RELEASE SCHEDULE

STEAM

Update planned: 11AM ET

DLC planned: 12PM ET

WINDOWS STORE

Update planned: 11AM ET

DLC planned: No ETA

PS4 EU & NA

Update planned: 11AM ET

DLC planned: 12PM ET

XBOX

Update planned: 11AM ET

DLC planned: 12PM ET

SWITCH

Update planned: 11AM ET

DLC planned: 12PM ET

PS4 JAPAN & ASIA

Update planned: 11AM ET

DLC planned: 10PM ET

Content

Lore

Available Now through the in-game store

• The Oni - The Demonic Force outfit
• Yui Kimura - The Wild Card outfit

Developer Update

For a brief overview of some of the other changes coming to the game with the 3.4.0 update, check out the November Developer Update below.

Patch Notes

STEAM

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/dis...

FEATURES & CONTENT

• Feature - Updated the intro video to The Cursed Legacy trailer.
• Feature - Disconnection Penalties: Players who disconnect early from games will receive temporary matchmaking bans, with the duration escalating for repeat offenders. Please note that this feature will not be active on launch of the 3.4.0 update, we are planning to enable it on Thursday December 5th.
• Feature - Re-integrated the chat in the Survivor pre-lobby and in Custom Game lobbies.
• Content - Added cosmetics to player inventory (Incl. past convention exclusives, Bill’s Ugly Sweater, Frosty Eyes for The Oni & The Plague, and a new Universal Winter Holiday Charm).
• Content - Added a new Killer (The Oni).
• Content - Added a new Survivor (Yui Kimura).
• Content - Added a new map to the Yamaoka Estate theme (Sanctum of Wrath).
• Content - Added a Japanese thematic lobby for the Cursed Legacy chapter.

BALANCE

• Rank Reset: The Rank Reset will now reset players back one rank crest color. Players who end the season in Red Rank...

FEATURES & CONTENT

• Feature - Updated the intro video to The Cursed Legacy trailer.
• Feature - Disconnection Penalties: Players who disconnect early from games will receive temporary matchmaking bans, with the duration escalating for repeat offenders. Please note that this feature will not be active on launch of the 3.4.0 update, we are planning to enable it on Thursday December 5th.
• Feature - Re-integrated the chat in the Survivor pre-lobby and in Custom Game lobbies.
• Content - Added cosmetics to player inventory (Incl. past convention exclusives, Bill’s Ugly Sweater, Frosty Eyes for The Oni & The Plague, and a new Universal Winter Holiday Charm).
• Content - Added a new Killer (The Oni).
• Content - Added a new Survivor (Yui Kimura).
• Content - Added a new map to the Yamaoka Estate theme (Sanctum of Wrath).
• Content - Added a Japanese thematic lobby for the Cursed Legacy chapter.

BALANCE

• Rank Reset: The Rank Reset will now reset players back one rank crest color. Players who end the season in Red Rank...

FEATURES & CONTENT

• Feature - Updated the intro video to The Cursed Legacy trailer.
• Feature - Disconnection Penalties: Players who disconnect early from games will receive temporary matchmaking bans, with the duration escalating for repeat offenders. Please note that this feature will not be active on launch of the 3.4.0 update, we are planning to enable it on Thursday December 5th.
• Feature - Re-integrated the chat in the Survivor pre-lobby and in Custom Game lobbies.
• Content - Added cosmetics to player inventory (Incl. past convention exclusives, Bill’s Ugly Sweater, Frosty Eyes for The Oni & The Plague, and a new Universal Winter Holiday Charm).
• Content - Added a new Killer (The Oni).
• Content - Added a new Survivor (Yui Kimura).
• Content - Added a new map to the Yamaoka Estate theme (Sanctum of Wrath).
• Content - Added a Japanese thematic lobby for the Cursed Legacy chapter.

BALANCE

• Rank Reset: The Rank Reset will now reset players back one rank crest color. Players who end the season in Red Rank...

