Dead By Daylight 8.1.0 Patch Notes (July 2024): Updates & Latest PTB News

NEW CONTENT

New Survivor: Lara Croft

New perk: Finesse

• This perk activates while you are healthy.This perk goes on cool-down for 40/35/30 seconds after performing a fast vault.

  • Your fast vaults are 20% faster.

New Perk: Hardened

• After you unlock a chest and cleanse or bless a totem, this perk activates. Anytime you would scream, reveal the Killer's aura for 3/4/5 seconds instead.

New Perk: Specialist

• Each time you open or rummage through a chest, gain 1 token, up to 3/3/3. When you do a great skill check on a generator, consume all tokens. Then for each token consumed, reduce the maximum required generator progress by 2/3/4.

KILLER PERK UPDATES

• Darkness Revealed: Increased the duration of the aura reveal to 6/7/8 seconds. (was 3/4/5 seconds)

• I'm All Ears: Decreased the cooldown to 60/45/30 seconds. (was 60/50/40 seconds)

• Trail of Torment: Decreased the cooldown to 60/45/30 seconds. (was 80/70/60 seconds)

• Oppression: Decreased the cooldown to 60/50/40 seconds. (was 120/100/80 seconds)

• Dragon's Grip: Decreased the cooldown to 60/50/40 seconds. (was 120/100/80 seconds)

• Machine Learning: Increased the Undetectable and Haste duration to 40/50/60 seconds. (was 20/25/30 seconds)

SURVIVOR PERK UPDATES

• Autodidact: Decreased the initial progress penalty to 15%. (was 25%)

• Empathic Connection: Increased the speed at which you heal others to 30% faster. (was 10%)

• Iron Will: Increased the grunts of pain reduction to 80/90/100%. (was 25/50/75%)

• Resurgence: Increased the healing progress gained to 50/60/70%. (was 40/45/50%)

• Solidarity: Increased the heal conversion rate to 50/60/70%. (was 40/45/50%)

• Babysitter: Increased the Haste bonus to 10%. (was 7%) Increased the duration to 20/25/30 seconds. (was 4/6/8 seconds)

KILLER UPDATES

The Knight - Basekit

• Added the ability to cycle between guards using the Secondary Ability button.

• Decrease the camera push distance when entering path creation mode to 80 cm. (was 160 cm)

• The Knight must create a patrol path of at least 10 meters before being able to spawn a Guard. It's possible to cancel early by using the Secondary Ability button.

• Adjusted the Guards' detection to reduce the likelihood of being detected through walls.

• While The Knight is within 8 meters of a Guard that is actively hunting, the hunt timer will deplete at 3x the normal speed.

• While drawing a patrol path, its length applies a modifier on the base total hunt time:

  • 1-15 meters: 1x

  • 16-25 meters: 1.25x

  • 26+ meters: 1.5x

• Decreased The Carnifex's hunt duration to 12 seconds. (was 24 seconds)

• Increased The Jailer's hunt duration to 24 seconds. (was 12 seconds)

• Decreased the time it takes for each Guard to perform the Order action:

  • Carnifex: 1.8 seconds (was 2 seconds)

  • Assassin: 5 seconds (was 6 seconds)

  • Jailer: 5 seconds (was 6 seconds)

• Increased each Guard's detection range:

  • Carnifex: 10 meters (was 8 meters)

  • Assassin: 10 meters (was 8 meters)

  • Jailer: 16 meters (was 14 meters)

The Knight - Addons

• Map of the Realm: Increases the Guard's detection range by 2 meters. (was 4 meters)

• Pillaged Mead: Decreases the Break or Damage action of Guards by 10%. (was 15%)

• Battleaxe Head: Decreases the cooldown after calling upon The Carnifex by 20%. (Rework)

• Treated Blade: Decreases the cooldown after calling upon The Assassin by 20%. (Rework)

• Cold Steel Manacles: Decreases the cooldown after calling upon The Jailer by 20%. (Rework)

• Sharpened Mount (was Chain Mail Fragment): Increases the time it takes for the Standard to spawn by 15%. (Rework)

• Grim Iron Mask: When a Guard detects a Survivor during a Patrol, the Survivor suffers from the Blindness Status Effect for the next 75 seconds. (was 60 seconds)

• Broken Hilt: Guards inflict the Haemorrhage and Mangled Status Effects when damaging a Survivor. (was only Mangled)

• Ironworker's Tongs: If a Guard fails to damage a Survivor during a Hunt, the Survivor suffers from the Oblivious Status Effect for 60 seconds. (was 20 seconds)

• Town Watch's Torch: While a Guard is actively Hunting a Survivor, gain the Undetectable Status Effect. (Rework)

• Blacksmith's Hammer: Guards inflict the Broken Status Effect for 60 seconds when damaging a Survivor. (Rework)

• Flint and Steel: After summoning The Carnifex, the auras of all Survivors within 24 meters of any unbroken dropped Pallets are revealed for 8 seconds. (was 5 seconds)

• Healing Poultice: After summoning The Assassin, all Survivors within 8 meters of The Assassin's spawn location have their auras revealed for 8 seconds. (Rework)

• Jailer's Chimes (was Lightweight Greaves): After summoning The Jailer, Survivors that cross The Jailer's Patrol Path have their auras revealed for 8 seconds. (Rework)

• Knight's Contract: After giving an Order, the Guard will remain for an extra 8 seconds, triggering a Hunt should they detect a Survivor. (Rework)

• Iridescent Company Banner: Drawing a Patrol Path through Windows blocks them for all Survivors for 25 seconds after summoning a Guard. (was 15 seconds) The Exit Gates are blocked by the Entity Spikes for the Hunted Survivor. All Windows vaulted by the Hunted Survivor are blocked for all Survivors for the remained of the Hunt.

