What i love about these boys is no matter what game it is. They always really get into the story and take it serious. It really helps with the immersion as a viewer.
They get into the story but they focus so much on their theorycrafting that they end up so far off base but believe it so totally that they now play the game based on their head canon being true.. and then they end up missing out on the actual story because they give up absorbing any new information.
@@Eventide215 Yeah it's the wendigo effect ever since they nailed that they are so desperate to predict the game again. It's annoying but I rather have that then not paying attention.
@@Huckleberry42It's not that I hate they theorycraft or try to predict the game. It's that I hate they get so desperate for that to be correct that they then hold onto that and play the game as if it's true. Like now instead of just playing the game they're trying to do everything they possibly can to make this head canon true. Like they found a paper near the start that explained how there are replikas (cyborgs) and there are gestalts (humans) but they absorbed NONE of that information and so now they keep theorycrafting on what gestalt might be..
1:20:00 Our character Elster (a LSTR unit, not EULE) is part of the Eusan Nation, which is something like a communist state that has taken over many planets previously under the Eusan Empire's control in a civil war. (The facility we are in is on Leng.) We don't know much about the Empire, other than the fact that they had an Empress who was a very powerful Bioresonant, and she created the Replikas. BTW the inventory slots can be increased by 2 in the settings to 8, so if it's really starting to bother you guys, that's always an option.
the way they take their trademark overthinking into the lore/theorycrafting making it all ten thousand times more complicated than it actually is. Bless the lads.
Yeah, when they randomly started saying that they were playing as a EULR unit for no reason I was so confused, and I've already finished the game ages ago lol No idea where they got that idea from
@jessecox Interesting Fact: The warning at the end "Nothing of value is here" is a Long-term Nuclear Waste warning made by the American Human Interference Task Force in 1981. The full text reads: "This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited."
This is super cool! Thanks for sharing. For clarity, I looked up the report, and the text you describe is what the non-linguistic parts of the warning (pictures and such) were meant to *convey.* This was not literal text that was meant to be written at the site.
Many ideas and reports that congeled into one idea: The architecture and land was supposed to invoke those feelings, giant hostile architecture, massive spikes, hostile colors, hostile smells, negative imagery, ever changing adaptations of warning symbols, as well as warning texts in the languages of the major nations/cultures/core languages of the day, and history, but also adapting to new developments of said languages, which would end up with the text being incorporated into the architecture and spread out from the middle in ever changing rings languages. And three of the most commonly chosen languages were usually: English, German, Chinese (, and sometimes Latin). (This description of what it should convey could very well be incorporated as well
I can definitely understand why these videos take so long. After part 1 I had time to play this myself and wow, the worldbuilding is insane. Coupled with the fact that this game takes many inspirations from a lot of popular media and yet it makes everything flow seemlessly shows how amazing this 2 person dev team was.
To be clear, you've always had 6 item slots, but previous the camera and torch took up a slot. They've changed that and also added an option to increase up to I think 8 slots?
I'm pretty sure loading weapons by picking up ammo was also added as QoL. This is actually really cool thing, and I would like more survival horror games to do this.
@@CalmputerCorrect, nowadays by default the "modules" like the flashlight don't take up a slot anymore. This default is called "revised" (or something like that) in the settings menu. You can pick "extended" to get those 8, but there's also "classic" to go back to the original "just 6, and modules count as items".
Yeah the weird thing though is even then the game wasn't that hard.. it's just people aren't used to having to manage their inventory anymore. They want to be able to carry 2 weapons, stun rods, and thermite charges at all times for some reason.. even though they very likely aren't going to use the thermite. Plus they don't need the other weapon on them at all. So I like that the game just updated to have 3 settings. There's classic where it's just 6 inventory slots, there's the like 'reimagined' where it's 6 slots but the eye and flashlight don't take up slots, and then there's the extended option that has the reimagined plus 2 more slots.
German Translation of the important bits (I am a German native): 29:16 "In the end it was my sister and not me who came to Ariame's rescue. For me, our brief friendship would always be marked by that moment of inaction. I have always been useless." 38:57 None of us are here by choice... "...and nobody will miss us." 55:34-57:12 Big red text reads: "DIE", Text in the middle is directed at the player? "Give up", "Why are you here?", "It is hopeless", "Who are you?" The texts around the sides of the screen are some revelations type shit and keeps repeating: "And I saw the sixth seal break and the earth shook andthe sun turned black and the moon like blood and the stars fell from the sky.", "Beyond the sun in the darkness behind the stars I saw the face of a god, a form and colour that cannot be described with words. The six sides of the world I saw unfold, and the light devoured me. I had become one with the nothing, where life and death are meaningless.", "Strange is the night in which dark stars rise abd strange moons circle the sky. Songs which the Hyades shall sing, where the rags of the king blow in the wind, must die unheard. Song of my soul, my voice is dead; die, you, unsung like tears unshed shall dry and die." Notes: 1. I think the name was "Ariame", but the text was super blurry there 2. The Hyades are a constellation 3. The text at around 1:56:32 is the same as in the other room of this type.
For the record: you always had 6 inventory slots. The recent update just changed it so that the eyeball module and flashlight no longer take up one of those 6 slots, essentially giving you two extra slots exclusively for those two items instead of them filling up a third of your inventory if you want their utility. It also added the option to increase the inventory from 6 to 8 along with the 2 spots for those modules, but you don’t have that on You’re also able to click on a lot of things in the environment even if it doesn’t have an interactive cue, and it’ll give you a short message about Elster’s reaction or thoughts on it, or just a description of what you’re looking at Also a gestalt isn’t a robot. Gestalt is just the name for regular humans. Not a spoiler, it was said earlier in a note, but you misunderstood what it was saying Last thing: you are an LSTR, or Elster, unit. Not a Eule lol
Yeah the gestalt thing is basically that in this world there are the humans (gestalt) and the replikas (a variety of models for different activities). The paper earlier that explains literally talks about replikas then basically says gestalt is everything not replika. Then these idiots took that *completely* wrong somehow.
