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Why are Blight and Dredge so similar?
I dont get the point. They were able to make another desing, but they copied and pasted instead. Look at their mouths they are identical. I think this will confuse new players...
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That's a bit disingenuous, don't you think? The mouths and orangey color scheme are the only points of similarity at all. Blight is a hunchbacked man with glowing orange bits and blighted deformations. Dredge is an eldritch mass of mismatched limbs, bones, and skulls protruding from a churning mass of darkness. You have to selectively crop pictures in order to get two killers that could be confused for the other.
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Oh, yes, I believe most players will look exclusively at their mouths and not literally everything else that differentiates them. This is so confusing for me as a survivor main.
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This is a joke... right? Like this has to be a joke.
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Baiting like this?
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The fact alone that Blight is still recognisable as human and Dredge is just a mass of flesh and bone with the only parts being recognisable as individual bits…
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This isnt a bait post or a joke. It's always said that the art team does a good job, but I don't think that's the case this time. Both have the same structure, mouth, range of colors and even the same hump.
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Blight and Dredge's similarities are there since both are more Entity-made than any other killer.
Otto Stamper likely based the Dredge on Blight
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Yeah, okay. It's a problem for people who can't tell the difference between hands and giant mantis scythes. Or legs versus oozing blackness crawling with Entity bits. And who also can't tell the difference in terror radii, or the killer zooming around the map versus everything turning dark and screamy.
I'm likelier to mistake a distant Trapper for a Legion or a Doctor than I am to mix up Blight and Dredge. Dredge's silhouette is super distinct from anything else we've seen in DBD.
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You're not getting my point. I am not approaching this post in terms of balance game, but rather in artistic terms.
I find the assassin's new design very poor and unoriginal because it is a copy of an existing one. A new player and I repeat, A NEW PLAYER, may think that they are the same character with different skin in the lobby.
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I mean... I'm sorry, but does it matter if someone who just got the game gets confused about two killers? I didn't know all the killers at first. We've got like seven different dudes in masks, a Nurse and a Doctor, a Spirit and an Onryo, two hicks with chainsaws... everything is confusing at first when you've got this much variety. But if you play the game, you learn, and that's that. I think new players have bigger "I'm confused"-related problems than mixing up the Blight and the Dredge.
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This just has to be a joke. Just because they both have a gaping maw they are "so similar"? They are COMPLETELY different aside from this one similarity. One is a writhing mass of corpse parts stitched together by darkness while the other one is a mutated scientist, who still has human features.
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"I think new players have bigger "I'm confused"-related problems than mixing up the Blight and the Dredge." I can agree with this point, but this does not mean that the small details should not be overlooked.
However, the "new players" argument was just one more addition to the criticism I am trying to explain. The artistic team has done a very insufficient and unoriginal job. Of all the options they had to design a monstrous assassin they based on one already present. Blight and Dredge no longer have an identity, it is something more transcendental.
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I agree that the artistic team team has been unoriginal from the start I mean look at huntress and trapper: white mask, same mouth, same structure. How are new players supposed to tell them apart? I just can’t believe bhvr would’ve fallen this far to create copy paste versions of the same killer
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Yeah when i play aß Survivor i dont know if im playing against a blight or dredge because there Mouth are so similiar 🤷♀️
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You guys are so funny... Why can't a post that isn't about balance be taken seriously?
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Because your argument is flawed from the beginning. You argue that theyre both “too similar” and that new players can’t tell them apart based solely on their mouth and “general structure” shouldn’t that make all the humanoid killers hard to tell apart for new players? If you don’t like the dredge’s design and think it’s too similar to blight then just say that don’t bring in the new players who don’t need to be here.
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As i said before the "new players" argument was just one more addition to the criticism I am trying to explain.
You can differentiate the identity of the trapper and the huntress easily. One is male, another female. His color palette is different. One has an axe, another a machete etc. This does not happen with Blight and Dredge. The art team has failed on basic principles. From the total freedom to create a monster they made the most basic thing, a copy.
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Your problem is that virtually nobody agrees that the Dredge is a copy of the Blight. You've been given several reasons why they aren't similar in more than superficial ways.
Like... Trapper is a white man in a smiling white mask and dark clothes with a bladed weapon. Legion is a white man in a smiling white mask and dark clothes with a bladed weapon. Clown is a white man in a smiling white mask and dark clothes with a bladed weapon. Did the art team fail when designing them? I think not, because there's a ton more features that differentiate them and they both play towards different types of horror.
You can mistake Blight for Dredge if you look at the top 20% of their picture. Everything below that is wildly different and that fleshy color palette is the only lingering similarity.
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Okay, well if it hits you with lethal rush it probably isn't dredge
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Tbh I'd confuse nemesis with other survivors before i mix up blight and dredge
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you can tell the difference from blight and dredge easily too: one you can tell was clearly a human, and other a veil of black with human body parts forming the appendages. One has a cane, while the other was a giant claw made of bone. Dredge has a core of black with fleshy pink around him, Blight has that beige grey with the orange highlighting him from the Dredge.
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I did actually think when it was leaked that Dredge looks like a Demo/Blight crossover.
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blight looks like if the hunchback of notre dam was a crack addict
dredge looks like a dick was possessed by the shadow realm
they really dont look alike
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and other killers have humanoid mouths. Do you struggle to tell the difference between them?
and dredge and blight have similar mouths in a vague sense. They still look quite a bit different. This post is just.....sad.
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