With the release of the latest chapter comes a patch — this one contains a lot more than the new characters, however! Bots in custom matches, flashlight changes, and a new basement round out today’s update. Read on for a brief rundown of the changes, or use the Contents button to find a specific topic or see the complete notes.
New Killer, Survivor, & Map
New Killer: The Knight
This Killer’s power lets him summon one of three different Gaurds, who will patrol the path given to them, damaging generators and chasing Survivors they spot. His perks let him see Survivor aura’s when damaging gens, reveal Survivors outside of his Terror Radius with a Hex, and Expose Survivors that stun him.
New Survivor: Vittorio Toscano
This Survivor’s perks are all generator related — they let him reveal the Killer’s aura with Great Skill Checks on gens, store up generator repairs for key moments, and speed up the repairs of other Survivors while in a chase nearby.
The Shattered Square
A medieval-themed DLC wouldn’t be complete without a map to match.
The Shattered Square’s main building
Flashlight Changes
Flashlight blinds that occur within the last 0.4 seconds of the Killer’s pickup animation will stun the killer.
This is a buff to flashlight saves, as it greatly extends the window in which you can sucessfully blind the Killer while they’re picking up a Survivor.
Killers are immune to blindness when grabbing a Survivor from a locker
SWF teams were using the fact that Killers were easy to blind while opening a locker to make lockers very safe; this change is designed to remove that strategy.
Bots in Custom Matches
Just like it says on the tin — you’ll now be able to add Survivor bots to custom matches! Perfect for people who want to play with their friends without any pesky randoms spoiling the fun.
Updated Basment, Breakable Objects, & Rancor
The basement has been updated
Visuals have been improved
The stairs have been widened to prevent body-blocking.
Pallets and Breakable Walls have new visuals
The Killer perk Rancor has been buffed
It now exposes the Obsession when closing the hatch
Dead by Daylight Forged in Fog Patch Notes 6.4.0
Features
New Killer – The Knight
New Perk – Nowhere to Hide
Whenever you damage a generator, reveal the aura of all Survivors standing within 24 meters of your position for 3/4/5 seconds
New Perk – Hex: Face the Darkness
Injuring a Survivor by any means lights a Dull Totem, activating the Hex. While the Hex is active, all other Survivors outside of your Terror Radius will scream every 35/30/25 seconds, revealing their positions and auras for 2 seconds. When the Survivor enters the dying state or becomes healthy, the Hex totem becomes dull again and this perk deactivates. If the Hex totem is cleansed, this perk is permanently disabled
New Perk – Hubris
Whenever you are stunned by a Survivor, that Survivor suffers from the Exposed status effect for 10/15/20 seconds. Hubris has a cooldown of 20 seconds
New Survivor – Vittorio Toscano
New Perk – Potential Energy
After working on a generator for 12/10/8 uninterrupted seconds, press the Active Ability Button 2 to activate this perk. When this perk is active, repairing the generator will charge this perk instead of making the generator progress. For each 1.5% of generator repair, the perk will gain one token, up to 20 tokens. While this perk has at least one token and you are working on a generator, you can press the Active Ability Button 2 to consume all the tokens and instantly make the generator progress by 1% for each token. This perk then deactivates. If you lose a health state while this perk has at least 1 tokens, the perk will lose all tokens and deactivate. Missing a skill check will also result in some charges lost
New Perk – Fogwise
Hitting a great Skill Check while repairing a generator reveals the aura of the Killer to you for 4/5/6 seconds
New Perk – Quick Gambit
When you are chased within 24 meters of any generator, any other Survivor working on that generator receives a 6/7/8% speed boost to the repair action
Flashlight update
Flashlight blinds that occur within the last 0.4 seconds of the Survivor pickup animation will now stun the Killer once the animation has completed
Dev note: We’ve increased the duration of the buffer from its PTB value of 0.25 to account for latency.
