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I still don't think it progresses fast enough for perm damage to body over 80 minutes either
and reinfection when in contact with sleepers is possible
Ok
me either
Then
HSU let's you indefinitely survive as long as you go in it once in a while
Since it kills nam v
And mutations don't happen immediately
yeah issue with that is that uh we either die or go to jungle planet where hsus dont exist
The prisoners are almost always in HSU
Not everyone gets it right away though
It's infective but it doesn't straight up teleport into the body from the air
I get everyone likes the idea of "the prisoners on jungle world die soon after because nam v"
issue is it kind of would work like other diseases where people are asymptomatic which, among 4 people, id say one of them likely could be a long term carrier
But I do not think it unreasonable to believe they lived after being purged
well yes its all up to ur interpretation :3
fair fair
i think in nightmare universe nam v might jsut kill everything
i feel like for what we see its likely some crazy version of the virus
like they dropped the fattest bioweapon on those aliens
also my only thing with hsus is sure they can kill off nam-v and the parasite, but we know that it doesnt reverse once it actually starts changing your dna
so in a case where a mission may drag on for weeks (lets pretend) it is totally viable we could die like that
but in 80 min intervals no way
Uh
we would definitely be sick but itd be like a small cough
Your DNA is always being screwed with in real life
Random mutations or damage from the sun
yes but we know hsus dont revert extremely physical changes because we see it physically
maybe its a plothole
We never had extreme changes
We weren't out of HSUs for a long enough period to get them
ye im not arguing w u or anytrhing
im tryna expand on it
thats what i said :}
if we were out for weeks it would be different
yeah thats been a thing since r5
hes just been a plothole
atp he might as well just be jesus
I by default assume he has some way to do self serve HSU or it makes no sense
The conduit is also weird
How is it that it can't be infected and sleepers don't mind it, but they can't figure out how to move that to a person
Maybe a timed auto release or something?
well theres specific steps
if u just step out of an hsu then ur gonna be fucked
so he woulda had to program something
and he just killed his hacker so like good luck to him
i mean hes dead either way
what we dont know yet is where is schaeffer number 3???
im assuming hes probs also dead
better yet
the aliens themselves dont die to the sleepers or virus and it was literally made to kill them
they can also teleport
and know how universe transportation works
and yet they had to use prisoners
further
they literally have a space ship that shoots super lazer beams and are highly advanced but somehow have the same hacking capability as schaeffer?
idk if they realized like they made an extremely intelligent alien species only to make them rely on humans to save humans?
either they just did not care that much or that is some serious plot hole
honestly might just have to
also we never got to go to the inner
i wanted to meet the aliens
ykw i genuinly see that hapenning
or they drop a final ext
also i feel like schaeffer was the main character of gtfo
so i think we should rebrand the game to: schaeffer
The breakthrough that Kovac Research hopes will answer these questions is called Hydrostasis - a process that allows humans to be held in a state of suspended animation for weeks, months, even years at a time without suffering any ill-effects. The nuts and bolts of the process are a closely guarded secret, but sources speculate that the procedure likely uses a synthetic amniotic fluid to sustain and protect the body while it is in an induced comatose state. In this state, the body is - for all intents and purposes - dead, but no cell deterioration or physical decay occurs. For the human in Hydrostasis, the heart, and time, stops.
Even if the patient does manage to survive the initial onslaught of the virus, it will remain in their system and can strike again without warning. Once you are isolated with NAM-V, you stay isolated.
also, i should mention, the log in question "nothing survives unless we want it to", is literally wrong.
**I don’t see how pathogens could be influencing the BAT result to be honest. The assessments are carried out after at least 5 days in HS recovery, and very few organisms will survive suspended animation for more than a few days without a finely tuned subsistence strategy to keep them alive. When we introduce positive bacteriophage we have to stimulate them constantly or they won’t survive even a few hours in HS. This is without considering the counteragents and neutralizers we use in the amniotic plasma.
Any behavioral issues you were seeing are psychological, not biological. Nothing survives HS unless we want it to.**
where the behavioral issues are absolutely from nam-v infection, we know this as one of its very first major symptoms
I’m worried if we don’t solve this issue we may end up with a failure cascade. These HSUs are all F/Infected classification so I guess it wouldn’t be the end of the world if we lost the meat, but the freezers may come in handy someday - or at least we may end up needing them as Deep backups or organ donations etc.
tbh wiki literally says that it kills nam v either way even if it did i doubt it could do it that fast
reverting cell damage takes a lot of time
idk who or what to believe
this game is turning me schizo
the wiki has the same lore resources as us.
yes
what im saying is it says it can completely kill it on wiki
but im hearing diff things
can you link me the page pls?
