Character Classes

Claudette - Healer

Meg - Tank

Bill - Wizard

Dwight - Paladin

The reason I called her Tank is because she's good to take aggro and run the killer ;)

Feng Min: Not in the story because everyone hates her too much (her voice is worst than screeching a fork against a chalkboard) so they just throw her in the trash can.

Bill - Solider

Laurie - Fighter

Meg - Scout

What classes can you even think of for so many Survivors?

Or would there only be a certain amount of classes, and then Survivors are divided amongst those classes?

Which, ironically, would once again just make people go for the best class, making you see the same few Survivors again, with rare occurrences here and there.

I have no idea what that entails.

Would a specific class only be able to use a specific Item and/or Perks?

Their base kit perks are their classes. It just isn’t spelled out like in rpgs. Consider it a fluid class system since survivors are just skins once you unlock perks to others. Same with killers but they have much more depth with their passives and abilities.

Giving survivors passives would give them a much more defined role and would give others an idea of what perks they could be running. But it’s a balancing act and would be hell to incorporate with all the perks already in the game. Maybe in DBD 2 later down the road survivors will have those.

I personally think an easy way to give characters classes would be to make their most useful/thematic perks as a "power" for the survivor while removing them from the blood web or possibility to equip as perks.

For example:

Meg: Sprint Burst

Dwight: Leader

Claudette: Botany Knowledge(Not self care because it wouldn't fit her role as a healer)

Feng Min: Lithe

Nea: Balanced Landing

David: Dead Hard

Jake: Iron Will or Calm Spirit(or a 100% speed Sabotage to make him a sort of sabotage class)

Ace: Ace in the Hole, or a buffed Up the Ante

Laurie: Decisive Strike

Quentin: Wake Up or Vigil

Tapp: Detective's Hunch(with a buff: Whenever he's inside 10 meters of a generator, rather than completing a generator, he can see the auras of generators/chests/totems within a 16/32/48/64 meter range. Reason for the 16 at the start is every prestige level will increase these powers by a tier, to give a better reason for prestige. This isn't necessary but it'd be nice imo)

Ash: Mettle of Man

Jane: Head On or Solidarity

Jeff: Breakdown or Distortion

Adam: Deliverance or Autodidact

Kate: Boil Over or Dance With Me.

This could solve two things: One, people wouldn't always be using multiple crutch perks together(can't use Decisive + exhaustion perks for example), and two, it'd give us more use out of other perks since we'd have these in our base character. If this became too powerful, we could remove item add ons and just make the items slightly better overall to compensate(some add ons could become items though, like instaheals just to counter things like red killer add ons/offerings). I don't think it would, even though it'd essentially be giving a free perk to each character, due to the amount of perks that aren't that useful in comparison or used much at all.

Ohhhhh, you're saving what you have equipped and then you can select it to quickly change into said loadout.

Yeah, I'm surprised that's not here yet considering Mcote loves the idea.

Oooooooh! Wait! Load-outs! Ha!

Sorry I gave you so much sass, no, I actually think quick load-outs are a cool idea. I have several builds that I would have liked to just have a quick slot option. THAT ladies and gentlemen is a cool Idea for both sides.