Dead By Daylight

Death is Not an Escape

This is not a short story or anything, and I’m honestly not sure where I’m going with it, but here we are. Dead By Daylight is a video game that I play with my friend Josh Booth. We play almost every night for about an hour, and it’s one of the best parts of my day.

As you may assume from the title, the game is not of the sunshine and rainbows type. Instead, it is rather bloody and disgusting. In my opinion, it is the greatest horror game ever, but you don’t have to agree with me.

The game is one that must be played online. Some people choose to play as a Killer and some choose to be Survivors, and each match that is played has one Killer and four Survivors.

The Killer is trying to find and hit all the Survivors twice before placing them on hooks to be sacrificed. However, the hooked survivor is not killed right away. In order for them to die, they must either be hooked three times or left on the hook until the timer at the bottom of the scream runs out.

The Survivors need to work together to complete generators to open the exit gates and escape. Generators are loud though, and it’s a lot harder than it sounds to escape. Survivors must try and keep each other alive by unhooking and healing their teammates, and staying away from the Killer.

There are a number of different Killers, all of which have their own abilities, and there are a number of perks that a Killer can use to give them an advantage in the game. Since each player is unique, the Killer they choose to play as, along with their perk builds and playing style make each game a new and different one.

That combined with the number of perks you can play with as a survivor, it is hard to get bored while playing this game.

Personally, Josh and I play as survivors. Entering a game while being able to talk to each other is a huge advantage too, but at the same time you die more often than you escape. The goal sometimes isn’t to escape either. Depending on what type of killer you get or how good the people you are playing with are, the goal may be to get just one person to escape.

I have quite a few survivors that I have gotten to level 50 (meaning that they have a lot of perks and other items that I can use during games) but I personally play as a survivor called Claudette. She doesn’t give any advantages, like a speed boost, or anything like that, but she is the character that I started playing as and she is helpful for another reason.

This is not my Claudette, but the image helps demonstrate what I would like to say. She is practically invisible on many maps. The Claudette I play as, has the bloody shirt and some dark burlap bag like pants and there have been many times where I could hide from the killer using this pseudo invisibility cloak.

I personally play with a perk called Iron Will, making it so when I’m injured I don’t make any noise, and that combined with being difficult to see, makes it easier to stay hidden.

This is just one playing style though. I prefer to stay hidden until needed. I do the generators while my friends distract the killer and such. That’s why the group I play with works so well. Some distract, some do generators, and if necessary we can switch rolls.

The Survivors are the more boring part of the game though. They all have their personal perks, but once you have them unlocked, they can be shared through all of your survivors. Really, the only differences between them are what they look like. The Killers are the cool part of the game.

There are currently 17 different killers, all with their own back stories and perks to go along with them. These perks can also be shared between Killers, so that’s kind of irrelevant, but each of their individual abilities are super cool in their own way.

I’ll probably end up talking about all the Killers, but my personal favorite is The Hag. Her name is actually Lisa Sherwood, and she looks super gross and creepy. Lisa was trained by people in her village in spells and potions and a sort of voodoo, but she was kidnapped by cannibals. Eventually, after they had eaten enough of her flesh, she was able to slip out of her shackles and escape. She wandered into the forest never to be seen again. She is able to lay traps that pop up and startle survivors, sending her a notification and allowing her to teleport to it if she is close enough. I prefer playing as the Hag, I’m not sure why. I just think she’s fun.

But the other Killers are also pretty cool, so this is to be continued…