Current Events > Just got Dead By Daylight. Give me ALL the advice.

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I'll most likely be playing as the killer since I have no friends and TF2 has taught me online randoms are NOT fun.

No DLC. Yet.

DBD has a really weird community that will berate you mercilessly for not playing sub-optimally in order to let them win.

sbmm

Game has a very toxic community towards the killer role that's about it

KhlavicLanguage posted...

DBD has a really weird community that will berate you mercilessly for not playing sub-optimally in order to let them win.

CinderLock posted...

Game has a very toxic community towards the killer role that's about it

Gooood
Let them hate me

Who's the best killer? So far the cloaking dude was recommended (wraith?) but like, cloaking seems kinda not so useful

obsolete posted...

sbmm

wat

RealityDose posted...

Gooood
Let them hate me

Who's the best killer? So far the cloaking dude was recommended (wraith?) but like, cloaking seems kinda not so useful

wat

I played from launch up until last year and my most used were Hillbilly, Ghostface and deathslinger. Not sure what the current tier list is but nurse and hillbilly and usually pretty high

Kill people who hide in lockers like a coward before anyone else. Just to send a message.

Take this quiz:

https://who-is-your-ideal-killer.vercel.app/

Other than that, don't know how high of a tolerance you have for "toxic antics" but higher level survivors will do irritating things that may bother you.

While you are still new and low ranked expect games to be Killer sided and as you get more experience games will skew more toward Survivors and depending on your Killer, accumulated knowledge, and build you may start to not have fun at all.

Uninstall the game

SBMM stands for Skill Based Match Making, if that's what the "wat" was referring to.

Return it. That game is terrible and it will make you hate people (more if you already do).

So I'm playing as Wraith

Dude is fun
Stealth is fun

What other things let me go invisible and/or go invisible

RealityDose posted...

So I'm playing as Wraith

Dude is fun
Stealth is fun

What other things let me go invisible and/or go invisible

He's technically the only one, though Spirit can do something like that temporarily by leaving her body behind for a few seconds.

Also keep in mind that even if you run Lightborn, people can still burn you with light effects when you're playing Wraith.

What's the next most mobile and stalking character then

Basically take the pyro from TF2
I want that

The Spirit I believe also goes invisible? But you can't see or hear the survivors while you're invisible. The Nurse doesn't go invisible, but she does have a short range teleport. The Hag can place traps that are illusions of herself and when a player triggers one you can teleport to it.

RealityDose posted...

What's the next most mobile and stalking character then

Basically take the pyro from TF2
I want that

If you want a stalker character, Ghostface is pretty fun. There's also The Pig. Spirit works too, but requires some knowledge of the game before you'll be able to use her effectively.

I'm assuming there's no way to test it with bots or something? Not the DLC characters but just like how the killers play before yetting myself into a live game

Spirit and Onryo also have semi invisibility with their powers. Both are DLC and Onryo is licensed so you have to pay for her.

Ghostface and Myers are also "stalker" killers but again, are licensed so you'd have to pay for them.

My advice is to just get the first survivor on hook and camp them before moving on to the next one. If they manage to get unhooked just go for the same survivor again. It's the best way to win.

Unfortunately, no. New players with no playtime should be pretty easy to play around against and get a feel for the killers, but keep in mind that your Killer MMR is semi-universal. That means that at the beginning of each season, your MMR resets to a certain base level depending on your best killer, but each killer rests at that point unless you play them. So you can have a higher MMR with one than the others, but not too much of a variance.

Got into it for awhile. Idk, I think the idea that you cant fight is not fun. The games basically go one of two ways. We either immediately win or the killer destroys us immediately

Scintillant posted...

Spirit and Onryo also have semi invisibility with their powers. Both are DLC and Onryo is licensed so you have to pay for her.

Ghostface and Myers are also "stalker" killers but again, are licensed so you'd have to pay for them.

My advice is to just get the first survivor on hook and camp them before moving on to the next one. If they manage to get unhooked just go for the same survivor again. It's the best way to win.

This is terrible advice you lose points if you're in a certain range of a hooked survivor

Stealth killers are unfortunately pretty bad for the most part. Id definitely say Wraith is the best one. Ghostface is definitely a good choice as well though. Remember, you can body block survivors as killer so try to position yourself to cut them off if possible before you uncloak as Wraith (like if theyre heading to a vault for example). You get a burst of speed when you uncloak too. A hit and run playstyle with Sloppy Butcher can be effective but if the survivors have boons, it can be difficult to maintain. They are adding a generic perk next patch that lets you permanently destroy boons though.

