Laurie Strode (Dead by Daylight)

Laurie Strode
Actor	Catherine Lecours
Born	February 22, 1961
Nationallity	American
Species	Human
Occupation	Determined Survivor
Status	Alive

"There's nothing to be scared of."

―Laurie Strode

Laurie Strode is one of several Survivors featured in the video game Dead by Daylight. She is based upon the Halloween character of the same name.

She was introduced as the Survivor of CHAPTER II: The HALLOWEEN® Chapter, a Chapter DLC released on 25 October 2016.

Character

Laurie Strode is a determined Survivor, prepared to weather any challenge.

Her personal Perks, Sole Survivor, Object of Obsession and Decisive Strike grant her powerful survival abilities at the cost of leaving her exposed.

Her Perks are tied to the Killer's Obsession and surviving - no matter what.

"I stumbled upon another soul in this doomed corner of the earth. I do not know her name, but there is something about her. I have never crossed paths with her, but she seems as if she's been doing this for far too long. Weary of the environment, clad in a kind of controlled panic, constantly looking over her shoulder, on the lookout."

―Unknown

Dead by Daylight lore

You never know what really matters in life until you've realized it might end soon. Laurie is one of those who just wants a quiet life in the suburbs, hanging out with friends, family and maybe go on a date or two. Laurie is a typical teenager. You could pass her on the street and not think twice. She does her homework and is liked by her friends, teachers and family. A simple night of babysitting turns into something that will forever change the course of her young life. A knife swooshing through the air. Screams from afar. Noises that plays tricks with her mind. But not Laurie, she's made of something stronger. Something that won't give up.

Change log

Patch 5.1.0

• Rework: updated facial model and texture as part of The Realm Beyond - Part 6 Graphical Update.

Sole Survivor

As more of your friends fall to the Killer, you become shrouded in isolation and the Killer's Aura-reading abilities toward you are disrupted.

Each time a Survivor other than yourself is killed or sacrificed, Sole Survivor gains 1 Token, up to a maximum of 3 Tokens:

• Each Token grants a stack-able radius of 20/22/24 metres within which the Killer is unable to read your Aura, up to a maximum of 60/66/72 metres.

Increases the odds of becoming the Killer's initial Obsession by +100%.

The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.

"It was the boogeyman." — Laurie Strode

Undocumented Changes

• Prior to its first Rework in Patch 2.1.0, Sole Survivor had multiple changes to its percentages that were undocumented in the Patch Notes.

Patch 2.1.0

• Rework: instead of reducing the range of the Killer's Aura-reading abilities, Sole Survivor now disables the Killer's Aura reading altogether within a certain range around the Survivor that increases with the death or sacrifice of each Survivor for a maximum of 48/54/60 metres.

Patch 2.3.0

• Buff: increased the ranges by 4 metres across all Tiers, re-instating Sole Survivor's former synergy with Object of Obsession at the time.

Patch 3.7.0

• Quality of Life: Sole Survivor immediately lights up as soon as it gains one Token.

Patch 6.1.0

• Rework: now grants additional effects when you are the last Survivor standing:
  • Increases the speeds of repairing Generators, opening Exit Gates and opening the Hatch.

Object Of Obsession

A supernatural bond links you to the Killer.

Whenever the Killer reads your Aura and for the same duration as they do so, Object of Obsession activates:

• The Killer's Aura is revealed to you.
• Increases your Action speeds in Repairing, Healing, and Cleansing by 2/4/6 %.

If you are the Obsession, your Aura is automatically revealed to the Killer for 3 seconds every 30 seconds.

Increases the odds of becoming the Killer's initial Obsession by +100 %.

The Killer can only be obsessed with one Survivor at a time.

"He was watching me!" — Laurie Strode

Patch 4.7.0

• Rework: reworked Object of Obsession to mitigate its more abusive nature.
  • Reveals the Killer's Aura when they read the Survivor's, allowing for the Survivor to deduce which Aura-reading Perk the Killer is using, and granting a slight boost of 2/4/6 % to Repairing, Healing and Cleansing speeds.
  • If the Survivor is also the Killer's Obsession, their Aura is revealed for 3 seconds every 30 seconds.

Patch 6.5.0

• Quality of Life (undocumented): Moved the timer for the intermittent Aura Reveal from the Status HUD to the Perk Icon itself.
• Quality of Life (undocumented): If your aura is hidden from the killer, the intermittent Aura Reveal timer resets. This is most easily done by hiding inside a Locker.

Decisive Strike

• Using whatever is at hand, you stab your aggressor in an ultimate attempt to escape. After being unhooked or unhooking yourself, Decisive Strike activates for the next 40/50/60 seconds:
  • When being grabbed or picked up by the Killer, succeed a Skill Check to automatically escape their grasp, stunning them for 3 seconds.
  • Successfuly stunning the Killer will disable Decisive Strike for the remainder of the Trial and result in you becoming the Obsession. While Decisive Strike is active, performing Conspicuous Actions will deactivate it for the remainder of the Trial. Decisive Strike deactivates once the Exit Gates are powered. Increases the odds of becoming the Killer's initial Obsession by +100 %. The Killer can only be obsessed with Survivor at a time. "There is nothing to be scared of." — Laurie Strode

Patch 1.3.0

• Nerf: slightly reduced the original stun times of 3/4/5 seconds to 3/3.5/4 seconds.

Patch 1.4.0

• Rework: Decisive Strike is now an Obsession Perk.
  • No change: Decisive Strike remains unchanged in functionality for the Killer's Obsession.
  • Nerf: Decisive Strike now requires non-Obsession Survivors to progress the wiggle meter to 45/40/35 % first, before receiving the Skill Check.

