DBD Update 2.61 Patch Notes | Dead by Daylight 6.2.2

[Dead by Daylight] DBD update 2.61 (v6.2.2) is rolling out on PS4, PS5 (6.200), PC, and Xbox One players. According to the official DBD patch notes, the latest update removed the Anonymous Mode from multiple platforms. Apart from this, DBD patch 2.61 also updated Wiretap Perk description for clarity and added various bug fixes.

Previously, DBD update 2.50 added a new Killer(The Mastermind) and new Survivors (Ada Wong and Rebecca Chambers). Unfortunately, since the last patch, players are facing various issues with the game. Today’s Dead by Daylight version 2.59 will address a few of these issues.

Read more details below.

What is new in DBD 2.61 Patch Notes (6.2.2)? – September 13, 2022

Features

  • Anonymous Mode Removed from multiple platforms
    • Removed from PS4, PS5, Xbox, Windows Store and Stadia builds
  • The ability to report players has not been removed, as ever an in-game report is still required, however when completing the Support Form you no longer need to put the ID/Name of the player that you are reporting, this is found from the in-game report that you submitted_

Related, DBD servers are down. Check DBD server status here.

Content

  • Updated Wiretap Perk description for clarity
  • Updated Bite the Bullet Perk description for clarity
  • Blast Mine: Requires 50% of a generator to activate (was 66%); trap stays active for 40/45/50 seconds (was 35/40/45)
    • Dev note: Blast Mine no longer returns to you if the Killer does not kick the generator. Now that this has been fixed, we’ve given it some small buffs to compensate
  • Blast Mine: Updated description to clarify deactivation conditions

Bug Fixes

  • Tentatively fixed an issue that sometimes caused levelling up in the bloodweb to fail.
  • Addressed a bug that caused temporary ban pop-ups to not display the ban end date.
  • Addressed a bug that occasionally caused the game to crash when one survivor is left in a trial with The Mastermind.
  • Addressed a bug that sometimes caused the Player’s Name tags to be partially cut in the Lobby.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the tentacle SFX not to be played during the animation at the start of the trial with The Mastermind.
  • Addressed a bug that caused voice lines to be played as The Mastermind when hitting a survivor who used Endurance.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the The Mastermind’s Uroboros Tentacle to become misaligned during the Mori of some female characters.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Anti-Haemorrhagic Syringe Add-on to not trigger the Better Than New perk.
  • Addressed a bug that caused Virulent Bound to immediately let go of a Survivor caught from a behind an obstacle.
  • Addressed a bug that caused exit gate entity spikes to appear incorrectly when The Mastermind slammed a survivor near to the exit gate.
  • Addressed a bug that caused The Mastermind to incorrectly play a Hit animation when performing a Virulent Bound across a window or vault towards a downed survivor.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Forced Penance perk to fail to activate when performing a Virulent Bound.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Renewal perk to be activated while being Broken.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Renewal perk UI not to update while healing.
  • Addressed a bug that caused The Mastermind to become stuck if grabbing a survivor at the point of leaving the exit gate.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Trapper’s Power Icon to indicate the incorrect amount of Bear Traps being carried.
  • Addressed a bug that caused survivors to sometimes become stuck when attacked by The Mastermind’s Virulent Bound.
  • Addressed a bug that allowed Reassurance to be activated multiple times at once on a single survivor.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Reassurance prompt to incorrectly be available on a Survivor being hooked a third time.
  • Addressed a bug that caused no sounds to play when activating the Reassurance perk.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the survivor’s body to clip through the camera of the Mastermind when been carry.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the females survivors to be improperly displayed for split frame when being hook.
  • Addressed a bug that caused a hook that the killer can prevent rescue if standing in the doorway in East Wing of Racoon City Police Station map.
  • Addressed a bug that caused Glyphs to spawn in unreachable location in Garden of Joy map.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Active Ability 1 & 2 buttons in the settings menu to be unlocalized. Note: The text will appear in English for all languages and will be properly translated in the next update.
  • Addressed a bug that caused incorrect animations on a survivor, only from the survivor perspective, if The Mastermind initiates a Virulent Bound on them at a distance of 12.5m from a wall.
  • Addressed a bug that caused The Mastermind’s vault to become cancelled by looking away before reaching it.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Reassurance translation is be missing in Turkish and Latin American Spanish.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the game to sometimes crash when using the Reassurance perk.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the skybox in the Lampkin Lane, Eyrie of Crows and Garden of Joy maps to become completely white after waking up from the Nightmare’s Dream World.
  • Addressed a bug that caused a survivor to be unable to heal for the rest of the match if they activate the Terminus perk when 99% healed.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Mastermind’s out of tokens vignette to take up a large portion of the screen. Note: This vignette was forgotten in the 6.2.2 patch notes. We reduced the out of tokens vignette, as well as the in between tokens vignette.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Tome 12 level 4 challenge Looking Out for Number One to be missing the perk in the description.
  • Addressed a bug that caused the Reactive Healing perk to sometimes not trigger if the player was running.

Download free DBD patch 2.61 on PS4, PS5, and Xbox One. DBD codes will be available later.

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