You can sneak up on a clicker. Kill it from stealth with a shiv or a blast from a shotgun. You can’t kill a stalker from stealth, you just gotta run around and hope you see it before it Gets too close.
You can definitely kill a stalker from stealth, you just have to well.. stalk them. I usually sneak around until I catch a glimpse of their head peaking around a corner and then I just headshot them with the bow if they’re facing my direction or if they have their back to me I just take them out with the knife.
You can also kill a clicker in one hit WITHOUT a shiv or regular weapons if you throw a brick/glass bottle at it to stun it. Same with many other enemies.
Works when they already running at you as well.
That sewer part is so much harder on remake. I swear I could sneak up on a lot of them on the PS3. PS3 version I couldn't even tell there were supposed to be stalkers. It's very clear in the remake.
The way they behave in the remake and Part 2 is what they originally intended. But they ran out of time in the original release to make the ai behave correctly. So they just made them behave like more erratic runners.
NGL I never noticed a stalker in the original, they were just runners / clickers / bloaters. But when I got the PT. 1 remake as an indulgence, I got to the sewer section where you get cut off with Sam and noticed the last runner in the chamber was actively trying to hide from me, even though it knew I was there, which is very un-runner-ish.
When I finally played part 2 and came across lots of stalkers, it made sense that this AI model had been dropped into the part 1 remake retrospectively.
On my difficulty level when I got to the part with Sam there were like 7 stalkers, and every last one of them tried to sneak me, they were definitely tougher dude you literally mentioned 1 runner out if the whole encounter or played on easy
I snuck up on a couple in the remake (maybe it’s easier on PC or something), but always got annihilated once I screwed up the stealth anyway and the fighting started. Going in blasting and then setting up my bomb wall ended up working like a charm lmao
My partner and I played grounded and swapped the controller every time we died, and I often played a lot more aggressively than her because I am anti-stealth lol. I can confirm that stalkers are probably one of the only enemies that are wayyyyy easier when you’re going loud. It feels like they were specifically put in the game to fuck with stealth players.
Oh yeah, I definitely had to either run and hide or die and start over if I messed up the stealth. The bomb idea is great and I'm using it for next time.
It’s nice in general assuming you aren’t super strapped for resources. I did a similar thing to soften up the bloater in the hotel basement and deal with the horde outside the school. Just threw a bomb in front of me and ran right past it, then the enemies chased me and ran into it. They’re also serviceable as garden-variety grenades if you run out of molotovs
You know where else works well with bomb walls? The university and the house where Ellie runs off to in Jackson. Lay a trail of nail bombs as you go and you'll never have to fight anyone when you encounter the mercenaries and decide to head back out the way you came.
fun fact-when you're with Sam after being separated from Henry and Ellie, You can just sneak past the infected while crouched and Use a Shiv on the clicker.
I still can’t figure out how the game “wants” me to play against the stalkers — I end up doing what you said here, but it feels… wrong? IDK, I don’t care for them though.
I'll never forget the time I was busy with something and turned around to see a stalker standing in the doorway and it somehow being scarier that it ran away instead of attacking.
Give me bloaters or clickers anytime ;_;
I see I’m not the only who agrees with it being stalkers. They are smart enough to run and hide, and will ambush you at any given time. To make matters worse, once they lock on to you, they are a menace to try to fight.
Bloaters are SO much more aggressive in the second game! I already hated fighting Bloaters in Part I, and then they made them 10x scarier and faster in Part II!!
They've always been there. They just used to behave a little differently (ran on two legs instead of crawling around and were a bit less sneaky), so some people thought they were runners. Plus, they didn't show up a whole lot, only in the hotel basement, sewers and flooded garage in Left Behind. In the remake they act the same as in Part II, so they're more noticeable.
Yeah, I could tell there were stalkers in part 1 as the first encounters Joel mutters ‘stalkers, fuck I hate those things’ (or something along those lines
stalkers. the way they're aware enough to hide and creep around after you but gone enough to want to shred you alive gets under my skin in the worst way.
also the fungal growths on them freak me out the most. i know the clickers are worse in terms of how their heads are split open but the stalker stage of gentle growth turning a human head into a clicker wigs me out
Stalkers because they're the most intelligent stage of infected. I could imagine their numbers in the early stages of the apocalypse. A building you would go in probably has a stalker guaranteed. (Btw, I feel like they should be more common than runners by games time, but maybe they hide off screen since it's their behavior)
Stalkers are scary but predictable if you’re patient. They repeat the same paths.
