Dead by Daylight: How to Survive & Escape

"The killer is behind me again isn't he?"

Turn on the Generators

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A Skill Check while repairing a generator.

As we stated earlier, the whole objective of the game for the survivors is to turn on five of the many generators distributed around the map. When the match starts and you spawn into the map it’s important to gather a bearings of your surroundings. Often times you’ll spawn around teammates, however there will be unlucky times when you spawn right next to the killer. Once you have an understanding of who is around you, the next thing is to figure out what is around you. If your lucky you’ll find yourself next to a chest, which will have items to help you survive such as a map or flashlight, or a generator.

In order to turn a generator on it must be repaired, which will take quite a long time and will leave you vulnerable for the killer. On top of this, you’ll also have to complete mini-games called Skill Checks which appear in the form of a Quick-Time-Events. If you succeed the check then the repair will speed up, however if failed some of the progress on repairs will be lost and the killer will be alerted to your position. If you do happen to fail a check, then it may be best to leave that generator and return later, unless you’d like a cleaver driven through your back.

Repair progress is saved on each generator throughout the match and multiple survivors can repair the same generator at the same time, significantly increasing the progress speed, however caution is advised as grouping together might be easy pickings for the killer. When a generator is complete, the lights above it will turn on and the objective list on the bottom right will change to reflect how many generators are still required.


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