The Last of Us: How does infected evolution work?

Just like the original 2013 game, the series of The Last of Us showed that the pandemic apocalypse of the fungus Cordyceps brought different types of infected, which evolve (and become more dangerous) over the years. Now, Neil Druckmannone of the creators of the game, explained how this works.

In one of the editions of The Last of Us Podcast (via cinema blend), druckman Spoke to Troy BakerJoel’s original actor (played by Pedro Pascal in the TV series of HBO), about the process behind the infected variants: Hall, stalker, clicker It is pufferfish.

“When we worked on the game, we created the lifeline; all these stages of when someone is infected and what can happen to them,” he said. “So when you first get infected, there’s this thing called ‘Hall,’ which is just a recent infected. In the show, it’s the one where you see tendrils coming out, like nana in Episode 1.”

So if you survive long enough, eventually the Cordyceps grows on your face, opens it up, takes your eyes, your vision. And you become what is called ‘clicker,’ because now these infected use echolocation to find their way around.

Right away, Neil Druckmann commented on people who flee after infection: “And so we’re saying, there must be some people who – again, because this stuff is eating away at their insides – eventually, when they know they’re going to die, they go underground, to a place dark, and they lean against a wall, and become part of the environment. [A infecção] grows on every wall, ceiling and floor.”

Finally, Druckmann explained the dreaded and deadly puffer fishwhich appeared in the fifth episode of the first season of the series The Last of Us. “But there are certain people that are so strong and big that they can survive even longer, and that’s puffer fish,” she said.

And that’s why you’re seeing this person who is so tall and massive, and his strength. It becomes much scarier. As we move forward, there are these new types of infected.

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