What really caused the squad a lot of trouble is the fact that the flashlight aggroes enemies when it is on. That's why they would rush LSTR so quickly whenever she entered the room.
The Monofiber (Also known as Monofilament) is marked as dangerous because is a scifi material supposed to be a single atom\molecule thick, the idea is that this allows it to pass between the cells of thigs, so even just holding it unprotected would mean it falls through your hand - slicing whatever it touches to pieces without effort as it falls.
Hopefully to clear any confusion of the lads: Gestalts are Humans , and the character you play is Elster. (You're an LSTR unit replika) and unfortunately, RIP the revolver. Missed the key for it in the same stage/zone the weapon case was found on. Loving the videos!! And loving the theorycrafting!! :D It's very fun to watch you guys, best series yet.
Them missing some of the notes is making me go crazy, but you guys are making me so happy, being able to watch someone else play the game for the first time
Especially since there are multiple endings you can get. The endings also aren't just like make a single different choice. We're still not exactly sure what causes different endings to trigger but we know there's a lot of factors in it, which makes it more fun to play through multiple times in different ways or watch different people play. Like I'm curious if the squad will get a different ending than what I got.
@@KyoumadfanIt's not a spoiler. It's just a fact that there are multiple endings with many factors in how the ending is chosen. I didn't say what all 5 endings are.
Unlikely, the few times they ever do that is only if it's a case of reload a save and choose a different ending option. The few other times was when Girard was also playing it on his channel. With him out of the picture I very much doubt they'll do that kind of investment.
The notes found at 3:00:00 and 3:00:15 were excerpts from a short story called "An Inhabitant of Carcosa", written in 1886 by an American Civil War veteran (on the Union side) named Ambrose Bierce. This story served as one of the sources of inspiration for Robert Chambers when he wrote the King in Yellow in 1895. These devs went WAAAAAY back when digging into the roots of cosmic horror :)
Yeah, you're right. I was watching SGS trying to Juke past the enemy in front of the save room for the 6th time before Davis suggests burning it. It's the point of a let's play to watch someone else deal with these problems, but that doesn't prevent me from occasionally shouting at the screen as if they can hear me :P
Yeah the thermite flares are one of those items that you shouldn't really need a lot of if you play the game at least somewhat optimally.. but when you play by just like going in and out of rooms constantly, constantly getting lost, etc. then it's beneficial to burn bodies that are in the main high-traffic hallways.
1:55:00 and the reason the devs picked Swan Lake, in addition to being a famous Ballet, is probably also due to it being what was played on national TV when the Soviet Union fell. Like, blasting out all channels. From an NPR article: "On August 19, 1991, as tanks and troops rolled into Moscow, Soviet state television presented a different picture - Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" on loop." A very apt choice for the setting.
So you guys are crushing this game so far, but there's a few things I can help clear up for you. Firstly, it's important to note that the character you're controlling is not a EULR (Eule) unit but is in fact an LSTR (Elster) unit. You can see the letters LSTR in your inventory to confirm this. Eule's are essentially the common model of Replika's for more basic tasks like office workers, cooks etc. You'll learn more about LSTR units as you go so I won't say any more. Secondly, if you walk into a room with your flashlight still on, it basically cuts off any form of stealth and enemies are aggro'd way quicker. It's best to either keep it off or use it only for dark rooms so you can have your stun rods in the tool slot more often. To be fair, you've been managing well enough with the flashlight kept on, but it can make navigating a lot less stressful. Lastly, I'm sorry to say the key to the weapon's case was in the area you left before you went down to the mine. 🥲 It's not like the game is unbeatable without it, though. You guys have still got this! 💪
The cool thing this game deals with is the similar thing that Ex Machina brought up (for just a short scene). The very thing we will have to / are starting to do right now in real life. In order to produce a finalized commercial android, you have to do R&D, you have to do prototypes in trial and error. You have to terminate the earlier versions that malfunction or glitch out... Now, one thing people forget is that even if we achieve AGI, it doesnt automatically mean they are concious sentient life. An AGI can emulate what a living being WOULD say or how it WOULD behave, without actually being "alive", no matter how smart or capable it appears. Think pinnochio. But even so, as long as they behave AS IF they were alive, it's gonna raise a lot of ethical dilemmas. As we prototype androids and realize some of them glitch out (go psycho, have neural net "misalignments with our intended function"). We're simply gonna have to put them down... One version after the other.. Dozens, hundreds, thousands. Until a stable release v1.0 is achieved. I dont think any of the current robotics or AI companies really realize this inevitability. It's all fun toys and gadgets until the prototype asks you to not decommision it. And regardless if its not actually sentient life, any internally leaked instagram / youtube / tiktok video of an android screaming "dont kill me" as OpenAI or Tesla recycles them for the next version, will make an impact. This is what most dont consider. They dont have to be "alive" to make people feel creeped out, or even compassion. And once we DO acheive AGI that are indeed sentient with internal reflection and identities. Again, we're going to have to retire the prototypes as we bugfix them.. You cant allow 5000 malfunctioning unpredictable androids running around in the open. It aint gonna be fun.
I think the way more fun thing here is that not only the master copies for the replikants seem to be degraded, but also the ELSTER-master corrupted by some cosmic horror.
