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What do you guys think of this type of killer design?

Adaez
Adaez Member Posts: 1,243

Scary or not?

Comments

  • glitchboi
    glitchboi Member Posts: 6,023

    Compared to the rest, Singularity moreso fits the Evil is Cool type trope rather than focusing on the horror of evil. Still pretty terrifying but he's pretty badass with his modified body of perfection, the way he taunts his victims, and even Gabriel Soma comparing him to an ancient God. What makes him the unique of the three is that he's the only one to be fully sapient, being a bloodthirsty AI that enjoys and knows what he does, best shown with his voice lines.

    Dredge is simply made of evil without any personal intentions, and Unknown, well, to be honest, is so much of a mystery that I can't be sure about that thing, but it's clearly trying to taunt its prey.

  • Caiman
    Caiman Member Posts: 2,960

    They're the best original killer designs in DbD.

  • Smoe
    Smoe Member Posts: 2,972
    edited February 21

    I'll just copy below the same thing i wrote in another thread about scary killer designs.

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    Scary is subjective, personally i don't think any of the killers (including Unknown) are scary, some of them are unsettling at best, but definitely not scary.

  • Ryuhi
    Ryuhi Member Posts: 3,895
    edited February 21

    I still think the new killer looks like a mutant out of LISA

    (this is a good thing)

  • Xernoton
    Xernoton Member Posts: 5,887
    edited February 22

    Dredge: Not really. I just see a turkey.

    Singularity: Meh. I guess it's kind of creepy that it's a cold and ruthless machine that literally tries to enhance itself by absorbing your body but I keep thinking it would look so damn funny to trip it. Like, run up on it and kick its legs to make it trip.

    Unknown: It's more goofy than anything else. I saw the ingame portrait and started laughing. It only got worse when I saw the actual thing. The worst is the pallet break. How am I supposed to take this thing serious? I just wanna poke it with a stick and see how it reacts. Or throw a pebble at it to see, if it'll fetch.

  • SMitchell8
    SMitchell8 Member Posts: 3,302
    edited February 22

    I can't take it seriously with an ass for a stomach. Dredge and Singularity look good. Can see the DNA in all 3 of them. Pretty confident the same designer for all 3.

    Post edited by SMitchell8 on
  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 11,715

    Dredge and Singularity both look great!

    The Unknown looks more goofy than scary sometimes.

  • IlliterateGenocide
    IlliterateGenocide Member Posts: 6,030

    Unknown looks like analog or "camera horror" i love it. reminds me off those old japanese horror manga and shorts

    tho non of them really are scary.

    but i like all the designs tho Singularities hook being like a wiggly scythe instead of a mantis claw kinda sucks

  • IamFran
    IamFran Member Posts: 1,616

    Dredge and Singularity are scary.

    Unknown looks more goofy than scary.

  • RaSavage42
    RaSavage42 Member Posts: 5,566

    Give and take... some are and some aren't

  • Adaez
    Adaez Member Posts: 1,243

    Dredge: Turkey

    Singluarity: Meatballs

    The Unknown: The first word I think about when I see The Unknown is goofy

    Like I dont wanna play this killer with his default skin in a game where bullying and toxicity is so rampant especially from survivors.

    Imagine playing this weak killer and being taunted by suvivors, look at that goofy looking killer, he's so bad, no thanks, survivors will neither find him scary or strong, they'll use that againts him, to me he just looks really off putting, I dont wanna see that deisgn on my screen when I either play him or againts him, but I wont play him anyway since I find his power to be just a combination of powers already in a game that doesn't fit him at all, he has a sci-fi type of cannon and an axe, the new chapter needed more time in the oven.

  • Caiman
    Caiman Member Posts: 2,960

    Now that you mention it, Unknown does look like a Junji Ito creation.

  • Yatol
    Yatol Member Posts: 1,960
    edited February 22

    The new killer reminds me of Pennywise where you think he's one thing but he's actually another thing.

  • Dogma_loki
    Dogma_loki Member Posts: 436

    Not at all.

    Looks like something out of a cheesy 2nd rate comic book out of the 70's.

  • GentlemanFridge
    GentlemanFridge Member Posts: 5,796

    Singularity doesn't really seem scary to me. Neither does Dredge, although I do think the design's neat.