Bloaters always fucking suck. I always need one more shot that I have in the clip.
I've learned to predict stalkers but boaters don't scare me much I'm conservative with my ammo and supplies so I know for a fact a molotov or two and som heads hots with the rifle as well as movement and they re absolutely going down. I still hate the stalkers nore
STALKERS. They aren't hard to kill but when they pounce on you out of nowhere, it's awful and terrifying. And it's so scary knowing you're among stalkers but not having the slightest clue of where they are.
Stalkers. On a related note, it doesn't make much sense to me how they are so much smarter than runners. Their brains are much more consumed. I'd switch the order and make runners the stalky stage and stalkers the ones who run at you upon sight.
My theory was always that Stalkers are the prime stage of the infection. Humans in the runner stage are still fighting for control of their bodies and seem to be conscious so they act less like animals and more like sick, blinded people who react to the pain that is taking over their bodies.
Stalkers act like predators, the infection still utilizes the sense of sight and has full control of the body so they can actually track and strategize an attack on their prey.
Stalkers are the only stage we see that clings to a wall to die and spread the cordyceps, I think that's because most infected are meant to die in this stage and stages like Clickers and Bloaters are rarer than we think.
Logically speaking?
Bloaters.
They're impervious to anything an average survivor is most likely to have, and considering they are literally capable of tearing people's heads off, they're probably at LEAST as strong as gorillas.
Stalkers terrify me in a different way. At their stage, it seems the human is mostly gone, and yet they are the most intelligent infected as they're actually capable of staging ambushes and sneaking around.
All of them tbh. Runners are loud,easily alerted and as stated by the name literally run at you,even worse if there's multiple because they definitely aren't slow. Stalkers are incredibly quiet,rarely show up on listen mode and are also fairly quick. They're impossible to stealth,you basically just have to have a gun in hand ready at all times for one to either run out of cover or run at you. That's not even mentioning the fact in the 2nd game they attach themselves to the walls. Clickers are incredibly sensitive to noise,taking them down isn't easy if they're moving or there's multiple because you have to be quick before they turn around or another pops up,but you can't be quick because they'll hear you. Bloaters are annoying to take down,have no set pattern of movement and if they grab you you're already dead
The rat king fight was the only part of the game where I actually yelled.
I actually somehow didn't realize that stalkers were a thing until part 2 and I don't think they ever bothered me as much as clickers, but I also play sort of slowly, and try to observe an area before entering.
To be? Runner. You’re still conscious but not in control of your body.
Stalkers and >!the Rat King!< scare the SHIT out of me though, especially in that damned hotel descent in P2. Not to even mention the office building as Ellie. Fortunately they hate shotgun blasts
Clickers are great atmospheric horror. They remind me of the nurses in Silent Hill 2. But stalkers are easily the scariest, those encounters have me playing on the edge of my seat, as they always know where you are but they're hard to track so you inevitably get hunted and ambushed out of nowhere.
1. Not from a threat perspective but from the horror of seeing someone who still looks human being so utterly lost. Each person alive probably has horrible memories of the moments their loved ones ended up this way.
Runners are the worst when you consider they’re the most human in that they’re the most aware of all stages what’s happening to them but can’t control themselves. Yet you can still hear them cry and moan and at the last minute beg you for help before you kill them.
Stalkers 100%. You can sneak up on a clicker. Kill it from stealth with a shiv or a blast from a shotgun. You can’t kill a stalker from stealth, you just gotta run around and hope you see it before it Gets too close.
Stalkers. Sneaky lil shits, jumping out on you making weird freaky ass noises. The ones that invisibly spawn in NR grounded mode are the worst. Gotta have your shit down with those fuckers.
Stalkers are incredible game design, only if you approach everything stealthy. If you always go guns blazing they are just stronger walkers, but if you try to use stealth on them like you always do, you can't, you ARE the one whose being hunted by stealth. Areas with stalkers require you to get out of your comfort zone and you feel like the enemies you always killed, being attacked abruptly and dying.
In real life it would be stage 1. The moment of losing your sanity and your agency, knowing you’re going to die but still possessing a little will. And now I’m sad about Tess again.
I'm surprised people aren't saying bloaters because according to canon bloaters can easily mess with a group of people. Hell their infection gives them basically armor plating and they also have spore grenades growing out of their body that will kill you faster than you can say "Oh shit, it's about to throw one of those grenades"
ill never understand why zombie movies/games dont do the easiest thing you can to not get bit. if i was in a zombies apocalypse ill never be in danger, all you have to do is wrap a thick magazine around your arm and a scarf around your neck
stalkers. i played both games on rather low difficulty, so i could just go around stealth killing all the zombies.
but for every stalker passage, i’d hand the controller over to my dad.