That's one of the points of the game and is shown in the lore. They want a "perfect language" and so they basically took what they deemed "perfect" from all languages and combined them together into one language.. so you get a lot of German writing, Chinese writing, and English writing as well.
@@Eventide215 oh huh, i didnt know that! Very interesting, though i do believe esperanto came closer than this mishmash. And i say this as someone who loathes esperanto with the passion of a thousand burning suns. It did have a good reason for existing, but... calling it dead is a great understatement. But honestly, grammar wise, chinese, english, and german fit together better than i expected
Friendly reminder to check/run past ALL your grey doors to make sure you're not missing any items or lore! Thank you guys for putting so much effort and time into these super long episodes ♡
The “Swan Lake” build-up and reveal was so good in this game, I let the song keep playing for a good chunk of the rest of my playthrough. It really fits the desolate spaceship vibe as well. I wish this ‘old record’ version of the song was available somewhere outside of the game.
I was watching your first play through last week, and had to stop because you made me want to play it SO bad. I just finished it yesterday, and it's easily one of the best games I've played in recent years. Can't wait to see watch all your play throughs!!
This is currently the longest episode of Scary Game Squad ever uploaded, and what a great game for it! This playthrough is excellent, just as it is. Keep up the good work, guys.
Omg that was soooo good cant wait for the next episode! This is also like the 3rd play through ive seen where the revolver was missed so dont feel too bad!
@@josef-ralfdwerlkotte8333They missed the additional ammo of the flaregun that was on the table, although in that case the item select box didn't highlight it when they looked a second time...
2:36:00 BTW all the posters around, have the planet names, and the corresponding symbol. That's another way you could associate.. like that ice planet poster had the perfect circle in the top left corner, you thought it was a moon, that was Rotfront.. etc.
I actually missed the secret ARAR room under the Storch dorm on both of my playthroughs, so it was cool to see something totally new while watching the boys play it :O Did the Ara make the flashlight brighter? I feel like that might've been a really useful thing for me lol
@@lychirosenah they rarely check comments prior as it's all recorded in one go usually. Plus they don't do smart saving as in multiple saves etc. They have always been a one direction no stop or redo type of playstyle with sgs.
Loved playing ahead then watching these videos! Amazed how bold your playthrough is. I walked everywhere and barely used the flashlight to avoid guards! The rarity of ammo gets to such points I'd sell an arm in some stages! Glhf ❤
It is INSANE how much less ammo you needed to take down the boss than I did. I was playing on survival or whatever the hard difficulty is, and I used up EVERYTHING I had including thermite while still going into the fight with more resources than the boys. I didn't know that you could use the thermite on alive guys for the first few tries, and if I never figured that out, I'd have soft-locked myself and had to start over the game.
When you guys finish this, you should all watch a different story analysis breakdown video and come together to discuss because THERE IS SOOOOOO MUCH. The attention to detail is astonishing in this game
Terraforming implies making a planet like Earth. Klimaforming could express the lack of an Earth to make things like OR the lack of Earthlike conditions to make a planet usable.
Terraforming typically is for when you're trying to change the geography. 'Klimaforming' is more expressing the idea of changing the climate to allow more earthlike conditions. Typically it means the climate of the planet is relatively close to Earth's and could allow for life there, but it needs a bit of a boost to something like maybe O2 saturation.
Venitia is this worlds version of earth. It all lines up with our solar system. Just different names. Both earth and vinetia are ocean worlds. The planet in place of Mars is a red desert. The world in place of Venus has poisonous clouds
I find it hilarious that non of the bois figured out the fact the boss weak spot is the face plate opening up and that you had to shoot at the exposed part and not the outer shell of a power suit
When I first played this game, I had a friend watching me play through a screenshare. I got to the boss and he's just like yelling at me to shoot it.. I was like "You think shooting a power suit like that is going to do anything..??" Games like this the whole point of combat is to conserve ammo whenever/wherever possible. It's not going to want you to just unload everything on it.. there clearly has to be some kind of weakpoint.
I mean there's a lot of story elements that it frustrates me they either talk over or don't understand. I can live with those though, this is a lets play. But not knowing you're playing Elster an LSTR unit when your UI literally tells you that and when you're addressed as and speak as that...that's next level.
They're so convinced the plot twist is "you were actually the person the whole time" it's insane. Even this early it's pretty clear just having robots and people is a pretty normal thing
@@TheDirtbaggrifThis is why theorycrafting irritates me. I love hearing the ideas they come up with, but it's extremely irritating when they get a certain idea in their head and then that's it. That IS what will happen now in their mind. So then they play the game as if that is exactly what will happen and any lore that says otherwise is just useless and not paid attention to now. They have this weird idea that like because there's glitchiness when you kill something that means everything you're seeing is just censored and really they're all just humans you're killing.. meanwhile the lore is literally telling you that the replikas were all getting sick from some mysterious bio material and things like that glitchiness were happening.
@@TheDirtbaggrifWhich is fine if it stays as a working theory as you're progressing through a game. The issue is these guys will be way off and stick to it forever. Then it just kind of ruins the viewing experience and their experience as well. As you said, they're so convinced about something they made up that they have basically stopped trying to figure out things. Like I said, I like the theories and everything, I just wish they wouldn't stick to it so adamantly then get so stuck in their own head canon that now they don't see the actual lore that is extremely well done.
1:09:35 It's very cool to see u guys using quick math to solve FUSE PUZZLE. I do this puzzle just randomly turn on and off the power switch so many times and it work by my luck. I really enjoy to watch u guys playing this game. Listening boys discuss the theory and lore of this game and combine some theory from movie such as >.
