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Rick Lane

Dead by Daylight delays its existing update plans for a 'substantial quality of life initiative', which includes adding a surrender mode and cracking down on 'extreme hiding'

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In one of the more unusual Steam updates I've read lately, Dead by Daylight's developer Behaviour Interactive has announced it is suspending plans for numerous hotly anticipated features in favour of what it terms a 'substantial quality of life initiative' that will run throughout 2025.

As the update explains, Behaviour's focus this year was supposed to be on expanding DBD's existing offering, adding new character updates, limited time events, event modifiers, and more. But all these plans are now delayed, with the studio instead addressing "many longstanding concerns and frustrations our players have been experiencing."

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