Horror lovers rejoice, it’s your time to shine. Halloween season, where it’s not a success unless the fear is flowing through you.



Celebrate the spookiest month of the year in Dead by Daylight. We’re bringing plenty of treats – and a few tricks – including adrenaline-pumping gameplay challenges, an exciting Event, a wickedly macabre Tome starring The Ghost Face and Mikaela Reid, and much more.

Take a look at everything we've prepared this Halloween season:




The Haunted by Daylight Event begins on October 13th 11 AM ET, and with it comes a new Event Tome. An arcane mystery known as Void Energy has appeared throughout The Fog. Seek it out and deposit it in Unstable Rifts to unlock 12 Halloween-themed Cosmetics for both Killer and Survivor.




Plummet into the devious mind behind the mask. Discover what keeps a horror aficionado up at night. Tome 13: MALEVOLENCE offers glimpses into the memories of The Ghost Face and Mikaela Reid, shining a light on their lives before The Fog.

Progress through the Free Track and Premium Track of The Rift to unlock a wealth of Cosmetics, including Outfits for The Ghost Face, Mikaela Reid, The Artist, and Yui Kimura.

We’re happy to confirm that the Free Track will now include a total of 500K Bloodpoints, which ensures that every tier will earn players a new reward. You’ll also be able to unlock four new masks for The Ghost Face, including one that really highlights his macabre sense of humor – the Wassup mask.

The winners of our latest Community Outfit Contest will also be available to unlock on the Free Track of the Rift:

• Outfits: Yui Kimura’s Midnight Techwear designed by AIPHELIX, and The Artist’s Fallen Angel designed by AspriinDbd.
  
• Charms: For Killers – Have You Seen This Horse? by PotatoGun13. For Survivors -- Bloodpoint Gummies by Maomi.

We’d like to thank all the amazing and talented community designers who participated, and congratulations to the winners!




A few costumes are basically mandatory during Halloween, and the limited-time Tricks and Treats Collection has you covered with 2 new Very Rare Outfits for Jane Romero and Dwight Fairfield – Hollywood Glamor and Toilet Paper Mummy. We’ll let you guess whose costume is whose.

On the Killer side, we’re adding 2 Very Rare Outfits to the Hallowed Blight Collection for The Oni and Albert Wesker, The Mastermind – Bursting With Fury and Blighted Wesker. Add them to your collection now, available in the Dead by Daylight in-game store.

If you missed it, now’s your chance to pick up last year’s Midnight Grove Collection, which includes 2 Very Rare Halloween Outfits:

• Mikaela Reid – Witching Hour
  
• The Doctor – The Transplant

Both the Tricks and Treats Collection and Midnight Grove Collection will be available from October 11th 11 AM ET to November 3rd, 11 AM ET.


As first announced during our 6th Anniversary Broadcast, we’re bringing several new Quality of Life updates into Dead by Daylight, with several centring around The Archives. Here are all the QoL features and new additions you can expect from this update:

• Progress beyond Tier 70 of the Archives and earn new Deep Rift Outfits, variations of new Outfits exclusive to The Rift.
  
• Preview full Outfits directly from the Rift. Related Outfits and Charms are now positioned closer together on the Rift, allowing you to unlock full Outfits faster.
  
• Select 2 active Archive Challenges simultaneously – either 1 for Killer and 1 for Survivor or 2 universal. No more heading back to The Archives every time you switch roles.
  
• A new and improved Archive layout, for a more seamless experience.

Halloween has come to Dead by Daylight, and so begins the frightening and festive Haunted by Daylight Event. Experience tense gameplay challenges, unsettling atmosphere, chilling cosmetics to unlock, a brand-new Event Tome, and much more.

In celebration of this wonderful time of the year, we’re offering sales up to 60% off on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch Steam and the Epic Games Store. Depending on where you play, you may have discounts on the base game, select DLC Chapters, Expansion Packs, and more.

Check out your platform’s store for specific details.




For many, fear is better with friends. There’s no better time to invite your crew into The Fog than Halloween weekend (October 27th to November 1st), when Dead by Daylight will be free-to-play on all Platforms.

We get it – October has that eerie quality about it. The nights are a little longer, the air is a little colder, and there’s that unspoken drive to consume all things horror. With that in mind, Dead by Daylight is the perfect place to spend All Hallows Eve.



See you in The Fog,

The Dead by Daylight Team

Progress & save data information has been copied from the Live game to our PTB servers on September 19th. Please note that players will be able to progress for the duration of the PTB, but none of that progress will make it back to the Live version of the game.

PTB goes live today, September 27th at 11 AM ET.

(Will not ship in the next release; included for testing and feedback purposes)

• Moris are no longer available during the game.
  
  • The Onryō's Power, The Executioner's Power, and The Shape's Judith's Tombstone addon still function as before.
• Once all Survivors are dead, in the dying state or have escaped, a Finishing Mori is triggered, and the game ends.
  
• The last Survivor to enter the dying state and the Killer are teleported to a special location on the map for the performance of the Mori.
  
  • Other Survivors on the ground are killed by the Entity.
    
  • Other Survivors on hooks are immediately sacrificed.
• When a Survivor becomes the Last Standing, all Survivors and the Killer are notified that if this last one goes down, the game ends.
  
• Mori Offering updates
  
  • Cypress Memento Mori offering will be renamed to "Cypress Demand". The new text will read, "Gain 8000 blood points if you kill at least 2 survivors, and end the match with a Finishing Mori."
    
  • Ivory Memento Mori offering will be renamed to "Ivory Demand". The new text will read, "Gain 12000 blood points if you kill at least 3 survivors, and end the match with a Finishing Mori."
    
  • Iridescent Ebony Mori offering will be renamed to "Ebony Demand". The new text will read, "Gain 20000 blood points if you kill all 4 survivors, and end the match with a Finishing Mori."
• Several Perks have changed to accommodate the Finishing Mori System and the ability of Survivors to recover from the dying state on their own.
  
  • Unbreakable: Increases dying self-recovery speed by 80%/90%/100%.
    
  • Soul Guard: Gain the Endurance status effect for 4/6/8 seconds after being healed or having recovered from the dying state. Also gain a 10% Haste status effect for 5 seconds. This effect can only occur once every 30 seconds.
    
  • No Mither: You suffer from the Broken status effect for the entire Trial, but gain the benefit from the follow effects: Pools of Blood are suppressed, When Injured or dying your Grunts of Pain are reduced by 25/50/75%, Your Recovery speed is increased by 15/20/25%.
    
