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New killer ability: Rewind time

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The killer can rewind time for a few seconds, everything what happened is undone: survivors run backwards, worked on gens lose progress, etc.

Imagine during a chase you can pull back a survivor by rewinding time.

They just finished a gen in front of you? Rewind time for a few seconds and catch the survs on the gen.

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  • Member Posts: 47

    You know, this could actually be really sick

    we just gotta figure out a counterplay

  • Member Posts: 379

    I wrote in-depth about abilities, perks, etc for a licensed Killer from Doctor Who, The Angel, that utilizes this kind of concept. Check it out below:

    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/208641/new-killer-the-angel-weeping-angel-from-dr-who
  • Member Posts: 2,405
    edited February 2021

    That honestly feels very easy to be unbalanced. I like the idea but doubt that it ill be it since survivors would very quickly raise hell about it. It would be fun as killer for sure but as a survivor it would be miserable in a lot of ways

  • Member Posts: 5,983

    Imagine being close to finishing a gen and realising you didn't even started.

  • Member Posts: 688

    I can't see it working, at least not the way it is described. It would be terrible to be a survivor, finish a gen and bam, power and you are back to not having the gen fixed and the killer is not there to either grab you or hit you and destroy the progress you had. If time was rewinded, at least that should happen for the killer too, so he/she would be at the same place they were before and not able to move foward in time when everything else is moving backwards.

  • Member Posts: 1,567

    It would rewind time only by a few seconds, so maybe it could bring back a fully repaired gen only to 95% if immediately rewinded when the gen is finished. If the killer is far away it will not help.

  • Member Posts: 1,302

    Rewind survivors back onto the hook

  • Posts: 5,229
    edited February 2021

    I highly doubt they could pull that off in this game engine.

    Regress a generator? Sure. Actually rewind in game events? Not a chance.

  • Member Posts: 1,567

    Yeah, it would be hard to implement to rewind everything. And probably would introduce so many bugs like never so far.

  • Posts: 5,229
    edited February 2021

    Honestly given that the track rewinds at 3.19 I figured that was just going to be the killer's release date.

    PTB, couple weeks and such and that would put it right around then.....but maybe I am over thinking it.

  • Member Posts: 4,167

    I couldn't imagine devs giving a killer that kind of power. Even if they did it wouldn't be worth it because survivors aren't allowed to be overly pressured.

  • Member Posts: 3,572

    Oh no! i hit the survivor with borrowed time...NOT ANYMORE!

  • Member Posts: 827

    Anyone else think this killer is just going to be "fix" for rubber banding?

    Survivor: "Whoa! I just got teleported back 10 feet... Neat power"

    Killer: "#########! Why is my power randomly activating throughout the match?"

  • Member Posts: 766

    KILLER QUEEN'S THIRD BOMB! BITES THE DUST!

    So here's a fun fact, rewinding time is possible in multiplayer games. It's literally Kira's ultimate attack in Eyes of Heaven and All Star Battle. Problem is, this in a fighting game where there are 4 characters that have an extreme power up at some point in the match which is why rewinding time has a purpose there but that's not all. It is a fighting game and rewinding time meant that you can just re-achieve whatever you lost in a few seconds if you're good at combos.

    In DbD, it takes 80 seconds to achieve an objective and approximately 30 seconds to find and chase a survivor. Rewinding time would be very punishing for both sides with survivors being affected the most. Plus what extreme power up will you be preventing? MoM? Flip-Flop? Look, I want Yoshikage Kira in DbD but this isn't how.

  • Member Posts: 252
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1976327#Comment_1976327

    My guy, this sounds so much like The Fallen (hope I'm right with the name) from the game Damned. That would be an awesome idea tho.

  • Member Posts: 3,089

    I wonder of it's going to be like identity v phrotroghapher killer that can pause time in a different dimension and enter their world and do half the damage when time resumes

    Imagine deep wound but you can't mend if healthy you get injured and gens that were kicked explode for half the regression and contine to regress if not being worked on hooking a surivor in this world getting hooked will down the surivor when the world goes back

  • Member Posts: 2,114

    The way I see it, if it's a time rewind killer, he will rewind time for a maximum of 3-5 s with maybe a 60s cooldown. Idea is to force survivors to make a second read in a loop if he makes a right read the first time. Making it too spammy would start to get frustrating for survivors.

    Also I'm not sure if it's possible to code this is a multiplayer environment

  • Member Posts: 1,302
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1977494#Comment_1977494

    There’s no way they would rewind time in general, probably just rewind the players locations.

    They have demonstrated it’s possible because a nurse addon already does it

  • Member Posts: 2,114
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1977501#Comment_1977501

    Players location is what I was trying to mean. It's more of a second chance in loops than having to rewind gens.

  • Member Posts: 1,442

    That would be extremely hard to code.. for not saying imposible in an online game, but without a doubt it would be very interesting.

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