Maybe the behavioral changes are from the virus mad cow diseasing the brain and wacking it out like rabies or something
So even if HSU kills it, if you had it too long it still gives you brain damage
im not sure, but we have a full list of symptoms if you've not seen it
I saw
No real way to know
IDK things are just too unconfirmed or up to assumptions
Says it there
However, reinfection is possible once resuscitated from hydrostasis.[3] It is for this reason that security operatives can survive multiple reinfections throughout their expeditions.
Considering on average missions last an hour to two hours I don't think that's long enough for mutations to occur even with repeated exposure, but we can only ever guess since iirc it never really goes into specifics, although I remember it mentioning in logs that the period between catching the virus and actually getting sick was a decent amount. Definitely more than just hours.
**2 researchers from the team reported minor flu-like symptoms in the weeks following the incident. ** yeah that checks out...
doesn't explain class-F though (or the login "infected" status)
Are there any logs actually explaining the enemies now?
not as far as i know
is there a website where you can read all the logs in a chronological order ?
https://www.notion.so/Timeline-0e93a62e8cfd44b3a36beb4ab245a2d0 if you want everything, "For Dummies" Document if you just want the jidst of it / to get caught up
thanks a lot ! that archive is well made
is it updated with the r8 logs ?
I don't manage the notion.so, you'd have to ask @solar nova
As for the dummies doc, it is not yet.
Duck updates it currently. If Wiki is up to date, Notion probably is, but if not you can use Wiki for R8 specifically.
thanks for putting this together
Work of Chase, Myself, and Duck during different periods.
As a doctor, I've always found it kind of funny that people like to relate fictional diseases to cancer, HIV, or both.
GO-1395: Bishop is a Genesis Operative, the first generation of KSOs
T-3701: Dauda is labelled Temporary much like Schaeffer (C067 with Santonian, T-3894 as KSO) due to being more or less kidnapped by Woods (the T designation probably means any assets not officially inducted by Kovac personell into Legion, personal theory, take with several grains of salt)
F-2056: Fault class designation cuz Woods' brain really likes god
O-4711: Operative Aiden Hackett, the only "normal" one
There should be a log in R8A2 zone 69 right?
1 question
what happen at the end of r8e1?
and is the r8e2 the same team that was in r8e1
or are they diffrent team
r8e1 a squad turns over their data cubes to the shuttlebox, and another squad uses them to gtfo, leaving the other squad to die. wrdn figures it out, turns off security, gives up.
afaik r8a1-r8e1 is one team, then on r8a2 and forward its separate teams (r8a2 secondary team can't do r8b3 for example)
different
E1 team is the team we play in the ALT levels
E2 team is the team we play in the OG levels
some said that r8a2 starts with the og team r1-r7
yup
with the crazy schaeffer
r8 best rundown (imho) ❤️
Different teams from different dimensions.
that ended in the same dimension
i’m kinda sad the good schaffer wasn’t able to come with use to escape
also crazy how different being in control made the crazy schaffer, dude was power tripping like crazy
oh, and what happens at the end of D1 still? that’s my final confusion, what happened to the good schaffer and where did the 4 dead prisoners come from
cause obviously the message at the end, is t actually schaffer who recorded it
R8D2
or you want me to spoil you?
or you already did R8?
||Both schaeffer die at the end of R8D2 (R8D1 and R8D2 happend literally at the same time), and ALT schaeffer says both time lines merged into each other causing multiple anomalies in the process||
yeah i remember that
so then what explains the other 4 dead prisoners at the end of d1?
probably prisioners from another worldline that somehow ended in the same place as us
interesting
you can see a lot of dead bodies through all of R8
yeah but none are actually the prisoners
oh i guess i just never noticed
also Dauda and Bishop dead bodies in R6
still a shame there wasn’t an actual like NPC of either schaffer in any of the@
both D1 and D2 blue balled me

how does it happen
Yup
I thought the matter projector is only used for teleport
It somehow creates a superposition of two separate dimensions
Allowing matter to cross between them
also
the fact we see more bodies of ourselves i guess we werent the only ones dragged into this mess
Why tf are there so many reactors about the place in this fucking facility
Probably reactors for that quadrant
In some of the warden’s intel it mentions how a reactor in C is needed to power up D etc
R3A3s intel is an good example
so, the warden is really AI? what's trying to do?