Also at some point I would recommend playing survivor. Not only do you get extra xp for the first game you play of a role per day, but it helps you understand the other side a lot when you play both roles.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/9/1/AAUbfNAADPcb.jpg

CinderLock posted...

This is terrible advice you lose points if you're in a certain range of a hooked survivor

The point loss is negligible. More importantly you lose tons of pressure against survivors who arent idiots and just crank gens by doing this. If you want to play optimally, you tunnel someone out instead. I only really do this if Im having a hard time though, because its not really fun for me. Survivors being down a person REALLY hurts them though.

The reason why leaving the hook generates more pressure though is that it forces people off generators. If you are chasing someone, and another person is going to hook to unhook another survivor, then thats only one person max that can be working on a gen at that moment.

RealityDose posted...

I'm assuming there's no way to test it with bots or something? Not the DLC characters but just like how the killers play before yetting myself into a live game

They said they will add bots to custom matches within the next year, but gave no ETA as of yet.

CinderLock posted...

I played from launch up until last year and my most used were Hillbilly, Ghostface and deathslinger. Not sure what the current tier list is but nurse and hillbilly and usually pretty high

Top tier would be, imo Nurse, Blight, Hag, Artist, Spirit

Would not recommend tc using any of these until they have a firm grasp on the game though.

The QT Saw Lady sounds fun

Also if youre a fan of generator kicking, Oppression should be in Shrine of Secrets this week. Its one of the ways to spend iridescent shards you get for leveling up your player level. It lets you get teachable perks without having to level/own the associated character.

#1 perk I would look for in the Shrine is Barbecue and Chili. Not only is it a great information perk (shows auras of survivors when you hook someone) but it gives a stacking bloodpoint bonus multiplier for each unique survivor you hook. Best bloodpoint farming perk in the game.

As a new player you probably won't be going against the 2000+ hour nerds who've been playing six years, since there is a hidden matchmaking rating system. You likely won't need to play "sweaty" and camp hooks or tunnel survivors out of the game. Just play normally and try not to care about winning/losing.

As for killers, nurse is above and beyond the best killer in the game, though she requires a ton of practice to get good with. She has a short range teleport that allows her to completely bypass windows and pallets, the survivors main tools for escaping chases. Missing a blink (teleport attack) is extremely punishing since there is a huge recovery animation, but a good nurse is nigh unbeatable.

Wraith is the stealthiest killer and the only one available in the base game. Other stealth based killers are michael myers, pig, ghost face, and onryo, but they are all licensed ip's and can only be bought with real-money as opposed to currency earned in game.

RealityDose posted...

The QT Saw Lady sounds fun

The Pig is one of the weaker killers, iirc.

But she's also the most meme'd (Boop the Snoot).

I disliked nurse.
I disliked how the camera moves down and back up every time the teleport recovers

Nurse is the most difficult killer in the game but is by far the most overpowered because she just ignores many rules the game has

They deliberately keep some killer perks weak simply due to how overpowered they would be on Nurse

Good luck is my advice

Now that I think about it, don't all of the killers rely on not being seen mostly?
Not even pure stealth but some sort of ambushing

Alpha218 posted...

Nurse is the most difficult killer in the game but is by far the most overpowered because she just ignores many rules the game has

They deliberately keep some killer perks weak simply due to how overpowered they would be on Nurse

By many rules I assume you mean literally all of them? Playing as/against nurse is uniquely different from every other killer in the game (in a bad way).

RealityDose posted...

Now that I think about it, don't all of the killers rely on not being seen mostly?
Not even pure stealth but some sort of ambushing

Not really, the strongest killers are the ones that have good chasing powers that allow them to down survivors quickly. Stealth is considered one of the weakest strategies as it usually wastes time that could be spent pressuring generators or getting hooks.

But even the hillbilly still relies on ambushing to an extent or at least 'wander and find then kill'

Scintillant posted...

By many rules I assume you mean literally all of them? Playing as/against nurse is uniquely different from every other killer in the game (in a bad way).

Shes very vulnerable to flashlights due to her having the same lightburn mechanic Wraith has. Thats like the one downside she still has when piloted by a skilled Nurse player

Alpha218 posted...

