If "The Singularity" Leak Is True... - Dead by Daylight

what would it do?
/ scottjund

[@notOtzdarva]

Wrecking Ball from Overwatch is all but confirmed now, looking forward to its release.

[@ChaosTheStrange]

I can't wait. Finally a killer who can adequately combat elevation beyond a ranged weapon.

[@rednuefil]

Otz has only 63 likes, help him out, fellas!

[@Kazzzack]

Nah if it's the singularity, it's Sigma

[@alcatraz160]

Naw this has to be Sigma.

[@vegacorruptid5734]

I WAS GONNA MAKE THE SAME JOKE NO YOU BEAT ME TO IT

[@shiverse9868]

Im glad that the entire discussion will now revolve around Scott’s godly power to determine fate by a coin flip.

[@bonobouare872]

coin flip ultrakill reference?

[@nioXu]

@@bonobouare872 he's not going to sugarcoat it

[@JazzSicaa]

Bro thinks he is Anton Chigurh 💀

[@DulfyBee]

Behaviour’s*

[@Luke-nc6fj]

At this rate, I'm down for a coin flip on BHVR's balancing on new killers

[@Big__C]

I think we can all agree that the next killer is gonna be a anti-loop killer with the counterplay being hold w

[@Veekron]

That man can see the future! (I'm not mocking or anything, I think about upcoming killers same way since The Dredge. The Mastermind and The Onryo were exceptions)

[@mosshivenetwork117]

Are there any killers that are not like that?

[@emperorweskatine8999]

Imagine an Anti-loop killer ALSO with the ability to counter shift W.

[@HaileyTheThird]

@@emperorweskatine8999 Blight

[@Gian_sas]

​@@emperorweskatine8999 ^

[@Slimreaper13]

Singularity is also a tech term, “the singularity” refers to when AI surpasses human intelligence. This name could also be referring to an AI/terminator-esque/robot killer Edit: happy to be right lmao

[@frogfish1250]

which is exactly word for word what people thought the skull merchant was going to be; an AI/Terminator-esque/robot killer.

[@bluepiston9347]

yeah im really surprised this never even crossed his mind

[@erg1947]

I'd be surprised if they go for another tech related killer right after Skull Merchant.

[@vegg6408]

YOOOOO FNAF CONFIRMED

[@wrathybear]

BHVR already bamboozled us with robotic/terminator ai shits with "the skull merchant".

[@tangramman]

lukewarm take: The Singularity is a random select when you start a game as the Singularity, you spawn into the match as a different killer

[@Veekron]

Sounds like Mokujin from Tekken

[@GatesOfAvalon1]

I just commented this as well. I would love that

[@HoneyDog]

3:08 doing what to a survivor? Hm....

[@TheMashMan]

New killer: The ball Power: has 2 modes Roll: you roll at normal speed Bouncy: you initially jump, and depending on the height of the fall, will bounce at high speeds and injuring survivors you hit

[@noahclark8076]

this sounds super cool but sounds like hell to code/implement into dbd systems

[@AveryHyena]

Hammond.

[@MorbidMindedManiac]

Power: Ballin’

[@una-mura]

Hello Wrecking Ball from Overwatch

[@weakenbest516]

We already have a ping pong ball, he is called Blight

[@maniusdrand8928]

"Singularity" makes me want a killer based on the Gravity Gun from Half Life. Picking up props and launching them at survivors sounds pretty fun lol

[@mosshivenetwork117]

It would.

[@Stranglerxx77]

That was a amazing game remember playing it on a x box

[@cyr2097]

Sigma Overwatch killer confirmed

[@beano2689]

That would be fucking awesome.

[@varvolgyibeni4398]

i think singularity refers to the fact that they can only design a singular type of killer

[@PhantomHalf]

“Sucking a survivor, theres no physics there” didn’t know scott ran that way

[@lucashagen4240]

When I hear singularity, I think artificial intelligence. I think a robot is probably a little more likely than a gravity wizard, but you’re probably right about the name just being a coin flip at this point

[@S_t_r_e_s_s]

I call dibs on gravity wizard

[@one_vegan_boi1097]

​@@S_t_r_e_s_s The Grizard

[@coolpizzacook]

Imagine botching your tech based killer so hard you just immediately do a second one.

[@Seoul_Soldier]

@@coolpizzacook They work on killers simultaneously.

