Thanks for watching guys and before I get people saying it, I apologise if I pronounced Novosibirsk wrong. It’s a tough word okay! Also huge thanks to Russavot for translating the book To See The Sun for me. Go check out this awesome guys channel th-cam.com/channels/PD2rLoWwo6QQhdaleMKCsw.html
Don't apologise for not being able to pronounce a word from a different language, ever. You did way too much great work to worry about anything like that anyway!
The dead city was always bone chilling for me. A true radioactive wasteland with ruthless storms, blood chilling cold,, horrifying mutated forms of life, and every building shell haunted by the spirits of the dead. Going above ground was a death sentence. Everything there either dead or dying... the brief glimpse of what the Moscow Metro almost became and what Artyom had helped to prevent always in the back of the mind as I wandered this particular slice of irradiated hell.
Even before entering the City, Coming in on the train I was like ''no plz lets go back I know this gonna be the freshest of hells''. And it was. Still interesting to see though
i feel bad for novosibirsk they thought there the last humans in russia while the rest of the world are doing just fine the city is like russian version of game of thrones or princess mononoke esque fighting two factions i feel bad for the boy, he was the last remnant of novo inhabitant his deceased father was the true hero before the spartans visiting novo city but im glad he’s adopted by the spartans and grows ups as spartan soldier
The simple concept of shadows of the dead wandering forgotten places is both saddening and terrifying to me. It would seem best to not tread on those old grounds in the hope of not disturbing the forgotten.
After a long and difficult journey, you face the game's deadliest enemy: Radiation. There was no big boss fight. No giant monster or rival gang leader. Just you and the harsh reality of Metro's ruined world. (And those big gorillas too)
@@azzii2101 you know you can just sneek past them right? As you can pass the librarians in 2033 without wasting a bullet. At the hardest, every bullet counts
I always thought it was a bit strange how effective the Nuclear weapons were in terms of lasting radiation in Novosibirsk. IRL you would pretty much just need to wear a mask and some thick clothing and you could walk around in Moscow fine. EDIT TO EXPLAIN FULLY: The threat of nuclear fallout is not the radiation touching your skin. Background radiation can be very high, but simple contact with your body won't kill you quickly. That isn't to say it isn't SAFE, it just isn't particularly lethal. After 20 years, the radiation will be nowhere high enough to give you radiation poisoning (EVEN IF IT'S A COBALT SEEDED BOMB!). After 40 years in the Metro you would likely develop cancer, which is common in the books. However since most die to mutants, background radiation honestly isn't a big deal. The ACTUAL threat in irradiated areas is dust and other breathable particles. If you breath these in, they will get into your vital organs (lungs) and kill you VERY quickly. That is why you HAVE to wear a filtered mask, like they do in the games. It's why hair products cannot be used in nuclear fallout, because the dust will linger in the hair after you leave. So while a mask would be mandatory, clothing wouldn't really matter (within reason). What matters more is that you decontaminate those clothes to make sure no dust is left on them. There isn't really a good reason to explain why Novosobirsk is so dangerous, but it doesn't really matter.
The Novosibirsk level was definitely one of my most memorable experiences in a videogame. The build-up to it was perfect as well - you and Miller had to go to it for Anna's sake, but you fully knew how unbelievebly high the radiation levels were. You even thought of other alternatives to fixing Anna's condition, but eventually it all led to Novosibirsk. Mutants and opposing human factions is something Artyom never really had an issue dealing with, because they are enemies that can you can fight back. But how can you fight deadly amounts of radiation? Playing the Dead City level kinda made me imagine how the liquidators of the Chernobyl NPP felt in 1986 - utterly helpless, but determined not to give up.
I agree with you the dead city was very unsettling and a weird way it felt like someone or something was watching you through your journey in the dead city. But even through all that artyom never stopped he kept on going even with the mass amounts of radiation poison and the blind ones or lost ones. I hope in the next metro game artyom can talk in the actual game instead of just in the loading screen.
@@ismaelgingles9409 interestingly enough, THERE IS someone watching you throughout Novisibirsk as there are 3-4 sightings of Dark Ones throughout the level
@@simonaspalovis1204 3 years later but i loved it because we went from the big open worlds and clean air to back to our roots. Into the Metro and then on the surface its a race against time. Reminds me a lot of OG 2033
The beauty of “the two colonels” DLC is that you played through the eyes of one of the many many bodies you find, makes you wonder what every single lost soul’s story was when you walk up on them.
Miller saved Kirill too. Without him, he would've died... Cuz, y'know, his father wasn't coming back and Kirill was uncertain to leave his home or not. Besides, Kirill has nowhere to go, since Miller was the one retrieving the map. If he left his home, I doubt he had a good gun skills, but not leaving Novosibirsk could mean killing himself with starvation, radiation or getting overran by mutants.
In metro 2033 the game, it is suggested that the slime is just biomass that a bunch of people were melted down and mutated into at D6. Similar to the biomass in dead space. There are documents that say everyone took shelter in the deepest part of D6 - the reactor (where the slime was), but the thing is, there aren't any bodies anywhere. Just the biomass.
in the book that is exactly what happened, and it lures people in by making them hallucinate and then have them throw themselves into the goop, in the books its also way more active and far far bigger since it's all througout the kremlin
More of this please. Especially the darker parts, like history of the Red Line, Fourth Reich, Hanza, Polis, etc. You learn quite a bit by reading the books if you haven't!
@@WiseFish Ah, well I'd actually like to extend my help if you're interested. A lot of channels like HiddenXperia do "Arsenal of X universe" and being a firearm enthusiast, I think if you were also going to, I would not only be enthralled in the video, but I'd be more than happy to offer time and research to help keep the facts clear of any silly myths that online research contributes to the Kalash (AK74 in the game), among other things. If it helps I've read all three books and played all three games. If you're interested, I'm not gonna ask for credit or payment, I just have an interest in seeing it and I don't mind contributing in the slightest.
I love the lore of the Metro series and Novosibirsk was definately the most creepy place in the all the games so far. The haunting and crushingly depressing atmosphere there really did a good job of making you feel isolated and lonely. I hope we get more Metro games in the future with even more places like this.
