Lifeless by Daylight is a recreation completely filled with murderous monsters, each unique and licensed from different franchises. The subsequent crossover is a bit of bit outdoors of the same old horror wheelhouse — Lifeless by Daylight is producing a chapter themed across the wildly standard tabletop recreation Dungeons & Dragons. Vecna, recognized in-game as The Lich, would be the recreation’s subsequent Killer. Vecna is joined by a pair of Elven bards, one male and one feminine, who will function the brand new Survivors.
Behaviour Interactive introduced the crossover through the recreation’s anniversary stream Tuesday, which included sneak peeks of different titles in the identical universe and a brand new 2v8 gameplay mode.
Vecna is a robust mage, with entry to an array of spells. He can fly, summon spectral entities, create a mage hand to control gadgets, and dispel magic. Whereas most Killers in Lifeless by Daylight deal with throwing hatchets or swinging a blade, Vecna makes use of magical talents to search out Survivors. Fortunately, there’s an upside to going through him as an enemy. When Vecna is the Killer, he spawns chests across the map. Opening them begins a cube roll, and if the participant is fortunate sufficient, they will receive a few of Vecna’s legendary loot.
The Eye and Hand of Vecna might be obtained from these chests. The Eye of Vecna grants invisibility to Survivors after they depart a locker, whereas the Hand of Vecna permits you to teleport between lockers. Should you roll a important failure, Behaviour guarantees one thing horrible occurs — however we don’t know what fairly but.
With the runaway success of Baldur’s Gate 3, in addition to the latest Dungeons & Dragons film, it’s fascinating to see Dungeons & Dragons increase even additional by coming into the illustrious solid of the asymmetrical horror recreation. Stranger Issues, a present no stranger to D&D tie-ins, based mostly its season 4 antagonist on Vecna, and so they even share the identical title — so perhaps he’ll kind a particular bond with Stranger Issues’ Lifeless by Daylight Killer, the Demogorgon, who was equally named after a D&D monster.
Behaviour additionally teased the following licensed chapter, which shall be a cross-over with the Castlevania franchise. We don’t know who the Killer or Survivor shall be for that, however we will anticipate particulars later this summer time. The stream additionally shared {that a} third licensed chapter will arrive earlier than the tip of Lifeless by Daylight’s subsequent anniversary.
For followers preferring the unique points of Lifeless by Daylight, Behaviour shared a take a look at another video games in the identical universe. The Casting of Frank Stone is a branching narrative recreation from Till Daybreak developer Supermassive, just like The Quarry or the Darkish Photos Anthology. A two-player co-op title referred to as What the Fog can be briefly out there totally free with the registration of a Behaviour account, and it seems to be like a a lot cuter and absurd tackle the Entity’s Realm.
The Dungeons & Dragons DLC is coming to the check realm as we speak, and the chapter will launch on stay servers on June 3.
