After many years, Dead by Daylight fulfills a dream for players. There is finally a 2vs8 game mode – with 2 killers and 8 survivors.
Behaviour Interactive, the creators of Dead by Daylight, are hosting their live stream for the 8th anniversary of the asymmetrical horror game. There will be plenty of new announcements and a look at the roadmap for the coming year. One of the biggest highlights: A new game mode in which 8 survivors must face off against 2 killers.
What are the differences from the normal mode? In the “2vs8” mode, there are a few adjustments aside from the pure number of players. For the mode to work, a few adjustments must be made. The changes are:
- Only selected maps are available, and these are enlarged. You will experience the classic maps like the McMillan Estate, but with significantly more playable area.
- No hooks are available. Instead, survivors are locked in cages (like with Pyramid Head).
- Normal perks cannot be selected in this mode, but there are other special features.
- Only the 5 original killers are available in this mode: Trapper, Wraith, Hillbilly, Nurse, and Huntress.
Survivors get classes, killers new buffs
What can survivors and killers do? Unlike the normal Dead by Daylight, in the 2vs8 mode you do not rely on perks, but on a new system. Survivors can choose a class. Classes have different bonuses in different areas. For example, one class is particularly good at healing allies, while another excels at working on generators, and others are better at keeping the killer at a distance.
But killers have also received new abilities. Since the killers always appear in pairs, they gain new passive effects that they share with their killer partner. For instance, if the Wraith activates his invisibility and the other killer is nearby, he grants his fellow murderer the “Undetectable” bonus for a while, so that the second killer also has no terror radius or red stain.
This makes team attacks particularly efficient.
Is this a permanent mode? That is still unclear. The developers seem eager to support the mode for a longer time and to incorporate new ideas if “2vs8” becomes a success. However, they are not making any firm promises at the start and want to see how well the mode is received by the community.
What is expected from this mode? On the one hand, the mode has been demanded by the community for years. The craving for new, wacky game modes in Dead by Daylight is simply huge. But at the same time, killers especially want a bit of pressure taken off their shoulders. Because being a killer in Dead by Daylight is extremely stressful – something that is discussed almost daily in the official forums or the game’s subreddit. With a second killer in the match, the burden is shared among multiple shoulders, allowing for teamwork and collective victory or defeat.
What do you think of the idea of a 2vs8 mode? A cool experiment, or does it just not fit in with Dead by Daylight?