[@b2superbattledroid977]

​@@coolpizzacook yes, that's how game development works, definitely

[@p.taylor981]

I rewatched the Trickster teaser trailer where it's just him rewinding a soundbite and seeing all the comments talking about a killer who rewinds time really really put my expectations in their place. And to all the people saying it's probably some kind of robot killer, I guarantee you that 75% of the people spouting that theory only realized that after googling the word singularity and going with whatever definition sounded cooler. Just go with the simplest most direct answer and that is some kind of dimensional/blackhole killer. BHVR runs on this principle 90% of the time so no need for mental gymnastics. They create a killer with a slightly Predator-esue weapon? Must be a predator license gone wrong. They release a trailer that's an homage to Hellraiser but has the year 1987 on it? Must be a FNAF tease. And like I mentioned earlier a, guy's named The Trickster, must be able to rewind time to trick survivors right, or maybe he just looks a little bit too much like Jared Leto in Suicide Squad and picked the closest sounding name. Always go with the simplest explanation of a leak or tease and create a second Idea of what you hope it means, helps you to not get your hopes up too high.

[@floofyboi2520]

It's may 2023 dawg ai is a big topic rn, hate to break it to you but robot stuff is the current connotation of singularity

[@clocked0]

@@floofyboi2520 Pretty certain most people think of black holes still, not chatgpt

[@william4996]

I don't think Singularity meaning AI/Robot is that complicated. My 55 year old Dad talks about this stuff. I'd say it being AI/Robot themed is the most simple and obvious answer.

[@DunoPriv]

Scott, I like when you talk about killer designs. Seeing which killers are well desinged and healthy for the game and which are worse because they leave no options for counterplay or/and are more boring. Would you consider doing a chill tier list video where you rank killers not based on their strength but on how well they are designed in your opinion? Would be a fun watch

[@elvangulley3210]

Bull crap all he wants is weak killers that survivors can bully because survivors fun is more important to him hr is the last person anyone should listen to

[@justnuttedinasock2054]

Where tf u got them emojis from

[@QayLikeKay]

I'm sure people have already mentioned that singularity could also reference AI, but another thing to note is the survivor's last name is Soma, greek for "Body". A bit heavy handed, but it could be the AI/Singularity is the mind, and the survivor is the body.

[@worm11112]

honestly i just want a cool license instead of another original chapter with how the last 2 went

[@Veekron]

Just give us Jason Voorhees, damnit. But I heard there's whole drama surrounding licence for this character, I'm afraid he's not coming anytime soon

[@nulltheory2560]

@@Veekron He's never coming. Let it go already

[@Veekron]

@@nulltheory2560 (sigh) okay then.

[@Badblood226]

​@@nulltheory2560 thats just an ignorant comment. Its never gonna happen? Yeah bc mathieu cote didnt ever say that "jason has a standing invitation to join this game and that one of the license holders couldnt wait to get on the phone w him" your funny

[@Badblood226]

​@@nulltheory2560 please tell me why and how you have reached the conclusion that hes never coming

[@nurb1221]

Im hoping they do a slowdown thing like pinheads box where theres a black hole somewhere on the map and survivors have to prevent it from growing too much, and maybe if it gets too big the killer can go big mode

[@Hatecrewdethrol]

3:49 oh my sweet summer scott you give them so much more credit than they deserve

[@lazerax9]

I see that more as cope then giving BHVR credit tbh

[@ewaysrevenge]

@@lazerax9all dbd players know is cope, it relates to the sunk cost fallacy. most of the people still playing have been around for a long time and have spent a lot of money. i played since launch and quit after the artist, they don’t know how to design good killers anymore and have proved that time & time again with each new chapter. the last killer that was fun and also viable was blight. and i personally think his success was partially a fluke with how jank he was at launch. i played this game for 2000 hours and had a lot of love for it despite everything wrong with the game and the abysmal balance decisions, but i realized they were never going to change. I seriously don’t get why people still believe in bhvr, either they haven’t been around long enough or simply don’t care because there are no other asymmetrical horror games that do what DBD does.

[@b2superbattledroid977]

​​@@ewaysrevenge because bhvr does amazing sometimes and the game is incredibly fun lmao, and all the killers they've released after blight, except maybe sadako, are viable and a few of them are fun lmao, unless you mean killer fun which then most of them are fun. You say they don't know how to release good killers when blight, artist, Wesker, sadako, dredge, and maybe knight are all after blight (except blight himself of course). Then you just spew copium on how it was a fluke? The jank would've limited blights love not increased lmao, and the balance of the game is fine. People believe in them because they've made a game that people can play for thousands of hours ago still learn new things and have fun, I'm not going to act like everything or even most things bhvr does is good but acting like a jackass isn't helping.

