Playing Clear Sky, Marauder (Men of Prey), Fallout 1 and Old World Blues mod for HOI4. There is a small error 25:30. The post displayed is not the one I quoted.
Glad to see another person trying Apeiron's game. They made the only good Jagged Alliance - like game, unlike official "sequels" released after JA2... but may the gods have mercy one your souls for Clear Sky is... not for everyone, and some things are stupid - like 2nd passage to Cordon opens when you came back to Swamp after giving up on that MG nest.
"The Bosmer Gopniks attack from the fog" From a westerner's perspective, the Eastern Bloc is about as mythical as Tamriel and these videos do little to dispel this perception for me.
@@foca7550 most of people in west (or far east for that matter) have no idea how people live on eastern bloc, and its okay. He speaks about sensation of wonder it procures, like there is a whole different planet or realm out there, with similar people but different rules. And its great
You know, when you played this for the first time I was thinking that Warlockracy should do a vid on this due to... better cultural fit??.. and here we are!!
the fact that someone who speaks english and understands slav runes can finally properly explain this mod to the larger portion of the morrowind player population really is exciting
It's actually amazing how successful his mission to immortalize this place was. The real Emba-5 exists especially on the English language part of the internet as a footnote, another decaying Soviet town in a former satellite state nearly forgotten. What pictures exist of it are either entirely historical or are curiosities taken by urbex people and former residents on a pilgrimage. Another half sunk visage of Ozymandius as a forgot relic of a once great empire. But this mod is a wildly popular curiosity at least in a community of people who still worship a 2 decade old video game. For somehow millions of people around the whole world who would have lived entire lives never knowing this place once existed, that it was a home for real people, it's name and it's association with this mod is now indelibly etched into their minds. This must be what they mean by "the void stares back".
What’s ironic is that I’m born Kazakhstani citizen, from Almaty, and I’ve never heard of Emba-5 prior to this video. I mean, it’s to be expected, the western part of Kazakhstan is basically Mad Max: Fury Road irl lmao
I guess that makes them similar in a way. The majority of gamers aren't the type of people who would play Morrowind (hence the major changes we see in later games) & even in the Elder Scrolls community you'll find people that know of Morrowind but have not or even will not play it because of the mechanics & how outdated it feels to people who didn't grow up in that generation. I have friends that love Skyrim & Oblivion, have beaten it several times, but would never touch Morrowind. To them Morrowind is a place they know of & maybe see pictures & videos of but would never actually go to & is quickly forgotten, like a candle blown out by the wind.
@@SolarFlareAmerica not much to say, it’s just the poorest region of our country despite it holding all the oil reserve. Everything looks semi-apocalyptic, because the cities are decades old and underfunded, the deserts outside of the cities look pretty much like Arrakis from Dune or the wasteland from Mad Max (actually it’s really cool to explore ngl, but the cities are one bad fiscal year away from looking like Pripyat)
Honestly speaking, I consider mods like these to be a good thing, as long as they are made in a way at least handcrafted solid, I do not require amazing quality. Western players will never fully understand what life in the countryside in the post-Soviet countries or those that are part of the Warsaw Pact was and still looks like today. Their specificity is so exotic that faithful depiction of this atmosphere is impossible, but each such attempt is worth trying to feel on your own skin as it was. And it was "i śmieszno, i straszno" (both funny and terrible). In various, varying proportions. In my little town, after the collapse of state-owned farms, 70% of men lost their jobs, 3/4 of which never went to work again and ended up as full-time alcoholics. Even 10-15 years ago the general landscape of the area looked like Cordon connected with Pripyat from the S. T. A. L. K. E. R. series. General depression and greyness, rarely exploding with the colors of the field flowers from the bride's bouquet, when someone made a blockade for the wedding conduit coming from the church to get vodka (such a Polish tradition). Then drink and splash in dreams or the past, as it used to be. It is much, much better now, but the human mentality has hardly changed. Please forgive me for writing this, but I felt that I had to write it. Greetings Warlock, greetings viewers, great material as always!
Wait a minute, the "Morrowind in Russia" that I caught in Ssethzeentach review of Morrowind is actualy a thing and not a shitpost he quickly threw together?
I grew up in the polish countryside, up in the mountains, far away from post-communist era city life and blocks. However I did have friends and family who lived in such areas. This mod feels like reliving a childhood I didn't have, in a way.
@@joka9125 Państwowe Gospodarstwo Rolne (State owned agricultural farm). Not a great idea, with all of them pretty much going bankrupt after fall of socialism in the 90.
@@neurocolin yeah, thank you. As I said in other comment, in my little town 70% of men lost their job, 3/4 never returned to any other work EVER and go with the flow of full time alcohol addiction.
I think the reason your content Slavic/Eastern European content is so enjoyable (outside of good presentation and well written commentary) is that you're not just showing off it as "look as this weird stuff". It's a sociopolitical/economic topic that not a lot of Westerners have much knowledge in and I think a lot of people could benefit from knowing more about the region and it's people, especially given current events. Or maybe I'm just a closeted Russophile and love hearing about Post-Soviet collapse. Either way, great video as always man. Stay safe.
It is great to see, with all the shit going on, how videogames can translate culture and how it is a universal language. A great platform for comment and emancipation. Tell me what you play, and I'll tell you who you are kind of :)
It's always a great day when this you post. That small tangent about the Dwemer building everything being uncreative is the same way I feel about Fallout modders making the Enclave their main antagonist. It's lazier in my eyes, actually, as the Dwemer were a lot more mysterious while we know everything there is to know about the Enclave. It's no coincidence that New Vegas has a better world and story and the Enclave were only slightly eluded to as a dead faction. Even Fallout 3 was believable in that it made sense for the remnants of the U.S. government to be in D.C. In short: make your own factions, don't stay in the past copying what those who before you did.
honestly good take, it bothers me how much people shit on bethesda writing while saying having the Enclave would've made it better. Fallout 1 & New Vegas proved we can different factions yet still keep the themes & world of fallout.
The Enclave are a great faction for Fallout. But they need to be left alone for quite some time, they've been overused. However whenever something is successful in this day and age, Hollywood and the games industry have to ride it and exploit the cash cow until it is a desiccated husk, then it is tossed aside for the next thing. The people who joke that if Bethesda made Fallout London, it'd be about The Brotherhood crossing the Atlantic to invade Enclave occupied British Isles with heavy D-day/WW2 overtones aren't actually joking... that's exactly what Bethesda would do...
The problem with the Enclave is that they are treated as a generic villain faction by Bethesda while not much different than how the original devs used them they were much more interesting in Fallout 2 and not as stupidly written. In Fallout 2 they kidnapped your tribe for whom you work so desperately to save, so its obvious you just not gona joine them even them wouldnt let you in the first place because they just see you as a mutated tribal who is a threat to non mutated humans like them. But in Fallout 3 you are a Vault dweller and thts the only thing they know about you, and even Eden ask you to help him but because Bethesda stupid writing you just can't really join them. If the Enclave would have been treated as the Legion in NV by Obsidian, only that would make them justice and a much more interesting game with a lot more option, imagine a split in them, a purist faction with the original goals and a reformist one whos enemy would be the actual mutants like supermutants and ghouls, and wastelanders could join them, or maybe you had the option to make them tolerant to non feral ghouls even; and you the player has the option to make one from the two sides the sole leader and end the game with them. So no they are not overused just badly written. Lots of fans like them and they are an interesting faction that deserv more than they got.
@@ncrranger2281 I mean at that point just make a new faction with a unique origin. I think fallout in general needs a whole revamp with new factions that could still have connections with government.
@@Jsipki265 No one said they should not make new ones, but neither they should just throw in the trash the old ones. The BOS is much more overused, Bethesda should stop forcing them in every game.
Love to hear your depictions of post-Soviet culture. I think all of us have at one time or another, wanted to sort of "immortalize" our hometowns like this in a way. The American midwest is kind of similar, as most the old businesses in my hometown are gone save the ice cream shop and the auto parts store- we even had a free museum where you could showcase anything in a small bank that one day just became ether. A nearby town had it even worse, being only 5-6 miles from a major city they're doomed to becoming an Amazon warehouse and facebook data center now. So I get it, and I could honestly never crack wise about the author. Racism and fear against steppe cultures aside, it's hard to accept that your hometown is dying because of great economic engines out of your control, that simply just don't care.
Having also grown up in the midwest this is a definite feeling. I moved away from my hometown 4 years ago and went back last year, it has definitely changed in some aspects but others feel the same and it's that feeling of wanting to preserve it that right now makes me want to go back even though I have so little there anymore. Most of my close family has or is thinking about leaving, I had few friends there at the end, and it doesnt have much of anything interesting going on. Next to some of the places I've visited since growing up there I wonder why I would ever go back but I also know I do. It's so contradictory.
Russian Militarism? Soviet Nostalgy? Racism? Transportation into a distant time or fantastical land? batshit crazy? Russian Isekai strikes again! great review as always.
The phrase "Russian Isekai" causes people in the know to tremble with horror... The little-known in the West genre of literature propaganda "попаданцы" is even more insane, militaristic, racist, and disconnected from reality than you can imagine.
