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“All Things Wicked” Chapter for ‘Dead By Daylight’ Now Available [Trailer]
Today’s the day we finally get an answer of sorts to what exactly is The Unknown in “All Things Wicked”, the latest chapter for Dead by Daylight from Behaviour Interactive. Available now on PC and consoles, “All Things Wicked” brings a new Killer in The Unknown, along with a new Survivor in Sable Ward into The Fog, along with a new Map in Greenville Square.
In keeping with the mysteriousness of The Unknown, the background of the new Killer is “believed to be a mysterious evil so heinous that investigating it almost immediately invited death.” As mentioned in the previous reveal of the new chapter, The Unknown is able to launch a projectile of unknown origin, leaving behind a toxic area where it lands. Once it lands a hit, it becomes Unbound, which allows it to quickly leap through windows. It has an Unforseen ability that when kicking a generator, your Terror Radius transfers to that generator, allowing you to become undetectable. Finally, there’s Undone, which allows you to Gain Tokens whenever a Survivor misses a Skill Check. Damaging a generator consumes all tokens, and for each token consumed, the generator loses 1% total progress and becomes blocked for 1 second.
As for the new Survivor, Sable is equipped with a book of Invocations, which grants her the ability to cast Invocation: Weaving Spiders. While the task demands some time to complete, once it’s finished, all players are granted a boost to their Repair progress. The trade-off being that all players are Injured and Broken for the remainder of the Trial. Sable is also to use Strength in Shadows to heal without a medkit, while her Wicked ability allows her to get herself unhooked.
Dead by Daylight, is available now on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store.
Kinetic Games has followed through with the 13 Willow Street map rework for Phasmophobia today, which is free across all platforms. Accompanying the map rework is the first of two major quality-of-life updates bringing hundreds of bug fixes and helping refine the gameplay experience.
Ghost hunters can prepare for a refreshed investigation experience with the reworked Willow map, adding a host of new paranormal interactions, objects, and hiding spaces. As with the most recent overhaul to 6 Tanglewood Drive, Willow retains an almost identical layout but features redesigned rooms, including a reconfigured basement layout, bringing the gameplay experience up to the team’s current development standards.
The reworked rooms include an art studio, home gym and entertainment room, replacing the bedroom, garage and basement previously featured in the haunted house. Alongside these visual updates, curious players will be able to uncover new lore hidden throughout Willow, piecing together a story waiting to be discovered.
“As part of the 13 Willow Street rework we’re continuing our approach to storytelling in Phasmophobia and developing the game’s narrative,” said Anastatia Dukakis, Senior Narrative Designer at Kinetic Games. “It’s always exciting to see the community make new discoveries together and we love seeing everyone share their theories and thoughts on the lore behind in-game locations.”
Players will also be tasked to correctly identify (and survive) 50 ghosts as part of map’s challenge, awarding the Sun Seeker ID set upon completion. Players can also unlock the Cool Cat ID card and badge for the first week after launch, by watching 2 hours of Phasmophobia streams.
Meanwhile, the major update accompanying the map rework is inspired by community feedback following the Player Character Update, and reflects Kinetic Games’ ongoing commitment to delivering the level of quality players expect before Phasmophobia leaves Early Access.
The update introduces a range of changes helping to refine the gameplay experience with refreshed animations allowing for smoother and quicker movements, and changes to evidence collection for a more seamless experience, and ghost hunters might also face a new presence lurking in the shadows…
New keybinds have also been added with players now able to use 1,2,3 and 4 for changing inventory slots alongside wider accessibility tweaks. For an overview of all the fixes landing in-game, you can check out the blog post here.
Phasmophobia is available in Early Access on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and PlayStation VR2, and the Xbox Series.