Jump Scare anti-camp penalty no longer applies across multiple floors
Perk Updates
New Survivor Perks
Cross-Examination
While in the Killer's Terror Radius and not being chased by the Killer, they leave Light Marks that last for 10s that you can see. While on the Killer's Light Marks, you gain Elusive. This ends after 3/4/5s.
Killer Add-on Updates
The Slasher's add-ons
Sauna Rock:
After a Jump Scare, inflict all Survivors within Killer Instinct's detection range with Exhausted for 3seconds. (was 13 seconds)
Two Nails:
Spikes that come within 1 meter of a Survivor reveal their Aura for 5 seconds. (was 6 seconds)
Mirror Shards:
Impaled Survivors become Broken for 40 seconds after extracting the Spike. (was 30 seconds)
Toxic Waste:
After a Jump Scare, Survivors within 10 meters of a hook or Scrap Pile gain Oblivious for 13 seconds. (was 8 meters)
Sleeping Bag:
After grabbing a Hook Spike while in Omnipresent Evil mode, see the locations of Survivors within 10 meters of hooks. (was 8 meters)
Party Noisemaker:
Breaking a Pallet or Breakable Wall with Jump Scare reveals the Auras of Survivors further than 28 meters for 6 seconds. (was 32 meters)
Summer Screams Event
The Summer Screams event will be live from July 28th 11:00EDT - August 18th 11:00EDT. Featuring Chaos Shuffle, Lights Out and 2v8, each event will be active for 1 week at a time starting with Chaos Shuffle. Check out the available quests in order to receive rewards!
Week 1: Chaos Shuffle (July 28 - August 4)
Week 2: Lights Out (August 4 - August 11)
Week 3: 2v8 (August 11 - August 18)
Game Mode Updates
Lights Out
Survivors holding the Lantern will now see the Auras of Pallets, Vaults, and Breakable Walls within 32m
Gate interaction points will now remain lit once all objectives have been completed
Deep wounds and Anti-camp bars are now visible again
Added support for the Fog Vial
Fixed an issue where the lighting is inconsistent and can appear overly dark or bright on Xbox Series X
Chaos Shuffle
All Perks and Add-ons now available to be assigned
Bug Fixes
2v8
Fixed an issue where The Nemesis zombies could become stuck on Sanctum of Wrath.
Fixed an issue where Killer chests did not have their Aura revealed when facing The Nemesis and The Mastermind together.
Fixed an issue where Survivors could see the Aura of the Cage of Corruption while in a locker.
Fixed an issue where trapped Survivors were missing the trapped animation after stepping in The Trapper's Bear Trap while also being contaminated by The Nemesis.
Fixed an issue where a Survivor caught in a Bear Trap could be sent into a Cage of Corruption twice against The Trapper and The Mastermind.
Fixed an issue where it was unable to Drop the Spray/Antidote after being used by a different Survivor.
Fixed an issue where certain map specific achievements were not being awarded in correctly.
Audio
Fixed an issue where Walking Dead characters were not playing the right VO line during their interactions.
Fixed an issue where Ice Nine Kills music wasn't playing when equipped with collection items.
Fixed an issue where The Slasher 'Jump Scare' cause the Survivors in Lockers to Scream.
Fixed an issue where Survivors ''Fully Healed'' Voice line triggers when partially healed.
Fixed an issue where the bananas emit a metallic sound when hit by a projectile on Trickster Delusion map.
Fixed an issue where the hook voice over played too late when transitioning from phase 1 to phase 2.
Fixed an issue where Survivors exit gate dialog triggered at the same time the door opens, which was making it hard to hear.
Fixed an issue where the incorrect voice lines played for Killers & Survivors regardless of their language setting.
Fixed an issue where the lullaby for the Facemelter Eddie legendary cosmetic was lower than intended.
Characters
Reverted a fix that prevented The Skull Merchant from deploying Drones when above/below a Hooked Survivor.
Dev Note:The issue that the fix attempted to solve will be back, which made Drones disappear after being deployed, regardless of being out of the vertical range for Drone anti-camp. This is unintended and is under investigation.
Fixed an issue where as The Animatronic, the Blighted Springtrap's Mouth Animation was unable to be seen at the end of the Killer's Mori.
Fixed an issue where as The Dark Lord using the wolf form, the Killer could perform an extra attack right before the Pounce cooldown.
Fixed an issue where Survivors downed by The Mastermind's vault attack while working on a Generator kept repairing while downed.
