Playing as Jason means you won't have to spend half the round spectating, but it’s not necessarily more fun. So I play it for the good rounds and the good moments, such as when a survivor jogged up to me and said, “Find the machete! Let’s kill Jason!” We didn’t kill Jason-it is possible, just very hard (opens in new tab)-but the sudden camaraderie as four of us ran from his hulking figure together in search of the last puzzle piece turned objectiveless wandering into a proper horror movie. Jason vs Everyone is so much better than Jason vs One, alone, doomed. But that isn’t a fun scene to repeat in every match. In that case, at least from my perspective, it was a pretty great horror movie reenactment. As Jason, I once had to stomp through a cabin smashing every armoire to finally murder the final survivor, who I could hear whimpering with each axe swing in adjacent rooms. When no one’s talking, and no one’s working together, rounds can be painful-just hide and wait for the inevitable. And the height of the game is taking part in a daring group effort to beat Jason down and drive away. Somewhere in the middle is the relief and guilt of fleeing Jason while he disembowels someone else. The loneliness of hitting Tab to see that you were left out of an escape plan-two got away on the boat already-is the low end. The campers have a loose alliance, then, which can be fun or disheartening depending on how you end up fitting into the group. On the other, being in a group means more people around to whack Jason and stun him, and the less friendly truth that there might be time to escape while he impales a former cohort. On one hand, whoever’s playing Jason is likely going to stalk vehicles extra closely, putting escape groups in added danger. Maybe two go for the boat, three for the car, and the rest creep around looking for the phone box-the only way to escape on foot is to fix the box, call 911, wait for the police to show up, and run toward the flashing lights. With seven counselors at the start of a match, players tend to split off into groups based on which items they come across first. Getting the car running usually takes teamwork, as one player can’t carry a battery and a tank of gas at the same time, and it’s unlikely that they’d find both on their own anyway, along with the car keys. There might be time to escape while he impales a former cohort. “Ooooh, shit!” he squealed as my fellow survivor sang, “Laaater, bitch.” I bolted in just before he made his kill and whacked him on the back with a wrench, stunning him long enough for us to escape. I once overheard Jason taunting a counselor (opens in new tab) who he’d backed into a cabin. Friday the 13th’s local voice chat is vital to its fun. When I play as Jason, meanwhile, my goal is not just to catch all the campers, but to appear at the worst possible moment, to startle a group and snatch away their hope of escape, to chase them into cabins and taunt them through axe wounds in the doors. Even in death, I’m still part of the show-I wish there were a corpsing button that let me break scene to laugh at my costar for losing his arms. And then the fleeing survivor stumbles across my decapitated body, automatically shrieks (there's a fear system), and Jason materializes behind him. And after death, the solidarity I feel for the other campers keeps me flipping through the spectator cameras, cheering for them as they repair a car, only for Jason to smash the hood and rip one of them out of their seat while the other bolts into the woods. Will you be snatching up the Savini Skin? If so, you better be quick.I get mad at Rocket League, and mad at Overwatch, but I don’t mind having my head stomped on in Friday the 13th all that much-it's just my role in the play. You can find a shot of the listing for the DLC in the PSN store below: We’ve reached out to Gun Media to get down to the bottom of the story and will update as soon as they get back to us. The skin is currently being sold on eBay for roughly between $300 and $500 dollars. Xbox One and Steam owners seem to be left out for the time being. In an unannounced surprise the skin that was originally for Kickstarter Backers only is now available to download for the price of $5.99, but only on the PlayStation Store. Whoops! Boy, would we hate to be one of the folks who purchased the content for a few hundred bucks last week! Below is a tweet from Gun Media’s Wes Keltner explaining that the skin was never to be sold.įor those of you who were hoping that Gun Media would release the highly scalped Tom Savini Jason Voorhees skin you’re in luck! Updated 6/6/17 at 8:44 p.m: Sony has removed the Kickstarter Backer-exclusive Tom Savini Jason Voorhees skin from the PSN Store.
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