What kind of killer would you like in DBD and why?

I would love to see some obviously missing tropes in horror, especially more non-humans. I want a werewolf quite badly. But, overall, I would like to see more OCs, because they generally have a wider range of cosmetics and originality to them. A scarecrow would be cool, I know there's a couple of scarecrow-ish vanity items, but not an actual character. I think it would be neat if there were more than a few of them posted about the map near gens and survivors wouldn't be able to know which, exactly, was the killer's active one or whatever. I also think it would be very neat to have a killer who's power is hindering survivors when they're looking at them. I think it would shake up the chase scene.

I posted a comment going through all the different sub-genres of horror that I could think of and listing how they were or were not represented in DBD. Without going through all of them there are a few genres that are distinctly lacking in Dead By Daylight, which is odd considering Dead By Daylight is supposed to be this amalgamation of horror under the overarching slasher umbrella that encapsulates it all.

Sci-Fi Horror. This is the most peculiar because it's one of the most significant and influential kinds of horror - tracing all the way back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein which was originally first published in 1818, and since then has spawned so many other stories of Mad Scientists, Experiments gone wrong, Aliens landing on earth to kidnap or kill humans, etc. Yet there is not a single chapter that distinctly and clearly covers this genre. (Stranger Things does not count. It takes place in the 80s and makes constant reference to D&D [Dungeons & Dragons] to explain the otherworldly things that appear in the show like the Upside Down and the Demogorgon. Fight me)

Potential recommendations: The Xenomorph (Alien), The Thing (1982), The Predator.

Holiday Horror. It's an interesting concept to take Holidays which are usually bright and cheerful moments in most peoples lives, to flip it upside down to turn it into something dark and sinister. It is technically represented in Dead By Daylight through Michael Myers, since the whole franchise centers around the holiday of Halloween, but halloween is way too easy and simple to tie to horror. Even if it did count, it would still only make one chapter out of now 16 (not to mention the paragraphs) and DBD can do this genre better than that, I'd be satisfied with even just one or two more chapters to represent this genre and cement it into DBD.

Potential recommendations: Anything to do with Christmas would be the go to, so movies like Krampus or Black Christmas could be viable options to look toward. Other than this there's also My Bloody Valentine which is a pretty cool license in its own right that not many people know or talk about, which centers around Valentine's Day.

Gothic Horror. A very traditional form of horror that many people know about and much like Sci-Fi Horror has some pretty deep roots in terms of horror history, it's unique in that it usually sports otherworldy or older more vintage settings, and there's typically a romantic element to it. An argument can be made it does exist in DBD because the Deathslinger was directly inspired from Stephen King's The Dark Tower book series, which are gothic writings. However, that feels like a one foot in, you're only halfway there, kind of deal and again a single chapter for such a broad genre.

Potential recommendations: there aren't many licenses to look forward to here so we're mostly discussing original concepts. A few I want to mention are maybe a Disgraced french Nobleman with a Rapier, or a Vampire or Werewolf who slaughtered their beloved.

Obligatory don't forget about the big 3: Pennywise, Candyman, and Pinhead.

I love the dark tower, but I wouldn't even be able to guess how you could implement Dandelo into the game. What would you do, a channel ability where you perform silent stand up? The King was a lackluster let-down. He pretty much ended up just shrieking and throwing stuff and was taken out by the power of colored pencils and autism. Why not someone far more interesting, like Marten or the man in black, or RF? Actually, I think the best candidate would be Mordred. Either way the dark tower is probably too obscure for people to get into, although it shouldn't be, it's great.

Also, imagine if Roland did show up, what with the Gunslinger being on the killer roster. Awkward.

Just for funsies, cooking up a killer concept on the spot:

THE WITCH-

Special Power: Sanguis Venari-

Press and hold ability button to charge and activate Sanguis Venari. While active, the Witch's gains Undetectable, slows to 100% and all survivors outside of 16m are indicated with Killer Instinct and given a notification that Sanguis Venari has been activated.

Keeping a survivor's Killer Instinct marker within your focus (This would be a smallish circle in the center of your screen while in SV) will charge a meter. Once full, press the active ability button to activate Malicious Intent. Once Malicious Intent is activated, both the Witch and her target will be unable to move until a short series of soundless skill checks are completed by both the Witch and the targeted survivor. (Maybe determined by the number of totems left on the map) Pending the result the following can happen:

If the Witch succeeds more great skill checks than her target: The Survivor becomes the Catalyst and gains the Endurance effect any time Witch is within 8m, and is broken while they are the Catalyst. One of the Catalyst's perks are selected at random and disabled for themself and any other Survivor who shares the cursed perk. The Catalyst effect and it's curse are removed upon being cleansed by any survivor who shares the curse, or by being hit by The Witch. Cleansing will take longer the more survivors are cursed. The Witch can only have one Catalyst by default.

If the survivor succeeds more great skill checks than the Witch: One of the Witch's perks are selected at random and disabled until the Witch gains a new Catalyst or hooks the target she failed to Curse. That survivor sees the Witch's aura for 8s.

