ADEPT PLAQUE

Cabbage

I have literally tried for hours and hours to get this achievement, and I’m ripping my hair out. Every single game has been ruthless killer. It’s always because of either the chaser or malicious emblems. One of them always ends up being gold, even with perfect games and farming matches. I genuinely need tips and tricks on how to do this one. She’s by far the hardest killer to get it on, and it’s my last achievement for the game. Please help.

I’ve watched Otz’s video and I still can’t manage to get it, to make it easier I would need to leave red ranks and go back to at least green, but that’ll take a while.

anarchy753

Really, avoid using your power. Infecting people means less chases and less hits. It sucks, and it's a massive design flaw of adept, but it's how it goes.

That or kill 2 people and slug the last 2 and let them heal each other up a few times to get extra hits then murder them. Sadly a good time for this is events where survivors are looking for someone who wants to cooperate.

Deadeye

Yes, the power is bad for emblems. Also don't do the adept on red ranks, in purple and green you need one emblem point less for a double pip, in yellow ranks you need 2 less. Don't know if you want to depip to green so you get down to yellow on reset, but just train her if you don't want to depip and wait for the adept until rank reset. Then you have at least 5 attempts with easier pipping

GodDamn_Angela

Plaque. 🤭

But, yeah, Plague is probably the hardest Killer to Adebt (especially in Red Ranks) since her power hurts her Emblem gains. Besides Nurse for most people, but that's a learning curve thing.

Of her perks; Infectious Fright is going to help you most to get emblems, Dark Devotion is basically doing nothing since it has no other perks to work with.

Cabbage

@[Deleted User] said:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1385867#Comment_1385867

I have to disagree with this. If you managed to get the adept this way, then congratulations.

As an Adept Plague holder myself I would advise that the power should be used as often as possible.

I get Merciless with Plague on a semi regular basis and pretty much hardly ever remove Dark Devotion, Infectious Fright, and Corrupt Intervention because of just how wonderful these perks are on her. As far as one killer having all 3 teachables serving the killer better than any other perks, Plague takes the cake.

A Plague player should have a large disparity between the amount of hits and downs she is getting versus actual hooks.

Here’s my summary of my approach in matches:

• until you find survivors, infect every gen. EVERY GEN. Periodically check around the blocked gens for hiding survivors if Plague can’t stumble across any before the CI timer expires. If survivors being super immersed with CI, then right before the timer expires infect those 3 gens too in order to piss the survivors off more for being so dumb as to wait till those gens are available.
• Priority is getting everyone infected ASAP. Remember if the first chase is difficult, as long as they have infection then Plague has already injured them. If a survivor is difficult to infect with Vile Purge directly (or they’re just not jumping onto infected gens), then infect vaults and pallets at the current loop and FORCE that survivor to use one of them, even if it means eating a pallet stun. If survivors start feeling threatened enough that they start cleansing and no one is infected, the priority shifts back to getting everyone (or as many as possible) sick ASAP.
• Dark Devotion - The Obsession is your toy. YOUR. TOY. Yes of course the Obsession needs to go on the hook 3 times at some point, but most of the time Plague comes across the Obsession they should be whacking them (preferably making sure they have infection too) and then Plague should be using Undetectable to get the jump on other survivors while the Obsession causes disruption and confusion as they run around the map. This is even better if the Obsession was injured or fully infected and gets downed. Plague can go get the jump on other survivors, whilst they’ll be a little hesitant running in to help the Obsession while they’re emitting a TR. This all has great synergy with Infectious Fright. Don’t discount DD 30 seconds on Undetectable. 30 seconds in DBD is longer than most people realise, and I almost always get a benefit from doing this strategy.
• Infectious Fright - it goes without saying that if a notification pops up, slug and go chase the revealed survivor, ESPECIALLY if they’re either Broken, Plague has Corrupt Purge, or both. It’s usually never sensible to ignore an IF notification. They’re probably someone with a flashlight anyway.