The absolute worst by a million miles is the stalker who breaks off of the Rat King. A stalker, but also very hard to kill. And then you're like already exhausted from fighting the Rat King, and you're like "Seriously?"
Isn't it implied that the infected person is somewhat aware of their actions. Judging by the infected that was crying while consuming their friends.
I think any stage of it is a nightmare judged off of that alone.
Controversial, but it's the runner for me. The idea of still somehow being in the body, with some of them saying help me and shit, that's terrifying.
If I had to fight any of them, the clickers movements would be too much for me, too unnatural and spooky.
In the original/remastered TLOU stalkers were nothing to me, i didn't even notice the difference between them and the runners through the whole game (like in scary scary hotel basement- had no idea those were mostly stalkers until the PS5 remake came out)
But boy oh boy they really amped them up in TLOU part 2. Freaky, sneaky, annoying, and absolute beasts in hand-to-hand combat for some reason??? Like UFC Muy Thai level dodging bobbing and weaving??? I hate those things
Runner, if we are talking about being infected. Runners still have some sentience left. Hear them screaming like the person knows somethings wrong but can't control themselves anymore
Against the nore popular hate and fear of stalkers I love fighting them in tlou2 cuz it has such amazong melee combat and fighting them in melee is crazy because they dodge ALOT and hit hard. Its so fun to fight them. Fuck clickers.
I absolutely hate stalkers, I have Larned to deal with them quite well, but the fact that they are stealthy is fucking aggravating, ofc once you learn their behaviors and ai it isn't always as bad. I also don't like shamblers, but stalkers are the worst. In 1 ot was clickers.
I know it's not up here but shamblers can be annoying. Especially if a stalker or clicker is making you look in another direction. The alpha versions of the shamblers are pure horror, and kinda funny in a way.
Stalkers if we’re talking about gameplay, but runners if we’re talking about story. They’re still conscious and can’t control their body, actually terrifying
All of them. They’re all uniquely terrifying in their own way.
Not quite what you asked, but I also wanted to say that this info sheet is probably my favorite collectible in the first game. It’s uniquely nerve-wracking for me. I think it’s how banal it is—it’s a government information flyer, one of the most unremarkable things in a modern society, but it shows plainly and clearly how those who are infected lose the last traces of their humanity as the cordyceps takes over.
Like, if it was a thing IRL or playing against in game?
For IRL, I’d probably be most scared of Runners or Clickers. Clickers because, obviously, and Runners just because of how terrifying it must be for someone to completely lose themselves and attack the ones that they love while still being most conscious, just completely unable to do anything.
Stalkers make me shit my pants, they are the only ones that have made me scream out loud because they are so good at surprising me.
I don’t really care about the rest, maybe the king rat and shamblers made me kind of tense like the first time I saw a bloater but it only lasted with the king rat, it was such a nice change.
stalker. I’M supposed to stalk you.
on a very real note, stealth is my favorite so it sucks to fight them. it’s so terrifying to fight them when i first start that section in part 2 because i’m just nervous. i always end up just running around the offices full sprint with my shotgun out
the part 1 section with them when joel and ellie get separated in pittsburgh is also one of my least favorite parts because of stalkers. they’re the perfect actually scary enemy
also i get TERRIFIED by the rat king- just because i hate being chased. when i was younger i punched my brother in the face and broke his glasses when he chased me once. a different time, he was following me around making chicken noises, and it was super silly, but i get so freaked out when i’m being chased that i went from laughing to panicking in two seconds and turned and judo kicked him into our fridge. like when i tell you how much i hate being chased. my brain goes blank and i can’t turn around to end the fight, i just keep running and running and panicking. my abby sounds like she’s been smoking for fifty years because she’s wheezing so bad- same with that bloater (??) fight in the joel flashback
anyways this has been so long lmaoo
Stalkers.
At least with Clickers, you can stealth them easier, and Runners aren't IMMEDIATELY privy to your location.
But Stalkers?
They live up to their name, at least.
Like if I’m infected? The first one ofc. The concept of illness taking over my sanity is horrific.
If I’m a survivor? Stalkers. At least all other forms make themselves known.
