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The Dead by Daylight 9.4.0 PTB delivers a substantial wave of testable content, headlined by a new Killer, two new Survivors, and major expansions to the 2v8 experience. Players testing the PTB gain full access to unlocked characters, perks, items, and currencies, allowing focused evaluation of new mechanics, balance changes, and experimental features.
Alongside new characters and perks, the update introduces gameplay features such as Visual Terror Radius improvements, cooperative healing changes, tonics, new maps, and extensive class updates for 2v8. A wide range of bug fixes and system improvements round out the PTB, targeting stability, audio, bots, UI, and environmental issues.
Patch Notes
New Content
New Killer
- Added new Killer: The First
Killer Abilities
- Vine Attack
- Charge and activate to create a ground based area of effect
- Survivors caught gain a Worldbreaker token
- The Upside Down and Undergate
- Enter The Upside Down to traverse the map quickly
- Activate Undergate to return to the map with a large area of effect
- Survivors hit gain two Worldbreaker tokens
Worldbreaker and Grandfather Clocks
- Worldbreaker activates once Survivors gain enough tokens
- Vine Attack and Undergate deal damage instead of applying tokens during Worldbreaker
- Four Grandfather Clocks activate across the map
- Survivors can interact with clocks to accelerate the Worldbreaker timer
- Duration scales based on the number of Survivors alive
New Killer Perks
- Turn Back the Clock
- After hooking a Survivor, activate to explode a nearby generator
- Generator loses 10 percent progress and begins regressing
- Secret Project
- Cleansing or blessing a totem blocks a random generator
- Gain Undetectable when one or more generators are blocked
- Hex: Hive Mind
- First hook converts a Dull Totem into a Hex Totem
- Generator auras reveal repair progress
- Final generators explode, lose progress, and regress when one remains
New Survivors
Dustin Henderson
- Bada Bada Boom
- Trap windows after repairing generators
- Killer vaulting the window is hindered
- Change of Plan
- Convert a Toolbox into a Med-kit using tokens while in a locker
- Teamwork: Full Circuit
- Increases Good Skill Check size and repair speed when repairing together
Eleven
- Extrasensory Perception
- Crouching reveals auras in an expanding radius
- Grants Elusive and Oblivious with cooldown
- We See You
- Gain tokens when aura is revealed
- Spend tokens to reveal the Killer’s aura to Survivors
- Teamwork: Soft-Spoken
- Reduces generator repair noise range
- Grants repair speed bonus when repairing together
Features
Visual Terror Radius
- Updated 2D Visual Terror Radius heart to be animated
- Matches existing 3D heart behavior
- Added a Lullaby specific version
2v8 Updates
Availability
- 2v8 testing available from January 8 to January 13, 2026
New Killer Adjustments
- The Good Guy
- Increased Slice and Dice turn speed
- Increased Hidey-Ho Mode uptime
- Scamper breaks pallets instantly
- Extended Slice and Dice duration
- Illusionary Footfalls visible around Survivors
Killer Updates
- The Nemesis
- Increased Zombies to four
- Increased Zombie movement speed
Killer Class Updates
- Brute
- Faster break actions
- Generator weakening and regression on kick
- Survivor interaction triggers explosion and Hindered effect
- Fearmonger
- Gains Haste while unseen
- Injuring Survivors causes nearby screams
- Enforcer
- Gains Haste while chasing injured Survivors
- Applies Enforcer’s Mark with periodic aura reveals
- Downing marked Survivors boosts lunge distance
New Survivor Class
- Torchbearer
- Starts with an uncommon Flashlight
- Generates Flash Grenades as an ability
- Reveals auras during chase and flashlight use
- Grants Endurance when picking up Survivors
Survivor Class Update
- Scout
- Increased walking speed
- No grunts of pain while injured
- Immunity to screaming
New Maps
- Groaning Storehouse
- Rotten Field
Additional Features
- Tonics added to maps in totem locations
- Diluted Tonic restores health or grants Haste
- Purified Tonic restores hook states or grants team Haste
- Dual Terror Radius
- Audio and visual indicators updated to reflect both Killers
- Cooperative Healing
- Increased maximum Survivors healing together from two to three
Bug Fixes
2v8
- Fixed caging, uncaging, flashlight, camera, and HUD related issues
- Fixed audio and interaction issues during trials
Audio
- Fixed missing or incorrect sound effects across multiple characters and interactions
Bots
- Improved Survivor bot flashlight usage and saves
- Fixed multiple bot interaction and perk usage issues
- Fixed Zombie interaction issues on several maps
Characters
- Fixed visual, animation, and teleport related issues for multiple characters
Environment and Maps
- Fixed collision, flickering, interaction, and out of bounds issues across multiple realms
Perks
- Fixed incorrect obsession odds behavior
UI and Stability
- Fixed crashes related to friend list search, initialization, and lobby exit
Known Issues
- New Survivor voiceover lines are unavailable during the PTB
- Missing interaction cooldown after Undergate emergence will be corrected for release
The Dead by Daylight 9.4.0 PTB runs from January 6 to January 13, 2026, with 2v8 content becoming available on January 8. The PTB includes automatic unlocks, preloaded items, and test currencies for all participants.
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