  • Boon: Exponential: Survivors inside the Boon Totem's range benefit from the following effects: Increased dying self-recovery speed by 80/90/100%.
    
  • Rancor: Each time a Generator is completed, your Obsession sees your aura for 5/4/3 seconds. Each time a Generator is completed, all Survivors' locations are revealed to you for 3 seconds. Once all Generators are completed, the Obsession's aura is revealed in red for 10 seconds and is permanently inflicted with the Exposed status effect.
    
  • Hex: Devour Hope: When a survivor is rescued from a hook at least 24 meters away, Devour Hope receives a token. 2 Tokens: Gain a 3%/4%/5% Haste status Effect,10 seconds after hooking a survivor, for a duration of 10 seconds. 3 Tokens: Survivors suffer from the Exposed status effect. 5 Tokens: Any Survivors who are placed on a hook die immediately. Survivors already on a hook are unaffected.
• Blood On Your Face Achievement will change to "In public matches, kill 4 Survivors."
  
• Survivors who are on the ground in the dying state can now get themselves up without help.
  
  • Self-recovery takes 45 seconds.
    
    • Once fully recovered, the Survivor will see a "Get Up" prompt.
  • Healing another Survivor who is in the dying state still takes 16 seconds, as before.
• IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to production constraints, the localizations of the updated Perks, Offerings, and any other text related to the Finishing Mori System will not be seen during the PTB.

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The following features are planned to ship in the next release:

• Added a new Accessibility tab in the Options menu. Includes the following sub-categories:
  
  • In-Game Text
    
  • Dialogue Subtitles
    
  • Subtitle Background
    
  • Subtitle Size
    
  • Large Text
• Colorblind Mode
  
  • Mode
    
  • Intensity
• Motion Sickness
  
  • Last Survivor Standing FOV
• Inclusion of Stage 2 of our Prestige Catch-Up. Characters which were level 50 and prestige 0, 1, or 2 as of the 6.1.0 release will receive 2 bonus prestige levels, as if they had been prestiged.
  
• Flashlight cooldowns
  
  • To reduce strobing and the associated dangers regarding flash-induced seizures, Flashlights now have a slight delay imposed between switching them on and off.
    
  • The Flashlight click speed is now slower. The sound effect has been adjusted so it matches the new speed.
• Archives
  
  • New Challenge Slots in the Archives: Players now can select a Survivor and a Killer challenge at the same time. This will hopefully improve the experience for players who switch roles often, or want to take full advantage of the Matchmaking Incentives Bloodpoint Bonus.
    
    • Any challenges shared by both roles can also be assigned to the slot of your choice, or both slots, if desired.
      
    • Selecting a slot with an equipped challenge will navigate you to the respective tome and level of the equipped challenge.
  • Completed Challenges now remain in the Archives widget until either claimed or replaced. A new Challenge Complete visual was added to the archives widget minimized state to better convey when the challenge you are working on is completed. This will hopefullly reduce the current issue of not noticing your challenge has been completed previously and entering a subsequent trial (or six) without an active Archives Challenge.
    
  • Removed "press and hold" interaction on challenge nodes.

• Optimizations done to the Huntress
  
• Small improvements to animations and textures in Archives

• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the incentive bonus to not be given to players at the end of trial
  
• Fixed an issue that caused perks appearing to lose tiers when prestiging the character whose perks were purchased in Shrine of Secrets
  
• Fixed an issue that caused all of the currently equipped cosmetics to unequip when opening a character store page
  
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the game to get stuck in infinite loading when trying to buy Auric Cells on Xbox One
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Cheryl Mason's hair to appear briefly misplaced when switching between certain cosmetics on Steam and Xbox One
  
• Fixed a crash on Switch in Undocked mode when trying to Prestige-up in the Bloodweb
  
• Fixed an issue that enabled a rock to be climbable in Mount Ormond Resort map
  
• Fixed an issue that caused two invisible collisions by the stairs in the Racoon City Police Station map.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Female survivors to not have facial animation when being on the hook
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Male Survivors to have crooked wrists when running injured and holding a Key Item
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the camera to move down when a player presses the crouch input while being sprayed by the First Aid Spray
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Mastermind to retain maximum velocity for the rest of the trial after using Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Collision Course achievement to gain progress when the Mastermind slams a survivor against a pallet
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the reduced speed icon not to be shown on the progress bar when using the First Aid Spray when the Mastermind is equipped with the Red Herb add-on
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind to receive the Global Saturation score event when infecting the survivors left in trial when one or more survivor has already left the trial
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind’s tentacles to stay on his arm after performing a rushed vault
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind to be able to move sideways while throwing a survivor with Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused escaping with the First Aid Spray not to grant a score event
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind to slide to the side when using Virulent Bound on a survivor as they drop a pallet
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind to be able to grab a survivor as they are escaping the trial
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the exit gate to be blocked when the Mastermind slams a survivor not directly into the exit gate
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Mastermind’s power to stop functioning when hitting a survivor with Virulent Bound as they enter a locker
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind’s power to stop functioning if a survivors disconnects while being grabbed
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Mastermind’s power to stop functioning after a long time in a trial.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Haq’s Granma’s Heart add-on not to increase the Mud Phantasm terror radius
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Nightmare not to be able to hit survivors standing inside a Dream Pallet
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the animation to fail play when the Demogorgon emerges from the portal any time after the first time
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Nurse to jitter after interrupting survivors right after a blink
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Deathslinger’s harpoon to be missing in the tally screen
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Spirit to accelerate too slowly during Yamaoka’s Haunting
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to be able to vaccinate other survivors while standing next to a wall of asset when playing against the Nemesis
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to be stuck when shocked by the Doctor while unhooking another survivor
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the healing bar to briefly be shown as full before regressing when using the Reactive Healing perk and affected by the Hemorrhage status effect
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Hex: The Third Seal not to apply the Blindness effect after the Mastermind hits a survivor with Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Wiretap perk’s Spy Trap to remain active for the remainder of the trial if installed at the same time as the generator is completed
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause players to retain speed increases for the remainder of the trial under poor network conditions
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the effect of some perks to remain active for the remainder of the trial

• All perk, offering, help tips and other texts relating to the Finishing Mori changes have not been changed. These will be updated when the feature releases
  
• Survivors can escape as they are downed during the Last Survivor Standing mode, causing the Finishing Moris flow to break
  
• When the Killer downs the Last Survivor Standing and spams the button to pick them up, it can cause the Finishing Moris flow to break
  
• The Twins Finishing Mori is not triggered when downing the Last Survivor Standing as Victor
  
• Triggering the Last Survivor Standing mode while controlling Victor will not display the FOV change
  
• The Wraiths Finishing Mori does not trigger then the Last Standing Survivor bleeds out from Deep Wound while the Wraith is cloaked
  
• Score Events are not hidden by the Finishing Mori transition vignette
  
• The Finishing Mori score events have the Twisted Masquerade icon
  
• The Last Survivor Standing FOV effect does not stack with other modifiers
  
• Survivors can be sacrificed or die on the ground during the Finishing Mori
  
• The perk Soul Guard does not grant the Haste status effect when healed or after recovering
  
• The vignette when a Survivor is on a hook disappears when the Last Survivor Standing mode is deactivated
  
• Some prompts are still visible on screen after the Finishing Mori sequence.
  
