Following a PTB and September's spooky Friday the 13th, Dead by Daylight's 13th chapter is out, giving us characters and a map from Stranger Things!
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Dead by Daylight will soon update, taking us to Japan for the stories of Rin Yamaoka "The Spirit" and Adam Francis "The Teacher." Just a few months after adding "The Nightmare" Freddy Krueger and survivor Quentin Smith, Dead by Daylight has introduced the sadistic games of Jigsaw. In the world of "Saw," Amanda Young was one of John "Jigsaw" Kramer's victims, managing to escape a "reverse bear trap" that would have ripped her jaw off. Amanda came to see the world from Kramer's point of view, and joined his crusade as an apprentice. Soon, however, she develops an obsession with Kramer, and believes their victims don't deserve a second chance. Amanda begins making inescapable traps, so Kramer gives her another test, in this world leading to her entrance into the Entity's realm. David Tapp, meanwhile, was a detective working the Jigsaw case, and he became so obsessed he made mistakes when he and his partner Steven Sing found Kramer. Forgetting common police procedure before entering Kramer's workshop, Tapp ends up getting his throat slit, and Sing was killed. As a result, Tapp was thrown off the force, and took the case into his own hands, eventually stalking Dr. Lawrence Gordon, who Tapp believed was Jigsaw. In this world, Tapp later takes a bullet to the chest while hunting Jigsaw, and is pulled into the Entity's world. Each killer has a unique set of perks, with Amanda's focusing on Jigsaw-style traps, with two hook-based and one generator-based. With the hooks, Amanda can cause dismantled hooks to repair after being destroyed, countering the survivor toolbox and saboteur perk. Also when one survivor rescues another from a hook when Amanda is far enough away, they will be illuminated for her for a full minute. With her surveillance methods, Amanda can see generators she has regressed for a limited time. For her unique attack, Amanda hides her blade weapon and crouches, giving off no Terror Radius and enabling her to leap forward in an ambush attack to stab survivors. When survivors are in the dying state, Amanda can put traps on their heads, along with normal hooking. After a person is rigged, the trap will activate when a generator is complete, and they can only remove a it if they find Jigsaw boxes scattered across the map with Kramer's infamous Billy dolls on them. The survivor must stick their arm in the box, risking damage if they fail skill checks, but potentially getting a key for their trap. When the dlc was first announced, people naturally assumed Jigsaw himself would be added, which had many issues considering he is an old man with cancer. The game's style also doesn't fit Kramer's views, as he doesn't typically run around slashing people, and aside from the bear traps, he would have no way of starting his "games." Amanda makes more sense, as over time she began to fix her traps so people couldn't escape, making characters like her fit better with the chase-and-slash method. With Tapp, players get his detective determination and skill for perks, allowing for recovering while crawling, item illumination upon finishing generators, and generator bonus tokens when they are able to sneak near the killer without being caught. Both Tapp and Amanda fit perfectly as playthings for the Entity, which needs killers that won't stop and survivors who refuse to give up. The Entity slowly feeds off people's hope and loss of hope as they survive in its realm, which is inescapable, and loss of hope can turn people into killers. In this way, the Entity gets a perfect system by finding people like Tapp and Amanda, whose obsessions will keep them going. Tapp's dedication to saving others and finding Jigsaw will prevent him from giving up on the Entity's sick game, and Amanda's obsession with following Kramer's example in her own way will keep her killing. For now, players just have to learn how to best use Pighead, while simultaneously discovering her flaws exploitable to survivors.
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Dead by Daylight is bringing the Christmas cheer with its latest event, "Winter Solstice," released in combination with its 1.8.3 patch.
The Entity decided to get festive to make its maps dark and cold for the survivors, decorating with snow and Christmas lights. Along with Christmas lights for hooks and boxes, according to the Dead by Daylight wikipedia, the killers have an all-new "Frosty Eyes" look, similar to the previous "All Hallows' Eyes." The event coincides with the 1.8.3 patch, which did massive work to the Wraith, who has been unpopular due to having more negative than positive aspects. The Wraith carries a bell that turns him invisible when rung, increasing his speed and making him only a shimmer to the survivors. This makes him useful for giving the survivors a spook, but doesn't help much when trying to sacrifice them to the Entity. While invisible, the Wraith cannot attack and could not destroy pallets, requiring that he become visible again to strike. Entering and exiting invisibility takes time and slows the Wraith, giving survivors time to run, and his bell's ring and cloaking whoosh could be heard anywhere on the map. Invisibility can also be risky for the Wraith, as it connects him to the Spirit World, like the Nurse's teleport, allowing him to be burned, rather than blinded, by flashlights. When combined, these negative effects made it easy for survivors to escape the Wraith or stop him from doing anything successfully. With the update, much of this has been changed, like cloak and de-cloak speed and how much the Wraith can do while invisible. According the Dead by Daylight wikipedia, the updated Wraith's cloak and de-cloak happens faster, and he recovers faster when burned by a flashlight. He can also interact more while invisible, able to kick generators and check lockers for survivors, becoming visible during the animations for each. Even his bell has been changed, as its ring and his cloak's whoosh now have a limited range, preventing survivors to know his visibility status unless he is near. While not likely to make the Wraith everyone's new favorite, these updates are definite improvements, especially with the invisibility changes. The previous version could certainly surprise people, but with how they could immediately run from him, the invisibility could be a hindrance, as it could if a pallet was dropped in front of him and he had to de-cloak. The issue became especially noticeable after the release of Freddy Krueger, who is invisible to all until he pulls them into his dream world. While Freddy has to wait for the person to fall asleep, like the Wraith's cloaking delay, he is able to closely follow the survivor, rather than having to slow to almost a halt. The lockers were a similar problem for the Wraith, as part of the logic behind them is that, as a horror trope, people say not to hide in obvious spots, then do themselves. While at times, the killer might not think to search a locker, making it a good spot, hider risk immediate capture if found, rather than having to be hit twice and lifted. Because of the slow de-cloaking, a person hiding from the Wraith might be able to at least escape a locker and immediate capture. Now, however, some true terror can come back, especially if the person hiding doesn't know if the Wraith is invisible, as they won't know if they can safely leave but might not want to risk being caught. The patch included a list of bugs the developers worked on as well, and though there are many there and obviously many more, it's a good step to at least try to improve on existing issues, rather than ignoring glaring problems. |
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