Predator: Hunting Ground and Dead By Daylight Define Asymmetric Games

To celebrate its fourth anniversary, Dead by Daylight is adding Pyramid Head from Konami’s Silent Hill franchise to this esteemed pantheon. While the developers have previously incorporated content from Valve’s Left 4 Dead in the form of a new Survivor and alternate costumes, this will be the first time an entire Chapter complete with a Killer, Survivor, and map is based on a video game. Before Behaviour’s official reveal today, Game Rant sat down with Game Director Mathieu Cote, Creative Director Dave Richard, and Head of Public Relations Marie Claude Bernard to talk about what Pyramid Head will offer in service of the Ent

The killer hosts each match so if the killer quits, the whole game is over and players who are survivors lose experience points and currency that lets them buy traits. This also affects gameplay if the killer has a bad internet connection, as it causes lagging and choppiness. This can make it easier for the killer to catch a survi

Richard said the team decided to model Cheryl Mason’s Survivor perks after her «conflicted» nature as a vessel to God and someone linked to «the dark entity of Silent Hill .» Not only will she gain benefits if cursed, but she can also «semi-permanently» link herself to another Survivor on her team as well as exhibit some control over the Entity which Killers sacrifice Survivors to in Dead by Daylight . These perks will be «wacky,» and can be unlocked for use by all Surviv

Pyramid Head represents Silent Hill 2 , but the Survivor he’s being introduced alongside represents Silent Hill 3 . That game’s protagonist Cheryl Mason, Kill Switch System previously known as Heather, was a perfect representative of the overarching narrative in Silent Hill ‘s early entries, and is herself an «interesting» and «powerful» character. Players were introduced to her at the end of the first game as a reincarnation of Harry Mason’s daughter Cheryl and Alessa Gillespie, «the girl who is intimately linked to the dark powers of Silent Hil

Silent Hill 2 follows James Sunderland as he searches the town of Silent Hill to find his wife Mary, who despite dying prior to the events of the game has sent him a letter asking to meet. The player comes to understand that James’ guilt over smothering Mary after growing frustrated with her deteriorating mental state due to a terminal illness has influenced the hellish Otherworld he explores. Pyramid Head becomes the judge and executioner for James in this world, a monster that is «a sadistic and merciless killer fixated on dispensing punishment through pain» according to Behaviour’s press rele

PC players are first in line for updates and patches typically, so they get to play a better version of the game earlier. Console players do make up a sizeable chunk of the base, so it would make sense to prioritize them over PC players until the console version is sta

The game has a known issue that it’s easier being the survivors. Players work together and they’re using the third-person camera. So survivors can easily look around them when working on an objective to see if the killer is com

Predator: Hunting Grounds is in an interesting spot right now, as the game has only released two weeks ago but with many players, this writer included, capped at level 100 with no more weapons or perks to unlock. The game is fantastic and worth playing solely for its gameplay, but will that be enough to sustain a player base in a game that cannot exist without a healthy number of Fireteam and Predator players? No, it is not, and that is why we are so excited and hopeful to see what Illfonic has in store for its year-long road

While there are plenty of terrifying locales in Silent Hill to choose from, Richard said the team decided to go with an «iconic» map from the first game he feels first «put everything to 11» and let players know what kind of world they were entered: Midwich Elementary School . It is a key building that Harry Mason explores in Silent Hill 1 as he searches for his daughter, learning more about the plight of Alessa in the process. According to Richard, it will offer players a unique layout with two interior floors and outdoor sections like the playgro

There are currently 19 Killers in Dead by Daylight , the four-year-old asymmetrical horror game developed by Behaviour Interactive. A number are based on genre tropes popularized by media in the 70s and 80s; evil clowns, crazed doctors, plague-bringing ancient zealots, etc. The rest are «visitors,» licensed representatives from those movies that influenced Dead by Daylight , for instance Michael Myers from Halloween . Modern-day horrors have also been included, from Saw ‘s Amanda Young to the Demogorgon from Netflix’s Stranger Thin

For anyone hoping to create their own asymmetrical horror title, Cote said he has a lot of sympathy because «it’s not an easy task to create that delicate chaos.» In fact, Cote compares the ever-evolving, non-linear nature of developing Dead by Daylight t0 the ending of the seminal 1988 anime film Akira when Tetsuo Shima mutates into a mass of flesh that grows in unexpected, weird directions. He said the team at Behaviour is riding that and «trying to bring it somewhere really co