Danny Johnson — The Ghost Face
| The Ghost Face | |
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| Name | Danny Johnson |
| Gender | Man |
| Origin | American |
| Power | Night Shroud |
| Power Attack Type | Basic Attack |
| Weapon | Tactical Knife |
Movement Speed   |
115 % | 4.6 m/s |
| Alternate Movement speed | 95 % | 3.8 m/s (Crouch) |
Terror Radius  |
24 metres |
Height   |
Average |
| DLC | CHAPTER 12: Ghost Face® |
| Voice Actor | Filip Ivanovic (Art Director) |
| Cost | 500 Auric Cells  
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| Breathing | |
| Menu Music | |
| Terror Radius Music | |
| CharID | K16 |
Danny Johnson or "The Ghost Face" is one of 39 Killers
currently featured in Dead by Daylight
.
He was introduced as the Killer of CHAPTER 12: Ghost Face®, a Chapter DLC released on 18 June 2019.
Overview
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A stealth-focused Killer capable of approaching unseen, The Ghost Face is adept at stalking his prey. Keep tabs on each individual Survivor, patiently marking them for death – provided you can remain hidden. Lie in wait until the perfect time to strike, and down Survivors before they know what hit them. | 
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The Ghost Face is a creepy Killer, able to stalk his victims and sneak up silently using his Power, Night Shroud. Affected Survivors will find themselves vulnerable and oblivious to his presence and must use all of their perception and awareness to protect themselves from his approach.
His personal Perks, I'm All Ears
, Thrilling Tremors
, and Furtive Chase
, give him the ability to locate Survivors, defend Generators, and make his Chases unpredictable.
Difficulty Rating: Hard
(These Killers use mechanics that are specific to them and require more practice to be effective)
Lore
- Additional Lore can be found in Tome 13 - Malevolence: Beneath the Mask.
Danny Johnson, known as Jed Olsen by some, grabbed the newspaper from the kitchen counter: it was a week old, but his face was on the front page, grainy and sunken. It was one of those muggy afternoons in Florida when heat and humidity permeated everything in the kitchen, making him sweat while standing still. He slouched in a damp chair to read. This article had better be good—his work in Roseville had been outstanding. GHOST FACE DISAPPEARS June 18, 1993
At first glance, Jed Olsen was a modest and enthusiastic freelancer with experience in a variety of small newspapers. The staff at the Roseville Gazette appreciated how easy-going and honest he seemed, and so he was treated as a stranger for no more than five minutes into his interview:
"Jed quickly spotted the editor-in-chief in the room, gave him a wide smile and a firm handshake, and talked about good old American values. And that was it, he was in." —Ex-Contributor at the Roseville Gazette
Olsen never justified his erratic career path, which zigzagged between several small towns from Utah to Pennsylvania. There was no verification of his previous jobs. He had a decent portfolio plus a good attitude, and they needed a contributor right away.
THE ROSEVILLE MURDERS
Olsen had been working at the newspaper for five months when the Roseville Murders began: victims from young to old, stabbed to death in their homes. From the reports, the victims seemed chosen at random, yet the killer knew his way around in the houses. The multiple stab wounds indicated a personal motive. No traces of DNA were found. The local police were confounded: the murders were carried with fury akin to a crime of passion yet coldly premeditated.
The murderer also liked to stalk his targets. Two victims had reported being followed on their way home by a dark figure, a few days prior their death. The killer would follow them from Walleyes, a small bar in Northern Roseville, and snap pictures of them at home, while looking for a way in. He could watch the same victim for weeks, meticulously registering their habits and routines. When he felt the urge to kill, he'd visit the most vulnerable victim on his list, and break inside the house quietly.
The whole staff worked on the Roseville Murders story. Olsen was often sent to interview the family of victims and relay official statements from the police. Unknown to everyone at the time, his involvement added to the final body count.
THE GHOST FACE
Panic swelled in Roseville when Olsen produced footage of a hooded figure breaking into a house at night. The masked face, a white blur in the dark, stared at the camera for a second, before disappearing inside. “The Ghost Face Caught on Tape” was the resulting article, written by Olsen. He seemed proud of his work at the time, enjoying how the whole town feared his ghost stories.
Weeks later, Olsen left a note on his work desk and disappeared:
"I hope you liked my stories--I enjoyed bringing them to life. Don't worry, I'm not done." –Jed Olsen
The Roseville law enforcement still refuses to comment as Jed Olsen remains at large.
