Its the scanners. Im almost certain the scanners are what causes the memory loss. If you read the beginners guide/instruction Manuel, you can see that it has adverse affects on its users.
"Company Credits" reminds me of how companies in remote towns used to give such credits for company stores, essentially leaving a person in permanent debt. A form of economic slavery, forcing workers to stay under contract until the debt is paid off.
@@fus132 I wouldn't go quite that far... This would be more like living in a Town made by Amazon, who you work for, and get paid in Amazon Dollars that can only be spent inside an Amazon owned Store on Amazon specific products. You have quite literally been cut out of any monetary or economic growth as all of the real profit is kept by the corporation and you have to make do with monopoly money the company gives you as an illusion of pay. A US dollar can be spent on anything you want from any supplier or brand. Hell, you can spend it in most other countries even who would be happy to take the stronger currency.
Something to add, the name of the moon where the Company Building is located, "Gordion", is a reference to the ancient ruined Phrygian city that hosts the Tomb of Midas; as in, *that* King Midas from Greek myth who turned everything he touched to gold. So when Sigurd mentions an "entire planet made of gold", it starts to sound a little familiar...
o my fucking god, this explains why we getting random scrap for them, the monster has powers to turn stuff into gold, so they make profit by turning the shit we bring into gold, also would mean the monster didnt just destroy the golden planet it came from it
But then golden bars should be useless. If the monster can turn anything into gold, then the size of the scrap should make it more expensive, and a gold bar would be less profitable than something like an engine.
@@juninja22hero that’s very interesting, because my recent play though with my friends we found a gold bar worth nothing. We left and tried to see if it was a glitch but nothing changed. It could be a bug, but when read this theory is in starting to think otherwise
@@drearysol well depends on what the monster eat, coz maybe it turns stuff he dont want to eat into gold and consumes the rest, this way small stuff is guaranteed gold for the company while big metal things are just food for the monster? Idk we really cant be sure till creator makes the drill work
Something I really want more people to notice is that if you type "Desmond" on the terminal, it says something like 'file corrupted or overwritten' which it doesn't say for any of Sigurd's other crewmates. Meaning that Desmond would've also had his own logs and files on the terminal, I wonder if we'd ever be able to find access to them.
if you didnt find a file it says the same for all file names, desmond is one of not added files name also if you type jess it says you need to scan the creature, but its only cause it connects it to the jester and if you scan it and type jess it sends you to jesters description
Speaking on terminal secrets, i found out that by entering “deez nuts” instead of getting the usual response of “prompt not found” you instead get the response “creature scan data not found” implying that there is, or at some point will be, a creature called deez nuts
It makes so much sense when you realise that you as the player are also not questioning whats happening, that you don't have memory of signing a contract, nor getting on the ship. when you start, you're already on it. Your crewmates die mid run, but yet overnight they're replaced with new people.
What if the people you are playing as, are the ones who wrote the logs, and they are just brought back to life repeatedly slowly forgetting their memories.
@@Ragingknight12 If you resd the manual about the scanners, it actually says theres a certain risk to scanning. This could be the cause of memory loss? idk
One thing I've always found interesting is the name "Sigurd" itself. It's from the Nibelungenlied, a Germanic epic about a warrior named Sigurd that kills a dragon to obtain its hoard. Perhaps there is a parallel between Sigurd here and the Company as the sort of "dragon"? I know the object on Gordion is a drill, but when I first saw it, I thought it was some kind of thermonuclear device that Sigurd would insert into the wall to blow up/kill the Company? I'm not sure, but I think its interesting that no one has come up with the Nibelungenlied parallel yet.
@@arubaluba9955 Perhaps he got left behind and went "missing". Perhaps he disappeared on the company moon and Desmond left him, and he's the one that was building the drill. We don't know for a fact that he died, just the implication he wasn't with Desmond All that said, yeah he's absolutely dead, it's been 500 years. It's still possible the information he gathered and potentially the drill/bomb he made are the key to defeating the company though, just by a different crew
To expand this a little further, Fafnir (the dragon Sigurd slays) is specifically someone that was cursed to become a dragon by stealing a ring. Most seem to interpret the company as an almost benevolent entity, chosing to sacrifice a few to save many, but what if the company is just as greedy as they seemed? What if they, just as Fafnir did, got greedy and accidentally turned into a proverbial monster. Considering all the planets we explored previously had some form of thriving settlement with seemingly no preperations for a massive tentacle monster attack and are now entirely abandoned, as well as all potential company employees hiding out far away from the actual company building, could it be that they caused the destruction themselves by bringing Jeb to the company building?
A lot of people don't point out that the ambient noise at the company building sounds an awful lot like a stomach growling. It really unsettled me the first time I went there and the first thing I thought of was "what if we're feeding a giant monster in there"
another strange thing I like to add is how when we ring the bell but do not give it any scrap at all, the beast does not get angry at the slightest sort. Like for all we know we could just run the bell an infinite amount of times and it will never stay mad (unless it’s just the game passively closing it since there’s no loot on the counter)
If had to guess, the whole 'Sigurd' think is like a rite of passage for all the crews. Which why there is a sticky note there, every crew since Sigurd's has been leaving the same notes telling up about Sigurd's log. It's like an oral tradition almost.
I always thought it was implied the "Company" was a single sentient being and not a corporation because of how it is addressed in the payment received line: "Your work keeps the Company happy". Not running, or glorious, or some impersonal adjective, but an rather emotion - happy.
It seems pretty obvious to me that 'the Company' is the tentacle-thing inside that gargantuan building. The moon is described as 'unknown population; where the Company resides'. Not where it's located, or where it's based, but where it resides, like one single entity. It's some greedy, hoarding monstrous creature that walled itself in, or was walled in, and seeks endless gain by being the whole corporation. The scrap doesn't seem to go anywhere except into that slot in the wall, doesn't seem like it ever leaves, and it values things like toys more than it values actual scrap metal.
I used to have a theory that “the company” was actually just the creature behind the wall of the company building. They make it apparent that the voice they heard on the phone isn’t a real person, but instead an AI generated voice of some sort, so I thought it was plausible that the one creating the voice was none other than the monster itself. I ended up getting a secret voiceline while selling that said “THESE WALLS CANNOT HOLD IT” in a louder and slightly more glitchy voice than normal. So instead I think “the company” is probably just a cult/group paying people to feed the creature to keep it docile.
@@xyrkzes in the wiki it states "THESE WALLS CANNOT HOLD ME" which would align with your first theory, but when I listened to the voiceline i also heard "THESE WALLS CANNOT HOLD IT"
But it also talks about investors and keeping them happy. I personally think there's a group of people keeping an eldritch horror in the building contained, and the entity is what we are giving the items to
I think it's interesting that the motivation behind the company isn't your standard "make as much money as possible" deal. They're trying to stop a planet-eating monster from going on a rampage, which is a fairly noble goal for people who throw away their employees without a second thought. Reminds me of the SCP Foundation.
Seeing how Sigurd said “I am crazy” right before his death, I think it’s safe to assume that the ghost girl is what killed him. Not to mention it’s the only monster in without a log- not because it’s a spiritual entity, but because Sigurd died before he could write about it.
@@lazarsaraba1921well, you can only see the girl if she targets you, so either he never encounters her and cannot write about her, or he encounters her and thus cannot write... About anything anymore really.
she cant even be scanned so she wouldnt have a log anyways, but she might have killed sigurd regardless, unless we find some more info on him inside the company building once functionality of the drill is added
the ghost girl kills you in game if youre deemed the most insane, usually by seeing people die, being by yourself, and being deemed the most paranoid, so not a bad theory
I know this game isn't part of "iron lung's" lore, but damn it really could fit if it wanted to. You're exploring moons, not planets, you're trying to find any resources left, the main company building is on an ocean planet and if that drill was actually a submarine it'd fit so well. Only some minor lore details would have to be tweaked for those two games to fit together.
The only other sign of "life" I've seen in gane is quite a minor one. On one of the ice moons (I sadly cannot remember which) just to the left of the path of lamp posts to the main building you can find a cabin. It's quite small, just two rooms, and nothing spawns in it but the light switches still work
I actually wonder if the employees we are playing in the game are actually clones of Sigurd and his team. And that after so many reiterations the mental state of the clones deteriorates.
@@kompasta Maybe? Like if it were, Emesis Blue could act as a prequel since TF2 is meant to be in the 1968. Which is also the same year as the first dated entry by Sigurd.
I think something that makes a little more sense lore-wise for the log entry dates being 1968 is the idea that since the program had to be manually put in by his brother - they used something similar to Unix time that backdated everything, and they couldn't figure out how to, or didn't bother changing it to accurate dates. This is further supported by the fact the spider log in the beastiary is signed by Sigurd in 2497.
Actually this has since changed in Update 47, "Modified the bunker spider file to patch some confusing continuity. The date in the terminal data was changed from 10/6/2497 to 10/6/1965."
We lost our Dragonslayer, Sigurd We know about the Dragon's Horde, The Golden Planet We get glimpses of the Dragon itself, Fafnir, The Beast, The Company
Now we must slay it, bathe In its blood, and become invincible, then get married to a Valkyrie or warrior princess, then get betrayed by our friend in a hunt
Sigurd signs the logs in the 1900s but the bestiary is also written by Sigurd (Circuit Bees section is signed by him), reading the Bunker spider log has a date of 2497 at the end. I dunno what's going on with the dates but it is a bit weird. EDIT: As of v47 the bunker spider date has been changed to read 10/6/1965. We (the people) love Zeekerss for this. W patch notes
Sigurd may just be a pen name that all the crews and their successors use when writing logs. It may not be the same Sigurd as the original. But then again assuming there's an in lore explanation for players respawning between moons, it may be the same crew. But if that was the case, how would the employee discipline be explained? They just jettison people into space for not meeting quota.
@@halinaqi2194 the cloning theory might explain employee discipline. after cloning the same people for over 500 years youre wound to end up with defective batches that underperform than usual, so they toss out the defectives by throwing them into space before bringing in a fresh batch until they finally end up not being able to reach quota and cycle repeats
my best guess is that there clones or that Sigurd went so insane that he just stopped writing so he could get his bearings and accept it, that would make sense, especially since they said there being more careful and that Desmond told Sigurd to write about important things, the important things Sigurd wrote were the logs on the monsters
@@fallsky_19yeah after 500 years still keeping resupplying on employees there is no way that they would just kill out half the population atleast so it must be cloning
Some other loosely connected things to note rhat have probably been pointed out already: - Jeb will absolutely kill employees if they ring his bell too often. He also doesnt eat the bell itself despite it being made of metal, but will respond to it and eat everything else brought to him (which is currently always metal and sometimes a dead body). He doesn't flat out murder people if they dont annoy him, though, so clearly he is capable of some level of intelligent thinking - the hoarding bugs exist and, like Jeb, collect scrap (their intention for it is unknown). Like Jeb they are also placated so long as they have this scrap, though they can become hostile if provoked too much (or if you attempt to take their scrap). The bracken, in comparison, seems to prefer collecting dead bodies - Despite some of the monsters seemingly being made of materials Jeb would like, currently (as far as i know) you cannot bring back and sell any of their corpses to Jeb. This may change in the future, idk, but if not it seems odd that something like the coilhead wouldn't be on Jeb's menu - the fact that you can still hear screaming through the wall implies to me that the golden planet wasnt eaten that long ago, or jeb digests slowly (or there was just that huge a number of people), or else Jeb is continuing to eat people alive now (most likely company employees)
I think eclipsed planets have higher monster spawns just because it’s dark, not because it’s a reference. More monsters spawn after 7 when it gets dark, so it’d make sense that they’d be there from the beginning if the sun was blocked out.
