Once the transformation is complete, the Necromorph will immediately become hostile to any living creatures in its vicinity, doing whatever it possibly can to ensure their swift, violent death. Bones are snapped and regenerated to create long, pointed limbs, teeth and claws are grown just about everywhere, and any existing limbs are drastically strengthened to allow for pouncing, lunging, and chasing. When a corpse is animated by the signal, its dead cells rapidly reanimate and put themselves to work optimizing themselves into the perfect killing machine. There are special Necromorph offshoots like Swarms and Infectors that can trigger near-instant transformation in healthy humans, however.

That pathogen can spread to other creatures, transforming them into Necromorphs, though this only works if the creature in question is already dead or near death. For one thing, every individual cell of a Necromorph is a viral pathogen in itself. While the Marker signal is the primary means by which Necromorphs are created, there are other ways. RELATED: Games To Play If You Like David Cronenberg Films In the event the signal is interrupted, those Necromorphs will instantly collapse into a pile of sludge, their cells no longer being remotely animated. This signal also acts as a relay and hive mind for any Necromorphs it creates. Any deceased biomatter within broadcasting range of this signal will automatically begin transforming into a Necromorph it's kind of like an invisible radio message instructing the dead cells to rearrange themselves into something new. When a Marker touches down on a planetary surface, it begins emitting a very particular electromagnetic signal, so faint and specific you wouldn't even know it was there unless you were deliberately looking for it.

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