Anyone who cherishes their access to Dead by Daylight should therefore think twice about whether they really need to insult someone.
What do you think of the upcoming changes to flashlights, bots, and penalties? Are these good steps? Or is there something you don’t like about them?
Killer bots are expected to come in a later update. This will take more time, as the AI needs to learn to use all killers’ abilities.
Tougher penalties for toxic players: The tone in Dead by Daylight can be quite harsh, especially in the endgame chat. This drives away many players – especially after a strenuous match in which they were devastatingly defeated, insults can be particularly unpleasant. Dead by Daylight is therefore increasing penalties for all who do not adhere to the rules and are toxic. The penalties will increase as follows:
- 1st offense: 48-hour ban (previously 24 hours)
- 2nd offense: 1-week ban (previously 48 hours)
- 3rd offense: 1-month ban (previously 1 week)
- 4th offense: Permanent (as before)
Anyone who cherishes their access to Dead by Daylight should therefore think twice about whether they really need to insult someone.
What do you think of the upcoming changes to flashlights, bots, and penalties? Are these good steps? Or is there something you don’t like about them?
The flashlights in Dead by Daylight are being strengthened, as new players rarely hit with them. However, there are also additional adjustments.
True killers in Dead by Daylight really only fear one thing: flashlights. Because really good survivors have timed their use of the flashlight so well that there is virtually no escape from it. When newcomers try to be as heroic with the flashlight, it usually ends in a fiasco.
The developers now want to encourage new and inexperienced players to grab the flashlight more often – and they are reinforcing it in the upcoming patch 6.4.0.
What is it with the flashlight? The flashlight is a way to temporarily blind the killer in Dead by Daylight, thereby disorienting them. However, if the killer is blinded while carrying a survivor, they will drop that survivor, allowing them to escape.
To do this during the killer’s “pickup” animation, a lot of practice is necessary. Because if you blind even just a fraction of a second too early, it doesn’t count. However, if you’re too late, the killer can simply turn around and evade the blinding.
Perfect timing is therefore essential to perform impressive rescues with the flashlight.
What will change? With the next major patch, there will be a small “buffer” of 0.25 seconds at the end of the pickup animation. If the killer is blinded during this buffer time, they will drop the survivor at the end of the animation. The time window to perform the blinding correctly is therefore significantly larger. The developers state:
A flashlight rescue can be a real game-changer, but it’s quite difficult to pull off. One must not only be in the right position, but the timing must also be incredibly precise. You need to blind the killer exactly at the end of the pickup animation, before they can turn away. Experienced players have mastered this already, but such a rescue can feel nearly impossible for newer players.
To balance this out a bit, killers will also receive an improvement. When killers pull a survivor out of a locker, they can no longer be blinded during that time. In the professional scene, it was a common strategy to simply flee into a locker, as the killer would have no chance to evade the flashlight. One was virtually completely safe if they had a teammate.
Bots and harsher penalties for toxic players
Besides that, the patch will include a number of improvements that extend across all areas of Dead by Daylight. Some of the highlights are:
Bots in games: In private games, there will now be bot survivors. This way, as a killer, one can try out a new character before taking on “real” survivors. If you’re missing a few teammates for private rounds, you can simply fill in with bots, so you always have the usual 4vs1 game, even if only 3 friends are available.
Killer bots are expected to come in a later update. This will take more time, as the AI needs to learn to use all killers’ abilities.
Tougher penalties for toxic players: The tone in Dead by Daylight can be quite harsh, especially in the endgame chat. This drives away many players – especially after a strenuous match in which they were devastatingly defeated, insults can be particularly unpleasant. Dead by Daylight is therefore increasing penalties for all who do not adhere to the rules and are toxic. The penalties will increase as follows:
- 1st offense: 48-hour ban (previously 24 hours)
- 2nd offense: 1-week ban (previously 48 hours)
- 3rd offense: 1-month ban (previously 1 week)
- 4th offense: Permanent (as before)
Anyone who cherishes their access to Dead by Daylight should therefore think twice about whether they really need to insult someone.
What do you think of the upcoming changes to flashlights, bots, and penalties? Are these good steps? Or is there something you don’t like about them?
