liquidators - Tense & Terrifying Chernobyl Game About the 3 Brave Souls Who Saved Millions of Lives Read More: www.freegameplanet.com/liquid... Get the game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/13...
Not only did these 3 brave men risk their lives to avert a colossal catastrophe that would've claimed millions, they actually survived the ordeal even through the whole thing was deemed a suicide mission from the start -- and they volunteered! That right there is the definition of a badass.
That's largely a myth, born in the 1980s and continued to this day to explain the loss of life and to try and give it value when it had none. They were sent up there with no useful protective equipment to do a job that didn't need to be done and had no effect beyond killing them in one of the most unpleasant ways we have yet discovered. The worst part of this, of course, is that it was for nothing. The most bitter pill is the one least likely to be swallowed so, of course, they had to be heroes. They saved thousands, millions, from an unstoppable tragedy, snatching them from the jaws of death! What was at first a kind lie told to parents on doorsteps and outside hospital rooms became a national legend. Sometimes propaganda forms not because anyone decided to do it, but because reality hurt too much. And I can't being myself to criticise these people.
After years of hearing about Chernobyl, I only now realized that the reason this is so risky is because a hazmat isn't enough to block Gamma radiation.
@NappyHeaded_ZeroCombs Actually you'd need a shield to be about 13.8 feet of water, about 6.6 feet of concrete, or about 1.3 feet of lead to stop intense gamma radiation. So, you're boned.
NappyHeaded_ZeroCombs mate, we‘re talking about a nuclear reactor to power an entire country here, not a low energy medical device lol radiation isn’t radiation, type and intensity matters a lot
NappyHeaded_ZeroCombs The comment was about Chernobyl and it’s produced gamma radiation, the video is about Chernobyl and it’s produced gamma radiation. And you said it would protect "them". So how are we supposed to know that you aren’t talking about Chernobyl and actually know the difference and that lead vests don’t protect liquidators? What you wrote simply was wrong in this context, you can just admit that and move on, no need to double down
Finally someone has remembered those guys. Almost 40 years and this is the first production about them, just them. Even the Chernobyl serie don't mention them as they deserve. It's a shame in my opinion. Very good game.
Wasnt there a while section during the cleanup that focused on the three going into the reactor building and sealing valves? Like sure they didn’t use the exact names but their efforts weren’t forgotten.
The series has them. Also in Russia, a film about this event is being prepared, but it has nothing in common with reality. Well, just like in this game.
Because the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union. Not only were the higher-ups desperately smothering as many details as possible relating to how bad Chernobyl had been, they declared the three engineers dead at the time. Getting enough details to write a screenplay has been... difficult.
Incredibly, in real-life all three of the Liquidators survived. Borys Baranov eventually died in 2005, while Valery Bespalov and Oleksiy Ananenkoare still live to this day. Most of Europe would be a radioactive wasteland if it wasn't for this guys. Never have so few done so much for so many (to paraphrase a Winston Churchill quote about a different historic event).
That's..... just amazing. The radioactivity in The Foot was so high it meant death to anyone who was close. I think it had around 10 times the doses required for you to die around a week of pain and skin peeling
If you want to go down a rabbit hole, start looking at the Chernobyl after-effects and how nature thrived without humans, there's a lot of interesting photos and footage.
May I mention that all 3 of these men being selected to go in there was actually a suicide mission. Suicide mission as in they knew very well the worst possible thing that could happen to them during or as a result of the mission was death. They all acknowledged this 100% and still went in to turn the valves, drain the water and complete it. Those are true heroes- they deserve the highest honor of any type in the world.
Although they did this knowing the risks, I think it's a cool fact that they didn't even know what radiation was, and wouldn't have if their comrade didn't explain to one them what radiation is. They we're only told after they raised question, and unfortunately would have been forced to do so anyway. refusing a command in communist Russia will only land you in a Gulag.
@@kill3rbamb146 Yes you are 100% right! However, the state of Gulags in Communist/ Soviet Union ; Ukraine(Which is where it happened), it would be less likely for you to be placed in a Gulag during the 80s, their significance was being shut down during the time due to a disagreement, not like a protest or rebellion, but an actual disagreement in the government which over time lead to the disbandment in 1990-91. However, you are still right about the Gulags, in the sense of anyone being 'anti-soviet' or 'anti-nationalist' to the Communist worker-state society, you would be placed in one.