Since the release of Tome I Level III earlier this week, we have been keeping an eye out for feedback regarding the difficulty of challenges. While we intended for challenges to get gradually more difficult from one Level to the next, between your feedback and playing through the Tome ourselves, this most recent Level ended up being a little harder than we’d like, creating frustration for those who just want to complete the Tome and Rift. With this in mind, we have decided to reduce the requirements for most Level III challenges. 

When we originally planned the Tome and Rift, we had designed it in such a way that you would earn enough fragments from Player XP to finish The Rift by the time you complete all the challenges. Since the challenges can now be completed in fewer matches, you may need to play additional matches after completing the Tome in order to reach Tier 70 in The Rift. 

Those who have already completed challenges will not be a...

Honoring his family name was never enough for Kazan Yamaoka. He wanted to surpass his father’s reputation and end what he saw as the thinning of samurai culture with farmers often posing as samurai.

His father tried to turn Kazan’s attention to more noble pursuits, but Kazan refused to heed his advice, and borrowing his father’s katana, he embarked on a dark pilgrimage to prove his worth and rid Japan of imposters. 

Ignoring the code that had been taught to him, Kazan killed imposters in the hills and the valleys, on the beaches and in the woodland. He humiliated farmers and warriors alike, yanking off their topknots and stripping them of their armor. 

His rage, bloodlust and perverse sense of honor knew no bounds. Monks believed he was possessed by something dark and otherworldly and cursed him while a noble lord began to call him ‘Oni-Yamaoka,’ the rageful Samurai, an insult both to Kazan and his family.

Determined to redeem his family’s nam...

Despite her traditional upbringing, Yui Kimura raced scooters in her hometown of Hida where she earned the reputation of being able to do the impossible with very little.

Her father did his best to steer her away from what he believed to be masculine pursuits, but her grandmother secretly shared her grandfather’s engineer manuals and notes on car and motorcycle engines. Yui read her grandfather’s manuals and learned fast.

She was able to not only maintain her scooter, but she modified the engine so that she could compete with older boys on motor crosses. 

With her grandfathers ‘good luck hachimaki’ wrapped around her arm, she raced local boys who, unable to keep up with her, worked together to orchestrate her defeat. No luck for them. Yui outmaneuvered them at every turn and became a sensation to all her friends. 

When it came time to apply for school, Yui gathered her courage and confessed her ambition to race motorcycles to her father. An al...

Stats are back at last! We've taken some time to gather some data and make some fancy graphs for your viewing pleasure. Be sure to let us know if you'd like to see more regular stat releases in the future! Since it has been a while since we last shared stats, these graphs show data from the past three months unless otherwise stated. Please keep in mind that numbers are not everything; there are a whole bunch of factors that could influence these numbers.

Note: If you're having trouble viewing the charts, clicking on them will open a larger version.

Killer power vs. popularity

Starting off with how frequently killers are played compared to how well they tend to do on average. A 50% kill rate would be the equivalent of two survivors dying and two survivors escaping.

Maps

We went ahead and checked which three maps are safest and which three are the most dangerous.

...

Welcome to the November edition of our Developer Update, a series of posts detailing upcoming changes and our progress on ongoing issues. As always, we’ll start by recapping on previous topics before jumping into future updates.

Dedicated Servers

For a little over a month, dedicated servers have been live on the PC version of the game. Over the course of this test, we have often been asked why the servers were left on without any updates. We’d like to take this opportunity to explain a little more about this test.

First and foremost, we can tweak certain values behind the scenes without requiring a game update. This includes things like what the game deems to be an acceptable connection and various matchmaking elements. This way, we can test a variety of changes without forcing everyone to update their game repeatedly.

Leaving the servers on also allows us to collect far more feedback. We are hard at work making sure that as many gameplay issu...

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that caused players not to lose pips when disconnecting from a match by accepting an invite to a private lobby. 
• Fixed an issue that made it impossible to gain progress on Rite of the Last Breath daily ritual. 
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash while in the Collection tab of the Archives menu. 
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when entering the Archives.
• Fixed an issue that caused level 4 of the Tome to appear when opening the Tome if level 1 was fully complete. 
• Fixed an issue that caused Survivor shadow models to appear in front of bubble indicators. 
• Fixed an issue that caused some item auras not to appear correctly when viewed with the Plunderer's Instinct perk. Please note there is still an issue with toolboxes, we are still working on a fix.
• Fixed an issue that made it impossible to cleanse a totem on a specific tile in the Family Residence map. 
• Fixed an LOD issue on the floor of the Shack buildings when the basement spawned in it.
• Fixed an issue that...