All the poor souls lost in Novosibirsk... Also, a small little detail, in the "Winter chapter", on the Aurora, spartan members report seemingly very high radiation even 50 kilometers away from Novosibirsk (31 miles)
i feel bad too, novo city could have kept together and wait for spartans but there desperately needed plants to keep them alive all because of the mold made everyone severly losing morales but leaving novo would be a problem too there are mutated gorillas roaming around the city, yes there blind but can smell and hear just like a quiet place creatures they can hear
@@joshuagraham2843 the story is pretty sad, novosbirk destroyed itself in a civil war just as artyom and the gang left moscow, and the other guy said the radiation was so high that at 50 miles away from the town it was as high as in moscow
It really made me tear up the dlc and the dead city level of metro exodus, its truly a masterpiece. Not to say the other levels were bad, i enjoyed the whole game but some parts were more engaging than others (mainly the lineal ones). Still, if it wasn't for the odyssey the aurora and the crew took before, this chapter wouldn't feel the same. RIP the two colonels
To this day is consider the Dead City of Novosibirsk the most realistic take on a post nuclear city and the DLC for it God added more to how if people did survive in a city like that it would be both so well fitting and horrifying. Thank you for this video
It's still pretty unrealistic. Nuclear warheards are engineered for destruction, so most of the fissile material is used up. There's very little fallout, actually.
When i finished Metro Exodus (it was 4 am i got bad ending) i was literally shocked how good this game is and its my favourite singleplayer game also is pretty hard (i played without titles on russian on the hardest difficulty without hud)
Playing Russian games in Russian is always the best way to do it. I like the little details, like how Sam's pronunciation is a bit off from everyone else's (because he's American)
Without tittles? Well if you speak Russian then okay, but if you don't then you just have no idea what people are talking about. xd Which is counter-immersive since Artyom CAN understand everyone since he's Russian. :]
Cobalt bombs were also called "salted bombs" and were supposedly only theoretical. The objective was to create a weapon that could siege your enemies for years after deployment. The cobalt is changed into cobalt 60, which has a half life of just over 5 years. The half life makes it impractical to wait out the short term high intensity radiation in bomb shelters while still producing enough of it to kill anyone who is caught outside. The name comes from the phrase "salting the earth" which prevents plant growth
Yeah, the game isnt realistic. Even IRL, the nuke winter was basically made up, and even if humanity managed to somehow create enough bombs to create it, there is no way that it would last for decades. The danger of nukes IRL isnt in what happens in the short term, or the long term, but the mid term (1-5 years). After some 10 years the site of a nuke explosion should be rid of any dangerous levels of radiation and should be navigable even without protective gear. Cobalt bombs were designed to push back that safe stage, and prolong the dangerous stage, but even then, you should be easily able to half the amount of green stuff rations for everyone after 5 years, then half it again after another 5, and after 5 years, everyone would basically require 8 times less than when the bombs fell. But again, Metro (book) is a metaphor for the Russian society (thats why they are banned in Russia), not a study of the post war effects on the society and nature.
I can assure you, through military and government agencies, the capabilities of US/Russia/China nuclear wise are nothing like how they are depicted in Metro. It’s FAR worse. And what’s scary is our incompetent leaders are now threatening nuclear war like it’s nothing.
5:20 Understand, it's not called zelonka randomly. It is called that because that's what the Soviets called their equivalent to iodine, which they used as a panacea for random injuries and scrapes (because it is an antiseptic), and I am sure that's why the magical radmeds were called that.
yeah, because of the familiarity of the substance’s look and name. i don’t think that there are many people using it today but in 00’s it was quite popular as a common treat for such conditions as chickenpox - basically aiding each area of skin affected by rush with a touch of Zelenka. so naming a radmed by something that familiar to population clearly has its benefits on psychological level.
What would be amazing would be an open world Metro game in Moscow where you can fully explore all the tunnels (and what you can of the surface without dying). I know that it would be insane to design a game that large with the detail they put into the Metro games. Maybe it could be about a younger Khan learning about the supernatural stuff in the metro as he on some grand mission or when he comes because to where ever he disappeared to and can help evacuate people to Lake Baikal before some threat ends all life in the metro.
Guess the farthest we've got is the Ksathriya DLC from Metro Last Light, although it's basically just a prop hunt. I do agree that Khan is one of the most interesting characters in the series, though.
Dude this game but massive online multiplayer where there are other stalkers and you can hide your loot but everyone can find each other’s loot if you look hard enough (Please please please god)
Well, thank you for finally answering a question that had been racking my brain for years. Novosibirsk was always a source of fascination for my in Exodus due to how ultimate it's destruction it was. Moscow, horrible as it was, allowed for life to live on the surface. Novosibirsk, on the other hand, was allegedly hit harder than all the other targets in Russia. I didn't understand why it had been hit so heavily. Now however, I have a better idea. The city was not innocent as it turned out; they were creating bio-weapons and by extension, a cure of the weapon's effects controlled only by them. Good god man... Horrendous.
i mean can you help them though? by the looks of all the mutation the US and NATO heavily used their own bio weapons as well. that's just how the world was and still is ma man. some countries just don't want to give up their top places and some countries believe that making sure to be as strong as these arrogant nations is the only way to rise up.
Absolutely loved this part of the game. When they first drove into the city, you really felt that this place was incredibly hostile. It felt like descending straight into hell.
Dude, if you liked the first two games, I have no idea what the ever living scheiße you're waiting for. Make "one day" TODAY if you can, because Exodus is probably the most beautiful and best written game I have ever seen. Plus it came out while I worked at Gamestop and it is CRIMINALLY underrated because nobody bought it when I was on shift. So please, give them your money so we can get a sequel lmao
@@WiseFish Gods do I know it! I won't lie and say Metro 2033 and Last Light were the most polished experiences ever, but the atmosphere and story just drew me in way too hard to ignore, and when I got to Exodus, my expectations were BLOWN AWAY. If all three games played like Exodus, I would play Metro nonstop forever and ever. Speaking of which, maybe we should nudge 2A to make a re-redux where the first two games are tuned to work in the Exodus engine. Or at least release more DLC.
