Nightmare: An Idea For A Freddy Change (Again)

Always good to read your posts friend!

Old Freddy seems like a good direction to head, however with this iteration of Freddy his power is pretty similar to PTB Sadako, with immense slowdown, a weak stealth (by virtue of being unable to attack) and a teleport to gens... with this in mind there are a few things I'm not so keen on that I'd like to feedback/share thoughts on.

Failed Skill Checks can also wake up.

I really don't conceptually like failed Skill Checks waking survivors up. It's RNG reliant, and I really don't care for the ping ponging in and out of the dream state.

I can see that players will carry a medkit (they are still the best item for survivors in the game), throw pallets and sit trying to get skill checks for self healing and spamming for a miss (like people did when everyone ran self-care)(P.S. Franklin's Value?). It also means if everyone is asleep, and you don't have a medkit or aren't injured, your only escape is deliberately reverting progress on healing other survivors or break gens, which given the huge 50% repair speed reduction, you must do. Again you're sat spamming the skillcheck button waiting for RNG to grant you one that you might not even get.

While I don't like the clocks for the almost painful lack of originality, having to race to a location to get out of the dream with Freddy in pursuit fits more thematically to me, especially with regards to thoughts I have about teleporting. Instead of clocks, I would have the survivor have to burn thier hand on one of Freddy's pipes or take a steam jet to the face or something that would hurt in order to wake up.

Once targeted by The Nightmare’s power, survivors enter the Dream Transition for 7 seconds, during the Dream Transition Survivors can see The Nightmare intermittently and they suffer from the Incapacitated status effect.

The incapacitated effect is a great touch here, stops survivors doing things in Freddy's face with him being helpless. One thing that strikes me about Old Freddy though is the way you wander around spamming your dream world yoink on survivors to pull them into the dream once you're in range. Once you have that Transition it's all about trying yo keep people in the dream as mich as possible.

The fire and forget style of this power doesn't seem very interactive to me, and in conjunction with the Incapacitated effect it seems like it'd be quite frustrating to face (especially in conjunction with my skill check escape removal suggestion above).

I think a more interesting method might be something like:

• Have 21s transition that is fire and forget, that inflicts half the repair penalty on generators for the duration of the transition.
• Have Freddy channel on a specific survivor to increase the Transition rate by a factor of 3 to take 7s (from maximum) and apply Incapacitated.

This would mean that Freddy can target a survivor to incapacitate, still put pressure on others as he goes but can't just constantly spam Incapacitate at will. With multiple survivors swarming at gates for example you can incapacitate the one opening the gate, and then they have to move to let another survivor in. Perhaps transitioning survivors gain collision with Freddy, and if he plays it smart he may be able to body block at gate, which gives him the unique property to block off a gate rush after an unhook.

Special Ability: Dream Projection. Teleport to a Generator in view. Releasing the button early will cancel the action. Survivors cannot interact with the targeted Generator.

This is the major talking point and I think it's great to keep this is his kit. One thing that is irksome about this addition though is as gens get completed, he loses the power to teleport. This might be fine mind you, since ofc the rest of his power is there to slow down all actions, healing and otherwise, especially as he now can block the generator being repaired with his TP... so perhaps that is sufficient trade off where as the trial goes on, he gets weaker?

That being said, how does blocking generators interact with the black box? If you don't get blocked but the gen spews blood, you know he isn't coming, if you do get blocked, you know he is, so the surprise doens't work... I'd prefer the abvlity to teleport to gens regardless of whether they are powered or not? Or would that be too oppressive in the end game?

Me being silly:

I'm going off the rails with something mad cap now that I'll just brain dump... since his TP has a pretty long cooldown, perhaps allowing Freddy to teleport to other things as well, that are near a survivor in the dream (since he has their aura anyway). Like pallets that haven't been thrown, hooks that don't have a survivor on them. Pretending to be a hanging survivor then unhooking himself, or leaning against a pallet the survivor is running to is something I can really see Freddy doing... and it gives him to power to do some mind games at loops. He probably need other things toning down to compensate, but it would be pretty interesting.

Anyway, outside of my BS, it sounds cool regardless! GL getting Freddy back :D

I would like him that way, hopefully I get to play him one day. One little change to dream projection; Survivor’s around 16m of the generator you project to get automatically pulled into the dream world. I think dream pallets should be somehow a part of his kit even tho they aren’t quite useful, but they can be extremely fun.

For the addons; I think decreasing the chance of skill checks isn’t a very good effect and you have a lot of addons that do the exact same only with different numbers. I think you could add the killer instinct after each projection as addon.