Dead By Daylight: A Complete Guide To Status Effects

Isolation ’s Xenomorph is a true monster: the player cannot defeat it, but rather evade and outsmart it, a task that becomes increasingly difficult as the AI-based Alien learns and adapts its behavior based on the player’s actions. The frequent need to re-evaluate one’s tactics under the constant threat of discovery makes for a truly terrifying game experience, one absolutely worth of Alien: Isolation ’s legendary titular monst


While stealth can be crucial in a wide variety of titles, it behooves Killer and Survivor alike to be sneaky in Dead By Daylight . Sadly for the latter, only Killers get access to Undetectable, the game’s final positive sta


This makeshift table has a bone, skull, candles, and a dreary picture of a cabin in the woods. All these details surface questions about The Huntress. If the mother refers to her and what's so special about that framed photo of a ho


The Momento Mori that Freddy can perform in the game is directly inspired by the second movie in the franchise, A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Towards the end of the movie Freddy surprises the main character Jesse and stabs him through the b


The Nightmare or Freddy Kreuger is an interesting Killer within the lore of Dead by Daylight events By Daylight . With his desire to hunt and kill children and young adults he seems almost designed to go after the majority of the Survivors in the g


Another interesting fact is that the Nightmare is one of the few killers that doesn’t have glowing eyes. Out of the 21 killers only nine don’t have glowing eyes being; the Nightmare, Trapper, Nurse, The Shape, Hag, Huntress, Cannibal, and


Evidence that he’s short is when he vaults through the windows of the environment. Most Killers will simply step through one leg at a time. But the Nightmare puts both hands on the ledge and lifts himself over. The only other Killers that do this are the Pig and Ghost F


Similar to Cabin in the Woods , what starts off as a basic slasher premise soon expands into a much bigger story with supernatural undertones, one which is sure to please horror fans across the board. Until Dawn also features a bonus offering for movie fans in its cast of recognizable voice and motion capture performers, which includes Jordan Fisher, Hayden Panettiere, and Academy Award winner Rami Ma


The spiritual successor to another critically-acclaimed horror game, Limbo , Playdead’s Inside defies categorization. Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, part honestly-who-knows, the puzzle-platformer starts off very Nineteen Eighty-Four and ends up somewhere between Craven and Cronenberg. Players assume the role of a young nameless boy as he attempts to escape a dystopian society, the true nature of which is slowly revealed (though never definitively explained) over the course of the g

The Weathered Scarecrow takes on the idea of being buried alive or nature come to life to fight back. The roots taking over his face and not being able to see any indication of human other than his silhouette makes this outfit his most frighten


It's hard to notice the detail and effort put into each map when the players are running for their lives or looking for prey at every corner. But the detail is there. There are many little objects and abandoned scenes within Dead By Daylight maps that add to a killer's story or atmosph


Spooky season has officially arrived. All around the country, horror fans are curling up with their favorite scary movies as they dig into their third box of Halloween candy. But with the COVID-19 pandemic still requiring people to stay home, many have already exhausted that list of movies – and, let’s face it, that’s probably their fourth or fifth box of candy. But fear not, boils and ghouls: horror movies aren’t the only way to get into the spooky spirit this sea


In the purchasable outfit Surgeon of Slaughter, The Doctor wields a broken piece of medical equipment and scrubs in a way no patient wants to see. But again, it's the eyes that make this outfit the scariest of


It’s unclear why this is the case as technically The Nightmare is a ghost and all other ghosts in the game with faces, such as the Spirit or the Wraith, have glowing eyes. It seems whatever power is driving the other Killers is not in the Nightm


When compared to the other Killers, the Nightmare is surprisingly short. From a lore perspective this could explain why his targets in life were largely children and teenagers as targeting a full grown adult could be a prob


This brutal Status Effect is also exclusive to Survivors, a way for Killers to bypass those canny survivors’ tendency to heal themselves if they escape your wrath. There’s no returning to the healthy state once you’re Bro


It’s established that when the Nightmare was taken by the Entity it caused some of his powers to become more focused. Casual viewers of the movies might not notice this, but the Nightmare in the game has a particular power he didn’t have bef