[@bloxer9563]

@@ewaysrevenge yeah, even if you quit you played alot anyways

[@catbeans4685]

Its going to be a 3 gen stall killer that is buggy and unplayable on release. The 3 gen killer odds are 50/50 The odds of it being buggy as fuck 100%

[@Veekron]

Other 49% odds it's anti-loop killer with holding W counterplay. Last 1% odd it's truly unique and interesting killer to play as and against. Almost non-existent, but there is a chance

[@catbeans4685]

@@Veekron Even 1% is massive cope

[@rileybazan9747]

I remember I had a killer idea where an astronaut gets sucked in to a black hole and the entity "saves" them, and their power would be spawning mini black holes down while chasing that could pull survivors with a crystal arm as a weapon.

[@GatesOfAvalon1]

Please God no

[@bread3039]

I honestly just want a sequel at this point so they can do a ground-up rebuild.

[@itsjoshcooper]

The thing that's popping into my mind is the game Soma. Killer name of Singularity and Soma being the last name of the survivor. Like the surv name is just a code name or something to tie it to the killer. One of those situations where it's probably just a coincidence but it is weird that the similarities are there.

[@kubhfbebr630]

Are you thinking it’d be one of those things you can’t look at? I think it’d be cool, but I don’t know if it’d work. Plus SOMA is more existential horror than traditional horror

[@itsjoshcooper]

@@kubhfbebr630 oh I have no idea how it would work. I doubt that's what the chapter is. I just bring it up because when I hear singularity I think of machine consciousness, then I saw the last name. Purely just the fact that it's weird that the coincidence happened.

[@kubhfbebr630]

@@itsjoshcooper oh yeah fair enough!

[@Docsfortune]

I think you’ve got the black hole backwards. Nothing escapes a black hole. What if the black hole forces you to stay at the loop OR you get it. Trying to leave the loop is actually Impossible, and the further you get from the black hole the slower you become, which means the longer the loop the more unsafe it is. It would completely flip the chase meta on its head. Now, imagine you can set them like traps, and you can’t see them until you’re affected by them. Black holes are unobservable after all by the naked eye. I fucking love this idea. Now imagine you can teleport between black holes and it’s called worm hole. Sign me up Scotty.

[@RandomPerson-yq1qk]

If you are in a spot where there is light then black holes are VERY observable because there is suddenly a spot where NO light at all is coming from and around it you have some very intense lensing, I doubt anyone would miss that. "the further you get from the black hole the slower you become" How does this relate to black holes? Black Holes are also only unescapable once you are in them so you would need to make them very big. If we want to get even slightly accurate then things would get very weird. Everything inside the black hole would need to get closer to the center all the time and things trying to acclerate away from the center would move faster to the center etc. You would need to implement some very unintuitive physics equations. Obviously the game does not need to be accurate to real life, but if you use an actual real life object it should behave at least slightly like the real thing. It would be ridiculous if they were invisible.

[@Docsfortune]

@@RandomPerson-yq1qk I disagree that black holes are observable to the naked eye. I do agree the light around them is observable. But they don’t emit light, they emit radiation. My entire take on it is loosely based on physics, and it’s interesting because it reverses the normal chase meta. To avoid physics and engine implementation, you would simply apply slowdowns proportional to the distance from the black hole AFTER the survivor gets within a set distance to the black hole (ie, 8m) and becomes affected by it (the event horizon). If a survivor attempts to leave the event horizon without having a speed boost (sprint burst, lithe, getting hit) they’re rooted in place for 1s. It would essentially gradually increase to 100% speed reduction up to 8m from the black hole trap, then a 1s root if no speed boost is present. We could certainly make them visible by adding a warp/cloaked effect to it, not saying we shouldn’t, but they should also be invisible up to a certain range (like 16m). This allows killers to hide them behind walls or inside objects. It’s a fun idea.

[@RandomPerson-yq1qk]

@@Docsfortune Black holes emit nothing except Hawking Radiation and Hawking Radiation is black body radiation (thermal radiation) and black body radiation is electromagnetic radiation and that is light. Most of it isn't in the visbible spectrum, but as it is black body radiation, some of the light would be visible. So Black Holes theoretically do emit light, but the amount is so tiny that it does not matter. In practice they emit NO RADIATION at all. Now imagine a white room and in that room there is a round spot of complete darkness while also seeing some extreme distortion of light. How could you miss that? Black Holes are hard to find in space (if they are not "feeding") because most of space is very dark and black holes are very small for celestial bodies. Normal planets are extremely hard to find in space, but I think you would see a miniature planet if it was floating 20 meters in front of you.

