Addition of a "Nightmare" Mode, In-Game Voice Chat, and day/night cycle/Weather Effects on maps
Friends, would it be possible to include a difficulty mode called “Nightmare” that reverts all nerfs for killers, survivors, and perks while keeping quality-of-life improvements, while the current mode becomes “Normal”?
In Normal mode, everything remains as is. In Nightmare mode, all characters and perks would be "S-tier," creating an environment where only players looking for the ultimate challenge would play. This is similar to what HoYoverse did in Genshin Impact by including an extremely difficult Abyss.
I believe Nightmare mode would please veteran players and bring back those who stopped playing due to character and perk nerfs, while Normal mode would continue to cater to the current player base.
Would it also be possible to implement an in-game voice communication feature between survivors and the killer?
In the event of survivors wanting to communicate with the killer during the match, it would require a vote or permission from the other survivors. In the lobby, however, everyone would be able to communicate with each other simultaneously.
Voice chat would eliminate the need for Discord and help with overall game balance, including in “Normal” mode and other formats like Chaos Shuffle and 2v8.
Finally, I’d like to suggest a new map mechanic featuring Day and Night variations—similar to the old offerings—and the inclusion of weather effects (sunny, rain, wind, snow, sandstorms, etc.).
This mechanic could be fun and provide strategic advantages or challenges for both the killer and survivors.
Sorry for the long text.
Comments
From a player standpoint this would be cool on paper, however, in practice, it would be... extremely frustrating for both sides because that means characters that got a lot of changes would be reverted if they were originally bad and killers that got changes to make them balanced would be reverted as well (ghoul.....) and would run into multiple issues with coding and maintaining it separately from the other modes which are already spaghettified (same for perks)
However, I do LOVE the idea of day/night cycle and weather events during matches (specially if they'll affect both killers and survivors)
so good survivors would never lose since reverted survivor brings back old dead hard old exhaustion old sprint burst it gets worse if infinites get brought back and house of pain plus voice chat which means survivors who don't use discord can
as a killer main it sounds like L simulator