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Will We Ever Get A "Deception"-Based Killer?

Iron_Cutlass
Iron_Cutlass Member Posts: 3,352
edited November 22 in General Discussions

When Legion's trailers and teasers came out, a lot of people thought that they would be a Killer that could disguise themselves like Survivors to get a drop on them, and there is a lot of evidence to suggest that this was the original design intention behind Legion before they were changed for PTB/Live Servers.

Til this day. I dont think I can say we have a "deception"- based Killer that focuses on blending in and disrupting Survivors by making them question which teammates are real or fake, and Id love to see it. Something more in like with an actual shape-shifter.

The issue though is that SWFs can easily use comms to completely shut an idea like this down… but tbh, I dont really care. The idea is cool and would be amazing for a horror-based game, even if it ends up being weak or awful, Id still love to see BHVR give this a chance and see if it works because the idea itself is fun and scary.

Comments

  • ReverseVelocity
    ReverseVelocity Member Posts: 4,606

    Honestly, a disguise killer probably won't be hurt by SWF as much as people think. As long as disguising makes you stealthy, it will always have some value.

    As for Legion, I don't think they were ever intended to be a disguise killer. That's just a misinterpretation of the trailer. The only thing that was majorly changed during development to my knowledge was that Legion would have had a Stalk Mechanic to build up the Frenzy bar, but that was likely axed because it was clunky and Ghostface was right around the corner.

  • Toystory3Monkey
    Toystory3Monkey Member Posts: 895

    Anti solo q and hurt by SWFs.

    We should never get one unless it's purely flavour and has no gameplay purpose.

    It will get old REALLY fast and will be just annoying stealth killer that additionally targets that part of the survivor playerbase that already has it rough and complains about it even rougher.

    If you want amogus experience in DbD - pray they add The Thing or any similar "i infect humans to become like me but hide that" monster and make it somehow infects survivors and they're none the wiser until their own character mutates into The Thing or spews it out because game mech and it kills their friends that had no reason to distrust their actual teammate because there were always 4 of them.