Unlabelled Dead by Daylight Monday Dev Q&A Thread - April 02, 2018

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Dead by Daylight Monday Dev Q&A Thread - April 02, 2018

Monday Dev Q&A Thread - April 02, 2018

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 08:14 AM PDT

Hello people of the fog! Monday Dev Q&A are weekly threads where you can ask questions, give suggestions and feedback about the game directly to the developers. Comments are submitted to the developers on Monday and answered Tuesday.

Some rules and guidelines specific to this thread;

  • Top-level comments must contain a question, suggestion or feedback about Dead by Daylight for the developers.
    • If you're looking to get a question answered by the community, see our Tuesday No Stupid Questions threads.
    • No questions about the subreddit itself; modmail the subreddit moderators.
    • No bug reports, technical support, or ban appeal questions.
    • No reporting other players.
    • One question per user.
  • Keep feedback respectful and constructive. Check your salt at the door.
  • Avoid repeat questions.
    • Refer to our bhvrplz list (coming soon!) to see popular, oft-repeated suggestions.
    • See the Q&A Archive for a list of answered questions from previous threads.
    • Check the thread before commenting to make sure your question hasn't been asked already.
  • If you'd like your comment to be seen by a particular dev (e.g. Mcote), mention this at the beginning your comment.
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An apology to both /r/deadbydaylight and /r/lapfoxtrax

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 01:14 PM PDT

This is a long post, but we need to apologize and clarify a few things.

So, some context for those out of the loop; Yesterday for April Fool's, /u/Melikesong decided to swap the subreddit's CSS, sidebar, etc. with that of /r/lapfoxtrax. /r/lapfoxtrax is a subreddit dedicated to the titular label; a single person record label by Ren Queenston, who publishes electronic music on the label with various aliases as visual representation (the majority being furries). /u/Melikesong is responsible for the swap and the one who enacted it. That said, most moderators acknowledged the swap either on Reddit or in our backroom, and were complicit with it. We apologize to everyone involved and both /r/deadbydaylight and /r/lapfoxtrax for this incident. A niche interest that didn't have anything to do with Dead by Daylight was shoved onto this subreddit without warning, acted as an advertisement, collided two different communities together, and the entire thing was more obnoxious and awkward then any sort of funny. From both personal choice, and in agreement with the rest of the /r/deadbydaylight team, Melikesong will no longer be moderating /r/deadbydaylight, effective immediately. No other moderators will be stepping down, though /u/RainyPug will be taking a step back and take an extended leave from Reddit for the time being.

With that said, we would like to clarify some things in relation to this incident:

  • None of the moderators are friends with Ren Queenston, nor are we are associated with them on a personal level. This swap was not intended as an advertisement or promotion, and we have no financial or material interest or gain from this. Ren Queenston had as much idea that this was happening as the rest of you.
  • Back in early 2014, a cover artist for Lapfox accused Ren Queenston of sexual assault on Tumblr. /u/RainyPug and /u/Melikesong became involved in Lapfox long after this incident and after the dust had settled. While they were aware of the accusations, due to the age of the accusations and the personal nature, they had chosen not to delve or take a personal stance.

This should go without saying, but please do not harass anyone involved. Discuss, criticize, suggest, but do not flame or attack other users.

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When you try to make an April Fools joke, but no one laughs and you end up promoting a literal rapist

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 03:31 AM PDT

Thanks to DBD! I'm gonna get married!��

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 07:46 AM PDT

Regarding yesterday’s “”””””””joke””””””””

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 04:49 AM PDT

If a mod ever removes your ''low effort'' shitpost remind them of april fools 2018

Posted: 01 Apr 2018 11:07 PM PDT

And how they promoted a violent rapist

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r/DeadByDaylight Moderator Announcement.

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 04:16 AM PDT

Moderator /u/Melikesong has mutually agreed to part ways, as of today he is relieved of his duty as moderator for r/deadbydaylight.

We wish the best for melikesong in all their future endeavors.

We ask the community to be civil and not to harass anyone further or continue with any ideas of witch-hunting.

"First of all I want to say that I'm sorry to have let such a controversial figure be the subject involved with the April Fool event of mayhem.

I've learned of everyone's concerns after what had happen.
Thank you to the people who've voiced their concerns provided insight over the situation in a respectable manner.

Thank you to everyone who have been sending me information regarding the situation and the parties involved.

And to milikesong I thank you for our time with us.

