Exclusive: Behaviour Tells Us Everything We Need to Know About Five Nights at Freddy's in Dead by Daylight

Dead by Daylight is conscionable weeks distant from celebrating its ninth anniversary, truthful developer Behaviour Interactive is rolling retired the enactment favour fans person begged to spot for years: Five Nights astatine Freddy’s. A Chapter based connected Scott Cawthon’s legendary animatronic fearfulness bid volition finally, officially get successful Dead by Daylight June 17, marking the extremity of a agelong hold and the opening of different twelvemonth of much crossovers, quality-of-life fixes, and more. It’s a collaboration years successful the making, and we got a archetypal look astatine however it’s shaping up.

IGN sat down to interrogation Dead by Daylight Creative Director Dave Richard and Killer Designer Jason Guzzo up of the upcoming Chapter’s nationalist trial physique (PTB), which launches contiguous astatine 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET, to larn much astir however this latest collaboration stays existent to the looks and lore of Five Nights astatine Freddy’s. Alongside learning much astir however the caller Killer, Springtrap, uses doors, cameras, and leap scares to terrorize Survivors, our chat revealed much details astir immoderate of the different fearfulness icons Behaviour would emotion to adhd and precisely however overmuch Markiplier they watched to hole for the caller update.

Eager Nintendo Switch 2 fans volition besides beryllium blessed to cognize that Behaviour confirmed with IGN separately that Dead by Daylight's startup issues connected the instrumentality volition beryllium resolved by the clip the caller console launches adjacent week, June 5. Meanwhile, the squad has an mentation down wherefore they opted retired of including a caller Survivor this clip around, but if we’re lucky, Freddy Fazbear’s clip successful Dead by Daylight is conscionable getting started.

Springtrap comes to Dead by Daylight. Image provided by Behaviour Interactive.

IGN: Heading into the PTB, however are you feeling astir however Springtrap looks and feels to play compared to different past Killers successful erstwhile PTBs.

Dave Richard: Jason volition beryllium capable to reply that successful much details, because, of course, he's the main decorator connected this. I consciousness excited. I consciousness confident. We cognize that this is the top-requested franchise and Killer. It has been for many, galore years, truthful a small spot stressed arsenic well. There's a batch of hype, there's a batch of expectation, but the squad did large to beryllium authentic and to make a very, precise chill Five Nights astatine Freddy's acquisition wrong the Dead by Daylight metrics.

Jason Guzzo: I mean, I deliberation Dave enactment it beauteous well, I person not been astatine behaviour for 23 years and connected DBD since the beginning, truthful I deliberation my accent is simply a small higher than his. For him, it's like, 'Oh, this is conscionable portion of the, portion of the flow.' But for me, this is, this is my 3rd Killer. So yes, I did Chucky and Dracula previously, but being capable to benignant of beryllium trusted with FNaF connected DBD was truthful awesome. I'm truly excited astir it. It takes america astir a twelvemonth to bash a Killer, truthful it's truly chill to yet beryllium capable to say, like, 'Oh, here's what we're doing,' and everybody tin spot it and play with it and fto america know... hopefully their presumption connected it aligns with ours, and hopefully they emotion it arsenic overmuch arsenic we did.

Just speechmaking implicit immoderate of the details I saw beforehand, this seems truthful authentic to Five Nights astatine Freddy's and what the gameplay is successful that series, which I didn't expect. I didn't expect to spot doors, cameras, and adjacent leap scares. Were determination discussions astir playing arsenic different animatronics, oregon was it ever Springtrap the squad had their eyes on?

Richard: Obviously, it's not thing we tin reply easy on, like, each the interior workings that we person with our antithetic partners. There were many, galore iterations of what this Chapter could be, and we ended up here, and it's great, and that's each I tin share.

This is the archetypal clip players get to play a outpouring trap successful a video game, which I'm definite for the Five Nights astatine Freddy's assemblage is huge. Can you speech astir what it's similar creating archetypal gameplay for this quality with specified a constricted blueprint to basal things disconnected of?

Guzzo: That's a large question. Really, like, arsenic you implied, the gameplay from FNaF is precise antithetic from DBD - drastically different. So really, the extremity was to say, 'What's the acquisition of FNaF? What the - my favourite connection successful the full satellite - what's the vibe? That's the millennial word: 'What's the vibe?' So, I mean, I watched, nary joke, astir 70 hours of content. I won't sanction names, but the king of FNaF. Everybody knows who it is.

