This is an archive of patch notes originally posted on 04 Sep 2024.

Dead by Daylight

8.2.1 | Bugfix Patch

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Content

Survivor Perks

Exultation
  • Rarity of upgraded items is now kept at the end of a Trial.)

Events & The Archives

  • Modifier: Lights Out - Castlevania begins September 12th at 11:00am Eastern.
    Features a new limited item, the Candelabra, used to guide Survivors in the darkness.
    This Modifier also features an event tome with exclusive rewards.
  • Chaos Shuffle returns September 24th at 11:00am Eastern.

Bug Fixes

Audio

  • Fixed an issue that caused Iron Will to not suppress the final grunt when self-healing
  • Audio that starts at the same time as a character spawns, such as theme music, works correctly once again.

Characters

  • Fixed an issue that caused the Lich's pelvic rotation not to match the red stain from the survivor's point of view
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Hand of Vecna to not align properly when the Survivor performs certain actions
  • Fixed an issue that caused the camera not to be at the correct distance when the Dark Lord switched forms by performing the Destroy action
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Dark Lord's Wolf Pounce power not to display the red cooldown drain around the icon after the first pounce attack
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Dark Lord's material swap to be desynched with some of the interactions as the wolf and bat
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Survivors interrupt animation to be misaligned when the Dark Lord interrupted a window vault or locker
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Lich's portal VFX to be corrupted when viewed for the first time

Environment/Maps

  • Fixed an issue in Raccoon City Police Station where a character could vault and land on a lamp over a door frame
  • Fixed an issue in Greenville Square where there was a lag at the start of the game
  • Fixed an issue in Disturbed Ward where there was a lag at the start of the game
  • Fixed an issue in Raccoon City Police Station where a collision on the side of the stairs leading to the Basement would get the characters to bump
  • Fixed an issue in Nostromo map where the Nurse could blink on top of a rock
  • Fixed an issue in Azarov's Resting Place where the killer could not grab a survivor off a generator side on tile LD13
  • Fixed an issue in Raccoon City Police Station in the west wing where the Trapper could hide traps under debris
  • Fixed an issue in Mount Ormond Resort where the killer could not pick up a survivor on tile Fr_MD75
  • Fixed an issue in Badham Preschool where the killer could not navigate between assets of Garbage and Foliage
  • Fixed an issue in Nostromo Map where the Nurse could blink under the Spaceship
  • Fixed an issue in Toba Landing where the Nurse could blink on top of a rock pillar near the main building

Perks

  • Fixed an issue that caused various Survivor chest perks to gain tokens when a Survivor briefly interacted with a chest previously closed by the Human Greed perk
  • Fixed an issue that caused the aura of items in a chest to continue to appear after it was closed by the Human Greed perk when the Survivor had Plunderer's Instinct equipped
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Weave Attunement perk to trigger by the Exultation perk when stunning the Killer
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Survivors White Ward offering to protect the add-ons when a Survivor is sacrificed with an upgraded item from the Exultation perk
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Moment of Glory perk not to activate after the Broken status effect ended from the Deliverance & For The People perks
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Hex: Wretched Fate not to transfer to the Hex: Undying when destroyed
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Hex: Wretched Fate perk to be active despite no dull totems remaining

Platforms

  • Archive and Event Screens are once again correctly blocked during a partial install on platforms that support it.

UI

  • Fixed an issue where only the first modification is applied to cross-play/auto decline friend request setting.
  • Fixed an issue where closing the text input popup required an additional selection to interact with store elements.
  • Fixed the text field in the lobby archive widget to show all three digits of the rift tier when the tier is a hundred or higher.
  • Fixed an issue where the user names of players are not displayed in the penalized user list.
  • Fixed an issue where bloodweb perks do not include names of their respective character.

Misc

  • Fixed an issue that caused Survivors affected by the Broken status effect to receive the Heal score events when using the Medkit's Anti-Hemorrhagic add-on
  • Fixed an issue that caused the inability to heal others and random skill checks appear when multiple injured Survivors repeatedly spam healed each other

Known Issues

  • Addon Traveler's Hat does not have the in-game effect as implied in its description.