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More Madness: Survivor Illusions

CoolAKn
CoolAKn Member Posts: 677
in Feedback and Suggestions

I know most people find it annoying to face the Doctor, but the idea behind Madness is to waste the survivor's time, so here are some ideas I had that could further mess with survivor's minds. NOTE: not all of these ideas need to happen. These ideas can either be rejected or improved upon.

  • Madness could affect the survivor portraits. To further fool the survivor, the portraits displaying the status of each survivor may be changed to support these new illusions. Upon realization of the illusion or return to sanity, the portraits return to normal.
  • Fake downed survivors. In a very similar way the survivor can see Doctor Illusions, survivors with sufficient Madness may see a survivor getting downed somewhere on the map.
  • Fake hooked survivors. See an illusion of a survivor hooked.
  • Fake healing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor healing you (with the status bar).
  • Fake repairing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor repairing a generator, but no progress is made. Repairing "with them" will show there is the increased speed, but not in reality. The fake survivors can also "fail" a skill check to make it look like the generator exploded, when it actually didn't.

Comments

  • Kind_Lemon
    Kind_Lemon Member Posts: 2,559
    All of the above sound pretty amazing except for the healing one. The only issue I have is that madness II is currently too easy to get into, and having all of these effects apply in the early game is probably both oppressive and daunting. Therefore, madness should become harder to apply but yeild a greater reward.
  • TheLegendDyl4n1
    TheLegendDyl4n1 Member Posts: 1,493
    edited September 2018

    @CoolAKn said:
    I know most people find it annoying to face the Doctor, but the idea behind Madness is to waste the survivor's time, so here are some ideas I had that could further mess with survivor's minds. NOTE: not all of these ideas need to happen. These ideas can either be rejected or improved upon.

    • Madness could affect the survivor portraits. To further fool the survivor, the portraits displaying the status of each survivor may be changed to support these new illusions. Upon realization of the illusion or return to sanity, the portraits return to normal.
    • Fake downed survivors. In a very similar way the survivor can see Doctor Illusions, survivors with sufficient Madness may see a survivor getting downed somewhere on the map.
    • Fake hooked survivors. See an illusion of a survivor hooked.
    • Fake healing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor healing you (with the status bar).
    • Fake repairing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor repairing a generator, but no progress is made. Repairing "with them" will show there is the increased speed, but not in reality. The fake survivors can also "fail" a skill check to make it look like the generator exploded, when it actually didn't.

    sooooo...... make a already half op killer (if your good at playing him) even worse to go against? i already have to run calm spirit when i only get doctors

  • Orion
    Orion Member Posts: 21,675

    These could make for neat Ultra Rare add-ons, but not as default mechanics.

  • fcc2014
    fcc2014 Member Posts: 4,388

    @CoolAKn said:
    I know most people find it annoying to face the Doctor, but the idea behind Madness is to waste the survivor's time, so here are some ideas I had that could further mess with survivor's minds. NOTE: not all of these ideas need to happen. These ideas can either be rejected or improved upon.

    • Madness could affect the survivor portraits. To further fool the survivor, the portraits displaying the status of each survivor may be changed to support these new illusions. Upon realization of the illusion or return to sanity, the portraits return to normal.
    • Fake downed survivors. In a very similar way the survivor can see Doctor Illusions, survivors with sufficient Madness may see a survivor getting downed somewhere on the map.
    • Fake hooked survivors. See an illusion of a survivor hooked.
    • Fake healing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor healing you (with the status bar).
    • Fake repairing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor repairing a generator, but no progress is made. Repairing "with them" will show there is the increased speed, but not in reality. The fake survivors can also "fail" a skill check to make it look like the generator exploded, when it actually didn't.

    This is really cool and would love to see this in the game.

    @chemical_reject @Vietfox @lyric what do you guys think of this?

  • Vietfox
    Vietfox Member Posts: 3,823
    fcc2014 said:

    @CoolAKn said:
    I know most people find it annoying to face the Doctor, but the idea behind Madness is to waste the survivor's time, so here are some ideas I had that could further mess with survivor's minds. NOTE: not all of these ideas need to happen. These ideas can either be rejected or improved upon.

