Binging an item into a DBD match will often be the most important thing to keep you alive or to get you tunneled if it’s a Flashlight. Here’s a list of all Dead by Daylight items and how to use them to ensure escape.
Regular Items in DBD
Toolboxes
Survivors in Dead by Daylight use toolboxes to increase the speed of generator repairs or sabotage a hook. Some toolboxes are better to use on gens, while others are better used to sabo a hook.
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Med-Kits
Dead by Daylight med-kits are items used by the Survivors to heal their teammates or themselves. Keep in mind that all med-kits will heal you at a reduced speed of 33% and reduced efficiency by 33%. So it’s always better to commit to Altruism and heal your teammates with the med-kits. If you need to, of course, you should use them for a self-heal; it will just be slower.
Maps
Maps are used to track Auras in matches. What they track will depend on the add-ons added to the item. Maps will also work in tandem with perks like Detective’s Hunch.
Keys
Keys are used to read Auras of items with the help of add-ons and for opening hatches when you’re the last one standing.
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Flashlights
Survivors use flashlights to blind the Killer. They can also be used for a save. If the Killer is carrying a Survivor, you have to aim just right, and they will get blinded and drop them.
Firecrackers
Firecrackers can blind and deafen both Survivors and Killers. They are also used to stun the Killer if you manage to time them just right. It’s not an easy feat to accomplish, especially since there is only one charge and only one chance to succeed.
Limited Items in DBD
Limited items in Dead by Daylight can only be found in certain Trials. you may usually see their Auras when in the match. They aren’t event-specific or can be found in regular chests or Bloodwebs. The limited items are most often Killer-specific, so the Entity will take them back at the end of a match even if you escape with it.
EMP
The EMP is a limited item that can be found in a match when you are playing againstthe Singularity. You can find them in special Supply Cases that will spawn at the beginning of a Trial. It takes 100 seconds for an EMP to print in these chests, but you can also speed it up by interacting.
The EMP is used todeactivate Singularity’s Bipodsfor 45 seconds. It will alsoremove the Temporal Slipstreamfrom a Survivor using it and anyone in range of its effect. Each EMP can only be used once. It takes two and a half seconds to charge while causing a reduced movement speed, so be sure to time it right.
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First Aid Spray
The First Aid Spray spawns in Supply Cases when you are playing againstthe Mastermind. Don’t let the name and its effect from the Resident Evil games fool you. The First Aid Spraycannot be used to heala Survivor. It isused to cure the Uroboros infectionplaced on you by Wesker. Each Spray has two tokens, so it can be used to cure the infection twice, for yourself or your teammates.
Flash Grenade
It is the only limited item that is craftable withLeon’s Flashbang perk. It has the same use as the firecrackers, to blind and deafen anyone standing too close. It will activate a Loud Noise notification, so don’t drop it accidentally, or the Killer will come to you.
Keycard
The Keycard is a limited item in Dead by Daylight that is exclusive to the Nostromo Wreckage map. This keycard can be found on the body of a cosmonaut, which spawns in random locations across the map. You need to go to the left wing of the Nostromo and input the correct terminal commands ofleft, down, right, and up. This will unlock an airlock door to the secret room where you can find a chest.
If you input the commands in the wrong order, you will lock down the hack terminal for 15 seconds while an alarm blasts. So ask yourself if the chest is really worth it if you don’t know the commands by heart.
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Lament Configuration
The Lament Configuration spawns on the map when you are playing againstthe Cenobite. This is an item that Survivors will want to get to fast. If Pinhead interacts with it, he willactivate a Chain Hunt, which I have to say is quite annoying to go against.
If you pick up the Configuration, you can solve it. Keep in mind that this process lasts, and during that time, you are oblivious, and your Aura is visible to the Cenobite. He can instantly teleport to you, so have an escape plan in place or another Survivor distracting him.
Pocket Mirror
The Pocket Mirror can only be found in a Trial if you have theGlyph Caretaker challengeactive. First, you have to find aGlyph on the mapand pick up a Fragile Pocket Mirror from it. You have to take that mirror to theGlyph in the basement, but there is a catch. You can’t run or vault, you can’t drop down from the second floor, and you can’t drop the mirror to the ground, or it will shatter.
If you’ve managed to get to the basement with the Pocket Mirror intact, the Basement Glyph will give you the Repaired Mirror. With this item, you can do anything you want and even drop it somewhere to pick it up later. If you leave with the Repaired Mirror, you will get25,000 Bloodpoints.
Remote Flame Turret
The Remote Flame Turret is available only when going againstthe Xenomorph. you may grab a turret from the Control Stations on the map. There are two different ways you can use it.
Whencarrying a Remote Flame Turret, it will be able to track the Alien when it gets within 41 meters of you, beeping in warning. If the Alien is down in the tunnels, then it won’t be able to detect you, but your Aura is revealed to all other Survivors. You will also experience the Hindered, Exhausted, and IncapacitatedStatus Effects.
When youdeploy the Remote Flame Turretin a Trial, it will still keep tracking the Alien in the same range. Once the Xenomorph gets in the Turret’s line of sight and within 10 meters, it will shoot flames at it. The flames can slow down the Killer and even knock it out of the Crawler mode.
The Turretoverheatsafter four seconds of use or after denying the Crawler mode. You can fix it, so long as the Xenomorph’s attack hasn’t destroyed it. And sadly, you cannot put multiple turrets in one place against it, as thedamage doesn’t stack. It’s better to find different locations to place them where it might save your life.
Vaccine
The Vaccine is an item available in Supply Cases when you are going against the Nemesis. It willcure you of the T-virus infection, but it only has one token, so make sure to use it when you really need it. As a hoarder who likes to keep items just in case, I have been downed one too many times by Nemesis because I refused to use it.
VHS Tape
The VHS Tape is available in Trials againstthe Onryo. you may take a tape from one TV and put it into another. If you get hit while carrying a Tape, you will get +2 Stacks of Condemned. Sadakocan Mori youif you reach seven Stacks of Condemned, so be careful. You can also remove -3 Stacks of Condemned by inserting the Tape into a different TV.
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