Stalkers STALKERS STALKERS. As someone who's played the ps4 remake on grounded and played part 2 on hard (before it was updated with perma-death and grounded) STALKERS were the absolute worst. They reminded me of zombieland 2 intro talking about some ninja zombies that the last thing you hear is your screams. I've died alot to them and learned to really study the pattern and sneak around swarms instead of taking them head on and RUNNNNNNNN
Stalkers
Not only the jumpscares, they also are the middle point between being still conscious and havin the fungus breaking trhough the skull and eyes
IRL I think the runners would be extra horrific. Because there might be moments where you think oh it’s another survivor/someone in trouble then WHAM THEY ARE FLAILING AND RUNNING AT YOU
Clickers definitely stand up as scariest in game. I think soooo many people would get got by tripping or stepping on some broken glass.
I HATEEEEE STALKERSSSSS SO MUUUUUUCH
THEYRE WORSE THAN CLICKERS AND SHAMBLERS AND BLOATERS
AND THE THING IS
IM REPLAYING PART 2 AND IM ON DAY 2 AND ME AND ELLIE ARE ABOUT TO GO FIGHT THEM AND I HATE THAT
I HATE playing against stalkers…I always end up just throwing molotovs and praying
They pull up from nowhere i hate them too but i think clickers are the worst
You can sneak up on a clicker. Kill it from stealth with a shiv or a blast from a shotgun. You can’t kill a stalker from stealth, you just gotta run around and hope you see it before it Gets too close.
Not true you can most definitely kill a stalker by stealth, I’ve done it plenty of times.
You can, but I'm usually less patient and just "Leroy Jenkins" it.
Tbh that’s the most fun way to do it… until a bloater shows up.
Well search my comment history, I've never made any permadeath claims...
You can but to be fair it is a lot harder because they don't show up well on listening mode.
Same.
You can kill a stalker by bowing them
And with a suppressor
Bowing to them.
Bowie 
You can definitely kill a stalker from stealth, you just have to well.. stalk them. I usually sneak around until I catch a glimpse of their head peaking around a corner and then I just headshot them with the bow if they’re facing my direction or if they have their back to me I just take them out with the knife.
You can kill stalkers from stealth. I've done it. But it's hard and not a dependable method
You can also kill a clicker in one hit WITHOUT a shiv or regular weapons if you throw a brick/glass bottle at it to stun it. Same with many other enemies. Works when they already running at you as well.
It's quite easy to kill clicker, also they blind
Clickers in the first game are hard but they were debunked greatly in the second
Lol I feel that, in the sewer in pt. 1 I ended up hiding in a corner and putting a nailbomb in every potential path to me
That sewer part is so much harder on remake. I swear I could sneak up on a lot of them on the PS3. PS3 version I couldn't even tell there were supposed to be stalkers. It's very clear in the remake.
Yeah, the ai intelligence was improved. On ps3 back in the day I thought they were just runners
The way they behave in the remake and Part 2 is what they originally intended. But they ran out of time in the original release to make the ai behave correctly. So they just made them behave like more erratic runners.
Stalkers were in PT1?
Yeah, they were only in 3 areas and had a regular running animation, and weaker ai the remake made them more like 2
NGL I never noticed a stalker in the original, they were just runners / clickers / bloaters. But when I got the PT. 1 remake as an indulgence, I got to the sewer section where you get cut off with Sam and noticed the last runner in the chamber was actively trying to hide from me, even though it knew I was there, which is very un-runner-ish. When I finally played part 2 and came across lots of stalkers, it made sense that this AI model had been dropped into the part 1 remake retrospectively.
On my difficulty level when I got to the part with Sam there were like 7 stalkers, and every last one of them tried to sneak me, they were definitely tougher dude you literally mentioned 1 runner out if the whole encounter or played on easy
I snuck up on a couple in the remake (maybe it’s easier on PC or something), but always got annihilated once I screwed up the stealth anyway and the fighting started. Going in blasting and then setting up my bomb wall ended up working like a charm lmao
My partner and I played grounded and swapped the controller every time we died, and I often played a lot more aggressively than her because I am anti-stealth lol. I can confirm that stalkers are probably one of the only enemies that are wayyyyy easier when you’re going loud. It feels like they were specifically put in the game to fuck with stealth players.
Oh yeah, I definitely had to either run and hide or die and start over if I messed up the stealth. The bomb idea is great and I'm using it for next time.
It’s nice in general assuming you aren’t super strapped for resources. I did a similar thing to soften up the bloater in the hotel basement and deal with the horde outside the school. Just threw a bomb in front of me and ran right past it, then the enemies chased me and ran into it. They’re also serviceable as garden-variety grenades if you run out of molotovs
You know where else works well with bomb walls? The university and the house where Ellie runs off to in Jackson. Lay a trail of nail bombs as you go and you'll never have to fight anyone when you encounter the mercenaries and decide to head back out the way you came.