If they tie, nothing happens.

Press and hold the active ability button while within 4m of any item not held by a survivor to charge and activate Malicious Intent. A representation of that item is spawned somewhere on the map on an altar and all items of its type are now Maligned until the altar is cleansed. Survivors holding a Maligned Item are indicated with Killer Instinct and become exhausted while within 8m of the Witch until they find and cleanse the altar. Cleansing an altar will fatigue the Witch for 4s.

Perks:

Misanthrope- You despise people of all walks of life, and seek to do them harm equally. When hooking a survivor you haven't hooked most recently, gain a charge, up to 4. Your lunge distance is extended .5m per token. If you hook the same survivor twice in succession you lose all tokens.

You'll Regret That- You enjoy turning others' hopes against them. For every 25% that an exit gate is charged you gain 1% movement speed if no survivor is holding the latch. Opened gates do not contribute to this.

You're Next- You hold grudges like no other. If a survivor takes a protection hit while you are carrying another, they become broken for 60s and are indicated by Killer Instinct while within your terror radius.

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Probably not very balanced lol, but I tried. It was a fun thinking exercise at least.

I would like to see a non-licenced killer who can make things with technology.

Zombie horror is at the very least loosely tied to Dead By Daylight through Bill Overbeck and the Left 4 Dead chapter. I think that's about as far as it'll get in Dead By Daylight, you'd have to get pretty creative with to create a unique Zombie killer, it'd have to be something more than your average typical zombie, something like a Solomon Grundy type character probably.

...Thinking about it more I think that might actually work. Hm, who knows.

Anyway, as for your statement on Pennywise, sorry to dash your hopes of him never making it into the game but it was confirmed a long time ago that the devs are huge fans of Stephen King, and Pennywise is #1 on most wanted licensed characters list for the devs. (Or at least for Mathieu Cote, who is producer / director of the dev team and he's also the one in charge of negotiating these deals with companies in the first place.) So you can bet your bottom dollar that they're going to do EVERYTHING in their power to get Pennywise into the game.

Lore isn't a valid reason to say no to any character, since the devs themselves created the story they can develop and tweak it however they please if they want to make something work and they probably will. Even if some people in the community don't consider it a "satisfactory" explanation, it's their game, soooo.....

Not to mention he's one of the most important and constant community requests alongside the other two of "the big 3" so the devs want him, we want him (most of us), it's really up to whoever owns the license for pennywise. Which is a bit unclear at least to us in the community, we don't know if that means the devs need to go through Stephen King himself, or perhaps they need to negotiate with the studio / whoever produced the movies, we'll just have to wait and see.

But I mean, they did work with Konami, which was something well beyond the imaginations of many in the community, including myself. So anything could happen really.

There's a lot more movie Killers than videogame Killers, though the good reason is that they like slashers.

But i like them bringing in videogame characters as well.

Bill came in (R.I.P. Jim French), but Silent Hill is the first big addition, wouldn't mind seeing more.

To reduce perk creep each pack should only have one perk per killer:

1) The Bisclavret: Your obsession has increased exhaustion,exposure, and broken timers applied to them (10/20/30 seconds). Once the obsession is dead a new obsession takes their place. (Bisclavret is a 12th century lay written by Marie de France about a werewolf who was betrayed by his wife).

2) Magyar's Seething: Damaging a generator or pallet grants a 3/4/5% haste effect for 15 seconds. It is designed to pair with brutal strength,reward damaging gens, and allow the killer to recoup time spent on distractions. (Bram Stoker's Dracula was of Magyar heritage, the Huns originally had significant sway in what is today Romania).

3) Oscillating Caw: Your terror radius decrease by 4/6/8 meters and increases back to its maximum amount by 2 meter/per second. In practice this means it's very difficult to gauge an exact terror radius' distance by the ears of skilled players. (The caw is merely a reference to crows).

4) Sirenum Scopuli: Each time a generator is completed a token is granted. Press the activate ability to remove your red stain for 15/20/25 seconds. A token is removed. (Sirenum Scopuli were the islands the sirens were said to live on).

5) Hex:Arcane Designs :This hex always spawns in the basement. It adds a 3/4/5% time to each generator. When survivors are working a gen they are notified with this and shown the highlight of the hex. With 80 seconds to solo a gen, the 5% stacks this up to 84 seconds. It's really only a counter to teams that spread out and individually attempt to knock gens. (the name of this hex implies that generators have been fitted with strange devices which take longer to figure out from normal machinery).

I really really want a WWI soldier with a bayonet charge.

I would have really liked to have seen Henry Mason added with the Silent Hill Chapter but since that won't happen, I believe that there are more good and well known horror movies than horror games, with that said I'd believe Supernatural's Sam and Dean Winchester to be good survivors and have a main villain from the show, perhaps Chuck or perhaps it would be better to have no killer at all like the Ashley add-on.