How Flashlights Became DBD's Most Infamous Item



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This video showcases the entire evolution of flashlights in Dead By Daylight

Footage from other people that I’ve used in this video:
https://youtu.be/08YtNdxxUgg?si=Bob8mBo0Zff4z-ea
https://youtu.be/HGerRu4vJQM?si=ynSEP67WDMbWeQuc
https://youtu.be/kCDyLs04Aro?si=EgLTflAVOoTHgaV8
https://youtu.be/u2d91TliOys?si=-0WRsZgHXH53PlQh
https://youtu.be/ry-yqM9ErNs?si=ne8zLdbDAKUXc3Na
https://youtu.be/EnUoBabEbtI?si=JvbkjhUX3CfSl7aX
https://youtu.be/XAwbJ6GbXF0?si=Ik8iwGkufb25ezN7
https://youtu.be/8iv91o-rYw4?si=hawhI5SoUXs5PE9e
https://youtu.be/h_eafPjHQjc?si=bG9hP88em7T_crmw
https://youtu.be/8i6Eh3MS1zc?si=wtpZ4_twl8A0PMvU
https://youtu.be/vj2zylXaNc8?si=ZbFygts9uJ4uxxL0
https://youtu.be/R98e-Y4Lu8w?si=XuGOJFdHDSZsWztW
https://youtu.be/KUIpM7vrP7M?si=ouJ6AjJYJ5sVSEqu
https://youtu.be/B5rVB3e__O0?si=3VVwFmghqIbJRSSU
https://youtu.be/a31JiSs0KMA?si=VmlIlskisLYvemCm

All images are from The DBD Wiki/YouTube/The DBD Artbook/Google Images

The Dead By Daylight Artbook: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=902373545

The Dead By Daylight Wiki:
https://deadbydaylight.fandom.com/wiki/Dead_by_Daylight_Wiki

Music:
Jet Set Radio Soundtrack – https://youtu.be/8VyaShl6urc
Minecraft OST – https://youtu.be/ZKT5RO-C-jw?si=IwoR87pyTE4ZuY0m
March Of The Minis – https://youtu.be/iLEokhCpUuQ?si=700Xnb7ceaHgmPIq
Silent Hill 2 White Noiz – https://youtu.be/WZqiqeH_-o0?si=PDvFmaVk_tPxmYki
Dead By Daylight Theme – https://youtu.be/nc2yOLMCOhs
FNAF Venta Black – https://youtu.be/Rol9taLHOSI
Crosstown Traffic Remix – https://youtu.be/jctcTDZZyRg?si=uCX8QM-V0Nck7GaR

Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
0:41 – The Evolution Of Flashlights In Dead By Daylight
8:52 – Outro

btw i meant to say understatement instead of underestimation
anyways, hope u enjoy the video :3

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40 thoughts on “How Flashlights Became DBD's Most Infamous Item”

  1. Absolutely insane to me killers couldn’t handle clicking but, this era of players at least, thinks camping, tunneling, and slugging to avoid hatch is completely fine lmao. The double standards are ridiculous.

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  2. Even though I understand why they removed it from the wraith I think the nurse should still suffer from lightburn, a unique counter to a killer who doesn’t play by the rules anyways. Not like she needs any buffs 😂

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  3. 1:35 back in the day, the majority of killers ran shadowborn which made you get blinded faster. you were also able to setup the flashlight so that it could blind a killer in under 0.3ms, so it was a viable strategy back then lol

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  4. as a “nice” killer main i never minded flashlights and blinding clicking was annoying but only on toxic teams. i’d never slug or camp or some crazy stuff over it unless it was a toxic team. most games if the survivors are even just slightly normal i give last hatch just to restore faith in the community.

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  5. A lot of people look at old dbd through a killers lens but man old dbd was absolute hell for survivors at times. Im just surprised no one seems to think of it how it is (being that it was hell for literally everyone)

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  6. Flashlights were not changed after that livestream. If you actually look into it instead of believing baseless rumors from reddit you would know that flashlights were already talked about being changed before that livestream, and they had a Q&A that included that. If you can't fact check that then I'm not sure I trust anything you say.

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  7. Watching matiu get bullied by those Koreans on that international event live stream was really something else. It single handedly got the flashlights nerfed and hag buffed in a week. 😂

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  8. 1:49 "man i miss the old animations" what the hell is this? im getting a seizure just from watching lol.

    also its interesting that to this day we have certain killer powers that can and cant be interrupted with flashlights.
    legion fully gets kicked out of frenzy.
    wesker had to charge his dash again.
    etc

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  9. As someone who deals with migraines and since rapid lights do trigger them the flash light spam was nice to have removed. The click also idk how to explain but it was weird to hear and I didn’t like it but it wasn’t a YOUR CLICKING AT ME I AM MAD kinda didn’t like but the sound it’s self. I also remember when I first encountered a macro clicker and dc’ed cause I thought they were a hacker 😭

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  10. After 3000 hours the only thing that keeps me coming back to this game is the flashlight and all the things you can do with it, save, cj, blind the killer mid vault etc. If this item wasn’t in the game, I would have probably got bored. Thanks for the video!

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