New Killer -- The Curse (Big Changes)
Hello,
There's a TLDR at the end.
I’ve made some significant changes based on what I've learned about DBD over the past eight months that greatly improve the killer. He’d be a unique addition to the killer lineup, and would be well-balanced and instill fear in survivors by causing them to have to play dangerously. The killer is:
The Curse
(These images were found on a Google Images search.)
Name: Josué Damestoir
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Haitian
Realm: Rural Louisiana Cemetery
Power: Ceaseless Agony
Weapon: Ceremonial Mace (The shaft is made from a long heavy black wood and the steel head is in the shape of a black serpent head biting down on a heart with its tail wrapped down the shaft)
Movement Speed: 4.6 m/s (115 percent)
Terror Radius: 32 meters
Height: Tall
Attack: Normal attack, normal lunge
Power: Black Magic
1) Use Power → Soul Capture (mechanics are the same as the Old Freddy’s Dream Demon— hold down the button to bring up a reticle and when it is on a survivor, the survivor’s soul is captured) -- The Curse captures the soul of a healthy or injured survivor within 10 meters. (He cannot capture the souls of downed or hooked survivors.) Once The Curse hits a survivor with this power, his speed is tremendously reduced to 3 m/s as he captures the soul in his doll. The whole process takes 3 seconds.
(The player icons of survivors whose souls have been captured will have a symbol on them.)
2) Use Secondary Power → Cursed Doll -- Curse the doll and drop it on the ground.
The action takes 1.5 seconds. (Hold the button down the entire time; releasing the button before the action is complete stops the action.) Fifteen seconds after the doll has been dropped, the curse takes effect.
(The doll is invisible to survivors before the curse takes effect and cannot be cleansed during this time.)
Any survivor whose soul was captured in the doll becomes cursed.
(The player icons of cursed survivors will have a symbol on them.)
Cursed survivors suffer from the exposed status effect and a dark fog prevents them from being able to see beyond 24 meters.
When the cursed doll becomes active, a cursed land that has a 28-meter radius is created with the doll located somewhere inside it, not necessarily at the center. The cursed land causes no visual changes, but survivors inside the cursed land hear the terror radius heartbeat, which remains the same volume and tempo regardless of how close the survivor is to the doll.
(Survivors can use this auditory information to know they are in the vicinity of the cursed doll … or the killer!)
The cursed doll can be cleansed like a totem or if it runs out of power. The cursed doll has more power the more souls captured within it, meaning it lasts 2 minutes if it has 1 survivor’s soul, 3 minutes if it has 2 survivors’ souls, 4 minutes if it has 3 survivors’ souls and 5 minutes if it has all 4 survivors’ souls.
Survivors cleanse the cursed doll the same way they cleanse totems; however, it is not a totem so Thrill of the Hunt will not work, nor is it a killer trap so Small Game cannot detect it. But a Map with Red Twine can detect it.
Once a cursed doll has been cleansed or runs out of power, any survivor cursed by the doll has the negative effects removed and their souls returned. Also when a cursed survivor is hooked, his or her soul is returned even if the cursed doll is still active.
The Curse cannot capture souls if he doesn’t have a doll. When a cursed doll has been cleansed, runs out of power or when all survivors whose souls are captured in the cursed doll have been hooked, are sacrificed, dead or have escaped, The Curse immediately gets a new doll.
Add-ons:
Brown 1 -- Slightly increase soul capture speed (By 1 second to 2 seconds)
Brown 2 -- Slightly increase soul capture range (by 4 meters to 14 meters)
Brown 3 -- Slightly increase the cursed land (by 4 meters to 32 meters)
Brown 4 -- Slightly delay the activation of the cursed doll (by 15 seconds to 30 seconds)
Yellow 1 -- Moderately increase soul capture speed (By 1.5 seconds to 1.5 seconds)
Yellow 2 -- Moderately increase soul capture range (by 8 meters to 18 meters)
Yellow 3 -- Moderately increase the cursed land (by 8 meters to 36 meters)
Yellow 4 -- Moderately delay the activation of the cursed doll (by 30 seconds to 45 seconds)
Yellow 5 -- The Curse can detect cursed survivors within 28 meters.
