New Killer Idea - CUJO - THE DOG

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New Killer – The Dog

Lore

A once loyal and gentle Saint-Bernard, Cujo became infected with disease after an encounter with a bat. The disease manifested itself in the dog, causing the massive beast to lose his good judgement and become a wild, relentless creature only focused on killing to appease the pain in its head. He then turned loose on his owners and anyone unfortunate enough to get in his way. After killing 4 people, the dog vanished into the woods, following a voice that soothed the burning within its head, never to be seen again.

Appearance / stats:

Cujo is a giant saint Bernard, standing at slightly shorter than survivors’ height (so about hag height) when on all fours. When Cujo is standing up on his hind legs to hook a survivor he is about 7 feet tall.

Cujo’s face is lightly covered in blood and cuts, and his fur is muddy and matted. He has foam at the mouth and red glowing eyes. (entity enhanced)

Height: short

Movement speed: 115%

Terror radius: 32 metres

Cujo’s pattering footsteps can be heard loudly as well as a low growling/rumbling and the clinking of his collar. This is to offset the fact that he has normal movement speed despite being a short killer.

Weapon: Monstrous bite

Instead of a weapon visible onscreen, the camera is set in Cujo’s mouth, similar to the game Natural Selection 2, with his top and bottom jaws being visible (opaquely when not in use) on the borders of the screen. When the player attacks, Cujo chomps down violently with a snap. Successful hits cause Cujo to bark and spit foam from his mouth.

Animations:

The problem with a character like Cujo is that he would be difficult to animate being a quadruped and low to the ground, however his sheer size overcomes this by keeping his visibility and camera. He therefore plays and animates simply like any other killer, but just walking on all fours.

- Vaulting: Cujo sits back on his haunches and leaps through the window

- Pallet breaking: Cujo rams his head on the pallet, stumbles back, and rams it again

- Damaging generators: Same animation as pallet, alternatively he stands on two legs and bats the gen with his massive paws.

- Closing hatch: Cujo stands on his hind legs and brings his weight and front paws down on the hatch

- Carrying: Cujo carries survivors in his mouth, with them dangling about a foot off the ground

- Hooking: Cujo stands up on his hind legs and simply pushes the survivor onto the hook.

- Opening lockers: Cujo Rams his nose into the crack in the door and violently turns his head to open each door. Upon seeing a survivor, he growls, jumps up and bites them on the shoulder, picking them up.

Abilities:

Rabid beast:

Has 2 aspects to it: a passive and power button ability.

Passive: Rabies

- Cujo’s basic attacks apply a stack of Rabies to survivors, up to 7 stacks.

- Lose 2 stacks when hooked or hit with Senseless charge.

- Survivors can cure rabies by interacting with pools of antiseptic saliva, dropped by Cujo as he moves and interacts.

o 1 stack- survivors gain a 1% decrease to all action speeds

o 3 stacks- 3% action penalty and survivors’ blood, scratches and grunts are more noticeable.

o 5 stacks – 5% action penalty and become visible as an aura during senseless charge.

o 7 stacks – 7% action penalty, also gain broken status affect

Power Button (M2): Senseless charge

“As the burning in its rabid brain grows, the mad beast decides to slam its head into anything it can find to help ease the pain.”

- Cujo channels for 1 second before breaking out into a running charge, Similar to hillbilly’s but much slower (picture a speed a bit faster than cloaked wraith). Running into a survivor injures them and stuns Cujo for 3 seconds.

- Takes 4 seconds to slow to a halt when ability is cancelled unless hitting a survivor / object.

- Can leap over vaults or pallets during charge, will end charge after landing (can still damage).

Mori

Cujo faces the survivor before barking at them. They attempt to flee before being clamped on the ankle, downed and dragged backwards. Cujo then leaps onto their back, grabbing their neck and shaking it around in his mouth before letting go.

Perks

All bark AND bite:

- After hitting a survivor, gain sight of all other survivors for 1/2/3 seconds, however, weapon reload animation slows are 20% longer. (60 second cooldown)

Selective predation:

- The last survivor to finish a generator suffers from the EXPOSED status effect for 3/5/8 seconds. (120 second cooldown)

Olfactory sense:

- Survivors that exit a chase leave a scent trail for 5/10/15 seconds that lingers in the air visibly for the killer when they move in any way. 60 second cool down.

Add-ons

Common:

1. Dirty water bowl – slightly decreases time coming into/out of Senseless charge
2. Worn Leather collar- slightly increases turning radius of Senseless charge
3. Rotten carcass – slightly decrease stun time of Senseless charge.
4. Mouldy dog food – survivors passively gain rabies for spending long amounts of time in his terror radius.

Uncommon:

1. Rusty metal collar – moderately increases turning radius of Senseless charge.
2. Torn chew toy – Survivors Moderately gain rabies when spending time within his terror radius
3. Foamy saliva – moderately decreases time into/out of Senseless charge.
4. Mangled cat – moderately decreases stun of senseless charge
5. Worn tennis ball – Moderately increases movement speed in Senseless charge.

Rare:

1. Spiked collar – Considerably increases turning radius of Senseless charge
2. Fresh rabbit carcass- Gain an extra stack of Rabies from successful attacks.
3. Destroyed door – Considerably increases time in/out of Senseless charge.
4. Muddy footprint – Considerably increases movement speed of Senseless charge.
5. Regurgitated remains- Considerably decreases antiseptic saliva drops

Very Rare:

1) Dog muzzle – Tremendously increases movement speed of Senseless charge

2) Joe Camber’s corpse - Tremendously decreases stun of Senseless charge

3) Red mucus – Tremendously decreases septic saliva drops

4) Dirt pile – Tremendously decreases time in/out of Senseless charge

Ultra-Rare:

1. Rabid Bat – Survivors Tremendously gain rabies within his terror radius, Survivor’s are now visible for 1 second when reaching each stack. Considerably increases drop of antiseptic saliva.
2. Splintered handle – Senseless charge now insta-downs any survivor with 3 stacks of rabies, using up all stacks. However rabid auras are no longer shown.

Cosmetics

Default

Prestige – Bloody (with mucus on mouth and eyes too)

Unchained – Wrapped in a chain around his body, large metal collar

Muddy – Fur is matted and covered in dark mud.