{"id":335354,"date":"2017-03-09T07:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/08\/left-4-dead-haunt-dead-by-daylight\/21|21876578"},"modified":"2017-03-09T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:56:00","slug":"left-4-dead-character-returns-to-haunt-dead-by-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/left-4-dead-character-returns-to-haunt-dead-by-daylight\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Left 4 Dead&#8217; character returns to haunt &#8216;Dead by Daylight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill is more than just a visual update; he&#8217;ll inhabit <em>Dead by Daylight<\/em> as a full-on team member with his own special skills and abilities. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2017\/3\/8\/14849658\/dead-by-daylight-left-4-dead-crossover-left-behind\"><em>Polygon<\/em><\/a>, the new DLC is an unofficial nod to <em>Left 4 Dead<\/em>&#8216;s own add-on, &#8220;The Sacrifice,&#8221; in which Bill gives his life trying to save the other survivors of the zombie apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yqGiXEQn23E?wmode=opaque\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The grizzled veteran will have three perks that will help his <em>Dead by Daylight<\/em> teammates. Borrowed Time gives players extra protection if Bill rescues them from the killer&#8217;s meathook, while Unbreakable will let players recover faster when struck down. The Left Behind perk will help you repair generators faster when you&#8217;re the last person left alive. Using Bill in the most effective way adds another layer of strategic gameplay to the PC game<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s producer, Mathieu Cote, told <em>Polygon<\/em> that the developer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhvr.com\/\">Behaviour Interactive<\/a>, worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/02\/10\/valve-steam-greenlight-now-direct\/\">Valve<\/a> to use the same character model for Bill as in the <em>Left 4 Dead<\/em> games, with some visual upgrades. The team also created replica outfits from other characters in the Valve game for <em>Dead by Daylight<\/em> survivors to wear. Players who patch the game <a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/381210\/discussions\/0\/135511027316708299\/\">will have access<\/a> to all the outfits right away, too. It&#8217;s quite an homage to the classic game that clearly influenced this new title<em>.<\/em> Bill, and the Left Behind DLC, is available now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/bf7e4c85534f1f33285117df780e9e15\/205030116\/Bill1-ed.jpg\" \/>Dead by Daylight, the hit survival-horror game that pits a team of four players against a dangerous killer, is getting a new character as part of the title&#039;s free &quot;Left Behind&quot; DLC. Players of Valve&#039;s successful Left 4 Dead series of zombie games wil&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-335354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}