Dead by Daylight Update 6.6.2: Full Patch Notes Listed

Dead by Daylight is getting its next patch, so be sure to update! Here’s Dead by Daylight Update 6.6.2: full patch notes listed for March 22, 2023.

Dead by Daylight Update 6.6.2: Full Patch Notes Listed

It’s only been a few days since our last update, but what’s Dead by Daylight without an endless string of bugs to fix and tweaks to make? The Skull Merchant sees a little boost, with her gaining a Haste effect when survivors enter her drone zone.

Features

Killer: The Skull Merchant

• Base power changes:
• The Skull Merchant gains a flat Haste Status Effect for each Survivor detected on the radar. This bonus is lost when no Survivor is detected on the Radar.
• One Survivor : +3%
• Two Survivors: +5%
• Three Survivors: +6%
• Four Survivors: +7%
• Note: You do not need to be Inspecting the Radar in order to get this bonus.

• Failing the Claw Trap hack no longer recharges its battery
• Entering an Active Zone no longer recharges Claw Trap batteries
• Drones only return to the Killer after their respective Claw Trap battery is empty
• Survivors with a Claw Trap cause Drones to be Unhackable while they are nearby
• Claw Trapped Survivors who fast vault pallets break the pallet and their Claw Trap at the same time
• Claw traps are automatically removed when their battery is empty
• Addon changes :
• Ultrasonic Trap Speaker (NEW EFFECT): Decrease the time it takes for Undetectable to take effect by 50%

• Increase the “Expired Batteries” addon rarity to Ultra Rare (was Very Rare)
• Decrease the “Prototype Rotor” addon rarity to Very Rare (was Ultra Rare)
• Increase Adaptive Lighting to 50% (was 20%)
• Decrease Expired Batteries to 40% (was 150%)

Miscellaneous

• A previous patch note stated that the perk Leverage no longer worked on self-healing. This was not the case. Leverage has worked on self-healing and still does.
• Updated screams caused by Perks to be heard map-wide, as they were prior to version 6.6.0.

Bug Fixes

Archives & Challenges

• Fixed an issue where pallets broken by The Knight’s Guards were not contributing progress towards applicable challenges, such as “Rault’s Strength” and “Unleash the Rage”.

Audio

• Fixed an issue in the Archives where the French voice over for Memory 714 of Tome 13 would cut before the end.
• Fixed an issue where The Trapper would fail to trigger a voice over when a Survivor escapes his grab.

Bots

• Bots can now ask other players to move out of their way.
• Bots no longer give up when Broken and within the area of a Boon: Circle of Healing.
• Tentatively fixed an issue where Bots would shut themselves down when injured by an Artist’s Dire Crow.
• When playing against Freddy Krueger with the Dream Pallets Power, Bots no longer stop moving after passing a Dream Pallet.
• When playing against The Skull Merchant, Bots can now disable Drones placed on stairs.

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Characters

• Fixed an issue that cause Yun-Jin and a few other female survivors’ face to be different when been on the hook.
• Fixed an issue that cause The Nurse’s Grim Veil to stretches unnaturally on the tally screen.
• Fixed an issue that cause Males survivors grabbed from lockers to have stretched eyebrows.
• Fixed an issue where The Knight’s Healing Poultice, The Onryo’s Distorted Photo and The Oni’s Iridescent Family Crest Add-ons incorrectly revealed auras for the duration of their effect.

Map

• Fixed a bug that made two chests spawn in the Shattered Square basement of the main building.

Perks

• The Haste status effect icon no longer appears on screen when Teamwork: Collective Stealth is active
• The Friendly Competition repair bonus speed buff is no longer lost if the Perk owner disconnects from the Trial.
• A Survivor fast vaults a Pallet with the Skull Merchant Claw trap no longer triggers the Perk Thwack!
• Failing one skill check caused by the Merciless Storm Perk no longer causes subsequent skill checks to fail

Platforms

• Intro cinematics should no longer stutter on Xbox One.

Killer – Skull Merchant

• Drones no longer show the scanning VFX for one frame when starting the scan phase.
• Claw-Traps removed by hacking now correctly self-destruct instead of disappearing

UI

• Fixed Perk description tooltips being incorrectly positioned in the Edit Bot Loadout menu.
• Corrected ‘Shotgun Speakers’ add-on icon to avoid trypophobia trigger.

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