommended. Have you thought about doing No Man’s Sky lore?
Raise your hand if you actually enjoy the research side of subnautica: 🤚. But seriously unknown worlds worked so hard to do things like write scanner logs for everything from the peeper to the cave bush and no one reads it. I enjoy doing things like using cameras to observe creatures in their natural habitat; hunting fish, swimming, etc.
The implication in the first game that we only know of one precursor being able to download their consciousness into a data hub makes me wonder if the data bank entry found in that sanctuary cache may be referring to a certain friend of ours.
I have a theory, what if the precursors modeled the warpers after themselves! Its just like how in sci-fi movies they always model their robots after humans. it would also explain the lack of stairs because walking on land with tentacles is possible but stairs would be difficult to traverse w tentacles.
i like how khara was so deadly it killed off an entire species, and then rileys just like "oh, alright then." and continues whatever hes doing like nothing happened
Fun fact: There is 2 tablets that cannot be found or crafted in the game. The white tablet, and the red tablet. You can get them by opening the developer menu in the pause menu, (Left + right bumper on Xbox/PS4 idk the controls for PC) Then activate; "Precursor keys"
I could definitely see it :) though there is also always the possibility of them just looking completely different from what most people speculate.....
I swear if they layed their hands on the cuddlefish to test I will travel 1000 years back and set up my own enforcement platform and blow them out the sky
After below zero, I found it odd that most of the precursors died off even though they had augmented bodies/artificial bodies (which would be immune to the Khara bacteria) but I like to think Alan (or whatever his name is) created an artificial body to look over the planet but couldnt get his new body built in time
I suppose it's one of those games that you can still enjoy just fine without paying attention to the story :) but it is there if you want to learn more about it.
One thing is for sure and it's that the precursors got a F for creavity.all of the alien facilities are the same design pattern on the floor/wall/ceiling
Thanks for the video I just bought the game and I felt pretty lost in the story of it.... also mad respect for the spoiler alert keep up the good work.
I just have a question if a ship would land on the opposite side of the planet. Then the alien cannon couldnt fire on an incoming ship because it would have to shoot through the planet. Or the precursors would have to build several cannons.
In below zero we get to see them. You probably know already though, I just never expected them too look how they do, it’s cool to see how many of your predictions are true though
@@TheLastBacon I would love to see that! But I’m sure it will take a lot of work so it probably won’t happen for a while. But I’m looking forward to whatever videos you will make in the future whatever they may be. And remember to take breaks!
A theory as to why they couldn't hear the sea emperor is because as we know they are cybernetic, it's possible if not probable their minds were also semi or fully mechanical which would explain why they could (maybe) telepathically communicate with eachother, but couldn't hear the sea emperor because it's possible that the sea emperor could only telepathically communicate with fully biological minds.
I have a few theories about the Percursors, mainly appearance and how they talk. First, size: they were probably taller than a human, but weren't very tall. They probably were a foot or two larger. Second, bodily features: they probably had longer arms, they could possibly have had tentacles for fingers, since the handle of the Alien Rifle seems a bit too small for some large alien finger, and they possibly could have looked similar to Warpers, minus the tentacles, for which they probably had legs. Warpers also probably had a land form that had legs since the Precursors were a galactic species at one point before their supposed extinction, which means that they could have encountered planets which had more land than 4546B but still had life. Third, communication: they were probably telepathic, however their telepathy was different from the Sea Emperor's. Telepathy would require some sort of group of signals and typically signals are different for every species. The Precursor's signals were probably different from the Sea Emperor's, however, non-telepathic species may have a ability to understand all kinds of telepathic signals which is why we can understand the Sea Emperor but the Precursors couldn't.
i know this was posted before below zero but now the most you can get from the precursors is from the precursor AL-an which you build a precursor body but i think its a older version of the precursor i think because if im correct they often changed form but im not sure about that last part
@@TheLastBacon wow you are very active on your older videos you have responded to two of my comments in a single day you have very much earned a subscriber keep up your work!
Something I can kind of understand the devs not doing but I would have thought was a cool feature, there could have been a precursor skeleton hiding within or near the disease research facility. I’ve always found it odd how so many could have died in one spot and yet we never see any bodies.
