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Killer/Chapter Idea: Boiling Heart [Criticism, suggestions and feedback of all kind welcome]
To start things off, I'd like to say that I don't have that many hours on this game so I am not very DBD savvy and thus there's a big chance the perks or the power are too similar to already existing ones. I've tried my best to make sure they are not but it is possible that they are still off balance or too similar, so I appreciate all feedback.
This idea of mine is over a year old but I think it's interesting nonetheless. It actually originated as a sort of crack idea, I was just thinking "There's a nurse and there's a doctor, what's missing is a medical assistant" and then I decided to make one. The artwork is old and done quickly so it isn't very nice but I believe it can suffice for the time being.
KILLER:THE ASSISTANT
Name: Cináed Heffernan
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Irish
Map: Baintsíde hospital
Power: Sizzling Fire: The ground around the Assistant boils and blisters like his skin. Press M2 to activate Sizzling Fire. Survivors within range of Sizzling Fire get burned. Get a token for each time you burn a survivor, upon gaining 3 tokens, survivors who get burned instantly lose one health state. Upon gaining 5 tokens, insta-down survivors using Sizzling Fire. Sizzling Fire can be activated once every 40 seconds and has a circular range. (Power cooldown time can be reduced with add-ons, same goes for the number of tokens needed)
Perks:
- High Expectations: Always critical of yourself and critical of others, you have high expectations. Survivors in the injured state are faced with moderately/highly/tremendously difficult skill checks on all tasks. Survivors who fail healing skill checks while this perk is active become momentarily exposed. "High expectations can either make or break you."
- Cheater's Charisma: Your charisma renders all defenseless. After hooking a survivor, your terror radius becomes 0 meters and the crows are unalerted to your presence for 8/10/15 seconds. "Whether you are a trained professional or a street beggar, Baintsíde hospital is the place for you!" - a hiring poster of the Baintsíde hospital
- Child's Heartbeat: The heartbeat of laughing children fills you with burning rage. When a generator becomes completed, hear the heartbeat of survivors who were working on it upon its completion when within 30/42/50 meters of them for 15/25/40 seconds, intensifying with closer proximity to the survivor/s. "Aaah, the laughter of children...How repulsive" - Cináed H.
Weapon: razor-stethoscope
Lore: Cináed was a man born to wealthy parents who had impossibly high expectation for their first and only son. Becoming a surgeon was the only way to sate these bizarre dreams of his parents, however, although gifted with cleverness, Cináed never bothered to study and cheated his whole life wherever he could, using his charisma and cunning behaviour instead. During his time in college, he got into a fight, which earned him a permanently damaged eye, thus rendering him unable to achieve his goal of becoming a surgeon. He landed a job at the Baintsíde maternity hospital as a medical assistant. Somewhere along the lines, he met his future wife Brónach, a quiet and shy but still outgoing librarian. Heffernan’s family forbid him from seeing her as she was poor and was raised by a single mother, both of which would tremendously damage the status of the Heffernans if Cinaed were to marry her. With a choice before him, he forsook his family, marrying Brónach two years later. As with all things, their happiness, at its peak when Brónach got pregnant, came to an end in the delivery room, where, due to complications, both his wife and his child died. Alone and broken, he continued to see happiness in Baintsíde on the faces of others only to feel sorrow and emptiness in his heart. With nobody to talk to, Cináed finally decided to commit an act of envy of monstrous proportions, setting the whole hospital ablaze with himself inside in hopes of making all feel as empty as he did, forever.
REALM: BAINTSÍDE MATERNITY HOSPITAL
Lore: An infamous place. A barely functioning place. Very old place. Those are all sentences synonymous with Bainsíde maternity hospital famous for its willingness to hire anybody right off the street. It used to be a place for the poor, for the beggars and those on the run, its journey, however, ended when a member of the staff, seemingly out of his mind, brutally murdered every single one of the infants staying at Baintsíde. In the burned down estate, they found everything except for the perpetrator of the heinous act. It is said that in the night you can still hear the wailing cries of the were-to-be mothers.
Map: Ashen Reception
Size: About 9 980 m2
Description: The Ashen Reception is an interior map not unlike the Treatment Theatre mostly dark in nature, its colour scheme consisting of greys and browns. The basement usually appears in "the office," stairs beginning behind a work desk.
EDIT: SURVIVOR: Fuad El Asif
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Egyptian
Perks:
- Helicopter Medic: You've learned that there is never time to spare. When within 33 meters of a hooked survivor, your running speed becomes 110%/120%135% of your normal running speed. After 30 seconds causes Exhaustion lasting 50/40/20 seconds. "Seconds are the difference between life and death" - Fuad El Asif
- Determination: Your own doom fills you with care. In the injured state, rescue survivors and heal 50%/65%/90% faster, additionally gain 25% more bloodpoints for actions in the altruism category. "If you're the only one who can do it, you have to do it." - Fuad El Asif
- Rule of the beasts: wip, so far two possible versions exist: 1) You refuse to sink to their level. When posing as a protection, it takes one additional hit to put you into the dying state. 2)Sometimes, eye for an eye is the only option. Your stun last 0.5/1/1.5 seconds longer. "Violence for violence is the rule of the beasts" - Fuad El Asif
Lore: wip
Comments
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I like the character idea it would be the first time a killer would have a token system for a power.
High expectations kind of confuses me by why does it have to be in an injured state to have the exposed status when they are 1 shot anyway? Maybe their aura is seen every time they fail and are exposed too. It can be like 'Always critical of yourself and critical of others, you have high expectations. Survivors are faced with moderately/highly/tremendously difficult skill checks on all tasks. Survivors who fail skill checks while this perk is active become momentarily exposed and aura is seen for 3/4/5 seconds' This doesnt have to be this way but just an idea.
I like how the other perks are. I don't personaly think they need to be changed and I love his lore. Hope to see more!
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Thank you for the feedback! I made the perk like that because I thought it might be too OP otherwise. I will take your thoughts into account and most likely change the perk as you suggested. 😊
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Can you explain what the radius is like for Sizzling fire please?
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Sizzling Fire is circular in nature and, uh, about 10 meters in radius, maybe? I am extremely terrible at estimating distance, is 10 meters too much/not enough?
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10 meters is about the killer standing at the top of the steps to the basement and you standing at the landing in front of them
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I'd say 8 meters if its in a circular radius.
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It doesn't have to be that way. You don't have to change it. If you don't want it op it can be a token system too. If a survivor makes (?) failed skill checks the perk activates. The survivor's aura is seen for (?) Seconds and is exposed. Or the aura doesn't have to be seen. However if you like your original perk idea you don't need to change it.
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8 meters it is then. Thank you for the feedback and suggestion!
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No, it's okay. I wanted suggestions and feedback and yours is very good.
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