This might sound weird, but a management game based around the different types of units and their needs would be kind of interesting! Make sure everyone has their stabilization items, not bioresenacing with anything they shouldn't, have their mirrors or working alone, etc. I mean... it probably wouldn't end well but...
41:00 i mean "terra-forming" is called terra, because you're taking another planet / moon and trying to make it more like Terra, Earth. So if you're already on Earth itself, but trying to fix / change the climate, that'd be Climaforming, not Terraforming, since you're already on Terra.
You're a Lester unit. Sort of an Engineer/Technician space reconnaissance lone wolf. Combat leaning with their Gestalt. The Euler unit is just your run-of-the-mill normal grunt worker.
wow, I had no idea you could kill the Kolibris only by tuning in the different frequences, I thought it was just so you know who is the real one and you shoot it. Interesting
All of the unit's names are based on birds. "Star" is the german name for "Starling". Some others are Storch (Stork), Elster (Magpie), Eule (Owl), Adler (Eagle)
It's very much being caught up in excitement and no one wants to speak up and say "hey can we read the stuff?". I feel the vibe with sgs has been balls to the wall rush it and less tactical and methodical unless the game forces them to do that.
I think they may have mistaken the 4 slots based off of threads potentially saying things like "You're practically limited to 4 slots" because of the flashlight and eye module, which are optional items that you don't need to carry around at all times.
Nah they don't do typical gamer saving with multiple saves so there's no going back for it now. Plus apparently one you miss the key there's no going back for it.
1:40:00 they didn't immediately realize that shining a super bright flashlight is gonna alert the enemy? I thought they were just trying to alert them all because they're masochists or something 😆
So in case anyone doesn't know; The "nothing valued is here" warning/message is the real life "Long-Term Nuclear Waste Warning" message. I thought this was common knowledge, but appearently it is extremely niche knowledge.
What i love about these boys is no matter what game it is. They always really get into the story and take it serious. It really helps with the immersion as a viewer.
me too!
They get into the story but they focus so much on their theorycrafting that they end up so far off base but believe it so totally that they now play the game based on their head canon being true.. and then they end up missing out on the actual story because they give up absorbing any new information.
@@Eventide215 Yeah it's the wendigo effect ever since they nailed that they are so desperate to predict the game again. It's annoying but I rather have that then not paying attention.
@@Huckleberry42It's not that I hate they theorycraft or try to predict the game. It's that I hate they get so desperate for that to be correct that they then hold onto that and play the game as if it's true. Like now instead of just playing the game they're trying to do everything they possibly can to make this head canon true. Like they found a paper near the start that explained how there are replikas (cyborgs) and there are gestalts (humans) but they absorbed NONE of that information and so now they keep theorycrafting on what gestalt might be..
Unless it's SOMA. Then they make up their own story and get mad about it lol
Really glad they're releasing this in big chunks.
Said no highschool janitor ever 🤣
Wise, following the current algorithm
Seconded.
@reverandlogic8216 HEY YOU GUUUUYS!
1:20:00 Our character Elster (a LSTR unit, not EULE) is part of the Eusan Nation, which is something like a communist state that has taken over many planets previously under the Eusan Empire's control in a civil war. (The facility we are in is on Leng.) We don't know much about the Empire, other than the fact that they had an Empress who was a very powerful Bioresonant, and she created the Replikas.
BTW the inventory slots can be increased by 2 in the settings to 8, so if it's really starting to bother you guys, that's always an option.
They already have it enabled, the two extra slots only apply to the flashlight and eidetic module though
the way they take their trademark overthinking into the lore/theorycrafting making it all ten thousand times more complicated than it actually is. Bless the lads.
And part of why they confuse or mistake some things? Like, I think they've forgotten they play as a LSTR unit.
Yeah, when they randomly started saying that they were playing as a EULR unit for no reason I was so confused, and I've already finished the game ages ago lol
No idea where they got that idea from
The thing is the lore is extremely complicated they're just going in the totally opposite direction.
Is it more complicated though? The generally accepted premise is pretty insane
@@rask004 Forgotten? I wouldn't be confident to say they ever truly knew they were playing as a LSTR unit.
@jessecox
Interesting Fact: The warning at the end "Nothing of value is here" is a Long-term Nuclear Waste warning made by the American Human Interference Task Force in 1981.
The full text reads:
"This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.
The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited."
This is super cool! Thanks for sharing.
For clarity, I looked up the report, and the text you describe is what the non-linguistic parts of the warning (pictures and such) were meant to *convey.* This was not literal text that was meant to be written at the site.
This might be the coolest thing I've learned about this year
Many ideas and reports that congeled into one idea:
The architecture and land was supposed to invoke those feelings, giant hostile architecture, massive spikes, hostile colors, hostile smells, negative imagery, ever changing adaptations of warning symbols, as well as warning texts in the languages of the major nations/cultures/core languages of the day, and history, but also adapting to new developments of said languages, which would end up with the text being incorporated into the architecture and spread out from the middle in ever changing rings languages.
And three of the most commonly chosen languages were usually: English, German, Chinese (, and sometimes Latin).
(This description of what it should convey could very well be incorporated as well
I can definitely understand why these videos take so long. After part 1 I had time to play this myself and wow, the worldbuilding is insane.
Coupled with the fact that this game takes many inspirations from a lot of popular media and yet it makes everything flow seemlessly shows how amazing this 2 person dev team was.
