The Unknown Is Disappointing & Repurposed

[TXI]

As a game dev myself I understand re-purposing features you worked on is convenient and cost-effective but let's all say it how it is... Unknown is basically the Singularity done BETTER.

Don't get me wrong, he's not a BAD killer, but teleporting, walking up-right and shooting projectiles does NOT fit the aesthetic of this killer at all... but you know who it does fit? Singularity who teleports, walks up right and shoots "projectiles..."

And yes, The Unknown does Singularity better than Singularity - if you didn't know if you spam your "projectile" button it will reset your "hallucination" spawn rate, so you can easily just choose where to spawn it, I've done this at loops a few times and it's basically Singularities teleport but better.

This killer is REALLY strong especially with the tech listed above (feel free to steal that tech btw, go nuts LOL) but to me it really doesn't match the vibe of The Unknown and comes off more of an apology to Singularity players.

Am I the only one to think this?

[Nod 4 Bloodpoints]

you arent the only one, already seen a good few posts about it.

[Grandpa Crack Pipe]

Of course he's repurposed.
There's very little ways they can change up running around a piece of wood at this point.

[TXI]

Originally posted by Grandpa Crack Pipe:

Of course he's repurposed.
There's very little ways they can change up running around a piece of wood at this point.

Perhaps that may be the problem then. I mean, I'm sure with a creative team as big as theirs they CAN find an endless amount of ideas but it's the fact they're super desperate to stick to the "DBD formula" because of the dedicated fanbase.

I'd say this was a good opportunity to have a killer that could quickly walk over pallets and scurry around the map. Maybe even a way to kidnap people and put them in / on something that ISN'T a hook. Something to really shake up the gen kick > pallet > down > hook formula.

I wouldn't even mind if they started making powerful killers with big weaknesses, like this dude could scurry around the map and walk over pallets but he can't use hooks and, like I stated before, has to kidnap survivors and take them to specific "hideouts" like his lore teased.

Though I doubt many people would want that type of killer as the formula is pretty much infallible to the dedicated playerbase.

[Etchasketch]

It's all so tiresome.

[Michael Myers]

I expected some fast crawling like in teaser and what we got?ehh

[Voidlines]

I mean yeah, aspects of it are recycled a bit. I can agree.

But the more I test him, the more fun I find he is. Perhaps I've gone insane after nearly 2k hours, but he has enough differences to make him stand out a tad.

You can do Insidious fakeouts with his clones, wall bounce/angle shots with his power, the clones themselves have a fun little cutscene attached to them when being cleansed, his teleport is snappy and his M2 has restrictions so it can't be spammed, survivors needing to stare at him to cleanse their weakness quickly... That's just from my small amount of testing.

Would I have liked a more original power? Yeah, who wouldn't? Am I upset with what we got? Not really. I'm actually kinda looking forward to what kind of skill expression comes from the bounce mechanic.

[Nythand]

Yeah lets not let remnants be left near hooks to be proxy camped, first person to go down is tunneled out in half a second.

[Donut]

I saw the trailer and thought that this is genuinely one of the coolest killers, then i saw some photos of him and thought that his badass as hell

And then i saw his ability.... Why devs why give him such a random and weird ability? Not all killers need such a whacky gimmick

[eh why not]

Seems too easy for survivors to get rid of the weakened status, otherwise it'd be an ok killer.

[•u•]

like, he isn't bad at all, but this for sure is not supposed to be his power. His first teaser was him on all fours in a backyard, his first showcase was him on all fours sprinting into a tent, the first time you see him in game when you click on him, he flops down, crawls to you on all fours and jump scares you. In his gameplay he never does this. We could've finally have something scary again, this feels like they lied to us because everything in his visual and animation vise design suggests THIS is not what his power was supposed to be.

[ReZisT Lust]

I weirdhow it says we can choose where to place the halus yet it's a timer and we have to slow ourselves and be incapable of attacking while we do it

[Rigger Mortis]

I just tried him out. He's as underwhelming as his name. Hard pass for me.

[TXI]

Originally posted by Night Stalker:

I expected some fast crawling like in teaser and what we got?ehh

Yep, that's what I thought too.

[Sebb]

Originally posted by Night Stalker:

I expected some fast crawling like in teaser and what we got?ehh

Not another crawling/small killer right after chucky and xenomorph PLEASE