The flashlight did not lie: Alan Wake is coming to Dead by Daylight as a new survivor
One day after dropping a teaser that shone a pretty clear light on what was coming next, Behaviour Interactive has made it official: Alan Wake, the long-suffering writer and star of Remedy's Alan Wake games, is coming to Dead by Daylight as a new survivor.
Alan Wake brings a trio of unique perks to the game, all of them specific to the character. Champion of Light grants Wake faster movement while he's using his flashlight, and if he blinds a killer with it, they'll be temporarily slowed. His Illumination boon enables him to create a totem that enables all nearby survivors to see the auras of generators and chests on the map, and lets him cleanse and bless totems faster. And finally, the Deadline perk increases the frequency of skill checks when he's healing other survivors or repairing generators while injured, and halves the penalty if he fails one—«Sometimes, you just have to write through a hand cramp,» Behaviour said.
And yes, this is the «real» Alan Wake, with new voice lines provided by Matthew Porretta, who voices the character in Remedy's award-winning survival horror games. (That's him in the trailer, too.)
«We are thrilled and honored to have Alan Wake enter the Fog of Dead by Daylight,” Remedy creative director Sam Lake said. „From our early excited conversations on about our collaboration with Behaviour Interactive, it was clear that the lore of both games were surprisingly compatible, drawing from many similar inspirations, a true match in… Hell.“
Dead by Daylight's previous big celebrity survivor, real-life actor Nicolas Cage, was really an unexpected and oddball bit of casting, although he threw himself into it enough to cause serious psychological trauma to features writer Harvey Randall. Alan Wake is a
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