• The Finishing Mori visual effects appear in the tally screen
  
• The camera returns to the players location at the end of the Finishing Mori animation.
  
• Downing the Last Survivor Standing powers up the exit gates
  
• The Trickster's Main Event state vignette will continue during the Finishing Mori transition screen when downing the Last Survivor Standing with his power
  
• Multiple Killer moris are clipping through various assets on multiple maps

• Several HUD icons are no longer displayed for the remainder of the match when The Twins unbounds Victor

Cheating is an ongoing battle in any online game, and Dead by Daylight is no exception: There is a never-ending arms race between game developers and cheat makers to find and fix new vulnerabilities. Tackling these vulnerabilities has always been and will remain a top priority to us.

Lately, many of you have shared your experiences playing against cheaters, and we have no intention to leave you in the dark. First and foremost, we are abundantly aware of the ongoing situation, and we have been treating it very seriously. To put it bluntly, cheating sucks, and while we have made many measures to prevent it, it frustrates us just as much as you to hear that someone ruined your experience.

We tend to stay quiet when it comes to cheating to avoid giving cheat developers vital information, but given recent events, we’ve decided to pull back the curtain and shed some light on what we’ve been doing to combat cheating and what we’ll be working on moving forward. Please forgive any vague language in this post; we cannot share any information which could be used to make it easier to cheat.



In Dead by Daylight, we have zero tolerance for cheaters. Once we detect someone has cheated (or is trying to cheat), their account is permanently banned from the game. There are a few ways we address cheats:

1. Automated bans: We work with our anti-cheat partner, Easy Anti-Cheat, to report and track new cheats. If the anti-cheat detects one of these being used, they are automatically banned.
   
2. In-game countermeasures: We make changes to both the game client and dedicated servers to prevent cheaters from doing certain things. This lessens the impact of cheats and reduces the amount of damage they can do.
   
3. Manual bans: We investigate your reports and manually block cheaters. This is crucial when a new cheat has not yet been tracked by the anti-cheat.

In the last 7 days alone, we have banned over 2,000 cheaters, contributing to a total of over 200,000 banned over the lifetime of the game. Additionally, we have continued to expand our team and processes to deal with cheaters more efficiently.

There is still work to be done, but our team has made considerable efforts to strengthen various aspects of the game, such as preventing modification to certain game files, to block specific avenues for cheaters to exploit and lessen the impact of the cheats that surface.



Going forward, we plan to further bolster the game against cheaters. This will be done in various ways.

First, we will continue to identify & fix vulnerabilities to limit the effects of cheats. This includes additional measures to prevent player sniping (forcefully joining a specific player’s lobby). The first version of this fix is currently slated for this fall, and we’ll continue to monitor the situation to ensure that it does not resurface. Fixes like these will be an ongoing process.

Second, we will be adding failsafes to commonly exploited portions of the game. For example, should a match ever continue beyond the end game collapse for longer than 5 minutes, the game will forcibly end. Additionally, the max game time will be reduced from 2 hours to 1 hour or less. This particular change is planned for this Q4 2022, and further measures are being explored.

Third, we will continue to implement server-side validation where possible. This takes authority away from a cheater’s game client and puts it on a dedicated server, making cheating much more difficult. This is an ongoing process.

Fourth, we have improvements in the works for both our player support tools to better deal with cheats internally, and in-game report system to give you feedback on when a player you’ve reported was banned. Player reports are a keystone of our cheat prevention measures and providing this feedback is essential to letting you know that your reports are being dealt with seriously. These improvements are scheduled for Q1 2023.

Beyond in-game improvements, we will be communicating on our progress against cheats more regularly as part of our Developer Updates and beyond. We want to keep you in the loop and share as much information as we safely can. Last but not least, we want to stress that these are by no means the only measures we are working on, but rather the ones we can safely share with you at this time.

While cheating will always be dealt with as swiftly as possible, your help is invaluable. There are a few ways you can help is in the fight against cheating.

The best way to help is to use the in-game report system. These reports are critical and help us identify possible cheaters. If you have a video of someone cheating, you can also send it to our support team through this link: https://support.deadbydaylight.com/hc/en-us

Beyond reporting cheating you encounter, our support team is always available should you have any information on potential exploits or cheats.

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Fostering a safe, cheat-free experience in Dead by Daylight is and will always be a top priority for the team. As with any online game, cheating is an ongoing battle, and we remain committed to making cheating as difficult as possible. We have been working diligently to limit the number and impact of cheats, and we hope that this post shared some insight into the work we’ve been doing behind the scenes. Going forward, we hope to keep you in the loop with regular communications regarding cheating and share as much info as we safely can.

Until next time…

The Dead by Daylight team

Bring the trial to a gruesome end with a Finishing Mori.

A hint of each Killer’s character shines through with their Mori, whether that’s The Trickster’s showmanship or The Hag’s… questionable diet. The only way to see these animations currently is to use a Memento Mori offering or equip one of only a few select Perks, leading to them rarely being seen. Moreover, Moris have garnered a somewhat negative reputation over the years, being used out of spite against a particular Survivor.

This upcoming Public Test Build (PTB) will feature an early version of the new Finishing Mori system. Unlike most PTBs, this feature will not be going live in the following update. There’s still some work to be done before it’s ready to be released, but we wanted to give you an opportunity to try it out and share your thoughts in advance!

When all other Survivors are dead, dying, hooked, or have escaped, you become the Last Standing. Both your and the Killer’s senses are heightened, granting you a wider field of view. Rescuing a Survivor will end the Last Standing phase. But being downed as the final Survivor, on the other hand, will trigger the Finishing Mori.

