DBD devs confirm when “bug fixes and adjustments” are coming for disastrous Chapter 34

The chapters for Dead By Daylight this year have largely been excellent. Dungeons and Dragons, CastleVania, Tomb Raider, and Alan Wake were all great, as were The Unknown and Sable Ward. Unfortunately, in comparison to these strong DLCs, the year has ended on a bit of a downer with the arrival of The Houndmaster. Fortunately, BeHaviour has confirmed “bug fixes and adjustments” are coming very soon to help fix DBD Chapter 34.

Make sure to grab all 1,500,000 Bloodpoints available this month through daily logins, and be ready for Bone Chill and the new map to arrive next week as per the December 2024 roadmap. As for the new year, it kickstarts with a Junji Ito collaboration, and leaks have revealed the name and power of the licensed killer set to arrive in March.

Next year should be fantastic for Dead By Daylight, but, right now, BeHaviour are planning to deliver fixes for DBD Chapter 34 in an effort to hopefully sway the negative reception.

Dead By Daylight patch coming “next week”

BeHaviour Interactive has confirmed on the official DeadbyDaylight X account that a patch is coming “next week”. This confirmation comes in response to fans wanting BeHaviour to fix bugs and issues with The Houndmaster killer.

Bugfix patches typically come out on Wednesday as illustrated with update 8.2.1 on September 4th, 8.2.2 on September 11th, and 8.3.1 on October 16th. There are a few exceptions such as how update 8.3.2 was delivered on Monday, November 4th, but at least we know the Chapter 34 patch is coming between December 9th and 13th.

In addition to a patch coming next week, BeHaviour has said “another one should follow shortly after”. This doesn’t provide a specific week or date, but, on the BeHaviour Interactive forums, community manager, Mandy, has said both patches will arrive “prior to the holiday break”.

I can confirm we have a first patch coming next week – including both bug fixes and adjustments – and another one should follow shortly after.

— Dead by Daylight (@DeadbyDaylight) December 5, 2024

Unfortunately, we don’t know what exact fixes will be delivered. All we know is that there will be bug fixes along with power adjustments for The Houndmaster. There has been no mention of adjustments for Taurie Cain as of writing.

We previously reported that the reception to Chapter 34 was “overwhelmingly negative,” and right now it’s slightly bumped up to “mostly negative” on Steam. The Houndmaster certainly looks cool, but fans are unimpressed with her perks, and she is suffering from a lot of bugs.

Many of the negative reviews on Steam echo sentiments such as it’s “messy, buggy,” and the dog has terrible animations. One user posted, “This killer legit just doesn’t work. Her power is controlling a dog, but the dog will either get stuck on any task you tell it to, not go where you command it to, or when used to grapple survivors, will just clip straight through them and miss”.

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