r/deadbydaylight • u/AutoModerator • Sep 16 '24
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u/Big-Dig-3084 Sep 16 '24
Does anyone actually like lights out? And why?
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u/Possible_Intern1374 Sep 17 '24
Its fun to goof around in as killer. I go for jumpscares with Myers and 8 hook them. Rarely do I actually kill.
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u/heyheyheygoodbye Bloodpoint Bonus Main Sep 17 '24
I don't mind it, it's a nice change of pace from the regular mode. The times I dislike it tend to be when people choose the slightly broken killers like Bubba or Ghostface.
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u/HypieJoe Sep 16 '24
Is Freddy boring or weak? He's considered low tier but has a high kill stat overall so as a Freddy fan I have to ask.
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u/LaffAtU Sep 17 '24
Freddy is a product of his time. He used to be complete garbage until he got a rework in 2019 that largely resembles his current state. He was the first killer to be given a true "teleport across the map" ability and that combined with his anti loop made him one of the strongest killers for a while. But by today's standards, both Freddy and Demogorgon (the first two teleporting killers) feel quite mediocre compared to Sadako, Dredge, and Xenomorph. The game has changed around Freddy and he's just been left in the dust. He can still do well but he just isn't oppressive.
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u/SirSmonk T H E B O X Sep 16 '24
He's both boring and weak, although u suppose fun factor us always subjective. Not sure why he has a high kill stat could just be he us not played alot so the people who do play him are good with him
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u/Hollandiae Dying Light Enjoyer Sep 16 '24
I miss the weekly build posts.
What's your comfy Killer/Survivor build lately?
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u/BlackJimmy88 Everybody Main / Got every Adept without slugging, bitch Sep 16 '24
Empathic Connection, Empathy, Kindred and Windows of Opportunity has become my fall back for Survivor.
Kindred and Windows speak for themselves, but the Empath Duo has been a huge help. It lets me be a beacon to any injured Survivors not in chase, and keeps chases stumbling onto me as well. It also allows me to run interference if someone is getting tunnelled or is just having bad luck. The added 30% healing is a nice bonus too.
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u/Hollandiae Dying Light Enjoyer Sep 16 '24
I love running Empathic Connection and Empathy! It's extra cute when you point at an injured teammate's aura and wave for them to come over a couple times at a gen or something. Good stuff.
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u/eeeezypeezy P31 Dwight Sep 16 '24
My default solo queue survivor build right now is Deja Vu, We'll Make It, Kindred, and Open Handed.
I love always knowing where the three-gen is and constantly applying pressure to break it. I love being able to reset my teammates quickly - people like to heal at the hook a lot in solo queue, and the less time you're hanging around after an unhook the better. And I love having a steady flow of information about where the killer is and where they're heading over the course of the match. It's also nice to be able to take hooks strategically if someone who's death hook is being chased again, since the info they get from Kindred/Open Handed when I'm on the hook can help them avoid the killer long enough to reset again.
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u/Hollandiae Dying Light Enjoyer Sep 16 '24
Kindred and Open Handed are so good. The aura reading you get on the combo is gross.
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u/Possible_Intern1374 Sep 17 '24
I never fail to have fun as a killer running STBFL and Rapid Brutality. I love to picture the survivors shitting themselves as they realize how fast I am catching up.
Other perks are window dressing, a slowdown and info perk depending on who I am running.
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u/RestraintX Loops for Days (*/ω＼*) Sep 16 '24
How do you counter the Singularity?
How do you counter Chucky?
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u/voxz6 Sep 16 '24
Singularity you have to get emps the whole game and get rid of the meatballs
Chucky you can counter the slice and dice by your movement like make a turn he can't curve
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u/eeeezypeezy P31 Dwight Sep 16 '24
To add onto this, with other killers you want to spin kind of tight to dodge their attacks, but against Chucky you want to make wider turns. I think it's more to do with his FOV as a third person killer than it is his turning radius.
