Summary
Where there’s a successful multiplayer video game, there’s almost always a community of loyal, die-hard followers backing it every step of the way.Dead by Daylight’s online community certainly has its gripes with balancing and bugs, but it’s stuck around for seven years now, and it probably won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. With plenty of updates, patches, and events, it’s clear thatBehaviour Interactive does really care aboutDead by Daylight’s player-base, and the community responds by putting even more hours into the game.
But where there’s an online community, there also tends to be a set of unwritten rules that govern how everyone should behave while in-game. These rules aren’t really enforced by anyone, but if members of the community see players going against them, it’ll almost definitely catch the offender some heat. With one of the most loyal fan-bases around,Dead by Daylighthas plenty of its own unwritten rules, many of which revolve around the game’s team of Survivors.
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Dead by Daylightis first and foremost a team-based game. The core premise ofDead by Daylightsees four Survivors go up against one Killer, and every inch of the gameplay expects those Survivors to work together and communicate as a team. Probablythe most important unwritten rule ofDead by Daylightis that Survivors should always be team players. This covers quite a vast range of scenarios.
Survivors should always try to unhook their teammates, even if it means taking a hit themselves. Similarly, if a fellowSurvivor is being tunneled by the Killer– meaning that the Killer is focusing on the same player throughout the whole match – then a teammate should try to take the Killer’s aggro away from them for a bit. Survivors should also always heal their teammates, and if an injured Survivor is crouching repeatedly in front of them, it’s just polite to drop everything and heal them up. This also means that no one should get left behind. Of course, there are times when Survivors should make an escape when it would otherwise result in the entire team’s loss, but if there are healthy players left at the end of a match, they should be trying to make sure that everyone gets to leave the exit gates.
InDead by Daylight, it’s inevitable that the Killer will eventually find a group of Survivors, and when that happens there’s an unwritten rule that the one who ends up being chased tries todistract theDbDKiller for as long as possibleso that the rest of the team can continue repairing generators unharmed. This rule is a little more flexible, as some players just aren’t great at looping Killers around the environment, or Survivors could be up against a really skilled Killer, but if a player can distract the Killer then they probably should.
One of the biggest taboos inDead by Daylightis when a Survivor decides to spend the duration of the match just hiding at the back of the map or in a locker, waiting for the rest of the team to do the generators. This gets especially prevalent towards the end of a match, as the more Survivors die, the more likely it is that the last remaining players will choose to just hide and wait for the hatch to open. Teamwork is integral toDead by Daylight’s gameplay, and if even one Survivor isn’t pulling their weight, then the entire team is at a big disadvantage.
Dead by Daylightis available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