Too bad they're absorbing none of it
just wait the game is fucking nuts in its totality
To be clear, you've always had 6 item slots, but previous the camera and torch took up a slot. They've changed that and also added an option to increase up to I think 8 slots?
you're right. you can extend it to 8.
They still do have it a little easier, since things like the flashlight don't take up a slot anymore.
I'm pretty sure loading weapons by picking up ammo was also added as QoL. This is actually really cool thing, and I would like more survival horror games to do this.
@@CalmputerCorrect, nowadays by default the "modules" like the flashlight don't take up a slot anymore. This default is called "revised" (or something like that) in the settings menu. You can pick "extended" to get those 8, but there's also "classic" to go back to the original "just 6, and modules count as items".
@@Calmputer it should
Yeah the weird thing though is even then the game wasn't that hard.. it's just people aren't used to having to manage their inventory anymore. They want to be able to carry 2 weapons, stun rods, and thermite charges at all times for some reason.. even though they very likely aren't going to use the thermite. Plus they don't need the other weapon on them at all. So I like that the game just updated to have 3 settings. There's classic where it's just 6 inventory slots, there's the like 'reimagined' where it's 6 slots but the eye and flashlight don't take up slots, and then there's the extended option that has the reimagined plus 2 more slots.
German Translation of the important bits (I am a German native):
29:16 "In the end it was my sister and not me who came to Ariame's rescue. For me, our brief friendship would always be marked by that moment of inaction. I have always been useless."
38:57 None of us are here by choice... "...and nobody will miss us."
55:34-57:12 Big red text reads: "DIE",
Text in the middle is directed at the player? "Give up", "Why are you here?", "It is hopeless", "Who are you?"
The texts around the sides of the screen are some revelations type shit and keeps repeating: "And I saw the sixth seal break and the earth shook andthe sun turned black and the moon like blood and the stars fell from the sky.", "Beyond the sun in the darkness behind the stars I saw the face of a god, a form and colour that cannot be described with words. The six sides of the world I saw unfold, and the light devoured me. I had become one with the nothing, where life and death are meaningless.", "Strange is the night in which dark stars rise abd strange moons circle the sky. Songs which the Hyades shall sing, where the rags of the king blow in the wind, must die unheard. Song of my soul, my voice is dead; die, you, unsung like tears unshed shall dry and die."
Notes: 1. I think the name was "Ariame", but the text was super blurry there 2. The Hyades are a constellation 3. The text at around 1:56:32 is the same as in the other room of this type.
"What if every robot here is traumatized by the same memory" Oh , Alex, so close
Had the video playing in another tab and that ripped my attention back.
so what is it ?
am i dreaming or is this the best youtube series ever
For the record: you always had 6 inventory slots. The recent update just changed it so that the eyeball module and flashlight no longer take up one of those 6 slots, essentially giving you two extra slots exclusively for those two items instead of them filling up a third of your inventory if you want their utility. It also added the option to increase the inventory from 6 to 8 along with the 2 spots for those modules, but you don’t have that on
You’re also able to click on a lot of things in the environment even if it doesn’t have an interactive cue, and it’ll give you a short message about Elster’s reaction or thoughts on it, or just a description of what you’re looking at
Also a gestalt isn’t a robot. Gestalt is just the name for regular humans. Not a spoiler, it was said earlier in a note, but you misunderstood what it was saying
Last thing: you are an LSTR, or Elster, unit. Not a Eule lol
Yeah the gestalt thing is basically that in this world there are the humans (gestalt) and the replikas (a variety of models for different activities). The paper earlier that explains literally talks about replikas then basically says gestalt is everything not replika. Then these idiots took that *completely* wrong somehow.
I'm continously amazed by how absolutely INSANE the lighting engine is in this game.
its just basic lighting. Its not even raytracting or anything like that.
it's just unity
What really caused the squad a lot of trouble is the fact that the flashlight aggroes enemies when it is on. That's why they would rush LSTR so quickly whenever she entered the room.
The Monofiber (Also known as Monofilament) is marked as dangerous because is a scifi material supposed to be a single atom\molecule thick, the idea is that this allows it to pass between the cells of thigs, so even just holding it unprotected would mean it falls through your hand - slicing whatever it touches to pieces without effort as it falls.
I think it's really fully that they think they're a Eule model when their model code is literally in the inventory screen. LSTR = Elster
Aye, and a whole bunch of characters literally call you Elster. They're so focused on cooking they can't hear the T-Rex roaring at the front door :)
Worst part is they realized this in part 1 but gaslit themselves into thinking they're a Eule
Hopefully to clear any confusion of the lads: Gestalts are Humans , and the character you play is Elster. (You're an LSTR unit replika)
and unfortunately, RIP the revolver. Missed the key for it in the same stage/zone the weapon case was found on.
Loving the videos!! And loving the theorycrafting!! :D It's very fun to watch you guys, best series yet.
Them missing some of the notes is making me go crazy, but you guys are making me so happy, being able to watch someone else play the game for the first time
I hope they do multiple runs, even off camera. It's one of those games that seem way darker and depressing if only played once.
Especially since there are multiple endings you can get. The endings also aren't just like make a single different choice. We're still not exactly sure what causes different endings to trigger but we know there's a lot of factors in it, which makes it more fun to play through multiple times in different ways or watch different people play. Like I'm curious if the squad will get a different ending than what I got.
@@Eventide215 Pretty much. I didn't want to spoil that, but yeah, they're connected in a subtle but major ways.
@@KyoumadfanIt's not a spoiler. It's just a fact that there are multiple endings with many factors in how the ending is chosen. I didn't say what all 5 endings are.
