gtfo-lore

[eternal talon]

Nah, actual meth math. Ship crashed into earth 6.5 x destination time multiplier 85 = ~7.5 trillion

[lilac island]

yeah it's a dream reference

7.5 trillion number

by the devs

[eternal talon]

Which came first, dream speedrun controversy or ogr6

[lilac island]

dunno

they either predicted it or they referenced it

pick your favourite

[eternal talon]

they went back in time to foretell it

[drowsy roost]

You can hear it, at the start of both A1 and A2, there is a loud bending and crashing sound as, I'm assuming, dimensions are starting to materialise in itself.

Also @eternal talon since I recall you mentioning it a few weeks back, I set up some code to compare text differences across logs and uploaded then to the wiki. 99% of them are, expectedly, just spelling fixes or small number changes, but hey, its now automated: https://gtfo.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Log_Comparisons

[tranquil summit]

Sorry I didn't save the first half of the screenshots

[plush nest]

what is the point of r8d2 secondary lore wise?

[coral gorge]

basically - we get lost

its like - we try to find a way to KDS Deep, go into secondary, find out its a dead end, leave

[plush nest]

basically just a wrong turn sort of deal?

[coral gorge]

normally the warden would have us do smth there but since we dont take orders from him anymore, we dont do anything there

[coral gorge]

yeah

i see it as a dev troll of sorts

”oh you did all that, why? Well for no fucking reason its just a dead end anyway”

[dusky canopy]

Well, it does let you open the supply depot room earlier. So you can deal with the tank without the pressure of waves.

[coral gorge]

Oh i didnt know that

interesting

[cold sphinx]

Well we unplugged ourself from the system ofc

After that is definitely a few days of wandering through depths until we find the main quadrant reactor core/the cooling place

Schaffer tracked us down due to the locomotions of fighting and shooting (much as to say that the massive air filtration done by us in )

How else would he caught us in recording post at the tier 5 security door

Imo is to find an alternative way of escaping or reach in a sneakier way so we could stop Schaffer before he could do anything (snatching the MWP from him, but that’s highly unlikely cause OG i think didnt know about the stuff needed for Warp gate jumping requires the MWP and the data cubes)

[burnt wren]

There is no reason for it, as far as i can see. Pure gameplay. Our lads have no reason to believe secondary is of any value to them (thanks to the fact that you never know what secondaries are about until you actually open and enter them, and they are also ALWAYS dead ends), and they are pressured for time to catch Schaeffer until its too late so LORE-ACCURATELY they should be ignoring secondary completely and not even think about it.
There are literally 0 reasons for them to even think about doing the secondary. ZERO.

Easily could be solved by some basic voicelines of the team discussing the idea and someone making a compelling argument why they should do it, but voice actors are expensive i guess.

It genuinely frustrates me how easily the "issue" is solved, but they just don't want to commit. L4D stay winning, forever.

[placid shore]

well secondary is before schaeffer even finds them

their plan was to find the other team n go with them until schaffer screwed em

[burnt wren]

I don't even know what their plan was

They get nothing during R8C2

And D2 is just straight up "no data available"

They just hear that reactor is going boom boom and are jsut "oh fuck, time to move"

MOVE WHERE? WHAT FOR? DO YOU HAVE A PLAN?

[placid shore]

well they gave the drive to the other team saying they will trust em

[burnt wren]

Nothing is happening. There's no information or reason for anything.

[placid shore]

and the progression obj says make it to kds deep through the reservoirs

till they encounter schaeffer

they could have added a different path to find OG shaeffer and kill him before he gets to ALT schaeffer as an

then in r8e2 the we do the same but with ALT schaeffer directing us through a different path and everyone

[cold sphinx]

Maybe henrik sent them the location of the control chip fryer

Oh wait

The data sphere on B4 maybe

[placid shore]

henrikson did say meet him in 10X something zone to remove control chip but he was interrupted by schaeffer

[coral gorge]

Yeah the only assumption we could make is henrikson left some log or smth somewhere detailing the instructions

which honestly im suprised we didnt get a single log or piece of info about it after A2

[gilded vine]

z108, which is one of the first zones in B3

[gilded vine]

Schaeffer likely disposes of henrikkson soon after we completely the main objecive of a2

[coral gorge]

yeah i know

but like id assume he would have left some log or smth

anything really

a fucking writing on the wall would be enough

[placid shore]

soo many lil details overlooked AAAHHH

[gilded vine]

No time I imagine

Think about it, Henrikkson only learned about the plan to blow up the complex at the same time we did

[coral gorge]

i mean... i wanna say if he henri was to die mid A2 we would have heard it, so i think Schaeffer kills him like right before B3

• the line of "whats done is done" seems to imply scheaffer did it not long ago, as he didnt get used to the thought yet

and like henrikson very quickly made some sorta plan to stop helping scheaffer so like... please give us a log of him or smth

[gilded vine]

It's definitely some point between A2 Objective completion and B3 start. This gives at most 24 hours

[coral gorge]

id say thats enough to make any preparations

[gilded vine]

and whats to say Schaeffer didn't remove this log

[coral gorge]

well scheaffer seems to be a bit of an... idiot when it comes to computers

i dunno

[placid shore]

whats a proxy

[gilded vine]

you have a point

[coral gorge]

i am still mad Henrikson just gets killed off screen after having 1 minute of screen time

[gilded vine]

basically an intermediary route

[placid shore]

all of that to get henrkison on the team just to get killed off

[gilded vine]

Same with Maddox

😔

[coral gorge]

yeah, devs when do we get B5 and C3 and D3 and E3 where we help Henrikson?

[placid shore]

||i was continuing the joke of schaeffer being computer illiterate r7d1 audio||

[coral gorge]

hey maddox atleast got as choking ASMR

a worthy sacrifice id say

[placid shore]

r8.5 prayge

[coral gorge]

yes

R8 extension

when

gib

like cmon give us an EX or E3

[gilded vine]

content irrelevant to the rundown 😔

[placid shore]

we are reeking of copium

[coral gorge]

yes

and we shall reek so much they can smell us in Sweden and do smth about it

[gilded vine]

Also by this logic the extension would end at B5

[placid shore]

was gon make a swiss joke but thats switzerland

[coral gorge]

god imagine if they would give an extension and it would be like 2 levels

[coral gorge]

hey you just gotta kidnap calle and take him to switzerland and you can make the joke

[placid shore]

now where can i find my self a calle

[coral gorge]

probably in sweden

=)

[placid shore]

gon have to wait for the next immigrant boat to get going

[burnt wren]

I thought he's Swedish, not British?...