The Singularity

• When tagging a Survivor from a Pod (and Slipstream is not completed), the Tagging progress goes down gradually over 0.5 sec (was instant)

• Tag depletion starts after 0.25 seconds after Slipstream has been accumulated (but not completed) (was 0.3 seconds)

• When taking over an inactive pod, the reticule will center on the closest Survivor in range and line of sight (new)

• When destroying a pod while controlling it, hold down M1-Attack Button for 1.25 sec to destroy it (new)

• New Killer Instinct Effect for 3.0 sec. on Survivors receiving Slipstream from another Slipstreamed Survivor or from a Bio-Pod

• Added Aim Assist effect when aiming at a Slipstreamed Survivor

• Decreased Tagging cooldown for Pods after Slipstreaming a Survivor to 3.0 sec (was 3.5 - allows less downtime after shooting a Survivor)

• Decreased distance that Survivor can see Supply Crate aura when not Slipstreamed to 28M (was 32)

• Added Hindered Icon to show the slow down when Survivors charge the EMP tool

• Killer Wake Up time after controlling a Pod decreased to 0.5 seconds (was 1.0).

• Killer Wake Up time near a Hooked survivor decreased to 1.5 seconds (was 5) to account for the anti-camp feature*.*

• Increased the Lock-On time to Slipstream a Survivor while controlling a pod to 0.8 seconds (was 0.6).

• Decreased World Detection of the aiming radius to reduce collisions and interference for shots.

• Overclock Duration no longer scales based on the number of Slipstreamed Survivors. Base value has been increased to 5.7 seconds (was 4.7)

• Increased readability of the Survivor-in-range indicator - Highlight is On = can be tagged / Highlight is Off = cannot be tagged

• After exiting a Pod, the aura of the last used Pod is displayed in yellow for 10.0 seconds (was 5)

• Soma Family Photo Addon +3% Haste effect for the duration of the Overclock is now base kit.

• UltraSonic Sensor Addon sound effect is now base kit. Killer can hear sounds through a controlled Biopod after 0.20 seconds by default.

• Made valid location target placement easier (increased placement timing from 0.1 seconds to 0.2 seconds)

• After using an EMP, Survivors are invincible to Slipstream for 1.0 second (was 2.0)

• EMP Range effect has been increased from 8M to 10M.

• EMPs stop printing when reaching 97%. Survivors now need to complete the last 3% manually. Supply Crate auras are shown in yellow when maximum progress has been reached.

• No longer forced to pick up EMPs after opening Supply Cases

• Perks: Blast Mine and Head-on now both apply the Overheat effect when affected by a stun during Overclock.

MAP UPDATES

• Added 2 new Map variations to the Mount Ormond Resort

• Added 1 new Map variation to the Family Residence from the Yamaoka's Estate Realm

• Added 1 new Map variation to the Sanctum of Wrath from the Yamaoka's Estate Realm

• Gameplay pass on the Forgotten Ruins map to add pallets on at the ground level

• Added variations to the maze tiles in the pool of tiles for the Coldwind Farm Realm

• Added lockers in the existing maze tiles in the Coldwind Farm Realm

FEATURES

Disconnect Bots

• Disconnect Bots will now be able to spawn if a player disconnects during loading. This should allow for games that used to be cancelled for not having enough players to continue on.

Hook respawn

• Hooks broken by a Sacrifice will now respawn after 60 seconds.

UX - Knight Guard's Chase

• Added a visual feedback when you have successfully distracted a guard by passing near a Window or downed Pallet.

UX - Lobby Update

• Cosmetics and Character selection are merged into a single section. As in the store, players can use subtabs to navigate between options, including Characters' bio pages.

• Perks widget is added to the Lobby, available when looking at the Characters Menu, allowing players to view Perks and Powers while selecting Characters.

• Filter option allows for players to show locked cosmetics if they want to do so.

• As long as players are not waiting for a match to start, they can unlock Characters and Cosmetics directly on the Lobby.

• Now Moris can be previewed in the Lobby.

• Merged certain functionalities of the Killer and Survivor lobbies to make it easier to maintain in the future.

UX - Singularity's Podding and Controlling

• Biopod & Killer reticule was updated to better communicate states:

  • Green state: Idle, Firing Biopod, Slipstreaming Survivor

  • Purple state: Teleport to Survivor

  • Grey state: On cooldown

  • Red state: Destroying Biopod, Disabled Biopod

• Biopods will now indicate to Survivors when they are about to be reactivated

BUG FIXES

Audio

• The Voice-Over of the Lich is now correctly playing in the Mori Preview.

Bots

• The Trapper Bot in the Survive with Friends Tutorial now correctly looks at the target it is chasing.

• The Trapper Bot in the Survive with Friends Tutorial should be better at not stepping into his own traps.

• Prevented multiple Bots in the same Trial to accidentally spawn with the same digits at the end of the name.

Characters

• Fixed an issue that caused female survivors to remain stuck in the trapped position animation even after freeing themselves.

