The Ring - Samara/Sadako mechanics discussion
First of all, hi; I bought DBD for my birthday a month ago and have loved it so far, so I'm making an account here of course. I mostly main killer and most of my close friends do so too.
So we were talking about the game and future dlcs and I am pretty sure that we aren't the only ones who would like a The Ring chapter. So, we spent literally hours discussing probably fun and balanced mechanics (fun and balances is a matter of perspective though) in case she were to exist in the game, and I believe we kinda stroke gold with these ideas.
The main mechanic would revolve around the tape curse. Whenever she downed a survivor she would be able to place ''the well's curse'' onto the downed survivior (like Pig's beartraps). She would be able to place two curses onto two different survivors at the same time. Once a survivor's wearing the curse, they would puke water (kinda like with Plague) and leave behind pools of water.
But the main thing would be, after the curse is placed, a countdown begins, let's say 25 seconds. Every 25 seconds (the timer may vary) the curse gets a token, after seven tokens (seven days) Samara/Sadako will be able to mori the downed survivor.
Samara would also get the ability to crawl making her undetectable, and keep a low profile, if Ghostface is scary because he's jumpscary af, imagine Samara quickly crawling to you like a cockroach.
Somewhere in the map a well would spawn, Samara would have an ability with a long cooldown to instantly teleport towards there, it would be like a Demo portal that you can't place, but if you're good at pushing survivors towards one side or keep a three gen around it, then you would have a fast teleport (please, unlike Demo's make it silent).
FROM THE SURVIVIORS' PERSPECTIVE
In order to counter the curse. Around the map, TVs would spawn (like the Jigsaw boxes and Freddy's clocks). A survivor can interact with one of these TVs to watch the cursed tape, doing so will move the curse onto this new survivor, while the curse is away, the survivor who had it previously has its curse's tokens to start regressing. So survivors would have to pass the curse onto each other to prevent it to get too high (just like in the movie, to secret to survive it's to slap the curse onto another victim) otherwise the survivor with 7 tokens would die, and on top of that they still would have to balance the time to watch TV, with the time to do gens, to heal...
The crawling thing probably isn't neccesary, but I just think it would be fun because it would make for good jumpscare material.
Overall, on paper, it would be like a different version, and probably deadlier version of Pig.
But I actually want to see what you think because we have seen lots of people theorize different mechanics. But the main point that I feel those ideas lack is that it should all revolve around giving Samara killing power around a curse she can place.
PD: If she ever makes her into the game we need a Scary Movie 3 skin for Samara and a Brenda skin for another survivor, I'm not sorry.
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