Hear me out on this one, I may have figured it out: The company raises the quota too high for anything or anyone to reach (one of my buddies got to 100k once,) the company buys dead bodies and fines you if you don't supply a body after the death of a crewmate. You never remember even leaving Earth or leaving your family behind. Is the company reanimating the bodies of crewmates and sending them back into crews? We know the company obviously isn't letting you finish your season on the job, but there are no explanations to why they dump you into space afterwards unless the space outside Gordion has something out there to collect them. This would explain why they ask you what your favorite animal is; it's a sample question. The company likely askes you about this when you're on the phone for the contract and, as you have no memories, choose a random animal. When you enter the terminal, it asks you again and compares the answers. If the answers are the same (which they will be because this all happens outside of the game,) you are allowed to go, but if they are different, the company knows that something has gone wrong and they need to extract you and, for lack of a better term, try again with you. This also explains why you don't have any memories. As you are a recently resurrected body, you haven't had any time to make memories, and you never will. I want to make clear the difference between reviving and reanimating/resurrecting. To revive is to bring something or someone back to life, whether it be from a defibrillator or sci fi Frankenstein antics. To resurrect or reanimate is the give life to a formerly living carcass. The difference is that reanimating doesn't need to bring back the spirit that belongs in that corpse, while reviving is an operation that reanimates the body with the former owner of said body. Even though the thing is labeled "drill" in the files, I think there is some chance it might be a bomb. Apparatuses are items that, when removed from their pin place in the facilities, the "radiation level" goes up. My theory is that these apparatuses are actually radiation vessels, and not small amounts of radiation like a microwave does. As these facilities were built sometime before 1968, nuclear weaponry had been created prior to these missions. The apparatuses are used by the company to power the facilities after they have been abandoned so the crewmembers can go in and find the scrap without having to waste precious resources on things like batteries and flashlights. However, I don't think Sigurd and his crew were the ones to create the drill/bomb. This is a game full of nuances and recurring themes. The question "where did everyone go?" applies to the greater, wider community. You aren't the only crew scrapping these moons. you aren't the only person playing this game, this experience. Similar to the game Superhot, the overall element and theme is that 4th wall breaking effect. That idea that this could be happening in real life at some point in the future, that we aren't just players, we are glimpsing a future we don't want to happen. The idea of this game is that we are all in this hell together, and we need to find a way out of it. The drill/bomb was created by a separate crew, likely the inheritance of Sigurd's crew's ship, seeking to break into the facility to see what's inside. I know some of these theories are a stretch, I think that the baseline of it fits perfectly into the storyline. Minaxa, if you ever see this/if anyone who is making a lore video on this game and wants to use what I said in their video, just flash my comment onscreen or say my name in it. Nothing big, just a quick mention.
@@ParkerLaffoon-u5w Microwave ovens give off microwave radiation when they're running. Modern ones are pretty good at containing most of it, but I'm sure if you put a detector outside of it you could detect it while running. Old microwaves were sometimes bad enough at containing it that many wireless devices like old cordless phones wouldn't work whenever someone in the house was using a microwave oven.
@@Siamesetiger178 no they don't it was a myth started when they first came out there's a couple people who have talked about just look up how microwaves work
If there's one thing that scares me about this game, it's not the Brackens, the cog heads, or even the ghost girl. It's the thought of me losing all of the shit that I just collected that makes me fear this game.
@@MeloniestNeon nah it’s the definitely the fucking turrets placed in every corner looking in every hallway forcing you to literally run for cover every goddamn moment
What also creeps me out are the monsters like the first logs from the 1960's say that their crewmate was killed by a bracken. You telling me these things are at the very least like 600 years old like wtf and just how damn advanced were these guys like when did they even land on the moon then like the 1400's?? Cuz by the time the crew land on these moons they already seen to be abandoned and have monsters roaming the buildings. And if we're going along the theory of the monsters being man made weapons of war I'm even more intrigued when and where did they come from.
I'm not entirely sure either, Some, such as the thumper and the bracken, seen to be natural, just with very deadly evolutions and adaptations. But i really find weird how some creatures are molded into human concepts, like a jack in box...
i think you guys took the wrong picture from the years. is there any reference saying they are using the gregorian calander? no. so you dont know which calanders they are using, for all we know, they could be in a totally diferent star system from earth, and 2023 is -2000 for them.
@@yujiakweh the youtuber is also wrong? he has wrong with the drill, i dont blame him, when i first saw the drill in game i though it has a bomb to blow up the wall. But its very likely that the years are not based on the gregorian calandar
its worthing knowing that company store refers to a very specific exploitative tactic in which a company has company run towns where the only stores that exist are company stores that only take company credits, making it almost impossible to get away from them. the only way to afford anything at all is by working for that company, and even if you try to escape to other towns, youve nothing bc the company credits are useless there. its a very good reference for zeekerss to have made to illustrate the company's morality. maybe its also a lore hint though. with this comparision, there kind of has to be somewhere outside of the company's control for people to escape to. maybe the company is only allowing you acces to the relatively small number of abandoned moons.
I've been wondering if the scavengers Are in fact human, and not some sort of of extension of the company achieving unique personalities / masquerading as human. They wear full body suits, and we never see them without. Given the high tech turrets responding to players, makes me wonder if they are not human physically, or at least, not fully human.
I really feel like for the lore, the ghost and the mansion are critical pieces, as well as the much more...haunting monsters like the coil-heads and the masked. But the ghost girl and the mansion (as well as the empty house) are a black box currently, as shes the ONLY human (or at least used to be) you ever see. The coil heads and the bracken are humanood, but one is obviously man made and the other is an alien. Who was the girl? Why does she explode your head, and only haunts whomever is the most traumatized in your party? Idk theres so many questions but i am so excited to try and figure them out
That's actually a really good point. I personally think that the girl could have been a younger employee and died to a landmine. Just a thought but really interesting to think about. Crazy that just one man created this. He must be making bank 😂.
According to the wiki, Jeb is more of a fan name as the game only ever officially refers to it as “the company monster” but you’re right, this does not matter
Zeekerss should add a rare company voiceline that just says "call me jeb" with none of the extra audio distortion some of the rarer lines seem to have.
I'm expecting an update one day for the walkie talkie's to play horrifying sounds when you get close to the wall with it on at the company. You already get some interaction by using loud items in front of the entrance.
If you have the the sellable old mobile Phone in your Hand. It does weird Sounds, maybe its a reference to sigurds walkie talkie or its Just His old one
The outside monsters are mostly only active at night, and the eclipse makes it dark immediately. That’s why enemies are outside immediately during an eclipse, or at least that’s what I think.
Fun fact: with the jetpack, you can feather your fuel, and you can actually go on top of the company building! Ive tried it, and its terrifying up there. Theres like a random skydome blocking your view, etc. You can also run almost infinitely to the left or right of the company wall...
I wanna add the fact that the company cares about bodies. I think it's because they have a way to revive workers. That'd be why they fine you with no body and reduce it with a body, it probably cost them something to make bodies. Why not constantly revive? Probably because there's some kind of limit. They're willing to revive profitable assets to the company, but it takes more resources to revive or they value you less each time until eventually you cost too much. It's kinda like a really job: as you make more money you need to be worth that higher rate, otherwise why not replace you with someone almost as good who costs way less? And they eject you because it's not really your body
You know there's one thing I wonder. It looks like that drill contraption underneath the company is connected to some cables to those posts. What if those are charging points and the only way to get the device to work is to bring the operational generators from the facilities ?
ive seen someone else in a comment section of a shorts somewhere try this out and they couldnt put the apparatus into the slots, at least, not yet. maybe in a future update
If you stand on the ship balcony at the nose like rose and uh that one guy from titanic as you take off, you can see a city in the very far distance with windows lit up and it looks intact
I think you forgot to mention the ability to disable the turrets and close/open those security doors from the ship. I think this fact is very interesting
My first ever game on Steam was about a year back in the form of It Steals. The creator Zeekerss also made Lethal Company, and I love both games quite a bit. It would be cool if at some point if Legs came into Lethal Company, but I'm glad to have seen the creator's evolution in the form of his games.
I feel the fact that failing to meet quota being expelled into space implies some change in operation procedures in the 500 years of scrap collecting. The Copyright update is some 200 years older than the logs yet is still 300 years out of date, so that could be a date to mark for a potential change in how the system was operated to introduce a quota-system. Also the Link between the company and the facilities can be further deepened through the remote-control scrap that can turn the lights on the ship on or off. Maybe a relic of the pre-quota days where the remote was lost by old crews if you believe the same few moons are being procedurally looted?
Cloning theory some have suggested seems reasonable for this, possibly explaining dating discrepencies and nonsensicalness aswell. But again, discipline for not meeting quota does not match with the description of crew member accidents and replacements, as if it were just a clone then seems easier to just say a teleporter was used for recovery and revival of the body.
the biggy thing makes more sense being a drill than a submersible, since there is a big circle drawn in the wall, and a visible track on the ground. Aside from the format, just look like a metal bread🙂
I wanted to leave a comment regarding the drill: if you go underneath and look at it with a flash light, you can also see that there are a set of rails in front of it and a yellow ‘X’ painted on the wall. I want to specify that the rails are facing the direction of the wall so it seems to be for sending it that direction. I believe eventually there will be some way to activate the drill and send it forward on the rails. Also, if you look at the “back” of the drill, there is a wire that leads to what looks like a button or switch on a small stone pillar. The wire has been cut / is in two pieces so it may be broken and eventually fixable? Sigurd mentioned finding bundles of wires on the moons, who knows!
I wonder... To start this, I have not played Lethal Company yet, although I do intend do, so it's very possible I missed something. Still, you treated the Golden Planet as if it's literally a planet made of gold. But, what if it's metaphorical? What if... The Golden Planet was Earth?
This was my thought as well. Last time I heard, the science is that Earth has an incredible abundance of gold compared to our sister planets. We have far more than we should. We're gold rich. It wouldn't be far fetched to call our entire planet a golden planet in a society that prioritizes it, much like the Spanish quest for gold in the Americas starting in the 1400s and the myth of entire golden cities (el dorado) hidden in the jungle. Additionally there's the inclusion of the moon Titan, an actual moon we know today. The environment of in-game Titan well matches our estimates of the real-deal's surface, including having an atmosphere (storms), standing liquid (flooding), and general darkness from being so far out (the use of snow lamps to light the way even in day).
And if the monster that ate it and forgot it was not really a monster but a metaphor for humanity? We know that we love just pretend that our problem doesn't exist or just forget about it. So the digestion part could be that the earth have enter a final stage and not much time is left before its just become an empty rock.
