Killer Tips

One big tip for you.

Fake your direction.

This means walking one way while facing the other direction to hide your red stain.

Oh and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8u0jRxN2kQ

Learn to hide your red stain. Survivors rely too much on this.

I learned a lot from watching Twitch streamers. I love Scott Jund’s style of playing killer.

Learn how to moonwalk, hiding your red stain and mind-gaming long wall jungle gyms will help you in cutting off loops.

Don’t be afraid of pallets. Respecting pallets makes for a tough time because you’ll be kicking pallets all games. Eat the pallet. Swing through the pallet. Sometimes you’ll hit the survivor through the pallet and you’ve got an easy down and hook.

This is all a basic M1 killer like Leatherface. Of course it would be a little different if you’re playing a killer like Nurse or Spirit.

if you ask me, start playing the other side.

if you have problems understanding something, see how the other side deals with it and try to build some counterplay around that.

example: you play doctor and survivors always avoid you, you cant find them at all after their tier 1 popped and usually get ~1 sacrifice per game.

in this case, play survivor and find out about possible counterplay (e.g. lockers). then, when you know how it works watch out for exactly these counterplay methodes. you will find yourself improving more and more ^^

Couple things from my own experience (60/40 in favor of killer).

• Play both sides to understand the roles more completely.
• Study the maps, and familiarize yourself with trouble spots that are consistent on them.
• Don't be afraid to abandon chasing survivors that know how to maximize resources and tile efficiency. Unfortunately, if they're all good survivors, you're going to lose that game, it's inevitable.
• If you're super competitive, play only nurse and spirit. No other killers offer nearly as much against the best survivors (nurse completely ignores survivor defenses if played well and spirit mitigates them somewhat through guessing games). Even then, I'd highly suggest only playing nurse if losing is just that terrifying for you.
• Adjust your strategy depending on the play style of the survivors (I'm still bad at this, since I'm a pretty 'nice' killer, having played both sides). What this means is, patrol/camp if they all rush the hook constantly (they're at least not doing generators), or tunnel down a survivor if you have few gens left and no pressure. It sucks for them, but you'll lose the game faster with four of them on the map (by 2 gens left, 1 survivor is hopefully dead). Ideally, everyone gets a fair shot at playing the video game, but as we all know, there are certain aspects of the game that are designed in a way to encourage general scumbaggery.
• Try to control a pocket of generators, this usually forces survivors to do the ones on the outskirts of the map which are typically further away and harder for you to patrol on most non-mobile killers.
• Recognize that against a hyper optimized group of solo/SWF survivors running the best perks (typically a shitload of second chance style perks like DS, MoM, Adrenaline, etc), you're going to lose. The number of mistakes they would have to make to lose with such an insanely powerful toolkit is uncanny.
• Know which maps are good/bad for your specific killer. An easy example of an incredibly bad killer map for most of the cast is Haddonfield, where most killers will struggle due to the existence of semi-infinites in houses, buttloads of open windows, and balanced landing exacerbating the issue.
• Learn how to properly run certain tiles within the capabilities of the killer you're playing. Any non-nurse killer can benefit from this information, as they will have to play into certain setups at some point. Also, learn which setups are too risky to chase a survivor into (double jungle gyms next to shack would be unadvised against a good survivor).
• Try your best to have fun and just remember, you're not the power role. Everything you do as a killer is dictated by the survivors. You are not proactive, you are reactive. For competitive-minded folks, you have two options in nurse and spirit for winning semi-consistently and 3 - 4k'ing. If you play other killers, it'll just be for fun or variety, never expect to win against decent survivors. You're playing something different for the sake of your own sanity at this point. The balance in the game, while better than in the past, is still woefully inadequate. Think of winning as a bonus if you're doing a killer rotation, that way, you'll maintain your will to play the game until BVHR decides it's time to actually fix their product.
• Vote with your wallet! If you don't agree with how BVHR is running their game, don't buy those auric cells or killers with real money. Save up shards and get content for free or just don't play the game. A loss in income and player count will highlight for them that something is wrong with their game and that they should look into it.
• Ah, and last but not least, I recommend breaks from this game every so often if it becomes too frustrating. A couple days, a week, or maybe even a few months. Your skill will decline a bit, but it'll be worth it in the end as you'll still have the game installed and ready to play. DBD's only advantages at the moment are its licensed acquisitions, casualness, and zero serious competition in the market.
• I hope these tips help you. Good luck and have fun (where possible).

@DudeDelicious Especially when using Class photo...i LOVE that addon

@DudeDelicious I perfer going with Nancy's masterpiece with the class photo. Lets me reach out and quickly tag multiple people (expecially in corn maps) instead of having to walk up to each.