Share your wholesome DbD moments!

Just now rough game against god their nurse I’m last hook slugged I’m crawling to the last guy to be res nurse kills him and closes hatch right in front of me sees me and she knows I have a key carry’s me to hatch as I’m nearly bleed out let’s me wiggle free and escape

fun but i can.t play it

Back when the sabo meta existed, I mained Nurse and had a sabo trio in my lobby.

Well, you can imagine what happened, all hooks got saboed, though I still managed to get 2 kills thanks to the basement and irongrasp (which was meta back then).

I was still pretty pissed about the sabo round though decided to still write gg into the endgame chat. The trio thanked me for the round and asked me to join them in a KYF round since they loved playing against Nurses (back then Nurse was the least played killer).

I joined them with some pessimism but turned out they were like the most wholsesome persons I've met on the internet. Even now after 4 years and them quitting DBD, I still play with them regularly.

I have a few I could share and a few funny moments.

My first wholesome moment is when I was playing survivor and I could kind of tell I had a fellow new player with me and they could not do a gen for the life of them. I followed them around as best I could trying to guide them and keep them safe. When the gate was finally opened the poor little newb was on a hook but I quickly ran in unhooked and let the killer sacrifice me. I mean as a new player nothing gives more hope for a game then actually winning so I did not mind taking the loss.

I also do this for killers though that are doing bad or just having a bad game like when a killer gets a map horribly designed for them and they can't get a kill or hook. I will let the killer hook me and most the time even sacrifice me. This has actually got me a few friend request from the killers. I think as a kind of thank you for being a nice person.

I mean the game is only fun in my opinion if we all treat each other with respect and treat each other the way you would want to be treated. I know how cheesy that is but I love when a killer camps a poor survivor and says oooooh that is fair play. Then that killer tries survivor and gets camped and cries how toxic it is and how cheap it is. They quickly forget though 2 games ago they just did the exact thing to many people and loved it. This goes the same way with survivor but a little less. It is more about survivors who play with comms and abuse the killer with second chance perks. You would never want to deal with that as a killer so how is it fun doing it to another killer/player and really where is the challenge if you can literally abuse the killer and just keep tabs on them. We need to stop thinking about I and think about the game as WE.

Now the funny moments in my gameplay. My first time learning to play Spirit and Nurse scared the poop out of me. I was hiding and boom they were in my face and I about fell off my couch from jumping. I sense then have played enough to not get scared but I still have my moments. The other day my husband was watching me play and I was quietly moving and I guess kind of zoned out from so many games. Well a survivor came running up and vaulted a window and the sound and just the instant alertness of waking me up and seeing someone in front of me. I yelped and my husband again laughed but the headphones made it even more scary. lol I love this game and the community. =)

Just now I had a Blight match against purple-ranked solo survivors with about 100 hours experience apiece. I am a rank 1 killer with 2k hours experience. I was also using Blight's Iri Blight Tag (his insta-down addon) after maining Blight since his release.

It would be sufficient to say that the match did not go well for them. I got at least 3 insta-downs and had such a blast that I happily gave the last survivor hatch. Then comes the post-game chat:

"Gg <3", I said.

"gg :(" one of them responds.

"Sadface?" I asked incredulously.

"You kinda f****d us," another quips.

"I hope you at least enjoyed getting f****d" was all I could think to say. This launched a long, animated, and friendly conversation in which they ultimately vowed to gain more experience and return for a rematch. I'll be waiting for you, mates.

My Friend said I wasn't enough (it was all joking around) so I went to a corner to cry in the match and just stayed there all match, the killer did end up killing me but in end game chat he asked what was going on. So I told him what my friend said and he asked if there was anything he could do to make it better, I said just love me so he friended me and gifted me a game.

Assuming the survivors were nice, I'll usually give the last guy hatch. Rules:

-No clicking

-No Teabagging

And it's that simple. Just don't be a toxic freak, and you get a free carry to the hatch.

Got to do this twice as Myers tonight, and it felt really great.

Brain hurts from thinking on when I actually had wholesome moments. Seeing as most of the time it's either just a normal match or there's just a bunch of toxicity or other ick going on.

