Added in v0.9.9994, Infected is a team-based game mode that is similar to Hide & Seek, and the infected function is identical to the seekers. However, instead of one player being chosen randomly after the first 10 seconds of the match, the amount of infected players varies. In games with 5 or less people only one player will be chosen. 5 or more player games will have two infected, and 16 player games will have 3 infected.) The difference is that the humans can now shoot back, rather than just hide. (Though it's not unusual for someone who hid through the whole match to be the only surviving human.) Of course, as soon as an infected kills a human (or if a human kills him/herself), they die and are reborn as an infected, while the infected won't stop respawning no matter how much the humans shoot at them. All of the Infected are always "reborn" as a Runner class.