Patch 2.6.0

• Quality of Life: moved the Skill Check prompt to the beginning of the pick-up animation, rather than shortly afterwards.
  • This causes a successful Skill Check to stun the Killer right after finishing the pick-up animation.
  • This change was implemented in an attempt to mitigate the time-waste that comes for the Killer with a successful stun.
• Nerf: Decisive Strike is now only available after having been unhooked within the last 40/50/60 seconds.
• Nerf: reduced the Stun timer to 3 seconds across all Tiers.

Patch 2.6.3

• Buff: increased the Stun timer to 5 seconds.
  • This change was motivated by the ability of Enduring to reduce the Stun duration.

Patch 3.0.0

• Indirect Buff: Decisive Strike's stun timer is no longer mitigated when the Killer is using Enduring.

Patch 4.6.0

• Nerf: added several Deactivation conditions to prevent the use of Decisive Strike as a temporary immunity shield while progressing objectives, which was not the Perk's intended use.

Patch 5.4.0

• Change: added Blessing to the Deactivation conditions.

Patch 6.1.0

• Quality of Life: reworked the description to just mention the newly created and standardised Conspicuous Actions as Decisive Strike's deactivation conditions.
• Nerf: reduced the Stun timer back to 3 seconds.
  • This change fulfils a belated promise that the Developers would reduce the Stun timer after removing Enduring's ability to affect it, since that ability was originally the reason for having increased the Stun timer to 5 seconds in the first place.
• Nerf: Decisive Strike is now automatically deactivated once the Exit Gates are powered.
  • This change was motivated by the general inability of Killers to prevent a Survivor from escaping during the end of the match if Decisive Strike had not yet been used.

Patch 6.5.0

• Added a buffer of 0.5 seconds between the Decisive Strike Skill Check and the Skill Checks of the Wiggle Mechanic to clean up their interaction and cause less confusion.
  • Perk Users are granted a small amount of Wiggle progression to compensate for this delay in case of missing the Decisive Strike Skill Check.

Patch 7.7.0

• Buff: increased the Stun timer from 3 seconds to 5 seconds again.
• QoL: added a new stabbing animation to using the Perk, giving it some visual flair.

Patch 8.0.0

• Nerf: reduced the Stun timer from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.

Notes and trivia

• Laurie Strode is the first licensed character to be added to Dead by Daylight.
• Her facial features are most likely based on her appearance in the tie-in comics of the Halloween franchise, which also give her a slightly different look than to how she appeared in the films.
• Laurie Strode was the first Survivor to be introduced as paid DLC.
• Dead by Daylight's Laurie Strode originates from the 1978 Halloween movie.

• In Halloween II, it is revealed that she is Michael Myers' younger sister, originally named Cynthia Myers.
• This was ignored in 2018's Halloween.
• Given that the Halloween Chapter is only based on the original 1978 film, it is unclear if Laurie has any familial ties to Michael in-game.
• Laurie Strode currently has a missing polygon on the front right side of her original shirt.

Perk trivia

• While Decisive Strike may only be used once per Trial, one is not obligated to use it after the first unhook. Letting the Skill Check run out without pressing the associated button is not considered a use, allowing for the Perk to instead be used after the second unhook.
• Players commonly referred to the use of this Perk as "stabbing the Killer".
• Decisive Strike is often abbreviated as "DS".
• Decisive Strike also activates if you end up being grabbed by The Dredge from a Locker from either interacting with it while The Dredge is hiding inside it or The Dredge teleporting into the Locker you are hiding in.
• The original version of Object of Obsession was a controversial Perk amongst the Community, often used by one Survivor in a Survive with Friends group to stake out and relay the Killer's actions and location to their fellow team mates while keeping their distance.
• The automatic Aura-reveal interaction between the Killer and the Obsession depends on the Killer's ability to read the Aura of the Obsession.
• This means that if the Obsession's Aura is shielded by outside effects (i.e. hiding inside a Locker or using the Perk Sole Survivor) or the Killer is suffering from the Blindness Status Effect, then neither the Killer's Aura, nor the Obsession's Aura will be shown after the 30 seconds elapse.
• This also means, however, that if the Killer's Aura is shielded by outside effects (i.e. the Undetectable Status Effect), then the Killer will still see the Obsession's Aura, but the Obsession not the Killer's.
• Nevertheless, in that scenario, the icon of Object of Obsession will still light up and the Perk will still apply its other effects.
• Before CHAPTER 2: The HALLOWEEN® Chapter was available on all Platforms, those that did not yet have it still had the Perks available as a General Perk, but with a different icon, featuring a generic Survivor head instead of that of Laurie Strode.
• This also applied to Save the Best for Last.
• The Perk was originally named "Last Survivor" according to the Halloween Chapter's Spotlight.
• With its Rework in Patch 6.1.0 adding additional effects to the Perk, Sole Survivor took on the original role of the Perk Left Behind as a late-game-acceleration Perk for when one is the last living Survivor.
• Sole Survivor only grants immunity from the Killer's Aura-reading ability if the Killer tries to read your Aura while within the protective radius.
• If the Killer is outside the protective radius, your Aura will not be shielded from them.

History trivia

• Between Patch 2.6.0 and Patch 3.0.0, Decisive Strike was affected by the newly reworked stun timer reduction of Enduring, which prompted the Developers to buff the stun timer to 5 seconds with Patch 2.6.3.
  • Despite initial claims of reverting that change once Enduring no longer affects Decisive Strike, the reversal did not take place until Patch 6.1.0.
• Up to Patch 3.4.0, Decisive Strike was affected by Unnerving Presence, greatly reducing the size of the Skill Check success zone.
• Older versions of Decisive Strike, before the rework in Patch 2.6.0, were bugged and always stunned the Killer for nearly ~4.5 seconds, regardless of the specified stun time.