I'd straight up recommend people ignore the Dead By Daylight reviews from critics so far. A while back I went around reading them and they flat out do not understand the game at all.
It's a 4v1, 4 survivors working together to repair generators so they can power the exit gates. Open them and escape and you're safe for now. Any mistake will make noise or get you caught. Run and you'll leave tracks the killer can follow.
Objective and healing based actions require skill checks to be completed. Your survivor is stressed, got to help keep those nerves together.
On the killer side, there's about 12 killers in the game so far and each play very differently. The trapper places down bear traps, doctor drives people insane, Myers stalks and so on.
At first, when you're new and not very good, it will seem like killers are op and extremely strong. The game will be scarier. That's a good thing. As you get better, you'll see survivors are stronger andve capable of a lot more.
I don't stealth much for example as I enjoy getting chased and can pull off jukes and mind games. As killer, I enjoy the challenge and again, mind games.
There's a pretty deep progression system in a non traditional sense. There's 3 unique perks for every character in the game and a bunch of general ones. Unique ones can be upgraded to reachable for other characters to get (obviously restricted to the same side so survivors don't get killer perks and stuff) and each perk can be levelled from 1 to 3. You do this via the blood web and in each match, your performance earns you blood points which you spend in this web.
As you get better and your knowledge increases, and your perk collection grows, you'll start to come up with different perk builds (up to 4 equipped on each character at any 1 time) and play styles to go along with them.
The game is very focused and that works very well in its favour. It means generally good map design, clear objectives, brilliant gameplay and more than enough room to mess around in and have the unexpected happen.
There's pretty cool lore in game for why the maps look kinda like related locations but very distorted. If you care for that kind of thing, there's a really nice amount in here.
Visually I kind of love it as aside from environment, action and grunts of pain, the games play like silent films/movies. The visual style enhances that and does enough to build up a great atmosphere.
Also if you like, you can play against your friends in kill you friends mode or play with friends in a little party of survivors against an unknown killer.
Thought I'd throw in some stuff about it as I'm seeing a lot of negativity here and I'd hate to see poor critic reviews have people missing out on what I consider to be one of the very best games out there.
It's held more than respectable viewing figures on Twitch and YouTube for along time now to the point that some point have their careers on those platforms playing this game. User/player reviews like wise are really positive and show there's a lot to love.
The devs are extremely active when it comes to new content, changing or fixing stuff and the community too.
I can't get enough of it. I just love this game and I'm going to have to buy it yet again now! If you like horror games you're doing yourself a disservice by not giving it a chance.
Oh and people! That trailer had no gameplay of any sort! Go look up some videos by people who are decent at the game!!!
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Re: Asymmetric Horror Game Dead By Daylight Places You In Your Very Own Slasher Movie
I'd straight up recommend people ignore the Dead By Daylight reviews from critics so far. A while back I went around reading them and they flat out do not understand the game at all.
It's a 4v1, 4 survivors working together to repair generators so they can power the exit gates. Open them and escape and you're safe for now. Any mistake will make noise or get you caught. Run and you'll leave tracks the killer can follow.
Objective and healing based actions require skill checks to be completed. Your survivor is stressed, got to help keep those nerves together.
On the killer side, there's about 12 killers in the game so far and each play very differently. The trapper places down bear traps, doctor drives people insane, Myers stalks and so on.
At first, when you're new and not very good, it will seem like killers are op and extremely strong. The game will be scarier. That's a good thing. As you get better, you'll see survivors are stronger andve capable of a lot more.
I don't stealth much for example as I enjoy getting chased and can pull off jukes and mind games. As killer, I enjoy the challenge and again, mind games.
There's a pretty deep progression system in a non traditional sense. There's 3 unique perks for every character in the game and a bunch of general ones. Unique ones can be upgraded to reachable for other characters to get (obviously restricted to the same side so survivors don't get killer perks and stuff) and each perk can be levelled from 1 to 3. You do this via the blood web and in each match, your performance earns you blood points which you spend in this web.
As you get better and your knowledge increases, and your perk collection grows, you'll start to come up with different perk builds (up to 4 equipped on each character at any 1 time) and play styles to go along with them.
The game is very focused and that works very well in its favour. It means generally good map design, clear objectives, brilliant gameplay and more than enough room to mess around in and have the unexpected happen.
There's pretty cool lore in game for why the maps look kinda like related locations but very distorted. If you care for that kind of thing, there's a really nice amount in here.
Visually I kind of love it as aside from environment, action and grunts of pain, the games play like silent films/movies. The visual style enhances that and does enough to build up a great atmosphere.
Also if you like, you can play against your friends in kill you friends mode or play with friends in a little party of survivors against an unknown killer.
Thought I'd throw in some stuff about it as I'm seeing a lot of negativity here and I'd hate to see poor critic reviews have people missing out on what I consider to be one of the very best games out there.
It's held more than respectable viewing figures on Twitch and YouTube for along time now to the point that some point have their careers on those platforms playing this game. User/player reviews like wise are really positive and show there's a lot to love.
The devs are extremely active when it comes to new content, changing or fixing stuff and the community too.
I can't get enough of it. I just love this game and I'm going to have to buy it yet again now! If you like horror games you're doing yourself a disservice by not giving it a chance.
Oh and people! That trailer had no gameplay of any sort! Go look up some videos by people who are decent at the game!!!