Gave Dead By Daylight a whirl last night at the behest of a friend group. I'm not much of a multiplayer gamer, really. Much prefer single player stuff, if only because I'm an uncoordinated ditz who gets a touch too much anxiety when things I do might effect others. But I'll play along for the friend group because I enjoy the time with them.
For those who don't know it, it's a 1v4 game where one person plays as a killer, and the others play as survivors. The killer has to, well, kill the survivors, while the survivors have to - you know, I'm sure you can connect that thread without my help. Survivors have to fix generators to power the exit gate to open, healing each other when they get hurt, and avoid the killer. Dozen of killers with different playstyles, so one might be better at stealth, another might be better at traps, etc, etc, idk man I'm tired. You get the drill.
Anyway. The game itself seemed... Alright. I'm utterly terrible at skill checks so I buggered that up a fair bit. Practice will help with that of course but that really kicked up my anxiety. I did tell the randos we were with that it was my first time playing and 'preemptive apologies for sucking' and, for the most part, they were nice about it. Only one said to 'uninstall and kys', which comparatively speaking I'd count as pleasantly surprising, overall. Dunno what kys is but I'm sure it's a friendly gesture of encouragement.
I'll likely give it another go some time next week. The friend group usually goes with open-world crafting survival games until that gets old so they move on to the next open-world crafting survival game, and I don't really care much about those games so I'll keep giving Dead By Daylight a whirl when they're on, if only because it's fun to play with them and it's funner to discuss random topics while we're trying not to die. Sure, I could tell them that the generator is at 98% repaired, and they could tell me that the killer is circling them so I can go do stuff, or they could give me a 10 minute discussion about their personal Dead By Daylight Killer wifeu tier list without telling me what a wifeu is.
So. Yeah. Seems okay, funner with friends than randos, go figure. Would probably play again assuming my anxiety doesn't spike too much.
Some of the enemies here are pretty terrifying looking, and quite tough to beat. Probably come back later when I've leveled up a bit more but it's for sure cool to explore and I see another castle in this area so I'm pretty excited to check that out.
