New Killer / Survivor Idea
The character I mentioned will be both a killer and a survivor. I haven't written their story yet, but I envisioned them as the same person entirely. They will be a survivor trying to escape from the evil within, while also being a killer who succumbs to that evil and spreads terror. ( Of course, they won't be both at the same time. The player can choose which one they want to play ^^ )
When played as a survivor, the character carries their weapon on their back or hip as an accessory, while play as a killer, they hold it in their hand.
What do you think about this character idea? Wouldn't you want a character like this?
Edit Note : I have decided to remove the medical term that I used as an example in my previous message, as I thought it could lead to misunderstandings.
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Sign me up. I'll help the survivors repair the gens and then all of us can escape!
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We need killer type killers, not Legion type killers.
The supernatural, unrelenting type of killers are the fun ones. This game doesn't need more human-like killers that just have a tiny personality twist.
Trickster, Legion, and the one and only Skull Merchant all lack creativity in both design and lore.
We need more killers like Dredge, Blight, Nurse, Wraith etc.
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Thank you for your comment, I respect your opinion but we think completely differently. On the contrary, I believe that more humanoid killers should come because the characters you mentioned have become more like monsters than killers.
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I think I saw a reddit topic an eon ago (or was it somewhere else ?) where they discussed the possibilty for the Hag to become the first killer to actually turn into a survivor, she already has the same height and given her lore, it would make sense
But I don't think your idea would be possible now. It would probably receive a huge backlash regarding mental health issues (I can picture the crowd with forks saying that people whith such issues aren't killers), but I reallly like the idea though
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Personally not a fan of portraying a MI that is already wrongfully depicted as dangerous as killers, and I can't imagine BHVR would risk facing the backlash for doing it.
However I absolutely agree on both the "humanoid killers are great" & "we need more links between killers & survivors" fronts. The only ones we have (off the top of my head) are Legion & Jeff and Trickster & YunJin, but I really hope we'd get twins or siblings but one of them is a killer and the other a survivor, or have an alternate version of the same person in different roles, considering multiverse is canon. There's a bunch of killers who's lore you read an think "why are they a killer?" (Hag, Spirit, Artist), and I think it'd be neat to introduce the survivor version of them (or a whole new chapter), with the lore being the same at the begining before diverging at a key point so we can see the same person become a killer / survivor.
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I did back in the day a Chapter concept with the killer being basically a Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde, in which you could shift from the DR ego to sabotage gens and inadvertedly get close to survivors to the Hyde ego in which you could do some sweeps with a pipe to damage survivors in an AoE. But I don't think that will ever be possible due to the coding. It's not the same you're proposing, but it's close.
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However I absolutely agree on both the "humanoid killers are great" & "we need more links between killers & survivors" fronts. The only ones we have (off the top of my head) are Legion & Jeff and Trickster & YunJin
I'm the opposite, I think trying to tie the killer and survivor's lore together in the chapters is going to get old, and sometimes results in clunky and unnecessary writing. Knight and Vittorio was fine, I guess, but Thalita and Renato encountering the Skull Merchant adds nothing to the story, it's just conveniently shoving them all into The Fog at the same time. And I still don't understand why Haddie's items are used as The Dredge's add-ons.
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Well I didn't even know about Thalita & Renato lmao (not up to date on their lore), but I agree there's no point in linking killers & survivors just for the sake of linking them, I just wish we'd get one chapter where there's a significant and cool bond, like Jeff & Legion was more of a fun nod that doesn't really matter, YunJin & Trickster was cool but I wish we'd get a chapter where it was pushed even more, for eg if Oni & Spirit where in the same chapter but Rin was a survivor instead (or as OP proposed, if it was literally the same person). But I agree not all (or even most) killers & survivors should meet or be related in any way, I just wish we'd get one chapter like that.
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