I think that all people died from war. It says in the coil head info that they were made for war by people. This would also explain the mines and turrets, and also possibly how the famine occurred.
one of the things i thought of when i first went to the company is that it would be cool if at some point it would have a facility/complex in it. now seeing the drill, i think this is actually a likely possibility
I noticed there was a circle on the wall in the footage. Perhaps there will be an endgame where you power the drill, break down the wall, and go into the bowels of the company? Also Gordion sounds a lot like a corruption of “Golden.”
yeah, it would actually be interesting as an endgame. you gotta find the parts like engines, bolts and so on to finish the drill, all the while having to meet the quota.@@maxwellfujs6124
@@defiantbegaming yup, my friend found it too, if im not mistaken it is when youre landing right when you start seeibg the company building through the fog, exepct it points right through the ground for some reason
@@maxwellfujs6124 Or maybe the Golden Planet is in fact Earth, and that's why humanity is having problems with preserving foods, and The Company's likely HQ on the other side of the solar system being controlled by AI.
With this lore, i guess we now have a lead as to what will be the end game of this, either we defeat the company or try hard as possible to escape the company
My name is Sigurd, and when i saw it on the sticky note, i got confused, cause i thought that the game just put the name of the windows user on it, but my windows user is called Haffey, and the name "Sigurd" is literally nowhere on my pc.
8:47 🤓actually you're supposed to be quiet and it will be collected by a hook, the tentacles are for when you don't do the procedure as it's meant to (yes, I read the manual and put a nerd emoji to myself so you don't have to)
Another thing I would like to point out is the quite crazy mass of the objects scattered around. Some of them are seriously high for normal objects. Is it that the monster has to be fed satisfied so everything is made in such a way that they need to have more and more mass on them?
Fell in love with Zeekerss because of The Upturned, a very similarly terrifying game with very similar mechanic of monsters and enemies. So happy a lot of that has translated back into Lethal Company in a much more polished manner, I have played both now and it really is something
On 19:11 you can see that there is a circle on the wall in front of the drill, my theory is that the crew was planning to drill threw the wall either to see what was on the other side or to release the monster
I think what does it really well as the horror aspect is the absence aspect in normal horror games your naturally alone at the start so there was no connection to begin with the fact you have 3 other people with you gives the false idea your not meant to be alone so you take it at ease its when it goes silent that is when the true horror begins because then your mind asks questions do you stay and try to find what happened to why it went quite do you wait back at the ship thinking they will come back maybe they are deeper in do you hesitate to leave because you feel you might leave them behind. The other is when your inside the building and its silent for a long time you start to feel abandonment and unease because you feel everyone has left for the ship and if you lost your way back the stress kicks in with the idea the ship might go without you or the others have forgotten about you. That one aspect upon all the natural things adds true psychological horror to the game the aspects of being alone.
I completly agree with the first few things you said, but the last sentence when you said "do you wait back at the ship thinking they will come back" and so on. That only kindaaa works the first few hours of playing becuse later on it's just too easy to detect when someone is dead, and to determine when you have to leave haha. Besides that it can get sooo immersive that it becomes eerie how good it is, truly a great game.
I had an event that went just like this early today! Was with 2 guys (3 person lobby), and we got run into by 2 thumpers. They killed the first one, and I killed the 2nd, but sitting there, I realized all of a sudden I was completely alone, and had to make it back to the ship. The snare that nearly got me terrified me more than any bracken or ghost girl ever had. The feelings of security I had around others was COMPLETELY ripped away, making the dread of being alone so much worse.
I agree that the only fear worth being scared of is losing your friends. I love this game but don't think its a good idea for me to play it since I have minor trauma from a caving trip when a group of my friends got lost in a big cave system and missed their callout. We were up at 3am watching the cave rescue org volunteers bustle around, getting more anxious because it's 3am and they must be in there somewhere, so why can't we find them? Where aren't they? Are you OK? I love caving with all my heart, and always thought I was supposed to be scared of the dark, or getting lost, or being caught in a rockfall or washed away or falling off a cliff, like everyone else is. But this personal experience taught me that the only thing we're really scared of is losing people. Just like in Lethal Company when you have to decide to leave your team behind because you don't know if they're still alive or just lost.
I think the company is monsterifying being inside those building. Maybe they were research labs, that's why many of them contain the same type of monster, and why there is a reactor that prevents radiation to leak
it would make sense that one of us Sigurd and his crew, since crew members lose memory and just spawn on the ship with no recollections of what happened.
Editor is 100% right. that is very clearly a drill chuck in the back, and guide rails its resting on. The circle definitely is meant to mark where they intend to begin drilling. I interpret it as they are wanting to find out what exactly is behind the wall.
I think its really interesting that they can kinda hide the drill in plain sight there just under an obvious hatch- it goes to show that other than the poor employees, nobody managing the company even dares to go near the place. honestly my theory for the purpose of the drill is that it could be a previous crew who read sigurds logs and had more empathy than sig did for the unfortunate voices behind the wall lol sigurd was really like "dang you're crazy I’m leaving" 😭
Understanding the lore has put chills down my spine. But after watching this video and learning about Sigurd’s last log and Desmond finishing it afterwards (from what the game offers us to tell us), it begs me to ask the question of the origins of these masks and the ghost girls, and possibly the nutcrackers in some of the moons. From one of the most interesting and unique of features, the insanity point meter in-game provide some sort of correlation to Sigurds “I’m crazy” log report and Desmond having to create the final log instead of him, having sustained for over 500 years of the company running. My best assumption for these mask+ghost girl entities would be that the previous company crew members inside these buildings had gone insane whilst finding loot, either from horrors, or from innocently dying to the other in-game monsters that we see. Since we have no accurate theory on the very first mask being created or the ghost girl, I had no choice but to make my own. Perhaps these entities exist for having ill intentions to bring revenge for what the company has done to them, or by deterring crew members from entering these facilities. It’s hard to tell whether a previous crew member had worked up on some sort of dark, crazy magic ritual to create and possess these masks, or from some sort of potion. Without an origin, there would be no answer to how these comedy/tragedy masks were found in these abandoned mansions, or if it’s simply just an ancient myth… but then if humans once existed on such moons and Sigurd being able to create these logs in 1968, how did humans and ghost girls even travel to such a planet/moon when earth is our original home planet? Since we can presume that the ghost girl was a previously deceased crew member, and in linkage to the insanity, she must have gone berserk after her passing. It’s also strange to notice how we only encounter one ghost girl and can find up to 3 masked/mimics in a moon too. if the ghost girl was still normal and not insane with her laughters, she could’ve just simply wanted revenge on the company as said earlier, or just to drive people out of the “moon”, since she could also appear outside your ship too. This would make more sense and keep the lore connected on the same pages. The fact that the masks like to infect other crews and how the ghost girl laughs all revolve around insanity, and it’s likely that Sigurd may have died to her, given that he was unable to create any more logs, and having that “I am crazy” speech. It’s hard to make any theories with the mimics though, other than they’re just being mindless zombies. In such a cruel, twisted dystopian this game portrays, we are no strangers to insanity.
@@llamanade2044 That’s the joke, pal. Apart from the thumbnail, Pyro’s video is and hour and 20 minutes longer than this one, and he covers different topics aside from the lore,
A pet theory of mine is in two parts. Part A: The team you play on is not "alone", the other players- playing at the same time as you are-also feeding the monster. Part B: The reason quota goes up is to sate the amount of turnover. After the first quota, the amount effectively doubles. Yes, the amount is actually linear, but it would explain why the amount will always go up. My main theory I build on that is this: Your "day one" is the same as everyone else. Everyone starts on the same in-game date. Once quota is met, you'll find out that half of the other teams have been lost and that you need to make up for the slack of the others. After that, the majority of "survivors" remain to die out slowly over the upcoming quotas/weeks. Edits: Some grammar and hyphens changed. Note: We gotta remember that whatever this thing is had allegedly consumed a golden planet. What's a few measly scraps out of one team going to do to sate it's appetite? That is where the heft of this theory stems from. Secondary note: Would this imply some degree of time travel? That's up for debate.
wait u are actually on to something, because that would make a reason for why u get reset if u fail quota. more people join, and the cycle of low quotas reset. and even if technicaly more people join while you could be making insane amounts of scrap value, why lower it for ur squad? after all, u already proved u can make that much.
I imagine this game might end up having "multiple endings", or at least 2 of them if it does ever end up getting an ending, one where you finish a season and the contract ends (if this isnt already in the game, that is) and one where you place to aparatuses in the drill and you end up drilling through the company building
well, we know sigurd, says something speaks to him from the walls, that something asks him to free it. My guess? company monster tricks emplyees into trying to liberate it.
i didn't know this game had lore, its so interesting and very cool for a game i've only seen in humorous context. i'm glad its getting the attention it is :)
Regarding the Giant drill I think there is going to be a later update where you have to get the drill up and running and drill into the supposed company building in an attempt to release what lies inside of the huge hull there. There is even a big circle on the wall most likely implying that you need to drill into the wall.
Maybe the monster gets more sustenance from objects that have been used by or are special to people which is why lots of little knick knacks are worth more than some of the big mechanical stuff.
I'd love to see these ideas explored more in the game. Maybe we can power up the drill with aprartus cores, for example, or maybe a way to last a full season will be added in future updates.
The Eclipsed status can be described as the facilities being run on old solar power. The compounds are running on batteries during them, which keeps turrets and so on inside, but can't stop the other beings from going outside from entrances we don't know about. When darkness comes, the facilities aren't strong enough to keep them in anymore, since the facilities are old, and power is limited.
Here’s a thought, everyone else seems to be missing yet Sigurd describes voices through his walkie talkie, that seem to particularly become more active when he is next to the company wall. Like churning faces. What if the famine became so bad that humans started experimenting with other ways to survive and instead destroyed themselves in the process. Hear me out, the monster is massive apparently, the faces, what if it’s disturbingly a bunch of humans all conjoined into a fleshy obelisk. What if the reason when you bring a body back and it’s so low value is because you’re handing it its own flesh, what if the reason it can replace so quickly is because it just recycles your body and you live the same horrors and live die repeat to forever be recycled and feed the obelisk.and the reason it’s so hidden is because the workers wouldn’t be able to handle it, we actually never see the workers faces just a black visor. We know that they are humanoid, but…. This is space travel. Are they really human?
Something i have yet to seen anyone mention but when you look up sigurds other crewmates they all have different responses. Sigurd has his logs, desmond says data corrupted, and rich has no action to that name, but the most unsettling to me is the fact that when you search jess it gives the same line that you get when you look up a name of a monster that hasn't been scanned in your bestiary yet. Which has crazy implications about how we still need to scan it to learn more like what.
Fr, like we know richard died and sigurd mde the logs, now desmond seens sorrupted for some reason, but then comes the question, WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO JESS
I'm no expert in this game but the reason it says that might just be the game thinking you're trying to type "jester" and it say's that because you haven't scanned it yet
If you scan the jester and type 'jess', it just brings it to the jester log. The game takes the first three letters of the word and shortcuts it, so jess becomes jester to the game
I feel that in a future update you will be able to bring 2 apparatuses to the drill, then insert some sort of chip into the box Infront of it and drill into the wall with the yellow circle, enter the company building and defeat the monster in a boss battle
One of the recent updates added a few more logs. One is titled “real job” and it reveals a few things along side being sad to read. It reveals that Sigurd’s dad had supposedly planned to stay on Titan and it was going to look different in 2 years. Jess said that “they (titan’s population) were about to go to war and everyone is waiting for it.”
