8.4.0 | PTB Patch Notes
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 6s→1 every 5s s
- Wolf Form:Reduced pounce charge time for faster attacks.1→0.85 s
- The Demogorgon
- Portal:Decreased portal setting time for faster setup.1→0.85 s
- Portal:Decreased portal entry time for quicker traversal.1.5→1.35 s
- Upside Down:Significantly increased travel speed in the Upside Down.20→28 m/s
- Lifeguard Whistle:Changed from revealing survivors to increasing the total number of portals by 2.Reveal Survivors→Added 2 Portals
- The Ghost Face
- Night Shroud:Reduced Night Shroud cooldown, allowing more frequent stealth.20→17 s
- Mark:Reduced time required to mark survivors.5→4.5 s
- The Shape
- Evil Within I:Increased base movement speed in Tier I.4.2→4.4 m/s
- Stalk:Increased the amount of stalk points that can be gathered per survivor.10→20
- Evil Within II:Reduced the amount of Evil Within needed to reach Tier II.5→3
- Stalk:Massively increased stalk gain when stalking from a distance.0.1→1
- The Lich
- Dispelling Sphere:Reduced cooldown of Dispelling Sphere.38→35 s
- Flight of the Damned:Reduced cooldown of Flight of the Damned.38→35 s
- Fly:Significantly reduced cooldown of Fly.38→25 s
- General SurvivorDecreased the time it takes to unlock chests.10→8 s
- Plunderer's Instinct
- Doubled the range for revealing unopened chests and items.16/24/32→32/48/64 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.8→20 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.2.5→3.5 s
- Vampire Form:Increased Hellfire cooldown, reducing burst potential.7→10 s
- The ShapeStalk:Decreased stalk gain when stalking from close range.1→0.4
- The LichMage Hand:Slightly increased cooldown of Mage Hand.38→40 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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