Beware that this game still has _a lot_ of bugs, from physics, to skyboxes tearing, screen tearing, aaaaaaand crashes. It might not be that bad on PC, but you probably won't like what's in store if you're on ranger hardcore.
I was in awe when this level loaded for the first time. Going from open world to traditional metro leveling was quite nice too. Haunting and intriguing at the same time
Novosibirsk wasn't entirely deserted, when Artyom progresses through the city he can catch glimpses of Dark Ones obeserving him but staying distant. Which is odd, but interesting. Thought I'd point that out.
I was going to write a theory at the end of the video to say that I think this is where the Dark Ones are based now. I kinda said that in my Dark Ones video though. Does seem like this is their place to live!
@@WiseFish also, it would explain how Miller was able to find Artyom so easily. Because he did say he had a sort of feeling where Artyom was going to be, so maybe the Dark Ones influenced Miller into being able to locate him.
Ty. Genuinely care for the DEEP lore of metro, I’ve done everything u can to do to learn and explore the metro and it’s universe. And I love hearing your opinions and facts on it.
Although I wish it was a longer level, in terms of the story, it was perfect. 2 Colonels really did a good job expanding on it, too. Reminds me of the Sierra Madre in NV.
My first theory of the slime was that it was ether a mass of fused worms (metro 2033) or that it was a Fatburg infesting the city- possibly even living or fusing life into itself
I heard that the next metro game might implement a multiplayer, it's just a rumor though don't get your hopes up but it's exciting what they would do with it if 4A games were to implement a multiplayer.
I had been to Novosibirsk metro once and I remember how during one particular level in metro exodus I stopped at a stairway in confusion and thought to myself: “Wait a sec, I’ve been here”. It was the coolest moment of the playthrough
Love the video and the extra interesting info on the black dragon and the aftermath of the corpses in the tunnels. Any and all lore and knowledge from the metroverse is s goldmine. Amazing work. Keep it up
Metro 2033: **adds a drug to deal with radiation and The Institute**. Fallout fans: Hey, I had seen that before. Metro 2033: what do you mean, this is brand new!
Awesome video. Didn't think I'd stay because i already know most of the stuff surrounding metro. Still, it was a crazy nice video with outstanding quality. Keep going! I'd love to see more metro videos :)
This is the 10th time of me replying Metro exodus and I'm still finding all these little things and tricks and learning more about the game every time I play it
Novosibirsk got hit during the evacuation process of the city, as can be seen due to the sheer number of abandoned Military vehicles and the fact that Miller also said so. Like Moscow, those lucky enough to be in the underground tunnels of the Metro would've survived the initial blast but would soon succumb to the amount of radiation left behind. Though it is unknown to how hard Novosibirsk was bombed it was supposed by one of the crew members (forgot his name even though I just beat the game) that the city was hit harder and also was bombed with a Cadium Bomb, which essentially is a Nuclear bomb that leaves behind even more Radiation. When Artyom and Miller first get to the City, it's outer buildings seemed to of survived the initial blast as well though was still damaged, once inside the Metro system of the city there appeared to of been no one left alive until we reach further down into the Metro and find a execution chamber and then a battlefield, It seems that the Habits of Moscow's Metro also reached Novosibirsk just on a much larger scale. There are armored carts that strangely enough look exactly like the Panzer carts that the Reich's use in Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, however we do not see any Reich Soldiers, just old Corpses with rags. As for the people that were in this Metro system it was stated that the Government had managed to also survive the bombings and took control over Novosibirsk Metro and were apparently very hostile to anyone who dared to oppose them, this of course lead to riots which is also the cause of the abandoned battlefields we see in Exodus. On the surface there is nothing but abandoned buildings and spirits of the dead, a true hell that Novosibirsk became. All that's left of the buildings is the ghostly reminders of what happened on that fateful day in 2013. Nothing but haunted abandoned buildings with corpses and mutated monsters ready to pounce on you as soon as they get the chance. The city is a dead, haunted hellhole. It was no question to why people stay away from it...
I also found it interesting how Novosibirsk has moments where you also see the Dark Ones, but briefly. It was like they were guiding you to what you needed there and it showed they did potentially find a home
SPOILERS! Just finished Sam's Story last night and Two Colonels today (yes I played backwards fortunately both of them are not connected) there are some things I did not understand during my playthrough of Two Colonels why Tolya killed himself, I only thought he lost hope because his son died, thanks for the clarity.
They killed his son as well, if the son survived I’d imagine he wouldn’t have killed himself but that with the huge betrayal of the ones at the top just caused him to loose hope and realised he’d killed all those people to just be betrayed.
@@WiseFish Btw, can you make an analysis/thoughts/explanation/how can the endings can lead to a new metro game, but Sam as the protagonist, (because it felt like Artyom's story concluded once the Aurora reached the lake) regarding the ending of Sam's Story.
@@alkon8032 They’ll go to other ex-Soviet countries before they go to America. The metro books touch on a lot of other Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian cities that survived the nukes. Would make more sense to go to Petersburg, Kazan, or Kiev
I think i ejnoyed Novosibirsk part probably the most out of entire game, since it hat closest to that haunting atmosphere first two games excelled at. Dont take me wrong, i love Metro Exodus and things it brought and i hope next game will build from these, but i missed all those mind-fucking parts. Volga and Taiga were ok, that were the places where i wouldnt expect too many, in Yamantau you had bigger problems, so there it would be distracting, but Caspian deffinitely should have had more.
Thank you so much for this video❤ This location gave me such a huge anxiety, since Novosibirsk is my home town and it is portrayed in such striking details in the game... We, Novosiberians, used to joke that Novosibirsk in the game looked just like it does every other winter, but now with the war in Ukraine and ever growing tension betwen Russia and NATO the joke doesn't sound that funny anymore.
