Release Schedule
Update releases: 11am ET
Developer Update
Features
Killer: The Skull Merchant
- Base power changes:
- The Skull Merchant gains a flat Haste Status Effect for each Survivor detected on the radar. This bonus is lost when no Survivor is detected on the Radar.
- One Survivor : +3%
- Two Survivors: +5%
- Three Survivors: +6%
- Four Survivors: +7%
- Note: You do not need to be Inspecting the Radar in order to get this bonus.
- Failing the Claw Trap hack no longer recharges its battery
- Entering an Active Zone no longer recharges Claw Trap batteries
- Drones only return to the Killer after their respective Claw Trap battery is empty
- Survivors with a Claw Trap cause Drones to be Unhackable while they are nearby
- Claw Trapped Survivors who fast vault pallets break the pallet and their Claw Trap at the same time
- Claw traps are automatically removed when their battery is empty
- Addon changes :
- Ultrasonic Trap Speaker (NEW EFFECT): Decrease the time it takes for Undetectable to take effect by 50%
- Increase the “Expired Batteries” addon rarity to Ultra Rare (was Very Rare)
- Decrease the “Prototype Rotor” addon rarity to Very Rare (was Ultra Rare)
- Increase Adaptive Lighting to 50% (was 20%)
- Decrease Expired Batteries to 40% (was 150%)
Miscellaneous
- A previous patch note stated that the perk Leverage no longer worked on self-healing. This was not the case. Leverage has worked on self-healing and still does.
- Updated screams caused by Perks to be heard map-wide, as they were prior to version 6.6.0.
Bug Fixes
Archives & Challenges
- Fixed an issue where pallets broken by The Knight's Guards were not contributing progress towards applicable challenges, such as "Rault's Strength" and "Unleash the Rage".
Audio
- Fixed an issue in the Archives where the French voice over for Memory 714 of Tome 13 would cut before the end.
- Fixed an issue where The Trapper would fail to trigger a voice over when a Survivor escapes his grab.
Bots
- Bots can now ask other players to move out of their way.
- Bots no longer give up when Broken and within the area of a Boon: Circle of Healing.
- Tentatively fixed an issue where Bots would shut themselves down when injured by an Artist's Dire Crow.
- When playing against Freddy Krueger with the Dream Pallets Power, Bots no longer stop moving after passing a Dream Pallet.
- When playing against The Skull Merchant, Bots can now disable Drones placed on stairs.
Characters
- Fixed an issue that cause Yun-Jin and a few other female survivors' face to be different when been on the hook.
- Fixed an issue that cause The Nurse's Grim Veil to stretches unnaturally on the tally screen.
- Fixed an issue that cause Males survivors grabbed from lockers to have stretched eyebrows.
- Fixed an issue where The Knight's Healing Poultice, The Onryo's Distorted Photo and The Oni's Iridescent Family Crest Add-ons incorrectly revealed auras for the duration of their effect.
Map
- Fixed a bug that made two chests spawn in the Shattered Square basement of the main building.
Perks
- The Haste status effect icon no longer appears on screen when Teamwork: Collective Stealth is active
- The Friendly Competition repair bonus speed buff is no longer lost if the Perk owner disconnects from the Trial.
- A Survivor fast vaults a Pallet with the Skull Merchant Claw trap no longer triggers the Perk Thwack!
- Failing one skill check caused by the Merciless Storm Perk no longer causes subsequent skill checks to fail
Platforms
- Intro cinematics should no longer stutter on Xbox One.
Killer - Skull Merchant
- Drones no longer show the scanning VFX for one frame when starting the scan phase.
- Claw-Traps removed by hacking now correctly self-destruct instead of disappearing
UI
- Fixed Perk description tooltips being incorrectly positioned in the Edit Bot Loadout menu.
- Corrected 'Shotgun Speakers' add-on icon to avoid trypophobia trigger.