Why Dead by Daylight's Teamwork Perks Face a Slippery Slope

We have barely touched on the benefits of teamwork Dead by Daylightbut their future looks uncertain due to a few circumstances. True, not all the benefits Dead by Daylight will be relevant in the meta. Given the sheer number of benefits, this would be impossible. However, Teamwork perks have a few drawbacks that hold them back compared to almost every other Survivor perk. At least they have a few issues to work out; at worst, Dead by Daylight may not end up yielding additional benefits of teamwork.

Introduced in Dead by DaylightTools of Torment update, the Teamwork perk is one of the rarest types in the game, only two exist so far. These perks are Teamwork: Collective Stealth and Teamwork: Power of Two. It should be noted that both of these perks came out with Tools of Torment, no other Teamwork perks have been introduced since then. Since it's been over a year since any Teamwork perks were released, their place in the game may be in a precarious position.

There are also only two Invocation perks, and not only are the Invocations newer, but the second one released in the most recent chapter.

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The two benefits of Dead by Daylight's teamwork have major problems

Using the Dead by Daylight Teamwork perk is cumbersome

One glaring design flaw of the Teamwork perk Dead by Daylight are their activation requirements. Collective Stealth requires the user to be healed by someone else, while Power of two requires the user to successfully heal someone. Not only that, but the perk effects only stay in place as long as the user and the other person involved remain close to each other. The real effects, scratch hiding, and haste bonus are decent, but not strong enough to balance the steep requirements. At this point, both Teamwork perks are completely outmatched by other perks with similar effects.

The benefits of teamwork need to be redesigned to be more effective

It is possible that some major rework will be required Dead by Daylightfuture for the benefits of teamwork to become relevant. Specifically, both of their requirements combined are far too restrictive. One option is for the perks to trigger a temporary buff that isn't limited by proximity, while another option is to have an effect similar to Dwight's Leader perk, which has a good effect that only works in a small radius to balance it out. Future Teamwork perks, as well as redesigns of the first two, could take this into account. Thanks to this, they can have a chance for wider use.

Survivor Lore could make it harder to find new teamwork perks

The benefits of teamwork face another non-gameplay obstacle, which is stories Dead by Daylight's Survivors. The survivors that came with the Teamwork perk, Renato and Thalita, were brother and sister, and it makes sense that they would have at least one perk that revolves around working together. Another benefit of teamwork would probably require another survivor duo, or a survivor who has a backstory involving working as a team or bonding closely with others. Otherwise, you may find such an advantage out of place. It's an unexpected complication, but one that makes it somewhat difficult to place Teamwork perks on new Survivors.

Between Dead by Daylight's types of benefits, are probably the most overlooked because they don't stand out in any way. There aren't many of them, and any secondary role they might have is overshadowed by less situational benefits. This means that future Teamwork benefits will definitely need a redesign to have any impact Dead by Daylight.