Unlikely, the few times they ever do that is only if it's a case of reload a save and choose a different ending option. The few other times was when Girard was also playing it on his channel. With him out of the picture I very much doubt they'll do that kind of investment.
The notes found at 3:00:00 and 3:00:15 were excerpts from a short story called "An Inhabitant of Carcosa", written in 1886 by an American Civil War veteran (on the Union side) named Ambrose Bierce. This story served as one of the sources of inspiration for Robert Chambers when he wrote the King in Yellow in 1895. These devs went WAAAAAY back when digging into the roots of cosmic horror :)
As far as I've experienced, the thermite flares are best used on enemies in inconvenient, or frequently visited areas.
Yeah, you're right. I was watching SGS trying to Juke past the enemy in front of the save room for the 6th time before Davis suggests burning it.
It's the point of a let's play to watch someone else deal with these problems, but that doesn't prevent me from occasionally shouting at the screen as if they can hear me :P
Yeah the thermite flares are one of those items that you shouldn't really need a lot of if you play the game at least somewhat optimally.. but when you play by just like going in and out of rooms constantly, constantly getting lost, etc. then it's beneficial to burn bodies that are in the main high-traffic hallways.
Could they have used them with that heavy gunner boss to get rid of the two reviving enemies?
@@flamedance58 Yep. There's a reason why they were given at that point in the game
Watching you three bungle through this is equal parts entertaining and infuriating. I love it!
1:55:00 and the reason the devs picked Swan Lake, in addition to being a famous Ballet, is probably also due to it being what was played on national TV when the Soviet Union fell. Like, blasting out all channels. From an NPR article: "On August 19, 1991, as tanks and troops rolled into Moscow, Soviet state television presented a different picture - Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" on loop." A very apt choice for the setting.
So you guys are crushing this game so far, but there's a few things I can help clear up for you.
Firstly, it's important to note that the character you're controlling is not a EULR (Eule) unit but is in fact an LSTR (Elster) unit. You can see the letters LSTR in your inventory to confirm this. Eule's are essentially the common model of Replika's for more basic tasks like office workers, cooks etc. You'll learn more about LSTR units as you go so I won't say any more.
Secondly, if you walk into a room with your flashlight still on, it basically cuts off any form of stealth and enemies are aggro'd way quicker. It's best to either keep it off or use it only for dark rooms so you can have your stun rods in the tool slot more often. To be fair, you've been managing well enough with the flashlight kept on, but it can make navigating a lot less stressful.
Lastly, I'm sorry to say the key to the weapon's case was in the area you left before you went down to the mine. 🥲 It's not like the game is unbeatable without it, though. You guys have still got this! 💪
The cool thing this game deals with is the similar thing that Ex Machina brought up (for just a short scene).
The very thing we will have to / are starting to do right now in real life.
In order to produce a finalized commercial android, you have to do R&D, you have to do prototypes in trial and error.
You have to terminate the earlier versions that malfunction or glitch out...
Now, one thing people forget is that even if we achieve AGI, it doesnt automatically mean they are concious sentient life.
An AGI can emulate what a living being WOULD say or how it WOULD behave, without actually being "alive", no matter how smart or capable it appears.
Think pinnochio.
But even so, as long as they behave AS IF they were alive, it's gonna raise a lot of ethical dilemmas.
As we prototype androids and realize some of them glitch out (go psycho, have neural net "misalignments with our intended function").
We're simply gonna have to put them down...
One version after the other.. Dozens, hundreds, thousands.
Until a stable release v1.0 is achieved.
I dont think any of the current robotics or AI companies really realize this inevitability.
It's all fun toys and gadgets until the prototype asks you to not decommision it.
And regardless if its not actually sentient life, any internally leaked instagram / youtube / tiktok video of an android screaming "dont kill me" as OpenAI or Tesla recycles them for the next version, will make an impact. This is what most dont consider. They dont have to be "alive" to make people feel creeped out, or even compassion.
And once we DO acheive AGI that are indeed sentient with internal reflection and identities.
Again, we're going to have to retire the prototypes as we bugfix them..
You cant allow 5000 malfunctioning unpredictable androids running around in the open.
It aint gonna be fun.
I think the way more fun thing here is that not only the master copies for the replikants seem to be degraded, but also the ELSTER-master corrupted by some cosmic horror.
Watching this playthrough on english, as a german currently learning chinese, is so funny. We got all languages represented here
That's one of the points of the game and is shown in the lore. They want a "perfect language" and so they basically took what they deemed "perfect" from all languages and combined them together into one language.. so you get a lot of German writing, Chinese writing, and English writing as well.
@@Eventide215 oh huh, i didnt know that! Very interesting, though i do believe esperanto came closer than this mishmash. And i say this as someone who loathes esperanto with the passion of a thousand burning suns. It did have a good reason for existing, but... calling it dead is a great understatement.
But honestly, grammar wise, chinese, english, and german fit together better than i expected
@@Eventide215 there is also korean
Friendly reminder to check/run past ALL your grey doors to make sure you're not missing any items or lore! Thank you guys for putting so much effort and time into these super long episodes ♡
The “Swan Lake” build-up and reveal was so good in this game, I let the song keep playing for a good chunk of the rest of my playthrough. It really fits the desolate spaceship vibe as well. I wish this ‘old record’ version of the song was available somewhere outside of the game.
Just run one through a compressor on your computer, almost certainly possible to get an "old vinyl" style one.
AS a german it is so much fun hearing them stumble through german words :D. Amazing Let's play as always!
They missed the revolver, rip
Will say, their problem solving is zoolander apple computer level but they're a thousand times more entertaining to watch. Love watching them
I was watching your first play through last week, and had to stop because you made me want to play it SO bad. I just finished it yesterday, and it's easily one of the best games I've played in recent years. Can't wait to see watch all your play throughs!!