It's my absolute favorite part of exodus. Absolute love the atmosphere and especially those damn worms. It is by far the most unsettling part of the whole series Also the desperation of their mission to save Anya really struck a chord with me
Man watching this gave me the answers I long asked myself when I got to novosibirsk in metro exodus and what initially happend to them was truly shocking and what happend to the father
Great video ! If only I could forget this story to discover the Metro trilogy all over again then I would absolutely do it... I've seen that 4A Games studio have been working on a 4th game, can't wait to see it !
Awesome video. I recently finished the game and just the other day completed Slava's DLC... just wow, one of the best stories iv seen, at least in a long time. The way it all comes together (or doesn't) at the end was mind blowing
Just finished metro exodus for the first time tonight and this level floored me. The rest of the game felt kind of slow and not really like metro but they really nailed it with the Novosibirsk level.
I have a big fear of the uncanny valley, so stuff like humanimals are rough. But watching your smiling neighbors die and scream in agony and anger, 16:45, it was really the scariest part for me in the entire trilogy, including dlcs
4:00 talking about the tank sealing the entrance. The round would probably be he or heat as sabot wouldn't do much, but put a 30-ish mm hole in the concrete
Late reply, but personally i would think that they shoot to GET INTO the Metro, as in the trailers they shut Metro doors after some time right before the bombs hits. Sadly the tank crews were too late and everyone dies above anyways.
There is a technocracy of mutant people located on the other side of the river, but has been cut off from the rest of the Novosibirsk Metro due to a collapsed bridge, these guys may have not been affected by the worms and the war of the "Big Metro", so they might still be alive even after the events of Metro Exodus, but they also aren't canonical, so I don't know.
As odd as this comparison may sound, this part of metro lore reminds me of the underground school from the last of us, people who sy not have thrived but did survive, all being brought down by a single domino falling, and all hell breaking loose. A door being left unlocked, or a stalker stepping into the wrong building, small seemingly inconsequential actions bringing the end to whole generations.
Thanks for watching guys and before I get people saying it, I apologise if I pronounced Novosibirsk wrong. It’s a tough word okay! Also huge thanks to Russavot for translating the book To See The Sun for me. Go check out this awesome guys channel th-cam.com/channels/PD2rLoWwo6QQhdaleMKCsw.html
In your next video say Worcestershire sauce
@@deilek6990 God! See I can hear it in my head but soon as I try to say it into a mic I’ll struggle!
@@WiseFish I want to hear this lmao
@@deilek6990 wor-stah-sheer
Don't apologise for not being able to pronounce a word from a different language, ever.
You did way too much great work to worry about anything like that anyway!
The dead city was always bone chilling for me. A true radioactive wasteland with ruthless storms, blood chilling cold,, horrifying mutated forms of life, and every building shell haunted by the spirits of the dead. Going above ground was a death sentence. Everything there either dead or dying... the brief glimpse of what the Moscow Metro almost became and what Artyom had helped to prevent always in the back of the mind as I wandered this particular slice of irradiated hell.
Even before entering the City, Coming in on the train I was like ''no plz lets go back I know this gonna be the freshest of hells''. And it was. Still interesting to see though
i feel bad for novosibirsk
they thought there the last humans
in russia while the rest of the world are doing just fine
the city is like russian version of game of thrones or princess mononoke esque fighting two factions
i feel bad for the boy, he was the last remnant of novo inhabitant
his deceased father was the true hero
before the spartans visiting novo city
but im glad he’s adopted by the spartans and grows ups as spartan soldier
The simple concept of shadows of the dead wandering forgotten places is both saddening and terrifying to me. It would seem best to not tread on those old grounds in the hope of not disturbing the forgotten.
"This is no mine. It's a tomb..."
After a long and difficult journey, you face the game's deadliest enemy: Radiation.
There was no big boss fight. No giant monster or rival gang leader. Just you and the harsh reality of Metro's ruined world.
(And those big gorillas too)
They were super easy with millers railgun
@@azzii2101 you know you can just sneek past them right? As you can pass the librarians in 2033 without wasting a bullet. At the hardest, every bullet counts
I always thought it was a bit strange how effective the Nuclear weapons were in terms of lasting radiation in Novosibirsk. IRL you would pretty much just need to wear a mask and some thick clothing and you could walk around in Moscow fine.
EDIT TO EXPLAIN FULLY:
The threat of nuclear fallout is not the radiation touching your skin. Background radiation can be very high, but simple contact with your body won't kill you quickly.
That isn't to say it isn't SAFE, it just isn't particularly lethal. After 20 years, the radiation will be nowhere high enough to give you radiation poisoning (EVEN IF IT'S A COBALT SEEDED BOMB!). After 40 years in the Metro you would likely develop cancer, which is common in the books. However since most die to mutants, background radiation honestly isn't a big deal.
The ACTUAL threat in irradiated areas is dust and other breathable particles. If you breath these in, they will get into your vital organs (lungs) and kill you VERY quickly.
That is why you HAVE to wear a filtered mask, like they do in the games.
It's why hair products cannot be used in nuclear fallout, because the dust will linger in the hair after you leave.
So while a mask would be mandatory, clothing wouldn't really matter (within reason). What matters more is that you decontaminate those clothes to make sure no dust is left on them.
There isn't really a good reason to explain why Novosobirsk is so dangerous, but it doesn't really matter.
@@aw3046 Usa dropped a "Dirty Bomb" on Novosibirsk, designed for maximum fallout instead of explosive destruction.
Just radiation and big monke
The Novosibirsk level was definitely one of my most memorable experiences in a videogame. The build-up to it was perfect as well - you and Miller had to go to it for Anna's sake, but you fully knew how unbelievebly high the radiation levels were. You even thought of other alternatives to fixing Anna's condition, but eventually it all led to Novosibirsk. Mutants and opposing human factions is something Artyom never really had an issue dealing with, because they are enemies that can you can fight back. But how can you fight deadly amounts of radiation? Playing the Dead City level kinda made me imagine how the liquidators of the Chernobyl NPP felt in 1986 - utterly helpless, but determined not to give up.
I agree with you the dead city was very unsettling and a weird way it felt like someone or something was watching you through your journey in the dead city. But even through all that artyom never stopped he kept on going even with the mass amounts of radiation poison and the blind ones or lost ones. I hope in the next metro game artyom can talk in the actual game instead of just in the loading screen.