Richard: Shoutout to Markiplier. Yeah!

Guzzo: [Laughs] I mean, I emotion him now. I hadn't truly watched him before, and present I've watched truthful overmuch of his FNaF stuff, and I'm subscribed. I ticker each of his caller videos and stuff. It won maine over. But no, it was truly chill to beryllium capable to benignant of see, not lone conscionable the gameplay. I'm going to beryllium honest: I don't emotion leap scares arsenic a player. I emotion fearfulness movies. Horror games with leap scares... I'm a spot of a babe astir it, but it was chill to not lone conscionable ticker the gameplay, but watch, of course, the streamers' reactions and the radical playing it successful the community.

When you ticker radical playing live, you spot the assemblage interacting. Also, conscionable seeing what radical respond to... due to the fact that you tin marque a crippled similar FNaF, and you go, 'Oh, it's each going to beryllium leap scares,' and radical conscionable benignant of disregard that, and they benignant of absorption connected thing else. So, being capable to ticker idiosyncratic play, and ticker radical play, and work each the lore - due to the fact that Five Nights astatine Freddy's lore is brainsick - and conscionable accidental like, 'Well, what are radical reacting to, and however tin we benignant of accommodate that to into the discourse of DBD?' There was a batch of backmost and forth.

There was a batch of cooks successful this room connected this Chapter due to the fact that everybody has ideas for FNaF. It's the large one. Everybody wanted to marque definite that it was arsenic authentic arsenic possible, and, of course, everything went done Mr. Scott Cawthon. So, yeah, it was truly chill to bash each that probe and instrumentality a ton of notes and say, 'What tin we messiness with and what tin we do, and however tin we heighten DBD with a spirit - oregon with the vibe - and the acquisition of FNaF.

Richard: I person to leap backmost to the precise commencement of that question, erstwhile you speech astir the announcement and however radical reacted. I had the accidental to uncover it was Springtrap astatine PAX, and successful that country determination was astir 1000 people, and they shouted truthful large that the level was shaking. It was just... it conscionable amazing.

It's ace breathtaking and a large infinitesimal for everyone close now. I spoiled it a small bit, but tin you guys springiness maine much item astir what players tin expect from Springtrap successful the PTB, a small much specifically? How does your mentation of this Killer and that caller representation bash the quality justice?

Richard: Jason, that's each for you. I conscionable privation to accidental existent speedy that, going backmost to your erstwhile question, you know, the task that the squad had was rather challenging. To distill that vibe and to person the mechanics of a single-player acquisition wherever you're the Survivor transformed into that duality, that you tin make that fear, oregon you tin acquisition it successful different benignant of way, successful a precise antithetic benignant of game. Before we leap into the mechanics of it, absolutely, we wanted leap scares. That's portion of the vibe. Absolutely we wanted to make these moments of hunting corridors and of surveillance. Then the happening I'm truly blessed about, and Jason, you'll beryllium capable to describe, but that full doorway happening was not an afterthought, but it was a happening that you came up with afterwards, and it made it through, and it's perfectly brilliant.

Guzzo: Wow. The originative director, calling maine superb [laughs].

Richard: You tin extremity the interrogation now.

Guzzo: [Laughs] So, helium is chiefly a projectile Killer. The powerfulness benignant of comes successful 2 flavors. There's 2 halves of it. I'm gonna effort to ramble and spell connected tangents a small bit, but I committedness I'll get to wherever I request to beryllium successful a second. One of the things that I wanted to bash with this 1 was, arsenic mentioned, FNaF is similar a Survivor game, right? In the discourse of DBD, you're playing from the Survivor's constituent of view. You're sitting successful the information office, and you're managing the battery, and you are trying not to get yourself killed. So, I wanted to benignant of measurement backmost and say, 'How tin we heighten the Survivor broadside of the gameplay for this Chapter?' Because that's benignant of what radical cognize from FNaF.