(The ceremonial mace makes the sound of a rattlesnake rattling and is only heard by The Curse, not the survivors.)
Green 1 -- Tremendously increase soul capture speed (By 2 seconds to 1 second)
Green 2 -- Tremendously increase soul capture range (by 12 meters to 22 meters)
Green 3 -- Tremendously increase the cursed land (by 12 meters to 40 meters)
Green 4 -- Tremendously delay the activation of the cursed doll (by 45 seconds to 1 minute)
Green 5 -- Cursed survivors cannot hear any sounds while running or sprinting.
Purple 1 — The soul of the survivor who cleanses a cursed doll is captured by The Curse in his new doll.
Purple 2 — The Curse has one extra doll.
(When a cursed doll is active, this extra doll can be used to capture the souls of uncursed survivors. It also can be cursed while the other cursed doll is active, meaning there can be two active cursed dolls.)
Purple 3 -- The Curse can detect cursed survivors within 28 meters and strongly detect cursed survivors within 16 meters.
(The ceremonial mace’s rattle becomes louder when a survivor is within 16 meters.)
Purple 4 -- Other survivor character models look like The Curse to cursed survivors.
Red 1 -- Survivors cannot cleanse the cursed doll. It has 1 minute less of power.
(The cursed doll will have a bone cage around it.)
Red 2 -- To create a cursed doll, The Curse must hit each survivor with soul capture twice. His movement speed is tremendously reduced (by 10 percent to 105 percent). Once The Curse has created the cursed doll, the cursed land spreads over the entire map, the cursed doll cannot be cleansed, his movement speed is increased to 115 percent, and he can kill survivors by his own hands.
(None of The Curses' add-ons stack.)
Perks:
All three of The Curse’s perks are a new type called Torments:
Torments are new effects that hamper survivors. Survivors’ souls are blackened for each second they are within the terror radius of a killer that has a Torment Perk equipped and not in a chase. (This doesn't apply to dying or hooked survivors or survivors hiding in lockers.)
After their souls have been blackened for 30 seconds, they will be afflicted with every Torment the killer has equipped.
Survivors can purify their souls by praying to the Entity at shrines located throughout the map for 8 seconds; Each map will have 4 shrines, with 1 shrine per quarter section. Once purified Torment Status Effects will be removed and any blackening of their souls will be reduced to 0, meaning survivors can always pray at shrines even if they are not afflicted with a Torment.
1) Schadenfreude -- A Torment that causes items to backfire on the user.
When Flashlights, Party Starters or Firecrackers are used, the survivor is blinded, Med-Kits cause the Deep Wound Status Effect, Toolboxes cause generators to explode and regress, Maps and keys with aura reading show survivors’ auras to the killer, and Keys cause the hatch to respawn (Thank you @Snikers for the hatch respawn idea!) The Torment Status Symbol for Schadenfreude doesn’t appear on survivors’ HUDs until after they trigger its negative effect. (Items do not lose charges and are not consumed when used under the effects of Schadenfreude.)
Tier 1 -- Slight item negative effect / Tier 2 -- Moderate item negative effect / Tier 3 -- Considerable item negative effect
(Blind is stronger with each tier, Toolbox regression is higher with each tier, Mend takes longer with each tier, survivors’ auras are shown for longer with each tier, and the hatch respawns farther away with each tier.)
2) Spontaneous Human Combustion -- A Torment that causes survivors to become aflame. The flames do not harm the survivor but do make them easier to spot and hear.
Tier 1 -- First-Degree Burns / Tier 2 -- Second-Degree Burns / Tier 3 -- Third-Degree Burns
(The brightness of the flames and the sound of the crackle intensify with each tier.)
3) Hyperfocus -- A Torment that causes survivors’ perspective to switch to first person.
