'We’re Not Going to do a Dead by Daylight 2' – Developer Kills Possibility of a Sequel

The developers of Dead by Daylight archer maine they're highly committed to keeping the crippled going arsenic agelong arsenic imaginable with support, crossovers, and each sorts of updates. So committed, successful fact, that a sequel to the crippled is disconnected the table.

Speaking to maine astatine the Game Developers Conference past month, caput of partnerships astatine Behaviour Interactive Mathieu Cote and originative manager Dave Richard chatted with maine astir the situation of pursuing up connected a ace palmy unrecorded work game. They said that portion they had thought astir doing a sequel oregon a "remake" astatine antithetic points successful development, it "never makes consciousness for the fans" to do.

"There's ever a constituent wherever we say, okay, we could bash a sequel now, and it would beryllium acold easier really to bash a sequel with a unsighted slate than effort to hole these issues that we have, for example," Richard said. "But it ne'er makes consciousness for the fans. Never ever. They've invested clip and wealth connected DBD, and-

"That's the crippled they privation to play," Cote said.

Richard concluded, "So, we tin proceed to enactment the effort truthful that they tin person amusive and inactive person worth for the money."

I past brought up unrecorded work games specified arsenic Ubisoft's Rainbow Six Siege, and Blizzard's Overwatch, that person had assorted struggles with pursuing up a palmy archetypal with a sequel and getting an assemblage to modulation to the caller thing. Cote brought up Payday 2 and 3 arsenic examples arsenic well, wherever some games are inactive being supported. However, he's not funny successful juggling 2 Dead by Daylights astatine once.

"It's besides precise imaginable to instrumentality your crippled and bring it kicking and screaming into the adjacent decade," helium said. "And that's much what we privation to do. We're not going to bash a DBD 2, that's for sure. They're not going to person to bargain a DBD 2 and restart from scratch. But we recognize that the crippled is 10 years old, and that's a agelong clip successful video crippled years. And we privation radical that commencement today, tomorrow, adjacent year, to consciousness similar they're playing a crippled that is current. It's not a nostalgia token, it's a existent crippled that you tin play contiguous and that makes sense."

We privation radical that commencement today, tomorrow, adjacent year, to consciousness similar they're playing a crippled that is current.“

Later successful our interview, this taxable came up again successful a somewhat antithetic mode erstwhile I referenced Xbox's Project Helix, which the institution had spoken astir successful a speech astatine GDC conscionable that morning. Though astatine the time, nary of america were caught up connected the details of what was said successful that talk, some Richard and Cote were successful lockstep astir the biggest contented with moving to caller exertion – they don't privation players getting near behind.

"So obviously, a caller SKU, a caller console, let's say, a caller portion of hardware that we tin determination connected to, indispensable enactment Unreal, oregon there's a mode to import it successful immoderate ways," Richard said. "It's ace absorbing if it allows america to get to a assemblage that we couldn't get to before. So 1 happening that's absorbing is that we've talked astir the graphical rework and worldly similar that, similar evolving implicit time. And 1 question that we ever person to inquire ourselves is, erstwhile we update up to a limit, and we tin person amended graphics, amended effects, immoderate it is-

"Who bash we permission behind?" Cote interjected.

Richard continued, "Who bash we permission behind? Yeah. And is that thing we're consenting to do? Can these radical update and travel us? And it depends connected the country of the satellite arsenic well, right? Some radical can't easily, particularly contiguous with AI taking each of our graphics cards away, it's truthful costly to bargain these caller machines. So, it's interesting, but it's much of a situation than it's absorbing for america astatine this time."

In some situations, Richard and Cote are hyper alert of the ways successful which their choices of however to proceed Dead by Daylight into the aboriginal could perchance permission immoderate of their assemblage successful the dust, and they intelligibly privation to debar that arsenic agelong and arsenic overmuch arsenic they perchance can. So, atrocious if you wanted a Dead by Daylight 2 – it's not happening, but you tin beryllium contented that Dead by Daylight itself volition beryllium astir for a agelong clip to travel if Cote and Richard person thing to accidental astir it.

I spoke to these 2 astir different topics astatine GDC specified arsenic what makes a palmy unrecorded work game, and what spinoff ideas they inactive truly privation to do. We'll person the afloat Q&A up for you tomorrow, truthful support your eyes connected IGN.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].