Possible lore If you sign a contract you become part of the company. When you die you still live as one big blob inside the compony walls inside the creature along millions of other dead people still alive and screaming. The sentimental stuff you bring is a way for the creature to make them happy while living with it. No one ever leaves the compony. That is why there is no people. You are the only ones left
I think that the fact that when you die the message that appears is "Life support offline" could mean something. Like, are they hiring people who are close to death? Could this mean the suits are the only thing keeping them alive?
Very nice rundown! I enjoyed that and now I'm curious where it will go. A couple speculative thoughts: In 1968, "the Company" was what CIA employees often called the agency. It might have had its origins there, although of course by the year 2500 it's far removed from the modern CIA. JEB can mean Joint Expeditionary Base, and might refer (or have originally referred) to the location rather than the creature. It may have been a base where the CIA and military did stuff together in the field and maybe caused a little trouble.
My theory is that the US/NASA is responsible for the containment of the monster and collection of scrap to feed it. It could also explain why in this timeline the US went to the moon, to eliminate any suspicions of unannounced space launches and absence in the Space Race.
The dates on the log are probably a very common issue on these types of program. I have an old PDA that includes a journal entry system. If I add entries for today, it cant do post 2014. instead it wraps back around at gives me 1924 dates. the 'current date' may be too far in the future and the date system is just bugged on the journals.
im halfway in the video rn and while i still can i will write something down when trying to access "Desmond" in the terminal, you get "Data is corrupted" message. The very same message also appears when trying to access Sigurd's logs which you didn't discover yet. Maybe Desmond made his own logs somewhere in there and maybe it would be added later or maybe it was something too important for the company to leave there EDIT: Nvm watched a bit further in and there is a log named Desmond, my bad.
I have a theories on some of the monsters existence, *Bracken:* I believe in order to solve the rationing issue (lethal company's world is in desperate need of food.) The company started experimenting with hyper evolving humanity with plants so we could use photosynthesis to get energy. well, a mix of radiation and non-compatible DNA creates the bracken (the word "bracken," is a form a plantation and the spikes on the bracken's back are actually leaves, Aswell as him being directly referred to as "the flower man" another form of plantation.) a sadistic but smart beast that toys with its prey in psychological terror. By following them and snapping their neck when they least expect it, they make sure they scare their prey, and they make sure to hide the body, so the other employees don't realize it's lurking. Likely arrived before the facility fell into disrepair. *Coil-Head:* I believe coil-heads were originally supposed to be a nuclear weapon of war, as they not only disperse radiation around them that is lethal, but they also convert enemies into coil-heads, likely to be used on a battlefield, if the cold war with the Soviet Union Didn't end well(The company started experimenting in the 1900s, dead center in the cold war between the U.S and Soviet union, and it is confirmed we are American. Sadly, the coil-heads were completely untrained, and couldn't tell friend from foe, so they killed everyone they saw, the facilities that held the experiments for the coil-head and bracken were evacuated and left behind. Likely arrived before the facility fell into disrepair. *Bunker Spider:* Because of the radiation the Coil-Head's let off, and horrible conditions, the spider's hyper-evolved and mutated into bunker spiders. Likely arrived after the facility fell into disrepair. *Centipede:* Also because of the coil-heads radiation and bad conditions, they mutated and became massive, unable to sneakily hunt prey because of their loud noises, they instead, hid on ceilings and waiting for large prey to walk under them, they would swiftly suffocate the prey. Because they don't need vitamin D, the slightest dose of it from sunlight kills them. Likely arrived after the facility fell into disrepair. *Goo:* Goo. *Loot Bug:* Turns out praying mantis's and nuclear radiation, don't work well together. Likely arrived after the facility fell into disrepair. *Ghost girl:* Likely the daughter of the owner of the mansion on dine and was likely taken by the company and experimented on, for unknown reasons, perhaps the bracken experimentation, The little girl did not survive the experimentation, so she kills anyone wearing a company uniform. Likely arrived before the facility fell into disrepair. *Electric bees:* Because most all of the predators that would attack their hive, either wore thick suits or would overpower them, they had to evolve to become conductive to improve the defense of their hives. Likely arrived after the facility fell into disrepair. *Forest Keeper:* Created to stop humans from entering the facilities so they didn't let something out. *Nutcracker:* created to defend the mansion. *The Company:* I false mask put on by the US government made to keep the planet eating monster fed, they had to capture it using miles high, thick concrete.
When you use the jet pack at the company building you can actually make it up to the top of the wall (if you can control it well enough) and see behind it. It’s basically like a Google maps pic of a town with a crisp blue sky
The first time i went to a moon with quicksand, i jumped off the ship, started sinking, ran out, had bee's nest on the edge of the quicksand, aggro'ed the bee's, tried to run, got hit by lightening and died, my friend, watching and laughing, tried to recover my body, the quicksand ate him as well, our other friends could not stop laughing.
Well, if you work long enough at some job you'll get that feeling of forgetting some things that you should've not forget. Also, "where did everyone go" is basically that same feeling of isolation as of right now many of us feel. There's not much genuine interaction with other people anymore. Sleep, work, eat, repeat. You don't have much time or energy to go out and hang out. In the end, i think that could be our far future if things go very terrible. Goops and employees unite! With boomboxes and wiggles we shall persevere!
@@Moonlight-ef3rrno,the company building keeps a monster locked up by feeding the locked up monster,kinda like scp(and they also sacrifice people to feed it)
They are still evil. Most people who do evil say they're doing it for good. If they were not evil, they would not wipe out crews that failed to meet quota, and they would communicate with people that "There is a cosmically gigantic planet-eating beast and we need your help feeding it scrap to keep it from attacking your home planets/moons. Please help us. You only need to work a season and you will be supplied with weapons for self-defense on dangerous planets" is what they'd be like if they were not evil. People who do bad things with the excuse of good intentions are just bad people who won't admit they are lazy! This method would work too, since militaries around the world plead for citizens to take up arms and risk their lives to defend their homes, so people wouldn't have a problem doing the same against this sorta beast.
Fun Fact: if you find the phone junk item you can hear screaming! This might be connected or similar to what Sigurd heard beyond the walls.
More likely I think it’s a reference to the movie “Scream,” which is where the model of the phone is derived from.
Hey that makes sense to the voice of how it sounds fake and far away.
That's what markiplier heard. I think
@@null7320 Yes, I forgot which episode, but he heard one on the phone but he was unsure of it.
I didn't hear anything beyond the walls
Its the scanners. Im almost certain the scanners are what causes the memory loss. If you read the beginners guide/instruction Manuel, you can see that it has adverse affects on its users.
Me, spamming the scan button every 5 seconds in a slightly dark environment:
@@MeloniestNeon EXACTLY! It's an invaluable tool and asset to be used by workers!
Cancer is invaluable too@@kagomagica
@@kagomagica okay that's a bit concerning...
@@kagomagica spoken like a true company worker! That's the spirit!
"Company Credits" reminds me of how companies in remote towns used to give such credits for company stores, essentially leaving a person in permanent debt. A form of economic slavery, forcing workers to stay under contract until the debt is paid off.
those are called "company towns" so imo you're pretty spot on and it's likely an intentional reference. bleak, but extremely interesting.
@OP You basically described the dollar
@@fus132 dang that's so deep. The dollar keeps people in personal debt. So true
@@fus132 Except the dollar is tied to a bank and backed by a government, not one specific company
@@fus132 I wouldn't go quite that far... This would be more like living in a Town made by Amazon, who you work for, and get paid in Amazon Dollars that can only be spent inside an Amazon owned Store on Amazon specific products. You have quite literally been cut out of any monetary or economic growth as all of the real profit is kept by the corporation and you have to make do with monopoly money the company gives you as an illusion of pay.
A US dollar can be spent on anything you want from any supplier or brand. Hell, you can spend it in most other countries even who would be happy to take the stronger currency.
Something to add, the name of the moon where the Company Building is located, "Gordion", is a reference to the ancient ruined Phrygian city that hosts the Tomb of Midas; as in, *that* King Midas from Greek myth who turned everything he touched to gold. So when Sigurd mentions an "entire planet made of gold", it starts to sound a little familiar...
o my fucking god, this explains why we getting random scrap for them, the monster has powers to turn stuff into gold, so they make profit by turning the shit we bring into gold, also would mean the monster didnt just destroy the golden planet it came from it
But then golden bars should be useless. If the monster can turn anything into gold, then the size of the scrap should make it more expensive, and a gold bar would be less profitable than something like an engine.
@@juninja22hero that’s very interesting, because my recent play though with my friends we found a gold bar worth nothing. We left and tried to see if it was a glitch but nothing changed. It could be a bug, but when read this theory is in starting to think otherwise
@@mechanicer3105there are 2 issues with this theory
1 - gold bars
2 - bigger scrap would have to give higher payout than something small like perfume
@@drearysol well depends on what the monster eat, coz maybe it turns stuff he dont want to eat into gold and consumes the rest, this way small stuff is guaranteed gold for the company while big metal things are just food for the monster? Idk we really cant be sure till creator makes the drill work
Something I really want more people to notice is that if you type "Desmond" on the terminal, it says something like 'file corrupted or overwritten' which it doesn't say for any of Sigurd's other crewmates. Meaning that Desmond would've also had his own logs and files on the terminal, I wonder if we'd ever be able to find access to them.
if you didnt find a file it says the same for all file names, desmond is one of not added files name
also if you type jess it says you need to scan the creature, but its only cause it connects it to the jester and if you scan it and type jess it sends you to jesters description
yea Desmond is the name of a file that hasn’t been added yet, not its own line of logs
“Fire” also has a log on it.
Speaking on terminal secrets, i found out that by entering “deez nuts” instead of getting the usual response of “prompt not found” you instead get the response “creature scan data not found” implying that there is, or at some point will be, a creature called deez nuts
Type "Desmond Benjamin" and you will see easter egg
It makes so much sense when you realise that you as the player are also not questioning whats happening, that you don't have memory of signing a contract, nor getting on the ship. when you start, you're already on it. Your crewmates die mid run, but yet overnight they're replaced with new people.
I always got the impression that Employees who died on the job are somehow resurrected.
What if the people you are playing as, are the ones who wrote the logs, and they are just brought back to life repeatedly slowly forgetting their memories.
@@Ragingknight12 oh my god
@@Ragingknight12 If you resd the manual about the scanners, it actually says theres a certain risk to scanning. This could be the cause of memory loss? idk
@@asleepified2543 the scanning refers to body health checkups tho right?
Imagine the company just being a giant hoarding bug
YIPPEEEEE
Maybe the mother of every hoarding bug
@@inferno3759 *earth shattering yippee*
giant yipee
YIPPEEEE
My only issue with the food shortage poster is the fact that a lot of these moons have giant pumpkins growing on them.
don't treat this as diegetic, it's an autumn update thing
Maybe it is a propaganda?
I always though they didnt have enough refridgerators
They may not be edible
probably full of radiations, not edible
One thing I've always found interesting is the name "Sigurd" itself. It's from the Nibelungenlied, a Germanic epic about a warrior named Sigurd that kills a dragon to obtain its hoard. Perhaps there is a parallel between Sigurd here and the Company as the sort of "dragon"? I know the object on Gordion is a drill, but when I first saw it, I thought it was some kind of thermonuclear device that Sigurd would insert into the wall to blow up/kill the Company? I'm not sure, but I think its interesting that no one has come up with the Nibelungenlied parallel yet.
