Killer Concept: The Psychopath

This concept has no sense of balance and needs to be reworked heavily. I'd recommend visiting other killer concepts, the dbd wiki, and doing research about the games mechanics before trying to make a concept. Id recommend scrapping and re writting everything once proper research has been done. You have alot of imagination and ideas but your missing the proper ways to implement them.

There are far too many things going on with this power. Go To Sleep essentially inflicts every status effect possible on survivors. And a lot of things going on contradict each other. Your terror radius is increased by 80%, but that's completely pointless when all the survivors suffer from oblivious. Survivors that heal a mend suffer from the Broken status effect, but Go To Sleep doesn't allow survivors to heal anyways. And why does Go To Sleep have a 60 seconds cooldown when it already takes 60 seconds of stalking to activate. This means that there is a MINIMUM of 2 minutes before you can activate his main power again. There's also no cooldown of any sort on his teleport, which would allow him to have an absurd amount of map pressure.

Happy Thoughts is basically every stun revenge that's ever been proposed stuffed into one perk.

Counting sheep is already super powerful from the fact you can gain a permanent 16% buff to your movement speed, the aura reading aspect was really not necessary. Also as far as aura reading times go, 10 seconds is absurdly long.

Bloodied Smile is basically Infectious Fright on crack.

I understand that this was an adaptation of Jeff the Killer made for fun, and adapting IPs into dbd is a lot of fun, but it should be done with game balance in mind. I'm not trying to be mean here, I just want to let you know what kinda stuff you should keep in mind when designing a character concept. Some of the best killer designs, in the game and in this subforum are clear and concise. They have a specific thing they do, and they do it well. This concept just feels kinda unfocused and bloated. This all being said, do keep up with making these kinds of things. Seeing people adapt some of their favorite characters into DBD is always fun, and doing this is a skill that takes some polishing.

Just make it a bit more focused. Instead of having Go To Sleep do eight different things have it do one or two, three at absolute max that it really excells at. Remove the cooldown for it since you already have to manually charge it up. Give some sort of cooldown to his teleport ability.

Fun fact, you can get 3 tokens in one down with this perk. In addition to this, Dying Light gives 3%. It gives the Obsession a bonus of 33% altruistic action speeds. This gives over 2.5x the boost for one token. It's not a fair comparison.

Edit: Dying Light gives a max of 27%, with this resulting in the Obsession being the only one left and literally every other Survivor being hooked 3 times. As someone who used Dying Light for a VERY long time, the max you usually get is 7 tokens, 21%.

This perk gives you 8% basically every time you get a down, resulting in a minimum of probably 36% just by getting 4 downs, not even considering the chance of getting 3 tokens per down.

It also encourages not only targeting, but also slugging, the obsession. Thinking about it further, the perk just encourages you to play like a dickhead. Not a fan, rework requested?

Oh no because psychology isn't a thing that can't be studied am I right? Just assuming I'm not someone with antisocial personality disorder either? Just gonna disregard what misinterpretations even are in the first place? Also... not even gonna consider the Sleeper as a name idea? It just sounds better than the Psychopath, not to mention everything I've already brought up.

Jeff's bloodlust is an excuse for him to kill people, don't try to justify the poor writing. I'd love it for you to rewrite it in a brief summary for the backstory section, legitimately. I like my sarcasm as shown by the last paragraph but I'd like to see what you could do with the concept.

Read my concepts. All of which done within less than a day.

Hey, hey. I kept my bullying of the original story to 1 jab, gimme some credit.

What are those links even for? Like.. seriously. I know how fiction tends to treat this stuff, I don't like how fiction tends to treat it either tho HunterXHunter tying it into its power system is cool af. Is there a problem with that?

We're really going into this now? When was this even brought up? Enlighten me.

Is it too much to ask for a relatively functional design? You asked for thoughts, you've been given thoughts, now you're upset?

It's definitely a step in the right direction, there definitely doesn't seem to be any more stuff that is contradictory towards other parts of his kit. I also do like how the teleport cooldown is reduced for each survivor that's injured, that's a nice way to reward playing him well. Some of the numbers could use some tweaking though. Enduring already lets you recover from stuns very quickly, and that's a 50% reduction, bringing go to sleeps slam cooldown closer to that will be more balanced, but still very much so powerful. Also a 30% buff to movement speed is kinda insane, that's basically double the speed of The Legion in Feral Frenzy. Much like stunning, any sort of adjustment to the numbers is very noticable, a lot of players are able to recognize a killer has increased their speed by just 5%. I do like the idea of having a killer that's noticably faster for a period of time upon activating their power, both through movement speed and stun recovery, the numbers could just use a little reeling in.

I can't remember if it was there before, but I think I like the addition of him being undetectable while stalking. His small terror radius allows him to get in close before concealing his presence entirely. That and his small stature gives him a leg up over myers in terms of stealth, and the fact that his ability to stalk are not tied to a cooldown give him a leg up over ghostface, making him unique.

The loss of the red stain is something I'm a little conflicted over. Part of me thinks that with how fast he has become, survivors should be able to know when he's near. Another part of me is like "well, his terror radius is increased by 50%, they're gonna know he's coming for a while".

Also could you clear something up for me? In the power it says upon activation, survivors within his terror radius become incapacitated if they were interacting with props. Does that only apply to the initial activation of the power, or does this apply every time someone is in his terror radius for the duration of the power?

Well yeah. As I've said, I haven't mentioned it for a reason. It serves practically no use outside of style.

Anyhow, the Bloodied Smile rework. It's on the right track, though for something that doesn't seem like it'd stack its slowdown effect is kind of minimal. If it were maybe 8/12/16%, but this slowdown didn't stack? Also, it doesn't have a duration or end point of any kind. When does it end? Is it permanent? If so, does it stack with itself or does it not?

Ah, alright. That's fair then. I think it's cool, though it could be a little obnoxious when paired with Dying Light and Thanatophobia.

It would depend on the execution, however I do think it could be done well.