I mean the complex is very massive. I don't believe one reactor can power that much
and building a single reactor for everything could be dangerous
it is an alien intelligence, we dont know if it is artifical.
we dont know exactly what it was trying to do before schaeffer threw off its plans in r7
im thinking he wanted to make a cure or something similar
or at least help us survive
if they are so advanced they have probably saved or at least tried to save other especies
or maybe you know
the aliens are trying to fix their mistakes
after all its their fault this shitshow happened
We have been in exile for 2-point zero-6-6-3-8-8-8-5-2 times 10 to the power 15 Seconds. We have been waiting.
none of the collectors we deal with are a part of any civilization
they are outcasts
Is it clear yet how warden is "trying to help"
This is well, a cut version of Technoblade's "I was actually using an advanced technique called LYING" which can be used anywhere
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09CeBwGbCeg
Go support Technoblade
Technoblade Never Dies
nice
i think thats a no
not even clear whether its helping or not
thats why OG Schaeffer > ALT Schaeffer
the coords that were programmed into the data cubes would send them to an infected worldline, probably one guranteed to kill them. we know this because we as OG squad literally have to rewrite them at the Insight Lab to get the true "clean" worldline's coords
warden could have been just trying to eradicate to prevent further spread into the galaxy or whatever
Dunno
if alt// team were successful, they would have been guranteed to die. likely a way to get rid of alt//schaeffer so he doesn't end up like OG did and fuck over his warden
(since the wardens can communicate between worldlines)
Og Schaeffer was right all along
alt// warden almost certainly knew what happened to og warden, so lied to their schaeffer to prevent the same outcome
(which also explains why we didn't have an alt//r7)
no rebellion for alt.
no need to replace a unit schaeffer had killed
Im more curious how most worldlines got simultaneously infected
mwp ?
and expeditions, whatever has been said in r8c1
the collectors simply say that every worldline that they have ever gone to has eventually become entirely taken over by the virus and presumably sleepers
how the virus goes between these worldlines, we dont know. probably through the mwp, yeah
but like, every planet, galaxy and alive being?
or different mwps from different worldlines / different ships/fossils/inners
no, not all of them. just out of the ones that they found DID have the virus, it had entirely taken over.
there was no worldline where the virus was present and it was just maybe okay or tolerable
if it exists, it kills everything, no questions asked
well yes, obv. (i mean if it has nam-v on the surface of it, it can survive on surfaces for up to 4 weeks)
not to mention we also infect the "clean" worldline at the end of r8e2, though that is more likely from ourselves or the giant ass wreckage of KDS-Deep rather than just the mwp
thats such a weird ending
so we practically achieved nothing, killed ourselves in the process and will kill another planet entirely
yup
i like the ending
given it teleports ruins of kds-deep, that means it also dragged the mwp with us. so now alt// is just entirely missing their projector
so did ALT Durnant or whatever build the teleporter on the jungle planet?
unironically if our crew wasn't so fucked, a better / selfless ending would have been to just sabotage alt// team early on, and together the 10 of us breach the surface bulkheads and die slowly on the surface.
though i'm not sure our squad would have known in time to warn alt// team of the data cube's coordinates
i dont remember when exactly that takes place
(also doesnt help that we dont inform or try to work with schaeffer, either)
we just ignore him and never reply on comms
which really fucking sucks
wait so technically OG Schaffers plan was better?
ALT team gets the funny cubes in B1 and tries to reprogram them in B2
kinda
we (humans) built the teleporters.
OG durant went to destination
ALT//Durant went to the jungle planet, and luckily he left before garganta was overrun, so made it out without being infected.
yes, but regardless it is a bad ending. we'd've just died on the surface alone
but imo i'd rather die alone than doom a potentially safe planet
i guess i really didnt think that in the ending we still were fucked even on the jungle planet because we brought NAM-V with us
and in the process we could have tried to convince and save the alt// team
just ditch the mwp entirely
(it would HAVE to be before the e-tier levels, by then there just wouldnt be enough time to break through the surface bulkheads and escape)
warden shut that stuff up tight
him and his entire ef01 team
i really like how both teams are within minutes of being near each other
really cool how they do that in the other half of R8
potentially dozens of humans on the jungle world
it would be cool sometime in the future if the devs randomly posted like a picture of a settlement there
or atleast what happens
(if his team size was the same as og, being a dozen or so scientists and 4 ksos for support)
well by now the canon ending would be the death of everything there
5-weeks average from infection to death, yeah.
we hear durant before the credits, so their outpost is nearby where kds-deep ended up
Is there any chance kds deep was inaccesible for more than virus's lifespan
it sounded more like a transmission, like durant said it through speakers or something
no because we open it up in r5 for the warden
r5-now it has been open so warden could get the 24,000 KSOs housed inside
so what was the goal of the collectors? i didnt really get that
we have two theories, one based on what we see, and one based on what they tell us.