[@Docsfortune]

@@RandomPerson-yq1qk it’s a concept, not an exact translation. I’m not sure what you’re going on about. You haven’t said anything relevant to my suggestion or interpretation of the “black hole traps” I’ve proposed. Yes, they could be represented by a distortion of light. I said that. But no, they would not be a visible “black” dot. That’s stupid. If you have any relevant comments on the trap or the wormhole mechanic I proposed, please enlighten me. Otherwise, our conversation has been you railing about physics and me proposing and interesting idea for a DBD killer power.

[@RandomPerson-yq1qk]

@@Docsfortune You said that black holes emit radiation and not light which is just factually wrong. Does not really matter for the conversation, but it is still an incorrect statement. I think in my first comment I said that obviously DbD does not need to be completely realistic, but if it uses real life objects then it should at least generally work like said objects. Black Holes are no more invisible than somone who paints themselves black. Wraith is not black while cloaked, he is transparent, light passes through him or at least it looks that way. Black Holes quite simply are not invisible so it would completely break immersion to have invisible black holes for some reason. My second problem with your idea was that you would become slower the further away from such a black hole you were. I do not understand the logical connection here. I could get over that one if it was implemented, but from my understanding of physics it is still extremely weird. If you want these mechanics and want "The Singularity" to be gravity themed then just call them "Spacetime Traps". The Singularity distorts spacetime in such a way that it has these effects.

[@jahredcr916]

It landed on heads, it’s confirmed we are getting what we think

[@Ce1ticFr0st]

rapidly increases and reduces gravity causing all survivors to teabag uncontrollably

[@lol_dab]

Singularity reminds me of Project Moon's world singularities (from the games Lobotomy corp and Library of ruina) as of insanely powerful technology created by a big corpo. I really want a killer that's like Garion that uses singularities as their power.

[@jackt3356]

Singularity also has another meaning in AI. It’s the moment AI becomes so advanced it can’t be stopped and changes human civilisation forever. This is why I think its more likely a robot killer, especially with the robot key chain recently in the game.

[@AlsoMeowskivich]

New Killer is The Captain He's an undead pirate captain, his map is called The Triangle and is based on the Bermuda Triangle, featuring a cove with wreckage of ships and planes that have gone missing there. The Captain's power is High Piracy, he fires a grapple that pulls him to where he hits, or damages a survivor if it hits them. It also deprives a survivor of their item if they were holding one, stealing the remaining charges to refill the charge on his power faster. He can only aim horizontally or downwards, so you won't be seeing him spider-manning around sadly. Perks include: Lust for Treasure - see the aura of items within 35/40/45 meters of you Dead Man's Chest - a survivor who opens a chest will scream and be exposed for 8/12/16 seconds Fool's Errand - a survivor's aura will be revealed to you while they're using an item and for 2 seconds afterwards as long as they're within 16/18/20 meters of you.

[@TalonBrush]

Scott, you're gonna love this next killer. I promise you it's gonna be nothing like what you described. You see, this next killer is going to be able to put down a Power at a loop, which will make survivors have to LEAVE the loop or get hit (and if they leave the loop they get hit by a normal hit anyway - brilliant, isn't it!?) BUT, there's a twist. You see... This killer can also... (looks both ways, leans closer to whisper conspiratorially) ...Hold down a 3-gen like nobody's business. (Leans far back and makes a wide-armed gesture) genius. Pure genius. I don't know where I come up with this stuff. When we said "new killer every 3 months" some people said "wouldn't that mean you run out of ideas after a while and it's not enough time to really bake an idea?" BUT NO! Proven wrong. NEW, ORIGINAL GAMEPLAY every 3 months. Also, time to see about some Pig nerfs.

[@Veekron]

This is high-tier comedy right there, sir

[@mosshivenetwork117]

I think the new killer likely has something to do with A.I. because people were disappointed that the skull merchant wasn't some kind of cyborg last chapter so the devs want to make up for it. And I feel like it's definitely going to be something inhuman because just look at the success of the Dredge.

[@calvinpetri7391]

i hope its a technological character with a more necromancer controlling small parts power

[@RetryAgainAgain]

If this ends up being correct it won't be due to the feedback on Skull Merchant. They work on DLCs in batches of around 3 at a time, which means they would have been working on this killer at the same time as Ms Manga. We wouldn't see a reaction to Skull Merchant until 2 DLCs from now.

