Dead by Daylight Update 5.0.1 patch notes

Update 5.0.1 has arrived for Dead by Daylight, and here is the full list of changes and fixes added in this patch. This update is currently being rolled out on all platforms. This is a hotfix patch that fixes a variety of bugs that affect both killers and survivors. That being said, there are some notable changes. Raccoon City Police Station has been re-enabled for custom games, but the RPD badge offering has been temporarily disabled. The developer is also aware of the performance issues that can affect some platforms. Everything is new here with Dead by Daylight Update 5.0.1.

Dead by Daylight Update 5.0.1 patch notes

• Troubleshooting
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Nemesis’ tentacle to flicker if the tentacle strike was quickly canceled.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the Nemesis from interrupting Survivors unlocking a Reservoir.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Bite the Bullet perk to remain active after being healed by two Survivors who had this perk at the same time.
  • Fixed an issue that could result in the incorrect walk animation for The Nemesis playing in Spectator Mode in a custom game.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the “Contaminate Survivor” points event to grant objective points instead of underhand points.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause generator auras to display the entity’s claws after the Corrupt Intervention perk ended.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the clown’s bottles to appear to pass through survivors from the survivor’s point of view.
  • Fixed an issue that could result in The Clown’s bottle smoke VFX being visible during the intro camera panning.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the player’s camera to briefly stick out of the world as The Demogorgon when drilling through the upside down from certain locations.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent the Killer theme from playing when The Shape or The Nightmare was selected.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the killer to freeze in place if a Survivor was disconnected while being carried.
  • Fixed an issue that could result in the “Collect” prompt appearing in English instead of the correct language.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause palettes to appear to disappear when the user moves their camera at a certain angle.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the tentacle in the Nemesis’ left hand to be missing during the camera panning at the start of the exam.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed Survivors to momentarily assume an A-pose animation when rescued from the Cage of Reconciliation.
  • Fixed an issue that could result in an invisible collision blocking the projectiles over an object in Gas Haven.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent a generator from being repaired on one side of the Hawkins map.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a trap to snap into the roof of one of the Lampkin Lane houses.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a zombie to land on the map of the chalet in mid-air.
  • Fixed an issue that could result in a killer being unable to pick up a survivor near the Grim Pantry’s human cage.
  • Fixed an issue that could result in The Hag hiding phantasm traps on any grounded virus entity.
  • Fixed an issue that resulted in some new settings not being saved properly when gaming on consoles.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause some unbreakable outfits to be fragile.
  • Fixed an issue that caused the onboarding menu buttons to become unresponsive when the player switched accounts to play the game
  • Some localized strings were not translated correctly to Thai in the onboarding menu
  • Fixed an issue in the store where the text indicating that a character was locked behind the new onboarding was cut off in multiple languages.
  • Fixed a stability performance issue by improving the memory usage of the Killer Nemesis.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Jonathan Byer’s face to appear distorted on lower quality settings.
  • Fixed an animation-related issue that could result in a crash in the tally screen.
  • Fixed an issue where players could be invited into a public game from a custom lobby.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause Ace’s hair to move when he started repairing a generator.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent survivors from properly pointing the flashlight while injured, contaminated, and crouched at the same time
• Audio
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the Halloween theme to be missing when the shape was selected as a killer in-game
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the nightmare laugh to be missing when selected in the Play as Killer section
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the SFX to be missing from the Trickster’s Blazing Bat weapon
• Other
  • The Raccoon City City Police Station Map has been re-enabled for custom games while we continue to investigate certain stability issues.
  • The RPD badge The offer has been temporarily deactivated. It can still be collected in bloodstreams, but cannot be equipped for experimentation.
• known problems
  • Various performance issues. The team continues to actively investigate performance issues on multiple platforms, including consoles. Thank you for your patience as we work on a solution to this problem!

Dead by daylight is now available for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S, Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia, and mobile devices. For more information on this patch, please visit the official Dead by Daylight forum.

– This article was updated on: 22. June 2021