Freddy needs help! Some ideas?!
I started playing this game earlier this year and Freddy has been my favorite killer to this point. His ability is fun to use and chasing people in the dream world is enjoyable enough to play him but his add-ons are underwhelming and a long dream transition give him a hard time.
I would be okay with the long transition time into the dream world IF it would actually pay off to get people in there. While class photo seems to be a great add-on survivors get out of dream world way too quickly. As soon as you go to chase other survivors to draw them into your nightmares, the survivor you initially casted your dream spell on is already on a gen to snap out of it - so what is the use of class photo? You gain vision which is extremely powerful but the drawback is too high to capitalize on it. Add-ons which decrease skillcheck chances sound nice but are not good enough (same goes for power range).
The only good addons are the cubes which reduce transition time (boring) and pill bottle/paint brush. Paint thinner can be okay.
There are great ideas and a lot of potential in his add-ons and they sound great on paper like further decreasing action speed, penalizing for being in the dream world for a second time etc. but I feel like they aren't working out well enough in a real game.
Survivors should feel the urge of getting out of Freddy's nightmare other than "oh no I'm being seen. where's the next generator? oh wait, I have self-heal".
So here are my thoughts (if anyone cares lol)
-remove the fog for freddy, add flurrying ash particles instead (because he died in fire) or
-keep fog but only on the very low ground to make it feel like you are in a dream world (add color?)
dream transitioning:
-reduced to 5 seconds
-survivors outside of freddy's terror radius hear the lala-song for the duration of the transition
-survivors are interrupted from healing, repairing, unhooking, unlocking etc. until they enter the dream state
in dream world:
-Survivors' auras are no longer revealed if outside of Freddy's teerror radius
-survivors lose 1% movement speed and 25% action speed, having more than 1 survivor in the dream state multiplies the effect with X (total survivors in dream state)
-while dreaming survivors see already used pallets as still usable (disappear if within 8 meter range), completed generators are off and have 0% progression, cannot see other survivors who are in the real world (but can be seen by survivors who are awake)
waking up:
-after being unhooked by a team mate
-after being healed from dying state to injured state
-performing a "Wake-up" action on a dreaming survivor wakes him/her up
-failed skillchecks on generators wake up ("completed" generators in the dream world do not start)
-"Vigil" allows you to perform the "Wake Up" action on other dreaming survivors with 25% of the normal speed
-Afer the exit gates are powered "Hope" and "Adrenaline" automatically wake you up
Some add-on ideas:
All transition time reducing add-ons are removed
"Sheep Block": Survivors in the dream world suffer from the "Hemorrhage" effect if injured
"Cat Block": Survivors in the dream world suffer from the "Exhaustion" effect for 30 seconds
"Unicorn Block": Survivors in the dream world suffer from the "Mangled" effect if injured
Replacing Black Box => "You are all my children now":
-You become obsessed with one survivor
-The obsession cannot be put into the dream world unless she/he is the last remaining survivor
(or all other survivors are dead/hooked)
-Failed generator skillcheck don't wake survivors up
-When the exit gates are powered all survivors wake up
"Welcome to prime time"
-After hooking a survivor other survivors don't face skill checks for the next 60 seconds
-Once the exit gates are powered all survivors in the dream world are visible to Freddy for 5 seconds
"Reoccuring Nightmare"
-Each time a survivor is pulled into the dream world the transition time is reduced by 0.25 seconds (up to 2 seconds)
Numbers definately need tweaks but I think this would make Freddy more of a real nightmare and more relevant throughout the game. What are your thoughts on it? What are your ideas? I hope the devs will change Freddy soon as he is been out for like a year now and in a pretty terrible shape.