VIsual Heartbeat Is Coming To Dead by Daylight!

[@Valgient]

Hopefully it’ll have a better look than the mobile one or maybe it’ll be off to the side. As I personally don’t enjoy the looks of the mobile version

[@FOXYPIRATEN]

Yeah, I agree.

[@vsucountryboy]

You can turn it on and off you know

[@wisestman8080]

@@vsucountryboy they wanted to say: if you need the feature you will have to stare at a massive heart and not everyone like to see literal heart.

[@TruePixel-t1y]

its optional

[@wrathybear]

Mobile is generally more limited and is developed by different team so it’s not fair to compare it to PC

[@MightyBojangles]

As someone who has industrial deafness I can't wait. I was super upset with the changes to spinechill as they didn't consult anyone hard of hearing before they made the change. The current iteration of SC is actually information overload and you spend more time looking at the perk than trying to find the red stain. I had to deal with my volume being on max recently to make up for it subsequently doing more damage to my ears than I've already done.

[@notkillercat9708]

I understand how u felt, I'm deaf too, the changes for spine chill is kinda helpful for deaf and hard hearing but it's annoying still

[@joemart6887]

I'm very glad that this change is able to help you out then. I find the game very fun and I want others to enjoy it as much as I do. Hopefully they implement something similar for when you play as killer.

[@MightyBojangles]

@@notkillercat9708 Yeah totally agree. Luckily bass vibrates my headphones really well so I can get the indicator of tr when I have my bass turned right up in the mixer and have my headphones at some ungodly volume level haha

[@MightyBojangles]

@@joemart6887 Thanks friend. :D

[@panachewanderlust]

skill issue

[@LocalMimi]

I'm so glad they're finally implementing it. As someone who's hard of hearing it's an absolute NIGHTMARE trying to figure out whether I'm hearing the start of a terror radius or not; really hoping this feature gets added in the next update c:

[@BraveShowBoys]

Dont worry i play stealth killers, you wont even know im here.

[@LocalMimi]

@@BraveShowBoys f e a r

[@cwkapiushon]

gonna be very funny looking at this heart while a double speed add on blight is approaching at light speed

[@LocalMimi]

@@cwkapiushon it’ll match my own heartbeat too

[@mattthecrazycatguy2545]

It’s been in the game already before this

[@joeyphillips4705]

This is good because it's a bit difficult to hear the heartbeat with a screaming baby, barking dog, loud fan, yelling parents, loud neighbours and screaming seagulls.

[@Relixification]

where do you live? the fking medieval times? damn.

[@user-gi6mq2qf5w]

So basically what you're saying is console players will appreciate this

[@RobertDeLoneWolf]

Yes please. Some killer terror radius inflicted me with real life oblivious status. My brain just directly skips over it.

[@brianhillman5867]

what i would like is an option to turn chase music down as killer, sometimes i cant hear footsteps or even grunts of pain with how loud some killers music is

[@uggZymoroon]

id love if sadakos chase music didnt start until shes manifested

[@begone1934]

I think they do that on purpose. It's a real pain.

[@varvolgyibeni4398]

its a purposeful design choice, imo pretty bad. i hate the blaring loud music and the heartbeat noise in this game while in chase, so obnoxious

[@gort5516]

chase music is a game design choice

[@BouncingTribbles]

@@gort5516 as someone who is hard of hearing it's almost white noise, to the point where I can barely distinguish if there are even instruments, and it really just obscures the important sounds. It might be different if any of it was good music, but I'd love to be able to turn down all nondiagetic sound, chase music especially. The Shape and a couple other killers actually have GOOD music and it doesn't interfere with hearing the footsteps and grunts, but some killers chase music just sounds like hammers in a dryer

[@noaheaston2147]

its a massive accessiblility option but like coloudblind mode can be used for an advantage

[@Tobichiii]

People already massively use reShade for that anyways.