Danny smiled, ripping out the article from the newspaper. When the investigation had been pointing to him, he’d packed his bags and left Roseville swiftly.
He got up, the clammy seat pulling his skin. An oppressive humidity engulfed him as he entered the bedroom. Condensation dribbled on a small misted-up window as bits of cracked wallpaper hung limply. Its floral pattern was covered with gruesome photos and newspaper headlines. Danny pinned the week-old article on top of a picture of lacerated scalps. A faint pang of hunger hit him, and he wondered when he had eaten last. Was it this morning, while washing his knife and clothes? Or was it last night, after following that girl down the street? He couldn't remember clearly.
Taking a step back, he admired his work on the wall. His mind drifted, remembering all the articles he’d written, the stories he’d planned, and the scenes he’d brought to life.
A shiver ran through him. A chilling breeze transformed the bedroom's humidity into an opaque, freezing Fog. A woman shrieked. Dead leaves crunched under his feet. He smiled in anticipation.
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Unique Perks
The Ghost Face comes with 3 Perks
that are unique to him:
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Furtive Chase | This description is based on the changes announced for or featured in the upcoming Patch 8.7.0 "You lurk in the shadows, eliminating your victims one by one."
After hooking the Obsession
   , Furtive Chase triggers its secondary effect:
"You have no idea what I have planned for you. It'll be in the news for weeks. I'll make sure of that." — The Ghost Face |
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I'm All Ears | "You sharpen your keen senses in the dark Realm of The Entity   ."
Whenever a Survivor performs a Rushed Vault action within 48 metres of your location, you benefit from the following effect:
"There is no need to worry. I've been preparing my whole life for this." — The Ghost Face |
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Thrilling Tremors | "Your dark designs and shrewd composure rouse The Entity."
After picking up a Survivor, Thrilling Tremors triggers its effects:
"The night assists me and it's endless here." — The Ghost Face |
Prestige
Prestiging The Ghost Face will automatically add Tier I of his Unique Perks to the inventories of all other Killers and unlock the ability for their higher-tiered versions to spawn in their Bloodweb
.
Prestige The Ghost Face twice more to automatically add Tier II and Tier III respectively into the other Killers' inventories.
Weapon: Tactical Knife
The Tactical Knife is the Primary Weapon of The Ghost Face.
See how the streetlights glint on the razor-sharp edge?
Anyone should feel honoured to feel it sliding through their ribcage.
Power: Night Shroud
"The Ghost Face used to study his victims for weeks, meticulously registering their habits.
When the urge to kill swelled, he'd know exactly how and where to strike."
SPECIAL ABILITY: NIGHT SHROUD
Press the Power button to enter Stealth Mode:
- Grants a permanent Undetectable
Status Effect. - Unlocks the ability to Stalk Survivors.
Performing a Basic Attack automatically ends Stealth Mode and depletes the Power Gauge.
Night Shroud has a cool-down of 20 seconds.
SPECIAL LOCOMOTION: CROUCHING
Press the Secondary Power button to Crouch:
- Reduces his Movement speed to 3.8 m/s.
- Causes him to be harder to be spotted and revealed by Survivors.
Press the Secondary Power button again to stand back upright.
SPECIAL ABILITY: STALKING
Press the Power button when in Stealth Mode to stalk Survivors within 40 metres, filling their Stalk Meter at +20 pts/s.
SPECIAL ABILITY: LEANING AND STALKING
Standing behind cover when in Stealth Mode shows the Lean and Stalk prompt.
Stalking Survivors while leaning doubles the rate to +40 pts/s.
SPECIAL STATE: MARKED
Once the Stalk Meter is full at 100 Points, the affected Survivors are Marked and suffer from the following effects for 60 seconds:
- Exposed
Status Effect. - Suppresses their ability to reveal The Ghost Face.
SPECIAL INTERACTION: REVEALING
Survivors can attempt to reveal The Ghost Face when he is in Stealth Mode, forcing him out of it and disabling his ability to continue stalking them.
Survivors must see at least 30 % of his model in the central part of their screen while he is within 32 metres in order to start revealing him over the course of 1.5 seconds:
- Triggers markers on the HUD of The Ghost Face, betraying the direction from which he is being revealed from.
- Triggers Killer Instinct for 4 seconds after a successful reveal.