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that caused players not to lose pips when disconnecting from a match by accepting an invite to a private lobby. 
• Fixed an issue that made it impossible to gain progress on Rite of the Last Breath daily ritual. 
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash while in the Collection tab of the Archives menu. 
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when entering the Archives.
• Fixed an issue that caused level 4 of the Tome to appear when opening the Tome if level 1 was fully complete. 
• Fixed an issue that caused Survivor shadow models to appear in front of bubble indicators. 
• Fixed an issue that caused some item auras not to appear correctly when viewed with the Plunderer's Instinct perk. Please note there is still an issue with toolboxes, we are still working on a fix.
• Fixed an issue that made it impossible to cleanse a totem on a specific tile in the Family Residence map. 
• Fixed an LOD issue on the floor of the Shack buildings when the basement spawned in it.
• Fixed an issue that...

RELEASE SCHEDULE

STEAM

Planned: 11AM ET

PS4

Planned: 11AM ET

XBOX

Estimated: 11AM ET

Windows Store

Estimated: 11AM ET

SWITCH

No ETA yet

Status Update on the Nintendo Switch

We are still working on getting the update ready for the Nintendo Switch. In testing, we discovered some platform specific issues that prevented us from releasing the mid-chapter at the same time as other platforms. We are currently testing a potential build and hope to release it as soon as we are confident with its performance. The Switch will jump straight to version 3.2.2 when the update goes live.

PATCH NOTES

PC

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/101917/

PS4

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/101919/

XBOX

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/101918/

Note: This roadmap may be updated over time to include new information as it becomes available. Be sure to check back often.

November 2nd

In-game

Cosmetic Release

November 4th

Other

Altruism Experiment Sign-Ups

November 6th

In-game

Cosmetic Release

November 13th

In-game

Cosmetic Release

Tome I: Level 2 Unlocks

November 14th

Forum

Developer Update

November 20th

In-game

Cosmetic Release

November 27th

In-game

Tome I: Level 3 Unlocks

We are happy to announce the winners of the 2019 Halloween contest!

We received a lot of astounding creations and selecting three winners was incredibly difficult.

All the Entries were judged for creativity and execution.

Big thank you to everyone, you did all an amazing work!

As a reminder, the prizes are:

Artwork

• 1st place: 24,000 Auric Cells
• 2nd place: 12,000 Auric Cells
• 3rd place: 6,000 Auric Cells

Honorable mentions: 2 250 Auric Cells

Crafting

• 1st place: 24 000 Auric Cells
• 2nd place: 12 000 Auric Cells
• 3rd place: 6 000 Auric Cells

Honorable mentions: 2 250 Auric Cells

Cosplay

• 1st place: 24 000 Auric Cells
• 2nd place: 12 000 Auric Cells
• 3rd place: 6 000 Auric Cells

Honorable mentions: 2 250 Auric Cells

Screenshot

• 1st place: 9 000 Auric Cells
• 2nd place: 6 000 Auric Cells
• 3rd place: 3 000 Auric Cells

Honorable mentions: 2 250 Auric Cells

...

We are expending our PC family!

Dead by Daylight is now available on the Windows Store.

Enable crossplay option

Sometime in the next few weeks, PC players will notice a new option labeled “Enable Crossplay”.

When this option is enabled, PC players will be able to match and play against both Steam and Microsoft Store players. While we understand that expectations are high, we want to reiterate that crossplay is only available between PC versions of the game for the time being. 

F.A.Q.

Q: Can I transfer my progress from Steam / XBOX to the Windows Store version? 

A: No, it is not possible to transfer your progress right now. 

Q: Will I be able to add friends from another platform (IE. Adding a Steam player on Windows Store)? 

A: Initially, you will not be able to add friends from another platform. Enabling the “Enable Crossplay” only allows the matchmaker to pair you with all PC pla...