9 times out of 10 the combination of regular using Dark Devotion to jump scare broken survivors, and Infectious Fright frequently revealing their location (and Plague subsequently acting upon it) will lead to cleansing. Yes, even the most stubborn try hard non cleansers end up cleansing when they get sick of being insta-downed because they keep getting caught out in a disadvantaged position by DD or IF.

• Corrupt Purge - try not to use Fountains willy nilly. Try not to let them reset either. My general rule of thumb of when I use them is when a chase takes me somewhat past one. It’s almost always worth the deviation and the loss of distance in the chase to activate it and resume the chase. How do you judge if a fountain is close enough or not mid chase? By assessing whether or not you feel confident that you can quickly track where the survivor went.

Thanks. I’ll try out your recommendations

emptyCups

@[Deleted User] said:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1385867#Comment_1385867

I have to disagree with this. If you managed to get the adept this way, then congratulations.

As an Adept Plague holder myself I would advise that the power should be used as often as possible.

I get Merciless with Plague on a semi regular basis and pretty much hardly ever remove Dark Devotion, Infectious Fright, and Corrupt Intervention because of just how wonderful these perks are on her. As far as one killer having all 3 teachables serving the killer better than any other perks, Plague takes the cake.

A Plague player should have a large disparity between the amount of hits and downs she is getting versus actual hooks.

Here’s my summary of my approach in matches:

• until you find survivors, infect every gen. EVERY GEN. Periodically check around the blocked gens for hiding survivors if Plague can’t stumble across any before the CI timer expires. If survivors being super immersed with CI, then right before the timer expires infect those 3 gens too in order to piss the survivors off more for being so dumb as to wait till those gens are available.
• Priority is getting everyone infected ASAP. Remember if the first chase is difficult, as long as they have infection then Plague has already injured them. If a survivor is difficult to infect with Vile Purge directly (or they’re just not jumping onto infected gens), then infect vaults and pallets at the current loop and FORCE that survivor to use one of them, even if it means eating a pallet stun. If survivors start feeling threatened enough that they start cleansing and no one is infected, the priority shifts back to getting everyone (or as many as possible) sick ASAP.
• Dark Devotion - The Obsession is your toy. YOUR. TOY. Yes of course the Obsession needs to go on the hook 3 times at some point, but most of the time Plague comes across the Obsession they should be whacking them (preferably making sure they have infection too) and then Plague should be using Undetectable to get the jump on other survivors while the Obsession causes disruption and confusion as they run around the map. This is even better if the Obsession was injured or fully infected and gets downed. Plague can go get the jump on other survivors, whilst they’ll be a little hesitant running in to help the Obsession while they’re emitting a TR. This all has great synergy with Infectious Fright. Don’t discount DD 30 seconds on Undetectable. 30 seconds in DBD is longer than most people realise, and I almost always get a benefit from doing this strategy.
• Infectious Fright - it goes without saying that if a notification pops up, slug and go chase the revealed survivor, ESPECIALLY if they’re either Broken, Plague has Corrupt Purge, or both. It’s usually never sensible to ignore an IF notification. They’re probably someone with a flashlight anyway.

9 times out of 10 the combination of regular using Dark Devotion to jump scare broken survivors, and Infectious Fright frequently revealing their location (and Plague subsequently acting upon it) will lead to cleansing. Yes, even the most stubborn try hard non cleansers end up cleansing when they get sick of being insta-downed because they keep getting caught out in a disadvantaged position by DD or IF.

• Corrupt Purge - try not to use Fountains willy nilly. Try not to let them reset either. My general rule of thumb of when I use them is when a chase takes me somewhat past one. It’s almost always worth the deviation and the loss of distance in the chase to activate it and resume the chase. How do you judge if a fountain is close enough or not mid chase? By assessing whether or not you feel confident that you can quickly track where the survivor went.

This.

YaiPa

downrank till yellow ranks, then play a game without using your power, M1 pure action, at least 9 hooks and 4k. If gens go too fast slug everyone and hook them at last. pretty general advises, but plague is destroyed by the awful ranking system, because using her power means losing chase emblem, because you'll often one shot, and if survivors cleanse they'll subtract you points because they fully heal.