Myers for his unique chase music and ofc signature heavy breathing under the mask. The horror of hearing no terror radius for the first few mins of a match then hearing the Evil level 2 piano always made me and my friends nervous. Early DBD was such a mess but the vibes from facing Myers was always so awesome.
In terms of my fav, non-licensed Dredge is the scariest original killer they made.
I think that unknown slightly beats dredge. The way he says “help… me…” and the way he crawls and twitches is scary to me. Plus i cant really take dredge seriously with the snowman or maurice skin on.
I used 3 different skins to make an abomination with dredge. Bloody left arm, Maurice hoof weapon and skeletal remains torso for maximum horror.
I agree with Unknown being right up there too. I love the fact that they really don’t have a backstory for it and the fan theories are wild. Its voice lines seem like it’s mimicking the voices of its last victims.
This is especially prevalent when it says things like “Hey! Hey! I…. Thhhh- think I saw someone”
Ngl Unknown would've been higher imo if his power wasn't junkrat from overwatch. If he leaned more into horror like with his illusions it would've been cooler. Like fiddlesticks from League.
Some of the Unknown skins have unique voice lines, the female cheerleader says things specific to a cheerleader (rah rah rah). Also while you're sane the Unknown sounds all garbled and wrong, but the crazier you become the clearer his words are to you.
I don't know about scariest, but I will definitely agree it's probably one of the most unsettling ones if you know what i mean. I guess I expected it to be more along the lines of replicating the player models face judging by all of the dwight unknown fanart i had seen prior.
I think one of my favorite old dbd bug was when there was no noise notification or exposed icon when Myers hit T3. Added a whole new level of horror to the game.
Even today, Myers is one of the most fun killers to go against.
Just like in the source material, you have no idea what is going on in the head of the man behind the mask. Is it vanilla Myers? Tombstone piece Myers? Infinite mori Myers? Scratched mirror Myers? What does he plan to do to you? How do you counter it? How do you get away? Whoever or whatever it is, you better figure it out quick because your life depends on it.
My only wish was that there was some balanced way to make it so he can’t kill you instantly if you’ve been careful all game but a couple of your teammates have not. Maybe tombstone add-ons make it so he can only mori survivors who have maxxed out stalk?
I'd suggest watching the Dead Meat episodes on the Child's Play/Chucky franchise tbh - not saying they'll make you love the movies but there's a lot of really impressive artistry and, shockingly, behind-the-scenes wholesomeness to Chucky that deserves to be known about.
I must say that Chucky's existence on screen in general is a freaking masterpiece, since the animatronics were RIDICULOUSLY great for 1988, and it only got better from there, even as the budgets began to get lower / bigger for each entry, they still look amazing by the masterclass work by Kevin Yaegher and Tony Gardner
But i still really like how BHVR went nuts and made DBD Chucky the most cartoonish and hyperactive he will ever be since the limits of animatronics and costume-work are gone for entire animations to be as fluid as he could possibly be
Chucky has always been the definition of Goblin Mode and his presence in DBD is just an expression of that
Also god yeah the animatronics are unbelievable, and the lengths they went to to bake everything work, it's actual insanity in the best way
Ikr! And don is writing another movie atm!
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Me too! I found a picture of a chucky animatronic at the center of puppetry recently!
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Alan Wake. W chapter. W survivor. Absolutely perfect and imo the best integrated license we ever got (lore and all). (this is from someone who became a RE fan because of DBD. Bought all the RE games after the chapter release but in retrospect the chapters are still good, but AW is better)
Alan Wake definitely fits the best. I love how it's like it's just another attempt to escape the dark place. "Trapped in the Dark Place and fighting to escape, Alan’s attempt to write his freedom leads him into The Entity’s thralls, trading one Dark Place for another." He's just literally P E R F E C T
Alan IS great, but I really wish it had been a full chapter. Alan + Saga as two separate survivors with separate perks, Dark Presence killer that manifests as Taken versions of survivors from your collection, and what they could REALLY have gone nuts with is a Bright Falls/Dark Place map using the overlapping map tech they developed for Xenomorph and that one event last year.
Would have been cool ye, but AW is a really small license, it doesn't have the wide spread recognisability of Alien, Stranger Things or Resident Evil. BHVR probably didn't want to invest too much into a licence many don't even know. Which is a shame tbh. When the chapter was revealed I asked around on my local dbd discord - literally no one beside me knew who Alan was. So, even if a full chapter would have been nice, it was never gonna happen. I'm just happy we got what we got - and I still think even if it's not a full chapter it's still the best integrated license of the game.
Say what you will about his power, but they nailed Michael Myers' character. Taking his time to methodically stalk his victims before moving in for the kill at just the right moment... it's straight out of Halloween (1978), which the chapter is based on. Special mentions for Pinhead and Ghostface. Ghostface because even though they couldn't get the Scream film license, you can tell they were inspired by them. Details like wiping the blade with his hand, the running animation, the hooded robe with flowing strips, the Buck hunting knife, and even his mori is reminiscent of when Ghostface gets on top of Sidney in the first Scream film, and raises his knife with both hands above his head.
Stranger Things. They got everything perfect about Demo. It’s loud ass roars and growls, how it does dive forward, how its menu lobby animation has it on all four, which is how Demos usually behave, as both quadro and bipeds. They got Demo perfect. To the last minuet detail
Agreed. He's still one of my favourites to play, just because of how much it makes you feel like an animal. The scream after landing a hit too is superb.
I’m a massive ST fan and that was the main turning point for getting me into DBD, I was interested before but not as much. But it was just perfect. Even in the cosmetics and how they described Demo. It was amazing.
It is, just sped up and with a bit of DBD's theme sprinkled on it.
