Swarmers are the creatures that come from a Pregnant who has been shot in the belly, and sometimes are found in independent swarms or inside item crates. If it is infecting a target, you can dismember the proboscis and instantly kill the infector. If you only destroy both arms, it will still attract the infector but the resulting slasher will die instantly and provide loot. If desired, you can stomp on any corpse to make it unusable, although a headless or legless corpse is still considered intact enough to infect. They are more interested in the dead crew rather than Isaac and so they will only attack him if there are no bodies to infect. These creatures can fly short distances but prefer to crawl along, stabbing deceased crew members with a long proboscis, causing them to turn into Necromorphs. They look like a human torso with the legs snapped backwards and skin stretched over them to create a 'wing' effect. Infectors are the mutated bodies that help spread the Necromorph 'infection'. The secondary flame thrower will also stun the lurker until the flame burns out. Severing two tentacles is enough to defeat a lurker, although an enhanced lurker may require all three severed. The Lurkers are individually weak, but their small size and ability to climb on walls and ceilings, and their ranged attacks, can pose a problem. The tentacles can also fire noxious needles with great range and accuracy. They attack with three tentacles that protrude from their backs. They are small and walk on all fours, but can walk on walls and ceilings. Lurkers are the result of the Necromorph infestation on a human baby, and thus looks disturbingly like monstrously mutated infants. If both legs are severed, the slasher can be killed by one shot to the body or by dismembering an arm. Their heads are small and encased between their arms, and their lower jaw is missing, replaced by small red tentacles.Ī slasher is easily killed by dismembering both arms. From their shoulders protrude massive arms ending in scythe-like protrusions, hence their name, and attack by charging and viciously flailing their scythes. They stand upright on human legs, and their original human arms, which have been reduced to deformed, useless appendages, are located in a bloody hole in their bellies.

Slashers are the cannon fodder of the Necromorphs' 'army', and the most obviously human of all.

Slashers dead space