FEATURES & CONTENT

• Feature - Integrated an updated version of the Unreal Engine (4.22, from 4.21.1).
• Feature - The Archives
• Content - Tome: Provides Challenges to players to complete for Bloodpoints, Rift Fragments, and lore Entries (stored in the Collection sub-menu). 
• Content - The Rift: New time-limited reward system.
• Content - A new UI element is now available at the right of the lobby menu and tally screen to provide feedback regarding The Archives. 
• Content - New Currency: Rift Fragments. Used to progress through Tiers in an available Rift in The Archives. 
• Content - New cosmetic type: Charms. Maximum of three (3) attach to a Survivor’s waist, or on a Killer’s hook in the environment. Customization UI has been updated to reflect this.

BALANCE

Misc Gameplay

• Updated certain Killer powers with the Undetectable status effect: The Shape in Tier I of Evil Within, The Pig while in crouch mode, The Wraith while Cloaked, The Ghost Face while in Night Shroud.
• Added a new Survivor score event for wig...

FEATURES & CONTENT

• Feature - Integrated an updated version of the Unreal Engine (4.22, from 4.21.1).
• Feature - The Archives
• Content - Tome: Provides Challenges to players to complete for Bloodpoints, Rift Fragments, and lore Entries (stored in the Collection sub-menu). 
• Content - The Rift: New time-limited reward system.
• Content - A new UI element is now available at the right of the lobby menu and tally screen to provide feedback regarding The Archives. 
• Content - New Currency: Rift Fragments. Used to progress through Tiers in an available Rift in The Archives. 
• Content - New cosmetic type: Charms. Maximum of three (3) attach to a Survivor’s waist, or on a Killer’s hook in the environment. Customization UI has been updated to reflect this.

BALANCE

Misc Gameplay

• Updated certain Killer powers with the Undetectable status effect: The Shape in Tier I of Evil Within, The Pig while in crouch mode, The Wraith while Cloaked, The Ghost Face while in Night Shroud.
• Added a new Survivor score event for wig...

Release Schedule

Steam

Planned: 11AM ET

Released: 11AM ET

PS4

Planned: 11AM ET

Released: Live

XBOX

Planned: 11AM ET

Released: Pending

Switch

No ETA yet

Content

The Archives

You can find more information on The Archives here: https://deadbydaylight.com/en/archives

The Nurse Changes

The Withering Blight Event

Patch Notes

PC

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/99318/

PS4

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/99320/

XBOX

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/99322/

Our plan was to release the 3.3.0 Mid-Chapter update along with the Withering Blight event on October 22nd, but due to some instability with the build, we decided it was best to postpone the launch until the major issues are resolved. We would like to take this opportunity to fill you in on what’s going on and where we stand with the 3.3.0 update.

What caused the delay

Given this is one of the largest updates for the game, including a large amount of changes and new content, some issues are unfortunately bound to pop up.

First, in order to support the new features, we needed to update the backend which handles everything behind the scenes, such as: Saving your progress, handling purchases, making matches, and much more.

We have also updated the engine to the Unreal Engine 4.22. The engine is like a foundation that the game is built on, and changes to the foundation can have an impact in other areas of the game.

While minor issues with minimal...

BLIGHT IS BACK!

For a limited-time, the 2018 Hallowed Blight outfits are available at discounted prices!

• 25% OFF The Doctor’s Foul Bile outfit: 900 AC (was 1200 AC)
• 25% OFF The Huntress’ Growth Surge outfit: 900 AC (was 1200 AC)
• 25% OFF The Trapper’s King of the Hooks outfit: 900 AC (was 1200 AC)
• 25% OFF The Hillbilly’s Osseous Carcass outfit: 900 AC (was 1200 AC)
• 25% OFF The Wraith’s Seeping Hollow outfit: 900 AC (was 1200 AC)
• 25% OFF Dwight’s Vigo’s Apprentice outfit: 900 AC (was 1200 AC)
• 25% OFF Claudette’s Vigo’s Pupil outfit: 900 AC (was 1200 AC)

Offer ends November 1st 11AM ET.

Discount limited to outfits purchases in Auric Cells.