@@ismaelgingles9409 interestingly enough, THERE IS someone watching you throughout Novisibirsk as there are 3-4 sightings of Dark Ones throughout the level
Playing through the Two Colonels DLC makes it even more emotional. Miler saved his last vial of "green stuff" for Arthyon...
@@simonaspalovis1204 3 years later but i loved it because we went from the big open worlds and clean air to back to our roots. Into the Metro and then on the surface its a race against time. Reminds me a lot of OG 2033
@@xlgapelsin6173 yeah really cool level, and if you also play the two colonels DLC it becomes perfect
The beauty of “the two colonels” DLC is that you played through the eyes of one of the many many bodies you find, makes you wonder what every single lost soul’s story was when you walk up on them.
F for the Two Colonels, who both saved their sons.
1st colonel is Hlebnikov and yes he saved his son, but 2nd colonel is mel'nikov and he tried to save his daughter.
Sadly both died
@@hbksss I was talking about Artyom, who was like a son to him.
@@hbksss that wasnt a colonel saving his daughter, that was a general. And the title “two colonels” refers to Miller and Khlebnikov
Miller saved Kirill too. Without him, he would've died... Cuz, y'know, his father wasn't coming back and Kirill was uncertain to leave his home or not. Besides, Kirill has nowhere to go, since Miller was the one retrieving the map. If he left his home, I doubt he had a good gun skills, but not leaving Novosibirsk could mean killing himself with starvation, radiation or getting overran by mutants.
In metro 2033 the game, it is suggested that the slime is just biomass that a bunch of people were melted down and mutated into at D6. Similar to the biomass in dead space.
There are documents that say everyone took shelter in the deepest part of D6 - the reactor (where the slime was), but the thing is, there aren't any bodies anywhere. Just the biomass.
Just like in the Kremlin, it's speculated that some kind of bio weapon was used and it ate away at people and basically melted them down.
Creepy to think about.. Bioweapons like that probably exist in our own world.
in the book that is exactly what happened, and it lures people in by making them hallucinate and then have them throw themselves into the goop, in the books its also way more active and far far bigger since it's all througout the kremlin
@@theluftwaffle1 considering that flesh eating parasites exist irl... yeah, probably.
@@mrfun177 the book version was terrifying, especially when they had to sing and one of them still gave in.
I think we went extinct in 2012 and its been hell since then lol
Sounds about right tbh
Nice seeing you here your videos are pretty good
Can you make days gone video about the Hooliganvirus
So good to see you here Roanoke. Hope you're doing well.
what do you mean 2012 screwed?
More of this please. Especially the darker parts, like history of the Red Line, Fourth Reich, Hanza, Polis, etc. You learn quite a bit by reading the books if you haven't!
I’m gonna look at the factions soon. I wanna read the books again as it’s been ages since I read them and can’t remember all the details
@@WiseFish Ah, well I'd actually like to extend my help if you're interested. A lot of channels like HiddenXperia do "Arsenal of X universe" and being a firearm enthusiast, I think if you were also going to, I would not only be enthralled in the video, but I'd be more than happy to offer time and research to help keep the facts clear of any silly myths that online research contributes to the Kalash (AK74 in the game), among other things. If it helps I've read all three books and played all three games.
If you're interested, I'm not gonna ask for credit or payment, I just have an interest in seeing it and I don't mind contributing in the slightest.
I would love and watch it instantly if he did those videos
@@WiseFish hell yeah. I just finally got the last book in the mail yesterday. Gonna see how different it is compared to the game
I love the lore of the Metro series and Novosibirsk was definately the most creepy place in the all the games so far. The haunting and crushingly depressing atmosphere there really did a good job of making you feel isolated and lonely. I hope we get more Metro games in the future with even more places like this.
I do too and with different weapons and items.
Come there in a real life. You will catch a strange feeling of deja vu.
I wonder what kind of deja vu subway workers experience after completing the game?
All the poor souls lost in Novosibirsk...
Also, a small little detail, in the "Winter chapter", on the Aurora, spartan members report seemingly very high radiation even 50 kilometers away from Novosibirsk (31 miles)
i feel bad too, novo city could have kept together and wait for spartans
but there desperately needed plants to keep them alive all because of the mold made everyone severly losing morales
but leaving novo would be a problem too
there are mutated gorillas roaming around the city, yes there blind but can smell and hear just like a quiet place creatures they can hear
@@joshuagraham2843 the story is pretty sad, novosbirk destroyed itself in a civil war just as artyom and the gang left moscow, and the other guy said the radiation was so high that at 50 miles away from the town it was as high as in moscow
@@baciu14 it was 500 km, not 50
This game series will always have a special place in my heart I’m sad not that many people know about it but I’m also glad it’s sort of a hidden gem
It really made me tear up the dlc and the dead city level of metro exodus, its truly a masterpiece.
Not to say the other levels were bad, i enjoyed the whole game but some parts were more engaging than others (mainly the lineal ones). Still, if it wasn't for the odyssey the aurora and the crew took before, this chapter wouldn't feel the same. RIP the two colonels
To this day is consider the Dead City of Novosibirsk the most realistic take on a post nuclear city and the DLC for it God added more to how if people did survive in a city like that it would be both so well fitting and horrifying. Thank you for this video
It's still pretty unrealistic. Nuclear warheards are engineered for destruction, so most of the fissile material is used up. There's very little fallout, actually.
except for the mutant mold and worms.
@@JonathanBell-xl4dl and the timescale, green stuff, and many other things. So basically not realistic at all.
@@pavelslama5543👆🤓
I honestly don't get why this channel is so underrated
Thank you! Hopefully soon it’ll pick up :)
Because you touch yourself at night
@@420pharma ???
