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ShrimpTwiggs said:

Freddy is easily the most underpowered killer in the game but he's also one of the most boring, in my opinion. He literally relies on his ability to function like a normal killer. I personally think that he needs more to his ability to make him different from the other killers. Maybe they could implement something else from his movies, something that allowed him to mess with survivors more in the dream state, because right now, he doesn't really stand out from the other killers.

I don't want to be that guy but the incoming "buff" for Freddy is fine enough for me. As a long time Freddy main I say that we see how the buff changes Freddy along with the incoming changes to the list of perks and we go from there.

in Does Freddy Need More Than A Buff? Comment by TheDarkLycan June 29, 2018

Runiver said:

@TheDarkLycan

I'm not sure about Bamboozled being better, since this perk does not force you to use the vault, and has a surprise factor, and also hinder teammates.

Bamboozled does have a longer block duration and also increases vault speend though

in Killer Concept : The Curse Bearer (Aka anti-coop killer) Comment by TheDarkLycan June 29, 2018

Runiver said:

@TheDarkLycan
About the 2nd perk : It's very different than Bamboozle, as a matter of fact. How many times have you been repairing with a teammate, that just runs by a windows as soon as he hear the terror radius ?

About the 3rd perk : Blindness isn't that strong. A 3% slow isn't that huge. a heal reduction speed is a fair trade-off for not being injured imo.

For the 3rd perk it's the duration that's OP, with a nurse or Billy with bloodhound you would be dead in seconds and the second perk is as I said, pointless since bamboozled would just be better

in Killer Concept : The Curse Bearer (Aka anti-coop killer) Comment by TheDarkLycan June 29, 2018

Runiver said:

Hello.

Here's a killer concept that I polished with a few members of our discord.
I actually imagined this killer for a simple reason :
I want to feel back the original concept of the game, a concept that makes your teammates nearly as trustable as your foe, the killer. I actually think the original intention of this game was this one, which explains why the killers aren't extremely strong in the current state : the fact that you cannot truly rely on your teammates to save you, or worse, the fact that they can get you killed.

The concept of this killer is exactly about this. He is not meant to be strong by itself, but he's supposed to make your FELLOW SURVIVORS your potential enemies.

I don't actually feel like this killer will be in this game, or even if he truly needs to, but I just like the concept and felt like sharing it.

A QUICK RÉSUMÉ

LORE
The Curse Bearer died after immense suffering due to its misery, and got called back by the entity in an infinite circle of pain and cruelty.
He is now an ancient survivor that turned wicked, and found true inspiration and the entity's killing desire, and necessity into it to get relief. He's actually living in perpetual pain since he got cursed, and is now resurected to feel it over and over again. His only way to get relief is to please the entity, that can actually give him the temporary relief he craves, mostly by cursing and killing survivors. If he fails to the task, he dies in agony at the end of each trial.

He appears as a rather small killer, carrying a huge rusty two-handed scepter.

GAMEPLAY
The whole point of the Curse Bearer is to distrupt survivors as much as possible, making them unable to trust each other, or even, at some point, to be WANTING to save each others.
His cursing ability, along with his hallucinations,

POWER AND BASE STATS

As stated above, the whole concept isn't about making him a strong chaser, but rather to distrupt survivors by not allowing them to cooperate properly.

Base Speed : 4,6 m/s (Regular killer speed)
Base Terror Radius : 32 Meters (A pretty common one)
Size : Medium to Small sized (Taller than Pig, smaller than Billy)
Specificity : He's rather noisy when close (20 meters). You can hear him, at times, dragging his huge scepter on the ground, and eventually moaning in pain.

POWER : His power has 2 parts.

Share the pain
The first part of his power is tied to his terror radius and his vision, and is a passive ability.
Survivors in his terror radius suffer hallucinations. They are, however, very different of the Doctor's ones, and do not remain if you leave it. They are composed of :
Fake Survivors, eventually running your way.
Fake Red Stains over walls.
Fake Vault blockers.
A temporary Fog that slowly increases if you do not leave the area, restricting faraway vision.
These hallucinations do increase a lot in intensity if you look directly at the killer.
The killer is also notified by white eyes stains, that remains for 5 seconds, of you stare at him for more than a very few seconds, while you're in his terror radius, even out of a chase.

Death Sentence
The second part of his ability, and has two active components.

THE FIRST ONE :
If no one is cursed, allows the killer to curse one survivor in the trial. (12 meters range, instantaneous)
Only one survivor can be cursed, at any time.