Sigurd's dead tho
@@arubaluba9955 Perhaps he got left behind and went "missing". Perhaps he disappeared on the company moon and Desmond left him, and he's the one that was building the drill. We don't know for a fact that he died, just the implication he wasn't with Desmond
All that said, yeah he's absolutely dead, it's been 500 years. It's still possible the information he gathered and potentially the drill/bomb he made are the key to defeating the company though, just by a different crew
@@Keanine YES and we might find some more sigurd logs in the company building once the drill gains a functionality or just overall with future updates
The Company being compared to a dragon hoarding things is quite fitting with all the junk it feeds on
To expand this a little further, Fafnir (the dragon Sigurd slays) is specifically someone that was cursed to become a dragon by stealing a ring. Most seem to interpret the company as an almost benevolent entity, chosing to sacrifice a few to save many, but what if the company is just as greedy as they seemed? What if they, just as Fafnir did, got greedy and accidentally turned into a proverbial monster. Considering all the planets we explored previously had some form of thriving settlement with seemingly no preperations for a massive tentacle monster attack and are now entirely abandoned, as well as all potential company employees hiding out far away from the actual company building, could it be that they caused the destruction themselves by bringing Jeb to the company building?
A lot of people don't point out that the ambient noise at the company building sounds an awful lot like a stomach growling. It really unsettled me the first time I went there and the first thing I thought of was "what if we're feeding a giant monster in there"
i think its supposed to be snoring, as iirc the phase where the door is closed is called its sleeping phase
That makes sense, as it gets irritated with the horn honking and constant bell ringing.
another strange thing I like to add is how when we ring the bell but do not give it any scrap at all, the beast does not get angry at the slightest sort. Like for all we know we could just run the bell an infinite amount of times and it will never stay mad (unless it’s just the game passively closing it since there’s no loot on the counter)
If had to guess, the whole 'Sigurd' think is like a rite of passage for all the crews. Which why there is a sticky note there, every crew since Sigurd's has been leaving the same notes telling up about Sigurd's log. It's like an oral tradition almost.
also notice how the sticky note is being held by tape
@@lunathecat4318 probably so it wouldnt fall off since yk you're flying on a ship
@@lunathecat4318 I assume it's been on the ship so long that people have to keep sticking it and re-hiding it
@@karmakaughtthekat imagine some crew accidentaly hides it so good that no one just ever founds it again lamo
Interesting.
I always thought it was implied the "Company" was a single sentient being and not a corporation because of how it is addressed in the payment received line: "Your work keeps the Company happy". Not running, or glorious, or some impersonal adjective, but an rather emotion - happy.
It seems pretty obvious to me that 'the Company' is the tentacle-thing inside that gargantuan building. The moon is described as 'unknown population; where the Company resides'. Not where it's located, or where it's based, but where it resides, like one single entity. It's some greedy, hoarding monstrous creature that walled itself in, or was walled in, and seeks endless gain by being the whole corporation. The scrap doesn't seem to go anywhere except into that slot in the wall, doesn't seem like it ever leaves, and it values things like toys more than it values actual scrap metal.
I used to have a theory that “the company” was actually just the creature behind the wall of the company building.
They make it apparent that the voice they heard on the phone isn’t a real person, but instead an AI generated voice of some sort, so I thought it was plausible that the one creating the voice was none other than the monster itself.
I ended up getting a secret voiceline while selling that said “THESE WALLS CANNOT HOLD IT” in a louder and slightly more glitchy voice than normal. So instead I think “the company” is probably just a cult/group paying people to feed the creature to keep it docile.
@@xyrkzes in the wiki it states "THESE WALLS CANNOT HOLD ME" which would align with your first theory, but when I listened to the voiceline i also heard "THESE WALLS CANNOT HOLD IT"
@@xyrkzes I've gotten a voiceline that said "WE NEED YOU, WE-E-E-E-E-" or something like that
But it also talks about investors and keeping them happy. I personally think there's a group of people keeping an eldritch horror in the building contained, and the entity is what we are giving the items to
I think it's interesting that the motivation behind the company isn't your standard "make as much money as possible" deal. They're trying to stop a planet-eating monster from going on a rampage, which is a fairly noble goal for people who throw away their employees without a second thought. Reminds me of the SCP Foundation.
its not as valiant if the company IS the monster. Which it seem it is. it just found a way to have food delivered instead of hunting it.
Why keep it undercover then inside the company then?
There's only The Company and us, drones that are brought in just with one purpose, feed It.
i like how you compared it to the scp foundation since a lot of the monsters seem deprived from there, with the most obvious one being the mask
@@yeetem834yeah
It gives The Cabin in the Woods vibes
Seeing how Sigurd said “I am crazy” right before his death, I think it’s safe to assume that the ghost girl is what killed him. Not to mention it’s the only monster in without a log- not because it’s a spiritual entity, but because Sigurd died before he could write about it.
Good theory, but the ghost girl is also rare so it might be that he didnt get to see it at all, still great theory tho
@@lazarsaraba1921well, you can only see the girl if she targets you, so either he never encounters her and cannot write about her, or he encounters her and thus cannot write... About anything anymore really.
@@DemolkowatorDamn.
she cant even be scanned so she wouldnt have a log anyways, but she might have killed sigurd regardless, unless we find some more info on him inside the company building once functionality of the drill is added
the ghost girl kills you in game if youre deemed the most insane, usually by seeing people die, being by yourself, and being deemed the most paranoid, so not a bad theory
I know this game isn't part of "iron lung's" lore, but damn it really could fit if it wanted to. You're exploring moons, not planets, you're trying to find any resources left, the main company building is on an ocean planet and if that drill was actually a submarine it'd fit so well.
Only some minor lore details would have to be tweaked for those two games to fit together.
the beast probably ate all the planets, leaving only moons
@@Rage_WinterchiIlWell the moons can get eclipsed, which means that there’s a planet that it’s orbiting around.
I was thinking the same, Lethal Company could very easily fit into the same lore as Iron Lung, or at least being heavily inspired by it
@@thearcanamodernau8130 not really unless this takes place prior to the events of iron lung since there ARE actual stars
The only other sign of "life" I've seen in gane is quite a minor one. On one of the ice moons (I sadly cannot remember which) just to the left of the path of lamp posts to the main building you can find a cabin. It's quite small, just two rooms, and nothing spawns in it but the light switches still work
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That would be Rend :)
on experimentation there is a Barn esc building to the right of the ship near the water tower
thats why the moons are classified as "abandoned" and not "uninhabited"
That's just the google street view skybox@captainsargas1606
I actually wonder if the employees we are playing in the game are actually clones of Sigurd and his team. And that after so many reiterations the mental state of the clones deteriorates.
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Reminds me of the Grineer from Warframe, they've been cloned off the same genetic code so many times that most of them suffer from "clone-rot"
This would explain my impulsive desire to spam the airhorn lmao
So it always was just Emesis Blue?
@@kompasta Maybe? Like if it were, Emesis Blue could act as a prequel since TF2 is meant to be in the 1968. Which is also the same year as the first dated entry by Sigurd.
When you find yourself alone in lethal company its crazy how much it feels like being a friends house at night alone
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what were you doing in a friend's house at night, alone?
s@@carmelwolf129 not used to the house, can get lost, sometimes overthink of scary things. and then, can't sleep.
@@carmelwolf129 getting a snakc
I think something that makes a little more sense lore-wise for the log entry dates being 1968 is the idea that since the program had to be manually put in by his brother - they used something similar to Unix time that backdated everything, and they couldn't figure out how to, or didn't bother changing it to accurate dates. This is further supported by the fact the spider log in the beastiary is signed by Sigurd in 2497.
Actually this has since changed in Update 47,
"Modified the bunker spider file to patch some confusing continuity. The date in the terminal data was changed from 10/6/2497 to 10/6/1965."
@@Tiishenw
@@Tiishen Spicy. W for updating my comment.
We lost our Dragonslayer, Sigurd
We know about the Dragon's Horde, The Golden Planet
We get glimpses of the Dragon itself, Fafnir, The Beast, The Company
Now we must slay it, bathe In its blood, and become invincible, then get married to a Valkyrie or warrior princess, then get betrayed by our friend in a hunt
Damn I never connected it that way. Years of FGO finally paid off
@@wetershinobi4111 The FGO brainrot consumes all
@@wetershinobi4111 Niceee fellow FGO player spotted
Sigurd signs the logs in the 1900s but the bestiary is also written by Sigurd (Circuit Bees section is signed by him), reading the Bunker spider log has a date of 2497 at the end. I dunno what's going on with the dates but it is a bit weird.
EDIT: As of v47 the bunker spider date has been changed to read 10/6/1965. We (the people) love Zeekerss for this. W patch notes
Sigurd may just be a pen name that all the crews and their successors use when writing logs. It may not be the same Sigurd as the original.
But then again assuming there's an in lore explanation for players respawning between moons, it may be the same crew.
But if that was the case, how would the employee discipline be explained? They just jettison people into space for not meeting quota.
maybe sigurd was in different moons in different time zones that allowed him to fast travel while still maintaining age?
@@halinaqi2194 the cloning theory might explain employee discipline. after cloning the same people for over 500 years youre wound to end up with defective batches that underperform than usual, so they toss out the defectives by throwing them into space before bringing in a fresh batch until they finally end up not being able to reach quota and cycle repeats
my best guess is that there clones or that Sigurd went so insane that he just stopped writing so he could get his bearings and accept it, that would make sense, especially since they said there being more careful and that Desmond told Sigurd to write about important things, the important things Sigurd wrote were the logs on the monsters
@@fallsky_19yeah after 500 years still keeping resupplying on employees there is no way that they would just kill out half the population atleast so it must be cloning
the full version might have u choose between stashing resources for an escape, or the drill. or selling everything to meet your quota
Yeah i would love that
I forgot the game's in early access lol
kinda like life or death
@@Stratilexme too lol
"Where the Company resides" has always been a very particular phrasing to me. I assumed this meant the creature was the Company itself
Some other loosely connected things to note rhat have probably been pointed out already:
- Jeb will absolutely kill employees if they ring his bell too often. He also doesnt eat the bell itself despite it being made of metal, but will respond to it and eat everything else brought to him (which is currently always metal and sometimes a dead body). He doesn't flat out murder people if they dont annoy him, though, so clearly he is capable of some level of intelligent thinking
- the hoarding bugs exist and, like Jeb, collect scrap (their intention for it is unknown). Like Jeb they are also placated so long as they have this scrap, though they can become hostile if provoked too much (or if you attempt to take their scrap). The bracken, in comparison, seems to prefer collecting dead bodies
- Despite some of the monsters seemingly being made of materials Jeb would like, currently (as far as i know) you cannot bring back and sell any of their corpses to Jeb. This may change in the future, idk, but if not it seems odd that something like the coilhead wouldn't be on Jeb's menu
- the fact that you can still hear screaming through the wall implies to me that the golden planet wasnt eaten that long ago, or jeb digests slowly (or there was just that huge a number of people), or else Jeb is continuing to eat people alive now (most likely company employees)
i really hope they expand on the lore, it feels perfect.
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@@someguy6627 is it only one person?
It's in early access, so it obviously will.
@@NoSmoke1ye its just one developer
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I think eclipsed planets have higher monster spawns just because it’s dark, not because it’s a reference. More monsters spawn after 7 when it gets dark, so it’d make sense that they’d be there from the beginning if the sun was blocked out.