@@LargenirGK There isn't anything special about these 'popadantsy' novellas. Just low-tier time-travel or alt-history stories. Plenty of that stuff could be found in the West too. But what is interesting about the Russian time-travel genre is the sheer size of the segment. Hundreds of authors with thousands upon thousands of published books. Most of them insanely crazy, so comparison to 'isekai' is fairly appropriate here.
the cyrillic text at least has some kind of shape that is kind of recognizable. Like consonants and vowels. It looks like a weird mix of latin and greek script. Although a lot of characters are false friends (like the backwards R not being an R sound. Instead the P is the R sound, which makes sense if you connect it to the greek rho)
@@anonvideo738 I agree, i think it adds to the confusion. For example latin P in Cyrillic being read as "R" or latin C being a symbol for the sound "S". Moreover special lettera complicate things like "yo" "yu" "sh" and "ch" make it even harder for a novice to understand. Don't make me get into the south slavic word soup ž, č, ć, š, đ, dž, nj, lj,.
I think I know why the bus is so huge. Because the mod maker lived there as a child, and the mod is based on memory more than fact. And to a child, a bus is huge.
@@ТесакВнаушнике Eh, like I said, the mod makes me feel melancholy, not nostalgia. Mind you, I lived there in the early 2000s, so it wasn't even USSR Moscow. I think it's mostly the apartment complexes and the metro tunnels in the mod that remind me of the city, but idk.
@@thedude5294 you mentioning Moscow in the 2000s reminds me of a Russian friend of mine who once compared Russia today to the trope of sci-fi societies living in the ruins of a more advanced precursor civilization. Theoretically, all the economic infrastructure continued to exist after the USSR fell, but because the economy was disassembled, privatized, and sold off to the West (industries, education, kinda everything except the military industry ofc), the expertise and knowledge to actually maintain the technology degraded. It's horrible for the millions of people who suffered, and still do, of course, but having grown up in the West in the same era I find it very important to know, as it seems as though the neoliberal economies in the West are intent on selling off their own economies too... so the next few decades may be kinda awful for everyone this time.
As someone who has never been anywhere in the east, I feel nostalgic melancholy as well. Not because I have any connection or nostalgia for any place there, but because absolutely know that feeling.
I live somewhere with a large Slav population, as you get to know people better and meet their families, you hear the wildest conspiracies. I got a great laugh when you said that he is "relatively progressive" by Russian standards. So very true, he's like level 1 crazy government/ethnic conspiracy uncle. The iceberg goes deeper.
So, a bit of a trivia about the image at 15:14. It's not Laskoviy Mai, it's actually another "boy band" called Steklovata and the image is taken from their music video for the song "Novy god" (New Year). It was somewhat a meme back in the days. The song and the video was produced by one of the members of Laskoviy Mai.
6:45 Didn't know that Astrid Lindgrens book about "Karlsson på taket" was popular in the Soviet Union as well, only thought that it was known in Sweden. Love your videos as usual, they always make me learn something new
Astrid Lindrgren was really popular there and in Germany. The film version of Mio min Mio was a Swedish-Norwegian-Soviet co-lab. Fairly impressive casting too with Christopher Lee as Kato as well as a young Christan Bale. If we include Mio then there were seven films based on Lindgrens works made across the union. That requires a lot of love, especially for a place behind the iron curtain.
Karlsson was a little less popular in Poland when I was growing up (the tail end of the 90s to early 2010s), but Bullerbyn was *huge*. I remember my mom reading the book to me at bedtime, then re-reading it myself once I was a little bit older. It was even a mandatory reading somewhere during the first three years of primary school.
Although other people reviewed the mod, your insight into the forums and other such things locked behind the Russian language barrier gives it so much more. Good job as always, man. 👍
I adore weird passion projects like this. Thank you for covering this mod, it's fascinating. "The Bosmer gopniks attack from the fog, just like in real life". Got a chuckle out of me. (13:45)
24:20 I think it's more appropriate to call Tunguska a SPAAW (Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Weapon), as it has not only missiles but also 30mm autocannons. 24:21 It's not a Buk nor a Kub, but a Krug SAM system (which also has NATO reporting name SA-4 Ganef) А так видос отличный, я и не знал что у этого мода есть такая немного грустная история. У вас уникальный контент господин Warlockracy, продолжайте в том же духе.
Heh, noticed the same thing regarding the Krug as well. Though I'd go with SHORAD for the Tunguska (SHOrt Range Air Defense). SPAAW isn't common terminology, and the Tunguska is a bit more than a SPAAG.
When i saw footage of this mod in Sseth's video about Morrowind, i thought it was just edited footage and that the mod didn't exist. But apparently it does exist. Since the Frontier in FNV had vehicles and flyable aircraft, it definetly should be moved to the Fallout platform if the creator wants to fulfill his aerial fetish. He seems passionate about it and would probably put in effort to make sure it works... Also, the unreadable text might be solved by changing the system language. I know that some foreign games translated into English require that. But i don't know if that will work in this case since it's an incomplete mod. Speaking of empty towns, have you considered taking a look at You are Empty? It's a Ukranian game, released in 2006 (2007 in EU and NA), and has a Doom style shooting and Stalker-esque atmosphere. It got negative reviews, but the shooting worked, the atmosphere works, and there are no major bugs (they were probably in the initial release). Probably because it was a bit too slow at times. Looking forward to the continuation of Stalker videos, among other things.
@@ncrranger2281 not making it available might make sense if the game was genuinely bad (like when that one Call of Juarez game got taken off), as the reviews said. It's just that in this case, reviews were wrong
@@murisbukvic2496 Yeah it seems quite good, never had the chance to try it out myself. Actually I tried in the flower shop(torrent) in one ocasion but it did not worked for some reason. Very few video about it in TH-cam, good thing for us Hungarians one of our youtubers made a decen review/edited walktrough about it back in the days of 2008.
The unreadable text is caused because it was made for the cyrillic version of Morrowind (which, yes, exists!), IIRC. They have a specific cyrillic version of the Morrowind Magic Script font that supports and uses cyrillic characters. Source: the jvk1166esp creepypasta recreation/joke is made by the russian TES3 community and they have the same results when loaded into english Morrowind.
_Nothing_ tickles my nostalgia bone like Balmora in Morrowind... And few things are quite as depressing as Cold War military-base cities post Soviet collapse. That was a peculiar combination... The creator actually trying to tie this into Morrowind/TES lore sounds more like the ramblings of an insane person. I wouldn't have bothered trying to tie it together, as nothing wouldn't come off as forced and contrived. Just create a Soviet story/recreation of your hometown in the Morrowind engine.
I remember the mod being something based off the author's memories but I didn't know it'd go this deep. There's a sort of soul or heart to this mod not just in the setting made for it but for the reason the author made for it. Edit: One thing I'll note is that I do like how the guy behind the mod is still working on it albeit on Fallout 3 rather than Morrowind. Making a mod based off memories his memories of a place he once lived in is something that deserves to known and recognized beyond just one thinking "ha ha funny Soviet town" when one looks further at it beyond the surface level.
Man, i always thought that this mod was another recreation of "Typical Russia" in a totally different game, maked just for fun (like the "Criminal Russia" mod for San Andreas or a "Wanderer" mod for Gothic 2) - but how curious to see that for the author it's something much more, a personal story and memories. It's quite...sad. Like watching a old photos of Chernobyl. Anyway, great video, thank you! Any wish to make another about a any russian mod (Morrowind or any else game), unknown for a non-slavic countries because of the no translations? Like, for example, a Chaos Heart - a huge global plugin that changing almost everything and adds a new mechanics in Morrowind, making it feels completely different (and still don't have a translation at all). I think, it will be quite interesting for a Morrowind fans - a hidden gem, as for me.
Pretty interesting that it's so huge and (sometimes) detailed, must've been a huge pain in the ass to model the buildings, rooms, cartoon wall textures, etc. Heartwarming that it's some guy's attempt to immortalize a town that doesn't exist anymore, too.
I can't believe when I first started watching Warlockracy months and months ago, just by randomly clicking on a video I thought would be a generic review of a Morrowind mod, that I'd find one of the best damn channels I've ever encountered on TH-cam. The content is fascinating, the presentation is entertaining, the videos always go in-depth, and there's always so much explanation as to some of the strange history and background with so many of these Slavic/Russian/Eastern European mods. This channel is amazing and I hope it continues to thrive.
I did not expect to feel this broken up about a USSR town meme mod in Morrowind, but this is very touching. Reminds me of how the best records of what the pre-fire Notre Dame was like are Assassin's Creed level data. Weirdly beautiful.
Years ago I used to know some of these people irl. Broadly familiar with jingoistic Russian culture. In the video I intentionally didn't comment on the weird racist shit, because in order for Emba-as-art to work I need to show it from the creator's point of view (before tearing it all apart).
@@Warlockracy привел к мысли что надо чаще употреблять "джингоизм" как термин в общении или обсуждении всей этой темы, чтобы люди лучше осознавали что это значит. Спасибо
Kinda caught me off guard. The town lost its purpose and started falling apart because of the Dissolution of the USSR, but for some reason the modder is fixated on kazakhs specifically.
@@sergeydoronin1579 well. I beleave that propaganda of 00's did blame on hate on russians every nation of post ussr countries one after another (russophobia wasn't invented yet). Also I have a thought that russians have a habit to blame their problems on everyone else but themselves. Even if problem isn't really a problem.
I don't know why, but first time i saw it, the moment the shock of funny guitar/AK went away, this mod instantly begun to feel like a mix of sublime, melancholy, surrealism and nostalgia. The author put a lot of work in it, and i love almost every part of it (minus the parts about russians doing russian stuff).
