Saturday, Behaviour Interactive revealed the newest playable killer coming to asymmetrical PvP sport Lifeless by Daylight: Jason Voorhees. If that has you questioning, ‘How was he not in that sport already?’, you are not alone. In a press launch, Horror Inc. government VP Robbie Barsamian mentioned Friday the thirteenth followers have been ready for this collaboration “since Lifeless by Daylight launched.”
That launch additionally revealed a few of Jason’s talents (in step with DBD’s naming conventions, he is referred to as The Slasher in-game). He can flip invisible and reappear at “key environmental factors” like breakable partitions and pallets, destroying them and inflicting any close by survivors to present away their hiding spots with a scream. “Survivors should deal with the stress that comes from all of a sudden shedding observe of Jason … and realizing a vicious assault could possibly be ready simply across the bend,” the discharge states.
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Jason may vogue “makeshift projectiles” from objects within the setting, like shattered pallets and even the hooks that killers use to assert their victims. He’ll be capable to pin survivors to partitions utilizing this skill, leaving them “helpless and suspended,” however projectiles are solely replenished when Jason goes again into stealth.
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Senior inventive director Dave Richard mentioned within the press launch that Jason’s DLC comes at time, as the sport’s tenth anniversary “wanted to be one thing particular … we’re simply thrilled the celebs aligned.”
The masked assassin of sexy teenagers has a surprisingly prolific gaming profession. He confirmed up in Mortal Kombat X, for instance, in addition to some smaller video games which have been delisted by now. Amongst them was Friday the thirteenth, a licensed asymmetrical PvP sport not in contrast to Lifeless by Daylight, so Jason becoming a member of Behaviour’s coterie of killers is a full circle second of types.
The crew that labored on that Friday the thirteenth sport, which absolutely shut down on the finish of 2024 after years with out devoted servers, is engaged on a follow-up themed round Halloween set to launch later this yr. It is laborious to really feel bitter—so long as we’re being trustworthy, Michael Myers is means cooler.
If you happen to’re itching to get stabby with The Slasher (so, slashy, possibly?), you will not be ready lengthy. Jason can be added to the sport’s public check construct on Steam tomorrow, Might 26, and the DLC will absolutely drop on June 16.
