In fact, you might be better off running away to save ammo if you're playing on a higher difficulty. Phantom Necromorphs don't give special rewards for beating them, and instead give standard drops like any other enemy, so there's no need to specifically search for them. The bad news is: it's an Artifact of Attraction and an Artifact of Death that causes everyone nearby to go violently insane, and reanimates its surrounding corpses into horrifically mutated Necromorphs, which seek out and kill everyone nearby in gruesome ways. Phantom Necromorph Rewards No Special Drops Phantom Necromorphs are generally the last to appear in a horde, so they can also be considered as pseudo-bosses of a Necromorph attack. While no certain reason has been given in the games to why some Necromorphs are enhanced, one possible reason being that the infection is stronger in them than their counterparts, they are featured in all Dead Space Remastered games. They could be considered one grade up from the enhanced variants like the Super-Slasher and Super-Lurker, and generally have twice to three times as much health as the standard versions. Enhanced Necromorphs are a sub-breed of the Necromorph infection. Phantom Necromorphs are a higher-powered version of each of the standard Necromorphs appearing only in New Game Plus. What are Phantom Necromorphs? Only Appear in New Game Plus

The chart below compares the Phantom Necromorphs' apperance to their standard version. updated Dead Space Wiki Guide advertisement This wiki guide for Dead Space covers both the 2008 original and the 2023 remake.

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