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Acronyms & Terms used in DbD
After seeing some posts about the terms we commonly use in game, I thought I'd create a thread with a list of the most common ones - any that need to be added, please comment below and I will add them to the list. Acronyms BBQ Barbeque & Chilli, Teachable Leatherface perk STBFL Save the Best for Last – Teachable Myers Perk…
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Ask the Community subforum
Welcome to the Ask the Community subforum! This is the place to go if you've got a question you'd like answered. Maybe you're new and wondering how something works, or maybe you're a long time player curious about a specific fine detail. The rules here are pretty simple: There are no dumb questions. (Be nice to each…
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Lara Croft badge
Hi !! I recently saw that there are some Lara Croft badges and charms that are not available in quests or in the store, and as a big fan of Lara, I would love to have them! Do you know if there is a way to get them, or if they were just part of a previous pass? I also saw that some were given away for free with the…
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Reportable offenses
Hello i came across an dbd player who brought the perks plot twist , un-breakable, flip flop and, power struggle. From the beginning of the match they used plot twist over and over again but never fully healing themself. They were waiting at pallets not letting anyone pick up (if you did they would plot twist again) I…
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DbD XP gain, game time seems off?
So I have a timer of 600 seconds so if games went to fast and if it's already gone I finish ASAP or if it's not full duration I stay longer. The thing is, even though game lasts more than 600 seconds I often get something around ~520 xp + some change from emblems. I start it once I get control over character and then I try…
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Console K&M issues
does anyone get weird mouse stuttering issues?? I can’t be the only one started noticing it when I play survivor, now it transferred to killer side which sucks hella. Everytime I turn it stutters everytime I turn left or right, it’s not a fps dropping issue, my mouse works totally fine on pc just not console dbd… anyone…
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Flashbang and Flashlight save timings - anyone has a good video on that?
Been playing for a long time, but that is easily the thing I do least. Blinding with a flashlight takes 1 second. Time between clicking the flashbang and the explosion is 2 second. Animation of picking up is 3 seconds (let's assume no ######### perks in play). Counting after seeing survivor "spin" or dropping it when survivor…
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Does anyone else get disconnected from the servers when you have an ethernet cable connected?
I've been lately having to uninstall dbd and redownload it. Basically the match would be going on if I play survivor or killer and then I would notice when I hit a survivor or try to interact or anything, nothing registers. I've tried to look up what it could be but it's saying its a me problem BUT I play other games and i…
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What's happening with hits?
There is a bunch of times recently where I hit someone dropping a pallet, they scream, I see the blood and they don't take any damage, it keeps happening, I'm sure I have multiple recordings I just have to skim through them but like wth, is this happening to anyone else?
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Solutions for camera
Hello everyone, my friend have a bug. My friend start dbd and i play with him. But every time we play, he had the same bug. When my friend run, he cant see in his back because if he check in his back, all of his survivor moove. My friend survivor and camera is like "shift lock". When he moove his camera, his survivor moove…
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Decisive strike
I saw that they were making this perk free and I keep getting info that it's been free since at least December 2025 or Jan 19th 2026 but I can't get it or find it in game? Has it been made free yet?
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Shard discounts
Do we know when will be the next Iri Shard discount to buy some cosmetics or original killers a bit cheaper? I know they tend to happen with halloween, xmass, new chapters ect, but do we have a suspicion on when it might happen next?
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New upcoming prestige rewards
Hello, I just saw the new PTB and I realized that some portraits for the new prestige rewards are not completely right. For example, the legion only has Frank as the reward instead of maybe the whole group as well as Aestri who has only her portrait but no Baemar even though they are the technically separate characters. My…
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Are challenges from tomes autoselected and completed while you play?
I didn't play for a long time so there is a lot of tomes to do for me. Do I need to select an active challenge after each game like we used to have to do or do they tick when completed automatically like the things from main menu quests? Bonus question: Do any of the tome challenges actually award iri shards?
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Grimoire 2026 Results
So what options have been finalized for the new DBD Chapter? What's the chapter's official name? Which Killer silhouette did they go with?
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Does anyone know what perk this is?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BQT95Eq9B64 Looking to find out cause this seems extremely useful, I'm always wondering as killer how these things happen, there's another one where you can use your flashlight from like 20m but I can never use mine from that far, do you know what perk or add-on that one is?