Another chef's kiss of a video seamlessly combining game design, niche mods/communities and real-world culture/history. You're a scholar and a gentleman. Never stop, брат.
Николай, спасибо вам огромное за то, что просвещаете западных зрителей, рассказывая им про русскую культуру! Надеюсь, когда-нибудь к вам на обзор попадёт гта "Криминальная Россия" или "Ментовский Беспредел"
I like how this channel gives a view into russian and soviet culture, and its sphere of influence. On the American internet world all I ever hear is: "woah-ho, russia is craaazee!" It's a nice change of pace and probably a bit more realistic however tiny this glimpse might be. "There will be trains."
19:33 I believe the powerplant is based on the Mangyshlak powerplant in Aktau, Kazakhstan. Its BN-350 reactor ran on MOX fuel, which is essentially recycled nuclear waste (neutrons from split atoms hit U-238, converting it into fissile Pu-239, which is mixed with fresh depleted uranium), and the heat it produced was used to desalinate water from the Caspian sea. Theoretically, the fast neutrons can also be used to burn up other long-lived actinides in nuclear waste, diminishing the time it would take to decay. In other words, this thing must have seemed like Vatnik lostech to the mod's creator.
IIRC that tech was something the US and USSR/Russia etc just agreed to give up on because it was too easily used to circumvent weapons treaties. So it sort of IS lostech of sorts.
@@DIEGhostfish From what I've read, there are 2 major proliferation risks with fast breeder reactors: •While any nuclear reactor could theoretically be used to make plutonium, most of them aren’t designed to have fuel rods removed without shutting down and partially disassembling the reactor. Breeder reactors have a "breeding blanket" that is specifically designed to produce Pu-239 in easily removable uranium rods. •The reason that plutonium from nuclear waste normally cannot be employed in nukes is that over time, plutonium can absorb more neutrons, creating Pu-240/241/242. These have a much higher rate of spontaneous fission, so any nuke made with them will start the fission chain reaction before the plutonium has been fully compressed by the explosive lenses, which greatly reduces the yield (a "fizzle"). A fast neutron reactor can burn these heavier plutonium isotopes, so even the used fuel rods are going to have a much higher ratio of Pu-239 to Pu-240/241/242 than a normal ("thermal") reactor. I think the main reason the US wasn't all that invested in fast breeders is due to the discovery of large uranium deposits during the Cold War, which combined with their existing enrichment infrastructure made uranium fuel dirt cheap. In the meantime, there has been renewed interest in the technology in countries like China - and unfortunately, it seems that for Chairman Xi, the ability to produce plutonium was very much part of the appeal.
OMG I'm so happy you made the error on 25:30... Because the post you displayed instead is MINE! Got a good laugh out of it. These FullRest forums are like a time capsule, so bizarre to see them again. Man it's been such a long time since then. Back then I was still in school in Russia. I actually lived not that far from Kazakhstan, you can literally see my city as you zoom into Zhem. The mod is peculiar and clearly a passion project, though in retrospect it's clear that Ozon is a vatnik (crazy Russian patriot) and his militaristic nostalgia and a grudge against Kazakhs are misplaced. For those who can't read Russian, what my post actually says is me comparing this mod to Half-Life 2 vibes, and looking forward to its release (at the time Ozon did not release the mod to the general public yet, he only did so after he abandoned Morrowind in favor of Fallout 3).
The mod author's nostalgia for his childhood innocence shouldn't be discounted, even if his one time home was the product of the aggressive ultra-nationalist jingoism of the Soviet Union. What he perceives as home and part of his identity is genuinely lost, gone from the world, and he can never have it again. Making some absurd mods for Fallout and Morrowind as a bizarre attempt to bring that back is genuinely fascinating. The mods will probably out live the man.
@@everus8558 Soviet Union was just a continuation of the Russian Empire in different clothes, using Communism as an excuse to drive Russian nationalism and maintain Russian-centric hegemony over their neighbours. Russian culture identity was paramount and satellite republics and even Warsaw Pact countries were being slowly and forcibly Russianized to the detriment of their own languages and cultures. Kinda qualifies as a bit ultra-nationalist
@@omgrussian just making yourself sound more ignorant and brainwashed by every word you wrote it is quite clear you have no idea what either of the words "communism" "imperialism" or "hegemony" mean, educate yourself in political science and history before embarrassing yourself like this "russian centric hegemony" you speak of consisted of lifting many backwater peasant societies in which a metal farming tool was a rarity and knew no such thing as education or healthcare let alone industrialization in early 1910s to free education and healthcare for all with a remarkable 98% literacy rate for over 100million people including rural areas by 1930 that was in a mere 20 years while in the west,a well established nation with enormous amounts of colonized wealth it was a mocking 70%(without including blacks or women since that would lower it even further) and if that is still a tyrannical russian tsar empire 2.0 to you they also were giving almost 20% of the annual budget of the USSR by late cold war to 3rd world nations with newly established socialist revolutions that liberated themselves from the hands of western Imperialists,monopoly companies and puppet governments and declared sovereignty as well as nationalizing their industries, china, vietnam, cuba, chille, bukarina faso are all examples of that, all the while without interfering with their constitutional laws unlike the IMF. meanwhile the west imposed crippling sanctions and backed fascist groups and governments to destroy them and secure its means of profit as its' socio-economic module demands, and even all of this is but a fraction of their accomplishments and also atrocities of the west against democratically elected popular leaders in south america,asia and eastern europe. you have been growing up with mccarthy era propaganda and it is your choice to continue doing so or not a few book recommendations i would make to any westerner would be pat sloan's soviet democracy, albert szymanski's human rights in the USSR , austin murphy's triumph of evil and william blum's Killing hope with the last two being exclusively about cold war era American interference and atrocities across the globe as well as soviet response to them. everytime you hear a comically demonizing propaganda media targeted towards communists ask yourself, if they are so evil and tyrannical then why do they always side with the weak and exploited and lift them up? and why dont your gracious freedom loving capitalist government do that? and not just that but the opposite? the current israel-palestine conflict should at least give a few ideas even to the most uneducated mind as to why that is.
Y'know, when I first saw Mickey D play it, I thought to myself how cool it would be if someone else made an indepth video on it, so blessed to have Warlockracy make such high level content.
It’s sweet and sad how the mod maker made this as a desperate attempt to keep his childhood village alive, even though today it’s practically abandoned and sinking into the sand.
Great video as always! Love the cultural and historic insight you put into introducing these mods that would otherwise come off as jokes. My family is from a 1930s-era Soviet town in northern China that is now mostly forgotten outside of being remembered by its former residents. I always think about the history of that town more or less disappearing after the older generation passes. Cool to see this one guy recreating a place like that in the form of a Morrowind mod. Kind of bittersweet digital recordkeeping (sans the unfortunate jingoism).
This is one of _those_ mods that deeply fascinates me about the culture its clearly so lovingly presenting. Details so small you can tell the author lived it, making memories and life experiences into this form for others to see.
7:17 Smh, Premier Gorbachev wouldn't stand for this blasphemy. He personally fought to bring Pizza Hut to the Soviet Union and bravely decided to star in an advert for them. semi /s
I kind of like the idea of the Nerevarine or the Dragonborn being spirited to a post apocalyptic version of real places. It would be like a strange plane of Oblivion to them.
I've seen water dispensers irl, but they never worked. Besides, they were disgusting, to begin with, providing one glass for everyone. So, my dad who caught them working told me he never used them either way, much like the majority of Soviet citizens. This machinery only served resourceful people with extremely bloated faces who had their own glasses on them at all times. Oh yeah, one more thing. I used to spend my summer vacations in Kazakhstan even before the USSR collapsed. And everywhere I went, it looked much better than my own city in Russia or this town the author is so nostalgic about. In fact, to me it looks like Russians had built themselves a little hell over there (as always), in the middle of a country that wasn't perfect, yet still managed itself better than Russia in every regard. Spacious squares, clean rivers, less prison rules in people's heads, much better architecture, a great assortment of kids toys... and all of it seems to be locked out of Emba, which wallows in Soviet deficit and misery, oh so proudly. Us Russians and our nostalgia for shit. Like, yeah, I also dream of the abandoned construction sites. My first kiss happened in a filthy stairwell where the floor was covered in sunflower seed peels floating in spit. And I'm weirdly nostalgic about it. But I don't love it, this nostalgia is half pain, half misanthropy.
Во первых как могла так сильно отличается архитектура одной страны ? Что значит построили маленький ад, если русских в Казахстане было не меньше, чем собственно казахов. Да и вообще странно говорить о Казахстане в те годы так, будто это была отдельная страна.
@@daniilmarov5270 Маленький ад в своём отдельном совковом городке. Твою невежественную ссанину про архитектуру и туфту про "как будто" отдельную страну я даже не намерен обсасывать. Сейчас ещё пойдёт классическое "пруфы, что Казахстан отличался от России" и прочая поебень в таком духе. Увольте.
Ну ладно, про архитектуру уточню. Может, те же коммиблоки и хрущёвки, но степь позволяла менее душное городское планирование. К тому же, по какой-то причине, я всегда там замечал, что больше внимания уделялось благоустройству - скверам, дворам, фонтаны были повсюду понатыканы. И да, пока в моём родном городе реку называли "говнотечка", в Казахстане тот же Ишим был прозрачный, протекая через центр города. В целом, прогресс до туда тоже чуть быстрее добирался, чем до русской провинции (т.е. всего, что не ёбаная Москва). Я при том не то, чтобы фанат, но справедливости ради таки надо отметить, что если сравнивать развитие и нравы, то Россия всегда всасывала, а при Хуйле так совсем парашей стала.