@@ooshiemama1869 yes
@@WiseFish i mean im getting recent recommendations about your channel and so far im not disappointed
When i finished Metro Exodus (it was 4 am i got bad ending) i was literally shocked how good this game is and its my favourite singleplayer game also is pretty hard (i played without titles on russian on the hardest difficulty without hud)
Well thats how you experience it properly
Ranger hardcore is always the way to go👍
Playing Russian games in Russian is always the best way to do it. I like the little details, like how Sam's pronunciation is a bit off from everyone else's (because he's American)
@@TheKingOfJordan1 i know i played "Sam's Story" DLC i really see that he is different
Without tittles? Well if you speak Russian then okay, but if you don't then you just have no idea what people are talking about. xd
Which is counter-immersive since Artyom CAN understand everyone since he's Russian. :]
Cobalt bombs were also called "salted bombs" and were supposedly only theoretical. The objective was to create a weapon that could siege your enemies for years after deployment. The cobalt is changed into cobalt 60, which has a half life of just over 5 years.
The half life makes it impractical to wait out the short term high intensity radiation in bomb shelters while still producing enough of it to kill anyone who is caught outside. The name comes from the phrase "salting the earth" which prevents plant growth
Yeah, the game isnt realistic. Even IRL, the nuke winter was basically made up, and even if humanity managed to somehow create enough bombs to create it, there is no way that it would last for decades. The danger of nukes IRL isnt in what happens in the short term, or the long term, but the mid term (1-5 years). After some 10 years the site of a nuke explosion should be rid of any dangerous levels of radiation and should be navigable even without protective gear.
Cobalt bombs were designed to push back that safe stage, and prolong the dangerous stage, but even then, you should be easily able to half the amount of green stuff rations for everyone after 5 years, then half it again after another 5, and after 5 years, everyone would basically require 8 times less than when the bombs fell. But again, Metro (book) is a metaphor for the Russian society (thats why they are banned in Russia), not a study of the post war effects on the society and nature.
I can assure you, through military and government agencies, the capabilities of US/Russia/China nuclear wise are nothing like how they are depicted in Metro.
It’s FAR worse. And what’s scary is our incompetent leaders are now threatening nuclear war like it’s nothing.
@@pavelslama5543dude fucking Chernobyl is still radioactive, just think about how many bombs were sent.
5:20 Understand, it's not called zelonka randomly. It is called that because that's what the Soviets called their equivalent to iodine, which they used as a panacea for random injuries and scrapes (because it is an antiseptic), and I am sure that's why the magical radmeds were called that.
yeah, because of the familiarity of the substance’s look and name. i don’t think that there are many people using it today but in 00’s it was quite popular as a common treat for such conditions as chickenpox - basically aiding each area of skin affected by rush with a touch of Zelenka.
so naming a radmed by something that familiar to population clearly has its benefits on psychological level.
The first thing I noticed when I saw this place in-game was the complete lack of nuclear weapon damage, unlike Moscow.
Cobalt bombs were also used in the bombs under the urals in Dr strangelove's doomsday device
Metro is cool but where are the trains?
Edit: less than a minute in I found one. The world is at peace.
Haha Metro Exodus would like a word with you
@@WiseFish get me into a conversation with them haha
Ok why does the algorithm put channels like this down it's amazing work you need a crap ton views
Thanks man that means a lot!!
Well the channel finally got pushed to me and I just subbed right now, watched all the last few videos and they were all good.
@@FortressLordJP193 Same, that Metro 2033 lore video was incredibly narrated, even made me almost tear up.
What would be amazing would be an open world Metro game in Moscow where you can fully explore all the tunnels (and what you can of the surface without dying). I know that it would be insane to design a game that large with the detail they put into the Metro games. Maybe it could be about a younger Khan learning about the supernatural stuff in the metro as he on some grand mission or when he comes because to where ever he disappeared to and can help evacuate people to Lake Baikal before some threat ends all life in the metro.
Guess the farthest we've got is the Ksathriya DLC from Metro Last Light, although it's basically just a prop hunt.
I do agree that Khan is one of the most interesting characters in the series, though.
Dude this game but massive online multiplayer where there are other stalkers and you can hide your loot but everyone can find each other’s loot if you look hard enough
(Please please please god)
@@VaningenVan Escape From Tarkov but in Moscow Metro
Well, thank you for finally answering a question that had been racking my brain for years. Novosibirsk was always a source of fascination for my in Exodus due to how ultimate it's destruction it was. Moscow, horrible as it was, allowed for life to live on the surface. Novosibirsk, on the other hand, was allegedly hit harder than all the other targets in Russia. I didn't understand why it had been hit so heavily. Now however, I have a better idea. The city was not innocent as it turned out; they were creating bio-weapons and by extension, a cure of the weapon's effects controlled only by them. Good god man... Horrendous.
i mean can you help them though? by the looks of all the mutation the US and NATO heavily used their own bio weapons as well. that's just how the world was and still is ma man. some countries just don't want to give up their top places and some countries believe that making sure to be as strong as these arrogant nations is the only way to rise up.
The Tsar fish blessed me with this video, you have a new worshipper.
Absolutely loved this part of the game. When they first drove into the city, you really felt that this place was incredibly hostile. It felt like descending straight into hell.
I only played the first two Metro games. But one day I will check the third one out.
Great video man, I can't wait to see more of your videos.😆
One day you’ll have to tell me what you thought of the game haha but glad you liked the video. Hope it didn’t spoil it too much
Dude, if you liked the first two games, I have no idea what the ever living scheiße you're waiting for. Make "one day" TODAY if you can, because Exodus is probably the most beautiful and best written game I have ever seen.
Plus it came out while I worked at Gamestop and it is CRIMINALLY underrated because nobody bought it when I was on shift. So please, give them your money so we can get a sequel lmao
@@JohnSmith-xv2ob the metro series in general is criminally underrated
@@WiseFish Gods do I know it! I won't lie and say Metro 2033 and Last Light were the most polished experiences ever, but the atmosphere and story just drew me in way too hard to ignore, and when I got to Exodus, my expectations were BLOWN AWAY. If all three games played like Exodus, I would play Metro nonstop forever and ever.
Speaking of which, maybe we should nudge 2A to make a re-redux where the first two games are tuned to work in the Exodus engine. Or at least release more DLC.
Beware that this game still has _a lot_ of bugs, from physics, to skyboxes tearing, screen tearing, aaaaaaand crashes. It might not be that bad on PC, but you probably won't like what's in store if you're on ranger hardcore.
