Dead by Daylight has officially released this month’s Developer Update, which includes significant changes to Healing and The Hillbilly, along with some updates to Perks and the Autohaven Wreckers map.
The following is an extensive overview of all the changes, improvements, and other updates offered by the Dead by Daylight April 2023 Developer Update, as revealed on the Behaviour Interactive DbD forum page:
Healing
- Base healing time has been reverted to 16 seconds.
- Med-Kits will have a total of 24 charges.
- The healing speed bonus when healing others has been increased. The new bonus is as follows:
- Camping Aid Kit: Increases the speed that you heal others by 35%,
- First Aid Kit: Increases the speed that you heal others by 40%.
- Emergency Med-Kit: Increases the speed that you heal others by 45%.
- Ranger Med-Kit: Increases the speed that you heal others by 50%.
- All Med-Kits will now have a 33% speed and efficiency penalty when used for self healing.
- Med-Kit Add-ons:
- Rubber Gloves: New effect – Increases the Great Skill Check success zone by 10%.
- Butterfly Tape: Increases healing speed by 5% (was 3%).
- Sponge: New effect – Increases the Great Skill Check success zone by 20%.
- Needle & Thread:
- Added effect – Increases progression bonus for succeeding a Great Skill Check by 5%.
- Removed effect – No longer provides bonus Bloodpoints for hitting Great Skill Checks.
- Medical Scissors: Increases healing speed by 10% (was 12%).
- Surgical Suture:
- Added effect – Increases progression bonus for succeeding a Great Skill Check by 10%.
- Removed effect – No longer provides bonus Bloodpoints for hitting Great Skill Checks.
- Abdominal Dressing:
- Increases healing speed by 15% (was 20%).
- Rarity increased to Very Rare (was Rare).
- Gel Dressings:
- Adds 16 charges to the Med-Kit (was 14).
- Rarity increased to Ultra Rare (was Rare).
- Anti-Hemorrhagic Syringe: While this Add-on is unchanged, please note that its healing speed will be reduced by the Med-Kit self healing penalty (resulting in a 24 second heal by default).
The Hillbilly
Changes to the Death Engravings and Doom Engravings Add-ons that were previously introduced on the PBT have been reverted as it was determined to have overshadowed the overheat adjustments and made the whole package feel like a downgrade.
Perks
Dead Hard
- The number of times that Dead Hard could be used have been limited and now requires a safe unhook to activate this Perk.
Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance
- The regression amount of Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance has been increased to 15/20/25% (was 11/13/15%).
Boon: Circle of Healing
- The healing speed bonus on Circle of Healing has been increased to 50/75/100% (was 40/45/50%).
Autohaven Wreckers
- One of the new tiles, which featured a window and pallet, in Autohaven Wreckers map has been rebalanced.
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