Dead by Daylight has just released its 9.0.2 patch, which focuses primarily on tweaking the Animatronic’s add-ons and addressing a variety of bugs that have been affecting gameplay. While the changes might seem small, they could influence how players approach matches with the Animatronic and other killers, plus improve overall game stability.
Let’s break down the key adjustments and fixes you’ll notice after this update.
Animatronic Add-On Changes
- Security Guard’s Badge: Effect reduced to 25% from 50%.
- Streamers: Effect lowered to 15% from 20%.
- Party Hat: Duration increased to -20% (previously -50%).
- Bonnie’s Guitar Strings: Undetectable duration decreased to -100% from -50%.
- Foxy’s Hook: Duration extended to 6 seconds from 3 seconds.
- Endo CPU: Break speeds increased to 40% from 25%.
Some buffs, some nerfs. It’s kinda interesting how they decided to reduce some effects but increase durations on others like Foxy’s Hook, maybe to balance the Animatronic’s pacing?
Bug Fixes
Anniversary Event
- The Dark Lord can no longer see Survivors’ Invitation Orbs in Bat form.
- Visual effects for the “Endure any Stun” ability no longer trigger when stunned by Decisive Strike.
- Fixed remote hook sound effects lingering when the killer looks away from a hook.
Audio
- Ghoul’s grunts missing at trial start with Legendary Outfit Rize Kamishiro fixed.
- Male and female breathing sounds no longer overlap when switching Legion customizations.
Bots
- Survivor bots can now rotate their camera vertically.
- Fixed bots getting stuck trying to reveal the Animatronic near Security Doors.
Characters
- Survivor’s left arm pointing emote now animates properly.
- Nightmare’s Dream Pallets consistently show rupturing animation for Survivors.
- Artist’s Dire crow speed and hit detection improved; no more missing moving Survivors.
- Artist’s Dire crows now reduce health state on survivors properly.
- Artist no longer jitters or stutters when activating powers rapidly.
- Ghoul can’t use “Kagune Leap” twice after pallet stun during grab-attack.
- Survivors no longer stuck in animation when dropping pallets during Ghoul’s grab-attack.
- Ghoul’s Enraged Mode cooldown now applies correctly.
- Fixed rapid camera movement for Ghoul during grabs.
- Nurse’s blinks no longer stutter when canceled by the server.
- Legion’s equipped add-ons no longer persist after matches.
- Xenomorph invisible during idle animation with Deep Sea outfit on low graphics fixed.
The Animatronic
- Security Door enter animation and audio now play for the Killer regardless of facing direction when a Survivor enters.
- Oblivious and Broken icons show correctly when spectating Survivors affected by “Office Phone” add-on.
- Axe Grab power icon no longer stays dim while in range when spectating.
- Killer can perform “Grab Axe” animation when Survivors drop items.
- “Camera disabled” text no longer lingers after Security Camera is enabled.
Environment/Maps
- Survivors can no longer stand on bench and chandelier in Father Campbell’s Chapel map.
- Invisible collision fixed in Macmillan Estate Realm preventing navigation.
- Various navigation fixes for The Knight’s guard in Suffocation Pit and Treatment Theatre.
- Placeholder tile removed from Macmillan Estate Realm.
- Nightmare can now launch powers through walls in Underground Complex.
- Animatronics can interrupt survivors interacting with security room door in Haddonfield.
Perks
- Up The Ante now shows correct percentage in its description.
Platforms
- Steam players stuck on initialization screen when joining a match fixed.
Quests
- Fixed Rift Pass / Week 6 quest “Be Chased FOR 200 SECONDS” not completing.
- Fixed Challenge “I want it, I got it” in Tome 15 not completing.
Known Issues
- Chase music missing for Survivor POV when chased by Victor; previous fix reverted while they work on it.
- Animatronic can be blinded during Security Room interrupt grab.