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Hiding scratch marks in 2v8
Am I confused or something, none of the survivor perk classes mention survivors being able to suppress their scratch marks in 2v8 yet it's happening constantly?
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how to I change my profile picture?
Good Evening, good morning or afternoon I know this sound dumb but I wanted to know how do I change my profile picture in this forum?
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Change Forum Username?
Hi, how can I change my forum username? I see in the past people said to DM a mod, but all of the profiles I could find were old mods that are no longer active. If I go to Edit Profile and try to change my username it won't let me click on the box.
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Game ban from the game
I know i have been game banned like years ago and i was trying to appeal my ban after all this time and i'm trying so hard to appeal and the support from this game said "contact steam" i contact steam they say "contact the devs" and i'm in this infinite loop for like 4 days now and i just want…some help…some real help
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Account suspended for chargeback but already paid back.
Hello! My account was suspended on 9/11/2025 due to a chargeback made on my PlayStation 5 account, which is now banned. I communicated on and off till December with Dead by Daylight support on how to unsuspend my account in which they told me I had to pay off the chargeback on the account the chargeback had originated from…
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What is a balancing bug? In the player satisfaction survey
Just noticed in the bug section there is a type of bug called Balancing bug, What sort of bugs is that referring too?
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Do you think hellraiser will come back?
I started playing after it left and after learning 2 months ago about it I’m heartbroken I got the game after and I want to know if yall think it’ll comeback?
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What exactly is a “slug build”?
I was playing Clown for a challenge and, because of a noticeable skill gap in the match, I ended up slugging just to secure at least one kill. After the match, a survivor told me that if I was going to slug, I should at least be running a “slug build.” The thing is, I looked through the perks and couldn’t really find…
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2V8 Freezing
is anyone else freezing during the 2V8 matches. It has happened to me twice today. Not my internet connection.
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Error 8026, any solutions?
I've been playing on both PC (Linux) and my PS5 for a few months now, but today I have gotten an error code of 8026 on both and from what brief research I've done there doesn't seem to be a solution for it. I am on a wireless connection, both systems and their copies of the game are fully updated, I've tried rebooting…
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About Mangled effect (ver. 9.4.x)
When I played "1 vs 4" trial I mend my deep wound and saw that progress line has red color and negative ">>" indicator. According to "6.5.2 | Bugfix Patch" the Mangled effect no longer applies to the Mend, Snap Out of It, and Recover interactions. Is it no longer relevant? Screenshot from the game is attached below.
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Nexus Ranger (Supernova) skin for feng min
When is it posible to get the Nexus Ranger (Supernova) skin again? We have all the other twich prime skins in shop already.
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Dear BHVR, Can we PLEASE have more Killer AABPs?
AABP stands for Active Ability Button Perk, meaning you have a Perk on your Survivor that requires you to press a button on your keyboard/controller for the Perk to activate. So far, Rebecca, Vee, Vittorio, Aestri,, Taurie, Sable, Mikaela, Renato, Jonah, Adam, Jill and a few others ALL have AABPs, but they're all…
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Does the "Be Not Afraid" Chapter have a release date yet?
I call it that because it doesn't have an official name yet, AND its the "biblically accurate angel" Killer that we're getting, the one with the holy laser that the test footage showed off.
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What are the chances of these two Resident Evil items returning?
These two profile items were released for a 2v8-themed around the Resident Evil chapters back in February of last year.
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How to fix input delay issues
On PC / Steam. Since the Krasue update my game has been having one issue after another, but the biggest one of them all is that now all of a sudden I have input delay while playing the game. I've tried everything to rersolve this issue but nothing seems to solve it and I'm at my wits end. This is only a DBD issue. For the…
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2v8 Reveal the killer quest
Does anyone understand how this quest works? It seems random to me. I've played a few matches and will get a second added to the quest here and there at random times even though I'm revealing the killer a lot longer than the time awarded to me. I know it's only 15 seconds and will eventually complete it I just don't…
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Frozen Pic after Game
Is anyone else running into this issue on PS5: I play a game (1vs4 or 2vs8) and after the game when I return to the lobby my pic is frozen and i cannot do anything? I need to restart the PS5. But this happens after every game I play on dbd.. any tips for fixes? Gonna try to deinstall the game and install again but not sure…
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diconect
right as im getting ready to run i get kicked an now i cant even play because it set me to automatic match making lock this is so unfair i should not have to sit an wait till im able to play again i dont know what to do any advice would be greatful hope bhvr sees this im constaly having to fill out why it crashed an send…
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Does anyone else have lag issue on PS?