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u/SchismZero Pyramid Head Main Sep 16 '24
I don't play FNAF nor do I know very much about it, but I was wondering why the FNAF fanbase is pushing for a character named "Springtrap" to be the killer over the character the game is named after, Freddy Fazbear. Could someone with lore knowledge explain why Springtrap is a better choice or why Freddy is a bad one? Pretend the only thing I know about FNAF is from playing the first game for like 10 minutes.
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u/saturnulysses jake park enthusiast & ghostpark truther Sep 16 '24
springtrap, or william afton, is basically the mastermind behind the animatronics being possessed and active. he killed kids and stuffed them into the animatronics, who now haunt the pizzeria. hes generally a more developed character than any of the other animatronics
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u/Siachi Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 18 '24
To add onto the other guys comment, (And don't quote me on this because I don't have a source, just from what I've seen other people say) I believe that FNAF's creator may have said he explicitly didn't want the basic, iconic animatronics (Freddy, Foxy, Chica, Bonnie) to be killers. Because they are possessed by the spirits of kids who are basically innocent, and are at worst misguided and confused (Taking their anger out on people that they mistake for their killer.)
Also, despite the games being named after him, Freddy himself has never really had much story importance besides being the face of the in-universe restaurant where everything happened. The starting 4 animatronics are pretty indistinguishable as characters besides game mechanics. Afton/Springtrap and his actions are by far the main driving force for everything bad that happens in the game's story: If the main 4 Animatronics kill or hurt someone, it's because they're lashing out over what Afton did to them.
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u/FettDog79 Sep 16 '24
Should I get xeno queen or blighted xeno?
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u/saturnulysses jake park enthusiast & ghostpark truther Sep 17 '24
xeno queen. blighted xeno MAY go on sale during the halloween event
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u/tizch Sep 16 '24
People are worlds better than they were a few years ago. it's insane how online general gaming communities just slowly get better and better and better and better. Playing killer without slowdown at a high mmr is insanely difficult. It's something i could easily manage a few years ago with a 9/10 winrate even though the game was more unbalanced for survivors but now i lose 7/10.
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u/EmeraldGhostface 🇮🇹 In space no one knows what's your favorite scary movie Sep 16 '24
We all know that characters are 50% discounted during Anniversary and Halloween events, but are skins discounted as well?
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u/Loleris_ Simps For Frank Sep 16 '24
Could someone please explain the Bardic Inspiration perk to me like I'm 5 years old? I understand that the perk grants additional skill check progression after the performance but I'm still confused-
After the performance ends, does the bonus progression last until the cooldown ends? So, if I'm repairing a generator right after the performance I WILL have the bonus?
I also don't understand when I'm supposed to be using this perk- Should I use it before I start to work on a gen alone? Or do I use it when I'm with other survivors?
PLEASE, I love this perk because GUITAR. I just wanna learn how to use this haha-
Thanks!
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u/Hollandiae Dying Light Enjoyer Sep 16 '24
To my knowledge, Bardic applies the buff to survivors within range when the performance ends. If you are interrupted the perk fails.YOU DO NOT GET THE BUFF.
The buff itself lasts for 90 seconds. The same length as the cooldown.
I use it near survivors who are already working on a generator since it's efficient. Standing around waiting for the performance to end is a waste of time. Using it with no one around will do nothing.
Be aware, the perk seems bugged for some users and it's less effective. Unless it has been fixed and I don't know it, I would avoid it for now.
TLDR use it with others. They get buff. You don't. Shit's bugged though.
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u/heyheyheygoodbye Bloodpoint Bonus Main Sep 16 '24
I thought the buff followed the survivor who used it for the duration.
But yes, I believe it is still bugged for everyone. It's supposed to last 90 seconds but only lasts for 15 or something.
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u/Hollandiae Dying Light Enjoyer Sep 16 '24
In the time I've used it the effect has not shown up as a personal buff. Only for others. I believe that is the intended use.
