Hope you guys enjoy, let me know what should be next! Creatrix Store: www.creatrix-visuals.com/store Filmmaker reacts playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLLleCPARvWznTTd8KnUrmzQvH6_FuGDNA.html Part 1 & 2: 1:41 Part 3: 4:00 Part 4: 6:05 Part 5: 8:40 Filmmaking and VFX Commentary: 16:30
You missed the ending bit there are teasers for more astartes at the very end! Also you notice so much attention to detail. At the end you see flashes that are the other astartes appearing on the other platforms in the distance. And even the inquisitor. When the sphere starts attacking him, his hand fold to clenched showing him struggling to resist.
I liked a lot your reaction, without being a 3d artist I knew whe have something really special, I didn't thought we can get that much of a quality from one fan. Hats off
Orb 1: (with the inquisitor) “who’s there?” Orb 2: “I have failed, brother” Orb 1: “we have all failed” Orb 2: “the Astartes deny our touch” Orb 1: “you must return, break your seal” Orb 2: “impossible, we will never survive” Orb 1: “you must take them” Inquistor (muffled in helmet): "Recall them immediately." Orb 1: (Unintelligible) *Inquistor becomes a hamburger. Over radio in Marine Sergeant's Headset: "Return now!" That is the best version I have seen of people deciphering the dialogue in Part 5.
Well technically he ain't wrong. I mean there's lots of Warhammer 40k games. Only some of them is good. Battlefleet Gothic 1&2, Dawn of War 1&2, Space Marine
In a way this is the best review for Astartes cause this guy has zero clue wtf's going on and has zero lore knowldege, giving us an unbiased review into this series. As much as a masterpiece Astartes is, us 40k fans are probably biased to it from the start because we're fans of the W40k, but this guy has zero bias towards 40k so he can give us a more honest and less biased review of the series from the eyes of an outsider.
I have no clue about any warhammer stuff. I only know it's a grim world. Praise be the god emperor and warp fuckery is to be exterminated. This makes me want to learn more.
Yup. I first saw the Astartes project knowing nothing more about 40k than seeing some models on imgur. Now, after consuming a couple dozen hours of lore videos (Luetin09) I appreciate it even more.
@midgetydeath I would say the Imperium and Tau are sharing similar motives, expansion and survival. With the general populace of both believing in and working towards that goal. And then the higher ups being a mix of believers to the cause as well as corrupt individuals seeking power. The primary difference being that mankind owns this galaxy by birthright. If the Tau could wake up and realize that there is no "Greater Good" higher than the Emperor, they might make for an interesting ally/meat shield. Those knife eared bastards however, I'd say a good 99% of them can go suck off a Nova Cannon. The Ynnari can stick around until they figure out a way to kill Slaanesh. Then we can Exterminatus them to. Unless Lord Guilliman decides he wants to keep his elf waifu. At that point their existence can be tolerated I suppose.
@midgetydeath By that logic the Imperium is no longer human. The nids repurpose with biological life, so that shoots that out the window. But if you must argue every point on every post, have at it
"Year 3k, 4k... You would think they would have strong flashlights." The year is 40K. The Emperium of Man has given all the flashlights to the common foot-soldier (Imperial Guard), as their main service weapon.
Just so you know, just to make this more impressive, the creator's accuracy to the lore of Warhammer 40k is insanely accurate. More so than even some of the content the official publishers put out. Every item in every scene is 100% true to the 25+ years of lore, how it looks, how it operates, how it performs. Because the lore is so complex and dense, the Games Workshop creators get it wrong some times, this guy has is all on point. Even hardcore fans are blown away. That alone would have taken months of planning and researching.
@@jimmyd1337 I actually really like the movement style he chose for them. It looks more fluid. I am also happy he chose correct size caliber boltgun barrel sizes. 0.75cal would look exactly like that, not like that 40mm size barrels GamesWorkshop seem to put on their guns (which makes no sense when you look at the magazine size and their 30 round count).
Well one lore thing he DIDNT get right is that the movement of a space marine is described as so fast its difficult for the human eye to track. So this sin is forgivable to make a pleasant viewing experience.
The fifth episode is filled with little stuff that brings out the lore. Basically, the rebels were harboring one of the Orbs, were corrupted/enslaved by it. But the Imperium had already captured the other Orb and the Astartes were on a mission to capture the other one. These two orbs communicate with each other in part 5 around half way, you can hear their conversation as the psyker (The red robe guy with the helmet) is eavesdropping, you can also see in one shot that one of the orbs is glowing distant in the background while the other one is glowing in the foreground while the psyker is witnessing their conversation. This is what prompts him to warn the Astartes but his momentary lapse in concentration allowed him to become possessed, has apocalyptic visions which likely drove him insane, and ends in his very awesome execution. That psyker though was a total bro, as a last act of defiance he saved the Astartes that got sucked into the orb, during the scene when he is spying on the orbs conversation he has black smoke coming off him, this is a visual representative of his psychic power while the Orbs power is blue. After the Astartes get sucked into the orb you can see the true form of the Orb (As some tentacle monster thing) using its tendrils to tether the Astartes to it, then when it flashes blue you can see black smoke suddenly rush at the creature and supposedly wound or 'push' it forcing it to recoil and retract its tendrils which releases the Astartes on that world.
Nice take on the warp part! I didn't see that option voiced in other comments. The good part of theses bits of information is, everyone has an opinion on what is really going on. hehe solving the mysteries like an inquisitor on a mission. Right or wrong, the final solution will always be a bolter gunshot. For the record, the Astartes space marines looked badass in action, but they took some heavy losses here, 12 members KIA, (2 teams of 5 in the boarding pods being shot down in space, 1 marine lost in the warp transit, and 1 possessed inquisitor under friendly fire)
I like the inclusion of that golden giant. He has very similar features to the two psykers, both of which were much larger than a human. Which gives the impression that they were made by those two orbs, who wanted to make stronger and larger vessels. The giant is obviously not ready yet. This gives a pressing reason for the astartes to attack sooner rather than later.
@@ringsaphire those weren't boarding pods bro If you look closely, those acted like flares. They basicly disorient the missiles' tragectory, thus protecting the boarding pod. So in total, 1 attack pod, 2 flare-like pods, and 1 boarding pod can be seen in part 2. ^^
that was my understanding too, unfortunately the Inquisition psyker had to be killed for safety reasons, but in his final moments he bought the marines a chance to survive or at least carry on the rightous work of the imperium.
12:40 Orb1 "Who is here?" Orb2 "I have failed you, brother" Orb1 "We have all failed" Orb1 "The Astartes defy our touch" Orb2 "You must return... Break your seal!" Orb1 "Impossible we'll never survive!" Orb2 "You must take the alpha" (the inquisitor since he's the highest ranked and has psyker powers he is the "Alpha" if the Daemon controls him he has the entire ship.) Orb 2 is the spiked one.Orb 1 is being sealed by the inquisitor.The spikes are a communication device to force link them within the warp so the inquisitor can listen to their conversation. also 15:08 The blood is coagulated as it comes out of him showcasing Space Marines healing factors....and if you were wondering those 'studs' above his eye isnt a fashion accessory, they are 'service medals'. Basically showing off how long they have been in service for. Some chapters it means years of service, some its deeds done/battles fought.
You also didn't mention how in the time it takes for a single person to blink, the Astartes was able to recover from his shock, realise he's in a dangerous location and then takes in multiple things around him as well as think about what he should do as well as come up with probably multiple different plans of action in the time it took for us to see him lift his fucking head.
@@magosauxilliarusy2k4theomn98 It's mostly for us, the fandom, that uses it for anything strange that The Warp inflicts upon the unsuspecting members of the 40k Universe. For example, say a Astartes Battle Barge delves into The Warp and the Geller Field that surrounds the ship that protects it from the Great Ocean that is The Warp flickers and dies, and the entire ship is bathed in its chaotic energy, all the crew members onboard that are exposed to this energy can devolve into mutated, degenerate warp spawn that grows spikes, is covered in spines, manifests a second mouth, sprouts a third eye, and pops out 5 extra buttholes all across their bodies...or their eyes just change into a different color and that's it. Warp Fuckery! As for what the commanders and the Astartes would say...they would more than likely say vile, heretical mutations or the chaotic taint of The Warp. And then promptly shoot you with a lasbolt or a bolt round right through the cranium.
Pretty scummy of Workshop to take all the Warhammer fanmade videos and privatize them in their website. I'm pretty sure most of the creators is being held hostage and doing their demands.
*i cant believe one guy made this* makes you wonder why movies nowadays have to cost 300 million just to disappoint the fan base doesnt it lookin at you disney
They take the most well known franchise on the planet, don't plan out anything or have a consistent plot, let 2 directors make 3 movies with completely different directions while ruining already established characters on the way and introducing us to characters that even after 3 movies we barely know and most of them are either cast aside or don't have any character development. Thanks Disney, the sequel trilogy sucks
@@mr_pineappleaffogus8602 My coping mechanism is watching videos that give better content than those horrible movies. If you allow me, I can link some channels for you to watch. If not, that's okay. But I agree with your point. These days, fan ideas and works are becoming so much better than what billion-dollar companies are producing.
Conversation between orbs "Who is there?" "I have failed brother, we have all failed. The Astartes deny our touch. You must return, break your seal." "Impossible, we will never survive. You must take them." the Inquisitor (robed guy) "Recall them immediately!" *Gets possessed* The 5 Astartes on enemy ship then immediately get bad touched into the no no dimension and dumped onto an alien world. Part 5 ends the Retributor (the Astartes we were watching) arc, he plans on making an anthology series covering other space marine chapters as well, but has said we might see the Retributors again sometime in the future.
ok, here is a quick (lol) break down of what is happening through out the whole serie Some important background: The Astartes (known as Space Marines) are genetically engineered super soldiers (were talking bigger, stronger, faster, with extra, redundant organs, the whole 9) and they are equipped with damn near the best gear the Imperium of Man (there's always exceptions) can make, Astartes are also known as "angels of death" and are basically mythical to most humans in the galaxy because they're so few of them (about a million total for an empire that spans the galaxy and oversees millions of worlds), when space marines get involved into anything, its usually a big fucking deal. The Warhammer 40k universe is an absolute shitshow, the Imperium of Man is pretty much a grab-bag of every dystopian future you can imagine, its highly xenophobic, religious and authoritarian, but it has to be because literally everything else in the galaxy will HAPPILY annihilate you (if you're lucky) or worse (and there is SOOO MUCH WORSE). Space Marines are mostly autonomous in organization, with only one real authority over them, the Inquisition (they have near absolute authority in the Imperium). The 3 universal threats to the imperium of man, and the reason why Space Marines exist in the first place are Xenos (aliens), Heretics and Daemons. The last important bit is that in the 40k universe, there's an parallel/alternate dimension called "The Warp", which is how ships travel across the galaxy at faster than light speeds, the problem with the warp is that its the realm of daemons and the gods of chaos, think hell, but on steroids, (actually, everything in 40k is on steroids) and very weird, its INCREDIBLY dangerous (star system destroying kinds of dangers in some cases) to fuck around with ANYTHING remotely connected with the warp.. Ok, now on to what actually happens in the series: A force of Astartes are intervening in planetary rebellion (rebellion happens often, doesn't usually require Astartes involvement), they deploy a kill team/combat squad (5 marines) to board a rebel ship in a boarding torpedo with the objective being to secure that weird psychic orb. They have one of those orbs on their ship "contained" already with an inquisitorial psyker linked/communing with it and Astarte Veterans (that's why they have white helmets) standing guard. It looks like the rebellion was likely caused by that orb in the first place, it has to ability to compel/sway others to its will and it tried to do the same with the marines (those pulses/whispers as they were approaching the orb) but failed because on top of their physical and genetic augmentation, Astartes also go through decades of absolutely horrendously brutal training and indoctrination. Then they get to the orb, looks like they are plugging in tech that allows the Psyker on the Astartes ship to eavesdrop on the orbs. Orb 1 is on the Astartes ship, Orb 2 is on the rebel ship and the conversation goes as follows: Orb 1: Who is there? Orb 2: I have failed, Brother. Orb1: We have all failed Orb 2: The Astartes deny our touch, you must break your seal (or shield) Orb 1: Impossible, we will never survive Orb 1: YOU MUST TAKE THEM (referring to the Kill team on the rebel ship) At this point, the inquisitorial Psyker tells the veteran "recall them immediately", the veteran gives the order and the marine in the background rushes off. Because the psyker broke concentration to warn the veteran, he left himself open to possession by Orb 1, Orb 1 breaks his seal/shield and tries to take over the psyker, the veterans put him down quickly, warp possession is absolutely no joke and if you ever dig deeper into the lore, you will understand that their reaction was in absolutely no way unreasonable or overkill. Back on the ship, the squad leader gets the recall order but before they can react, Orb 2 takes them. Inside orb, it appears that they the 5 marines are being reeled in by some squid like thing inside the warp but the entity is attacked by a big black smoke (could be a daemon, or it could be psychic backlash from its brother orb's new host being turned into chunky human salsa) and the squad leader re-materialize on an alien planet. As he looks out from his own pillar, you can see flashes of light on the other pillars out in the distance, the rest of his squad. and that's it for now. There is some speculation about what the orbs are, the best fitting theory being an technology from an alien species called the Yu'vath (if you wish to do your own digging), its also entirely possible that the creator (all of this was made by a single person) just made up his own alien threat too :D
@@taintsweatnope5093 yu'vath are know to be reformed in a more material, bigger way ? i think. the gold statue is actually a metal vessel witn neuron wires or smth ? one of the yu'vath is on the ship that the angels of death breached. so they were making that sphere, a body, i guess. but was interrupted by our marine bros.
