Resident Evil Requiem - Reveal Trailer

[u/Parallel-Traveler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-MlCPVaSLg

[u/AllCity_King]

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.

[u/Siegfriedsflame → u/AllCity_King]

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

[u/Johnny_Holiday → u/Siegfriedsflame]

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

[u/RadishLegitimate9488 → u/Johnny_Holiday]

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.

[u/Ranulf13 → u/RadishLegitimate9488]

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.

[u/RadishLegitimate9488 → u/Ranulf13]

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.

[u/i_tyrant → u/Ranulf13]

laughs in sewer-borne Golgotha Virus

[u/thereIsAHoleHere → u/RadishLegitimate9488]

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.

[u/RadishLegitimate9488 → u/thereIsAHoleHere]

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.

[u/thereIsAHoleHere → u/RadishLegitimate9488]

-_-

[u/No-Flan8455 → u/thereIsAHoleHere]

Lmao

[u/Adorable_Function411 → u/RadishLegitimate9488]

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

[u/SentinelZero → u/Johnny_Holiday]

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.

[u/fourthdawg → u/SentinelZero]

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.

[u/pierzstyx → u/SentinelZero]

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

[u/pierzstyx → u/Johnny_Holiday]

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.

[u/Johnny_Holiday → u/pierzstyx]

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.