New Killer idea

i guess if they wanted something drastically different from Ghostface, then instead of transforming and being undetectable, the vampire could have the ability to mesmerize a survivor, which would make the survivor run towards the nearest survivor thus revealing the location of another.

Although i still like the idea of being able to drink blood from downed survivors to speed up their power recharge time

i like that a d long lasting debuff would be nice, there'd need to be something on the map to remove the debuff though to balance it out, maybe holy water or a cross.

And yeah while crow transformation isnt traditionally a vampire abililty, i thought itd better fit the game snd would stick out less than bats

i guess a perk idea would to slow the survivor down by 8% vanilla, perk1 would up to 12% slowdown, then 18% and finally all the way up to 20%/25%.

I guess a cross placed on the map would work but some people might not like the religious imagery, so either a holy water pickup or a pool of blessed water would work to remove debuff.

Or the loss of blood could make them more clumsy, either increasing the rate of generator qte's, increase the speed of qte's or make the success zone smaller.

edit: i would even increase the length of the debuff to a somewhat obnoxious length of time to try to push the survivor to seek out a cure for the debuff.

Id say a vampire is just as human as Freddy Kruger, both were human at one time but are now both something else.

As far as a dragon, thatd be just way to big and i know its not originally from DnD but one from the that fame is enough lol.

As far as snakes go... well A medusa like character would be pretty cool imo as well. Spiders would take a little more though to not be generic and im just not that big into Werewolves to come up with any good ideas for them.

But vampires have tons if different abilities depending on which lore youre drawing from, so i thought itd have lots of potential for diverse gameplay depending on which direction they went with it.

imho, they might be popular atm, but they are rarely done well. Usually over romanticized, but not in the right way and they are rarely all that scary. I think they could definitely come up with some devious looking designs for a vampire, or atleast something scarier than Edward Sparkles.

As far as medusa, id give her the lower body of a snake and the top half of a human and have the survivors hear a terrifying hiss when she is close.

Her powers would be hard to not make her op snd stay true to the lore. But im thinking sone the opposite of ghostface shroud. Like the longer uou look at her the slower youll move, not dramatically but enough to make you want avoid looking at her longer than a glancw, which her power could be that she can enhance that ability to make survivors slow down alot maybe up to 50% or just make it a aoe attack.

As for her normal attack, id say just give her claws or maybe a bow.

That'd probably work out, but i'd like to see a Killer that brought something different rather than just a reskin of another killer

ok i see, well i wasnt exactly completely set on the transformation power, but id def want to keep some sort of blood drinking mechanic. Another idea i had was give the Vampire a memorize ability that would make the survivor seek out the other nearest survivor so the vampire could follow them and have the opportunity to attack them both, while also cutting down on the amount of time the killer spends searching for other survivors.

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Also i maybe some sort of dash ability would be cool, something like an cooldown ability that alows the Vampire to pass through pallets and such but give it a reasonable cool down time so its not abused. But also allowing the killer to shave off time by drinking blood of survivors

hmmm i do like my crow transformation idea, maybe instead of flight he can teleport instantly next to other areas on the map where crows are perched and maybe also have survivors become highlighted when they disturb the crows