Slightly Disappointed with Alien Chapter
Let me preface this by stating that I am a huge Alien fan and I am very grateful that we are even getting an Alien chapter to begin with. That being said, I'm really hoping for 2 things on this chapter's release tomorrow:
- We don't get an Alien Queen cosmetic. I'm really hoping for a second Alien chapter eventually where the killer's power is placing facehugger egg traps and the Queen would be the perfect killer for that power. I get that they were going for a Xeno runner/drone archetype and in that regard, the killer's great. But it's been so long since we've gotten a trap killer and we really only have 2 (Trapper and Hag). The Xeno Queen would be such an amazingly unique trap killer. Also we could get the claustrophobic LV-426 station/nest from the second movie as a new map. Fingers crossed.
- They change the chase music. It was pretty bad in the PTB. Might I suggest hiring @FirsEncounter? Their Alien theme/chase music is honestly incredible and they have many other amazing compositions. Their passion and talent would be an amazing asset to DBD.
Anyway, I'm still mostly excited for the new chapter tomorrow. Just slightly disappointed for now.
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Btw as a side note @FirsEncounter if you happen to see this, I'd love for you to make a Gears of War x Dead By Daylight theme & chase music video. So much great horror music to draw from and honestly my dream licensed chapter. I'd even pay to have that comissioned if you're interested. I know of everyone out there, you'd do it justice.
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Alien Queen sounds cool but it doesn’t make sense size wise. An Alien Queen is huge. It wouldn’t make sense for such a huge creature to get stunned by a pallet or fit into narrow pathways on RPD or the Game.
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@appleas Ya it would have to be downscaled to work (like Pyramid Head and Nemesis) but it could work. I'm just worried they'll squander that potential on a cosmetic when there are so many drone archetype models to choose from. Even the queen has variations like the pathogen queen so it could still work as a standalone killer. It certainly wouldn't make sense for a queen to be going through tunnels like the current Xeno killer can.
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My knowledge of Alien Variants is limited to the old AVP 2 game, probably the Runner or Praetorian as a cosmetic would work.
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@appleas Oh ya there's tons from all the movies and games that would work great for the current killer that aren't a queen. A few from Aliens: Fireteam Elite like the Prowlers, Spitters, Bursters, and Pathogen Xenos would be pretty visually distinct. If the next chapter is Predator, they could even do a Predalien cosmetic.
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I was an advocate that they should've used the wall crawling mechanic from that masterpiece.
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They're obviously not gonna hire another composer when they already have one.
Also facehuggers as a power would just be RBT 2.0
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As a huge Alien fan... I hope we never get Facehuggers as a killer power.
A survivor walking around with a Facehugger attached to them, and/or being able to remove said Facehugger themselves, would be goofy as hell and entirely lore-breaking.
Also the Queen would be way too large of a killer. She wouldn't even fit in the basement.
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As much as I'm amused at the thought of survivors running around trying to escape facehuggers, I have to agree. It's just not doable in the game, not in a way that would be satisfying.
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Well the good news is they changed the chase music (hopefully it's good now). But damn it they couldn't help themselves and added an Alien Queen cosmetic :(
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@Smoe Many games and other creative projects have multiple composers, which can lead to great results. Some that come to mind are the original Halo trilogy and Cobra Kai. Clearly the current composer has too much work to do and could use some backup.
Ya I imagined it would be like RBTs with a ticking clock but instead of being applied on downed survivors, it would be proximity tripped like Hag traps.
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@Seraphor Fair enough on the Facehuggers comment but it's the Entity's realm. It can bend the rules slightly.
And they added a Queen cosmetic so... ya. I guess the Queen can go through the drone tunnels now lol.
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Many games have more than one composer yes, but none of them got their composers simply just by hiring people who makes fan music for their game. Also you can clearly tell whenever a dbd track is fan made or not, most of them don't have the same vibe to them as Michel April's music.
BHVR isn't going to hire any fan creators as composers for dbd because most of them aren't professionals, it is the equivalent to the ''Nintendo, hire this man'' meme.
Also bhvr did consider facehuggers for Xeno early on, however due to the creature's complex lifecycle, it wouldn't be translated well into dbd's gameplay and was therefore scrapped. I doubt that even if we got a queen as it's own killer that Facehuggers & Chestbursters would make the cut simply because adding it as a power that can be removed like RBT would dump down it's significance to something less than what it was in Alien.
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we did get an alien queen cosmetic......
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I thought it was a Praetorian at first.
Despite being the tallest cosmetic in DBD, she’s still smaller than her lore form
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They should bring any other composers who has scored video games.
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