• The Good Guy’s Hidey-Ho Mode cooldown now begins at the end of a Slice & Dice attack.

• The Onryo’s intermittent invisibility when within 24 meters of the Killer now happens in sync between the Survivors’ and Killer’s POV.

• The path leading to the Highlighted Control Station can no longer be seen when outside of tunnels when playing as the Xenomorph.

Environment/Maps

• Fixed an issue where players could get body blocked on the Forgotten Ruins in Decimated Borgo. The door frames have been updated.

• Fixed a collision issue in Toba Landing map

• Fixed an issue where the killer gets blocked on the Blood Lodge Map

• Updated the pallet count on the Forgotten Ruins map

• The Pig stays in Stealth when using the Passages in Forgotten Ruins.

• Players may no longer get stuck in Passages if multiple players try to use them at the same time.

Perks

• Survivors no longer randomly fail Merciless Storm skill checks when hitting in the success zone.

• The Mirrored Illusion illusion correctly despawns when the Killer goes through it.

• The Trapper’s Bloody Coil Add-On, The Plague’s Vile Purge, and the Skull Merchant’s Claw Trap now activate the Dissolution perk.

UI

• Fixed an issue where some perks' descriptions have an improper number format

• Fixed an issue where the account name is displayed in the main menu when turning on or off the "Hide your name" setting

• Fixed an issue where the Auric cell packs purchase screen can be accessible when starting the final countdown.

Misc

• Fixed an issue that could soft-lock loading into a Trial due to a player's Loadout bringing an invalid Item.

Known Issues

• The Knight can spawn a guard while another guard is already summoned.

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Public Test Build (PTB) Adjustments

New Survivor: Lara Croft

New Perk: Hardened

• Clarified the description of the perk with bullet points to help avoid confusion.

New Perk: Specialist

• Increased maximum tokens from 3/3/3 to 6/6/6.

New Perk: Finesse

• Added a custom animation when vaulting pallets.

Disconnect Bots Changes

In PTB, we have enabled Disconnect Bots during loading. This is now once again disabled. Disconnect Bots continue to work as always in Live, only appearing when a Survivor disconnects after the game has started.

Bug Fixes

• Lara Croft correctly receives Bloodied outfit when going through Prestige 4-5-6.

• The Hardened now correctly triggers from several abilities and perks such as The Doctor’s power, the Nurse’s Anxious Grasp Add-On, and the Make Your Choice and Hex: Face the Darkness Perks.

• Generators now complete if the progress granted by the Specialist Perk brings them to full charge.

Killer Updates

The Knight - Basekit

• While drawing a patrol path, its length applies a modifier on the base banner spawn time:

  • 1-15 meters: 1x

  • 16-25 meters: 1.5x

  • 26+ meters: 2x

• Different Guards now share the same cooldown.

Bug fixes

• The Guard distraction effect on vault points now plays correctly when used several times on the same vault point.

• Survivors standing on the Banner when it spawns now correctly ends the Hunt.

The Singularity - Basekit

• Removed autoaim while taking control of a Biopod

• Reverted the time to Slipstream a Survivor from a Biopod back to 0.6 seconds (was 0.8 seconds on the PTB)

• Tagging from a pod or from the weapon now play different sound effects.

Bug fixes

• Placing Biopods on surfaces like trees is now easier.

• The body and the collision of the Singularity now correctly appear at the same place for survivors after teleporting.

• Teleportating to a survivor no longer takes longer to complete than previously.

Bots

• Disconnect Bots correctly interact with the Anonymous Mode setting.

Misc

• Fixed issues arising from leaving another player's Custom Game lobby.

• Fixed several server-side crashes.

• Survivor animations are now correctly playing when performing various interactions.

• The anti-camp system now correctly fills up when the Killer is standing on top of the Basement.

Killer Updates

The Knight - Basekit

• While drawing a patrol path, its length applies a modifier on the base banner spawn time:

  • 1-15 meters: 1x

  • 16-25 meters: 1.5x

  • 26+ meters: 2x

• Different Guards now share the same cooldown.

Bug fixes

• The Guard distraction effect on vault points now plays correctly when used several times on the same vault point.

• Survivors standing on the Banner when it spawns now correctly ends the Hunt.

The Singularity - Basekit

• Removed autoaim while taking control of a Biopod

• Reverted the time to Slipstream a Survivor from a Biopod back to 0.6 seconds (was 0.8 seconds on the PTB)

• Tagging from a pod or from the weapon now play different sound effects.

Bug fixes

• Placing Biopods on surfaces like trees is now easier.

• The body and the collision of the Singularity now correctly appear at the same place for survivors after teleporting.

• Teleportating to a survivor no longer takes longer to complete than previously.

Bots

• Disconnect Bots correctly interact with the Anonymous Mode setting.

Misc

• Fixed issues arising from leaving another player's Custom Game lobby.

• Fixed several server-side crashes.

• Survivor animations are now correctly playing when performing various interactions.

• The anti-camp system now correctly fills up when the Killer is standing on top of the Basement.

Known Issues

• The Hag and The Unknown's model appears floating after previewing the Mori a second time.

• One of the new Ormond Map variations will be disabled until the next Hotfix.

• The Hag and The Unknown's model appears floating after previewing the Mori a second time.

• One of the new Ormond Map variations will be disabled until the next Hotfix.