@@kill3rbamb146 They wouldn't have been gulagged, or even punished. Dear god, do you think the entire soviet era was just 80+ years of stalin? However it would have been hard for them to find another job, as their reputation would forevermore have been "those people who abandoned their duty when they were needed most of all". How could anyone ever again have trusted the guys who turned and ran the moment their job suddenly became the most important job in the world? They were, without a shadow of a doubt, heroes going on what they presumed to be a suicide mission, but for them, it was more or less just their duty and part of their job.
I'm impressed that this game is so tense and scary without a single enemy in it. Brilliant sound design makes such a huge difference. Edit: I fucking know that the "enemy" is the hyper-deadly radiation you great apes lmao
The key factor here is that this happened irl and that Europe was almost reduced to an irl Zone. Knowing this increses the scare factor. Props ro the devs
And the radioactive thermometer thing (I forgot what it’s called) makes a clicking sound, making you feel like there’s some creature making that sound.
Wow they got the ambience down right. When you know the whole story to the tragedy it makes this game somewhat terrifying. All the brave men that went down to that core to try and stop it from a meltdown are real hero’s in my book.
In 1986 just after the incident, it was so extremely active that direct exposure could kill you in an order of minutes. It has lost a lot of it's radioactivity, though exposure to it would most likely result in a much shortened existence. They had that problem as well at Fukushima Daiichi where the extreme radioactivity in the primary containment vessel's would destroy robots before they could see anything inside them.
@@bower31 it was actually seconds, the first picture that they got from it was obtained thanks to mirrors and a camera since getting as close as 5 meters would basically wreck anything organic or machine. I'm gonna be honest... That's the stuff nightmares are made of
@@h5skb4ru41 imagine how nuts it would be if humans are around long enough to see Chernobyl completely inert, and be able to see the Elephant's foot up close without gear on, knowing full well its mere presence had killed dozens of men before.
God that bad ending is the most terrifying ending ive seen in ages, and its scary because of how it almost happened, if Chernobyl wasnt contained most of eastern eruope and the connecting middle east would be irradiated hellholes. that ending really gets across how close we got to one of the worse disasters in all of human history almost rending alot of the world inhabitable
This was a true story. None of them had radiation sickness. They had to dive into the cooling system to deactivate the others. Edit: forgive me if the information i uploaded is inaccurate
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act in spite of it." -FDR (At least this wording of it) I can only wonder how utterly _terrified_ these three men had to have been while doing this. And yet, they did it, and saved millions.
According to one of the dudes, they were not completely informed of the risks and were just following orders. What they did was amazing, but the guys themselves say they're not heros.
Don’t know if you know this, but that stuffs called Corium. And it’s the most radioactive substance in the world. It’s basically a large mass of radioactive lava that when hot, can be as hot as the sun. Around 9:00 in the video. It shows the elephants foot. Which is the largest mass of Corium in the world. And is still hot on the inside of it and warm when you touch it.
Indeed, its a shame that it isn't used as an educational media more often, mind you, history is of course quite multifaceted and layered so in terms in adaptation it can be a bit rocky but, hey, games like this? Excellent exception to the issue, just works so well
@@francomarrocu7430 i played the old call of dutys game for the ps1 or 2 and the orginal xbox and usually subtitles were on and i tried to read them but i couldnt. so i would get my parents to read it for me and they got sick of it so i didnt wanna make them mad so i would read 24/7 just so i can play my games yeah am pro gamer
9:06 I think that flaming blob of radioactive goo is in fact Elephants Foot (a substance so radioactive that you will die if you stand next to it for 5 minutes). When ABG gets near it, his Geiger counter breaks and says ERR (error). This means it is so radioactive not even a Geiger counter can handle it. But I don’t know if it is elephants foot, it’s just a guess.
@biohazard0956 DOOMGUY the elephant foot hasn't melted down any further since 2016 as it is now room temperature. It still deadly radiation but it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
not all materials were called "elephant's foot" because the so called was one spot only. The substance was called "corium" and was a mix of super hot nuclear fuel and other materials molten from the reactor.