@@Maggerama В России есть тоже много мест с хорошей природой, то что ты жил в мухосранке ничего не означает. А насчёт менталитета, я русский, живу в Казахстане с рождения, нихуя здесь не лучше, в столице может быть все и норм. А тут пиздеца не меньше. Если говорить о СССР, то в Казахстане тогда был суп из наций, и русских было много, и казахи в основном русскоговорящие. О каком "другом менталитете" речь я не пойму.
the seamless transitions between convoluted elder scrolls stuff to paranoid nationalism gives a really strong indication that the author is a particular kind of guy. bit of a Varg type character but presumably not a murderer
Все полчаса сидел и дивился, будто посмотрел видео земляка об этом моде, всё рассказано достоверно и интересно, со своими, не местными, замечаниями. Спасибо автору за увлекательное времяпровождение.
It's always great learning more and more obscure history that in the west we often don't have access to. Your content offers an amazing window into Russian, Slavic and Soviet culture, putting some of the ugliest parts on display just how it is. It's pretty damn cool and I can't get enough of it.
I tried this mod years ago, and I remember that the prison is fully functional, you can get into it by doing some quests which lead you to inprisonment. There is a time schedule in prison, you have to go work or something, do some useless quests, and eventually you will be free. And when you imprisoned there is no way to escape until you do your time. Quests are quite messy and buggy, but its crazy how could that guy manage to do all of this in solo.
You are like an interpreter for westerners on the backstory of Russian/Eastern European games. You give us context about how funky these developments are and the wacky stuff behind the scenes that we can't read into . I'd really like to see you do one of these videos on the very Russian game 7.62 High Caliber or 7.62 Hard Life. I could never beat high caliber, and it got very glitchy it has some goofy story content, horrible English voice acting, and tons of guns with really specific details like modeling every individual bullet. It would be cool to get more details about who made it, the story behind it.
It seems pretty obvious that the "destruction" of Emba-5 was likely an economic collapse. The entire thing was basically funded by Soviet Military, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, no military funding went into the place, and because they are in an uninhabitable desert, there was nothing to do but leave and salvage whatever value was left in the place.
Backing up mods that are nearly impossible to find should have a similar ethics to video games...sometimes, archiving things is more important than the interests of the creators (or those who own the intellectual property)
I agree. While not every mod needs to be saved (I really don't need 70 CBBE presets archived), larger things like this, especially when you know the author put massive amount of work into it, would be sad to see gone (even if in this example I couldn't play it if I want to) It would be sad, if in the future, videos like this would be the only thing proving the mod exists. Now, making it monitized, is a different debate entirely though
@@NoFlu I don’t think that there would really be significant monetization from hosting such obscure mods, and archiving them. If you want these mods, you’re already all in on the channel…
Bro your content is genuinely one of a kind in how you present it. I definitely appreciate the fact that you delve into some of the more idiosyncratic things and give an explanation about it (I actually looked up the Karlsson thing. Interesting!). Keep doing your thing, your work is very much appreciated and respected.
This is one of my favorites of the projects you've looked at. The love & nostalgia involved really kicks me in the dick. I mean, most Soviet nostalgia tends to hit me there, but, this is really something special. I think I might actually try to play through it, if I can figure out a way to fix the text to display in Cyrillic. You probably already know because I comment on all your shit but damn dude you're my favorite channel on this site. i think you honestly surpassed all of the other game creators on this site at the beginning of the year, and you're not slowing down. I really think this channel is fucking awesome and I rarely get as excited as when I see you upload.
I wish my knowledge of this mod was capped at before this video, as the mysterious Kazakh town that just popped into existence made gears turn in my head. The actual story just broke those metaphorical gears, less in a "killed the wonder" and in more of a "my head hurts now from hearing this". Calling the Dwemer/Dwarves as "Gnomes" sounds like some in-universe slur without the linguistic context.
My life lately has been Morrowind and guilty gear like nonstop the past few days. Finally dipping my toes into Tamriel Rebuilt stuff and having a blast! Then to get a Morrowind vid from you as well? With this whole thing? Very rad. Thanks for the great content as always, hope you're staying safe and doing good!
Oh please please preserve these gems you manage to find. If I could understand cyrillic I for sure would be browsing slavic mod forums to preserve the cool shit like this. I would love to see a telegram museum you know? Definitely a good patron incentive.
Man, I've been surfing the internet for many years without any specific reason and then I found this video. I think this is it. End of the line. The very top gem on the crown.
12:10 according to my parents these garages were mostly for your car to not rot away but in my opinion their popularity grew so much because people liked getting wasted there.
Man, I'm beginning to understand just how much of a hit for the russian culture was the fall of USSR. I feel bad that things turned out for them the way they did.
Ngl, unintentional probably on the part of the developer, but the tangent where he gets excited about there being holidays and a christmas tree just kinda hit really hard.
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Playing Clear Sky, Marauder (Men of Prey), Fallout 1 and Old World Blues mod for HOI4.
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one of the rooms in the starting room reminds me of that home room in into the raidius...huh.
Glad to see another person trying Apeiron's game. They made the only good Jagged Alliance - like game, unlike official "sequels" released after JA2...
but may the gods have mercy one your souls for Clear Sky is... not for everyone, and some things are stupid - like 2nd passage to Cordon opens when you came back to Swamp after giving up on that MG nest.
@Valter Marinkovic Marauder - Man of Prey, made by now defunct Apeiron developers studio
PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON OWB
@warlockracy what’s your favorite OWB faction thus far!?
"The Bosmer Gopniks attack from the fog"
From a westerner's perspective, the Eastern Bloc is about as mythical as Tamriel and these videos do little to dispel this perception for me.
Haha people in other country funny. Me superior westoid
@@foca7550 What's a Belarus? Is that like a walrus?
@@foca7550 I don't think that was the intention of OP's comment. It's pretty clear that's not what he meant.
@UCtNTRVn_1uM9jH3NPcZ-9KA You're just trying to stop us from stealing Eastern European magic and using it four ourselves.
@@foca7550 most of people in west (or far east for that matter) have no idea how people live on eastern bloc, and its okay. He speaks about sensation of wonder it procures, like there is a whole different planet or realm out there, with similar people but different rules. And its great
Once more into the breach. This mod is wild. Can't wait to watch!
omg Micky D in the comment section of Warlockracy! Co-op between you two when :D!
Dont forget to skip the imperial city Micky :)
Thx Micky
You know, when you played this for the first time I was thinking that Warlockracy should do a vid on this due to... better cultural fit??.. and here we are!!
Nice to see you here 😏
That opening was comfy as fuck
There's something endearing about him recreating the town from memory as it no longer exists.
Do you know the song name?
@@pgecko2493 Yo me Rindo (feat. Top Wing & Hector Alejandro)
Commodore Herky J. Smurkturkski III
@@mattgriffin8893 thank you so much! legend!
I like how passionately he explains the reasons he made it
I love the feel of late 90s early 2000s level editors and how it collides with attempting to create reality in them
the fact that someone who speaks english and understands slav runes can finally properly explain this mod to the larger portion of the morrowind player population really is exciting
"The larger portion of Morrowind players." Yeah, all 12 of you
@@gobbotits1686 Cope.
"Slav runes" will be my new term for Cyrillic alphabet.
Now only need something for Polish letters with diacritics.
@@crusaderanimation6967 the Vistula hieroglyphs.
@@gobbotits1686then why are you here? 🤔
It's actually amazing how successful his mission to immortalize this place was. The real Emba-5 exists especially on the English language part of the internet as a footnote, another decaying Soviet town in a former satellite state nearly forgotten. What pictures exist of it are either entirely historical or are curiosities taken by urbex people and former residents on a pilgrimage. Another half sunk visage of Ozymandius as a forgot relic of a once great empire. But this mod is a wildly popular curiosity at least in a community of people who still worship a 2 decade old video game. For somehow millions of people around the whole world who would have lived entire lives never knowing this place once existed, that it was a home for real people, it's name and it's association with this mod is now indelibly etched into their minds. This must be what they mean by "the void stares back".
What’s ironic is that I’m born Kazakhstani citizen, from Almaty, and I’ve never heard of Emba-5 prior to this video. I mean, it’s to be expected, the western part of Kazakhstan is basically Mad Max: Fury Road irl lmao
I guess that makes them similar in a way. The majority of gamers aren't the type of people who would play Morrowind (hence the major changes we see in later games) & even in the Elder Scrolls community you'll find people that know of Morrowind but have not or even will not play it because of the mechanics & how outdated it feels to people who didn't grow up in that generation. I have friends that love Skyrim & Oblivion, have beaten it several times, but would never touch Morrowind. To them Morrowind is a place they know of & maybe see pictures & videos of but would never actually go to & is quickly forgotten, like a candle blown out by the wind.