CONTENT

The Good Guy - Addons

• Power Drill Hidey-Ho Mode cooldown reduced by 10% after hitting a Survivor with Slice & Dice. (was 15%)

• Automatic Screwdriver Missing a Slice & Dice reduces Hidey-Ho Cooldown by 8%. (was 10%)

Dev note: Currently, The Good Guy's Power incorrectly starts to recharge as soon as the Slice & Dice attack is started rather than after it finishes, making his Power recharge much faster than intended. This will be corrected in the near future. In the meantime, we have toned down these Add-Ons to make sure they don't get out of hand. They will return to their normal strength once this is resolved.

 

FEATURES

UX Improvement

• Added an option on the Graphic settings menu for players to choose between the use of the full sized item preview or reduced item preview during matches.

 

BUG FIXES

Archives

• Fixed an issue with the "Bloody Rewards" challenge where progress could not be made when the player was earning Bloodpoints in a trial.

Audio

• Fixed an issue that caused The Legion's Backstabber outfit to have Frank's voice instead of Susie's.

Bots

• Bots no longer break from interacting with pallets reset by Any Means Necessary.

• The Trapper Bot in Survive with Bots Tutorial remembered how to use Bear Traps again

Characters

• Fixed an issue that caused some Survivors to lack facial animations while idle in the lobby.

• Fixed an issue that caused multiple clipping issues when performing various actions on the Survivor as The Pig.

• Fixed an issue that caused the hands to appear without the arms when teleporting to a TV while playing as The Onryo.

• Fixed an issue that caused the legs of male Survivors to clip through The Twins' POV when the Survivor performs Decisive Strike.

• Blight no longer slows down to 4.6m/s before the end of a Rush when using the Alchemist's Ring add-on.

Characters - The Lich

• When using the Fly spell, The Lich is now correctly able to move over crouched Survivors.

• The Treasures Chest lid no longer closes slightly for a moment after having been opened by a Survivor

• A network desync no longer occurs when The Lich interrupts a Survivor rushing into a locker with the Hand of Vecna equipped

• The Attuned Hand and Eye of Vecna no longer remain visible when Survivors are sacrificed on a hook

• The Hand of Vecna mesh no longer lacks a dissolve VFX when Survivors bleed out holding the hand

• The Locker Smoke VFX when The Lich or a Survivor opens an Entry-Locker is no longer hidden for Survivors

• The Lich's Dispelling Sphere starting point is no longer offset when cast while strafing

• The Lich's Mage Hand Decal VFX no longer remains visible on multiple Pallets when they are close together

• The Lich's mini-mori is no longer bound to the same input as the regular mori

• The Lich's mori and mini mori prompts no longer behave erratically when both are available at the same time

• The Lich's Spell Indicator VFX no longer can become distorted when users change the First Person FOV while Full Screen/Windowed Full Screen on an Ultra Wide Monitor

• While spectating the Lich, the Spell Indicator VFX is no longer offset until a Survivor is killed by a mori.

Environment/Maps

• Fixed an issue in Toba Landing where there was a delay when entering the map

• Fixed an issue with the hatch where there was a delay when getting close to it

• Fixed an issue in Midwich Elementary school where players could experience a delay when navigating the corridor between the bathrooms

• Fixed an issue in the Yamaoka's Estate Residence where a collision would create an issue for the Blight

• Fixed an issue in Badham Preschool where the killer would be blocked in the navigation

• Fixed an issue In MacMillan Estate Realm where projectiles would not go between the boards of boarded up windows

• Fixed an issue in Raccoon City Police Station where the Mastermind would not vault with his power activated

• The Camera no longer becomes misaligned if the Survivor is grabbed while traversing a Passage.

• The Knight's guards pathing no longer breaks when Survivors take the Tower Passage during a Hunt

• The Passage glow VFX no longer remains visible from afar after traveling through it

• The camera no longer becomes first person when traveling through Passages on the Spectator's POV

• The Passage aura and glow VFX are no longer missing on the Spectator's POV

Events

• Fixed an issue where the Tryks Stand-In charm, a Twitch Drop reward, was erroneously listed within the Collection screen of the Twisted Anniversary event.

Perks

• The Mirrored Illusion can no longer be distinguished from The Killer POV from afar.

• Survivors using Mirrored Illusion can no longer stack Static illusions at the same location.

• The Mirrored Illusion VFX is no longer missing when a Survivor uses the Perk a second time.

• Survivors using Mirrored Illusion can no longer spawn Static Illusions on Boon Totems.

• Survivors with Mirrored Illusion can no longer become stuck and jitter when placing an Illusion on certain Generators.

• The Generator progress to activate the "Mirrored Illusion" Perk no longer fails to be displayed on the Perk icon

• The Still Sight perk icon now correctly remains dimmed when the survivor is hidden inside a locker

• The Pallet stun duration increase by Dark Arrogance is now correctly 25% instead of 20%

• The Perks Languid Touch and Weave Attunement no longer display a green 'buff' external Perk icon for Survivors.

• The Survivor can no longer be seen floating after succeeding in a Decisive Strike on the Killer.

Platforms

• Fixed an issue on PS4 where rarely, the game could get into an infinite black screen during startup.

UI

• Subtitles now correctly play in Cinematics.

Misc

• The Flame Turret no longer fails to display the Information UI on initial pickup from the Control Station.