The survivors’ field of view is Tier 1 -- Considerably bigger than normal / Tier 2 -- Moderately bigger than normal / Tier 3 -- Normal
Mori: Dwight looks up in terror as The Curse points his ceremonial mace down at him. Dwight screams as the weapon turns into a real snake. In a flash, it drops the heart and slithers inside Dwight’s mouth, disappearing down his throat. The Curse holds the mace’s shaft above his victim, and the snake bursts forth out of Dwight’s chest with his still beating heart in its mouth in an explosion of blood, wrapping itself around the shaft as it emerges. The snake, with its fangs sunk deep into a new prize, then turns back into the steel snake he was moments before. Dwight lies dead on the ground with the heart of The Curse’s previous victim by his side.
And as for the backstory, if BHVR actually chose to make The Curse (which would be freaking awesome), I’m sure they could write something much better than I could. 
I had a lot of fun coming up with this. Thanks for reading and let me know what you think!
Comments
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This is good but all I can think of is the spirit of jazz from the mighty boosh when I see the picture xD
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Never actually considered Baron Samedi as a killer, interesting idea.Hello,I’ve been working on this killer for several weeks, and I think I’ve gotten him to a good point. He’d be a unique addition to the killer lineup, and would be well-balanced and instill fear in survivors by causing them to have to play dangerously. The killer is:
The Curse
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@Dead_by_David said:
This is good but all I can think of is the spirit of jazz from the mighty boosh when I see the picture xD@Steamtastic_Vagabond said:
Hello,I’ve been working on this killer for several weeks, and I think I’ve gotten him to a good point. He’d be a unique addition to the killer lineup, and would be well-balanced and instill fear in survivors by causing them to have to play dangerously. The killer is:
The Curse
Never actually considered Baron Samedi as a killer, interesting idea.
Hi guys,
Thanks for the comments! I think The Curse would work well and be a lot of fun to play for several reasons.
1) A lot of people have posted on forums that they wish they could place their own totems. Well, essentially, The Curse lets you place one "powerful totem" wherever you want, whenever you want, likely multiple times in a match!
2) People playing The Curse will have to decide when to curse the doll. Do you wait until all four souls are captured to curse the doll or do you curse it when you only have 1 or 2 souls? More choice = More fun.
3) The Curse either slows down the game in a fun way or makes the game more dangerous for the survivors. Instead of the game being slowed down by having to mend, snap out of it or remove a RBT, which is just holding down a button, hitting a button at the right time and running around to easy-to-find locations on the map, respectively, The Curse slows the game down by making survivors have to go on a "treasure hunt." And if they choose not to look for the doll, then they better be sure to hide and evade The Curse well because he turns survivors into No Mither mains without No Mither's benefits of no bleeding and reduced sound.
As for the look, I think Baron Samedi looks cool! But any creepy Voodoo look works for me.
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This is actually pretty good! Good job man. When I first read the second Red add-on I thought it was op but reading it again I think it makes sense. Again, very well done
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@MongByeolBuddies
This is incredible. I have a strange feeling that a voodoo killer is on their list. It would be interesting if you can create perks and a survivor to go with this chapter. I know you want to leave it up to the dev but I’m interested to see what you have to offer.0 -
he turns survivors into No Mither mains without No Mither benefits.
That's not true though - your post explicitly states that "Cursed survivors, however, can fully recover from the dying state." which is the No Mither benefit.
Overall I can say I like the "placing a totem" idea but I'm not so sure about the way you're doing this. You're essentially imposing broken effect on to the Survivors, but what if a Survivor is already running No Mither? What if several do? What if it's a No Mither SWF team? They are pretty popular on youtube these days. So the Curse power is useless in these situations.
Also there is a Survivor perk Deliverance that causes Broken effect after a guaranteed hook escape. When playing against the Curse the Suvivors will have no reasons to doubt if they shoudl use it at the moment, or later - the killer power is already there, making them Broken, making the 100% chance of hook escape have no drawbacks.
The other thing I'm not fully comfortable with is that you're not using the Doll's totem radius for anything other than telegraphing the relative position of the curse totem. Why not have addons that apply debuff in the Doll's radius?
The last thing is this:
The Curse can detect cursed survivors within 28 meters and strongly detect cursed survivors within 16 meters.