"Don't mind me. That's it, keep going. Perfect. That's the image I'll keep of you." — The Ghost Face
Power Trivia
Movement Speeds:
- Active Stalking while crouched: 0.76 m/s
- Active Stalking while standing: 0.92 m/s
- The Ghost Face enters this mode as soon as a Survivor enters his Field of View and is within Stalking range while Stalking.
- Passive Stalking while crouched: 1.9 m/s
- Passive Stalking while standing: 2.3 m/s
- The Ghost Face is in this mode whenever he is Stalking without seeing any Survivor in his Field of View or who is within Stalking range.
- Crouching: 3.8 m/s
Reveal Mechanic:
- Reveal range: 32 metres
- Reveal time: 1.5 seconds
- Reveal Progression/Regression rate: ±1 c/s
- Horizontal Ratio of Visibility Zone: 60 %
- Vertical Ratio of Visibility Zone: 90 %
- The Visibility Zone refers to a screen area that is designated as the zone in which The Ghost Face is considered visible to the Survivor, which is a prerequisite to be able to reveal him.
- Minimum In-Zone percentage: 0.05 %
- This refers to how much of the screen must be occupied by The Ghost Face for him to be considered seen, when his centre point is INSIDE the visibility zone.
In practice, this means that The Ghost Face is essentially always seen when he is centred on the Survivor's screen and will become revealed.
- This refers to how much of the screen must be occupied by The Ghost Face for him to be considered seen, when his centre point is INSIDE the visibility zone.
- Minimum Outside-Zone percentage: 10 %
- This refers to how much of the screen must be occupied by The Ghost Face for him to be considered seen, when his centre point is OUTSIDE the visibility zone.
In practice, this means that even if The Ghost Face is not centred on the Survivor's screen, he can still be revealed if he occupies a considerable part of their Field of View (i.e. when he is very close).
- This refers to how much of the screen must be occupied by The Ghost Face for him to be considered seen, when his centre point is OUTSIDE the visibility zone.
- Minimum Pixel Visibility: 30 %
- This refers to how many pixels of The Ghost Face's character model must be visible to the Survivor to be considered seen.
Night Shroud:
- Maximum Stalk range: 40 metres
- Not-Leaning Stalk rate: 20 Stalk points per second
- Leaning Stalk rate: 40 Stalk points per second
- Leaning applies a multiplier of x2
- Unlike The Shape
, The Ghost Face experiences no Efficiency Penalty, which allows him to stalk Survivors at the same rate regardless of the distance to them.
- Marked threshold: 100 Stalk points
- There is a delay of 2 seconds after marking a Survivor before the Stalk Points start to deplete.
- There is a delay of 1.5 seconds before Night Shroud starts recharging.
- The Ghost Face's Terror Radius fades in and out at a rate of 10 m/s when activating Night Shroud or when being revealed.
Add-ons for Night Shroud
| Icon | Name | Description |
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"Philly" | A stolen camera from a victim of Olsen in Philadelphia, where he worked before. The film inside captured his last night in the city.
"Gotta love Philly: keeps giving and giving and I do not wanna forget any of it." — The Ghost Face |
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Cheap Cologne | Dollar store cologne with a pungent scent of rubbing alcohol. Worn by The Ghost Face to make his presence known. Reserved for impromptu visits.
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Headline Cut-Outs | Cut-outs of articles covering unsolved murder cases from Utah to Pennsylvania. While The Ghost Face just authored some of the headlines, he committed all of the murders. Compiling your success makes you proud and boosts your confidence.
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Walleye's Matchbook | A sheet of matches from Walleye's, a small bar in Northern Roseville. A victim's phone number is scribbled in blue. One of the incriminating pieces of evidence found.
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Cinch Straps | Black straps that keep everything in place while on the prowl.
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Marked Map | The annotated map of Northern Roseville, Florida. Each 'X' represents a victim of The Ghost Face. Mapping out your targets allows you to roam the streets undetected.
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Olsen's Address Book | Filled in blunt, blue crabbed writing. All the Roseville murder victims are listed there, along with their phone number and address.
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Olsen's Journal | A spiral notebook filled with stained, handwritten entries. The journal details different equipment used to stalk victims. Going through your past methods triggers thrilling memories.
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Telephoto Lens | A manual focus lens to remain undetected while taking pictures from afar.
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Chewed Pen | A blue pen with a chewed cap that holds traces of Danny's DNA. Incriminating evidence that was never found.