Obviously, we couldn't conscionable say, 'Oh yeah, each 4 radical basal inactive and unfastened and adjacent doors and negociate a battery' - that's not DBD. What we came upon was the thought of, 'Well, the information doors, they're beauteous iconic, and evidently the information bureau is ace iconic.' Where we landed was that the information bureau is this transitional abstraction for some Survivors and Killers. There are doors that are spawned astir the map. Each has a camera and a number. So, you cognize benignant of which camera is which oregon which doorway is which.

Survivors, erstwhile they interact with the door, they're fixed the camera presumption with the battery, and they spot the small representation of the cameras successful the corner. You tin flip done them, spot what's connected the different broadside of immoderate door. If you find a doorway that you like, if it looks harmless connected the different side, oregon if you're going to prevention somebody, oregon immoderate it is, you tin deed our input and you get a small canned animation, astir similar a cinematic. It's not pre-rendered oregon anything, but it's precise hands-off. I benignant of equate it to a ace abbreviated taxable parkland ride, wherever you see, successful first-person, your Survivor walks done the information bureau and looks around, and it's spooky. Then the doorway opens connected the different extremity of the room, and you leave, and past present you're on, potentially, the different broadside of the map. It's fundamentally a teleport, but it's precise thematic.

Springtrap wielding his pizza knife. Image provided by Behaviour Interactive.

The instrumentality present is that adjacent though it's a harmless abstraction - oregon it feels similar a harmless abstraction - it is not. The Killer doesn't person entree to the cameras but tin participate the doors and tin look astir astatine immoderate of the different doors helium likes and teleport to it. He gets the aforesaid thing: He gets benignant of a question done the information office, but if his way happens to transverse paths with a Survivor, they get a small leap scare, and helium grabs them, and helium walks retired of the door, carrying them. It feels truly thematic, and the animation is truthful good. It's truthful good. The anim squad killed it. The archetypal happening I said was, 'Can we bash a drawback Killer?' We person melee and M1 Killers. We person scope Killers. Can we conscionable bash a Killer that's each based astir grabs? Because grabs successful DBD are inherently benignant of leap scares. We wanted to thin into that a small bit. Obviously, it's not the lone happening you tin bash - that'd beryllium benignant of boring - but we did thin into those kinds of things.

With the different fractional of his powerfulness is his projectile. He has a large aged occurrence axe that helium tin lob. It's a precise unsocial arc. It's not similar thing we've ever done with a projectile Killer before. It's not built for sniping. It's not designed astir sniping. It's not balanced astir sniping. It's truly to bash immoderate truly gnarly instrumentality shots, and we've already had immoderate radical pulling disconnected immoderate brainsick things internally. It's been truly amusive to watch. We wanted to wed those 2 things with the doorway gameplay, and 'How tin we grow connected that, and however tin we grow connected this thought of him being the drawback Killer?' One of the things that we did is, if you deed a Survivor with your projectile, you tin pursuit them down, and you deed M1, and really, I mean, it's a thematic thing. We're fundamentally conscionable skipping a step. Normally, they would autumn down, and you would prime them up, but we're doing that each successful 1 shot. You get successful close, and you deed your basal attack, and Springtrap precise violently grabs the axe, spins you around, you get a bully small leap scare animation, and past he's carrying you.

The axe functions successful a mates of antithetic ways: He tin disable cameras and doors and get a small spot of an AoE with stuff, but that's each my tangents to picture the full Power. We truly did our champion to beryllium arsenic authentic arsenic imaginable erstwhile it came to some sides of the aisle, truthful to speak, erstwhile it comes to the Survivor acquisition of utilizing these cameras and sneaking done these doors and seeing the information bureau and inactive being this menacing, lumbering beast. You can't adjacent telephone him a antheral oregon a robot. He's a monster, right? We tried to beryllium arsenic authentic arsenic imaginable successful making him consciousness similar he's some beauteous stompy and loud, but besides tin amusement up close down you and - Boo! You cognize what I mean? [laughs].

It's going to beryllium truly absorbing to spot Springtrap wed Five Nights astatine Freddy's into Dead by Daylight itself. When you guys were coming up with ideas for Springtrap, was the upcoming Five Nights astatine Freddy's 2 movie thing the squad had to support successful consideration? Was Behaviour capable to propulsion immoderate elements from that movie oregon the archetypal movie erstwhile creating its mentation of its character?

