Killer concept: The Photographer

The Photographer

Backstory bits:

• the photographer always wanted to make pictures of models for the top magazines or for the big commercials but was always considered a freak, models did not want to work with him
• needed to make money for a living so started as a crime scene photographer
• started to get obsessed with the crime scenes, got ideas how to make them „better“, started first to manipulate the crime scenes.
• someday coming across one of the models, he just needed to make a perfect crime scene with her as a model...

Power: Photography

When clicking the button to activate his photocamera, the photographer will make a picture and everthing that is moving in a radius of x meter around him will stand still:

gens can’t be worked on, lockers can’t be opened (even when a survivor is in it), pallets can’t be thrown (edit: like that Blight Hex perk, which was introduced later) etc. Survivors will be stuck for a very short amount of time but then can immediately run again and vault, but can’t interact with something that needs to be moved (gens, lockers, chests. The Killer can’t interact with those either, so no breaking pallets, searching lockers etc. Additionally survivors in the terror radius get shortly blinded like from a flashlight. This power is on a cooldown.

Perk 1: Say ‚cheese‘

You know when exactly you need to take the shot, if the model is not prepared and gets blinded by the flashlight, it’s not your fault. Or is it?

Hitting a survivor will blind them for a very short time/makes them see stars/flickering lights or making them somewhat dizzy like clowns potions.

Perk 2: Group picture

Everyone should assemble for a group picture and be seen on it, yes even the shy guy that stands a little off by the bushes.

While chasing one survivor, you can see the auras of survivors within x meters of that chased survivor.

Perk 3: Perfect crime scene

You have an eye for the perfect scene. Nobody moves when you say it until you have captured that moment.

A downed survivor can not crawl for x seconds. The survivor can still heal up.

My other concepts (Feedback and suggestions always welcome):

Killers: The Ice Queen, Hannibal, Charlie(The Darkness), The Blair Witch, The Firebreather, The Photographer

Survivors: Aria Morrison, Lukas Schmidt, Paitoon Saeli

Survivor Items: Piece of Chalk, Pocket Knife, Walkie Talkies, Lighter, Water Bottle, Sling Shot, Spray Paint Cans, Salt Pouch, Smoke Bomb, Voodoo Doll, Smudge Sticks

Game mechanics: Expanded survivor objectives, Exhaustion Rework, Spiderwebs