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Knife Belt Clip | A perfect belt clip to scout carry your blade discreetly. No one knows what you are planning to do tonight.
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Lasting Perfume | An overpowering musky fragrance worn by The Ghost Face to announce his presence. Reserved for the victims he planned to write about.
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Leather Knife Sheath | A quiet and flexible sheath to carry your blade. Movement is easier when things are fastened into place.
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Olsen's Wallet | Olsen's wallet holds thirty dollars in cash, a video club membership card, and a folded picture of Olsen's first Roseville victim. Carrying incriminating evidence boosts your excitement and resolve.
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Driver's License | A driver's license revealing Olsen's true identity: Danny Johnson.
"They all want to know who Ghost Face is. But what they should ask is: who is next?" — The Ghost Face |
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Drop-Leg Knife Sheath | A sheath allowing for a full motion range: ideal to inflict quick and powerful wounds while moving freely. Stolen from a patrol officer the night Danny left Philadelphia.
"Gotta get ready like a scout — without the stupid patches. What I get is much better." — The Ghost Face |
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Night Vision Monocular | Night vision lens enabling sharp photos even when shrouded in darkness. Ideal for discreet, impromptu visits late at night.
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Victim's Detailed Routine | A ripped page outlining the weekly routine of Olsen's first victim in Roseville. Compiling your victim's habits allows you to anticipate their movements.
"I have been watching you for a while. I wanted this to be special; the kind of headlines that people do not forget." — The Ghost Face |
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"Ghost Face Caught on Tape" | A tape obtained by Olsen to write an article that terrorised Roseville.
"In this footage, a dark figure is seen entering a house late at night in Northern Roseville, Florida. |
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Outdoor Security Camera | A small surveillance camera that filmed The Ghost Face breaking into a house on Belleview Road in Northern Roseville. The camera was positioned at the perfect angle to catch a glimpse of The Ghost Face without providing any real clue to the police.
"An image is worth a thousand words." — The Ghost Face |
Achievements
- Main article: Achievements
There are 2 Achievements related to The Ghost Face:
| Icon | Name | Description |
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Adept Ghost Face | Playing as The Ghost Face, achieve a Merciless Victory using only his 3 Unique Perks: I'm All Ears, Thrilling Tremors, and Furtive Chase |
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Totally Vulnerable | Playing as The Ghost Face   , down Marked Survivors a total of 50 times.
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Cosmetic Options
Players can choose from a variety of Cosmetic options to customise The Ghost Face:
Base Cosmetics
Default
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description |
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Ghost Face | 
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Common | Just a simple plastic mask. Anyone could be behind it, using its anonymity to kill for their own reasons. |
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Dreadful Shroud | 
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Common | For the killer that needs concealment, but craves attention. Black fabrics help give cover, white glossy textures provide fashionable accents. |
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Tactical Knife | 
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Common | See how the streetlights glint on the razor-sharp edge? Anyone should feel honored to feel it sliding through their ribcage. |
Prestige
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | Additional Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Bloody Ghost Face |
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Rare | Just a simple plastic mask, though its expression seems different when blood-spattered. | Prestige Level 6 Reward |
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Sodden Shroud |
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Rare | The long jacket helps to keep the rest of the clothes dry as blood splashes with each stab of the knife. | Prestige Level 5 Reward |
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Wet Tactical Knife |
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Rare | Even with the blade drenched in blood, the guard keeps the handle dry. | Prestige Level 4 Reward |
Perk Charms
| Prestige Level 7 Reward | Prestige Level 8 Reward | Prestige Level 9 Reward |
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| A keepsake gained upon mastery of a particular skill. | ||
Alternatives
DLC
| Icon | Name | Body | Rarity | Description | DLC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Monochrome Shroud |
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Common | Black for the night, white for the traditional shroud of death. | CHAPTER 12: Ghost Face® |
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Silvery Steel Tactical Knife |
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Common | The coloured handle may not affect the blade, but it certainly looks sharper. | CHAPTER 12: Ghost Face® |
Rift
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Not content to merely stalk those in their homes, he sometimes took to the wilderness to track and kill his victims.
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A villainous glint of steel was the only sign his prey received that they were about to die.
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Among the rotting brush, he was nearly invisible in this jumpsuit.
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Ironically, when he carried this knife, there would be no “surviving.”