Hear me out on this one, I may have figured it out:
The company raises the quota too high for anything or anyone to reach (one of my buddies got to 100k once,) the company buys dead bodies and fines you if you don't supply a body after the death of a crewmate. You never remember even leaving Earth or leaving your family behind.
Is the company reanimating the bodies of crewmates and sending them back into crews?
We know the company obviously isn't letting you finish your season on the job, but there are no explanations to why they dump you into space afterwards unless the space outside Gordion has something out there to collect them. This would explain why they ask you what your favorite animal is; it's a sample question. The company likely askes you about this when you're on the phone for the contract and, as you have no memories, choose a random animal. When you enter the terminal, it asks you again and compares the answers. If the answers are the same (which they will be because this all happens outside of the game,) you are allowed to go, but if they are different, the company knows that something has gone wrong and they need to extract you and, for lack of a better term, try again with you. This also explains why you don't have any memories. As you are a recently resurrected body, you haven't had any time to make memories, and you never will.
I want to make clear the difference between reviving and reanimating/resurrecting. To revive is to bring something or someone back to life, whether it be from a defibrillator or sci fi Frankenstein antics. To resurrect or reanimate is the give life to a formerly living carcass. The difference is that reanimating doesn't need to bring back the spirit that belongs in that corpse, while reviving is an operation that reanimates the body with the former owner of said body.
Even though the thing is labeled "drill" in the files, I think there is some chance it might be a bomb. Apparatuses are items that, when removed from their pin place in the facilities, the "radiation level" goes up. My theory is that these apparatuses are actually radiation vessels, and not small amounts of radiation like a microwave does. As these facilities were built sometime before 1968, nuclear weaponry had been created prior to these missions. The apparatuses are used by the company to power the facilities after they have been abandoned so the crewmembers can go in and find the scrap without having to waste precious resources on things like batteries and flashlights.
However, I don't think Sigurd and his crew were the ones to create the drill/bomb.
This is a game full of nuances and recurring themes. The question "where did everyone go?" applies to the greater, wider community. You aren't the only crew scrapping these moons. you aren't the only person playing this game, this experience. Similar to the game Superhot, the overall element and theme is that 4th wall breaking effect. That idea that this could be happening in real life at some point in the future, that we aren't just players, we are glimpsing a future we don't want to happen. The idea of this game is that we are all in this hell together, and we need to find a way out of it. The drill/bomb was created by a separate crew, likely the inheritance of Sigurd's crew's ship, seeking to break into the facility to see what's inside.
I know some of these theories are a stretch, I think that the baseline of it fits perfectly into the storyline.
Minaxa, if you ever see this/if anyone who is making a lore video on this game and wants to use what I said in their video, just flash my comment onscreen or say my name in it. Nothing big, just a quick mention.
Only thing I'd like to point out is microwaves don't give off any radiation
@@ParkerLaffoon-u5w Microwave ovens give off microwave radiation when they're running. Modern ones are pretty good at containing most of it, but I'm sure if you put a detector outside of it you could detect it while running. Old microwaves were sometimes bad enough at containing it that many wireless devices like old cordless phones wouldn't work whenever someone in the house was using a microwave oven.
@@ParkerLaffoon-u5w Microwaves use/emit a bit of electromagnetic radiation
@@ParkerLaffoon-u5w no they do, just such a tiny amount that it doesn't really do anything
@@Siamesetiger178 no they don't it was a myth started when they first came out there's a couple people who have talked about just look up how microwaves work
I love how they made the lore so dark, but they left it up to the player to discover and leaned into the humor in the casual gameplay. So well made!
If there's one thing that scares me about this game, it's not the Brackens, the cog heads, or even the ghost girl.
It's the thought of me losing all of the shit that I just collected that makes me fear this game.
Truly, the greatest monster is that one landmine in a steam leak that somehow wipes out your entire team in one go
Nah it’s definitely the ghost girl
"It's the thought of me losing all of the shit that I just collected"
the company has successfully brainwashed you lol
nah, just dont stare for too long or go near her and she wont trigger im in danger mode@@thefirsttrillionaire2925
@@MeloniestNeon nah it’s the definitely the fucking turrets placed in every corner looking in every hallway forcing you to literally run for cover every goddamn moment
What also creeps me out are the monsters like the first logs from the 1960's say that their crewmate was killed by a bracken. You telling me these things are at the very least like 600 years old like wtf and just how damn advanced were these guys like when did they even land on the moon then like the 1400's?? Cuz by the time the crew land on these moons they already seen to be abandoned and have monsters roaming the buildings. And if we're going along the theory of the monsters being man made weapons of war I'm even more intrigued when and where did they come from.
I'm not entirely sure either, Some, such as the thumper and the bracken, seen to be natural, just with very deadly evolutions and adaptations.
But i really find weird how some creatures are molded into human concepts, like a jack in box...
i think you guys took the wrong picture from the years. is there any reference saying they are using the gregorian calander? no. so you dont know which calanders they are using, for all we know, they could be in a totally diferent star system from earth, and 2023 is -2000 for them.
@@KikogamerJ2 4:45
@@yujiakweh the youtuber is also wrong? he has wrong with the drill, i dont blame him, when i first saw the drill in game i though it has a bomb to blow up the wall. But its very likely that the years are not based on the gregorian calandar
@@felipecosta-kv2fx If i remember correctly in the thumper bestiary entry it is mentioned that they eat their legs to escape their eggs
its worthing knowing that company store refers to a very specific exploitative tactic in which a company has company run towns where the only stores that exist are company stores that only take company credits, making it almost impossible to get away from them. the only way to afford anything at all is by working for that company, and even if you try to escape to other towns, youve nothing bc the company credits are useless there. its a very good reference for zeekerss to have made to illustrate the company's morality.
maybe its also a lore hint though. with this comparision, there kind of has to be somewhere outside of the company's control for people to escape to. maybe the company is only allowing you acces to the relatively small number of abandoned moons.
I've been wondering if the scavengers Are in fact human, and not some sort of of extension of the company achieving unique personalities / masquerading as human. They wear full body suits, and we never see them without. Given the high tech turrets responding to players, makes me wonder if they are not human physically, or at least, not fully human.
perhaps the turrets only targets machines and not biological matter
I really feel like for the lore, the ghost and the mansion are critical pieces, as well as the much more...haunting monsters like the coil-heads and the masked. But the ghost girl and the mansion (as well as the empty house) are a black box currently, as shes the ONLY human (or at least used to be) you ever see. The coil heads and the bracken are humanood, but one is obviously man made and the other is an alien. Who was the girl? Why does she explode your head, and only haunts whomever is the most traumatized in your party? Idk theres so many questions but i am so excited to try and figure them out
That's actually a really good point. I personally think that the girl could have been a younger employee and died to a landmine. Just a thought but really interesting to think about. Crazy that just one man created this. He must be making bank 😂.
According to the wiki, Jeb is more of a fan name as the game only ever officially refers to it as “the company monster”
but you’re right, this does not matter
If making "My name a Jeb" reference in front of a counter would instantly trigger Jeb, that would be something mindblowing
Zeekerss should add a rare company voiceline that just says "call me jeb" with none of the extra audio distortion some of the rarer lines seem to have.
I'm expecting an update one day for the walkie talkie's to play horrifying sounds when you get close to the wall with it on at the company.
You already get some interaction by using loud items in front of the entrance.
I tried putting an active walkie into the sell window and holding my own walkie in hopes of hearing the sounds but no luck
@@Keanine well its just not added so, also you need to press a button on walkie talkie for it to talk, wich you cant when the monster takes it
@@Keanine These would be amazingly immersive easter eggs.
If you have the the sellable old mobile Phone in your Hand. It does weird Sounds, maybe its a reference to sigurds walkie talkie or its Just His old one
So actually there ist a easter egg already
Lethal Company,
it's like if Amazon started a space company.
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dont give them any ideas
Bezos in space
I used to work for Amazon and that escalating quota is a real thing.
Don't tell him about Blue Origin...
The outside monsters are mostly only active at night, and the eclipse makes it dark immediately. That’s why enemies are outside immediately during an eclipse, or at least that’s what I think.
Fun fact: with the jetpack, you can feather your fuel, and you can actually go on top of the company building! Ive tried it, and its terrifying up there. Theres like a random skydome blocking your view, etc. You can also run almost infinitely to the left or right of the company wall...
I wanna add the fact that the company cares about bodies. I think it's because they have a way to revive workers. That'd be why they fine you with no body and reduce it with a body, it probably cost them something to make bodies. Why not constantly revive? Probably because there's some kind of limit. They're willing to revive profitable assets to the company, but it takes more resources to revive or they value you less each time until eventually you cost too much. It's kinda like a really job: as you make more money you need to be worth that higher rate, otherwise why not replace you with someone almost as good who costs way less? And they eject you because it's not really your body
You know there's one thing I wonder. It looks like that drill contraption underneath the company is connected to some cables to those posts. What if those are charging points and the only way to get the device to work is to bring the operational generators from the facilities ?
ive seen someone else in a comment section of a shorts somewhere try this out and they couldnt put the apparatus into the slots, at least, not yet. maybe in a future update
If you stand on the ship balcony at the nose like rose and uh that one guy from titanic as you take off, you can see a city in the very far distance with windows lit up and it looks intact
I think you forgot to mention the ability to disable the turrets and close/open those security doors from the ship. I think this fact is very interesting
they did mention that
we love the company
The company, the company!
The company!
The company!
The company!
who do we love? THE COMPANY (loving the company is not optional)
My first ever game on Steam was about a year back in the form of It Steals. The creator Zeekerss also made Lethal Company, and I love both games quite a bit. It would be cool if at some point if Legs came into Lethal Company, but I'm glad to have seen the creator's evolution in the form of his games.
I thought I was the only person who wanted legs in the game thank god I’m not alone
the bracken definitely feels somewhat like legs.
Wait WHAT they're the same creator?? Omg I love It Steals thats so cool :0
I just came to the conclusion the bracken has to be some sort of reference to Legs
I'm immensely disappointed that I haven't seen a mod to replace Bracken with Legs, they made Freddy FazBear why not Legs?
I feel the fact that failing to meet quota being expelled into space implies some change in operation procedures in the 500 years of scrap collecting. The Copyright update is some 200 years older than the logs yet is still 300 years out of date, so that could be a date to mark for a potential change in how the system was operated to introduce a quota-system.
Also the Link between the company and the facilities can be further deepened through the remote-control scrap that can turn the lights on the ship on or off.
Maybe a relic of the pre-quota days where the remote was lost by old crews if you believe the same few moons are being procedurally looted?
Cloning theory some have suggested seems reasonable for this, possibly explaining dating discrepencies and nonsensicalness aswell. But again, discipline for not meeting quota does not match with the description of crew member accidents and replacements, as if it were just a clone then seems easier to just say a teleporter was used for recovery and revival of the body.
@@combrade-t the cloning technology could be a relatively “recent” development
@@combrade-t Exactly who would be doing the description of the quota discipline? Everyone dies.
It would be so cool if the final “challenge moon” that was added was the company building, running around with one monster that you have to deal with.
