Why You Wouldn't Survive Gears of Wars Locust Horde 

"They're sinking cities with a giant worm!" One of the most unforgettable moments in Gears.

Don’t lie, you all had a stroke when that first berserker busted through the wall in the tombs

Why I wouldn’t survive the Horde...easy. I can’t wall bounce.

B. Carmine: "if you had a helmet, you wouldn't have to breathe in the dust." Dom: "if I had a helmet I wouldn't be able to spot snipers so easily." Marcus: "Dom chill."

We wouldnt survive... Because we are not 200 kilo 2 meters high mountains of muscle and balls

4:58 "25% of the total human race was exterminated..." Me: "That doesn't sound so bad" "Within the first day" Me: 0_0

Imagine growing up playing Fortnite instead of Gears of War 1 That game scared the shit out of me when I was little but it was totally worth it

25% percent of humanity was exterminated during the first day. Thanos: *quits job*

3:40 "hundreds of thousands of casualties" bounced grenade off a wall back at himself lol

Don’t think we didn’t see that toss at 3:40

“This war would see hundreds of thousands of casualties.” misses grenade throw

You don’t have to take 21mins to tell me I’d get completely and utterly murdered by a wretch

The Cole train runs on whole grain, baby! WHOOO!

Epic went from the Gears trilogy to the creation of the largest digital daycare on the planet.

Just imagine getting out of a devastating war that lasted 79 years only to fight another war against horrifying creatures and nearly having your entire species exterminated.

When I first heard about the Locust Berserker, I was like, “wait, THAT THING’S A SHE?!”

the berserker was definately a shot at one of the devs gf's

As long as your surname ain't carmine... You'll be fine.

The first Gears still has the most intense atmosphere out of all of them!

Me, looking at the title: I never said I could.

Reason #1: I'm not buffed up with steriods

Still can't believe that the studio behind Gears of War ended up making Fortnite.

Ya'll know who can survive this? THE COLE TRAIN BABY! WOOOOOO!

I liked in the multiplayer clip at 10:43 there is a username as "A Vagina Doctor." This is the most XBox 360 name ever.

What if we never planned to survive them?

Who else had no idea Gears of War had such deep lore

If Marcus and crew didn’t have plot armor, they would have died long ago

Gears 5 fully explains the Locust's origins, for anyone who comes across this ;)

Fun facts: Lancer Rifle has chainsaw bayonet specifically to tear through Locust hide. Locust's insane durability is very noticeable in game. In GoW 1 even Drones take almost full clip from Lancer to kill. Better go for headshots. Kantus priests are mutated so much, they need to saw off bone growths on their appendages (spikes on elbows for example) to actually move and wear armor. General RAAM is actually a Drone by caste. He was big and cunning enough to become a general. Locusts can control creatures from the Hollow through some unknown means, presumably through Emulsion. RAAM's Krylls are one example. Brumaks aren't native to Hollow, they are genetically and Emulsion-modified species of apes. Kantus priests actually can heal other Locust with their chants somehow. Most likely, they activate the Emulsion inside their bodies, and Emulsion is capable of rapidly repairing and mutating the host. COG are never painted as good guys, just the only ones left. Books, games and comics show what would a fascist-socialist government like COG do in war for survival. Spoiler: what they do is not pretty. At all. As is 'human breeding farms' level of not pretty. Anya Stroud, the female lead in GoW 3 and Marcus' love interest, is only able to serve in military because they thought she can't bear children. Otherwise? Off to the human farms you go. Chairman Prescott, for all his cowardice, hypocrisy and other questionable qualities, was the one to push the button when they ordered Hammer of Dawn strikes. He knew full well all the implication of doing it, too. How exactly do Locust reproduce is never explained, but heavily implied in one of the books, The Slab, IIRC. It is most likely that there's no rape involved, and they don't even mate. There are a few facts that help us paint the picture: After E-Day Locust actually stopped their advance, or at least slowed, even before Hammer of Dawn strikes, as if they didn't have the numbers to push forward. There are no known records of Locust children, even in their capital, the Nexus. Even after parts of the Horde go savage, they never seem to establish any sort of reproductive cycle. Yet there are always fresh drones to throw into meatgrinder. No known records of Berserker rape, Berserkers being pregnant or anything else. Thank god for that, but still. Locust just let Berserkers loose on enemy, not caring if they live or die. Considering how rare Berserkers are, it's kind of counterproductive. After certain amount of time passed, Locust started taking prisoners, something they never did before on principle. A lot of prisoners. They have Torture Barges in Hollows, where they, well, torture and mutilate prisoners for no apparent reason. Locust also lobotomize their victims, process taking place presumably on Torture Barges. After that, they have special pods for transporting these poor souls to somewhere. Part of the Locust religious mantra is "Queen creates drones". Together with mutated children there were a lot of scientists exiled. Most likely explanation is that Locust make more Locust from captured humans.