Uhhhh... I'd have to say when we had a hacker in our game... friends and i were in a 3 stack and we ran after the rando hacker trying to help the killer get the get them (unfortunately we couldn't accomplish our goal to trap the hacker). We felt sorry for that killer, but due to the hacker the killer let us live despite me pointing at the hook in their face and trying to let them have a kill.

It was a while ago but I was losing horribly as hillbilly and I saw them all waiting at the exit gate. I thought they'd be toxic but we spent like 5 minutes chasing each other. We got so many bloodpoints and I had a fun time. Was laughing the whole time as I ran after them and they ran after me

I was playing hillbilly for the first time, and, long story short: I sucked. Only got one sacrifice before the gates were open. I didn't care much, I was just having fun. I went to the gates and started spinning around as a "congrats! You guys absolutely wrecked me!" to the survivors and they joined in! It was the most fun moment I'd had playing since winning my first ever match [I was real proud of that one, still am!] and I added them all as friends. We play together sometimes! [Quick note, this happened on mobile, if anyone involved is reading this: Hi!! You guys are great!!]

Today I just had a rollercoaster of 3 matches. I was going for the Evil Incarnate achievement, but since I always go for the cheapest bloodweb items first, I only had enough for 2 attempts. The first one went pretty poorly. I brought my only indoor map offering (Lery's) and by chance the survivors brought Red Forest, so that game went down the drain fast.

Second attempt, I used a Black Ward for my last set of tombstone + hair, and the random map was Hawkins, which is pretty good for that. 2 survivors even realized what I was doing and let me stalk/kill them for free after a while. *Then the game crashed* when I was about to kill the last survivor. Since a game crash technically counts as a DC, I lost my addons and the Black Ward couldn't do anything to help.

Begrudgingly, I launched the game again since I hadn't done a survivor game yet. Since I was so heartbroken by last game, my plan was to just take my 300 daily XP and f**k off, by spamming vaults then killing myself on hook. But by chance, the killer was a friendly Ghostface with the new Halloween outfit. This inspired me to not kill myself on hook.

I still need a few hours break, but that last game made me much less salty in the moment, which I'm very grateful for.

Yeah, it's not like me to do that. I was very tilted at that time, and now that it's been several hours, I can't believe I was gonna do something so selfish.

I was trying to do the 6-hits Blight challenge. I’m absolutely terrible with Blight (on console btw).

Found a David who realized what I was doing and let me hit him. He’d take the time to heal up with self care each time so I could hit him again. When I missed (yeah, I know, and he was standing still too!) he’d dutifully work a gen while my power recharged. He did this for all 6 hits. I gave him some pallet stuns and rushed everyone else out the gate so he could take hatch.

What a guy!

I always have my name set to "Doctor's Girlfriend" because I obviously love Doc and I like to face him. A little roleplay doesn't hurt in the match to break the sweat fest and just have some fun.

I had one doctor down me when he could, but he would just nod at me and leave. I knew he was playing along and the other survivors caught on. At the end where I was the only survivor, my teammates were suprisingly amused and we all played along with the survivor x Doctor joke. Cringy I know, but I was happy to see that people in the community have a sense of humor and don't resort to salt every match y'know? It's a game, we should all have fun🥰

I had a game where I was Oni. I demolished 2 survivors and they were dead at 4 gens. Patrolling gens, I saw a David. And guess what? He was running no mither. Against Oni. Well, he sat on the hill giving me blood while I did loops around the map, because the last survivor was a blendette. I must have gotten my power about 5 times before I found her hiding near a gen. Downed her, hooked her, gave David hatch. Idk if this counts as working with the killer for him, but he was just vibing so I didn’t want to kill him.

A couple years back, I was solo queueing against a trapper on mother's dwelling. At 5 gens, teammate 1 steps in a trap near basement and gets hooked in basement. With kindred, I watch as teammate 2 goes in for the save, but he doesn't make it in time-- teammate 1 kills himself on the hook and teammate 2 gets stuck in the very same trap. Upon getting picked up, he dc's. And finally, teammate 3 dc's because what's the point? We're not winning this game. Meanwhile, there's still 5 gens left, and this is before the endgame update, back in the days of hatch standoffs and having to complete one more gen for each person alive before the hatch is even an option--- so I set off to find the killer. I manage to find him and I think he was looking for me; I wave him toward me, trying to tell him to just slice me and get it over with, but he doesn't. He swings but doesn't hit me (telling me to follow him) and this trapper leads me to each gen and lets me do all 5 of them. In return, I let him chase and down me a couple times, and he lets me pallet stun him for more points, but he never hooks me. He even lets me open the door and still gives me hatch.

