How does Freddy work?

Solution 1:

DbD's recent patch notes should have popped up when you logged in following an update.

But, if you really want me to repeat the 3.1.0 patch notes here:

Freddy's new ability set includes:

Gameplay and Power changes

• Microsleep
  • Awake Survivors will see The Nightmare within 16 meters, The Nightmare will be intermittent from 16 meters to 32 meters, and while awake Survivors will hear The Nightmare emit a Terror Radius of 32 meters.
• Falling Asleep
  • Survivors fall asleep passively over 60 seconds. Once asleep survivors see The Nightmare and hear The Nightmare emit a 2D 32 meter Lullaby instead of a Terror Radius. Once asleep Survivors will see the aura of an Alarm Clock on a dresser.
• Waking Up
  • An awake Survivor can wake up a sleeping Survivor.
  • Survivors can wake up by failing skill checks.
    • ...unless the Red Paint Brush addon is used
  • Survivors can wake up by going to and removing an Alarm Clock off a dresser.
  • It takes progressively longer for an alarm clock or another survivor to wake up a survivor each time they are woken up this way. This was omitted from the official patch notes.

Dream abilities

• Dream Snares
  • Dream Snares slow and reveal a Survivors location.
  • Only effective and visible towards Sleeping Survivors.
  • Killers start with 8 tokens, each Snare costs 1 token to place. Only 8 traps can be placed at one time.
  • Equipping the Garden Rake, Prototype Claws, or Paint Thinner addons replaces your 8 Dream Snares with 10 Dream Pallets.
• Dream Projection
  • Channel the ability to create a husk of The Nightmare at the targeted generator, complete the channel to take the position of the husk.
    • If the Class Photo addon is equipped, all generators start spewing blood instead of a husk appearing
  • Can be cancelled.
    • ...unless you used the Class Photo addon
  • For each sleeping Survivor gain a 15% cool down reduction on Dream Projection.