What exactly is "strongly detect" ?
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@LCGaster said:
This is actually pretty good! Good job man. When I first read the second Red add-on I thought it was op but reading it again I think it makes sense. Again, very well doneThanks a lot for the compliments!
Out of all the add-ons, I thought the most about whether to include the 2nd red add-on as I too thought it might be overpowered. But then I realized that A) it's a red add-on so it should be strong and
it has a strong counter to it: If just 1 out of the 4 survivors is good at stealth, the survivors will have a good shot at winning.I also wanted to include it because I like it when killers have an add-on that completely changes up their playstyle.
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@Iceman said:
@MongByeolBuddiesThis is incredible. I have a strange feeling that a voodoo killer is on their list. It would be interesting if you can create perks and a survivor to go with this chapter. I know you want to leave it up to the dev but I’m interested to see what you have to offer.
Wow! "This is incredible." Thanks a lot!!! I tell you what; if I come up with three killer perks that are good, I'll add them.
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@Mockingbird_X said:
he turns survivors into No Mither mains without No Mither benefits.
That's not true though - your post explicitly states that "Cursed survivors, however, can fully recover from the dying state." which is the No Mither benefit.
Overall I can say I like the "placing a totem" idea but I'm not so sure about the way you're doing this. You're essentially imposing broken effect on to the Survivors, but what if a Survivor is already running No Mither? What if several do? What if it's a No Mither SWF team? They are pretty popular on youtube these days. So the Curse power is useless in these situations.
Also there is a Survivor perk Deliverance that causes Broken effect after a guaranteed hook escape. When playing against the Curse the Suvivors will have no reasons to doubt if they shoudl use it at the moment, or later - the killer power is already there, making them Broken, making the 100% chance of hook escape have no drawbacks.
The other thing I'm not fully comfortable with is that you're not using the Doll's totem radius for anything other than telegraphing the relative position of the curse totem. Why not have addons that apply debuff in the Doll's radius?
The last thing is this:
The Curse can detect cursed survivors within 28 meters and strongly detect cursed survivors within 16 meters.
What exactly is "strongly detect" ?
Thanks a lot for the critique and questions!
You're absolutely right; I shouldn't have said "without No Mither benefits." I was only thinking about No Mither's benefits of no bleeding and reduced sound, and stupidly forgot about its most powerful benefit -- getting up from the dying state. I'll edit that part to fix my mistake.
As for your questions:
1) What if a survivor or a team is running No Mither?
The Curse's power would be useless in most cases. It would only be useful if he were running the add-ons that let him detect cursed survivors, that exhausted cursed survivors or that let him kill cursed survivors.That being said, in the 500 hours or so I have in the game, I've only seen about 10 to 20 No Mither players and never more than 1 in a single match. If a full team ran No Mither, it would be disappointing not to get much use out of your power, but at least you'd be a 115% movement speed killer and only would need to hit each survivor once for them to go down.
Also, The Shape and The Cannibal don't get much benefit from their powers against No Mither players, but they are still a good killer and a decent killer, respectively.
2) About Deliverance, you're right; if you're cursed and on a hook and can use Deliverance, there would be almost no reason to wait to see if a teammate will rescue you or not since you'll have the broken status effect anyway. However, if you see that a teammate is cleansing the doll or about to cleanse the doll, then you should wait because you'd be broken for the next minute if you use Deliverance even if the doll is cleansed.
3) About the cursed doll's terror radius, I only want it to be used as a way to help survivors find the doll. I feel if the doll provides no indication of where it is, it would be too overpowered and frustrating for the survivors. Yet, if I provide a debuff while the survivor is near the cursed doll, then they'll definitely know it's the cursed doll and not the killer.
4) For the 4th Purple add-on, strongly detect means that the volume of the ceremonial mace's rattling will become louder when the survivor is within 16 meters. This means that the rattling will start when you move within 28 meters of the survivor and then become louder when you move within 16 meters of the survivor. This auditory information will let you know that you are moving in the direction of the survivor.
