Dead by Daylight Update 5.5.0: New Systems, Details

Dead by Daylight 5.5.0 Mid Chapter update notes have arrived and we have a fresh look at the new beta options tab for console players as well as a few quality of life changes such as the interaction toggle option.

Just a day before the start of the Lunar New Year Lurking Stripes event, the Dead by Daylight Mid Chapter patch is here to bring some much requested quality of life adjustments to the game.

These changes will take effect immediately, so anyone who comes back to check out the Tome X SAW crossover will be back with an updated version of the game that is easier for everyone to play.

Warning for PC players, you will have to re-download most of the over 20 gigabytes game when installing this patch, so be sure to leave enough time to take this into account before you start planning your game.

Dead by Daylight new escape system

Change number one in the Mid Chapter patch - console debut new wiggle mini-game.

DBD is testing a bumper-based mini-game add-on that allows survivors to escape from the killer's grasp.

Passing these skill checks will allow players to fight faster than before and have a better chance of avoiding their stalker.

This option is now available on tab "Beta" in the options menu and will only be active for a limited time.

Dead by Daylight new accessibility settings

Continuing their recent focus on accessibility, interactions with objects (such as running a generator) can now be switched to switching function, so that players no longer need to hold down the interaction button/key to keep themselves in the task.

This update also includes an additional option to trigger interrupts on any action the character has previously performed.

For full notes, please see the entire summary received through Behavior Interactive.

Dead By Daylight Update 5.5.0 Mid Chapter Patch Notes

Functions

• Fixed some specific vulnerabilities that could be abused by scammers
• Hit feedback has been adjusted to reduce the frequency of visual feedback in case of a deflected hit (especially for Dead Hard cases)

Developer Note: This won't eliminate all instances of VFX/SFX feedback when landing a rejected hit, but it should reduce it in most cases where players have a decent server connection.

• New Feature: Interaction Behavior - Hold/Toggle
• If set to Toggle, you no longer need to hold the interaction button to interact (fix generators, heals, kick generators, etc.)
• To end the interaction, you will need to press the interaction button a second time (or use the "Run to Cancel" option below!)
• It is located in the "Options" menu in the "Controls" section.
• Available for both Survivor and Killer as separate settings
• New Feature: Run to Cancel - On/Off
• If this setting is enabled, surviving players can cancel the interaction by providing a launch input (i.e. launch modifier and movement direction)
• It is located in the "Options" menu in the "Controls" section.
• Only available to survivors

Developer Note: Holding down buttons for advanced interactions isn't always the most comfortable experience, so this feature aims to address that issue. Combined with Run to Cancel, you can quickly disengage from a generator fix once you notice Myers chasing you.

Beta Features

The new tab is available in the Options menu: Beta!

• New features will be coming here so we can get feedback from all players on all platforms.
• Enabling the feature will grant a Bloodpoint bonus for the first 10 matches you play with it.

First Beta Feature: New Wiggle Interaction

• NOTE: THIS BETA FEATURE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY
• Only survivors
• Replaces the wiggle interaction with a new dual skill check style entry.
• Default keyboard binding: space
• Controller default binding: LB/RB or L1/R1
• When playing on a controller, any button will work on both sides of the skill check
• Secondary input can be restored in the "Key Bindings" menu
• Bloodpoint bonus for the first 10 matches: 20

Developer Note: We're excited to gather your feedback on the new Wiggle system, and we've placed it in the beta testing tab to allow console players to get in on the fun!

Content

• "Lurking Stripes" Lunar New Year Limited Time (Begins January 25 at 14:00 PM ET)
• "Tome X: SAW" from the Archives (begins Jan. 26 at 11 a.m. ET)

Cosmetic changes

• A new voice for legendary cosmetics Lisa Garland
• A new voice for the legendary Cybil Bennett cosmetics

Zenobit

• Added new Cenobite VO lines.

Fitoftoroz

• Supplement - Vial of Adrenaline
• Reduced rush Turn penalty to -0,5 degrees per second (was -0,8 degrees per second)

Cannibal

• Supplement - Carburetor Tuning Guide
• Reduced Chainsaw movement speed penalty to 2% (down from 4%)
• Addition - Depth Gauge Rake
• Reduced Chainsaw movement speed penalty to 2% (down from 4%)
• Add-on - Rainbow Flesh
• Reduced maximum tantrum duration to 5 seconds (was 8 seconds)
• Addition - Long guide bar
• Increased chainsaw rpm threshold to +2 seconds (was +1 second)
• Survivor masks have been removed from the game. Please refer to developer update on our forums for more information.