Man, they're so interesting. Seriously looking forward to finding out more in Below Zero! Regarding telepathy, it might be that theirs was incompatible with the Sea Emperor's? Like she was sending semaphore (visual) and they were sending Morse code (audio) and they just couldn't read each other.
They are very interesting indeed :) - it's definitely possible that they couldn't communicate with other because of different ''frequencies'' for the lack of a better word.
If you think about it, if the precursors hadn’t thought to capture the emperor, you’d be shot down by their quarantine and then never be able to leave.
The Last Bacon yeah I figured that, but if they hadn’t thought to capture the emperor you wouldn’t be able to make a cure therefore not being able to leave.
Man, I shouldn't have swam that far away from the lifepod. I really regret going into the Quarantine Enforcement Platform before I repaired the Aurora. I'm thankful I haven't encountered a Warper yet, but I'm scared to go to the Blood Kelp Zone in the Grassy Plateau.
Precursors? They Trapped Me In AN EMPTY Closet For 5 HOURS WHILE THEY MADE A VENT WHILE I AM STUCK WITH A SEA EMPEROR YEARS AGO AND I STILL LIVE JUST BECAUSE I WAS A TEST SUBJECT
Maybe the precursors were telepathic, but their own telepathy somehow jammed the sea emperor's ability to communicate with them. (Ex Riley has no known telepathical abilities, nor do the fish, but both are able to converse with the sea emperor). The other option I can think of would be that the sea emperor and the precursors are using two different types of telepathic communication, so the precursors couldn't understand what was being said (much like a radio turned to the wrong channel).
You mentioned that the degasi, the aurora, and the sunbeam were shot down by the quarantine enforcement platform (the sunbeam was destroyed), but there was another ship in below zero that was shot down, the Mercury II. I don't believe that below zero had come out when rhis video was made, but i just wanted to let you all know if wanted.
Little correction: You said millions died from the kharaa bacteria, and while that is correct, a PDA says that over 143 billion(!) people died just in the early stages of the virus. "Millions" is just a silent wet fart compared to the actual scales of mortality. Great video though! :D
Yep you're right :) after recording, I realized I said millions instead of billions, thanks for the correction!
its bacteria or virus? hmmmm
@@matixon7235 its a bacteria, my bad
Millions make up billions soooooo technically he was right...
A silent wet fart???
Precursors can travel galaxies and even solar systems
You do know that solar systems are way way way smaller than galaxies
I do :) that has to be some advanced technology to allow them to jump galaxies.
The Last Bacon yes just worded poorly because implying solar systems afterwards implies that they are larger. Just some friendly criticism tho :) amazing video!
english is probably not his native language
@@aldenmcgrath9722 it might have been a slip of the tongue
Make a Crab Spider lore pls 🦀🕷
In my first playthrough I saw that robot thing and my brother told me it was a cure dispenser. Went up and it attacked me. I scanned it and now i call it a robot roomba
Haha robot roomba is a great name :D
robot roomba i love it
but roombas are robots
Stabby the Space Roomba!
Your brothers evil
I've always wondered if the precursors look like predator with the mask
Who knows :) the fun part is that we barely know anything about their appearance and even then, it's mostly speculation.
It's a centaur cuz I watch below zero
@@no.748 don’t spoil
@@no.748 unbased spoiler
In subnautica the closest thing we have to a precursor is a Warper. In below zero, we BUILD A PRECURSOR.
Yep :) How times have changed!
@@TheLastBacon 😊
Can you make a video about the old leviathans like gargantuan leviathan. I think that they might still be alive in other parts of the planet since we have only discovered a shallow volcanic crater so far and the rest of the planet definitely has extremely deep oceans which should provide ample space for large leviathan class creatures to exist.
Yep :) it's probably the next one on my list!
And it is way deeper considering the lowest the crater reaches is around 1300 meters deep/active and inactive lava zone
The deepest is the void
Crater on a reefback.
@@Sr_Illuminati that’s what I think too, and if that’s true, the crater must be tiny compared to the actual planet
This is a very underrated channel, I hope that one day your channel will become huge :)
Thank you very much :) it would definitely be nice!