Now Sashay away." - mistar_z (Head Moderator)

Previous announement megathread : <Backup restored>

edit: some clarification and rephrased the manner in which the moderator was relieved.

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Call to arms: Mods step down if you were responsible or knew of the switch to the rapist/abuser sub reddit.

Posted: 01 Apr 2018 11:34 PM PDT

Title. Some things are funny and some are truly unacceptable. I find the judgement call of the mods whos idea it was to switch our sub with theirs lowest of the low. Please do the rest of this sub a favor and rescind your position as moderator.

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Adorable custom Dwight doll

Posted: 01 Apr 2018 11:38 PM PDT

I know why we get called toxic now

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 02:19 AM PDT

Old meme template, but still hilarious

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 09:43 AM PDT

fuck this game

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 06:27 AM PDT

So I just got this as part of an Ad...

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 01:47 AM PDT

Just made this coz I <3 Anna

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 04:01 AM PDT

Outrun the nurse after the nerfed post-blink lunge

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 07:22 AM PDT

We've done an experiment to see how easy it is to outrun the nurse, the survivor started running away later and later to see when it is too late: https://vimeo.com/262805605

I'm doing perfect blinks right on top of the survivor, I couldn't blink any closer as you can see with the Flannel addon.

And I've always lunged in perfectly straight lines so that noone can claim the reason was "swinging the mouse around"

The lunge at 00:52 is the best example, the survivor doesn't even move for about 1.3 seconds of the reappearance time and only starts running away about 0.2 seconds before reappearance and I already no longer have a chance to reach the survivor with the slow lunge.

PS: This is without sprint burst or anything

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Killers are so fast

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 06:19 AM PDT

About half the killers walk and still catch up with the survivors (with the exception of nurse) and the hag, huntress and wraith do a light jog.

Imagine them running at top speed. You see this in Billy with his chainsaw but imagine him without the weight of the chainsaw.

I personally would be terrified if I turn around and see Michael sprinting towards me like some sort of gold medal Olympian.

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When you decide to support a music artist but people dig up his past and start burning the subreddit

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 06:05 AM PDT

Your mom is the next Killer in Dead by Daylight. What are her perks?

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 07:59 AM PDT

BONUS: Your Dad is the next Survivor. What are his perks?

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Why was this subreddit used to advertise for a rapist/abuser for an April Fools "joke"?

Posted: 01 Apr 2018 11:05 PM PDT

You know your "prank" is bad when the person the prank's based of thinks it's obnoxious.

Posted: 01 Apr 2018 09:37 PM PDT

My Planet Needs Me

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 05:22 AM PDT

Lore time. What has the entity given to the killers?

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 02:49 AM PDT

So the entity is pretty unknown as of right now, right? It's a big mean jerk that feeds off of the hope of survivors. But it has been shown to pick favorites, if only for its personal gain. Killers, in particular, have been given specific tools and other goodies to assist them in their quest to appease the entity and feed it more hope.

So I guess the symbiotic relationship is this:

(Lore for the uninitiated below)

Entity is veri hongry, and snatches people from the real world into its own realm. This includes Psychopathic or mentally broken people (the killers) and seemingly average individuals (survivors).

Killers see that the Entity rewards them with a method to enact their carnal urges upon real, squirming meat. Real flesh and blood that lurches and recoils with every strike, something to appease years of torment or agony. Yes, so much meat and bone grinding together, delicate intricacies torn apart and reduced to mush on the ground. The entity provides, the killers appease and worship this entity for the gift they've been given. If the Entity rewards them for a job well done, they only want what gives them more satisfying death by their own hands.

Survivors are the stock. Yanked out of their home world and forced to run in circles, in a mindless game of cat and mouse, where even death is not an escape (roll credits). While many have learned that even dying will not give you sweet relief, the entity still garners its food from the hope survivors feel throughout the trials. Nearly opening an exit gate, being saved from one of the dreaded meathooks, narrowly avoiding the grasp of a killer's jagged, rusted appendage. Even when a survivor escapes, that little glimmer of 'maybe, just maybe, this time it will be different, and this campfire I'm running to will be a campfire on a beach, or in a state park, somewhere familiar where I can return to my bed' keeps the entity fed at the end.

So I guess I'm picking apart the small things the entity has done for killers (and even survivors?) to feed that much more hope as efficiently as possible.

Killer abilities:

I'm gonna try and separate this into two categories:

Possessed items

These are items the killer presumably had prior to their indoctrination into the Realm of the Entity. These include:

Hillbilly Chainsaw, Cannibal chainsaw, Huntress hatchets, Pig traps, Nightmare's Dream demon, Shape's evil within.