I thank you, I've been getting into 40K over the past few months but as I'm sure you know its lore is... Deep. XD I thought I understood everything that was going on when I was watching the series on my own, but you helped recontextualize things for me. I appreciate it. :D
In that first scene, first episode, he establishes the size and weight of the space marines by having the humans in the hallway getting out of the way. Really enjoyed that subtle step to create the power of the space marines!
And the second hallway is covered in prayer seals because it's supposed to be a sanctum warded against the warp. It's basically a giant "warning, incredible danger of death in many terrible terrible ways due to warp fuckery" to anyone familiar with such warp fuckery. I'd also like to point out that yes, Warp Fuckery is the correct and proper term for spooky crap in Warhammer 40K and anyone that says otherwise is just afraid to swear.
@@Nyx_2142 Im not really familiar with 40k, but aren't tyrannids like sentient bug-like creatures? Doesn't look very xenomorph. Even if xenomorphs are pretty much like ants or hornets, they're probably not as smart as tyrannids. And there are also many other differences between both.
There are genuinely ‘good’ factions in the lore. I know we tend to color everything through the lens and perspective of the Imperium, which is like a fetid, rotting corpse that will not die, but even in the Imperium, there are good people. Even some of the astartes, like the Lamenters or the Salamanders, are more good in alignment. Blood Angels and Raven Guard are, to a much lesser degree, but are worth mentioning. And even some of the Ultramarines have their moments. I get it, if this story didn’t have chaos in it, we’d probably follow a narrative where the loyalists might have flipped, while the traitors stayed loyal. Because without chaos, the Imperium would be the villains in any other setting. But the harlequins, exodites, and some of the craftworlds are far more ‘good’ than bad. Biel-Tan and Ulthewé are conniving. duplicitous fuckers, though. The Tau were okay before the retcons... though similar situation with the Imperium, but to a far lesser extent. But even then, there’s still the Farsight Enclaves.
Little bit of easy-to-overlook character work: the two psykers each only have one arm. One has a right, and the other a left, with the implication that they were born as conjoined twins. Not only is the physical disadvantage used to kill one (the Astarte forces him to use his arm to stop from being shot, and then he can’t stop the knife right after), but it explains why there’s backlash in the surviving twin that is exploited to kill him as well.
I think rather than conjoined twins it's much more likely that these were some kind of synthetic being controlled by the two spheres. As you've noticed, the symmetry is perfect, in my eyes to perfect. Combine that with the obvious similarities to the giant metallic statue that's still under construction and I'm more leaning towards either total synthetic or at least heavy cyborg augmentations. However other details, such as the "spine" obviously being the key aspect to these two creatures functioning, as well as the lack of blood even when the first gets a knife through his head, makes me think their entirely cybernetic.
@@TheEarlofBronze1 Hey! Video games master's degree student and researcher auxiliary here. Just for a point of knowledge, cybernetic (theorized in the 40's by Norbert Wiener during the Macy conferences) just means that it has a loop of feedback (the out constantly becomes an in within the system, like a closed loop). In other words, even if it is commonly used to talk about technology (it was theorized for technological needs, but we're long pass this point) and in games such as Cyberpunk, it is wrongly used. You are not a robot and chances are you are cybernetic by nature (you do something, the thing you interact with change, you do something else based on the reaction of the thing and your goal and so on). Video games are cybernetic, scissors are cybernetic, a car is cybernetic... I like more your guess of them being synthetic, though. We can see a lot more spines and heads surrounding the unfinished giant, letting me think that they're straight up AI's dumped into artificial bodies of some sort.
I love how some reactors are like "that was a little much" when they smashed his head then shot his body. Nah, you let even 1 demon take over that body and it could overpower those space marines.
you let even 1 demon take over that body and it could overpower those space marines. "you let even 1 demon take over that body and it could overpower -those- space. -marines- " FTFY
It depends on the daemon of course. :) Most Astartes can handle a Bloodletter of Khorne 1v1 for example. I believe it happens fairly regularly, Astartes encounters with daemon incursions. It's just that the Grey Knights does it a million times better and only Grey Knights can handle greater daemons/daemon princes/princesses with some ease(great ease in some cases, I guess it depends on the Grey Knight and the greater daemon/daemon prince/princess in question and the experience said Grey Knigths has compared to the greater daemons/princes/princesses).
Oh and it of course also depends on the writing and who's writing the story, and whether that writer of that 40k story is a daemon or Astartes fan. It's the deciding factor in the outcome of a battle between Astartes and daemons after all.
@Joseph Frigiola I don't think it's that uncommon for writers to write themselves into their works as characters or entities present in-universe. For example, George R.R. Martin wrote himself into Game of Thrones as one of the Maesters that records and retells the events that unfold in Westeros for the reader. He also wrote in some of his editors and proof-readers as other Maesters, meaning that you can sometimes tell who has worked on a given piece of lore by which of the Maesters is credited as the author.
When you think about it, technically there is no bad guy in 40K, just varying degrees of murder from everyone. The Tau are bad though. Evil space Weaboos that they are.
@@OutspokenSeeker the tau have no real freedom and are space communists, still though, the closest thing to a functional *normal* civilization outside of a few imperial garden worlds
Ironically the closest thing to good guys are actually the craftworld eldar yes their aragance is unmatched, are selfish as hell, and their superiority complex is misplaced after everything their species has done but when it comes to their own people they are by far the best in treating them and honestly the humans of M41 are barbarians however the eldar, the ones responsible for slannesh have to right to judge such a thing
There is a phenomenon in 40k called “Astartes terror” which refers to the specific sensation humans have when seeing an astartes doing a full sprint, because something so heavy should never be able to move so quickly. Astartes showcases this perfectly.
I believe the term is “trans human dread.” Basically that the marines and primarchs were too big, to beautiful, and too quick for the mind to comprehend. Sort of an uncanny valley situation.
@@DeBeuLioU In part 2 there's a scene where they show the view from the Marine's point of view, right after they land. The pulse that lights up the targets with a red silhouette just before they start shooting through smoke.
Hmm.. I doup't that one because of the warptravel-timetravel thing and because the Imperium itself has a serious issou to create an exact calender. (interesting die note: So do we in reality, we don't no for sure if the date we have is really correct, because it's blind space is around 100-200 years, thanks to the influence of some "highborn" people / institutions during history. To have an exact date we would have to frow our current system over board and mesure the years from a date on which can be determinated relativly exact, but that could lead to some discussions with these institutions.
Another person pausing to early at the end of part 5. Ugg. Yes the author of astartes needs to be making movies like this without hollywood intervention.
I love that this series showed the unrelenting force of the astartes, then framed their enemies as just as persistent and powerful. Really shines true to 40k.
I hate that some big reaction channel just completely miss every detail on this video and all they do is saying wow or that's cool. This dude never mised any CGI detail.
@@TaintedPrinceps The first thing they have is the Occulobe implants, which basically takes out their natural eyes and pops in eyes that have a higher vision range and improved night vison. The auto senses of the helmet then improve both on the night vision aspect and add infrared, ultraviolet and other vision modes combined together in what is called prey vision, basically what you see at the intro to the first part.
@midgetydeath servitors arnt an AI or robot or anything as AI can be taken over by the warp if it ever gets to the point of having emotions. servitors have their mind wiped, they have no memories and only have enough brain function to do the task that they need to do and nothing more. however as you cant use tech to do this you require a functioning brain thus a guard's man corpse cant work and only criminals are made servitors. there also isnt a lot of criminals around as most as deemed heretics and killed on the spot, i assume anyways.
@@jonmcfluffy9699 Yeah not to mention how much of an impact of a morale that is if that same servitor is used in the same army it was stationed in. Since transferring servitor is unnecessary its most likely the case if a guardsmen was used as one. Imagine seeing a fellow soldier dying, then coming back to life as this mindless husk of a person with mechanical parts tacked on it. Shit's traumatising.
A huge part of these videos that are making people get so hyped is the "accuracy" to the content. This is one of, if not the most, true to universe peices of content out there.
i do some video work and I know nothing about the lore of 40k, so what caught my eye was the cinematography, the feeling of the atmosphere within that world, the sound design and just the camera movements and details on the characters, the textures and the story telling. I know it’s all computer generated but at times it felt like I was watching an actual movie with real human actors. Again, the sound design is amazing and the composition of the shots is just so good as well as the transitions between each shot.
I'm going to actually defend the Inquisitors here. They look at the big picture and basically run a cost analysis in their heads. The only time a planet has an exterminautus executed on it is when the Inquisitor concludes that the cost of leaving the planet living out weighs the cost of destroying it (unless the writer just reeeeeeally wants to portray the Inquisition as evil). When you're dealing with a corrupting force like Chaos or a rebellion that could spark even more rebellions extreme measures have to be taken to guarantee that the least amount of lives amd resources are lost
@@deathkorpswatchmaster2414 more accurately, psykers, who are people with a genetic mutation that gives them a stronger than normal connection the the warp, which lets them basically use the force, smite people, and summon demons (who usually proceeds to possess the psyker and murder everything)
"is he a general?" no he's maybe a company captain, more likely a chapter's veteran (someone who's survived hundreds of battles like what the boarding party was going though, or worse) I know chris wouldnt know this but the guy that's got the broken eye lens is the squad Sargent cause none of his battle brothers have plasma pistols
@Mark Zhao Considering the boarding action, you might be right. But speed was of the essence here. They had to make it through the ship to the sphere as fast as possible. Doesn't say the Sgt. might be a holder of the crux. :D
Between episode 4 and 5 the guys UA-cam channel was hacked and he couldn’t access it for ages as the hacker had also changed the ownership too. With baited breath I, and many others, informed UA-cam and had to wait until the cogs turned and returned ownership back to him for episode 5. Really enjoyed your vid, thanks 🤘😎👍
@@drosnelochmir6346 no they didnt. The entire community united together and got help from Markiplier and other big youtubers to pressure them into giving the channel back. And there was some talk about legal litigation through the entire process. UA-cam is inept
@@girthtrude5040 Extra infos from AMA with the creator of Astartes : "The orbs around the xenos were originally designed to protect them while traveling in the warp. Hence the one who "broke free" was eaten by some creature lurking there."
I get how you feel, I know almost nothing about WH40K, but that stab scene I can watch infinitely. This dude has a talent and obviously loves the universe, whoever owns the rights for the franchise, they should hire him.
Hahahahhahaahah they did hire him like many other fan artists forcefully under the threat of sending cease and desist, yet the "hired" guys seemingly aren't put to work because Games Workshop's own animations look like underbudgeted shit. Sad really...
@@OljeiKhan Let me tell you even the greatest artist will deliver shit when you have forced shitty pipelines, non artist business suites breathing down your neck and deadlines nobody can achieve....
@midgetydeath Well, personal taste and all that. I'd imagine there are some Drukhari who find physical pain boring, just as there'd be some non-Dark Eldar who really can't stand it.
Rated R? More like rated Grimdark lol. Figured I'd throw a few tidbits out for you that might explain a few things. The guns the marines got are called bolters, they're basically automatic self-propelled grenade launchers. That's why the enemies mostly went puff into red mist, they just get obliterated cause they're not shooting regular bullets. You can actually see the exhaust in part 4 when the shots are caught in the force field. You're partly right with the "force" guys, they were most likely psykers. In warhammer however psychic powers are far nastier; you pull power from the warp, another dimension that's kinda like a hellish version of afterlife. You can do wondrous things with it, but if you mess up you might end up possessed, have your soul eaten, or both. The red robed guy connected to the sphere is likely one too, using his powers to eavesdrop on the communication of one of the spheres they captured (there's a second in shadow behind it) and the one the marines went to get from 02 vault. He gets beaten though, so rather than risk him turning into a demon the 2 marines obliterate him (white helms usually mean they're veterans), cause a demon would be massively sturdier lethal danger. Human go squish, demon take 20 shots and keep on trucking. The psykers didn't actually mess up the main guys eye, as you can see at the end of part 5. The marines' helmets are basically solid with seriously advanced cameras giving them a feed; you see this in part 2 in the moment after boarding and before they start firing, them seeing the enemies in red. You can even hear them whirring and see them moving after the lens crack and part 5. They got radios inside the helmets too, which is why we don't really hear them talk even though they do; in part 5 where the main guy's head suddenly turns before the sphere acts up, that's him receiving the return order.
