Freddy Buff
As I watched the 2010 Remake of Nightmare on Elm Street I thought about the constant complaints of Freddy's underpowered state. And I thought of a buff for him that would fit the film he came from and would also had some challenge to the survivors, having to pay attention to avoid being caught. Prior to the climax of the movie Quentin and Nancy discuss "microsleep". Seconds where you suddenly fall asleep, which brings forth a threat to the two protagonists which even at one point allow Nancy to be hurt by Krueger. Imagine this sort of mechanic implemented into Freddy's kit? After a certain amount of time before a survivor falls asleep naturally. Or perhaps this counter only begins after performing actions for a certain amount of time. The character's head would turn to the side as if they were falling asleep, but the survivor can prevent themselves from going to sleep like a "Snap Out of It" action, but the window to do this is incredibly small. And if they fail, they fall asleep. It'd help Freddy be able to track survivors and slow down the game due to survivors having to constantly stop and make sure they don't fall to sleep.
Though it may turn out to be overpowered in practice. It's just something that popped into my mind. I like Freddy due to having a stealth style to his gameplay, which I love doing as you can absolutely terrify unexpecting survivors as killers like the Pig with her stealth. And I hope that more stealth killers are added in the future with even more creative concepts, perhaps the possibility for a disguising Killer to be added; hell, I have a concept in my mind for a third person killer who can pretend to "repair" generators when instead it's regressing the generator drastically, along with them able to vault over pallets and be just as agile and sneaky as survivors. Now THAT sort of killer would cause paranoia, especially if the killer took the appearance of one random survivor in the game.
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You're right, I suggested in another of these Freddy buff post that microsleep would indeed be a cool addition to his kit. I don't want to go into full detail, but I would love it if survivors had three states to be in against Freddy. One awake, two microsleep, third is deep sleep. I had some ideas but never felt like posting them, so meh... Let's just see what comes with the next big update.
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The three states of wake/sleep sound like some of what I was going for on this thread.
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