Dead by Daylight - Quick info about the game elements ~ The Leet Guides

This guide offers roughly 30 second introductions into the basics of Dead by Daylight, along with infographs for each free Killer.

1st part: 10 seconds
2nd part: 15 seconds
3rd part: 35 seconds

For the players who just want to hurry up and play the game.

Match Summary

The Matches themselves

Each match/trial will feature 4 survivors and 1 killer. 5 generators need to be finished to power the exit gates so that survivors can escape the trial, and killers need to prevent anyone escaping.

Hooks

Hooks are the method of how the killers will kill the survivors. Each survivor has 3 hook stages. On the 3rd hook stage, the survivors will die. Every 60 seconds the survivor is on the hook, they will progress to the next hook stage until dead.

Endgame

When all 5 gens are finished, 2 exit gates will activate. Once the survivors open at least 1 exit gate, a timer will start that when ended, all remaining survivors left will instantly die.

During the Match

Bloodweb

The Bloodweb is where you can purchase items, perks, or add-ons to the said items (or to killer powers) to better prepare yourself for the match/trial.

Perks

You can select up to 4 perks that grant abilities and boosts.

Movement Speeds

There are 5 basic speeds

Terror Radius

As survivor, you will at some point start hearing a heartbeat with music intensifying. This is known as the terror radius. This heartbeat plays around the killer to indicate where the killer is located as a warning to survivors and has a radius typically at 32 meters.

Scratch Marks

Survivors will leave red scratch marks whenever they run that only the killer can see. This is how killers can locate survivors.

Skill Checks

These random timing events appear when healing and repairing generators, among other things.
failing will typically result in regressed progress, and alerting the killer of your location.

Status Effects

There is a multitude of ailments and boosts that can occur in a match/trial. They appear on the right side of your screen.

Totems

Certain perks will make a totem become a HEX totem and bring devastating ailments or monstrous boosts to killers. These Hex totems can be destroyed, along with their effects, however.

Objects

In every match/trial, you will find intractable objects. Every match you will find windows, pallets, treasure chests and lockers, but only some killers will make special objects appear in addition to these.

Characters

Who to pick?

Your choice of who to first pick as survivor should rely on your cosmetic preference and their teachable perks. Each Character has 3 unique perks, that if leveled up high enough,
can then be bought again to be able to appear on other character's bloodweb.

You can find information to help make the choice of who to choose from the info menu located when your cursor is above the character, as shown below.

Additionally, you can press the F1 key to view more details on the character's teachable perks. (This is for Killers as well)

Killers

Each Killer can drastically change how the trial plays out. Below is a summary of 5 unique killers, and how they alter the way survivors will need to play. Though only 5 are listed below, there are many more that will require you to adapt to the different play styles each killer introduces.