[gilded vine]

but how are you going to get him from Sweden to switzerland D:

ain't like he can walk

[lilac island]

i wonder how the seed vault guys are doing

[coral gorge]

Probably dead

maybe its a very suprising asumption

but

hear me out

i think they died

like really really died

even

[lilac island]

yeah i know but hear me out maybe they got food in there

[coral gorge]

died for death

[lilac island]

gardens

[burnt wren]

I mean, the virus turned out to be not so bad after all, maybe they managed to isolate properly

But it doesn't really matter either way

[coral gorge]

Well they have seeds

[burnt wren]

Poor guys are prisoners just like us, just without the mutants

[coral gorge]

you can eat those i think

[lilac island]

no they not

they can leave

[coral gorge]

And die

[lilac island]

yes but they can

[coral gorge]

But i guess thats an option for them atleast

i wonder if they have their own warden

like

a gardener

grdnr

or smth

maybe thats what GTFO 2 will be about

[burnt wren]

Pffffffft

Funny thought, but there's no way to make it work

Unless you make it a single player horror experience

Where the gardens get visited by unidenfied armed individuals wearing crazy masks

[coral gorge]

Lol

wait insane theory

what if we dont warp to a diff wordline

and instead warp to the vault

and they just have a crazy garden there

Also on a more serious note

have we ever figured out why the databse states that durants jungle hasnt been visited?

Or is it just wordline spaghetti causing the databse to be from OG or smth

[burnt wren]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Oh god, what have you done

[coral gorge]

Heh

which part

The serious question

or the meme vault

[burnt wren]

Durant is there therefore its visited

Its all bullshit

I'm telling you man, writers cant do multiverse properly if they fucking tried

Or we're all falling back on the fact that its all bullshit and we're dead either way because NAMV do be NAMVing

I can't remembmer what the search criteria in R8C1 was

[coral gorge]

I mean my only idea is the database originites from OG wordline where durant ends up on destination and no one ever goes to the jungle, while we tp to the junglr ALT Durant went to

[coral gorge]

elaborate

[burnt wren]

Unexplored? Unvisted? Unidentified? NAMV unconfirmed?

[coral gorge]

unexplored

i think it was

or unvisited

one of these

[burnt wren]

BUT ITS EXPLORED, DURANT IS LITERALLY THERE. SO WHAT THE FUCK.

WRITERS. WRITEEEEEEEEERS

[coral gorge]

the tag for it was either unexplored or unvisited

[harsh saffron]

"Unsurveyed"

[placid shore]

[placid shore]

better be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war

[final sentinel]

Durant disappeared iirc. Also it could be literally any Durant

[placid shore]

is all durants different

[final sentinel]

No i mean like another dimension’s Durant

[placid shore]

so 1+1 isnt 2

thats no good for our boys

[final sentinel]

If there’s a bunch of dead Hacketts and Wood’s, there can be extra James Durant’s

I definitely punctuated that terribly

[placid shore]

i understood what u meant i was being oblivious :3

[eternal talon]

Given the description alt//Durant gave of the place he was warped to, you'd need some pretty solid evidence

Because the difference between them (consider og and alt durant) were pretty fuckin huge

[final sentinel]

I’m saying it could also be another durant

An infinite number of Durant’s exist

And iirc, there was a massive collision of a bunch of them

also I want an april fools level that has us find wherever we flushed the kraken

[placid shore]

equivalent of saying i wanna see a big log

[eternal talon]

-- the plants on the alt//Durant planet are the same variety as those that only appeared in the hot/humid jungles on earth when the dinosaurs were around -- I forget the specific period

Which would agree with his jungle-like description

If it was something like half-life's xen plants I'd agree it's probably not the jungle world and something funky different

[final sentinel]

Imagine he’s just sitting in the R6C1 pit

[eternal talon]

True, but I'd really hate for them to include a 3rd Durant dimension, with no log, just cuz'

[eternal talon]

Wdym "flushed the kraken"

There are a great many of them

And the one in r8e2 probably just dropped down the pipe to the inner when it died

[placid shore]

the r8e2 one since the command to summon it was "flush main waste something"

[final sentinel]

It made it seem like we were flushing it into the sewage system

[eternal talon]

Seems incredibly irresponsible to dump garbage down a hole straight into the biggest scientific dig site humanity has ever unearthed

(I guess technically not unearthed since it is still miles down, but even so)

Imagine alien ruins were discovered at the bottom of a bore hole in Alaska and the local government decided to just use the site as a junk yard anyway

[placid shore]

well they kinda do that with the bermuda triangle, all the failed rockets and "space shuttles" end up there

[lilac island]

I should write my thesis on the efficacy of NAMV mutated lifeforms as a pyrolysis/plasma gasification material

Grab a mom, have her sploodge her babies into a pyrolysis plant

And that's free diesel for your complex

Since moms don't have a limit to their babies

Probably hard to find data on how well pyrolysis works on human babies though

Someone should test that

Then you use that fuel in flamethrowers

And you win

[eternal talon]

i started doing calculations... stopped before i ended up on a watch list

nice try

[coral gorge]

thats much easier to test than you think

[drowsy roost]

I knew someone who did a doctorate in the architecture of Mirror's Edge, so certainly there's some room for game content 😆

[coral gorge]

lmao

ngl id write that kinda doctorate

”psychology in GTFO”

a fucking doctorate about schaeffer

[lilac island]

Efficacy of biomass gasification when applied to mammal biomass
Test subject:

[warped bloom]

subject is showing signs of paranoia

[coral gorge]

he wants a booster, but you can’t let him have it

[gilded vine]

1. He went insane
2. Power Corrupts

Done

[honest summit]

I dont get it. What tf happened to Hentikson? Did He Got killed Off the Screen? Did He leave Schaeffer and now guiding us via very corrupted Messages? Its so weird how Schaeffer Just says "what is done is done" without any further explanations

[dim blaze]

Schaeffer killed him

Because he /apparently/ found out that he tried to work with the prisoners

That's pretty much it lol

[honest summit]

Then who is giving us Orders in B4/C2?

It cant be Warden right?

[coral gorge]

Ourselves

we break free from the chips

[honest summit]

It doesnt make sense for me. How do our characters know about the alt Shaeffers plan and that they nead exactly this Micro drive?

[placid shore]

they hear him talk in r8b3

[coral gorge]

yeah

and the chip removal they prolly remember from henrikson in A2

[honest summit]

hmm. maybe i did miss an intercom because some1 cancelled it

guess i have a mission to redo for lore lol

[coral gorge]

In B3 after the lockdown apex door alt schaeffer can be heard on the bridge

[honest summit]

Hmm, sounds plausible. Although wanna listen to it myself now

[coral gorge]

its a part of Alt schaeffers talk right before B2s extract

[placid shore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtCxEW5fB4 this one

then schaeffer interrupts it saying its warden tryna fake us out

[honest summit]

Thats lame. i prefer to run the mission myself

[coral gorge]

lol

[placid shore]

then skip for now

[coral gorge]

honestly i wonder when did OG schaeffer realise there are multiple versions of us

[placid shore]

i guess when he met his counterpart

oh og

nvm

[coral gorge]

Yeah

alt defo didnt know till moments before his demise

[placid shore]

well og said he has a plan in a2 so i assume he knew then?