I was in awe when this level loaded for the first time. Going from open world to traditional metro leveling was quite nice too. Haunting and intriguing at the same time
I fucking loved this DLC. Enjoyed Sam's Story too but this one really stuck with me.
I liked two colonels much more than Sam's story, no offense to Sam.
hey stalker 2 is coming but i dont trust stalker 2
but im still waiting for metro 4 sequel
or a spinoff we’ll wait and see
Novosibirsk wasn't entirely deserted, when Artyom progresses through the city he can catch glimpses of Dark Ones obeserving him but staying distant. Which is odd, but interesting.
Thought I'd point that out.
I was going to write a theory at the end of the video to say that I think this is where the Dark Ones are based now. I kinda said that in my Dark Ones video though. Does seem like this is their place to live!
@@WiseFish yeah, it kinda does until they're ready to live amongst regular Humans peacefully.
@@WiseFish also, it would explain how Miller was able to find Artyom so easily. Because he did say he had a sort of feeling where Artyom was going to be, so maybe the Dark Ones influenced Miller into being able to locate him.
@@EnclaveSOC-102 there’s also a cut line from the studio recordings where Miller says he saw a Dark One. I added it to that video if you wanna hear it
Still one of the most immersive in game worlds I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing in.
Ty. Genuinely care for the DEEP lore of metro, I’ve done everything u can to do to learn and explore the metro and it’s universe. And I love hearing your opinions and facts on it.
Although I wish it was a longer level, in terms of the story, it was perfect. 2 Colonels really did a good job expanding on it, too. Reminds me of the Sierra Madre in NV.
My first theory of the slime was that it was ether a mass of fused worms (metro 2033) or that it was a Fatburg infesting the city- possibly even living or fusing life into itself
We need an open world game set in Moscow metro with all the stations being explorable
I heard that the next metro game might implement a multiplayer, it's just a rumor though don't get your hopes up but it's exciting what they would do with it if 4A games were to implement a multiplayer.
Bro the devs literally confirmed it
what where
@@elsleazo9592 Source: Trust me dude, I found it on my ass.
@@firstnamesurname2482 idk if they confirmed it but they mentioned it
Amazing quality for such a small channel, please keep making these.
Been looking forward to this one. Good to see u doing well
I had been to Novosibirsk metro once and I remember how during one particular level in metro exodus I stopped at a stairway in confusion and thought to myself: “Wait a sec, I’ve been here”. It was the coolest moment of the playthrough
you deserve 50 million subscribers damn it, your content is quality!
Metro 2033 and Last Light:Crawling in the dirty metros
Metro Exodus:You travel half of Russia
So few youtubers do metro lore so well. Please keep it up.
i recall seeing sightings of the dark ones too that was an interesting inclusion
They sure love high radiation.
Story of two colonels had me in tears at the end
Holy Hell you are amazing man! I never knew any of the stuff like the Black Dragon even existed.
Love the video and the extra interesting info on the black dragon and the aftermath of the corpses in the tunnels.
Any and all lore and knowledge from the metroverse is s goldmine.
Amazing work. Keep it up
Metro Lore and Books are both beautiful (in their own way) and sad. Thank you for that beautiful presentation
You have no idea how long I’ve been trying to find a video like this! Thank you!
Good stuff. Thanks. If you ever get around to more metro lore it would be cool to see a factions video. With factions from Moscow and outside.
I’m absolutely living these videos! There sadly aren’t very much metro lore videos so these are great!
Metro 2033: **adds a drug to deal with radiation and The Institute**.
Fallout fans: Hey, I had seen that before.
Metro 2033: what do you mean, this is brand new!
you do know drugs like Rad-x from fallout are actually real right? Their just not nearly as powerful as in videogames.
@@cursed1083 The Institute in both games also did some kind of gorilla experiments, in f4 it was synthetic gorillas
I calling it now………… METRO 76
@@WarNvrChanges so about 40 years after exodus. Interesting
@@kingofhearts3185 Yeah it’s going to do things never done before in gaming, like a Battle Royal mode!!!!
Why did I just bow fine your content? Its amazing! Keep up the great work!
The dude who saves you in Two Colonels was a real one
Awesome video. Didn't think I'd stay because i already know most of the stuff surrounding metro. Still, it was a crazy nice video with outstanding quality. Keep going! I'd love to see more metro videos :)
Loved this, sometimes the algorithm isnt an asshole and i find cool content like this ! Subbed
You should do the stalker series next! That would be a fun watch with your narration
This is the 10th time of me replying Metro exodus and I'm still finding all these little things and tricks and learning more about the game every time I play it
Yes! I've waited for more Metro content from you!
You produce high quality content. You deserve more support and views!
Novosibirsk got hit during the evacuation process of the city, as can be seen due to the sheer number of abandoned Military vehicles and the fact that Miller also said so.
Like Moscow, those lucky enough to be in the underground tunnels of the Metro would've survived the initial blast but would soon succumb to the amount of radiation left behind.
Though it is unknown to how hard Novosibirsk was bombed it was supposed by one of the crew members (forgot his name even though I just beat the game) that the city was hit harder and also was bombed with a Cadium Bomb, which essentially is a Nuclear bomb that leaves behind even more Radiation.
When Artyom and Miller first get to the City, it's outer buildings seemed to of survived the initial blast as well though was still damaged, once inside the Metro system of the city there appeared to of been no one left alive until we reach further down into the Metro and find a execution chamber and then a battlefield, It seems that the Habits of Moscow's Metro also reached Novosibirsk just on a much larger scale. There are armored carts that strangely enough look exactly like the Panzer carts that the Reich's use in Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, however we do not see any Reich Soldiers, just old Corpses with rags.
As for the people that were in this Metro system it was stated that the Government had managed to also survive the bombings and took control over Novosibirsk Metro and were apparently very hostile to anyone who dared to oppose them, this of course lead to riots which is also the cause of the abandoned battlefields we see in Exodus.
On the surface there is nothing but abandoned buildings and spirits of the dead, a true hell that Novosibirsk became. All that's left of the buildings is the ghostly reminders of what happened on that fateful day in 2013.
