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New GameMode Idea: Maze Escape
We all want a new mode for DBD the most common one being 2 killers vs 8 survivors. I was chatting with some friends last night and they jokingly brought up a maze in DBD and I was like you know what that could be an interesting mode for DBD. It'd be your normal 1v4 gameplay but, in mazes where the Survivor's objective would be to solve puzzles, find switches for secret doors, and Keys to escape.
Survivor Side
Now there's certain killers that require Survivors to do another objective or go find a box or fountain to help yourself those Killers being Nemesis, Wesker, Amanda, Plague, Sadako, and Pinhead.
For the RE killers by default you'll always carry around a spray can or vaccine to help yourself from the infections kinda like Sadako's VHS tapes.
Amanda's beartraps wouldn't be a thing it would only be her crouch
Plague would have many fountains throughout the maze but, would get her corrupt purge after 5 fountains have been used by Survivors as there will be a lot of them out there and you'll get the sprint burst affect when getting injured by her normal vomit.
Sadako's Condemn would be removed as finding a tv when collecting a tape would be rough in a maze
Pinhead's Lament Configuration box would play the same except the timer would extended massivley and if a hunt does start the chains would spawn in a lot less then what they usually do.
As for killers than can insta down you the amount of lives you have will be increased to 5 instead of 3 as being chased by Bubba or Myers and not being able to save yourself very easily with 3 lives would be pretty rough.
As for hooking Survivors you'd still have 3 lives but, the hooks themselves that would get removed completely and instead would work like Pyramid Head's cage and send you to a random location in the maze but, you wouldn't have to wait for someone to come help you instead you'll instantly start to move again and continue on while having the hindered affect for 10 seconds and the Endurance affect for 30 seconds. When the killer gets you on your last life you'll then just be Moried.
Now as for Pallet's and loops? Loops will be gone completely however, there will be some pallets but, not a lot and they would be spread out and loosing the killer would all come down to you trying to escape them with each turn you take in the maze but, that might sound hard to do however, you will not leave scratch marks as it would be pretty easy to track since they'd be all over the walls. The killer would have to track you by your pools of blood howvere while running away you can patch up your wounds to stop the bleeding but, it won't heal you and it'll make your characters grunts more quiet to help get away.
Killer Side
The Killer on the other hand would still have the main objective to kill everyone obviously but, they have different interactions with the maze such as moving Key's around to different locations but, could only carry them for a limited amount of time before dropping them, maybe place a trap on switches or puzzles that'll make them oblivious or some other random affect.
Killers could also have jumpscares spawn randomly around the map to scare one of the Survivors and have there aura revealed for 5 seconds as they get scared from the affect and make a small yell sound similar to Hag's traps when they're set off the Survivors let out a small yell.
Killers will also gain 1 minute of the undetectable status affect if an objective as been completed or after every 3 minutes in the gameto make there prey more scared and unsure where the killer might be.
The Mazes
The mazes themselves could range from the usual small, medium, and large sizes while also having really tall walls and different weather patterns each time ranging from, Snow, Rain, heavy winds and possibly thunder storms. The mazes would also have random chests around the map that would give you a med kit or a flashlight but, objective ones would be a different color rather than your normal brown color ones.
That's basically all I have for this idea some other things would probably need some changes but, this could possibly make DBD go back to a scary game if this ever got added in.
What do you all think of it?