[burnt wren]

Still not buying that

[placid shore]

aight whats your budget

[royal crow]

why?

who do you think it is then?

the objective texts are blue
not white like the warden/schaeffer orders

so its most likely now we are in control of ourselves

[eternal talon]

Every day this chat grows shorter and shorter.

Without content, can there truly be more lore discussion?

When everything has already been covered and talked about, what is left?

An archived channel with only arrows pointing to the wiki and community resources?

[royal crow]

i was only 1 month in this chat

it was fun while it lasted

[eternal talon]

Is this what it feels like to 100% an rpg?

[royal crow]

yea

sadly

i wish they expanded more the lore

[eternal talon]

No more content to explore, nothing left to do

[royal crow]

learn more about the collectors, timelines, characters

it had so much potential

[eternal talon]

Just dormant waiting for a sequel that we won't see, if ever, for at least half a decade given the lifespan of DOW is the same as gtfos

[royal crow]

so, frosty what will you do now?

no more lore

[placid shore]

Gtfo comics when 👀

[eternal talon]

Idk. Been playing a TON of warframe recently

Still check this channel every day multiple times though

Just nothing is ever written when I check

[royal crow]

OH?

i might join you

[eternal talon]

https://tenor.com/view/gauss-warframe-running-speed-gif-5081725831452910087

[royal crow]

i havent played seriously since 2022 so i have a lot to catch up with

[eternal talon]

Whispers in the Walls is fantastic.

Just farming waiting for 1999 now

I've done literally everything else in WF now too...

Getting a full tau-forged set for my gauss

Well, all tau forged except the two emerald shards for corrosive

[royal crow]

how?

theres too much to do

[eternal talon]

I've been playing warframe since 2018

That's how

I have almost 5k hours

[royal crow]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/766831166606147632/1101522916660756490/caption.gif

[eternal talon]

Four years of abuse at the hands of a step-father that resulted in a 911 call and complete isolation from the rest of my family until divorced.

(Moved 2k miles away)

[lilac island]

how many things has schaffer bludgeoned to death

[royal crow]

holy shit

i hope you doing better now

[eternal talon]

We don't know, probably hundreds (of sleepers) at least

[eternal talon]

For the most part, I am.

[lilac island]

not sleepers dumas

humans

[placid shore]

3 confirmed kills

[lilac island]

or important characters

[royal crow]

Madox, Henri and Scheffer

[eternal talon]

Sleepers are technically human

[lilac island]

ok so that's 4 then

cuz he kilsl mimic too

[placid shore]

4 actually

[royal crow]

he kills 2?

[placid shore]

Unit 22 or 20

[royal crow]

or just one?

[lilac island]

i know of one

there might be more

[eternal talon]

I THOUGHT YOU SAID SLEEPERS DONT COUNT

[coral gorge]

also ive been wondering, is R8B3s intercepted transmission descryption part thingy refering to henrikson perhaps?

[lilac island]

mimic isn't a sleeper?

its a lab baby

[royal crow]

Hinri is already ded

[eternal talon]

If it's immune to nam-v it has to be at least a small % sleeper

[lilac island]

you get what i mean

not a monster

[coral gorge]

…you dont even know what the thing says

[royal crow]

but scheffer is also immune (how did he survived a lot of time?)

[lilac island]

it's because he specifically uses a metal pipe

[coral gorge]

it goes basically
„Wait what are you doing?
heavy clanking, heavy breathing”

[lilac island]

and everytime i come across a pipe meme i'm reminded https://youtu.be/uvBx0JDvVQ4

[royal crow]

Scaffer solos the entire GTFO universe with a metal pipe

[lilac island]

scheaffer might have gotten da namv

according to mimc

[royal crow]

ok

where

[coral gorge]

R8B3

level description

[royal crow]

bro

you are coping hard right?

you wanted Henri to live that bad

[coral gorge]

MY GUY ITS LITERALLY THE MOMENT OF HIM GETTING FUCKING BLUDGEONED

[royal crow]

nah

[placid shore]

WE ALL DO
WHATS THE POINT OF MAKING US GO THROUGH HIS ARC IN R7

[coral gorge]

ALSO YEAH

[royal crow]

well yes
you can find a metal pipe and a bloody ID in B3

😔

[placid shore]

BRING BACK HENRIKSON

[lilac island]

ah

i interpreted it as prisoners clanging a lock open

explains the shouting i guess

[placid shore]

Also didn't frosty confirm it wasn't for henrikson

[lilac island]

yeah good point cubix

[coral gorge]

what the fuck

[royal crow]

idk

[coral gorge]

ah yes casual convo of breaking a lock

lol

[lilac island]

what

[royal crow]

have you ever tried to break a lock?

[lilac island]

it could reasonably be them breaking a lock

[royal crow]

thats the USUAL convo everywhere in the world

[coral gorge]

If i had a hammer that weights a couple kilograms i probably could

[lilac island]

"What are you"
Whoa! breaks lock next to prisoner
jesus man, heavy breathing

[lilac island]

no you couldnt

the padlocks in the complex are extremely EXTREMELY shitass locks

A sledge wouldn't break a padlock

[coral gorge]

hm actually i wonder what is so magic about bat to allow it to light tap locks

[placid shore]

It'll bend it at most

[coral gorge]

Well if it’d be a shitty one

and like a decade old

[placid shore]

Isn't the complex like 40 yo

[lilac island]

who cares

decade old

it's thick as hell

[placid shore]

Things errode

[lilac island]

and visibly not rusted

yeah not in a completely still environment they dont

we're in 2040 inside a technologically advanced complex

they can order stainless locks

[eternal talon]

"Bones" but every noun is "bones"

[coral gorge]

theres bones in my bones

[eternal talon]

Yes

[lilac island]

i do wish

we had some other way to break locks, an animation

the current way is a boring

[royal crow]

😔

[placid shore]

Weld this

[lilac island]

For sledgehammer, shove that prybar in there and plonk it out

For knives, same

Bat now can't break locks

Spear now can't break locks

also sledgehammers without a prybar cant break lockl now

but they charge 0.1s faster

can't see this going wrong

[placid shore]

The sledge has a pry bar bottom

[lilac island]

not all of them

[placid shore]

Ya only the one

[lilac island]

honestly smashing locks is satisfying

i would remove bat instant breaking

because it makes zero sense

it feels better to full charge a lock. Makes it actually feel like you did something

[placid shore]

Not well thought out

[lilac island]

my idea or the isntant break

[placid shore]

Just let it 1 tap locks

The instant break

[lilac island]

tell me why

it makes no sense for a bat to break locks easier than a sledge

it's an inconsistency that makes it feel fake

reminds you that you're in a game

[plush nest]

Could spear use the butt if it to wedge it open?