When the last Survivor is downed, the trial will draw to a climactic end. Both the Survivor and Killer will be moved to a preset point on the map, free of any obstructions that may get in the way, and the Killer’s Mori animation will begin. Any Survivors still in the trial will be killed by The Entity and treated like a sacrifice.

With this new system in place, leaving Survivors on the ground (A.K.A. ‘Slugging’) may seem more appealing, opening the possibility of ending the match early. But the Survivors aren’t going to give up without a fight: After being left on the ground for 45 seconds, Survivors will now gain the ability to pick themselves up without the need of any Perks. This time is affected by recovery speed effects.

With both the Mori and the ability to pick yourself up now part of the base kit, a handful of Perks that grant these abilities will need adjustments. Therefore:

• The ability to pick yourself up has been removed from Unbreakable, Soul Guard, No Mither, and Boon: Exponential, as this is now part of the base kit
  
• The ability to Mori Survivors has been removed from Rancor and Hex: Devour Hope, as this is now part of the base kit

In addition, some of these perks will have changes made for the PTB. However, since this is an early preview, the in-game descriptions have not yet been updated. These are:

• Unbreakable: Now increases dying self-recovery speed by 80/90/100%
  
• Rancor: Once all generators are powered, the Obsession’s aura is revealed for 5 seconds, and they are permanently inflicted with the Exposed Status Effect
  
• Hex: Devour Hope: Once 5 tokens have been earned, any Survivor placed on a hook is instantly sacrificed

As always, we’ll be keeping a close eye on your feedback for any of the affected perks.

With the Finishing Mori being triggered automatically when the last Survivor is downed, Memento Mori Offerings no longer have any use and will also receive an update. These offerings will now award a bounty of Bloodpoints based on the number of Survivors killed if you earn a Finishing Mori.

• Cypress Memento Mori: Gain 8,000 Bloodpoints if at least 2 Survivors are killed and the match ends in a Finishing Mori
  
• Ivory Memento Mori: Gain 12,000 Bloodpoints if at least 3 Survivors are killed and the match ends in a Finishing Mori
  
• Ebony Memento Mori: Gain 20,000 Bloodpoints if at least 4 Survivors are killed and the match ends in a Finishing Mori

Much like the Perk changes listed above, please keep in mind that these Offering changes will not be released without the Finishing Mori system.

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The Finishing Mori system, anti-slugging mechanic, and other changes mentioned in this post will be available for testing during next week’s Public Test Build. As a reminder, these new features will not be a part of the 6.3.0 update: This is an early preview that is not yet ready for release. We would like to gather your feedback early as we continue developing these features to make their eventual release as smooth as possible.

Until next time…

The Dead by Daylight team

• Anonymous Mode Removed from multiple platforms
  
  • Removed from PS4, PS5, Xbox, Windows Store and Stadia builds
• Dev Note: The Anonymous Mode was never intended to be released on these platforms, but due to a data deployment issue on our end they slipped into the build. To ensure players are still able to use the platform-level features to block or report players we will not be able to support Anonymous Mode on these platforms for the time being. However, we have left in the other options to hide your name to help anyone who wants to stream their game from one of these platforms.
  
• The ability to report players has not been removed, as ever an in-game report is still required, however when completing the Support Form you no longer need to put the ID/Name of the player that you are reporting, this is found from the in-game report that you submitted

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• Updated Wiretap Perk description for clarity
  
• Updated Bite the Bullet Perk description for clarity
  
• Blast Mine: Requires 50% of a generator to activate (was 66%); trap stays active for 40/45/50 seconds (was 35/40/45)
  
  • Dev note: Blast Mine no longer returns to you if the Killer does not kick the generator. Now that this has been fixed, we've given it some small buffs to compensate
• Blast Mine: Updated description to clarify deactivation conditions

• Tentatively fixed an issue that sometimes caused levelling up in the bloodweb to fail.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused temporary ban pop-ups to not display the ban end date.
  
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused the game to crash when one survivor is left in a trial with The Mastermind.
  
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the Player's Name tags to be partially cut in the Lobby.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the tentacle SFX not to be played during the animation at the start of the trial with The Mastermind.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused voice lines to be played as The Mastermind when hitting a survivor who used Endurance.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the The Mastermind's Uroboros Tentacle to become misaligned during the Mori of some female characters.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Anti-Haemorrhagic Syringe Add-on to not trigger the Better Than New perk.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Virulent Bound to immediately let go of a Survivor caught from a behind an obstacle.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused exit gate entity spikes to appear incorrectly when The Mastermind slammed a survivor near to the exit gate.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused The Mastermind to incorrectly play a Hit animation when performing a Virulent Bound across a window or vault towards a downed survivor.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Forced Penance perk to fail to activate when performing a Virulent Bound.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Renewal perk to be activated while being Broken.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Renewal perk UI not to update while healing.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Trapper's Power Icon to indicate the incorrect amount of Bear Traps being carried.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to sometimes become stuck when attacked by The Mastermind's Virulent Bound.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed Reassurance to be activated multiple times at once on a single survivor.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Reassurance prompt to incorrectly be available on a Survivor being hooked a third time.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused no sounds to play when activating the Reassurance perk.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the survivor's body to clip through the camera of the Mastermind when been carry.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the females survivors to be improperly displayed for split frame when being hook.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a hook that the killer can prevent rescue if standing in the doorway in East Wing of Racoon City Police Station map.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Glyphs to spawn in unreachable location in Garden of Joy map.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Active Ability 1 & 2 buttons in the settings menu to be unlocalized. Note: The text will appear in English for all languages and will be properly translated in the next update.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused incorrect animations on a survivor, only from the survivor perspective, if The Mastermind initiates a Virulent Bound on them at a distance of 12.5m from a wall.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused The Mastermind's vault to become cancelled by looking away before reaching it.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Reassurance translation is be missing in Turkish and Latin American Spanish.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the game to sometimes crash when using the Reassurance perk.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the skybox in the Lampkin Lane, Eyrie of Crows and Garden of Joy maps to become completely white after waking up from the Nightmare's Dream World.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a survivor to be unable to heal for the rest of the match if they activate the Terminus perk when 99% healed.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind's out of tokens vignette to take up a large portion of the screen. Note: This vignette was forgotten in the 6.2.1 patch notes. We reduced the out of tokens vignette, as well as the in between tokens vignette.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Tome 12 level 4 challenge Looking Out for Number One to be missing the perk in the description.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Reactive Healing perk to sometimes not trigger if the player was running.

