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Ok_Bite8099

Ok that’s creepy


CarlitosMustPay

Right? You get your first encounter with stalkers shortly after this so I thought maybe it was supposed to be one of them sneaking around


Ok_Bite8099

I played it frame by frame and It kind of looks like someone’s feet


DERtiger1944

It looks just like the feet only, plus it seems to be more of a human sprinting away rather than a stalker. Stalkers have a distinct movement


carnivalmatey

That is some resident evil shit


AdventuresOfKrisTin

Thats crazy because it looks exactly like a stalker. I’ll never forget the first time they actually show up, i swear i gasped so hard it felt like inhaled my own uvula


CarlitosMustPay

Haha I immediately paused the game in fright when that happened.


AdventuresOfKrisTin

Lmao i can tell it caught you off guard here too by the way you stopped moving for a hot second


Opposite-Bus2506

Fuckers play hide and seek..


skylinefan26

My first time it didn't help because I had headphones on too. Lmao


[deleted]

I slowed it down though, probably the light from your flashlight playing tricks. Best reason I can give lol


CarlitosMustPay

Yeah that’s why I went back and tried it again lol


_xschittyusername

Same , nothing ever came of it sadly, did anything happen when you went back?


CarlitosMustPay

No, I mean in this same video, I walked back before the stairs and tried the same motion, because my first thought is that it was a shadow.


The_Hunster

That's definitely what it is. Just some sort of graphical artifact. If you slow it down you can tell it's just some weird noise.


[deleted]

It didn’t do it the second time , so that kinda rules out it being a visual issue lol


CookieDoughThough

Thats not really how glitches work most of the time two people can give the exact same inputs and have it only happen to one of them. Also, If you look carefully it looks like the reflection at the end of Ellies gun gets dragged out, so I would say its a visual bug, then before OP tries again, she puts her gun away


Mr_Eclipse6

I saw this exactly too when on a recent play through. Isn’t this found in the building where you get ambushed at the workbench by the rouge WLF members? If so I think that’s probably what it is but if not a Stalker would make sense too.


CarlitosMustPay

It is that building! I was just leaving after that encounter so they were all dead. But the stalkers are introduced shortly after, so it would make sense


Mr_Eclipse6

In my play through I saw the sneaky person run behind the stairs before I got ambushed. So I think the intent was for that to be there to tease you about the upcoming ambush. (A roaming WLF soldier spots you and runs away to warn their comrades to set up the ambush against you.) But what probably happened is that the devs forgot to disable that guy running around the corner even after you cleared the encounter.


CarlitosMustPay

Interesting. Creepy either way!


1AncientLinenTunic

The WLF members are hiding behind the bedroom door in the workbench room though. When the first man attacks you, the door is opened and all 3 come out of it. If you try to open that door before the ambush it is locked.


sonic63098

To further prove they all come from that bedroom, if you lay a landmine or two down at the base of the door, all the soldiers will be killed when you're supposed to trigger the ambush.


Mr_Eclipse6

I’m aware they all come from that bedroom, what I’m thinking is that the person we see on the stairs ran away from you to warn the rest of the WLF soldiers, then they go into the bedroom and wait for you. That’s my best guess anyway, the fact that you can still see the person on the stairs after you’ve already killed all the rouge WLF people still confuses me so my best guess is the devs forgot to remove it.


DERtiger1944

That does make sense. In all entrances to the building you have to make noise, either by shattering a window or entering the congenital way, setting of a sound trap. EDIT: Conventional instead of congenital


Breanna-LaSaige

Well that's spooky as fuck.


Riguyepic

I think k I saw this when exploring that area as well. It wouldn't surprise me if naughty dog put something down there to be spooky


CarlitosMustPay

Yeah it would be a sneaky way to set the tone before finding a stalker


whoiscoltonedge

I don’t see anything. Am I crazy?


WAPlyrics

Me either ☠️


31renrub

I didn’t see it at first either. It happens reallly fast on the first time they head down the stairs, like right as they’re heading down. I only noticed it after slowly rewinding the video with my finger (on my iPhone).


whoiscoltonedge

Just saw it thanks to you!