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@Iceman said:
This is incredible. I have a strange feeling that a voodoo killer is on their list. It would be interesting if you can create perks and a survivor to go with this chapter.I added 3 killer perks for The Curse. Let me know what you think.
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Your Torments are especially cool, it's like normal Terror Radius perks but with a more powerful twist that lasts after you're gone. The effects you have are powerful yet simple, the one that turns items against the user is interesting, I was going to say that the Survivor can always abandon their item but no one does that, they're stupid and pick up their items immediatley after being hit with Franklin's Demise lol My only gripe about them is that maybe 30 seconds is too long for it to take effect? Maybe it's not? I personally have a hard time finding Survivors so I don't know how often they're within my TR, once I find them they're dead but I need to find them first so maybe my opinion on the time isn't the right one, 30 is probably fine.
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Thanks!
You might be right about the 30 seconds; it would have to be tested.
The time needs to be long enough so survivors have some counterplay and long enough so survivors would want to use the shrines to remove the negative effects. If the survivors suffer the Torment effects too quickly, then they will feel there's nothing they can do to avoid them and simply put up with the negative effects.One perk that would synergize well with these Torment Perks is Whispers. You'll know when a survivor or survivors are having their souls blackened.
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First of all, I want to say this is a fantastic concept. I see a lot of unique gameplay opportunities with a killer like this, and forcing the survivors to go searching for the doll (or not!) would add a new layer to the decision-making process.
Just some thoughts about a few minor details:
@MongByeolBuddies said:
Your secondary power cannot be used within 32 meters of a hooked or dying survivor or in the basement.
(This is to make it harder to camp.)But what if the killer drops the doll, then hooks a survivor within its terror radius? Also, what if the killer drops the doll right overtop of the basement?
@MongByeolBuddies said:
Torments are new effects that hamper survivors. Survivors’ souls are blackened for each second they are within 32 meters of the killer that has a Torment Perk equipped and not in a chase. (This doesn't apply to dying or hooked survivors.)Would lockers block this? They block a lot nowadays.
@MongByeolBuddies said:
1) Schadenfreude -- A Torment that causes items to backfire on the user.
When Flashlights, Party Starters or Firecrackers are used, the survivor is blinded, Med-Kits cause the Deep Wound Status Effect, Toolboxes cause generators to explode and regress, Maps and keys with aura reading show survivors’ auras to the killer, and Keys lock the hatch for a period of time. The Torment Status Symbol for Schadenfreude doesn’t appear on survivors’ HUDs until after they trigger its negative effect. (Items do not lose charges and are not consumed when used under the effects of Schadenfreude.)I think keys locking the hatch wouldn't accomplish much because you'd only use the key if it was already locked in the first place. Yes, it might make a difference if, say, you used the key and then the last survivor immediately died or you purified yourself or something, but that's a very unusual case. Do you what would be really cruel, though? If using a key while under the effects of Shadenfreude caused the hatch to respawn somewhere else (maybe within a certain range or after a certain time if you want to apply slight/moderate/considerable effects).
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Thanks a lot @Snikers !
I love your idea for Schadenfreude! It's great. I'm going to use it and give you credit for it.
Thanks for reminding me about lockers in regards to Torment perks. If you're in a locker, your soul will not be blackened.
If The Curse has already cursed the doll, he can hook a survivor near the doll, and he can curse the doll on top of the basement, just not in the basement or on the basement stairs.
Here's my reasoning behind this: If you couldn't hook a survivor near the cursed doll, then the doll would create a deadzone that survivors could exploit by making sure if they go down, they go down near the doll, which would make it hard for the killer to get them to a hook.
As for the basement, I want to match BHVR's rule that totems cannot spawn in the basement, but they can spawn around it, to make it consistent with the current gameplay structure.
Also I want to create as few restrictions as possible for cursing the doll. So it is possible for the killer to camp but harder for him to do so.
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Hello,
I’ve made some big changes to The Curse based on what I’ve learned about DBD over the past eight months. I think he’s much better now. @Peanits and other players if you could take a look and tell me what you think, I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks
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