@Freddy Manchild While comrade does mean 'peer', it feels redundant to say both 'comrade' and 'soldier' together, because people assume you mean 'fellow soldier' when you say comrade, it is the secondary meaning. And soldiers fight other soldiers, yes, but not their fellow soldiers, so I don't understand what that part is about.
@Freddy Manchild What are you even going on about? You said that 'Comrade' cannot mean 'Soldier' (which I agree with, the secondary meaning/assumption/connotation is 'fellow soldier') because not all soldiers are allies, and I clarified that I think it means 'fellow soldier', and now you are going on about soldiers not being terrible people when I literally did not even say anything about that. You tried to talk as if there are no allies in wars whatsoever. It does not matter if team Red and Blue consists of sympathetic people who only want to protect themselves and their country, because I was referring to their official alliance, Red soldiers are eachothers' comrades and Blue soldiers are eachothers' comrades. Edit: And if Yellow is neutral, then they're comrades to both Blue and Red. Nice quip there, never saw it coming. Nobody will ever need to make a joke about your username though, because it already is appropriate. Seriously, calm down.
@Freddy Manchild RU-vid deleted your comment because you used the N-word (I can't believe I am referring to the word as that instead of using it). Mate, just look it up, 'comrade' when used alone implies 'fellow soldier'. Trying to say that that cannot be true because not all soldiers are allies makes no sense. All of them are not allies, but many of them are. If a soldier forms friendship with a soldier from a neutral or even hostile side, he could still call them comrade if he wanted to, in the same manner people call their friends their 'family'. You're just trying to deny connotations/social phenomenons.
@Freddy Manchild Mate I know you ain't but it's best you post your sources before people go on your statement and believe it as is being rest assured they were paid well but that ain't the case www.rappler.com/entertainment/tv/233073-diver-portrayed-chernobyl-tv-series-says-he-is-no-hero Rappler states that Oleksiy Ananenko has a pension of 417$ (Around 369 Euros) I couldn't find Valeri Bezpalov's Pension but that might be due to DuckDuckGo's Failure to get similar news results But nonetheless I just wanted to know this information I suppose it is better to research than to blindly trust one's own word but still you get my point It was also said one of them was paid very little so much so that the pension they earned was less than the cup of tea they were drinking
@@seantaggart7382 nothing? OH he deleted his messages? ah he started saying how Oleksiy Ananenko and Valeri Bezpalov's Pension was revealed and that they are living fine I wanted to know Freddy's Sources as to how this came to his mind he messaged me back saying "I'm not google buddy go look it up" and that I did found out only Oleksiy had his pension revealed and not Valeri I meant no ill intent in any of the messages and he sent I think one final message that basically meant "This isn't a College thesis pal you don't have to be so anal about RU-vid Comments" and then I replied with still it'd be great to know where you read it from and then the conversation sort of died from there
Despite the graphics looking like a Windows 98 game I love the sounds and atmosphere. No scary monsters, or humans, just an enemy you can’t see only hear as you get closer and closer.
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 yeah if theres a monster or a horror game with a monster it would be great and scary. like just a tall pixilated figure just standing at the hallway
> The Soviet version is this "One of the Chernobyl reactor was damaged and some people was injured/dies" Actually, real official version was "Soviet nuclear power plant fulfilled a five-year plan to generate thermal energy in 5 milliseconds".
2 things. One that a reactor exploded and a big catastrophic explosion that would make half of europe uninhabitable reactor explosion real. And the other one? Almost. But that place is real and it seems as if it all is not real but that it is real just makes it scarier
I really love how this game looks very grainy. Reminds me of the grainy pictures that were taken of Chernobyl that were only grainy because of all the radiation. Really helps to give the feel of how dangerous and radioactive this basement is
This. Is. Badass. I had no idea there was a goddamn Goon Squad of literal heroes that saved the world during the Chernobyl Incident. Also, fun fact if I recall correctly: Alcohol helps to stave off the affects of radiation poisoning; many of the survivors of Chernobyl were drunk off their ass during it. So, technically, The Liquidators could’ve been drunk during their voyage.
i can only agree with this is not the samr horrot with some stupid monster that cry blood and stock screams here thete is istead the ambientance and the pressure and how criticaly desperate the situation is
@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry yeah you don't need monsters to make something scary just put people in such a critical situation where everything is so uncertain and unsafe like entering an extremely polluted facility and having the thought of dying by radiation that's scary af
@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry and to think they had all of that pressure while entering that radioactive place not knowing if they would come out alive or even complete their task
that's a very good example of what a difference good lightning can make in a game that's meant to be atmospheric. it's like seeing photorealistic pictures through a very pixelated camera view.
