Would you love to have a monster killer?

Forgen03

It could be sea creatures, insects, etc. Anything that isn't humanoid.

ShanoaLegendaryPlz

Well, in most games with a choice of characters or races, if theres something that stands out as monsterous or bug like, its usualy my first choice. For example in starcraft - the Zerg. Or in Sword of the stars i usualy pick Hiver. Or in masters of Orion theres the klackon. (All spacr bugs lol).

Im also a big fan of H.P Lovecraft and the monsters in the Lovecraftian Mythos like Cthulhu (which we are getting a charm and banner of in the next 2v8). Hopefully it means they might make a Lovecraftian monster chapter someday.

Its a shame we didnt get to see the rest of the voting board to see what kinda monsters and beasts n mutants n stuff we couldve ended up with instead of the angel. But atleast the angel will be the first one with multiple legs which could give them practice on animating an insect like killer for the future.

Some are dead set on a Jaws chapter with a bunch of videos showing how it could work. But i have doubts the game is solid enough yet to add water to entire levels without causing problems.

And there may yet be some kind of dinosaur chapter as there are several licenses to choose from like Dino Crisis, Jurrassic Park, or Turok.

So yea id love to have a monster killer lol, the dredge was interesting at first but the playstyle just wasnt enjoyable for me.

HoodedWildKard

@HoodedWildKard said:

I know it's not explicitly a horror movie franchise. But saw an article recently about bhvr partnering with the universal jw franchise on an game unrelated to dbd and in the article it talked about a crossover event between dbd and jurassic world and how cool it would be.

"I give you.... the Indoraptor"

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Been thinking about it a bit and the indoraptor would make an amazing killer, it's a creepy, scary antagonist in jw 2. Lore wise it's intelligence is on par with if not slightly higher than demogorgon. So it makes sense the entity would take it because of it's unnatural aggression and it certainly would be smart enough to follow the entity's wishes to hook survivors. It can move both on two legs and all fours, so giving a crouch/stalk stealth mechanic would be easy. Size wise it is similar to demogorgon and with a similar gait to so could share some of the animations.

Mechanics wise it could be a stealth/tracking killer.

Primal instincts Power: could be stopping to sniff the air for a few seconds, revealing survivors within a certain radius using killer instinct. Stalking mode that slows movement speed as it gets down on all fours to track prey, slowing movement speed, granting undetectable and a pouncing lunge similar to demogorgon's shred. Perhaps it could inflict deep wound or similar effects since it would take good planning to hit this special attack. If it's found that this is too effective it could every few seconds make the clicking sound with it's claw on the floor to give survs an audio cue to listen for and adds to the creepy atmosphere.

Perks could include:

Conditioned response: "the indoraptor's conditioning to respond to audio cues compels it to hunt down survivors making loud noises" whenever a survivor misses a skill check on a generator that results in a loud noise notification is revealed by killer instinct for 5 seconds and becomes the obession, whilst this character is the obession they suffer from the exposed status. 1 minute cooldown.

Feral strength, "a fearsome bioengineered killing machine, the indoraptor can cause as much damage to infrastructure as to living flesh" some kind of regression perk when the indoraptor damages a generator. Damaging gens is 30% faster, gens lose 10% progress when indo damages them with a cool down. And 10% speed increase to smashing doors and pallets.

Clever girl "an amalgam of the genomes of several of the most lethal dinosaurs ever known, most notably that of the velociraptor a naturally evolved ambush predator" remaining within 10 metres of stationary survivor for 3 seconds without appearing in the survivor's vision inflicts the exposed status on the survivor.

The mori would be pretty brutal, I'm thinking a nod to the scene where the Indo kills Ken Wheatley by biting his arm, lifting him off the ground, severing it then finishing him off feeding frenzy style, plenty of screaming, snarling and chomping, tail high in the air lashing about.

Add ons could be based around improving the Indoraptor's stealth, tracking and applying status effects to it's basic attacks. Ken Wheatley's arm would be a funny reference, or laser pointer/sonic device to help with tracking another nod to the movie where a laser pointer and audio cue is used to direct the Indoraptor to attack a particular target.

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The jurassic world franchise is pretty popular, and i feel like this would make bhvr some decent dollars. And there are some pretty iconic survivors they could add to make a full chapter out of it: owen grady, claire dearing, or maybe some of the lesser know characters in the franchise who die like robert muldoon. So yh just interested to see what the general reaction would be. Might be nice to have another wild animal type killer like demo. The use of killer instinct more than aura reading makes it feel more like a conventional hunter tracker killer than a mystical one.

Here's a post i made a while ago detailing how indoraptor would be a pretty sick killer. As for actual monsters though something insectoid/arachnid themed would be pretty cool.