A late explanation but here goes: The ship is a "rebel ship" that was found to be carrying "xenos" technology, thus why you have the "astartes", taking care of the task under inquisitorial supervision instead of the regular Imperial navy. The big "orb" is most likely Yu'vath technology, and they are used to house warp daemons. the Yu'vath were exterminated during a past crusade due to their relationship with the warp. The 2 psychers with the spinal cord at the back of their heads are very likely humans corrupted by the daemon inside the sphere The golden giant refers to the "golden men", again related to the Yu'vath, and was most likely being constructed as a worship idol by the renegade crew. The thing breaking below the astartes' feet is ice, and along with the exhaust's smoke is here to let us understand that the room is extremely cold, a telling sign of warp activity. The guy connected to the sphere is an inquisitor (This is also why they immediately kill him. A talented psycher with exceptional force of will being broken means that the daemon housed by the sphere is exceedingly powerful), and yells something like "Recall them immediately" before he loses himself. (Unfortunately what the daemon says to the inquisitor is very hard to catch). This is why the commander signals the marine nearby. The white helmets and shoulder pads reflect veterancy or command. Now, with regards to the scenes, nothing is left at random. From the design of the corridors, to the parchments hanging from the walls, to the candles, to the rebel helmets, to the design of the spheres .... everything represents lore elements that only someone who is quite a bit knowledgeable would know about.
@@sirstash Correct. And veteran marines had to put him down very swiftly to prevent corruption to spread and horrors of the warp to get in their own ship. Robe-dude, Inquisitor, was already lost when they hit and shot at him.
@@sirstash yep. He was a psyker, a person capable of tapping into the Warp which is a hellish place of pure emotion. Psykers can use the power of the Warp to manipulate reality in a way similar to most franchises magic. He got his body hijacked by the thing in the orb. The veteran Astartes with the white helmets put him down rather than let his corpse be used as a weapon by the thing in the orb.
Its times like this when you see a professional reviewer impressed by the efforts of one man, you appreciate what talent truly is. This is it, almost supernatural, dare I say god given..Astartes is an amazing piece of art.. Big thanks to the reviewer and creator.
I just love how he sound designed the Bolter. It sounds like something that only a Super Human can fire without the recoil blasting their hand off...and you just feel it.
He was already possessed the minute he integrated with the cogitator. Those orbs are very powerful warp based technology. And anything warp based has demons in them. He was lucky enough to be witness to the conversation.
@@volt9031 the distant sphere in the Inquisitors pov is the sphere on the other ship that the Astartes are surrounding. The I quisitor was probably plain surfing in the warp, which is a parallel realm so there were no physicial obsticles obstructing our view from the other orb. An amazing perspective, the creator is a fucking genius.
I love your approach on dissecting these videos. There are so many "producer reacts", "guitar teacher reacts", etc. type of videos, where the host provides little to no insight into what they are reacting to. You took the time, not only to appreciate the work, but to break it up and explain it for folks who are non-experts to consume.
CHRIS CONNOR While their helmets do help them, its actually one of the 19 organs implanted into an Astartes that gives them almost night vision, The Occulobe, which in combination with rigorous genetic therapy gives Astartes vision far greater than a human and allows them to see in Low level or near complete darkness as if it where daytime
@@computerkitsune As part 4 on shows, the lenses are not through-holes with a glass cover. The space marine sees through his helmet with the auto-sense visual system. The red lights moving around after the cover breaks is an array of camera systems feeding a great deal of visual information directly into the marine's brain via his black carapace. Most space marines would wear the helmet, it is only for dramatic reasons that you see so many depicted without them. Except the wolves, who actually prefer to not have them. They claim this is because their own senses are better, but I figure its mostly because they are in fact battle junkies who want the raw unfiltered sights and sounds of battle. There is no way their naked eyes are better than a sensor fusion interface making use of auspex returns which feeds directly into their brains.
old.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/comments/gkf3vh/im_syama_pederson_creator_of_the_astartes_project/ An OC alien race with a LOT of similarities to the Yu'vath. The sphere was a shield/vessel for a super psychic alien. The creature was revealed when the sphere sucked them in. A warp entity ate the alien, and the alien's last act was to teleport the Astartes to the alien's long-dead homeworld (not its intent). Also the golden body was meant to be a new "comfy" vessel for the alien.
@@SomeKindaSpy Someone found a wiki/codex entry that relates to where the Marines ended up; “The Mariana Gorge is a deep ravine on Terra. In the era prior to the Age of Strife, this canyon, then known as the Mariana Trench, was at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and was the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth's crust. However, during the wars that engulfed the planet during the Age of Strife, much of the planet's oceans boiled away, revealing significant portions of the Gorge. In time an atheistic civilization arose along the walls of the Gorge that lasted several thousand years. By the time of the Great Crusade, this civilization had vanished, but left behind mile-high statues of its kings.”
One of few things that i found out is that the Golden giant they were building had some connection to secret keeper of slaanesh. I mean the one who made people build these
It's enjoyable to see someone who obviously knows nothing about 40k. Enjoy some 40k. I'd like to see what you think about death of hope. That's the real grimdark side of 40k
so I don't know if you noticed but in the scene with the rapid fire laser turret, when the lasers hit his armor, there where dents being formed on his armor after each hit which you would never notice without having it pointed our or slowing down the vid and analysing it, which I thought was an amazing attention to detail
"cause in 3000, 4000... whenever this takes place, we dont have really powerful flashlights" Try 40,000. With a generous sprinkling of apocalypse, dystopia, and mind-numbing horror. Plus, that's powerarmor, night vision should be the least of its tricks.
@@paulsilagi4783 that's just not fair; modern-day militaries would be drooling over those lasguns; it's just that in the context of 40k they're insufficient
Look at the other pillars in the final scene. You will see a light effects. Those are the other marines. On the channel of Chapter Master Valrak you have a very good analisis of the story behind.
I’ve watched it a number of times and each time you notice little things. When the marines are walking through the hallway and the view switches to the guy on the gun, you can see his head turn slightly when he sees the marine in the light from the gunfire. In the final scene as the camera pans, you can see flashes on top of the other pillars where the other marines are being teleported
i should tell you that the guns these men are using are not just some guns they are basicly full auto grenadelaunchers firing self aimcorrecting rocketproppellet Grenades of a massive caliber wich is why these regular people just exploded in half on impact.
My favourite thing out of everything in these series are: 1) The shuttle drone missile interception depth feeling and action, and the fighter-bomber launching its attack 2) The motions of the inquisitor/psyker, my god. His hands. And his reaction when his momentarily lapse in concentration opens his defense up. Watch him go from normal praying hand pose into shaking and clutching hand pose, after his epic head reaction. Just absolutely amazing. 3) The ending scene art. 4) The dialogue sounds I guess. Some parts are not clear but that's just good. I especially like the muffled voice of the inquisitor/psyker.
I can't get over the drones intercepting enemy fire while the bomber disables the engines on the enemy ship. I love it all, but the early half of part 2 is actually my favorite-I've never felt so immersed in a space battle in any sci-fi property.
One shot that I absolutely love that tends to be overlooked in these videos is the shot in part 1 of the astartes walking down the corridor to the boarding torpedo. In that shot they pass by several members of the human crew (maybe guardsmen) and you can truly appreciate the scale of these giants.
@@maxxcreese9911 Quad. A skull caving and Four bolter rounds. In the year 41st century, that was light judgement compared to what that psyker could have become.
Amazing seeing someone show such a huge apreciation on the Astartes project that comes from outside the 40k fandon. Also great channel, very entertaing seeing you deconstruct film making! I'll definitely check some more of your work!
I'm not that big in terms of Warhammer 40K. Still learning. But I can explain some things concerning this cinematic. In general the Astartes in this cinematic are on a mission to infiltrate a heretic ship and secure the orb. Unknown what those two orbs really are. What we do know however is that they are kinda alive and certainly they are somehow connected to the Warp - a dark hell-like dimension fuelled by people's emotions, dreams and desires. And since people's emotions and desires are often evil - the Warp is NOT a good place to be in or to have any contact with. Which those Astartes have learned the hard way. The attack is using something like a boarding torpedo. In short - the Astartes are being shot in a small vessel in the direction of heretic ship and hammer into the ship's hull. The fight that happens later is pretty self-explanatory. Astarted are using bolter guns. Those things basically fire mini-rockets instead of bullets. Hence why entire body parts of their enemies get blown up. Those weird dudes with those electric pony tails are probably psykers. They use psychic powers via The Warp. As I told before The Warp is NOT a good thing to be in contact with so every psyker faces a risk of dying if he overuses his powers. And he won't be dying alone. Psyker losing control is basically an extinction level event. An atomic explosion is probably the least powerful thing we compare it to. So best just kill those bastards on sight - which Astartes are more than happy to do. The guy in a room guarded by two Astartes is an Inquisition psyker. He basically attempts to overhear the conversation between two orbs. In short the orbs are in trouble because they cannot control Astartes and are likely to be taken by Human Empire. Therefore one orb tells the other to attack those Astartes and draw them into The Warp. The psyker learns about that but the moment he turns to tell Astartes, he's spotted. One of the orbs takes control of Inquisition psyker in an attempt to blow entire human starship into kingdom come. Make no mistake, this was an assassination attempt. Which is why Astartes proceed to kill the psyker without wasting any time. In the meantime a message is being sent to Astartes aboard the heretic vessel. But the warning comes too late. They deployed some devices in order to get the orb under control but despite that the orb suceeds in drawing them into the Warp. There's a brief scene in which we see a Warp demon sucking the life out of those Astartes. Then something happens. We don't know who or what intervened. But Astartes are freed and the end up on some remote planet. We only see team leader but there are flashes suggesting that his entire team appears nearby. So at least they are all together. And entire team of Astartes is certainly a force to reckon with.
12:44 Orb 1: (with the inquisitor) “who’s here?” Orb 2: “I have failed, brother” Orb 1: “we have all failed” Orb 2: “the Astartes deny our touch” Orb 1: “we must return” Orb 2: “break your seal” (possibly referring to the cage orb 1 is in) Orb 1: “impossible, we will never survive” Orb 2: “you must take them”.
Not a Panther I think he is saying you must take the alpha (alpha level psyker watching over the captured orb). The captured orb suggests to take “them” the kill team
It’s the other way around, the caged orb is telling the one on the rebel ship that he has failed, and that he must break his seal, and return to wherever he came from (the warp presumably) I’ve assumed that the free orb is saying that he would not survive breaking his seal, and the other says he must, and then the forward team all gets pulled into the orb, and the other one says “at last you are mine” apprently because he was being controlled or contained by the guy praying
It gets even more impressive when you realize all the frames of Astartes were done by one guy. All the animation, blending, texturing, modeling all of it.
“You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn’t die. That is when I began to believe. God was real, and he hated us.”
"3k or 4k, whenever this takes place." The creator gives us a date at the start of episode 1, this takes place in 482.M39, a brief 37,000 years in the future.
@@tylerpixel The date is not hard to read once you know it's a date. I'm saying it's hard to know that is a date in the first place unless you have a basic knowledge of the lore.
The guy with a cape and white helmet looks like either a chapter master (leads an entire chapter of up to 1000 Marines when the chapter is codex compliant) or a captain (leads 100 Marines). The one with the white beak helmet is a chapter veteran wearing an older model of armor. Also, while force is certainly a way to describe it, those guys were psykers, using powers derived from the warp to psychically do stuff.
It's wonderful seeing you react to this as you are, without knowledge of the lore and setting, but let me say, as thrilled as you were seeing this that way, the more you understand the setting, the deeper you dig into the lore, the more times you watch this masterpiece... The more your spine will tingle seeing all the myriad details the creator painstakingly modeled, animated and aurated.
this short is amazing but i will say it's gonna be hard to fully appreciate it without knowing 40k. First of all it captures the atmosphere of the setting incredibly well. secondly theres actually a lot happening very fast and theres lots of little detail that help explain what's happening but you need fairly extensive 40k knowledge to actually understand all that stuff
@@ChrisConnorFilms Yeah, like why one hallway has a lot of detail and one didn't. Those were incense braziers and purity seals to guard against the influence of that sphere. Same reason the inquisitor agent (guy who gets possessed) has incence burning as he's communing with the objects.
