Dead by Daylight Dev Tracker

Introducing the newest Killer in Dead by Daylight, the legendary Ghost Face. 

Danny Johnson, known as Jed Olsen by some, grabbed the newspaper from the kitchen counter: it was a week old, but his face was on the front page, grainy and sunken. It was one of those muggy afternoons in Florida when heat and humidity permeated everything in the kitchen, making him sweat while standing still. He slouched in a damp chair to read. This article had better be good—his work in Roseville had been outstanding.  

GHOST FACE DISAPPEARS 

June 18, 1993 

At first gl...

People of the Fog,

It has been just over a week since Ghost Face debuted on the Player Test Build (PTB). Since then, we have been closely monitoring his performance and reading through your feedback. Upon further consideration, we determined that it would be best to address the state of Ghost Face before the official release.

Shortly after reaching the PTB, we noticed many people were experiencing issues while playing Ghost Face. Survivors were able to detect the Killer too easily, making it difficult to take advantage of his power. With your feedback, we have identified several issues and listed some of the changes we h...

People of the Fog,

Find our cosmetics that will be released in Chapter 12.

Players will be able to purchase these cosmetics through the Dead by Daylight store.  

NEW OUTFIT: THE PIG'S TEST SUBJECT OUTFIT

NEW OUTFIT: DAVID TAPP'S BEAT COP OUTFIT

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Hosts

not_Queen - Lead Community Manager

Philippe Ivanovic - Art Director

Stefan Horvath - Game Designer

News & Announcements

• REMINDER: Bloodhunt running between June 14th and June 18th.
• REMINDER: Third Anniversary Community Activities are starting. For more details and a full list of the planned activities, click here: ...

People of the Fog,

The Dead by Daylight team is happy to announce the newest addition to our roster of Killers; none other than Ghost Face himself.

NEW KILLER: THE GHOST FACE

The Ghost Face, more commonly known as Jed Olsen to his acquaintances, is a devious Killer that stalks his victims from the shadows. Two of his victims would report being followed on their way home just days before their deaths. He could watch the same victim for weeks, monitoring their routine while snapping photos and planning his entry. When he got the urge to kill, he would visit the most vulnerable victim on his list and quickly make hi...

June is Anniversary month!

There will be a ton of activities going on... for today, we are launching the contests! We will be updating this post with more information and details on the other activities during the first week of June.

Stay tuned!

Contests

Artwork contest

• 1st Prize: 24 000 AC / 2nd and 3rd prize: 18 000 AC 
• Rules: ...

People of the Fog, 

We’re all eagerly awaiting our Third Anniversary Livestream this Friday, which will be full of reveals, laughs, and information on the coming year. In the meantime, we have a few announcements that we are excited to share with you. 

GHOST FACE IS COMING TO DEAD BY DAYLIGHT 

The Dead by Daylight team is proud to announce that "The ICON of Halloween"®, Ghost Face®, will be joining the roster of killers. Ghost Face is a natural stalker, lurking in the shroud of night, who observes his victims before striking. 

Acquaintances are a dangerous deception. The workplace is filled with them; strangers seated beside us, five days a week. A distant familiarity grown from habit; the blanks filled with assumptions as we forget how little we know, until proven otherwise. No one thought the man seated on their left could be responsible for the murder of a dozen people. Until proven otherwise. The Ghost Face® took full advantage of that fact, blending in...

Over the course of the last 3 years, we have been working hard on introducing new Killers, new Survivors, new maps and constantly trying to improve Dead by Daylight.  

The Dead by Daylight 3rd Anniversary Livestream will give players insights on what is coming for year 4 and how we are committed to bring our player new fantasies through chapters, rework existing gameplay content and solidify the game’s health for the long term. 

Our objective is to give you an overview of what’s coming for Year 4 and celebrate Dead by Daylight’s legacy. The 3rd Anniversary Livestream will be composed of 4 panels. For each panel, we will ...

For its year 3 anniversary, Dead by Daylight will be hosting its biggest livestream

Major reveals, drama, laughs, cries, surprises. It’s a date!

When?

May 31st 2019

What time?

at 3PM EST

Where can we watch the livestream?

YouTube

Twitch

 Last month, we were happy to release our first Developer Update, a blogpost focusing on some of the most pressing issues and how we are working on solving them.  

The last Developer Update was very well received and this time around, we will be revisiting our topics from last month and give you an update on their progress, as well as some new topics, including disconnection handling, hitboxes / hit registration and more. 

