Dead By Daylight’s subsequent crossovers embrace Dungeons & Dragons and Castlevania
Behaviour Interactive revealed a number of the game-changing updates which can be coming to Dead by Daylight this yr. That features a new 2v8 mode and crossovers with two iconic franchises.
As was teased final week, Dead by Daylight’s subsequent chapter will probably be Dungeons & Dragons-themed. It provides Vecna (the D&D model, not the Stranger Things one) as a killer and a Bard named Aestri Yazar as a brand new survivor. Vecna’s talents embrace the self-explanatory Fly, the spectral entity-summoning Flight of the Damned, the Pallet-blocking Mage Hand, and a survivor-revealing area-of-effect assault known as Dispelling Sphere.
Yazar’s abilities embrace creating a duplicate of herself with Mirrored Illusion, rolling a d20 and probably buffing survivors with Bardic Inspiration, and Still Sight, which lets her see the aura of turbines, totems, and chests whereas standing nonetheless. The Dungeons & Dragons chapter additionally provides a brand new map known as the Forgotten Ruins. It’s populated with chests; to open them, gamers roll a d20 and may allow a wide range of results relying on the results of their roll.
The 2v8 mode coming to Dead by Daylight in 2024 is simply as thrilling. At a press convention attended by Digital Trends, Matt Spriggens, design director, says Behaviour wished to “focus more on the fun aspect of Dead by Daylight and make it more of a party mode” with 2v8. It will assist 5 killers and “most Survivors” when it launches, and can characteristic its personal larger maps, take away hooks, and introduce a category system to encourage cooperation.
Finally, Behaviour Interactive teased a Castlevania chapter for later this yr, though it wouldn’t say way more about it presently. Dead by Daylight is obtainable now for PC, PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch.