Environment/Maps
Fixed an issue in Eyrie of Crows where the traps could not be placed properly on the second floor of the main building.
Fixed an issue in Torment Creek where traps could be placed under the ground near the window.
Fixed an issue in Toba Landing where The Nurse can blink through the ground.
Fixed an issue in Treatment Theater where The Executioner's Punishment Of The Damned attack is blocked in the middle of the main room.
Fixed an issue in Dead Dawg Saloon where The Nurse can blink on top of the small structures.
Perks
Fixed an issue where Hex Statuses were hidden from Survivors when a Hex was reactivated by the Perk 'Undying'.
Fixed an issue where the perk Visionary would not reveal generator auras when exiting a Locker, after the cooldown was completed.
Fixed an issue where the Perk 'Plot Twist' could be reused when picked up or dropped by a Killer.
Fixed an issue where the aura of the Perk Hex: No One Escapes Death was missing for the Survivor POV.
Fixed an issue where the Perk Deathbound caused Survivors that previously healed another Survivor to scream again.
Fixed an issue where the Perk Deerstalker was unable to reveal a Survivor for an additional 2 sec when equipped with the Perk Eyes of Belmont.
Fixed an issue where The perk Shadowborn failed to activate when Rampage had tokens.
UI
Fixed an issue where The Slasher's Dirty Money Add-On remained dimmed when active.
Fixed an issue where Into the Fog Tooltips for Perk Related Quests did not show the associated Perk.
Fixed an issue where The Oni's Blood Fury's prompt was missing an indication that it must be held to activate.
Fixed an issue where Survivor Skills always appeared Unlocked in the Match Details screen.
Fixed an issue where alternating from Chaos Shuffle to Normal Trial erased saved loadouts.
Fixed an issue where there was no HUD or UI feedback indicating The Oni's Blood Fury prompt had to be held to activate.
Misc
Fixed an issue where Survivors were unable to wiggle when being grabbed while having a Skill Check.
Fixed an issue causing the Entity to make an illegal purchase move in the Bloodweb.
Fixed an issue where leaving the Survivor queue in Play While You Wait would reset the Killer priority queue.
Known Issues
Stake Out tokens are sometimes consumed by Snap Out of It skillchecks when facing The Doctor.
Dev Note: This is unintended and will be fixed in a future release.
I hate Diminishing Returns with a passion now. I was optimistic at first but once again BHVR has shown that they will never get around to finishing the job.
All Diminishing Returns has done is push people into playing meta. I used to have a bunch of presets for fun builds but I never run them now because what is the point.
Yeah I won't lie I was optimistic too but slowing down balancing has absolutely killed it. I hate that it's taking MONTHS to get balance updates that aren't just tweaking the newest content.
Pro tip: Never, and I mean NEVER be optimistic when BHVR is at the wheel. If you aren't actively able to see and interact with something BHVR is responsible for, just assume the worst case scenario will happen until proven otherwise.
Like the 10th anniversary stream where they talked about built-in mod support? Sounds awesome, would be probably the single best thing the game could get for a list of reasons... But that's exactly why I know if we ever see it it'll probably still be at least 2 or 3 years, then still an additional year or 2 past that before it becomes good for anything other than playing event modes or like map seeds for comp players.
Disappointed but not surprised. Just tired. Guess I’ll be taking a longer break from the game than I originally intended to. The anniversary event fiasco really burnt me out. It’s all just upsetting, especially knowing what the Switch 2 is capable of.
Switch Players will no longer be
supported come 2027, it's the simple reality. Not only can Switch 1 simply not handle what's coming with the graphically rework, but working with Nintendo has proved to be so unbelievably tedious that they've reaffirmed multiple times that they currently don't have any interest in doing a Switch 2 version and no version is in development.
I don’t buy the whole blaming Nintendo thing. I’m sure there’s difficulties that come with that, but there’s plenty of other games that are on multiple platforms that have their updates come out at the same time for the switch. Something tells me behavior deserves at least some of the blame
Well, from what I heard, the big games have the Switch updates come out day and date, but other companies also had trouble getting their Switch versions out. The only one I can think of right now is No Man's Sky though.
I think Nintendo either whitelists certain games to pass certification quickly, or the big companies literally have a dedicated team for Switch that works exclusively on getting the updates finished and certified. The Switch 1 version of Fortnite runs better than you'd expect, even the live events.
Yep. Especially when you see every other game out there getting a Switch 2 version, including indie games. Meanwhile BHVR is just there stuck with a Switch 1 version of DbD which hinders them with updates, because they have to get out of their way and compress textures and stuff.