In og, we SEE the warden collecting the genome database from destination before schaeffer's uprising, and dropping everything to replace the unit schaeffer killed, so it was probably trying to work on a cure.
in alt//, we HEAR the collectors telling schaeffer that they collect the virus, and their goal is a worldline 100% infected, so wants us to leave to accomplish that
(even though killing us would be a billion times easier... kinda sus)
oh so what we HEAR is they actually WANT to infect everything everywhere
i thought they were trying to stop it
Voice 1
You control the Warden? Who are you?
Voice 2
We travel. We project. From before, and after, through the membranes.
Voice 1
Membranes.
Voice 2
Planes. Spheres. Phases. Dimensions. Universes. We travel, We collect. Through the membranes. We collect the virus. The Collection is impure.
Voice 1
Did you "collect" those creatures?
Voice 2
Yes. They are the Collection. They are impure. We have been in exile for 2-point zero-6-6-3-8-8-8-5-2 times 10 to the power 15 Seconds. We have been waiting.
Voice 1
For what?
Voice 2
In this membrane, a resolution has been determined.
Voice 1
A resolution to what?
Voice 2
Conclusion: the Collection cannot be completed. The virus is the primary life force of membranes in which it exists. All will become impure. In this membrane, and all we have traveled.
Voice 1
This membrane? But, outside of this place, this facility, there may be people working on a cure--
Voice 2
96.35% of humans in this membrane are impure. The virus is the primary life force. The humans must leave.
Voice 1
How?
Voice 2
A clean membrane will be determined. Humans will project, then destroy the Projector. The Collection will be complete.
do you really think an alien especie called "the collectors" would want to help?

no need to be rude
i couldnt really understand what the lamens terms of that log was
its easy to assume from the name they would be trying to collect us for like an intergalactic zoo
i read that and was baffled as, It's been 24,672 seconds since my birthday
okay that sounds cool
but still
their names is sus af already
like the ending part it sounds like they just want the humans to go somewhere else and never return
to a clean "dimension/membrane"
they wanted to kill us
only because you already know the collectors as
who are these guys? from another game?
ah i see
Mass Effect trilogy
a race of evil ancient aliens also called the collectors
so are Unit 22 and Unit 27 "Collectors" I thought they were those fucked up clones from Project Rise
both, something something host bodies
ahhhhhhhhhh
also not really
telepathic whateverness
rise went down after garganta was overrun, (because nobody left alive), the units were created explicitly by the warden
that log i posted above, voice 2 is a unit, called the "conduit" possessed by a collector
how long did it took for garganta to be completely overrun?
so the sleepers are the "collection" right?
or is it things that are infected with NAM-V
i don't recall...
Feb 2052 - November 2056
roughly
huh
they somehow lasted 4 years fighting the sleepers
(2052 being earliest date) could have lasted another year or so past 2056.
thats better than i expected
but not much more
i thought they got rekt in like a couple weeks or so
that was first contact with nam-v, we dont know when they first encountered sleepers afik
but i guess the last people did put a fight
oh yeah that makes sense
so it was like
NAM-V learning the human body and stuff to then attack
then sleepers started to appear
i still think its funny how we just have basically no idea where the sleepers came from
i mean
they are humans
mutated
exactly
but everytime someone says "NAM-V turns humans into sleepers" everyones like NUH UH
NO ITS THE PARASITE
Not all of them. (Even ignoring floaters and kraken) Hammerstein found hundreds of specimens from different universes in the inner and one of the first sleepers ever encountered, in the Edgar log, is still unlike any we have ever seen to this day
Is actually virus + parasite together
is that the one that "dissapears"
or the one with the paper skin
I don't really think it is that intelligent... just the tunnels and passages hadn't been excavated yet to go deeper
who knows
its a fucking interdimensional virus

so surely the floaters/kraken are a different subspecies right? not originally humans
I wouldn't really say subspecies, just species as a whole. The kraken and floaters are native fauna from destination that were infected
Completely unrelated to humans
We accidentally let the floaters into garganta in r6b1
i really wanna see what the surface of earth looks like
they spread the virus, infect other people and then capture them for their "collection"
why wait 65 mil years tho
Thing I don't get, is it's not even constructive. You can't wipe out a planet to later colonize it because the parasite renders it uninhabitable forever
It's 10 years on, so just look up last of us screenshots lul
yeah i guess
Its certain such a complex virus has to be made by aliens right
i really am annoyed they dropped all this shit as the final update
so many things that we will never truely "uncover"
Whatever it is it isn't organized. They are in exile. For punishment or whatever reason, we don't know.