    Unknown though... I really can't put my finger on what it is, but something about it just deeply disturbs me.

  • Nebula
    Nebula Member Posts: 1,400

    For me personally, all these killers look more goofy than scary.

    I can't lie either, I'm super disappointed in the Unknown's design based off the teasers, I really thought he was going to look way different than what we got. I know people like him though, so they definitely didn't completely miss, but for me I think he's the worst looking original killer they've released (besides Skull Merchant, everything about her sucks). I think there's a fine line between scary and too much and I think they tried way too hard to make him look scary and ended up with something that just looks super goofy.

  • GloomySpooks
    GloomySpooks Member Posts: 41

    The Unknown is a silly little guy imo.

    When they showed that still of half his face in the camping teaser, I already knew I wasn't going to like it. I really dig the creepypasta vibes of the teasers so I see where they got the "big smile, no eyes" look from but idk with all the twisting and his head seeming so small, he just looks goofy lol. A little less twisting and more just deformations and disproportioned limbs would be creepy, and make him look less like Dwight lol, give it some longer stringy hair and make its head a little more of a proportionate size, idk. But yeah, he is creepy but I am def going to laugh more than be creeped out by him. His floppy nodders crack me up.

  • NODD3RS
    NODD3RS Member Posts: 161

    dredge and singularity dont disturb me as much as the unknown. Maybe bc of the analog/uncanny factor of it. just something about it.

  • jamally093
    jamally093 Member Posts: 1,695

    Scary not fully uncanny yes i mean it's also a video game that has a lot of stuff so putting super realistic details can be hard unlike let's say dead space it's a single player game so no need for a server. So I think when it comes to scary it shouldn't be based on the full on graphics but also the idea of imagine that thing coming at you. I mean if you look at unknown in game uncanny in real life you wouldn't be standing there saying "Hey Bob wanna grab a cold one and watch the game?" So in the end scary no but uncanny or eerie yes definitely.

  • Adaez
    Adaez Member Posts: 1,243
    edited February 23

    I agree, at least Skull Merchant is not off putting and if her kit wasn't so bad at the beginning, she would be one of the most popular killers, I think she looks great and her skins are great, the new killers is just off putting because of the way he looks, gross in a way that makes me not wanna play him or againts him, this is by far my least favorite chapter especially after those teasers made the dissapointment even bigger after the reveal

    Imagine you're a new killer joining the fog and all everyone thinks of you is that you're a silly and goofy little guy, yeah the design is a miss in terms of scary and cool.

  • xEmoGirlxAlexisx
    xEmoGirlxAlexisx Member Posts: 613

    My favourite Killer Designs in the Game and 1 of the reason i Main Dredge and Singularity

    Unknown is cleary the scariest of all 3 because he looks so human and Non human At the Same time u dont want to see this thing in the night

    we need more Body Horror Killers like this and i hope BHVR continue this Kind of Killer Designs :)

    still waiting for a nuclear based Killer

  • xEmoGirlxAlexisx
    xEmoGirlxAlexisx Member Posts: 613
    edited February 23

    " Big Smile, no Eyes " he has eyes under the human Skin when u see his Face on a high light u can see his Eyes also u can see a Eye on the Camping Teaser :)

  • Shuma
    Shuma Member Posts: 55

    Unknown has his naked BUTT showing in the front below his shirt, with his pants hanging down like a thugs.

    Thats literally the first thing I see, and I just can’t take it seriously. Who decided to twist his body around so you can see his butt cheeks from the front, lol?

  • Alice_pbg
    Alice_pbg Member Posts: 6,556

    I like dredge so damn much... she is "scary" personified.


    don't find singularity particularly scary, more unsettling...


    unknown falls into unsettling for me too, but the axe kinda ruins it. it's just too normal. too basic.

  • Volcz
    Volcz Member Posts: 1,188

    Dredge is good. The other 2 aren't scary at all.

  • Bafugaboo
    Bafugaboo Member Posts: 406

    I like all these for different reasons. The Unknown reminds me of Men in Black the alien cockroach in a man’s skin. The Dredge is just amazing. The Singularity is different in a good way.

  • RFSa09
    RFSa09 Member Posts: 886

    for me, blight´s and deathslinger visual design are the best ones, but imagine those 3 things actally trying to kill you IRL like, holy