Butcher

The Butcher was the starting killer in Escape the Darkness. It was free to use and play as.

## Overview

The Butcher's playstyle revolved around hunting and guarding survivors and objectives (known as camping) respectively by locating them and limiting their range of movement.

## Abilities

**Intimidation:**

> When Intimidation is activated, you let out a roar that can be heard across the level. For 15 seconds after using Intimidation, you can see the location of every living survivor. This ability has a cooldown of 60 seconds.
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* Activated by pressing spacebar or the button for it on mobile.

**Bear Traps:**

> You start with 7 traps, and can place them around the level to capture and injure unsuspecting survivors. If a survivor becomes trapped, they will struggle, and escape after a certain amount of time if not caught. Catching and attacking a trapped survivor will instantly down them. Placing a bear traps has a cooldown of 10 seconds.
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* Survivors would escape a bear trap after 4-6 attempts.
* After escaping a bear trap, survivors would be injured.
* This ability was activated by pressing the left-control key or the button for it on mobile.

## Appearance

Contrary to his name, the Butcher wore a gray hoodie with dark blue jeans. There were bandages wrapped around his upper hand, with chains on his shoulder and waist. His rib cage was exposed, showing a rather dirty rib. There were some nails on the butcher's body. The butcher used a mask that had been splattered with mud, and some exposed brain could be seen on his head.

The butcher's weapon of choice was a Cane machete and an American bear trap.

## Perks

 Hunters Approach
 Serrated Blades

## Tips (redundant)

### As The Butcher

* Place your traps wisely. In front of vaults, doors, and barricades as well as inside narrow pathways are the most effective spots. Place a few traps in tall bushes near objectives if you find survivors in bushes when using Intimidate.
* Currently, you can use Intimidate after hitting someone, completely nullifying your movement speed penalty while the animation is active.
* You can "trap" a shack by placing a bear trap directly outside one of the entrances and breaking down the other to catch anyone inside. Note that crouch barricades allow survivors to carefully maneuver around any traps placed directly outside.
* Place traps at the nearest vaults, barricades, and doors of a time-consuming objective (Gas Tanks or Generators). When you attack the objectives, there is a high chance that any survivors doing the objectives will attempt to escape and get caught.
* When chasing a survivor that you know loops often, place bear traps at vaults you think they may try to use soon.
* Use Intimidation if you can't find Survivors to Chase.
* Memorize your trap placements, as the game does not directly notify you if a survivor is trapped in a specific location, however the game does give you EXP for a survivor being trapped, which is why memorizing trap placements is important to reach them before they manage to struggle out.

### Against The Butcher

* When The Butcher uses Intimidation, you should not hide and run as far away from him as possible since he can see your heartbeat regardless your location.
* if you are wearing headphones, you can guess the approximate location of The Butcher when he use Intimidation.
* If you have a safe distance from The Butcher, try to take away as many traps from the map as possible by stepping on them as the Butcher has limited traps available.
* Being trapped does not take away healing progression if you are injured already.

## Trivia

* Butcher was the very first killer to be added to Escape the Darkness.
* Additionally, the Butcher was the only killer that was free to use.