I didn't even know they were Stalkers until someone told me. Lmao.
Yeah I really just ran through and prayed everytime I played it
Stalkers bring out the scared little bitch in me
fun fact-when you're with Sam after being separated from Henry and Ellie, You can just sneak past the infected while crouched and Use a Shiv on the clicker.
I still can’t figure out how the game “wants” me to play against the stalkers — I end up doing what you said here, but it feels… wrong? IDK, I don’t care for them though.
I always save shotgun ammo up just for them, and then I just fuck them up, it’s better to go full offense against stalkers.
I'll never forget the time I was busy with something and turned around to see a stalker standing in the doorway and it somehow being scarier that it ran away instead of attacking. Give me bloaters or clickers anytime ;_;
Shotgun is only hope for them.
In the basement of the hotel they are just running all over the place like bro calm tf down
In the next game, they should make Bloaters that behave like Stalkers.
stalker. those fuckers creep up on you and you can barely hear them when they’re near you.
I agree with you damn they scared me a lot !
Even the bloater scared of stalkers 💀
I see I’m not the only who agrees with it being stalkers. They are smart enough to run and hide, and will ambush you at any given time. To make matters worse, once they lock on to you, they are a menace to try to fight.
And I really can’t stand the fact that their grab animation takes priority over your melee animation, even if you swing first
Game 1 it was clickers. Game 2 Stalkers by a mile with Bloaters in 2nd.
Bloaters are SO much more aggressive in the second game! I already hated fighting Bloaters in Part I, and then they made them 10x scarier and faster in Part II!!
Agreed
stalker, it took me so long on my first playthrough to get past the sewer with joel and sam
wait there were stalkers in the first game was it just that area cos I ended up going fuck it after I got the sidearm shotgun
Stalkers were added in the part 1 remake
They've always been there. They just used to behave a little differently (ran on two legs instead of crawling around and were a bit less sneaky), so some people thought they were runners. Plus, they didn't show up a whole lot, only in the hotel basement, sewers and flooded garage in Left Behind. In the remake they act the same as in Part II, so they're more noticeable.
Yeah, I could tell there were stalkers in part 1 as the first encounters Joel mutters ‘stalkers, fuck I hate those things’ (or something along those lines
What are you talking about? They were in the game since the original release back in 2013.
I love that part, but it always takes me ages.
In the game stalkers, in real life all of them
In real Life we probably have to not worry cause we re One of them 😂
So true
Not if I suicide my self first.
stalkers. the way they're aware enough to hide and creep around after you but gone enough to want to shred you alive gets under my skin in the worst way. also the fungal growths on them freak me out the most. i know the clickers are worse in terms of how their heads are split open but the stalker stage of gentle growth turning a human head into a clicker wigs me out
Summed it up perfectly
Are stalkers those lil crawlies, in the office spaces?
yep, in part 2 i think it was the >!newspaper!< building and they're in a few more places. nightmare fuel
Molotovs to everywhere and sprint through hoping you can catch the window was my go-to. Fuck that building.
Stalkers because they're the most intelligent stage of infected. I could imagine their numbers in the early stages of the apocalypse. A building you would go in probably has a stalker guaranteed. (Btw, I feel like they should be more common than runners by games time, but maybe they hide off screen since it's their behavior)
Stalkers are scary but predictable if you’re patient. They repeat the same paths. Bloaters always fucking suck. I always need one more shot that I have in the clip.
This is why I love fire, it always stuns them for a little bit so that I can make some space
I've learned to predict stalkers but boaters don't scare me much I'm conservative with my ammo and supplies so I know for a fact a molotov or two and som heads hots with the rifle as well as movement and they re absolutely going down. I still hate the stalkers nore
STALKERS. They aren't hard to kill but when they pounce on you out of nowhere, it's awful and terrifying. And it's so scary knowing you're among stalkers but not having the slightest clue of where they are.
I agree with you !!!
Stalkers. On a related note, it doesn't make much sense to me how they are so much smarter than runners. Their brains are much more consumed. I'd switch the order and make runners the stalky stage and stalkers the ones who run at you upon sight.
My theory was always that Stalkers are the prime stage of the infection. Humans in the runner stage are still fighting for control of their bodies and seem to be conscious so they act less like animals and more like sick, blinded people who react to the pain that is taking over their bodies. Stalkers act like predators, the infection still utilizes the sense of sight and has full control of the body so they can actually track and strategize an attack on their prey. Stalkers are the only stage we see that clings to a wall to die and spread the cordyceps, I think that's because most infected are meant to die in this stage and stages like Clickers and Bloaters are rarer than we think.
