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H.P Lovecraft 130 B-Day on August 20th 2020 - New Killer and Survivor?

Method_Man Method_Man
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Hello

On August 20th H.P Lovecraft no doubt a master of written horror gonna have his 130 brithday. Judging by many other, new games or upcoming like Borderlands 3, Baldur's Gate 3, Smite or even World of Warcraft there is a lot of features, characters, skins or even game expansions inspired by H.P Lovecraft horrors. Not only in games but as well in movies for example Lighthouse by Robert Eggers or Color Out Of Space with Nicholas Cage.

How about Dead By Daylight introducing Lovecraftian chapter? It's hard to think about killer character straight outta Lovecraftian world, but let me present my idea/approach to that chapter.

Survivor - Detective from around 1920 with perks to avoid insanity and help others get rid of their current insanity state.

Killer - Tricky thing due to the fact that it will be hard or even impossible to fit Cthulhu or Dagon into the game, but there is Hastur created by Lovecraft and his publisher August Derleth.

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Hastur aka The King in Yellow - Would use similar system to Freddy Krueger but instead of sleep would put surviviors into insanity state / madness stacks that would allow to take control of their action for a period of time or A.I would control insane survivors giving rest hard time with reparing generators, blinding them with flashlights running around or directly into Hastur which will end up being hooked.

Staying near Hastur will also grant insanity stacks but slower than from direct ability strike. Insane survivor would be pre programmed to use traps(located like fountains when playing against Plague) to stop, immobilize others and offer trapped team member for Hastur. Of course there would be an option to wake up delusional player which might take a bit of precious time for escape or just wait for that effect vanish. Each hooked survivor will be longer under influence of insanity - Ability base time with 3 stacks - 45 seconds, First hook extra 15s, second extra 30.

New Map - I Would defiently see large cave with ritualistic items, greenish smoke and seaweed aesthetics, many rooms and corners to hide or be chased into and also easy to get lost in and seperated from rest of survivors.


Share your thoughts!


Have Fun and Stay Safe!

Comments

  • Alice_pbg Alice_pbg

    can we have old man henderson as the survivor? that would be so stupid and fun... XD

  • cheetocultleader cheetocultleader

    @NOEDisntBad said:

    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1478243#Comment_1478243

    Here's the thing though, his work was directly influenced from his racism. His work at 2 major influences; him being a shut in (so thusly the outside world is filled with horror) and his racism ( thats what made the outside world scary for him..)

    My feelings on the matter mirror what a lot of people have already said: You can separate the work from the artist. I'm not a big fan of today's polarizing climate where you're not allowed to see shades of gray -- the whole picture is important. I don't think it's hard to recognize the guy was a dill weed, but a dill weed who influenced many creatively. It's history now. Again, Einstein was often a prick in his life time as well, but his work is indispensable.

    Everyone should be perfectly within their right to come to their own conclusions having the full story at their hands. As far as BHVR adding a chapter dedicated to Lovecraft, I think it's potentially a bad business move at this time. The Entity is already ambiguously Lovecraftian, and small stuff like t-shirts causes a lot less hoopla.

  • Method_Man Method_Man

    Thanks all for sharing your opinion, and I'm happy to see those 40 over notifications after my weekend without internet, games, just hiking for two days straight.

    So far it's interesting mature discussion about pros and cons, but sometimes a bit off the topic of Eldritch Abomination idea for next killer and Eldritch Horror Chapter. H.P Lovecraft creations went through many upgrades and additions by other writters as open source that Behaviour would as well do own interpretation and approach to possible chapter from their pov, best for Dead By Daylight of course.

    Presented idea have absolutley nothing to do with personal life, behavior, ideology of H.P Lovecraft and it's focused on his fictional characters from his fictional mythos that not explaining anything.

    Dungeons and Dragons created and licensed Illithids that for some might be strongly inspired from H.P Lovecraft but are far from any known cultists of his work - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illithid

    Keep droping here some ideas of that chapter theme even if Devs planing to add more licensed characters for now.


    Have fun - This is all about.

  • handfulofrain handfulofrain

    @PigMainClaudette said:

    Well you can't have an Elder Being such as Cthuhlu, Hastur or Nyarlothotep as they are quite possibly more powerful than the Entity, but also extradimensional and therefore incomprehensible to humanity on a fundamental level.

    I've said it before, but having an Insmoth fish-person would be actually fit rather well

    I agree! Give us the fish!

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