Do you think all the characters' sexual orientations should be revealed?

Doing it for every character leads to bad writing.

There are two ways you could approach it

First, you could give every character a 'stat block' - list age, height, sexual orientation, blood type, etc. That would be the easiest way to handle it, but would also be cumbersome.

Second approach, you could have it come up within the lore. This leads to hamfisted writing where characters will go out of their way to refer to their partner by gender to make it clear. This is additionally difficult within a horror genre because many of the elements that get focused on don't have to do with romance.

When it works for a character, it makes sense to bring it up, but otherwise seems strange. Take Claudette, her whole character background is around science. It would seem strange to force in that in addition to being all about botany and online chat rooms, there's also a guy she found cute (it would likewise be weird to work in other details that many might consider important if this was a real person: religious affiliation for example).

Bisexual characters can be especially tricky to work in - just because a character is in a monogamous heterosexual/homosexual relationship doesn't mean they are straight/gay, so within the writing you now have to indicate the gender of the relationship they are in as well as indicate some past relationship or attraction.

Finally, it risks stereotyping by doing it for every character.

Not the point. The point is straight, gay, whatever, its a stat that doesn't affect the game, so why do we need labels for game characters?

Im not trying to step on toes, Im trying to learn. I understand representation is a need to some, so to those Im asking why is it a need? Will it increase or decrease your satisfaction with the game? Thanks in advance!

Everyone going "don't make it the focus" "No we don't need it" etc etc, where were y'all when the Legion tome released and gave us TMI ab Frank and Julie? Or Nurse and Andrew? Or Felix and his girlfriend? Or-

I have not seen anyone talk about that before. Not 1 person. Might be I missed it but I didn't see anyone talk about it at the time.

Having 1 survivor be gay specifically so that people can identify with him is completely fine. Nothing against that. And if someone feels like they need to have all of these flags (I've lost count of how many there are by now, so please forgive me for that) that's fine as well. I really don't mind and I 100% support you in living your life the way you want (as long as you don't break the law). I start to care when this is what the game revolves around. And I'd argue that this is also where the problems would begin.

It doesn't look particularly good when there are 3 LGBTQ+ survivors and 1 straight survivor and only the straight guy escapes. I've been called horrible things in this game over much less (one time I was called racist because I defended my last hook, which happened to be an Adam, haven't repeated that mistake since) and seeing how BHVR went to action in Bubba's case (rightfully so) I really am not too keen of finding out how they'd act on this when the reports start to roll in. The same thing would happen when there is only one LGBTQ+ survivor and they die while everyone else escapes. Sometimes people are just so salty they'll report you for anything.

Again there is nothing wrong with having representation but it should not define the game. And basically that would happen, if we focus on every character's sexual preferences over the actual premise of the game itself.

Nay, I don't care. I support LGBTQ+ rights but, for the moment, everywhere I look I see it. Why bring it here too?

Fair point.

I believe that some characters should be left ambiguous, but more representation is always welcome! The reason that I wouldn't want all sexualities revealed is that while representation is important, it can also be seen as a positive when players can project themselves onto certain characters, the less specific/developed a character is, the easier it is for this to be done!

It would hurt more than help it. If all chars are left ambiguous , you could see each to be whatever you would want them to be. If we label everyone to be something specific , it would lock away chars from people. Imagine 85% of chars being hetero. Suddenly you could only identify with a few.

But right now most chars can be seen by everyone whatever each individual wants them to be.

The game has revolved around the trials the survivors and killers go through since it’s development. You're “worried” about nothing.