@@seanwallcroft6272 tell us more please 🙏
@@SolarFlareAmerica not much to say, it’s just the poorest region of our country despite it holding all the oil reserve. Everything looks semi-apocalyptic, because the cities are decades old and underfunded, the deserts outside of the cities look pretty much like Arrakis from Dune or the wasteland from Mad Max (actually it’s really cool to explore ngl, but the cities are one bad fiscal year away from looking like Pripyat)
Bruh cease your incessant cringe
Honestly speaking, I consider mods like these to be a good thing, as long as they are made in a way at least handcrafted solid, I do not require amazing quality. Western players will never fully understand what life in the countryside in the post-Soviet countries or those that are part of the Warsaw Pact was and still looks like today. Their specificity is so exotic that faithful depiction of this atmosphere is impossible, but each such attempt is worth trying to feel on your own skin as it was. And it was "i śmieszno, i straszno" (both funny and terrible). In various, varying proportions. In my little town, after the collapse of state-owned farms, 70% of men lost their jobs, 3/4 of which never went to work again and ended up as full-time alcoholics.
Even 10-15 years ago the general landscape of the area looked like Cordon connected with Pripyat from the S. T. A. L. K. E. R. series. General depression and greyness, rarely exploding with the colors of the field flowers from the bride's bouquet, when someone made a blockade for the wedding conduit coming from the church to get vodka (such a Polish tradition). Then drink and splash in dreams or the past, as it used to be. It is much, much better now, but the human mentality has hardly changed.
Please forgive me for writing this, but I felt that I had to write it. Greetings Warlock, greetings viewers, great material as always!
this and custom Counter-Strike 1.6 maps. Nipper maps had this kinda scene.
True story. Greetings from East Germany here. Still live in a City with soviet Blocks newly renovated to this day.👌
It's way better than Fallout 3
@@TTV_TOMTISMNipper maps like gahhhh or blahhhh?
@@HiGlowie yesssss so good
Wait a minute, the "Morrowind in Russia" that I caught in Ssethzeentach review of Morrowind is actualy a thing and not a shitpost he quickly threw together?
Not russia, bro
Qazaqstan☝🏽🇰🇿
It's a post soviet union city and it belonged to KSSR (Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic) and now it still belongs to us, Kazakhs :)
In the words of Ross, "Somebody had a VISION!" and boy, what a vision this man/husky had!
By Ross, you mean Ross Scott?
@@KOTYAR1 иә
I was thinking the same thing. Big fuckin respect to the modder.
I grew up in the polish countryside, up in the mountains, far away from post-communist era city life and blocks. However I did have friends and family who lived in such areas. This mod feels like reliving a childhood I didn't have, in a way.
Oh man, I grew up in post PGR village in warmińsko-mazurskie, when I played STALKER for the first time in 2007 I felt like at home
He always has this way of accessing our collective memories with his content.
@@postpunk6947 What is PGR? I have no idea
@@joka9125 Państwowe Gospodarstwo Rolne (State owned agricultural farm). Not a great idea, with all of them pretty much going bankrupt after fall of socialism in the 90.
@@neurocolin yeah, thank you. As I said in other comment, in my little town 70% of men lost their job, 3/4 never returned to any other work EVER and go with the flow of full time alcohol addiction.
I really enjoy the little history lessons you give on Soviet culture. Would you ever do standalone videos on stuff you find interesting?
@@YaroslaffFedin Beat me to it.
I think the reason your content Slavic/Eastern European content is so enjoyable (outside of good presentation and well written commentary) is that you're not just showing off it as "look as this weird stuff". It's a sociopolitical/economic topic that not a lot of Westerners have much knowledge in and I think a lot of people could benefit from knowing more about the region and it's people, especially given current events.
Or maybe I'm just a closeted Russophile and love hearing about Post-Soviet collapse. Either way, great video as always man. Stay safe.
It is great to see, with all the shit going on, how videogames can translate culture and how it is a universal language. A great platform for comment and emancipation.
Tell me what you play, and I'll tell you who you are kind of :)
it's got all that other stuff yeah, but it's _also_ got "hey! come look at this weird game!"
like a delicious informative stew
It's always a great day when this you post.
That small tangent about the Dwemer building everything being uncreative is the same way I feel about Fallout modders making the Enclave their main antagonist. It's lazier in my eyes, actually, as the Dwemer were a lot more mysterious while we know everything there is to know about the Enclave. It's no coincidence that New Vegas has a better world and story and the Enclave were only slightly eluded to as a dead faction. Even Fallout 3 was believable in that it made sense for the remnants of the U.S. government to be in D.C.
In short: make your own factions, don't stay in the past copying what those who before you did.
honestly good take, it bothers me how much people shit on bethesda writing while saying having the Enclave would've made it better. Fallout 1 & New Vegas proved we can different factions yet still keep the themes & world of fallout.
The Enclave are a great faction for Fallout.
But they need to be left alone for quite some time, they've been overused. However whenever something is successful in this day and age, Hollywood and the games industry have to ride it and exploit the cash cow until it is a desiccated husk, then it is tossed aside for the next thing.
The people who joke that if Bethesda made Fallout London, it'd be about The Brotherhood crossing the Atlantic to invade Enclave occupied British Isles with heavy D-day/WW2 overtones aren't actually joking... that's exactly what Bethesda would do...
The problem with the Enclave is that they are treated as a generic villain faction by Bethesda while not much different than how the original devs used them they were much more interesting in Fallout 2 and not as stupidly written. In Fallout 2 they kidnapped your tribe for whom you work so desperately to save, so its obvious you just not gona joine them even them wouldnt let you in the first place because they just see you as a mutated tribal who is a threat to non mutated humans like them. But in Fallout 3 you are a Vault dweller and thts the only thing they know about you, and even Eden ask you to help him but because Bethesda stupid writing you just can't really join them. If the Enclave would have been treated as the Legion in NV by Obsidian, only that would make them justice and a much more interesting game with a lot more option, imagine a split in them, a purist faction with the original goals and a reformist one whos enemy would be the actual mutants like supermutants and ghouls, and wastelanders could join them, or maybe you had the option to make them tolerant to non feral ghouls even; and you the player has the option to make one from the two sides the sole leader and end the game with them. So no they are not overused just badly written. Lots of fans like them and they are an interesting faction that deserv more than they got.
@@ncrranger2281 I mean at that point just make a new faction with a unique origin. I think fallout in general needs a whole revamp with new factions that could still have connections with government.
@@Jsipki265 No one said they should not make new ones, but neither they should just throw in the trash the old ones. The BOS is much more overused, Bethesda should stop forcing them in every game.
Love to hear your depictions of post-Soviet culture.
I think all of us have at one time or another, wanted to sort of "immortalize" our hometowns like this in a way. The American midwest is kind of similar, as most the old businesses in my hometown are gone save the ice cream shop and the auto parts store- we even had a free museum where you could showcase anything in a small bank that one day just became ether. A nearby town had it even worse, being only 5-6 miles from a major city they're doomed to becoming an Amazon warehouse and facebook data center now.
So I get it, and I could honestly never crack wise about the author. Racism and fear against steppe cultures aside, it's hard to accept that your hometown is dying because of great economic engines out of your control, that simply just don't care.
Having also grown up in the midwest this is a definite feeling. I moved away from my hometown 4 years ago and went back last year, it has definitely changed in some aspects but others feel the same and it's that feeling of wanting to preserve it that right now makes me want to go back even though I have so little there anymore. Most of my close family has or is thinking about leaving, I had few friends there at the end, and it doesnt have much of anything interesting going on. Next to some of the places I've visited since growing up there I wonder why I would ever go back but I also know I do. It's so contradictory.
Similar in Europe too. A lot of deteriorating small industrial cities all of Germany too.
Russian Militarism? Soviet Nostalgy? Racism? Transportation into a distant time or fantastical land? batshit crazy?
Russian Isekai strikes again! great review as always.
The phrase "Russian Isekai" causes people in the know to tremble with horror... The little-known in the West genre of literature propaganda "попаданцы" is even more insane, militaristic, racist, and disconnected from reality than you can imagine.
@@LargenirGK There isn't anything special about these 'popadantsy' novellas. Just low-tier time-travel or alt-history stories. Plenty of that stuff could be found in the West too.
But what is interesting about the Russian time-travel genre is the sheer size of the segment. Hundreds of authors with thousands upon thousands of published books. Most of them insanely crazy, so comparison to 'isekai' is fairly appropriate here.
When I look at the broken text in the mod I like to imagine this is how a westerner sees the cyrillic alphabet.
Your not wrong...
the cyrillic text at least has some kind of shape that is kind of recognizable. Like consonants and vowels. It looks like a weird mix of latin and greek script. Although a lot of characters are false friends (like the backwards R not being an R sound. Instead the P is the R sound, which makes sense if you connect it to the greek rho)
@@anonvideo738 I agree, i think it adds to the confusion. For example latin P in Cyrillic being read as "R" or latin C being a symbol for the sound "S". Moreover special lettera complicate things like "yo" "yu" "sh" and "ch" make it even harder for a novice to understand. Don't make me get into the south slavic word soup ž, č, ć, š, đ, dž, nj, lj,.
I think I know why the bus is so huge. Because the mod maker lived there as a child, and the mod is based on memory more than fact. And to a child, a bus is huge.
As someone who spent their early childhood in Moscow, this mod is super melancholic.
Не помню, чтоб по Москве двемеры бегали. Их вроде во время сталинских репорессий в Казахстан и сослали, а там и уничтожили вместе с Эмбой.
@@ТесакВнаушнике Eh, like I said, the mod makes me feel melancholy, not nostalgia. Mind you, I lived there in the early 2000s, so it wasn't even USSR Moscow. I think it's mostly the apartment complexes and the metro tunnels in the mod that remind me of the city, but idk.
