Tips for a Beginner Freddy
I just got Freddy yesterday, and I'm looking for some beginner tips/tricks for him. Any helpful advice out there? The some 45 minutes of guides I've watched have hardly assisted.
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Ok, freddy is hard to pin point while a survivor is asleep, use los blockers when you know you are approaching a sleeping survivor to get the most out of your stealth
Freddy has amazing synergy with pop and bbq (even better with thrilling tremors instead of bbq) to teleport to a gen and instantly pop it, makes a pretty strong 2 perk combo to use in your builds
If a survivor doesn't predrop a pallet just stand in the pallet and place dream snares on the side the survivor is running on and run them into the snare and double back, its pretty much a guaranteed hit as long as the survivor is asleep
thats 1 tip per ability, so start with that
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I don’t know if I’m particularly qualified to give tips but but something I found helped was, you don’t always have to use your blood channel to teleport. You can use it to spook people working on and make’em scatter.
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Use the Dream Projection during a chase, instead of only to apply pressure. If a survivor is running to a gen, prepare your teleport.
If they go all the way, teleport and hit them.
If not, cancel the teleport and then hit them.
Snares are stronger than Pallets, so keep that in mind.
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dont get yourself used to fake pallets addon as the snare is so much better in loops and strats this is really the first thing you need to learn with freddy as to when trap and when to chase. ideally freddy is stronger when he gets survivors sepparated as well if they are grouping up on a gen thats when you do you teleport and theres a perk that shows you when 2 or more survivors are on a gen i highly suggest you look for it i think its a piggy perk.
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Don't place your snares directly in front of windows. Figure out the distance from a window where you normally get a "Fast Vault" notification as survivor, and place snares just before there. It forces their vault at that window to be a slow vault.
You can use snares as wards to tell you where survivors are. Placing them in choke points and on objectives, can give you a lot of information and even start to teleport early as a survivor is reaching a point, like basement stairs when a survivor is hooked, hallways leading to a generator at the end of the hall, or the exit gate switches during EGC.
Learn to hide your red stain, watch looping guides for Killers, and common tiles.
If two or more gens are close together and you know survivors are working on a gen (BBQ for example), teleport to a nearby gen instead the gen they are on and you may sneak up on them easier.
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Yes, I was considering almost never using Dream Pallets outside of customs lol... I just can't see your average Survivor being that disconnected from the game that they're totally unable to remember where pallets were previously dropped, let alone in what areas most of them had been. This stuff is essentially what I got from the videos I sunk my eyes into, but I thank you nonetheless. I'll keep in mind particularly to keep pressure on as many Survivors as possible whilst using Projections to set up easy hits... that's a thing I learned from watching some Rank 1 gameplay. Cheers.
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I think this is where Discordance (especially when paired with Pop) really comes in handy. Being able to pinpoint where large congregations of Survivors are located and having the ability to easily reach them is definitely one of the predominant reasons I chose to purchase Freddy. Thanks for your input... I'll keep it in mind!
Edit: Typo
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Dream Projection is a fun zoning tool that you can use mid-chase to catch a survivor off-guard. I find the dream pallets more fun, but the snares are more powerful.
For snares, try to predict where the survivors would go. If they walk around them, it will screw them over because you can walk on them yourself without getting slowed down.
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Cheers mate. Have fun playing the Dream Demon!
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Use Dream Pallets.
No, really.
People say that Snares are stronger than pallets, and objectively they might be, but Snares have been nerfed SIGNIFICANTLY in recent updates. Now, you only have 5, and they slow you down a lot when placed, meaning it's only really worth placing them during a chase when a survivor is trapped at a loop. Even in this scenario, there's nothing stopping the survivor from just leaving the tile, or dropping pallets earlier, making Snares semi-weak against better players. You invest a lot in using Snares, and right now they are literally just Clown bottles but infinitely worse. They have no utility, and above all, aren't very fun to use. Dream Pallets, on the other hand, require virtually no investment on top of having more ammo. They're a little harder to use effectively than Snares, but unlike Snares they are quite literally a guaranteed hit when the survivor drops the pallet.
The weakness of Dream Pallets is that especially attentive survivors can figure out if a pallet is a Dream Pallet during their brief moments awake, but that requires them to physically visit the pallet location and remember it, which poses a problem when they enter new territory in a chase that you've placed Dream Pallets in without them knowing.
Snares are better for dealing with windows, and Pallets are better for dealing with, well, pallets. But Snares encourage the survivor to pre-drop pallets and shift-W, not guaranteeing a hit, while pallets give no in-the-moment indication and ARE a free hit. And to be fair, Freddy's addons have been completely gutted so using an add-on slot for Dream Pallets doesn't really matter. In my experience with nerfed Freddy, at least, Pallets have proven much more reliable and useful over the course of the game than Snares.
Unless you're on an indoor map, because indoor maps have no free pallet placing locations. There, they're a lot weaker, and Snares come out on top.
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When you spook them and they turn right into you is almost as nice as herding into a bear trap
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