#dbd devs

[wowifinallymadeanaccount]

Day 1 of petitioning for Jennifer Check from Jennifer's Body to be a Dead By Daylight Killer

[thecryptidart1st]

man it sure has been a crazy month of announcements

(yes thats a real announcement)

[pokeslash109]

Took a break from Artfight to draw over the friendpilled visitmaxxer meme...

Yeah.

[coulsart]

About the Unknown

I have a theory. A game theory. And we're going to ignore the fact that delving into this would put me on the Unknown's shit list IMMEDIATELY. It’s fine.

Disclaimer: I do not know what’s canon, and they kept it intentionally vague. Everyone’s valid to have their head canons and this is just the explanation my brain conjured up.

"The Unknown was believed to be a mysterious evil so heinous that investigating it almost immediately invited death. At least that was how the story went. And there were many stories. One story was of a woman in Greenville who disappeared without a trace on stage in front of a room full of witnesses. Her friend disappeared weeks later while trying to investigate what happened. The police were stumped. They had no clues or leads, and that mystery created the perfect storm for amplifying and spreading an urban legend." An excerpt from the very beginning of the official lore page

I want to focus on a few key words here. It was believed to be heinously evil. There were stories about disappearances. Said mysterious stories spread and amplified the urban legend.

The Unknown gains power from people's beliefs and thoughts about it. Not too unlike Pennywise from 'IT'. But there's a catch.

People theorize that it might be an alien, a curse, a cult-created abomination, or just a really elusive serial killer... but it is all of those things. Because people believe that it is.

It doesn't have control over what it is. It's a horrible hodge-podge monstrosity of many things, seemingly mashed and twisted together violently. It likely started as something completely different, or nothing at all. Maybe a vague presence that only observed. But people could feel the presence. And while neither good nor evil, the peoples' minds conjured up visions, explanations of what it might be. Some imagined it to be a man lurking in the shadows. Watching and stalking them. And so the Unknown's body began to form. First as a man. Even still, with this new body, it was inherently off. Uncanny from the start. The Unknown was at its core so far removed from humanity that it still could not pass as one of us. So it would linger in the forest, only venturing to the threshold between town and woods.

Maybe an unfortunate camper happened upon it at night. This shadow in the dark, distinctly the shape of a man. But what does one think first, encountering a strange man in the dead of night? All alone and isolated in the deep woods?

"He's going to kill me with a knife, or an ax!"

And so it did. Because they believed it would.

It only snowballed from there, after the body was found, only a few paces away from their untouched tent. There was no evidence left. No DNA, no footprints to follow. Just a bloodied body, with a skull cloven almost completely in twain; by what was suspected to be an ax. So the theories began.

No one could explain the lack of evidence left behind. It was too perfect, too efficient. And what were the chances of a normal man doing such damage in only a single swing?

More murders followed. At first, people started disappearing, their bodies later being found in the woods, not far from the first victim. They grew increasingly more mangled, to the point that authorities began to question whether it was done by a man, or an animal.

The people became afraid. Paranoid that this insane ax murderer would tire of the woods and enter their homes at night, while they were resting peacefully in bed. The fears were beginning to surpass that of just a serial killer. The Unknown was beginning to become more of a boogeyman figure to them. No human man could have committed such gruesome killings.

People began to disappear from their homes at night. Then the streets. Then the cafe and theater. Then... sometimes in broad daylight. Its territory only grew. Its abilities more and more vast and unpredictable. The theories only escalated... and throughout its rampage, the Unknown grew increasingly monstrous. Its humanoid body twisted and contorted to fit the peoples' beliefs. But nothing was erased - only added on. Which is why it existed in the horrific state that it did.

A body can only fit so much substance inside without tearing itself apart. Without becoming an deformed, unstable, and agonizing vessel to pilot and exist in.

Human beings did this to it. Human beings made what it was. They assumed the worst of it, and it became that.

So naturally, it became hateful and bitter. It loathes humans. They did this. It lives in constant agony and isolation because of them... only for the crime of observing and existing in their vicinity. That's why it killed the ones who dive deeper into its existence and theorize about what it is. They kept making it worse. Inflicting more pain upon it and twisting its body further and further.