I play on xbox so he and I had a conversation afterward via messages. I thanked him for letting me get my points and escape and he told me it was no problem because he felt bad for me and said he couldn't believe they all left me like that. He even mentioned being more disappointed since we were at higher ranks (he was red and I was purple).

I don't remember your name and I don't even know if you remember me or that match, but I still remember lol. You're a legend, keep doing what you're doing👍️

The most wholesome moment I have experienced in DBD was actually the very first time I played a trial. My first trial ended on January 10 @ 12:00am (per the timestamps of the 3 achievements below), but my journey to get to that first trial literally took weeks. If you don't feel like wasting your time, skip all the way down to where it says "my first time:" as that part describes my first DBD game. However, the backstory part will likely shed some light why my first impression of DBD was likely very different from everyone else's and why I will never ever forget my first trial.

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Backstory: Getting DBD, and all it took to get it to run for the first time

Up until recently, I was strictly a Linux user, who once upon a time actually held full developer status for a particular distribution, and who has not used any Windows version in any substantial way after Windows XP. In fact, up until recently, the last Windows version that I purposely installed on my own system - even if as just a secondary OS - was Windows XP and this happened in the days where you either used Windows, or you simply didn't get to use that particular piece of software. I am not talking about games or even running MS office; you absolutely had to have Internet Explorer at your disposal to work with anything built on top of ActiveX. Even today you really have to do some ridiculous heavy lifting to get anything built on top of that framework to work, as even MS Edge browser doesn't support it out of the box (active X is one of those underlying reasons why many large companies with "stable" infrastructure already in place cannot easily migrate, migrate or in some cases even patch their systems without going offline until a brand new rework is implememnted).

I got hurt towards the end of last year, to a point where I couldn't walk for about 2 months. After running out of Netflix, one day I decided to get a new video game. Now, these days Linux distributions are no longer at the mercy of their closed-source big brother. While many older games can simply be installed and ran with Wine under Linux, this approach can take a lot of time, energy and countless useless packages to get a newer title going. However, Valve Corp actually allows for Linux to now be a more-or-less viable "native" platform for Steam games. I already had Payday 2 from before and that ran beautifuly with Steam, under Linux.

It was time to get a new game....and I already vaguely knew what game I wanted to get, but I just couldn't remember the exact title nor much details about it. I definitely knew it was a horror game, you are in a group of friends, and the title had something to do with the morning. I don't remember how I worded it in the search box but the first game I found was Dying Light.

I already had, played, may have actually beat ( I think?) and ultimately gave up on Dying Light. I was heartbroken... I couldn't believe that the game I was thinking of immediately buying just now, and was looking forward to playing happened to be this lackluster clone of Dead Island - a game with far more originality at release, as well as scenery that didn't make you want to jump off of the nearest building.

I decide to give google another shot, but this time make the search even simpler and typed in: "Horror game killer with friends", and on the very top of the page, there was some sort of a reference to DBD (checking it now, there are two videos that come up before the text search results) and the title "Dead by Daylight". Bought it right away, (afraid it might morph into the Dying Light if I don't)