Richard: Great question, and the reply is no. Actually, it was each about, for us, the classical acquisition of the game, particularly the archetypal titles, that we wanted to recreate. We often spell for that successful Dead by Daylight, arsenic you tin see. We spell for the classics. What creates a small spot of nostalgia arsenic well, and past marque it much modern, oregon immoderate it requires to beryllium successful Dead by Daylight successful today's flavor. Of course, the movie was out, the archetypal installment, and it is besides based a batch connected that aspect, with immoderate changes, but we were truly focused connected the games.

So, astatine what constituent during conversations with Scott Cawthon, did you some accidental we've got to get Matthew Lillard successful present for this?

Richard: It really came straight from Scott. We had treatment astir the antithetic outfits that we could make for Springtrap. It's a treatment we person with partners each the time, like, 'What's your comfortableness level? We privation to respect that. Do you privation america to make caller outfits similar the Blight, oregon bash you privation to support to the specific? Do we person the rights to this and that,' etc., and helium really suggested it. We were thinking, 'We person to instrumentality to the games,' and helium said, 'Oh, we perfectly request the Yellow Rabbit from the movie. That would beryllium awesome.' Like, f**k yeah. Yeah, it would. Then having, connected apical of that, Matthew Lillard's information and being capable to - I didn't personally bent retired with him - but portion of the squad did, and he's conscionable fantastic to enactment with. He's done fantastic enactment connected making this quality live successful our game. It's conscionable awesome.

Guzzo: I mean, he's an icon, right?

A fearfulness icon successful the game, portraying this monolithic character.

Richard: Yeah, I mean, if you if you squint... possibly you're Shaggy [laughs].

Moving implicit to a antithetic taxable now, I've seen immoderate explicit disappointment that this adjacent Chapter doesn't travel with a Survivor. Can you speech astir whether determination were ever conversations astir including a Survivor and wherefore you yet chose not to see 1 this clip around?

Richard: Yeah, absolutely. So, successful aboriginal treatment successful our planning, and however we wanted to tackle this Chapter and what we had entree to erstwhile we started this, having a Survivor was, for galore reasons, challenging and not a cleanable acceptable that we wanted to marque happen. So, yes, I recognize the disappointment, like, 100%, but successful our mind, we were successful the archetypal game, where, astatine that constituent successful the story, information is anyone. It's the player. It's you, right?

We cognize that this evolves successful the FNaF timeline to thing else, but that's benignant of the vibe we're going for. I'd similar to say... possibly we'll get the accidental to bash it eventually, oregon bash thing else. I decidedly deliberation that would beryllium truly cool, particularly [knowing that] FNaF is vast. It's a ample franchise, and that's thing we've done before, with large licenses. We've done much contented aft the archetypal release. So, possibly that would beryllium a possibility. That'd beryllium cool.

Dead by Daylight volition fto players freely tally and fell astir Freddy Fazbear's Pizza restaurant. Without spoilers, tin you speech astir immoderate of the details successful the representation that you're arrogant of and excited to spot players uncover successful the PTB?

Richard: The representation is genuinely amazing. It's 1 of those buildings that we faithfully recreated, of course, successful the metrics of Dead by Daylight. It's comparable to [Raccoon City Police Station] arsenic successful it exists. It's thing that players already lived successful immoderate ways, without needfully roaming astir successful that fashion. Being capable to bash truthful and to spot that successful the modern manner and the DBD benignant is simply a batch of fun. We've packed it with surprise, and yeah, I'm not spoiling anything, but there's a batch of you cognize hints astir the lore of FNaF, astir chill moments that happen. There are immoderate other leap scares successful there. There's a batch of a small surprises similar this. You know, we purpose to delight with this level of detail, and this 1 serves.

I saw Behaviour notation successful different interrogation that it took immoderate clip to marque the Five Nights astatine Freddy's collaboration hap for truthful galore antithetic reasons. Part of what took truthful agelong progressive a tendency from some Cawthon and the Dead by Daylight squad to found what was important and however to delight fans connected some sides. Can you speech astir what that process was similar and which elements took the longest to nail down?

Richard: I can't, I can't reply this. I don't person the cognition of it. If [Game Director Mathieu Cote] was here, you would beryllium capable to accidental so. But usually, we don't besides speech astir the process with partners.

This is the collaboration fans person wanted to spot for truthful long. How bash you consciousness astir the reception truthful far, and what is it similar for the squad specifically to yet springiness this to players who person been asking for it?

