The only quick and effective way to kill the creatures is to literally chop them to pieces by removing the head, arms, legs, and other appendages until the creature is killed.

Injuries that would kill an ordinary human, such as a shot to the cranial cavity containing the brain, have little effect on them.Ĭountless have died due to not knowing the Necromorphs' only vulnerability: dismemberment. Necromorphs do not suffer from the vulnerabilities associated with a body that needs interconnected vital organs, centralized nervous system, respiration, or vascular support. Nope, the only real way to take these creatures out is to completely rip them apart.' Shoot off an arm, and they'll use their other arm to rip into you. 'Take their legs out, and they'll drag themselves toward you. What we do know is that if they have their way, all life will be converted or destroyed, until the galaxy is nothing but an empty void of… dead space.

Why the Brethren Moons do this, and what their end game is, is unknown. The Necromorphs' motivations are to create a mass of necrotic flesh to be collected by the Markers during Convergence, with the intent to create another Brethren Moon. The Necromorphs are controlled via the Markers by a group of entities known as 'Brethren Moons', massive Necromorphs created by killing and infecting every living thing on a planet. They are believed by some to be the heralds of humanity's ascension, but on a more practical level are the extremely dangerous result of exposure to the enigmatic devices known as Markers. The sole purpose of almost all Necromorphs is to acquire more bodies to convert and spread the infection. The resulting creatures are extremely aggressive, and will attack any uninfected organism on sight.

Necromorphs are mutated and reanimated corpses, reshaped into horrific new forms by a recombinant extraterrestrial 'infection'.

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