[lilac island]

mayb

[warped bloom]

Why wouldnt a bat break a lock but a knife could

[burnt wren]

You can learn to lockpick with a knife, i guess?

[warped bloom]

But ive seen ppl break locks.open with their hands, I think a bat would do it

[lilac island]

yeah locks are a bit of a meme

for more information you can look up mcnelly on youtube

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wEBp3Y1cR0Q?feature=share

trying to smash open a lock is by far the worst way to go about it

especially given how 95% of locks that exist are absolutely horrible at their job

[past flume]

he is too powerful

no one is safe

[placid shore]

but you are safe in your jar

[past flume]

nothing can stop him

he can kill someone with a triangle

A FUCKING TRIANGLE

and it comes back to him

I need to find him and get him to teach me his ways

[placid shore]

learn to throw boomerangs and you'll be fine

[past flume]

I'm only proficient with blunt objects and knifes (being british has some upsides)

not throwables

[placid shore]

a boomerang is blunt if u make it out of hardwood

[past flume]

dyspraxia bro

[royal crow]

lore chat is dying

sad

it was fun

[eternal talon]

I am always here to talk

[royal crow]

holy shit Frosty were did you came from?

[eternal talon]

I watch this channel like a hawk lol

[lilac island]

inner

blud was in the inner diggin around

[eternal talon]

Gtfo lore IS my hobby

Did you forget?

[royal crow]

😔

sad no more lore

[placid shore]

Everything was dug

But not with what we hoped to see

[eternal talon]

Nah, we still had ~1km to go

Never got to explore the inner

[lilac island]

I wanted more disturbing shit

a2 sec is ok

birth log is ok

but eeh

[royal crow]

cant wait until someone makes a modded rundown of us exploring stuff we didnt see ingame

[eternal talon]

Idk man... the pregnant audio log was pretty... something

[lilac island]

I might be a psychopath but i didn't really freak out

[placid shore]

The game looked like it had some sort of mounted guns
Could have given us the boss fight of a life time or something

[lilac island]

i was too busy trying to understand why the baby teleported back into her belly

[royal crow]

honestly i have been thinking
whats this server going to do in future?
i give it a couple months more before people move on

[eternal talon]

I'd love to work more on modded rundowns, but simply have had the time to invest heavily again after I finished PT

[spare birch]

How lore accurate is this meme?

[royal crow]

100% lore acurrate

[spare birch]

(dangit just realized I misspelled hackett)

[royal crow]

GTFO R8 lore in a nutshell

[eternal talon]

One of my earliest suggestions, way back when this server had a suggestions channel, was a level that was based around refueling a giant tram, then driving it to the exit and being attacked by sleepers dropping down on the tram as it drove

Sort of like half life on-a-rail but the tram was automated

[placid shore]

Now that is like a sick idea

[eternal talon]

Slowly die out until gtfo 2 is announced in 2027

[royal crow]

😔

[eternal talon]

Very

[royal crow]

i can see that they will do a GTFO 2 in the far future

is their golden egg chicken after all

[lilac island]

i don't like how repetitive it all was

[royal crow]

if not, i dont doubt some people will take care of that

[eternal talon]

That's just due to the tile-based nature of level design

[lilac island]

yeah but still

i've finished most of the game and not much stands out to me

nor can i really remember much

[eternal talon]

I think a heavily linear gtfo 2 would do far better with manually made levels, rather than partly rng.

You could add far more detail and unique fights

[lilac island]

also honestly

the attacks are boring

[royal crow]

heavily linear story and then a separate game mod with procedural tile generation level

that would be cool

[lilac island]

oh no, tounges

oh no, projectiles

oh no, punches

no please, don't lick me

[royal crow]

😩

[lilac island]

the trailers don't even show their attacks because the devs know

[eternal talon]

Imo would do great with a dead-space style grab system

[lilac island]

they know they're meh

[eternal talon]

Make the sleepers scarrier

Get your head nom'd on by a striker

[royal crow]

nah
quick times event should have died long ago

[lilac island]

also their ai is predictable as shit

[royal crow]

[lilac island]

let them get close and stop moving, headshot them

wow gameplay

it feels weak

they have these big maws, they never use them

[eternal talon]

Better than what we have currently

[lilac island]

shooters have these big diseased blobs all over them

instead of spitting acid on you or something

[royal crow]

chat

[lilac island]

they spit just missles at you

[royal crow]

lets do our own GTFO style game but better

🙏

[eternal talon]

Or flood carrier forms

[lilac island]

yes it is that easy

just idk

[eternal talon]

Spit out parasite swarms

[lilac island]

yes

[placid shore]

Can we call it stfu

[royal crow]

YES

[eternal talon]

Where is that OG snatcher at

Lol

[royal crow]

gone

i ate it

yummy

https://tenor.com/view/bald-vergil-smile-vergil-gif-27142542

[eternal talon]

Like a super sized gummy worm...

[lilac island]

The creature designs are just missed opportunities

[placid shore]

They could have had more

[royal crow]

big vitamin gummy

yummy

[eternal talon]

(Would link ogr1 soundtrack monster image but can't because at work)

[lilac island]

Tounges projectiles and fists

[royal crow]

the only enemy i actually like is the mother

[lilac island]

And snatchers

[royal crow]

idk why but its a bit disturing

[placid shore]

It's insane how much potential this game has yet it's dying underutilized

[lilac island]

What if shooters were diseased so you couldn't really get close to them without risking getting sprayed with goo

[eternal talon]

Hello darkness my old friend

[lilac island]

And the spear was useful to avoid Getting contaminated

Kill with knife, acid on hands

[eternal talon]

Well TBF everything is contaminated

[lilac island]

I mean like specifically

Their black pods are acid goo

Corrosive or toxic

it's all so straightforward

[eternal talon]

Then you'd just immediately die if you get hit by it once lol

[lilac island]

No

[eternal talon]

We all have super thin clothes or just downright exposed skin

[lilac island]

No

[royal crow]

Woods has shorts

💀

[lilac island]

We don't

[eternal talon]

(Except dauda and his body armor)

[lilac island]

Also doesn't matter

[eternal talon]

And maybe bishop's puffer vest?

[lilac island]

2 of our prisoners have exposed heads

[eternal talon]

Depends how strong the acid

[placid shore]

Wood's puff vest

[lilac island]

Apparel clearly doesn't matter

[eternal talon]

Are we talking xenomorph?