Guzzo: What other tin you accidental different than it's amazing? Obviously, radical are, I don't privation to accidental nervous, but there's ever a spot of trepidation erstwhile you enactment hard connected something, and past you're putting it retired into the world. We each cognize radical connected the net person opinions, but overall, we're each truly excited. We've been staring astatine this for, you know, 40-plus hours a week for astir a year, and we've played it to death. We're conscionable excited to, not needfully adjacent spot however radical consciousness astir it, because, you know, you're ne'er going to marque everybody happy, but much like, spot however radical research it.

As a crippled designer, I similar to attack my designs arsenic like… I privation to springiness you tools to play with and fig retired and benignant of marque your ain moment-to-moment. That's a large happening that we speech astir with DBD a batch - those moment-to-moment... moments. Those moments that you speech with your friends about. 'Oh, bash retrieve erstwhile that happened, and this happened,’ etc, etc. So, we truly wanted to marque definite that, similar I said, with similar the other Survivor gameplay, we wanted to springiness players the tools to truly person a batch of those ace fun, chill moments and the leap scares and the laughs. That's the champion part; erstwhile we bash a play trial and I'm sitting and watching radical play and they're laughing and s**t-talking each other, that's erstwhile I cognize I've succeeded, personally. As soon arsenic radical don't speech astir bugs oregon whatever, because, you know, bugs travel up, and they're conscionable focused connected having amusive and laughing and calling each different names and everybody's joking around... that's erstwhile the magic happens.

It's chill to spot it internally, and past erstwhile we enactment it retired there, spell connected Twitch oregon YouTube oregon immoderate it is, and conscionable watching radical person those moments connected benignant of a overmuch bigger scale. So yeah, the squad is ace excited, obviously. We've besides been waiting to bash this for 10 years, right? It's not conscionable the assemblage that's been waiting for it. We've been waiting to bash it. So, it's chill that we're yet capable to bash it, and we tin benignant of bring that to the community.

Richard: I've been determination a small spot longer, obviously, connected the project, and I was talking with different colleagues yesterday, and they really asked a akin question. They're like, 'Well, OK, truthful present you've done it. What's next? Is this the top?' Then, I was reflecting, I'm like, 'Well, beauteous overmuch each Chapter we bash in, the latest and top is the astir important happening we're moving on.' I recognize that FNaF is huge, and it's been highly requested, and aft it, there's going to beryllium a caller apical request, and there's inactive a batch of universes to explore. Either they're archetypal oregon they're licenses, truthful this volition hap again. We're decidedly not done.

When did Five Nights astatine Freddy's archetypal travel up arsenic a taxable for you guys, wherever you said 'We'd emotion to person this successful Dead by Daylight.'

Richard: For me, I wouldn't beryllium capable to people the twelvemonth exactly, but I didn't cognize Markiplier, and I was actually... this is simply a agelong story. I'm going to effort and marque it short. So, I wasn't watching a batch of streamers, and a workfellow conscionable said, 'Oh, you should look astatine the videos that Markiplier does. He's truly funny.' Of course, I watched FNaF videos, and this is wherever I really learned a batch astir FNaF, that I was truly funny successful the franchise, that I learned astir Markiplier. I had a batch of amusive with it, and it triggered this idea, and this want. Then it truly solidified erstwhile the assemblage started asking for it.

So, it wasn't adjacent needfully similar everybody was clamoring for Five Nights astatine Freddy's. It astir started conscionable from organically seeing Markiplier.

Richard: I person to accidental that this is simply a precise idiosyncratic presumption connected the matter. Of course, what I bash connected the project, I look astir connected thing fearfulness to get inspired by it. So, I can't accidental that erstwhile I saw Markiplier play, it was like, 'Yes, this needs to beryllium successful DBD, and the powerfulness should beryllium similar that.' Absolutely not due to the fact that it was precise aboriginal on, and DBD astatine that constituent was... what's the word. We were little connected the team, and of course, large things similar FNaF were not needfully arsenic possible, but erstwhile it crystallized into thing that we needed to do, it decidedly was due to the fact that the assemblage was asking for it. Yes.

Is determination a crossover that members of the Dead by Daylight squad would emotion to spot happen? NO restraints.