Diamond Bash322 so true
Underrated comment
Diamond Bash322 definitely
Did it
The last bacon: usually we look at creature that are easy to observe
Me: excuse me but, what about the ghost leviathan and reaper leviathan and other big predators
Well they are easy to observe :) though it might be the last thing you'll ever do!
You cant observe a reaper or you’ll observe the reaper eating your moth or face :D
*says spoiler*
him: I will have to warn you that this might contain spoilers.
i love your videos btw
Haha true I suppose :) then again - if you click on a lore video, you should prolly expect spoilers.
7:38 On your point that their bases had mostly ramps, there is an exception: the moonpool holding the Sea Emperor in the PCF has stairs on the side!
That's true, after recording - I was actually able to find a few places which have one or two steps in them :) probably just means that while they were capable of walking up stairs, they much preferred ramps.
@@TheLastBacon Or they had to haul a lot of wheel based machinery and storage to certain areas.
The precursors couldn’t have heard the sea emperor because the telepathic communication is on a different wave length. If you have a radio, you can’t put on two frequencies at the same time. Precursors are also about 8 feet tall, looking at the doorways and the heights of the tables.
Well we don't know whether they ''couldn't'' hear or just chose not to :)
□■~○_●♤♡/_@□○..lol
@@TheLastBacon the story does hint or say that they couldn't hear
Watching these videos after Below Zero and getting to see a live Precursor and the anatomy of his body, it is really funny to hear the "slug-like" theory.
Haha yep - how wrong I was :D
@@TheLastBacon dav got you
Speaking about warpers the first time i saw them i freaked out so much then when i was leaving the lost river 5 of them started attacking my prawn suit which made me stressed and annoyed but now there not as scary as i thought they were
True :) imo they're much more annoying than straight up dangerous!
YOU ARE TO UNDERRATED YOU MAKE THE SAME QUALITY AS SOMEONE AS 500k THAT IS ABSOULUTE MAD YOU DESERVE MUCH MORE
Thank you so much :) you guys are too kind!
@@TheLastBacon True
I find it fun how it’s called a precursor which pretty much means “that which came before”
Yep true :)
Then: "A slug like creature" today: assemblies a centaur precursor with Legos in bz
Times sure have changed :)
Another youtuber made the theroy that maybe the Precursors were able to hear her but simply for some unknown reason choose and pretended not to. But don’t really know.
That is definitely possible :) they were experimenting on the Emperor after all - maybe this was a part of it?
TBH I would doubt that but there is a theory:
The precursors are very advanced and probably used high-tech shit to enhance their brains,un-enabling them to be able to hear the sea emporer
There is a evidence of conversation between precursors and the emperor..
"The others built a passage to reach the world outside.
I asked them for this freedom,but they could not hear me."
I think that since their brains were so advanced they were able to tune out the psychic stuff like the messmers and the sea emperor
@@noizepusher7594 they said their mind is like a network so maybe it was just like a whisper compared to everything else. Plus they don’t have organs like humans so their brains were probably all computer chips and would have different properties
This lore series is actually pretty cool! Keep up the good qork!
work!*
Thank you very much :) I definitely plan to!
You have a great channel I like it how you reply to all comments including constructive criticism.
Thank you very much :) I love interacting with you guys!
The day this channel reaches 1 million(and i think it will) i can say i was here from the very beginning!
Haha if this channel reaches 1 million I'll probably have to just buy all of you guys a cake or something :D
The Last Bacon :)
Yeah! Thats a pretty cool thing to say once it happens!
Not yet but REAL soon I bet
@@TheLastBacon you better!!
The appearance of the precursors was in Below Zero.
And tbh, I’d wish they’d have given us some more background lore on them.
I'm really looking forward to digging up info about them from BZ :)
Interesting. The mention of "slug" reminded me of the thrasian dudes from the elder scrolls.
Can you do a lore video about alterra ? We never learn too much about them in subnautica
That's a really interesting suggestion :) not sure if I can dig up enough for a video though, I'll look into it!
@@TheLastBacon excited, no doubt
Made me think maybe if they were like that or snake like, and used different postures, that might explain the height discrepancy between the tables and terminals.