[@racine3684]

I'm confused, how is this an advantage? Its for accessibility. It doesn't let you see cross map

[@Valgient]

@@racine3684 it will help with quieter terror radiuses like hens said, slinger’s radius is quiet so seeing the heart appear you know you’re in range of him but without the heartbeat indicator he may be able to sneak up on you since it’s so quiet

[@racine3684]

@Valgient maybe yeah, idk it's not something I'll use anyway as I see shiny and ill 100% get distracted but I'm just happy they're making more accessibility changes. 💕

[@spooons504]

It's a tiny advantage and who cares. Everyone has equal access to it.

[@Weloverobby]

When i saw this my heart stopped for a second

[@Weskin_Time775]

I’d be willing to bet that there’ll be a bug where it ignores undetectable, so the heartbeat will be shown when Ghostface is sneaking up or something along the lines of a BHVR moment

[@kroket_101]

as both a survivor and killer player i think this is usefull for people who are deaf/hard hearing. but im sure its gonna be very usefull for the non deaf people aswell.

[@tehprimelime1063]

hopefully we will see similar features for killer soon.

[@Haileycartero]

I love that they are adding all of the QOL updates from the mobile app into the main game

[@Redmist.65]

I appreciate this massively. Being Colourblind is a big enough issue playing killer and thanks to those settings I can now stand a chance.

[@uggZymoroon]

colourblindnes makes it hard to hear the heartbeat?

[@Redmist.65]

@@uggZymoroon I am refering to the introduction of the colourblind settings as a reference to inclusion. I could have worded it better yes.

[@s108t]

as a handicapped person this is so helpful, now I can finally stand a chance!!!!

[@Cay9z]

Finally, been waiting for a visual heartbeat for so long! So excited for this new and upcoming update

[@rtristan8572]

0:23 Thank god it can be turned off, it looks horrible. Also let's hope they buf spinechill again and hope they add a FOV slider, at least for killer.

[@BreadAccountant]

its great to see this. I love these changes that are ONLY positive

[@Pawncheetoes]

A win for the spotify gamers

[@twinzzlers]

Would be nice for killers to get something.

[@davidlee7174]

5th perk slot spine chill. 👍

[@firstpersonsnooter2519]

I’m not deaf but I am stupid so this will help a ton

[@gavcarl]

Finally. As someone with hearing issues this will be handy.

[@S4m4_]

What about being able to lower the chases music too ? Even for killers it's to high and can prevent earing things...

[@Czesnek]

So when are killers going to get QoL changes as well? Basekit Shadowborn and hook stage icons for each survivor would be a good start.

[@Punchhhy]

I'd consider those buffs, but the heartbeat indicator is more towards the accessibility side

[@Kartav]

@@Punchhhy Heartbeat, it's still additional information. The survivors had too much information.

[@Czesnek]

@@Punchhhy A lot of players are forced to use Shadowborn because they gets motion sickness from the low FoV.

[@DavidTheEntity]

killers already got their QoL changes...Buffed gen/pallet/wall breaking speed, insta 2.5% gen regression, basekit 2 stacks of STBFL, faster Bloodlust... The list goes on, you can't say killers didn't get anything.

[@BungarangYT]

visual cues for footsteps and breathing would be nice for those who cannot hear well

[@yncsNt]

Is noone paying attention to the fact that spine chill will now be practically useless? It isn't directional, it only shows the terror radius but with a visual heartbeat, that's useless now. What will spine chill turn into this time?

[@Aci_yt]

I really hope they change the way spine chill works now, now it's even completely useless for people with hearing problems...

[@creature-pf4tp]

I actually love how it looks visually I always thought it looked so cool and wondered why it wasnt in the game

[@bluemyst42]

Changes like this are GREAT. Not everyone can wear a headset while playing or turn their volume up because of family or neighbors or whatever. Im sure someone will complain about this being a survivor buff but I dont think itll give anyone an edge. Id love to see a chage to Spine Chill too (make it more noticeable), but thats just preference at this point.

[@emergencyfood3568]

I can imagine the killer mains doing exactly that and claiming it "gives the survivors too much information." First off, if killer is all they play, then any negative comments saying this survivor change is unbalanced/shouldn't go live are inherently biased and therefore invalid. They can't legitimately contest this when they have perks like BBQ, Lethal Pursuer and Discordance. Second, and even more importantly, there are people with hearing deficiencies and playing survivor is even more difficult than normal, as you wisely mentioned. This is a superb QoL addition for the less fortunate and I can't wait to see it in action.

