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Killer Concept: The Ice Queen
Title: The Ice Queen
Background Tidbits:
- Young and very talented ice dancer
- Knew from a very young age what her passion was and had everything from her parents to pursue her dreams and became quickly famous
- Her competitors started to vanish once they have shown they may be real competitors to her
- Found out that her parents were the ones behind that, they mostly used their money to pressure the other girls to stop or they threatened them, some were never seen again though….
- Ice Queen got furious about this because she wanted the competition to get better and actually wanted to win fairly, in rage after a big fight she got too furious and accidentally killed her parents
- traumatized and scared for her career the Entity could persuade her to join the Fog
- rumours startet that another ice dancer was behind the vanishing of all the girls including our Ice Queen, but there was never any proof, the Ice Queen has never been seen again
Appearance:
- Mask completey made of ice, partly let’s you see her face with blue lips
- ice around her head is shaped like her face with a crown over her head
- Ice dancer outfit and instead of walking/running she is kind of floating with ice skates over the ground
- Weapon is a blade from an ice skate
- edit: Later on, BHVR added ice themed killer skins. The Artists one goes in the direction I had in mind for the Ice Queen!
Power 1:
- Range attack icicles
- Can be thrown just like Huntress' hatchets limitless
- go in a straight line, so no throw parable and no skillshots over the whole map (needs LoS)
- If a survivor gets hit they will have the icicle visibly piercing through them
- Survivor will shine white (no Blendette in a bush) and have some white smoke coming from them during this (similar to Plagues infection but white instead of green)
- Once the surv stands completely still the survivor is paralysed/frozen for a short amount of time, hitting them will injure/down them and immediatly stop the paralysis
- An icicle can be charged (hold button longer) to inflict damage instead just like a Huntress hatchet
- Survivors can get rid of icicles when going to a fire source (those barrels or some campfires that will spawn around the map, either where pig boxes spawn or not used places for gens)
Power 2:
- Second ability lets the Ice Queen move fast, similar to Billy or Oni, but no attack possible during animation
- will create ice behind her similar to PHs trail when moving like this
- Survivors will automatically run normally instead of sprinting if they are crossing the ice path (maybe hindered status effect?)
- Survivors with an icicle will be frozen/paralysed immediately on the ice
Perk 1: WIP
Perk 2: WIP
Perk 3: WIP
Background:
I know the concepts seem like rehashed things from other killers. But thats just my way to easily describe the mechanics, also we already got a rich amount of unique powers. I think this one seems unique overall.
My other concepts (Feedback and suggestions always welcome):
Killers: The Ice Queen, Hannibal, Charlie(The Darkness), The Blair Witch, The Firebreather, The Photographer
Survivors: Aria Morrison, Lukas Schmidt, Paitoon Saeli
Survivor Items: Piece of Chalk, Pocket Knife, Walkie Talkies, Lighter, Water Bottle, Sling Shot, Spray Paint Cans, Salt Pouch, Smoke Bomb, Voodoo Doll, Smudge Sticks
Game mechanics: Expanded survivor objectives, Exhaustion Rework, Spiderwebs
Comments
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I was imagining Elsa from Frozen would be the killer when I saw the title.
As much as I hate Frozen, I wouldn't be fully against to see a Disney property gone dark.
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Elsa was considered to be a villain before they settled for what we got i believe!
i would definitely not opposed to some nods in design towards her
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I have a Killer concept related to ice called the Lich
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I know, I commented on it and it made me actually think about this concept I had before but only in my mind! The icicle/snowball throwing are also similar and I might have ‚stolen‘ or -better phrased- incorporated your idea of charging it
Post edited by Mooks on0 -
Changed the paralysis/frozen status from timer-based to movement based.
Maybe better anti-loop and skillbased this way, plus it encourages the killer to use the ice-pathing to get the paralysis.
also timer based feels pretty boring and I may use that too often in my concepts
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I wanted to make an ice killer concept but I found yours before making it. I seemed I have thought of very similar killer power ideas. I'm glad that I found this, I almost became copy cat accidentally xd
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There are many other killer concepts with ice element in mind I wasn’t the first and probably used some ideas from others as well, don’t worry of accidentally using similar concepts in your own creation! At least I wouldn’t accuse you.
the more the better, maybe you got another spin on something i tried to do and make it actually better!
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"Shatter Dash" for Power 2
"Ice Spear" for Power 1
Hindered is a good idea for both Shatter Dash paths and Ice Spears. I believe both Ice Spears and Shatter Dash should inflinct a secondary effect called "Freezing" which is unique to the Ice Queen, similar to Madness or Sleep Penalty. Freezing should then not deplete when walking, slowly deplete when running, slowly rise when standing still, and rapidly deplete if interacting with a "Campfire" that spawns in similarly to Pools of Devotion, Jigsaw Boxes, Alarm Clocks, etc.
Next, some perks to match up with this fun concept, since you've left them blank and I love coming up with ideas.
Perk 1] Winter's Embrace
Hitting a Survivor with your Basic Attack inflicts a 10% Hindered status effect for 5/10/15 seconds to the Survivor. Whenever a Survivor is Hindered, they gain 1% more Hindered per second until no longer Hindered.
Perk 2] Competitive Spirit
For each Generator completed, Competitive Spirit gains a token up to a maximum of 5. For each token, you are given a stackable 2/3/4% Haste status effect up to a maximum of 10/15/20%.
Perk 3] Shattering Swing
Hitting a Survivor with your Basic Attack inflicts them with the Incapacitated status effect for the next 12/14/16 seconds.
Please let me know what you think of all of these.
Post edited by RDQ_TheRedFox on1 -
I love all of this!
the names are great, especially „Shatter Dash“ and „Winter‘s Embrace“. Also love the fact you incorporated the chars background in your ideas, like „Competitive Spirit“.
On the power description I actually had to look if I hadn’t described the Freezing status like this, you definitely described what I had I mind there! And way better than I could (just going over my OP because of typos…again)
For Hindered I guess both powers inflicting it directly would make her power too similar to the Clown?
i like your perk ideas as well, nothing too strong or complicated but they have their usages and combo potential! CS may need some adjustments on the numbers, as 20% haste combined with Noed might get nasty(?)
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Right, the Clown! I'm glad you like the ideas, and I do realize how OP end-game haste can get especially if combined with the 4% haste you can get from NoED. I'm not sure what other effects could work in place there since there aren't very many positive ones, and the few that exist are primarily against the idea of what a competitive spirit is.
CS could be absolutely redefined to have a token limiter with 1% per token and the tokens are what change with each tier, that being 3/4/5 tokens.
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Could probably although implement it so it does not stack with other haste effects!
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Well, it's weird, unless you are speaking of Dota2's one...
basically, liches got nothing to do with ice in fantasy, lich is sane (that's important, because it's mostly necros who want more power and willfully transform into immortal liches) undead skeleton necromancer. Liches command even bigger armies of undead than regular necros, cuz of higher mana pool.
And that explains why it's unrelated to ice, since necromancy isn't ice magic :)
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perk idea:
Chill of Death:
When a survivor is unhooks another survivor they are slowed by 3/5/7% for 8 seconds.
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