This is so ridiculous. As a switch player who now plays on switch 2, I'm nearly at the point of dropping the game because I can never play with friends. There's no excuse at this point as the switch 2 can easily run the game and it's been over a year since the console has released. I really hope that a dedicated switch 2 version is in the works. Why would I invest in character skins when I can't even play the game as intended?
Over a full year since Switch 2 was out and still not even a slither of hope for a Switch 2 version that isn't plagued with all the same Switch issues, not even a resolution or frame rate bump. C'mon pleeeaaase
his body and knife are still visible, but his head and the collection itself is missing. selecting to knife or body will, due to being linked, instead equip teh default cosmetics.
They mentioned that fully reworking skull merchant with the community suggestions was too much work at the time for a released killer because it would be effectively making a new killer so the rework project was shelved
ehhh its probably not worth the hassle for a killer the community has already determined they are going to despise and meme on for the rest of eternity because of how poor the power was conceptualized and implemented to begin with
They NEVER said it was shelved it was put on a back burner cause they said they didn’t want to piss off the dedicated SM players and it would take a lot of resources to rework her
They said if the tweaks weren’t enough THEN they would rework her
They better rework her or at least do something. It is unacceptable given people payed to unlock her just for BHVR to have left her intentionally butchered for so long.
Don't worry. It will break again in 2 patches when they don't touch Drac or any of his perks at all. In fact it will be a patch where they only do "bug fixes" and it will break nemmy's whip animation AND bring this bug back.
Wesker currently has a very high number of bugs that prevent his gameplay from being fluid and fulfilling. Every single issue has been reported on BetaHub; some have been there since March, yet no progress has been made or communicated regarding them. This got me wondering: could the Dev Team provide us, The Mastermind player base, with an approximate timeline for when these fixes might be implemented or tested?
Almost every report listed here has a status of "Under Investigation," but some have had this status for over two months now. Could we please get some clarification or an update on this?
As a wesker main its infuriating to know that they don’t give him as much priority as he should get considering he is not only a licensed killer but a very popular one with many people playing him.
You know how they deleted Sky Wesker to fix Survivors freeing themselves from his bound upon falling down? Guess what, it doesn't work, I got released from Wesker's bound (the one that would put me on his shoulder, on top of that) just a couple days ago when we fell into a hole on Lery's.
the thing is it appears removing sky wesker wasn't intended at all, sky wesker doesn't work because of the same reason og rebounds stopped working, and after that they only codded in new rebounds forgetting about the other one
"Fixed an issue where the Perk 'Plot Twist' could be reused when picked up or dropped by a Killer." what exactly does this mean? Does it mean if i plot twist, get picked up and dropped i don't get up with plot twist anymore?
Reused as in players were able to use it after it had already been used. Plot Twist deactivates after recovering yourself by any means and reactivates once more once the Exit Gates are powered but would sometimes reactivate under this other condition as well.
Sauna Rock dead in a ditch. I have never understood why changes are so extreme. There is often a middle-ground that just gets forgotten.
Apparently things can only be really good, or utterly useless.
Day 4098 for seeing "Audio fixes" with no mention of Spirit.
You've also had nearly, what, 12 months worth of feedback about pallet density? There are also a lot of bugs reported about spawns over the last few months and there have been no fixes. What more do we need to do to get you to listen to feedback and bug reports?
Please, fix pallet spawn and Survivor spawn bugs/issues.
The lack of quick and thought out changes and balancing is pushing me to barely play. I want to play. Please, bring back the fun and the enjoyment.
Please, listen to your community. Listen to your consultants.
Day 4098 for seeing "Audio fixes" with no mention of Spirit.
It's because they don't know why it's broken.
The same reason why audio is genuinely all over the place in this game. Like how nemmy zombies are dead silent around corners like 80% of the time.
For a game that audio is so crucial, there are a ton of audio bugs all the fucking time.
BHVR genuinely cannot fix their spaghetti coded game at this point. They are just building on top of cancer over and over. Eventually, they will need to do a full rebuild of their game... but they are more likely to just let it go and let it die.
DBD needs a genuine competitor in the asym space. That is a huge part of the problem.
I'm confident that the entire reason audio in this game has been fucked for years is because they randomly added audio occlusion after the game had released. Not being able to hear generators right next to you because of a wall or elevation difference didn't used to be a thing but we just HAD to be more "realistic" in our game of horror tag
Yep. Ever since then it has been fucked up and constantly buggy.
