[new killer idea] The damsel in distress
As first, three things out:
-Her name is not fixed but since I am pretty bad at actual finding names, I have just use this one.
-This will not be a ordinary m1 killer and it is not intended to be one.
-I will not go into perks or addons, since well... I am mostly interested into the basekit of the characters.
So now let us come finally to the killer:
I imagine this killer as a ghost-like character. She should be very hard to see besides her shady outlines. Her "walking" (better floating) speed should be same as, or maybe a bit faster as the one from the Nurse.
Besides her look, she will come with 3 things that will distinguish her from the other killers:
1) She is be able to teleport herself into a survivor*. If she did this, she will disappear from the map and the killer-player will lose his control about her.
2) While she is "inside" the survivor, the survivor has to do immediately a number of skill checks, like he would heal himself or repair a generator.
If he succed, the Damsel will be "throw out" of his body and the killerplayer has again control above her. However, everytime the killer player does this with one survivor, the survivor loses a bit of his "mental health" and the next time this happens again - the skill checks will be going harder for him.
If the survivor fails, the same happens like above, just that the survivor loses even more mental health and jumps direct to point 3, no matter how many mental health he has left.
3) If a survivor loses all of his mental health, or fails at the skillchecks, the killerplayer will be able to control the survivor!
In this time the killer player need then as survivor, to hit another survivor in 15 secs or so (for the time he controls the survivor/also a knife will spawn in the hands of this survivor after he is controlled). Did he this 3 times succesfull, the survivor he has overtaken will count as "broken".
If a survivor is in the "broken" status, he will be in the same status as would he hang on a hook (so yes, the damsel has no need for hooks like we know them).
However, if a survivor is in the broken status, his icon in the gui will change and survivors can see, how he struggle with the knife in his hands, to kill himself. Also he can't move anymore.
Now has another survivor 30 secs or so, to rescue this survivor. For this, he need to walk to this survivor and do a skill check based "revive" or however we want to kall this.
In this time, the damsel can't attack the 2 interacting survivors (for balancing reasons).
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So this is it basicly. What did you say guys?
It is a attempt from me to bring a fresh breeze into dbd. Ah and yes... The numbers and all that... The exact numbers would need to be tested on a ptb. So that the damsel is not helpless, but also not op.
Anyways, I wish everyone a great day!
*From a near distance. Thats food for the ptb.
Comments
Ah and well I should additional write that after a survivor got "revived", he has no mental health left anymore.
That means, a survivor has to be from now on very aware about his surroundings and he should everything do what he can do, to stay away from the damsel. At least outside of her teleport range.
Sry for the doublepost btw.