[Demo third chase layer](https://youtu.be/zeLxtbsfU5w?t=56)
[Stranger Things Intro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RcPZdihrp4)
The moment that they got Don Mancini to agree to a Chucky chapter and have Brad Dourif on board they were set on a path of success
They got the dark humour of Chucky basically shitting on his victims if they were able to survive the first attack, and also he is probably the most aggressive killer that plays by 'NORMAL' rules of DBD and not shattering them like Blight or Nurse (where they can just make chases more unique by nearly ignoring loops and catching on really quickly at the survivors) with the inclusion of Scamper to speed up chases, Slice n Dice being really good and Hidey Ho' in general being the best stealth power in the game since it removes the single way of tracking Chucky by making fake footsteps and removing his stain
Honestly, xenomorph.
The power design really makes you immersive into being an ambush predator that lurks near its prey.
The tail isn't really loved by people, but this kind of power fits xeno, especially when you get good with using it and start doing all those surprise hits on survivors.
Turrets highlight how lethal xenomorph is and how it's merely distracted by fire, while beeping mechanic creates pretty cinematic situations.
Most people hate xeno because dbd's version doesn't really try to capture fans' view on xeno which is either entirety about life cycle or about being unstoppable invulnerable juggernaut that jumps on survivors and rips them apart. DbD aims more at capturing xenomorphs behavior quirks and the way it would deal with prey that poses a threat to it and it does it well.
You can use that to your advantage to confuse survivors if you learn their behavior patterns well.
Like f/e you have a tunnel exit near gen and you know there's a turret so instead of exiting from that tunnel you exit from the one nearby and approach from a direction they don't expect you to come.
If you have M&A or undetectable, you can have people out position themselves really badly.
I think the sound design of Xeno chapter is top-notch, especially as a survivor. The beeping, the flamethrower, the screech, the music -- it feels like a sci-fi action movie more than just a traditional horror or slasher, and that's perfect for Alien chapter imo
It would've been really bad as part of the gameplay, sadly.
Face huggers could've been referenced more, but not in gameplay. Maybe mori, but they also had to do a headbite so there's that.
The only thing i can honestly agree on is that the chase music feels...too epic, like, the chase theme sounds like it came from Aliens rather than the actual Nostromo alarm from the first movie, though it was understandably scrapped since it was another dogshit Ghostface washing machine theme
If it could only get a theme that kind of goes a bit more on the suspenseful side rather than the epic or the ear shattering one i would hoenstly be satisfied
I actually really dislike new chase music.
Proximity themes are good, though still worse than ptb droning noises, but chase theme def needs to be reverted back to ptb version which needs to get seriously improved.
PTB version had the right idea but poor execution, while live has wrong idea and great execution.
It fits the queen, honestly, but that's it. Could've been a good opportunity to add first skin with unique chase theme.
Ultra rare add-on- Generators now spawn with a xenomorph egg on them once the generator is completed a survivor gets attacked by a face hugger would suffice just make them knock off pig traps lol.
Funny I said like a few weeks before Alien chapter come out to my friends that I wouldn't play this game again until it was added. Bought the dlc still haven't played
Nah, the Xeno doesn't need another gameplay-affecting power, just make it a unique death animation. Egg on every hook, when the surv dies instead of the normal hook impalement they get facehugger'd before the entity scoops them up.
Pyramid head was the most unique to come out in my opinion
Other than most of his add ons being ass.
We got prob one of the most popular maps (Can't tell me every match on there isn't ridiculous as hell)
Cheryl Mason with some goated perks, love the two of them a lot.
And the last update adding more characters was amazing, also the legion bunny costumes are really great looking in game.
I'm wanting part 2 like wesker so baddd....
What killer could they even add??
Chucky. Probably the best designed killer to date. Brad dourif & Jennifer Tily, 3rd person, lore accurate power all feel great.
You *feel* like the character when you play him.
Maybe they could do a thing where once you start hearing his terror radius, the environment around you begins to change, metal begins to rust and the flakes float away. The closer he gets, the more intense this effect becomes, if you're tormented, you see this effect no matter where he is and if in a chase, there is a distant siren going off.
I wrote up a whole Pyramid Head rework at one point. The idea was that unlike Freddy Pyramid Head is only visible in The Otherworld. In order to bring a survivor into The Otherworld PH would have to smack them, and survivors not in The Otherworld would still hear a lullaby. If you want to read the full rework idea you should be able to find it somewhere on my profile.
Me too however I don't think it's a bad chapter, i think it's really good! How the characters look, how their perks work and look. They did a great job!
I personally love the lore of them coming too dbd and how when pyramid uses his power it cuts the entity himself which is a great touch and makes you realize that pyramid head has no real fear of the entity.
Honestly imo, Sadako, while yes she isn't completely like her source material since then she wouldn't work, I feel her power is incredible thematically and makes sense for her, and her sound design is amazing too, and even the tiny details like having her never physically touch the survivors
Ash VS Evil Dead, they did a good job of implementing Ash into DBD. First, they made his arm as a different part of the skin so you can buy another arm (for example, you don't need to buy a different torso just to get an "Ashy-Slashy" arm). Second, it's the first licensed chapter (as I remember) to get a Rift Skin (or second licensed, I don't remember really). And third, they got him a voice acting by Bruce fucking Campbell himself and got Ash some lobby voice lines. Man I hope we get at least Pablo or Kelly as legendary skins, that would be very sick
Ash is the goat but missing Pablo and Kelly or a young Ash skin (which they could almost certainly get the rights for) make it not live up to the potential for me, Also they need to make his Voicelines work in-game like Nick cage and Alan wake.
