So..........why pallets?

Sandt21
Sandt21 Member Posts: 761
in General Discussions

I'm not asking why pallets are even in the game. Survivors need some kind of defense against killers. So the Devs needed to come up with something the survivors could drop in front of them to force the killers to do something that would allow survivors to make some distance between them. My question is, why were pallets chosen as that thing? I can't think of any type of horror media were a pallet was used for something of this nature. I'm just curious as to the Devs thought process on this one.

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  • Aurelle
    Aurelle Member Posts: 3,611

    I think they were going to use bookshelves originally, but then they decided on wooden pallets. Not sure why, though.

  • GoodBoyKaru
    GoodBoyKaru Member Posts: 22,938

    Originally, they were going to be bookshelves; I don't know why pallets were chosen specifically, but fun fact.

  • Mooks
    Mooks Member Posts: 15,082
    edited February 2022

    I guess pallets are pretty neutral and fit in better in diverse maps/settings. Especially in the way they are standing around, anything else -like the bookshelves- would probably look weird in those tiles..

  • dugman
    dugman Member Posts: 9,714

    I swear there must be a scene of a survivor in a horror movie dropping a wooden pallet in front of a killer, but for the life of me I can't find one on Google. 🤷‍♂️

  • Lx_malice
    Lx_malice Member Posts: 1,417
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2826782#Comment_2826782

    Ever patrolling on killer minding your own business when all of a sudden you walk past a pallet being camped by a sneaky survivor and they slam that ######### on your head wwe style? Scary stuff.

  • Thusly_Boned
    Thusly_Boned Member Posts: 3,441
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2826800#Comment_2826800

    Other than going against a good scratched mirror Myers, this is the only other consistent source of jumpscares for me, lol

  • Mr_K
    Mr_K Member Posts: 10,411
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2826800#Comment_2826800

    Yes

  • APoipleTurtle
    APoipleTurtle Member Posts: 1,274

    I think the main consideration was that they're a relatively generic object with a basic shape.

    While you wouldn't exactly expect to find a pallet in the woods, it's not exactly super out-of-place there either (especially since DbD's pallets kinda just look like discarded scrap wood). More importantly, the whole generic-ness of them allowed pallets to remain consistent across all maps in the game, which was probably important to the devs. The bright colors probably also help new players with finding them.

    Pallets also fit with the warped-industrial aesthetic that DbD uses for a lot of standardized objects too (including gens, hooks, and exit gates).