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Not content to merely stalk those in their homes, he took to the trials to track and kill his victims.
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A otherworldly blue glint was the only sign his prey received that they were about to die.
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Among the swirling fog, he was nearly invisible in this jumpsuit.
400
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Ironically, when he had this knife in the trials, survival was not in the cards for his prey.
400
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A mask perfect for stalking during the end of the world.
250
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Crows are not the primary target of this mask’s scares.
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Putting the laughter back in slaughter.
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Gore streams endlessly down this ghastly yawning visage.
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Temperature changes are common in hauntings. Even when the ghosts are less than supernatural?
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Colored accents somehow make the black parts of this coat seem even darker.
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The colored handle may not affect the blade, but it certainly looks sharper.
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Temperature changes are common in hauntings. Even when the ghosts are less than supernatural?
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Colored accents somehow make the black parts of this coat seem even darker.
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The colored handle may not affect the blade, but it certainly looks sharper.
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During the Darkening, glacial winds blew from the Lost Realms, spreading an everlasting frost of penetrating ice clusters.
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The face of death, pierced by clusters of razor-sharp ice.
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Dark shroud of death ripped apart by a multitude of ice shards.
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A tactical knife entrapped in a thick, pointy spike of ice.
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He grabbed this garb impulsively, to spice things up. He had no idea how iconic this look would become for his victims.
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Face of terror that reflects the fear of victims back at them.
400
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A long, tattered cloak to stalk victims in the middle of the night, unseen by all.
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A fixed-blade knife used on the first victim that began a legend.
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The knife finds its mark. With a gasp from the victim, it sinks home, is withdrawn and the blood gushes forth.
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Painted crimson and adorned with horns, the mask glows with a new malevolence.
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An urban take on Ghost Face's shroud, utilizing a tattered rain cape. Sheds blood so well, every Ghost Face should have used it.
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A knife as beautiful and deadly as its use.
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He was surprised by the festivities but didn’t say no to the attention.
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A mask he found himself wearing at the masquerade ball.
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He was dressed in a refined Rococo jacket which made him feel powerful.
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A golden blade made the murder even more precious.
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Not content to merely stalk those in their homes, he sometimes took to the wilderness to track and kill his victims.
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A villainous glint of steel was the only sign his prey received that they were about to die.
400
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Among the rotting brush, he was nearly invisible in this jumpsuit.
400
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Ironically, when he carried this knife, there would be no “surviving.”
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A man with murder on his mind must prepare for blood on his jacket.
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A mask that masterfully captures the pain and anguish on a victim’s face and reflects it coldly, heartlessly back at them.
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Full body jacket that repels liquids and can easily be scrubbed of evidence. Best suited for rainy days and bloody nights.
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The femoral bone of an unsolved murder victim serves as the custom hilt on this hunting blade.
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As fear spread in Roseville, university students launched a masked party to lighten the mood.
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Unknown to them, he attended the event wearing a customized mask.
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His robe enabled him to sneak into the party, unsuspectedly.
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He plunged the sharp blade into a frat boy's eye socket. Blood gushed as he snapped a selfie. This one would make the headlines.
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A specimen who reacted strangely to the latest compounds, resulting in unexpected mutations that cannot yet be explained.
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Where the mask ends and the human begins is difficult to determine, the two having melded together.
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Flaps of skin resembling bat wings hang from his arms. He seems immune to any pain caused by the gaping hole in his belly that reveals a cluster of organs.
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A barbed and uneven blade that causes horrific wounds and inflicts a cruel amount of pain.
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He went on the prowl, looking to play with his next kill.
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DLC
The Ghost Face is part of 1 DLC:
Change Log
Patch 3.0.1
- Buff: increased the base Killer Instinct duration from 1.5 seconds to 2 seconds.
- Nerf: increased the Detection Area in the centre of a Survivor's screen, who is attempting to reveal The Ghost Face by +4 % for either side (combined 8 %).
- QoL: removed the Proximity Sound emitted during Night Shroud, leaving only the rustling clothes as a warning sign to Survivors.
Patch 3.3.1
- Buff: updated The Ghost Face's Power with the Undetectable Status Effect.
Patch 4.7.0
- QoL: increased the contrast of the Stalking Meter on the HUD.
Patch 5.3.0
- Buff: reduced Night Shroud Recharge time from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
Patch 5.7.0
- Rework: reworked The Ghost Face to give him more of an edge against Survivors.