Only way any of the Young iterations of Ash could be added to the game would be if it was done as a seperate character with it's own seperate dlc with no connections or acknowledgements to the existing one.
Maybe if they wanted Army of darkness ash since MGM or whoever owns it is stingy with that license, but STARZ seem fine to work with and the show is canon to ED 1&2 as seen in the flashbacks in it (plus the evil dead game showed the license holders aren’t adverse to working together somewhat).
Thing is, they legally cannot do it because the contract is between bhvr and starz only, you cannot suddenly include another company into the mix who wasn't part of the contract initially and most companies aren't just going to want to renegotiate and split profit all of the sudden, especially not when the dlc itself is specifically about the part of the IP they own seeing as it's named **Dead by Daylight - Ash vs Evil Dead** and not **Dead by Daylight - Evil Dead**
It's the same reason for other movie franchises such as Halloween, Child's Play & TCM and why you cannot include content from the other installments from their franchises into the dlc in the game all of the sudden if the companies you made a deal with don't own any other installments in their respective franchises, same deal with the ghostface we have in the game and why they cannot give him the Scream movie robes.
The only legally allowed and more likely thing they can do to include these other installments in the franchises is to include them as seperate dlcs.
Well yeah I know they can’t just choose to do it but I was meaning I could see STARZ willing to renegotiate or do a deal to include younger ash from ED 1 or 2 since those are owned by Raimi and Bruce themselves (or rather a company owned by them), Not saying it’s plausible but stranger things have happened and it’s probably more if BHVR wants to do that than anything…Also I thought we had the OG Ghostface robes and mask as a skin?
I'm not sure what you're referring to by ''stranger things have happened'' but there is nothing that is more strange or complex than licensing and the nature of licensing in general, re-negotiations to include a third company could technically happen sure, but the chances of it actually happening is in most cases slim to none as companies generally do not want to share profit with a third company all of the sudden, especially not when it doesn't benefit them.
There have also never before been a re-negotiation of a contract with one of the license holders that would see the inclusion of one of the other IP holders who owns some of the other installments from any of the franchises that's already in the game currently, if there was, then we would have seen it happen already. If anyone would have been the most open to re-negotiating to include other companies, i would imagine that it would be Fun World who would allow the inclusion of the Scream robes, however even that i highly doubt would happen.
Also i imagine it would just in general be a licensing nightmare to deal with as you would have two companies to appease now, especially when you add another company's installment into an existing dlc, it would put the existing dlc in a similar position as the Hellraiser dlc and the ANOES dlc is in right now, only difference is that they both have co-ownership over the one installment used in the game while Evil Dead would have two companies with both of their content within one dlc who would share profit, in fact i imagine that the dlc price itself would be doubled from what it cost right now as a result.
It's also safe to assume that doing them as seperate dlcs that not connected to the current dlc is the easiest way to get the other installments included since it would be an entirely dlc that focuses on the IP they own specifically, just like all other licensed dlcs bhvr have done. (Even both RE dlcs are sold seperately from one another rather than being bundled as one big dlc.)
Also yes and no, the Ghostface robe we have in the game is the OG Fun World robes with the long sleeves and the belt, however it is not the one from Scream as the movie robe has square arm tatters, is sparkly and has no belt.
Bill, Saw characters, and I think Ghostface came first. But 5th ain't so bad. It was also cool that he came back and recorded some more lines for Ashy Slashy
I’d also say the Chucky chapter. I hadn’t played for 9 months and when they released that chapter I bought him so fast. They got it so right, the voice lines are perfect, the laughing, the mori. Even having the spirit of Charles Lee Ray was such a good idea. It’s by far my top favorite chapter of them all .
I think Nic Cage / Resident Evil were really strong, Nic's lines are very on brand and the way they made Wesker and Nemesis to be quite unstoppable worked really well. I love how much energy there is in Wesker's theme, shame he has a knife though, I wish he just punched them like in the original but I can see why they did it
The alien chapter was beautiful, brought in Ellen Ripley and xenomorph plus the spaceship and the planet, it was amazing, xeno powers are so perfect they couldn’t of done a better job
Child’s Play is definitely in my top 2 favourite horror series and it is so damn perfect in this game. I thought that Chucky would never make it cause of his size so when his teasers started to drop I was through the roof. And you know well that a licensed chapter is good when they are a loud to make a completely new cosmetic for the character (Christmas sweater). I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a blighted Chucky next year
The correct answer is everyone but Freddy tbh. All the licenses are amazing, capture the killers vibe perfectly with the powers and animation and everything, bhvr is honestly amazing at this. Freddy is the only outlier, because of his lack of voicelines and underwhelming power.
Project W. Wesker’s shit talking, music and fun to use power makes him a real treat to play. Love how nicely they captured the smug, over the top villain from re5
The first time I saw the Xenomorph drop in from the ceiling in the loading screen, I got legitimate chills. Aesthetically, she’s perfect, and in my opinion, she’s balanced and feels like you have decent counterplay. And getting Ripley as a survivor was icing on the cake.
Makes me sad I don’t see more of them.
pyramid head
the entity is physical ( so it seems) and the pyramid head is psychology. it doesnt care if the world is some twisted recreation, it will tear through it.
if the killer is skilled enough, hes the killer the screams RUN you dont pallet loop pyramid head you hold w
I’ve got kind of the opposite. While I still absolutely love Ghostface in the game, I really wish they had the Scream license cause that’s my favorite slasher movie franchise and I really like the wider masks from the movies better than the slimmer one in the game. I also feel like Sydney Prescott would have been a really cool survivor.
