Dead by Daylight Dev Tracker

Today, we are launching the first edition of the Dead by Daylight Developer Update. These articles have the objective of giving our Community a better visibility on our short and mid-term priorities and how each of them is progressing. We are looking at releasing an update like this on a regular basis.

This first edition will give you insights on some hot topics including the infinite loading screen issue and the new matchmaking algorithm. We also want to provide an update on our progress for: Dedicated Servers, Legion Update, the new End Game Collapse and the Freddy rework. 

Game Health Issues...

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People of the Fog, 

As part of the 2.6.0 update, we made some changes to the emblem system to have a player's rank more accurately reflect their skill level. This was done by setting unique pipping thresholds for each rank range that gradually become more demanding as you climb up the ranks. 

While these changes did have the intended outcome, the new pipping thresholds proved to be too demanding on the Survivor side. As a result, not as many Survivors are reaching the higher ranks as we had originally anticipated, making it difficult for green-red ranked killers to find a match. 

 

WHAT IS CHANGING? 

In our next update, the number of points needed for Survivors to reach both the +1 and +2 pip thresholds is reduced by one. Killer pip thresholds remain unchanged for now. 

The new Survivor pipping thresholds are as follows: 

RANK 17-20 (BROWN) 

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THIS WEEKEND, DEAD BY DAYLIGHT IS PLAY FOR FREE ON ALL PLATFORMS AND UP TO 60% ON SALE.

Free Weekend start and end date per platform:

PS4

NA / Japan - Starts at 2am UTC on April 4th, Ends at 3pm UTC on April 8th

EU - Starts at 6am UTC on April 4th, Ends at 6am UTC on April 8th

 

STEAM

Worldwide - Starts at 5pm on April 3rd UTC, Ends at 7AM UTC on April 8th

XBOX

Worldwide - Start at 10PM UTC on April 3rd - Ends at 7AM...

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DEAD BY DAYLIGHT – TWITCH CHALLENGES (BETA) 

Behaviour is excited to team up with Amazon to bring the GameOn Tournament Organizer to Dead by Daylight.  

With this Twitch Extension, streamers can organize and invite their community to join them in casual competitions easily accessed from within the game. In Dead by Daylight, GameOn will be referred to as “Twitch Challenges”. The Twitch Challenges launched on April 2nd 2019 and the creation of leaderboards will be, for now, only accessible to the Fog Whisperers - 50 broadcasters who are actively engaged in the game’s community. We hope streamers and their community will enjoy this new feature. Find below an in-depth overview of the “Twitch Challenges”. 

 

WHAT ARE TWITCH CHALLENGES & AMAZON GAMEON? 

Twitch Challenges is a new feature for Dead by Daylight that grants streamers the ability to create in-game leaderboard competitions amongst their viewers. This is all d...

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Available on Steam, PS4 NA / EU and XBOX.

New SURVIVOR: Ashley J. Williams

During a weekend at a cabin with friends, Ashley J. Williams uncovered the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (the Book of the Dead) and awoke something dark in the woods. Evil possessed his friends, whom he was forced to kill, and his right hand, which he sawed off.

For the next thirty years, Ash ran from his past, working at a Value Stop department store and seducing women in dive bars. But he screwed up one night while being high, when he read from the Necronomicon to impress a woman. Evil found him once more, wrecking the life ...

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PATCH NOTES 2.6.3

FEATURES & CONTENT:

• Feature - Added support for Twitch Game On.
• Content - Added a new Survivor (Ashley J. Williams).

ATTENTION

The new character, Ash J. Williams is available with Auric Cells in the in-game store as soon as the update is released.

The DLC will be available later today on all platforms and will include an exclusive item.

BALANCE:

• Changed the Decisive Strike stun time to 5 seconds, with the Survivor being free to move after 1 second.
• The Enduring perk now affects Decisive Strike's stun.

With feedback from the PTB and Live, we have changed the Decisive Strike stun time to 5 seconds, with the Survivor being free to move after 1 second. This should allow for the survivor to have ~ 4 seconds at a base to try and escape the killer after the stun is successful. When Enduring is used, the stun wi...

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Catch ya on the flip-flop!

Ash J. Williams will be available as a playable character in the game on April 2nd, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIn-XB9QSM4

INFORMATION

Join us at the booth #13109 to meet the Dead by Daylight Dev team and play on one of our 10 stations!

The Booth schedule is the same as the showfloor: 10:00AM to 6:00PM everyday.

For more information : http://east.paxsite.com/

BOOTH ACTIVITIES

This year, activities and raffles are organised for our fans!

Cosplay contest

Come to the booth cosplaying any Dead by Daylight character and you might receive an invite to the Cosplay contest! Cosplay winner will be picked at the Dead by Daylight

Prize: Dead by Daylight cap and patches!

WINNER DAY 1:

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People of the Fog,

On March 24th, following a 2 week test, we decided to turn off the new matchmaking system.

The quantitative and qualitative feedback gathered during this period is essential to understand how the new system reacts in the live environment.

Our top priority is to reduce the high latency / ping some players were faced with when matched with other players across the globe.

Today’s matchmaking update restructures how we manage player queues.

We will be separating the matchmaking queues in three regions : AMERICA, EMEA, APAC.

This will ensure that players are also matched based on geolocation and should improve the overall network connection between players.

This update is not definitive and we are actively working on improving the system.