[royal crow]

i swear to god you poke that vest with a stick and it instantly shatters

[lilac island]

We're taking irritating to the skin, will burn it if not removed within minute

Normal acid

[placid shore]

Sexy piece of clothing it's worth the shitty stats

[royal crow]

TRUE

[lilac island]

Like what if there was an enemy who was contaminated as shit so you couldn't get close to stealth it

You'd risk your seal or gear

Spear or get bent

[placid shore]

Had a similar idea when the r7 parasite/masked guy freaking out was released

Hoped for a parasite enemy that weakens

[lilac island]

Enemy variety is wack tldr

Me no like

Spitters for as annoying as they are they're actually unique and interesting

[placid shore]

Imagine sleeper dogs that bite you and infects you while also dragging you at slow pace

[lilac island]

Snatcher

[royal crow]

snatcher

[placid shore]

Or an enemy that jumps on you and starts sucking your blood

dog

[royal crow]

you know what can be funny

an immortal enem

enemy

that one shots you

[lilac island]

That's a good idea

[royal crow]

if done right it would be a cool idea

[placid shore]

Let's put it in a level where you babysit it

[lilac island]

Let's make it extremely non intimidating looking too

[royal crow]

nah

[lilac island]

Pablo hatred

[royal crow]

he will eat you

[lilac island]

That fucking guy

Is WRONG

[royal crow]

ngl

[lilac island]

He SHOULDN'T EXIST

[royal crow]

I hate Pablo

😔

[lilac island]

it is just a smaller shittier tank with anemia and male pattern baldness so he lost all his tumours

[royal crow]

the idea is cool the execution is shit

lol

[lilac island]

Dumbass pablo

[placid shore]

The concept can be made fun with a different mechanic

[lilac island]

Maybe if you made it an eldrixh horror and not jusy a shittier tank

[placid shore]

Any of you played steppenwolf the x creatures project

[royal crow]

something like the Hunter of dead space

[placid shore]

An old flash game

[royal crow]

nope

[lilac island]

I played road of the dead

[placid shore]

Ah well

[royal crow]

bro

road of the dead peak game

[lilac island]

That 2d game from 2001 made me feel more scared than gtfo ever could

Mutants

Why don't we have those here

[placid shore]

The last chapter of that game was youre being hunted by a mutated human monster and only way of getting rid of him is trapping him and using a rocket launcher to kill him on 3 different spots

[lilac island]

Well because they're zombies but

[placid shore]

Could be a similar idea with pablo

[royal crow]

yeah but Pablo is Pablo

killing Pablo with a rocket launcher would be funny

[lilac island]

Pablo is fucking stupid

[royal crow]

fucking Hackett pulls out an RPG out of nowhere

i bet thats canon in one worldline

[lilac island]

Worst execution of an enemy

In videogame history

[placid shore]

Mounted energy cannon or something

[royal crow]

i know way worst

[lilac island]

Why is pablo immortal

[royal crow]

because
plot armor

he is his own protagonist

[lilac island]

Hel weapons exist and you can swish cheese his ass

I'm too salty

[royal crow]

maybe he has a different kind of armor

[lilac island]

I'm sleep

[placid shore]

He's beyond holes

[royal crow]

remember to eat physical food my guy

then go to sleep

[lilac island]

I did

[placid shore]

Warm milk and bread

My favorite

[lilac island]

I also have tea bur the thermos i have is too good

It's been 4 hours and it's still too hot

I'll try tomorrow

Lol

[placid shore]

Thermos 🤔

[lilac island]

Insulated flask

I put tea in

Great when it's cold

[placid shore]

Oh

[royal crow]

thermos

the thing you put liquid in

[lilac island]

Warms u from inside

Very optimal

Effective and efficient

[placid shore]

Wouldn't "canteen" be a more fitting name

[lilac island]

No

[royal crow]

nope

those are different

[lilac island]

Canteen isn't insulated

[royal crow]

thermos are made to keep the cold/heat of the liquid

[lilac island]

It's just a metal bottle

Thermos are surprisingly simple and yet amazingly good

[placid shore]

I have a kettle one I prolly should get one of those

[lilac island]

They're fun for winter

Keeps you warmer

[royal crow]

sus

[lilac island]

What

[placid shore]

Got one like this but pink

[placid shore]

The gutter is full

[royal crow]

full of deez

gottem

sorry

[placid shore]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-disrespect-snoozefest-bored-tired-sleepy-gif-19085314

[royal crow]

this is what happens when no lore

:b

[placid shore]

Frosty invent some lore

Now

[royal crow]

is there a game with a similar lore style like GTFO?

worldines
eldritch horrors

funny crazy guy

[placid shore]

Nope

[royal crow]

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-spin-fan-rope-gif-25248314

im going to make my own GTFO and call it STFU

[placid shore]

Gtfo is as unique as it gets

[placid shore]

Trade mark it before the modded rundown named stfu does it

[royal crow]

oh right

theres a modded rundown named STFU

unfortunate

[eternal talon]

I did. It's called Projekt Thermonuclear. Go play it.

[placid shore]

How intricate is it

Cuz I only played one lvl with Kaiser Long ago

[eternal talon]

#hc-modded message

[placid shore]

Don't have a phone number to verify oh boy

[cold sphinx]

Nope it has already been done

Too late

[violet sluice]

Who are the meatballs and the kraken? (I assume they are intimately related due to their very similar appearance) And where do they stand relative to the parasite and the virus?

[burnt wren]

Unfortunately unknown. With current state of lore could be anything from genuine alien species that got NAM-V'd, or it could be a VERY late stage of infection.

[safe knoll]

When you have the virus for so long you gain flight

[vestal haven]

what is a neonate

I know it’s a little baby thing but like what is it

[placid shore]

baby less than 4 weeks old

[vestal haven]

why did the warden need us to retrieve it?

[burnt wren]

They were originally designed by Garganta R&D as a potential replacement for us, Kovac Special Operatives.
While we are crazy efficient - brainwashing whatever undesirables you can find into becoming drones in human skin is anything but great solution. Even ignoring moral objections aside - we just tend to fail, sometimes. Showing... normal human behavior every so often. Can't have that.
Neonates are artificial humans. Not clones. Made from scratch, as according to Kovac specifications. Bred to perfectly fit any tactical scenarion they are in, including manipulating their immune system.
Unfortunately the project never got far enough before apocalypse came. But Warden picked up where they left off and continued the project for his own means. What those are you can find out by playing Rundown 6 and listening to audio logs.

[vestal haven]

oooo interesting

[vestal haven]

@burnt wren is there any explanation for why the big hole in the rundowns looks like something shot up through from below?

the rebar and destruction is all pointed up

I’ve always been curious why

[burnt wren]

Because its literally that.

There is a whole log confirming as much.

[vestal haven]

what level? I want to read it when I get there

[burnt wren]

Intense beams of energy shot out from below the complex. Most likely energy weapons.

