Why BHVR did not introduce Dracula and a Werewolf yet ?
After all these years the most iconic horror icons are still missing. And both require no license. Werewolf can adapt to any map so it can easily be a killer only chapter. Dracula can feature his castle which would be an iconic map that could have interior , upper towers, courtyard , crypt with a coffin etc.. (Just imagine random generation on this one)
These are really very famous and cult level horror icons and yet still absent for some reason.. What's more is that BHVR can tailor them to their liking too. (though I'd keep a werewolf like in Van Helsing movie rather than a gorilla man)
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DbD called hall of horror icons but yet we have not any old-horror icons: Dracula, Mummy, Werewolf etc.
It's shame tho.
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Well they are running out of licenses to bring so maybe they are keeping those in the background for now
Or they can't get them to work giving the engine and coding
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For the longest time BHVR seemed completely averse to anything nonhuman for some reason. We are slowly getting away from that with Dredge and Singularity so there's hope but it would be next year at the earliest and even then I'm skeptical. It's a shame cuz a werewolf is probably my dream killer and I do think there's creative ways to do it that isn't just a demo rehash but BHVR tends to skew heavily towards slashers over creatures so I think it's overall unlikely we'll ever get one.
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Puppers (may he rest in peace) once said on his stream that he asked the devs about doing a werewolf. He said they told him that slowly transforming a human into a werewolf would be too difficult. Now, this was a few years ago so I assume BHVR has since grown in skill/budget so maybe that's no longer an issue. And I don't know why they didn't just design a werwolf who was already fully transformed (so no complex transformation needed). But maybe that's their intention: have the killer slowly transform into a werewolf as it gains more power.
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Dracula is a real person so they wouldnt...ah nvm
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Werewolf - hit another survivor infected them with curse to transform into werewolf for 60 sec. Turned survivor become another werewolf and needs to hit another survivor to leave werewolf state
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They could (at least) bring in characters based on those classic types. Looking at the potential roster, even creating a killer inspired by a horror classic has lots of potential. There's a plethora of monsters to choose from as inspiration (even if not the real deal):
Werewolves, Reptilians, Yeti, Gorgons, Golems, Cyclops, Orcs, Imps, Mummies, Elves, Banshees, Skeletons, etc.
Lots m9re options still in the pot.
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I remember once making a generalized concept of a vampire killer https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/360500/vampire-chapter-concept#latest
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If I recall correctly, early on they wanted to avoid the classic/basic horror cliches of Vampires/Werewolves/Zombies. Even when we have a basic trope such as 'Cannibal' with Hag, we get an additional twist like magic hexes with her teleports. Nurse is the medical 'Angel of Death', but also asphyxiates herself when she teleports, hence the labored breathing. There is an additional level of creativity required for an original Killer, no matter how low that bar has now been lowered by a certain 'rich person hunts people for sport'.
As far as Licensed Killers, they are often progenitors within the genre. 'Hillybilly horror' is arguably led by Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Bubba), and The Hills have Eyes. The stalker/slasher Killer OG is of course Michael Myers, with Ghost Face's father Scream echoing many of the ideas and flipping some on their head. Freddy being titled the Nightmare, is a classic of dream Killing. SAW franchise is a split of 'moralistic' and Gore/Torture (rhymes with Horn) genres. Resident Evil placing Survival Horror on the map for most gamers. Even if any of them are 'basic', that is often because they are what started the trope, or did it so well that they became the gold standard (as most evidently seen with Myers -> Ghosty).
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