Update 5/8
It looks like on the heels of these, DBDLeaks on Twitter is claiming that chapter 25 will be a second Resident Evil chapter that will include Ada Wong and Rebecca Chambers as survivors and Albert Wesker as the killer. I never thought of Rebecca Chambers as a central character, Ada sure, Wesker of course, but Rebecca? She was in the first one briefly and she was in Resident Evil 0, but that was it. She had her own spinoff series planned though, unfortunately it was scrapped. Could her inclusion mean that Capcom is gearing up to put her in more content? We haven’t seen her since Resident Evil 0, unless you count the photo in Resident Evil 2 Remake. I know I wouldn’t mind more Rebecca content.
DBDLeaks also claims that chapter 26 will be original with a killer known as the Knight. That could be really cool, we have a Samurai type character, a knight would be pretty cool. What other historical figures would you want to see in the game? A mummy, werewolf, Dracula would all be pretty interesting I think, but those are also pretty traditional historical monsters.
Chapter 25 is meant to be second Resident Evil chapter, including:
– Ada Wong (Survivor)
– Rebecca Chambers (Survivor)
– Albert Wesker (Killer)Chapter 26 (Original):
– Unknown Survivor
– Knight (Killer)These leaks come from the same person behind some of The Dredge leaks.
— DBDLeaks (@LeaksDbd) May 8, 2022
Original Post
Dead by Daylight(DBD) is coming up on it’s sixth year of being released. Every year they release a new chapter for their anniversary and the last few years they were licensed, last year was Resident Evil, the prior year was a Stranger Things chapter. This year the rumors are that it will be an original license. In year five they had three licensed chapters, so it makes sense that they’d go for original content this anniversary. Is this the new content coming to DBD though?
The Dredge
The Dredge’s powers are currently unknown, but their rumored perks are as follows:
- Septic Touch: Whenever a survivor performs the healing action within your terror radius, that survivor suffers from blindness and exhaustion, it lingers for 6 seconds after healing is interrupted by any means. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 40.
- Darkness Revealed: When you open a locker, the auras of all survivors within 16 meters of any lockers are revealed for 3 seconds. This perk has a 30 second cool down. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 35.
- Dissolution: 3 seconds after injuring a survivor by any means, Dissolution activates for 12 seconds. The next time a survivor fast vaults over a pallet inside your terror radius, the Entity will break the pallet at the end of the vault and the perk deactivates. This unlockable perk is unlocked in the Bloodweb at level 30.
Haddie Kaur
Haddie Kaur’s backstory is currently unknown, but their perks are rumored to be:
- Residual Manifest: After a successful killer blind, the killer is affected by blindness for 30 seconds. The perk also allows you to rummage through an opened chest once per Trial and guarantee a basic flashlight.
- Inner Focus: You can see other survivor’s scratch marks within a 32 meter range of you. Whenever another survivor loses a health state within a 32 meter range of you, the killer’s aura is revealed to you for 5 seconds.
- Overzealous: After cleansing a totem, your generator repair speed is increased by 4%. This perk deactivates when you lose a health state by any means.
Thoughts
If these are the perks for the new characters, wow. Finding survivors within 16 meters of a locker will pair nicely with Trickster and Huntress. I could also see killers stacking Dissolution, Spirit Fury, and Brutal Strength to not have to worry about pallets that much, plus it would change loops and chases a lot.
Inner Focus is a lot like Inner Strength, but you see other scratch marks instead of your own. Those two could stack nicely together. Residual Manifest would be a game changer, especially during Endgame Collapse. If you’re the last survivor, you could blind the killer for 30 seconds, hide, have them leave the area, then get the door open. If this is real, as a survivor main, even I have to say that Residual Manifest seems like it’s really powerful and going to get nerfed.
Noticeably absent are a new Boon Perk. The last four survivors came with them and they were a big deal at last year’s anniversary event, so are they done releasing them? Maybe. Maybe they are taking a break from totem perks in general, since neither killer or survivor have them. There’s been no mention or leak of a map yet either. They just remastered Haddonfield last chapter, so we should be getting a map with this chapter.
What do you think, are you excited for the new Dead by Daylight chapter? If these perks are real, do you like them? Do you want to see any tweaks made? Let us know in the comments.