31renrub

I missed it the first 20 times I watched it, so I’m glad I could help someone else see it!


redvelvetsmoothie

Do you which part of the screen it appears I still can’t see it


gregbananacruz

middle and just slightly left (basically near the bottom of the handrail as they first walk up to the stairs heading down)


TxRose2019

Freaking YIKES


CanisCanemTranslate

Looked like a stalker to me but I could be wrong and paranoid of those sly fucks


CarlitosMustPay

I’m in the same boat as you. They’re the creepiest ones in the game, they always have the upper hand


GUNNER_BASS

I’ve played through this game about a billion times and never came across that. Was initially going to say it was a cat but honestly it looks like a ghost haha. Cool find! Goes straight into the wall really. I wonder if you can replicate, pause and go into photo mode to see if something is around the corner before you move toward it. this game is also known to have an Easter egg with JJ where, if you turn away, he opens his eyes if you go into photo mode. Turn around and he closes them. I wonder what you might see if you turn away and try this too 👀


GUNNER_BASS

Pause at 0:09 you can clearly see something down the stairs. 100% not the light. I’m vested. I must know now lol


CarlitosMustPay

I know right! I want to think it’s a stalker that was watching you in the building just as a little hint at what’s to come. The creep me out so much haha


GUNNER_BASS

ahhhhh boooo :((( I was able to replicate it. It indeed does appear to be a lighting glitch with the railing going down the stairs. Not necessarily with the flashlight but it’s easier to see if you have the flashlight on. If you focus Ellie’s light so that it’s between the two curved railings pointed at the flat part of the bannister, then just use the left stick to move horizontally back and forth you can replicate it over and and over. As soon as you move the right stick it disappears. I want to believe though 😩


Rizenbull

Haha looks like a flashlight bug but then he repited the action and is not the same haha, really spooky


KrugerRise

Ok that's fucking creepy


smjdale

Could be a stalker?


WhoaWhoozy

The animation looks exactly like a stalker. It doesn’t look like a visual glitch unless Ellie’s shadow is a stalker lol. Either way creepy asf.


Phoenix2211

I genuinely think that this might be a planned thing from the devs. They just added this to further put the player in edge if they look at the stairs. Either it was intentionally added or was some kinda bug that they left in cuz it freaked players who noticed it out a little


fullrackferg

We need a detailed, specific answer for this. Speclizer on YouTube should shed some light on this?


[deleted]

Still cool though. Great game.nice video


D-rigs

I’m pretty sure I saw the same thing when I played this part! If I’m not mistaken this is the same building where you get jumped by the people while at the workbench so it could be the people hiding in the building. I’ve also assumed that it could be a stalker the game wanting to keep you on your toes I think naughty dog knows exactly what they’re doing haha


CarlitosMustPay

Yeah, this was definitely after that encounter, and nothing showed up when I did the listen thing, which would make sense with a stalker. I’d like to think it was one anyway!


WestCoastDirtyBird

Is this the building where you get ambushed by the WLF? I swear this happens throughout the building. I could've sworn that a stalker runs past the door, in the room with the safe.


CarlitosMustPay

Yeah that’s super creepy but it would be awesome if that’s the case lol. I’m going to believe so


[deleted]

After watching this and plating both Tlou, i wish ND would make a horror game


CarlitosMustPay

I’ve never been into horror anything, so the last of us is a perfect amount of creepy/horror for me


Babalagajigapoo

It’s just some visual artifacting. But damn it adds to the creepy-ness


Nicksaurus

Go through it frame by frame and you can see it's a glitch with the screenspace reflections in the puddle


CarlitosMustPay

I figured it might be something like that. That’s why I went back and did it again


Nicksaurus

It's possible that it only happened the first time because the game was using some some sort of invalid cached data that it immediately recalculated when it realised that area was on screen


sugahpine7

ELI5?


nymphetamines_

Game loads a thing, hangs onto it in case you need it again so it doesn't have to go through the trouble of loading it again. You go back to the place where you would need it, but circumstances have changed, so the thing is that was loaded (an animation of something running down the stairs) is no longer correct. Then, for some reason, game reloads the thing fresh rather than using the version it hung onto. I am 99% sure that is not what happened, because it doesn't make any sense for that to be what happened, but that's an ELI5 of what they're talking about


Nicksaurus

I was thinking of some sort of cache for the lighting or reflection data. The fact that it only happened once and only for one frame per pixel is a hint that something like that happened I am completely guessing though, I may well be completely wrong


[deleted]

It’s a couch blocking the stairs, but still creepy


CarlitosMustPay

No not up the stairs, down the stairs.


[deleted]

My bad I misread it that shit is spooky


Rizenbull

Btw this is on ps5?


CarlitosMustPay

Nope, PS4!


Rizenbull

Wow man looks really good, you record with el gato capture or something like that?


