The Jerk's Guide To The Unknown | Dead By Daylight

"Check out this new killer design"
"What power should he have?"
"a grenade launcher"
These fucking devs

Insidious Unknown feels like a match made in Heaven. It's the world's cheapest jumpscare build, and I can see it being far more viable than any other since it makes survivors afraid to counter your map presence. Once somebody gets jumpscared, the whole swf is paranoid. If it's a solo que, someone still gets paranoid, so it's still a win. Funny and effective.

I can hear the coms now, “Oh shit he’s edging he’s edging”

"I won't recommend hysteria"
*recommends insidious*

Bruh if you really get everybody to call a tech edging then you really are the greatest youtuber ever

Bro that VHS diss had me coughing

The ball doesn’t just hit through walls, it hits through FLOORS. Badham basement in shambles

I think the idea is since visualizing him is what makes him come for you, his power and aesthetic is a fusion of every single urban legend ever told about him.
To be an SCP nerd, he's a Keter Class Memetic Anomaly.

0:00 “You aren’t cool enough to make a jerks guide to the unknown”
No Rowby, you are cooler than that.

Slap undone with impossible skill check Doctor and watch what happens.

Loved the reveal that he was waiting on the stairs for you guys at 10:47

LMFAO I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT IT WAS A VHS REF/BURN

i like the fact that most of the perk explanations just go for the funny perk. makes me as a memelord happy

4:29 "Unless a curse has been put upon you!" 💀 im rolling

I think one of the funniest things about the Unknown was when his power was revealed everyone I saw kinda squinted at it and said "why, it doesn't fit at all" but everyone has been having so much fun with it that it didn't end up mattering.

Unknown lore: Dwight overcame his locker addiction...at a cost

Unknown is such a fun killer. And i absolutely love running off-meta perks on him. just pure oblivious/undetectable. and not commiting to chases to harrass other players is very, very fun.
Personally, i'm a big fan of not running slowdowns, at all. Chase and weird perks is where it's at.
And yes. Hysteria is absolutely monstrous on him.

I just want it known that I intentionally wait to learn anything about new killers until Rowby covers them. Hands down the best way to find out new stuff coming to dbd

The thumbnail is cool and all, but have you considered perhaps an underwhelming grenade launcher instead?

I’m definitely going to call that edging now. I’m glad I’m not the only person who learned how to edge as the unknown.

That thumbnail.I never would've made that reference.

Clicks on notification: “I’ve been waiting for this one!”

Probably my favorite killer guide yet! Informative, fun, and the script worked really well. I look forward to edging.

This was one of your best videos yet! Love the thought you put into the perk combos and perspective

thanks for your videos, out of all the people i regularly watch, you're the one i get most excited about, no matter what the topic
i actually held off on watching this video until i had dinner and was comfortable, and looked forward to it all day like some sort of movie premiere
and i have to say, i was not disappointed. your work is more appreciated than you know

I love the intro to this video already, you're the best video essay writer (un)known to man..!

you're so close to 100k dude. keep up the good work

The chestburster mortar launcher comes to dbd with the power of basketball

I miss VHS man qwq

Perfectly aiming a shot that goes through someone and then bounces back to hit them plays the TF2 double donk sound in my brain and I think that's the really important part.

U and otz are the single handedly the reason why i keep installing this game again and again

Personally I would always run Distortion with the new Invocation since the killer seeing your aura in the basement is the biggest risk factor to finishing it.
The new survivor build I’d love to see is Distortion, Invocation Weaving Spiders, No Mither, and a perk that works while injured or that uses Broken (e.g. Resilience, Deliverance, etc) plus a basement offering that lets you know exactly where the basement is at the start of the match. Then you just head straight for the basement and do the Invocation right away, hopefully getting it to trigger on as many gens as possible. With any luck the Distortion will keep you concealed while it’s happening and you can finish. Since you’ll then be Broken most of the match afterward you may as well get the benefits of No Mither too and some other perk that makes use of being injured or that has a Broken penalty as well.

