In the second episode The Last of Us iconic monsters from the game appeared, clickers, which make characteristic sounds when they hunt their prey. In the second episode The Last of Us Joel, Tess, and Ellie encounter clickers as the trio travel through abandoned Boston to reach the State House. Having entered the museum and found traces of dead mushrooms and fresh human murders, clickers make themselves felt.
Beyond the specific, different from ordinary runners The Last of Us appearance, clickers exhibit certain adaptations that result from years of infestation. If the Runners are ordinary people in the first stage of infection with a fungus Cordyceps from The Last of Us, then the Clickers are people infected more than a year ago. Due to their long infection period, clickers have several differences that result in the clicking sound that gives them their name.
Click sound used for echolocation
When infected with Cordyceps, which lasts for more than a year, Nutcrackers go blind due to the fact that fungi grow outward. As a result, hardened fungal plates cover the host's head, giving clickers their distinct appearance compared to runners. This blindness means that clickers have evolved using their unmistakable clicking sound as a primitive form of echolocation. Although clickers can still hear and often use this sense to locate prey, the clicks allow them to navigate their environment.
In the second episode The Last of Us the clickers are in a very tight space, but each of them easily navigates the floor of the museum in search of Joel, Ellie and Tess. This is a direct result of the echolocation they have adapted to. Clicking sounds send sound waves into the surrounding area, which return to the clickers and alert them to their surroundings.
How similar are HBO clickers to the game The Last Of Us
This raises the question of how similar HBO's Clickers are to the original game, and whether these elements have been adapted or created for the series. In the game, the Nutcrackers have been shown to be a significant threat, often portrayed as a second level enemy. Runners were the most prominent creatures fought in the game, and clickers were included in some sections for added difficulty. The Clickers required increased stealth, as any sound made them attack. IN The Last of Us clickers were much more powerful than runners, so they often gave players a lot of trouble.
В The Last of Us, unlike Runners, Clickers could not be killed with unarmed melee combat. They were best handled by ranged weapons, melee weapons that could be obtained, or artisanal items such as sharpeners. Their increased strength meant that they were much more dangerous to Joel, and this strength was shown in the second episode. The Last of Us. Episode 2 The Last of Us, where he took a lot of shots, disarmed Joel and pinned both him and Ellie to the ground, he perfectly adapted one of the game's most iconic creatures, as well as his specific traits and strengths.
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