After Miles shuts down the life-support pod, the Walrider, now without a host, attacks Miles and fuses itself with his body, taking him as its new host.Īs Miles limps towards the exit in pain, the door opens, revealing Dr. Wernicke instructs Miles to disable the power grid for Billy's life-support pod to undo what he has made and murder Hope. The voice reveals himself to be Rudolf Wernicke, a presumed deceased former Nazi scientist who explains how William Hope gained control over the Walrider and how he's also responsible for keeping Wernicke alive out of a possible delusional presumption on Hope’s part that Wernicke is his father. The Walrider relentlessly throws Walker against nearby walls, and eventually pulls him through a ventilation shaft, dismembering his body in the process.īefore he can recover from his ordeal, Miles is suddenly guided by an elderly voice into a nearby secured office. Unknowingly having put himself in the path of the incoming swarm, Walker mocks Upshur one last time, but before he can kill his intended target, Chris is grabbed by the Walrider from behind and spiraled away from Miles. Miles tries to escape through an open hangar, but the Walrider assembles in front of it, causing the security systems to shut down all exit routes, forcing Upshur to retreat the way he came.Īs the Walrider gives chase, Miles runs back to the exit, only to be greeted by Chris Walker at the lab's entrance, who tackles the journalist to the floor. When Miles reaches the underground facilities, he discovers the bodies of the men he saw being murdered on the security cameras. The Walrider managed to escape, slaughtering most of the facility's staff members, which directly led to a massive prison breakout. Billy was capable of controlling the Walrider thanks to his self-directed lucid dream states however, because they were only using damaged and unstable minds to experiment on, the situation got out of control. It is likely that the Variants are the results of this procedure. The aim was to create the perfect host for the Walrider, so that it could become a sentient being, as is evidenced by these notes: Gods and Monsters, Variant Postmortem. Project Walrider was the process of exposing patients to Morphogenic Engine Therapy to create a suitable host for the nanite swarm, for only a person that has seen enough horror can become the host. In the Courtyard, it is seen scouring the air, as well as one brief encounter behind the locked gate. Miles arrives at the scene minutes later, discovering their dismembered remains on the floor. Soon afterward, two men are heard running from the Walrider, before being caught by it and torn apart. Shortly afterward, while walking through a Sewer tunnel, Miles catches a glimpse of the entity as it disappears through a barricade. While Miles traversed through the prison showers, its silhouette can be seen at the bottom of the stairs before vanishing. Before Miles passes out, Father Martin shows him security footage from the Underground Lab, which depicts a team of Murkoff PMCs being ambushed and slaughtered by the invisible entity upon entering the lab. When Miles Upshur tries to unlock the Administration Block doors to escape, he is ambushed by Father Martin, who injects him with a sedative. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the Walrider to lose track of the player in a chase scene, only stopping once the player passes through a decontamination gate, which the Walrider cannot pass through. The Walrider is relentless in its pursuit, while doors will slow its progress somewhat, it is capable of going underneath them. It can easily overpower any Variant, including the large, muscle-bound Chris Walker, as shown in the Underground Lab when Walker is brutally murdered. Despite having no actual bones, muscles or internal support structure to speak of, the Walrider's nanites are capable of immense physical strength, and it is the most physically powerful entity in the game. Miles can only see it clearly through the night vision mode on his camcorder. A document from 1938 concerning Rudolf Wernicke’s early work with the Morphogenic Engine details a brief manifestation of the swarm.Īs it is composed of nanites, it is nearly invisible to human eyes, only showing a faint black aura, unless it comes into very close proximity to the player. It is unclear if William "Billy" Hope simply learned to control the swarm, or if he is the first patient to fully manifest the Walrider. While appearing ghostly in nature, the Walrider is actually a swarm of nanites small, nanoscopic machines which collectively possess great strength and power.
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