• Increased the size of Survivor detection for triggering grabs with Virulent Bound
  
• Damage done with Virulent Bound now counts towards the Chaser emblem

• Visual feedback has been updated for the "Glyph Massacre" orange glyph challenge

• Fixed an issue that caused a subtle camera offset in-game which lead to motion sickness in some players
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the face of survivor Carlos's to be contorted after being Mori'd by some Killers
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind to be able to grab survivors through thin walls when using Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Mastermind to be unable to grab survivors with his Virulent Bound near some stairs
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause survivors to clip inside assets when slammed into them by the Mastermind’s Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused fully infected survivors to play the dying scream SFX when another survivor is slammed into them by the Mastermind’s Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused fully infected survivors to play the injured grunt SFX when hit by the Mastermind’s tentacle
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Trigger Bound prompt to be visible in situations where Virulent Bound cannot be used
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the pulse VFX to stay until the end of the trial after the Mastermind is stunned while using Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors not to be thrown down when the Virulent Bound ends close to the ledge
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind to be unable to grab survivors interacting with a chest when using Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind to push back survivors exiting lockers into the locker when using Virulent Bound to rush at it
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Mastermind to block unhooking by rushing at the hooked survivor with Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind’s Virulent Bound not to trigger Decisive Strike.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Alert perk not to trigger when the Mastermind destroys a breakable wall with Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the icon to be missing when picking up a First Aid Spray from a supply crate
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Hyperfocus perk not to apply its effects on healing actions
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the generator’s aura to remain shown for the rest of the trial if a survivor leaves the trial after installing a trap using the Wiretap perk
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause survivors to be stuck after being interrupted by the Doctor’s Shock Therapy while unhooking
  
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the HUD's Player Statuses to be constantly displayed in their brightened state
  
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the Player's Name tags to be partially cut in the Lobby.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Pig's Ambush Dash attack prompt to erroneously display the Prove Thyself perk description in non-English languages

Dead by Daylight: Resident Evil: PROJECT W features a new Killer – Albert Wesker, The Mastermind – and new Survivors Ada Wong and Rebecca Chambers. Purchasing this add-on unlocks an exclusive charm: Green Vial.



A visionary as brilliant as he is ruthless. Albert Wesker – The Mastermind– was a high-ranking official before ambition drove him to betrayal. He exposed himself to the Prototype virus. As his cells change, a strange black Fog seeped into the hanger and filled his vision.

Dexterous and enigmatic, Ada’s survival skills make her a valuable ally, provided interests remain aligned. A S.T.A.R.S. Field Medic, Rebecca leads by example to assist those in need – even if it means facing grave danger.

• New Killer: Albert Wesker (The Mastermind)
  
• New Survivors: Ada Wong, Rebecca Chambers
  
• An exclusive charm: Green Vial

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Available via in-game store: Carlos Oliveira, Sheva Alomar and Hunk.
The Resident Evil Collection, available via the in-game store, includes three Legendary Sets for Leon, Jill and Legion that brings Carlos Oliveira, Sheva Alomar and Hunk into the Fog.

Only those deemed worthy of Uroboros can achieve true potential.

To fully enjoy the Resident Evil experience, be sure to take advantage of our new Resident Evil Collaboration Bundle. It includes the Resident Evil chapter, the Resident Evil: PROJECT W chapter, as well as the base game of Dead by Daylight.

See you in the Fog,

The Dead by Daylight team.

• Update release: 11AM ET
  
• DLC release: 12PM ET
  
• Matchmaking Incentives re-enabled: 2PM ET

New Perk: Superior Anatomy

• When a survivor performs a fast vault within 8 meters of you, this perk activates. The next time you vault a window, your vaulting speed is increased by 30%/35%/40%. This perk deactivates after vaulting a window. This perk has a 30 seconds cool-down.

New Perk: Awakened Awareness

• When carrying a survivor, you can see the aura of other survivors within 16/18/20 meters of your position.

New Perk: Terminus

• When exit gates are powered, this perk activates. While the perk is active, injured, downed and hooked survivors are inflicted with the broken status effect until exit gates are open. When exit gates are open, survivors will stay broken for an additional 20/25/30 seconds.

New Perk: Wiretap

• After repairing Generators for a total of 33%, this perk activates. After repairing a Generator for at least 3 seconds, press the Ability button to install a spy trap, which stays active for 60/70/80 seconds. The aura of the trapped generator is revealed in yellow to all Survivors. When the Killer comes within 14 meters of the trapped generator, their aura is revealed to all Survivors. Damaging the generator destroys the Wiretap.

New Perk: Reactive Healing

• When another survivor loses a health state in a 32 meters radius around you while you are injured, instantly increase your healing progression by 40%/45%/50% of the missing healing progression.

New Perk: Low Profile

• When you become the last Survivor standing, this perk activates. Hide your scratch marks, pools of blood, and grunts of pain for 70/80/90 seconds.

New Perk: Better Than New

• Upon completing a healing action on another survivor, the targeted survivor gets a 12%/14%/16% speed boost to healing, opening chests, and cleansing and blessing Totems. Survivors keep the bonus until they lose a health state.

New Perk: Reassurance

• When within a 6 meter radius around a hooked survivor, use the Active Ability Button 2 to pause their struggle progression for 20/25/30 seconds. If they are on the struggle phase, it also pauses the Struggle Skill Checks. Reassurance can only be triggered once per survivor per hook instance.

New Perk: Hyperfocus

• After hitting a great Skill Check while repairing or healing, this perk gains 1 token, up to 6 tokens. Each token increases the chance of Skill Check trigger by 4%, the Skill Check cursor speed by 4% and the bonus progression for great Skill Checks by 10%/20%/30% of its base value. The perk loses all tokens in case of normal Skill Check success, Skill Check fail, or if you stop performing the action by any means.