1. Own Dead by Daylight
2. Install DBD through Steam Play under Linux
3. DBD is complaining about DX11. I don't get it, I know I already have all the necessary DX drivers and libraries.
4. .....
5. DBD is actually complaining about DX Feature Level < 11.
6. .....(learning about differences between DX11 compatibility and feature level 11 compatiblity)
7. Great, our GPU specs apparently allow for FL=11 and DDI=11.2 , I wonder if DBD will even star,t if we make(read brute force) a bunch of (likely unstable) "patches" to our kernel drivers, and anything else we can see is being actively read on startup.
8. .....(Days spent on this, but still having fun)
9. .....(Starting to feel a little bitter, doesn't seem fair for Steam to sell, and even allow the install of a game on OS running that Steam client, even when that OS apparently cannot run it)
10. ....(progress made)
11. .....(Steam registers game startup. Wow the loading screen looks to have gotten past the feature level error)
12. ..... (Excitement)
13. ....Crash!
14. ..... (Disappointment)
15. "What in lord's name is Easy-anti cheat????" (After more research, I realize that EAC will be incredibly difficult if not outright impossible to circumvent on a long-term basis)
16. ....(Sulking)
17. ....(Not installiing Windows just to play a game, no way)
18. ....(Fine, I might install it, but I am certainly not buying an actual copy of Windows)
19. ....(Quick. the laptop I bought few years ago, must have come with some Windows version pre-installed, I bet it still has a serial number on the back)
20. ....Windows 7 - and i even left it as a second OS.
21. ....Win7 apparently will not do, can't remember why exactly but at least Win 8.1 , or better yet Win10 was needed. Testing DBD on a laptop with IGPU - even one capable of DX FL 11.0 would not have been fruitful anyway.
22. ....(By now, I somehow managed to get Steam to show that I have been playing DBD for over 1 hour because of multiple starts and crashes)
23. ..........(days pass)....
24. End of December, Christmas Eve, spending it with parents, siblings and family.(Everyone's a comedian this year, cracking jokes about the cane I am still using to walk)
25. Find out my dad bought a new (refurbished) computer last year but it has gotten really slow already
26. I copy the serial number for Win10 thats taped to the chassis, and put Elementary OS linux on my dad's comp (terrible but simple distro)
27. ....(I forgot to check if I have enough free storage to make two large partitions, one for W10 and one for steamapps etc)
28. .....(First I move things around, then I quickly give up and order a new HDD)
29. .....The HDD gets here after New Year's. Waste more time getting the WIn 10 installation image, making the bootable usb, and installing the disk inside the case wastes even more time.
30. .....Installation screen shows a bazillion versions of Windows 10 that I can install. The serial specifies Win 10 Pro.
31. .....I see Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Pro N...... N probably stands for netwroking, yeah let's go with Windows 10 Pro N.
32. .....Fantastic! Wait, there are no codecs installed, Windows Update does not solve the issue, MS forums are not helpful
33. .....I learn that N in Windows 10 Pro N does not stand for Networking, but is actually the European edition of Win 10 where many default libraries are not installed by default (Perhaps going with E instead of N in the future might prevent others from making this mistake).
34. .....(Debate formatting and installing Windows 10 Pro instead. Decide to do it. Somehow install Win 10 Pro N again, I kid you not)
35. .....Another 4 hours for everything to update, and DBD to download and install.

The game finally starts and I am in the main menu.

