Dead by Daylight 'Nightfall' visibility bugged (brighter than intended), fix in the works

Dead by Daylight is a successful multiplayer survival game that has been available since 2016.

Dead by Daylight matches are for 5 players, where 4 will take the role of ‘survivors’ and 1 will take the role of ‘killer’.

The skills of the ‘killer’ will be focused on detecting and catching survivors. Meanwhile, the latter skills are designed to hide and escape.

Recently, Dead by Daylight developers added a new gameplay mechanic: Nightfall. However, it appears that the ability is experiencing some issues (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

The new Nightfall mechanic will activate once a meter is filled. Its effects last 60 seconds and are different for survivors and for the killer:

As you can see, Nightfall is a gameplay mechanic that will benefit the killer by meeting certain conditions. However, a bug causes the ability to be practically useless at the moment.

In the case of survivors, Nightfall noticeably reduces the player’s visibility for the duration of the effect. But, this hardly causes a negative effect on them, as the killer has a bright white aura around them.

is nightfall that bad?

i have not played the ptb, but it does not look usless. the visibility is dissapointing. i was really hoping for near complete darkness. that being said, Dredge has considerable buffs to his base kit that look very decent. is it actually that bad?
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So, although the visibility of the survivors is worse, the white aura that surrounds the killer makes it easier to detect. This makes escaping or hiding from the killer less of a hassle.

Dredge’s Nightfall isn’t good

So i’ve been playing the new killer in the ptb and his nightfall ability is pretty useless right now.

From the survivors perspective it’s not what i expected when they said you would be engulved by darkness it just lowers your view distance. I think they should make it so the killer doesnt have the white aura during nightfall and they should increase the darkness. This killer looks scary so he should actually be scary tbh.
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The development team is already aware of the issue. The company also confirms that there is a bug on both the survivors FOV (field of vision) and the white aura around the killer.

However, there are no details on an ETA for the arrival of a fix for the glitch yet. We will update this story once new details about the matter arise in the future.

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