I was just wondering when episode 2 would come out. It's like Jesse can read my mind.
"Is that not bullets down there?"
"No..." (doesn't turn toward it enough to make it light up)
Oh sweet summer child, it was...
Oh man 3 hours of SGS is absolutely gonna make my night!
This is currently the longest episode of Scary Game Squad ever uploaded, and what a great game for it! This playthrough is excellent, just as it is. Keep up the good work, guys.
Pleasant surprise from the boys
Please keep them coming ❤
Omg that was soooo good cant wait for the next episode! This is also like the 3rd play through ive seen where the revolver was missed so dont feel too bad!
Good ol SGS for overthinking, rushing ahead, and missing out on stuff lol. It makes us all laugh, cringe, facepalm, but keep on watching.
Bros missed the revolver key F
Flaregun aswell
Dude just missed the best fun in the game
@@josef-ralfdwerlkotte8333they got the flare gun
@@Zach-cn4lb how did i miss that😭
@@josef-ralfdwerlkotte8333They missed the additional ammo of the flaregun that was on the table, although in that case the item select box didn't highlight it when they looked a second time...
2:36:00
BTW all the posters around, have the planet names, and the corresponding symbol.
That's another way you could associate.. like that ice planet poster had the perfect circle in the top left corner, you thought it was a moon, that was Rotfront.. etc.
This steady drip of scary game squad is giving me a lot of joy. Thank you, lads
I actually missed the secret ARAR room under the Storch dorm on both of my playthroughs, so it was cool to see something totally new while watching the boys play it :O Did the Ara make the flashlight brighter? I feel like that might've been a really useful thing for me lol
It’s sad they never found the key to open the weapon case, oh well.
Eternally not knowing what 12 mil ammo for is ScaryGamesSquad's Silent Hill.
I'm afraid you can no longer open weapon case if you miss the key in the facility before going to mines (yes, it is optional weapon).
Perhaps they'll load a save! I really, really hope.
@@lychirose well, they have overwritten the save in the mines, so they don't really have that option anymore :)
@@lychirosenah they rarely check comments prior as it's all recorded in one go usually. Plus they don't do smart saving as in multiple saves etc. They have always been a one direction no stop or redo type of playstyle with sgs.
That Gib auf/Stirb room is soooo effed up when you actually speak German. Bloody hell, it's fantastic.
I've been in a real paternoster lift. Those things are scary! Because no doors and no stopping. Seems easy to have an accident.
3:04:26 isn't that text from those old nuclear site warnings??
Loved playing ahead then watching these videos! Amazed how bold your playthrough is. I walked everywhere and barely used the flashlight to avoid guards! The rarity of ammo gets to such points I'd sell an arm in some stages! Glhf ❤
It is INSANE how much less ammo you needed to take down the boss than I did.
I was playing on survival or whatever the hard difficulty is, and I used up EVERYTHING I had including thermite while still going into the fight with more resources than the boys. I didn't know that you could use the thermite on alive guys for the first few tries, and if I never figured that out, I'd have soft-locked myself and had to start over the game.
Long videos are great! Thanks SGS!
Thank you Jesse for these long episodes, I love it
38:00 They been funny little goobers for hours and then Alex with some Insight Crit maybe? 😂
When you guys finish this, you should all watch a different story analysis breakdown video and come together to discuss because THERE IS SOOOOOO MUCH. The attention to detail is astonishing in this game
Terraforming implies making a planet like Earth. Klimaforming could express the lack of an Earth to make things like OR the lack of Earthlike conditions to make a planet usable.
Terraforming typically is for when you're trying to change the geography. 'Klimaforming' is more expressing the idea of changing the climate to allow more earthlike conditions. Typically it means the climate of the planet is relatively close to Earth's and could allow for life there, but it needs a bit of a boost to something like maybe O2 saturation.
Venitia is this worlds version of earth. It all lines up with our solar system. Just different names.
Both earth and vinetia are ocean worlds. The planet in place of Mars is a red desert. The world in place of Venus has poisonous clouds
For the Incinerator puzzle:
There is a manual. Hint: *ACHTUNG*
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Glad we could be of service :)
Really been enjoying these. Nice one, such a good game.
2:36:17 "I'll trade you for the fuse puzzle" The beauty of teamwork 👥
On the edge of my seat waiting for more Signalis from the boys
Continuing my translation of the model names:
Mynah = myna (very direct, this one)
Schnäpper = Uh, a specific type of robin
I find it hilarious that non of the bois figured out the fact the boss weak spot is the face plate opening up and that you had to shoot at the exposed part and not the outer shell of a power suit
When I first played this game, I had a friend watching me play through a screenshare. I got to the boss and he's just like yelling at me to shoot it.. I was like "You think shooting a power suit like that is going to do anything..??" Games like this the whole point of combat is to conserve ammo whenever/wherever possible. It's not going to want you to just unload everything on it.. there clearly has to be some kind of weakpoint.
They tend to be rather gung-ho so that kinda methodical thinking doesn't always prevail sadly.
Watching Davis walk around that one imaginary wall every time absolutely destroyed me
I mean there's a lot of story elements that it frustrates me they either talk over or don't understand. I can live with those though, this is a lets play.
But not knowing you're playing Elster an LSTR unit when your UI literally tells you that and when you're addressed as and speak as that...that's next level.
