In a twist on the official licensed crossovers we’ve come to anticipate in Lifeless by Daylight, Slipknot and Iron Maiden’s iconic Eddie mascot are set to look within the asymmetrical horror sport throughout two upcoming collaborations.
The announcement was made as a part of Behaviour’s annual anniversary celebrations, alongside the reveal of the brand new Lifeless by Daylight killer, survivor, and map, some much-needed high quality of life adjustments, together with survivor disconnect bots. It follows the information earlier within the week that Nicolas Cage can be coming to the 4v1 sport as a survivor character. These unbelievable bulletins are hoped to breathe some life again into the neighborhood, following the adverse reception of the previous few authentic characters.
Cosmetics have lengthy been one more topic of rivalry within the DBD neighborhood, as some characters obtain extra customization choices than others, with fan-favorite Haddie Kaur amongst those who gamers really feel have been uncared for. Whereas we’d like to see Iron Maiden’s Eddie as a killer character within the sport, these two steel crossovers are, at current, restricted to 2 new units of cosmetics.
Behaviour has unveiled the collaboration via sheer pleasure, however be aware that they’re nonetheless in early growth, so there isn’t a idea artwork simply but. What we do know is that the Iron Maiden avatar objects will characteristic the legendary Eddie, presumably on shirts for survivor characters. Hopefully killers will get a glance in too, and we are able to see The Gunslinger specifically pulling off an Eddie look. Within the Slipknot collaboration, there will probably be 9 masks for killers, representing the members of the band and the enduring masks they every put on.
requested sport director Mathieu Cote if there was any potential for these musical collaborations to evolve past cosmetics, and he instructed us: “It’s not not possible.” In a stupendous and hopeful reply, Cote described DBD as “a museum of horror,” and that the Iron Maiden and Slipknot crossovers will “open a brand-new wing” of this horror emporium later this 12 months.
He continued, “the world of steel and the world of horror have lots of crossover by way of cosmetics, and iconography, and theme, they usually match rather well.” Increasing on the thought of furthering these particular musical tasks, Cote added, “it’s as much as us, nevertheless it’s additionally as much as the gamers. If that’s what individuals need, completely. We at the moment are in touch with these individuals, and all people concerned needs this to be the very best collaboration.” Sounds fairly hopeful, proper?
There are much more licensed collaborations to come back this 12 months, with two licensed chapters coming in August and November. As for cosmetics, an Artists from the Fog assortment celebrates 4 gifted winners from the fan neighborhood, alongside Ikumi Nakamura. Nakamura, who has labored on the likes of The Evil Inside and Ghostwire: Tokyo, has designed skins for The Legion, The Oni, and Yui Kimura, celebrating Japanese tradition.
Whilst you’re making ready to equipment your killers (or survivors) on this metal-themed garb, try that are on the prime of our DBD killer tier checklist, or check out a few of our different favourite survival video games, if working on your life is one thing you’re into. Oh, and don’t miss our up to date checklist of the brand new DBD codes.