Killers are now immune to blindness while grabbing a Survivor out of a locker
Bots in Custom Matches
The host of a Custom Match can add Survivor bots to the game
(PS5 Only!) Added Haptic Feedback & a pop-up informing players
Rancor Perk
Updated the conditions on which the obsession becomes exposed to include closing the hatch
Content
New map – The Shattered Square
Updated Basement
Wider stairs to address body-blocking issues
Updated visuals for Pallets and Breakable doors
Changes From PTB
Decreased the spawn time of the Guards to 1.5s from 2.0s
Guard Detection Radius interpolation speed now 1.0 instead of 1.5 sec
Guard traveling to detection location decreased to 2.5 sec instead of 3.0 sec
Flag activation on Carnifex is now 10.0 sec. instead of 8.0 sec
Flag activation on Assassin is now 5.0 sec. instead of 2.0 sec
Flag activation on Jailer is now 5.0 sec. instead of 2.0 sec
The Killer is now able to cancel/destroy a patrolling Guard by hitting them with their base attack
Addon Map of the Realm: is now +4M instead of +6M
Addon Flint and Steel: now only works on dropped/unbroken pallets
Addon Healing Poultice: Effect has been inverted to within 24M instead of over 36M
Addon Knight’s Contract: Extended the effect to 12M instead of 8M. Addon text now specifies the Guard spawn trigger
Perk Hex: Face the Darkness has updated functionality and timing
Flashlight blind buffer increased from 0.25 seconds to 0.4 seconds
Dev note: we’ve increased the duration of the buffer from its PTB value of 0.25 to account for latency
The fog on the Shattered Square has been modified to reduce the amount of red and added a grey fog effect as a replacement
The pallet textures and hooks on The Shattered Square have been modified to improve visibility
When a Survivor picks up a flag, there is now a VFX for the duration of the bonus effect
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue that caused error 109 after a trial
Fixed an issue that caused the wrong prestige level to be displayed on the tally screen
Fixed an issue that sometimes left survivors in the dying state, unable to be able to be healed whilst on a stairway or slope
Fixed an issue that caused letter casing in chat on WinGDK
Fixed an issue that allowed the Killer to bodyblock a hook on Racoon City Police Station map
Fixed an issue that enabled a Survivor to pass through a visible gap but not the Killer in Dead Dawg Saloon map
Fixed an issue that caused a placeholder in Pale Rose
Fixed an issue that caused the Survivor getting stuck between a hook and a rack in Racoon City Police Station map
Fixed an issue in the Archives where the progression was duplicated between some tomes
Fixed a possible crash when closing the Game
Fixed invitations not received when visiting the Archives or Onboarding menus
Fixed an issue that caused the Survivor to be stuck in the animation loop after failing a skill check
Fixed an issue that caused Jeff Johansen’s face to be distorted when performing an action
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight snuffing animation to emits a metallic SFX
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight to play two kick sounds when breaking doors despite only kicking the door once
Fixed an issue on Switch that caused the Onryo project power’s SFX to be corrupted
Fixed an issue that caused the Survivor’s escape animation to be incorrect when escaping while using a flashlight
Fixed an issue with the Object of Obsession perk icon appears in red when the Survivor is not the obsession
Fixed an issue that caused Survivors to be able to avoid dying with a Reverse Beartrap by using a Flashlight at the Exit Gate
Fixed an issue that caused Survivors to be able to avoid getting caught in a Beartrap by using a flashlight
Fixed an issue that caused For The People to not trigger We’re Gonna Live Forever when used too quickly
Fixed an issue that caused Killers to be able to bypass the Decisive Strike stun if the Survivor is dropped before the skill check
Fixed an issue that caused kills and sacrifices not being properly tracked in challenges and achievements
Bug Fixes From PTB
Fixed an issue which caused flashlight blinds from any point of the Survivor pickup animation to blind the Killer once the animation was completed
Fixed some issues in the Lobby where the PlayerTag option menus could overlap with other PlayerTags
Fixed an issue where the character is unable to move after visiting the Compendium section in the Archives
Fixed an issue that caused the Blight’s VFX to be missing during his Mori
Fixed an issue that caused the active flag VFX to be visible when a Survivor is hit by a Guard, before it get activated
Fixed an issue that caused the flags for The Knight to dissolve inconsistently when a Guard despawns
Fixed an issue that caused the loud noise notification to be misaligned with the Exit Gate Switch Panel
Fixed an issue that caused the VFX for the Potential Energy perk to be misaligned depending of the orientation of the survivor when triggered
Fixed an issue that caused the flag to remain for the hunted survivor even if the guard disappeared
Fixed an issue that caused some Tier 1 perks from The Knight and Vittorio Toscano to be brown instead of yellow
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Flint and Steel addon to not remove a token from the perk Distortion when triggered
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Knight Contract addon to affect a smaller than intended radius
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Chain Mail Fragment addon to not apply the Hemorrhage Status effect to survivors when hit by the guards
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Broken Hilt addon to not apply the Mangled Status effect to survivors when hit by the guards
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s perk Nowhere To Hide to reveal the Aura of Survivors when cancelling the damage action on Generators