When that "BOOM" voice played, I kinda panicked. Have a history with that shit. Even on easy

I’m still waiting for a game that really captures the feeling of being a small, insignificant grunt facing a Locust onslaught. Gears 2 came close...

You forgot to mention that you have to be built like a tank if you want to survive. All the skinny gears get wacked.

That grenade throw at 3:40

People talking about the Boomers 'BOOM!' being terrifying clearly haven't played beast mode on insane. 'WOOO!'

“Why you wouldn’t survive the locust horde” “Number one: Locust horde.”

I was there in the offices working on the UT2004 Onslaught vehicles when the 1st GoW was being made. Late in the evenings, I'd sometimes go over to the main Epic side when they were in the Capital Center, and talk with Chris and Steve and Cliff about what they were doing. It remains to this day the most professionally superlative job in my life, that year plus of time.

To anyone that thinks Myrrah is mother of Marcus: if Queen Myrrah is the mother of Marcus, and Kait is her grandaughter, That would mean Reyna (Kaits mother) is the half sister of Marcus, making Kait Marcus's niece. Therefore, James is in love with his cousin.

Of all the apocalyptic situations I feel I'm prepared for, I'm definitely screwed if the Locust ever arrive.

3:39 that aim, Is just completely awful, what the hell was that?!?!? 😂🤣😂🤣

We were all scared of the wretches in the first years of war. Walking on those planks and hoping we wouldn’t have fallen

How dare you insinuate that i, an untrained male with no experience in combat or survival in alien lands not be able to destroy demonic monsters, and possess a long life in such conditions.

Don’t forget that the locust was fighting a two front war so imagine if they didn’t have to fight the lambent and focused all there forces on the humans

'5 centuries before current timeline'.... 'then peace came lasting 1000 years' Me: ????

3:38, I can't believe you threw that and missed lol.

Mom said it's my turn to survive the locust horde.

I love Gears but hate the toxic community. Everyone you meet "used to be a pro", "played for OpTic", "is the best player to have lived" or "is the second coming of Christ" when it comes to Gears.

I just realized that 17:53 was the day one map on gears 2

"Why wouldn't you survive the locust horde" Carmines: yes

Bruh I'd probably just be a Cog Corpse somewhere

When Carmine said he had nightmares about grubs coming up from the ground at any time I thought, oh shit, everyone should already be dead, and still think so. They'd just pull you underground in your sleep.

4:58 that gave me the chills. Imagining something like this happening gives me chills down my spine. I don't think I would survive 2 seconds.

I guess your right I wouldn't survive I would thrive.

Never quite understood this entire gears universe. This was so well done my guy. Two big thumbs up

THE COLE TRAIN IS A SMOOTH RIDE

Myrrah was not a scientist but a patient, and she became rogue 'cause she had a kid with a scientist, and that the scientist was killed and she thought her daughter was killed too

Who is here after the Gears of war E day trailer? ✋ Seing marcus barely survive a 1v1 againts a drone really shows how screwed where the seran’s at the start of emergance day.

These guys went from badass chainsaw guns to fortnite...smh

Raam will make damn sure you don't survive that World 😂

You always kick some BUNZ bro. Keep this AWESOME series coming. PS luvd the Pokemon ones TOO. rock on

Excellent video:) I love Gears lore, and your content makes it even better!