[rocky wraith]

hammerstein send weird audio into the 'egg' after detecting low frequency vibrations

the egg replied with laser death rays

[final sentinel]

Oh lmao

Certified Hammerstein moment

[lilac island]

Lmfaoi

[royal crow]

No new Loreeeeee

No new Lore

Lore is deaaaaaaad

🎶

[lilac island]

Lore isn't dead it's just

The samr unanswered questions are still there

We've talked about em

[royal crow]

Lore chat

how do you imagine the meatballs taste?

[placid shore]

Like sœur well done steak

Maybe acidic

[lilac island]

Meatballs?

[placid shore]

Fly bois

[royal crow]

the flying funny balls

[lilac island]

Very wet

Chunky

Chewy

[royal crow]

crusty

[lilac island]

Metal taste

[royal crow]

i guess the armored meatball is crusty

[lilac island]

Bitter

[placid shore]

Krusty krabs burgers

[lilac island]

they have way too much blood in them

[placid shore]

@eternal talon btw what happened to the thing with Schaffer telling us to go deep to a terminal and type RESIST

[eternal talon]

idk

[cunning light]

That was in the OG Story

Leading up to the events that took place in R7

Schaeffer wanted us to rebel against the warden, and that is what we did in R7.

[drowsy roost]

I thought this too, but if I remember right, the two events occur really far apart to be related.

[burnt wren]

Fairly certain the two are directly correlated

The beams were aimed at hotspots where KOVAC defences were engaging rallied up sleepers.

[rocky wraith]

Within the same three days I think

[harsh saffron]

Leads to a terminal in Og R5C3 that contains this log: https://gtfo.fandom.com/wiki/Rundown_005_Logs#DTLA-SCH-4PR.LOG
So basically what Ch0 said.

[drowsy roost]

Oh that's interesting... audio tests were around October, 2053 (QSW-EQW-S99) and the energy blast was shortly thereafter (TH5-6HN-8KU)

Cool.

I always assumed the blast was created by the Collectors, not the biomass.

[rocky wraith]

Biomass happened after

When teleporty thingies started to mess up

[drowsy roost]

Ah, I mean, Shaeffer wrote "To me, it looked deliberate. It was aimed at the creatures"

[rocky wraith]

Yup. It specifially targetted areas of high sleeper densities. And also went out of the way to kill the CEO on the surface

Which is when the coup began

[drowsy roost]

Where did the blast originate?

[rocky wraith]

The EGG

Or spaceship

There’s a log breaking down the type of lazer power it is. Basically directed plasma jets or something

[drowsy roost]

Yeah, so that's the part I'm confused about — if it was the ship — then it was the Collectors. If it were the Collectors, it doesn't make sense why they'd be responding to the audio. If it was the biomass, then it makes sense that it was aggitated by the audio and attacked outwards to destroy it.

[rocky wraith]

This was while they were sleeping and may have been triggering an automated system

[burnt wren]

That's the thing: it probably is the collectors trying to clear the scene, and it is a direct response to sleeper completely over-running the facility.

One of the engineers - Schaeffer's best mate - even reports seeing heat readings steadily going up prior to the incident. He could observe the guns being charged prior to Hammerstein's gambit.

So what, Collectors just know that Hammerstein gets the same big brain ideas in every universe and prapare accordingly for the occasion? But what is the goal of the allowing the experiment to conduct in the first place? Or intercepting it for that matter? Just a smart way for them to clear garganta of excess personel or what? They are clearly not interested in actually saving the humanity, so...

Questions, questions, questions, and nothing even approaching an answer.

[craggy robin]

We dont do that in alt rundown anymore??

[cunning light]

No we don't, since Schaeffer is not completely nuts in Alt.

[craggy robin]

;w;

rip missed lore

and gameplay

[placid shore]

gameplay is still the same but less lore since the ALT warden has figured stuff sooner

[vestal haven]

what are the weird throbbing tumors that are always near mothers?

[burnt wren]

Gameplay wise its a hint that she's around in some way or another.
Lore wise... Big shrug. Either that's how she makes her nest and gives birth outside of combat, or her tumors just somehow spread all over the place and infect the walls. Interestingly the birthing cocoons are a completely separate thing, so uh...
Sleeper hive structure makes no fucking sense.

[vestal haven]

damn

[plush nest]

Alt r1d1 is the Morse code still the same as the og one?

[harsh saffron]

Og was "Hello"
Alt is "Escape"

[plush nest]

Why did I think it was « go deeper »

[limber schooner]

i KNEW i heard this in morse... my crew said i was trippin

[coral gorge]

was there an og morse code? I thought ALT added it

[cunning light]

Nope, there was an OG one

In R4B1, in the first side zone you put the Cell into the Generator.

[eternal talon]

Barotrauma is fun. I've spent like 14 hours in the past two days just in the editor

(if you are wondering where I've been)

Building subs I will never use lol

[royal crow]

better than discusing non-existing lore

😔

[eternal talon]

The lore exists, there is just nothing new to talk about.

Unless you want to talk about the new AMD partnership as a secret ARG with secret code embedded into the ryzen 7 chip

[royal crow]

what

[eternal talon]

#game-announcements

I'm not saying it does, but you can go wild theorizing about it

That's what we used to do during luls between rundowns

Dig way too deep into completely unrelated things as if they were related on the off-chance we struck non-existant gold

Case in point: "Libro de Chilam Balam de ixil"

[royal crow]

[eternal talon]

Colonial Spanish Era Mayan medical documents and star charts, looking into it because of "flea demons", chance it was actually related to gtfo lore or the devs read it and included super secret references to it, basically zero, but we came out of the investigation a week later with memes

[royal crow]

the coping is real

💀

[royal crow]

thats interesting

[placid shore]

😭😂

[eternal talon]

(Credit to @solar nova for this one, if they even remember making the connection)

[solar nova]

Chad theory.

[royal crow]

GTFO lore chat after piecing together the most shitty theory known to man

(its shitty but it makes sense.... somehow)

[plush nest]

R8b4 secondary there is a log on the terminal to in which two people are talking about Medical records, what is that about? They say something about being part of WHO

[burnt wren]

If i guess correctly what log you're talking about - that's the WHO team members that we found out about in Rundowns 3-5 or something.
They were searching for more data on patient zero when they got assassinated by our squad on Warden's orders.

Warden was never intending to save humanity.