• Basic attacks with 'Undetectable' status gained from perks and add-ons now correctly count towards 'Outta Nowhere' achievement

• Killers with the Ivory Memento Mori Offering can Mori Survivors on the 1st Hook stage when they self-unhook at the very last second. 

Known Issues

• The Archives progress widget does not appear in-game when gaining progress on the "Show 'Em What You Got", "Encore! Encore!", "It Takes Two", and "Dancing with Myself" challenges. Progress is still retained after the match.

NEW KILLER - THE LICH

• Survivor activating the effect of a Vecna Item suffers from Broken Status effect for 30 seconds.

• Decreasing the Spell charge time of all Spells from 0.33 seconds to 0.2 seconds.

• Increased all Spell charges movement speed from 3.68 m/s to 4.0 m/s.

• Increased duration of the Fly spell from 3.5 seconds to 4.0 seconds.

• Killer gains back collision with Survivors at the start of the end of Fly sequence.

• Slightly Increased ground friction and controls at the end of Fly to diminish the sliding effect.

• Reduced the FOTD Projectiles spawns from 1.0 seconds to 0.5 seconds.

• Increased the FOTD Projectiles movement speed from 8.0 m/s to 9.0 m/s.

• Increased FOTD Activation cooldown movement Speed from 2.3 m/s to 3.68 m/s.

• Increased Dispelling Sphere active time from 20 seconds. to 25 seconds.

• Increased Dispelling Sphere movement speed from 4.2 m/s to 5.5m/s.

• Increased Dispelling Sphere Activation cooldown movement Speed from 2.3m/s to 3.68m/s.

• Increased Mage Hand Activation cooldown movement Speed from 2.3m/s to 3.68m/s.

• Decreased Mage Hand time to lift a pallet from 0.5 seconds to 0.35 seconds.

• Decreased all Spell Cooldown from 50 seconds to 38 seconds.

• Decreased all Magic Items default Reveal Killer aura from 3.0 to 1.5 seconds.

Addons

• Addon Raven's Feather Decreased duration of the Fly spell from 1 second. to 0.5 seconds.

• Addon Trickster's Glove: Decreased Mage Hand holds pallet time from 1 seconds to 0.5 seconds.

• Addon Crystal Ball: Increased the duration of Killer instinct from 1.5 seconds to 3.0 seconds.

• Addon Potion of Speed: Decreases the period where you cannot attack after casting Fly from 0.5 seconds to 0.35 seconds.

• Addon Ring of Telekinesis Decreased the lift speed from 50% to 35%

• Addon Ring of Spell Storing Decreased the cooldown reduction of all spells from 5 seconds to 4 seconds.

• Addon Robe of Eyes Decreased distance detection from 8M to 6M.

• Addon Dragontooth Dagger Increased Haemorrhage and Mangled Status Effects from 30 seconds to 45 seconds.

• Addon Cloak of Invisibility Decreased the Undetectable time from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.

• Addon Vorpal Sword: Decreased the Broken status effect from 60 seconds to 30 seconds.

Score Events

• Violent Caster Increased from 100 to 300 Bloodpoints

• Spectral Smash Increased from 500 to 600 Bloodpoints

 

NEW KILLER PERKS

Weave Attunement

• Aura reveal distance increased from 8 meters to 12 meters of dropped items.

Dark Arrogance

• Vault speed increase updated from 16/18/20% to 15/20/25%.

 

NEW SURVIVOR PERKS

Bardic Inspiration

• Buff now lasts 90 seconds instead of 60 and goes on cooldown for 110/100/90 seconds instead of 80/70/60.

• Duration of buff is now shown on the external perk icon.

Still Sight

• Aura reveal distance increased from 18 meters to 24 meters.

 

KILLER UPDATES

The Blight - Addons

• Compound Thirty-Three Rush tokens are capped at 5. (was 3)

Archives

• The current challenge progression will now pop on the side of the Tally screen at the end of every game, even if there was no progress on the selected challenge.

Bots

• Bots can now use the Mirrored Illusion Perk correctly.

• Bots no longer magically see The Lich's Dispelling Sphere without an appropriate Magic Item.

• Bots should be less likely to stop mid-chase while thinking of options.

• Fixed multiple crashes that could occur due to playing with Bots.

• Duplicates of characters replaced by Bots should no longer appear in the Tally screen.

 

BUG FIXES

The Lich

• Fixed an issue that caused The Lich to lose collision with Survivors while selecting or charging spells.

• Fixed an issue that caused The Lich to lose collision with Survivors during the Fly spell.

• Fixed an issue that caused The Lich to lose collision with crouching Survivors after using the Fly spell.

• Fixed an issue that caused The Lich to potentially get stuck if the Fly spell ends on top of a vault.

• Fixed an issue that caused The Lich to be unable to avoid being flashlight blinded after having used Fly or the Flight of the Damned spells.

• Fixed an issue that caused The Lich's spells to display in active cooldown on the spell selection screen when quickly cancelling any spell cast.

• Fixed an issue that caused Survivors to remain stuck in the grab animation for a few seconds after being interrupted during the Mimic chest escape interaction.

• Fixed an issue that caused the dispelling sphere loop SFX to be too loud on the survivor and killer perspective.

• Fixed an issue that caused blood burst VFX to appear at the feet of male survivors when attuning to the Eye of Vecna.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Magic Items to lack a dissolve VFX.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Vecna Items to lack a dissolve VFX.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Spell Indicator VFX invisibility or to remain dimly lit during and after the first Cooldowns.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Lich's motion trail VFX offset during multiple actions.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Eye of Vecna Invisibility Locker Smoke VFX to be only visible for the Survivor fast-exiting the Locker.

