Dead by Daylight and other Asymmetric Slasher Games - Discuss the games and the autistic/entitled communities around them

[Raw Onion Enjoyer]

The new killer must be pretty popular since there's really long queue times today, wouldn't be surprised if he gets nerfed since a lot of survivor mains seem to really not like him.

Half of the community is throwing a fit crying about him being OP, the other half is saying "he's new, wait at least couple days". He's not really an M1 but neither is he an S-tier. I don't know where I would put him, but for sure he isn't just a bully victim like M1 killers.

The only thing I would consider changing for now would be the free Bamboozle addon. The counterplay to the chink is to play the closest tile as shift+w is very punishable, but if he uses this addon there's little you can do. He can already fast vault with his power, so he basically gets an extra perk slot with this:

Vecna has a Bamboozle addon, too, but: it's an Iri, it's harder/more costly to activate and without it vaulting windows with his power is often useless against competent survivors. This one just seems a bit too good and wouldn't be surprised if it gets changed.

 

[Raw Onion Enjoyer]

There's a glitch that lets you play with any killer skin for free. How to do it?
1. Select a desired skin,
2. Queue/ready up,
3. Preview mori with the desired skin so it finds the lobby/starts the match during preview.

You will have the selected skin in-game, but not lobby or post-game. It might be clientside, but not sure.

 

[Shaneequa]

There's a glitch that lets you play with any killer skin for free.

theres also a glitch to make ur nemesis zombies invisible

 

[Raw Onion Enjoyer]

theres also a glitch to make ur nemesis zombies invisible

This game is really held together by tape. I would use this as it seems funny but it might be easy to get banned for it. All it takes is one petty person to report you via bhvr support.

 

[Raw Onion Enjoyer]

So there's a Blood Moon event going on and people are reporting that the event is completely fucked up for killers.

There are blood generators (4 out of 7) which are immune to killer powers (pig traps, freddy's tp, knight's guards etc + some addons which affect gens), any gen slowdown perks, perks which proc on gen completion (fire up, coup etc), any perks which activate on gen kicking (nowhere to hide, trial of torment etc). Of course same goes for survivor loadouts, but it barely makes a difference. You can still run the meta builds freely with little restrictions as very few require gens to work.

I was at loadout screen struggling to find any perks which aren't just turned off, either fully or partially. Took me a few mins to find any 4 perks that weren't meme tier. It was just constant "this perk looks interesting, oh nvm it won't work in this mode". There's so little choice in killer builds that you must go full aura/hex/end-game, nothing else. And any killer below S-tier will have serious trouble keeping up unless the survivors are half-asleep and running into walls.

Very trash event from killer perspective and I'm surprised people are queueing for it at all. Guess I'm sticking to survivor lol.

In another news flashbangs are supposedly fixed and of course some self-described toxic survivors are calling it a nerf, as expected.

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/441982/revert-readjust-flashbang-angle-savebangs

#SaveBangs!!!!!!!

 

[John.Doe]

Another bug I've found is delayed pallet stuns - I'll respect the pallet when it gets thrown, but then when you try to loop and get too close the stun effect hits you. Even minutes later. Totally bullshit.

So there's a Blood Moon event going on and people are reporting that the event is completely fucked up for killers.

Yep, but I'm just using it to get a few cosmetics and rift points. Its fine for farming.

 

[BrunoMattei]

RIP oni

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I hope Mandy dies of AIDS.

 

[Leather Boots]

The new event is the worst event they have ever made in the history of the game and is intolerable for even a sweat like myself. I can't imagine the average killer is in a match for more than 2 minutes because of how stupidly survivor sided it is. This event is a complete joke BHVR just wants to bribe players with bloodpoints to play their shitty generator rework alpha.

 

[Raw Onion Enjoyer]

The new event is the worst event they have ever made in the history of the game and is intolerable for even a sweat like myself. I can't imagine the average killer is in a match for more than 2 minutes because of how stupidly survivor sided it is. This event is a complete joke BHVR just wants to bribe players with bloodpoints to play their shitty generator rework alpha.

Even the devs know it, new hotfix:

Not only is there no new gameplay for killer but they actually remove the mechanics from you. 90% of perks are outright useless, powers don't work etc. People joke about killers being there just for survivors' fun and this is actually the case in this event lol. It's objectively worse than the normal mode.

And they don't even get the plausible deniability, because they gave killers absolutely nothing.

New PTB:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/kb/articles/500-developer-update-april-2025

Full list of Haste sources: https://deadbydaylight.fandom.com/wiki/Status_HUD/Haste
Full list of Hindered sources: https://deadbydaylight.fandom.com/wiki/Status_HUD/Hindered

Also they killed Pentimento:

Look at the highlighted text. They're doing exactly what everyone has been against, trying to buff solos to SWF level while giving killers nothing in return. So not only do you get shitty totem spawns in the open, but now people get auras on them lol.

I play solo exclusively and never have I had problem with totems. It's 100% targeted at appeasing the new FNAF players. Maybe they should also add minigames during loading screens or while hooked so they dont need to look at tiktok on phone? I hate how modern gaming is just about appeasing the lowest common denominator.

 

[Buckaroo]

theres also a glitch to make ur nemesis zombies invisible

The hotfix today didn't touch this, so I'm having a fun time with it. Just make sure to act surprised in post game chat about your zombies not respawning since you don't see their auras when they become invisible.

