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Behaviour Interactive tends to release a new chapter every three months inDead By Daylight. These chapters usually bring a new killer, survivor, and occasionally a new map to the game. The Singularity was released alongside Chapter 28 called End Transmission, and he’s quite a unique killer.
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The killer places Biopods all around the map and you can infect survivors by aiming at them through the Biopod. This infection lets you directly teleport to the survivors and brute force through all the resources on the map, making him quite good in chase in the right conditions.
Don’t Overuse Your Power
The Singularity has one of the most fun powers in Dead By Daylight, which might make you want to use it all the time. Unfortunately,this isn’t such a good idea if you’re planning to win. You first have to place the Biopod in an open area so that you can infect the survivors by having them on your reticle for a bit.
Once that’s done, you candirectly teleport to them by either shooting them or scanning them with the Bipod again. This teleportation gives you the Overclock mode for six seconds without add-ons. In this mode, you break pallets and vault windows much faster. Moreover, if a pallet is dropped on you,the stun is negated and the pallet is destroyed while you get slowed for a bit.
The distance gained by the survivor,if they make you break the pallet or try to stun you, is roughly the same.
It’s always better to get stunned if possible since that also gets rid of the resource permanently.
While this sounds enticing, there are moments when it’s better to avoid using your power. A few examples of this are:
It’s fun to be creative with this power,but you should be careful of mind-gaming yourself. If you try to infect a survivor too much and they leave the loop at the right time, they can make a lot of distance, which can easily lose you the game.
Windows Are Your Worst Enemy
There’s a little issue with the teleportation of The Singularity’s power, which prevents you from being as strong as it sounds on paper. When you successfully trigger the teleport,you’ll spawn at the survivor’s position a second ago. This allows them to make some distance so that the killer isn’t too oppressive.
When a survivor is vaulting the window and you use your power, you’ll always teleport to the wrong side of the window. The time taken to come out of the animation and then vault the windowis far more than the time taken if you vault it normally. Try to refrain from using your teleport and chase survivors normally around these.
Although, you may try a unique mind game in this scenario. After teleporting,look away from the window to hide your red stain.
This will make the survivor think that you’re going around, and you can look back and vault it quickly to catch them off guard.
Of course, this won’t work against good survivors as they usually hold the correct angles to avoid techniques like this.
He’s Not Good At Setup Playstyle
Since this killer was released just after The Skull Merchant and has a mechanic that can be placed near generators to keep track of them,you might want to play a setup playstyle on this killer. This usually refers to the playstyle where you use your power to guard a certain area, mostly generators.
The developers learned from their mistakes and there are a few things that prevent this playstyle as The Singularity:
It would be too much if the killer was oppressive both in chases and generator defense. you may still use this playstyle with certain perks,but The Singularity truly shines in being chase-heavy.
First Chase Matters A Lot
Unlike other infection-based killers like Nemesis or Albert Wesker, the item required to remove Singularity’s infection isn’t available from the start of the game.The EMP printers print the first set of EMPs after about 90 seconds. Survivors can make this process faster by interacting with the printers, but it’s still quite slow.
This makes itimportant to find a survivor quickly and down them as fast as you may. During this time, there’s no chance of them getting an EMP themselves or having a teammate remove their infection, drastically increasing your chances.You can use perks like Lethal Pursuer to find your first victim quickly.
This technique isespecially useful against a survivor with friendssince this killer suffers a lot against them.
There’s no way of telling if the survivors against you are playing together, but you shouldstart worrying if you see a teammate coming in to remove the infection on the survivor you’re chasing. This can sometimes happen if you’re unlucky, but it’ll be quite a common occurrence against a group.
If you see this type of counter being used against you, it might just be better to chase the survivors normally and hope that they don’t have a lot of good loops. Unfortunately,a coordinated group of survivors can be very oppressive against this killer.
You Can Replace Biopods
One of the most important mechanics that The Singularity has is the ability to remove its own Biopods. As mentioned above, an EMP can disable the pod for up to 60 seconds,which is an immensely long time in a game like Dead By Daylight. No matter if the Biopod is activated or deactivated, you’re able to simply shoot it once to remove it.
You’ll see yourself using this a lot, and here are a few scenarios where it’s good:
Use The Undetectable Effect
When you switch to any of the Biopods on the map, the game gives you the Undetectable status effect. Thisremoves your red stain, terror radius, and prevents the survivors from seeing your aura. If used correctly, this mechanic can help you land some easy hits.
While you’re chasing a survivor, try to place a Biopod in front of them and use it. This willallow you to infect them while making them think that you left since the terror radius is gone. You’ll find the survivors running back into you plenty of times. Get a hit and teleport to them right after to end the chase quickly.
You can’t use this technique to camp near a hook since thekiller is massively slowed after coming back from a Biopodwhile close to a hooked survivor.