• These privacy options are available under the Privacy section of the General tab in the Options menu, and are intended to help reduce targeting and harassment of players who stream the game
  
• Anonymous Mode
  
  • Replaces your account name with your selected character's name for other players. Players in your group will still see your account name
• Hide Your Name
  
  • Replaces your own name with your selected character's name on your own screen. Elsewhere in the menus, your account name will appear as "You" and be hidden in your Friend List
• Hide Other Player Names
  
  • Replaces other player names with their selected character's name
• Hidden Matchmaking Delay
  
  • Adds a short, random delay when entering the matchmaking queue to prevent targeted in-game harassment

• The in-game connection indicator has been improved to show more detailed information during connection issues stemming from ping and packet loss
  
• Ping is represented by a vertical bar icon
  
  • Yellow = Ping over 100ms
    
  • Red = Ping over 200ms
• Packet Loss is represented by a double-diamond icon
  
  • Yellow = 2%-5% packet loss
    
  • Red = More than 5% packet loss
• Your own Ping / Packet Loss icons are displayed above the Survivor List
  
• Players are notified when another player is experiencing severe connection issues (Red for Ping / Packet Loss)
  
  • For Killer issues: A unique red icon appears above the Survivor List for Survivors
    
  • For Survivor issues: A red bar appears next to their name on the Survivor List
• Matchmaking Incentives will be active
  
• A photosensitivity warning has been added to the boot sequence of the game

Mettle of Man

• Reverted to its previous behavior prior to 6.1.2
  
  • After you earn 3 Protection Hit scoring events, Mettle of Man activates. Once activated, the next occasion that would put you into the dying state from the injured state is ignored. The next time you heal back to full health, your aura will be revealed to the Killer when you are further than 12/14/16 meters from the Killer. Mettle of Man will deactivate the next time you are put into the dying state. Increases your chances to be the Killer’s Obsession.
• Removed the Endurance icon from the status effect display, since the perk does not use Endurance

Blast Mine

• Changed the behaviour when a placed mine times out
  
  • If the mine times out without being triggered, the entire perk deactivates and the Survivor will need to repair a generator to re-earn the mine (previously, a timed out mine would be allow the Survivor to immediately place another one)

• Raccoon City Police Station East Wing & Raccoon City Police Station West Wing

• Tentatively fixed an issue that caused some players to have 'Unknown error' popups appear after matches
  
• Tentatively fixed an issue that caused performance drops for users with large friends lists
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to drop too many Blood Orbs after performing some actions when playing against the Oni
  
• Fixed an issue that occasionally caused the killer to appear in a survivor slot in a custom game lobby
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Spirit's and Oni's Attack on Titan outfits to appear as body-only cosmetics in the store featured page
  
• Fixed an issue that prevented the game from being launched via accepting an invite. (Windows store only)
  
• Fixed an issue that caused some players to have incorrect perk levels after the prestige rework
  
• Fixed an issue that caused equipped cosmetics to revert to default after previewing a different cosmetic piece
  
• Fixed an issue that caused The Survivor to float in front of the Killer after being grabbed while performing various actions
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Survivors to be misaligned with the Huntress when interrupted while vaulting towards the Killer
  
• Fixed an issue that caused broken animation when repairing a generator
  
• Fixed an issue that made it possible to intentionally delay loading into the trial, causing Corrupt Intervention to start late
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the aura hiding effect of the Knock Out perk to apply to survivors not downed by a basic attack
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the killer to still be able to kill survivors after the Hex: Devour Hope totem is cleansed when used with Hex: Undying
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the 'Disfigured Ear' add-on for the Hag to reduces audio for everyone, and not only the survivor that triggers the trap
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the status effect icon to display a second time instead of the effect's source
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Lament Configuration to become invisible after being picked up by the Cenobite
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Lament Configuration to appear on a bush and be inaccessible in the Garden of Joy map
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause survivors to no longer be able to solve the Lament Configuration when picking it up at the same time as the Cenobite
  
• Fixed an issue that made it possible to interact with glyphs while holding the Lament Configuration
  
• Fixed an issue that caused all tokens not to be consumed when the Dredge returns to the Remnant when equipped with the Air Freshener add-on
  
• Fixed an issue that made it possible for the Onryo to demanifest into a hooked survivor, preventing them from being rescued
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Hillbilly’s Chainsaw SFX to continue playing when cancelling revving the chainsaw
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Shape to be unable to use the Tombstone Mori on survivors currently using the map, key or Clairvoyance perk
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to be unable to interact with the White Glyph after breaking the mirror
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors not to receive a score event after burning the Spirit’s husk with a flashlight
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to receive a Burn score event after blinding the Wraith with the flashlight while uncloaked
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors not to receive progress towards the Medic achievement when healing a survivor using the For the People perk
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to gain progress towards the Milk ’n’ Cookies achievement by opening the basement chest without picking up the item
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors sacrificed at the Executioner’s Cage of Atonement not to grant progress towards the Reverent archive challenge
  
• Fixed an issue that caused killers to remain shortly in the falling animation after landing after vaulting from a certain height
  
• Fixed an issue that caused certain survivor charms to be misplaced when repairing a generator
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a sound effect to be missing when selecting an outfit in the customization menu
  
• Fixed an issue that caused tooltips to overlap other controls in the Lobby on consoles
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the virtual cursor's to position itself to the center of the screen when entering a killer lobby with a controller
  
• Fixed an issue that caused some of the main menu's controller button mapping not to work
  
• Fixed an issue that caused various inconsistencies between tooltips' texts in the Lobby
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Archive Widget Open sound effects to play even if the widget wasn’t open
  
• Fixed an issue that caused The Oni's Blood Fury background sound to continue to play when changing outfit
  
• Fixed an issue that caused The Hillbilly's chainsaw revving sound to play infinitely when cancelling the revving
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to have a choppy animation after solving the Lament Configuration while injured
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to not have facial animation when chain interrupted by the Cenobite while solving the Lament Configuration
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the weapon of the Trickster to break during the breaking a pallet animation
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Female Survivor's right arms to clip through their right thighs when crouching while injured
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Plague's "Frosty eyes" to appears in front of the camera when vomiting
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Oni's hair to disappear when performing a Mori on a Survivor, while wearing specific head cosmetics
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the player to get stuck on a specific spot near the stairs in the main building in Eyrie of Crows map
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a rock with bigger collision to block killer projectiles in Mount Ormond Resort map
  
• Fixed an issue that caused an invisible collision when going up with the outside stair in the Main house of Mother's Dwelling map
  
• Fixed an issue that enabled survivors to be able to climb onto inaccessible areas on the Racoon City Police Station map whilst cleansing or blessing a totem

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• Decreased the collision detection for Virulent Bound to 20cm (was 45cm)
  
• Decreased the Survivor detection for Virulent Bound to 20cm (was 40cm)
  
• Increased the movement speed between the first and second Virulent Bound to 2.76m/s (was 2.3m/s)
  
• Virulent Bound throws ending at a ledge will now result in the Survivor falling instead of stopping at the ledge
  
• Survivors standing too close to a vault point or dropped pallet will now be injured when The Mastermind vaults it
  
