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Ideas for new game mode(s)

YaBoiTanis
YaBoiTanis Member Posts: 23

Dead By Daylight, a fun game where you can choose between the terrifying killer or the helpless survivors. But sometimes after a while things can become bland. Sure the archives are a nice addition but there needs to be a little more something to spice things up. What can that be you ask? Why a new mode of course, and I have some ideas for some. It's gonna get lengthy so buckle up and hold on.


Story Mode: An offline, over-the-shoulder camera view, single player mode where we can dive into the world of The Entity and witness first hand the horrors from a new perspective. Each chapter would serve as what it is, a chapter. You start off with the four original survivors to choose from and with each chapter you complete, you gain a new choice, a new location, and a new threat. No perks, no items, no looping. Your only option is to hide and not get caught. While still maintaining the goal of generator repair, the gameplay will work similar to other horror games, Outlast for example, where the killer is controlled by AI and is relentlessly hunting you down etc. Each survivor will have their own unique experiences from the very beginning to the moment they were taken to the realm of The Entity. This mode will be found in the archives.


2 vs 8 Mode: A casual mode where, as the name implies, there are two killers and eight survivors. Every perk is unlocked for all survivors and killers but there some rules and regulations to them and items which I can get into but I'll save it for a different discussion. Generators take longer to complete due to the amount of survivors. To make sure this mode doesn't overlook the normal one, archive challenges cannot be completed, you do not earn bloodpoints, your player level isn't affected, and is only open for a certain amount of time (maybe 4 hours and closes for 2). This mode will always be active in Kill Your Friends.


Blackjack/21 Mode: Now this was done first by Identity V but it would be pretty fun to have it here. Basically in this mode, everyone selects their survivor and their killer. At the beginning of each round, The Entity or The Archivist (Ripper for IdV) will give everyone a playing card. Whoever has the highest number in the first round becomes the killer. The survivors can work on gens to gain tokens which can be used to purchase cards from dispensers, which replace hooks, that can help them or screw over another player. Killers can gain tokens from downing a survivor and once a killer picks up a downed survivor, they can force them to take a card from their hand and end that round. Whoever has the highest hand becomes the next killer and this goes on until players exceed 21. If anyone does exceed 21 by the end of a round they are permanently out and can only spectate. If a survivor player has 21 in their hand, their aura will be shown to all the other players and will automatically win if they aren't caught by the end of the round timer. Once it reaches the final two players, the one who is closest to 21 wins. There are no perks, no items/add-ons other than the purchasable ones, certain killer abilities are disabled, and all survivors are one shot but can exceed the heal limit when they are downed. What'll make this version different from the IdV version is that before the match begins everyone can bet bloodpoints which will pool together as the prize for winning the game. This mode doesn't affect your player level and much like 2 vs 8 can only be accessed for a certain amount of time but can always be played in Kill Your Friends.


What do you all think? Are these good ideas? Let me know down below.

Ideas for new game mode(s) 15 votes

Story Mode
33%
kodiakyNEVELEVEN11SebaOutbreakQuitBitching30GhostfaceLoveCookies 5 votes
2 vs 8
66%
Hail_to_the_KingBlade92Walker_of_the_fog_96TaigaAhoyWolfkaratinac97XxBenzoatexXAzgarthusRanger_939SirCracken 10 votes
Blackjack/21
0%