Bunny skin show for magician

[scarlet lintel]

Hi — quick playtest suggestion: could you prevent the killer from seeing or identifying players’ rabbit skins? At the moment, skins put rabbits at a disadvantage. If the killer saw a particular skin earlier, they can still recognise that player even when the rabbit lies down next to other rabbits or when other rabbits mimic their appearance. This makes wearing skins risky and reduces players’ ability to enjoy cosmetic choices. Thanks for considering it!

[hasty prawn]

You realize there are fake bodies around

[scarlet lintel]

Yeah, but imagine this: you’re chasing a rabbit wearing a blue outfit — they stun you or run away, and you lose track of them. Then you go to the last place where you heard them, and there are three neutral rabbits (or ones just wearing glasses, etc.), and only one with the blue outfit. Of course, you immediately know which one it is.

[hasty prawn]

It can still be a fake

There are literately bodies EVEYWHERE

[scarlet lintel]

So, are there bodies everywhere? Yes and no. There will definitely be situations where the killer finds you because of your skin — that’s guaranteed. Even if the game stays fun and casual, in my humble opinion, it’s going to attract a lot of Dead by Daylight players, which means there will be tryhards. And I honestly don’t see any world where people who play seriously will want to use skins, for the reasons mentioned above (though it’s still possible some will).

[hasty prawn]

Well yeah that is given whenever you find any player. You are looking for that specific skin because you saw that player. That includes default skin

[edgy iris]

I see what you mean on this post

If everyone has default skins then it makes it SO much harder to determine what rabbits are what, because if there is only 1 bunny with glasses and they playdead next to bunnies without and the magician is looking for you its easy to find you, but if every corpse is default and you are default its just a whole bunch of corpses that look the exact same, thats much harder to use context clues and guess work as magician.

When I play with friends we use the same skins so playing dead is safer.

[wind badger]

Same applies if everyone has a full crazy skin on with one normal bunny. Makes quick getaways much tougher since as you said, it's easy enough to be like "yep, that's him" if he sticks out like a sore thumb and didn't make a ton of distance.

It's definitely an interesting conundrum since this game is utilizing such a unique stealth mechanic. My best thought here would be that everyone uses one of the bunny's skin for each game. So if bunny 1 has a crazy skin on, everyone has that during the game. Or if bunny 2 has nothing, maybe everyone has nothing, it's totally random but uniform across the board to avoid the issue. Players can still use fun skins and they get to see their entire team dressed like them which is sorta fun.

In terms of magi identifying and distinguishing bunnies, better chase indicators and other things are addressed in other posts that should do fine for that.

That or maybe the bunny skins around the map randomly change up so you can't ever fully know what's fake and what's not as easily, but it still presents a similar issue and is much more intense, development-wisme/maybe even performance-wise.

[scarlet lintel]

Your idea that everyone could copy each other’s skins is interesting, but I think it should only apply from the killer’s perspective. The killer could see a random skin on every rabbit (picked from one of the real players’ skins in the match). That way, if 2–3 rabbits always play together and one of them spends money on skins, the others wouldn’t benefit too much from it for free. It’s also important to think about the developers, since they still need to have some revenue from cosmetics. But overall, the idea of the killer seeing random skins on every rabbit — both real and fake ones — is great, as it would make things less repetitive for them.