Nothing but haunted abandoned buildings with corpses and mutated monsters ready to pounce on you as soon as they get the chance.
The city is a dead, haunted hellhole. It was no question to why people stay away from it...
I also found it interesting how Novosibirsk has moments where you also see the Dark Ones, but briefly. It was like they were guiding you to what you needed there and it showed they did potentially find a home
Awsome vid, could watch this for hours!
I just found your channel and so far it’s awesome, could you make a full lore of Yamantau?
I just finished Two colonels a few days ago. I knew what was going to happen through deduction, but it was still heartbreaking nonetheless.
Just finished playing exodus and I'd say its THE BEST post apocalyptic game I've ever played in a long while, good ending too.
SPOILERS!
Just finished Sam's Story last night and Two Colonels today (yes I played backwards fortunately both of them are not connected) there are some things I did not understand during my playthrough of Two Colonels why Tolya killed himself, I only thought he lost hope because his son died, thanks for the clarity.
They killed his son as well, if the son survived I’d imagine he wouldn’t have killed himself but that with the huge betrayal of the ones at the top just caused him to loose hope and realised he’d killed all those people to just be betrayed.
@@WiseFish Btw, can you make an analysis/thoughts/explanation/how can the endings can lead to a new metro game, but Sam as the protagonist, (because it felt like Artyom's story concluded once the Aurora reached the lake) regarding the ending of Sam's Story.
@@alkon8032 They’ll go to other ex-Soviet countries before they go to America. The metro books touch on a lot of other Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian cities that survived the nukes. Would make more sense to go to Petersburg, Kazan, or Kiev
Amazing video, keep up the great work. I would love to see more Metro videos
Amazing video, I was unaware of there being lore to it, outside of the game.
Dude I absolutely love your ending music in this video it makes me think of a sad ending or ending credits also this video was helpful altogether 😁👍💯
Where did you get the lore about novo being hit by cobalt due to the experiments going on there? Can't ever remember finding this out in the game.
Probs the books
I think i ejnoyed Novosibirsk part probably the most out of entire game, since it hat closest to that haunting atmosphere first two games excelled at. Dont take me wrong, i love Metro Exodus and things it brought and i hope next game will build from these, but i missed all those mind-fucking parts. Volga and Taiga were ok, that were the places where i wouldnt expect too many, in Yamantau you had bigger problems, so there it would be distracting, but Caspian deffinitely should have had more.
Novosibirsk like hell on earth, i got spine chill every time i walk though the corner, mostly with the monster gorilla
I loved this part of Exodus going back in to the tunnels and then again from "the other side" in two Colonel's
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Thank you so much for this video❤ This location gave me such a huge anxiety, since Novosibirsk is my home town and it is portrayed in such striking details in the game... We, Novosiberians, used to joke that Novosibirsk in the game looked just like it does every other winter, but now with the war in Ukraine and ever growing tension betwen Russia and NATO the joke doesn't sound that funny anymore.
Nice place.
THIS is the lore video i have been looking for ❤❤
My first time watching you content. I absolutely love it!
Phenomenal work man. Keep it up!
It's my absolute favorite part of exodus. Absolute love the atmosphere and especially those damn worms. It is by far the most unsettling part of the whole series
Also the desperation of their mission to save Anya really struck a chord with me
Man watching this gave me the answers I long asked myself when I got to novosibirsk in metro exodus and what initially happend to them was truly shocking and what happend to the father
Great video ! If only I could forget this story to discover the Metro trilogy all over again then I would absolutely do it... I've seen that 4A Games studio have been working on a 4th game, can't wait to see it !
That book cover at 9:49 has to be modeled on Winona Ryder.
The favorite stomping grounds of my youth. Gotta love post-apocalyptic Russia!
Awesome video. I recently finished the game and just the other day completed Slava's DLC... just wow, one of the best stories iv seen, at least in a long time. The way it all comes together (or doesn't) at the end was mind blowing
Just finished metro exodus for the first time tonight and this level floored me. The rest of the game felt kind of slow and not really like metro but they really nailed it with the Novosibirsk level.
u deserve more subs and viewers
You’re actually able to tune into a radio station and this station says that Novosibirsk is off limits
4:27 it's a storage or disposal site, not a testing facility
Still, they stored the bioweapons there. My mistake, however it was said that they were used out there in Volga
Note to self: Stay Away from all Institutes in the event of the apocalypse.
I would love to spend 3 hours just exploring this city.
Very good, love the channel
I found the reveal that there is cities/towns all over the world alive contacting one another and there is breathable air unexpected but welcome
Novosibirk gave me the vibes of the Winderhome in Frostpunk as both were dead cities found by the protagonist of the game
You should do a video on the Sierra Madre and the Dead money DLC of Fallout New Vegas. I think your voice and video style would be perfect.
Absolutely chilling, no pun intended
These are awesome! More metro lore videos please!
I have a big fear of the uncanny valley, so stuff like humanimals are rough. But watching your smiling neighbors die and scream in agony and anger, 16:45, it was really the scariest part for me in the entire trilogy, including dlcs
4:00 talking about the tank sealing the entrance. The round would probably be he or heat as sabot wouldn't do much, but put a 30-ish mm hole in the concrete
Late reply, but personally i would think that they shoot to GET INTO the Metro, as in the trailers they shut Metro doors after some time right before the bombs hits.
Sadly the tank crews were too late and everyone dies above anyways.
There is a technocracy of mutant people located on the other side of the river, but has been cut off from the rest of the Novosibirsk Metro due to a collapsed bridge, these guys may have not been affected by the worms and the war of the "Big Metro", so they might still be alive even after the events of Metro Exodus, but they also aren't canonical, so I don't know.
As odd as this comparison may sound, this part of metro lore reminds me of the underground school from the last of us, people who sy not have thrived but did survive, all being brought down by a single domino falling, and all hell breaking loose. A door being left unlocked, or a stalker stepping into the wrong building, small seemingly inconsequential actions bringing the end to whole generations.
Yet another banger WiseFish!! Keep it up man
Thank you dude!