Lore of Horizon Forbidden West: Hot Zone Crisis 

I am so glad you did an episode on this, because throughout two playthroughs, I could not figure out what the heck was going on with the Hot Zone Crisis.

There is something addictive and beautifully tragic about finding the surviving fragments of these tragic ghosts of Aloy's past and our future as we explore the world of Horizon, and yet there is also something so satisfying, haunting and fulfilling hearing you lay it all out from end to end with so much depth and that twinge of sadness. Thank you RSQ!

Man, the lore in this game is so deep that Guerrilla can go in so many ways with this franchise! I'd honestly love a TV show that documents the events of the last few years of humanity. (The Faro plague, Enduring Victory, Zero Dawn, and the inevitable extinction of life)

The Hot zone Crisis was such a tragic but incredibly interesting conflict. Especially cause it could happen in real life.

A clever way for Guerrilla to give us another Killzone without doing another Killzone is to do a JTF10 or even an Operation Enduring Victory game.

I want to see DLCs expanding on the Quen and Tenakth. It was so great to see in areas and side missions Aloy get acknowledged as riding on the wings of ten after that story mission.

Has someone born and raised in the American southwest, this is definitely my favorite part of the game lore. Thank you for doing such a good job with it. Also bonus points for correctly pronouncing Nevada ;P

God I love the amount of effort and time you put in getting the Lore together. It put into perspective how great the story telling is in the Horizon series through everything u need to find

Thank you, I wasn't able to find these datapoints so it's good to see the full story. Please do this for more of the pre-war stories, like the actions of those destroyers off the coast of San Francisco.

The JD-10 fight against the machines remind me of Overwatch fighting against the Omnics, and I respect them for their skills and tenacity. Good to hear that their sacrifices are memorialized and respected by those that came after. The mission to that museum and meeting Tenakth tribe is my favourite in Forbidden West.

The one topic i wanted to know thanks, i have a theory Lis Sobeck father a solder during the hotzone crisis and probably died at the Mojave desert explosion, it could explain why Elisabeth is anti war and resigned from FAS because she wanted nothing to do with war machines and founded Miriam Technologies. we know she was very close to her mother but her father is nowhere to be found, maybe her parents where divorced at a young age she acted out by nearly burning the ranch down killing chickens and her mother giving her that pep talk at the end of the first game.

I can't wait till we start talking about the new tribes and machines of the Forbidden West. Those have always been my favorite videos in this series.

Hmmm I can't help but wonder, pheraps this event led to the development of the biomass energy conversion system, as it would stand reason that nuclear powered drones would be abandoned. It's as people say, one tragedy leads to another.

I LOVE how much John Gonzalez, Ben McCaw, et al, have looked at the way things have gone, and, are going - and how our technological progress could well seal our fate if we don't keep a check on what we do , and how.

I love this episode, because I didn’t get too deep into this part of the lore. Thanks for postin’, and keep questin’. 😎

This horizon story from zero dawn to forbidden west is just so fascinating. Imagine of there was chronological movies about this series from the beginning of humans evolution of constructing these robots to the end of humanity to the start of gaia reconstructing the earth and human population, to aloy being born and exploring everything to defeat hades, exploring the foridden west, defeating the zeniths and to the start and end of nemesis

I love these lore videos. It's such a good job on your part dissecting every part.

Thank you so much for putting this into a video. I requested this subject (and how the JTC-10 legacy was incorporated into Tenakth culture), and you came through. 🙏🙏🙏 look forward to further videos on this.

Just finished the game today now I'm waiting for RSQ to give me all the info and data points I missed while playing...

Thank you, I'm very glad you discussed this in detail. This is a fantastic video! The many deep and detailed stories from the world of horizon impress me, its nuts to see all the hard work and dedication that went into this!

I absolutely love these video's, due to the excellent & detailed storytelling. Great job as usual!

it was good to hear you put this story together! its helps smooth out the story they created good work!

Thank you. As usual an awesome deep dive. I’m missing some datapoints and some of this was unclear to me. Thanks for putting it all together. I’m working on my second play through now with the intent of getting all the datapoints this time around

I waited so long for this series to return maaaaan good to have lengthy lore dump vids on Horizon again 🙏🏾💯.

Thank you for shineing some light on a new subject again

Thank you so much for continuing your IMPECCABLE AND AWESOME work!!! 🙏🙏

I absolutely love lore videos, thanks a ton :)

Wow. This episode brought tears to my eyes, not just because of the legend itself, but because of the impeccable presentation. Thank you so much for deepening the lore of Horizon with such care and respect. Seriously, my man, you are one of the best around at adding life to game lore of any kind...

I can’t express just how awesome it is the time and dedication you take to put this together for us and make the Horizon series a more immersive experience for us. Thank you so much!!!

I’m so glad you came back in full force after forbidden west released I had been binging your videos when I finished the first game

As soon as I started listening to the Hot Zone Crisis audios, first thing I thought of was you deep diving into the lore lol.

So happy someone covered this

I really want you to do the utaru metal world. Ever since you broke down Downtown Denver And showed I was slaughtering mechanical saber tooth tigers in downtown square I enjoyed your efforts. You also helped shed light on a lot of things that were over my head in the Frozen Wilds expansion. I hadn’t really cared that much for it due to you needing to be invested in it and it being vague and scattered until the whole picture is revealed.

Splendid job as always can you do 1 on the Sirius Colony please.

Keep ‘em coming!

Seeing what Phoenix, AZ is going through right now makes me nervous

Great video!

I got goosebumps multiple times watching this.