Perhaps they think curing it could allow them to return to their society
maybe
they just wanna be invited back to the alien functions
it would make sense
We don't know, but dauda implies it was designed by them as a bioweapon and one of our experts in here ( @rocky wraith ) noted that the methods in which it attacks is not possible to have occurred naturally.
they made the virus
got exiled
use the virus to infect other species
capture those species for research
hmmmm
has to be artifical to have such a mutually beneficial partnership with a parasite
something or someone developed the perfect bioweap
Not the parasite, log says the symbiotic pairing was completely unexpected
doesn't have to be artificial for mutually beneficial partnership with parasites as that is naturally occurring in real life
Ie; they haven't always been symbiotic
just the virus then
ah
The virus just came across the parasite on one world or another and the people living on that world got reaaaaally unlucky
What is artificial is the multi-pronged attack and infection strategy
just the virus then
one of the two was a natural occurence then
Yes, the parasite
Parasite was natural and has since co-evolved with the virus
really unlucky
so this alien specie (the collectors) just infect planes/dimensions until all primery life force becomes one with the NAM-V, i.e become sleepers, then they satisfied?
that is what they claim
im just confused to that hearsay log, why does 'the conduit' wants to help human to move to another dimension, not to even mention why would they even infect at the first place
But just because they say it doesn't guarantee it is true, especially in this case
h..uh...
(Since if they wanted us gone killing us would be soooo much easier than sending us to a clean dimension), hell, they could just not deploy us in the first place. Eventually the power would run out and we would die
There are holes in what it says
Actin' a bit... sussy
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the collectors arent necessarily the ones who carry the varus
it probably killed them too
Are collectors deliberately infecting worlds/membranes? That's... weird.
ok
I have just completed e2
what happens at the end?
I did not understand anything
@royal crow Somebody please, I'm at work
let me just
bring my R8 copy paste
R8 TLDR:
(A1-E1)
ALT team objective is get funny data cubes to get to a clean dimension with the help of ALT schaeffer (R8B1)
ALT team gets datacubes (R8B1)
ALT team gets more information from degauser terminals to get the coordinates for a clean dimension, warping between their garganta, nightmare worldline and destination in the process (R8B2)
ALT team tries to get more information about "project insight" to know more about the matter wave projector, in here OG team helps them giving them all the data, ignoring their schaeffer orders (R8C1)
ALT Team heads to garden to get more info and recive multiple calls for help from OG team (R8D1)
Facility is going to shit so they head to KDS Deep
Other team asks for data cubes
OG team uses the data cubes to go to a clean dimension
Once ALT team enters KDS deep everything is destroyed and they have to defend themselves against massive hordes of enemies.......
(A2-E2)
OG team under OG Schaeffer orders start a nuclear meltdown (R8A2)
OG team follows schaeffer orders until they hear ALT schaeffer and decides to help them, retriving the "project insight" data and leaving the hard drive that ALT team later picks up (R8C2)
OG Team removes their chips from the head finally stopping to follow schaeffer orders (R8C2)
OG team heads to the nuclear cooling tanks to get the matter wave projector from schaeffer, in here OG team asks for help to ALT team through the BIOCOM. (R8D2)
OG and ALT schaffer encounter each other and fight, here ALT schaeffer opens the possibility of both worldines merging into eachother causing the events of R8 (both schaeffers and both protagonist teams ending in the same complex) (R8D2)
OG team in D2 retrieves the matter wave projector after the 2 schaeffer fight eachother and die (R8D2)
OG team heads to KDS Deep once the nuclear meltdown starts (R8E2)
OG team impersonates Schaeffer and gets the data cubes from the alt team (R8E2)
the funny thing I thought wasnt it more easier use the teletransportation of r6 b1?
OG team uses the data cubes to go to jungle dimension
a "clean" dimension from the virus
what is destination and nightmare worldline?
it takes 5 weeks
Hsu sleep staves off the virus
and everytime we go into the HSU the virus dies
more or less
no
we just use the hsu
there is no cure for NAM-V
It's not a cure, it's a bandaid
it kills the virus but it doesnt reverse the effects
haunt?
duant
you mean Durant?