Kid: Explores end of Aura
Reaper Leviathan: I’m gunna end this hole mans career
Yep :) those reapers around aurora can be especially nasty.
i was exploring around it and i shat myself so much im the reason the water is brown at that area
You spelled so many things wrong dumbass
Sneaksies no need to insult people dude
I think your that kid.
Nice video as always.
Not many games have lore as interesting as Subnautica but I don't think we got enough of it.
Hopefully Below Zero will expand on it because after finishing the game, although it was one of the best experiences I've ever played through, I feel like the game still had a lot more potential.
Thank you very much :) I do indeed like the lore of Subnautica, maybe partially due to how a lot of it's hidden and somewhat mysterious....
Look i know you praised the game and said it's good and all but are you kidding me ? We didn't get enough of it ? This game is way beyond anything people can make these days, these days some games don't even have good lore or have lore at all. They only have plotholes that just contradicts each other or just doesn't work well when you start to really process it. How much more can this game give ?
I agree, this game stands out when compared to most titles that come out nowadays.
And it's an indie game so that makes it even more impressive.
But I can't help and compare the lore to a game that has mastered this aspect, Dark souls.
Whenever I revisit an area in a Souls game, I always feel like I haven't quite explored it to 100%. This way all the areas keep their charm, even though I've been through there dozens of times, it's still mysterious, eerie and hostile, there is always some detail I've missed all the last times I've been there and it always adds something to the area.
On the other hand after finishing Subnautica just once, I already know what to expect, I know which mobs spawn at which areas, I've already found all the secrets and I know all the lore just by paying attention.
I've been mildly disappointed every time I clicked on a lore video about Subnautica. I used to watch Dark souls lore videos and there was always so many things in them I haven't noticed in my playthrough, things like items, quests, dialogues, details in the environment, hints hidden in plain sight or even entire huge areas I just missed.
But when I watch a video about Subnautica's lore, I realize, I already knew everything from just one single playthrough and the areas just don't feel as atmospheric as they once did.
Still a great, one of a kind game, I will replay it some day after I forget most of what I know about it now so I can get some of the first time playthrough charm back, also probably on hardcore, to get back the suspense and fear the game was once able to trigger in me.
@@DADDA I kinda think dark souls is not a game you should compare to subnautica at all really. They have nothing in common in terms of directions that they choose. I understand what you're saying and what your point is but it's really not comparable. It was a different story for me tho, every new playthrough i watched and new page site i opened i found out new stuff that i didn't even realize or knew before. I guess what i'm saying is everyone has a different experience and Subnautica is a game that shows that in a way that everybody can enjoy in thwir own way. Besides, it's like you said, for an indie game made by a small group of devs that only have made 2 games under their belt (which one of them is actually a mod) it's pretty impressive for a gamethat only costing $25 at best and one some sites FOR FREE whivh such high quality and quantity.
todays the day that i realized that the precursor that was mentioned to be stored in the original subnautica was al-an
Yep true :)
I cannot wait until we can see, well hear the Precursors in Below Zero
I'm really interested in what other aspects of lore about them we can uncover! :)
Jonathan Joestar honestly it’s been like 2 years and still hasn’t come out but you can play it in early access
You can do both I heard now
This lore videos are just perfect, bravooo good sir and keep up the good work!
Thank you gracious sir :) glad you like them!
I would thought this game has so much details when I first installed it. And the fact that makes you bypass your fears to explore and find out more is genius
It does really have a lot of interesting lore :)
13 DAYS TILL BELOW ZERO!!!!
Hahah so true!
Yeeeeee
Can't freaking wait! :)
Is it open or closed beta?
I can't wait for it to come out on PS4
Dude this video was amazing and I have suggested you to all my friends who play Subnautica (they all finished the game and we have base contests and go to each others houses to judge) . Keep up the good work man !
Thank you very much! Really appreciate the support :)
when youre just vibing on 4546b trying to cure kharaa and al-an suggests studying sea dragon eg
Haha not a great plan :)
Knowing what Al-an looks like, this makes a lot of sense
True, it kinda does! :)
Ive always pictured precursers as a mix between warpers and a seadragon bottom half sea dragon top half warpers and colored like their bases
Well that sounds horrifying :) - I keep secretly hoping that despite all of our theorizing, they in fact just look completely different from what anyone would imagine - like they're just giant cubes with small legs or sth.