 

[Oligarca Caballero]

New PTB:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/kb/articles/500-developer-update-april-2025

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Full list of Haste sources: https://deadbydaylight.fandom.com/wiki/Status_HUD/Haste
Full list of Hindered sources: https://deadbydaylight.fandom.com/wiki/Status_HUD/Hindered

Also they killed Pentimento:
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Look at the highlighted text. They're doing exactly what everyone has been against, trying to buff solos to SWF level while giving killers nothing in return. So not only do you get shitty totem spawns in the open, but now people get auras on them lol.

I play solo exclusively and never have I had problem with totems. It's 100% targeted at appeasing the new FNAF players. Maybe they should also add minigames during loading screens or while hooked so they dont need to look at tiktok on phone? I hate how modern gaming is just about appeasing the lowest common denominator.

Holy shit this update is ass. Literally just minor QoL changes that should have been implemented AGES ago, minor nerfs to the pitbull Shaniqua and nerfs to a perk literally no one was complaining about. I guess the haste and hindered changes are ok, no more hope + mft bullshit (7% on hope is still busted though). But it just kills a lot of the fun synergies like clown + forced hesitation.

 

[Raw Onion Enjoyer]

Holy shit this update is ass. Literally just minor QoL changes that should have been implemented AGES ago, minor nerfs to the pitbull Shaniqua and nerfs to a perk literally no one was complaining about. I guess the haste and hindered changes are ok, no more hope + mft bullshit (7% on hope is still busted though). But it just kills a lot of the fun synergies like clown + forced hesitation.

If killer powers/addons don't stack with perks then that's just bullshit. They say the perks are getting "small" buffs, but I don't believe devs are going to try and keep the values to the pre-nerf ones on builds like Singularity with Rapid Brutality.

Also how does it help new players? It's easier to understand? There's too much text to read in post-game? Haste or hinder perks are already average at best and the only killers who run them are lower tiers. So there goes build variety for the average killer while the S-tiers stay untouched. All for the sake of appealing to lowest common denominator. This whole craze about new player experience is just ridiculous.

Here's how FNAF DLC trailer is going to look:
Dead By Daylight: Thinking Not Required

 

[Tinnitus]

If killer powers/addons don't stack with perks then that's just bullshit. They say the perks are getting "small" buffs, but I don't believe devs are going to try and keep the values to the pre-nerf ones on builds like Singularity with Rapid Brutality.

Also how does it help new players? It's easier to understand? There's too much text to read in post-game? Haste or hinder perks are already average at best and the only killers who run them are lower tiers. So there goes build variety for the average killer while the S-tiers stay untouched. All for the sake of appealing to lowest common denominator. This whole craze about new player experience is just ridiculous.

Here's how FNAF DLC trailer is going to look:
Dead By Daylight: Thinking Not Required

The devs only removed stackable Haste & Hinder because it would be too much work calculating the next Haste/Hinder perk/addons.

Nothing about lowest dominator and new player crap. Just less work and thinking for the developers.

 

[Raw Onion Enjoyer]

Nature is healing, I am starting to get majority non-ghoul killers. Finally some break from the faggot with a bowlcut.

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

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So there's a Blood Moon event going on and people are reporting that the event is completely fucked up for killers.

There are blood generators (4 out of 7) which are immune to killer powers (pig traps, freddy's tp, knight's guards etc + some addons which affect gens), any gen slowdown perks, perks which proc on gen completion (fire up, coup etc), any perks which activate on gen kicking (nowhere to hide, trial of torment etc). Of course same goes for survivor loadouts, but it barely makes a difference. You can still run the meta builds freely with little restrictions as very few require gens to work.

I was at loadout screen struggling to find any perks which aren't just turned off, either fully or partially. Took me a few mins to find any 4 perks that weren't meme tier. It was just constant "this perk looks interesting, oh nvm it won't work in this mode". There's so little choice in killer builds that you must go full aura/hex/end-game, nothing else. And any killer below S-tier will have serious trouble keeping up unless the survivors are half-asleep and running into walls.

Very trash event from killer perspective and I'm surprised people are queueing for it at all. Guess I'm sticking to survivor lol.

In another news flashbangs are supposedly fixed and of course some self-described toxic survivors are calling it a nerf, as expected.
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https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/441982/revert-readjust-flashbang-angle-savebangs

#SaveBangs!!!!!!!

Try using Sadako. Survs can't carry a blood can and a tape at the same time. I loaded up on lightborn, fire up, NOED, and No Way Out and it's working reasonably well.

 

[Tinnitus]

Try using Sadako. Survs can't carry a blood can and a tape at the same time. I loaded up on lightborn, fire up, NOED, and No Way Out and it's working reasonably well.

Gotta love it when an event fucks over majority of killers except the one who brings her own special Item, which cannot be dropped.

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

Gotta love it when an event fucks over majority of killers except the one who brings her own special Item, which cannot be dropped.

Yeah any other time she's useless but this is her time to shine.

bonus:

 

[Raw Onion Enjoyer]

The bloodweb seems to be glitched. I keep getting frequent Ebony Moris and people are reporting that some Ghoul's addons have wrong rarities. One brown is very rare while one purple is pretty common.

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/442649/fresh-coffee-addon-for-the-ghoul-way-too-rare-switched-rarities-internally

 

[Buckaroo]

New bug was found.

 

[John.Doe]

Also they killed Pentimento:

Why would they do that, it was just sitting there, innocently. I've never seen it used much at all, and really only ever as part of some gag challenge to get all five totems lit. Which is basically impossible - the whole point of having it front-loaded like that is because you'd rarely get more than one lit Pent totem at a time anyway. The survivors have to cleanse a totem first, so they already found its spawn, so of course they'll go back to cleanse it for good. I mean really, just totally unnecessary. Plus it has an aura now too? Are they going to add that to all the Hex perks? This is stupid, stupid.