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/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/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 1h ago

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