@@TheLastBacon That woud be weirdly cool
@@TheLastBacon Or snake-like, that would explain different heights for work stations and data downloads. Snakes can rise up if they want, or stay low. Would also probably prefer ramps over stairs.
@@AnnekeOosterink or horse like
Yesss another lore video i absoluetly love this series hope you continue to make it you deserve way more subs
Me to
Thank you very much :) you're being too nice! - and I definitely plan to continue this series.
@@TheLastBacon Thats Good To Hear Your'e Welcome!
We‘re going to talk about a creature that not once has made physical appearance in the game. - The Last Bacon
Al-An: Allow me to introduce myself✨
Idk why this just came into my head. By the way are you planning on doing more Lore videos in the future?
Since I really enjoy them and they really help if you want to shortly remember something from the game without watching a gameplay for 3hours
Oh absolutely :) I will also have to update this eventually for BZ!
@@TheLastBacon Thats very nice! Im already exited to see how it will turn out!
Dude ur awsome best person in subnautica keep up the great word
Thank you very much :) you're too kind! - I'm glad you enjoy the Subnautica content.
These lore videos have been keeping me going as my pc is a bit messed up rn and it won't load so i only can watch things
Thank you :) I'm glad they can help!
@@TheLastBacon You're welcome. And thanks for replying!
4 am. Can't sleep. TH-cam recommends lore series.. I binge watch until dawn.. XD
Haha we've all been there :D
The corrupted remains of the precursors turned into a parasite that would plague the galaxy.. oh wait wrong game
Close enough :)
“We don’t know what they look like”
Al-an: what about now?
Now we do! :)
My theory precursors where technopaths but not telepaths... they could communicate with their computers according to the data bank, they fused themselves, their building and other living things with organic AND mechanical materials that can communicate from afar kinda like radio(remember the warper messages) that's why the sea emperor could not get them to understand her because they were part machine...
You could be totally right :) especially since we don't know the full extent of the emperor's abilities.
Interesting idea, so what if the precursors communicate via a radio frequency and as such all of their devices can do so aswell since we never really see a terminal or a way to operate most of their devices physically.
@@smoothhexagon7903 there is one data bank that says the scans show that they communicated with unknown means with the machinery, not an exact quote but i remembered it was heavily implied they could communicate with their equipment to operate it... i'll look for the quote in-game
@@mariovasquez3188 I wonder if it would be like a system where they can transmit binary over high frequency radio waves, or something similar. Since the in game Radio is able to pick it up but the player character can't.
@@smoothhexagon7903 the player understands a small part of the message and other times we got what sounded like giberish... Maybe the sea emperor couldn't get the telepathic message across since it sounded incomplete or like giberish to the precursors who were connected to a radio frequency for communication
Well I think we can infer they are about the size as a PRAWN suit as a PRAWN can fit through all the doors that the precursors made
Yeah that's a solid conclusion to make :)
@@TheLastBacon also now that I think about the moon pool for the enforcement platform can fit a cyclops so perhaps precursor submersible vehicles is just a regular size for them
“We don’t know what they look like”
Al-An, and the entirety of Below Zero: *hehehehehehe*
Now we do! :)
Subnautica should definitely make a sequel to regular subnautica only, it would be unprecedented fun in my opinion
Well we'll see how Below Zero turns out I suppose :)
Subnautica Below Zero on the end you make one originaly body ( no Carar ingluded ) for Precursor named Al-An and they look very good.
True :) will have to update this eventually!
I love how precursors LOVE the color green.
Then there's no green tablet. How ironic.
Haha ironic :)
I have a question when the sunbeam was in orbit why wasn’t the gun shooting since the degassi and aurora was near orbit when they got shot ?
And why would the gun shoot at that spot cause the sunbeam was already close and when they got shot there is a 90% chance that the debris would hit the gun and a 10% chance that it would not
While I'd love to give you a good lore-related explanation, honestly - I just think they did it so the player can see Sunbeam getting shot and get the cinematic effect of it :)
i think because the sunbeam was a smaller ship than the degasi and aurora you know this because the aurora crashed and didn't fully explode like the sunbeam and probably degasi did
@@quintenmc Degasi was the same model as the Sunbeam.
