Since making its PTB debut, The Unknown has delighted Lifeless by Daylight gamers with its grotesque look, horrific voice traces, and fascinating mechanics. Nevertheless, the Killer’s common ole axe appeared weirdly odd for such a monster, and now some gamers imagine that the axe is simply the tip of the murderous iceberg.

Beginning as we speak, Lifeless by Daylight‘s March 2024 roadmap guarantees one thing new each week for all the month. We already knew The Unknown Killer, Sable Ward Survivor, and Greenville Sq. map would arrive on March 12 with the All Issues Depraved Chapter. What we didn’t know, although, was that The Unknown, to not be confused with the Willy Wonka Expertise Glasgow’s AI-generated villain, could wield completely different weapons with the varied skins gamers unlock or buy for it.

The picture sparking a community-wide dialogue on how The Unknown’s skins and weapons might work on the Lifeless by Daylight subreddit is the duvet for the All Issues Depraved Assortment. It exhibits The Unknown carrying an previous lady’s pores and skin and holding backyard shears, as an alternative of the axe weapon in earlier promotional photographs and on the PTB model of the Killer. Whereas it doesn’t sound like a lot, character skins — as in precise cosmetics — don’t change a Killer’s precise weapon.

Axe assassin or garden-shear-wielding, skin-wearing terror?

Most Lifeless by Daylight Killers are caught with a set weapon, akin to The Twins’ sickle or The Huntress’ axe. Whereas weapon skins might be unlocked and bought. As an intrinsic a part of every Killer’s mechanics, they don’t change. This picture exhibits The Unknown’s core weapon is its putrid spit, used to debuff Survivors and teleport throughout the map. Whereas it nearly actually simply swings no matter weapon it’s holding, the truth that the weapon adjustments signifies a brand new route for The Unknown’s design extra terrifying than first imagined.

To elucidate the monster’s sudden pores and skin swap, gamers floated concepts like Commercial_Cook_1814’s remark, “It’s an amalgamation of many various city legends. It takes the type of no matter folks think about it to be, together with the kind of weapon it makes use of.” However this idea is at odds with a private favourite I discover much more creepy and, subsequently, am determined to be true from DrunkeNinja. “I had a sense this may be the case. The Unknown takes over completely different folks and doubtless makes use of no matter that particular person had close to them as a weapon.”

For now, we don’t know precisely how every pores and skin will alter The Unknown’s animations or design. Nevertheless, one other thought from GhostOfMuttonPast opens up what could be a unique and seemingly lore-appropriate change. “I’m wondering, supplied it’s an previous girl’s pores and skin, in the event that they’ll swap the voices round so the fem voice is louder than the masc voice.” Having The Unknown’s already sweetly sickening, stuttered tones alter with each pores and skin would make it probably the most heinous monster to grace Lifeless by Daylight. Good for an authentic Killer.

With The Unknown, Behaviour Interactive appears to be giving itself room to breathe and construct upon future collaborations, such because the latest Iron Maiden crossover, by including a Killer that’s constructed to actually put on new pores and skin each time you encounter it. My favourite suggestion must be the large alien cockroach disguised as a person within the first Males in Black film. Pure nightmare gas.