“The Jerks Guide to the Unknown” sounds like some epic space adventure comedy film.

I started menichly laughing for a second when you mentioned insidious.

9:10 NO WAY THAT'S A MY IMMORTAL REFERENCE

BRUH THE MY IMMORTAL REFERENCE FUCK

congrat on 100k love the content

I feel like a cool feature they could add is that the survivor you mori the most you'll start mimicking there voice

Seeing Rowby having fun playing as an artillery cannon is way too funny.

I will always take rowbys perk suggestion to the highest degree because instead of typical meta builds, he recommends unpopular perks that have a surprising amount of synergy with that killer

Commentary is S tier glad i stumbled onto your vid looking for unknown stuff

I know I'm a hipster that will never get anyone to agree with me but I actually really like the aura reading from Sable's perks. It's like a free guardian so you know if you're safe to heal or if that guy who's just tunneling so he can see the mori asap decides you're his target.

Entertaining video and I'll be sure to try out some of the perk strats you brought up to spice up the DBD gameplay, thanks again.

Undone is meant for the skill check doc build

I’ve been playing him with unbound, rapid brutality, superior anatomy and either dissolution or thwack! With his purple game cartridge add on and it’s been a fucking blast

Congrats on 100k!! 🎉🥳

definitely gonna use the edging strat thank you rowby!

I'm so glad Rowby still makes vids, I always enjoy watching them

I remember when they first invented chocolate

One of the funniest builds I've gotten my friend to try was anti-loop Bubba.
Crowd control, blood favor, cruel limits, and he choose ultimate weapon so he could find people.

such an amazing video rowby, giveing me the joy on how a killer is played, and the reason that i quit dbd for 2 yeara and still havent picked it up with that 10 perk line (14:59)

10:44 love that background footage

im so happy with the positive reception to this chapter! it's such a good one with lots of love put into the lore, power, map, characters, and voice acting

Rowby being generally excited about an edition to the game is really nice to see; actually happy to see your just generally pleased with an addition from time to time. Def have to agree, The Unknown feels very inspired, and has a simple power that can be used for some crazy technical feats; with fantastic zoning opportunities. Weaving spiders is hilarious however

I swear I remembered some killer concept ideas from like 2020 where they had a pirate killer that shot a grenade launcher esque canon. Acting similar to this guy's power.

Well this one appeard rather quickly

I learned how to edge on the first day of the ptb and its pretty fun, edging is a great way to get my hallucinations in good spots :3

0:10 “covering a video game character I played while wearing pajamas.”
Look down…
I’m wearing pajamas

I liked the edging part Rowby!

i forgot rowby was a console dbd player i was waiting so long for this vid for no reason

I will also try to us your influence to consider that strat edging as well. Since that is simply hilarious

i don't even play dbd but i like watching these lol. but bruh the desert map with the black goop dripping into the sky makes me want to play fable 3. iykyk

Thanks rowby i have also been quirky with my builds. I have made a terminus wesker build thats been succesful and even a eruption/unbeknown build with unknown!

Half a minute in, you got me with your Sable joke. :>

I have gotten so much from unforeseen. Hit a gen teleport to the other side of the map never letting know we're I truly am

i was calling it edge teching yesterday, good to see im not the only one who thought that

Personally I've loved Devour Hope on unknown so far, he has SUCH AGGRESSIVE map pressure that most of the time my survivors aren't paying attention to anything but gens until I've gotten them to the exposed token set and by then I'll be able to just use my UVX to mask it for two downs to then get my kills. That including you can drop a husk on the totem and you can almost guard it all game while still having good pressure and chase power ❤ love the vid as always Rowby 🤝

I actually love Sable cus I think The Unknown is meant to be DBD's take on internet horror like creepypastas. Which is played completely straight.
On the other side, Sable is an over the top parody of the kinds of people that READ internet horror stories. Looking at it from that perspective imma be real she's one of my favorite survivors in the game lmao

VHS did make me realize how bad I want an original designed puppet master killer

Let’s go more rowby content

Fun fact: if you start the invocation, get off, amd get downed, youll be put ti injured as it ends even if you're on the floor

3:27 Fuuka Jumpscare!

