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Sooo uhhh where are the survivors from the past and the future?
All survivors are like from now....
Plague is ancient, Deathslinger is quite old
With the realm having no time or space constraints, why are their no survivors from the (far) past or heck the future.
Freaking Cyborg killer when btw? because we dont have killers from the future either, what gives?
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future maybe
past can't work
Devs explained survivors from past wouldn't work well in the game since they wouldn't know what a generator is and how to fix it...but all modern survivor apparently know very well how to fix gens
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Maybe they have different worlds for different timelines.
Who knows? The entity works in mysterious ways...
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If normal people can learn to heal themselves with an intense claudette or nancy class... why they can't learn to repair an engine?
I'm sure I could teach Archimedes in a couple days into software programming or basic electronics. There were people capable enough in past ages (real ones), So in fiction it has to be easier to create them xD
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I don't think that's very true considering most of these people's character backgrounds don't have any skills at all that'd make them a mechanic. They're doomed to an eternity of dying and escaping briefly. At some point they learn.
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the logic of that is beyond me, like you said, random people from this time would know how to fix one?
Now to mention that they get into a trial with other survivors who could...ya know...teach them.... man that is some poor logic on the devs part.
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if i remember the quote correctly it's alongside "a caveman would look odd fixing a generator"
I think a survivor from the 50's-60's could work, but I believe devs won't add due to the aesthetics
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Survivors from the present wouldn't look odd removing a curse from a totem? I mean I barely can imagine anyone without a shaman outfit doing it
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well a caveman is barely a perosn anyway.
but there is a LOT of time between a caveman and now.... 1500s 1600s 1700s 1800s heck isnt one of the lore characters basically from something like the 1800s?
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yes, but lore=/= gameplay
Hell acording to the lore the entity appeared because of a cult way long ago, could one of the cult members be a survivor? probably? but probably wouldn't work astheticly, thats the main issue, but who knows, devs said we would never have a clown killer but we do have now
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yes because a Roman Empire esque priest and a huntress who lived in the Russian woods her whole life would know what a gen is
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The only reason is a meta one; the devs have said they want Survivors to be 'relatable' to players and, to them, that means all Survivors have to be from the modern era.
So no cowboys, no cavemen, no androids, no wizards, no futuristic space explorers, no vikings, and, worst of all, no knights.
Because, y'know I'm sure tons of people 'relate' to Shirtless David, P3 Claudette, and Bunny Min; which is obviously the main reason why people play them.
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Huntress hunts because of what her mother thought her.
Plague sacrifices to please her god.
Many killers are under control, and may learn over time that these help their prey.
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Fix Gens 101, on every school!!! LOL
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Isn't Yui from the future?
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Bablyonian, and they don't need to. Most things break or stop working well if treated violently (e.g. a good, hard kick). You don't need to know what a thing is or how it works to know how to break it.
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Nope.
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No, people just thought she was because they misunderstood one of the lines in her lore.
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With the exception of Deathslinger that obviously came during the mass immigration of Irish immigrants to America which happens during the 1840s-1900s which especially solidifies this with the part in this bio about no Irish need apply I'd place everyone between the 1940s due to Nurse and Clown probably being the second oldest because of their clothes and map.
Clown clothes of that nature became increasing popular during that time as it was a way to poke fun at the government encouraging people to but in a hard days work when it was people putting in a hard days work that contributed to the stock marker crash of 1929 that latter led to the great depression which in turn lead to the first REAL talk of depression due to quality of life in America and not just labeling people as melancholy. It was during this time carnivals often set up shop right behind mental wards or in open fields because it was great way to make money in a steady supply. Doctors even wrote prescriptions for clowns. (But this is always what helped inspire Stephen King to write It/Hearing stories of this and he wondered about the psychological torture clowns endured by being forced to be happy every single day and put everyone else first and not their own selves and how they could express this torture. This along with architecture and referrel to Sally as Anglo American (a popular practice in this time to help differentiate from Irish immigrants and their children) puts them into this time frame.
"Youngest" I would say is Zarina because of the tape recorder, her style of dress, and her being Lebanese, what she endured in high school, and over all attitudes towards her culture. Because I'm old enough to know when Dubai was a tourist destination and everyone wanted to go the the middle east because it was exotic and the parties were like nothing else. (Seriously the parties are still this #########. I recently visited and I was drunk for a solid 2 weeks).
But this is assuming DBD actually did their research and didn't just go, oh this looks cool use that. I can post a complete list of everyone'd time era and why if anyone is interested.
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Because they know if they add a cowboy or a viking they would be too cool and no one would play any other character.
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But for real. They can easily say that the entity teaches them what a generator is and how to fix it upon entry.
I mean, how the hell does Jane know how to fix a generator? Or laurie? Or feng min?
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Entity appeared cause of a cult? Is that in the archives?
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If we need a survivor from the future we could add Joosh from Hulu's Future Man :P
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Wasn't Oni from a MUCH older time period?
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but...does that mean I'll never get Warwick Davis's Willow as a survivor?!
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I can barely fix a bike with a messed up chain itd take people from ancient civilizations less time to figure it out than me. Plus with ancient killers, how do they know what a generator does or even is? Look at plague, she comes in and is like ######### IS THIS GARBAGE??!?
