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On April 18, "Dead by Daylight" announced on Weibo, WeChat public account and other platforms that it will be linked with Tencent's party game "Yuan Dream Star", and the development team of "Dead by Daylight" will provide design suggestions for the theme gameplay of "Yuan Dream Star" popular feature "King Don't Catch Me", and said: "We are deeply amazed by Chinese culture, and I hope players will also enjoy the new game experience brought by Yuan Dream Star!"
"Dream Star" also officially responded, and announced that "Dead by Daylight" game producer Mathieu Côté will also participate in it, aiming to continue to optimize the asymmetrical competitive experience of "Dream Star".
As soon as this news was announced, it quickly aroused quite heated discussions and repercussions. After all, it is indeed beyond many people's expectations that a party game that focuses on family fun and has a cute style of painting needs to cooperate with an asymmetrical competitive game full of horror elements to develop new gameplay. But when you focus on what you're working on, it makes a lot more sense.
The "King Don't Catch Me" mentioned in the official announcement is a special gameplay co-created by players in "Yuan Dream Star" using the preview function of the editor, which was launched in February this year.
This game requires four players to play as Star Treasure and one player as Dark Star. Star Treasure must find items in the map to open a portal to escape, while Dark Star is responsible for capturing all Star Treasure and putting them into the altar to devour, and of course, Star Treasure can also rescue his teammates on the altar.
It can be seen that in terms of core gameplay, "Don't Catch Me", is quite close to "Dead by Daylight", and it is logical for the latter team to guide and cooperate with the former.
In addition, this gameplay has also been continuously optimized after its launch, and now there is an exclusive ranking mode, and the "big and small king" gameplay of double dark stars has been derived. Combined with the subsequent plan to launch the Journey to the West-themed gameplay, as well as the fact of cooperation with "Dead by Daylight", it can be guessed that "Don't catch me, the king" may be the direction that "Yuanmeng Star" will focus on in the near future.
On the other hand, as a linkage maniac, this is not the first time that "Dream Star" has been linked with a well-known game IP. In November last year, "Yuan Dream Star", which is still in the beta stage, officially announced its cooperation with the classic party game "Fall Guys Ultimate Knockout" (hereinafter referred to as "Fall Guys") on PC, and launched Fall Guys' characteristic fashions, with a strong emphasis on genuine licensing. As the pioneer of the party competition, "Fall Guys" chose to cooperate with "Yuan Dream Star", which can be regarded as confirming the legitimacy of the latter.
In the launch stage in December last year, "Yuan Dream Star" started a linkage activity with its own "Glory of Kings", adding several popular heroes such as Sun Shangxiang to the game as fashion. This linkage is more inclined to use the influence of "Glory of Kings" to open the way for "Yuanmeng Star".
However, the above two linkages are not as enthusiastic as the feedback of "Dead by Daylight", mainly because the previous linkages are still expected. Needless to say, the developer of "Fall Guys" has been acquired by EPIC, and Tencent is a shareholder of EPIC, plus "Fall Guys" and "Dream Star" are both party games, and the overall style is relatively similar, so it is not surprising that there is some cooperation.
And this collaboration with Dead by Daylight can surprise the outside world, not only because of the huge difference in style between the two, but also because this linkage directly affects the gameplay in the game. Most of the previous collaborations were limited to the appearance of fashion.
At present, the specific details and launch time of the linkage have not been announced. But after that, "Metadream Star" may be linked with more other game IPs, which will bring more diverse party gameplay. From "Fall Guys" to "Honor of Kings" to "Dead by Daylight", the pace of "Dream Star" is also getting bigger and bigger, and from this point of view, the smoke of the party game track may be permeating for a long time.