The Guide For Entitled Survivors

So as of late, between the game itself and becoming more active on the forums, I've noticed an alarming and disappointing trend of Survivors with just absolutely piss-poor attitudes. The kind that "gg ez" when they lose, and "Lmao dunked" when they win, in post-game lobby.

Sportsmanship in this game is rare to nonexistent, and I've played this game since beta-there's no reason for it. No reason to have stooped this level of cringe-tier salt.

I'm not saying you can't call out a camping killer or a sandbagging teammate. Do it. Shame them. Let them know they could have done better, and constructively help them learn how to play survivor or killer so that we can form a better playerbase.

But being mad at a Killer for playing a way you found "annoying" or a teammate for an accident when they didn't know better is the level of salt I expect from a MOBA-I don't want to see it in Dead by Daylight.

With that in mind I decided to create a little gift for you precious survivors who like to screech post-match: A nice little list of exactly what you aren't entitled to from Killers.

1) Killers are not obligated to let you leave by the hatch or gate.

If you get a nice killer that has eliminated everyone but you and the hatch or gate is available, the decision is theirs to make. They are not "toxic" or "a loser" just because they wanted the extra, tasty bloodpoints. If they let you go say thank you and be grateful.

2) Killers are not obligated to focus you when you are attempting to distract, unhook, or take a protection hit.

I see a large trend of survivors attempting to unhook RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE KILLER then get mad when the killer focuses the previously hooked survivor instead of the unhooker. I do that. Do you know why? Because I enjoy punishing survivors that do bad unhooks. I can get an easy rehook and you get NO bloodpoints for Safe Unhook. Because it was an Unsafe Unhook 😏

3) Killers are not obligated to ignore you if they see you going for an unhook.

Stealth is a large part of this game. When I first started playing, I used Wraith with Predator on him and it made it INCREDIBLY easy to see Survivors running over for an unhook. That's on you. Walk don't run.

4) Killers are not obligated to take your bait and chase you.

You all know what I'm talking about. When you're in a match and threegen yourselves badly, so you attempt to make the Killer chase you. You threegenned yourself, the Killer's job is to patrol generators and prevent Survivors from doing them. Generators are the honey, the survivors are the flies. Only rookie Killers get baited away from defending objectives.

5) Killers are not obligated to NOT run certain perks.

It pains me to say it, but Killers have a right to run what they like. You can complain and critique all you like in the post-match lobby, the perk is there, Killers can use it. Some Killers are like me and prefer a challenge, some are less like me and just prefer to be lame. That's their business not yours. All you can do as Survivor is learn to build counters.

6) Killers are not obligated to hook.

Slugging can be an incredibly viable and clever tactic that works for many killer builds. The perks No Mither, Tenacity, and Unbreakable exist. If you're afraid of getting slugged, run them. Otherwise deal with it.

Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.