InDead by Daylight, the killer must first strike a survivor to injure them and then strike them again to down them. Once downed, the killer typically picks them up and carries them to a nearby hook.The survivor’s goal inDead by Daylightis to win chases and evade the killer to continue working on generators, but there are many ways survivors can manage to stay alive if they are caught and carried.
Popular survivor perks forevasive techniques inDead by Daylightinclude Dead Hard and Decisive Strike. Decisive Strike, for example, is an anti-tunneling perk that lets survivors free themselves while carried if they succeed a narrow skill check. However, there is another perk that has been used abusively in the past while that killer mains will be happy to hear has been nerfed inDead by Daylight’s latest patch.
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Dead by Daylight’s bugfix patch 5.5.2 addresses a myriad of bugs and issues that have come up in the game recently. The patch notes list all bugs that have been squashed, such as “an issue that caused the Nurse’s second blink to be delayed and thus cover less distance.” But one of its most prominent fixes refers toKate’s teachable survivor perk Boil Over. Boil Over improves the player’s ability to wiggle free while being carried by the killer. If survivors wiggle long enough for the progression meter to fill, the killer effectively drops them, and they return to an injured state.
Further, Boil Over fills the wiggle meter when survivors are carried and the killer falls from any height. Because of how these abilities can stack, Boil Over was recently exploitable in certain maps that featured different heights the killer could fall from.Boil Over previously offered a flat 25% increaseto wiggle progress when the killer fell. If survivors have a purple, third-tier Boil Over perk it increases the wiggle intensity to 100%, and a flat 25% increase to the wiggle meter from a fall could result in an insta-drop.
Survivors would then abuse this by laying downed near the edge of a drop so that the killer would take the bait and carry them down. Fortunately, Boil Over has been nerfed so that it only grants a 33% increase to the player’s current wiggle progression.Dead by Daylight’s Behaviour Interactive notes that an insta-drop will still result from Boil Over’s fall mechanic if survivors have over 75% of the wiggle meter completed, but it will no longer permit abuse in maps with many heights to fall from.
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Dev Note: This change prevents abuse of Boil Over in specific map locations where the killer has no choice but to drop from a height. It still stays relevant for longer walks and especially for basement access. At over 75% wiggle progress, it still results in an insta-drop.
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Dead by Daylightis available for Mobile, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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