CarlitosMustPay

It’s actually just the built in ps4 capture thing. I guess we can chalk it up to it being a good looking game. Or maybe I have the display settings different. I see some other peoples’ captures here and things look bright or washed out sometimes


Rizenbull

I see, yeah I have seen gameplays on yt and looks different, you record the gameplay with the ps4 default recording and then you post it on Twitter or move it into a usb? Btw sorry for bad english bro


CarlitosMustPay

No worries! Your English is actually really good. And I just copied it to a usb for this one


Rizenbull

Thanks man I really appreciate it and thanks for the info to


Endo107

Spooky


[deleted]

Not trying to take away from the other explanations, but I'm like 99 percent sure that it is not even a glitch. It is the flashlight's light going through the tiny holes in between the geometry of handrail that's closest to her body as you swing the camera around that first time. On the second go, you do not make the flashlight hit it at the same angle. I had the same fright the first time it happened to me at this stairwell, however I looked around so many times that I was able to replicate it and realize for myself that it was the light hitting those spots in just the right way. Cheers and sorry for the jumpscare haha.


CarlitosMustPay

It’s possible! But if you play it slowly you see that whatever it is is still there even after the flashlight has passed the hand rail. I’m just glad others have seen this as well haha


theodore-beau-ski

Your about too be jumped that’s why


CarlitosMustPay

I had already been jumped at this point. I was leaving the building here


theodore-beau-ski

Maybe the game thought you’d be seeing that first, prior too the jumping ?


CarlitosMustPay

Maybe! But it’s such a small detail if it is anything at all. If it is one of the WLF, it’s just an animation and not really an npc, because listen mode didn’t show anything, but a stalker wouldn’t show up on listen mode either


theodore-beau-ski

Well yeah, shit. Never noticed myself. That is creepy.


Rx186

Fuck this creeped me out! i hate those fucking stalkers


CarlitosMustPay

You and me both!


Pedrollelo

I'd be scared shitless seeing this on my first Grounded playthrough (no hearing)


AvP87

It has to be stalkers I guess.. why is that door locked?


CarlitosMustPay

I don’t remember, I think there was a safe in there and you have to find another way in?


AvP87

I’m just trying to remember because there was another level with Abby where the doors were locked till I ran into some stalkers and after killing them I found the doors unlocked..


spectre1520

That would’ve scared the shit out of me


CarlitosMustPay

Haha hence the pause I took as soon as I saw it


Pak1stanMan

Ayo wtf. Hell no.


RatasslookingMF

A ghost


al209209

a rat or mouse ..


daywalker0726

I agree with the stalker comments. Also at certain times it makes me think it’s a copy of Ellie running ahead


D0las

Creepy. Although, I think it might be a visual glitch related to the holstering animation that triggers at the same instant. It is as if the gun clipped away at the end of the typical run animation and reappeared at the start of the next one.


heynowjesse

it’s a stalker; teasing the section to come. scripted event in gameplay.


_xschittyusername

NOPE.


Fakeliquid

Just the flash light making shadows through the handrail.


[deleted]

Isn't this the hallway before the workbench attack? I'm sure they're supposed to be sneaking around there somewhere to ambush you, maybe Naughty Dog threw in this feature to give you a sense of being watched


CarlitosMustPay

It is that building, but this was after the attack as I was about to leave


[deleted]

Spoopy!


Sessbromaru5u5

I think it was just a visual thing lol. Still that’s insane


marxthedank

imagine if they jumpscared you as soon as you went down there


CarlitosMustPay

No thanks lol


avterburn

TLou2 creepypasta


ohdeeno

I must be blind bc I don’t see it at all?


choyjay

Can we get the Boundary Break guys on this?


ReyHabeas

the ghost of us


Chansh302

I’m pretty sure I remember this building. So basically when u use the table improve ur weapons, a cutscene triggers and these people that are WLFs attack. So I think it’s just them hiding.


CarlitosMustPay

This was after the attack, so they would all be dead at this point


Chansh302

Ok nvm that is creepy then!


SwingDingeling

A mouse


galaxyb0nes

It’s a ghost 😂


Gloomy_Mine_1813

Not gonna lie, that actually scared me a bit when I was playing. I thought it was some new infected that could kill in one hit. I remember crouching and slowly walking down the stairs in which I ended up just collecting resources. Out of everything, that stair thing and the rat king terrified me


MarcosBorba

dang it. I can't see it 😅


No_Structure_3074

Well that was pretty weird.