“It’s not necessarily a great idea to run around and lock them all. “You can only lock those lockers once,” says Patrick. Survivors can take protective measures by locking a locker door, but there’s one problem.
‘There’s three lockers in this room, do I really want to go here? ’ This is going to be the Killer that makes lockers scary.” “Something that takes a pillar of safety and flips it on its head. “We’ve wanted a Killer that jumped out of lockers and scared Survivors for a while,” explains Patrick. And should it teleport to a locker while a Survivor is inside? Some things are better left to the imagination. The Dredge has the ability to teleport to any locker across the map, granting it an oppressive level of mobility. It also helps that when you see The Dredge, it’s absolutely terrifying.” Lockers
It helped strike a balance between the two groups while maintaining the fear factor. That was a tricky one, and that’s where the idea of having The Dredge’s aura be visible during the darkness came from. “We had to find a balance where the high-skilled players were scared and impacted by the Power while the newer players were not completely overwhelmed. You could throw a blindfold on them, and they could still find the Generators. On the other side, many of the high-skilled players had each Map memorized. A lot of the less experienced Survivors felt that. “When I faced The Dredge, I found the darkness to be very tough - especially in early iterations. “I’m not the most amazing Survivor player in the world, by my own admission,” Patrick says with a laugh. On top of that, you must then consider the feedback we get from our playtests, which feature a wide range of player skill. “It’s tricky to get the lighting and visibility to change dynamically in a match, maintain performance, and adhere to the original design desire. “The design side says we want an experience like this, and tech says doing exactly what you just said will have implications on performance. “It becomes an interesting discussion between the tech side and the design side,” he notes. “Lighting levels and visibility levels are a very technical challenge, and when conceptualizing a Power like The Dredge’s, we have to consider that.” “One of the first things, and this is something people don’t often consider, is that we must think about the technical feasibility of our desired experience,” explains Patrick Harris, Dead by Daylight’s lead game designer. While this certainly brings an exciting new horror element to Dead by Daylight, such a drastic visual change was not without a few behind-the-scenes hurdles. During this supernatural nightfall, visibility becomes severely limited, making it so that Survivors can only see what’s directly in front of them. And while Dead by Daylight is most certainly a horror game, conjuring such a unique flavor of fear presented an exciting challenge for the game design team.įor one, its Reign of Darkness Power shrouds the map in a pitch-black state, turning simple navigation into a matter of life and death.
A uniquely frightening figure, it was imperative that The Dredge captured the spirit of a monster lurking beneath your bed. A formless mass of twisted limbs writhing in the shadows, The Dredge is a manifestation of darkness itself. In Dead by Daylight’s new chapter Roots of Dread, the new Killer is The Dredge.
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