I can give you good lore..if you manage to escape the attack,you can survive..Aurora did enter the atmosphere and because is a larger ship,many lifepods were ejected and had time to escape..how many survivors get out of this shenanigans i don't need to tell..
AL-AN was a precursor before the entire race died of but he still had some sort of cube body and had a conciencness so was technicely still alive and the main character (robin) had found bodys from other precursor and had used their bodys to create AL-AN
Yep true :)
Wow ! First of all youre soo underrated and your videos are always interesting...and second of all , i scrolled through the comments and saw that u actually answered every comment! SOOO Cooolll
Thank you very much for the kind comment :)
It is possible that there possible telephathy was due to them having mechanical implans/augments. for example some sort of comms network
Definitely :) considering they made the warpers - I'd say something like that is actually very likely!
The first time I saw a warper it was near the qep so, because he was at the coast I thought he could walk and he was one of the aliens in that base
Yeah a few hang around that area :)
Couldn't you technically make a version 2 of this including Below Zero when it is fully released? I googled a bit and found below zero pics of them apparently. if I am wrong just say so and not spoil preferably :)
Yep :) I’ll definitely update this when Below Zero is finished!
@@TheLastBacon oh! If that’s so than I will be very exited to see (a part 2?) of this series ingenerall since I really enjoy it :D
Shame the devs didn't make precursor and human skeletal remains or corpses. Precursor i can understand as they may have wanted to keep what they were like a secret but it would still be cool to find the corpses of some Aurora crew in the ship and inside or outside nearby the lifepods.
And Bart's skeletal remains laying against the wall near where his last voice mail was at. Maybe even Paul's in a cave near the final base with a crabsquid in it as its presumed a crabsquid got him. It imo would have made the game a bit darker and thus create a bit scarier athmosphere than it already may have in some areas to be actually able to see people that have died.
I think for the remains, it was mostly because of their desired age-rating :) for the precursors, we have to wait till below zero!
Below Zero Dlc is Getting closer
Yes it is! :) Can't wait.
I wonder what the precursors looked like before they edited themselves..
Lol it is a great question :) I wonder too!
I actually wondered that too!
I know I’m two years late, but I love your content so damn much. You’re now at least 85% of my TH-cam recommended. Have you thought about doing No Man’s Sky lore?
Thank you very kindly :) I really appreciate that! And I would love to try No Man's Sky!
What do you think about Al-An? Do you think there is a 3rd Game that is related to the Eding of Below Zero?
I'm not sure, but I believe they do plan to make a 3rd game at some point :)
@@TheLastBacon i hope so:)
Ah yes, swimming with an un-upgraded Seamoth in the Lava Lakes.
Cursed :)
@@TheLastBacon Wait
You're telling me you have just replied to a comment on a 2-year old video
*Impossible.*
This guy: the precursors have never been seen in a fizical body
Below zero: are you shure about that?
*in the base game :)
This is gonna be an interesting one!
I sure hope so :)
Raise your hand if you actually enjoy the research side of subnautica: 🤚. But seriously unknown worlds worked so hard to do things like write scanner logs for everything from the peeper to the cave bush and no one reads it. I enjoy doing things like using cameras to observe creatures in their natural habitat; hunting fish, swimming, etc.
Yeah it definitely helped make the game better :)
As far as i know the precursors were most likely the warpers without the teleportation skills
It's definitely a possibility :)
And so they develop warper tech cause they couldn't get up the stairs..lol
The implication in the first game that we only know of one precursor being able to download their consciousness into a data hub makes me wonder if the data bank entry found in that sanctuary cache may be referring to a certain friend of ours.
That is a fair point :) It's definitely possible.
I luv ur channel so much
Awww stop :) you'll make me blush.
:D
I have a theory, what if the precursors modeled the warpers after themselves! Its just like how in sci-fi movies they always model their robots after humans. it would also explain the lack of stairs because walking on land with tentacles is possible but stairs would be difficult to traverse w tentacles.