I think the drill is an attempt to get behind the wall and learn exactly who or WHAT is behind that wall, and hopefully find where everyone went
the biggy thing makes more sense being a drill than a submersible, since there is a big circle drawn in the wall, and a visible track on the ground. Aside from the format, just look like a metal bread🙂
Rails actually can be used in some cases to more safe drop water vehicles in water, but circle on the wall is definitely a target for drilling.
I wanted to leave a comment regarding the drill: if you go underneath and look at it with a flash light, you can also see that there are a set of rails in front of it and a yellow ‘X’ painted on the wall. I want to specify that the rails are facing the direction of the wall so it seems to be for sending it that direction. I believe eventually there will be some way to activate the drill and send it forward on the rails. Also, if you look at the “back” of the drill, there is a wire that leads to what looks like a button or switch on a small stone pillar. The wire has been cut / is in two pieces so it may be broken and eventually fixable? Sigurd mentioned finding bundles of wires on the moons, who knows!
@@Jedai_Games oh, I actually didn't know that
I wonder... To start this, I have not played Lethal Company yet, although I do intend do, so it's very possible I missed something. Still, you treated the Golden Planet as if it's literally a planet made of gold. But, what if it's metaphorical? What if... The Golden Planet was Earth?
Some people theorize that this so called golden planet is just our light polluted earth that appeared as gold to far away creatures
That’s an interesting thought and I think you may be right
This was my thought as well. Last time I heard, the science is that Earth has an incredible abundance of gold compared to our sister planets. We have far more than we should. We're gold rich. It wouldn't be far fetched to call our entire planet a golden planet in a society that prioritizes it, much like the Spanish quest for gold in the Americas starting in the 1400s and the myth of entire golden cities (el dorado) hidden in the jungle.
Additionally there's the inclusion of the moon Titan, an actual moon we know today. The environment of in-game Titan well matches our estimates of the real-deal's surface, including having an atmosphere (storms), standing liquid (flooding), and general darkness from being so far out (the use of snow lamps to light the way even in day).
its not lol its literally a planet made of gold. gold is also the most valuable object in the game, so jeb really likes gold.
And if the monster that ate it and forgot it was not really a monster but a metaphor for humanity? We know that we love just pretend that our problem doesn't exist or just forget about it. So the digestion part could be that the earth have enter a final stage and not much time is left before its just become an empty rock.
I think that all people died from war. It says in the coil head info that they were made for war by people. This would also explain the mines and turrets, and also possibly how the famine occurred.
then why is it all inside the buildings
one of the things i thought of when i first went to the company is that it would be cool if at some point it would have a facility/complex in it. now seeing the drill, i think this is actually a likely possibility
I noticed there was a circle on the wall in the footage. Perhaps there will be an endgame where you power the drill, break down the wall, and go into the bowels of the company?
Also Gordion sounds a lot like a corruption of “Golden.”
yeah, it would actually be interesting as an endgame.
you gotta find the parts like engines, bolts and so on to finish the drill, all the while having to meet the quota.@@maxwellfujs6124
I've noticed if you scan on the company's moon in a certain spot you can actually find a marker for a "main entrance".
@@defiantbegaming yup, my friend found it too, if im not mistaken it is when youre landing right when you start seeibg the company building through the fog, exepct it points right through the ground for some reason
@@maxwellfujs6124 Or maybe the Golden Planet is in fact Earth, and that's why humanity is having problems with preserving foods, and The Company's likely HQ on the other side of the solar system being controlled by AI.
With this lore, i guess we now have a lead as to what will be the end game of this, either we defeat the company or try hard as possible to escape the company
22:40 omg, i had strong chills at that moment, and when you gave the answer they became even stronger. Beautifully executed!
My name is Sigurd, and when i saw it on the sticky note, i got confused, cause i thought that the game just put the name of the windows user on it, but my windows user is called Haffey, and the name "Sigurd" is literally nowhere on my pc.
Fun fact : The people researching the music box only made the actual box, No info about the thing inside, They did not survive.
The “Goodbye - Sep 7” log is in the game. I believe I found it on top of the lower fire exit on March. Maybe it got added in the Update 45?
yes i also found it on some saves, but then on some new saves i cant find it, so i think it might not always be there?
8:47 🤓actually you're supposed to be quiet and it will be collected by a hook, the tentacles are for when you don't do the procedure as it's meant to (yes, I read the manual and put a nerd emoji to myself so you don't have to)
i doubt the company would be honest
🤓
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@@arnerippey3677 I already did that, stoopid
@@ghfgh_ Bless you.
I have a feeling we will drill into the building in future updates.
Most likely scrap things for a drill and make one or just do a freaking Attack on Titan Reiner attack with the Giant
I highly doubt that in-game eclipse is a Berserk reference, it's just that irl eclipses have that scary, evil, end-of-the-world vibe.
Another thing I would like to point out is the quite crazy mass of the objects scattered around. Some of them are seriously high for normal objects. Is it that the monster has to be fed satisfied so everything is made in such a way that they need to have more and more mass on them?
Fell in love with Zeekerss because of The Upturned, a very similarly terrifying game with very similar mechanic of monsters and enemies. So happy a lot of that has translated back into Lethal Company in a much more polished manner, I have played both now and it really is something
On 19:11 you can see that there is a circle on the wall in front of the drill, my theory is that the crew was planning to drill threw the wall either to see what was on the other side or to release the monster
Let's not forget that sometimes when you're at the company building, you can hear screams...does that not confirm that there are some humans left?
i always figured it was the monster(s)
I think what does it really well as the horror aspect is the absence aspect in normal horror games your naturally alone at the start so there was no connection to begin with the fact you have 3 other people with you gives the false idea your not meant to be alone so you take it at ease its when it goes silent that is when the true horror begins because then your mind asks questions do you stay and try to find what happened to why it went quite do you wait back at the ship thinking they will come back maybe they are deeper in do you hesitate to leave because you feel you might leave them behind.
The other is when your inside the building and its silent for a long time you start to feel abandonment and unease because you feel everyone has left for the ship and if you lost your way back the stress kicks in with the idea the ship might go without you or the others have forgotten about you.
That one aspect upon all the natural things adds true psychological horror to the game the aspects of being alone.
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I completly agree with the first few things you said, but the last sentence when you said "do you wait back at the ship thinking they will come back" and so on. That only kindaaa works the first few hours of playing becuse later on it's just too easy to detect when someone is dead, and to determine when you have to leave haha. Besides that it can get sooo immersive that it becomes eerie how good it is, truly a great game.
I had an event that went just like this early today! Was with 2 guys (3 person lobby), and we got run into by 2 thumpers. They killed the first one, and I killed the 2nd, but sitting there, I realized all of a sudden I was completely alone, and had to make it back to the ship. The snare that nearly got me terrified me more than any bracken or ghost girl ever had. The feelings of security I had around others was COMPLETELY ripped away, making the dread of being alone so much worse.
I agree that the only fear worth being scared of is losing your friends. I love this game but don't think its a good idea for me to play it since I have minor trauma from a caving trip when a group of my friends got lost in a big cave system and missed their callout. We were up at 3am watching the cave rescue org volunteers bustle around, getting more anxious because it's 3am and they must be in there somewhere, so why can't we find them? Where aren't they? Are you OK?
I love caving with all my heart, and always thought I was supposed to be scared of the dark, or getting lost, or being caught in a rockfall or washed away or falling off a cliff, like everyone else is.
But this personal experience taught me that the only thing we're really scared of is losing people. Just like in Lethal Company when you have to decide to leave your team behind because you don't know if they're still alive or just lost.
@@emmahealy4863 Welp it's time for you to overcome said truma.
I think the company is monsterifying being inside those building. Maybe they were research labs, that's why many of them contain the same type of monster, and why there is a reactor that prevents radiation to leak
The walkie talkie with screams mentioned in the video is in the game. When you pick up a old phone sometimes a person screams on the other end of it.
it would make sense that one of us Sigurd and his crew, since crew members lose memory and just spawn on the ship with no recollections of what happened.
Editor is 100% right. that is very clearly a drill chuck in the back, and guide rails its resting on. The circle definitely is meant to mark where they intend to begin drilling. I interpret it as they are wanting to find out what exactly is behind the wall.
I think its really interesting that they can kinda hide the drill in plain sight there just under an obvious hatch- it goes to show that other than the poor employees, nobody managing the company even dares to go near the place.
honestly my theory for the purpose of the drill is that it could be a previous crew who read sigurds logs and had more empathy than sig did for the unfortunate voices behind the wall lol
sigurd was really like "dang you're crazy I’m leaving" 😭
@@mousepixi sigurd really heard agonizing voices and said nahhh im out dawg
Im hoping sometime we can put the apparatus in the drill below the company for something, would be really cool for like a secret or something
Understanding the lore has put chills down my spine. But after watching this video and learning about Sigurd’s last log and Desmond finishing it afterwards (from what the game offers us to tell us), it begs me to ask the question of the origins of these masks and the ghost girls, and possibly the nutcrackers in some of the moons.
From one of the most interesting and unique of features, the insanity point meter in-game provide some sort of correlation to Sigurds “I’m crazy” log report and Desmond having to create the final log instead of him, having sustained for over 500 years of the company running. My best assumption for these mask+ghost girl entities would be that the previous company crew members inside these buildings had gone insane whilst finding loot, either from horrors, or from innocently dying to the other in-game monsters that we see.
Since we have no accurate theory on the very first mask being created or the ghost girl, I had no choice but to make my own. Perhaps these entities exist for having ill intentions to bring revenge for what the company has done to them, or by deterring crew members from entering these facilities. It’s hard to tell whether a previous crew member had worked up on some sort of dark, crazy magic ritual to create and possess these masks, or from some sort of potion. Without an origin, there would be no answer to how these comedy/tragedy masks were found in these abandoned mansions, or if it’s simply just an ancient myth… but then if humans once existed on such moons and Sigurd being able to create these logs in 1968, how did humans and ghost girls even travel to such a planet/moon when earth is our original home planet? Since we can presume that the ghost girl was a previously deceased crew member, and in linkage to the insanity, she must have gone berserk after her passing. It’s also strange to notice how we only encounter one ghost girl and can find up to 3 masked/mimics in a moon too. if the ghost girl was still normal and not insane with her laughters, she could’ve just simply wanted revenge on the company as said earlier, or just to drive people out of the “moon”, since she could also appear outside your ship too. This would make more sense and keep the lore connected on the same pages.
The fact that the masks like to infect other crews and how the ghost girl laughs all revolve around insanity, and it’s likely that Sigurd may have died to her, given that he was unable to create any more logs, and having that “I am crazy” speech. It’s hard to make any theories with the mimics though, other than they’re just being mindless zombies. In such a cruel, twisted dystopian this game portrays, we are no strangers to insanity.
The apparatus is the power source of a whole facility, taking it out removes the power
Pyrocynical made a lethal company lore video, something Minaxa would shamelessly steal 3 weeks earlier
the other way around
@@llamanade2044 That’s the joke, pal.
Apart from the thumbnail, Pyro’s video is and hour and 20 minutes longer than this one, and he covers different topics aside from the lore,
A pet theory of mine is in two parts.
Part A: The team you play on is not "alone", the other players- playing at the same time as you are-also feeding the monster.
Part B: The reason quota goes up is to sate the amount of turnover. After the first quota, the amount effectively doubles. Yes, the amount is actually linear, but it would explain why the amount will always go up.