Update on previous topics 

Optimization – Still on track  

Last time we communicated about optimization was in March and we thought it was time t...

On April 25th 2019, dedicated servers were enabled on the PTB to allow for our first infrastructure tests. Shortly after being enabled we reached a peak concurrent user count of 1503, and over 22 000 unique players played on the dedicated servers during the 5 day period in which there were turned on.

What were the results from the PTB?

Our main objective was to test our infrastructure and confirm it could handle a large number of players simultaneously. The results from the PTB gave us a greater insight into what we can improve to ensure that it is as stable as possible for our official release.

Choosing a serve...

FEATURES & CONTENT

• Content - Re-implemented the full translation for Traditional Chinese.
• Feature - Added a delay before the ping indicator appears in the online lobby for Killers & Survivors. This delay allows for the ping to stabilize before being displayed to the player. 
• Feature - Games that would start with less than 5 players are canceled, and all players still connected to the server will be returned to the tally screen (keeping their items, add-ons and offerings) and notified about the cancellation.
• Feature - Re-added the theme music for DLC characters.

End Game Collapse

• Closing the hatch instantly powers up the exit gates.
• End Game Collapse starts when an exit gate is opened or when the Killer closes the hatch.
• End Game timer starts at 2 minutes. Timer is slowed down when a Survivor is downed or hooked.
• Survivors are sacrificed by the Entity when...

Earlier this week, we asked you what statistics you would like to see. Since then, we have collected data on some of the most popular requests and designed some fancy graphics for them. There are a few things to note:

• This data does not include the recent PTB.
• Data involving rank was collected shortly before a rank reset (April 1st to April 7th).
• These are very general statistics, so use caution before drawing any conclusions.

Average Party Size

This is the overall average, between all ranks and platforms, of how many other Survivors players are queuing up with. More than half of the total Survivors are playing solo, while only 3-6% are playing in a full Survive With Friends group. This is based on the group size out of the total number of matches.

BLOGPOST

May 8th, 2019

Dedicated Servers | The Player Test Build learnings

We needed a bit more information and confirmation on some content for this blogpost so we pushed it from May 3rd to May 8th. Thank you.

Attention

Items and dates on this schedule are subject to change. Thank you.

July 30th

Hotfix release: 3.1.1, all platforms

July 31st

Cosmetic release: New outfit(s) hit the in-game store

August 1st

AMA on Reddit: Join us on Reddit and ask us anything you've been dying to know.

Start time: 2pm EDT

Dedicated servers are now enabled on the PTB. This marks the first public test of dedicated servers. In order to assess how the system scales with the number of players online, this initial test will be limited to approximately 500 players per data center at any given time.

If your region is currently full, you will receive the following error message when attempting to join a match: 

Last December, we announced that we are migrating Dead by Daylight to Dedicated Servers by Summer 2019. Since then, we have been hard at work getting the game ready to make the switch. We have recently been testing dedicated servers internally, and we are now ready to share more with you! 

Testing Dedicated Servers 

On April 25th, two days after the Player Test Build launches, dedicated servers will be enabled on the test environment. The PTB will use a copy of your save file from April 19, 2019 8:15AM UTC. Any progress earned on the PTB will not transfer over to the live build. 

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People of the Fog, 

We are happy to start a new initiative of revealing cosmetics that will be released periodically between mid-Chapter 11 and Chapter 12. Players will be able to purchase these cosmetics through the Dead by Daylight store.  

NEW COLLECTION: The Neon Nights 

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People of the fog, 

In order to improve the overall trials gameplay experience, we are introducing the Endgame Collapse, a new phase that pushes all lingering Survivors to escape before being claimed by The Entity. The End game Phase will raise the stakes, urging The Killers and Survivors to make tough decisions while under the pressure of the timer.  

This new endgame phase adds a 3-minute countdown when activated, new gate, hatch and generator interactions and a brand-new entity sacrifice when the timer expires.  

For all the details on the new Endgame Collapse, watch the following video. 

See you in the fog, 

The Dead by Daylight dev team 

People of the Fog, 

Since the release of Chapter 11: The Darkness Among Us, we have received a lot of feedback, both positive and negative, regarding The Legion. With this update, we aim to bridge the gap in the extreme playstyle of this Killer and remove some of the ongoing frustrations when playing as The Legion as well as against The Legion. 

The following changes allow for direct Survivor counter-play, reduce the potential for exploiting certain game mechanics, and bring The Legion’s default attributes in-line with other Killers, all while retaining the core vision of this Killer. 

The Legion...