Clown

• Addition - Robin Fether
• Increase bottle recharge to 40% (up from 30%)
• Supplement - Flask with bleach
• Reduced penalty for intoxication violation to 4% (was 5%)
• Addition - Red little finger
• Now the number of bottles is reduced by 2

Pig

• Supplement - Amanda's Letter
• Reduces available bear traps to 2 (was 1)
• last will
• Decreased Ambush Attack charge time to +33% (was +66%)

Gemini

• Supplement - Rainbow Pendant
• Increased shutter speed when crushing Victor to 45 seconds (was 30 seconds)
• Supplement - milk teeth
• Increased Crush Blind duration pinned Victor to 30 seconds (up from 15 seconds)
• Addition - Scarf Madeleine
• Decreased Victor's movement speed to 0,3 m/s (was 0,4 m/s)
• Supplement - Toy Sword
• Reduced Pounce charge time modifier to 0,2 seconds (was 0,25 seconds)
• Supplement - Stale Cookies
• Reduced reload modifier to 0,4 seconds (was 0,5 seconds)

Nemesis

• Addon - Rainbow Umbrella Icon
• Increased exposure time with vaccine up to 60 seconds (was 30 seconds)
• Addition - Broken STARS badge
• Increased zombie movement speed bonus when repairing a generator up to 150% (was 100%)
• Text now lists the correct duration of 60 seconds (description text says 30 seconds, but the effect already lasted 60 seconds)
• Supplement - Marvin's Blood
• Reduced mutation rate modifier on Tentacle Strike to 25% (was 33%)
• Supplement - Eye of Michael
• Reduced zombie movement speed bonus to 35% (was 50%)

Huntress

• Addition - Wooden Fox
• Increased undetectable duration after reboot to 30 seconds (was 15 seconds)

They

• Supplement - Rainbow Family Crest
• Increased scream radius on missed attacks to 24 meters (was 12 meters)

Developer Notes: Almost all of these additional changes are "numbers only" settings, where we've adjusted numerical values ​​and nothing else. All of the Nerfed add-ons were super-efficient and impacted kill rates relative to their base kill rates more than we'd like, so they've been adjusted down a bit. Also, all add-ons were ineffective, so we hope to make them more attractive with bigger effects.

Benefits for survivors

• Run away
• Increased vibration intensity to 50/75/100% (was 25/50/75%)
• Increased hook obscurity radius to 16 meters (was 10/12/14 meters)
• New effect: You gain 25% progress when the assassin falls from a great height.
• Distortion
• Increased the number of tokens to 4 (was 3)
• Buckle up
• Increased aura reveal duration to 6/8/10 seconds (was 4/5/6 seconds)
• Wake up
• Increase exit gate speed to 15/20/25% (was 5/10/15%)
• Struggle for power
• Lowered activation threshold to 25/20/15% wiggle progress (was 35/30/25%)
• circle of healing
• Reduced healing speed bonus to 65/70/75% (was 90/95/100%)

Developer Notes: We will continue to monitor the performance of Circle of Healing and may make adjustments again in the near future.

Killer Perks

• Gearbox - Redesigned
• New Description: After a Survivor loses a health condition, Gearhead activates. While Gearhead is active, the next time a Survivor makes a Great Skill Check while repairing, its Aura will be revealed to you for 6/8/10 seconds. The gearbox is then deactivated.
• Remember me
• Trigger state changed to Possession that loses health state (only triggered on basic attack)
• Coup de Grace
• Increased lunge distance modifier to 70/75/80% (was 40/50/60%)
• secret pursuit
• Effect removed: "You lose all your tokens if Obsession is sacrificed or killed."
• Dead man's switch
• Removed the Obsession mechanic, the perk now triggers when any survivor is hooked.