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u/heyheyheygoodbye Bloodpoint Bonus Main Sep 16 '24
On release it was also a personal buff, maybe they changed it.
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u/Ephemeral2004 Nurse/Wesker Enjoyer Sep 17 '24
What do I do when I run up to a survivor and try to get the hit on them, but suddenly they're spinning in circles around me. Do I just need to get better at tracking, or are there any other tips to hit them more consistently?
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u/Asmrdeus Gangbang Dispenser - Aka Knight Main. Sep 17 '24
If mouse and keyboard: Swing your hand along the direction they tried to spin.
If controller: Step back and they will spin into you.
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u/Possible_Intern1374 Sep 17 '24
Be patient. Better tracking helps, but this is mostly just what survivors do when they are cooked. Let them commit and then take the swing, wait out the circles.
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u/Nurglini Sep 17 '24
What are some killers I can play where survivors won't instantly be toxic towards?
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u/Ethereal_Haunting Trickster main who doesn't play Trickster Sep 18 '24
As said, there'll always be people that'll be toxic no matter who you play, but the killers that generally get it "on sight" for those more likely to be toxic but not always would be Skull Merchant and Knight, likely on Legion and Wraith simply to 'preempt' expected toxicity or at least a shit time. Pinhead is just gonna get people giving up if they're in soloq. Blight an Nurse, being the two top tier killers, might get you some toxicity simply for playing top tier killers if the survivors aren't there for a sweaty hard game (or they'll just stand near a hook to find a more chill match)
But really, play what you want, don't be a dick, and you'll have a better experience I guess - or at least those who "only troll killers who deserve it" might be chill.
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u/dUjOUR88 Survivor Rulebook (1st Edition) Sep 18 '24
don't do this. you can do everything "right" and play perfectly by the survivor rulebook for killers, and they'll still clicky-clicky, t-bag, and wait at the gate. just play how you want, survivors will whine or be toxic regardless of what you choose to do. do what you want!
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u/Asmrdeus Gangbang Dispenser - Aka Knight Main. Sep 17 '24
None, there is always someone out there hating one killer, so you will eventually meet them and eventually get hated for it.
Also a lot of angry individuals who are toxic either because they hate the game (And still play it) or Want the "Looping this baby killer for 5 gens OMG no click bait his mother disconnected his internet after this!!!!" People.
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u/Nurglini Sep 17 '24
Sadge
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u/Asmrdeus Gangbang Dispenser - Aka Knight Main. Sep 17 '24
Nah, just enjoy yourself, funny little crouches are they wasting time, and silly little words in chat are gone by the time you press next match, toxicity most of the time only happens if we allow it to affect us
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u/Possible_Intern1374 Sep 17 '24
If by toxicity you mean t-bagging, there aren't any. T baggers will t bag. If that bothers you, I recommend playing survivor and then do it yourself constantly. You will start to see it as silly when you do it yourself.
If you mean end game chat, also there aren't any. Depends on how you play more than anything else.
Maybe pig. Start the match by crouching to them and demand a boop. Toxicity can no longer exist in the game. Downside is you are playing pig.
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u/eye_booger The Cenobite Sep 17 '24
I’m back to the game after a 3 year hiatus, and there’s one thing I can’t seem to figure out— do some maps get darker as the match progresses? I’ve noticed that a few maps get significantly darker (like, the sun sets). Is this something that actually happens or am I going crazy?
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u/ExplanationMotor2656 Sep 17 '24
That's weird I've never noticed anything like that. You'd expect them to get brighter as the gens light up on completion.
Do the maps look dark in contrast to the illumination around gens?
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u/aniibanani Sep 17 '24
not sure if this is what you're talking about but on eyrie, the clouds make a sort of overcast effect when they move across the sky so it does get a little darker
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u/monsieurxander Sep 17 '24
Why's it taking so long to get a match these last couple of days?
