Ritual

Maj33y

it would be awesome if you could meet up with another player and perform some kind of a ritual like in horror movies ... Drawing a Circle on the floor and reciting some spills that give players who performed it a random buff with a timer let's say for 60 seconds 120 seconds and so on .. the longer the ritual the better the buff they get and so does the number of players performing it .. it all counts ! and it would contribute  in adding a length to the game but it should remain something optional  .




giving gameplay instance : 


One of the survivors is dead .. there are two gens left and 3 survivors 

These two gens are spaced out on the map so it is hard for killer to gen Rush to try and stop gens from being fixed let's suppose

Killer is the clown 

3 remaining survivors are Nea , Laurie and Feng


Nea and Laurie meet up somewhere kind of secluded and start to perform the ritual animation could be like when the hag draws the symbol on the floor .. 

They draw a circle and stand within and Start reciting some Anti entity spell .. a bar would fill up just like when interacting with objects 

Phase 1 / 2 / 3 

The longer the ritual takes and further the phase .. the entity would reveal nea and laurie's auras for the clown as the Ritual reaches phase 2 the penalty becomes bigger but so does the temporary buff rarity 

When it reaches phase 3 .. a thunder strikes and Their auras would be revealed for 4 seconds or / and They are exhusted and considerably slowed down for a few seconds




And they get a random buff such as these ( example)


Buffs : - 


Immunity to Mangled status effect for 120 seconds
 
Immunity to exposed for 40 seconds 


Gain haste for 30 seconds after being hit by the killer 


Taking Reduced damaged from intoxication 


And so on but it is all random depending on the phase .. phase 2 would give a better and more useful buff than phase 1 and likewise .. 




When does the Buff activates ? 



Triggering of the buff is up to you either you'd want it to trigger right after the ritual completes or with a click of a button 



What happens when the killer catches survivors while performing the rirual ? 


Let's say killer found survivors while the ritual bar is at 50 % to phase 1 and it got interrupted then the ritual would reset 

If survivors completed phase 1 and are let's assume 70 % to phase 2 when they were caught by the killer .. the ritual would deplete back to phase 1 ..

 you could also introduce a penalty the more failed rituals performed if you want to 


I think this would add a unique touch to the game and make the experience more enjoyable 


Let me know what you think and if you like this idea 😁