Read more Dead by Daylight ➜ https://deadbydaylight.mgn.gg
Here’s the story of how Freddy Krueger was redeemed in Dead by Daylight. From being insanely weak, to incredibly overpowered, nerfed down, and then finally redeemed!
At the time of this video’s release Chapter 34 has been released, named Doomed Course, with new Killer The Houndmaster, and Survivor Taurie Cain. The Junji Ito collection has also just been released!
Thumbnail renders and animation by:
JMotionZ: https://twitter.com/JMotionZ
Gameplay credit:
Nivala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uApGR8sMEcM&t=0s
jjff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEEO8UO4K8&t=0s
Become a Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEAKtKAarSUnjACqZL5fcDw/join
Check out my 2nd channel: @AdamMovs
Check out my 3rd channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCvZ8NiOp-eBoCyb0OxxpNkw
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/azhymovs.bsky.social
Discord: https://discord.gg/dgvuYHm8
Music used from YouTube Audio Library:
Mysterious Strange Things – Yung Logos
Moving In The Shadows – The Soundlings
Missing Persons – Jeremy Blake
Timestamps:
A Terrible Start 0:00
An Even Worse State 2:49
A Small Redemption 3:36
The First Rework 4:24
Far Too Powerful 6:25
An Attempted Nerf 8:17
The Fall of Freddy 9:28
The Second Rework 11:15
A Redemption? 13:04
source
I went with a bit of a different style for this. I hope you all like it! Let me know your thoughts on the new Freddy too.
It feels a bit silly he can be stunned by his own dream pallets. I love your editing and hope the best for you and your health! 🩷
Man, you are going through it in the gameplay
As long as awake survivors are able to see freddy, I'm not satisfied 😭
Good luck hitting anybody with his new dream pallets though. At least he won't need it considering how good he is now overall.
Honestly im glad they are finally goving him a good rework, but im keeping my hopes down because if anything, he will be nerfed into oblivion for the 3rd time again b3cause survivors complain about him again
But the new pallets suck. The whole point of them was to mindgame survivors
No more darn! Only yay!
Hes just gonna get nerfed again after Survivors.
Also, he was more evil?
Wasnt he always meant to be a child predator? Folks purposely ignore that he was always a child abuser, the new movie just leaned into it more. Even the news paper clippings of the old implied that. So, I dont get the hype around being upset at the new Freddy for being less funny.
"Maan, I want my pedophile serial killer to be funny…"
Excuse me? 😩
He’s still forever doomed to not get any new cosmetics, but I’m glad Freddy is fun again. …I just hope he doesn’t start getting hit by unnecessary nerfs throughout the next few months.
My first thought when i saw the 2025 rework was "So he's clown if clown was fun to play against" and i stand by that statement
I'm gonna be like Kira with the pallet explosion "Killer Queen has already touched the pallet"
He is in a weird spot where you kinda feel like you are playing Freddy now with his whole Pallets exploding and lots of teleports but playing AGAINST him actually feel like playing against Freddy since you feel the fear of Dream World a lot more because of the Snares slowing you down, interrupting before vaults, teleporting to you when you heal and even more whacky things like not knowing if he is seeing you, can teleport to a close distance around you if you drop a wrong pallet mid chase and even teleporting to the exit gates because of his add ons
0:26
Craven: Just like how i envisioned him and not "HEY YOU FORGOT THE POWER GLOVE"
it's funny how fans get upset over a literal dark and pure evil guy like Freddy is depicted as that, there's a reason why Craven came back to make New Nightmare and set the record straight, he is childhood trauma personified, not some looney tunes character
Wow, I think they should really consider removing the dream world vignette from Freddy's perspective.
I don’t understand how people like the release Freddy. Yeah the mechanic was unique but it is such a hindrance that I don’t think any amount of tweaking could help you not being able to hit awake survivors.
I’m still disappointed that they didn’t/can’t give Freddy his own unique lobby and chase music and we’re stuck with the default. Otherwise, great rework
7:21, its only a 19% reduction, negative speed modifiers are multiplicative
No joke, when I read the title of this video, I thought it was about how Freddy the character was redeemed and was like "The GRapist/child murderer? How the fuck is that possible?!"
Glad I was wrong, good video as well!
Overall the rework is good although making dream pallets less obvious would be nice
Why does everyone hate Freddy though? I actually really like him Sidenote I didn’t get to experience any of this stuff as I recently started but he’s actually been really fun to play if done right and well yes he’s definitely not the best but I don’t think he is the absolute worst either and probably more mid but I’ve not really had a game that I couldn’t 4k or have some kind of fun lol
Absolute cinema freddy
Now all BHVR needs to do is get the rights to the original films to get a new skin with Robert Englund voice lines.
I never thought I’d be hearing Freddy Krueger, and redemption in the same sentence(i’m really excited for this rework except I don’t know when it comes out so I’m sad😭)
Okay but can we not get the new dream palettes and keep them as is bc the fact that awake survivors can see them and know it's fake defeats the entire idea
Michael myers
I think freddy still has quite a ways to go though, unless some key changes are made, survivors will realize how easy his dream pallets are to avoid and he may have the tools for really strong slugging.
This rework is not as good as people think it is tbh, not the worst but still
Going the Ardetha route with dbd history is pretty nice, I'd say!
Plus he has a new attack animation that looks much better then his old sharp noodle-handed slap
Things needed to change
Now they just need to get Robert Englund in to do a ton of voice lines, and add Glen Lantz as a survivor/legendary skin.