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A radical idea
***The following is a purely skeptical idea for the sake of discussion***
What if the core mechanics of the game were redesigned to allow survivors multiple lives per round and a time limit that forces them to escape before expiring?
why such a change you ask? Here's a better question: how COULD it impact dc's?
Most people agree DC's happen for mostly these reasons: rounds are unfun, they get camped/tunneled into oblivion, they feel they are going to lose anyway, and/or the round is unfairly stacked against them. The concept of multiple lives COULD address several of these issues. Why DC in the first few seconds of getting knocked down when I have 2-3 more lives left in the round? Hook camping and farming off hooks becomes pointless as the survivors can respawn after death and therefore would no longer need a struggle phase (keyboards world wide would rejoice).
Tunneling would also be less rewarding. All a killer needs to do is defend gennies to run out the timer to get a win. If they do tunnel then that survivor can drag it out for multiple lives buying the other survivors time on gens since there's no need for hook rescues.
Mori's would no longer need a hook rescue requirement.
Sabotaging hooks becomes much more important in order to preserve lives possibly adding for new useful character builds beyond the meta.
Killers can get multiple kills to feed their narcissitic lust for dominance.
Are you a lore nut and can't fathom how this would fit? simple. The entity LOVES entertainment. Why watch a survivor die once when you can watch them die multiple times? Worried the entity would get bored? Wouldn't it be interesting if at random times per round the entity could block off gens, windows, or give buffs/debuffs to survivors and killers to make it more amusing for itself? After all, survivors aren't the only ones used as play things for the entity. There could be a series of different ways the game could 'mess' with a round- and it doesn't need to choose just one side either.
Again, these are just ideas for the sake of conversation. Reading through these again though I got to admit it would make for an interesting game mode.
Thoughts? Ideas? ........Complaints of OP?
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That actually could be fun. Maybe its a ball made of chains and spikes???
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I guess we should just give up and never play again then.
Still, maybe other devs out thete see ideas like this and do something about it. Might be a pipe dream but I can hope
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