[@Minronis]

Honestly, this might be a bit hyperbolic, but I genuinely believe the next chapter will make or break this game. It won't be instant, but with how sparse content feels for Dead By Daylight, I think its a very real possibility.

[@volcaeri]

i doubt it will make or break this game. maybe more like “make or people will be more annoyed”

[@lukepierce2417]

"tHeY DOnt dO pHYsIcS bASeD PowErS." Continues to discuss a power based solely around physics

[@watchmehope6560]

Calm down buddy.

[@Jdudushs]

Plot twist, the coin was a pain actor.

[@brandoncrochet2219]

Still never did pt 2 of killer ideas 😢 still love the content no matter what it is Scott! BHVR needs something big soon though.

[@Raytouu]

i think of a space/galaxy creation that can bend space and/or time when i see that name, just hoping they do an actual sci-fi chapter right this time because honestly a cosmos/space themed killer sounds sick on paper at least. fingers crossed

[@thedarktyrant]

I just heard Scott say Onroyo

[@VileVamp]

The real question: what could they ever do to top Wesker?

[@XenoVT]

I truly believe a Xenomorph stealth killer implemented well could. It's long overdue

[@Absolutemooreon]

"sucking a survivor, there's no physics there" - Scott 2023

[@goosemanVEVO]

Not an AI based killer. Just a straight up black hole. They spawn and everything is just blackness, then the survivors get pulled into streams of atoms by gravity.

[@scattrd]

3:10 calm down scott

[@-tari-2881]

the reason wesker and blight are so popular isnt because theyre strong, its because they have a movement based ability that has a skill ceiling. these people want fast pace gameplay, not slowly putting down a little guard and then waiting for the survivor to make a mistake

[@AVeryTinyKitty]

Scott talks about why behavior will let us suck survivors (finally)

[@requ1emYBA]

Original chapter for the anniversary? This says a lot.

[@glaive616]

My only guess is a futuristic killer, I’m just going by the robot charms form the current rift

[@Username-vn1wx]

Dumb

[@TiakOSRS]

The name Gabriel SOMA is interesting

[@alphacenturion8423]

DBD desperately needs a license to bring attention and excitement to the game. Huge risk making another OF chapter, especially for the anniversary chapter.

[@terriblyterrified8742]

i thought bhvr planned to have 2 licensed chapters and 2 original chapters every year, maybe that info is outdated by now?

[@yurei3714]

The game needs more just a new killer every few months.

[@oscarriveraabal9390]

Looking at the 2 latest og killers, if it isnt a license i think this game will finally start bleeding players for good

[@TheDoomlord7]

They shouldn’t need a license to make good killers and they shouldn’t rush killers out to make half assed garbage. (Not that they don’t already do that most of the time).

[@HoneyBee-yr6bn]

It also needs a new game mode or at least new objectives 😓

[@LeRawNugretaw]

power idea: the killer can put down 1 or 2 black hole at a time whenever and wherever the placement you could throw a black ball kinda like Clowns bottles and it would rupture into a vortex, survivors near the hole are drawn into it, so they move really fast walking towards it but move slowly when running away from it, but if used right they could slingshot themself for a little push. the killer can also open a 2 way black hole where you put 2 opening anywhere on the map and if the killer or survivor walk into one of the openings they can instantly teleport to the other opening. i feel like this wouldnt be too bad, good map traversal that works like a double edge sword and a power that could be kinda funky in desperate situations but still help in chase.

[@larryandfuzz10]

If the singularity ends up being a black hole, the mori should absolutely be spaghettification. On a much more important the next patch will be 7.0.0 which is when scott trolled all of us.. dick

[@MI_TurkeySlayer]

The only "black hole" mechanic I'd be interested in that would be different and somewhat useful would be if they had a handful of black hole portals they could place that survivors can't see or interact with that would teleport the survivor who runs over it to the nearest corner of the map. That could be interesting and have some fun techniques and builds for it. Additionally there would be some funny meme builds possible with it like noed insidious or portals at exit gates. Imagine all the placements that would either be helpful or just plain funny.

[@djdepression]

You had me at, "sucking a survivor." For real though, they haven't put out a new killer in ages. Even weskers power is recycled. Its just nurse blinks that cant go through walls and sometimes you get an instant pickup.

[@mosshivenetwork117]

The problem I have is that the infection doesn't seem that significant and they just reused the crates from Nemesis.

[@Veekron]

His power somewhat interactive, at least compared to what come after him...

