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Thanks all for sharing your opinion, and I'm happy to see those 40 over notifications after my weekend without internet, games, just hiking for two days straight.
So far it's interesting mature discussion about pros and cons, but sometimes a bit off the topic of Eldritch Abomination idea for next killer and Eldritch Horror Chapter. H.P Lovecraft creations went through many upgrades and additions by other writters as open source that Behaviour would as well do own interpretation and approach to possible chapter from their pov, best for Dead By Daylight of course.
Presented idea have absolutley nothing to do with personal life, behavior, ideology of H.P Lovecraft and it's focused on his fictional characters from his fictional mythos that not explaining anything.
Dungeons and Dragons created and licensed Illithids that for some might be strongly inspired from H.P Lovecraft but are far from any known cultists of his work - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illithid
Keep droping here some ideas of that chapter theme even if Devs planing to add more licensed characters for now.
Have fun - This is all about.
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@MusicNerd_TC said:
Even though H.P lovecraft was a racist #########, the man was a genius when it came to cosmic horror. I would kill to see a cultist.
Without doubt dark dbd style cultist with tentacles sounds hot in store just by his aesthetics. We got Spirit, Pyramidhead and masked psychos so why not cultist. About Lovecraft and his racism, well, here I would seperate art from the artist, He was around 130 years ago. We have his art of imagination, things more from his personal life let rest in peace with him.
@handfulofrain said:
I mean, it would be cool but it's near-impossible to do Cosmic Horror right in video games. Look at the Call of Cthulhu game. It was horrible.
Would it be cool? Yes. Would it work well? Probably not.
Also The Lighthouse is f***ing awesome.
Once again let me remind and highlight that we are talking here about inspired - THEMED Chapter, not making single player game like Call of Cthulhu or Sinking City where your are not in themed chapter or realm, you are litteraly in the adaptation of Lovecraft stories from start to very end. That's why I was very clear about impossible port of Cthulhu or Dagon or any of the Elder Ones/Cosmic Horror into the game and mainly focused on Hastur or Cultist.
@Pawcelot said:
The King in Yellow would be an amazing Killer to have, thematically.
Absolutley. Found few discussions about possible return of old Freddy. That's why it would be cool to make Lovcraftian killer a bit like old Freddy mixed with reworked or better word upgraded madness of The Doctor.
Hastur for example could be in his madness realm, invisible for survivors just like Freddy used to be in his dream world. In this case Hastur would not be able to attack beside applying insanity on the surviviors that will end up, after few stacks, in his twisted reality where there is a lot of illusions of Hastur, tentacles and other corrupted things. Longer insane survivior is running around without proper help from the rest of his team, more horrors they all going to face. From tentacles holding generators to even defending hooked survivors for a short period of time attacking anyone close enough. This would be a very hard killer to play but very rewarding, a lot map controlling and nothing eazy for players looking to simply chase and nuke survivors.
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As addition there is pretty interesting discussion already on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/8j7pa3/lovecraft_killer/
With interesting idea that insanity would be duplicated Doctor ability with small rework. Something like Ghostface and Myers both stalk, both different.
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@thesuicidefox said:
The entire lore of DBD is very Lovecraftian in nature. The Entity to me seems like a monster from his fiction. Something beyond our comprehension. And the way trials continue for eternity is a lot like his stuff too. Devs definitely were inspired.
I wouldn't get your hopes up about a killer though.
Agree. Presented killer is just my suggestion as well his new mechanics that might add something new to the game.
@oh_0k said:
Yeah that would be cool but I feel like Herbert west would make a better survivor
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1471411#Comment_1471411
Dbd isn't a cosmic horror game
Herbert West sounds great or Randolph Carter who is presumably an alter ego of Lovecraft himself and appears in more than one story.
Definitely new map should be Cave with some holes - space on walls where you can see a background somewhere far away an open sea with dark storm clouds and Cthulhu blended with that clouds like looking at that cave. Technically speaking it would be another map like Pig's or Lab but more with narrow corridors a lot of turns that lead to more or less darker parts of that cave. Much more claustrophobic.
@BigBrainMegMain said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1471432#Comment_1471432
I never said it was. I just stated how bringing Cosmic Horror into this game would be difficult because a lot of games don't do it right.
We are talking about Lovecraftian Chapter for DBD with name for example Into The Depths, so theme, not single player game or adaptation. So there is not a lot to do right or wrong.
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Well, Lovecraft horror is not only cosmic, but in general dark and very psychological so fits dbd well. How I see insanity mechanics beside described above and compared a bit to sleep would be psychological part of it.
You won't know who is controlled by Lovecraftian horror till you will notice by his behavior - no icons like obsession, sick, injured etc. indicating that this particular survivior is under mind-control. This would add more psychological threat into the game/match like in Lovecraft's writings where fear of unknown and threat is not obvious and not always visible.
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I believe that would add a bit fresh, new art style but still dark horror fitting current style of DBD. Also there is no legal licensing problems, the majority of Lovecraft's fictional works are in the public domain.