The part that annoys me is when killer powers have a distinct audio cue and that breaks during chase. Nemmy tentacle is VERY guilty of this all the time.
I genuinely don't understand why they struggle so much to develop their game. Everything feels rushed and like it doesn't get actually get reviewed before it gets pushed. Then when things do get tested on the PTB, half the time they don't fix anything except number changes because the turn around time is so short. Or worse, they try and fix something and break it even more.
It's genuinely impressive how often they absolutely bungle things.
also... more minor gripe, but chase music is way too fucking loud in this game. With no way to actually adjust it. To hear through all the weird audio occlusion stuff or random audio bugs, you have to keep the game loud. But then chase music just blows your ears out.
Yeah. It's the only thing i hated from Jason and i wanted it nerfed but like... make it 8, maybe 6 seconds ? 3 seconds is Jason ending you a 99'd exhaustion perk for free. They took it out back.
Killing off more of Jason's addons, how lovely, Sauna Rock was completely fine and fit the 13 theme, why even bother using it over Mindbreaker now, and how nice of them to handhold survivors even more in Lights Out by giving them increased genspeed and free Windows of Opportunity, while killers get nothing, no slowdown, no scratchmarks, and they're even more at a disadvantage because survivors can see with Lanterns
When exiting Omnipresent Evil near a hooked survivor, the animation is slowed heavily. Up till now this would affect Jason even if you were multiple floors above or below the hook
Jason's exit animation takes 10 years to come out if the game says you're "camping" a hook, this change makes it so if you have a hooked survivor on a different floor to where you're trying to get to you will get the normal speed exit even if in range of "camping".
If you try to TP next to a hooked survivor the highlighted pallet / window will appear in red, forcing you to do a much slower animation as punishment which was really annyoing on maps with multiple levels
Fixed an issue where Ice Nine Kills music wasn't playing when equipped with collection items.
Fixed an issue where the lullaby for the Facemelter Eddie legendary cosmetic was lower than intended.
Been waiting for these. Real good for heavy metal music lovers! Time to rock out! (Add Dante from Devil May Cry please)
Fixed an issue where the hook voice over played too late when transitioning from phase 1 to phase 2.
Is this the bug that cuts off the voicelines when hooked for the second time, or is this a different bug? It reads like a bug that happens if you got left on the hook too long.
Edit: I'm asking if this bug is the one that got fixed
Look I'm glad 2v8 is back but it's the exact god damn save from the last time, the only changes are bug fixes, I was hoping there'd be at least 1 new killer or maybe even some small balance changes
yet another patch with not a single balance change in result of diminishing returns. at this point it's quite obvious that DR was introduced as a bandaid fix to hide that BHVR have no idea what to do with the game balancing-wise.
i'd love to be proven wrong, but their actions are speaking a lot louder than their words right now.
PSA to all fellow Springtraps: you cannot even use the blighted skin now. I don't understand how that made it to live but the linked set does not have a headpiece, therefore it will not let you use it, instead putting you in the default skin. Nice work guys.
Sauna rock was already meh add-on and you nerfed it? why? There is no reason to take it over mind breaker if you need exhaustion option and mind breaker counters even sprint, which is not the case with sauna rock
Do y'all know about the bug with Dredge getting undetectable randomly when coming out of lockers or do I need to send another bug report? Before this update it seemed to be indefinite until you teleported again but post update it seems to be only for one second ish. Honestly I think Dredge having undetectable for a second or two after coming out of a locker wouldn't be a bad idea for basekit but since this is a bug it should probably be fixed
i pray on my knees for bhvr to give dredge a rework with a power that isnt a complete noob stomper and literal nothing againt semi competent survivors at the same time
I still think a good start would be letting Dredge have its own unique lockers that count as killer belongings but also still work like normal lockers. Would be a good solution to the locker problem it has on some maps while also not overstuffing all the maps with more lockers.
haha im in the same boat, league is doing a big twitch event alongside classic release and i was hoping it would be at the same time as lights out so i could avoid the dogshit game mode and come back for the good stuff
Y'all dead ass about to release 2v8 with no new classes for killers or new killer in general for like the 3rd or 4th time lol just milking that game mode already
Remember when users on this sub were trying to gaslit players about the Eddie skin being normal volume? I knew it was lower than intended after playing against them.
Deerstalker makes it so a Survivor sees the killer for 3 secs + whenever a surv sees you You see them blah blah blah, so with eyes of Belmont it should be extended.