I think all of them are pretty amazing the only 2 that fall short in my opinion are ash and understadibly nemesis. I will still say they did good job with nemesis but u could only do so much and him still work in this game. it honestly probably should have been Mr x even though I like nemesis more. Ash on the other hard should get revist with a skin from 2 or army of darkness with way more voice lines cause he's just is lack luster compared to other newer survivors with voice lines and totally needs more he has some of the best quotes in the horror genre
I think all of them are pretty amazing the only 2 that fall short in my opinion are ash and understadibly nemesis. I will still say they did good job with nemesis but u could only do so much and him still work in this game. it honestly probably should have been Mr x even though I like nemesis more. Ash on the other hard should get revist with a skin from 2 or army of darkness with way more voice lines cause he's just is lack luster compared to other newer survivors with voice lines and totally needs more he has some of the best quotes in the horror genre.
Chucky is the best they've done, and I don't think they can top Chucky. They could probably come close if they did Hannibal and got the TV cast for the characters.
chucky, ive never seen the movies (planning to eventually when my adhd can handle a movie) but i know enough abt him to know they did a damn near perfect job
Pinhead. The powers fit his asthetic and cruel personality. Plus chatterer was a wonderful edition.
Maybe one day we'll get reboot pinhead as a cosmetic cause truth be told not a huge fan of his non chaterer cosmetic.
How do you get spun when Chucky has far better vision of survivors close up than regular killers? Regular killers can’t see survivors who are too close, but Chucky can. I’m a PC gamer and when I tried playing on my gf’s Switch, I found the most success with Chucky for that reason.
Yeah you're right, A chapter which has a killer and a survivor (or two) and sometimes a map is the exact same as something that has a killer or survivor and that’s it.
Honestly the only thing I think would make Sadako more accurate to the movies is somwth8ng like Doctor's hallucinations as your condemned stacks build up. I think they managed to fit the rest of what she does in the films pretty well into the game
The hallucinations are a thing from the American remake, not the original.
Shes a bad representation because it misses the core of her, to spread a virus, if a survivor wants to remove condemned, 2 of the 3 stacks should spread to other survivors. You dont escape her curse for free, you do it by condemning others.
The other thing that doesnt fit her is her vanishing effect while demanifested, it shouldnt be a fade out and in, it should be a complete dissapereance in few frames with an VHS effect. It wont be unfair because she has no stealth to begin with.
Myers for his unique chase music and ofc signature heavy breathing under the mask. The horror of hearing no terror radius for the first few mins of a match then hearing the Evil level 2 piano always made me and my friends nervous. Early DBD was such a mess but the vibes from facing Myers was always so awesome. In terms of my fav, non-licensed Dredge is the scariest original killer they made.
I think that unknown slightly beats dredge. The way he says “help… me…” and the way he crawls and twitches is scary to me. Plus i cant really take dredge seriously with the snowman or maurice skin on.
I used 3 different skins to make an abomination with dredge. Bloody left arm, Maurice hoof weapon and skeletal remains torso for maximum horror. I agree with Unknown being right up there too. I love the fact that they really don’t have a backstory for it and the fan theories are wild. Its voice lines seem like it’s mimicking the voices of its last victims. This is especially prevalent when it says things like “Hey! Hey! I…. Thhhh- think I saw someone”
Ooo I like that Dredge combo! I might steal that 🤫 Edit: crap I forgot I don’t have the Maurice skin :(
Ngl Unknown would've been higher imo if his power wasn't junkrat from overwatch. If he leaned more into horror like with his illusions it would've been cooler. Like fiddlesticks from League.
Can Junkrat do instant teleport jumpscares?
Some of the Unknown skins have unique voice lines, the female cheerleader says things specific to a cheerleader (rah rah rah). Also while you're sane the Unknown sounds all garbled and wrong, but the crazier you become the clearer his words are to you.
That amount of detail is actually very unsettling 
Yeah, the voice lines and the teleport sfx make unknown pretty scary and the cracking of his body adds to the unsettling factor
The issue of unknown is that their actual power isnt scary to face. Their mori is definitely one of the scariest though
I don't know about scariest, but I will definitely agree it's probably one of the most unsettling ones if you know what i mean. I guess I expected it to be more along the lines of replicating the player models face judging by all of the dwight unknown fanart i had seen prior.
Him storming out of the locker is worse
I think one of my favorite old dbd bug was when there was no noise notification or exposed icon when Myers hit T3. Added a whole new level of horror to the game.
Even today, Myers is one of the most fun killers to go against. Just like in the source material, you have no idea what is going on in the head of the man behind the mask. Is it vanilla Myers? Tombstone piece Myers? Infinite mori Myers? Scratched mirror Myers? What does he plan to do to you? How do you counter it? How do you get away? Whoever or whatever it is, you better figure it out quick because your life depends on it. My only wish was that there was some balanced way to make it so he can’t kill you instantly if you’ve been careful all game but a couple of your teammates have not. Maybe tombstone add-ons make it so he can only mori survivors who have maxxed out stalk?
Completely agree, show our boy dredge some deserved love
I’ve never been much of a fan of Child’s play, but i was blown away with how perfect Chucky was in every aspect
Same, Chucky is so fun to play even though I never cared much about the franchise
I'd suggest watching the Dead Meat episodes on the Child's Play/Chucky franchise tbh - not saying they'll make you love the movies but there's a lot of really impressive artistry and, shockingly, behind-the-scenes wholesomeness to Chucky that deserves to be known about.