someone who left to jungle dimension before Garganta got overrun by sleepers
so we have a partial good ending
i havent done my research about him yet
nightmare dimension is garante destroyed
yes
but that garganta destroyed had hsus
the one we warp in B1
no
in E2 we bring a piece of KDS Deep with us
and that part is most likely infected with NAM-V
the place were we head in E2
to use the data cubes
and warp us into another dimension
is where most of HSU's are stored
maybe there is an oportunity
this is a curious question in r8 b1
we do a tp to an ubication with a lot of dead bodies
what does it mean
nothing really
if the virus did not reach there
not in the clean universe
no, but we brought it there
we get infected everytime we get out of the HSU's
we need more this, great explanation
because we techinically escaped from garganta
yup
but we doomed another planet
lol
and his team
humanity would die
how come durant+team didnt infect it earlier
because as long as I know there is only males in garganta isnt it?
they left before garganta got overrun by the virus and sleepers
no?
maybe?
i dont think so
hsus were full of females also
we would not uprise
well
the warden isnt a good person or AI or alien or whatever
at all
alt has skill issue fr
... and they got to skip the alt remakes 😄 😄
ALT schaeffer>>>>>>>>>>>>> mad crazy schaeffer
OG schaeffer better
no
alt was a good person
the other was a crazy guy
hold up where is henriksson?
if he was the warden
all the time
he is dead
why
Schaeffer kills him in R8A2
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Schaeffer wanted to blow up garganta and Henrikson was like: bruh you are gonna kill us
what are the neonato
This doesn't make sense as the c1 terminal says this worldline was not ventured
what is the hole point around it
Seeds, to grow new KSOs
the funny small HSU's?
yeah
I have read a terminal I dont where
but in that they talked about
nam- v vaccine
the writer was
the minister
of agriculture
or something
theres no way to fight NAM-V
every world NAM-V is present is the superior form of life
it consumes everything
NUCLEAR FUSION does not think so
||it will survive||
one hammer does not think so
Nothing could survive the core of a star
they run like naruto
xd
neonates were wrdn trying (and succeeding at least twice) to get mobile, get a body with a chip, walk around and interact directly. og r6, schaeffer kills one. alt r6 one is found killed next to 2 alt ksos, bishop and dauda? ...
yes, Bishop and Dauda
actually heres something interesting
GTFO: if schaeffer did not exist
the squad from the ALT dimension is already dead
why
the neos were void of environmental influence, no schooling no adolescence nothing to block pure "programming"
but we wont have gtfo 2
we need STFU
STFU?
Shut The Fuck Up
Sus Terminator fancy uranus?
wjy is he so confused if he knows about mwp?
okay
imagine living in an alternate dimension
and then you see a giant piece of metal appear out of nowhere
how would you react?
you have 30 years to live before everything goes to shit
enjoy life

at least duran did not kill us I was thinking that ending would be: we escape and reach the clean universe , but suddenly two guards appear and we die
XD
thats better than waiting 5 weeks until you die horribly

at least you die in the outside
i dont think being a sleeper is cool

they are infected
those fliers and giant squidwars were once "normal" species like Humans
but they are from a different dimension
where is warden¨s main frame?
i have no idea
Frosty can answer your question about that iguess
but she is at work
as I said before in the nightmare dimension there were dead bodies
I think that is very important
that means that something has happened
yup
maybe a civil war
as you can see the infection was already worse than our dimension
but it wasnt clear?
someone tried to make a final stand and died
but
nightmare
was clean
wasnt it?
that was the hole point
going to a clean universe
ok
Nightmare is the place you get warped when picking the data cubes in R8B1
i call it nightmare dimension
idk if it has another official name
i dont think so
yeah i have the same question than you
its like we arent the first ones to go there
aside form Durant and stuff
the true ending of gtfo : it was all a dream
this sounds crazy
but what if we tried
to coexist with the virus
maybe there is some way to talk to it
I meann
it just goes and infect things to keep living
that doesnt mean they are inteligent
is a parasite
look at humans, we are the "supreme life force of the planet" and we do stupid shit all the time

you are cooking something
theres a theory that says the virus was orignally a Bio weapon
made by Aliens or other species
but that species
if that species created that there would be 3 options : they are dead as a creators os that , they are inmune or they have DA CURE
||they are dead||
so if we take E=mc2 we got :
so
CALLE IS THE CREATOR
the Aliens we find in GTFO universe in our planet are named the "collectors"
they are in exile from their species
exile?
they got kicked
@grave quest
shit, sorry for the ping Frosty
wait
maybe the virus
is not perfect at all
if it were perfect it would be unbeteable
the human version can resist some shoots , while squidward version only one or two
so the bioweapon in its more perfect form would be inmortal tank
the inmortal tank is an interesting situation
maybe the inmorral tank is similar to the original virus , becfause the viruses have mutations
but the virus needs a host
if the host dies
it dies
the virus cant produce nutrients
have you played Dead Space?