Check out Arch warhammer's UA-cam channel. He does great lore videos that make it easy for people to understand. He's also done a breakdown videos covering the astartes videos which are very informative. Though be warned, he does get a little political from time to time but it doesn't detract from the content he produces.
even with intensive knowledge, there are still many mysteries left, the lack of exposition dump keeps the fans talking endlessly :D and reading all the comments you find very interesting theory and tidbits to piece things together. I find it quite fun and entertaining, an added value to an already amazing content.
@John Liller Is paranoid rant are definitively political, I genuinely liked is stuff before and some of is videos like the war of Armageddon were really good. But yeah, I stopped listening when he started using is channel to preach about some sort of imaginary evil feminists cabal who apparently have nothing better to do than ruin beloved franchises and cut every man's dick off. This shit is just really annoying
TL;DR: lore explanations. Also, a link to the homebrew page for the Retributors chapter at the end. The main Astartes (a Sergeant) who leads the squad can also be identified by the black tactical symbol on his helmet (the others have white). He was the same one we see fire his plasma pistol at the Multi-Las Cannon. We also know has served between 120 and 130 years based on the studs in his head. On the capital ship, the marines with white helmets are Chapter Veterans and the robed man is an inquisitor or and inquisitorial agent. We know he is a psyker and is linked via technological means to the sphere for monitoring (A psyker is needed for this because the spheres are a blend of realspace tech and warp stuff). The inquisitor realises that the spheres intend to take the astartes, so he breaks his concentration to warn the veterans. Unfortunately, psykers are very vulnerable to warp predators. The sphere takes advantage of his distractoon and possesses him. The best solution to dealing with possesion is to not wait and see what happens, so the veterans obliterate him immediately. On the rebel ship, the sphere attempts to capture the astartes. But, since it has broken its "seal", it is left open to creatures of the warp. It is forced to release the astartes, who are teleported elsewhere (likely a Yu'Vath planet), as it is attaked (by the black mass). Also, to know more about these astartes, just reference this page: wh40khomebrew.fandom.com/wiki/Retributors
That psyker doesn't get enough credit. Mans literally broke his concentration on the orbs to warn the astartes leaders to recall the squad and succumbed to chaos in the process, a real team player
@@sibanbgd100 I'm guessing that once he went in, he realized there was no way back out, so he tried to make the most of it in hopes his death might accomplish something.
7:13 he even animated the bullets bouncing off the force field or whatever you would call that. 12:44: you can see the Astartes standing around the orb for a brief moment. 13:39 you can see his cape flying backwards from the bolter impact.
I love when people watch the whole video and then go back and talk about the parts they wanted to talk about, it allows the reactor to give their gut reactions to the events without having to entertain their audience, and then once the video is finished gives them as much time as they need to go back to each individual part to give their thoughts on it
35:08 Astrtes can perfectly see in the drkness even without helmets, flashlights would be unnecessary and also it would reveal their position to the enemies. Sry for being nerdy
As a 40k/Battlefleet Gothic fan I very much enjoyed your breakdown. Between this and Corridor Crew's reaction I can formulate not just that I enjoyed this series, but *why* I enjoyed the series. Thank you!
22:51 I never noticed the second guy there... I guess that's why the Astartes fired 2 shots... Also the start of episode 2 is interesting; the fighter plane goes on ahead to distract the rebel ship, the drones intercept incoming fire and the cannon picks off any ordinance the drones fail to intercept.
"Can you hear an explosion in space?", "Yes, but you have to be in the explosion too." Episode 2 was a pretty good example of that. From the asteroid debris bouncing off the hull, to the shockwave of the explosions.
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Hope you guys enjoy, let me know what should be next!
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Part 1 & 2: 1:41
Part 3: 4:00
Part 4: 6:05
Part 5: 8:40
Filmmaking and VFX Commentary: 16:30
You missed the ending bit there are teasers for more astartes at the very end! Also you notice so much attention to detail. At the end you see flashes that are the other astartes appearing on the other platforms in the distance. And even the inquisitor. When the sphere starts attacking him, his hand fold to clenched showing him struggling to resist.
I liked a lot your reaction, without being a 3d artist I knew whe have something really special, I didn't thought we can get that much of a quality from one fan. Hats off
Orb 1: (with the inquisitor) “who’s there?”
Orb 2: “I have failed, brother”
Orb 1: “we have all failed”
Orb 2: “the Astartes deny our touch”
Orb 1: “you must return, break your seal”
Orb 2: “impossible, we will never survive”
Orb 1: “you must take them”
Inquistor (muffled in helmet): "Recall them immediately."
Orb 1: (Unintelligible) *Inquistor becomes a hamburger.
Over radio in Marine Sergeant's Headset: "Return now!"
That is the best version I have seen of people deciphering the dialogue in Part 5.
This is such a fantastic series. The sound design, the character models, effects and animation. Oh so good! And, your reactions are great.
You missed the post credits scene in part 5 there was a teaser in the end
"Based on the video game"
Let's just file that under "close enough"
Hahaha thank you for your understanding :)
Well technically he ain't wrong.
I mean there's lots of Warhammer 40k games. Only some of them is good.
Battlefleet Gothic 1&2, Dawn of War 1&2, Space Marine
TARINunit9 lelel
well, 40k is not that well known yet, cant wait for the TV show
deathknight02 they better not do an "ultramarines" to the eisenhorn show
"This is rated R!" This is considered 'tame' by 40k standards.
Rated T for Tuesday.
@@carlchristianlindalen9311 A massacre of traitorous heretics? Thats not tuesday, thats lunch break.
@midgetydeath
They may not be made up, but obscure. There are some theories, but no one really knows.
Rated A for Alpha level psyker.
Zedek arch warhammer has the best theory I’ve seen so far for this
In a way this is the best review for Astartes cause this guy has zero clue wtf's going on and has zero lore knowldege, giving us an unbiased review into this series.
As much as a masterpiece Astartes is, us 40k fans are probably biased to it from the start because we're fans of the W40k, but this guy has zero bias towards 40k so he can give us a more honest and less biased review of the series from the eyes of an outsider.
I have no clue about any warhammer stuff. I only know it's a grim world. Praise be the god emperor and warp fuckery is to be exterminated.
This makes me want to learn more.
I'm not a huge warhammer fan by any means, in fact I'm pretty new to it but even knowing a little bit of lore makes the project WAY more badass
Yup. I first saw the Astartes project knowing nothing more about 40k than seeing some models on imgur. Now, after consuming a couple dozen hours of lore videos (Luetin09) I appreciate it even more.
I'm the same way and if Astartes made a series of movies I would watch them all, all the while having absolutely no idea what's going on.
@@lars7935 nah Warhammer is that and "more dakka" from the orks
The definition of "doesn't know the lore, doesn't care, warhammer is awesome".
All I know is that not human is heresy and praise the god emperor For he shall save us
@@arashparthian_112 Good enough welcome to the imperium of man. Here's your bayonet now get out there and kill some Xenos, heretics, and daemons
Im new on all this still dont know what the base is, videogames? Tabletop games? Im not sure
It was originally a table too game, being one of the most popular. But it has been adpated into video games.
Table top*
"based on the videogame"
... yes my lord Inquisitor, that guy over there.
lol
LOL
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He means purge him sir.
"So is that an energy source"
Me: no it is heresy
Spencer Guthrie HERESY BURN THE HERETICS
Filthy warp heresy
Technically, it's a xeno
PURGE THE UNCLEAN.
And thus, it must be purged
"These are the bad guys" - nonono, they're all the bad guys. Welcome to 40k.
@midgetydeath I would say the Imperium and Tau are sharing similar motives, expansion and survival. With the general populace of both believing in and working towards that goal. And then the higher ups being a mix of believers to the cause as well as corrupt individuals seeking power. The primary difference being that mankind owns this galaxy by birthright. If the Tau could wake up and realize that there is no "Greater Good" higher than the Emperor, they might make for an interesting ally/meat shield. Those knife eared bastards however, I'd say a good 99% of them can go suck off a Nova Cannon. The Ynnari can stick around until they figure out a way to kill Slaanesh. Then we can Exterminatus them to. Unless Lord Guilliman decides he wants to keep his elf waifu. At that point their existence can be tolerated I suppose.
Orks are just a force of nature. No bad. No good. Just nature.
“This man right here inquisitor, this is the heretic.”
@midgetydeath By that logic the Imperium is no longer human.
The nids repurpose with biological life, so that shoots that out the window.
But if you must argue every point on every post, have at it
@midgetydeath okay
"Year 3k, 4k... You would think they would have strong flashlights." The year is 40K. The Emperium of Man has given all the flashlights to the common foot-soldier (Imperial Guard), as their main service weapon.
They tape all the flashlights together to make a lascanon
the sad part is those "flashlights" are still ways better than any gun we have now
And to think these "flashlights" are really MUCH better than what we have now. Those things can shoot a man's arm off with one hit.
holy shit...a youtube comment that made me laugh...
Bwahahaha
If a single fan can do this, imagine what an air conditioner could do
Nice joke there, fella. Did you make it yourself?
@@bengibson8907 no i found It on the original videos
@@simplewrites lmao
original joke or not i gave you a like anyway haha.
@@darthdrynn8057 not original but thanks, it’s a good joke
Just so you know, just to make this more impressive, the creator's accuracy to the lore of Warhammer 40k is insanely accurate. More so than even some of the content the official publishers put out. Every item in every scene is 100% true to the 25+ years of lore, how it looks, how it operates, how it performs. Because the lore is so complex and dense, the Games Workshop creators get it wrong some times, this guy has is all on point. Even hardcore fans are blown away. That alone would have taken months of planning and researching.
That's amazing... you can really tell this is his dream project
Except how the Marine ran, they dont sprint like that. They do more of a bounding leap type thing.
@@jimmyd1337 I actually really like the movement style he chose for them. It looks more fluid. I am also happy he chose correct size caliber boltgun barrel sizes. 0.75cal would look exactly like that, not like that 40mm size barrels GamesWorkshop seem to put on their guns (which makes no sense when you look at the magazine size and their 30 round count).
Well one lore thing he DIDNT get right is that the movement of a space marine is described as so fast its difficult for the human eye to track. So this sin is forgivable to make a pleasant viewing experience.
@@jimmyd1337 they are also much, MUCH faster.
The fifth episode is filled with little stuff that brings out the lore.
Basically, the rebels were harboring one of the Orbs, were corrupted/enslaved by it. But the Imperium had already captured the other Orb and the Astartes were on a mission to capture the other one. These two orbs communicate with each other in part 5 around half way, you can hear their conversation as the psyker (The red robe guy with the helmet) is eavesdropping, you can also see in one shot that one of the orbs is glowing distant in the background while the other one is glowing in the foreground while the psyker is witnessing their conversation. This is what prompts him to warn the Astartes but his momentary lapse in concentration allowed him to become possessed, has apocalyptic visions which likely drove him insane, and ends in his very awesome execution.
That psyker though was a total bro, as a last act of defiance he saved the Astartes that got sucked into the orb, during the scene when he is spying on the orbs conversation he has black smoke coming off him, this is a visual representative of his psychic power while the Orbs power is blue. After the Astartes get sucked into the orb you can see the true form of the Orb (As some tentacle monster thing) using its tendrils to tether the Astartes to it, then when it flashes blue you can see black smoke suddenly rush at the creature and supposedly wound or 'push' it forcing it to recoil and retract its tendrils which releases the Astartes on that world.
Nice take on the warp part!
I didn't see that option voiced in other comments.
The good part of theses bits of information is, everyone has an opinion on what is really going on.
hehe solving the mysteries like an inquisitor on a mission.
Right or wrong, the final solution will always be a bolter gunshot.
For the record, the Astartes space marines looked badass in action, but they took some heavy losses here, 12 members KIA, (2 teams of 5 in the boarding pods being shot down in space, 1 marine lost in the warp transit, and 1 possessed inquisitor under friendly fire)
I like the inclusion of that golden giant.
He has very similar features to the two psykers, both of which were much larger than a human.
Which gives the impression that they were made by those two orbs, who wanted to make stronger and larger vessels.
The giant is obviously not ready yet.
This gives a pressing reason for the astartes to attack sooner rather than later.
@@ringsaphire those weren't boarding pods bro
If you look closely, those acted like flares. They basicly disorient the missiles' tragectory, thus protecting the boarding pod.
So in total, 1 attack pod, 2 flare-like pods, and 1 boarding pod can be seen in part 2. ^^
that was my understanding too, unfortunately the Inquisition psyker had to be killed for safety reasons, but in his final moments he bought the marines a chance to survive or at least carry on the rightous work of the imperium.
@bigbenhoward the emperor himself maybe?
12:40
Orb1 "Who is here?"
Orb2 "I have failed you, brother"
Orb1 "We have all failed"
Orb1 "The Astartes defy our touch"
Orb2 "You must return... Break your seal!"