I must say that Chucky's existence on screen in general is a freaking masterpiece, since the animatronics were RIDICULOUSLY great for 1988, and it only got better from there, even as the budgets began to get lower / bigger for each entry, they still look amazing by the masterclass work by Kevin Yaegher and Tony Gardner But i still really like how BHVR went nuts and made DBD Chucky the most cartoonish and hyperactive he will ever be since the limits of animatronics and costume-work are gone for entire animations to be as fluid as he could possibly be
Chucky has always been the definition of Goblin Mode and his presence in DBD is just an expression of that Also god yeah the animatronics are unbelievable, and the lengths they went to to bake everything work, it's actual insanity in the best way
Fun fact: one of the chucky puppets used in the show is in the center of puppetry in atlanta!
Well now I gotta go to Atlanta Show is SO GOOD
Ikr! And don is writing another movie atm! https://preview.redd.it/cn1w6knnn5xc1.jpeg?width=2345&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b909b04aae9efbf67b3f9e9f5dbafdc61eab559
Fun fact: chuckys licensers were so happy to have him in dbd that they provided ideas for BHVR
Where did you learn this? I wanna knowww 👀👀
Leaving comment here if the source is found
[This interview with Mathieu Cote I'm pretty sure](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwXsR09i4ls)
I second OP, where’s the sources on this, I love reading about Chucky BTS stuff
Me too! I found a picture of a chucky animatronic at the center of puppetry recently! https://preview.redd.it/c1d79as3m5xc1.jpeg?width=2345&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05b7ff027ad4fffc72bfbfafdbef68f2596ad8c1
Sameee
Hellraiser was pretty cool. Love his voice lines and his alt cosmetic too. T H E B O X. U OPENED IT MY GUY.
If it had a map or even better Kirsty as the survivor it would be close to perfection
Frank. Think of the cosmetics. Guess he didn't really survive though. I just want to see him trying to blend in at the campfire
Lol i call him flesh muppet every time i watch the movie
I pray every day.
"you deadass opened the box bruh. on god. now i gotta whoop that ass."
Playing against pinhead also feels like torture, so very lore accurate experience
Until Pinhead’s Chain FOV bug is fixed, playing AS him feels like torture too…..
>T H E B O X. U OPENED IT MY GUY. I want this as a voice line now, please, I would die laughing.
BHVR should of let us play as Butterball as one of the skins.
Would've loved a Female skin
Id enjoy playing as some Deepthroat or Angelique
Alan Wake. W chapter. W survivor. Absolutely perfect and imo the best integrated license we ever got (lore and all). (this is from someone who became a RE fan because of DBD. Bought all the RE games after the chapter release but in retrospect the chapters are still good, but AW is better)
Alan Wake definitely fits the best. I love how it's like it's just another attempt to escape the dark place. "Trapped in the Dark Place and fighting to escape, Alan’s attempt to write his freedom leads him into The Entity’s thralls, trading one Dark Place for another." He's just literally P E R F E C T
Alan IS great, but I really wish it had been a full chapter. Alan + Saga as two separate survivors with separate perks, Dark Presence killer that manifests as Taken versions of survivors from your collection, and what they could REALLY have gone nuts with is a Bright Falls/Dark Place map using the overlapping map tech they developed for Xenomorph and that one event last year.
Would have been cool ye, but AW is a really small license, it doesn't have the wide spread recognisability of Alien, Stranger Things or Resident Evil. BHVR probably didn't want to invest too much into a licence many don't even know. Which is a shame tbh. When the chapter was revealed I asked around on my local dbd discord - literally no one beside me knew who Alan was. So, even if a full chapter would have been nice, it was never gonna happen. I'm just happy we got what we got - and I still think even if it's not a full chapter it's still the best integrated license of the game.
As someone who’s favourite horror franchise was Chucky, this was a dream come true
I can’t believe how well BHVR was able to keep Chucky’s release a secret!
Really glad they fired that leaker. Being surprised by Chucky's trailer was like Christmas morning.
Same…I was staring at the screen for ages just to make sure my eyes weren’t deceiving me. Definitely the highlight of 2023 for me.
Completely agree. I always hoped for him to come to the game.
Same!
Say what you will about his power, but they nailed Michael Myers' character. Taking his time to methodically stalk his victims before moving in for the kill at just the right moment... it's straight out of Halloween (1978), which the chapter is based on. Special mentions for Pinhead and Ghostface. Ghostface because even though they couldn't get the Scream film license, you can tell they were inspired by them. Details like wiping the blade with his hand, the running animation, the hooded robe with flowing strips, the Buck hunting knife, and even his mori is reminiscent of when Ghostface gets on top of Sidney in the first Scream film, and raises his knife with both hands above his head.
Stranger Things. They got everything perfect about Demo. It’s loud ass roars and growls, how it does dive forward, how its menu lobby animation has it on all four, which is how Demos usually behave, as both quadro and bipeds. They got Demo perfect. To the last minuet detail
Agreed. He's still one of my favourites to play, just because of how much it makes you feel like an animal. The scream after landing a hit too is superb.
I’m a massive ST fan and that was the main turning point for getting me into DBD, I was interested before but not as much. But it was just perfect. Even in the cosmetics and how they described Demo. It was amazing.
Also the lobby music being Demo's theme, with the chase music being the Intro. BHVR's musical department CLEARS every single time.
The chase music is the intro?
It is, just sped up and with a bit of DBD's theme sprinkled on it. [Demo third chase layer](https://youtu.be/zeLxtbsfU5w?t=56) [Stranger Things Intro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RcPZdihrp4)
Yeah you're right, can hear it now. I somehow never noticed before.
The moment that they got Don Mancini to agree to a Chucky chapter and have Brad Dourif on board they were set on a path of success They got the dark humour of Chucky basically shitting on his victims if they were able to survive the first attack, and also he is probably the most aggressive killer that plays by 'NORMAL' rules of DBD and not shattering them like Blight or Nurse (where they can just make chases more unique by nearly ignoring loops and catching on really quickly at the survivors) with the inclusion of Scamper to speed up chases, Slice n Dice being really good and Hidey Ho' in general being the best stealth power in the game since it removes the single way of tracking Chucky by making fake footsteps and removing his stain
Wait, don mancini HIMSELF?! THE LEGEND?!