@@thedude5294 you mentioning Moscow in the 2000s reminds me of a Russian friend of mine who once compared Russia today to the trope of sci-fi societies living in the ruins of a more advanced precursor civilization. Theoretically, all the economic infrastructure continued to exist after the USSR fell, but because the economy was disassembled, privatized, and sold off to the West (industries, education, kinda everything except the military industry ofc), the expertise and knowledge to actually maintain the technology degraded. It's horrible for the millions of people who suffered, and still do, of course, but having grown up in the West in the same era I find it very important to know, as it seems as though the neoliberal economies in the West are intent on selling off their own economies too... so the next few decades may be kinda awful for everyone this time.
Isnt Moscow like 20 years ahead of everywhere else in Russia? Also Kazakhstan is much more arid than Russia.
As someone who has never been anywhere in the east, I feel nostalgic melancholy as well. Not because I have any connection or nostalgia for any place there, but because absolutely know that feeling.
I live somewhere with a large Slav population, as you get to know people better and meet their families, you hear the wildest conspiracies. I got a great laugh when you said that he is "relatively progressive" by Russian standards. So very true, he's like level 1 crazy government/ethnic conspiracy uncle. The iceberg goes deeper.
i love this channel so much, no where else could i find something as completely absurd yet strangely familiar as this
So, a bit of a trivia about the image at 15:14. It's not Laskoviy Mai, it's actually another "boy band" called Steklovata and the image is taken from their music video for the song "Novy god" (New Year). It was somewhat a meme back in the days. The song and the video was produced by one of the members of Laskoviy Mai.
6:45 Didn't know that Astrid Lindgrens book about "Karlsson på taket" was popular in the Soviet Union as well, only thought that it was known in Sweden. Love your videos as usual, they always make me learn something new
Same here, wild discovery. I grew up with Karlsson. Reminds me of those Krtek cartoons from Soviet Czechia which became popular in the West.
It's still very popular in the ex soviet sphere. I am reasonably sure kids are red (and read) the book still.
All her Books are very well known in Germany as well, back in the early 2000s there even was a Karlsson series for kids ages 2-5 in the TV.
Astrid Lindrgren was really popular there and in Germany.
The film version of Mio min Mio was a Swedish-Norwegian-Soviet co-lab. Fairly impressive casting too with Christopher Lee as Kato as well as a young Christan Bale.
If we include Mio then there were seven films based on Lindgrens works made across the union. That requires a lot of love, especially for a place behind the iron curtain.
Karlsson was a little less popular in Poland when I was growing up (the tail end of the 90s to early 2010s), but Bullerbyn was *huge*. I remember my mom reading the book to me at bedtime, then re-reading it myself once I was a little bit older. It was even a mandatory reading somewhere during the first three years of primary school.
Я не удержался, это название интригует лучше любой хайповой игры
3:21
"From the age of 14 or 15, a Soviet male develops an uncontrollable urge to play guitar..."
god dammit
Although other people reviewed the mod, your insight into the forums and other such things locked behind the Russian language barrier gives it so much more. Good job as always, man. 👍
Being russian myself i've never even saw these forum posts. Damn, they add so much to this mod it's unreal. It really is bittersweet.
I adore weird passion projects like this. Thank you for covering this mod, it's fascinating.
"The Bosmer gopniks attack from the fog, just like in real life". Got a chuckle out of me. (13:45)
24:20 I think it's more appropriate to call Tunguska a SPAAW (Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Weapon), as it has not only missiles but also 30mm autocannons.
24:21 It's not a Buk nor a Kub, but a Krug SAM system (which also has NATO reporting name SA-4 Ganef)
А так видос отличный, я и не знал что у этого мода есть такая немного грустная история. У вас уникальный контент господин Warlockracy, продолжайте в том же духе.
Heh, noticed the same thing regarding the Krug as well. Though I'd go with SHORAD for the Tunguska (SHOrt Range Air Defense). SPAAW isn't common terminology, and the Tunguska is a bit more than a SPAAG.
When i saw footage of this mod in Sseth's video about Morrowind, i thought it was just edited footage and that the mod didn't exist. But apparently it does exist.
Since the Frontier in FNV had vehicles and flyable aircraft, it definetly should be moved to the Fallout platform if the creator wants to fulfill his aerial fetish. He seems passionate about it and would probably put in effort to make sure it works...
Also, the unreadable text might be solved by changing the system language. I know that some foreign games translated into English require that. But i don't know if that will work in this case since it's an incomplete mod.
Speaking of empty towns, have you considered taking a look at You are Empty? It's a Ukranian game, released in 2006 (2007 in EU and NA), and has a Doom style shooting and Stalker-esque atmosphere. It got negative reviews, but the shooting worked, the atmosphere works, and there are no major bugs (they were probably in the initial release). Probably because it was a bit too slow at times. Looking forward to the continuation of Stalker videos, among other things.
I know that game such a shame that its not available to buy anywhere online. Oh and I agree it would be good material for a video.
@@ncrranger2281 not making it available might make sense if the game was genuinely bad (like when that one Call of Juarez game got taken off), as the reviews said.
It's just that in this case, reviews were wrong
@@murisbukvic2496 Yeah it seems quite good, never had the chance to try it out myself. Actually I tried in the flower shop(torrent) in one ocasion but it did not worked for some reason. Very few video about it in TH-cam, good thing for us Hungarians one of our youtubers made a decen review/edited walktrough about it back in the days of 2008.
Civvie11 did a review of it, though of course it is filtered through an american lens, not a russian one.
The unreadable text is caused because it was made for the cyrillic version of Morrowind (which, yes, exists!), IIRC. They have a specific cyrillic version of the Morrowind Magic Script font that supports and uses cyrillic characters.
Source: the jvk1166esp creepypasta recreation/joke is made by the russian TES3 community and they have the same results when loaded into english Morrowind.
_Nothing_ tickles my nostalgia bone like Balmora in Morrowind...
And few things are quite as depressing as Cold War military-base cities post Soviet collapse.
That was a peculiar combination... The creator actually trying to tie this into Morrowind/TES lore sounds more like the ramblings of an insane person. I wouldn't have bothered trying to tie it together, as nothing wouldn't come off as forced and contrived. Just create a Soviet story/recreation of your hometown in the Morrowind engine.
To be fair: Vivec
"The ruination of Emba by steppe nomads never happened, but it should happen again."
Based Warlockracy
My god, this might be the hardest I've laughed at just a video's title. Nazerbayev is the Tiber Septim of Kazakhstan
Honestly I love your work and the way you present these reviews.
I remember the mod being something based off the author's memories but I didn't know it'd go this deep. There's a sort of soul or heart to this mod not just in the setting made for it but for the reason the author made for it.
Edit: One thing I'll note is that I do like how the guy behind the mod is still working on it albeit on Fallout 3 rather than Morrowind. Making a mod based off memories his memories of a place he once lived in is something that deserves to known and recognized beyond just one thinking "ha ha funny Soviet town" when one looks further at it beyond the surface level.
Man, i always thought that this mod was another recreation of "Typical Russia" in a totally different game, maked just for fun (like the "Criminal Russia" mod for San Andreas or a "Wanderer" mod for Gothic 2) - but how curious to see that for the author it's something much more, a personal story and memories. It's quite...sad. Like watching a old photos of Chernobyl.
Anyway, great video, thank you! Any wish to make another about a any russian mod (Morrowind or any else game), unknown for a non-slavic countries because of the no translations? Like, for example, a Chaos Heart - a huge global plugin that changing almost everything and adds a new mechanics in Morrowind, making it feels completely different (and still don't have a translation at all). I think, it will be quite interesting for a Morrowind fans - a hidden gem, as for me.
Pretty interesting that it's so huge and (sometimes) detailed, must've been a huge pain in the ass to model the buildings, rooms, cartoon wall textures, etc. Heartwarming that it's some guy's attempt to immortalize a town that doesn't exist anymore, too.
most of the buildings and rooms are taken from STALKER, not made by the actual author
The buildings and vehicles seem to be his. Most items are borrowed.
@uNnHkP8mza yes
I can't believe when I first started watching Warlockracy months and months ago, just by randomly clicking on a video I thought would be a generic review of a Morrowind mod, that I'd find one of the best damn channels I've ever encountered on TH-cam. The content is fascinating, the presentation is entertaining, the videos always go in-depth, and there's always so much explanation as to some of the strange history and background with so many of these Slavic/Russian/Eastern European mods. This channel is amazing and I hope it continues to thrive.
I did not expect to feel this broken up about a USSR town meme mod in Morrowind, but this is very touching. Reminds me of how the best records of what the pre-fire Notre Dame was like are Assassin's Creed level data. Weirdly beautiful.
Especially since Unity is probably the worst AC game
@@NoFlu shit taste confirmed.
@@totalrko says the guy with a Life is Strange pfp (even if ironic)
@@totalrko true. He likes to taste shit
@@NoFlu syndicate exists
I like how Warlocracy ignores topic of author's casual russian nationalism until suddenly in the end of a video
@@comradeplayer hm? I don't know anything about this. Can you explain?
Years ago I used to know some of these people irl. Broadly familiar with jingoistic Russian culture. In the video I intentionally didn't comment on the weird racist shit, because in order for Emba-as-art to work I need to show it from the creator's point of view (before tearing it all apart).
