If they were to reskin Hawkins, what would you want it to be?

MeltingPenguins

If the devs were to reskin hawkins to make it into a map for one of the existing original killers, what would you prefer they do with it?

MyNamePete

Hellshire Prison (Deathslinger)

I think a prison map would be so cool idk why.

QwQw

Music Studio/Concert Venue (Trickster)

I think if they got rid of the ceiling in some parts of the map and added some other cool stuff, "Hawkins" could become the best indoor map.

alaenyia

Other

Since Pinhead isn't getting a map, how about Hell from the movie.

Fobbo

I would like to see these maps as new maps and not reskin

ZaroktheImmortal

Why would you reskin Hawkins? That map is terrible. Few vault points and pallets. Very open. So small it's easy for killers to track all the gens and tunnel at the same time.

[Deleted User]

Other

Resident evil map

Seiko300

Catacombs of Paris (Twins)

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/275136/if-they-were-to-reskin-hawkins-what-would-you-want-it-to-be

I'm not gonna lie- you came up with ideas that I hadn't even possibly pondered in a million years and I love every single poll option here- absolutely welcome additions in order to preserve the layout of the map and the gameplay that is so specific to Hawkins.

After thinking about all of them though, I really do think the idea of the Catacombs of Paris fits MORE than perfectly here. I can imagine torches lining up against the walls highlighting skulls and various bones and different parts of skeletons inlaid into the walls. The square rooms themselves within the map could be translated extremely well as just more rooms and places to hold the overflowing amount of skulls and bones, or could even be tombs that are lined with coffins along the side.

It's also even MORE perfect because Hawkin's is one of the few maps that introduced a brand new animal (or construction / recreation of an animal depending on how you see the lore) into the realms of the Entity: The Rats. The Catacombs of Paris are a PERFECT place to preserve the rats that are found in Hawkins, Paris was hit particularly hard by "the Black Death" (the Bubonic Plague) and the cause of it was none other than the rats (technically fleas that the rats carried around). Although the Twins themselves are a few hundred years removed from this period of time, rats are still very iconic and recognizable creatures when it comes to places like catacombs and of course specifically in relation to Paris France.

A little bit of my motivation to pick this option over the others also comes because I just recently finished A Plague Tale: Innocence, which heavily features France and these types of settings during that time period of 1348 smack dab during the black plague.

I'm also thinking of AC Unity and it's Dead Kings expansion DLC as well, and thinking about how unique the Catacombs areas were for certain missions.

These enclosed, medieval subterranean areas and settings simply seem like the perfect place to breathe new life in Hawkins Underground Lab Complex after it's gone.

But again, I would so very happily accept nearly any one of the poll options and I love how well tailored and thoughtful they are in terms of the stories of the killers.

• The Hellshire Penitentiary (prison) sounds great
• A secret 19th century lab that belonged to Talbot Grimes sounds like it really preserves the mystery of the place- in the 80s people were always wondering what went on inside the Lab and what experiments the government was doing so a pretty good way to preserve that theme and air of mystery.
• I've always wanted to see more floors from the Lery's memorial Institute, and I've always had a headcanon that what we see in game is just the ground floor, and I've always wondered what the 2nd floor, third floor, or even the basement of such a facility might look like. And I have no doubt they would also have "off campus" places as well, maybe the Mortuary is a completely separate location where bodies are shipped.
• I like the idea of the abandoned mine for many of the same reasons I like the idea of the catacombs, the aesthetic would just be different and instead of a place of burial and that reeks of an overwhelming amount of death, you could tailor the map to be a bit more of that scary "being trapped in an abandoned mineshaft" kind of aesthetic, with little railways going through the map, mine-carts that carry coal, ore, and other things and all that.
• The hardware store made me laugh and honestly, I would be totally open to it.

The only one I'm a bit on the fence about is the music studio / concert venue- just because I've always imagined if they ever revisited the Trickster to give him a new map, it'd be on the Streets of Korea so to speak. An urban cityscape map that we've never seen anything of it's kind before in Dead By Daylight, because that's how the lobby looked at the time of All Kill's chapter release. And if Hawkins was going to be re-dressed up as anything, I'm not sure how I'd feel about it being a place of Dressing rooms, costumes, props, and make-up, sound / recording equipment, etc. When there are just so many other ideas that seem a lot more fitting to me given the map layout, what it used to be, and what it should be turned into.

Of course I would still take it and it'd probably be pretty cool / decent , but I really do just adore most of the other options in the poll and many of them are well past "decent" they sound goddamn amazing.

Sackboy123

Abandoned 19th century laboratory (Blight)

Alchemist's Lab seems the most possible, less work to having to reskin and change the whole map. ALso they could edit it massively so if Stranger Things did make a return we won't get duplicate maps

Scary_Punk_Ghost

Other

I would love if they keep a lab map but rework it so it doesn't belong to the ST universe anymore

AhoyWolf

Hardware Store (Ghostface)

A small price to pay to have a chance to get Carl.