I think there’s some lovecraftian terror potential with the red vines. When you break stabber vines a distant cry rings out. Meaning these vines might be a giant organism rivaling the size of the tree it uses as a host. And the fact stabber vines target dwarves specifically means that it can identify dwarves specifically. It’s watching you. And it HATES you.
Its definitely strange that they scream, does that imply they can feel pain? Maybe the whole system of vines has some sort of shared body and has had enough time to evolve the ability to be at least partially self aware? Kinda spooky.
After running 50+ sandblasted corridor missions collectively between the two of us, I honestly believe it would have been easier to just track Karl down and ask him where all the bones are.
I swear, I saw bones in Sands, but that was a long, long time ago when I was a greenbeard with only just my third promotion. I remember excavating dirt around it, archeologist style and I made it float in the air. (Pre floating rock physics patch)
Like, I specifically remember my first Dreadnaught fight being me zipping around a huge ribcage of bones in the sand while my experienced teammates fought it for me, but that was back before Oppressors were even in the game. It can't be that rare nowadays, can it?
@@DonkeyDongs9000 not sure, I think it was Morkite? It was REALLY early on, I may have taken a screenshot of it though. I don't have access to my screenshots at the moment (going to bed), but if you want me to check after work tomorrow let me know.
3:50 I would love there to be a voiceline of dwarves saying something like "It took so long to make them, but only so long to break them." or something like that when you smash a crystal
That map in the Space Rig is like the altimeter: Purely there for cosmetic reasons. Makes things easier to think about if you feel like the planet is conforming to logic, rather than logic warping around it with as-of-yet-unknown phenomena. Personally, I'd love to see more regions, but Management doesn't like me trying to force drilldozers through the thick barriers of compressed granite so commonly found in the more barren sections of the planet.
I love the fact this is portrayed as an informed expedition. "It may take eons to form, but it only takes second to break, heheh... You don't care. :/ "
I never knew about the ocean thing. Ive played this game for around 200 hours and there's still stuff I dont know. I should read the manual more often I guess
@@siirvend id say youre probably right. It seems like the most likely scenario given all the clues left throughout the caves. I mean the fossils we collect are helix shells. And the giant bones that sometimes appear look very "fishy". I like your explaination best
In the Salt Pits description it had said that it used to be a giant lake that had evaporated only leaving the salt from it's water behind in the caves. It also makes sense for there to be so many cave systems because of water erosion from the ocean and the asteroid impact shaking up the planet's terrain.
I want to say this is mentioned by DRG Historian as well. Pretty sure GSG mentioned that Dense Biozone was supposed to be a sort of pseudo water biome, just without the water. You can see this in the coral-like formations. They seem to be quite against the idea of introducing actual liquid water to the game for some reason.
The sandblasted corridors definitely had giant fossils at one point, I've seen them myself. They may have been removed at some point in an update to the game, either that or they're just exceedingly rare.
They need to have him voice a character. Maybe some middle manager that gives presentations of some kind during certain missions? Or briefings for special stuff? Or maybe some kind of veteran who used to run with Karl himself and now is retired and works as a semi-independent researcher?
In regards to plants exploding as a strategy for reproducing, it's actually a really good idea for the plant. The explosion could simultaneously spread seeds over a wide area and act as a method of pollination in an environment without pollinators, such as bees.
Eucalyptus trees kinda do this. Eucalyptus oil is pretty flammable, and tends to build up in the trees, so when there's a big fire (anyone in Australia or California can tell you how often that happens) they tend to explode, but they have a bunch of different methods to regrow after they've exploded and burnt down.
There are actually several plants that spread their seeds by exploding. It’s more a case of material tension and/or compressed gasses than actual combustion, but they do exist. Most notably is the Manchineel, aka the tree that said “ Fuck OFF, *I’ll do it myself!!!* ” to animals that pollinate or disperse seeds.
I forget where, but I remember reading before that in the DRG universe, Hoxxes IV is considered one of the deadliest planets in the galaxy but one of the most mineral rich. There were several attempts to mine Hoxxes before the Dwarves of DRG arrived and were the first group to successfully profit from mining the planet. I remember reading that the massive chunk of the planet hanging in orbit, was the result of one of these earlier attempts.
