Feedback and Suggestions
Feedback and Suggestions
Let survivors stay in game after dying
Edit: just for clarification: this is pretty much supposed to be a better spectation mode with some minor way of being active and maybe gain a handful of BP. And I have not thought about how SWF could abuse it..
Other games have implemented this in some form already: Survivors that got killed respawn/stay in the match and can still participate but in another way
There are different options of course:
- Ghosts: They stay the way they looked when alive, but as a ghost. Either for others to see or not. That way movement and animations could be reused, question is what they would be able to do. Normal gen repair/healing/hook rescuing wouldn’t make much sense
- Rats/Crows or something else: others could probably see those. New animations and way more work has to be put into this, but it could end up very interesting and fun!
the main reason is to make fast deaths not worth it: getting tunneled out or suiciding on hook won’t get you out of the match. You could still participate and gain BP, help your team some way. Leaving would count as DC.
Maybe the survs alive need to perform some ritual/seance to get them back in the new form!
It would need much work in balancing and probably animations etc. it shouldn’t be too rewarding for the survs individually or as team but it should make killers think twice about tunneling people fast out.
games that kinda implemented something similar:
- Friday the 13th: there was a way for only one counselor to get back into the game
- Among Us: Dead crewmates are ghosts and still need to finish their tasks for the crewmates to end their task objectives
- Last Year: I think you were trapped somewhere and needed to be rescued by your teammates to be completely back into the game
- In Silence: You respawn as a Rat, just watched few mins of gameplay and don’t know how that game even worked tbh
- probably many more
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This is the equivalent of asking for killers to have a mechanic to revert a finished gen.
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I didn’t even say what the survs would be able to do though?
and of course the game would need balancing around this.
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It doesn't matter. If a survivor dies, they are dead. Good game, 3 strikes, move along. It doesn't work with dead by daylight to bring people back in any way in the same sense it doesn't work to allow killers to undo finished gens.
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Dead is dead.
Nea... er... The Entity... got it's sacrifice. That's it. You're gone.
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And I made a suggestion to implement a feature that would make it work for Dead by Daylight. Similar games have a feature like this and it still works.
that way both killer and survivor would be in a match from start to finish. It would make suiciding on hook not worth it to abuse it as a form of DC.
this is an asymmetrical game, I don’t really see the need to compare it to a killer mechanic. That doesn’t even make any sense.
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this is dead by daylight. We are in the Entity’s realm. There is no real death here. Everyone ends up alive at the campfire. Or in the void.
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Exactly. You die, you go back to the campfire. You don't hang around.
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Yeah. But. You don’t die. And maybe you could hang around. The Entity could make this happen easily within its realm.
i mean you don’t have to like this idea and it will probably not get implemented anyways, but were would exactly be the problem?
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That’s a horrible idea, that way dead swf can spy on the killer and tell their teammates his location.
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The problem?
The idea of a Survivor working beyond the grave goes against the spirit of the game. It is annoying at best, and game breaking and match stalling at worst.
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That’s somehow something I actually didn’t think about.. it’s pretty much a free and stronger OoO. (And the first counter argument that was given lol)
maybe make it so the dead ones can’t see the killer. They can only help their team with objectives (something like give a little boost in repair speed if within 4m of eachother. Nothing major of course)
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this has to be one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard. What is even the point of this at all
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The point is that I don’t like the current spectator mode after dying but often still want to stay to see the end result, see killer loadout etc.
also something against hook suicide.
i did not think of SWF though.
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