We know these killers had these items previously. Max thompson JR slaughtered his parents after they'd locked him away for many years. The cannibal was also brought up in a much nicer household than poor Maxy, but was taught that eating human flesh is just plum darn tastier than cow meat. As such, he utilized his chainsaw to easily murdalize dinner.

Anna wields hatchets like a professional, likely a skill taught by her late mother for hunting deer or other game in the woods. Amanda's traps were designed by her mentor, and presumably Freddy and Meyer's abilities were naturally inherited in the real world prior to being thrown into the Realm of the Entity. Meyers actually seems like a limitation due to his mental state rather than an ability (He's always a Tier 3 Meyers, but he needs to finish his stalking quota before he can do that part.)

Then there's Given items

These are items the Entity has given or enhanced for the usage of the killers. These include:

Wraith's Wailing bell, Trapper's bear traps, Nurse's SLB, Hag's Blackened Catalysts, Doctor's Carter's Spark.

We don't really know where these abilities came from, but what we do know is the Entity had something to do with them.

It's never explicitly stated where Phillip or Evan received their tools from. The Wailing bell and Bear traps seemed to materialize out of nowhere. Perhaps the Entity has given them to those killers to improve their killing potential? If we assume the world the Entity is pulling from is a logical world like ours, then we know that the Wailing bell isn't possible, not yet at least.

When the Wraith uses the bell, his body burns and smolders away into nothingness. The telltale 'veins' of the Entity cover his entire body and eat away his physical form. It's obvious the bell and Entity have some sort of relationship. This is a common theme with this category, the Entity makes itself known. Even the Trapper's bear traps have glowing scratch marks from the Entity on them.

Good ol' Sally appears to have mentally broken down after twenty years of torment. Strangling over fifty patients at the Asylum she worked at. Her addons show that the 'breath' of some of these patients were kept by her in some way. How? Did the entity take them for her? Whatever the case, when using Spencer's last Breath, the Nurse shows orange spheres of light in her palm, along with those crumbling, smoking textures along her upper arm. The entity gifted her this power. Did she maybe have some prior ability to 'steal the breath' of her victims?

The hag is an unusual creature. Her story is vague, stating that she was from some variety of village secluded from the rest of society. These village 'elders' had taught her ancient symbols for protection and good luck.

Blackened Catalyst as an ability states that the hag 'bends and shapes mud and decay to her will, forming copies of herself'. This may have been something the elders had taught her (whether she knew it or not) in her normal life, but is obviously something the Entity improved. Setting a mud trap in-game shows a small plume of orange particles, and we all know what orange means. Did Lisa have this ability before, though? She was possessed by this renewing energy after the cannibals had ruined her body in a dank cellar.

Doctor Carter is the final on this list. He's an unusual case.

Carter's spark is an electrical burst that the doctor himself can create. "The Entity has ignited a corrupted and inexhaustible spark in The Doctor's heart which allows him to generate electro-convulsive power at will." We know for a fact that this was something the entity 'initiated', but again, we know this had been dormant in Carter before.

The main question is, since the Entity gave these abilities to the killers, were they within the possession of the killers before they were pulled in? Did the Doctor and the Hag always have this previously unknown ability to generate energy and structures? Did the Wraith and Nurse always know about the Spirit world and how to enter it? Obviously the Entity plays some part in helping them traverse the spirit world, but is it just helping? So many questions.

Anyway, this was a long theory-riddled post, so I'm looking forward to what everyone has to add to this.

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Do you ever just face palm when you see what other survivors are doing?

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 09:01 AM PDT

I've finally reached rank 1 survivor (woohoo) and I was like positive it would be so much better. People would be smart and everything would be great. I'm also a rank 1 killer so I know survivors tend to be better and smarter down in these ranks. First few games I've played almost every game I find myself saying "what the hell are you doing?" Last game I just played I got hooked. A dude was literally a solid 5-8 steps away and hid in a locker as this Myers proceeded to go ACROSS THE MAP and down someone. And this person hid in a locker the entire time until I died and said "he has BBQ I couldn't leave "

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There's no need to title this one!

Posted: 01 Apr 2018 02:51 PM PDT

The Nurse can literally cancel her first blink and swing her weapon instead (still gives fatigue). This is done by clicking m1 the EXACT frame you let go of your Blink. Hard to pull off consistently.

Posted: 02 Apr 2018 12:31 AM PDT

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