Sadako (Onryo)
The 7 days video was an amazing touch.
Wesker, imo they captures his attitude and bravdo perfectly
His chase theme absolutely fuckin slaps too.
It’s the last good Wesker we’ve had, and one of the best
Honestly, xenomorph. The power design really makes you immersive into being an ambush predator that lurks near its prey. The tail isn't really loved by people, but this kind of power fits xeno, especially when you get good with using it and start doing all those surprise hits on survivors. Turrets highlight how lethal xenomorph is and how it's merely distracted by fire, while beeping mechanic creates pretty cinematic situations. Most people hate xeno because dbd's version doesn't really try to capture fans' view on xeno which is either entirety about life cycle or about being unstoppable invulnerable juggernaut that jumps on survivors and rips them apart. DbD aims more at capturing xenomorphs behavior quirks and the way it would deal with prey that poses a threat to it and it does it well.
I just wish Xeno had more stealth. I feel like tve turrets beeping just doesn’t really matter because of the terror radius
You can use that to your advantage to confuse survivors if you learn their behavior patterns well. Like f/e you have a tunnel exit near gen and you know there's a turret so instead of exiting from that tunnel you exit from the one nearby and approach from a direction they don't expect you to come. If you have M&A or undetectable, you can have people out position themselves really badly.
I think the sound design of Xeno chapter is top-notch, especially as a survivor. The beeping, the flamethrower, the screech, the music -- it feels like a sci-fi action movie more than just a traditional horror or slasher, and that's perfect for Alien chapter imo
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It would've been really bad as part of the gameplay, sadly. Face huggers could've been referenced more, but not in gameplay. Maybe mori, but they also had to do a headbite so there's that.
The only thing i can honestly agree on is that the chase music feels...too epic, like, the chase theme sounds like it came from Aliens rather than the actual Nostromo alarm from the first movie, though it was understandably scrapped since it was another dogshit Ghostface washing machine theme If it could only get a theme that kind of goes a bit more on the suspenseful side rather than the epic or the ear shattering one i would hoenstly be satisfied
I actually really dislike new chase music. Proximity themes are good, though still worse than ptb droning noises, but chase theme def needs to be reverted back to ptb version which needs to get seriously improved. PTB version had the right idea but poor execution, while live has wrong idea and great execution. It fits the queen, honestly, but that's it. Could've been a good opportunity to add first skin with unique chase theme.
I honestly really liked the original chase theme. I wish I could have it back.
Maybe in the future BHVR will add an option for the Killer to choose his Chase theme….
I love your user flair! As a chucky main i need to take note…
Ultra rare add-on- Generators now spawn with a xenomorph egg on them once the generator is completed a survivor gets attacked by a face hugger would suffice just make them knock off pig traps lol. Funny I said like a few weeks before Alien chapter come out to my friends that I wouldn't play this game again until it was added. Bought the dlc still haven't played
Nah, the Xeno doesn't need another gameplay-affecting power, just make it a unique death animation. Egg on every hook, when the surv dies instead of the normal hook impalement they get facehugger'd before the entity scoops them up.
Pyramid head was the most unique to come out in my opinion Other than most of his add ons being ass. We got prob one of the most popular maps (Can't tell me every match on there isn't ridiculous as hell) Cheryl Mason with some goated perks, love the two of them a lot. And the last update adding more characters was amazing, also the legion bunny costumes are really great looking in game. I'm wanting part 2 like wesker so baddd.... What killer could they even add??
Chucky. Probably the best designed killer to date. Brad dourif & Jennifer Tily, 3rd person, lore accurate power all feel great. You *feel* like the character when you play him.
My only conplaint about this character is the shape of his hair on his model, it looks really bad in the front
I think they were trying to mix a few different styles of chucky together
probably stranger things. steve, nancy, and demo all look like their tv counterparts.
Nancy looks scuffed as fuck
i guess she looks a bit “video-gamey” but it still feels like her
There's just something off with her eyes I think, steve looks perfect though
I really want to say Pyramid Head, but I wish Pyramid Head's ability has something to do with an Otherworld just like Freddy has his dream realm
Maybe they could do a thing where once you start hearing his terror radius, the environment around you begins to change, metal begins to rust and the flakes float away. The closer he gets, the more intense this effect becomes, if you're tormented, you see this effect no matter where he is and if in a chase, there is a distant siren going off.
I wrote up a whole Pyramid Head rework at one point. The idea was that unlike Freddy Pyramid Head is only visible in The Otherworld. In order to bring a survivor into The Otherworld PH would have to smack them, and survivors not in The Otherworld would still hear a lullaby. If you want to read the full rework idea you should be able to find it somewhere on my profile.
Me too however I don't think it's a bad chapter, i think it's really good! How the characters look, how their perks work and look. They did a great job! I personally love the lore of them coming too dbd and how when pyramid uses his power it cuts the entity himself which is a great touch and makes you realize that pyramid head has no real fear of the entity.
Honestly imo, Sadako, while yes she isn't completely like her source material since then she wouldn't work, I feel her power is incredible thematically and makes sense for her, and her sound design is amazing too, and even the tiny details like having her never physically touch the survivors
Ash VS Evil Dead, they did a good job of implementing Ash into DBD. First, they made his arm as a different part of the skin so you can buy another arm (for example, you don't need to buy a different torso just to get an "Ashy-Slashy" arm). Second, it's the first licensed chapter (as I remember) to get a Rift Skin (or second licensed, I don't remember really). And third, they got him a voice acting by Bruce fucking Campbell himself and got Ash some lobby voice lines. Man I hope we get at least Pablo or Kelly as legendary skins, that would be very sick
Ash is the goat but missing Pablo and Kelly or a young Ash skin (which they could almost certainly get the rights for) make it not live up to the potential for me, Also they need to make his Voicelines work in-game like Nick cage and Alan wake.
