In Dead by Daylight, players have the choice to either become a survivor or a killer in their games. While surviving sounds like a much tougher job, killer mains can argue that having the spotlight can bring out some nasty stage fright and result in some embarrassing losses.
When playing as the survivor, staying hidden and being one of four allows players to just focus on themselves and not have to think too much about other players who aren't the killer. However, as the killer, players have to focus on every survivor while every survivor is also focusing on them. As Dead by Daylight is a horror game, the killer is the star of the show in a sense and they have to live up to that role.
The main goal of the killer may initially just seem to sacrifice the survivors, but as there will be many games with some survivors living up to their names and surviving, the real goal is much less obvious. Overall, Dead by Daylight is truly about time management, so killers should do their best to make sure that survivors aren't getting generators completed.
Dead by Daylight Killer Tactics
The most obvious way to prevent survivors from working on generators is to have the survivors dead or on a hook. If a survivor is hooked, another survivor will have to devote time off a generator in order to save them. Often times, the survivor will also devote time to healing the survivor after the rescue as well, which is just more time spent off generators.
There are many different killers with varying play styles so that killer players can adjust to how they want to go about hunting survivors. For killers who want to focus on the "time wasting" strategy as they hunt down survivors, the Pig can be highly recommended. Her base abilities allow her to force survivors to go on a wild hunt searching for a key to prevent their own deaths. This provides the killer with being able to hunt survivors with more time to spare.
Players wishing to play as aggressively as possible should play killers who can hold a lot of map coverage. The more of a map that can be reached at once, the faster it will be to start hunting down survivors. Killers such as the Nurse, the Hillbilly, and the Nightmare fall into this category.
Of course, killer players also shouldn't forget to kick generators that aren't being worked on whenever possible. This will force the generators to regress, giving more time to pick off the survivors, as well as earning the killer player more blood points.
Dead By Daylight is available now for Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, iOS, and Android devices.