• Survivors used as collision for Virulent Bound will now always get Deep Wound (previously only applied Deep Wound to injured survivors)
  
• Add-on: Loose Crank
  
  • Decreased the movement modifier to 8% (was 20%)
    
  • Dev Note: Even though the percentage has gone down, this is actually a net buff from 2.76m/s to 2.98m/s, due to the increase to the baseline move speed listed above

Reassurance

• Changed the restriction to once per survivor per hook instance (was a 40 second cooldown)
  
• Awakened Awareness
  
• Removed the 2 second aura linger

Low Profile

• Added grunts of pain to the effects affected by the perk

Better Than New

• Removed the generator repair boost
  
• Added totem blessing to the list of effects
  
• Increased speed boost to 12%/14%/16% (was 6%)
  
• Removed effect duration: Survivors now keep the bonus until they lose a health state

Hyperfocus

• Increased Skill check chance per token to 4% (was 2%)

Reactive Healing

• Increased healing values to 40%/45%/50% (was 25%/30%/35%)

• Fixed an issue that caused subtitles to appear despite the voice lines not starting when switching fast between Resident Evil survivors in the lobby
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Jonah Vasquez to trigger Leon S. Kennedy voice lines and reactions from other Resident Evil characters
  
• Fixed an issue that caused Rebecca’s grunts of pain to be louder than the one from other survivors
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a fence SFX impact to be played upon hitting an air conditioner unit on the Raccoon City Police Station map
  
• Fixed an issue that caused a wooden box SFX impact to be played upon hitting a concrete wall on the Raccoon City Police Station map
  
• Fixed an issue that caused matchmaking incentive bonuses to be applied on bonus bloodpoints
  
• Fixed an issue that caused anonymous mode to hide player names from survivor group members
  
• Fixed an issue that caused an artifact on The Mastermind's tentacle in the pre-lobby idle animation
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Uroboros to stay there during the sacrifice animation
  
• Fixed an issue that caused too many pallets to spawn on the Raccoon City Police Station Map
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind to gain increased speed after being stunned during a Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Mastermind to float into the air after throwing a survivor with his Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause survivors to float into the air when thrown by the Mastermind’s Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Virulent Bound to be unusable for the rest of the trial after being used on a survivor with the Mettle of Man or Dead Hard effect active
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to briefly disappear just before being thrown by the Mastermind
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to play an incorrect animation when hitting a collision after being thrown by the Mastermind
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the Mastermind’s Virulent Bound to stop working after being started close to a corner
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind’s Virulent Bound not to hit survivors who are vaulting or interacting with lockers
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind’s Virulent Bound to function incorrectly when passing over the Hatch
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to take damage when thrown over some ledges by the Mastermind
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause survivors to be instantly dropped when grabbed near the end of the Virulent Bound’s range
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Deep Wound timer to be reset when a survivor infected with Uroboros Virus is slammed into a survivor already affected by Deep Wound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Mastermind’s Bound Vault not to trigger on pallets currently being reset through the Any Means Necessary perk
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to gain bloodpoints for dodging the Mastermind’s Virulent Bound when on a hook
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Global Saturation score to be granted four times at the start of the trial when equipped with the Iridescent Uroboros Vial add-on
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Green Herb add-on not to increase infection the first time a survivor is hit by Virulent Bound
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the exposed effect given by the Starstruck perk to last indefinitely when triggered by the Mastermind’s Virulent Bond
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Superior Anatomy perk to become active when a vaulting survivor is interrupted
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Superior Anatomy perk’s effect to be applied to the Mastermind’s Bound Vault and the Legion’s Frenzy pallet and window vaults
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Terminus perk icon to remain lit up after the perk’s effect is over
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Terminus perk icon not to be displayed when affected by the perk’s Broken effect
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Hyperfocus perk not to lose tokens when succeeding Merciless Storm skill checks
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Hyperfocus perk tokens not to reset when interrupting the Heal interaction
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Reactive Healing perk not to give healing progression when a survivor is damaged by the Plague’s Vile Purge
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Reactive Healing perk not to give healing progression when a survivor is put into the dying state
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the killer aura revealed by the Wiretap perk to be visible when the survivor is affect by the Blindness effect
  
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors to be unable to install traps from the Wiretap and Blast Mine perk when fully charged using the Brand New Part add-on
  
• Fixed an issue that made it possible for several survivors to install Wiretap traps on the same generator
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Low Profile perk to have an incorrect duration
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Reassurance effect to continue when a survivor is unhooked and hooked for a second time
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Reassurance interaction not be available when already in range of the hook when a survivor is hooked
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Better Than New external perk icon not to be displayed when the survivor is not performing actions
  
• Fixed an issue that may cause the dedicated server to crash when opening a chest when equipped with Ace in the Hole perk
  
• Fixed an issue that caused traps on all generators to be destroyed when the killer damages any single generator
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the Rite of the Mastermind not to gain progress

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• The description for Tier 1 of the perk Hyperfocus displays the wrong value
  
• The headline and subtitles for some Store banners is displayed as placeholder text

We’re back with another Developer Update, a series of posts detailing all the changes coming to Dead by Daylight. In this edition, we’ll cover the balance changes from the 6.2.0 Public Test Build (PTB) and other various tweaks.




Last month, we overhauled our progression system to make it easier than ever to earn Perks. Under this new system, Perks are now unlocked through Prestige and are immediately available to use on other characters without needing to be found in the Bloodweb. Higher tier versions of their Perks can be earned with subsequent Prestiges, or randomly throughout the Bloodweb.

Alongside these changes, we removed the Bloodpoint bonuses from two perks: Barbecue and Chili, and We’re Gonna Live Forever. As some of you have rightly pointed out, without these bonuses, you could afford fewer Bloodweb nodes per match making it harder to earn Items, Add-ons, and Offerings than before.

We want to remedy this as soon as possible. With the release of the Resident Evil: PROJECT W Chapter, we are reducing the cost of nodes in the Bloodweb by roughly 33%. See the chart below for a full cost breakdown.



You may be wondering, “Why not increase the Bloodpoints earned instead?” This is a good question, and one we took into consideration.

First: A 33% reduction in Bloodweb costs is effectively the same as increasing Bloodpoint earnings by 50% across the board. For example, 30,000 Bloodpoints can be exchanged for 15 common nodes when priced at 2,000 Bloodpoints each. At 3,000 Bloodpoints, you would need 45,000 Bloodpoints to get the same number of nodes.

