Developer Behaviour Interactive has said the name Dead by Daylight players have waited 10 long years and one 13-hour livestream to hear: Jason Voorhees.
The hockey mask-wearing slasher icon from Friday the 13th showed up after weeks of speculation from fans with a brief teaser today. He’s undeniably one of the most-requested Killers the long-running asymmetrical horror game has ever had, and while most are just happy to see the “Mount Rushmore of horror” finally completed, the road to Jason was anything but easy.
Dead by Daylight will celebrate its 10th anniversary this June, so to say expectations for its annual birthday festivities were through the roof would be an understatement. An unusual absence of leaks left fans to swim in a lake of rumors throughout the year, so despite Jason remaining atop the shortlist of potential Killers, fans have remained in the dark when it came to Behaviour’s plans.
A series of recent teasers polluted with references to the number 13 should have felt like a dead giveaway that the Friday the 13th rep was on the way, but the community of horror fans had other ideas. Fan predictions in the weeks leading up to today’s reveal began earnestly enough, as many hoped to see last year’s Five Nights at Freddy’s anniversary collaboration followed up with infamous monsters like Pennywise from Stephen King’s It or Art the Clown from the Terrifier series.
Theories about Hello Neighbor and BioShock followed soon after, but as names like Jaws, another half-joke character fans have talked about for years, entered the conversation, things truly began to spiral out of control. As a mix of sincere Killer predictions, memes, and pure chaos filled social channels, Behaviour launched its anniversary livestream yesterday, May 22, at 9 p.m. ET. Where fans hoped to find immediate answers to their questions, they were instead met with a still image of a cabin in the woods.
Tens of thousands of viewers then stayed locked into the stream of that image for 13 hours.
“It’s 4 a.m. and I’m being ragebaited,” one fan said.
“BHVR is about to turn me into the 10th anniversary killer,” another joked.
“In a few years?” someone else said in response to the above Reddit post. “It’s traumatizing us right now!”
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