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DBD: My first Trial

1. (What? You can play through the main storyline as the killer too??!! That's so awesome!)
2. (Let's play the survivor's storyline first.)
3. (Nice, they have a bunch of different characters) Not sure why I see Bill from L4D as one of them, but this is suppose to be a horror game so less I know beforehand the better and I don't really question it either.
4. I choose Dwight, then click on either the Loadout or bloodweb and see the initial message about perk slots.) I guess you can level them up like in any other RPG.
5. Hit ready, there is a lobby. 60 second timer runs out before I even realize there is a chat there to use.
6. My first trial starts......I spawn in some hospital (I am 99% I got Lery's Institute as my first map).
7. I have no idea what to do yet (or at all), so I do what everyone does in any story-based new game. I pick a direction and walk/run forward.....and wait for that first cutscene .....the cutscene never comes.
8. Instead I see another player running by me (They know what to do! Need to follow.....)
9. I follow, they start doing something to some machine. They are doing it for like 15 seconds.....I get closer....oh I can help!
10. My 1st skill check ends up also being my first failed skill check. (Not sure what just happened.... I wonder if I can die from these if it happens again. Still should try to actually hit it next time)
11. ....(a few seconds pass)
12. ... My survivor friend runs away from our generator..... I guess he is done with his portion. I guess I have to finish mine first because my repair bar is not full yet......so I stay....
13. .........(What?).......(What was that?)......(I could have sworn I just saw a ghost that looked like the killer from Scream chase after my survivor friend. I guess Ghostface costume by itself might not be trademarked and in the public domain or something)
14. .......(some other survivor got hit, I just heard a scream)
15. ......(Oh no, the killer is running back).......(He can definitely see me)........(Nevertheless, I am gonna look away, and pretend I don't see him)
16. .....about 5 seconds later, I realize two things a) that is indeed the killer from scream and b) looking away was not the optimal strategy
17. ..... (I find myself crawling now. Tried to recover , but full recovery seems to be disabled..... Maybe this is all part of the intro)
18. ......Someone helps me up....but the killer finds me right away......crawling again.....maybe I am suppose to crawl to an exit. Let's crawl
19. ......I think another survivor is now also crawling on the floor like me now., I can see shadows of 2 more.... Let's crawl to that general area.
20. .....(See the killer a couple of times on the way. Yep, definitely Ghostface)
21. .....(Both the other survivor and I get healed by others. I find out I can help heal others just like I could help with the generators)
22. .....(Helping out with a generator, feeling usefull. terrified of skill checks, they seem impossible, so much going on)
23. .....Ghostface returns. Someone ends up crawling again. This time I run but he is chasing me.
24. .....I see a message on the bottom of the screen. Space Bar to do something. I hit the space bar but also let go of the shift. Pallet drops in front of me. .....crawling again.
25. ......(Some gens pop while everything is happening, but bear in mind this is still the first 5 min of my very first DBD trial with no prior knowledge of gameplay)
26. ....while crawling I figure out that the number in the bottom left corner corresponds to the generators and shows how many are left.
27. ....For now I keep crawling. Not sure if I should crawl or lay still and just recover.
28. ....Get helped up again....Feeling useful by helping heal another even though I am injured myselfm. Then helping with a gen.
29. ..... Fail another check, my survivor friend runs away from our gen (more likely me). I decide to stay by myself and at least try to get better at these skill checks. (they seem to be the key!)
30. ....Ghostface comes back. Lets me finish my generator....then shortly after I find myself crawling again.
31. ...(by now, I understand how this self-recovery stage works so I try to fill the health bar before crawling somewhere else)
32. ...Final generator pops. There is a msg about Exits where the gen number used to be. This must be it!
33. ...(What just happened....Ok, I guess that's a timer of sorts and I have to get somewhere before it runs out)
34. ..(I crawl into some large room, with stairs going up.....seems reasonable, let's crawl up the stairs.)
35. ...Now, It looks like 2 of the survivors have made it out of the hospital. There should still be one more. left.....
36. ....Nevermind, they left too.......and Ghostface just found me.
37. ....(Now I am being carried by the killer.. I am fully expecting to die a gruesome death.
38. ....Ghostface drops me near a spot that looks like our exit gate, then ;et's me crawl through it and escape.
39. .....(This level of confusion should not even be remotely possible)
40. .....(The short, but very pleasant and kind-hearted post-game chat makes it clear that Dead by Daylight might not actually be the game I was originalyl looking for after all)

For those of you who have not guessed it, (yet might have read through all of that nonesense above) the game I actually happened to be looking for when I found Dead by Daylight is called Until Dawn (only available for PS4 it seems) and if I had typed in anything else into google, or actually found Until Dawn and saw that it was not a PC game I likely would have never even heard of DBD. Similarly, if I had encountered any other killer in my first game, or some very toxic gameplay, I might have given up on trying to get better at the game.

I never ended up getting or playing Until Dawn.

Since my first match on January 10th, I have put in about 1700 hours into DBD, met many good-hearted survivors at all different ranks, from brown all the way to red where I mostly play these days, and even made a few DBD friends along the way.,

.....but even all of that still pales in comparison to finally being able to consistently hit those dreaded skill checks.

Finally, these are the 3 very special and highly memorable Achievements I got after my first DBD game.

I'm not always feeling charitable when I play DbD as I've found that when you give killers/survivors an inch they'll take 5 gens and an exit gate or a 4K. However I was against a Billy the other night who clearly was trying to get one of the chainsaw challenges done. My friend and I let him get it done and he just chilled and let us escape without issue.