Second: The reduction makes all Bloodpoints more valuable, not just those from matches. This means that even your daily and Archive challenges have more purchasing power than before.

Ultimately, we found that reducing Bloodweb costs was the fairest option and provides the best value.




In this past Mid-Chapter, we added 5 second Endurance & Haste effects to all unhooked Survivors. These status effects are designed to give the unhooked Survivor a fighting chance by allowing them to get to a nearby pallet or window if the Killer decides to chase them again.

We released this feature with safe numbers to ensure that things don’t get out of hand. Now that we’ve had some time to see how they play out, we feel comfortable increasing them further.

In 6.2.0, we will be increasing the duration of the Haste & Endurance effects to 10 seconds. Additionally, we’ll be increasing the Haste effect to 10% increased speed (from 7%).

We hope you’ll find these improvements to be much more effective in discouraging the Killer from chasing the same Survivor immediately after they’re unhooked.




In a recent update, we released a new version of Mettle of Man which worked consistently with other Endurance effects. Many of you voiced concerns with this version of the perk being weaker than before, favouring a harder to earn effect that couldn’t be lost. Our intention with this change was never to make the perk weaker. Therefore, alongside the Chapter release, we will be reverting the recent update to Mettle of Man. Mettle of Man will instead grant a unique protection effect that is not cancelled by Conspicuous Actions like Endurance. To help differentiate them, this perk will no longer cause the Endurance status effect to appear in the HUD when activated.




The halls of the Racoon City Police Station were packed in this PTB. Whether you were hurling Survivors at literal breakneck speeds or being hurled, we want to thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. We’ll be making a few changes in time for release. As always, these changes are by no means final: We’ll continue to monitor how everything performs and reassess once the dust has settled.

We’ll start with The Mastermind himself, Albert Wesker. One thing we noticed during this PTB was that the collision detection on The Mastermind’s rush was a little too sensitive, causing the Killer to bump into objects they shouldn’t have. For the release, we’ve toned this down so you don’t accidentally bump into obstacles as often.

We’ve also polished the way Virulent Bound interacts with pallets & windows. During the PTB, Survivors would not take damage if The Mastermind bounded towards them as they were vaulting. This was not intentional: The Mastermind will now hit them with his tentacles if they’re caught in the middle of a vault. Additionally, Survivors could wait on the other side of a pallet, vaulting back over it before The Mastermind could attack after vaulting. Going forward, standing too close to a vault location as The Mastermind bounds over it will result in the Survivor being injured.

Next, we’ve revisited his power in loops. We found his base movement speed between bounds to be a little slow, making it difficult to get into position for another bound. For the release, we have increased The Mastermind’s movement speed between bounds to 2.76m/s (from 2.3m/s)- the speed previously achieved by using The Loose Crank add-on. Since this add-on has been added the base kit, we have reduced its movement speed bonus to 8% (from 20%) to compensate for a new total of 2.98m/s.

One of the quirks of Virulent Bound is its ability to throw Survivors at each other, injuring both Survivors in the process. Often times, those unfortunate enough to have their friends flung at them would not even realize that they’d been injured. To make this more obvious, being injured from healthy from a Survivor thrown by The Mastermind will now cause Deep Wounds.

Last but not least, we’ve slightly toned down the Survivor collision detection of The Mastermind’s bound. We found this to be a little too generous on the PTB, allowing the Killer to grab Survivors that were not in front of him. This change will require a little more precision on the Killer’s part and make Virulent Bound feel fairer to Survivors.

On to perks: We’ve made a few tweaks to the new perks following the PTB. As always, we’ll continue to fine tune each of them as necessary once the update goes live.

Reassurance: This perk allows you to pause the hook progression of another Survivor, buying you and your team more time to work on generators if the Killer is camping. On the PTB, Reassurance had a 40 second cooldown and could be used repeatedly. When coordinated with other Survivors, this could have been abused to keep the hooked Survivor permanently on the hook, preventing them from being sacrificed against their will.

For the release, we have removed the cooldown of Reassurance. Instead, Reassurance can only be used once per hook instance. The effects of this perk can still be chained together if multiple Survivors are running Reassurance for a maximum delay of 90 seconds. This will keep the perk’s effects potent without being abusable.

Awakened Awareness: This perk grants the Killer aura reading while they are carrying a Survivor. On the PTB, this effect also lingered for 2 seconds after the carried Survivor is dropped, hooked, or wiggled free. This effect could be a little oppressive on certain Killers, especially when paired with Lethal Pursuer to extend the aura reading effect and Starstruck to make Survivors Exposed. For the release, we’ve removed the lingering aura reading from Awakened Awareness. As a result, Lethal Pursuer will no longer extend the duration of Awakened Awareness’ aura reading.

Low Profile: Low Profile hides your scratch marks and pools of blood when you become the last Survivor for 70/80/90 seconds. Unfortunately, this meant the perk would only activate once per match, and only if you happened to be the last Survivor standing. For the release, we have changed this to include any time you are the only Survivor who is not dying, hooked, or dead as well, allowing it to activate throughout the match. Additionally, Low Profile will also mask your grunt of pain in addition to its existing effects.

Better Than New: This perk granted any Survivor you healed a 6% action speed bonus to repairing, healing, chest opening, and totem cleansing for 25/30/35 seconds. We found the duration of this perk to be a little low to make much use out of the bonus speed. For release, we’ve made a few changes to this perk:

Better Than New now grants a 12%/14%/16% action speed bonus to healing, chest opening, and totem cleansing & blessing.

Better Than New no longer has a duration. Survivors instead keep this bonus until the next time they take damage.

We hope this will make it easier to get value out of Better Than New.

Finally, we come to the Racoon City Police Station. In this Chapter, the map has been split into two: The East Wing, and the West Wing. Each map includes the main hall and a small section of the opposite wing, greatly reducing its size compared to the original. We’ve also opened new pathways between various rooms to make the maps easier to navigate, as well as widening some hallways to make the make feel less claustrophobic and allow more interesting gameplay.

In the PTB, we found that there were too many pallets scattered around the Racoon City Police Station now that its size has been reduced. We’ve reduced the number of pallets on the newly renovated maps for when the Chapter releases.

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With that, we’ve reached the end of this edition of the Developer Update. Everything we covered today will appear in alongside the release of Dead by Daylight: Resident Evil: PROJECT W Chapter in the coming weeks. As always, we look forward to hearing what you think once you’ve had a chance to try out the changes!

Until next time…

The Dead by Daylight team

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