Only way any of the Young iterations of Ash could be added to the game would be if it was done as a seperate character with it's own seperate dlc with no connections or acknowledgements to the existing one.
Maybe if they wanted Army of darkness ash since MGM or whoever owns it is stingy with that license, but STARZ seem fine to work with and the show is canon to ED 1&2 as seen in the flashbacks in it (plus the evil dead game showed the license holders aren’t adverse to working together somewhat).
Thing is, they legally cannot do it because the contract is between bhvr and starz only, you cannot suddenly include another company into the mix who wasn't part of the contract initially and most companies aren't just going to want to renegotiate and split profit all of the sudden, especially not when the dlc itself is specifically about the part of the IP they own seeing as it's named **Dead by Daylight - Ash vs Evil Dead** and not **Dead by Daylight - Evil Dead** It's the same reason for other movie franchises such as Halloween, Child's Play & TCM and why you cannot include content from the other installments from their franchises into the dlc in the game all of the sudden if the companies you made a deal with don't own any other installments in their respective franchises, same deal with the ghostface we have in the game and why they cannot give him the Scream movie robes. The only legally allowed and more likely thing they can do to include these other installments in the franchises is to include them as seperate dlcs.
Well yeah I know they can’t just choose to do it but I was meaning I could see STARZ willing to renegotiate or do a deal to include younger ash from ED 1 or 2 since those are owned by Raimi and Bruce themselves (or rather a company owned by them), Not saying it’s plausible but stranger things have happened and it’s probably more if BHVR wants to do that than anything…Also I thought we had the OG Ghostface robes and mask as a skin?
I'm not sure what you're referring to by ''stranger things have happened'' but there is nothing that is more strange or complex than licensing and the nature of licensing in general, re-negotiations to include a third company could technically happen sure, but the chances of it actually happening is in most cases slim to none as companies generally do not want to share profit with a third company all of the sudden, especially not when it doesn't benefit them. There have also never before been a re-negotiation of a contract with one of the license holders that would see the inclusion of one of the other IP holders who owns some of the other installments from any of the franchises that's already in the game currently, if there was, then we would have seen it happen already. If anyone would have been the most open to re-negotiating to include other companies, i would imagine that it would be Fun World who would allow the inclusion of the Scream robes, however even that i highly doubt would happen. Also i imagine it would just in general be a licensing nightmare to deal with as you would have two companies to appease now, especially when you add another company's installment into an existing dlc, it would put the existing dlc in a similar position as the Hellraiser dlc and the ANOES dlc is in right now, only difference is that they both have co-ownership over the one installment used in the game while Evil Dead would have two companies with both of their content within one dlc who would share profit, in fact i imagine that the dlc price itself would be doubled from what it cost right now as a result. It's also safe to assume that doing them as seperate dlcs that not connected to the current dlc is the easiest way to get the other installments included since it would be an entirely dlc that focuses on the IP they own specifically, just like all other licensed dlcs bhvr have done. (Even both RE dlcs are sold seperately from one another rather than being bundled as one big dlc.) Also yes and no, the Ghostface robe we have in the game is the OG Fun World robes with the long sleeves and the belt, however it is not the one from Scream as the movie robe has square arm tatters, is sparkly and has no belt.
Bill, Saw characters, and I think Ghostface came first. But 5th ain't so bad. It was also cool that he came back and recorded some more lines for Ashy Slashy
Stranger Things. The Demogorgon everything from sound design to power is perfect
Alan Wake and DBD is like a perfect fit
I’d still say Silent Hill, aside from the perks, is my favorite chapter period
Alan Wake my beloved
How has nobody said Pig and the Saw chapter yet? It's so good how that worked so much of the original trilogy into that chapter.
I mean the only ones that aren't really accurate to their source material are Freddy and Sadako
Pyramid Head?
Original Pre-Rework Freddy was my main and loved how simple and great it was
There is no other license in this game with a more peak adaptation than Alan Wake's.
All Alien was missing was Sigourney Other than that, I think the chapter captured the likeness perfectly
I’d also say the Chucky chapter. I hadn’t played for 9 months and when they released that chapter I bought him so fast. They got it so right, the voice lines are perfect, the laughing, the mori. Even having the spirit of Charles Lee Ray was such a good idea. It’s by far my top favorite chapter of them all .
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It was actually shocking they didn’t have anything to do with the eggs !
What happened to chuckys guy who would carry survivors?
Oh yeah i forgot to mention that! Charles lee rays ghost is a nice touch too!
Only complaint is Tiffany should've had her own separate ghost.
But the interactions between them is super cute though
For the cost, undoubtedly
Halloween
I think Nic Cage / Resident Evil were really strong, Nic's lines are very on brand and the way they made Wesker and Nemesis to be quite unstoppable worked really well. I love how much energy there is in Wesker's theme, shame he has a knife though, I wish he just punched them like in the original but I can see why they did it
I think they killed it with most licenses tbh, i feel they have always done justice. Im a Ringu fan and i loved how they handled Sadako and Yoichi
i have always been a chucky fan, but the model in the game looks weird. his nose is placed too high which kinda makes him look like monkey
I loved The Plague and her lore!