Orb1 "Impossible we'll never survive!"
Orb2 "You must take the alpha" (the inquisitor since he's the highest ranked and has psyker powers he is the "Alpha" if the Daemon controls him he has the entire ship.)
Orb 2 is the spiked one.Orb 1 is being sealed by the inquisitor.The spikes are a communication device to force link them within the warp so the inquisitor can listen to their conversation.
also
15:08 The blood is coagulated as it comes out of him showcasing Space Marines healing factors....and if you were wondering those 'studs' above his eye isnt a fashion accessory, they are 'service medals'. Basically showing off how long they have been in service for. Some chapters it means years of service, some its deeds done/battles fought.
Orb 2 says: "You must. Take them" He means Astartes, not Inquisitor.
Orb 2 has the astartes not orb 1
Listen closely and you can hear the Inquisitor yell out "recall them immediately!"
You also didn't mention how in the time it takes for a single person to blink, the Astartes was able to recover from his shock, realise he's in a dangerous location and then takes in multiple things around him as well as think about what he should do as well as come up with probably multiple different plans of action in the time it took for us to see him lift his fucking head.
Nah, they don’t say that, you are wrong
Part 2: “This is really dark”. 40k Fans laugh nervously: “Yeah.....ok”
"May I interest you in some lore on something called a Daemonculaba?"
I mean, that's the point of 40k isn't it? Grimdarkness. And the daemonculaba is overused and overrated.
@@svenhoek8615 please lord no
True
I seen much darker things and most people here probably have.
There is a technical term for all of that psionic stuff you see "warp fuckery"
Lol nice
That is a actual term in the 40k Universe that denotes all the psyker shit that occurs relating to psykers, Chaos, and The Warp.
@@hansschroeder1359 is it like an actual term that the commanders and actual astartes would use? or would they say "Warp taint"?
@@magosauxilliarusy2k4theomn98 It's mostly for us, the fandom, that uses it for anything strange that The Warp inflicts upon the unsuspecting members of the 40k Universe. For example, say a Astartes Battle Barge delves into The Warp and the Geller Field that surrounds the ship that protects it from the Great Ocean that is The Warp flickers and dies, and the entire ship is bathed in its chaotic energy, all the crew members onboard that are exposed to this energy can devolve into mutated, degenerate warp spawn that grows spikes, is covered in spines, manifests a second mouth, sprouts a third eye, and pops out 5 extra buttholes all across their bodies...or their eyes just change into a different color and that's it. Warp Fuckery!
As for what the commanders and the Astartes would say...they would more than likely say vile, heretical mutations or the chaotic taint of The Warp. And then promptly shoot you with a lasbolt or a bolt round right through the cranium.
lol magic always boils down to some fuckery. Wizard fuckery in harry potter, force fuckery in star wars, and basic magic.
This brings a new definition to "Virgin versus the Chad"
"The Chad Solo Fan Film Creator versus the Multi-billionaire studios."
it seems unimaginable that he made that alone in a cave but hell he is a genius
@@thanquolrattenherz9665 he did have some help here and there.
but the majority of the work is all by one guy.
This stuff is what happens when people actually care about what theyre making and not just making money off of it.
Well this "Chad" now is a servitor for GW
Pretty scummy of Workshop to take all the Warhammer fanmade videos and privatize them in their website. I'm pretty sure most of the creators is being held hostage and doing their demands.
*Normal people after part 1:*
"Wow this looks really nice"
*Normal people after part 5:*
"F O R T H E E M P E R O R ! ! !"
Spot on :)
It was this animation and Total Biscuit that got me into 40K
@@Jackarooooo rest in peace, TB, you magnificent bastard
Sounds legit. Now help me burn this Hersey brother!
@@Jackarooooo TTS for life!
*i cant believe one guy made this*
makes you wonder why movies nowadays have to cost 300 million just to disappoint the fan base
doesnt it
lookin at you disney
Right. That's what makes me even more angry about Disney remakes. I want new stuff!
They take the most well known franchise on the planet, don't plan out anything or have a consistent plot, let 2 directors make 3 movies with completely different directions while ruining already established characters on the way and introducing us to characters that even after 3 movies we barely know and most of them are either cast aside or don't have any character development. Thanks Disney, the sequel trilogy sucks
@@mr_pineappleaffogus8602 My coping mechanism is watching videos that give better content than those horrible movies. If you allow me, I can link some channels for you to watch. If not, that's okay. But I agree with your point. These days, fan ideas and works are becoming so much better than what billion-dollar companies are producing.
Not ALL Fans are dissapointed.
@@foty8679 Just 95% of them.
"This is really dark."
_In the Grim Darkness of the future, there is only war._
Damn right.
“It’s based off a video game”
*Laughs in 700$ plastic miniature army*
Pizza Pie those are rookie numbers
@Hidetaka Myazaki I have a Manta~
Laughs in Nids. 700$ doesn't even cover the cost on infantry.
Laughs in at least 18 2000+ point armys
@@scottlloyd9762 i dont even want to know how much that is.
Conversation between orbs
"Who is there?"
"I have failed brother, we have all failed. The Astartes deny our touch. You must return, break your seal."
"Impossible, we will never survive. You must take them."
the Inquisitor (robed guy) "Recall them immediately!" *Gets possessed*
The 5 Astartes on enemy ship then immediately get bad touched into the no no dimension and dumped onto an alien world.
Part 5 ends the Retributor (the Astartes we were watching) arc, he plans on making an anthology series covering other space marine chapters as well, but has said we might see the Retributors again sometime in the future.
the funniest part is that the no no dimension is the easiest way to describe the warp
@@quack3891 (sees keeper of secrets)
Bad touch! I need an adult!
I thought the Inquisitor says "the astartes are in danger my Lord"
@@Leisurelee53 Slaneesh greater deamon. I AAAAMM AN ADDUUUUUUULT, proceeds to reach deep down into your essence ;)
Surprise it was necrons all along
Him: because in 3000-4000... we don't have extremely powerful flashlights.
Me: Buddy the only flashlights the imperium needs are lazguns
This is true.
If the flashlight kills it, it doesn't matter what it was.
@@memes_the_dna_of_the_soul5487 Ok Dorn
They fight in complete darkness as if it was day.
Astartes can see in the dark
ok, here is a quick (lol) break down of what is happening through out the whole serie
Some important background:
The Astartes (known as Space Marines) are genetically engineered super soldiers (were talking bigger, stronger, faster, with extra, redundant organs, the whole 9) and they are equipped with damn near the best gear the Imperium of Man (there's always exceptions) can make, Astartes are also known as "angels of death" and are basically mythical to most humans in the galaxy because they're so few of them (about a million total for an empire that spans the galaxy and oversees millions of worlds), when space marines get involved into anything, its usually a big fucking deal. The Warhammer 40k universe is an absolute shitshow, the Imperium of Man is pretty much a grab-bag of every dystopian future you can imagine, its highly xenophobic, religious and authoritarian, but it has to be because literally everything else in the galaxy will HAPPILY annihilate you (if you're lucky) or worse (and there is SOOO MUCH WORSE). Space Marines are mostly autonomous in organization, with only one real authority over them, the Inquisition (they have near absolute authority in the Imperium). The 3 universal threats to the imperium of man, and the reason why Space Marines exist in the first place are Xenos (aliens), Heretics and Daemons.
The last important bit is that in the 40k universe, there's an parallel/alternate dimension called "The Warp", which is how ships travel across the galaxy at faster than light speeds, the problem with the warp is that its the realm of daemons and the gods of chaos, think hell, but on steroids, (actually, everything in 40k is on steroids) and very weird, its INCREDIBLY dangerous (star system destroying kinds of dangers in some cases) to fuck around with ANYTHING remotely connected with the warp..
Ok, now on to what actually happens in the series:
A force of Astartes are intervening in planetary rebellion (rebellion happens often, doesn't usually require Astartes involvement), they deploy a kill team/combat squad (5 marines) to board a rebel ship in a boarding torpedo with the objective being to secure that weird psychic orb. They have one of those orbs on their ship "contained" already with an inquisitorial psyker linked/communing with it and Astarte Veterans (that's why they have white helmets) standing guard. It looks like the rebellion was likely caused by that orb in the first place, it has to ability to compel/sway others to its will and it tried to do the same with the marines (those pulses/whispers as they were approaching the orb) but failed because on top of their physical and genetic augmentation, Astartes also go through decades of absolutely horrendously brutal training and indoctrination. Then they get to the orb, looks like they are plugging in tech that allows the Psyker on the Astartes ship to eavesdrop on the orbs. Orb 1 is on the Astartes ship, Orb 2 is on the rebel ship and the conversation goes as follows:
Orb 1: Who is there?
Orb 2: I have failed, Brother.
Orb1: We have all failed
Orb 2: The Astartes deny our touch, you must break your seal (or shield)
Orb 1: Impossible, we will never survive
Orb 1: YOU MUST TAKE THEM (referring to the Kill team on the rebel ship)
At this point, the inquisitorial Psyker tells the veteran "recall them immediately", the veteran gives the order and the marine in the background rushes off. Because the psyker broke concentration to warn the veteran, he left himself open to possession by Orb 1, Orb 1 breaks his seal/shield and tries to take over the psyker, the veterans put him down quickly, warp possession is absolutely no joke and if you ever dig deeper into the lore, you will understand that their reaction was in absolutely no way unreasonable or overkill.
Back on the ship, the squad leader gets the recall order but before they can react, Orb 2 takes them. Inside orb, it appears that they the 5 marines are being reeled in by some squid like thing inside the warp but the entity is attacked by a big black smoke (could be a daemon, or it could be psychic backlash from its brother orb's new host being turned into chunky human salsa) and the squad leader re-materialize on an alien planet. As he looks out from his own pillar, you can see flashes of light on the other pillars out in the distance, the rest of his squad.
and that's it for now. There is some speculation about what the orbs are, the best fitting theory being an technology from an alien species called the Yu'vath (if you wish to do your own digging), its also entirely possible that the creator (all of this was made by a single person) just made up his own alien threat too :D
Great synopsis.... what's the large gold statue?
Mind if I use this information on my date I'm having this weekend? 😂
@@taintsweatnope5093 yu'vath are know to be reformed in a more material, bigger way ? i think. the gold statue is actually a metal vessel witn neuron wires or smth ? one of the yu'vath is on the ship that the angels of death breached. so they were making that sphere, a body, i guess. but was interrupted by our marine bros.
looks to me like it was some kind mechanicus shenanigans
the planet they landed looked an awful lot like Mars
I thank you, I've been getting into 40K over the past few months but as I'm sure you know its lore is... Deep. XD I thought I understood everything that was going on when I was watching the series on my own, but you helped recontextualize things for me. I appreciate it. :D
In that first scene, first episode, he establishes the size and weight of the space marines by having the humans in the hallway getting out of the way. Really enjoyed that subtle step to create the power of the space marines!
And the second hallway is covered in prayer seals because it's supposed to be a sanctum warded against the warp. It's basically a giant "warning, incredible danger of death in many terrible terrible ways due to warp fuckery" to anyone familiar with such warp fuckery. I'd also like to point out that yes, Warp Fuckery is the correct and proper term for spooky crap in Warhammer 40K and anyone that says otherwise is just afraid to swear.
@@silverseth7 I wasn't aware there existed terms *other* than Warp-fuckery.
Yeah really makes the speed you see em run at later all the more impressive, you really get an idea of how juiced these dudes are
@@maximsavage we usually just call it "heresy" =)
Ngl, I read that with the Doom intro cause of the way you started.
Chris: "this gives Prometeus vibes..."
Every Warhammer fan: "Prometeus gives Warhammer vibes"
Not to me but ok
Wait until he finds out what Tyrannids are.
H. R. Giger fan: "You're nearly there."
@@lpnievachieve6277 A blatant copy of xenomorphs, lol.
@@Nyx_2142 Im not really familiar with 40k, but aren't tyrannids like sentient bug-like creatures? Doesn't look very xenomorph. Even if xenomorphs are pretty much like ants or hornets, they're probably not as smart as tyrannids. And there are also many other differences between both.
The dude who did Astartes is a god damn artist.
The dude who did this is the God artists pray to before going to sleep.
No, he is a god damn god.
Micro Cosmos, there is no forgiveness for idolatry, heretic. The only god of ours is the God-Emperor.
@@trumediamix1 plot twist: the God emperor did this to pay tribute to his glorious astartes
You call him a god over our God Emperor???!!!!! HERESY!!!!
But for real thou he's daym good.
"We have our bad guy"
Me: "We don't do that here"
Every thing in 40K: "Wait are we the baddies?"
As the RussianBadger put it, if their not us (Us being humans under the guidance of the God Emperor of mankind), their the enemy.
