Monsters · R.E.P.O. v0.4.0 · read from a local copy

The heart hugger and its two faces

It has a set of normal meshes and a set of horror meshes.

The heart hugger has more than one body: the game ships a set of normal meshes and a set of horror meshes for it, with a cute mouth in four pieces and a whole set of sounds for changing between them.

What the game establishes

• It has a set of normal meshes and a set of horror meshes. (checked against the game's own files)
• Its cute form has four mouth pieces, each side in an open and a closed version. (checked against the game's own files)
• Its changes are animated with curves for growing, for meshes popping away and back, and for biting with a bounce. (checked against the game's own files)
• Its limbs and vines are sprung, and its head is built from segments with targets and a centre. (checked against the game's own files)
• Parts of it breathe, with scale parents of their own, and there are hole parents that scale too. (checked against the game's own files)
• It has three idle breakers and three aggro breakers, each with a sound. (checked against the game's own files)
• It has sounds for growing, shrinking, chomping, gas, aggro, scares, being hurt and dying. (checked against the game's own files)
• It has an enchanted voice of its own, a gas checker, gas particles and a head light. (checked against the game's own files)
• Its moments have their own effects, including hearts and a shattered dream. (checked against the game's own files)
• The meshes are kept as lists, one for the ordinary body and one for the cute one, with a base scale and a target for it. (checked against the game's own files)
• Its gas has a start, a tell and a stop, the scare has a shared version and there is a sound for starting aggro. (checked against the game's own files)
• Its bite has a mesh and a hurt collider of its own, its pops have a sound, and it holds head particles, an idle breaker curve and audio sources. (checked against the game's own files)

In play

The heart hugger does not have one body. The game ships a normal set of meshes and a horror set, so the same monster can look friendly and then not, without being two separate enemies.

Its cute form has a mouth built in four pieces: a left and a right side, each in an open and a closed version. That is how the mouth can change without the whole head being replaced.

The change is animated with curves rather than switched. There is a curve for growing, curves for the meshes popping away and popping back, and a curve for biting with a bounce on the bite scale, so the transformation is a movement you can watch.

Its limbs and vines are sprung. The head is built from segments with their own targets and a centre of its own, so the front of the monster follows rather than being welded in place.

It breathes. Parts of the body carry their own scale parents for breathing, and there are hole parents that scale as well, which is how a hug can feel like it is tightening.

It is one of the loudest monsters in the game. There are three idle breakers and three aggro breakers, each with a sound of its own, along with sounds for growing and shrinking, chomping and biting, a gas loop and an aggro loop, scares, being hurt and dying.

It also has an enchanted voice. There is a voice line and a loop kept for that state, alongside the plain idle and aggro material, so the monster can sound different without being remodelled.

It carries a head light, gas particles and a gas checker of its own, and its moments have their own effects: particles for hearts, for a shattered dream and for dying.

Its bodies are held as lists rather than one model. There is a list of ordinary meshes and a list of cute ones, with a base scale and a target it grows towards, which is why the change is a swap of parts.

The gas is staged too. It has a start, a tell and a stop, the scare has a version the whole crew hears, and starting aggro has a sound of its own, so approaching the monster is something you can hear coming.

The details are parts of their own. The bite has a mesh and a hurt collider, a pop has a sound, and head particles, an idle breaker curve and the audio sources are all kept on it.

What this entry does not tell you: how much damage it does, how long its gas lasts, or how quickly it changes form. We have not verified those numbers, so we do not print them.

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Version and sources

A local copy of the game, read only. The grounding for each fact is listed on the technical reference pages; nothing here is estimated. Documented build: 0.4.0.