[humble cairn]

What was the purpose of each rundown

Was there lore in each one or did it start in like one of the middle or later ones

[limber schooner]

for as far as i know, the lore really got started in like 5 or 6, cause they didn't really know what to do with the game before that ëdited¨

[royal crow]

R6

[coral gorge]

R1 - gain access to R2
R2 - obtain the neonate
R3 - use the neonate to gain access to R4
R4 - collecting data and getting access to R5
R5 - unlocking KDS Deep
R6 - collecting data from destination
R7 - making a unit from a neonate, which gets interrupted by Schaeffer

and R8 - Getting The Fuck Out

[royal crow]

OMG

HE SAID IT

HE SAID GTFO

😩

[limber schooner]

[queen gazelle]

Such good purposes such as go to r4 go to r2 and go to r5

[eternal talon]

**GAMEPLAY SUMMARY:

OGr1: Quad first woken up. Sent to activate reactors and collect materials/dna samples from HSUs.
OGr2: Nothing important until r2e1 where we collect the Neonatal HSU for later use in r3.
OGr3: Processing the Neonate for data storage, ultimately leaving it behind for another quad to deal with.
OGr4: Nothing important -- just busywork.
OGr5: Cracking the lockdown and restoring power to KDS-DEEP so we can advance and breach its defenses in e1, ending with us giving the WRDN access to the 24,000 KSOs housed inside that were not previously accessible to it.
OGr6: Collecting the Matter Wave Projector, Data Cubes & Genome Database -- mission final interrupted by Schaeffer eliminating one of WRDN's Units.
OGr7: Dropping previous objective -- Most of the rundown spent replacing the eliminated U22 with U23 with its completion in D1. At the end of r7 Schaeffer and the newly awoken Henriksson manage to successfully integrate a Memory Stick into a BIOCOM server room, giving them partial control over the system with the restart of the E1 reactor.

JUMP TO ALT...

ALT//r1: Playing as new team, story repeats original in alternate worldline
ALT//r2: Playing as new team, story repeats original in alternate worldline
ALT//r3: Playing as new team, story repeats original in alternate worldline
ALT//r4: Playing as new team, story repeats original in alternate worldline
ALT//r5: Playing as new team, story repeats original in alternate worldline
ALT//r6: ALT//WRDN learns of OG//WRDN's demise at the hands of Schaeffer & Henriksson so plans to get rid of them by sending them away to an unknown worldline -- lying saying that it is the clean one described in the ALT//Durant logs.** --

--**JUMP TO R8...

With the continued misuse of the Matter Wave Projector, worldlines finally merge into a single strain.

ALT//Quad continues to work with ALT//Schaeffer in effort to escape.
OG//Schaeffer plans to destroy the facility as he had previously planned.
OG//Henrikkson is killed by Schaeffer after leading our OG//Quad to disable our Neural Implants.

OG//Quad ultimately kills both Schaeffers from the combined worldlines, lie to the ALT//quad, take their data cubes, and leave them behind to go to the TRUE clean worldline, thus infecting it with the virus in the process -- The End.**

• Gtfo Lore For Dummies

[coral gorge]

Honestly… am i the only person who thinks the wordline was mean to be clean?

as in

since R8s wordline is a spaghetti of multiple others

Isnt it possible the P. Insight data originates from OG wordline where durant went to destination

hence the jungle place was shown as being not visited?

[humble cairn]

What’s KDS Deep

[coral gorge]

A giant storage location belonging to KOVAC that housed biocom and a shit ton of HSUs

[humble cairn]

Oh ok

[humble cairn]

Thank u

Man the “good” ending was not a good ending

I must say

[coral gorge]

hm?

ah as in - we infect durant

well id say that part is up for interpretation on wether we do mess durant up

[humble cairn]

I’d like to think that

They finally get to go to a world that’s not ruined

[coral gorge]

Yeah, id say there are many ways we could avoid ending yet another wordline, but in the end - we will never get any confirmed info on what happens afterwards so really - its up to the players interpretation

[humble cairn]

Mhm

At least the four are still alive

[eternal talon]

it is still a debated topic that we have no answer for.

i just wrote the one i personally thought the most likely

of the 2

[burnt wren]

Yeah, and there's plenty of evidence that Warden doesn't actually care.

All the fuckery it did to slowly grind down the staff of the facility, as well as straight anihilating the WHO mission even though they are clearly not a threat.

[plush nest]

So the warden was basically actively working against them

[burnt wren]

Not so actively.

He was just doing his thing when unidentified armed individuals showed up at its' doors and started investigating.

He's right to be careful, but to straight up go "TARGET ACQUIRED: EXTERMINATE" was an overreaction from any normal point of view.

He just wasn't interested in any outside interference, which is a red fleg in my book.

[brittle finch]

By grinding down the staff you mean the other quads it made out of facility staff that hid in hsus no?

[burnt wren]

I mean that Warden did nothing to prevent casualties among facility staff

He wasn't actively out to get them, but he did jack shit to save them either

[brittle finch]

He just cared about his goal of finding a clean world p much

Or collecting

Brain no working

[burnt wren]

We still don't know what his true goal is

[brittle finch]

Ah

One thing im curios about the ending of r8 is it the og or alt group that escapes

[burnt wren]

In mimic's dialogue with Schaeffer in R6CX there was something that is either mimic's speech pattern glitch or a peculiar choice of words

The way it worded what it was saying it made it sound like they're actually here for NAM-V, and humans are ruining their perfect soup for them so they're trying to get rid of us so that earth is 100% infected.

Again: could be just a glitch of mimic's speech patterns which are not ideal, but...

[brittle finch]

I think they left it open to speculation

Aswell

[burnt wren]

Ah yes, the Half-Life 2 approach

[brittle finch]

Yea

I mean if it works it works

[burnt wren]

That's the problem: i don't think it works.

[brittle finch]

Yea

Ok poor wording on my part

[burnt wren]

A story that leaves me with 50 questions and 0 interesting answers is not a story i'm gonna appreciate, really.

[brittle finch]

Like the story hooked me in but its leaving me with way too many questions

[burnt wren]

I'm hoping they're saving for a sequel with how the ending was, but its probably cope at this point.

[brittle finch]

And considering den of wolves aswell

[burnt wren]

There is a chance den of wolves could be in the same universe. Itsy bitsy potential.

year 2040 and all that.

But i don't know... The design of things in DoW is a lot more sci-fi than GTFO is.

So probably not.

[plush nest]

I was gonna say they announced who they were and was going to say what they were doing

[burnt wren]

The thing is: all of the audio logs we have on them have been INTERCEPTED by facility's defenses systems, so Warden 100% knew who they are and what they're searching for.

They were not a threat to him in any meanignful sense.