Could be the case I suppose :) I think Below Zero will tell us more!
i like how khara was so deadly it killed off an entire species, and then rileys just like "oh, alright then." and continues whatever hes doing like nothing happened
Ikr, all it took was one janitor :)
Please do not disturb our facilities
I would never :D
Bacon:they have no physical contact alan:allow me to introduce my self
Haha yep :) Now we do I guess…
@@TheLastBacon why did arora blow up like sunbeam
Fun fact:
There is 2 tablets that cannot be found or crafted in the game. The white tablet, and the red tablet. You can get them by opening the developer menu in the pause menu,
(Left + right bumper on Xbox/PS4 idk the controls for PC)
Then activate;
"Precursor keys"
That is a fun fact indeed! :)
Please do lore on 4546B itself!
I could look into it :) just not sure how much lore there is left to cover.....
I just imagine them as the Elachi from Star Trek Online
I could definitely see it :) though there is also always the possibility of them just looking completely different from what most people speculate.....
Wow
You have grown a lot
Good job man
Definitely have :) thank you!
I wonder from were you got the green key of the thumbnail, because it doesn’t exist as far as I know...
Not sure where I got it from tbh :) maybe just hue-shifting ?
@@TheLastBacon I don't think so, the "letter" on the tablet doesn't exist as far as I know... (again)
I swear if they layed their hands on the cuddlefish to test I will travel 1000 years back and set up my own enforcement platform and blow them out the sky
Haha understandable :D
After below zero, I found it odd that most of the precursors died off even though they had augmented bodies/artificial bodies (which would be immune to the Khara bacteria) but I like to think Alan (or whatever his name is) created an artificial body to look over the planet but couldnt get his new body built in time
Yeah it’s a little weird right? :)
wait. i'm confused. subnautica has a story?
I suppose it's one of those games that you can still enjoy just fine without paying attention to the story :) but it is there if you want to learn more about it.
It's pretty obvious, ngl.
The pda at the degasi is a story
I'd love to see a remake of this video now that Below Zero is out, just imagining Alan in a slug body is hilarious lmao
I'll definitely make one! :)
One thing is for sure and it's that the precursors got a F for creavity.all of the alien facilities are the same design pattern on the floor/wall/ceiling
Yep :) certainly not great at interior design!
Thanks for the video I just bought the game and I felt pretty lost in the story of it.... also mad respect for the spoiler alert keep up the good work.
Thank you very much :) really glad I could help!
"and it's consciousness was stored"
me: Subnautica below zero?
Yep :) most certainly Below Zero.
@@TheLastBacon awesome
Creators make game with aliens
The last bacon: okay so we need to find out who they are and when they went to earth
Haha that does sound like me :)
I just have a question if a ship would land on the opposite side of the planet. Then the alien cannon couldnt fire on an incoming ship because it would have to shoot through the planet. Or the precursors would have to build several cannons.
I believe according to a PDA entry the laser curves around the planet :)
@@TheLastBacon could also be thank you for an answer
In below zero we get to see them. You probably know already though, I just never expected them too look how they do, it’s cool to see how many of your predictions are true though
Yeah I’ll have to eventually make an updated version of this :)
@@TheLastBacon I would love to see that! But I’m sure it will take a lot of work so it probably won’t happen for a while. But I’m looking forward to whatever videos you will make in the future whatever they may be. And remember to take breaks!
A theory as to why they couldn't hear the sea emperor is because as we know they are cybernetic, it's possible if not probable their minds were also semi or fully mechanical which would explain why they could (maybe) telepathically communicate with eachother, but couldn't hear the sea emperor because it's possible that the sea emperor could only telepathically communicate with fully biological minds.
Yeah maybe! :)
I have a few theories about the Percursors, mainly appearance and how they talk. First, size: they were probably taller than a human, but weren't very tall. They probably were a foot or two larger. Second, bodily features: they probably had longer arms, they could possibly have had tentacles for fingers, since the handle of the Alien Rifle seems a bit too small for some large alien finger, and they possibly could have looked similar to Warpers, minus the tentacles, for which they probably had legs. Warpers also probably had a land form that had legs since the Precursors were a galactic species at one point before their supposed extinction, which means that they could have encountered planets which had more land than 4546B but still had life. Third, communication: they were probably telepathic, however their telepathy was different from the Sea Emperor's. Telepathy would require some sort of group of signals and typically signals are different for every species. The Precursor's signals were probably different from the Sea Emperor's, however, non-telepathic species may have a ability to understand all kinds of telepathic signals which is why we can understand the Sea Emperor but the Precursors couldn't.