Upon getting cursed, the survivor becomes ethereal for the killer, and turns invisible and invincible, cannot be blocked, or targeted by the killer. The killer can hear whimpers when the bearer is close. He can however still block other survivors. A cursed survivor does look normal to other survivors.
The cursed survivor works on gens at a very slow rate (-75%) and cannot be healed. He also cannot use items.
The cursed survivor is sentenced to death, and will soon be forced in dying state (1 minute), unless he "gifts" the curse to someone else. He can do so by pressing M2 when around another survivor (3 meters radius), can be used while moving. Doing so will transmit the curse to a new target, along with a 10 second reduction of the original timer.
You cannot gift the curse back to its previous owner or to a survivor in dying state already.
Example : Dwight, the first cursed player of the match (1 minute), finds and gives the curse to Nea. Nea is now cursed, and get 40s to give it to any other player, except for Dwight.
The minimum timer is 20 seconds.
A sentenced survivor (curse reaching 0 seconds) will be put in dying state directly, is revealed to the killer and unable to get healed for 8 seconds.
The Killer now needs to get his curse back (holding M2 in a 15 meters radius around where it got sentenced), and the timer is reseted to 1minute again, and can be applied to another survivor.
Interacting with or as a Cursed Survivor immediatly transmits the curse (Unhooking, Healing, Repairing a Gen together)

THE SECOND ONE :
If a survivor is already cursed, hold M2 to increase the hallucinations of the nearby survivors in a 28 meters radius, and also giving them maluses if they stare at you directly.
While you hold M2, any hallucinating survivor will be revealed to the cursed survivor.

LOW PLAYER COUNT

In a 3 players scenario, the curse would be actually WAY stronger. The timer would be increased to 1min30.
In a 2 players scenario, the curse would not be possible to manage.

HATCH CONCEPT

Possible Last Stand Concept : If only 1 player remains in the round, he immediatly gets cursed. (Unless in dying state)
The survivor has 45 seconds to find the hatch, or he instantly dies. His sound is altered, and a few fake hatches will spawn, disappearing as he tries to jump into them. The killer cannot grab the survivor upon the jump. He's basically a spectator of his fate.

Possible Last Stand Concept 2 : The killer also see the fake hatches, and close them, as the survivor tries to find the good one. Basically a hatch race.

In any case, if any survivor escapes, the killer dies at the end of the trial due to its own curse.

PERKS

FIRST PERK :
Pesky Companion : Upon opening the first chest of the trial, the survivor gets his arm trapped in an unknown mecanism. The mecanism seems harmless, but sporadically emits some noises that can be heard by the killer (No notifications, just a 10/15/20 meters sound cue). The pesky companion can be given to someone by touching them directly. It's also given upon unhooking, if you're the rescued. After wearing for an extended period of time (180s), becomes heavy and slows you down, making you hindered (3% slow).

SECOND PERK :
Get away from me! : The vault blocker now only requires 2 vaults to block the windows in a chase. Additionally, if you vault at a window while in the terror radius, other survivors cannot use the window for 6/8/10 seconds.

THIRD PERK :
Secret mecanism : You secretly trapped the hooks before the start of the trial. If any survivor unhooks a survivor before he spent 10/13/16 seconds on the hook, the rescuer gets injured by the rescue. Additionally, if the killer is 45 meters away from the hook while the rescue happens, the same effect occurs at anytime. Cannot put a survivor in dying state. If a survivor is wounded upon unhooking, give him the Blindness, Mangled and Hindered status for 120s (3% slow). The survivor get 50% bonus BP in altruism if he gets injured while unhooking if the killer is away.

CONCLUSION

I could actually polish this idea some more, including arts, and more details about the lore, but I need to consider the efforts since it will very likely not get in-game anyway.
That being said, if you have any feedback, ideas, questions, don't hesitate to ask or suggest new things, and tell me what you think about it!

The 2nd perks seems pointless due to bamboozled and the 2nd part of the 3rd perk about the blindness, hindered, and mangled seems too OP so I would work on those but it was a great idea for a killer anyways

in Killer Concept : The Curse Bearer (Aka anti-coop killer) Comment by TheDarkLycan June 29, 2018

It's on console so it's not like reporting will do anything anyways

in Player Lv/ XP gain Comment by TheDarkLycan June 29, 2018

Visionmaker said:

@Der_Schatten said:
afk or Farm isnt a ban reason...

You can report for AFKing though.

Pretty sure.

Nope

in Player Lv/ XP gain Comment by TheDarkLycan June 29, 2018

Master said:

@Der_Schatten said:
Thx 4 the Answer... ^^

Means: If i want to be a d*ck and farm many XP... i can just hide from the Killer all day long, doing nothing... so the game lasts about 30mins. I get ton of XP?

Means: Killer that Slug till 4 survivor r down and Hardcore Camp/Survivors gen rushing and escaping fast get very less XP?

Only if the survivors are dickheads and dont leave.
In fact I derank by staying afk somewhere and I can confirm that survivors will always prolong the game to tbagg an afk killer (I know its ridiculous, but it happens in at least 80% of my deranking games)

Of course it can also happen that survivors finish the game in 3 minutes if you are afk, because sadly gens can pop that quickly

Just be like me and do afk wraith since they literally can only find you by running into your body

in Player Lv/ XP gain Comment by TheDarkLycan June 28, 2018

Do what I am doing, grind shards, I already have about 5k

in How am I supposed to buy the new characters (XBOX) Comment by TheDarkLycan June 27, 2018

I just realized my Dad's birthday is today so I won't have enough time after all