- Buff: Marked Survivors can no longer reveal The Ghost Face.
- Buff: increased the duration of Marked from 45 seconds to 60 seconds.
- QoL: reviewed the technical implementation of the Stalk and Reveal mechanics.
- Reveal progression now regresses over time if a Survivor loses line-of-sight (used to be lost completely immediately).
- added differentiation to the zone in which the target must be to be revealed or be stalked to account for differences in 1st and 3rd person cameras.
- made it possible to reveal The Ghost Face / stalk Survivors when he / they are not in the centre of the screen, but still take up a large amount of it (i.e. when very close).
- Change: The Ghost Face now features a unique Terror Radius and Chase Music.
- Change: tweaked some values related to the Stalking ability due to a technical rework of the mechanic.
Patch 5.7.1
- Change: reduced the volume levels of the Terror Radius / Chase Music while working on an entirely new theme due to recurrent complaints about the current one's loudness.
Patch 5.7.2
- Change: The Ghost Face now features another unique Terror Radius and Chase Music due to complaints about the previous theme.
Patch 6.1.0
- Change: The Ghost Face now features yet another change to his Terror Radius and Chase Music.
This time, the nearby and chase themes have been slowed down to match the pace of the second phase of the chase theme.
Patch 7.0.0
- Buff: increased Crouched Movement speed from 3.6 m/s to 3.8 m/s.
- It should be noted that this change also affects all other instances of The Ghost Face moving while Crouched.
- Buff: reduced Night Shroud Recharge time from 24 seconds to 20 seconds.
- Buff: increased Killer Instinct Reveal time from 2 seconds to 4 seconds.
Patch 8.4.0
- Buff: reduced the Power Recovery time from 20 seconds to 17 seconds.
- Buff: reduced the Marking time from 5 seconds to 4.5 seconds.
Patch 8.6.0
- Buff: reduced the Terror Radius from 32 metres to 24 metres.
Trivia
- The Ghost Face was the first Chapter Killer to come without an accompanying Survivor or Map.
- The Ghost Face was the first licensed Killer to have access to a selection of Customisation options in the Store
. - The Ghost Face was the seventh Killer added to Dead by Daylight wearing a mask.
- Instead of climbing over vaults, The Ghost Face hoists himself through them.
- The Ghost Face was the first Killer to have a unique running animation when in a Chase.
- The Ghost Face was the second Killer to be able to crouch.
- Despite this, The Ghost Face is the only Killer to date to be able to crouch as freely as Survivors and as an innate ability with no connection to his Power.
- The Ghost Face is the Character with the most in-game quotes by himself, with eight in total.
- The Ghost Face currently has the most revised Chase theme in the game, with a total of technically six different revisions of the chase theme since the 5.7.0 PTB.
- This beats out The Demogorgon
, who had three total revisions.
- This beats out The Demogorgon
Original Character / Licensed Mask
- The Ghost Face is unique amongst the numerous licensed Killers of Dead by Daylight in that his persona is a BHVR-original creation, with only the Mask being licensed from Fun World.
- This also means that there is no connection to any of the movies from the Scream franchise, as Danny Johnson is not one of their multiple killers who donned the The Ghost Face alias.
- Compared to the original Scream Ghost Face, Dead by Daylight's version is a far more sinister and cunningly experienced Killer, as he has a better understanding of the risks involved in committing murder, only giving in to his bloodthirst when he knows he can get away with it.
- Although not licensed from Scream, he does the iconic knife wipe from the movies as a reference and tribute to it.
Skins
- Contrary to popular belief the Classic Ghost face outfit is not the same one as the Scream version, it is indeed based off the real life costume, as Scream features a custom modified version of the real life outfit with sparkles, arm tatters and pointed frills on the bottom edges.
- It also features a belt that is made to make the outfit fit the user.
- Some masks in the game are actually based on real life masks variants of Ghostface, those being Silver Ghost face, Viper Ghost mask, Devil face', Scarecrow Ghost face', Zombie Ghost Face and the Bleeding ghost face mask.
- Devil face was a mask that was made in April 2017 and was time limited to an event, and the mask eventually saw a re-release based on the version we have now.
- The original mask had a satin finish, had a brighter red, horns had the same colour as the mask and darker and opaque eye mesh.
- The mask would make an appearance in the fighting game Mortal Kombat 1, which features the original iteration of Ghostface as a playable guest character.