[@Dyeoxy]

Its just such a nice finished product

[@SubxZeroGamer]

That's great. Definitely happy it's optional

[@AnotherDempsey]

Does this affect lullabies too? Kinda ruins some stealth killers if so..

[@AromaticDolphin98]

prob not

[@SinNombre-_-]

Hopefully not, it would be sad if people could notice Sadako's lullaby right away

[@First-disciple6483]

This is literally just going to counter oblivious and undetectable

[@felsics9441]

The actual tweet clarifies that you will not see a heartbeat when you would not hear one. So it will be off if you are oblivious or the killer has no terror radius.

[@quartzskull8772]

You really aren't that bright are you? Undetectable don't have terror radiuses and oblivious doesn't count like the perk stake out doesn't gain tokens if you're oblivious and next to the killer

[@ascendagen]

I sure can’t wait to use this new feature that is suppose to help people with hearing issues to just listen to music on survivor

[@renomiz2373]

I'm glad it's off by default. I will definitely get distracted every time it pops up and then forget to disable it.

[@skinless333x2]

Visual footsteps? It is fine to blast over those with chasemusic I guess

[@gr1mo1re.0]

This looks awesome for people who are hard of hearing but im hoping that it will be either off screen and not like the mobile version or you can enable/disable it because im not sure i would want this heart on my character the whole game

[@pawepikul2624]

nice, finally doing something that is in mobile version for years

[@pepethefrog6809]

Now they just need to rework old moris to fit the new ones!

[@MementoMoriOfficiall]

So, basically, we getting basekit spine chill..

[@Dexie6969]

Spine Chill as basekit yeah another surv buff

[@MrXXUknownXx]

I guess it would block or look stupid with a lot of bright/old legacy cosmetic torsoes?

[@ex_zulu543]

I'm actually hard of hearing and this makes me so happy

[@Chaos333x]

Thats nice thats its an option but can they bring spacebar mashing for wiggling as an option cause I prefer that so much

[@BouncingTribbles]

As someone who is hard of hearing I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, a great tool for the hearing impaired; on the other hand, everyone is going to use it and it makes the game even less atmospheric. My frustration probably stems from being hard of hearing and looking at everything that is more frustrating for me to deal with then the heartbeat. Stuff like not being able to adjust any in game volume levels individually, because some killers chase music makes it harder to hear the footsteps and grunts then other chase music, but everyone would be able to use that tool too. So how is this different? It's a tool for the hearing impaired, that everyone is going to use, that makes the game even more "game-y". It's an interesting thing for me to consider; because I'm a new player, and when I look at footage from before the big map rework I prefer the old aesthetic. Maybe not the fidelity, but the colors and lighting were much more gloomy. This makes me think of those changes, the game will forever be less scary, because it was changed for clarity and gameplay purposes (don't get me wrong, changes because of gameplay clarity are good, just not at the expense of atmosphere and theme). Where they could have removed some grass and improved the fidelity they totally redesigned the aesthetic

[@rakedos9057]

Being able to reduce the killer chase music as Killer will be nice too. The music for the Clown is blasting a bit too much.

[@Skillfulstone]

At least it's an option. Those who need it/want it can use it.

[@Rainiac1]

Great but fov slider when bhvr?

[@kamisguide]

HUGE UPGRADES

[@venusinklinggirlvenuscyan6304]

well as long as you can turn it on and off I'm ok with that, mostly cause i still wish to get jumpscared by a myers or something

[@degrees7181]

It's a great change and being optional only makes it better.

[@MerrStudio]

welp, this is gonna be a necessary feature to have turned on from now on

[@TraceLegacy2793]

Nowhere to hide will still find them

[@ChrisRyot]

I mean....as an aid for people with a hearing impediment this seems quite useful. To me however, it looks rather distracting and having a slowly rising heartbeat really adds to the at ospherr as well as a feeling for how far away the killer is. I hope it can be turned off.

[@felsics9441]

If you paid any attention, he literally says it is off by default and can be toggled on or off.