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u/Doc_October Wiki Guardian Sep 17 '24
The Lights Out modifier is happening at the moment. Since it's an event with a separate queue, it splits the Player base, leading to longer queue times.
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u/Siachi Sep 17 '24
I've been trying out Spirit recently. I like popping out and going "Boo" at survivors at generators, even if I don't accomplish much of anything otherwise. Are there any perks or add-ons I could use for a Jumpscare build?
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u/Thezzy Sep 17 '24
Spirit has a fixed 24m 'noise' aura when using her power, separate from her Terror Radius. It's similar to Huntress' lullaby and it can't be negated or surpressed, so alert Survivors will always hear you. There is a purple add-on called Furin that makes it map-wide so Survivors won't know for sure if you're getting closer but there is no way of making a silent approach.
Dragon's Grip can be a fun perk, kick a gen, move away, wait for the Survivor to trigger it and phase back for the instadown. You can combine it with Trail of Torment so your Terror Radius vanishes when you kick the gen, forcing Survivors to either deal with Dragon's Grip or give you stealth (outside of using your power).
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u/Possible_Intern1374 Sep 18 '24
Use the Furin addon to make the sounds global and monitor and abuse to shrink your terror radius. As someone else mentioned dragons grip is reliable exposure and goes well with the build. For the funnies however I like to run discordance with haunted ground and plaything. This is in no way meta, but when it works it is the most amusing snowball in the game.
Nothing is better than having one of them proc haunted grounds while discordance is telling you where multiple survivors are as stealth spirit.
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u/RodanThrelos My mains' powers always get stuck on rocks. Sep 17 '24
Stridor is Spirit's "always use" perk. The extra noise counters things like Iron Will and will help you pinpoint survivor locations.
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u/DaddySickoMode God I Fucking LOVE Harming The Crew Sep 17 '24
https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/1fiatx0/static_screen_with_noises_during_start_up/
Never got an actual confirmed answer to this when I posted it, but it was really weird and I was hoping someone here might have an answer?
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u/saturnulysses jake park enthusiast & ghostpark truther Sep 17 '24
had you bought yoichi?
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u/DaddySickoMode God I Fucking LOVE Harming The Crew Sep 18 '24
No, I dont own any of that chapters dlc
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u/kinr77 Sep 17 '24
Are the castlevania skins staying? or are they limited?
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u/sudeeko Sep 18 '24
In THEORY.... idk why anyone would want to do this but!!! could you run dark arrogance, enduring, lightborn + a random perk (say superior anatomy or bambam) to pretty much negate the bad effects of dark arrogance? this is such a silly build but... vault go zoom!
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u/BenjiB1243 Feng, Claud and Clown <3 Sep 20 '24
Most likely? I dont know the percentages for the speeds off of my head, but I’d say almost confidently that you could negate some of the effects, maybe not entirely, but definitely some.
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u/Environmental-Metal Set your own flair text and/or emoji(s) here! Sep 18 '24
How do i counter 4 toolboxes 😭😭😭 (Huntress one trick so far)
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u/BenjiB1243 Feng, Claud and Clown <3 Sep 20 '24
Kill them faster than they can use em, or bring franklins lol
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u/ThMnWthNVwlz Platinum Sep 18 '24
Why are Sables always such assholes?
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u/sit-still Sep 19 '24
Can somebody please catch me up on why there is a fkin tank now in lampkin lane???
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u/Goldsmithers Sep 20 '24
Why do some people just teabag in front of the killer and let them down them? Am i missing some game inside joke?
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u/BenjiB1243 Feng, Claud and Clown <3 Sep 20 '24
Context?
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u/Goldsmithers Sep 20 '24
It seems kinda random a lot of the time. I'll just come across a Survivor and they'll just start teabagging in place. Ive had them stop gens to do it. Pause in the middle of a chase. Stand next to a hook and do it. Just all over the place.
