Useless by Daylight is a recreation completely full of murderous monsters, each unique and licensed from different franchises. The subsequent crossover is a bit bit exterior of the standard horror wheelhouse — Useless by Daylight is producing a chapter themed across the wildly widespread tabletop recreation Dungeons & Dragons. Vecna, identified in-game as The Lich, would be the recreation’s subsequent Killer. Vecna is joined by a pair of Elven bards, one male and one feminine, who will function the brand new Survivors.
Behaviour Interactive introduced the crossover throughout the recreation’s anniversary stream Tuesday, which included sneak peeks of different titles in the identical universe and a brand new 2v8 gameplay mode.
Vecna is a robust mage, with entry to an array of spells. He can fly, summon spectral entities, create a mage hand to govern objects, and dispel magic. Whereas most Killers in Useless by Daylight deal with throwing hatchets or swinging a blade, Vecna makes use of magical talents to search out Survivors. Fortunately, there’s an upside to going through him as an enemy. When Vecna is the Killer, he spawns chests across the map. Opening them begins a cube roll, and if the participant is fortunate sufficient, they will receive a few of Vecna’s legendary loot.
The Eye and Hand of Vecna could be obtained from these chests. The Eye of Vecna grants invisibility to Survivors after they depart a locker, whereas the Hand of Vecna lets you teleport between lockers. When you roll a important failure, Behaviour guarantees one thing horrible occurs — however we don’t know what fairly but.
With the runaway success of Baldur’s Gate 3, in addition to the latest Dungeons & Dragons film, it’s attention-grabbing to see Dungeons & Dragons develop even additional by getting into the illustrious forged of the asymmetrical horror recreation. Stranger Issues, a present no stranger to D&D tie-ins, primarily based its season 4 antagonist on Vecna, they usually even share the identical title — so perhaps he’ll kind a particular bond with Stranger Issues’ Useless by Daylight Killer, the Demogorgon, who was equally named after a D&D monster.
Behaviour additionally teased the subsequent licensed chapter, which shall be a cross-over with the Castlevania franchise. We don’t know who the Killer or Survivor shall be for that, however we are able to anticipate particulars later this summer season. The stream additionally shared {that a} third licensed chapter will arrive earlier than the tip of Useless by Daylight’s subsequent anniversary.
For followers preferring the unique features of Useless by Daylight, Behaviour shared a have a look at another video games in the identical universe. The Casting of Frank Stone is a branching narrative recreation from Till Daybreak developer Supermassive, much like The Quarry or the Darkish Photos Anthology. A two-player co-op title referred to as What the Fog can be briefly accessible at no cost with the registration of a Behaviour account, and it seems to be like a a lot cuter and absurd tackle the Entity’s Realm.
The Dungeons & Dragons DLC is coming to the check realm right this moment, and the chapter will launch on dwell servers on June 3.