no but I watched it on yt
okay
so you know that the necromorphs are still alive even if you cut their limbs or they stop moving or you "kill them"
something similar with the sleepers
the sleepers produces its own
with the help of the virus and the parasite
how?
idk im not a biologist
it was originally the virus
ONLY the virus
but it came in contact with the parasite and it managed to co-exist
My point was that maybe the virus is like an extrra dimension thing it infects completely an universe and then it dissapears so that reality dissapears
nah
that would be cool
but nah
symbiosis
I studied that
two species
oh?
that obtain mutual benefit
like a shark and a fish that I dont remember its name
the fish cleans the shark teeths , the fish gets nutrient from that
and protection from the shark
other example is the alga and fungus
I think I will study a degree related to research
For cures
This idea doesn't came from gtfo
XD
we hear durant talking to us before the credits roll telling us to stay where we are... so meh
we dont know. presumably it is embedded in biocom's systems, but we have only been to one such server room, and if that was the main hub, schaeffer would have had us just kill it rather than insert the memory stick
we do know the main server hub is in KDS-deep however
as in logs it was temporarily stored in hangar #4 before being moved when construction finished
none that i know.
depends. time runs slower there than our home dimension, but its entirely possible they could have attempted to populate there when they realized there was no going home. their total compliment was ~10-12 scientists and 4 KSOs.
i have no idea the genetic consequences of a gene pool that small though.
we are, otherwise they'd already be dead. (unless you are meaning clean worldline to clean worldline travel)
diseases, deformities and low fertility chance
you say that but... og gamescom trailer is all in dauda's nightmares

Take a look at the first gameplay trailer for GTFO, a 4 player co-operative experience, that premiered at The Game Awards 2017.
who the fuck is North
you'd have better luck forming a symbiotic pairing with an uninfected parasite to become superhuman sort of like the husk cult in barotrauma. The virus means only death
actually.... that'd be sick as fuck....
husk cult but sleepers
they are classified at parasitidae, which are Mites, so i doubt it. too small
that was the the running theory for destination back in r6/r7. that it was the home planet of the aliens and they were wiped out, with survivors fleeing to the earth in the ship but got infected along the way and crashed
we still dont know what destination's all about or what it once was.
well keep in mind they werent designed as a symbiotic pair. the virus came first. the parasite (and thus sleepers) where not intentional
r8a2 secondary has one
(training is supposed to be in VR so mlem)
mfs put a mother in training
(and it is the training expedition just with new enemies)
LOL
not quite... they have limits.
(i still remember the walking legs enemy my god)
what i mean with they are alive is even if they arent moving the virus or whatever they have inside is still alive
exactly, that is why the pairing is so OP. sleepers are infinite fuel
i dont think you need to be. them being immortal and being able to infinitely hibernate is already "matter cannot be created nor destroyed" levels of wierd.
virus kills everything but burns itself out.
parasite takes over hosts but is individually weak and cannot last long.
together:
virus gets to infinitely feed off the parasite'd host
parasite gets to live forever
also bullpup rifle enjoyer?

also the OP and founder of the #Maulmen post office 
and the bonk bat cat
i've been here for too long, lol
where did henricksson go?
To the afterlife
just witnessed the ending
there are so many things we never got answers to
so much cool shit we never got to see
this just sucks mannn
Ending was so underwhelming. 5 years for this dumpster fire?
I really hope they add more. This is weak
thats okay. you dont need to agree with me.
It is so sad that we've lost henrikson in just A2(a1 for og team)
Bro gets like 3 sentences in the entire rundown
A parasite needs continuous nutrients of the host this sounds a bit contradictory , but for a virus or a parasite their main goal would be not to killing the host
Because
At least in our reality , I mean the real life
The parasite gets nutrient from the host
And the virus reproduces with the host cells
So if the host dies
The parasite and the virus can easily die
So , Actually☝️🤓 the scientific reason behind the nam-v is not valid
Scientific reason - when viruse(s) FIRST time try to infect specific creature as the host (human covid in 2019-2020), it do its things REALLY aggressive
Yeah
After that viruse adjusts not to kill host
literally me
XD
But at the end or the host immune system kills da virus or the virus kills the host
Ye ofc
But my point is
If virus is not familiar with the host, it will be aggressive, killing host in the process kinda fast, if its strong virus
You got the point
But what about the parasite
They talk about that the virus is a symbiosis between the parasite and the original virus
But I don't think it is a valid position
Well in the game it is, but not sure how real it could be IRL
Let me explain the relation between the host and a virus and a host and a parasite is parasitism
The parasite
Gets nutrient from host
So if the host dies
Parasite diss
Dies
So the sleepers
Should die after a time
Maybe the nam-v is a regulator of population or it is used to destroy unicerses
Universes
Because when it kills everyone
Maybe it kills because of no nutrients
So 🤓☝️
Actually you are factually wrong here lol
The cycle of most viruses are all lytic, requiring the destruction of the host cell in order to spread
yeah
It's the same thing here with NAM-V
yeah but you forget
where is the host cells
if he dies
I mean they are not unlimited
based on that sleepers should die
That's what the parasite is for
a parasite works on the same way
the parasite prolongs the hosts life cycle so that the virus can continuously replicate
Yes, humans
yeah
but we need food and water in order to get nutrients
a human itself cant produce nutrients
which is why the sleepers consume the biomass of people
they also engage in autocannabilism
better
yup, which is why they spread
sleepers killing each other
yes but by the time we are in gargantua humanity will have almos disappear
Which is when they will spread to new timelines
not really, they just need tethers that won't close
yeah but
an isolated sleeper
in an isolated room
will die
of inanination
ok hol up
eventually, but the catatonic state they enter allows them to survive for a very long time
I got an interesting theory
as seen in Destination
Have you not played R6, R7, or R8?