• Fixed an issue that caused the blood drip VFX for The Lich's wipe animation to offset.

• The Lich no longer speeds up briefly when casting Flight of the Damned or Dispelling Orb

• The Lich's Flight of the Damned collision hitbox is now correctly lowered while using the Iridescent Book of Vile Darkness addon

Perks

• Fixed an issue that caused the Bardic Inspiration music to play indefinitely when falling the dice roll.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Bardic Inspiration perk animation to continue when a Survivor is downed during the interaction.

• Fixed an issue that caused Mirrored Illusion husk dissolution smoke VFX to remain longer than intended.

• Fixed an issue that caused Survivors' auras to be revealed when swapping a handheld item with an item inside a chest when the Killer had the Weaved Attunement perk.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Weave Attunement external perk icon not to be displayed.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Languid Touch external perk icon not to be displayed.

Misc

• Buying multiple characters too fast should no longer crash the game.

• Fixed an issue that caused smoke flickering on pallets in the Forgotten Ruins map.

• Fixed an issue that caused trap Killers to be unable to use their powers at the entrance of the main building in the Forgotten Ruins map.

• Fixed an issue that caused Victor's SFX to keep looping after a Survivor shoves open a locker blocked by Victor when playing against the Twins.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Dredge and a Survivor to get stuck in a locker if another Survivor tried to hide in the same locker before the Dredge teleported.

• Fixed an issue that caused The Good Guy to be able to Scamper window vaults while in Hidey-Ho Mode.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when using Decisive Strike.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when playing the Tutorial matches.

• Survivors are now able to correctly blind the Unknown with a Flashlight.

NEW SURVIVOR - AESTRI YAZAR

New Survivor Perks

• Mirrored Illusion This perk activates after completing a total of 50% worth of repair progress on generators. Press the ability button 2 when next to a totem, chest, generator or exit gate to spawn a static illusion that lasts for 100/110/120 seconds. Then, the perk deactivates.

• Bardic Inspiration Press the ability button 1 while standing and motionless to enter the "performance" interaction that lasts up to 15 seconds and empowers Survivors within 16 meters. Roll a d20. This effect lasts for 90 seconds if the performance is completed. When the ability is cancelled or the performance completes, it goes on cooldown for 110/100/90 seconds.

  • 1 | You scream, but nothing happens

  • 2-10 | skill checks give +1% progress

  • 11-19 | skill checks give +2% progress

  • 20 | skill checks give +3% progress

• Still Sight After standing still for 6/5/4 seconds, this perk activates. Until you start moving, you see the aura of the Killer as well as all generators and chests within 24 meters.

NEW KILLER - THE LICH

Killer Power

Bound with the skin and flesh of men, the Book is packed with spells both forbidden and wicked. To select a Spell, hold the Ability Button to open the Spell selection. The Lich has access to 4 different Spells:

• Mage Hand: Creates a magical hand that lifts a downed pallet or blocks an upright pallet for 4 seconds.

• Flight of the Damned: Conjures 5 flying spectral entities that can pass through obstacles and injure Survivors.

• Dispelling Sphere: Casts a moving invisible sphere that reveals Survivors and temporarily disables their Magic Items.

• Fly: Gain a flying speed for a short period of time, allowing you to travel a long distance quickly and move over vaults and pallets.

Special Item: Magic Items

Treasure Chests found around the map can contain Magic Items. Each Survivor can equip up to two Magic Items at once: one pair of Boots and one pair of Gauntlets. These Magic Items are each connected to a specific Spell, and activate when The Lich casts that spell.

• Boots/Gauntlets of the Interloper: The Survivor sees the aura of pallets affected by Mage Hand and gains Haste for 3 seconds.

• Boots/Gauntlets of the Nightwatch: The Survivor can see the auras of the spectral entities conjured by Flight of the Damned.

• Boots/Gauntlets of the Archivist: The Survivor can see the Dispelling Sphere.

• Boots/Gauntlets of the Skyguard: The Survivor can see The Lich's aura during Fly and for a few seconds after.

Special Items: Hand & Eye of Vecna

Rarely, Survivors can instead find the Hand or Eye of Vecna in a Treasure Chest. When picked up and used, Survivors gain a special ability while at full health. Using one of these special abilities costs the Survivor a health state and reveals their location with Killer Instinct for 3 seconds.

• Hand of Vecna: When doing a Fast Locker Entry, the Survivor is teleported to a further locker.

• Eye of Vecna: When doing a Fast Locker Exit, the Survivor cannot be seen by The Lich and gains Haste for 15 seconds.

NEW KILLER PERKS

• Weave Attunement - When any item becomes depleted for the first time each match, it is dropped. You see the auras of dropped items. Survivors within 12 meters of dropped items have their auras revealed to you. When a Survivor picks up a Survivor item, they suffer the Oblivious status effect for 20/25/30 seconds. Oblivious prevents Survivors from hearing or being affected by the Killer's Terror Radius.

• Languid Touch - When a Survivor within 36 meters of you scares a crow, they gain the Exhausted status effect for 6/8/10 seconds. This perk has a 20-second cooldown. Exhausted prevents Survivors from activating exhausting perks.