I don't want to spoil much but Below Zero answers a lot of the questions we have about precursors :)
i know this was posted before below zero but now the most you can get from the precursors is from the precursor AL-an which you build a precursor body but i think its a older version of the precursor i think because if im correct they often changed form but im not sure about that last part
True :) I'll definitely have to update this after Below Zero comes out!
@@TheLastBacon wow you are very active on your older videos you have responded to two of my comments in a single day you have very much earned a subscriber keep up your work!
Something I can kind of understand the devs not doing but I would have thought was a cool feature, there could have been a precursor skeleton hiding within or near the disease research facility. I’ve always found it odd how so many could have died in one spot and yet we never see any bodies.
That would’ve been cool for sure :)
Man, they're so interesting. Seriously looking forward to finding out more in Below Zero!
Regarding telepathy, it might be that theirs was incompatible with the Sea Emperor's? Like she was sending semaphore (visual) and they were sending Morse code (audio) and they just couldn't read each other.
They are very interesting indeed :) - it's definitely possible that they couldn't communicate with other because of different ''frequencies'' for the lack of a better word.
Nice, but below zero we need a new one!
True :) we sure do!
@@TheLastBacon Thank you :D
If you think about it, if the precursors hadn’t thought to capture the emperor, you’d be shot down by their quarantine and then never be able to leave.
Well I'm pretty sure the precursors themselves had ways to circumvent the quarantine requirement :)
The Last Bacon yeah I figured that, but if they hadn’t thought to capture the emperor you wouldn’t be able to make a cure therefore not being able to leave.
I really love that you comment on every message.
Thank you! :)
Wouldn't it be cool if we could upload are members on a computer
You mean in real life? :) I guess that would be pretty cool...
Yey
Man, I shouldn't have swam that far away from the lifepod. I really regret going into the Quarantine Enforcement Platform before I repaired the Aurora. I'm thankful I haven't encountered a Warper yet, but I'm scared to go to the Blood Kelp Zone in the Grassy Plateau.
Well it can definitely be scary to leave the comfort of safe shallows :)
I can't wait for Below Zero!! All these lore videos are so nice to watch for little recaps.
Glad you enjoy them :) I can't wait either!
@@TheLastBacon I'll always enjoy them so long as you keep them informational and entertaining to watch :)
Precursors? They Trapped Me In AN EMPTY Closet For 5 HOURS WHILE THEY MADE A VENT WHILE I AM STUCK WITH A SEA EMPEROR YEARS AGO AND I STILL LIVE JUST BECAUSE I WAS A TEST SUBJECT
Oof that must've been unpleasant :)
@@TheLastBacon it really was
Maybe the precursors were telepathic, but their own telepathy somehow jammed the sea emperor's ability to communicate with them. (Ex Riley has no known telepathical abilities, nor do the fish, but both are able to converse with the sea emperor).
The other option I can think of would be that the sea emperor and the precursors are using two different types of telepathic communication, so the precursors couldn't understand what was being said (much like a radio turned to the wrong channel).
Yeah I suppose both are plausible :)
GOD WHY ARE THESE VIDEOS SOO GOOD!!!! I COULD WATCH HOURS OF THESE IN A ROW!!!!!! KEEP IT UP
Thank you very much :) glad you like them! But don't forget to sleep too....
3:40 it says 'acceptance'
Dang :) knowledge flex, nice!
@@TheLastBacon yeah... knowledge... of my own country's language...
You mentioned that the degasi, the aurora, and the sunbeam were shot down by the quarantine enforcement platform (the sunbeam was destroyed), but there was another ship in below zero that was shot down, the Mercury II. I don't believe that below zero had come out when rhis video was made, but i just wanted to let you all know if wanted.
Yep you're right! :) I'll probably have to update this video at some point!
Me before creating Al-An a vessel:
OMG im so excited!
Me after creating Al-An a vessel:
why is a centaur here
Accurate :D