    • Madness could affect the survivor portraits. To further fool the survivor, the portraits displaying the status of each survivor may be changed to support these new illusions. Upon realization of the illusion or return to sanity, the portraits return to normal.
    • Fake downed survivors. In a very similar way the survivor can see Doctor Illusions, survivors with sufficient Madness may see a survivor getting downed somewhere on the map.
    • Fake hooked survivors. See an illusion of a survivor hooked.
    • Fake healing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor healing you (with the status bar).
    • Fake repairing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor repairing a generator, but no progress is made. Repairing "with them" will show there is the increased speed, but not in reality. The fake survivors can also "fail" a skill check to make it look like the generator exploded, when it actually didn't.

    This is really cool and would love to see this in the game.

    @chemical_reject @Vietfox @lyric what do you guys think of this?

    @fcc2014
    That's much better than the current doctor
  • M4I3X
    M4I3X Member Posts: 25

    @CoolAKn said:
    I know most people find it annoying to face the Doctor, but the idea behind Madness is to waste the survivor's time, so here are some ideas I had that could further mess with survivor's minds. NOTE: not all of these ideas need to happen. These ideas can either be rejected or improved upon.

    • Madness could affect the survivor portraits. To further fool the survivor, the portraits displaying the status of each survivor may be changed to support these new illusions. Upon realization of the illusion or return to sanity, the portraits return to normal.
    • Fake downed survivors. In a very similar way the survivor can see Doctor Illusions, survivors with sufficient Madness may see a survivor getting downed somewhere on the map.
    • Fake hooked survivors. See an illusion of a survivor hooked.
    • Fake healing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor healing you (with the status bar).
    • Fake repairing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor repairing a generator, but no progress is made. Repairing "with them" will show there is the increased speed, but not in reality. The fake survivors can also "fail" a skill check to make it look like the generator exploded, when it actually didn't.

    That suggestion is cool but change 1, 2 and 3 will only nerf solo survivors because SWF survivors can communicate.
    Relating the other two changes, as i understand you want to let it look like you getting healed but how do you want to do that? the seconds thing is, its not the purpose to "force" the survivors .. the purpose is to let the ->real<- person think that's real.

  • lyric
    lyric Member Posts: 611
    fcc2014 said:

    @CoolAKn said:
    I know most people find it annoying to face the Doctor, but the idea behind Madness is to waste the survivor's time, so here are some ideas I had that could further mess with survivor's minds. NOTE: not all of these ideas need to happen. These ideas can either be rejected or improved upon.

    • Madness could affect the survivor portraits. To further fool the survivor, the portraits displaying the status of each survivor may be changed to support these new illusions. Upon realization of the illusion or return to sanity, the portraits return to normal.
    • Fake downed survivors. In a very similar way the survivor can see Doctor Illusions, survivors with sufficient Madness may see a survivor getting downed somewhere on the map.
    • Fake hooked survivors. See an illusion of a survivor hooked.
    • Fake healing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor healing you (with the status bar).
    • Fake repairing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor repairing a generator, but no progress is made. Repairing "with them" will show there is the increased speed, but not in reality. The fake survivors can also "fail" a skill check to make it look like the generator exploded, when it actually didn't.

    This is really cool and would love to see this in the game.

    @chemical_reject @Vietfox @lyric what do you guys think of this?

    I think it would be really cool to play against , I think if you’re truly struck with madness you should at least hallucinate more
  • chemical_reject
    chemical_reject Member Posts: 940
    fcc2014 said:

    @CoolAKn said:
    I know most people find it annoying to face the Doctor, but the idea behind Madness is to waste the survivor's time, so here are some ideas I had that could further mess with survivor's minds. NOTE: not all of these ideas need to happen. These ideas can either be rejected or improved upon.

    • Madness could affect the survivor portraits. To further fool the survivor, the portraits displaying the status of each survivor may be changed to support these new illusions. Upon realization of the illusion or return to sanity, the portraits return to normal.
    • Fake downed survivors. In a very similar way the survivor can see Doctor Illusions, survivors with sufficient Madness may see a survivor getting downed somewhere on the map.
    • Fake hooked survivors. See an illusion of a survivor hooked.
    • Fake healing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor healing you (with the status bar).
    • Fake repairing survivors. See an illusion of a survivor repairing a generator, but no progress is made. Repairing "with them" will show there is the increased speed, but not in reality. The fake survivors can also "fail" a skill check to make it look like the generator exploded, when it actually didn't.

    This is really cool and would love to see this in the game.

    @chemical_reject @Vietfox @lyric what do you guys think of this?

    Yea it does sound cool but a 4 man SWF toxi-squad with voice comms (wink) would negate this by telling each other whether they are really hooked/downed or not