http://dbd.game/killswitch
New Addition To Streamer Mode
Streamer mode has been amazing and has helped provide people with a wider amount of options that more perfectly suit their needs. For the survivor side I think they're mostly complete but for the killer side there's actually 1 feature potentially missing;
When killers stream, this causes their build to be visible to any survivor stream-sniping after they have died, which allows them to easily reveal the add-ons and builds of the killer. Therefore, there is 1 more potential feature we could add as a separate option that can be turned on or off and that is:
- Hide Add-Ons and Perks on screen during the match and replace them with a generic icon. Your own perks and addons are also hidden in your own perk endgame screen
Currently, the only way streamers can do this is by manually going into the game files and creating their own perk icon theme, as some streamers do. This of course is very user-unfriendly and may even violate the TOS.
Therefore, making it possible to replace your addons and perk icons behind a generic icon that only reveals itself once all survivors are dead will make such a thing way more accessible for anyone interested in it.
This will mainly make it way friendlier for streamers to prevent dead survivors from gaining stream-sniping knowledge on them during the match.
Is this system perfect? Of course not, but that is not the point! Surely, whenever there are things, like a Trickster's increased knife count, such things would still reveal itself even if the add-ons were covered during certain parts of the match, and truly hiding all such info would make this job way more complex. But it's not the point to be perfect, but to simply help massively restrict the accessibility of this info during the active match to hide it from the streamsniping player, preventing them from having access to this info in most cases where it mattered.
All that would be needed for this separate option for streamer mode would be a generic icon for addons and a generic icon for perks, which will only replace itself with the real icons once all survivors died. (Which is at the end of the match), and I believe streamer mode would be perfectly solid!