They're so convinced the plot twist is "you were actually the person the whole time" it's insane. Even this early it's pretty clear just having robots and people is a pretty normal thing
@@TheDirtbaggrifThis is why theorycrafting irritates me. I love hearing the ideas they come up with, but it's extremely irritating when they get a certain idea in their head and then that's it. That IS what will happen now in their mind. So then they play the game as if that is exactly what will happen and any lore that says otherwise is just useless and not paid attention to now. They have this weird idea that like because there's glitchiness when you kill something that means everything you're seeing is just censored and really they're all just humans you're killing.. meanwhile the lore is literally telling you that the replikas were all getting sick from some mysterious bio material and things like that glitchiness were happening.
@@Eventide215 yeah they're really way off base on what is actually going on
@@TheDirtbaggrifWhich is fine if it stays as a working theory as you're progressing through a game. The issue is these guys will be way off and stick to it forever. Then it just kind of ruins the viewing experience and their experience as well. As you said, they're so convinced about something they made up that they have basically stopped trying to figure out things.
Like I said, I like the theories and everything, I just wish they wouldn't stick to it so adamantly then get so stuck in their own head canon that now they don't see the actual lore that is extremely well done.
You needed the Hunter's key to open the weapon case and get the revolver, it was on B7 in the Protektor Archive.
Davis is going to be so disappointed that he never fully explored the room with the key for that gun case. Such a shame, it's a fantastic gun.
Oh I've been chomping at the bit waiting for the next part!
1:09:35 It's very cool to see u guys using quick math to solve FUSE PUZZLE. I do this puzzle just randomly turn on and off the power switch so many times and it work by my luck.
I really enjoy to watch u guys playing this game. Listening boys discuss the theory and lore of this game and combine some theory from movie such as >.
This might sound weird, but a management game based around the different types of units and their needs would be kind of interesting!
Make sure everyone has their stabilization items, not bioresenacing with anything they shouldn't, have their mirrors or working alone, etc.
I mean... it probably wouldn't end well but...
2:47:47 y'all came so close to meeting Beo, the cutest character in the game and also the only not infected person
41:00 i mean "terra-forming" is called terra, because you're taking another planet / moon and trying to make it more like Terra, Earth.
So if you're already on Earth itself, but trying to fix / change the climate, that'd be Climaforming, not Terraforming, since you're already on Terra.
Terraforming is more geographical. Like moving dirt around is terraforming. Climaforming is more just making the climate more suitable.
Love this series
THREE HOURS? Blessings on you Jesse and gang.
You're a Lester unit. Sort of an Engineer/Technician space reconnaissance lone wolf. Combat leaning with their Gestalt. The Euler unit is just your run-of-the-mill normal grunt worker.
Been waiting for this a hot minute, excited!
As of June 2022 there are about 200 paternosters in use in Germany, one of which at the University of Hamburg
wow, I had no idea you could kill the Kolibris only by tuning in the different frequences, I thought it was just so you know who is the real one and you shoot it. Interesting
FoR tHe AlGoRiThM
2:39:55 yep you missed the key. I don't remember where it was but you missed cause you had a full inventory or something.
All of the unit's names are based on birds. "Star" is the german name for "Starling".
Some others are Storch (Stork), Elster (Magpie), Eule (Owl), Adler (Eagle)
Now that MatPat quit the Game Theory, Davis Theory's rise might have a chance!😃
I could swear they'd found the key for that weapons case earlier, or was that just another door key?
I've never seen a group of dudes so obsessed with lore that absolutely refuse to read any important information.
It's very much being caught up in excitement and no one wants to speak up and say "hey can we read the stuff?". I feel the vibe with sgs has been balls to the wall rush it and less tactical and methodical unless the game forces them to do that.
Alex is the youngest and coolest old guy.
Doesnt matter what I was doing or watching, I see an SGS go up, I click an SGS
THREE HOURS?! 😍
That thing about four inventory slots isn't true, is it? I remember having six when the game released.
There was a +2 increase, but it was from 6 to 8, not 4 to 6
@@amy_grace Interesting, thank you.
I think they may have mistaken the 4 slots based off of threads potentially saying things like "You're practically limited to 4 slots" because of the flashlight and eye module, which are optional items that you don't need to carry around at all times.
I really hope you guys are able to go back and grab the revolver key. It's one of my favorite guns in the game. 2:45:00
Nah they don't do typical gamer saving with multiple saves so there's no going back for it now. Plus apparently one you miss the key there's no going back for it.
I love that they have no idea what the plot is, just like everyone else
They don't, that's for sure
I wonder what made them think they were not an LSTR unit NOW, when they're literally the same model. Even says it in the menu XD
Long Scary Squad! Long Scary Squad! 🙌
1:40:00 they didn't immediately realize that shining a super bright flashlight is gonna alert the enemy? I thought they were just trying to alert them all because they're masochists or something 😆
Hey that's a really good question actually. Why is there a boat? Probably no reason. Don't worry about it :)
Anyone else reminded of the Combiner Teams of Transformers when the term Gestalt is used?
The second Swan Lake started playing I immediately just started doing swan arms aggressively, I can't just NOT do that. It's REQUIRED. I HAVE to.
1:53:52 I feel very seen right now. Especially since I commented the above before getting to this part. I feel very called out.
I can't believe they missed yhe key for the lockbox. 😂
Waiting for my wife to get off work before starting this chunky episode we live for sgs 😊
So in case anyone doesn't know; The "nothing valued is here" warning/message is the real life "Long-Term Nuclear Waste Warning" message.
I thought this was common knowledge, but appearently it is extremely niche knowledge.
The Trek is strong with this one. 🖖🏻
2:19:30 That is you. You are the Magpie.
57:29 Atlantean Kodex moment