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How is pinhead going to be the killer?
Pinhead is not a traditional killer
he doesn't run around and start hacking and slashing people.
in the hell raiser movies he just stands still and looks at a chain funny and it will go flying across the room into the person.
How does that translate to this game though?
Also it's highly likely we only getting the 2021 reboot version not the 1987 version. Like what happened with freddy
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That's a good question. The source material doesn't really mesh with DbD's playstyle. Maybe he'll have a chain whip as a weapon.
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Well, Nemesis usually has a rocket launcher in RE3 and in DbD he only whips his puny little tentacle. So I'm pretty sure a walking Pinhead with maybe his chains as his attack would definitely work.
As lazy as the devs are, we probably just get the mechanics of Nemesis, but with a chain instead of the tentacle.
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Just watched the first movie and while I liked it, I was surprised that the Cenobites didn't have a lot of screen time. I think Pinhead looks cool, but the only thing that really stood out to me are the chains. Maybe hitting survivors with them can apply debuffs? Like 1 - 4 chains slightly slowdown the survivor, while the next one can stun them, root them in place?
Also, imagine if we actually get Julia as a killer lol. Just doing the killing to save her lover from Cenobites.
(I know we won't cuz that would be a real ######### and let down moment, but it sounds funny)
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you take away the launcher and he's punching and using whips so it's the same thing he'd do but without rocket launcher
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So maybe hes a ranged 110%? Honestly power wise he has alot of opportunities. Besides alot of the slasher killers dont run, even myers doesnt, he kinda just appears and stab...
So it's not that far off, if seen pinhead walk. But I still want a chatterer skin for him
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jup, and I'm pretty sure Pinhead will most likely run around and attack with his chains. He does walk around quite a bit in all the movies too :)
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you see him walk once for like 3 seconds
I can't picture him running around like in this game without having reduced movement speed
no way he will be a 115% killer.
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wall hack myers just appears and stab though.
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Most myers arent that though, still an iconic horror character and more fitting than other suggestions like fnaf etc.
Like I said alot of killers dont run, nor do they need to. Myers looked great considering
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from the survivor's view point against a wall hack myers it's just appear and stab.
it's very scary
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The thing that has me wondering is that Pinhead isn't really that much of a slasher villain.
Or even really the villain half the time.
He's a demon, sure, but most of the people dumb enough to solve the Lament Configuration for him to drag off are total monsters. He's fully capable of being reasoned with, he won't take you if you're tricked or forced into solving it, and he's even helped against actually malevolent villains. The only time he's a straight-up villain is when he gets Vergil'd, and even that doesn't stick.
Buuuuuut he'll probably throw hooks on chains at you or something.
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Nemesis only has the rocket launcher for a very brief section in RE3. Otherwise, he is all fists and tentacles, baby!
(He does also use a flamethrower for a fight, I guess)
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I'm sort of wondering if they will user Chatterer instead of Pinhead. While it might disappoint some fans, it would be a better fit. Chatterer is the strong man of the group. He's also a child that was taken into the labyrinth and turned into a Cenobite. As such, he does not have the wealth of intelligence that Pinhead, the female Cenobite, or even Butterball. He's mentally the weakest of them, but he physically the most active, and is the most willing to use his hands to do something.
More than likely, it will be Pinhead. He's just too iconic not to. However, I honestly feel that Chatterer would be a better fit for the overall gameplay of the game. Also, if it IS Pinhead, having the female Cenobite as an alternate skin would be pretty great. She is much more aggressive than Pinhead is, but otherwise displays the same intelligence and capability as him. Canonically, she is nearly equal to him in terms of capabilities.
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Sounds like you lack creativity yourself. Chances are they'll rip off an existing Killer's powers or concepts, but there's a lot of room for imagination with Pinhead's unique abilities...
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Yes, but also no.
I think the point they are making is that the gameplay of DbD runs a bit counter to the general methods Cenobites use. Cenobites GENERALLY do not chase. They can literally appear next to you at a whim and of their own choice. They rarely attack with their hands directly. The only time Pinhead was seen chasing and attacking with his hands was in the third movie, where he was de-powered on account of not being directly connected to Leviathan anymore. Even then, he primarily used alternate methods of hurting people, chains and hooks.
You are absolutely correct in that they will likely just recycle mechanics in order to make Pinhead, however. I agree 100% there. I wouldn't be surprised if we got the whip that Nemesis uses, but as a chain instead, that stacks Tricksters Laceration to he must hit multiple times for an Injure, and Freddys teleport. The new special animations will likely just be him using the chains to whip pallets and to pull Survivors up from the ground instead of bending over.
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Press m2 to hook a random survivor in the trial. 10 second cooldown
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Freddy wouldn't be running around and just slashing people either if they're in the dream world at least then he'd have power over it all. And he likely wouldn't attack someone who isn't awake.
Sooo they don't really need to go according to how they worked in their actual films.
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You probably never played or seen Silent hill 2.
All Pyramid head does in that game is walk slowly towards you trying to slowly hit you with his great knife or spear until he kills himself at the end of the game. Nothing else. One of the most basic interaction ever in videogames history.
No red attack coming from his sword that goes through objects, no cages, no "final judgment", no nothing. Just walking around trying slowly and clumsily to hit you.
Point is that if they gave pyramid head all those special abilities that have absolutely nothing to do with the game he came from or his original form in said game, they can do the exact thing with Pinhead and invent special abilies he never used in the movies.
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Maybe he’ll be a teleporter and move between boxes (either pre-placed or done like Demo).
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He throws a chain with a hook on it. Basically a cross between Nemesis and Deathslinger.
And maybe he can teleport like Freddy, or he applies some sort of effect to survivors that has to be removed by solving the puzzle cube, similar to Pig.
I don’t think he’ll be anymore complicated than that.
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I've never seen the movies . . . but any possibility he could be like Nurse but long range? Getting like a float and phase and then medium-long range whippings with this chain people are talking about?
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The closest approximation to their movie-presence would be a mix of Hag's teleport (manifesting anywhere there's a Lament Configuration) and Deathslinger's gun (throwing out hooked chains to bind survivors in place).
I would think the Lament Configuration (the puzzle box) would be somewhere in there. Maybe you have to solve it to temporarily make yourself immune to his powers (like Freddy), or the box's daemonic need to be solved forces survivors who pass near one to stop and make a series of skill checks before they can keep moving (like a mix of Trapper's traps and Pig's Reverse Bear Trap)
It would be nice to NOT get another ranged killer after PH's shockwave, Victor's pounce, Tricker's blades, and Nemesis' tentacle, but the hooked chains SEEM to imply some ranged element. Perhaps the chains just get summoned mid-chase and each one puts a stacking Hindered status on the survivor (like Clown) and after enough, the survivor is frozen in place?
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It's hard to say what his power could be because pinhead can literally do just about anything, I would think he would have a teleport ability, a small chain weapon as a m1, and some sort of trap he can throw that shoots multiple hook chains out and holds you in place for like 2 seconds
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