FREDDY REWORK - WHAT IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE ASLEEP?

I know you guys don't want to hear my ideas on Freddy Rework. But, I spent all night on this, because I feel passionate about this subject for some reason. Having grown up on Freddy movies.

Anyway, here's what I typed up for the Freddy Rework:

(thoughts welcome)

We start with 4 survivors and of course Freddy.

They go on about their business.

FREDDY’S TERROR RADIUS:

You can still spot him by seeing grass move, pallets break or him carrying a survivor. Other than that, his TERROR RADIUS is non-existent. You do not here him coming. If you’re a observant survivor you might notice a disturbance in the ground around you (because of grass movement and such), but that’s about it.

FREDDY TRANCE:

The way Freddy puts you into a dream state is by tapping you on the shoulder. That’s it.You do not hear him, you do not feel or see this happen.  

Freddy is invisible.  

Freddy has no terror radius. No LALALA’s.

It no longer takes several seconds to fall into dream state, it is instant.  

The transition from normal world to dream state is instantaneous.

The transition is also seamless.

You will not know you’re in a dream (that is the entire point — and charm).

However, you will have some clues that you are in a dream state.

THE DREAM STATE:

When you’re in dream state, nothing changes. Everything looks exactly the same. No music plays, no terror radius, no LALALALA’s…. Everything is EXACTLY the same.

Freddy can at that point attack you at anytime — while invisible — in dream state. However, he can choose to go after other survivors instead, as well — without you knowing that he put you to sleep, because he’s still invisible and has no terror radius.

And you still don’t know you’re in Dream State (aka the nightmare).

But, there will be clues that you’re asleep.

NIGHTMARE CLUES:

Totems won’t cleanse. When you go to cleanse a totem you go through the entire routine and when the progress bar is complete, nothing happens. The totem does not break (no matter if it’s DULL or HEX TOTEM).

When you try to sabotage a hook, nothing happens. When the progress bar reaches the end, the hook does not fall. It stays intact.

Palletes don’t come down. When you go to pull a pallet, nothing happens, it stays where it’s at.

This idea is interesting, because it would lead to a lot of survivors constantly wasting pallets to check if they’re asleep, when in fact they’re fully awake (AND JUST WASTED A PALLET!)

Searching a trunk will go as normal, however, when you reach the end of the progress bar, the trunk will shut close. You will not be able to retrieve the item inside. Not unless you are awake.

So, those are the Dream Clues.  

You can still pop gens, you can still unhook survivors.

The only way you can know for sure that you’re asleep is…

If you try to search a trunk, clean a totem, sabotage a hook or drop a pallet and you are unsuccessful at it, then you’re definitely asleep.

To wake-up you need to find another survivor to wake you, however, the other survivor has to be awake too or else, they will be unable to wake you.

NIGHTMARE CONFIRMATION:

Once you get a clue that you’re in a dream (aka nightmare)…The LALALALA song plays and you can have the white background (to confirm you are asleep) as well. This is confirmation that you are indeed asleep. The LALALA song has nothing to do with Freddy’s terror radius. 

It is just a song that confirms that you are indeed asleep.

So, when you try to cleanse a totem and it doesn’t break… LALALALLAA starts

When you try to sabotage and it hook doesn’t fall… LALALALLAA

Drop a pallet and it doesn’t fall… LALALALA

Try to retrieve an item from a trunk…. LALALALA

Once you get NIGHTMARE CONFIRMATION, you will always see Freddy when he’s around (he’s no longer invisible). He still has no terror radius.

However, every time you try and do any of the tasks above unsuccessfully, you will get the LALALALA song (aka CONFIRMATION YOU’RE IN A NIGHTMARE).

WAKING UP FROM NIGHTMARE:

Only another survivor (that is awake) can wake you up. You can’t wake yourself up (not through failed skill checks of SELFCARE or GENERATORS). You are forced to run around looking for survivors to wake you up.

The other SURVIVORS don’t know you’re asleep!! They may not even know that this is a game with FREDDY in it!!!!