- Silver Ghostface was a limited edition mask made in 2011 to celebrate 25 years of the mask's creation.
- The mask would also make an appearance in the fighting game Mortal Kombat 1, which features the original iteration of Ghostface as a playable guest character.
- Scarecrow Ghostface is based on a variant of the movie Ghostface variant of Scream as it was originally going to appear in 'Scream 4 (2011), before it was scrapped.
- Scarecrow mask features larger eyes, cheeks and longer mouth compared to most of the masks.
- Zombie Ghostface is based on a variant of the classic Ghostface mask that was released as a tie in to Scream 4 (2011).
- This mask was inspired by Michael Myers's mask from Halloween (2007).
- Bleeding Ghostface is based on a Ghostface mask variant that was made in 1997 as a tie in to Scream 2 (1997).
- The real life mask is semi-transparent and has a tube that is connected to a plastic heart that you could pump fake blood into it.
- Devil face was a mask that was made in April 2017 and was time limited to an event, and the mask eventually saw a re-release based on the version we have now.
- Wassup ghost face is a mask that was seen in the parody movie of Scream, Scary Movie (2000), from the iconic "Wazzup!" scene.
- All outfits (Aside from the classic outfit) and some masks are original creations by Behaviour Interactive being "Scorched Ghost face", The 2023 Twisted Masquerade mask and outfit, Metal Ghost Face, Arctic Ghost Face, and Ghost face gold cat mask.
- Blighted Ghost Face was the first original mask made by Behaviour Interactive.
- It is technically not a mask in game as due to being injected with the Pustula serum by The Blight, the mask is moulded with Danny's face
- Arctic Ghost Face mask features an tear in the eyehole, and black goo on it.
- If you equip the full outfit you will see that an icicle gouged the eye out.
- Metal Ghost Face is the first mask to feature an angular shape and unique eye and mouth colours compared to the usual black.
- Gold Cat mask features a angular triangular shape and smaller eyes, nose and mouth.
- Blighted Ghost Face was the first original mask made by Behaviour Interactive.
- Some of the in-game Ghost Face outfits are being sold by Fun World as real life Halloween costumes.
Lore
- The Ghost Face's real name, as well as Roseville, the town of his first killings, are potentially inspired by "Danny Rolling", a serial killer who murdered five students within four days in "Gainesville".
- He was Wes Craven's inspiration when creating the character Ghostface for the Scream movies.
- Further strengthening this likely source of inspiration is the fact that the Viper Ghost Outfit description states that The Ghost Face had attended a masked party thrown by Roseville University students.
- The Ghost Face's flying straps attached to his outfit represent his connection to The Entity, according to the Developers.
- In one of the Developer's streams, The Ghost Face was described as "a bit narcissistic".
Leaks
- The Ghost Face was accidentally leaked by the Developers when released the Patch 2.7.0 Mid-Chapter.
- Instead of releasing the live build, they released their internal dev build, which already contained The Ghost Face, slated to release for the Anniversary Update 1.5 months later (Patch 3.0.0).
- Once the Developers realised their mistake, they forced all active Players out of any on-going Trials and rescinded the dev build update, replacing it with the live build that was originally intended to release.
- This happened rather quickly, but it was already too late and multiple videos and screenshots were already all over social media.
- In the dev build, he had a different alias, shortened to just The Ghost.
- He also featured a different Mori animation, using a mobile phone to snap a picture of the killed Survivor instead of a digital camera.
- It was likely intended to be a reference to Scream, due to the Ghostfaces using phone to call their victims.
- He also featured a different Mori animation, using a mobile phone to snap a picture of the killed Survivor instead of a digital camera.
- The original version of Furtive Chase was originally called Simple Formula which was an obvious reference to Scream.
Voice Actor
- The Ghost Face is voiced by Filip Ivanovic, who at that time worked as the Art Director on the Game and had previously voiced the original Killer Trio and several male Killers after that, as well as the Survivor Jeff Johansen
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Gallery
In-game assets
The Ghost Face
The Ghost Face (Portrait render)
The Ghost Face (Background image)
Old assets
The Ghost Face (Old Portrait render)
Concept arts
Default Concept Art
'Scorched Ghost Face' Concept Art
'Icebound Phantom' Concept Art
'Masquerade Ghost Face' Concept Art
'Ghost Face Gold Cat Mask' Concept Art