[eternal talon]

I mean technically

A chance in infinity is 100%

[coral gorge]

OG team (yes im late by almost 2 hours)

OG follow OG schaeffer before rebelling in R8B4/C2 and then gaslight ALT into giving them the data cubes

[royal crow]

Qubert

Polebix

when do we do R7E1

[brittle finch]

eh its fine i got the answer thats all i needed

thx

[coral gorge]

Probably in like a month

once we actually get there

[royal crow]

😔

[tired beacon]

the goal of the warden was to assist the prisoners in finding a clean membrane in order to move foward past the current one which was primarily infested with NAM-V

its under the rule of the "collectors" - or is one - still not clear on that one

[tired beacon]

the mimic is a grown clone for the rise program controlled or willed by the warden - known as a conduit

it is the warden's attempt to influence the prisoners physically but fails numerous times

[tired beacon]

my understanding that

is that the collector's collected NAM-V and transported it - or crashed here into the soon to be garganta site and we drilled down, found it and released it - causing the OG membrane to become infested and causing the collectors to want the coordinates to a new membrane

its implied that almost every single membrane that NAM-V has come into contact to - has fallen and NAM-V is the primary source of life in ALL of the infected membranes

[tired beacon]

The Warden's goal could be achieved through the KSO's - its most likely intelligent enough to know what was in the facility for the most part was expendable through its takeover of BIOCOM (the program that gives us our missions)

The KSO's were always going to be more important than generic research assistant jane doe

[coral gorge]

We still cant be sure of that, the only reason it wanted to do it was to get rid of ALT Schaeffer and avoid meeting the fate of OG warden

So wether it actually wanted us to get out is a debatable question

It prolly would have been happy with everyone just dying

which is kinda what happens in the end

[tired beacon]

the coordinates we get to travel to in R8E2 are just unsurveyed - it could literally still have NAM-V

oh the possibilities

[coral gorge]

They have durant in them

[tired beacon]

durant explored them all?

[coral gorge]

nope

in both ALT and OG durant warps to one dimension

in OG its destination (desert place)

in ALT its a jungle world

aka what we see in E2

[tired beacon]

the only character im not sure on is durant

i didnt pay much attention to is him

the only character*

[coral gorge]

Reallly durant was just a scientist who got the „pleasure” of being one of the first people who were warped

in og it ends in his demise

in ALT… it ends with him getting stranded and eventually meeting OG team after E2

after that? Well either everyone dies to nam-v that og team brought with them or figure something out and start a new civilisation or smth

[tired beacon]

most likely the first one

the only thing keeping these people alive was their HSU's

[coral gorge]

Id say the last bit is up for interpretation

Like i wanna say they could all get in HSUs and wait nam-v out at that point

[tired beacon]

NAM-V was the most highly infectous disease ever spread in manking with an r naught of 17

for every one person, 17 get infected

they did have access to hsu's since that part of the building did teleport with them

possibly

[coral gorge]

Overall - the question is, did we actually bring nam-v with us through the jump gate and if there is some sorta generator to power the pods

since we kinda dont know about neither of that

[tired beacon]

we most definitley did bring the nam-v with us - with us having as much contact with major infectous fog and sleeper bites during the entirety of the game

[coral gorge]

HSUs cure the virus

and apparently ALT team did manage to remain clean… somehow

so its not 100% guaranteed but probably very likely

[eternal talon]

I'm still not confident that it "cures it" you can't cure cancer damage

It kills it 100%

That part isn't debatable

The question is if you can beat it out by entering and exiting over and over again or not

[brittle finch]

In earlier rundowns it made sense since we were in stasis for longer periods of time no?

[coral gorge]

Basically since we are only out of the pods for like a couple hours at a time, the virus doesnt manage to really kick in

this obv changes for OG team in R7s ending and R8

[brittle finch]

It only gets in superficially tehnically doesnt have time to incubate and do its thing

[coral gorge]

but even then OG stops using HSUs after A2

[coral gorge]

Yeah smth like that

[brittle finch]

But yeah thats where it gets iffy

Cus no amount of disinfectant packs can help with the exposure from r8

[coral gorge]

especially since we dont even know if disinfectant helps at all

[coral gorge]

Well yeah i meant „cure” as in kill it, as we dont really know if HSUs help your body regenerate at all

[brittle finch]

Consdiering the intro screen recommending retirement of the prisoners aswell and being unfit to deploy?

Yea

[civic compass]

Question: is there a way to catch up on lore for each rundown? My buddy and I started playing recently and I wanna see what lore we may have missed in rundown 1 etc but don't wanna get spoiled for future rundowns.

[royal crow]

there isnt any significant lore in the first 5 rundowns other than LOGs that tell the story of garganta

the actual lore of the game starts in Rundown 6

[civic compass]

good to know! are there different logs in each mission?

[royal crow]

yup

you can see which terminal have logs if the terminal says: "2 logs available"

if it says one dont bother with it

[lilac island]

just go on the wiki

probably

the lore is schizophrenic don't think too hard about the details

[royal crow]

THIS

[civic compass]

awesome, huge help for walking around and saving myself some time

[royal crow]

the lore in this game is so weird

[lilac island]

if something doesn't seem to add up then it probably just a plot hole

[civic compass]

I didn't know we were being lowered into a massive plot hole each run

[royal crow]

[lilac island]

that's true

[civic compass]

Joking, I prefer mystery for lore

[lilac island]

mystery is one thing

[royal crow]

plot holes is another different thing

[lilac island]

conflicting information and letting unanswered questions just fester is

[royal crow]

this game has a lot of them

😔

if you want to experience the lore i recommend starting R6 right away

its not hard or easy

it has decent difficulty

[lilac island]

maybe do r1 first just as a tutorial thing

idk

[royal crow]

oh ye

R1 first

[lilac island]

r2 can go away i dont care

r3 too

and r4 isnt canon

[royal crow]

LOL

[lilac island]

r4 is DLC

you can't tell me otherwise

[royal crow]

what about R5?

[eternal talon]

Technically it would be r7, since that takes place before any of the alt rundowns

[royal crow]

i wouldnt recommend a newbie R7

[eternal talon]

Ogr6 isn't accessible

[eternal talon]

True, but the question is where the lore starts

[royal crow]

technically yes R7

[eternal talon]

Technically correct, the best kind of correct

[royal crow]

not because you are correct means you are right

||this is a joke||

[eternal talon]

It's also important to note; these people just won't find the og logs OR the old corrupted ones

So they will have to turn to external community resources eventually for the full picture

Since the devs removed the og rundowns (bar r7), but didn't remove their canonicity

[wind mason]

Hi there. There a good video series/set on the GTFO lore?

[eternal talon]

Just have a read of the "for dummies" document in the pins of this channel. It should only take a couple minutes

[wind mason]

Thank you! Sadly i am too lazy to read. I want this read to me as if it was a bed time story Hence video... but yeah.

[coral gorge]

profesor scaler made a decent lore vid recently

there is also a timeline video that was made like a year ago, but it does a good job of summarizing the events before the game starts

[wind mason]

Will check him out

[coral gorge]

the timeline vid was made by infinite duck

[wind mason]

This guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wZwIp81xt8

[coral gorge]

yeah

its really well done in terms of pre game events

and for the ingame events profesor scalers last lore vid is prolly best

[wind mason]