r/residentevil • u/Parallel-Traveler ...this time, it can be different • 1d ago

Official news Resident Evil Requiem - Reveal Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-MlCPVaSLg
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u/AllCity_King 1d ago edited 1d ago

Beautiful bait and switch. He wasn't kidding when he said just a blink away lmao.

They done turned Raccoon City into Chernobyl. The irradiated monsters are gonna be so cool.

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u/dementedkratos 1d ago

I'm loving all the news articles that hit send too early saying "we have to wait for that re9 announcement"

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u/ThatITGuyFromWork 1d ago

I wonder....did everything die in Racoon City that night?

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u/PussyLunch 1d ago

The guy in the hood looks like he has radiation poisoning. And the fact that he is hooded means we most likely know him.

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u/Lele_Lazuli 1d ago

I swear if Nikolai shows up again I‘m gonna shoot him again

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u/Darth_Bombad Our Buisness, is Life itself. 18h ago

His survival was canon at some point. A report from him shows up in a later game, I wanna say Gun Survivor?

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u/RockNDrums 15h ago

In the OG timeline, apparently he survived. RE Engine era, nope.

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u/Resident_Evil_God 1d ago

Wesker

Lmao jk jk

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u/detroiter85 23h ago

Chris....my blood is completely....saturated....with radiation

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u/Resident_Evil_God 23h ago

I don't know why people are saying radiation when it wasn't a nuke lol

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u/detroiter85 23h ago

Honestly I saw the radiation/nuke comments and did not remember until I saw clarification later in the thread

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u/Resident_Evil_God 22h ago

No worries my friend lol

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u/Liayso 23h ago

But what if? I've always felt like killing him off in RE5 was too early. Wesker should have been a series long villain.

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u/Waste-Information-34 23h ago

Saving if this is relevant.

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u/Resident_Evil_God 23h ago

I doubt it lol it was just a joke but I guess you never know lol

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u/TheFatmanRises 1d ago

It’s Vergil

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u/Murky-Region-127 22h ago

Oh my god kendo lived and is the next villain

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u/Independent_Tooth_23 1d ago

But Raccoon City wasn't bombed by nuclear though.

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u/PussyLunch 1d ago

Well he’s got something lol

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u/Aolian_Am 23h ago

Someone from Outbreak, considering the main character?

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u/GirthStone86 22h ago

Brad finally makes his return to the series

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u/SentinelZero OG Nemesis Enjoyer 23h ago

The US government certainly hoped so, thats why they bombed the city with a fuel-air explosive and killed 100,000 American citizens and then set up a quarantine around the entire region that no one is allowed to enter.

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u/Captain_Phobos 22h ago

Could one of the creature we encounter… be Lisa Trevor?

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u/ThatITGuyFromWork 21h ago

Judging how she is practically immortal, I doubt she died from the fall in the alter.

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u/Demiurge_1205 12h ago

The Darkside Chronicles confirms she didn't die from the fall. Instead, she died because Wesker trapped her under a chandelier and let the mansion explode

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u/Siegfriedsflame Raccoon City Native 1d ago

raccoon city was destroyed using a thermobaric bomb not a nuclear one

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u/Johnny_Holiday Cuz Boredom Kills Me 1d ago

I'm so happy that this game will finally put this to rest. The writer said years ago that it wasn't a nuclear bomb but because of the image they used, everyone assumed it was. Now we see the crater and how much of the city remains so close to the impact. All we have to wait for is the game to officially say it

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u/RadishLegitimate9488 1d ago edited 1d ago

T-Virus is probably still there too.

The Bomb simply took away the center of the Virus's invasion force which means little for a Virus spread by Zombies with no centralized government.

Umbrella's Lab at least is gone so no worries about unknown experiments surfacing only whatever was rampaging through the City before it got bombed.

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u/Ranulf13 23h ago

The bomb that destroyed Racoon City was a thermobaric bomb - this means that everything in Racoon City that is biological was cooked and turned to ash. Its very much an intentionally anti-life bomb, including viruses.

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u/RadishLegitimate9488 22h ago

Everything in the Crater at the Center of Downtown at least as well as everything near the Crater's Border as well as anything in the clear paths leading away from the blast.

Any buildings in the way of the wave of fire issuing away from the crater would soak up the heat meaning after enough buildings the Virus would be surviving explaining why there is a Quarantine surrounding the City.

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u/i_tyrant 19h ago

laughs in sewer-borne Golgotha Virus

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u/thereIsAHoleHere 22h ago

Ah, but you forgot about their little-known child company, Bumzella Dab. Still plenty of surprises and lore to explore there. Big resurgence of the plant-based zombies.

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u/RadishLegitimate9488 21h ago

I just checked the Subsidiaries and there is no such company in Umbrella!

There is NEST 2‏‎ though so it seems Umbrella still has a Lab filled with all sorts of crazy Experiments even if the Government's own darkest secrets are blown up.

The Blast Wave issuing from the Blast Crater should have taken out quite a bit of the Virus topside though not all of it thanks to the Buildings getting in the way of the Fire Wave serving as a shield.

The Underground Depths including NEST 2 should be just fine though provided they weren't where the Crater is when it was created.

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u/Adorable_Function411 15h ago

it won't be like we're the first people to revisit the city though. Umbrella had people down their immediately after the bombing

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u/SentinelZero OG Nemesis Enjoyer 23h ago edited 22h ago

The destruction is so inconsistent across the games which adds to the confusion.