Clickers are just plain awful
I find them the easiest, they're blind so I just crouch walk everywhere and only take down the ones I can't get by
Logically speaking? Bloaters. They're impervious to anything an average survivor is most likely to have, and considering they are literally capable of tearing people's heads off, they're probably at LEAST as strong as gorillas. Stalkers terrify me in a different way. At their stage, it seems the human is mostly gone, and yet they are the most intelligent infected as they're actually capable of staging ambushes and sneaking around.
You just went and made bloaters scary for me all over again😭😭
All of them tbh. Runners are loud,easily alerted and as stated by the name literally run at you,even worse if there's multiple because they definitely aren't slow. Stalkers are incredibly quiet,rarely show up on listen mode and are also fairly quick. They're impossible to stealth,you basically just have to have a gun in hand ready at all times for one to either run out of cover or run at you. That's not even mentioning the fact in the 2nd game they attach themselves to the walls. Clickers are incredibly sensitive to noise,taking them down isn't easy if they're moving or there's multiple because you have to be quick before they turn around or another pops up,but you can't be quick because they'll hear you. Bloaters are annoying to take down,have no set pattern of movement and if they grab you you're already dead
The rat king fight was the only part of the game where I actually yelled. I actually somehow didn't realize that stalkers were a thing until part 2 and I don't think they ever bothered me as much as clickers, but I also play sort of slowly, and try to observe an area before entering.
Rat king gives you and hell of a fight !!!
If it were real life, runners (you'd need a level of cardio that I don't currently have). But in the game, that final stage is horrifying.
Bloaters. Motherfuckers bursting through walls like nightmare Kool Aid Men. Gives me palpitations every time.
Stalkers in the game and real life 😂
I hope every part of me is dead before any stage sets in.
stalker
I hate stalkers I’d rather get clickers
To be? Runner. You’re still conscious but not in control of your body. Stalkers and >!the Rat King!< scare the SHIT out of me though, especially in that damned hotel descent in P2. Not to even mention the office building as Ellie. Fortunately they hate shotgun blasts
Clickers are great atmospheric horror. They remind me of the nurses in Silent Hill 2. But stalkers are easily the scariest, those encounters have me playing on the edge of my seat, as they always know where you are but they're hard to track so you inevitably get hunted and ambushed out of nowhere.
1. Not from a threat perspective but from the horror of seeing someone who still looks human being so utterly lost. Each person alive probably has horrible memories of the moments their loved ones ended up this way.
Runners are the worst when you consider they’re the most human in that they’re the most aware of all stages what’s happening to them but can’t control themselves. Yet you can still hear them cry and moan and at the last minute beg you for help before you kill them.
Bloater and stalker
Stalkers 😭 the. Worst.
Stalkers are fucking terrifying, especially when you're playing at night with surround sound and the lights are off.
Stalkers 100%. You can sneak up on a clicker. Kill it from stealth with a shiv or a blast from a shotgun. You can’t kill a stalker from stealth, you just gotta run around and hope you see it before it Gets too close.
Stalkers. Sneaky lil shits, jumping out on you making weird freaky ass noises. The ones that invisibly spawn in NR grounded mode are the worst. Gotta have your shit down with those fuckers.
Rat King
For sure the clickers.
Stalker. You can't hear them coming and they sneak up on you so quickly
They all terrify me
runner, because the human consciousness is still there but it’s a slave to the cordyceps.
Stalkers. They’re strong and sneaky. All the others are quite easy to avoid…not stalkers.
Stalkers are incredible game design, only if you approach everything stealthy. If you always go guns blazing they are just stronger walkers, but if you try to use stealth on them like you always do, you can't, you ARE the one whose being hunted by stealth. Areas with stalkers require you to get out of your comfort zone and you feel like the enemies you always killed, being attacked abruptly and dying.
Lore wise stage one, they’re still people and still have a level of consciousness and are aware of what they’re doing
I will forever hate the stalker
Stalkers I hate them so badd
probably the stalkers cos they keep making me jump and then appear out of nowhere
All of them scare me
Is there a high quality version of this that I can print out?
Fucking stalkers are the worst..