• Dark Arrogance - Increases the duration you are blinded and the duration of pallet stuns by 25%. Increases regular vault speed by 15/20/25%.

New Map - Forgotten Ruins

• Pulled from the memories of alchemists, warriors, storytellers, and criminals, the Forgotten Ruins is an amalgamation of hidden knowledge and dark secrets. How many have wandered this dead terrain, unaware of what lurked beneath their feet? And how many more ventured down to the bottom of that decaying staircase, only to succumb to what awaited them?

KILLER PERK UPDATES

• Deadlock - Decreased the block duration to 15/20/25 seconds. (was 20/25/30 seconds)

• Grim Embrace - Decreased the block duration before reaching 4 tokens to 6/8/10 seconds. (was 8/10/12 seconds)

• Pop Goes the Weasel - Decreased the amount of progress lost to 20%. (was 30%)

• Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance - Decreased the amount of progress lost to 10/15/20%. (was 15/20/25%)

SURVIVOR PERK UPDATES

• Background Player - Decreased the movement speed bonus to 150%. (was 200%) Decreased the Exhaustion duration to 30/25/20 seconds. (was 60/50/40 seconds)

• Buckle Up - Both you and the healed Survivor gain Endurance for 6/8/10 seconds. (Removed) The healed Survivor breaks into a sprint at 150% of their normal Running Movement speed for 3/4/5 seconds and leaves no scratch marks during this time. (New functionality)

• Invocation: Weaving Spiders - Decreased the time it takes to complete the Invocation to 60 seconds. (was 120 seconds) Increased the time it takes for an Invocation to completely regress to 90 seconds. (was 6 seconds)

• Decisive Strike - Decreased the stun duration to 4 seconds. (was 5 seconds)

KILLER UPDATES

The Blight - Addons

• Compound Thirty-Three Rush tokens are capped at 5. (was 3) Increases Rush turn rate by 11%. (was 33%) Increases Rush duration by 11%. (was 33%)
• Iridescent Blight Tag Increases Rush speed by 10%. (was 20%)

The Cannibal - Basekit

• Decreased the obstruction collision size while using the Chainsaw to 10 cm. (was 17.5 cm)
• Decreased the base Tantrum duration to 3 seconds. (was 5 seconds)
• Increased the base Chainsaw Sweep duration to 2.5 seconds. (was 2 seconds)
• Increased the base Chainsaw Sweep movement speed to 5.35 m/s. (was 5.29 m/s)

The Cannibal - Addons

• Award-Winning Chili Increases maximum Chainsaw Sweep duration by 0.2 seconds per charge spent. (was 0.5 seconds)

• Chainsaw File Decreases tantrum duration by 0.25 seconds. (was 0.5 seconds)

• Chili Increases maximum Chainsaw Sweep duration by 0.15 seconds per charge spent. (was 0.25 seconds)

• Homemade Muffler Decreases tantrum duration by 0.5 seconds. (was 1 second)

• Knife Scratches Increases Chainsaw Sweep movement speed by 1.5%. (was 2%) Increases time required to charge the Chainsaw by 10%. (was 12%)

• The Beast's Marks Increases Chainsaw Sweep movement speed by 2%. (was 3%) Increases time required to charge the Chainsaw by 12%. (was 14%)

The Deathslinger - Basekit

• Decreased the stun duration when a Survivor breaks free to 2.7 seconds. (was 3 seconds)

• Increased the reel speed to 2.76 m/s. (was 2.6 m/s)

• Increased movement speed while reloading to 3.08 m/s. (was 2.64 m/s)

The Deathslinger - Addons

• Bayshore's Cigar Decreases the stun duration when Survivors break free by 0.75 seconds. (was 1 second)

• Bayshore's Gold Tooth Increases the Speargun's reeling speed by 5%. (was 9%)

• Chewing Tobacco Decreases the stun duration when Survivors break free by 0.25 seconds. (was 0.5 seconds)

• Snake Oil Increases the Speargun's reeling speed by 2.5%. (was 5%)

The Mastermind - Basekit

• Decreased the Hindered penalty when reaching maximum infection to 4%. (was 8%)

• The Uroboros infection now resets to 1% upon being hooked. (was 50%)

The Good Guy - Basekit

• Scamper is now only available while performing a Slice & Dice.

• Hidey-Ho Mode cooldown reduced to 12 seconds. (was 18 seconds)

• Scamper time reduced to 1.3 seconds. (was 1.4 seconds)

• Added a 1 second cooldown after cancelling a Slice & Dice charge up.

The Good Guy - Addons

• Strobing Light Decreases Terror Radius by 8m when Hidey-Ho Mode is in cooldown. (was 4m)

• Pile of Nails Upon manually exiting Hidey-Ho Mode, Chucky remain Undetectable for 3 seconds. (was 5 seconds)

• Yardstick Performing a Scamper reveals Survivor auras within 16 m distance for 3 seconds. (was 12m / 5 seconds)

• Hard Hat Removed "and exits Hidey-Ho Mode." from description.