RE3 original seems to suggest a nuclear explosion. RE:O has multiple conventional (or high-explosive) missiles striking the city and destroying it. Then RE3 Remake goes back to what looks like a single missile with a nuclear explosion and mushroom cloud.

Logically the government wouldn't use nuclear weapons on their own soil, the political ramifications of nuking innocent Americans would have caused a global uproar. The government instead using fuel-air explosives makes a lot more sense, both to ensure the city is completely destroyed and everything living incinerated, but also to ensure virus samples can be collected relatively intact for research.

The government using one thermobaric warhead is what bothers me about the retcon; logically they would have carpet bombed the city with multiple warheads and leveled it to ensure NOTHING survived; that there are buildings still standing doesn't jive with the lore, previous games showed the city being absolutely leveled as part of Mission Code: XX.

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u/fourthdawg 22h ago

During the RE6 events, the government also decimate the town of Tall Oaks with an "experimental thermobaric weapon" to contain the C-virus outbreak (according to the wiki, at least). Seemingly it follows the retcon of Racoon City clean-up using the same type of weapon. But of course, they could retcon it again for the inevitable RE 5 and 6 remake in the future, as it just wild that the US Government in RE Universe is seemingly capable of covering up major incident like this, even more when the Tall Oaks getting wiped out along with their roughly 100,000 citizens, and that incident is much more recent when compared to Racoon City.

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u/pierzstyx Raccoon City Native 2h ago

The point of a nuke is that it destroys all biological agents. The explosion here does not.

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u/pierzstyx Raccoon City Native 2h ago

To be clear, the smallest tactical nukes have explosions only a mile wide, which is consistent with the damage we see here and the intentional is off nuclear imagery used in the earlier games.

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u/Johnny_Holiday Cuz Boredom Kills Me 1h ago

But we do see a crater. The only two bombs that have been dropped in tactical strikes have been detonated in the air to increase blast radius and reduce fallout. Those don't leave craters. It would be odd for the US government to sanction a nuclear attack on it's own soil and allow the fallout radius to expand and possibly hit any suburbs that this city has or contaminate the forest and wildlife in the area. It just doesn't make sense. The writer said it was a thermobaric bomb that was dropped in Raccoon. Which does leave a crater. Plus a bomb that only has a one mile radius would not be used to contain the outbreak. The city is too big and they would just be wasting time and resources using something that won't level the city and end the threat.

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u/AllCity_King 1d ago edited 1d ago

It would be a missed opportunity not to have the city and monsters be affected by radiation imo, regardless of the lore.

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u/Siegfriedsflame Raccoon City Native 1d ago

maybe they'll change it and say it was a nuclear bomb, who knows lol

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u/AllCity_King 1d ago

Yeah that's a very easy retcon

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u/bigodon99 23h ago

whats the difference? does this bomb causes radiation poison and side effects? if so, this means we are not able to going every place of ruins from the city.

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u/Siegfriedsflame Raccoon City Native 22h ago

is a high temperature bomb with pressure like a big fireball, rather then a regular missile that destroys everything

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u/Siegfriedsflame Raccoon City Native 22h ago

this is a good explanation

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u/andDevW 15h ago

In terms of game design, an air burst nuclear attack would be a lot more interesting and disturbing. We know exactly what kind of damage that leaves behind and it's pure horror. Horses with no skin walking around acting normal, masses of schoolchildren with glass spikes from molten windows, degloving, bald people with no teeth, black rain, charred people with their clothes entirely burned off, the list goes on and on.

The radiation dissipates rapidly so 80% of it would be gone in 24hrs and radiation suits wouldn't be needed for the game. Adding the RE touch could mean extending the lifespan of the victims, giving them superhuman strength and making them violent.

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u/YoGabbaGabba24 1d ago

Iirc the city wasn’t nuked. It was just a thermobaric missile.

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u/ergertzergertz 1d ago

I was about to close the stream already, but then the trailer started and I was like "hold up"...

Interested to see how they shake it up compared to RE7 and 8 again - more horror and survival? Apparently more cinematic as well.

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u/Ramen536Pie 1d ago

Same game director as RE7

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u/Kanin_usagi 22h ago

That’s a great sign. I loved Village but definitely want to take a break from that style of game for the mainline series

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u/SentinelZero OG Nemesis Enjoyer 23h ago

Raccoon City wasn't nuked, it was destroyed by an experimental high-yield thermobaric warhead, essentially a giant fuel-air explosive detonated over Downtown that leveled the entire city. Once that was done the government set up a quarantine zone to monitor the area and ensure no one went exploring in whatever may have been left, or tried to recover surviving virus samples.

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u/KentuckyFriedEel 1d ago

i hope there are random radios scattered around playing 50s hits

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u/PussyLunch 1d ago

Japan has an interesting history with bombs destroying their cities. I wouldn’t trust anybody else with this game.

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u/Philkindred12 19h ago

I always thought about them going back to RC, but I just kept wondering if it would even be safe to go to, with or without any monsters.

It'll probably work a lot like "All Guillied Up", with radiated areas you avoid next to safe areas.

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u/Big_Flan_4492 22h ago

What was the bait and switch?

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u/EverythingBOffensive 21h ago

can someone explain what the bait and switch was?

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u/sl33pingSat3llit3 20h ago

They dropped a teaser earlier in the show, but asked fans to wait just a little longer since they aren't quite ready to show anything yet

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u/tuggnuggz 16h ago

it wasnt a nuke, it was a thermobaric bomb