An area-control Killer, able to apply pressure across the map by placing deadly Bear Traps for Survivors to step in. His personal perks, Unnerving Presence, Brutal Strength and Agitation, allow him to chase and carry Survivors more effectively.
A large foothold trap made of steel. Traps are found lying around the area waiting to be picked up and set anywhere. BEAR TRAP By default, you start the trial with 2 Bear Traps. Find and collect more throughout the environment. Set Bear Trap: Press and hold the Power button to set a Bear Trap on a valid location in front of you. A set Bear Trap will immobilize and incapacitate any player that steps on it. A healthy Survivor that steps in a set Bear Trap will also become injured but may attempt to escape the trap. Press the Interaction button to pick-up a nearby Survivor who is Incapacitated by a Bear Trap. Reset Trap: Press and hold the Power button while standing near a Bear Trap in the environment to reset it where it lies, if it is not already set. Setting and resetting Bear Traps grants The Trapper 7.5% Haste for 5 seconds. Collect Bear Trap: Press the Interaction button while standing near a Bear Trap in the environment to collect it. By default, you may carry a maximum of 2 Bear Traps at any time.
The Trapper
“At some point, the excitement of hooking one of us becomes more important than the desire to kill us.”
The Trapper
“It is more than muscles. A dark power motivates the beast.”
The Trapper
“Its presence befalls us.”
Evan MacMillan idolized his father. It wasn’t just that he was heir to a great fortune, it was the way he ran the estate. Raised under his firm hand, Evan had taken to running the workforce with an iron fist. Production was always high and the MacMillan Estate prospered under father and son. As Archie MacMillan’s mental health slowly degenerated, Evan protected him from the herd who wanted a piece of the fortune. No matter what his father asked of him, Evan would do. When Archie MacMillan finally snapped, Evan became his enforcer in what would become known as the worst mass murder in modern history. They never proved that Evan lead over a hundred men into those dark tunnels before detonating the explosives and sealing them to their fate. The tale of the MacMillan Estate is a tale of wealth and power gone very wrong. How many victims fell to the hands of father and son is unknown. No record was ever made of what became of Evan MacMillan. His father is another unsolved puzzle, found in the basement of his own warehouse - dead and abandoned.
The Trapper is the only killer whose power keeps working while he is somewhere else. Every bear trap is a threat that patrols for you, which means your real skill is placement, not chasing. A trap in the open catches nobody; a trap in the second window of a strong loop, in grass at the exit of a pallet, or on the basement stairs converts routine survivor movement into free downs.
Think in webs, not in single traps. Pick a zone of the map — ideally three generators and the basement — and make it lethal, then herd chases into it rather than following survivors into the untrapped half. Setting traps takes time you are not pressuring anyone, so front-load your setup in the first minute and reset sprung traps only when you are already passing by. Our "Basement Bully" build doubles down on this: trap the stairs, then let carry perks make the trip home trivial. His counter is a team that disarms methodically, so trap where disarming is itself dangerous — in loops they need mid-chase, not in corners they can clear on a stroll.
— DBD Builds Team
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The best The Trapper build in patch 10.0.2 is “Basement Bully” — Agitation + Iron Grasp + Barbecue & Chili + Corrupt Intervention.
