Current Events > Why is the T-Virus valuable to Umbrella anyway?

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It's a bio weapon that turns everyone into zombies who then kill your own men.

Why is that more valuable than a bomb?

To protect the technology and buildings for the conquering invaders?

Well now they have to deal with hordes of zombies who kill their own men

and for two, everytime their is an outbreak the US Just bombs the place anyway

Similar to Weyland-Yutani in Alien, I don't get how they profit from their evil plan, assuming it went well.

One time payment of scrap from 2 bit billy the terrorist seems less economical than just making pharmaceutical products and or bombs for the US, Europe, Japan, Israel for centuries

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Because Umbrella gives ZERO fucks.

If they did have a nuke they'd set it off inside a volcano just to see what happens.

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You wouldn't use it in an area with your own men.

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Chicken posted...

You wouldn't use it in an area with your own men.

ok
that doesn't answer my question tho.

Zombies kill people and the US Blow it up

May as well cut out the middle men and just blow it up

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The zombies were more of a bad side-effect. They didn't really sell the T-Virus, they researched the different mutations it caused. Their goal was to create Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) like the Hunter. This research eventually led to the Tyrants who had superhuman strength and durability with the intelligence to follow commands. Mr. X in RE2 is an example of that.

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The point of the t virus is to make tyrants, zombies and such are just an unintended side effect. During study they did manage to figure out ways to weaponize zombies yes, and even made money odd the side by making Hunters which were surprisingly effective, but the whole point was the development of tyrant super soldiers.

during Resident Evil 1 its basically unfeasible and the rate of people just dying and becoming zombies instead of tyrants is ridiculously low and they cannot be fully programmed. By resident evil 2 they have effectively approached a feasible method of producing the Mr X tyrants and they can input programming into them

I am fuzzy on the details of the nemesis but from what I remember its actually a parasite that puts the t virus to shame but is multitudes times rarer to actually function with a body and not kill the host compared to even first generation tyrants. But the ones that it does function with are the ideal bioweapon because they retain a degree of intelligence and by the time of RE3 are completely programmable

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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Similar to Weyland-Yutani in Alien, I don't get how they profit from their evil plan, assuming it went well.

they want an alien to control it. Its the perfect killer

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pegusus123456 posted...

The zombies were more of a bad side-effect. They didn't really sell the T-Virus, they researched the different mutations it caused. Their goal was to create Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) like the Hunter. This research eventually led to the Tyrants who had superhuman strength and durability with the intelligence to follow commands. Mr. X in RE2 is an example of that.

Mr X couldn't kill alittle girl and was defeated by a teenage girl with no military training in short shorts

I'm still not seeing the value here

Why Is the Tyrant more profitable than really big bombs?


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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Why Is the Tyrant more profitable than really big bombs?

Imagine a Tyrant with a bomb tho.

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Tyrants and Hunters are the only success that is created from the T-virus everything else is just a horrible experiment or accident. Also Umbrella is interested in normal weaponry as Resident Evil 3 showcased. Bioweapons make a more interesting video game than just a company arms dealing.

pegusus123456 posted...

Imagine a Tyrant with a bomb tho.

I mean nemesis was an indestructible monster with a rocket launcher and still lost to local cops

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i could definitely see why militaries might want other methods of dealing with shit than just bombing everything to hell dawg

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pegusus123456 posted...

Imagine a Tyrant with a bomb tho.

mother of God

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SerperiorThanU posted...

I like the theory that the real 1 in a million beneficiaries of the virus/parasites of the games were the protagonists who were able to reap the superhuman strengths of the virus without the loss of mental faculties.

Like Leon and Sherry?

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I4NRulez posted...

I mean nemesis was an indestructible monster with a rocket launcher and still lost to local cops

And it took an asskicking before it did. Even then, it took an experimental railgun to do it. Imagine an army of 'em.

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pegusus123456 posted...

And it took an asskicking before it did. Even then, it took an experimental railgun to do it. Imagine an army of 'em.

imagine a big bomb

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Imagine a Nemesis with a big bomb tho

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pegusus123456 posted...

Imagine a Nemesis with a big bomb tho

Super Mutant Suicider. Scary stuff.

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So an army of strong mutants that needs a nuke to defeat is not fearsome?

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Foppe posted...

So an army of strong mutants that needs a nuke to defeat is not fearsome?

Didn't say fearsome

I asked how it is valuable

Bombs and pharmaceuticals seem much more viable and profitable

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If it really bothers you, I think all the T-Virus research was really just a front for Spencer to research immortality or whatever the hell happened in RE5.

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pegusus123456 posted...

If it really bothers you, I t

it doesn't

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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

Didn't say fearsome

I asked how it is valuable

Bombs and pharmaceuticals seem much more viable and profitable

Even if you bomb the hell out of your enemies, you will need ground troops.
And bombs are expensive.
If you could turn parts of your enemy armies into zombies, they will fight each other and greatly reduce their numbers, making it easier for you to swoop up the rest.
And if you could produce badass zombies that you can program into fighting for you, with weapons, then they should be able to kill those zombies relatively cheap without any worries for deaths of your soldiers.


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Foppe posted...

And bombs are expensive.

More expensive than the fucking T virus?

The Atom bomb cost $2 billion to create

how much did the Nest under Raccoon City (which they also paid for) cost?

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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

More expensive than the fucking T virus?

The Atom bomb cost $2 billion to create

how much did the Nest under Raccoon City (which they also paid for) cost?

And building a nuke still cost you $200+ million and how often do we use those?