There are genuinely ‘good’ factions in the lore. I know we tend to color everything through the lens and perspective of the Imperium, which is like a fetid, rotting corpse that will not die, but even in the Imperium, there are good people. Even some of the astartes, like the Lamenters or the Salamanders, are more good in alignment. Blood Angels and Raven Guard are, to a much lesser degree, but are worth mentioning. And even some of the Ultramarines have their moments. I get it, if this story didn’t have chaos in it, we’d probably follow a narrative where the loyalists might have flipped, while the traitors stayed loyal. Because without chaos, the Imperium would be the villains in any other setting. But the harlequins, exodites, and some of the craftworlds are far more ‘good’ than bad. Biel-Tan and Ulthewé are conniving. duplicitous fuckers, though. The Tau were okay before the retcons... though similar situation with the Imperium, but to a far lesser extent. But even then, there’s still the Farsight Enclaves.
@@TheFlyingPilgrim
*leans over to the Lord Inquisitor*
Is this Heresy, Lord Inquisitor.
@@FranOfBattle Heresy. *nods*
Little bit of easy-to-overlook character work: the two psykers each only have one arm. One has a right, and the other a left, with the implication that they were born as conjoined twins. Not only is the physical disadvantage used to kill one (the Astarte forces him to use his arm to stop from being shot, and then he can’t stop the knife right after), but it explains why there’s backlash in the surviving twin that is exploited to kill him as well.
I noticed this as well. I wanna say the same was true of their eyes too, each of them seemed to have one glowing eye.
I think rather than conjoined twins it's much more likely that these were some kind of synthetic being controlled by the two spheres. As you've noticed, the symmetry is perfect, in my eyes to perfect. Combine that with the obvious similarities to the giant metallic statue that's still under construction and I'm more leaning towards either total synthetic or at least heavy cyborg augmentations.
However other details, such as the "spine" obviously being the key aspect to these two creatures functioning, as well as the lack of blood even when the first gets a knife through his head, makes me think their entirely cybernetic.
This caused me to pay more attention to that scene and holy heck. There's a shot that clearly showed it how was it so easy to miss?
0-0 I never noticed that! Emperor above the creator of this film just did all the delightful subtleties!
@@TheEarlofBronze1 Hey! Video games master's degree student and researcher auxiliary here. Just for a point of knowledge, cybernetic (theorized in the 40's by Norbert Wiener during the Macy conferences) just means that it has a loop of feedback (the out constantly becomes an in within the system, like a closed loop). In other words, even if it is commonly used to talk about technology (it was theorized for technological needs, but we're long pass this point) and in games such as Cyberpunk, it is wrongly used. You are not a robot and chances are you are cybernetic by nature (you do something, the thing you interact with change, you do something else based on the reaction of the thing and your goal and so on). Video games are cybernetic, scissors are cybernetic, a car is cybernetic...
I like more your guess of them being synthetic, though. We can see a lot more spines and heads surrounding the unfinished giant, letting me think that they're straight up AI's dumped into artificial bodies of some sort.
I love how some reactors are like "that was a little much" when they smashed his head then shot his body. Nah, you let even 1 demon take over that body and it could overpower those space marines.
you let even 1 demon take over that body and it could overpower those space marines.
"you let even 1 demon take over that body and it could overpower -those- space. -marines- "
FTFY
It depends on the daemon of course. :) Most Astartes can handle a Bloodletter of Khorne 1v1 for example. I believe it happens fairly regularly, Astartes encounters with daemon incursions. It's just that the Grey Knights does it a million times better and only Grey Knights can handle greater daemons/daemon princes/princesses with some ease(great ease in some cases, I guess it depends on the Grey Knight and the greater daemon/daemon prince/princess in question and the experience said Grey Knigths has compared to the greater daemons/princes/princesses).
Oh and it of course also depends on the writing and who's writing the story, and whether that writer of that 40k story is a daemon or Astartes fan. It's the deciding factor in the outcome of a battle between Astartes and daemons after all.
Depends on the demon. A demon prince could have been a threat to the whole ship.
@Joseph Frigiola I don't think it's that uncommon for writers to write themselves into their works as characters or entities present in-universe. For example, George R.R. Martin wrote himself into Game of Thrones as one of the Maesters that records and retells the events that unfold in Westeros for the reader. He also wrote in some of his editors and proof-readers as other Maesters, meaning that you can sometimes tell who has worked on a given piece of lore by which of the Maesters is credited as the author.
"We have our bad guy."
*laughs in 40k*
every other faction in the 40k universe
"well this is awkward"
When you think about it, technically there is no bad guy in 40K, just varying degrees of murder from everyone.
The Tau are bad though. Evil space Weaboos that they are.
@@OutspokenSeeker the tau have no real freedom and are space communists, still though, the closest thing to a functional *normal* civilization outside of a few imperial garden worlds
Ironically the closest thing to good guys are actually the craftworld eldar yes their aragance is unmatched, are selfish as hell, and their superiority complex is misplaced after everything their species has done but when it comes to their own people they are by far the best in treating them and honestly the humans of M41 are barbarians however the eldar, the ones responsible for slannesh have to right to judge such a thing
Necrons are the only good guys of 40k.
There is a phenomenon in 40k called “Astartes terror” which refers to the specific sensation humans have when seeing an astartes doing a full sprint, because something so heavy should never be able to move so quickly. Astartes showcases this perfectly.
I believe the term is “trans human dread.” Basically that the marines and primarchs were too big, to beautiful, and too quick for the mind to comprehend. Sort of an uncanny valley situation.
"Because in 3,000 or 4,000 -- whenever this takes place [...]"
Year 38,482 is when this particular piece is set, if you were curious, Chris.
And they pretty much don’t need flashlights ^^
@@DeBeuLioU In part 2 there's a scene where they show the view from the Marine's point of view, right after they land. The pulse that lights up the targets with a red silhouette just before they start shooting through smoke.
Hmm.. I doup't that one because of the warptravel-timetravel thing and because the Imperium itself has a serious issou to create an exact calender. (interesting die note: So do we in reality, we don't no for sure if the date we have is really correct, because it's blind space is around 100-200 years, thanks to the influence of some "highborn" people / institutions during history. To have an exact date we would have to frow our current system over board and mesure the years from a date on which can be determinated relativly exact, but that could lead to some discussions with these institutions.
Brother enough with the lore, let's just burn some heretics
Niddhogg Loki Yeeeah but the best guess is what we go by for the sake of convenience.
also it states the date at the start of the series
Another person pausing to early at the end of part 5. Ugg. Yes the author of astartes needs to be making movies like this without hollywood intervention.
I will learn from this noob mistake of mine!
Everyone wants Astartes to get recruited. I'd rather him start his own studio where he can let his ideas flourish.
@Action Speaks Louder Than Words They like money, don't we all
We need to start throwing money at the man so he can hire his own team
@Action Speaks Louder Than Words How dare he be paid for his talents
"Because in 3000, 4000, whenever this takes place"
Pretty close. Only- hold on let me check my numbers here- 37,000 ish years off.
Closer than the Administratum scribes
Pretty close, just 1 order of magnitude off.
Just gotta add another 0.
Actually see the opening, this is in 38,482.
I love that this series showed the unrelenting force of the astartes, then framed their enemies as just as persistent and powerful. Really shines true to 40k.
You can see the exact moment he became a 40k fan 😂
He reacted to your comment, he didn't correct it either... lol
Robert Knight no need to deny enjoying something as glorious as the 40k universe
He should check out the lord inquisitor short, not as good as astartes but really good
@@invictus_1245 or even have him check out Death of Hope part 1
Episode 4, that first pause lmao
I hate that some big reaction channel just completely miss every detail on this video and all they do is
saying wow or that's cool. This dude never mised any CGI detail.
"we do not have extremely powerful flashlights" they don't need a flashlight, they have night vision
in their eyes and in their helmets, like double night vision.
I believe they have thermal and infrared imaging that they can select from as well as other methods imaging.
I heard that flashlights are reserved for Guardsmen
@@TaintedPrinceps The first thing they have is the Occulobe implants, which basically takes out their natural eyes and pops in eyes that have a higher vision range and improved night vison. The auto senses of the helmet then improve both on the night vision aspect and add infrared, ultraviolet and other vision modes combined together in what is called prey vision, basically what you see at the intro to the first part.
@@IronSquid501 as far as i remember, the guardsmen have flashlights and some spec ops regiments have night vision devices.
I love watching people who don't understand how terrifying a possession is in 40k react to the brutal execution of the Inquisitor.
"Brutal Execution" ... "Emperor's Mercy".... potato, poetarto....
There's Warp shit and Daemons involved, you don't fuck around with that.
That Marine was no where near as liberal in his application of bolter rounds in that execution.
@midgetydeath servitors arnt an AI or robot or anything as AI can be taken over by the warp if it ever gets to the point of having emotions. servitors have their mind wiped, they have no memories and only have enough brain function to do the task that they need to do and nothing more. however as you cant use tech to do this you require a functioning brain thus a guard's man corpse cant work and only criminals are made servitors. there also isnt a lot of criminals around as most as deemed heretics and killed on the spot, i assume anyways.
@@jonmcfluffy9699 Yeah not to mention how much of an impact of a morale that is if that same servitor is used in the same army it was stationed in. Since transferring servitor is unnecessary its most likely the case if a guardsmen was used as one. Imagine seeing a fellow soldier dying, then coming back to life as this mindless husk of a person with mechanical parts tacked on it. Shit's traumatising.
I'm just sad he didn't see the animation in the last 30 seconds of Part 5, lol
A huge part of these videos that are making people get so hyped is the "accuracy" to the content. This is one of, if not the most, true to universe peices of content out there.
i know nothing about warhammer or the universe. the reason these videos gets people so hyped is the brutality and badass soldiers
@@sadrootbeer well there are two kinds of people
i do some video work and I know nothing about the lore of 40k, so what caught my eye was the cinematography, the feeling of the atmosphere within that world, the sound design and just the camera movements and details on the characters, the textures and the story telling. I know it’s all computer generated but at times it felt like I was watching an actual movie with real human actors. Again, the sound design is amazing and the composition of the shots is just so good as well as the transitions between each shot.
*Inquisitor gets possessed*
Space Marine: "Yeah, we don't do that here" 13:36
Marine 1: I smashed his skull apart, it was the quickest way.
Marine 2: Yeah, but let's use guns just for safe measure.
@1234 Fear? The only thing they feel is GLORY FOR THE EMPEROR OF MAN.
Definitely not a inquisitor. Just an Inquisition Psyker. Probably Ordo Xenos/Hereticus.
Yeah, a possessed soldier could single-handedly kill a entire battalion of space marines. They made sure that didn’t happen
@@SwordTune Marine 2: Fuck. We double-tap him for sure.
"We have our bad guy"
Inquisitor: *laughs in exterminatus*
I'm going to actually defend the Inquisitors here. They look at the big picture and basically run a cost analysis in their heads. The only time a planet has an exterminautus executed on it is when the Inquisitor concludes that the cost of leaving the planet living out weighs the cost of destroying it (unless the writer just reeeeeeally wants to portray the Inquisition as evil). When you're dealing with a corrupting force like Chaos or a rebellion that could spark even more rebellions extreme measures have to be taken to guarantee that the least amount of lives amd resources are lost
when hollywood starts make movies like that. i will start going to the cinemas again. brilliant job..
You'll go to the cinema to watch a 14 minute movie?
Ok then.
@@pcppbadminton I think you did not get it :-)
same
@James G too xenophobic REEEEEEEEEEEE
@@GrandMasterBB lol badminton was also joking
When you're such a chad that you kill a telekinetic with a knife.
Ha Chads wish they were as awesome as Space Marines
What the fuck is a telekinetic
@@deathkorpswatchmaster2414 more accurately, psykers, who are people with a genetic mutation that gives them a stronger than normal connection the the warp, which lets them basically use the force, smite people, and summon demons (who usually proceeds to possess the psyker and murder everything)
@@fellamcgee nice bro. As a beginning lore master i must say that its perfect definition of a psyker.
Death korps Watchmaster You have to be one of the stupidest people I’ve ever witness ask such a hostile ignorant question
"is he a general?" no he's maybe a company captain, more likely a chapter's veteran (someone who's survived hundreds of battles like what the boarding party was going though, or worse)
I know chris wouldnt know this but the guy that's got the broken eye lens is the squad Sargent cause none of his battle brothers have plasma pistols
@Mark Zhao Considering the boarding action, you might be right. But speed was of the essence here. They had to make it through the ship to the sphere as fast as possible. Doesn't say the Sgt. might be a holder of the crux. :D
Between episode 4 and 5 the guys UA-cam channel was hacked and he couldn’t access it for ages as the hacker had also changed the ownership too. With baited breath I, and many others, informed UA-cam and had to wait until the cogs turned and returned ownership back to him for episode 5.
