Would Survivor be better in first person?
Playing survivor in third person is cool and all but it's gotten kind of dull and being able to look around corners and obstacles without being seen at all feels a bit cheesy.
Being in third person also takes a lot away from the horror aspect, while being chased you don't feel like it's YOU being chased, you just feel like you're watching someone else being chased and this just get's boring after a while.
So here's an idea:
Being a survivor in first person would make the player a lot more immersed, giving them the feeling of being exposed and scared as the killer doesn't focus on a character you're looking at, they focus directly on YOU.
Hiding would be a lot more unnerving as survivors can not just look over a wall to see where the killer is in third person anymore, maybe survivors could peek around walls like ghostface does to quickly check if it's safe?
Chases are more intense with survivors trying to predict killers movement as they can't see around corners in third person, like killers currently do with survivors.
Perspective while working on generators or healing others would switch you to third person for it's duration, though the field of view would be reduced compared to how it is now.
What do you all think?
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This would make the game much scarier but would also make working on generators a pain in the arse and would basically heavily neuter the chase, so they'd have to receive some significant buffs (ESPECIALLY solo queue) to compensate for this change. Everything in this game has been designed with 3rd person in mind so it might lead to the entire game and its mechanics being reworked from the ground up to accommodate. Not to mention it means anyone who avoids playing killer because of motion sickness will now not be able to play survivor either.
Nah, not better, but more of a challenge, I'd like that
I mean, it definietly would make the game scarier and more interesting, but at this point it would not be possible. The game would have to be rebalanced from the core to implement something like this.
Alternatively, this could be a special gamemode..
It would certainly be more challenging and feel more horror-themed. I personally think it should be an option you choose in the Lobby and doing so gets you a 100% BP bonus in all categories for playing it that way. :)
No it would be to easy playing killer knowing that the survivors have to look around and by doing that they bump and get stuck on everything. That just sounds like easy mode for killers