[Dead by Daylight] DBD update 2.62 (v6.3) is rolling out on PS4, PS5 (6.300), PC, and Xbox One players. According to the official DBD patch notes, the latest update added new changes, fixes and gameplay improvements. Apart from this, DBD patch 2.62 also includes various stability fixes.
Previously, DBD update 2.59 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 2.62 will address a few of these issues.
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What is new in DBD 2.62 Patch Notes (6.3.0)? – October 11, 2022
Options Menu
- Social and Privacy options are now located in the Online tab
- Subtitle and Colorblind options are now located in the Accessibilty Tab
- The Accessibilty and Online tabs are now available in the Options menu
- Trials will now be forced to end after 1 hour or 5 minutes after the End Game Collapse has been triggered
- Prestige Catch-Up: Characters who were level 50 and prestige 0, 1, or 2 as of the 6.1.0 release will receive 2 bonus prestige levels, as though they had been prestiged. (updated on Live Build 7th October)
Flashlight Adjustments
- The Flashlight click speed is now slower. The sound effect has been adjusted so it matches the new speed.
- To reduce strobing and the associated dangers regarding flash-induced seizures, Flashlights now have a slight delay imposed between switching them on and off.
Dev Note: We are continuing to investigate issues around the aiming angles required for the flashlight since the PTB.
Archives
- Removed “press and hold” interaction on challenge nodes
- Completed Challenges now remain in the Archives widget until either claimed or replaced.
- A new Challenge Complete visual has been added to the archives widget’s minimized state to better convey when the challenge you are working on has been completed
- New Challenge Slots in the Archives: Players now can select a Survivor and a Killer challenge at the same time.
- Any challenges shared by both roles can also be assigned to the slot of your choice, or both slots, if desired.
- Selecting a slot with an equipped challenge will navigate you to the respective tome and level of the equipped challenge.
Content
- “Haunted by Daylight” Halloween event (starts October 13th 11AM ET)
- The Archives
- Tome 13 – Malevolence tome (opens October 12th 11AM ET)
- “Haunted by Daylight” Halloween event tome (opens October 13th 11AM ET)
- The Hag now has new music
Optimization
- Performance and under-the-hood optimizations done to the Huntress.
- Small improvements to animations and textures in Archives.
- Optimizations done to animations and audio.
Bug Fixes
- Addressed a bug that sometimes caused the incentive bonus to not be given to players at the end of trial.
- Addressed a bug that caused perks appearing to lose tiers when prestiging the character whose perks were purchased in Shrine of Secrets.
- Addressed a bug that caused all of the currently equipped cosmetics to unequip when opening a character store page.
- Addressed a bug that sometimes caused the game to get stuck in infinite loading when trying to buy Auric Cells on Xbox One.
- Addressed a bug that caused Cheryl Mason’s hair to appear briefly misplaced when switching between certain cosmetics on Steam and Xbox One.
- Fixed a crash on Switch in Undocked mode when trying to Prestige-up in the Bloodweb.
- Addressed a bug that caused error popup on some languages don’t show player ID.
- Addressed a bug that enabled a rock to be climbable in Mount Ormond Resort map.
- Addressed a bug that caused two invisible collisions by the stairs in the Racoon City Police Station map.
- Addressed a bug that caused Female survivors to not have facial animation when being on the hook.
- Addressed a bug that caused Male Survivors to have crooked wrists when running injured and holding a Key Item
- Addressed a bug that caused the camera to move down when a player presses the crouch input while being sprayed by the First Aid Spray.
- Addressed a bug that may cause the Mastermind to retain maximum velocity for the rest of the trial after using Virulent Bound.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Collision Course achievement to gain progress when the Mastermind slams a survivor against a pallet.
- Addressed a bug that caused the reduced speed icon not to be shown on the progress bar when using the First Aid Spray when the Mastermind is equipped with the Red Herb add-on.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Mastermind to receive the Global Saturation score event when infecting the survivors left in trial when one or more survivor has already left the trial.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Mastermind’s tentacles to stay on his arm after performing a rushed vault.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Mastermind’s tentacles to pass through second floors during the Mori animation.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Mastermind to be able to move sideways while throwing a survivor with Virulent Bound.