[@Shikafau]

Hopefully we start getting more of the good things from mobile version... would just make sense at this point

[@Mr_Haram]

So the secondary function of Spine Chill will be basekit? What will they do to Spine Chill then?

[@sadakowoo]

I wish it was a hud indicator instead of a it literally being inside the character.

[@felsics9441]

Yeah I don’t love the look of it. But I can’t think of a good, obvious way to have it on the hud. It could be a visual effect around the screen, but I find Plague’s puke and the blue haze in a Boon to be distracting enough

[@LifeBoxGaming]

This update isn't exactly for "EVERYONE" with fine ears and shit, It's for those people who are deaf or have a hard time hearing stuff.

[@662mann8]

If it’s for accessibility then enabling it should disable sound if you can’t hear why dose it matter?

[@LifeBoxGaming]

@@662mann8 It's for people who are deaf, people who can't hear but wants to enjoy the game. It's not for us with perfectly working ears that still use spine chill for everything. If you are deaf = It's useful If you're not = You can still use if if you want.

[@Ofishall555]

Get ready for undetectable bugs

[@AceOf_Diamonds_]

can't wait for this to somehow bug Huntress's hatchets or something else completely unrelated, while also being super buggy itself and probably having problems with fake TR or Undetectable perks. BHVR please just use Spine Chill's code and call it a day, make it base kit if you want just don't break the game even more

[@toxic_david]

🎉🎉🎉

[@trurocker03]

I'm happy af there will be an option to have it off. Idk how i'd feel about an annoying heart glowing inside my character lol

[@meistermody]

Nice so Survivors get even MORE Info. Its a good addition for some people with a hearing problem BUT regular Players could abuse this. There may be ways that this kind of information can be useful or it doesnt do anything but as we all know in DbD the tiniest piece of info or a small number even with the 0. can cost or save your match. What do the Killers get? i would like to see the same indicator how many times i hooked which survivor or which status effects does the survivors have?

[@tbirdflocka898]

Why does it even matter? More than half the survivors you get don't know what prerunning is and just crouch behind a loop next to the gen they were on.

[@Type_3_Screamer]

​@@tbirdflocka898 definitely doesn't go that way at higher states of play.

[@skong-o3x]

god i hate killer mains, git gud.

[@felsics9441]

It is the same amount of information, man. It might add some certainty to what you’re hearing when it’s faint, or obscured by other sounds, but it is still the same terror radius. The info you’re asking to give killers in return is way more than that.

[@meistermody]

@@felsics9441 so? Solo Q has a lot of info too so why not give Killers the info who they already hooked?

[@dawanky]

oh boy the trends in germany are something else

[@saikyue4462]

This is a sign that we are maybe gonna get more mobile features on pc, hopefully we get cosmetics of mobile 🙏

[@adi_baa]

am i tripping or does death slinger have a 32 meter terror radius like everyone else?

[@NotOnlyMagicMan]

he has a 24 meter terror radius

[@Veklire]

It was part of his nerf.

[@LoveXKnife]

ok but if they add this they better remove the burning barrels that make noise

[@bruhmomento5334]

if it's going to be the same as the mobile isn't going to be working that perfect but hey, not deaf people don't need to rely on spine chill

[@josephd.picotte6001]

That’s cool, I’ll probably enable it

[@MentorX14]

Finally the confirmation. Hens IS German! Und ich dachte ich bilde mir das nur ein...

[@hamleteagle534]

I wonder what BHVR considers cheating. We have this but not an FOV Slider?

[@uggZymoroon]

you have perks for FOV changing, fov is literally a game mechanic dude.

[@chili2pac560]

Well heartbeat is also a game mechanic no?

[@simonbrown8117]

it's just a heart beat buddy

[@felsics9441]

@@chili2pac560 This makes the mechanic accessible to those who cannot hear the audio.

[@chili2pac560]

@@felsics9441 yeah and terrible fov makes some people dizzy, and even if it wasn't having a fov slider would not make killers stupidly op it's more of a quality of life change imo

[@Mamika_AFK]

Great news for the deaf community, I'm sure they will enjoy it a lot 😄 But hopefully the color/heart effects aren't too bright or it'll be too distracting

[@isaac571]

oh thank god because gens were way to loud sometimes

[@notkillercat9708]

Omg omg it gonna helps me A LOT I'm excited (I'm deaf btw)

[@rodrigovianna7257]

How do you normally play the game being deaf?

