AAAAA I’M WATCHING THE DEV STREAMS AND “we were trying to step away from those cliches and archetypes that have negative societal connotations, whether it’s sexism, racism, we didn’t wanna touch that, it would’ve been super easy to go for those cliches but we didn’t feel like it”

YOU DID A BAD JOB COTE LOOK ST PHILIP COTE

“there’s 30 of us total making this game” thirty of you & still you manage to have so little communication you managed to get to the finished model and animation testing stage of a hunter/woodsman character before rewriting his lore to have him work at a scrapyard in the 80s. how

stream: is the wraith a male or female killer?
creative dev: u’ll have to wait and see!
cote: ...do i know that?
dev: /i/ know that
cote: oh you haven’t told me that.
dev: you didn’t read the bio, then, that you were approving.
ohhhh myyyyy gooooood

dbd fandom is asleep post dweg

"i'm not sure, if you looked under [wraith's] clothing, you'd be happy with what you see, anyway." What's he got, Cote

i’m thinking about how they keep emphasizing that they wanted to have their own fiction and brand before adding any copyrighted characters, then they proceded to make bootleg jason, bootleg leatherface, Mental Asylum Crazy trope, 1 very unique killer, then added Michael Myers

i had to turn on my watch history cuz i was tired of having to figure out where i left off

“you cannot turn down the music because there’s no distinction between the music and the audio of the game” fuck you for making a game reliant on me hearing grass rustling then making unremovable bass music drown it out

cote, unflinching: GasTheJews is asking:
the creative director:

“‘will there be a female killer?’ what tells you some of them aren’t?”
philip is trans confirmed

he's cosplaying dwight

WHEN will we get the stuff (1985) as a killer

it's fascinating to see the stuff dbd wanted to do but they couldn't because of time/budget issues. the bloodweb as being very much a space between worlds, the idea that survivors are never 100% safe and they never leave the world, that the world of dbd is bigger than it seems,

oh this is all the way in july 2016 but their creative dev just referred to the playerbase as “one massive qa,” which is interesting https://twitter.com/broyeanice/status/1252236859717160960

so they DO have QAs they’re just under as much pressure as the rest of bhvr

CONCEPT ART HAG
she was called the crawler apparently omg...

you can spot little concepts for spirit, wraith, trapper, and pooossibly hag? look at their wittle funky silhouettes

root-looking bitch

ohhhh....oh give me philip with a cool mouth mask

thank god they let claudette have darker skin

"we don't have any experience in having a live pc game that's being updated regularly. we've never done that" god no wonder

they initially added a basement solely because they thought it would make for intense spooky moments gameplay-be-damned fjkdgs

both cote and the creative dev are unaware of the office, the show

cote: "wraith body pillow?" okay, yeah but he- he- it's the LEGS, they'll get in the way
COWARD!!

god isn't it fucked up that you used to be able to change the amount of light in a level via offerings. fucking crazy

they keep talking about "immersion" and wanting to preserve it like. respectable but there's so much clipping and so many wonky animations and textures in this game you are talking about an impossible task

thanks dbd devs for playing an sfm animation of trapper and hillbilly feeling each other up while wraith plays careless whisper in the bg on stream

this is sincere btw i loved it

here it is

"'biker outfit for dwight?' (sucks teeth)"
"w- is dwight a biker? is he, is he?"
"we never wanna do SILLY."
"bikers are silly?"
"bikers are not silly but in the case of dwight it would be silly."

i still really wish there was some sort of god mode or at least the ability to make custom games by yourself because so many maps have little details that are hard to notice in-game when you're trying not to die. crotus prenn is apparently smoldering?? a

oh my god in pre-nurse dbd wraith didn't even have an actual physical bell to hit? the bell noise just played while he cloaked and uncloaked? that's hilarious

u can kinda see it here from the surv perspective and from the killer perspective
Where did the bell noises come from before

"can the killer swim?"
"no. which one?"
"no, yeah i- i think they can swim"
"some can."
only evan, philip, & max were playable at the time. which one of you motherfuckers can't swim

"'i mean if there was water in a map, could they cross it normally?' just for the lore."
"like jesus."
"uh, probably some of them might be able to run above it."
"and swim."
"some may walk at the bottom."
"some might not /walk./"
"some are SUPER absorbent."
"like a sponge."

"do we have a merman killer?"
"shhh-"
"we have that in the list," FISHMAN KILLER WHEN? @DeadByBHVR FISHMAN KILLER WHEN?

