After teasing an upcoming chapter impressed by Dungeons & Dragons, Lifeless by Daylight has revealed its subsequent killer pulled from the pages of the fantasy pen-and-paper RPG: Vecna, long-running mega-baddie and inspiration for the Stranger Issues villain. He’ll be voiced by Important Function dungeon grasp Matthew Mercer and hang-out a brand new dungeon map, the place you’ll have the ability to do battle as new elf and bard survivors in a position to roll a literal d20 once they crack open treasure chests.
After teasing a D&D crossover final week with a clip of a Beholder banging on cell bars, Lifeless by Daylight devs Behaviour Interactive revealed their plans for the subsequent chapter throughout an eighth anniversary steam for the multiplayer horror sport.
Reasonably than the Beholder, it’s Vecna who’ll be the D&D-inspired killer when the chapter launches on June third (although you can provide it a go proper now within the sport’s Public Check Construct). The Mercer-voiced lich may have 4 spells – a primary for DBD – to wield, together with the ability to fly, fireplace off a hail of nasty projectiles, raise up or drop picket pallets utilizing D&D favorite Mage Hand, and negate magical gadgets and reveal survivors in a Dispelling Sphere.
These magical gadgets can embrace Vecna’s personal Hand and Eye, which may be present in treasure chests across the new Forgotten Ruins map alongside different magical gadgets that assist survivors to maneuver extra quietly or teleport between lockers. When these chests are opened, the sport will roll the traditional d20 to see what gamers discover, granting Vecna’s highly effective gear on a nat 20 – although a important fail will trigger hassle for them as a substitute.
The brand new survivor(s) will likely be The Troupe, comprised of Baermar Uraz and Aestri Yazar – human and elf bard characters with the ability to create illusions, forged Bardic Inspiration to hurry up their allies’ generator-fixing and spot close by turbines and gadgets with Nonetheless Sight.
After the D&D chapter releases in early June, Behaviour teased an upcoming chapter impressed by Castlevania. We’ll know extra about that on August sixth, although a bloodsucking Dracula and a Belmont survivor of some sort – maybe in an upside-down fort? – is a reasonably secure guess.
Additionally arriving this summer season will likely be a model new supersized informal mode, which doubles the variety of gamers to pit two killers towards a whopping eight survivors. As an alternative of being hooked, caught survivors will likely be caged – presumably to assist steadiness the killers’ odds – with perks disabled and changed by a category system, I’d assume for a similar motive. There will likely be group skills for the killers to make use of, although, to assist make up for a restricted roster of 5 killers at first: the Trapper, Wraith, Hillbilly, Huntress and Nurse.
Extra particulars on the 2v8 mode will likely be shared in July, Behaviour stated, with the mode launching in an early type later in the summertime.
Elsewhere through the stream, Behaviour gave one other take a look at Supermassive’s narrative spin-off The Casting of Frank Stone, teased an Insider Programme for codenamed PvE sport Venture T and revealed one other DBD spin-off: a two-player co-op roguelite set inside a Jumanji-like cursed board sport titled What the Fog, which is out now and prices lower than a fiver.