I had ping today fluctuating upwards of 400 to 1000. The game was borderline unplayable. This was my first time back on my PS in about a week. For that week, I was on my Steamdeck and had zero issues. Both are wireless. I've also tried playing on ethernet directly and it's the same issues, so its not an connectivity issue.…
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Not exactly a Question But...
I am very surprised by how different this game can look between players! I was playing against a streamer and Decided to check out his Twitch (Cuz I like seeing from the perspective of Others) and I was shocked by how High the Gamma and Saturation was! It's kinda fascinating to see just how different this game we all play…
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Has anyone else been having disconnect issues?
I have had many lag spikes on the dedicated servers and been booted from the servers and lost a lot of BP and have been banned for a certain amount of time just for getting kicked from a lag spike.
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Autistic Anxiety + Killer Anxiety = Panic Attack
I wanted to ask anyone on how to counter The Shaking feeling when I play Killer. Today I literally had a Panic Attack dearing a match. It wasn't that I was playing terrible. There is just so much happening, I get overwhelmed very easily do to my Disability. I never had this happen when I first started playing. When it…
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Is there a chance the Pig will get her own chase theme?
She's my all time favorite killer, and it makes me sad that she has the same theme as most older killers. Would DBD never update it since she's not a priority?
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What do you think about the frequencies of new outfits for certain suvivors?
I know, after a certain amount, it detrimental to play a game for obtaining skins and outfits. But let's skip all this boring psychological stuff for now. I really like Taurie Cain. And even if she's a >relatively< new character, I feel bhvr had not done much for her aesthetics. Meanwhile, there are survivors that keeps…
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DbD Makes Steam take more than 21gbs ram at a random time
Hey, I’m having a really weird issue and I’m wondering if anyone else has seen this. Sometimes when I play DBD (could be after 5 minutes or after 1–2 hours), the game crashes or I leave a match, and then Steam suddenly starts using like 21 GB of RAM or more. When that happens, Steam becomes super slow or freezes, other…
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Can anyone help with this?
My Dead by Daylight won't work. I get stuck at the connecting to servers after I log in, but it'll stay there until i get an error saying "In order to access this content, a network connection is required." I've restarted my internet, unplugged it, reinstalled dbd, but nothing works. Could anyone give suggestions to how to…
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Nintendo Switch Cross Play
Hellooo, Is there any actual concrete info on when cross play will be re-enabled for Switch users? I have looked all over but from what i can see there is no real answer other than February. My partner specifically bought the switch version and Nintendo online just for this on the premise of cross play being available and…
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Как включить русский язык в dbd на xbox
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accounts
I used to play dbd back in lockdown and since then ive gotten a pc and sold my xbox. I never made a BHVR account as I was a young lad. I bought dbd again on my pc on the xbox store with my xbox acc that I played dbd on. None of my dlc's are here and ive spent maybe over $700 on this game, so I just want to know how to get…
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Can I get the left for dead shirts on console?
Hey everyone! Was curios if it’s possible if I could get both the red/black left for dead shirts on console (Xbox). I wanted them for a long time but due to being steam exclusive I’m curios if now that there’s cross progression I could have my account etc on steam and purchase it and go back to my console and have them?…
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Smart app control preventing dead by daylight from running, how do i fix this?
For the past few days, I'm not even able to play Dead by Daylight because smart app control randomly decided to block easy anti-cheat probably because of the new update, how do i fix this issue?
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What should actually be considered "winning" in DBD?
For ME personally, earning a pip is a win. I don't always have to escape or get a 4k. But when you play well enough to earn pips, the game is pretty much saying you should be playing with/against higher ranked players. But that's just my take. I'd like to know what you guys think. There are a lot of players that take this…
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The First Achievement: Torn Asunder - Not getting progress?
Is this achievement broken at the moment? To me the description is pretty straight forward, yet I am not receiving any progress. Am I missing something?
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Has BHVR made any comment on if they are going to update Rick Grimes' scream/pain sounds?
I was going to get Rick Grimes to prestige 100 because he's one of my favorite characters from any TV show/comic but I can't stand the actor they used for his screams. It sounds NOTHING like him. Has anyone heard any discussion on that in any of their dev talks or social media?