[@djdepression]

@@Veekron I suppose, but I've been wanting them to do something fresh for a long long time. I noticed that they kinda have been recycling powers a few years back. You get your sprinting killers (billy, blight, etc.), The blink like killers (nurse, Wesker), trap killers (hag, trapper, etc), stealth killers (wraith, ghost face big), teleporting killers (Freddy, sudoku, twins in a way, demo), loop slowdown killers (clown, doc, etc) and so on. I haven't put a shit ton of thought into it in a while, but if you really look into it most new killers are just iterations on behaviors old ideas really. We never really get anything truly original anymore.

[@TheDoomlord7]

I think it is pretty sad that a good deal of the comments think that a licensed killer will guarantee a unique or good killer. Any of the non-licensed made killers had potential to be unique the issue is behavior doesn’t know how to make unique killers or is too scared to move out of their comfort zone. A licensed killer isn’t magically changing that and y’all are delusional if you think that way.

[@poissonsumac7922]

Seriously. People need to stop ragging on and on about licensed chapter superiority just because we got Knight and Skully. If you actually look back at the licenses, you find a SURPRISING amount of redundancy. Bubba is a Hillbilly derivative, Ghostface is a Michael refinement, and then from Demogorgon arises Pyramidhead, Nemesis, and Wesker, two out of the three of which have negligable side mechanics and the third of which is Demogorgon's lunge copy pasted twice. Not to MENTION they stab twist gutted Freddy Krueger to rip out his insides and taxidermy him into a Clown ripoff. I'm not saying UNLICENSED chapters can't be derivative and redundant or that licensed characters are always redundant. But BHVR have given us a smorgasboard of crazy wacky characters, from a Creole mud witch able to duplicate herself to an ancient Babylonian priestess who has two different projectile types to a mad Artist firing crows made out of ink to a pair of conjoined twins allowing you to play as two people at once to an eldritch abomination who can teleport almost everywhere and submerge the map in inescapable night. It is ASININE to criticize original chapters, ESPECIALLY when up until Wesker came along the most popular character was easily the Huntress, an ORIGINAL character. She's not my cup of tea, but her power is mechanically dynamic and her design is something rather unique. Not being licensed allows for more creative freedom to make your own thing, to tell your own story.

[@shadesj4642]

I actually prefer if the killer is not licensed because it gives BHVR free room to create a new power. On the other hand, if it is licensed then the team is limited to what the power is possible of doing as well as being within the guidelines of the owner of said license.

[@tk_the_onion]

All licensed maps have also been shit; original maps have also been shit as of late, but they have a higher success rate for sure.

[@SpaceFungi]

The untextured sphere will save the game

[@RoyalCrest-LetsPlaysAndMore]

You know, I think there could be potential in a killer whose power derives from gen completion, which if "singularity" refers to the AI kind, could be used here. Like, one generator has 90 charges, so, five generators would be 450 charges, so the killers power could be on a scale from 0 to 450, where their power increases as more generator progress is completed, capping at 450, or 5 gens worth of completion. For example, the killer's basic M2 could involve shooting a bolt of electricity, which stops a survivor in their tracks briefly (or could make them slide like a hockey puck, removing the survivor's ability to direct their movement), allowing the killer to catch them. As more generators complete, the bolt gets larger, travels farther, and/or stuns the survivor for longer. They could also have a secondary action that acts as a sort of blast-mine against survivors, stunning them proportional to the generator's completion when they try to continue to repair it (you could throw in a Skull Merchant Drone-eqsue minigame to "deactivate" the trap, becoming harder the higher the gen progress, stalling for time but still allowing counterplay and simultaneously raising the stakes).

[@jordanweber5351]

“Sucking a survivor” this chapter is going to be WILD

[@guidomista2570]

The Singularity rang as just general space theme for me, my first idea was some sort of fucked up astronaut that got sucked into a black hole or something and then into the entity's realm. Distorted zombie spaceman is what I was thinking.

[@calvinpetri7391]

i was thinking of a more multiverse concept something like jobu tupaki

[@JakeobE]

Dredge 2: Dredge Harder.

[@yurei3714]

It could be anything really.

[@residal1454]

sounds like the pulsating murder ball from the game SOMA lmaoo

[@coffee8599]

They said a long time ago that its a licensed chapter.

[@firebreath7188]

I think a cool power would be something that teleported the survivors like they changed positions with each-other which would allow killers to switch from chasing the dedicated looper to the normally dedicated gen jocky

[@luckyshottherabbitoccultist]

I'm always intrigued when it comes to new DBD - but Honestly I'd rather hear "Hey Vecna is coming to DBD here's the trailer - BTW the original Stranger Things can be purchased again." personally anyway.