Developer Notes: Gearhead has seen very little use and was too complex to activate reliably. The redesign aims to make it simpler and more attractive in a wider range of situations.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue resulting in missing sfx for Nemesis zombies and survivors when a zombie hit a survivor.
• Fixed an issue where Trickster's voice line was missing when closing the hatch.
• Fixed an issue that caused some sfx generators to be muted when being repaired by survivors on the Midwich Elementary School map.
• Fixed an issue that caused a loud SFX noise to play when survivors disturbed crows outside of the range of the Spies From The Shadows perk when that perk was being used by the Killer.
• We fixed an issue where when using a DualShock controller(Steam only)Xbox controller prompts were displayed.
• Fixed an issue where the "Out is not an option" archive call could be terminated by disconnecting from the trial.
• Fixed a rare issue that could sometimes make it impossible to spend Blood Points in the Blood Web.
• Fixed an issue that caused the back button in the Assassin lobby to be disabled when matchmaking failed.
• Fixed a bug due to which after each match the player received a bonus for the first match.
• Fixed a global issue that prevented the Nurse from flashing past multiple locations.
• Fixed an issue where the Survivor could climb to the top of the cliff using the sand mound in the Crow Airy map.
• Fixed an issue where the Killer could completely block the hook on Airy's Crows.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in players getting stuck when interacting with the totem at the top of the Coldwind Farm hills.
• Fixed an issue where the Raven Generator in Eire could not be repaired on one side.
• Fixed an issue that caused Nightmare's Dream World to appear too dark in the Raccoon City map.
• Fixed an issue where one hook in front of the Rancid Slaughterhouse could not be sabotaged.
• Fixed an issue that caused Ormond's map to become darker.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Spirit's hair to disappear before the rest of her body when she entered and exited.
• Fixed an issue that caused breakable wall debris to float when destroyed by Nemesis in Dire Raven.
• Fixed an issue that caused the trapper to desync when a survivor fell while entering a bear trap.
• Fixed an issue where the Grim Embrace perk would not block already blocked generators, even if the block duration was longer.
• Fixed an issue where the blessing sound would continue to play after a survivor was interrupted while blessing a totem.
• Fixed an issue that caused Victor's dissolving SFX to be muted when killed or crushed.
• Fixed an issue that caused the countdown for the Built to Last perk to deactivate when another Survivor exited the locker.
• Fixed a bug due to which the Premonition perk did not activate when looking in the direction of the killer.
• Fixed an issue where the Hex: Blood Favor perk would activate when sacrificing or killing a Survivor.
• Fixed an issue that caused Cannibal's power to recharge excessively after reaching the maximum number of charges.
• Fixed an issue with the Loadout menu title not displaying correctly as "Inventory".

Nurse

Several issues have impacted nurse's capabilities, requiring a rewrite of much of the code that supports it, especially the network, which we did in this release. This allowed us to fix the following issues.

• Fixed an issue where the Nurse would rarely be able to trigger a blink.
• Fixed an issue that could result in a flicker that would start right when a charge was ready or when fatigue was cancelled.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Nurse Storage to run slower than intended.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Nurse to become fatigued after being stunned when stunned while the chain was flashing. Now she will only go through the stun.
• Fixed an issue where the Nurse could get stuck while blinking in a tray that fell while blinking.
• Fixed a bug due to which the animation of the nurse became static for a short time after interrupting Survivor.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Nurse from blinking over some hills.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Nurse to sometimes fall out of the world after blinking.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the Nurse to get stuck when disabling a Survivor during an interruption.
• Fixed an issue where the Nurse could use the Return Blink ability while fatigued when equipped with the Jenner's Last Breath add-on.
• Fixed an issue where the charge blinking sound was heard even if no charge was added after hitting Survivor after blinking while using the Spasmodic Breath add-on.
• Fixed an issue where the Nurse could perform a slash attack while charging a Circuit Flash.
• Fixed an issue where the nurse could climb on chests and small assets after blinking.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in an overlap between the SFX coil and the SFX fatigue state when the nurse was stunned by the tray after blinking.
• Fixed an issue where the nurse's hand would not appear for spectators driving over spectated players while blinking.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in stuttering during the nurse's blinking animation when the camera was rotated.

Corrected from PTB

• Fixed an issue that prevented you from escaping the killer's grip when reaching 100% progress while falling.
• Fixed an issue that resulted in a successful Overcharge skill check to remove generator progress.
• We fixed an issue where tutorials could not be completed with the interaction switch activated.
• Fixed an issue that caused survivors with Run to Cancel enabled to get stuck after Cenobite teleported to them.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Nurse from blinking inside multiple buildings.
• Fixed an issue where Nurse Kavanagh's Last Breath and Heavy Panting add-ons did not increase the maximum blink range.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Lightborn perk icon to be displayed to survivors attempting to blind an assassin equipped with the perk.
• We fixed an issue in the Key Bindings menu where keyboard and mouse input would appear on consoles after changing the beta tab setting value.
• We fixed an issue on Stadia in the Keybinding menu that caused Xbox invites to appear by default when first opening the Options menu.
• Fixed a systematic crash when closing the application.

Known Issues

• The Haddonfield map and Strode Realty Key offer have been disabled.
• The Coldwind Farm - Fractured Cowshed map has been disabled.
• Crotus Prenn Orphanage - Father Campbell's Chapel has been disabled.
• A cannibal cannot break a pallet after hitting a survivor in the same sweep with a chainsaw.
• The Meg Death Mask is not available for some players.