It is not readily apparent that you are asleep to them at all either. You can point at them, point at yourself, squat… whatever… you will still look normal (fully awake) to them.

They’ll either think you’re yelling at them, pointing to another object or person, telling them where to go somewhere, alerting them of the killer nearby, laughing at them, etc. You have to pester them until they realize that you are trying to tell them that you might be asleep. Then they can try to wake you up at that point. 

If they can’t wake you up (or the wake-up animation doesn’t start)— it means you’re not asleep.

HOWEVER, if they can’t wake you up (or the wakeup animation doesn’t start), it could also mean that they are asleep too!!!!!!

They can either carry on as if they’re awake or try to find clues that they’re asleep (or find another survivor and try again to get woken up).

IF ALL SURVIVORS ARE ASLEEP:

If all survivors are asleep — nobody can wake anybody up!

Until someone is hung and then freed and then only they will be able to wake people up (unless Freddy puts them to sleep again).

Also, when a survivor gets hooked, thats another way to wake up. So, if all survivors are asleep, one of them has to get hooked to wake up. Even if they have to surrender to Freddy on purpose… just so they can wake up, be rescued and try and wake some more survivors.

However, it is possible that they can all be asleep and not realize it as well.  

Since they won’t be able to ‘wake each other up aka start the wake animation’ then they’ll assume they’re awake. Even if they’re not. No way of knowing unless they get a NIGHTMARE CONFIRMATION by attempting one of the tasks mentioned above.

The only way of knowing that you’re asleep is to try to get a confirmation from the clues.

Trying to get confirmation from other survivors to see if you’re awake is unreliable, since they can be asleep too. But, you still have a chance in getting woken up if they’re awake and you’re asleep.

But, for concrete confirmation it is more reliable to try and cleanse a totem, drop a pallet, sabotage a hook or go through a trunk. If you fail at any of those, you will get a confirmation that you’re asleep with a LALALALA song. If that song doesn’t happen and you’re able to successfully clean a totem, drop a pallet, sabotage a hook or pop a gen by yourself, it means that you’re awake.

There is another way of finding out you’re asleep. That’s if Freddy attacks you!

FREDDY ATTACKS:

Before Freddy can attack, he has to put you to sleep. Which is instantaneous. The survivor won’t know he’s asleep. He won’t see Freddy or hear him. Or know when he puts you to sleep.

Then Freddy can...

A) attack. Once he attacks he will become VISIBLE and LALALALA song will play to confirm survivor is in a nightmare. SO, basically, Freddy gets a ‘free hit’ right off the bat.

B) or Freddy can delay the attack and go after someone else and put more survivors to sleep. Freddy can put all survivors to sleep without them knowing. Nobody will be able to wake anyone up either.

Freddy will be invisible entire time, and of course, no terror radius. Only when he attacks a survivor will he be revealed. And only to the survivor he attacked. The others will still not see or hear him (no matter if they’re asleep or awake).  Unless they’re attacked (or get a Nightmare confirmation).

When Freddy attacks you and a chase ensues… you can not drop pallets still (as you are in a nightmare). You can not cleanse totems, search trunks or sabotage hooks. Not until you’re woken up by another survivor (who is awake).

If everyone is asleep, you have to wait for a survivor to get hooked, then they’ll need to get unhooked to wake someone up.

OTHER:

If Freddy is running any kind of HEX and the person who is trying to clean the HEX Totem is asleep, then they will not be able to clean it. If everyone is asleep, then, no one will be able to clean it. It will be an additional step in the game to try to get someone hooked, then rescued — then they will have to clean the HEX personally (or wake up another survivor — that can then go and clean HEX).

All these stipulations would make it indeed a NIGHTMARE for the SURVIVORS — even if they don’t realize they’re in it at first.

CONCLUSION:

This will make Freddy the most feared killer out there. It is an extreme buff (IMO) at the moment and may need to be perfected a little more, but these are just some thoughts I had on my version of the FREDDY REWORK.