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These devs never make sense I swear
A majority of survivors we have now shouldn't know how to repair a gen
Plus if everybody knew how to fix gens couldn't they also teach other survivors how to fix them
At this point I think the devs just don't want to do research
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for oni it's hard to tell and honestly i forgot about him (i never seem him at all).
If I could see his sword it would help place it alot. I would say after the meiji era but that's early 1900s
edit: sorry ends in the early 1900s. it started in 1868.
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Truthfully none of the survivors here with the exception of like 2 or 3 would even know how to repair a Generator.
And that is a weak excuse on there part. The whole thing of the trials is you die or escape over and over until all hope is gone. Over losing after awhile im sure they would figure it out.
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Because being trapped in an endless cycle of time att one location leaves you with NO WAY OR TIME of ever learning a new skill.....
See: Groundhog Day. Murray doesnt go "the ######### is this?". He just spends endless repeated days learning to play piano. Because ######### else are you gonna do.
Thats as good of an excuse as killers "needing to be or have been human", changed to "needing to be humanoid", then implimenting non humanoids and shifting their words/definition to fit. I just think they cant come up with good characters of the times without being super stereotypically boring.
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(Tagging both because they're relevant)
If you want to discuss the placement of Killers timewise, I have an entire thread over in the Lore section (might have to dig for it) dedicated to that if you're interested (I will warn you though, it is pretty long). Someone tried to handle the Survivors too, but they left after Stranger Things.
And Oni is more than likely from the Sengoku period from 1467-1600, given his killing of peasant samurai, who would be banned from even owning swords after this period ended.
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That explanation just screams "laziness." As well as being plain confusing. You mean to tell me that Claudette, who has trouble focusing on almost anything that isn't related to biology, knows how to repair a generator equally as well as Yui, who literally trained herself to do so in order to race? That just makes no sense.
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Generators have been around since 1831, so there could at least be an attempt. Let's get Winston Churchill up in this joint.
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Honestly, just sounds like devs not wanting to put in some extra effort. Lore wise, the gens are constructs of the entity anyway, they bear only a very passing resemblance to a real generator, and are fixed by sticking your hand in, one cylinder at a time. Not exactly realistic for modern engine repair to start with.
If devs were willing to put the effort in, they could very easily just make gens appear as steam generators or water wheels to older Survivors.
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I think you're switching up laziness with a lack of interest. Designing a character to be from 2000 A.D. or 200 A.D. doesn't really require all that much more effort, not any more than they already do for killers.
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I'd be down with a future killer. A Terminator android would a great start
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I always thought that survivors from the past have been thrown into the void.
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Warring era pogchamp , would love to see more killers from a war-like era
Like a Soldier Killer, Knight Killer, or maybe a like a Horde kinda killer (Mongols or Ancient Islamic Soldiers)
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Yeah, from my guess it's probably Sengoku like someone else said, especially since the Meiji Era saw the END of the Samurai and the incorporation of them into the government so
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Blendettes don't know how to fix a gen and they still were chosen...
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I really want a Jack the Ripper chapter with a Victorian woman as a survivor and a Victorian London street as a map. Probably won't happen but one can dream 😔
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I think, based on the lore, any survivor from the past or present would eventually figure it out. They’d just keep dying in the entity’s realm until they learned themselves or through another survivor on what to do.
I would rather keep survivors modern though anyway, would feel a bit silly to see a Knight, Cowboy and IT Technician on a generator together.
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I think the Devs commented once saying they didn’t want futuristic/alien killers since it would look out of place.
Deathgarden is a good place to go if you wanna play as a futuristic killer though haha
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Yep. I was thinking that but it's so hard to tell with Japanese history sometimes because while carrying swords was technically outlawed Samurai those of power and government officials still wielded them under the table hard and that gave way to the yakuza and that whole crime enterprise history. But I could still see that being that era mainly because of the design of the crest and the style of the house in terms of room placement and what not. Also the design of the temple.
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Squire Dwight skin?
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Eh, I think he'd look better dressed as a court jester.
But if it means I can get a Survivor that at least looks like a knight I'll take it.
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I feel this is just because you limit yourself a tad to stereotype representation of time periods,
not to mention we already have a relatively cyber future skin for Kate including a cowboy hat, a cowboy skin for jake, a christmas jester outfit for dwight (I mean he could literally be a jester from medieval times with that look) etc.
And we have skins like the plague-doctor skin for the doctor for example that make him look like he is from the 1700s. We have a literally Cowboy killer and we have the Plague sooo why not some survivors that accompany that time period.
With all the skins that already make it seem like characters are from different time periods...why not right?
Personally I feel its rather lore breaking that the entity keeps picking survivors from the here and now.
Not to mention it being rediculous to think we cant relate to characters from other time periods or pure fiction, what about all the movies we watch that are about different time periods? can we not relate to characters from Game of Thrones? from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? from 2001 A Space Oddesy? from games like Assassins Creed? or high fantasy like Lord of the Rings?
I completely get some things would be rather silly to have, like an astronaut in full suit running around, but it does not have to be that to be from the future or the past....
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