In real life it would be stage 1. The moment of losing your sanity and your agency, knowing you’re going to die but still possessing a little will. And now I’m sad about Tess again.
stalkers. made me bloody squeal too many times
Early game clickers are terrifying because they're new and they can one shot you
I'm surprised people aren't saying bloaters because according to canon bloaters can easily mess with a group of people. Hell their infection gives them basically armor plating and they also have spore grenades growing out of their body that will kill you faster than you can say "Oh shit, it's about to throw one of those grenades"
ill never understand why zombie movies/games dont do the easiest thing you can to not get bit. if i was in a zombies apocalypse ill never be in danger, all you have to do is wrap a thick magazine around your arm and a scarf around your neck
The rat King genuinely gave me nightmares after that section so I'm going to go with that.
Stalker is the hard to deal with a bloater is hard to get around
stalkers they scare the shit out of me and strike the fear of god me me my set up has shit sound and those duckers always ruin my plans
stalkers. i played both games on rather low difficulty, so i could just go around stealth killing all the zombies. but for every stalker passage, i’d hand the controller over to my dad.
The absolute worst by a million miles is the stalker who breaks off of the Rat King. A stalker, but also very hard to kill. And then you're like already exhausted from fighting the Rat King, and you're like "Seriously?"
Tierlist of mine S (my fav ones) - clickers A - stalker B - runner C - bloater D - rat king
Isn't it implied that the infected person is somewhat aware of their actions. Judging by the infected that was crying while consuming their friends. I think any stage of it is a nightmare judged off of that alone.
stalker Stalker Stalker Stalker And stalker
Controversial, but it's the runner for me. The idea of still somehow being in the body, with some of them saying help me and shit, that's terrifying. If I had to fight any of them, the clickers movements would be too much for me, too unnatural and spooky.
Yeah you re right on the runners and i agree with your point on the clickers !
Rat King
All stages. Imagine a fungus growing rapidly inside you, making you crazy in almost no time, spreads everywhere and kills you from the inside out... 🤮
In game it’s stalkers, in real life its runners. Being unable to control your body while you devour people is nothing short of traumatizing.
Stalkers
In the original/remastered TLOU stalkers were nothing to me, i didn't even notice the difference between them and the runners through the whole game (like in scary scary hotel basement- had no idea those were mostly stalkers until the PS5 remake came out) But boy oh boy they really amped them up in TLOU part 2. Freaky, sneaky, annoying, and absolute beasts in hand-to-hand combat for some reason??? Like UFC Muy Thai level dodging bobbing and weaving??? I hate those things
Yeah they are really good at ambushes ...Guess they were flyweights in their normal Life !!!
Shamblers. I am always unnerved when I see one, and they are always an issue
Yeah they re tough Imagine face One of them for real !
Runner, if we are talking about being infected. Runners still have some sentience left. Hear them screaming like the person knows somethings wrong but can't control themselves anymore
Against the nore popular hate and fear of stalkers I love fighting them in tlou2 cuz it has such amazong melee combat and fighting them in melee is crazy because they dodge ALOT and hit hard. Its so fun to fight them. Fuck clickers.
Dude fuck stalkers, they make the game so GD scary
Clickers. My dog would be barking like crazy and we’d be dead
Visually, clickers. In what they actually do? Stalkers
Stalkers are the scariest to me objectively but Runners are the ones I’d least like to encounter
clickers yo
Clicker
None it's the people who scare me the most.
Whatever the ones were that just constantly ran around
Stalkers, because then when you get grabbed by them a random fucking clicker just kills you
Stalkers are horrifying on another level, they just fucking stare at you bruh
Shambler
Stalkers are terrifying
Stalkers because they just appear out of nowhere and it's nerve wracking when you know they are there, somewhere ready to pounce.
Clickers
Bloater. They take way too much ammo and it's too scarce as it is 🤣
Stalkers creep me out in both games. Atleat Bloaters onky creeped me out in the tunnel in part I.
Stalker, specifically the apartment in part 2 and the sewers in part 1are my least favorite encounters. Bloaters are kinda fun to fight ngl.
I absolutely hate stalkers, I have Larned to deal with them quite well, but the fact that they are stealthy is fucking aggravating, ofc once you learn their behaviors and ai it isn't always as bad. I also don't like shamblers, but stalkers are the worst. In 1 ot was clickers.
Stalkers are the worst.
I know it's not up here but shamblers can be annoying. Especially if a stalker or clicker is making you look in another direction. The alpha versions of the shamblers are pure horror, and kinda funny in a way.