@@Warlockracy привел к мысли что надо чаще употреблять "джингоизм" как термин в общении или обсуждении всей этой темы, чтобы люди лучше осознавали что это значит. Спасибо
Kinda caught me off guard. The town lost its purpose and started falling apart because of the Dissolution of the USSR, but for some reason the modder is fixated on kazakhs specifically.
@@sergeydoronin1579 well. I beleave that propaganda of 00's did blame on hate on russians every nation of post ussr countries one after another (russophobia wasn't invented yet). Also I have a thought that russians have a habit to blame their problems on everyone else but themselves. Even if problem isn't really a problem.
13:55 you are not alone I love On A Rail and everyone who complains about it just isn't on our level of true video game enjoyment.
I don't know why, but first time i saw it, the moment the shock of funny guitar/AK went away, this mod instantly begun to feel like a mix of sublime, melancholy, surrealism and nostalgia. The author put a lot of work in it, and i love almost every part of it (minus the parts about russians doing russian stuff).
The creator is an absolute visionary, and his blunt explanations for the lore are both heartwarming and hysterical.
Another chef's kiss of a video seamlessly combining game design, niche mods/communities and real-world culture/history. You're a scholar and a gentleman. Never stop, брат.
Николай, спасибо вам огромное за то, что просвещаете западных зрителей, рассказывая им про русскую культуру! Надеюсь, когда-нибудь к вам на обзор попадёт гта "Криминальная Россия" или "Ментовский Беспредел"
I like how this channel gives a view into russian and soviet culture, and its sphere of influence. On the American internet world all I ever hear is: "woah-ho, russia is craaazee!" It's a nice change of pace and probably a bit more realistic however tiny this glimpse might be.
"There will be trains."
19:33 I believe the powerplant is based on the Mangyshlak powerplant in Aktau, Kazakhstan.
Its BN-350 reactor ran on MOX fuel, which is essentially recycled nuclear waste (neutrons from split atoms hit U-238, converting it into fissile Pu-239, which is mixed with fresh depleted uranium), and the heat it produced was used to desalinate water from the Caspian sea. Theoretically, the fast neutrons can also be used to burn up other long-lived actinides in nuclear waste, diminishing the time it would take to decay.
In other words, this thing must have seemed like Vatnik lostech to the mod's creator.
IIRC that tech was something the US and USSR/Russia etc just agreed to give up on because it was too easily used to circumvent weapons treaties. So it sort of IS lostech of sorts.
@@DIEGhostfish From what I've read, there are 2 major proliferation risks with fast breeder reactors:
•While any nuclear reactor could theoretically be used to make plutonium, most of them aren’t designed to have fuel rods removed without shutting down and partially disassembling the reactor. Breeder reactors have a "breeding blanket" that is specifically designed to produce Pu-239 in easily removable uranium rods.
•The reason that plutonium from nuclear waste normally cannot be employed in nukes is that over time, plutonium can absorb more neutrons, creating Pu-240/241/242. These have a much higher rate of spontaneous fission, so any nuke made with them will start the fission chain reaction before the plutonium has been fully compressed by the explosive lenses, which greatly reduces the yield (a "fizzle").
A fast neutron reactor can burn these heavier plutonium isotopes, so even the used fuel rods are going to have a much higher ratio of Pu-239 to Pu-240/241/242 than a normal ("thermal") reactor.
I think the main reason the US wasn't all that invested in fast breeders is due to the discovery of large uranium deposits during the Cold War, which combined with their existing enrichment infrastructure made uranium fuel dirt cheap.
In the meantime, there has been renewed interest in the technology in countries like China - and unfortunately, it seems that for Chairman Xi, the ability to produce plutonium was very much part of the appeal.
Bro, this channel is my happy place. And each time there's a new upload, I'm not only glad for the content, but grateful for Warlockracy's safety.
OMG I'm so happy you made the error on 25:30... Because the post you displayed instead is MINE! Got a good laugh out of it. These FullRest forums are like a time capsule, so bizarre to see them again. Man it's been such a long time since then. Back then I was still in school in Russia. I actually lived not that far from Kazakhstan, you can literally see my city as you zoom into Zhem. The mod is peculiar and clearly a passion project, though in retrospect it's clear that Ozon is a vatnik (crazy Russian patriot) and his militaristic nostalgia and a grudge against Kazakhs are misplaced.
For those who can't read Russian, what my post actually says is me comparing this mod to Half-Life 2 vibes, and looking forward to its release (at the time Ozon did not release the mod to the general public yet, he only did so after he abandoned Morrowind in favor of Fallout 3).
Прикол. Он конечно вообще не об этом сказал
The ethics of backing up lost and forgotten stuff are clear to me: it is important to do so!
The mod author's nostalgia for his childhood innocence shouldn't be discounted, even if his one time home was the product of the aggressive ultra-nationalist jingoism of the Soviet Union. What he perceives as home and part of his identity is genuinely lost, gone from the world, and he can never have it again. Making some absurd mods for Fallout and Morrowind as a bizarre attempt to bring that back is genuinely fascinating. The mods will probably out live the man.
USSR-themed right-wing identitarianism is very common
@@everus8558 Soviet Union was just a continuation of the Russian Empire in different clothes, using Communism as an excuse to drive Russian nationalism and maintain Russian-centric hegemony over their neighbours. Russian culture identity was paramount and satellite republics and even Warsaw Pact countries were being slowly and forcibly Russianized to the detriment of their own languages and cultures. Kinda qualifies as a bit ultra-nationalist
Once again I beg you to learn basic things about the subject you are clearly passionate about.
@@omgrussian just making yourself sound more ignorant and brainwashed by every word you wrote it is quite clear you have no idea what either of the words "communism" "imperialism" or "hegemony" mean, educate yourself in political science and history before embarrassing yourself like this "russian centric hegemony" you speak of consisted of lifting many backwater peasant societies in which a metal farming tool was a rarity and knew no such thing as education or healthcare let alone industrialization in early 1910s to free education and healthcare for all with a remarkable 98% literacy rate for over 100million people including rural areas by 1930 that was in a mere 20 years while in the west,a well established nation with enormous amounts of colonized wealth it was a mocking 70%(without including blacks or women since that would lower it even further) and if that is still a tyrannical russian tsar empire 2.0 to you they also were giving almost 20% of the annual budget of the USSR by late cold war to 3rd world nations with newly established socialist revolutions that liberated themselves from the hands of western Imperialists,monopoly companies and puppet governments and declared sovereignty as well as nationalizing their industries, china, vietnam, cuba, chille, bukarina faso are all examples of that, all the while without interfering with their constitutional laws unlike the IMF. meanwhile the west imposed crippling sanctions and backed fascist groups and governments to destroy them and secure its means of profit as its' socio-economic module demands, and even all of this is but a fraction of their accomplishments and also atrocities of the west against democratically elected popular leaders in south america,asia and eastern europe. you have been growing up with mccarthy era propaganda and it is your choice to continue doing so or not
a few book recommendations i would make to any westerner would be pat sloan's soviet democracy, albert szymanski's human rights in the USSR , austin murphy's triumph of evil and william blum's Killing hope with the last two being exclusively about cold war era American interference and atrocities across the globe as well as soviet response to them. everytime you hear a comically demonizing propaganda media targeted towards communists ask yourself, if they are so evil and tyrannical then why do they always side with the weak and exploited and lift them up? and why dont your gracious freedom loving capitalist government do that? and not just that but the opposite? the current israel-palestine conflict should at least give a few ideas even to the most uneducated mind as to why that is.
I like the author’s profile picture. It really adds to the descriptions of the story.
I remember playing this mod more than a decade ago. It always gave me a very eerie feeling, like I was playing a cursed mod or something.
Y'know, when I first saw Mickey D play it, I thought to myself how cool it would be if someone else made an indepth video on it, so blessed to have Warlockracy make such high level content.
It’s sweet and sad how the mod maker made this as a desperate attempt to keep his childhood village alive, even though today it’s practically abandoned and sinking into the sand.
Great video as always! Love the cultural and historic insight you put into introducing these mods that would otherwise come off as jokes. My family is from a 1930s-era Soviet town in northern China that is now mostly forgotten outside of being remembered by its former residents. I always think about the history of that town more or less disappearing after the older generation passes. Cool to see this one guy recreating a place like that in the form of a Morrowind mod. Kind of bittersweet digital recordkeeping (sans the unfortunate jingoism).
I love how Warlockracy keeps trying to summon the FSB through wrongthink magicks. Very based.
The amount of russian knowledge I get from warlockracy is gonna give me a degree
I can't believe this mod is more lore friendly than Skyrim.
The world could not possibly be ready for Kadyrovs Starship in Morrowind.
I would read this popadantsy book.
@@Warlockracy this time ukrainian javelin will replace tired Gruzovik-san to transport him to issekai lands
I definitely didn't expect to be reminded of Karlsson-on-the-roof when I went into this video. Cheers man.
This is one of _those_ mods
that deeply fascinates me about the culture its clearly so lovingly presenting. Details so small you can tell the author lived it, making memories and life experiences into this form for others to see.
7:17 Smh, Premier Gorbachev wouldn't stand for this blasphemy. He personally fought to bring Pizza Hut to the Soviet Union and bravely decided to star in an advert for them. semi /s
The dwemer had airship technology. There's one crashed on red mountain.
That's on a mountain in Solstheim, I was just there.