Something that I don't see discussed enough about this game. Did the US Government nuke their own people to put down a conflict of executive overreach?

Would love a deep dive video about the Utaru tribe. Their culture is fascinating.

I was waiting for this one, bc the datapoints made my head spin so I was like I'll just wait for RSQ to explain it 😅 thx

Awesome video! I love these lore vids! Do you think you could do one talking about the Fate of Ted Faro? And HOW he exactly became the living tumor? I think its important to note that the doctor who told him to sit near the reactor because he KNEW that would increase the mutations. Kinda like a final "go to hell for all you've done" Ted Faro is such an interesting and great villain. He always talks like hes the good guy, but he's just so TWISTED

Now this puts a smiley in my face.

I'm here to say I love your videos and I live in Lancaster, Can.

Huh odd, I didn't get any notification for the video, only showed up on my recommendations. Great video though!

What makes this game so good is the fact that it can all happen, and is happening.

Kingdom Hearts IV announced out of the blue. Man I can't wait for the Horizon 3 announcement next year.

I love the lore of this game so much, really hope forbidden west gets ng+ tho, so i have a excuse to replay it

Hey, great video, thanks. But why didn't you mention the high probability that the General Syntetics drones were controlled by Vast Silver (AI controlled by the US government)?

Can't wait for HZDFW to come to PC

Could you do a video about the locations that each sub-function fled to after the destruction of Gaia Prime and possibly speculate on the ones that were not mentioned

I'm surprised it took that long for a robot power core to crack leading to a nuclear explosion if that is what they have been powered on. Like how do you store that much nuke in one robot and how did none of the other robots in the zone experience a chain reaction when hit by a nuclear blast, which would have cracked their core as well, igniting their own energy storage? The only thing that can explain this was that this combat drone was not a normal sized one, but rather a titan class, not from Faro obviously. It would explain why the blast was so huge, and how Faro can sell the idea of DISINTEGRATING BIOMASS as the fuel for his drone. At least that wouldn't leave the world radioactive for years and cause unintended casualty.

Informative, on point and well crafted as usual. Thank you so much!

I wonder if there is any more information on ECO-ANON.

I see new lore content, I click.

even if they do Not know it all. Feh. (08:49). Heh. Damn Theodor. Damn Hank, etc. Reugh. very Unfortunate still unless they get to that ship before the Rampant out there gets here.

In real life what is going to kill most folks directly in terms of climate crisis is wet bulb heat events. At some point the heavy AC use in a major city in the world will cause a power outage during a heat wave and when the heat and humidity reach a certain point it will kill most of the people in the city. Essentially, the climate only needs reach a tiny margin above average before a single power outage will be enough to kill everyone in downtown nevada, etc. This will likely happen within the next 10 years in real life, and horizon’s story is absolutely the most grounded depiction of it i’ve seen.

My first time walking through the grove, I assumed it was some cheesy lazer tag story line that was being told by the malfunctioning holograms.

Please do the Tenakth, Utaru, and the Quen.

Have you noticed that this video about JTF-10 was released on the 10th?

Another phenomenal video by @RandomSideQuest 👍🏽🇧🇷🇺🇸

First time I arrived at the grove I thought the 10 fought in the war against the faro Machines

Bro the time you put into these vids are absolutely amazing!!! Thank you for the time and effort. So the “10” tht the tenakth revere was from the museum exhibits for Medina and his fights?

That’s so fucked up man, the US should’ve just left the the southwest alone. Instead of trying to take the mining resources, they could’ve engaged in trade.

so convoluted

or the Whole of Man. you know. [shrugged] (07:33).

How long must we wait for a lore dump of The Quen 🥴 the community needs you to talk about the Ceo and their way of life and thirst for knowledge 🙏🏾.

Hey RSQ, do you have all audio data points? And also world data point #63? I'm missing 4 audio data points and that one world data point. Just wondering if those are glitched or not. Great vid, btw! The HZC was pretty spread out in the lore, but as always you did a great job compiling and explaining it!

Hold on, how can an executive order be passed by The Congress? Executive orders are issued by the Executive Branch, outside of Congress. The Congress, as the ultimate authority, of course, can overrule the President if it chooses to.

I have a question that I sent by email to you using the email adress on your youtube profile. Is that still accurate?

Gorilla games really needs to understand the desert southwest because they have gotten the region’s history totally wrong

*Question* *SPOILER ALERT!!!!* . . . . . . . . . *How did the Quen know about Ted Faro's bunker - Thebes?* The Quen have an older version of the Focus, so they can only read older documents. By the game's context, my understanding is that the Quen cannot access any documents since the start of the Faro Plague. I am making this assumption because the Quen do not know about the Faro Plague or the following events, and hail Ted Faro as a hero. So I am assuming they *know about the Clawback but not about the Faro Plague*. In this case, how do they know about Thebes? Because Ted began building Thebes only after the Faro Plague began.

If there is a third game I want to see an Indominus Rex machine!

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@Random Side Quest I found a video where some found a datapoint about vast silver, something about human digital transcendence. And I think this could be a small or big hint on what might happen on the third game. Also I’m also convinced the the title of the last quest singularity is also a hint for the third Horizon game. It’s titled “REVISITING THE MIND UPLOAD” It was by a RU-vidr named @TheRedFox788 I’ll share the link to the video here. I hope this interests you. Also thank you very much for doing an episode about the hot zone crisis, I finally have a better understanding about what it was.😊😊😊 Have a blessed and exciting week ahead RSQ!! God bless you always!!😊😊😊