Really enjoyed your vid, thanks 🤘😎👍
Holy crud You Tube did something good?
@@drosnelochmir6346 no they didnt. The entire community united together and got help from Markiplier and other big youtubers to pressure them into giving the channel back. And there was some talk about legal litigation through the entire process. UA-cam is inept
@@markhohenbrink5230 so they were basically forced to do so, ok gocha
What happened to the hacker?
whats the youtube channel name now?
"what is that sphere, man..." And thus a new member of the 40k fandom is born.
google Yu'vath and that is the most popular theory
@@girthtrude5040 Extra infos from AMA with the creator of Astartes :
"The orbs around the xenos were originally designed to protect them while traveling in the warp. Hence the one who "broke free" was eaten by some creature lurking there."
I get how you feel, I know almost nothing about WH40K, but that stab scene I can watch infinitely. This dude has a talent and obviously loves the universe, whoever owns the rights for the franchise, they should hire him.
They did
@@ghosty918 forcefully with threats of suing cause of their new bullshit policy.
@@EeniThesian66 Yeah it sucks. I commented before that came out. Fuck GW
Hahahahhahaahah they did hire him like many other fan artists forcefully under the threat of sending cease and desist, yet the "hired" guys seemingly aren't put to work because Games Workshop's own animations look like underbudgeted shit.
Sad really...
@@OljeiKhan Let me tell you even the greatest artist will deliver shit when you have forced shitty pipelines, non artist business suites breathing down your neck and deadlines nobody can achieve....
"I bet he likes that"
Far too many things in 40k like something stabbing them...
Laughs in slaanesh
And sawing
Giggles in Drukhari
@midgetydeath Well, personal taste and all that. I'd imagine there are some Drukhari who find physical pain boring, just as there'd be some non-Dark Eldar who really can't stand it.
3:30
"Man the lighting... And the *sound*."
(Half a beat later)
*Bolters*
I love the sound of bolters eliminating heretics in the morning :)
”Based on a videogame”
’Religous humming stops’
*loads bolter with religious intent*
Rated R? More like rated Grimdark lol. Figured I'd throw a few tidbits out for you that might explain a few things.
The guns the marines got are called bolters, they're basically automatic self-propelled grenade launchers. That's why the enemies mostly went puff into red mist, they just get obliterated cause they're not shooting regular bullets. You can actually see the exhaust in part 4 when the shots are caught in the force field.
You're partly right with the "force" guys, they were most likely psykers. In warhammer however psychic powers are far nastier; you pull power from the warp, another dimension that's kinda like a hellish version of afterlife. You can do wondrous things with it, but if you mess up you might end up possessed, have your soul eaten, or both. The red robed guy connected to the sphere is likely one too, using his powers to eavesdrop on the communication of one of the spheres they captured (there's a second in shadow behind it) and the one the marines went to get from 02 vault. He gets beaten though, so rather than risk him turning into a demon the 2 marines obliterate him (white helms usually mean they're veterans), cause a demon would be massively sturdier lethal danger. Human go squish, demon take 20 shots and keep on trucking.
The psykers didn't actually mess up the main guys eye, as you can see at the end of part 5. The marines' helmets are basically solid with seriously advanced cameras giving them a feed; you see this in part 2 in the moment after boarding and before they start firing, them seeing the enemies in red. You can even hear them whirring and see them moving after the lens crack and part 5. They got radios inside the helmets too, which is why we don't really hear them talk even though they do; in part 5 where the main guy's head suddenly turns before the sphere acts up, that's him receiving the return order.
Damn thanks so much for sharing all this info you rock!
The psyker eavesdropping on the sphere seems to be an inquisitor.
@@LemonRush7777 or at least an inquisition agent. Full fledged inquisitor probably wouldn't risk his life on this.
@@LemonRush7777 Quite likely.
@@jeffersondemott2125 Imagine this, Inquisitorial Agents are colloquially known as Inquisitors.
A late explanation but here goes:
The ship is a "rebel ship" that was found to be carrying "xenos" technology, thus why you have the "astartes", taking care of the task under inquisitorial supervision instead of the regular Imperial navy.
The big "orb" is most likely Yu'vath technology, and they are used to house warp daemons. the Yu'vath were exterminated during a past crusade due to their relationship with the warp.
The 2 psychers with the spinal cord at the back of their heads are very likely humans corrupted by the daemon inside the sphere
The golden giant refers to the "golden men", again related to the Yu'vath, and was most likely being constructed as a worship idol by the renegade crew.
The thing breaking below the astartes' feet is ice, and along with the exhaust's smoke is here to let us understand that the room is extremely cold, a telling sign of warp activity.
The guy connected to the sphere is an inquisitor (This is also why they immediately kill him. A talented psycher with exceptional force of will being broken means that the daemon housed by the sphere is exceedingly powerful), and yells something like "Recall them immediately" before he loses himself. (Unfortunately what the daemon says to the inquisitor is very hard to catch). This is why the commander signals the marine nearby.
The white helmets and shoulder pads reflect veterancy or command.
Now, with regards to the scenes, nothing is left at random. From the design of the corridors, to the parchments hanging from the walls, to the candles, to the rebel helmets, to the design of the spheres .... everything represents lore elements that only someone who is quite a bit knowledgeable would know about.
So these are in fact 2 different Orbs?
So robed guy was "good" guy who got possessed by orb? Maybe?
@@sirstash Correct. And veteran marines had to put him down very swiftly to prevent corruption to spread and horrors of the warp to get in their own ship. Robe-dude, Inquisitor, was already lost when they hit and shot at him.
@@sirstash yep. He was a psyker, a person capable of tapping into the Warp which is a hellish place of pure emotion. Psykers can use the power of the Warp to manipulate reality in a way similar to most franchises magic. He got his body hijacked by the thing in the orb. The veteran Astartes with the white helmets put him down rather than let his corpse be used as a weapon by the thing in the orb.
@@Kaarlo Keep one thing in mind. There are chapters (or infact a legion or 2) with White armor. White Scars and The Dark Angels 1st Company have both.
Its times like this when you see a professional reviewer impressed by the efforts of one man, you appreciate what talent truly is. This is it, almost supernatural, dare I say god given..Astartes is an amazing piece of art..
Big thanks to the reviewer and creator.
I just love how he sound designed the Bolter. It sounds like something that only a Super Human can fire without the recoil blasting their hand off...and you just feel it.
true true
The entire series has incredible sound design
The Adepta Sororitas would like to have a word with you =)
@@shadeling6717 Remember they too are wearing power armour.
okay relax it is a 25- mm cannon. it wouldnt blow your hands off
13:07 as he turns his head he says “recall them immediately” that break in concentration causes him to become possessed
I actually suspected his break in concentration was due to him trying to save him from the warp creature
I actually thought there was only one sphere but seems like there’s two
He was already possessed the minute he integrated with the cogitator. Those orbs are very powerful warp based technology. And anything warp based has demons in them. He was lucky enough to be witness to the conversation.
@@volt9031 the distant sphere in the Inquisitors pov is the sphere on the other ship that the Astartes are surrounding. The I quisitor was probably plain surfing in the warp, which is a parallel realm so there were no physicial obsticles obstructing our view from the other orb. An amazing perspective, the creator is a fucking genius.
I always got evacuate immediately 😅
When you've watched this clip so many times yourself, the only thing left to do is watch others get enjoyment from watching it too :D
Getting a film maker's perspective made Astartes even more enjoyable. Thank you for this video.
I have to say out of all the Astartes reaction videos I've seen, I like this one the most because of just how genuinely blown away this guy seems
thanks!
"I CAN HEAR THE HERESY"
-Rimmy
*Angry Commissar Digby Sounds*
Have you had problems with your hyperdrive, what in the name of the emperor are you doing here?
@@hemaneatspizza9111 Yes, don't let hacked droids do the jump
I love your approach on dissecting these videos. There are so many "producer reacts", "guitar teacher reacts", etc. type of videos, where the host provides little to no insight into what they are reacting to. You took the time, not only to appreciate the work, but to break it up and explain it for folks who are non-experts to consume.
The Space Marine helmets all have night vision; so they can see in the dark. Of course we as the audience can't which makes is so great for tension.
that explains it!
@@ChrisConnorFilms You can actually see how their enhanced vision works in 3:35
@@keltur2081 That is just one of the settings. There are multitudes.
CHRIS CONNOR While their helmets do help them, its actually one of the 19 organs implanted into an Astartes that gives them almost night vision, The Occulobe, which in combination with rigorous genetic therapy gives Astartes vision far greater than a human and allows them to see in Low level or near complete darkness as if it where daytime
@@computerkitsune As part 4 on shows, the lenses are not through-holes with a glass cover. The space marine sees through his helmet with the auto-sense visual system. The red lights moving around after the cover breaks is an array of camera systems feeding a great deal of visual information directly into the marine's brain via his black carapace.
Most space marines would wear the helmet, it is only for dramatic reasons that you see so many depicted without them. Except the wolves, who actually prefer to not have them. They claim this is because their own senses are better, but I figure its mostly because they are in fact battle junkies who want the raw unfiltered sights and sounds of battle.
There is no way their naked eyes are better than a sensor fusion interface making use of auspex returns which feeds directly into their brains.
Camera pans to chapter master
Chris: what is he like the general
Me: in a way
@Ke baX first company for sure maybe a sternguard
@Ke baX nope sternguard and vanguard veterans are a unit of regular space marines. All belonging of the first company
"What is that sphere man?" The community is still trying to figure that out lol
old.reddit.com/r/Warhammer/comments/gkf3vh/im_syama_pederson_creator_of_the_astartes_project/
An OC alien race with a LOT of similarities to the Yu'vath. The sphere was a shield/vessel for a super psychic alien. The creature was revealed when the sphere sucked them in. A warp entity ate the alien, and the alien's last act was to teleport the Astartes to the alien's long-dead homeworld (not its intent). Also the golden body was meant to be a new "comfy" vessel for the alien.
@@SomeKindaSpy Someone found a wiki/codex entry that relates to where the Marines ended up;
“The Mariana Gorge is a deep ravine on Terra. In the era prior to the Age of Strife, this canyon, then known as the Mariana Trench, was at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and was the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth's crust.
However, during the wars that engulfed the planet during the Age of Strife, much of the planet's oceans boiled away, revealing significant portions of the Gorge. In time an atheistic civilization arose along the walls of the Gorge that lasted several thousand years.
By the time of the Great Crusade, this civilization had vanished, but left behind mile-high statues of its kings.”
@@offender0 very much interesting... so the sphere would have bringed them back on Terra... intriguing (why does this bring even more questions?)
I thought it was just a vastly more powerful type of warp engine then the imperium had. That's cool AF tho..
One of few things that i found out is that the Golden giant they were building had some connection to secret keeper of slaanesh.
I mean the one who made people build these
It's enjoyable to see someone who obviously knows nothing about 40k. Enjoy some 40k.
I'd like to see what you think about death of hope.
That's the real grimdark side of 40k
or helsreach
Or Guardsmen
so I don't know if you noticed but in the scene with the rapid fire laser turret, when the lasers hit his armor, there where dents being formed on his armor after each hit which you would never notice without having it pointed our or slowing down the vid and analysing it, which I thought was an amazing attention to detail
"cause in 3000, 4000... whenever this takes place, we dont have really powerful flashlights"
Try 40,000. With a generous sprinkling of apocalypse, dystopia, and mind-numbing horror. Plus, that's powerarmor, night vision should be the least of its tricks.
I mean they have entire armies armed with flashlights, so yeah
@@paulsilagi4783 that's just not fair; modern-day militaries would be drooling over those lasguns; it's just that in the context of 40k they're insufficient
Astartes can see in near total darkness anyway, but yes, the armor most likely has variable vision including night/infrared built into the helmet HUD.
@@paulsilagi4783 the Death Korps of Krieg would like to know your coordinates
Pft, Space marines can see in the dark thanks to their augmentation.
Look at the other pillars in the final scene. You will see a light effects. Those are the other marines. On the channel of Chapter Master Valrak you have a very good analisis of the story behind.
The facts that you said Marines and not Space Marines/Astartes/Brothers is some kind of heresy.....
@@inquisitorvarusnavary7126 your part of the inquisition so do soemthing
@@inquisitorvarusnavary7126 nah man theyre US marines. This is a crossover episode
Norn Queen Alexis has the single best breakdown of Astartes on UA-cam, hands down. Her lore knowledge is unreal.
@@ShahbazBokhari she's really good.