My main theory I build on that is this:
Your "day one" is the same as everyone else. Everyone starts on the same in-game date. Once quota is met, you'll find out that half of the other teams have been lost and that you need to make up for the slack of the others. After that, the majority of "survivors" remain to die out slowly over the upcoming quotas/weeks.
Edits: Some grammar and hyphens changed.
Note: We gotta remember that whatever this thing is had allegedly consumed a golden planet. What's a few measly scraps out of one team going to do to sate it's appetite? That is where the heft of this theory stems from.
Secondary note: Would this imply some degree of time travel? That's up for debate.
very good theroeoreory
wait u are actually on to something, because that would make a reason for why u get reset if u fail quota. more people join, and the cycle of low quotas reset. and even if technicaly more people join while you could be making insane amounts of scrap value, why lower it for ur squad? after all, u already proved u can make that much.
makes sense
I imagine this game might end up having "multiple endings", or at least 2 of them if it does ever end up getting an ending, one where you finish a season and the contract ends (if this isnt already in the game, that is) and one where you place to aparatuses in the drill and you end up drilling through the company building
There's also the hijack the auto pilot and find the 'phone people' option
that drill is interesting...why would people want to go in? to free people? to kill the monster? why wouldnt they try to run?
To free people most likely
to help the people inside or just dam curiosity.
@@DatAsianGuy probably the wails are people already dead or monsters
well, we know sigurd, says something speaks to him from the walls, that something asks him to free it. My guess? company monster tricks emplyees into trying to liberate it.
How would you run? Your space ship is the only vehicle, and it only runs on autopilot.
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i didn't know this game had lore, its so interesting and very cool for a game i've only seen in humorous context. i'm glad its getting the attention it is :)
Regarding the Giant drill I think there is going to be a later update where you have to get the drill up and running and drill into the supposed company building in an attempt to release what lies inside of the huge hull there. There is even a big circle on the wall most likely implying that you need to drill into the wall.
Maybe the monster gets more sustenance from objects that have been used by or are special to people which is why lots of little knick knacks are worth more than some of the big mechanical stuff.
i just immediately imagined a tentacle monster wearing a suit and having board of directors about the budget salaries on his employees
I'd love to see these ideas explored more in the game. Maybe we can power up the drill with aprartus cores, for example, or maybe a way to last a full season will be added in future updates.
Is it just me or did pyro cynical copy this?
yeah its really similar..
The Eclipsed status can be described as the facilities being run on old solar power. The compounds are running on batteries during them, which keeps turrets and so on inside, but can't stop the other beings from going outside from entrances we don't know about. When darkness comes, the facilities aren't strong enough to keep them in anymore, since the facilities are old, and power is limited.
Here’s a thought, everyone else seems to be missing yet Sigurd describes voices through his walkie talkie, that seem to particularly become more active when he is next to the company wall. Like churning faces. What if the famine became so bad that humans started experimenting with other ways to survive and instead destroyed themselves in the process. Hear me out, the monster is massive apparently, the faces, what if it’s disturbingly a bunch of humans all conjoined into a fleshy obelisk. What if the reason when you bring a body back and it’s so low value is because you’re handing it its own flesh, what if the reason it can replace so quickly is because it just recycles your body and you live the same horrors and live die repeat to forever be recycled and feed the obelisk.and the reason it’s so hidden is because the workers wouldn’t be able to handle it, we actually never see the workers faces just a black visor. We know that they are humanoid, but…. This is space travel. Are they really human?
Something i have yet to seen anyone mention but when you look up sigurds other crewmates they all have different responses. Sigurd has his logs, desmond says data corrupted, and rich has no action to that name, but the most unsettling to me is the fact that when you search jess it gives the same line that you get when you look up a name of a monster that hasn't been scanned in your bestiary yet. Which has crazy implications about how we still need to scan it to learn more like what.
Fr, like we know richard died and sigurd mde the logs, now desmond seens sorrupted for some reason, but then comes the question, WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO JESS
I'm no expert in this game but the reason it says that might just be the game thinking you're trying to type "jester" and it say's that because you haven't scanned it yet
If you scan the jester and type 'jess', it just brings it to the jester log. The game takes the first three letters of the word and shortcuts it, so jess becomes jester to the game
I feel that in a future update you will be able to bring 2 apparatuses to the drill, then insert some sort of chip into the box Infront of it and drill into the wall with the yellow circle, enter the company building and defeat the monster in a boss battle
Way too cliché
shovel vs 600 year or older monster.
Honestly I’d prefer if it didn’t go this route. Boss battles feel cheesy and doesn’t fit the existential dread of lethal company imo
One of the recent updates added a few more logs. One is titled “real job” and it reveals a few things along side being sad to read. It reveals that Sigurd’s dad had supposedly planned to stay on Titan and it was going to look different in 2 years. Jess said that “they (titan’s population) were about to go to war and everyone is waiting for it.”
Possible lore
If you sign a contract you become part of the company. When you die you still live as one big blob inside the compony walls inside the creature along millions of other dead people still alive and screaming. The sentimental stuff you bring is a way for the creature to make them happy while living with it. No one ever leaves the compony. That is why there is no people. You are the only ones left
I think that the fact that when you die the message that appears is "Life support offline" could mean something. Like, are they hiring people who are close to death? Could this mean the suits are the only thing keeping them alive?
Come on dude your on a moon why would the suit not keep people alive
Very nice rundown! I enjoyed that and now I'm curious where it will go.
A couple speculative thoughts: In 1968, "the Company" was what CIA employees often called the agency. It might have had its origins there, although of course by the year 2500 it's far removed from the modern CIA. JEB can mean Joint Expeditionary Base, and might refer (or have originally referred) to the location rather than the creature. It may have been a base where the CIA and military did stuff together in the field and maybe caused a little trouble.
My theory is that the US/NASA is responsible for the containment of the monster and collection of scrap to feed it. It could also explain why in this timeline the US went to the moon, to eliminate any suspicions of unannounced space launches and absence in the Space Race.
The dates on the log are probably a very common issue on these types of program. I have an old PDA that includes a journal entry system. If I add entries for today, it cant do post 2014. instead it wraps back around at gives me 1924 dates. the 'current date' may be too far in the future and the date system is just bugged on the journals.
im halfway in the video rn and while i still can i will write something down
when trying to access "Desmond" in the terminal, you get "Data is corrupted" message. The very same message also appears when trying to access Sigurd's logs which you didn't discover yet. Maybe Desmond made his own logs somewhere in there and maybe it would be added later or maybe it was something too important for the company to leave there
EDIT: Nvm watched a bit further in and there is a log named Desmond, my bad.
I have a theories on some of the monsters existence,
*Bracken:*
I believe in order to solve the rationing issue (lethal company's world is in desperate need of food.)
The company started experimenting with hyper evolving humanity with plants so we could use photosynthesis to get energy.
well, a mix of radiation and non-compatible DNA creates the bracken (the word "bracken," is a form a plantation and the spikes on the bracken's back are actually leaves, Aswell as him being directly referred to as "the flower man" another form of plantation.)
a sadistic but smart beast that toys with its prey in psychological terror.
By following them and snapping their neck when they least expect it, they make sure they scare their prey, and they make sure to hide the body, so the other employees don't realize it's lurking.
Likely arrived before the facility fell into disrepair.
*Coil-Head:*
I believe coil-heads were originally supposed to be a nuclear weapon of war, as they not only disperse radiation around them that is lethal, but they also convert enemies into coil-heads, likely to be used on a battlefield, if the cold war with the Soviet Union Didn't end well(The company started experimenting in the 1900s, dead center in the cold war between the U.S and Soviet union, and it is confirmed we are American. Sadly, the coil-heads were completely untrained, and couldn't tell friend from foe, so they killed everyone they saw, the facilities that held the experiments for the coil-head and bracken were evacuated and left behind.
Likely arrived before the facility fell into disrepair.
*Bunker Spider:*
Because of the radiation the Coil-Head's let off, and horrible conditions, the spider's hyper-evolved and mutated into bunker spiders.
Likely arrived after the facility fell into disrepair.
*Centipede:*
Also because of the coil-heads radiation and bad conditions, they mutated and became massive, unable to sneakily hunt prey because of their loud noises, they instead, hid on ceilings and waiting for large prey to walk under them, they would swiftly suffocate the prey. Because they don't need vitamin D, the slightest dose of it from sunlight kills them.
Likely arrived after the facility fell into disrepair.
*Goo:*
Goo.
*Loot Bug:*
Turns out praying mantis's and nuclear radiation, don't work well together.
Likely arrived after the facility fell into disrepair.
*Ghost girl:*
Likely the daughter of the owner of the mansion on dine and was likely taken by the company and experimented on, for unknown reasons, perhaps the bracken experimentation, The little girl did not survive the experimentation, so she kills anyone wearing a company uniform.
Likely arrived before the facility fell into disrepair.
*Electric bees:*
Because most all of the predators that would attack their hive, either wore thick suits or would overpower them, they had to evolve to become conductive to improve the defense of their hives.
Likely arrived after the facility fell into disrepair.
*Forest Keeper:*
Created to stop humans from entering the facilities so they didn't let something out.
*Nutcracker:*
created to defend the mansion.
*The Company:*
I false mask put on by the US government made to keep the planet eating monster fed, they had to capture it using miles high, thick concrete.
I saw my name in Sigurd’s logs.
It’s cool to see other Desmond’s
We should form a union...
dont you remember the part of the contract that says "NO UNIONS!" you arent gonna be a valued employee like that.
When you use the jet pack at the company building you can actually make it up to the top of the wall (if you can control it well enough) and see behind it. It’s basically like a Google maps pic of a town with a crisp blue sky
they used the same background image on every moon
The first time i went to a moon with quicksand, i jumped off the ship, started sinking, ran out, had bee's nest on the edge of the quicksand, aggro'ed the bee's, tried to run, got hit by lightening and died, my friend, watching and laughing, tried to recover my body, the quicksand ate him as well, our other friends could not stop laughing.
Well, if you work long enough at some job you'll get that feeling of forgetting some things that you should've not forget.
Also, "where did everyone go" is basically that same feeling of isolation as of right now many of us feel. There's not much genuine interaction with other people anymore. Sleep, work, eat, repeat. You don't have much time or energy to go out and hang out.
In the end, i think that could be our far future if things go very terrible.
Goops and employees unite! With boomboxes and wiggles we shall persevere!
watching this video makes the idea of being at the company building so much more unsettling
This is 100% inspired by scp, the employers aren’t evil, just for the greater good of humanity.
Ik but
Chew
monsters=scp????
@@Moonlight-ef3rrno,the company building keeps a monster locked up by feeding the locked up monster,kinda like scp(and they also sacrifice people to feed it)
They are still evil. Most people who do evil say they're doing it for good. If they were not evil, they would not wipe out crews that failed to meet quota, and they would communicate with people that "There is a cosmically gigantic planet-eating beast and we need your help feeding it scrap to keep it from attacking your home planets/moons. Please help us. You only need to work a season and you will be supplied with weapons for self-defense on dangerous planets" is what they'd be like if they were not evil. People who do bad things with the excuse of good intentions are just bad people who won't admit they are lazy!
This method would work too, since militaries around the world plead for citizens to take up arms and risk their lives to defend their homes, so people wouldn't have a problem doing the same against this sorta beast.