Earlier this year, Dead by Daylight's developers started posting a monthly developer update with everything players can expect for the upcoming month.

It's now time for the August 2022 developer update, and it might just be one of the most exciting ones yet, considering it coincides with the release of Resident Evil Project W.

Here is everything included in the Dead by Daylight August 2022 developer update, announced on 23rd August.

The August 2022 Dead by Daylight developer update features a reduction to the grind, changes to perks, updates to the core game, and post PTB changes.

In the last Mid-Chapter update, developers made an effort to reduce the grind and improve gameplay by completely overhauling the Prestige system as well as over 40 perks.

One of the changes involved was the removal of the Bloodpoint bonus from the perks BBQ & Chili and We're Gonna Live Forever. In an effort to compensate for the removal of that Bloodpoint bonus and truly reduce the grind, the cost of items in the Bloodweb will be reduced going forward.

Check out the following chart to see the new prices:

These changes will go into effect after the release of Project W. The projected release date of Project W is 30th August 2022.

In the past Mid-Chapter Update, developers gave survivors a new way to protect themselves from tunneling: survivors immediately receive a 5-second Haste and Endurance effect after being unhooked.

Now, the Haste for the unhooked survivor will be 10% (up from 7%) and both the Haste and Endurance status effects will last 10 seconds.

These changes are in an effort to decrease tunneling even further, preventing killers from targeting one survivor out of the match unfairly.

Ash William's perk Mettle of Man requires a survivor to take protection hits in order to earn an extra hit through Endurance.

In the last update, Mettle of Man was changed to be consistent with other Endurance perks, meaning that it would be canceled by completing any Conspicuous Action (touching a generator, healing others or yourself, etc). To compensate, survivors would only need to take two protection hits to earn it as opposed to the previous three.

The changes to Mettle of Man have been reverted, following the changes being taken by the community as a nerf; developers said they did not intend to nerf the perk, only to make it consistent with other Endurance perks.

The extra hit provided by Mettle of Man will no longer be canceled by Conspicuous Actions, and Mettle of Man will again take three protection hits to activate.

Developers use data from the Public Test Build PTB 6.2.0 to determine what changes should be made to perks, killer abilities, and other features before the chapter hits live servers.

Here are all of the changes that are coming from the PTB content.

Racoon City Police Station was reworked and split into an East and West Wing in the PTB, making it smaller and more manageable for both killers and survivors to navigate. Hallways were also widened for ease of navigation.

Following the release on live servers, the number of pallets on the map will be reduced. And that's all for this August 2022 Dead by Daylight developer update. Stay tuned for more information when these updates and fixes go live.

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Featured image courtesy of Behaviour Interactive.

Cole is a Staff Writer at GINX Esports TV based in the United States. He's a lover of all things horror and particularly loves old horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil. You can also find him writing about Dead by Daylight and a slew of other games. Outside of writing for GINX, Cole loves cooking and his two cats. You can contact Cole for pitches at [email protected]