Huh, I do remember reading something like that but not the part about the chunk of the planet. Either way, Ill take the creative liberty here and there I suppose haha
A nice tip about the snow piles in Glacial Strata is that they also break your fall. In fact they work exactly like Engie's platforms when upgraded for fall softening. So if you're running from a swarm of enemies and you're near a huge cliff, if there's snow at the bottom, you can land on it to negate fall damage (to an extent, of course) and escape.
Despite my 180 hours as a DRG employee, I had no idea that the Glyphids in glacial strata avoid the steam vents. Thats both an amazing bit of world building by GSG, but also something that would matter during a mission!
When you showed subnautica it kinda blew my mind. Apparently I like games where you explore alien biomes & thinking about these hypothetical worlds' geology. Maybe Hoxxes IV was mostly covered in oceans before the impact too, not just subterranean ones. After it became tidally locked the sunny side of the planet becomes hotter and drier, sapping up water over many years except what became frozen on the dark side of the planet. The remaining biozones feed off the slow melt of this ice. In many more years the ice will be gone and life on Hoxxes IV as we know it could disappear. But until that time, we rely on our weapons to make it disappear a little faster. Rock and stone ⛏
holy shit! amazing video as always, definitely was not disappointed! me and the other 7... no, 6 dwarves still here enjoyed the broadcast, can't wait for more :] P.S. take a rest man, those fossils are not worth it, you shouldn't let them haunt your dreams.
I like how everything in hoxxes is somewhat alive almost in a spooky way if you think about it, the constant theme of the planet is flesh or gigantic super organisms as seen by the flesy eyes in the walls, the entire hollow bought, the growth that holds the eggs in the egg missions or the dreadnoughts cocoons that have a similar fleshy growth all over it, my theory is that hoxxes is in on itself a living being and the bugs are like the inmune sistem of the planet trying to combat a sickness or virus (dwarves), reason why everything seems to trying to kill us including the rocks (omoran hearth stone), this means that probably the glyphid queen instead of a giant bug was something far big and nightmarish looking than anything we've seen, it sorta reminds me of the Infested enemies of warframe, specially seeing they can also control machinery like bet-c at some extent.
I think much of the life on the planet has developed symbiosis or strange metabolic processes to continue living in the harsh environment. This would explain why things like mactera and glyphids work together rather than simply eating eachother. I think a lot of the flora we see may actually have been mobile creatures than adapted a sedentary lifestyle in the absence of food, reducing their need for searching by using little energy. Glyphids may be used by many lifeforms as a form of protection in exchange for providing food in some way, or in the case of the hearthstone, simply be easy to manipulate. If anything wants to live on Hoxxes IV, it either lives with or exterminated the glyphid swarm. We chose the latter. Interesting idea with the planet being a super organism though, there's definitely some odd stuff thar points that direction. Or at very least denotes thar some organisms are vast and far reaching, like huge fungal mycelium growths here on earth.
You have opened my eyes on a bigger lore I wasn't aware of, that was interesting. I always speculated that some caves were filled with water, but to actually get a confirmation to my theory - big thanks. Another admirable video made with great effort, love, continuous narration, good biome explanation order, and with solid tips. Looking forward for your other projects. Rock and Stone!
Honestly I'm a pretty beat up miner, having to do a week in med due to the fungus in that rotten place. And I have three metal toes for taking off my boots during a sandblasted corridors mission. By the way, DO NOT eat lunch near the angry plants in dense biozone.
21:33 if its a type of fungi a fresh corpse makes a great growing ground for the spores launched by the explosion, and if they survive, congrats now your spreading the spores that cover your body all through out the cave as you go
@@siirvend I'm not an expert by any means but I study arthropods constantly, in different real-world environments. If you ever need help theorizing facts or coming up with explanations for the adaptations the bugs take, I could possibly help by giving ideas!
@Siirvend heh. It's good to find some help out of nowhere. Keeps you believing that half of the pedestrians you see every day are great lads, that you could be friends with. Keeps you trusting in the humane. Just makes my heart warm seeing acts of kindness, passion about a topic, or some other random pleasant encounter. My heart would melt to see Chip's name in credits or special thanks section of the vid.
@@p_serdiuk That actually explains why I couldn't get that to work at all, I thought it was just cause of something I changed in my Breach Cutter build.
All of my time mining down there I never once thought how Hoxxes became what it was, your intro provides a pretty good explaination for what happened, almost like a science documentary, and I love it! Rock and Stone Brother!