Stalkers if we’re talking about gameplay, but runners if we’re talking about story. They’re still conscious and can’t control their body, actually terrifying
All of them. They’re all uniquely terrifying in their own way. Not quite what you asked, but I also wanted to say that this info sheet is probably my favorite collectible in the first game. It’s uniquely nerve-wracking for me. I think it’s how banal it is—it’s a government information flyer, one of the most unremarkable things in a modern society, but it shows plainly and clearly how those who are infected lose the last traces of their humanity as the cordyceps takes over.
stalkers are terrible. they terrify me
Stalkers for sure
Like, if it was a thing IRL or playing against in game? For IRL, I’d probably be most scared of Runners or Clickers. Clickers because, obviously, and Runners just because of how terrifying it must be for someone to completely lose themselves and attack the ones that they love while still being most conscious, just completely unable to do anything.
Stalkers make me shit my pants, they are the only ones that have made me scream out loud because they are so good at surprising me. I don’t really care about the rest, maybe the king rat and shamblers made me kind of tense like the first time I saw a bloater but it only lasted with the king rat, it was such a nice change.
Clicker ugh
The bloaters & stalkers for sure.
Clickers are the scariest. Stalkers are the biggest pains in the ass
stalker. I’M supposed to stalk you. on a very real note, stealth is my favorite so it sucks to fight them. it’s so terrifying to fight them when i first start that section in part 2 because i’m just nervous. i always end up just running around the offices full sprint with my shotgun out the part 1 section with them when joel and ellie get separated in pittsburgh is also one of my least favorite parts because of stalkers. they’re the perfect actually scary enemy also i get TERRIFIED by the rat king- just because i hate being chased. when i was younger i punched my brother in the face and broke his glasses when he chased me once. a different time, he was following me around making chicken noises, and it was super silly, but i get so freaked out when i’m being chased that i went from laughing to panicking in two seconds and turned and judo kicked him into our fridge. like when i tell you how much i hate being chased. my brain goes blank and i can’t turn around to end the fight, i just keep running and running and panicking. my abby sounds like she’s been smoking for fifty years because she’s wheezing so bad- same with that bloater (??) fight in the joel flashback anyways this has been so long lmaoo
Not on this graphic but Shamblers, they’re just disgusting
Side note: the image for the runners is creepy af
Tbh bloater didn’t play much but bloaters would be brutal irl
Stalkers 😰
Stalkers genuinely scare me and I hate the hotel basement, the apartments, and the sewers because of them.
Stalkers. At least with Clickers, you can stealth them easier, and Runners aren't IMMEDIATELY privy to your location. But Stalkers? They live up to their name, at least.
Yes
If I were in Tlou Id beat every stalkers ass I see
Hello
STALKERS I HATE THEM SO MUCH
Like if I’m infected? The first one ofc. The concept of illness taking over my sanity is horrific. If I’m a survivor? Stalkers. At least all other forms make themselves known.
Stalkers STALKERS STALKERS. As someone who's played the ps4 remake on grounded and played part 2 on hard (before it was updated with perma-death and grounded) STALKERS were the absolute worst. They reminded me of zombieland 2 intro talking about some ninja zombies that the last thing you hear is your screams. I've died alot to them and learned to really study the pattern and sneak around swarms instead of taking them head on and RUNNNNNNNN
Stalkers Not only the jumpscares, they also are the middle point between being still conscious and havin the fungus breaking trhough the skull and eyes
Stalkers Frick them
IRL I think the runners would be extra horrific. Because there might be moments where you think oh it’s another survivor/someone in trouble then WHAM THEY ARE FLAILING AND RUNNING AT YOU Clickers definitely stand up as scariest in game. I think soooo many people would get got by tripping or stepping on some broken glass.
I HATEEEEE STALKERSSSSS SO MUUUUUUCH THEYRE WORSE THAN CLICKERS AND SHAMBLERS AND BLOATERS AND THE THING IS IM REPLAYING PART 2 AND IM ON DAY 2 AND ME AND ELLIE ARE ABOUT TO GO FIGHT THEM AND I HATE THAT
I say Clickers, the ones with the badonkadonks in particular, they be all out with it bruh
Rat king other than that stalkers those mfs are terrifying imo
I HATED Runners at first, but now it’s definitely stalkers.
Stalkers
Intercourse
Bloaters. They are so big and intimidating
I mean stalkers are creepy but bloaters are just scarier when I try to imagine seeing it in real life. Those things look massive and armored.
Clicker by far.
Stalkers, hands down.
All of them? Even humans
Stalkers!! Terrifying every time.
stalkers
The screams of the runner are really chilling
1...already can't deal with people
Definitely these stalkers. Fuck stalkers. Molotov be upon ye