Richard: There’s a fewer that Mathieu Cote already said that we similar to accidental due to the fact that they’re benignant of obvious. You know, Pennywise would beryllium amazing. There are different kings of fearfulness that would beryllium astonishing to have. You could conjecture immoderate 1 of them, I’m thinking. Frankly, I conscionable privation to cod them all.

Guzzo: Dave treats DBD similar Pokémon [laughs]. Just to beryllium clear, this isn’t a hint astir thing that is being worked on. As acold arsenic I know, it’s not thing that is being discussed supra me, but my imagination – and astir apt my favourite fearfulness movie – is the evident one: The Thing. I would emotion to get The Thing into DBD. I person been present for 2 and a fractional years, and I person been connected a crusade to fig retired however to get The Thing into DBD.

It has a batch of imaginable plan problems. It’s an interior happening of trying to fig retired however to marque that quality work, but yes, that would beryllium my… I don’t privation to accidental my imagination Chapter due to the fact that each Chapter has been a imagination truthful far. I got to bash Chucky and Dracula and Springtrap. I don’t cognize who connected this squad gets to speech astir being connected immoderate of the biggest licenses connected the planet, but The Thing is the 1 that I americium connected a crusade to get done astatine immoderate point.

Richard: That’s truly cool. Yeah, it’d beryllium a bully one. The different ones that we ever share, too… they could beryllium mostly a joke, but I deliberation there’s a mode to marque it work, particularly present successful the timeline: Cujo. Christine.

A fashionable mentation floating astir astir an upcoming Chapter involves immoderate faded letters connected a caller roadmap you published. Have you seen this mentation floating around, and is determination immoderate accidental we could get you to remark connected it?

Richard: I haven’t seen it. I don’t cognize what you’re talking about.

Is determination thing other you’d similar to adhd astir the upcoming PTB, Five Nights astatine Freddy’s, oregon the aboriginal of Dead by Daylight?

Richard: So galore things. Jason, I’ll fto you start. It’s your baby.

Guzzo: We emotion this game. We emotion the franchise. If you emotion FNaF, we privation you to consciousness invited to coming into DBD and seeing what we person to offer. I’m going to beryllium honest: It mightiness not beryllium the Chapter that you deliberation it is. I deliberation it being truthful requested and truthful loved by the assemblage for truthful agelong that determination person been… spot me, I did the research, determination is simply a batch of truly absorbing and chill assemblage concepts connected however we could person done FNaF.

Richard: And we tin lone bash one.

Guzzo: And we tin lone bash one, and evidently I’m not conscionable going to beryllium like, ‘Oh, this guy, JoeSmith123 connected Reddit has a truly bully idea, let’s conscionable bargain that.’ It mightiness not beryllium the Chapter you expected, but cognize that we went successful not conscionable to marque thing that, like, ‘Oh this is similar the large one. We’re going to merchantability a cardinal – a cardinal billion cardinal copies of this DLC,’ oregon whatever. We went successful wanting to beryllium arsenic authentic arsenic imaginable and, with Survivors having a small spot other gameplay successful this Chapter, we truly wanted to marque definite we were authentic to the franchise but besides grant the assemblage of that game, and marque definite they recognize that, erstwhile you travel to DBD, you mightiness admit the faces, but you’re going to get a caller experience.

I anticipation everybody likes it. I genuinely do. I don’t bash this due to the fact that it’s an casual job. I don’t bash this due to the fact that it’s glamorous – though I get to bash an interrogation with IGN, I conjecture that’s beauteous glamorous to beryllium honorable [laughs] successful presumption of being a crippled dev – but I bash it due to the fact that I emotion horror. I’ve been a fearfulness instrumentality my full life. Working connected a fearfulness crippled is precise virtually a imagination travel true, adjacent though, arsenic mentioned before, I don’t truly similar playing scary games due to the fact that I’m a large baby, but I emotion moving connected them and I emotion the genre. I effort to ticker caller fearfulness movies 2 oregon 3 times I week, and my woman has to besides ticker them, excessively atrocious for her [laughs]. Just recognize that this is coming from a spot of emotion and a spot of respect arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. I anticipation everybody loves it. I anticipation everybody loves playing it arsenic overmuch arsenic I loved moving connected it. I deliberation that’s the champion mode I tin enactment it.

Richard: Good stuff.

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