Every Friday the 13th is bone-chilling, of course, but people expect it now. If you want to really surprise and scare someone, release a spooky murderdoctor on, say, Thursday the 11th. BOO! That’s exactly what Dead by Daylight [official site] has done, today launching DLC adding a new wacky doctor to the 1v4 horrorshow and a new victim/survivor. He was a torturer, she was an e-sports pro, can I make it any more obvious? I can with a trailer: … [visit site to read more]
Developers rarely admit they re trying to break their own games. But that s exactly what Behaviour Digital Inc want to do with the latest chapter of Dead by Daylight [official site], the team-based horror game where four survivors try to escape from a player-controlled killer straight out of an 80s horror film.
We want to make sure that when this [new] killer goes out, people will scream, they ll say it s absolutely OP, it s unplayable, game director Mathieu Cote says. And then the rest of the people will say, no no no, it s completely nerfed and you can t play it because it s shit. Whenever we make a new killer, we try to break the game.
It s certainly a bold stance. The new chapter includes a new killer a doctor specialising in experimental interrogation methods a new map, and a new survivor, all of which combine to produce something that is different to the core game in so many ways. So why do the developers think it will prove a winner among fans after it drops in the next few weeks? I spoke to Cote to find out. … [visit site to read more]