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This should [00:28] do it. When you look at some of the impressive new [00:31] spaces we've made, it looks like it should have just [00:33] been on the set in Alien. So that's really key to creating [00:35] the original atmosphere of the haunted house in space. [00:38] But we wanted that kind of cerebral terrifying tension, [00:42] and that constant fear of dread that any shadow could [00:44] be the alien. And then, that's what we've always [00:46] pushed to try and do. [00:53] We've created an alien that is adaptive and smart, and [00:57] it can change the way it moves and behaves according [00:59] to what the player does. And it hunts you in a very [01:02] intelligent way. If it sees you a couple of times, it might [01:04] start to recognize you. The, the faster you are and the [01:05] you're out in the open, the higher chance you have of [01:06] being spotted. And later on we take that into a more [01:06] advanced set of behaviors where it adapts and reacts [01:10] to the things you're using. So you can craft the [01:11] [ UNKNOWN ] in the world to use for distraction, or to [01:11] cause loud noises. Even for light, like using a flare, and [01:12] the first few times you use. And the first time kind of [01:14] get an idea of how the alien will react to it. The [01:21] more you use it, the more you start to notice the [01:26] alien is not reacting so well to it. And then all of a [01:28] sudden, he has outsmarted you. [ INAUDIBLE ] [01:30] [ NOISE ] Grr. Aw! Oh! [ NOISE ]. Sometimes [01:44] a huge power of horror is that you're not being able to [01:46] see the thing that's hunting you, just being aware that [01:48] it's there, it could be around the next corner. 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