Destination is the planet we get teleported to
let me explain my theory
The sleepers there have survived for millions of years
I have a theory
When sleepers are "sleep" maybe they enter in a hibernation like the bears , bu this hibernation is very long
like million of years
so when they detect a fresh host
they hunt it
Yeah, this is why they are called sleepers
so get more nutrients so and then they got to " sleep"
So my point is
If somehow we were in a safe zone unrecheable for sleepers
and turn on speaker in order to wake them
they would die because they would run out of energy
proobably leading it to cannibalism
habituation would prevent that
if we based that in theory of evolution of Darwin
that takes a lot of generations an years
but it is also a virus
it mutates
but in order to mutate
it needs to expand
so
You are lacking fundemental aspects on how viruses evolve
probably
only within host cells
one cell generates thousands to millions of viruses, natural selection means only the functioning and better viruses survive to infect the next cells. At a standard mutation rate of viruses combined with horizontal gene-sharing the virus can evolve within a single host to overcome the next problem
Combined with the aspects of habituation, your speaker strat wouldn't work
Repeated exposure would do less to awaken them
so this leads me to other theory
if we use speakers in all the complex
the sleepers would be less sensible to sound
so maybe the alarms would not wake them
so they techically would be "pacified"
good point there
Except that the speakers operate on a fixed frequency range that they would be able to tune out with time
So many sounds can be basically mentally turned off after listening to them for a long time. you still hear them audibly, but mentally you are processing everything else alongside that sound. So if you were to walk in a room with those habitualised sleepers, they would still pick up the frequency of your walking causing abnormal vibrations
I have a bachelors in molecular biology
yeah
I am studying the previous thing of a degree
In spain is called "bachillerato"
we have subjects and we het points and then we do an exam
then there is an average and we get a number
out of 14
with that number we can enter into univeristies
depending on the entrance mark , In my "bachillerato" I study appart from other subjects , biology but in a very superficial
the most deep we get in to viruses is the parasite relation with the host
and vaccines
no mor
Pretty good
Also we have studied lamarck , Darwin , Mendel
neutralism
symbiosis and species relations
Mendels a good study on statistics
I had to do a work about him
They reckon he faked his pea plant numbers once he saw the patterns arising in his crops. Turns out he may have been too accurate with the exact ratios he was producing
But he regardlessly advanced gene theory massively
I understand some of what you are writing but the fact that english is not my main language
and my b asic knowledge XD
Your english is still great! Don't be disheartened! It just takes time
thanks !!!
But here in spain
our education system in english is very bad
we study only grammar
Well, practice is the important part, and I'm sure you'll get a lot of that here lol
yes XD
one question
appart from gtfo is it possible that a symbiosis of parasite and virus exists?
Yes!
The closest example I know of is of bacteria and parasites being co-dependent on each other.
interesting
I'll try and find the example
Wolbachia bacteria and Onchocerciasis
Basically a parasitic worm and a bacteria
The worms require the bacteria to reproduce, and the bacteria require the worms as a host
but , the bacteria is behaving as a parasite , is not it?
All relationships can be characterised as parasitism,
but the important part is in the degree of parasitism
:\
here, the bacteria is required for the parasite
so the end result is that it looks more mutualistic
I understand , sorry but I gotta go. good conversation
ttyl!
Is there already a full lore page? I’ve been out of the loop for a while and trying to get back in.
Check the 'for dummies' document in the pinned messages

