Finding Some Favorite DBD Survivors
DBD Survivors
I started playing Dead by Daylight (DBD) sometime in mid-September of 2020. And despite finding it enjoyable, I never really found a survivor that I adored.
In DBD, suvivors and killers each get unique perks that can be learned by other suvivors or killers. Killers also get unique powers.
DBD survivors, however, end up being purely cosmetic once you’ve unlocked all of the perks (since they have no special powers).
Once I started getting to a spot where I could treat my survivors more as a cosmetic skin rather than the skills they came with, I couldn’t really find a character that I wanted to “main”.
Folks that play DBD seem to gravitate towards at least one survivor character that they tend to play. Even to the point of never playing any other character or outfit.
I’ve always just kind of round-robined my survivors. When Yun-Jin, and then Élodie came to the game, I played them a bit more often than the other survivors.
But I still didn’t have a survivor that I really would call a main… until Mikaela came around.
Mikaela Reid
Mikaela Reid was introduced to the lineup of DBD survivors on October 19, 2021 with the release of the “Hour of the Witch” mid-Chapter DLC.
With her introduction, she brought a new mechanic to the game: boons.
In DBD, there is a mechanic around totems. The idea is that since the beginning a killer can use a perk to “light” (or hex) the totem and get a very strong skill to put pressure on the game.
Survivors can “cleanse” totems, thus rendering the associated perk obsolete for the rest of the game. It’s a risk/reward kind of thing. But that’s all survivors have been able to do—cleanse totems.
With the additiona of Mikaela, DBD survivors could now make use of the totems for their own benefit with new skills to “light” (or bless) the totem.
This mechanic addition really called to me. I found it fascinating since it plays to my more altruistic gameplay of assisting fellow survivors.
Not only that, Mikaela is a red-headed witch. Absolutely sold! Until Mikaela, I’ve never thought to Prestige any of my characters.
Well, that’s not fully true. I’d thought about doing it with either Yun-Jin or Élodie, but there was no burning desire to do so.
Mikaela changed all that. The only thing that could have made it a million times better is if she had a larger body-type.
We have Jeff with his dad-bod… why can’t we get a chubby female-presenting DBD survivor that has more meat than just the sterotypical gaming additions of tits and hips?
Yun-Jin Lee
Yun-Jin Lee was added to the survivor lineup on March 30, 2021 with the “All-Kill” Chapter DLC.
Yun-Jin called to me just with her lore. She is very closely tied to the Killer (The Trickster) that also released in the same DLC, which is somewhat of a first for original content in Dead by Daylight.
She very much could be a killer in her own right; she is no innocent like some of the other survivors have been in DBD.
While she had not yet murdered anyone herself, she protected The Trickster (the artist Ji-Woon Hak) and kept the murders she knew he was behind a secret all in the name of protecting her career.
That’s a big step from gray into black. And this called to me. Plus, she’s just downright stylish.
Élodie Rakoto
Élodie Rakoto joined the plethora of DBD survivors on December 1, 2020 in the “A Binding of Kin” Chapter DLC.
What drew me to Élodie was also part of her backstory—the fact that she is akin to Indiana Jones.
Élodie is an occult investigator, driven to find the thing that took her parents from her.
In order to obtain information and resources to track the thing down, she starts working for someone called “The Collector”, and obtains magical artefacts for him.
I mean, it sounds quite a bit like Indiana Jones to me.
One of the other things I like about Élodie is that she knew one of her fellow DBD survivors (Felix Richter) canonically before being brought into the Entity’s realm. Which I think is a first.
And of course, like Yun-Jin, Élodie is an absolute fashionista.