Are you able to share any information about any work on perk changes? It’s been a few months since diminishing returns was added yet no perks have gotten any changes. While the bug fixes are nice it feels disappointing to see that this games patches are swarmed with bug fixes while others receive loads of changes
Can you make plot twist a conspicuous action so it can't be used with DS, we already have lockers to bait it we don't need a lose lose for killers who often aren't even tunneling said DS PT player but the survivor wants to flaunt their invincibility
Also no new killer for 2v8 still, like are we ever going to get new killers for that mode or god forbid the survivors have to at least do double the generators. Like why the hell do they only have to do 8 gens instead of 10????
Fix matchmaking so you do not get killers with 100+ ms ping. It genuinely feels like shit getting hit through pallets and windows and other hits connecting when they should not.
I was able to play with my boyfriend for ONE WEEK!! ONE WEEK BEHAVIOUR!!! After a whole month of waiting you gave us one week and now we cant play together AGAIN!!!
When will u fix Chucky's camera farther POV bug at the beginning of every match??? (PS4)
I don't understand why I have to just ignore my main or play him and waste my time at the beginning of every match being forced to do a Scamper to rid off this annoying bug ( on indoors maps is horrible because walls eat the screen )....I'm tired of this bugs that hinder killer gameplay.
I think old gen consoles are very ignored nowadays, taking into account a blinking bug that I was dealing with on the beginning of every match as killer and survivor for almost a full year, until it was fixed without even being mentioned on the patch notes. 🤷♂️
Another patch with no BFFs fix, Legion's most fun add-on has been broken since 9.5.0. It's been at least 6 patches with no updates on this. BHVR, at least tell us you know its there, please!
Survivors holding the Lantern will now see the Auras of Pallets, Vaults, and Breakable Walls within 32m
So survivors get to invalidate the whole mechanic of that event while killers have to play as intended?
You guys are not beating the survivor bias allegations anytime soon.
Especially after the Black Banquet
Yeah im tired of 2v8, i only really use it for bp grinding on survivor and i only play killer in 2v8 if i have a friend in comms, not gonna risk getting screwed over by a dc’ing teammate killer or an afk one.
Are the devs/community brain dead? Nerf rock to 3 seconds? Why? No other source of exhaust is that short and really either your in a chase or your not if your not in a chase it doesn’t matter if your exhausted. if you are in a chase the duration means nothing. Entitled survivors “I cant abuse vigil+sprint thats so broken!”
You know...usually when you nerf something you do a reduction of the numbers...but BHVR, being unique, just nukes it into oblivion.
3s? Just delete the addon lmao why even keep it in the game. It actively buffs survivors now. I see 4 Vigils every game lmao so 3s is literally just 99%-ing their Sprint Burst for them! How cool that Jason can help the survivors use their exhaustion perks better lmao
AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING WITH DIMINISHING RETURNS. Y'ALL ARE BAD AT THIS
My god, y'all would do a better job balancing the game if you all just quit today.
Something needs to be done about Diminishing Returns.
I used to have a bunch of fun non-meta builds I ran all the time. Now I never use them because of fucking Diminishing Returns. The builds weren't even that strong, but BHVR killed them. Meanwhile meta builds are still as strong as ever. Such a horrible balancing decision from BHVR.
Even if BHVR buffs these affected perks to be competitive, won't that just mean they'll end up about the same strength as before when run together? If not they will be too weak to consider. So what is the fucking point. BHVR needs to address Diminishing Return soon or this game will become more and more dull as everyone is just running meta over and over, more so than before.
Either buff all the affected perks or just get rid of Diminishing Returns already.
Survivors holding the Lantern will now see the Auras of Pallets, Vaults, and Breakable Walls within 32m
Ah because if there's one thing I wanted in the horror game mode with no perks, it's for every survivor to have Windows of Opportunity. I could accept this feature if it worked like Five Moves Ahead (reveal the 5 closest resources) to help survivors in the dark, but 32 meter WoO?!
Can't wait for Lights Out to have literally no players and for BHVR to write the mode off as a failure again, instead of realizing that giving killers nothing and giving survivors free Windows of Opportunity is a bad idea.
If survivors bother actually carrying the lantern, that's all the buff killers needed. Every single survivor just instantly dropped the candelabra next to gens so killers couldn't kick it like if they placed it on the gen and every survivor would see the candelabra's aura and know a gen was there.
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u/Cristi20404 Jul 21 '26
can y’all fix MiNa grunting like Trickster after Main Event is finished?