Isaac finally faced it down in the Cryogenic Lab where he managed to freeze the creature inside a cryogenic tube, supposedly taking care of the problem once and for all. The creature stalked Isaac throughout the chapter as he attempted to complete his objectives. Isaac eventually escaped after learning about the creature's regenerative abilities. Mercer awoke the Hunter in an attempt to kill Isaac, telling the engineer that he intended to find out if death by dismemberment was the 'missing factor' for Convergence to trigger. Challus Mercer kept the Hunter stored in a stasis tube in the Chemistry Lab on the Medical Deck, just outside the Cryogenics Storage Room, in order to keep the creature from attacking him. The Hunter first appeared during Chapter 5: Lethal Devotion. The Hunter breaks free of its stasis tube. The spine and the pelvis bone could be seen at the back. Pieces of different bones could be seen pointing at different body parts. The body was greatly covered in muscular tissue with no original skin left due to the mutation.

The big toes were severely enlarged into sharp claws. The victim's jaw was gone with four tentacle-like veins hanging in its place, along with the neck frozen into a 45-degree angle. In the original game, the Hunter's eyes glowed, although not as strongly as the other Regenerators'. The Hunter's voice could be compared to a deep throaty roar as opposed to the Slasher's usual form of screaming and shouting. Unlike the other forms of Necromorphs, it was able to regenerate lost limbs in seconds, meaning that conventional dismemberment tactics only served to temporarily incapacitate it. It was noticeably bulkier and taller than the standard Slasher and its original arms appeared to be bound inside the flesh of its torso similar to a straitjacket.

The Hunter physically resembled a Slasher, possessing large blades that were attached to a pair of elongated arms jutting out from its shoulder blades.

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