Recent buffs to one of Dead by Daylight’s killers has made them overpowered, and fans have convinced Behaviour Interactive to revert them.
Highlights
- Victor's powers in Dead by Daylight's The Twins are being reverted to give Survivors more of a fighting chance.
- Changes are being made to prevent Victor from latching onto dying Survivors, providing players with a fighting edge.
- The Twins are still a challenging duo to control, but adjustments are being made to create a more balanced gameplay experience.
Behaviour Interactive Interactive is recalling some changes made to popular Dead by Daylight Killer duo The Twins. The Twins are Dead by Daylight's brother-sister duo Charlotte and Victor, although only Victor's new powers are being recalled.
Charlotte and Victor are a pair of conjoined twins, with Charlotte being a fully grown person and Victor having extremely stunted growth and residing in a cavity in his sister's chest. Though there are two of them, The Twins are counted as one of the 35 killers players can take control of or try to survive against in Dead by Daylight. The Twins are listed as a Very Hard character to control and are only intended to be used by players who have a lot of experience taking down Survivors in the game, which they've traditionally done with a perk set that includes an ever-increasing range to their lunge attack, better pickups on noise detection from Survivors, and an advanced ability to make generators begin regressing.
But the power that sets The Twins apart is the ability to split them up, having Victor separate from Charlotte to pounce on a healthy Survivor, and once he's latched on, providing a movement bonus to Charlotte to allow her to catch up to the Survivor. As listed in a Dead by Daylight developer update, the changes to this set of powers, which are now being walked back, instead allowed Victor to pounce on dying Survivors and latch onto them for up to 20 seconds, preventing them from returning to an injured status while Charlotte zooms in for the kill. The changes had also removed the ability for Survivors to kick out of a grapple by Victor, although they could still crush him for a temporary reprieve, and fans had been worried that these changes had boosted them to one of Dead by Daylight's best killers overnight.
Dead by Daylight Twins Changes
- [REVERTED] Victor no longer latches onto Survivors who are put into the dying state.
- [REVERTED] Victor once again latches onto Survivors who are injured by his pounce.
- [REVERTED] Charlotte no longer gains Haste when Victor is latched onto a Survivor.
Dead by Daylight is still plowing ahead with other changes to the game and its DLC, but the exact changes being recalled after unrest by the fan community makes Survivor players injured once Victor latches onto them instead of activating the dying status, giving them more of a fighting chance as Charlotte makes her approach. Additionally, Charlotte will no longer receive the speed bonus granted to her by the Haste perk when Victor catches a Survivor, granting Survivor players more time to make their move.
While Victor's new powers are being reverted to give Survivors a little more of an edge, some of the changes to The Twins are being left intact, so players who are used to controlling them or trying to survive against them will still have a slightly different experience than they have had in the past. These changes notably include giving the player controlling The Twins a faster transition while swapping between the characters, which should still make them a more efficient Killer.
Platform(s) PC , PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X , Xbox Series S , Stadia , Switch , Mobile Released June 14, 2016 Developer(s) Behaviour Interactive Publisher(s) Behaviour Interactive Genre(s) Horror , Survival ESRB M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language Number of Players 5
