A Thought Experiment About Legion

Just a quick note, this main part of this is a copy and paste from a comment I made on an Otzadarva video.

Hello Otz! I was watching this and I had a niche idea for Legion. Legion is meant to be a killer based upon the idea that “Legion” is multiple people. Thus, this should stay as such. I believe there is something to be done about this; give Legion the ability to use lockers. When the map starts, a Legion spawns within a random locker and there is always another Legion starting in the basement. Now, whenever the starting Legion enters a locker, they can look at and choose another Legion within a locker, and “teleport” to them. The teleport process as a whole should take a total of about 10 to 15 seconds, and the opening and closing of the lockers should be very loud, and obvious that HEY LEGION EXITED THE LOCKER, as unless the survivors are playing with coms, it’ll be extremely difficult to counter this. This is my solution to the 1v4 / 1v1 problem. Getting the drop on someone on a gen by “switching Legions” will allow both map control and a lore-friendly way to fight against the survivor group who splits up. Now, to balance this. After switching Legions, the Legion you just switched will be inactive for 30 seconds, but each time you activate the power, the other Legions will change to a different locker (excluding the basement Legion as long as that one has not been used). This will give a maximum of 4 Legions, with 3 to start, and every teleport will deactivate THAT Legion for half a minute and will change the current locations of the other Legions (and by random, this includes the stipulation that the previous 3/4 filled lockers cannot be picked up by another Legion within this cycle) This ability also stops the wide spread use of using Lockers. As a hint to the survivors, a locker with a legion within a locker will have very quiet breathing, only audible within 5 meters. Lockers used by Legion in any form, other than the random used, will be ever so slightly ajar, and if a survivor opens a Legion’s locker, that legion slams it shut, and the player-Legion is given an auditory and visual cue.   I don’t know if this is balanced, by I enjoyed the thought experiment. A hunter type kill, who also denies certain lockers, whilst also having map control, sounds interesting to me. And if this needs further balancing, then make all teleporting unusable for 40 seconds. Anywho, I really hope you read this and give feedback. The people behind DBD will probably never hear this idea, but I enjoyed thinking of it. (Also this wouldn’t remove the Feral ability). This could also give them the ability to make interesting addons.

Now, after playing man hours of Legion, what my thoughts are.

The ability should have a longer cooldown, probably a full minute if not longer. The random aspect for which 3 lockers you can choose is a must. You might get unlucky, which means you either never use the ability? Use it as a mind game somehow, or waste your own time resetting them to try and get better RNG. Entering should be about as loud as a rushed locker get-in, but the exit should be like a war cry, make it very unique and the radius the sound plays for should be double their terror radius.

After exiting a locker, put Feral Frenzy immediately on cooldown, as if you had just used it all up. This makes it so you aren’t getting any crazy overpowered combo, and this will help so that Feral Frenzy itself isn’t nerfed.

So, what are your thoughts? I’ve never seen any ideas of a killer using a locker more than just Huntress’ reload or just pulling someone out, so I thought they could get more use. Maybe even make the hiding Legions’ breathing loud and heavy, with a hand sticking out, keeping the door from being grabbed. Of course, the skin should stay the same, just so the coding doesn’t become a nightmare. I thought this was semi-balanced, and was in no way too op. All it does is give Legion more opportunities over map control, while still having plenty of counter play.

For instance, you’re playing this Legion. You are nowhere near a locker, and you just got notified about something loud at a faraway Legion Locker. Do you spend almost a full 15 to 30 seconds getting to a locker and then teleporting, or just keep in mind a person is there? Do you use the teleport as soon as the match starts? Or do you save it for some weird play? Or save it because a Legion took a locker right next to a gen you really want to protect?

Would love to hear some other people’s thoughts on this, sorry for the rambling, and happy anniversary!