So a fun little note about unforeseen and trail of torment is that you can apply both at the same time and have two separate terror radius and it does exactly what you’d expect on doctor

6:09 my favorite spot to do this on is 2nd floor rpd, right above main generator (bonus points if you have undetectable). You can cut off people running into main door + pressure main generator and it's hard af for them to get rid of it because they need to go all the way around

“A jerks guide to the unknown” does sound like a good movie tho ngl 😅

The unknown wouldve been a PERFECT "hide as a survivor" killer instead of grenade launcher man. Especially the way he can mimic voices, it would've been a really interesting change of pace like Secret Neighbor

The pause at 10:45 when he got done and saw The Unknowns aura😂😂

Not the marble hornets reference. Core memory unlocked

That title sure does make this sound a lot cooler than it actually is. It's still cool, mind you, but much like all the teasers for the Unknown it hypes up a weird flesh man who isn't at all what you think

NOT THE EBONY DARKNESS DEMENTIA RAVEN WAY REFERENCE 😭😭😭

I like to play a semi healer build with sable’s new strength in shadows by having botany knowledge with it which lets you heal super fast in basement while also letting you heal teammates fast which I say is a win win situation

Forgot VHS existed til you mentioned it. Says it all really.

I wanna see the exact frame appear when a new killer drops for that video then we see how long hey sat in the unknown

There's just something satisfying about a survivor trying to greed a pallete and never quite realizing that i can just keep shooting them with UVX if they don't move. Same if they are standing in a corner with an obstacle between us they can run around and they still dont move for fear that I'm going to smack them when they do commit to a direction... which I will.
Also, random tip: if you're opponent is an Unknown and you're on Hawkins, do NOT try to hang out in one of those rooms with a single entrance and a second floor that goes nowhere with a wrap around scaffolding. The UVX can and likely will hit you there and youll be trapped until Unknown lets you go or downs you. There is no running, no escaping, no hiding and if they are any good at shooting, you're not dodging because they can literally just make it explode on the wall beneath you and you get hit by the AoE. A competent Unknown player in those two rooms has already caught you and you're only hope is to charge straight ahead at full health and use invincibility frames to get out of the room. Just eat the hit and you at keast have a chance

I love playing really creepy killers in dbd. I loved when the dredge came out and have it's doll skin.

"you cant make a glass piece of paper"
nobody tell him about skull merchant

"Behind all Sable players is a Meg player going through a phase"
I snort laughed holy shit

We got rowby lowkey edging and I’m all here for it

I feel like your one of the only players who actually understands how to play this killer. In Scott Jund’s video on him, he said the killer only had a limited pocket to go for the other shot because of good survivors looking behind them, disregarding the fact you don’t have to take shots from LOS and can just hide/TP and keep venom on them for pressure or an unexpected snipe from the other side. Good guide video!

unknown has like the best power ive used in dbd for a while, im happy af

i love doing weaving spiders asap with reslience with it, deja vu or this is not happening are good pairs as well

I feel like now that everyone has gotten over the second bait of a disguise killer, he seems fun

my favorite jerks guides are when it’s obvious how much fun he had playing them

Soft counter to the basement perks: Is territorial impairment.

5:53 you thought I wouldn’t notice the survivor names

Holy shit I never clued in that insidious on this bastard would be terrifying

you mentioned insidious but you literally referenced the perfect idea, trail of torment.
you mentioned that trail of torment lures survivors to a location so it makes the chances of you just afking at a gen, waiting for something to happen, unlikely

Fuuka mentioned!

fiddlesticks called.... he wants his kit back.... and his lore

I love this killer. I feel good playing him and he's not bad on controller. I play on the switch and he makes me feel like I'm on pc with how powerful some of my shots are! I hope he is not forgotten in the cosmetic department and maybe some addon changes to increase variety uses. Best dbd purchase since the knight!