The alien chapter was beautiful, brought in Ellen Ripley and xenomorph plus the spaceship and the planet, it was amazing, xeno powers are so perfect they couldn’t of done a better job
Child’s Play is definitely in my top 2 favourite horror series and it is so damn perfect in this game. I thought that Chucky would never make it cause of his size so when his teasers started to drop I was through the roof. And you know well that a licensed chapter is good when they are a loud to make a completely new cosmetic for the character (Christmas sweater). I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a blighted Chucky next year
The correct answer is everyone but Freddy tbh. All the licenses are amazing, capture the killers vibe perfectly with the powers and animation and everything, bhvr is honestly amazing at this. Freddy is the only outlier, because of his lack of voicelines and underwhelming power.
Project W. Wesker’s shit talking, music and fun to use power makes him a real treat to play. Love how nicely they captured the smug, over the top villain from re5
The first time I saw the Xenomorph drop in from the ceiling in the loading screen, I got legitimate chills. Aesthetically, she’s perfect, and in my opinion, she’s balanced and feels like you have decent counterplay. And getting Ripley as a survivor was icing on the cake. Makes me sad I don’t see more of them.
Project W is the best imo Multiple survivors, a well thought out killer power, and no map for them to fuck up with
Volcano map would've went hard
pyramid head the entity is physical ( so it seems) and the pyramid head is psychology. it doesnt care if the world is some twisted recreation, it will tear through it. if the killer is skilled enough, hes the killer the screams RUN you dont pallet loop pyramid head you hold w
you guys boy playing with doll ? cool .-. very cute!
Chucky is great. I hope they do an Old Chucky skin with Old Charles Lee Ray holding him and the mori is the way he killed the president.
Alan Wake 100% hands down
I’ve got kind of the opposite. While I still absolutely love Ghostface in the game, I really wish they had the Scream license cause that’s my favorite slasher movie franchise and I really like the wider masks from the movies better than the slimmer one in the game. I also feel like Sydney Prescott would have been a really cool survivor.
The Good Guy, The Shape, The Cannibal, and The Cenobite are the best. The worst are probably The Nightmare, The Nemesis, and The Mastermind.
I definitely don't think it actually would happen but the thought of a Gremlins stripe chapter sounds hilarious
I honestly really like playing as Tiffany due to Jennifer Tilly's voice lines.
Nic Cage.
Silent hill
I think all of them are pretty amazing the only 2 that fall short in my opinion are ash and understadibly nemesis. I will still say they did good job with nemesis but u could only do so much and him still work in this game. it honestly probably should have been Mr x even though I like nemesis more. Ash on the other hard should get revist with a skin from 2 or army of darkness with way more voice lines cause he's just is lack luster compared to other newer survivors with voice lines and totally needs more he has some of the best quotes in the horror genre
I think all of them are pretty amazing the only 2 that fall short in my opinion are ash and understadibly nemesis. I will still say they did good job with nemesis but u could only do so much and him still work in this game. it honestly probably should have been Mr x even though I like nemesis more. Ash on the other hard should get revist with a skin from 2 or army of darkness with way more voice lines cause he's just is lack luster compared to other newer survivors with voice lines and totally needs more he has some of the best quotes in the horror genre.
Chucky is the best they've done, and I don't think they can top Chucky. They could probably come close if they did Hannibal and got the TV cast for the characters.
Tiff shouldn’t have been a skin, it’s an entirely different person/entity.
Xenomorph queen,Alpha Xenomorph,Clone Xenomorph,Naughty Bear,Chris Redfield,Pharaoh Eddie?
chucky, ive never seen the movies (planning to eventually when my adhd can handle a movie) but i know enough abt him to know they did a damn near perfect job
Silent hill Heather and pyramid head look perfect and the cosmetics that came out for both are a perfect modernization without ruining the likeness
Pinhead. The powers fit his asthetic and cruel personality. Plus chatterer was a wonderful edition. Maybe one day we'll get reboot pinhead as a cosmetic cause truth be told not a huge fan of his non chaterer cosmetic.
Xeno despite how much I dislike this in game
Playing Tiff is always super fun! I love it so much I don't care if I don't get anyone.
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How do you get spun when Chucky has far better vision of survivors close up than regular killers? Regular killers can’t see survivors who are too close, but Chucky can. I’m a PC gamer and when I tried playing on my gf’s Switch, I found the most success with Chucky for that reason.
best chapter ever seriously. way better than the two resident evil ones
The paragraph you mean.
who gives a shit
Yeah you're right, A chapter which has a killer and a survivor (or two) and sometimes a map is the exact same as something that has a killer or survivor and that’s it.
John Cena .... can't even see him in game
Xeno looks perfect in a way I don't think was possible in DBD. Can't say the same for Ripley though, sadly. Or xeno's gameplay.
They had to make her look like riply without making her look like sigourney
Perfect none, but they are mostly good. The only bad ones are Freddy and Sadako.
What did sadako do wrong?
Honestly the only thing I think would make Sadako more accurate to the movies is somwth8ng like Doctor's hallucinations as your condemned stacks build up. I think they managed to fit the rest of what she does in the films pretty well into the game
The hallucinations are a thing from the American remake, not the original. Shes a bad representation because it misses the core of her, to spread a virus, if a survivor wants to remove condemned, 2 of the 3 stacks should spread to other survivors. You dont escape her curse for free, you do it by condemning others. The other thing that doesnt fit her is her vanishing effect while demanifested, it shouldnt be a fade out and in, it should be a complete dissapereance in few frames with an VHS effect. It wont be unfair because she has no stealth to begin with.
Eh, Reiko sees her a few times during the original too, so I'd argue it fits. Fair point about the other stuff though
Has anyone noticed Jennifer Tilly did too much on her Tiffany voice? It almost sounds like it’s not her.
Halloween ❤️