So if anyone else is interested extremely high levels of gamma radiation can cause electronics to fail which might explain why the flashlight goes out.
My heart was beating so fast. These men saved all of Europe, maybe even the world. they risked their lives and volunteered when no one else would. True heroes.
@@randomfish2054 wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOoOoOOoooOOooooooOoOOOoooOOOOooOOOOoooOoOOOOOoOooooooOooOOoooosh. thats how far the joke flew over your head
radiation flys over you all the time, you might not even notice it, which means small parts (like tinsy bitsy small parts) of Chernobyl flew right by you at one point
I've actually been to Chernobyl and Pripyat, there are many stories of these liquidators, thousands of them were hired over the course of just a couple years to bury or somehow neutralize radioactive materials. It was a massive effort and still to some extent goes on today, not by liquidators of course, but people that manage the exclusion zone. There are villigers that live inside the exclusion zone that never even left. They dont believe the radiation to be a big threat...and I guess they were mostly right in a personal way. The Ukrainian soldiers, the workers in the area (the plant still produces power!) even the stalkers are all great people lol.
If I'm not mistaken only one reactor is operating and is set to shut down soon. Edit: just checked. All reactors are offline, 2 and 3 were shut down from other incidents, 3 likely caused by the total destruction of 4.
@@synthwavecat96 that's weird because I was there last year and our guide told us one was operating and it looked pretty busy in the area, but according to the wiki page on it, it's been closed longer than that. I dont know what to say other than somethings not right here.
The fact that Europe's uninhabitability would have lasted for thousands upon thousands of years is what chills my bone, and stills my breath, more than anything else. This is more terrifying in my mind than any monster game or serial killer game.
@@ryarod The effect of nuclear radiation or meltdowns on an area are largely exaggerated. The main issue that Chernobyl posed wasn't actually the radiation, but rather the catastrophic structural failure that it was posed to cause, which would've spewed radioactive dust across the continent. Of course this wouldn't have made it uninhabitable, there's just a high chance that it would've increased radiation related illnesses with increasingly less symptoms showing the farther away you get from the NPP due to the radioactive dust settling.
@@ryarod He is right, here is a scientifical explanation on why that would never have happened: science.fusion4freedom.com/why-a-nuclear-reactor-cannot-explode-like-an-atom-bomb/
That was all based on The China Syndrome. The term came from a movie that came out the year before Three-Mile Island melted down first. I think the China Syndrome has been debunked after Fukushima-Daiichi. The China Syndrome consists of the molten reactor reaching the ground water and heating it up causing radioactive steam eruptions under the whole connected water reserve pumping more radiation into the air. Its still up for debate however.
@Slatsky August just think about it just staring at it means you would just die there, the thought of the last thing you saw was the elephant's foot staying there majesticly yet so horryfingly is just unsettling something so dangerous that can kill you by just getting close to it
>be me >play this at 1 am >have thermos of hot tea on desk >hot air escaping from thermos makes clicking sounds >pause game >Geiger counter sounds don't stop >aaaaaaaAAAAAAA
9:05 - The Elephant's Foot of Chernobyl - Was still emitting heat in 1996, 10 years after the meltdown. Still radioactive, but only 10% of its initial potency. You can see pictures of it online, and they're grainy *_NOT_* because of camera quality, but because of radiation affecting the film.
I think they should add a 3 player co-op to this and have each person do the different objectives and if one fails then one of the other players would have to rescue their fallen comrade and complete their objective for them
Only watch or play the game before doing this. It's because of spoilers. 20:12 good ending. 21:49 bad ending. An ending too terrifying, it nearly happened in real life.
