Dead by Daylight how to repair a generator and how to damage them as a Killer

Need to repair generators in Dead by Daylight? If you’re playing as a Survivor in DBD, you’ll need to escape before the Killer can sacrifice you and your friends to The Entity, but doing so is easier said than done. The key is repairing generators scattered around the map. But how do you actually do this?

Here, we’ll explain everything you need to know to repair generators in Dead by Daylight to give you a fighting chance in Behaviour Interactive’s asymmetrical horror survival game. Be sure to brush up on the basics of Dead by Daylight multiplayer and pick up some extra goodies with current Dead by Daylight codes if you want to give yourself a fighting chance though.

How to repair a generator in Dead by Daylight

To repair a generator as a Survivor in Dead by Daylight, you need to hold the interact button while near it, and successfully pass the quick-time input events. Here’s a slightly more in depth breakdown of the steps you’ll need to follow.

1. Find a generator on the map and approach in.
2. Stand or crouch next to it until the “interact” prompt appears. This will be left mouse click for PC players and right bumper for controller players.
3. Hold down the interact button to begin repairs. You’ll see a bar indicating repair progress along the bottom of the screen slowly fill up.
4. Watch out for quick-time events. A perfect success on these will speed up progress, and a failure will remove some progress and alert the Killer to your location.

There are various perks and powers out there to help you with speeding this process up. Toolboxes will speed it up until their durability is expended. A higher rarity toolbox comes with more durability and a bigger speed boost. You can also use add-ons to improve the Toolbox’s utility, increasing the window on quicktime events, improving durability, and more. Plenty of perks can also help with this, and there’s an argument to be made for some of them to earn a place on the list of best Survivor perks in the game.

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Did you know?

You’ve actually got more generators than you need in a game. Every match, eight total generators will spawn around the map. You only need to repair five of these eight to escape.

How to pass generator quicktime events

Passing the quicktime events is the most difficult part of repairing a generator. It’ll appear as a small indicator making its way around the circumference of a circle, part of which is taken up by an empty outlined chunk of ring. Watch your screen carefully, and when one appears, use your secondary interaction key. For mouse and keyboard users, its spacebar, for console players, it’ll be left bumper.

Your aim is to hit the secondary interaction key as the indicator rotates around the ring, until it’s inside the small ring space. Hitting the key here will pass the event. If you’re able to time it right and hit the white part of the ring, it’ll grant extra repair progress. Failing it however will cause the generator to stutter. This will reduce your progress and also generate noise, which the Killer can pick up on.

How to damage generators in Dead by Daylight

If you’re playing as the Killer, repairing generators is the last thing you want. Luckily you’ve got an option to reverse the Survivors’ progress. If you approach a generator, you’ll be able to use the same interact functions to cause damage to it, reducing its repair progress. Note though that the generator needs to still be in a partial state of repair, and not fully operational for this to work.

That covers how to repair generators in Dead by Daylight. As well as how to do the opposite. If you’re trying to find a platform to play on, you might want to take a look at Dead by Daylight on Game Pass, or even see if there’s anywhere you can play Dead by Daylight free of charge. Or if you’re already in the game, why not get to grips with some of the other basics like how to get Killers or how the Dead by Daylight Prestige system works.

What are generators in Dead by Daylight?

Generators are objects Survivors can interact with and need to repair during matches to restore power to the exit gates found on the maps.

Can generators be destroyed in Dead by Daylight?

No, generators cannot be destroyed. They can be damaged by the Killer however if they aren’t already repaired to full.