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Real talk though, imagine how horrifying it must be to live in the RE universe. By the time you get to RE6, it seems like any tinpot terrorist cell can get access to an extremely virulent bioweapon without any trouble at all.

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A bomb is cool
But the t-virus might be a sort of modern philosphers stone containing a riddle of life & death within one virus.

So possibly immortality research like @pegusus123456 said.

& at the end of the day whatever else it can do is a bonus if you become an immortal rich guy with an army of nemesis tyrants.

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I'd imagine that a biological weapon is FAR more valuable than stuff like bombs.

The idea behind the T-Virus was to make a highly contagious virus that could wipe out the entire population of a city. If you can kill all inhabitants while leaving the city's infrastructure intact, that's absolutely invaluable.

On top of that, the ability to genetically alter and give someone super human abilities also can be profitable.

It's just that they never wanted to give up on that idea I guess.

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Nazanir posted...

I'd imagine that a biological weapon is FAR more valuable than stuff like bombs.

The idea behind the T-Virus was to make a highly contagious virus that could wipe out the entire population of a city. If you can kill all inhabitants while leaving the city's infrastructure intact, that's absolutely invaluable.

On top of that, the ability to genetically alter and give someone super human abilities also can be profitable.

It's just that they never wanted to give up on that idea I guess.

This is everything I wanted to say, but worded much better than I could do this early in the morning.. lol. Great post.

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pegusus123456 posted...

Real talk though, imagine how horrifying it must be to live in the RE universe. By the time you get to RE6, it seems like any tinpot terrorist cell can get access to an extremely virulent bioweapon without any trouble at all.

Yeah . The world is pretty fucked in the REverse

its just a matter of time

Even virus and parasites aside the technology to turn people into Nina Williams slaves will result in a fucked up planet

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Nazanir posted...

he idea behind the T-Virus was to make a highly contagious virus that could wipe out the entire population of a city. If you can kill all inhabitants while leaving the city's infrastructure intact, that's absolutely invaluable

yeah but like I said in the OP.

The zombies kill your own men and the US bombs it anyway.

If you infect Moscow you dont get Moscow's infrastructure, you get your own men dead and a crater were Moscow used to be.

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The monsters that they were selling were very powerful assets. Think of them like terminators. You give them a mission and then drop them into a deployment zone. In the case of Tyrants like Mr. X, you could drop 6 of them in an area from the air and let them do their thing. They were disposable too. After they finished a mission they could be killed off. Some Tyrants were given bombs attached to their hearts that could kill them when needed. Or in the case of Nemesis, in time the parasite would kill off the body.

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RE_expert44 posted...

The monsters that they were selling were very powerful assets. Think of them like terminators. You give them a mission and then drop them into a deployment zone. In the case of Tyrants like Mr. X, you could drop 6 of them in an area from the air and let them do their thing. They were disposable too. After they finished a mission they could be killed off. Some Tyrants were given bombs attached to their hearts that could kill them when needed. Or in the case of Nemesis, in time the parasite would kill off the body.

The Terminator didn't fail to kill a small child then get killed by a young girl with no military trai-

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wait a minute

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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

yeah but like I said in the OP.

The zombies kill your own men and the US bombs it anyway.

If you infect Moscow you dont get Moscow's infrastructure, you get your own men dead and a crater were Moscow used to be.

I suppose the virus wasn't perfected? Maybe it had unexpected side effects. And when it turned out it couldn't be solved/salvaged they bombed anyway.

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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

The Terminator didn't fail to kill a small child then get killed by a young girl with no military trai-

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wait a minute

lol

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I only know of RE and the Umbrella Corp from the movies, and their logic/business plan seems even more flawed.. by the fourth movie most of the WORLD is overrun, so who exactly are their going to sell these products to?

I really need to find 3D porn of Claire redfield

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ultimate reaver posted...

The point of the t virus is to make tyrants, zombies and such are just an unintended side effect. During study they did manage to figure out ways to weaponize zombies yes, and even made money odd the side by making Hunters which were surprisingly effective, but the whole point was the development of tyrant super soldiers.

during Resident Evil 1 its basically unfeasible and the rate of people just dying and becoming zombies instead of tyrants is ridiculously low and they cannot be fully programmed. By resident evil 2 they have effectively approached a feasible method of producing the Mr X tyrants and they can input programming into them

I am fuzzy on the details of the nemesis but from what I remember its actually a parasite that puts the t virus to shame but is multitudes times rarer to actually function with a body and not kill the host compared to even first generation tyrants. But the ones that it does function with are the ideal bioweapon because they retain a degree of intelligence and by the time of RE3 are completely programmable

Well damn. Thanks for the info

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gna647 posted...

I really need to find 3D porn of Claire redfield

It's like super easy to find.

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gna647 posted...

I really need to find 3D porn of Claire redfield

Thanks for sharing that information with us...

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Guns_of_Verdun posted...

imagine a big bomb

Imagine wanting to keep the infrastructure intact and not wanting to completely destroy it and/or completely pacifying a populace with surgical precision.

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Banana_Cyanide posted...

Imagine wanting to keep the infrastructure intact and not wanting to completely destroy it and/or completely pacifying a populace with surgical precision.

Imagine not reading the OP or playing any RE game

Surgical Precision my ass, they are less competent than Donald Trump

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Discovering a mutagen that can create super beasts and potentially halt aging is pretty valuable actually.

Umbrella as a company just suffers from being run by comic book villains to the point they'll use an entire city as their petri dish to test it.

I'm pretty sure I see where the problem is, you are confusing fiction with reality.

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The whole point was to make super soldiers, nemesis was near perfection as that it targeted a select group of people

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Op is just being obtuse at this point.

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