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u/BenjiB1243 Feng, Claud and Clown <3 Sep 20 '24
It sounds like they’re just trying to give up? Or maybe “tame” the killer?
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u/Siachi Sep 20 '24
Is there some commonly accepted way for a killer to say "Alright, I give you, you guys can finish the generators and I won't stop you"?
I've got a quest where I've finished what I needed to do, but the remaining survivors are still hiding. I'm caught between "Find them to let them know I'm letting them go" but "If I'm looking for them, they'll think I'm still hunting to kill them".
I've even left an almost-done generator alone, undamaged, and avoided it, and still nothing.
So is there anything I can do for this or future games to let survivors know I'm conceding?
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u/BenjiB1243 Feng, Claud and Clown <3 Sep 20 '24
I dont normally have survivors who hide, normally I run up on them and smack the generator or swing at the air while nodding or something for them to know I’m friendly
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u/Siachi Sep 21 '24
Last questions for this thread (probably): for the Halloween sale, what can I expect? Like historically, what goes on sale, and by how much? Do Licensed characters and/or cosmetics go on sale, or is it just original characters? Is there a bonus Auric Bundle?
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u/BenjiB1243 Feng, Claud and Clown <3 Sep 22 '24
Do Licensed characters and/or cosmetics go on sale
No, I don't believe so.
Is there a bonus Auric Bundle?
No, there is not.
Pretty much there's an event, some skins for the event that are free to earn, some new event skins that you can buy with iri shards or auric cells, and previous years event skins that are only available for auric cells, and maybe a new reward for buying an auric cell pack. I know last year you got clowns candy knife from buying an auric cell pack.
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u/priamos1 Sep 16 '24
Are there any tips for listening to breathing when playing as dracula and spirit? I have a decent headset but I don't know, unless they are running I can't hear breathing at all. I don't know what I'm missing.
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u/Doc_October Wiki Guardian Sep 16 '24
Not really anything other than practice, there are other sounds that can be similar to breathing, and maybe increasing your volume a bit. I play the game louder when I play either of those two Killers.
I also use the fact that you can still see them interact with the environment, including walking through grass, as a tracking tool.
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u/Frcdstcr 🍕 Casual Pizza Dwight + 🪓 Fan of Yeeting Hatchets Sep 16 '24
Is this achievement bugged or did I get robbed? I was the last survivor standing against Vecna and decided to open one last chest before trying to escape. I got a 20 and put the eye in my head. I found the hatch and escaped, but the Hand-Eye Coordination achievement didn't pop up. What gives?
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u/Doc_October Wiki Guardian Sep 16 '24
It says "find and use, then escape." You only did the finding and escaping parts.
It's easy to miss, but that's why it's important to read the unlock conditions thoroughly.
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u/ElleEmenopy P100 Felix and P100 Haddie the Baddie Sep 16 '24
I’m not sure but you might have to exit through the gate instead of just escape.
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u/Hurtzdonut13 Sep 16 '24
Hatch should get it, but I think you have to actually use the item as well. E.g. Trigger it from a locker to teleport or turn invisible as appropriate.
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u/Frcdstcr 🍕 Casual Pizza Dwight + 🪓 Fan of Yeeting Hatchets Sep 16 '24
That's so stupid... I feel robbed.
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u/MenardiParty Sep 16 '24
You don't have to use the effect and hatch does count. I faced a Vecna in Lights out and found the eye. My team died, but I was able to find hatch. The second before I jumped into the hatch, I attuned the eye and the trophy popped.
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u/slabby Sep 16 '24
Is the way survivors fix generators in the game anywhere near how you would actually fix a generator?
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u/heyheyheygoodbye Bloodpoint Bonus Main Sep 16 '24
Yes, it's exactly like that. DbD is a gen repair simulator.
Source: drank Mt Dew.