Our second priority is to reduce ranking disparity that seemed to have increased with the new matchmaking system.

This will be done in a future update.

For now, we will b...

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Earlier this month, Behaviour interactive collaborated with Dead by Daylight and ...

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SPOTLIGHT TRAILER

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attention

DLC will be available later.

Fixes and changes from PTB 2.6.0

BALANCE

Add-on changes:

• Add-on Ashen Apple: +5 seconds.
• Add-on Hematite Seal: +10 seconds.
• Add-on Incensed Ointment: +0.3 Movement Speed.
• Add-on Iridescent Seal: Reduced the duration of Worship mode by 20 seconds.
• Add-on Limestone Seal: +5 seconds.
• Add-on Olibanum Incense: +0.3 Movement Speed.

Emblem changes:

• Devout: Hook event condition reduced from 10+ to 9+ hook events required for Iridescent quality. This makes it easier to achieve Iridescent quality of Devout emblem.
• Gatekeeper: Scoring defended generators points reduced. Quality threshold requirements reduced. This makes it easier to achieve all qualities of Gatekeeper emblem.

Perk Changes:

• Fire Up had it's values increased after testing in t...

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People of The Fog,

As some of you may have noticed, we launched the Chapter 11 Demise of the Faithful PTB with some slight changes to the Emblem System. This is the first step in an ongoing effort to improve our ranking and Emblem System. Therefore, we want to provide you with information on how these changes may affect your matches and overall rank in Dead by Daylight.

WHY CHANGE THE SYSTEM?

There have been many community concerns recently regarding the current state of ranking. We wanted to address these concerns by adjusting the system to provide an incremental difficulty scale in both achieving and maintaining higher ranks. Each rank group (color) now sets its own requirements for pipping thresholds rather than remaining a static goal no matter how high in rank you climb.

In addition to the changes to pipping and ranking, there were several changes made to Killer emblem scoring. Killers have been generally pipping at a...

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The new matchmaking system has been live for the past 48 hours and we will continue to monitor its status.

The purpose of this system is to make queue times fairer for all and to reduce edge cases where some players might experience long wait time. 

What can we expect with the new matchmaking system? 

• The new system puts a player looking for a match in one of two queues: a queue for killers and a queue for survivors. Then at a fixed time interval (for example, every thirty seconds), it takes a bucket of players from both queues and matches them together, creating multiple lo...

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Question from MeritMementoMori  

Dear Developers, I have a short question. Because of the recent decisive strike change, will Dying Light get modification (like a slight buff or some effect changes) to combat it? 

Horvath - GAME DESIGNER | Answer

No, but we would like to change Dying Light, so that it is less tunneling and oppressive. 

 

Question from Ninjaeyes   

Will you be changing the Calm Spirit to affect the scream from illness and Infectious Fright or are those not affected? 

HORVATH - game designer | ANSWER

Calm Spirit should be neg...

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Question from MeritMementoMori  

Dear Developers, I have a short question. Because of the recent decisive strike change, will Dying Light get modification (like a slight buff or some effect changes) to combat it? 

Horvath - GAME DESIGNER | Answer

No, but we would like to change Dying Light, so that it is less tunneling and oppressive. 

 

Question from Ninjaeyes   

Will you be changing the Calm Spirit to affect the scream from illness and Infectious Fright or are those not affected? 

HORVATH - game designer | ANSWER

Calm Spirit should be nega...

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Jane Romero

Introducing our newest survivor, the influential talk show host Jane Romero.

Jane Romero was the daughter of a famous actress. Her parents separated when she was still a baby, mainly since her mother was away often. Jane was raised by her father, a struggling visual artist. She grew up torn between resenting her mother’s absence and admiring her presence on screen.

As a teenager, Jane secretly wis...

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The Plague

Introducing our “oldest” Killer in Dead by Daylight.

When she was five years old, Adiris, the youngest of a family of seven, was left on the brick-red burning steps of the Temple of Purgation at the center of Babylon.

To process her shock and sorrow, she held onto the belief that the gods had a plan for her. She led a life of quiet servitude, tending to the gardens, preparing sacred meals, and polishing ceremonial censers. At night, she would pray for a sign that would reveal her purpose.

When she came of age, she aided the high-ranking priests during the year...

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People of the Fog,

The Dead by Daylight team is pleased to present its newest release, Demise of the Faithful, which includes a new map, a new Killer and a new Survivor.

NEW KILLER: The Plague

We are very proud to introduce our “oldest” Killer in the game: The Plague. This High Priestess of Babylon was well known for her wealth, beauty, and devotion. In a time when a dark sickness had resurfaced, she was driven by her blind faith to save her followers… and herself. But nothing could save her. Not even faith.

The Plague’s power: Vile Purge

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Over the past six months, we have allocated strike teams with the mission of improving the overall health of the game. As announced last December, we have developers working on a new matchmaking algorithm which we are actively testing and are almost ready to deploy. We are also targeting to migrate the game to dedicated servers by the end of summer 2019.

This blog post is meant to update you on the efforts put on optimization, which aim to enhance the overall game’s performance.

When we first released Dead by Daylight back in 2016, we targeted 30 FPS on our minimum spec. Up until recently, we optimized the game in bursts; for the console launch and before releasing a new Killer. We are now ready to set a new performance target: Dead by daylight will run at 60 FPS on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and minimum spec PCs.

Reaching 60 FPS on Dead by Daylight is not an ea...

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