7:19 I thought every creature had multiple internal organs

8:40 Berserkers=Team Four Stars version of Dodoria Change my mind

Seeing that female COG armor is giving my love of tough soldier girls a boost also i sometimes stop to think how cool this setting is. It's a world built for total war

I love the lore you give with the videos, keep up the good work.

the fact that you didnt talk about politics cured my head ache. thanks for the chill experience dude

i am a 65 kg, lazy af, middle management drug addict living in central europe. i wouldn't survive the average 3rd world french kiss, much less monster-alien-snake-moles on plutonium-oil-steroids.

You have missed the most important thing... no one would survive because none of us would be able to move in the CoG armour

I've played all these games and read three of the tie-in novels and this video still had a better explanation of Sera's history. Well done!

Next video “why the locust won’t survive DOOMGUY”

Excellent work. Talks about why, but exposes more about what & how becoming a very well done historical exposition for the series better than %99.9 percent of any reviews I've witnessed prior. Phenomenal job.

7:20 "They have multiple internal organs" Yeah, I would think so

Ill just head to the winchester and have a pint and wait for all this to blow over . :]

Apparently you gonna do a 3 part series on the gears universe. Gotta do the locust. Then lambent. Then fudging swarm. But more details when the gotdang gears 5 come out cause clearly there's more killables in that game then gears 4...

3:40 So we gonna ignore this

Excellent video, excellent analysis, excellent setting of Gears of War. Truly isn't like Warhammer 40k light on only one world but still so GRIM DARK.

Great job on the lore dude, I didn't even know some of it, and I've been playing since the start

I didnt know a lot of this, thanks for making this, I love this game series and it's cool to learn more about the lore

This was insanely interesting to watch. Love these videos explaining the strengths and lore of game universes

Wow, wasn't expecting such a nuanced critique on industrialization from GoW.

6:14 you said "the earth's crust" instead of "seras crust" lmao

I have no idea why ppl say gears does not have a good story or hell no story Also we can easily survive this by running on whole grain baby WHOOOOO So excited for gears 5 Dang I didn’t know about the human breeding farm wtf I guess it was necessary we were going extinct

I wouldn't survive because I'm not a 400 lb power lifter with high tech weapons and armor also with zero military training

"What about a plague of locusts?" "What?" "LOCUUUUSTS!!!" The Amazing World of Gumball - The Pizza

This whole video along with the comments brought back amazing memories from when I’m was younger Dropping a like and subscribing GOAT

You can't hide inside either, those damn brumaks would get you.

Eh...a universe that ups the violence and death/unsurvivability...? Warhammer 40k: Hold my Ammsac...

Why I wouldn't survive: I'm not immortal.

"SHOW ME THE LOCUST R34" You're gonna regret that.(?)

Really enjoyed the video from start to finish

I liked the faction explanations... I always wondered about that.

Just discovered your channel. You hit 2 birds with one stone on this video. I love the gears of war games, and this was released on my birthday. I subscribed.

Hey mate just wanted to say you’ve been doing great with your series recently. Much love and respect.

One thing that both the game and this video undervalue are the mortars- holy cow, are GoW mortars good! They're like a cross between airburst and artillery, and can kill the big guys with ease. Against swarms of infantry, mortar barrages are a murderously effective countermeasure. If every human squad (8-15 soldiers) had a mortar team, then the locusts would have sustained even higher casualties. Also, flooding the hollows with ocean water was the right choice, but how did it take 14 years and a scientific prodigy to think of that? And how come the researchers who studied immulsion never performed chemical analyses (which would have shown that it's a living organism)? It's great for plot, but even the USSR wasn't that scientifically backwards.

Wowsuchgaming: *sees RAAM* "Ram" Wowsuchgaming: *sees Brumak* "Bru MAKK LOGIC

00:23 THAT SOUNDS LIKE BOOM!!!

"But everything changed when the locust nation attacked." ........ I see what you did there #Avatar

What about why you wouldn’t survive killing floor 2 zed outbreak

Why you wouldn't survive a last of us cordycep outbreak

Love your videos. I got an idea for you “Why you wouldn’t survive c-12” or c-12 alien invasion

Great rundown of the Gears lore but it ate up so much time, I was lost at the end when you got to our survival.