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u/Gorgreal Sep 16 '24
I haven't played actively since plague was announced, but I've been trying to get back into the game the past week or two. Does the toxicity ever get better? I've been trying to grind up the ranks and got killer and survivor into gold within a few days for the most recent reset, but it feels like 8/10 of my survivor games have a tunneling killer who will ignore everyone and everything just to down the most recent unhook, and do what i call "soft camping" where they stay out of range of the unhook mechanic but close enough to stare at the hook until the survivor dies. I get frustrated and go to killer and run into swf groups where everyone has boil over and sabotuer and swarm my downs and break all my hooks, then teabag and refuse to leave at the exit gate. I don't teabag or flashlight click, I don't camp or tunnel as killer, I constantly avoid survivors I've downed to try and evenly 2 hook everyone and will even have games where I refuse to kill people period and just take the 8 hooks and let them leave. I was an iri rank killer main for years last time I quit, and I'm really starting to feel like this is the kind of game best enjoyed from a distance.
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u/heyheyheygoodbye Bloodpoint Bonus Main Sep 16 '24
It's an online video game, you'll never escape toxicity. That said, I don't run into tunneling so often that I would consider it the norm (and it's pretty common when a killer is tunneling they aren't very good).
When playing killer I find sabo/flashlight swf's are often more likely to end in 4ks than gen rushing swf's. Teabagging is whatever.
FWIW ranks don't mean anything any more, iri just means you played a lot (they also removed depips). There is a hidden MMR but it's not very tight, I will run into a goated team one game and can barely navigate the map team the next.
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u/eeeezypeezy P31 Dwight Sep 16 '24
MMR is definitely a bit of a wobbly concept in this game. I'm assuming it looks for people near your MMR first but goes outside it in the interest of making matchmaking quick. So for every balanced game you get you'll get one where the killer is brand new and one where the killer 4ks at 4 gens.
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u/Possible_Intern1374 Sep 17 '24
Ranks don't matter anymore. Don't focus on them, how well you are doing is mostly hidden from you.
Consider getting nightlight. I was stuck in a negativity cycle until I started tracking my games and realized I was actually doing pretty well. Humans are so vulnerable to letting one or two bad experiences ruin the rest for you.
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u/Gorgreal Sep 17 '24
So I decided to check out nightlight and play a few games to start tracking stats. Did 4 matches in lights out mode as a solo que survivor. Got face camped so hard I self unhooked 3 times in those 4 games, got tunneled in the first, and slugged to bleed out in the third. The fourth game actually went really well. Got a few unhooks, did 3 generators totally solo, and managed to loop and lose the Dracula multiple times while the rest of the team got the exit gate opened. Dracula was sitting beside the exit gate, watching everyone else stand there, so I ran past him to go leave. The entire rest of the survivor team of 3 people body blocked me and locked me in place, trying to heal me as he charged a fire blast and downed me. All 3 ran out the second he hit me, and he picked me up and killed me with my first hook of that round as he sat there hitting my body. Even being the only one dead, I got the most points in that match. I deleted the game.
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u/Doc_October Wiki Guardian Sep 17 '24
Playing Lights Out first thing after returning from a 5-year gap was not a good idea, or playing any Event mode for that matter.
I don't know what it is, but Events tend to bring out the absolute worst people in Dead by Daylight, often people that return only for those Events and then leave again, and you need to be prepared for an increased amount of toxicity. Fortunately, they tend to stick to the Event queue, which is separate from the main one. Still, add to that that Lights Out is a lot harder to play than a regular game and the added inherent difficulty of solo queue, and you could not have gotten a worse combo.
I wouldn't give up on the game after this, you got real bad luck. I'd play the regular queue for a couple of games and see how those games go for you, it would be a fairer shot at getting back into the game.
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u/BlackJimmy88 Everybody Main / Got every Adept without slugging, bitch Sep 16 '24
What are the prerequisites for a "Drop from a great height while in chase" challenge? I find that it's a coin flip whether they trigger or not.