An unlikely but fitting redesign for Legion
In a KYF game, me and my friends had a game where 2 of us played as Legion with the "Stab Wounds Study" and "Franks Mix-tape" add-ons. This resulted in quite possibly the most fun I've had with dbd in years.
Although there were 2 Legions, (honestly pretty fitting considering their lore), a survivor had to be hit 3-4 times to be downed, making for very fast paced and intense chases that weren't unfair because of the extra hits survivors could now tank.
Below is a dramatised imagining of what this redesign could look like in an actual game.
As unlikely as it is that this will ever be added into the game, I still find it a very interesting idea for how to properly re-work Legion.
The redesign in a nutshell:
- There are multiple Legion members in the trial at the same time
BUT
- Survivors take more hits to down
Comments
Sadly the game designed to be 1v4. No matter how weak a Killer lore is, the number of Killer will always be 1.
UNLESS they able to create an AI to control another Legion that able to chase Survivor (tend to be stupid though), which players able to switch control between 2 Legion. That would be perfect.
Though I think their basic attack (or frenzy attack) should cause deep wound, and with each attack cause 1/3 deep wound bar drop (which 4 hits total to down a healthy Survivor; or 3 hits to down an Injured Survivor)
Easily the hardest part of making this proposed re-resign is making the AI. You could take short cuts by having it tail the player when not in a chase but making it efficient in cutting off loops does require decent path finding, and thus requires extensive development time and resources.
But apart from that, it's all roses. Even in the KYF games I've had using the non-intended bug, downing survivors always took 3-4 hits. So officially making that part of Legion's power should be easy enough.
Why cant it be 4v4? Its crazy but still better than bots.
Mostly because each individual Legion member would have to be drastically scaled down in terms of power to make it fair. And maybe even then, you'd have enough killers to chase every single survivor at the same time. Making gen progression impossible unless there was some massive downside for the people playing Legion. Which, in turn, would make playing them not as fun anyway.
You would have to do the same thing to bots too though
I'm not sure I understand you. Do you mean survivor bots or killer bots?