Dead by Daylight Update 4.5.0 Goes Live! HUD Changes, Survivor Animations, MMR, & More!

Dead By Daylight has released a mid-chapter update, and with it comes some fantastic new animations and views! In this update, they retouched on the HUD, fixed animations for Survivors, and updated the look of some maps! They also touched base with us on the update for MMR.

Dead by Daylight Update 4.5.0 Goes Live! HUD Changes, Survivor Animations, MMR, & More!

Changes to Game Mechanics

There are a lot of changes to the way some of the killers operate in this update. The list below highlights the key changes.

• The Clown: There is a new throwable bottle called the Afterpiece Antidote. When thrown, this antidote produces a fog that increases anyone's movement speed that walks through it. It also works as an antidote to any maladies you've caused on the survivors, so be careful when you throw it! They have also reduced the reload time for your bottles from five seconds to three seconds.
• The Wraith: The Wraith will now be completely invisible from more than 24 meters away. They will be a little more visible (but not as visible as they currently are when cloaked) between 16 and 24 meters away. The only time in which you'll be able to see the full shimmer of a cloaked Wraith is when they are less than 16 meters away.
• The Trapper: There was an adjustment to the escape mechanics for the traps. Instead of always having a 25 percent chance to escape on every attempt, Survivors will always escape between 1 and 6 attempts. The outline in the Development Blog is as follows:
  • Lower attempt to escape for the first three attempts
  • About a 25 percent chance to escape on the fourth attempt
  • Higher attempt to escape for the last two attempts

Matchmaking Ratings &  Rank Rewards!

The biggest for this Development update is that we will soon see the return of Matchmaking Ratings! They haven't released it quite yet, but they are planning another test for us to be better matched with players of equal skill level.

We're most looking forward to this new system because once it's officially implemented into the game, we will start receiving Rank Rewards based on the best rank we reach! The reward system is displayed in the image below.

Even better than just the Rank Rewards is the fact that these apply to both Killers and Survivors! That means that if you reach Rank 1 as a Survivor and a Killer, then you will get a total of 500k Bloodpoints!

Related: Dead by Daylight Codes (February 2021) - Free DBD Bloodpoints! - Pro Game Guides

Animation Update

The characters have received an animation update, and they are looking snazzy. They have greatly improved on the survivors' jerky and often glitchy animations, opting to make them look far more realistic. The development blog did make a special note that the controls and movement have not changed, and the only change was the animations.

HUD Update

The HUD also received an update to make the view clearer and more informative. The Survivors and their Status' are now displayed on the top left with a transparent background so as not to take up too much of the screen. The number of generators is now displayed in the top center and uses a smaller icon. The images above display how these new HUDs will look.

There will now be a Hook Counter, so you know which of your teammates need to avoid being hooked again. Killers are now able to see a character's hook progress.

Map Graphics Changes

In line with making things look better, two maps have now received an aesthetic reboot. In the video above, you will see all the updates they have made to the maps Gideon Meat Plant and Crotus Prenn Asylum.

There are many more changes, but everything listed above is the most significant! If you'd like to read further detail about these changes, follow this link to the Development Blog.

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