Maybe something in the vein of The Fly like a scientist who fused himself with insect dna and turned into a monstrosity.

Plus I'm pretty sure demo counts as a monster killer and I LOVE playing demo

Abbzy

@ShanoaLegendaryPlz said:

Well, in most games with a choice of characters or races, if theres something that stands out as monsterous or bug like, its usualy my first choice. For example in starcraft - the Zerg. Or in Sword of the stars i usualy pick Hiver. Or in masters of Orion theres the klackon. (All spacr bugs lol).

Im also a big fan of H.P Lovecraft and the monsters in the Lovecraftian Mythos like Cthulhu (which we are getting a charm and banner of in the next 2v8). Hopefully it means they might make a Lovecraftian monster chapter someday.

Its a shame we didnt get to see the rest of the voting board to see what kinda monsters and beasts n mutants n stuff we couldve ended up with instead of the angel. But atleast the angel will be the first one with multiple legs which could give them practice on animating an insect like killer for the future.

Some are dead set on a Jaws chapter with a bunch of videos showing how it could work. But i have doubts the game is solid enough yet to add water to entire levels without causing problems.

And there may yet be some kind of dinosaur chapter as there are several licenses to choose from like Dino Crisis, Jurrassic Park, or Turok.

So yea id love to have a monster killer lol, the dredge was interesting at first but the playstyle just wasnt enjoyable for me.

Insect like killer would be nice like some spider or bug like from Starship troopers or like mimic1997 movie, if devs will put good effort in desing like they did with harmless but balance his power more without big flaws than it would be good chapter for me.

TheMruczek

A serpent of some sort. Could be even a giant larva smiliar to a graboid.

Abbzy

@Metalskorpio said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4054100#Comment_4054100

Spiders are arachnids, not insects.

I know same as scorpions,tics,mites.

Ijust meant it as idea not to be 100% biological accurate, I had some biology in school.

Junylar

They have very limited options. They won't add an arachnid, because of the phobia that is customary to always respect in the modern western game development, the same goes for insects. They won't add anyone with tentacles, because it will trigger "problematic" jokes in the community, akin to the Pinhead's lines. Most of the creative kinds of monsters would be difficult to animate, and the size should be specific to fit on the maps, so nothing like "giant serpent" is ever going to arrive.

BongoBoys

This is just me maybe but a giant Praying Mantis is pretty scary to me.

ShanoaLegendaryPlz

@Junylar said:

They have very limited options. They won't add an arachnid, because of the phobia that is customary to always respect in the modern western game development, the same goes for insects. They won't add anyone with tentacles, because it will trigger "problematic" jokes in the community, akin to the Pinhead's lines. Most of the creative kinds of monsters would be difficult to animate, and the size should be specific to fit on the maps, so nothing like "giant serpent" is ever going to arrive.

What about nemisis tentacle?

Junylar

@ShanoaLegendaryPlz said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4054153#Comment_4054153

What about nemisis tentacle?

That's just one tentacle, and it already triggered different kinds of references that the devs probably want to avoid. I meant full tentacle monsters like those from Lovecraftian style.

Come to think of it, a slime monster could pass the BHVR censorship, Lovecraft had several "slime-like" creatures that would fit into the game, I guess that would work, even though they are not as interesting as others.

Rokku_Rorru

I'd love some non human survivors too, maybe results of horrific magic etc but their humanity persists.

Or just fantasy races. the D and D chapter flopped so hard.

ShanoaLegendaryPlz

@Junylar said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4054158#Comment_4054158

That's just one tentacle, and it already triggered different kinds of references that the devs probably want to avoid. I meant full tentacle monsters like those from Lovecraftian style.

Come to think of it, a slime monster could pass the BHVR censorship, Lovecraft had several "slime-like" creatures that would fit into the game, I guess that would work, even though they are not as interesting as others.

The slimes were called a Shoggoth. But they were always massive too. Like atleast the size of the shack to the size of any "main" building. But i don't think there would be much jokes about tentacles as nemisis wouldve alredy made those jokes for people as he alredy really wants to "penetrate" Jill with his tentacle, see noone joked about it lol. I think wed be fine if anything a lovecraftian cthulhu monster does seem to be something several of the community would like to have in the game.

As for dnd i always wondered if the Beholder could make a good killer (since it varies in size) for a chapter 2 or even a Baldurs Gate 3 chapter with some of the main characters as legendary survivors like Shadowheart, Astarian, Lae'zel and Karlach with the primary character being like a customizable dnd character. Could scratch most of the non human survivor itches in one stroke.

Ragna_Rock

Something eldritch or deep ocean inspired would be amazing.

THE_Crazy_Hyena

I'm probably sounding like a broken record by now, but DBD needs a velociraptor on the killer roster.