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Why a Doctor Who or SCP chapter wouldn't be easy to do
So I sometimes see a few posts saying hey Doctor Who or SCP would make a great chapter which I'm all for but one little problem comes to my mind for both. Killer selection. Now both IPs have a good amount of choices but of course BHVR would want to go with the most iconic.
Rough estimate for killer choice
Doctor who would be the weeping angels
SCP tough choice but I would say 173 since I mean it's the most iconic and the one that started the whole thing in general.
But both come with a major problem both rely in their respective world on the person blinking both move when not looked at. Now Weeping angels might be a little easier to do have multiple around the map so you can move between them. But 173 not so as far as I know there's only 1 of it. Now you could make a blink timer/meters when survivors blink and you can move within their sight but it then begs the question on how it would work. Are all survivors sharing the same timer so they all blink at the same time or is it a separate timer for each because if it is separate then it enters the problem of smart survivors can just rework their timer so they blink at separate times it has been shown in both IPs that people do that to prevent the respected character from moving. Plus survivors can just keep looking and run you probably wouldn't be able to pick up much ground.
Now another thing that pops in my head with that...bots the bane of most killers. They have 360 vision meaning they can run past obstacles while also looking at you which is why a bot can't really be downed far away from Unknown if weakened since they can constantly look at run past objects. So if a bot at 360 vision then they can keep staring at you while gaining a lot of ground. Now you could pull a Dredge move with a nightfall and darken the map so you move freely but then how would that work Dredge gains nightfall via using their power and injuring/hooking survivors. Plus infinite nightfall would be a nightmare for survivors since I don't think they want no vision at all.
So I might be over thinking but it kinda popped in my head how hard it would be to do either while yes you could choose a different character it's kinda like if you did a chapter on Friday the 13th and doing part 5 Jason who isn't even Jason but a copy cat. So basically it's you could go with another character from the IP but the iconic villian from it that almost everyone knows would fit best.
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The weeping angel mechanic wouldn't work because the killer has to move insanely fast while not in view, to a speed that'd be impossible to control.
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Not to mention that SCPs cannot be monetised, so there’s not a whole lot of incentive to dedicate resources to it.
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Hopefully DBD will have Final fantasy or Detroit become human chapter.
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Felt compelled to come back briefly just to reply to this one, lol.
Daleks and Cybermen are infinitely more iconic to Doctor Who IMO than the Weeping Angels. I would make the Killer Davros and have his power involve Daleks. Could also do something involving The Master (Missy?) instead. But I would definitely not consider Weeping Angels above all those.
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your issue is picking the weeping angels. Cybermen, the master and Daleks are right there.
Cybermen probably being the better choice for this game.
and the doctor as the survivor, of course, with skins being the different doctors.
honestly… it's a good idea. I would buy a couple skins… He can even keep the sonic and complain that everything is wood.
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pls no I don't want to be kicked in the face by Tifa (actually..)
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I don't think the Cybermen, Daleks or Master are good picks.
They're not really slasher villains. The Cybermen might be the closest fit, but their horror is existential.
Buuuut, I do think you could make interesting killers out of the Boneless (invasive species from 2D space) and the Vashta Nerada. (Carnivorous shadows)
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I know ai helpers are frowned upon by many for power design, but I would totally take like a Dalek that has an AI Cyberman and Weeping Angel roaming the map the same way Nemesis's zombies do, or a Cybermen with a Dalek and Weeping Angel.
It would be a little thematically all over the place, but I think it'd be cool to let out more than just one of Doctor Who's rogues gallery.
As for SCP, while that would genuinely be one of my most hype additions, I believe it's already been said to be impossible due to how Creative Commons Listening works, straight from the devs themselves too.
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Judge holden from Blood meridian would be cool but it would never ever be in dbd lol
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but lightning would kill the entity
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Daleks would be awesome you control three of them in a group your ability allows you to send them out kinda like hound master. They can shoot to cause hinder but only the main body can do it. Also once a downed survivor is surrounded by the three deleks it teleportation power spawns them on the closest hook.
They move kinda slow but the hinder beam + divide and conquer tactics make up for it.
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no. you picked wrong.
cybermen is existential horror, and the alien is a r*pe analogy. both can be in the fog.
no way the boneless and vashta nerada work in this game
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I mean that more in that Cybermen don't really fit DBD's thematic ensemble. They're very clean and clinical, and their whole shtick is removing emotion, the opposite of what the entity wants.
Conversion is what makes Cybermen scary, not their combat prowess.
The Boneless and Vashta Nerada would make for good stealth killers, I think. Tricky to do, but using the former's ability to navigate 2D space can make for a cool ability, and perhaps something could be done with the spacesuits in which the Vashta Nerada were introduced.
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but a cybermen is easily changed by the entity. will follow their orders because of the programming, and if the entity removes the emotion inhibitor, it will feel all the emotions while the entity makes it impossible for the cybermen to die.
it can work. also the mori would be turning the survivors into cybermen. which is great.
I don't disagree on the combat prowess. but considering that they will be stopped by wodden pallets… it's fine.
fair enough. the spacemen suit to represent the vashta nerada could work… but I think the issue is how staying in the suit feels like a nerf to them… the entity makes a world of darkness, they should win the second the trial starts.
that's why I say cybermen. they are more direct in their tactics. fits better with dbd.
and, let's be honest, they would not pick an enemy of 1 or 2 episodes as the killer in a dr who chapter. Even if the foretold would work, not happening. same for the boneless and vashta nerada. and the family of blood or the silence.
the master being my second choice. specifically John Simm. he can actually fit into dbd with minor issues, dude ate people. (the only big issue being that he would not want to play along with the entity)
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casually sprinting triple blight speed into a wall for ten seconds
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Win a match on The Game without getting holed. Challenge level: Impossible.
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easy
just play bottom floor as nobody is touchin half the gens if you do
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