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Nov 7, 2024 · 18mo ago

8.4.0 | PTB Patch Notes

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Introduction of The Houndmaster and Taurie Cain, alongside significant balance adjustments to several Killers and a variety of Perk reworks and bug fixes.

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Buffs22

  • The HoundmasterAll-Shaking Thunder:Increases lunge attack distance after falling from a height.75% %
  • The Dark Lord
    • Wolf Form:Scent Orbs now spawn more frequently, improving tracking.1 every 6s1 every 5s s
    • Wolf Form:Reduced pounce charge time for faster attacks.10.85 s
  • The Demogorgon
    • Portal:Decreased portal setting time for faster setup.10.85 s
    • Portal:Decreased portal entry time for quicker traversal.1.51.35 s
    • Upside Down:Significantly increased travel speed in the Upside Down.2028 m/s
    • Lifeguard Whistle:Changed from revealing survivors to increasing the total number of portals by 2.Reveal SurvivorsAdded 2 Portals
  • The Ghost Face
    • Night Shroud:Reduced Night Shroud cooldown, allowing more frequent stealth.2017 s
    • Mark:Reduced time required to mark survivors.54.5 s
  • The Shape
    • Evil Within I:Increased base movement speed in Tier I.4.24.4 m/s
    • Stalk:Increased the amount of stalk points that can be gathered per survivor.1020
    • Evil Within II:Reduced the amount of Evil Within needed to reach Tier II.53
    • Stalk:Massively increased stalk gain when stalking from a distance.0.11
  • The Lich
    • Dispelling Sphere:Reduced cooldown of Dispelling Sphere.3835 s
    • Flight of the Damned:Reduced cooldown of Flight of the Damned.3835 s
    • Fly:Significantly reduced cooldown of Fly.3825 s
  • General SurvivorDecreased the time it takes to unlock chests.108 s
  • Plunderer's Instinct
    • Doubled the range for revealing unopened chests and items.16/24/3232/48/64 m
    • Flat 50% increase to the odds of finding higher rarity items.14/24/46%50% %
  • Pharmacy
    • Increased chest unlocking speed.40/60/80%70/85/100% %
    • Increased the distance at which chest unlocking noises are reduced.820 m
    • Now guarantees an Emergency Med-Kit upon completing the interaction.Emergency Med-Kit

Nerfs4

  • The Dark Lord
    • Shapeshift:Increased shapeshift cooldown, slowing down form switching.2.53.5 s
    • Vampire Form:Increased Hellfire cooldown, reducing burst potential.710 s
  • The ShapeStalk:Decreased stalk gain when stalking from close range.10.4
  • The LichMage Hand:Slightly increased cooldown of Mage Hand.3840 s

Other changes9

  • The Houndmaster
    • Chase:Sends a dog to grab Survivors, hindering them and pulling them toward the Killer.Added
    • Search:Sends the dog to a location to reveal Survivors via Houndsense and grant the Killer movement speed.Added
    • Houndsense:Causes healthy Survivors to receive Deep Wounds when injured and increases blood/grunt visibility for injured ones.Added
    • Scourge Hook: Jagged Compass:Reveals the generator with the most progress when hooking a Survivor on a Scourge Hook.6/8/10s s
    • No Quarter:Forces skill checks during self-heals; failure results in the Broken status effect.20/25/30s s
  • Taurie Cain
    • Invocation: Treacherous Crows:Reveals Killer aura when they scare a crow, at the cost of becoming permanently injured and broken.1/1.5/2s s
    • Clean Break:Allows a Survivor to become broken to eventually heal themselves automatically.80/70/60s s
    • Shoulder the Burden:Allows unhooking a Survivor by taking their hook state, becoming exposed in the process.30/25/20s s
  • Ormond Lake MineNew map added for PTB testing on the other side of Mount Ormond.Added

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Patch history

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  1. 9.6.2 | Bugfix Patch
    May 12, 2026 · 1w
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  2. 9.6.1 | Bugfix Patch
    May 5, 2026 · 2w
    +24
  3. 9.4.2 | Bugfix Patch
    Feb 10, 2026 · 3mo
    +263
  4. 9.4.1 | Bugfix Patch
    Feb 3, 2026 · 3mo
    +23
  5. 9.3.2 | Bugfix Patch
    Dec 9, 2025 · 5mo
    +81
  6. 9.2.3 | Bugfix Patch
    Oct 21, 2025 · 7mo
    +112
  7. 9.2.2 | Bugfix Patch
    Oct 7, 2025 · 7mo
    +28
  8. 9.2.1 | Bugfix Patch
    Sep 30, 2025 · 7mo
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