[@UnkemptSoldier]

His power should temporarily cause one survivor's movement inputs to control all four of them or some nonsense like that.

[@jgravemans6076]

What if the killer automatically spawns in a singularity in the middle of of the map (or a few over the map) that starts to slowly grow larger and larger. The killer can move between them but also change how gravity works with them by either attracting or repelling. The singularity will have different effects based on what it's doing. Attracting will "suck the power out" of gens by making them regress automatically in its range. Survivors will also be hindered first, and then actively pulled towards the middle depending on how close they are. Being in the "event horizon" too long will result in damage, but also the shrinking of the singularity by a certain percentage. In "repell" mode survivors actions will be interrupted if they are at a certain angle in relation to the singularity. Survivors will be hindered more and more as they get to the center of the singularity. They will not take damage from being too close, but cannot get within a certain distance. The singularity does not grow in "repell" mode and will start to shrink after a certain time in "repell" mode has passed. Wrote this while high, if that tells you something about my expectations for a killer this different

[@FysticGamer]

I think that placing a black hole could be pretty cool if they do it right. Because even at loops, it should theoretically speed you up if you walk towards it, which if you run straight through could give some debuff, but the entering and exiting speeds should make your average speed just normal. So the survivor could choose to go around it, which makes them take loops wider and thus be slower, or receive the debuff (whatever that would be) and have to deal with that. Depending on the debuff given, I could see there being a good few options that the killer and survivor both have in different scenarios. But, its bhvr so we should just expect a proximity mine type clown bottle.

[@flowershopapt]

​@The_ScottJund woah it's the real scott jund

[@zackattack5803]

What i think would be cool is if you could place a black hole somewhere on the map, and hold the power button to pull any survivor not doing an action (gen, totem, etc) towards it, but it gets weaker over time to prevent stuff like guarenteeing a kill on hook by sucking survivors away forever. It would be cool cause if you use it wrong you'd literally help the survivors, but if you use it right you could end chases fast, and potentially preassure all 4 survivors at once. Maybe thered be a secondary effect too for if survivors get sucked into the hole.

[@Bigman-vd7gc]

New killer is a black hole that deletes dbd when it touches you so you can go play something actually fun

[@Remediast]

Most of the time, the name of the killer has more to do with their design or lore rather than with their power

[@slicerva34]

Honestly, if we do get a blackhole themed killer, I hope it's not place item on ground, survivors leave loop. Instead I hope it's something like, place object on ground, and do funky movement tech like a blight/billy flick. Some sort of quick movement that rounds a corner fast or speeds you up in a very quick burst to catch survivors. I think that'd make for a much more interesting killer than anything else we've gotten between Wesker and now.

[@heyygallo]

I wish BHVR would listen to community suggestions in regards to powers and perks.

[@tiltian6536]

I will call it now. If its terminator id lose it

[@hungryhyena783]

3:10 Scott there are physics. Trust

[@caspermarzec3514]

A longshot but if they don't want the name to be an instant giveaway to the character they are adding. one meaning of singularity is "a hypothetical future where technology growth is out of control and irreversible" and one hyped character for a long time is the alien, an organism created by an alien race as a bioweapon (Prometheus(2012)) but evolving out of the creators control, bringing the end of their civilization. The name might be a bit of a red herring but would actually have some relation to the "killer". Maybe not very likely but feel free to give feedback on the hypothesis whomever finds this.

[@theemeraldtuber]

I'd love if it could teleport survivors with black holes, but at a minimum distance for balance. Say you charge a black hole, where the longer you charge the bigger it is. You can then teleport a survivor 32 meters away if they step in the hole. Could help you get them into a dead zone, or get survivors away from advantageous loops. Would obviously need changing, but something like that could be cool.

[@christophermartin1315]

The definition of singularity is the act of being singular i.e. it could be anything as long as the killer is the only one of its kind.

[@emperorweskatine8999]

Imagine if the killer is literally just a small moving black hole. I hope it is for the memes.

[@aidanmcguire3096]

I hope its like.. a spacesuit void entity thing, but it'll probably be some trap mechanic anyway.

[@creature-pf4tp]

This might be a bit of a stretch but when I hear the name singularity I think of a symbiote type thing Maybe like an alien similar to "the thing" Or like Venom from Spiderman Since symbiotes are a connected hive mind basically making it a singular creature like Venom or the thing.

[@Leejohnas]

I'm so excited for the anniversary! We get a new exposed based killer yayyyy!

