As a Killer in Dead by Daylight, you can sometimes be really fierce. But one Huntress shows how to clearly overdo it.
Experiencing Dead by Daylight as a Killer, means stress in most cases. Especially in the higher ranks, Survivors love to dance around the Killer. It’s important to keep a cool head and know when to give up a chase or change your plan.
But sometimes every player seems to fall into a “tunnel vision” and refuses to accept defeat in the current situation – like this Huntress.
What is there to see? The clip from user DutchEditor on Reddit shows a chase between Huntress and Survivor in the hospital map Lery’s Memorial Institute. Because the sequence is so long, the playback speed is even drastically increased.
It takes so long that the chase goes through a complete “Exhausted” cycle of the Survivors, allowing her to use her sprint boost twice in the same chase. Since exhaustion only decreases while walking or standing, this already gives a rough idea of how long the chase must have lasted – several minutes.
Why is that bad? The Huntress runs out of throwing axes early in the video, meaning she almost loses her ability – she would have to replenish the axes at a locker first. Therefore, the Huntress can only rely on her melee attack. This is difficult since the Huntress has a lower movement speed than many other Killers.
She tries to outsmart the Survivor, but this one simply plays better. Time and again, she jumps over the pallet and does not fall for the Huntress’s “mind games,” which are rather dubious since the Survivor can permanently see the other side of the barrier.
Moreover, the Huntress refuses to simply destroy the pallet, which would ruin this safe spot for the Survivors – at the cost of a few seconds time.
Did the Huntress even have a chance? Basically yes. Destroying the pallet would probably have caused her to lose sight of the Survivor, but she could have avoided the “Bloodlust” mechanic. If she had simply followed the Survivor in one direction without repeatedly changing directions, her movement speed would have increased due to Bloodlust after a while, allowing her to definitely catch the Survivor.
Still, this is a remarkably impressive example of how long a single Survivor can keep the Killer busy when the Survivor plays well and the Killer becomes too fixated on one target or doesn’t play optimally.
Furthermore, one should not forget the heroic effort of Feng, who at the end even intercepts a hit from the Huntress so that everyone can escape from the map safely.
Have you also experienced something like this in Dead by Daylight? Or do your chases generally end much earlier?
Soon, there will also be a new Killer in Dead by Daylight – Pinhead is coming in just a few days.