I like that this is even more horrifying because there is no jump scare. Just a lethal industrial accident that you need a geiger counter to understand how bad it was.
I wouldn't be afraid of being attacked here, there is NO possible way ANYTHING is alive there, death by radiation on the other hand is fucking terrifying and horrible
There surely can be no jumpscares, but there were some very suspensive things reported by liquidators: 1. Lights had unusually high failure rate, you had to bring spares. Still, there were times the only light source kept working was the counter display backlight. 2. There was a lot of twisted and sharp metal lying around, often concealed beneath rubble and water. And if it punctures your suit, you're basically done for. 3. It was hard to navigate, you could easily got lost.
That's kind of a recurring thing though: Media is very heavily influenced by a countries past, even horror. Think about japan and the kaiju genre. The originator of the entire genre was Godzilla, which itself was inspired by the bombing of nagasaki and hiroshima. The chernobyl reactor is etched into the media of eastern Europe in much the same way, creating things like Roadside Picnic, Stalker and Metro 2033.
Id like to see a game on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and how the Japanese Gov did NOT do anything like this to prevent it from bad to worst.
according to what I heard from @Plainly Difficult channel describing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Japanese did more work trying to prevent the reactor from exploding than compare to Chernobyl. All I heard is that Chernobyl already exploded before the Liquidator come in to prevent it from worsen. So I think Japanese government did it better & faster than the Soviet Union. In my opinion Soviet Union are like China, they do hard work trying to fix a problem... but LATE.
@@sety5591 PLease see the environmental impact caused by the Fukushima incident: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Image/GA/C2EE22019A image.slidesharecdn.com/fukushimanucleardisaster-151120092714-lva1-app6891/95/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-5-638.jpg?cb=1448189867 Does not look too effective tho. also, coverups: www.fairewinds.org/demystify/japans-nuclear-cover-up-continues-nine-years-after-the-fukushima-disaster
@@ddjohnson9717 Japan was lucky that the wind blows the radioactive fallout to the ocean, and it is the largest ocean and the fallout almost cover the whole width of it! but also it taught us that it is very hard to fix a nuclear reactor once it is damaged.
This has to be one of the craziest and most badass stories to come out of the Chernobyl Disaster. It's insane that hardly anyone speaks About these 3 men who Volunteered their lives knowing certain death would come to them just to save others lives.
From the Title Alone it got my attention. Big BIG Respect and Thank You for those who sacrificed their lives in Chernobyl The second ending gave my Spine the Horrors... yeesh...
20 000 years sounds excessive considering the nature around Chernobyl is thriving today, but the steam explosion would tear the reactor apart into dust and carry this dust of literal uranium over most of Europe. I believe the risks of nuclear energy are often exaggerated, however safety is very important and is taken very seriously in nuclear plants. Chernobyl was cheaply built and poorly managed.
@NappyHeaded_ZeroCombs not really with the tecnology of today nuclear energy is more secure and more efficent and also is just question of know how handle this type of thing you cannot on solar and wind energy they are too expensive to mantain and produce too little to be efficent and oil and fossi stock energy is strong but it pollute the air and the earth aswell the water
@NappyHeaded_ZeroCombs @NappyHeaded_ZeroCombs That was a uranium fueled reactor. Thorium fueled reactors or uranium fueled reactors converted to run on thorium would have none of the risks of a uranium fueled reactor www.wired.com/2009/12/ff-new-nukes/
this was really impressive. The sounds and the music really threw me into the severity of the situation. It makes you think how frightening it must have been to be in there i felt kind of emotional watching, actually. To think how many people were affected....
Isn't that the hospital basement where the liquidators clothes were dumped after the whole thing? The Elephant's Foot was extremely radioactive but it's not that bad now due to it decaying while that basement is still "warm".
@@pimiento3428 That's the really terrifying thing about it... It wouldn't need to, just looking at it could dose you with enough radiation to kill you. There's no running away from a monster, no hope of it. Just being near it long enough can kill you.
brilliant! a very well thought out and developed game, I hope these guys keep at it. a little polish and more game play and a game like this would end up as a AAA game. Its nice to see a game that you don't have to kill stuff and there's so many nice mechanics to the game that your not just playing for the atmosphere. Nice find ABG
