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Maybe The Tricker's comeback tour is the opening act for others like it.
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The Dead by Daylight roster of horror baddies grows a little longer every year, and up until 2025, the asymmetrical horror arena maintained a (mostly) regular update schedule by adding one major chapter every three months. Those DLC add-ons typically came with a new killer, survivor, and occasional map, but Behaviour adjusted its schedule last year.
Instead of four new killers for the year, Dead by Daylight's Year 10 Roadmap outlined plans for three. The game still received its four major chapters, but one dropped the extra killer. At the time, it sounded like players were getting fewer new toys overall, but that's not the case. Behaviour is filling gaps elsewhere with hefty reworks, quality of life initiatives, and other Dead by Daylight features.
I recently sat down with Behaviour Interactive's senior creative director Dave Richard to talk about Dead by Daylight's Chapter 39 update, All-Kill: Comeback, and The Trickster's rework. As a long-time player, the K-pop killer's sequel chapter stands out. It's the only major Dead by Daylight chapter I can recall that spotlights a rework alongside a new map and survivor.
So with the recent changes to its killer release cadence, I had to ask: Are we going to see more reworks like this in Dead by Daylight's future chapters, or is this a one-off?
"It's a bit of a trial," said Richard. "So this year, we wanted to put more effort on quality of life. We're preparing big system changes because after 10 years, our game has become increasingly difficult to enter, to understand, and it's becoming dense for some players, so we want to make sure that it's more accessible."
Richard highlighted adjustments to the Aura mechanic as an example. As part of the All-Kill update, players can now tweak Aura colors for different interactions based on their preferences. It's a feature I've seen requested often over my years of playing, and Behaviour is looking for ways to keep working these in.
"So, in order to do more of that, we wanted to try: What if a chapter doesn't have a full new killer? It's a rework, there's a cool map, there's a cool survivor. Is this offering enough for our players? Is it interesting? And if it is, that might be something we repeat in the future."
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The Dead by Daylight roster of horror baddies grows a little longer every year, and up until 2025, the asymmetrical horror arena maintained a (mostly) regular update schedule by adding one major chapter every three months. Those DLC add-ons typically came with a new killer, survivor, and occasional map, but Behaviour adjusted its schedule last year.
Instead of four new killers for the year, Dead by Daylight's Year 10 Roadmap outlined plans for three. The game still received its four major chapters, but one dropped the extra killer. At the time, it sounded like players were getting fewer new toys overall, but that's not the case. Behaviour is filling gaps elsewhere with hefty reworks, quality of life initiatives, and other Dead by Daylight features.
I recently sat down with Behaviour Interactive's senior creative director Dave Richard to talk about Dead by Daylight's Chapter 39 update, All-Kill: Comeback, and The Trickster's rework. As a long-time player, the K-pop killer's sequel chapter stands out. It's the only major Dead by Daylight chapter I can recall that spotlights a rework alongside a new map and survivor.
So with the recent changes to its killer release cadence, I had to ask: Are we going to see more reworks like this in Dead by Daylight's future chapters, or is this a one-off?
"It's a bit of a trial," said Richard. "So this year, we wanted to put more effort on quality of life. We're preparing big system changes because after 10 years, our game has become increasingly difficult to enter, to understand, and it's becoming dense for some players, so we want to make sure that it's more accessible."
Richard highlighted adjustments to the Aura mechanic as an example. As part of the All-Kill update, players can now tweak Aura colors for different interactions based on their preferences. It's a feature I've seen requested often over my years of playing, and Behaviour is looking for ways to keep working these in.
"So, in order to do more of that, we wanted to try: What if a chapter doesn't have a full new killer? It's a rework, there's a cool map, there's a cool survivor. Is this offering enough for our players? Is it interesting? And if it is, that might be something we repeat in the future."
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