Unrelated, but the music in the intro made me realize just how much I want strings in the soundtrack. Even just one song, man. Hoxxes deserves to be explored with and by string instruments.
For sure, though I do think the ost fits from the perspective of the Dwarves since the vibes it gives definitely scream "industrial space job". I think strings have a level of reverence to the planet and wildlife the Dwarves do not, its just a job to them and they could care less how incredible the place is haha. Though I do agree with you, I compiled that whole music pack mod to include music like this because it totally changes the atmosphere of Hoxxes, strings are great for that.
Keeping that in mind, I think one of the best ways to include it would be a wave/fight theme. It doesn’t have to be anything crazy, but maybe have some cellos as a foundation, maybe have some creeping violins to mimic all the glyphids crawling towards the dwarves. Or maybe you could have some more music variety on the space rig. It’s home after all, why not give it a bit more warmth? Have some slow, low violins playing, emphasize the view of Hoxxes below. On another note(hehe) I just thought of, what about Blade Runner space jazz? Make it an atmospheric track for exploring, really pump up those synths. And we already see bits and pieces of that in some tracks, but they never go fully into it. Idk, I understand the type of mood they’re going for, but at this point, I think more music with some different themes that are still appropriate to the setting would be cool. I mean, compare “A Distant Terror” to “Dance of the Dreadnought” or “Interstellar Nightmares”. They’re similar, but they still feel different. (Fun fact, “A Distant Terror” was actually supposed to be an exclusive song for mactera swarms, but the devs scrapped the idea of specific enemy wave themed songs.)
I know this video is a year old, but it's honestly amazing. The pace of the video is perfect, not rushed and squished down to 10 minutes like so many other videos these days. The background music was perfect, being enough stimulation to let the pauses in speech give you time to think your own thoughts. The content itself, being a combination of lore/scientific theories and useful gameplay tips is perfect. The in-universe character you play that makes little jokes here and there is perfect. This video made me feel good in a conceivable way. I genuinely feel happier and more inspired after watching this video. Thank you. Rock and stone!
Your videos, sir, are top-notch. The editing and storytelling is exceptionally good, at one point I thought they were official GST vids. Rock and Stone brotha!
Quick little perk recommendation for Dense Biozone: The cacti, including the small round ones that are scattered everywhere on the floor, also proc See You In Hell, giving you much more control over the damage boost and, somewhat ironically, they also seem to be affected by Thorns, meaning that turning their own weapons against them is one of the easiest ways to get rid of those small round cacti.
One of my favorite videogame vids are these Fictional Documentary type video, the way you crack the seriousness with clever jokes,this is mad underrated vids and easily your best work.
Wow, this channel is criminally underrated. I am genuinely astonished by how in-depth this video managed to be, especially with the seeming lack of available information at the time it was posted. I'm not sure if it is the way the video is narrated, how well the footage is shot and used, or the sheer helpfulness woven between each fascinating fact/detail, but just wow. This was phenomenal.
Imagine there being a single ring like lake located ina ring like shape in what would be the twilighr band of Hoaxxes. That could be a really interesting place to explore
Incredible video, I honestly really enjoyed the documentary style facts about biomes and history, the long panning shots are really relaxing and beautiful. this video is my new favorite of yours. Nice work Siirvend 👍
Don't forget the gas from the poison puffers in the fungus bogs is very flammable. Bring fire to fungus bogs. The gas fireball is effective against swarms and dwarves.
Very good video! I would like to talk about two things though: I'm fairly certain the hollow bough is dead and has been rotting for a while, which is how plantlife can grow in it and why there are so many decomposers (vines and corpse feeders) Also, I'm pretty sure that the azure weald is on the chunk of hoxxes that is floating in space, which is why it's so cold.
I suppose my logic with the bough was that it's partially alive but has many sections of old growth that have since died and been decomposed partially, turning it into damp dense pulp similar to dirt. The vines are referred to as parasitic so I assume they're still living on their host in some capacity though. That's an interesting point with the weald, I hadn't considered that. I based my description on the definition of a weald on earth which can result from glacial activity churning the earth and leaving behind rich soil. I don't see why it couldn't be the floating chunk though since it's ecosystem is so unique.
