The game is being rebuild from the ground, so that means...
Matt said in a recent interview that the game is not only receiving a graphical update, but it's basically being entire rebuilt. This is great news! Maybe now killers can be upgraded with new stuff, like:
-Kaneki being able to switch floors with his power (actually I want this killer deleted, but he's a great example of what a killer could do to change floors in certain maps).
-Dracula's bat being able to move vertically.
-Alien walking on walls.
-Twins not being the buggy mess it is because the game does not support flying and Victor is the only killer who actually jumps/takes their feet off the ground (Vecna's Fly and Dracula's bat are just workarounds).
BUT a basically new game means that all the exploitable, unfair bugs like crouch tech and heal tech have no reason to be "re-introduced".
I think this last part specifically will create rivers of tears on how much crying they'll generate.
What do you guys think?
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These would all be really cool changes if they weren't the best killers in the game. Aside from that walking on walls tends to be buggy, along with the fact that BHVR doesn't like giving killers vertically due to well, more bugs. (RIP Sky Billy)
That's the thing.
They are rebuilding the game, not fixing it.
It's basically a new game without calling it DbD 2, so all these limitations would go away. If a killer is not walking on walls it'll be by design, not because the game can't handle it. :)
Yeah fair point, it would still be really hard to balance.
Changes i'd prefer would be:
Deathslinger able to grapple to certain points on the map giving him some form of small mobility.
Nemesis can now rope swing using his tentacle in t3, allowing him to have a tiny bit of mobility.
trickster rework so he has more of an agile power allowing him to dash and inbetween dashes can throw out a blade.
They could also give survivors new tools/mechanics to make fair for a killer to, for example, walk on walls or have new ways for mobility. :)
That's also something I'm hoping for (new mechanics) because aside from the killers the game is the same as it was on release with killers chasing survs circling objects that have windows or pallets attached to them.
I dont think that the gameplay for the game will really change. This is just a working formula and they wont risk it.
However, since they will make it possible to mod the game, this is what will guarantee that the game can basically go on forever.
When they say modding, they don't really mean changing game files, creating your own retextures, etc right? I was under the impression they basically meant some kind of custom match creation tools where the community can create their own game modes?
That's what I believe too. New code = no more spaghetti.
BUT I think we are getting some new possibilities. Not sure if that means killers being able to walk on walls, fly, survs being able to barrel roll, but something new will be possible.
If they change it too much it will indeed spells catastrophic failure.
I'm just curious about the possibilities and hoping all this nasty crap like heal tech gets removed.
Some bugs became features like Billy's curves, but heal and crouch tech are simply unfair and definitely there will be people complaining that BHVR killed skill expression.
I believe it could be something like what's available to Left 4 Dead.
Did you had the opportunity to play the Resident Evil campaigns for it?
BO3 in a nutshell
The devs have also stated they haven't done a flying killer "yet" during the year 10 broadcast, so that's probably a sign of plans.
They also listed in surveys of survivors being able to do "More advance parkour" as a question for what players want. There's a decent chance they try it out in a gamemode and see if the community wants it expanded on for the game
As for techs I guess they will finally be forced to reveal which of them are intended (and this will still be there) and which were just bugs/unintended mechanics they just haven’t fixed yet.
With crouch tech, we know that it was very much intended to some degree and the more extreme cases were already fixed. But not everything the community calls a ‘tech’ has to be unintended…
Wall crawling will still be weird as it depends on the map so much and having it as part of killer Power might be weird to Balance around..
switching floors seems like something that could already work in the current game? Am i missing something?
Also, i wouldnt expect actually that many changes to the current Killer Powers in general. Those would also need to go through complete new design phases amd there are a ton of Killers that would alone take years..
Exactly. I guess it can go so far that you can basically create a game in the game. Like for example Cry of Fear was a Mod for Half Life 1 and then became its Standalone Game. You could also create your own gamemodes to play. The possibilities are really huge with modding.
And I dont think that they will implement anything which can be tinkered with the game itself. So you will not have Mods in Public games. This is something they removed years ago, at some point in the past players were able to mod the game and put in their own cosmetics. Which in itself can be something BHVR would not want (because why pay for Skins when you can just mod some brown Outfits to look like those skins?), but it also lead to problems. Since people did not just design cool cosmetics or Legacy Skins for characters who dont have some or modding in characters from Franchises they like (e.g. there was a mod where you could play Sam from Until Dawn). But people decided to make Mods which make Trappers Traps bright pink or changed every Survivor cosmetic into something extremely visible from miles away. Or I have seen a mod where people made the walls of structures transparent.
EXACTLY THAT.
That's why they call it Sandbox. You create something that is "confined" in it's "box".
And just now my brain exploded!
If BHVR don't create a game mode where you can play killer in 3rd person I'll do it myself!
I just thought about this now!
New engine doesn't mean they are wishing to break already poor killer power balance 😂
Besides, its not an engine issue. How do expect "alien crawling walls" to play on maps like coldwind farm or swamp that are already super flat? People really like to daydream about stuff that doesn't really work. What's the point of bat vertical flying, to make Dracula even stronger on maps like saloon or the game?
I've used a poor example.
Walking on wall with the maps we currently have would indeed be bad.
Think of it as any other thing that's currently not supported by the game like flying.