Dead by Daylight Update 5.5.2 Explained

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In Dead by Daylight, the killer must first strike a survivor to injure them and then strike them again to down them. Once downed, the killer typically picks them up and carries them to a nearby hook. The survivor's goal in Dead by Daylight is to win chases and evade the killer to continue working on generators, but there are many ways survivors can manage to stay alive if they are caught and carried.

Popular survivor perks for evasive techniques in Dead by Daylight include Dead Hard and Decisive Strike. Decisive Strike, for example, is an anti-tunneling perk that lets survivors free themselves while carried if they succeed a narrow skill check. However, there is another perk that has been used abusively in the past while that killer mains will be happy to hear has been nerfed in Dead by Daylight's latest patch.

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Dead by Daylight's bugfix patch 5.5.2 addresses a myriad of bugs and issues that have come up in the game recently. The patch notes list all bugs that have been squashed, such as «an issue that caused the Nurse's second blink to be delayed and thus cover less distance.» But one of its most prominent fixes refers to Kate's teachable survivor perk Boil Over. Boil Over improves the player's ability to wiggle free while being carried by the killer. If survivors wiggle long enough for the progression meter to fill, the killer effectively drops them, and they return to an injured state.

Further, Boil Over fills the wiggle meter when survivors are carried and the killer falls from any height. Because of how these abilities can stack, Boil Over was recently exploitable in certain maps that featured different heights the killer could fall from. Boil Over previously offered a flat 25%