Richard Hawthorne
One of two Digital Deluxe civilians, with seven athleticism and nine personality.
Read on the numbers: High athleticism and personality, low resourcefulness: mobility over objectives.
About
Richard Hawthorne is one of the two civilians included with the Digital Deluxe Edition rather than the Standard one. Seven athleticism and nine personality make him the mobile, socially-weighted half of the Deluxe pair, with five resourcefulness as the trade.
He is written as Haddonfield's newly arrived party host, a recent transplant from California whose father's money bought the family into town. That places him socially opposite Marcus Navarro, who lives on the fringe, and adjacent to Alexis, who works for Mr. Strode.
His three traits are Affluent Partier, Witness State and Illusory. Two of them only work while he is drunk or high, which makes him the civilian who gets the most out of the beer and marijuana found around the map. The general melee boost every civilian gets from being drunk is smaller than it used to be, so don't count on a drunk Richard to end a fight on his own.
Every civilian carries three signature traits, shown on the character-select screen next to their stats. They are separate from the perk deck, which is built from cards unlocked in the graveyard and is not tied to the character.
| Trait | What it does |
|---|---|
| Affluent Partier | Being drunk and high at the same time adds 40% melee damage. |
| Witness State | While high, other characters up to 1,000 metres away show faint outlines.Called Hyper-Focused in pre-launch builds. |
| Illusory | Stalk progress applied to you is 5% slower.Called Chaotic in pre-launch builds. |
Richard Hawthorne’s four values add up to 27 out of 40. Treat that as a rough shape, not a power ranking: a maxed column is worth more than a spread if the thing it feeds is what your group keeps losing to. The Loadout Lab sorts every civilian by any single column.
Richard's challenges lean on perfect skill checks and calming terrified Special Targets. The full set is under all of Richard's Progressive Challenges and their goals.
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