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...

Back in September, we launched a pilot for a new program called: “The Fog Whisperers”. This was opened to 10 content creators who have gone above and beyond with their impact on the Dead by Daylight community. It was so well received by the content creators and their communities that we decided we would like to add even more people to the program.

In December, we opened applications for new Fog Whisperers and were blown away by the response. Over 2,500 people applied for the position. After extensive research, time, and effort, we are happy to introduce the new Fog Whisperers! We have selected these content creators because they all bring something special to Dead by Daylight and are very engaged with the DBD community.

WHAT IS FOG WHISPERERS?

Fog Whisperers is a program aimed to support passionate Dead by Daylight broadcasters!
In exchange for a little...

People of the Fog,

Decisive Strike is one of Laurie Strode’s unique perks, which was released with Chapter II: HALLOWEEN in October of 2016. We introduced Decisive Strike as a perk option to help give Survivors a second wind, and an opportunity to escape their inevitable demise.

Over the course of the last few years, Decisive Strike has been a point of contention amongst our community, and as a result, the perk has had an interesting journey since its inception.

Decisive Strike has gone through some minor changes to arrive at its current state. Additionally, we have also prototyped entire reworks of the perk, some that we previously spoke of with the community. Ultimately, most of these ideas were shelved as we felt that they did not retain the essence of the perk, nor did they provide an overall improvement to the current version.

Id...

Back in December, we announced we were working on a new matchmaking system.

The purpose of this system is to make queue times fairer for all players and reduce the edge cases where some people, under certain conditions, wait for a long time. For a full overview of the system, you can read the announcement blog post which was released back in December.

Today, we want to give you a status update on the upcoming matchmaking system. We sat down with Rémi Lefebvre, Online Systems Specialist, who answered our questions around the deploy...

Behaviour® is proud to inform it’s Dead by Daylight fans they have signed a retail distribution agreement with Koch Media to bring the game to the Nintendo Switch™. This partnership includes all territories except China.

This brand-new edition will launch in the fall of 2019 and it will burst with a ton of content, including Killers, Survivors, Maps, Chapters and Cosmetics.

“Bringing Dead by Daylight to the Nintendo Switch is yet another milestone in the game’s history and a personal dream of mine. Very soon, players will be able to bring their game along and continue serving the Entity on the bus, at work or at home. We are thrilled to be teaming up with Koch Media for the first time. I believe this is the beginning of a very fruitful partnership.” said Stephen Mulrooney, Senior Vice-President, Behaviour Interactive.

“With Dead by Daylight on Nintendo Switch ...

Dear People of The Fog,

We have become aware of the longer queuing times affecting some of our survivor players as more of you are playing as survivors during the event.
To address this, we’ll be making a change to the event points earned by Killers and increasing the amount of Red Envelopes spawning in the Bloodweb.

STEP 1: CHANGES LIVE TODAY (Back-end)

• Increased Killer event points
• Points for hooking a Survivor: From 2 to 3
• Points for destroying a Lunar Vessel: From 3 to 4
• These points will be live but not be reflected visually in the event menu “Objectives” details until the patch arrives.

STEP 2: LATER THIS WEEK (Hotfix)

• Increased Red Envelopes spawning in the Level 50 Bloodweb: From 1 to 2
• Amount will remain at 2 until a player Prestiges their character, or has already hit Pre...

People of the fog,
The Dead by Daylight team is happy to celebrate the Lunar New Year with the Moonrise Event. From January 30th (19:00 UTC) to February 13th (19:00 UTC), this event will give a chance for Killers and Survivors to experience new gameplay, new goals, in-game themed decorations and additional items in the Bloodweb.

Survivor Goal

Gather a Lunar Vessel and escape the map to earn points towards Golden Coins:

Find Vessels in the map to gather. Only one may be held at a time.
Embers then encircle the player to indicate to others that they are holding a Vessel.
If a Survivor holding a Vessel is hooked, they lose their embers. The Vessel they picked up is returned to its original location.

Repairing a generator will also generate points towards Golden Coins.

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BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that could cause survivors to be unable to trigger interaction or cause the character to be teleported back to the basement after spending some time inside the basement.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some Survivors to be standing at the campfire.
• Fixed an issue that caused Prove Thyself not to affect the perk owner.
• Fixed the incorrect values displayed in all tiers of the Self-Care description, in all supported languages.
• Fixed an issue that made it impossible to rush vault a specific window in Badham Preschool.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Game Over score event to not work properly for The Pig.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when a survivor would disconnect during a Mori.
• Fixed a crash related to status effects that could happen at any time during gameplay.
• Fixed an issue that caused certain customization items to have placeholder string in all non-English languages...

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that could cause survivors to be unable to trigger interaction or cause the character to be teleported back to the basement after spending some time inside the basement.
• Fixed an issue that could cause some Survivors to be standing at the campfire.
• Fixed an issue that caused Prove Thyself not to affect the perk owner.
• Fixed the incorrect values displayed in all tiers of the Self-Care description, in all supported languages.
• Fixed an issue that made it impossible to rush vault a specific window in Badham Preschool.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Game Over score event to not work properly for The Pig.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when a survivor would disconnect during a Mori.
• Fixed a crash related to status effects that could happen at any time during gameplay.
• Fixed an issue that caused certain customization items to have placeholder string in all non-English languages...

The player game bans feature is now live on Console
For more information on game rules : https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/19450/game-rules-and-report-system#latest

WHERE TO GIVE BALANCE FEEDBACK

Here!

WHERE TO REPORT BUGS

Here!

FEATURES & CONTENT

• Feature - Added controls to change characters in the lobbies and the store without accessing...