[@Paradargyn]

All I can think of when I hear Singularity is something that is more than one entity, like The Thing by John Carpenter

[@deadhelix]

I personally look forward to seeing the design of new unique killers over licensed killers, it’s just behavior dropped the ball so hard with skull merchant that looks more like a deviant art oc of a killer made by a horny person. Dredge I think is a badass design tho I think that was a big W on the design team

[@jimhoxworth8655]

Damn, you nailed it with the robot alien thing

[@u-pop4536]

Scotts in his speculation era

[@jonipotato9763]

Teleportations and portals is almost a guarantee considering the naminh

[@The_Throngler]

I would 100% play an untextured Sphere just because of how fun and silly that would be.

[@shaunaempringham2912]

The term "singularity" actually comes from mathematics. It basically means that one of the variables in an equation starts to approach infinity -- either infinitely towards zero, or away from it. It's used to describe the center of black holes were the volume and/or surface area of the matter is infinitely small to the point of existing in only one dimension. In AI research, it's used to explain the idea that if AI can double it's intelligence in 6 months, and then double it again in 3 months, and so on, then there will be a point in which it's doubling it's intelligence infinitely, and therefore is instantly infinitely intelligent. There are some other common usages, but basically that's what it means. My guess is that the killer is some kind of AI, but it could be a black hole killer too.

[@yoyobandit25]

I'm so glad you had this discussion so that I could know "booba" "PewDiePie" and "elden ring" were all trending together at one point. very cool, snot bummed

[@elstoner9514]

I love Scott mainly just because of the logical way he goes about things, strong mindset

[@elvangulley3210]

You mean how he kisses survivors asses

[@RandomPerson-yq1qk]

The term singularity does not really have anything to do with Black Holes in particular. I think the term originated in mathematics where it describes a point at which a mathematical object is not well defined. The classical example is the point x=0 of the function f(x)=1/x. This is pretty much exactly the reason why the center of a black hole is called a singularity. In theory the matter of a black hole should collapse into a single point without volume. If you were to calculate its density you would need to divide the mass through the volume which does not exist (or is 0) so the density is not defined at that moment. Another reason to call the center of a black hole a singularity is that spacetime itself is not well defined at the center of black hole. So mathematical physics equations are not well defined at the center of a black hole and we call it a singularity. The term also has a couple completely different definitions.

[@brunoisfet]

Cannonball from Ben 10 would be a great killer

[@rabbyd542]

I hope they took a break on the whole "map control" killer concept.

[@zachariahbest6626]

Singularity makes it sound like it could be some eldritch horror

[@YourContractHasExpired]

I see a connection between the Singularity in a sense of AI term, and survivor's name Soma, a name of that game about, well, robots, humans, AI, and the way the copied brain works

[@GatesOfAvalon1]

I am hoping it is a shapeshifting character who will switch their power between the existing characters in the game like Shang Tsun from mortal kombat. They might start out the game as Hillbilly, then morph to Trapper or Legion or somebody else after an amount of time.

[@Vaaads]

I think if they went with the blackhole way, I think an interesting power would be that the killer can place down a blackhole that can be traveled between with other placeable blackholes that both the killer and survivor can go through and teleport to. Risk-reward for the survivor because it might just lead to a dead zone or it could lead to a strong tile or something along those lines. I think it'd be neat and introduce more decision making for both sides

[@thralfazuz8390]

placing black hole to slow down the survivors, so basically Freddy snares

[@SirDougles]

My speculation: "The Singularity" refers to advanced AI. When the map spawns there will be robots that are turned off and spread out through out the map. The killer plays like the demon from the Evil Dead game where you freely move around but then choose to a robot "husk" to possess and use for a set period of time or it can't go to far from a certain marker that it spawned next to. You can move the robots to a spot and then leave to go to another one, essentially leaving traps they can use during a chase. I'm just shooting from the hip here, I just want something fun.

[@sachyas]

[@SqueezeFades]

That also is pretty much Freddy’s power as well

[@kyledrain8537]

Hey Scott What powers would you like to see come to dbd that you think are doable?

[@rafaelz6211]

Singularity made me think Cream from Jojo lmao. Just become a singularity that can’t see but demolishes anything in your path and traps survivors until you cancel the power, releasing them with damage or smtn

[@Veekron]

So it's Spirit on crack then?

[@rafaelz6211]

@@Veekron sorta but you can’t see the environment either and they have a certain time to escape before your power ends and damages then

[@jozi9301]

How dope would it be for there to be wormholes that both killers and survivors can walk through to get insta teleported to somewhere that only the killer knows