The biology of the silicate harvester and lootbug suggests that the life on hoxxes is not carbon based but instead silicon based, this explains why the glyphids are so resilient and why they seemingly don't need water (water usually melts and or oxidises silicon based stuff, with obvious exceptions)
@@siirvend one with the taxonomy of glyphids would be interesting Like how grunts are more closely related to slahers than to praetorians Or the fact that the guide says that menaces and acid spitters are not related at all
The idea of extremophile extraterrestrial lifeforms fascinate me to no end. Simple interplanetary organisms that sustain through environmental circumstances of a similar degree to ours seem inconsequential to those that thrive where others fail. And my father says there's no intellectual sustenance in fictional entertainment.
Thank you this is probably One of the best lore videos I have ever seen. Thank you and if they make another biome I cannot wait and see if you make a video on it.
*look hear me out, I hope one day we get a ocean-est biome SOLEY so I can get into a slap fight with a dolphin cause those cosby's of the sea need a good slappin, even if it's just a virtual dolphin, also the image of under the sea playing while you watch a dwarf swim after a bug version of a dolphin just to bludgeon it to death is strangely hilarious to me*
Another thing to note about the Bough, apparently some mining teams have found odd caverns holding 2 bits of red sugar within. It doesn't seem to be natural structuring, but it's clear no ordinary dwarf could make it either.
I was expecting a normal rundown of the obstacles to expect in certain biomes but I was not expecting the lore and theory crafting of the environments of Hoxxes. It’s really interesting to learn the possible events that occur that lead to the flora and fauna to develop. And really do cement the Glyhid hordes as a Xenomorph type creature. Very adaptive and they won the evolutionary race to become the dominant creature on the planet. It’s super fascinating to see this kind of breakdown.
Man i wish we'll ever get to do a mission on the surface, or maybe an underground mission that started at the surface, like a shallow dive or something, where it's a regular dive but the drop pod drill malfunction before it can dig underground so we got to get out and fix it on the surface
Regarding the fossolized skeletons, I would like to report that I discovered a entire graveyard of those things in the fungal biome earlier today. They are very much still here on hoxes whatever they are.
21:30 lots of plants on Earth use this technique, explosive seedpods or even explosive bodies are useful to fling seeds/ spores out in a place like sandblasted corridors I expect this is so that the explosive spores don't sap up resources like water from their parents
18:10 Teal green zooplankton gatherings are not exclusive to Escort. I fell down one in an On-site refinery mission. Had to make a pancake "staircase" and quickly set up defences as the Swarm was inching closer.
Well, here is a thing about the locations of the biomes. the mission select map say on thing but the loading screen say another. Every time I go to Azure Weld or Dense Bio Zone I see the drop pod going to the pseudo-moon. Speaking of I'm also a fan of an alternate theory of how it was made. That piece of Hoxxes broke off when Karl killed the Glyphid queen in a pickaxe strike. He was THAT much of a bad ass.
Bro that sounds so deep the first three minutes of this I’m impressed Roshan be a narrator it’s called but he has a great voice and this makes it so much more interesting if it was anyone else I would probably skip this first part but man it just sounds so good😂
18:12 The green zones can appear in any mission to my knowledge, I had multiple appear on Point Extractions, On-site Refinings, Eliminations, Mining Expeditions and Salvages, but curiosly I haven't encountered any in Escorts yet
A large majority of a planets internal heat is caused by Radioactive decay. I'd like to think the radioactive exclusion zone isnt the remains of the collision, but the cooling off parts of the planets violently shifted core
As a person with a natural science edc I can say that information in this vid sounds very true! I like how devs worked over the bioms so we can analyze it like real scientists do!
old video but perhaps the plants in the sandblasted corridor evolved to explode because that ensures they aren't fighting for the scarce water and nutrients? Blowing up would certainly fling seeds at high velocities and long distances and it would certainly keep the glyphids from nomming on em
I would like to see some biome buried REALLY DEEP. Like on Magma Core the depth is usually about 11 kilometers below the surface but I reckon Hoxxes IV is a monstrously large rocky planet, not to be compared to Earth or Venus. But regardless, there was this movie from 2003 where they sent a train with nuclear warheads into the earth's core to regulate a disturbance, and on their way inside, like 3 million meters below the surface, on the border of inner coat and outer core they found some insanely huge deposits of cobalt crystals. Would love to see a 1000 kilometer deep "special" biome with exclusive enemies or some other stuff like that. I dunno, glyphid hives or queens. You get it, some massive takedown missions, length of deep dives or even longer.