- Addressed a bug that caused escaping with the First Aid Spray not to grant a score event.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Mastermind to slide to the side when using Virulent Bound on a survivor as they drop a pallet.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Mastermind to be able to grab a survivor as they are escaping the trial.
- Addressed a bug that caused the exit gate to be blocked when the Mastermind slams a survivor not directly into the exit gate.
- Addressed a bug that may cause the Mastermind’s power to stop functioning when hitting a survivor with Virulent Bound as they enter a locker.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Mastermind’s power to stop functioning if a survivors disconnects while being grabbed.
- Addressed a bug that may cause the Mastermind’s power to stop functioning after a long time in a trial.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Haq’s Granma’s Heart add-on not to increase the Mud Phantasm terror radius.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Nightmare not to be able to hit survivors standing inside a Dream Pallet.
- Addressed a bug that caused the animation to fail play when the Demogorgon emerges from the portal any time after the first time.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Nurse to jitter after interrupting survivors right after a blink.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Deathslinger’s harpoon to be missing in the tally screen.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Spirit to accelerate too slowly during Yamaoka’s Haunting.
- Addressed a bug that caused survivors to be able to vaccinate other survivors while standing next to a wall of asset when playing against the Nemesis.
- Addressed a bug that caused survivors to be stuck when shocked by the Doctor while unhooking another survivor.
- Addressed a bug that caused the healing bar to briefly be shown as full before regressing when using the Reactive Healing perk and affected by the Hemorrhage status effect.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Hex: The Third Seal not to apply the Blindness effect after the Mastermind hits a survivor with Virulent Bound.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Wiretap perk’s Spy Trap to remain active for the remainder of the trial if installed at the same time as the generator is completed.
- Addressed a bug that may cause players to retain speed increases for the remainder of the trial under poor network conditions.
- Addressed a bug that may cause the effect of some perks to remain active for the remainder of the trial.
- Addressed a bug that caused Many Killers to snap back to Idle when vaulting any window.
- Addressed a bug that caused male survivors’ chins to be deformed when being Mori’d by the Doctor
- Tentatively fixed several occurrences of large friends list performance issue on Steam.
- Tentatively fixed an issue that sometimes occurred after refunding a DLC, where the DLC would still be accessible.
- Tentatively fixed an issue that sometimes caused bloodweb cannot progress due to the animation freezing.
- Tentatively fixed some issues that caused incorrect bloodpoints when disconnected.
- Tentatively fixed an issue that caused grade progress error after a match.
- Addressed a bug when selecting “View Challenge” from the Lobby does not direct the player to the correct Tome and Level.
- Addressed a bug where the Carried Icon is displayed twice when The Trapper have no Bear Trap left to set and carries a Survivor.
- Addressed a bug with the language Setting dropdown menu closing after dragging the scrollbar with the mouse.
- Addressed a bug that caused Ada Wong and Rebecca Chambers not to be silent while opening a chest or cleansing a totem with the perk “Calm Spirit” equipped.
- Addressed a bug where the pages 9 and 10 had no audio in Tome 12 Legacy of Deceit.
- Addressed a bug in the Raccoon City Police Department map where the sound effect of certain projectiles hitting a certain part of the map were not producing the correct surface response.
- Addressed a bug in the Saloon map where the sound effect of projectiles when hitting a caravan would produce a metal sound.
- Addressed a bug in the Asylum map where the sound effect of projectiles on concrete walls would produce a hollow sound.
- Addressed a bug in the Autohaven Wreckers map where windows would produce a metal sound when hitting them.
- Addressed a bug that caused their Hag traps to not trigger hen placed on the stairs of the basement.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Nurse to blink through a wall on Raccoon police Department map.
- Addressed a bug that caused Killers and Survivors to get obstructed by bubble notifications.
Fixes from PTB
- Addressed a bug that caused the Balanced Landing perk to trigger when vaulting a pallet or window.
- Addressed a bug that caused observed survivors not to be animated.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Spirit’s Husk to have no animation after a few minutes in the trial.
- Addressed a bug that may cause some HUD icons not to be visible after switching to Victor when playing as the Twins.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Huntress’s walking animation to be missing when seen from TPV when charging or aiming the hatchet.
- Addressed a bug that caused the Huntress’s left hand to remain visible when looking up and down while having a hatchet charged.
Download free DBD patch 2.62 on PS4, PS5, and Xbox One. DBD codes will be available later.
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