There's one that also crashed on Stros M'kai in Redguard after you beat the final boss of that game.
Getting home from work only to see a new Warlockracy video from like 5 minutes ago is easily the highlight of my day, tyvm Warlockracy.
I recognized the texture on the blue train at 17:15 and I checked the Fallout 3 GECK. It's originally from Nathan and Manya's bus house in Megaton.
I kind of like the idea of the Nerevarine or the Dragonborn being spirited to a post apocalyptic version of real places. It would be like a strange plane of Oblivion to them.
I'm sure we can come up with some sort of justification for a crossover with Fallout as well.
I've seen water dispensers irl, but they never worked. Besides, they were disgusting, to begin with, providing one glass for everyone. So, my dad who caught them working told me he never used them either way, much like the majority of Soviet citizens. This machinery only served resourceful people with extremely bloated faces who had their own glasses on them at all times. Oh yeah, one more thing. I used to spend my summer vacations in Kazakhstan even before the USSR collapsed. And everywhere I went, it looked much better than my own city in Russia or this town the author is so nostalgic about. In fact, to me it looks like Russians had built themselves a little hell over there (as always), in the middle of a country that wasn't perfect, yet still managed itself better than Russia in every regard. Spacious squares, clean rivers, less prison rules in people's heads, much better architecture, a great assortment of kids toys... and all of it seems to be locked out of Emba, which wallows in Soviet deficit and misery, oh so proudly. Us Russians and our nostalgia for shit. Like, yeah, I also dream of the abandoned construction sites. My first kiss happened in a filthy stairwell where the floor was covered in sunflower seed peels floating in spit. And I'm weirdly nostalgic about it. But I don't love it, this nostalgia is half pain, half misanthropy.
Во первых как могла так сильно отличается архитектура одной страны ? Что значит построили маленький ад, если русских в Казахстане было не меньше, чем собственно казахов. Да и вообще странно говорить о Казахстане в те годы так, будто это была отдельная страна.
@@daniilmarov5270 Маленький ад в своём отдельном совковом городке. Твою невежественную ссанину про архитектуру и туфту про "как будто" отдельную страну я даже не намерен обсасывать. Сейчас ещё пойдёт классическое "пруфы, что Казахстан отличался от России" и прочая поебень в таком духе. Увольте.
Ну ладно, про архитектуру уточню. Может, те же коммиблоки и хрущёвки, но степь позволяла менее душное городское планирование. К тому же, по какой-то причине, я всегда там замечал, что больше внимания уделялось благоустройству - скверам, дворам, фонтаны были повсюду понатыканы. И да, пока в моём родном городе реку называли "говнотечка", в Казахстане тот же Ишим был прозрачный, протекая через центр города. В целом, прогресс до туда тоже чуть быстрее добирался, чем до русской провинции (т.е. всего, что не ёбаная Москва). Я при том не то, чтобы фанат, но справедливости ради таки надо отметить, что если сравнивать развитие и нравы, то Россия всегда всасывала, а при Хуйле так совсем парашей стала.
@@Maggerama В России есть тоже много мест с хорошей природой, то что ты жил в мухосранке ничего не означает. А насчёт менталитета, я русский, живу в Казахстане с рождения, нихуя здесь не лучше, в столице может быть все и норм. А тут пиздеца не меньше. Если говорить о СССР, то в Казахстане тогда был суп из наций, и русских было много, и казахи в основном русскоговорящие. О каком "другом менталитете" речь я не пойму.
God damn, dude I just want to give you a hug and a piece of my childhood.
For western audience: 228 is kind of 420. It references article from russian crime codex (purchase, possession and so on of drugs).
I find inner peace watching your videos before bed, its the closest thing to pure happiness. Please never stop.
Альберт Акчурин was one hell of a throwback...
This is such a fascinating look into a forgotten place. I love this video so much
I was so excited to watch this video, thank you for making this, you've made my day.
Much love Warly, has to be one of my favourite videos of yours. Stay safe!
the seamless transitions between convoluted elder scrolls stuff to paranoid nationalism gives a really strong indication that the author is a particular kind of guy. bit of a Varg type character but presumably not a murderer
Все полчаса сидел и дивился, будто посмотрел видео земляка об этом моде, всё рассказано достоверно и интересно, со своими, не местными, замечаниями. Спасибо автору за увлекательное времяпровождение.
It's always great learning more and more obscure history that in the west we often don't have access to. Your content offers an amazing window into Russian, Slavic and Soviet culture, putting some of the ugliest parts on display just how it is. It's pretty damn cool and I can't get enough of it.
Watching this video made me think about all the towns I lived in during my childhood. I need to visit some of them again.
Things I did not expect to already exist in the medium of video games.
I tried this mod years ago, and I remember that the prison is fully functional, you can get into it by doing some quests which lead you to inprisonment. There is a time schedule in prison, you have to go work or something, do some useless quests, and eventually you will be free. And when you imprisoned there is no way to escape until you do your time. Quests are quite messy and buggy, but its crazy how could that guy manage to do all of this in solo.
Glad to see you are still posting interesting boomer reviews. Any plans on Archolos?
no way, i was literally rewatching your morrowind vids when this was released, amazing!
You are like an interpreter for westerners on the backstory of Russian/Eastern European games.
You give us context about how funky these developments are and the wacky stuff behind the scenes that we can't read into
.
I'd really like to see you do one of these videos on the very Russian game 7.62 High Caliber or 7.62 Hard Life.
I could never beat high caliber, and it got very glitchy it has some goofy story content, horrible English voice acting, and tons of guns with really specific details like modeling every individual bullet.
It would be cool to get more details about who made it, the story behind it.
It seems pretty obvious that the "destruction" of Emba-5 was likely an economic collapse. The entire thing was basically funded by Soviet Military, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, no military funding went into the place, and because they are in an uninhabitable desert, there was nothing to do but leave and salvage whatever value was left in the place.
Yes, basically
Absolutely amazing. Pure passion. Beautiful stuff.
Cheers!
Hello there
@@cyberninjazero5659 hey hey hey
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. I feel like I actually learn things while laughing at the absurdity.
"The gopniks attack from the fog, just like in real life!" XD
Hi Warlock, I always fall asleep listening to podcasts or yt Vida and for some reason yours have become my new go to. Keep up the great work
A Mod with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. assets always has to be a good mod.
shoutout to the algorithm for serving me up this one
Backing up mods that are nearly impossible to find should have a similar ethics to video games...sometimes, archiving things is more important than the interests of the creators (or those who own the intellectual property)
I agree.
While not every mod needs to be saved (I really don't need 70 CBBE presets archived), larger things like this, especially when you know the author put massive amount of work into it, would be sad to see gone (even if in this example I couldn't play it if I want to)
It would be sad, if in the future, videos like this would be the only thing proving the mod exists.
Now, making it monitized, is a different debate entirely though
@@NoFlu I don’t think that there would really be significant monetization from hosting such obscure mods, and archiving them. If you want these mods, you’re already all in on the channel…
Bro your content is genuinely one of a kind in how you present it. I definitely appreciate the fact that you delve into some of the more idiosyncratic things and give an explanation about it (I actually looked up the Karlsson thing. Interesting!). Keep doing your thing, your work is very much appreciated and respected.
This video just saved me a trip to Kazakhstan!
allah truly is merciful!
but remember, the town in this mod doesn't exist anymore..
@@FrederSnorlax Neither does a loving wife but it doesn't stop me from pretending.
This is one of my favorites of the projects you've looked at. The love & nostalgia involved really kicks me in the dick. I mean, most Soviet nostalgia tends to hit me there, but, this is really something special. I think I might actually try to play through it, if I can figure out a way to fix the text to display in Cyrillic.
You probably already know because I comment on all your shit but damn dude you're my favorite channel on this site. i think you honestly surpassed all of the other game creators on this site at the beginning of the year, and you're not slowing down. I really think this channel is fucking awesome and I rarely get as excited as when I see you upload.
I wish my knowledge of this mod was capped at before this video, as the mysterious Kazakh town that just popped into existence made gears turn in my head.
The actual story just broke those metaphorical gears, less in a "killed the wonder" and in more of a "my head hurts now from hearing this".
Calling the Dwemer/Dwarves as "Gnomes" sounds like some in-universe slur without the linguistic context.
My life lately has been Morrowind and guilty gear like nonstop the past few days. Finally dipping my toes into Tamriel Rebuilt stuff and having a blast! Then to get a Morrowind vid from you as well? With this whole thing? Very rad. Thanks for the great content as always, hope you're staying safe and doing good!
Oh please please preserve these gems you manage to find. If I could understand cyrillic I for sure would be browsing slavic mod forums to preserve the cool shit like this. I would love to see a telegram museum you know? Definitely a good patron incentive.
Man, I've been surfing the internet for many years without any specific reason and then I found this video.
I think this is it. End of the line. The very top gem on the crown.
You know I've always heard people say Morrowind was the American equivalent of Eurojank, but I've never seen it done quite as literally as this.
america-jank is a subgenre but you gotta look hard since you know we have actual development houses
12:10 according to my parents these garages were mostly for your car to not rot away but in my opinion their popularity grew so much because people liked getting wasted there.
Man, I'm beginning to understand just how much of a hit for the russian culture was the fall of USSR. I feel bad that things turned out for them the way they did.
Ngl, unintentional probably on the part of the developer, but the tangent where he gets excited about there being holidays and a christmas tree just kinda hit really hard.