I’ve watched it a number of times and each time you notice little things. When the marines are walking through the hallway and the view switches to the guy on the gun, you can see his head turn slightly when he sees the marine in the light from the gunfire. In the final scene as the camera pans, you can see flashes on top of the other pillars where the other marines are being teleported
The hole in the smoke. when he fires his energy pistol in part 3. How did you not even mention it? It was so cool :)
I do recall him saying something about the smoke 'blowout'
i should tell you that the guns these men are using are not just some guns they are basicly full auto grenadelaunchers firing self aimcorrecting rocketproppellet Grenades of a massive caliber wich is why these regular people just exploded in half on impact.
Don't forget at the end of part 3, that's not a "gun" that's a plasma pistol. That space marine unleashed the power of the sun on those 2 guys
There is really no point trying to explain it to someone who doesn't know any of the lore but you nailed it pretty much.
The uninitiated appreciate this comment, you did your emperor s great service
well i tried my best explaining it and appreciate that you guys like the explanation.
Also fun stuff, the caliber of these guns is so high, if a normal person tried to fire one, the recoil would rip his arm clean off his shoulder
There’s talented people, and then there’s gifted people. This is the quality we need to see on the big screens.
My favourite thing out of everything in these series are:
1) The shuttle drone missile interception depth feeling and action, and the fighter-bomber launching its attack
2) The motions of the inquisitor/psyker, my god. His hands. And his reaction when his momentarily lapse in concentration opens his defense up. Watch him go from normal praying hand pose into shaking and clutching hand pose, after his epic head reaction. Just absolutely amazing.
3) The ending scene art.
4) The dialogue sounds I guess. Some parts are not clear but that's just good. I especially like the muffled voice of the inquisitor/psyker.
I can't get over the drones intercepting enemy fire while the bomber disables the engines on the enemy ship. I love it all, but the early half of part 2 is actually my favorite-I've never felt so immersed in a space battle in any sci-fi property.
The ending scene art is a direct homage to the art of zdzislaw beksinski with the use of colour and skeletal motif
I'm so glad people outside the fandom have picked this up.
Even without commentary, your facial expressions and reactions already shows how impressive the Astartes maker is. 🙂
Especially when you had to pause and rewind on episode 4.
One shot that I absolutely love that tends to be overlooked in these videos is the shot in part 1 of the astartes walking down the corridor to the boarding torpedo. In that shot they pass by several members of the human crew (maybe guardsmen) and you can truly appreciate the scale of these giants.
Just here for 13:36 react
Trust us bro, that captain did him a favor
bokprop420 this is the best way I’ve seen it expressed, yet. The Emperor protects.
I think if the possession is complete he'll turn into a monster that eats Bolters for breakfast XD
XanXus -sama Heavy Bolters, all day
and double tapped just to make sure
@@maxxcreese9911
Quad. A skull caving and Four bolter rounds.
In the year 41st century, that was light judgement compared to what that psyker could have become.
"This is rated R18+ for sure"
My friend 40k universe goes BEYOND that rating 🍺😎
Amazing seeing someone show such a huge apreciation on the Astartes project that comes from outside the 40k fandon.
Also great channel, very entertaing seeing you deconstruct film making! I'll definitely check some more of your work!
I think we, All Warhammer fans, can appreciate that this is how we wanted our non 40k devoted friends to react when they watched it. Thank you.
I'm not that big in terms of Warhammer 40K. Still learning. But I can explain some things concerning this cinematic.
In general the Astartes in this cinematic are on a mission to infiltrate a heretic ship and secure the orb. Unknown what those two orbs really are. What we do know however is that they are kinda alive and certainly they are somehow connected to the Warp - a dark hell-like dimension fuelled by people's emotions, dreams and desires. And since people's emotions and desires are often evil - the Warp is NOT a good place to be in or to have any contact with. Which those Astartes have learned the hard way.
The attack is using something like a boarding torpedo. In short - the Astartes are being shot in a small vessel in the direction of heretic ship and hammer into the ship's hull. The fight that happens later is pretty self-explanatory. Astarted are using bolter guns. Those things basically fire mini-rockets instead of bullets. Hence why entire body parts of their enemies get blown up.
Those weird dudes with those electric pony tails are probably psykers. They use psychic powers via The Warp. As I told before The Warp is NOT a good thing to be in contact with so every psyker faces a risk of dying if he overuses his powers. And he won't be dying alone. Psyker losing control is basically an extinction level event. An atomic explosion is probably the least powerful thing we compare it to. So best just kill those bastards on sight - which Astartes are more than happy to do.
The guy in a room guarded by two Astartes is an Inquisition psyker. He basically attempts to overhear the conversation between two orbs. In short the orbs are in trouble because they cannot control Astartes and are likely to be taken by Human Empire. Therefore one orb tells the other to attack those Astartes and draw them into The Warp. The psyker learns about that but the moment he turns to tell Astartes, he's spotted. One of the orbs takes control of Inquisition psyker in an attempt to blow entire human starship into kingdom come. Make no mistake, this was an assassination attempt. Which is why Astartes proceed to kill the psyker without wasting any time.
In the meantime a message is being sent to Astartes aboard the heretic vessel. But the warning comes too late. They deployed some devices in order to get the orb under control but despite that the orb suceeds in drawing them into the Warp.
There's a brief scene in which we see a Warp demon sucking the life out of those Astartes. Then something happens. We don't know who or what intervened. But Astartes are freed and the end up on some remote planet. We only see team leader but there are flashes suggesting that his entire team appears nearby. So at least they are all together. And entire team of Astartes is certainly a force to reckon with.
12:44
Orb 1: (with the inquisitor) “who’s here?”
Orb 2: “I have failed, brother”
Orb 1: “we have all failed”
Orb 2: “the Astartes deny our touch”
Orb 1: “we must return”
Orb 2: “break your seal” (possibly referring to the cage orb 1 is in)
Orb 1: “impossible, we will never survive”
Orb 2: “you must take them”.
The very last piece of dialogue you could also understand as "You must take the other" or "the alpha".
Not a Panther I think he is saying you must take the alpha (alpha level psyker watching over the captured orb). The captured orb suggests to take “them” the kill team
Nice👍🏿
It’s the other way around, the caged orb is telling the one on the rebel ship that he has failed, and that he must break his seal, and return to wherever he came from (the warp presumably) I’ve assumed that the free orb is saying that he would not survive breaking his seal, and the other says he must, and then the forward team all gets pulled into the orb, and the other one says “at last you are mine” apprently because he was being controlled or contained by the guy praying
Few more seconds of footage you missed at the end. Great tease of what could come later
I think that bit was for some of his supporters using their chapters.
@@ftumptch86 yup, with the exception of the very first one, the ones in red are a canon chapter
It gets even more impressive when you realize all the frames of Astartes were done by one guy. All the animation, blending, texturing, modeling all of it.
“You came to me asking how my faith survived the Day of Judgement. I will tell you a secret. When the stars fell, when the seas boiled and the earth burned, my faith didn’t die. That is when I began to believe.
God was real, and he hated us.”
The First Heretic?
@@IIIIaAallll yup, burning of Monarchia.
@@IIIIaAallll yes! =)
#BlameLorgar #BlameErebus
@@Schnittertm1 Erebus delivered us from the False Emperor's lies.
"3k or 4k, whenever this takes place." The creator gives us a date at the start of episode 1, this takes place in 482.M39, a brief 37,000 years in the future.
you would have to know what the Imperial dating system is to understand that was a date.
It just looks like gibberish to normal people.
TheCrankyCow not really. M is for millennia, so 39,000 and 482 for the years into the millenia.
@@tylerpixel
The date is not hard to read once you know it's a date. I'm saying it's hard to know that is a date in the first place unless you have a basic knowledge of the lore.
The guy with a cape and white helmet looks like either a chapter master (leads an entire chapter of up to 1000 Marines when the chapter is codex compliant) or a captain (leads 100 Marines). The one with the white beak helmet is a chapter veteran wearing an older model of armor.
Also, while force is certainly a way to describe it, those guys were psykers, using powers derived from the warp to psychically do stuff.
"Force action."
Tzeentch is laughing.
It's wonderful seeing you react to this as you are, without knowledge of the lore and setting, but let me say, as thrilled as you were seeing this that way, the more you understand the setting, the deeper you dig into the lore, the more times you watch this masterpiece... The more your spine will tingle seeing all the myriad details the creator painstakingly modeled, animated and aurated.
"Filmmakers reacts to their Replacement"
this short is amazing but i will say it's gonna be hard to fully appreciate it without knowing 40k. First of all it captures the atmosphere of the setting incredibly well. secondly theres actually a lot happening very fast and theres lots of little detail that help explain what's happening but you need fairly extensive 40k knowledge to actually understand all that stuff
Totally true
@@ChrisConnorFilms Yeah, like why one hallway has a lot of detail and one didn't. Those were incense braziers and purity seals to guard against the influence of that sphere. Same reason the inquisitor agent (guy who gets possessed) has incence burning as he's communing with the objects.
Check out Arch warhammer's UA-cam channel. He does great lore videos that make it easy for people to understand. He's also done a breakdown videos covering the astartes videos which are very informative. Though be warned, he does get a little political from time to time but it doesn't detract from the content he produces.
even with intensive knowledge, there are still many mysteries left, the lack of exposition dump keeps the fans talking endlessly :D
and reading all the comments you find very interesting theory and tidbits to piece things together. I find it quite fun and entertaining, an added value to an already amazing content.
@John Liller Is paranoid rant are definitively political, I genuinely liked is stuff before and some of is videos like the war of Armageddon were really good. But yeah, I stopped listening when he started using is channel to preach about some sort of imaginary evil feminists cabal who apparently have nothing better to do than ruin beloved franchises and cut every man's dick off. This shit is just really annoying
TL;DR: lore explanations. Also, a link to the homebrew page for the Retributors chapter at the end.
The main Astartes (a Sergeant) who leads the squad can also be identified by the black tactical symbol on his helmet (the others have white).
He was the same one we see fire his plasma pistol at the Multi-Las Cannon.
We also know has served between 120 and 130 years based on the studs in his head.
On the capital ship, the marines with white helmets are Chapter Veterans and the robed man is an inquisitor or and inquisitorial agent. We know he is a psyker and is linked via technological means to the sphere for monitoring (A psyker is needed for this because the spheres are a blend of realspace tech and warp stuff).
The inquisitor realises that the spheres intend to take the astartes, so he breaks his concentration to warn the veterans. Unfortunately, psykers are very vulnerable to warp predators.
The sphere takes advantage of his distractoon and possesses him. The best solution to dealing with possesion is to not wait and see what happens, so the veterans obliterate him immediately.
On the rebel ship, the sphere attempts to capture the astartes. But, since it has broken its "seal", it is left open to creatures of the warp. It is forced to release the astartes, who are teleported elsewhere (likely a Yu'Vath planet), as it is attaked (by the black mass).
Also, to know more about these astartes, just reference this page: wh40khomebrew.fandom.com/wiki/Retributors
That psyker doesn't get enough credit. Mans literally broke his concentration on the orbs to warn the astartes leaders to recall the squad and succumbed to chaos in the process, a real team player
Nah, the guy is a feeder, slim chance to save them from the melee orb, and risking demonic possession is a nono even if the save was guaranteed.
@@sibanbgd100 I'm guessing that once he went in, he realized there was no way back out, so he tried to make the most of it in hopes his death might accomplish something.
20:25 "They're just getting hammered"...War Hammered
7:13 he even animated the bullets bouncing off the force field or whatever you would call that.
12:44: you can see the Astartes standing around the orb for a brief moment.
13:39 you can see his cape flying backwards from the bolter impact.
14:06 in part 5, you can see runes starting to crawl over his hand as it gets pulled in.
Man that cape effect got my donation, the attention to details is out of this world
Oh my goodness, the 12:44 call was incredible. I've seen Part 5 going on probably 25 times now and NEVER noticed that.
I love when people watch the whole video and then go back and talk about the parts they wanted to talk about, it allows the reactor to give their gut reactions to the events without having to entertain their audience, and then once the video is finished gives them as much time as they need to go back to each individual part to give their thoughts on it
35:08 Astrtes can perfectly see in the drkness even without helmets, flashlights would be unnecessary and also it would reveal their position to the enemies. Sry for being nerdy
As a 40k/Battlefleet Gothic fan I very much enjoyed your breakdown. Between this and Corridor Crew's reaction I can formulate not just that I enjoyed this series, but *why* I enjoyed the series. Thank you!
22:51 I never noticed the second guy there... I guess that's why the Astartes fired 2 shots...
Also the start of episode 2 is interesting; the fighter plane goes on ahead to distract the rebel ship, the drones intercept incoming fire and the cannon picks off any ordinance the drones fail to intercept.
"Can you hear an explosion in space?", "Yes, but you have to be in the explosion too."
Episode 2 was a pretty good example of that. From the asteroid debris bouncing off the hull, to the shockwave of the explosions.
@David Barr And that's why Astartes is so good. It's full to the brim with small details.