TOOLBOX UPDATES

• Toolbox Increases sabotage speed by 15%. (was 10%)

• Mechanic's Toolbox Increases sabotage speed by 25%. (was 10%)

• Commodious Toolbox Increases sabotage speed by 50%. (New functionality)

• Engineer's Toolbox Increases sabotage speed by 10%. (was Decreases by 25%)

• Alex's Toolbox 18 charges. (was 24 charges) Increases sabotage speed by 100%. (was 50%)

• Festive Toolbox Increases sabotage speed by 50%. (New functionality)

• Anniversary Toolbox Increases sabotage speed by 50%. (New functionality)

• Masquerade Toolbox Increases sabotage speed by 50%. (New functionality)

Toolbox Addons

• Cutting Wire Increases the Toolbox's sabotage speed by 20%. (was 15%)

• Grip Wrench Hooks sabotaged using the Toolbox take an extra 20 seconds to respawn. (was 15 seconds)

• Hacksaw Increases the Toolbox's sabotage speed by 30%. (was 20%)

Events & Archives

• The Twisted Masquerade event begins June 13th at 11:00 am ET.

• The Twisted Masquerade event tome also opens June 13th at 11:00 am ET.

MAP UPDATES

Decimated Borgo Realm Update

The red lighting was a big issue in the realm of The Decimated Borgo. The art and lighting team took care to make the realm more accessible to all players and bring a different ambiance to the maps.

FEATURES

UX

• Started adding search tags for Charms
  Only "Perks" and "Birds" for the moment.
• New Item Preview Window
  Regular and Special Items will now display a short description of their effect inside a Trial by using a new item previewer window.

BUG FIXES

Archives

• Archive challenges requiring killers to complete a Trial with no more than X Survivors living should now correctly update throughout the match as Survivors die off.

Audio

• Fixed an issue that caused some of The Good Guy's voice lines to be cut in the Mori Preview.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Nightmare's Jump Rope add-on to fail increasing Survivors grunts volume.

Bots

• The names of the Bots that appear following a player disconnection have been corrected.

Characters

• Fixed an issue that caused The Cannibal's Tantrum animation to sometimes not play after overcharging the chainsaw or hitting a collision.
• Fixed an issue that caused male Survivors to be dropped closer to Killer than female Survivors when escaping the Killer's grasp by any means.
• Fixed an issue that caused The Twin's Baby Teeth add-on not to inflict the Blindness status effect when attached to a Survivor.
• Fixed an issue that caused Victor's respawn animation to play on Charlotte before his cooldown finishes.
• Fixed an issue that caused Victor not to trigger the anti-camp meter when he was close to the hook.
• Fixed an issue that caused The Blight camera to pan down after breaking a pallet during Lethal Rush.
• Fixed an issue that caused Charles Lee Ray to be invisible during certain interactions.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Cenobite's camera to reset when turning while using his power.
• Fixed an issue that caused Survivors camera to snap back to the default position when exiting a locker.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Plague to lose Corrupt Purge when being stunned by any means.

Environment/Maps

• Fixed an issue that caused the Nightmare to be able to hide Dream Snares under the floor at the top of Killer Basement staircase in the main building of the Ironworks of Misery map.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Nightmare to be able to hide Dream Snares under the floor at the top of the staircases in the Midwich Elementary map.
• Fixed an issue in the Underground Complex where two generators could spawn in the same room.
• Fixed an issue in the Underground Complex where a chest would spawn in rooms and clip with different elements of the environment.
• Fixed an issue in Lery's Hospital where an invisible collision was letting players walk over the stairs going down the basement in the Doctor's Office.
• Fixed multiple issues related to the Nurse blinking out of the Raccoon City Police Station map.
• Fixed an issue in the Eyrie of Crows map where a collision near the hill would prevent players from navigating.
• Fixed an issue in the Raccoon City Police Station map where Victor could climb on blockers.
• Fixed an issue in the Autohaven Wrecker's Realm where an obstacle blocked navigation for the Killer.

Perks

• Fixed an issue that caused Victor to be unable to receive noise notifications from the Call of Brine perk.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Premonition perk to activate while being carried by the Killer.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Bamboozle perk to trigger when Killers used their power to vault through a window.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Bite the Bullet perk not to activate.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Deliverance perk to sometimes not activate.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Ultimate Weapon perk to sometimes not to activate the screaming animation from Survivor POV.

UI

• Changing presets in the Loadout Menu will no longer rotate the character due to different charm layouts.

Misc

• Kill-switched items should no longer appear in Bloodwebs.
• Fixed a crash that could occur while in a Trial when gaining Bloodpoints.
• Fixed a crash that could occur while loading between the Play as Survivor lobby and the pre-Trial lobby.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a Survivor screams.
• Spamming the unhook button no longer causes the hooked Survivor's camera to swing around repeatedly.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Hatch Unlock progress to reset when cancelling the interaction.
• Fixed an issue that caused Survivors to be unable to unhook a teammate if that hooked Survivor had previously unhooked themselves just before reaching the struggle stage.

KNOWN ISSUES

Characters

• It is possible for The Dredge and a Survivor to get stuck in a locker if another Survivor tries to hide in the same locker before the teleportation.

Perks

• UI feedback is missing for some Perks (Languid Touch, Weave Attunement, Bardic Inspiration).
• Survivors' Auras are revealed when swapping an item held in hands with an Item inside a Chest with the Weave Attunement Perk.
• The Survivor screams and animation triggers before the result of the dice appears with the Bardic Inspiration Perk.
• Rarely there is no lute or dice animations when triggering the Bardic Inspiration Perk.
• When rolling a 1 with the Bardic Inspiration perk, the lute song will continue to play indefinitely until the perk interaction is attempted again.
• It is possible to spawn a second illusion when there is already one active with the Mirrored Illusion Perks.