It mirrors humans' own words to them. Snippets of conversation, pleas for help. It does not truly have its own voice. It only has what others have spoken about it, and around it.

But its feelings towards human beings are clear, based on its words. Especially in its memento mori. "The terror. The horror. Terribly frightening, isn't it." The way it parrots their words in this case almost seems vindictive and sarcastic. These are all things that human beings have said about it.

Thought outside of what it's been made into became increasingly difficult. Yet, somehow, the Unknown is vaguely aware of this fact: it could have been spared this horrific existence, had human beings chosen differently.

And for the Unknown, it only got worse when the Entity stole it away. It begged and pleaded for help - ironically, seeking it from that which it loathed most. A human being. It was torn from our world and plunged into the never ending loop that are Her trials. All for the sake of feeding Her appetite for suffering and torment. And it isn't only at the survivors' expense. It is at the expense of the Unknown as well. It suffers just as much as they... if not more. They at least have companions to rely on - with varying results, of course. It has nobody.

All hope for it healing is lost. The survivors have no reason not to think it a ruthless, horrific monster. And in turn, it has no reason not to hate and slaughter them.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[slothpoth]

“Sevika as ghost face!” Sevika as Michael Myers.

[bloob-art]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!! Wanted to draw my wife again since a lot of folks really liked my Acearo head cannon for her~ And I used the hoodie I designed for her from my last post. She's been my comfort character recently since her release and I have been drawing her a lot. She just has Acearo energy, HEHE JUST LIKE MEEEE

[camilieroart]

COLORCODED VIDEO GAME WIP :D

The first scene is done !

COLORCODED TMNT ITERATION

[nshtn]

2. Show me your hand's accent.

*imagine I'm holding you gunpoint*

*consider this a threat* :3c

What a stunning, fine young sap! Here you are, friend.

[iridescent-king]

[adhdwerewolfgf]

ok this might be a weird post for me because i never talk about it but. as an avid dbd player who hates the game i have to ask something

to expand: this hypothetical game remains an asymmetrical survivor vs killer horror game, but differentiates itself in many ways including:

- survivors also in first person

- room for more killers per match, at a 1:4 ratio of killer to survivor (avg 3 killers with significantly larger maps)

- no gens, but rather various map-specific objectives

- much more downtime, no “win” or “lose” condition

- proximity voice chat + expanded gestures

- no “hook states”, but rather another mechanic that ensures you cannot be tunnelled out of the game

- no perks aside from an inherent skill for each survivor, and then random pick-up-able “perks” that can be found throughout the match

- the devs would actually play their damn game

- +more things that push this game away from “competitive” and more towards “horror experience”

[forcedhesitation]

the “criticism” that larian should never have added good minthara recruitment and that that was just “pandering” to fans is so unbelievably ridiculous. what else were they supposed to do about the sheepthara exploit?? attempt to patch it out and likely fuck up plenty of people’s game files? the solution they offered literally just acknowledges the exploit without dramatically changing anything, other than the player’s ability to have both minthara and halsin in their camp. if you want to kill minthara, recruit halsin, and play an authentic good run, then do so. if you want to abandon halsin, attack the grove, and authentically recruit minthara, then do so. the sheepthara method being simplified and added into the game has absolutely zero bearing on anyone’s ability to play the game normally. some people are just making a problem out of nothing. perhaps go complain about something actually worthwhile, like the lack of content for wyll and karlach.

[spaceandbones]

Flashbang temporarily disabled . This is the last straw

[yearningaxe]

I had a Meg with the lesbian charm give me a longing, yearning look in the escape gates after we frolicked through the cornfields together 🥰🦊❤️‍🔥🐰

[timothylawrence]

ive come to the realization that both overwatch and dbd have the same issue where a loud decent portion of the playerbase is lgbt and the devs 'acknowledge' it but also fail to put any meaningful rep in the game lmfao

[dailyaliens]

You have no idea how much i HATE xenomorph in dead by daylight. his tail attack makes me feral and its almost impossible to counter it

[bloodybirthdays]

is water wet? c'mon.