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I play as leatherface and feel like him waving around the chainsaw. Then go as myers and as i stalk sure know it can be less fun with good survivors. But all that stalking i get to do makes me feel like micheal myers greatly. Amanda is so fun and you gave us the tools to play her to her fullest character.
But now i look at freddy and he doesn't feel like freddy. I love him as iconic killer but he doesn't match well with him. He feels more like the sandman killer. He puts ya to sleep then slashes you. Sadly i want him to feel like freddy and i think the core of freddy is in one of your killers the doctor. Freddy messes also with his victims making his dream realm your personnal nightmare. While it also being his own fun playground of nightmares. I know had to tone down his power for game but really need that messing with survivor personality.
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Yeah i want him to be my favourite killer each time saying "do you like that Beeeytch"
.....at this point i kinda want his body replaced by the sandman. I sometimes have to imagine the messing with people as doctor is me doing that as freddy. I love all killers but freddy is my 2nd favourite in the horror universe and think anyone who loves him. Knows his powers are just not him >:
I think if he puts the obsession to sleep, he is now in the real world and everyone should be vulnerable
There is one very interesting detail in the new movie that wasn't there in the originals but could make up for a very interesting game mechanic: Microsleep.
People in the movie would fall asleep for short moments only - enough time for Freddy in a world where time doesn't matter.
Comparing him to the doctor gave me an idea...
When survivors are in the dream woprld fake generators appear. A survivor can work on them but after a skill ceck fail the generator disappear!
And the more survivors are in the dream the more fake gens appear!
they can do that with totem too.
Also the "map" in the dream world could be different so that in the dream world there is a window were in the real world there is no window, but sleeping survivors can still pass trough it (like in the movie)
There is a ton of cool and fun stuff they can do instead of "now you sleep" "now you loop me"
Why not make his power opposite of what it is, instead of him putting survivors to sleep he should be trying to make it to the awake world by using some power to come out of the dreamworld. Kind of like how Michael stalks, Freddy could use a torment meter somehow that brings him to the real world. Although he can hit the whole time and the survivors get glimpses kind of like the spirit while he is in the dream world. Or the more the gens are done the more powerful he becomes. just some ideas!
They don't need to hide when they can fail a skill check on a gen or SC right in front of your face.
I love Freddy so much, but he would be so much more fun if the survivors were in more danger when pulled into the dream world and not just minorly inconvenienced.
To get out of the dream state should require you to find another survivor or a designated "hot spot" not just miss a skill check!
I also think take away Freddys aura reading ability and instead make it so that if a survivor stays in the dream state for more than 1 minute he gets the "exposed status" and his aura then gets revealed to freddy when outside his terror radius. This would make Freddy much more scary and actually make survivors fear the dream state, as well as force them to abandon gens and seek out a way to wake up. (Generators should not be able to be used to wake up)
Instead of self care waking ppl up i think there should be certain "hotspots" in the map where survivors have to pass a few skill checks or one really hard one and (perhaps they burn themselves on a camp fire to wake up?) just like the pig
Other than that maybe a base speed buff? I like the way he plays now he just needs some balancing tweaks.
It's 5 times, you uncultured swine! You are hereby banished from the Candyman fanclub!
Do you even know the origin of the name Carnival?
I will say this... don't get your hopes up when it comes to the rework. Look at the previous work on killers they've done that they've called a "rework".
1) Hag, they took away her ridiculous self-stun every time she teleported to a trap
2) Doctor, they made some of his addons part of his base kit and gave him the ability to interrupt vaults/pallet throws
3) Wraith, did some weird crap with his uncloaking speed and gave him bloodhound as his base kit
4) Wraith again, undid previous rework and gave him the previous Windstorm as his base kit
Based on previous results, I expect them to maybe undo some of the nerfs ( that they hastily announced a week after his release then implemented a week later), adding some of the addons to his base kit, and reworking some of his other addons.
In other words, don't expect a completely new power.
One thing freddy do in movies is to appear as another person to get near his victim, like looking like a survivor
Another cool think could be a fear meter, like the doctor madness.... hmmm i have to make a longer post about this and i dpn't have time now u_u
The problem with shapeshifting, like most good ideas in the game, is that voice comm'd SWF would completely neuter it from the start.
I think another big thing that DBD Freddy is missing is teleporting... He was an immaterial, tormentor in the movies. Not only could he could teleport around at will, he could phase through walls in the dream world.
There was a theory before his release that he'd be able to teleport between lockers... While that wouldn't help him much in chases and it would be outright terrible on certain maps, I think being able to briefly phase through a wall would be fitting and powerful.
But then again, we all know how many bugs something like that would introduced (see: how bugged Nurse's blinks were for years, I don't think the map's terrain is designed with that in mind).
As long as make your own post and share ideas that take his powers from each movie like this. I look forward to it when have the time. Devs need freddy ideas shoved down throat til it feels like freddy xD
Speaking of Freddy having an illusion as a power...what if his ability were to be able to place extra generators around the map that look just like other generators and survivors can work on completing them, and once complete it blows up and each survivor sustains a hit?
I didn’t read the whole thread before posting this i see someone had a similar idea already
Or what if Freddy were to put you in the dream world but you just didn’t know you were in it, and you have to complete a generator to get out of the dream world but that completed generator doesn’t count towards the number needed to be completed to unlock the gates.
Please just make him more interesting. Go ahead and add some custom music while you're at it.
But its like ideas like this that show the care the community has for freddy that they come up with all these genius ideas ♡ They make me hope there are others in the dev team who have the passion of lets make freddy feel like freddy. If he becomes to overpowered can always nerf from there. Even though hearing anothet freddy nerf would probally make community laugh like one he got when came out.
While not necessarily poorly conceived, Freddy's current power is sadly lackluster.
In your starting state, you're absolutely 0 threat.
additionally, your power is a 100% requirement to be able to play at all. No other killer has this requirement. Though nurse is certainly extremely difficult without her power.
Your end game is also abysmal and while there are some builds that can make his end game frightening, they have so many prerequisite for it working out in your favor, other then it being a fun build to play to see if you can pull it off, it isn't generally successful.
Don't get me wrong, I can play Freddy , and do so successfully even at R1. But, without a doubt, he is handicapped.
Freddy shouldn't need to sleep people. They should passively fall asleep over time. While asleep they should experience frightening manifestations. Players appear to go down or be hooked when they aren't, generators appearing that aren't there, heart beats that aren't really, etc etc, similar to the doctor. To wake up they must be hit by Freddy. The aura reading should be removed.
Freddy's power could be that his hand stretches from his arm and strikes you. If he hits you, he should teleport to you and then does some freddy-esk animation of glee, that last 1.5 x the regular wipe animation. The stretch should be maybe 12-15 meters long, and freddy should be rooted in place, but can control its flight path (meaning he can do it around corners), it should travel at 1.8 x the speed of the survivors. If it strikes a surface it should return (but it should automatically route over generators, through windows, and short walls). Freddy remains rooted until it returns.
I like the ideas of manifestations when in the dream world that trick the survivors into doing other things to keep them busy.