Dead by Daylight Devs Promise Numerous Bug Fixes After Desperate Fans Turn to Overwatch Developer Blizzard for Help

Dead by Daylight players were near to fend for themselves aft a caller update introduced respective game-breaking exploits, so, naturally, they turned to Blizzard Entertainment and the Overwatch squad for help.

Behaviour Interactive, the workplace down the long-running asymmetrical fearfulness game, recovered itself successful combat oregon formation mode aft issuing its July update past week. Two Survivors from The Walking Dead — Michonne and Rick Grimes — were the headliners, but the latest spot came with much than conscionable bloody caller contented for players to feast on.

I've been successful the dbd sphere for 9 years and I've ne'er seen everyone this upset, adjacent astatine dbds lowest points determination was inactive a batch of large things to look guardant to. I'm not gonna prevarication it blew my caput with however galore radical were upset, I've ne'er seen this before.

— Brandyn (@wispfell) August 5, 2025

Of Dead by Daylight’s galore playable Killers, it’s The Clown who waltzed into spot 9.1.0 with the astir changes. Specifically, immoderate Survivors who brushwood the bottle-throwing menace volition announcement that helium is present much, much faster, with definite builds and strategies lone expanding his velocity further. Killers are usually ever a spot faster than their prey, but the caller update turns The Clown into a unsocial unit of quality that makes him astir unescapable.

As The Clown Killers flooded Dead by Daylight Trials, truthful excessively did respective troublesome Survivor Perks. Builds utilizing Streetwise, Blood Rush, and Last Stand were rapidly becoming fashionable amongst die-hard fans who had discovered caller exploits, including the quality to summation infinite point charges and occasional sprint boosts. These are bugs that tin and person fundamentally shifted gameplay equilibrium successful Dead by Daylight arsenic players instrumentality vantage of what galore deem to beryllium breached aspects of the experience.

These issues and much plagued the Dead by Daylight assemblage for astir 1 week, and with fewer promising updates from Behaviour arriving passim that time, fans became desperate. There was lone truthful overmuch the memes of The Clown plastered onto Cars’ Lightning McQueen could bash to ward disconnected the antagonistic feelings brought by game-breaking bugs, truthful players yet took their concerns from Behaviour enactment threads to determination other entirely.

For immoderate unusual reason, they turned to Overwatch for help.

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— Agente6801 (@SrAgente6801) August 5, 2025

Heroes Never... Die?

As Blizzard took to its authoritative Overwatch 2 societal media pages to propulsion caller Stadium builds for Mercy and observe its caller collaboration with NERF, Dead by Daylight fans began asking for assistance with zero informing oregon context.

“Hey could you hole immoderate slayer bugs that person been contiguous for YEARS,” 1 reply to an Overwatch 2 station connected X/Twitter says.

“Revert Clown changes, plz and thanks! <3” different adds.

DBD PLAYERS ASKING OVERWATCH DEVS TO FIX DBD BUGS IS FRYING ME😭 pic.twitter.com/S1BBlVLLF1

— Ash (@Ashhlo_) August 5, 2025

Many of these posts person hundreds — if not thousands — of likes, with astir replies asking for fixes for the biggest issues causing players trouble. Some messages are besides asking for reworks for the Onyro Killer, portion others are simply pleading for immoderate magnitude of enactment astatine all. You’re much apt to spot The Clown instrumentality creation than immoderate reply really related to Overwatch depending connected the station you click on, proving that Dead by Daylight fans person genuinely had enough.

It’s not astatine each wide wherefore Dead by Daylight players, among the hundreds of large crippled developers retired there, latched onto the Overwatch squad astatine Blizzard. The 2 games are multiplayer experiences and that’s... astir it, arsenic neither genuinely shares that overmuch successful communal extracurricular of an quality to power characters successful an online setting. It’s axenic chaos that was mostly contained successful Overwatch threads, though you mightiness find a fewer stray posts from players bugging authoritative Fortnite, Genshin Impact, Fatal Fury, and much accounts, too, if you look hard enough.

On the Hook

Whether it was the crossover nary 1 expected oregon conscionable wide instrumentality outcry, Behaviour heard the pleas for assistance and yet offered a elaborate crippled program for the future. With its ain station connected X, the Dead by Daylight squad temporarily and instantly Kill Switched the Streetwise, Blood Rush, and Last Stand Perks, removing them from play arsenic the workplace worked connected fixes. A hotfix, titled the 9.1.1 update, is presently acceptable to travel contiguous and is said to travel with fixes for Streetwise and Last Stand, specifically, arsenic good arsenic “small adjustments” to Fog Vials.

This is large and each but wherefore does it ever instrumentality truthful overmuch assemblage outcry for the squad to really recognize thing is bad? https://t.co/TDxL8icL6F

— SpookyLoopz (@SpookyLoopz) August 5, 2025

Blood Rush fixes are scheduled to get adjacent week, arsenic are much tweaks to Fog Vials. These are indispensable fixes but lone a tiny measurement to code the community’s wider contented with Behaviour’s connection strategy. As a result, the squad says it already “rebuilding” its Kill Switch process “to beryllium much nimble and amended relationship for assemblage sentiment.”

In different words, don’t expect game-breaking Dead by Daylight bugs to tamper with the wide acquisition for weeklong periods successful the future. Fans are blessed to spot their feedback yet addressed, but lone clip volition archer if it’s capable to repair the harm done.

“We're grateful for your feedback, which helps america place places wherever we tin amended and re-evaluate our processes, changing people erstwhile it's needed to amended the Dead by Daylight acquisition for all,” Behaviour’s connection concludes. “As a unrecorded game, we cognize this speech is ongoing, and we admit you for being a portion of it with us!”

— Lillers✨🔜 TwitchCon (@Lillipie101) August 5, 2025

Dead by Daylight precocious celebrated its nine-year day with peculiar in-game events and rewards. It was preceded by the long-awaited instauration of Five Nights astatine Freddy’s content, including the caller Springtrap Killer and a pizza edifice map. With The Walking Dead present afloat integrated into the 1v4 experience, players are looking guardant to a caller Killer successful September arsenic good arsenic different caller Killer and 2 caller Survivors successful November.

For more, you tin work up connected our caller interrogation with Behaviour, wherever we learned much astir Springtrap and however the squad yet brought Five Nights astatine Freddy’s into the satellite of The Entity. You tin besides cheque retired however the Overwatch unit is trying to enactment successful bully lasting with its ain community.

Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).