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Guards to place a flag in mid-air if the hunted survivor is detected while falling
Fixed an issue that caused survivors to be unable to pallet stun The Knight creating a Patrol Path
Fixed an issue that caused the Decimated Borgo map icon to appear in the wrong place in the Custom Games match management selection menu
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s aura not to be visible to survivors when performing Guardia Compagnia
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s power hud icon to incorrectly display a button prompt during the guard patrol
Fixed an issue that caused survivors in a locker hit by a Guard to keep the Blindness status effect indefinitely
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s cohorts not to hunt Survivors who are downed, unhooked or get themselves up after a cohort is spawned
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s guards to sometimes be unable to reach a survivor hiding in a locker during a hunt
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Guards to not grant Chaser Emblem points when damaging a survivor
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Guards to not detect survivors making loud noises within their hunt detection radius
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Healing Poultice Addon to reveal Survivors in a larger area than intended
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Guard order VFX to not be visible on breakable objects until The Knight uses his power once
Fixed an issue that caused Survivors hit by a Guard in a locker to play an extra reaction animation
Fixed an issue that caused the Killer Basement lighting to be used throughout the map after The Knight performs a Guardia Compagnia in the Killer Basement
Fixed an issue that caused players not to receive receive brutality score events for hitting Survivors or breaking objects with The Knight’s Guards
Fixed an issue that caused Survivors to be able to blind The Knight’s Path of Creation Wisp
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Guards to get stuck when making sharp turns around thin walls
Fixed an issue that caused the the VFX for Potential Energy and Refined Serum to be visible to The Knight while Path Creating Mode and and Spirit while Phase walking
Fixed an issue that caused the The Knight’s Guardia Compagnia to be unable to Summon a guard to break certain pallets
Fixed an issue that caused a green line at the bottom of the screen during the Knight’s Trailer on certain platforms
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Carnifex guard to be unable to move after hitting a hunted survivor in a locker
Fixed an issue that caused Survivors to become able to get stuck in or on top of a locker if The Knight hits the Survivor during the guard locker attack animation
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Guards to sometimes walk around vault locations or pallets instead of walking through them during a hunt
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight to be able to Order his Guards to kick Generator through walls
Fixed an issue that caused The Knight’s Guard to incorrectly change elevation during a hunt
Fixed an issue that caused the Oni’s model to be distorted during a Mori when in Blood Fury.
Fixed an issue that caused the wiggle UI to remain on screen after escaping the Killer’s grasp.
Fixed an issue that caused the camera and animation to be incorrect when a survivor escapes through an exit gate
Fixed an issue that caused a repaired generator not to count towards the escape requirement when a perk causes an explosion/regression at the same time as the repair completion
Fixed an issue that allowed Flashbangs and Firecrackers to blind the killer at any point during the pick up animation
Fixed an issue that caused escaping by the Hatch to prevent progress through the Survivor Tutorial
Fixed an issue that caused the Survivor Tutorial objective “Vault the Pallet” to be impossible to complete, preventing players from progressing further in the tutorial
Fixed an issue that caused bots to be able to automatically wiggle out of a Virulent Bound grab
Fixed an issue that caused the Object of Obsession perk to remain active when the Survivor is in the dying state or being carried by the killer
Fixed an issue that caused Freddy’s dream pallets to have incorrect textures in The Shattered Square map
Fixed an issue that caused bots to sometimes fail to escape the trial when passing through the Exit Gates at the same time
Fixed an issue that caused Killers to be able to vault on elevated vault locations
Fixed an issue that caused The Mastermind to not receive brutality Score Events for damaging Survivors with Virulent Bound
Fixed an issue that caused The Artist to not receive brutality score events for damaging Survivors with Crows
Fixed an issue that caused the survivors’ animation transition from holding to solving the Lament Configuration to not be triggered
Fixed an issue that caused the Deep Wound status bar to remain visible on other players’ HUDs after the Survivor had escaped the trial
Fixed an issue that caused survivors to get stuck inside a locker if The Dredge teleports away during the animation where the survivor gets pulled inside the locker
Fixed an issue that caused spamming any gesture while screaming to cause the screaming animation to repeat constantly
Known Issues
(Stadia Only) The Shattered Square is not available to be selected in Custom Games on Stadia
In French, in several descriptions The Knight’s Power is incorrectly written as Compagnia d’Arme rather than the proper name Guardia Compagnia
Some Playstation players are unable to invite or join friends in the lobby
Hex: Face the Darkness has an incorrect description
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