"we don't like [farming.] it ruins the experience for everyone involved. it's not fun. killers should be feared."
"yeah."
"not be friends."
"nooo."
cowards.

credit the artist pls cote

gorjus

oh no wonder the nurse and the wraith are like that apparently they were largely created and developed by two (2) white guys

who is liking my dev livetweets. talk to me i have like 2 friends that are into dbd. please

i can't see ur reply dummy get off priv

took em about 2 months to make the nurse dlc apparently?? i can tell

"if the killers were ever to meet face-to-face, would they get along with each other, or would they just fight to the death?"
ash: i don't think they'd be allowed to fight.
dave: no.
cote: no. but would they WANT to?
ash: no.
KILLERS ARE FRIENDS CONFIRMED

okay but seriously
cote: but would they WANT to? would they get along? at least some of them would maybe
ash: Uh,
dave: i don't think we have the answer to that,
ash: no,
ughhhhhhhhhhhh

deja vu was the least used survivor perk & unnerving presence was the least used killer perk in aug 2016, i don't think much has changed

three, nearly four years, and we still have no killer plushies. for shame. i would kill for plushie wraith

the wraith is like that because he literally was not based on any preexisting trope or character apparently, the first thing they came up with was his cloaking power, then the idea of him using a bell, the shape + look, early on he was supposed to be a hunter/woodsman character

i just wanna know why they made him a fucking mechanic at the last minute. bruh moment

vintage wraith run cycle discourse https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/555768/this_is_the_reason_why_the_killers_dont_scary/

in his old animation it looks like his arms are paralyzed

"so we'll put foam on the weapons..."
"boing noises,"
"blunt the hook... a little uh, baby entity"
"bentity?"
"bentity."
bentity :)

"this is a [...] /crudely/ created /representation/ of reality...the impression we wanna give is the impression in a nightmare, where things are familiar, yet they are... off from what they should be like...it's not a house, it's an impression of a house"
epic

small thing, confirming that in-universe if a character goes again to a map they died on, they won't find their own dried blood, implies that maps are literally disintegrated and remade each trial (though that was already hinted at with endgame collapse anyway)

apparently the major reason for the lack of Real gore in dbd was less technical concerns and more that they didn't want the game's horror to be from hd rendered violence

that and the possibility of the game getting banned in certain countries lol

"it's important that everyone in this nightmarish construct - NO ONE is there by their free will"
"something that was more powerful than the most evil thing in the game. everyone is beholden to the entity"

the devs saw some trapper x meg art and were like this is Weird i'm Uncomfortable like ohhhh. do they know

"i bet [ticklecon] is a thing. i bet it exists."
"i strongly bet on the furries to have something like that." learning a lot about our beloved bhvr devs

"can the killers remember their past?"
(very long pause)
"not,...maybe."
"it depends on the profile of the killer."
"some of them do. some of them don't. and remember might not be the right word. 'have access to,' maybe."
god this bit is the reason i wanted to watch the streams

fucking fascinating concept but honestly i don't think i can trust them to execute it well!

innocence.

absolute kings, playing a nearly 4 minute long fan song in thai at the start of their stream

they weren't fucking around? there was a real dildo modeled and placed into the campfire? it could easily be a weird branch

fvdjksvahdf the investigation...

is that...no...in the dbd prototype?

"random perk mode: random perks for both killers and survivors" god that sounds like fucking madness. why don't we have it

can we go back to the thai song

oh god they're talking about wraith. time to get absurdly pissed

when they were animating + designing wraith they hadn't even finished his looooore help. they originally wanted him to be "woodsman/hunter-esque" that's why he looks like he has fuck-all to do with his lore

straight people dot png

me wading through 100000 people that want to sniff myers' asshole to try and get non-myers dbd content

"how tall are the killers?"
cote: i believe they're like 7' something. not all of them.
(squinting)

apparently the "bunny mask killer" from the prototype turned into trapper but they liked the bunny mask cuz it made for a neat silhouette, they just didn't use it cuz they thought it was a little too silly. laughs in anna

if all the killers except michael got in a race, max would win over sally apparently. 100% canon

"i get a loooot of comments and question and begging and pleading and bri- not enough bribes, to be fair. seriously, i am not against bribes. just saying."

"are nonhuman killers a possibility?"
"i don't think it's ever gonna happen."
(laughs in demogorgon)

creative dev: the wraith is human. he was human, once, anyways.
cote: (something between a gasp and a sigh)
dev: what's up?
cote: no- that's- "he was human once," and then i got emotionally invested.

enti-tea

do NOT refer to the entity's appendages as "daddy fingers"

CUTE also i found source https://x-haru-x.tumblr.com/post/151852299453/a-day-off-or-how-the-killers-relax-xd-i-think-i