Shes very vulnerable to flashlights due to her having the same lightburn mechanic Wraith has. Thats like the one downside she still has when piloted by a skilled Nurse player

I've never seen a skilled nurse player get slowed down by someone using a flashlight that way. All it can do is prevent her from blinking but you have to be facing her for it to work and then she can just w-key into you. The only goofy strat you can do against her is dropping a flash bang during her first blink to prevent the second but that's obviously a very limited resource.

TC: if you think you need stealth I suggest finding OhTofu's youtube video on tiles. It runs through how to play them as both killer and survivor and it's how most of your chases will go.

RealityDose posted...

But even the hillbilly still relies on ambushing to an extent or at least 'wander and find then kill'

You'll get ambush chainsaw hits on occasion, but that's not gonna work against more experienced survivors that are constantly looking around/listening for the revving. Hillbilly's strengths are good traversal on wide open maps and the ability to down survivors quickly.

Even stealth killers have trouble surprising survivors at higher skill levels. Wraith has his telltale breathing and cloak shimmer, Myers also has breathing and is tall. If youre playing him without Scratched Mirror you will be leaving T1 anyways and he gains a terror radius outside of that. Pigs crouch is slow. Ghostface has a reveal mechanic that lets you know if youre looking at him while he is stealthed. Onryo has a lullaby you can hear even when she is stealthed, and she still kinda flickers in and out.

Oh, and there is Spine Chill, which tells survivors you are looking at them even if you are Undetectable (which can be achieved by other means outside of killer powers as well).

idk why but it has a competitive community and scene.

which is fucking dumb.

if you want real horror Id suggest phasmaphobia or The Forest. Or In Silence

DBD is just a horror themed game of tag

ok so uh
what's the basic bitch class?
Don't say trapper
I don't know the maps yet
hunter lady's throwing is slow

Trapper is really fun imo but horribly out of date. No matter how many times theyve updated him he will always struggle against good survivors/survive with friends teams.

I think the perfectly balanced killer is Demogorgon but you cant conventionally get Stranger Things DLC anymore. Theres still ways though as far as I know tho depending on your platform

steam keys be like
'we got you bro'

Legion needs a lot of work but I think he's really fun. Freddy is also fun you can use an item to turn his ability into fake pallets and it's hilarious

Legion is a lot better than they used to be. You can now down on 5th feral frenzy stab and their addons got a very good pass-over.

Honestly Dream Snares are so much better for Freddy against good players. I think at this point the bare minimum they should do for him is give him access to both at the same time.

RealityDose posted...

ok so uh
what's the basic bitch class?
Don't say trapper
I don't know the maps yet
hunter lady's throwing is slow

Basic bitch is huntress, she is the most played Killer. Blight, Nurse, and Spirit are the three strongest killers in the game so many people will play them.

If by basic you mean actually basic, any M1 killer like Clown, Doctor, Wraith are very basic in their kits.

I think I'll get pinhead
his chains mechanic seems like it's good for avoiding loops and fun to noscope 360 yolo

RealityDose posted...

ok so uh
what's the basic bitch class?
Don't say trapper
I don't know the maps yet
hunter lady's throwing is slow

Definitely Nemesis. Most of his gameplay is "run straight at survivor and pawnch." Also people usually get unnerved just from him existing in the match, so there's that. Also random zombies spawn with him and can attack survivors.

Well he is a little bit deeper than that. Having tentacle leveled is huge because it buffs the speed, range and lets it break pallets/walls. Also you can drag the hitbox a little.

RealityDose posted...

I think I'll get pinhead
his chains mechanic seems like it's good for avoiding loops and fun to noscope 360 yolo

pinhead is a pretty cool fun killer, also voice lines which is always a ++++ in a game like this

his chain that you summon yourself is a bit harder to use than u'd think and it'll def take practice though

I think Pinhead has a high skill ceiling (that can be made lower with specific perks that work well only on him: Lethal Pursuer - lets you triangulate the box spawn since you know where survivors spawned, Franklin's Demise - makes anyone carrying the box drop it when you hit them, Hoarder - gives a notification when someone grabs the box) based on figuring out where the box spawns so you can start chain hunts and make survivors scream. It spawns far away from all players in the match.

Lethal Pursuer is good in general though some killers really like it more than others since their powers rely on finding survivors quickly to get chases and hits going.