Alan Wake is becoming a member of Useless By Daylight as the sport’s latest playable character.

After teasing the character earlier this week, it was formally introduced yesterday (January 9) that Alan Wake could be becoming a member of Useless By Daylight as a brand new character.

In an announcement posted on the official Useless By Daylight weblog, Sam Lake, inventive director of Treatment Leisure, mentioned the next:

“We’re thrilled to carry Alan Wake, our tortured author, into the acclaimed Useless By Daylight. We really feel the lore of our two horror experiences is a match made within the Darkish Place and may’t wait to expertise the horrors that await him within the Fog.”

The character comes with a number of new perks such because the Champion of Gentle, a capability that “grants you further motion velocity whereas shining a Flashlight”. The perk additionally slows down any Killer that you simply handle to blind, giving them the Hindered Standing Impact and slowing their motion.

Alan Wake may use the Boon: Illumination perk to permit different gamers to see the place turbines and chests are throughout the map whereas cleaning and blessing totems with higher velocity. Lastly, he’s geared up with the Deadline means, a capability that triggers each time the character is injured and causes extra ability checks to occur everytime you attempt to heal a survivor or restore a generator, with the penalty halving should you fail the examine.

New voice traces have additionally been recorded for Useless By Daylight, with the official announcement stating that Alan Wake voice actor Matthew Porretta has “reprised his position for Useless By Daylight, recording plenty of authentic voice traces and cries.”

In different gaming information, Immortality is coming to PlayStation 5 later this month. Elsewhere, Steam is clamping down on the usage of AI in video games hosted on the platform.