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The reason 2v8 could never work.
Current survivor chase/looping defences (pallets and vaults) are based on the idea of just being chased by 1 killer. I.e. one side has danger, the other side has safety. If 2 killers playing together were smart, they’d never separate so that once a survivor is found they’re both able to pincer attack the survivor at every pallet or vault every single time.
Every. Single. Time. Chases would last mere seconds. No matter how many survivors are working on gens, they wouldn’t be able to cope with the pace at which 2 killers never separating are downing survivors, because 2 killers playing this way renders pallets and vaults completely useless.
2v8 would require an ENTIRE rework of maps and the structures laying within, and looping would need a major overhaul where pallets and vaults are replaced with something else entirely for a survivor to cope with the possibility of 2 killers coming from both sides.
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So what’s a survivor supposed to do at a pallet or vault if one killer is on one side, and the second killer is on the other side?
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Don't care we need something new. This is stale, I wanna play with my friend so we can both take down survivors.
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If they were to ever make a 2v8 mode they would have to specifically create maps for that. And there could be stipulations like if both killers are within a certain meter radius of each other get a movement speed reduction or if a survivor is hit when another killer is within 16 meters that survivor can take 3 hits before going down, things like that, it would have special rules that people would have to learn
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Feels like the solution to that would be gen speed (and numbers) - make it like facecamping where the killers can't afford to spend much time together and have to split up. Worst comes to worst, killers get a debuff of sorts when they're within each others' presence, or survivors get buffs for the same thing.
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Yeah, but it would be fun.
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For your 1st point, survivors should get one maybe 2 extra health states. If a survivor gets hit by one killer then the other loses collision for that specific survivor. So even if both killers chase one survivor, it's not a 3s chase.
For the 2nd part only certain maps should be playable & at every possible pallet spawn there should be a pallet.
There's a 2v8 mode in a dbd like game called IDV & they make it work buy banning certain killers from playing, no double killers, only 2 of the largest maps are playable, & the survivors can carry 2 items instead of one at a time. IDV wasn't designed for 2v8 mode & it certainly isn't balanced, but it's still a fun gamemode to play.
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i'd think 8 surv would be more than enough to stop 2 killers xd
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I think the only way to make 2v8 easy to execute, is to just make it exclusive to custom games. Allow more than 4 survivors and more than 1 killer, and allow players to start with only one person. They made the new HUD to add more features, I bet they could fit in more survivor icons.
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I agree, it will be come 2v1 (2 Killers vs 1 Survivor) and the other 7 survivors rush Gen even more hardcore
2v8 should not be a mode, but I still wish they make it happens in certain days (April fool, Xmas day ect..) to refresh abit.
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That still doesn’t address how defenceless survivors are if the killers stay paired up, and make sure they always pincer at a vault or pallet.
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That's just part of it. The other survivors should be slamming gens
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It's custom games. It's for fun.
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ive got a idea thou its kinda long but ill give you a quick rundown each killer spawns on diffrent areas like this kinda.
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with only survivors starting on the s with pipes only they can move thou and obective a is in k1 spot and objective b in k2 the killers cant interact but the 5 objectives require survivors to move back and forth to complete the objective so like obective in k1 may need 6 people to do were as objective 2 needs 3 and so on so they have to move around and adjust allowing people to work together to overpower the killers and encourage people to talk it thou were killers while they cant directly help each other till endgame can same as survivors share what info they have to stop the 10 survivors from escaping , perks only work on their respective kill ie k1 has noed so only killer 1 has noed. if killer 2 has ruin only k2 gens get ruin. with mutiple crosses so a killer cant just camp the entrance point. may be good may be bad just a idea,
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You're talking an entire gameplay change of mechanics and so much more. Bigger maps, different perks, different killer powers. This can't just be something they'd put together with Duct Tape and call it a new game mode. I mean the idea is cool. But two killers working together just isn't really the horror theme here. Lore wise and principle.
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Out of all possible new game modes, 2v8 seems just lazy and boring. Dunno why people asking for that mode in particular
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I don't care I still want it.
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