Discussions

• Only Two Ways to Play Killer Right Now?

  Clowning in General Discussions October 11, 2021

  There's always been many ways to enjoy Dead by Daylight, though ever since Kill Based Matchmaking has been introduced, there seems to be a very clear pattern in how most Killer mains view and thus play the game: Camping everything and anything in order to secure whatever few Kills one can. And I don't mean patrolling or baiting Survivors closer to get yourself into another chase, I mean not lea

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• What if Patrick wasn't kidding in the Q&A?

  Clowning in General Discussions October 8, 2021

  So I just got out of yet another game with cheaters and it has occurred to me that the, supposedly, hyperbolic statement of the Lead Game Designer is a genuine reality for many of us several times a day. To quote the man himself on the feedback behind the Survivor experience: "...I was playing a game of Survivor and I looped the Killer for seven consecutive hours and I unhooked eighteen other Su
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• The Outcome of a Balanced Trial

  Clowning in General Discussions September 30, 2021

  Now that SBMM is fully implemented, I think it's time to talk about what the system perceives as a statistically good match and what exactly does that mean in the grand scheme of things. As far as we know, the Devs consider two escapes a desirable outcome - Yes, it's clearly more difficult than that, but that's what we have. Obviously, while some players can see past the binary nature of win/lose
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• Patch 5.2.1: Unbreakable Totem on Hawkins National Laboratory

  Clowning in Bug Reporting September 14, 2021

  DESCRIPTION: A totem spawned in the middle of two boxes and it was impossible to cleanse it. As you can see, if you turn your camera just right the prompt shows, however the moment you attempt to cleanse it, the character briefly bends over and the cleansing is cancelled. I've attempted this repeatedly and merely aiming the Survivor in a way that allowed me to even click proved to be extremely d

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• Patch: 5.1.0 UPDATE - Clown's Bottles - Fixed

  Clowning in Bug Reporting June 22, 2021

  DESCRIPTION: If a running Survivor is directly hit with an Afterpiece Tonic, the Hindered status is not applied and neither is the visual distortion. On top of that, if a Survivor is standing still and is directly hit, the scream occurs, but the Survivor first needs to move in order to receive all the debuffs that are supposed to occur while under the effects of an Afterpiece Tonic cloud. Me

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