[@notkillercat9708]

@@rodrigovianna7257 I put the volume high and I put my leg on the TV so I can feel terror radius heart beat, but some killers terror radius are very quiet

[@graczpl2tozajebistykanalkjest]

so spine chill gonna need rework again

[@csscalzitti]

Is this visible only to the player or will other players and the killer be able to see it?

[@red_swan_]

Only the survivor can see their own heartbeat

[@doctortoon8469]

Think they'll ever give visuals to see which direction certain types of audio are coming from such as an injured survivor or Billy's chainsaw

[@TheCdetonados]

I think that would be too much information. People who are hard of hearing can still juice it up, so letting them know preemptively where the sound comes from visually would be a massive advantage. And people who don't have that issue would abuse it too.

[@noamrothman6412]

@@TheCdetonados It’s like in fortnite they added the visual audio and now everyone uses it cause it’s a massive advantage

[@cijayfish]

When we turn into mobile. THEN WE WILL HOPEFULLY GET ALL THOSE MORIS AND OUFITS!

[@theshpee1214]

Professor, do you think you will be able to use it like spine chill on a pallet gym?

[@thedutywarlord264]

It is mostly for people who cant hear . It will not change your gameplay lmao

[@ProfHens]

Spinechill is extremely useful to not get mindgamed in tiles. It makes Pallet Gyms safely loopable.

[@BungarangYT]

@@thedutywarlord264if it is easier to distinguish distance with the visual heartbeat it could make mindgames less successful

[@theshpee1214]

@@ProfHens I'm asking if you think the heartbeat could be used to have the same effect.

[@lixintangible]

This is awesome! Let's go

[@badlynice4692]

Lol they actually having to compete with Mobile version.

[@Mallallah]

Just a base kit spine chill

[@AvernusDO]

Doesn't this make things easier for survivor in general though ?

[@NuggyPoundy1]

it does, gotta hold there hands

[@DrDrFaZZbeaR]

Ah yes, dbd mobile is taking over the core version 😂

[@teflonhammer3465]

So what are they going to do with Spine Chill?

[@IronChainRepairman]

Sad about Pebble and Stake Out nerf.

[@grunhold]

So basekit spinechill?

[@freakstage]

Viva la dirt league knew this was coming

[@carrymesenpai3276]

trending in germany is interesting Xd

[@simpletora7313]

This is nice for accessibility but we all know people without any disabilities will just use this so they have to pay even less attention to the game. I play mainly solo Q and understand that it can be rough but my god soon survivors will just have to pick a character and let it play the game ion its own, there’s barely anything left survivors actually have to pay attention to all the info is just handed to them

[@KayleighHofften4747]

Old spinechill NOW

[@Boomstck]

they need to add the same features for killer, for people that have hearing issues it's impossible to hear survivors at all with the loud chase music and not mention boons etc when will they fix audio issues where survivors are silent when they shouldnt be...weird why they add accessibility only for survivors but not for killers?

[@tomcatesteem2360]

Was gonna get back into the game after like a year of not playing and now I'm still not wtf is this. They just make this game easier and easier every update

[@josepht8439]

hopefully itll be a perk and not built in for every survivor

[@felsics9441]

Did you even watch the video before saying this. It is an optional setting.

[@TexasGTO]

No thank you.

[@AltLmaoo]

Didn’t we alr know abt this I swear I’ve heard abt this

[@prestonlong33]

I hope it turns off while in chase, otherwise that could be a bit annoying

[@haberkonium]

It'll be useful but oof I despise the visual

[@RonanInLan]

It doesn't matter, at that point it won't be any killers playing this game anymore.

[@ImTheTekz]

i’ve played dead by daylight both on console and mobile and I prefer the one we have right now

[@VorjuMeidear]

Okay, how about we get dbdm's moris next? :D

[@l.n.s3709]

This change is only good for those that play without the sound of the game

[@glitchyfolks]

Now can they add a fucking fov setting?