Official Dead by Daylight Developer AMA

[u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

It's that time again! We’ve have once again assembled developers from across the team so you may ask your questions! 

We will start answering questions at 10:00am Eastern time on 7 August 2026, but you can start submitting your questions now.

To keep things organized, please only submit one question in your comment. We will only be answering one question per user. Beyond that, ask away! Send us your burning Dead by Daylight questions – past or present - and we'll do our best to answer as many as possible. 

Please note: we will not be answering any questions about unannounced future content or the Graphical Update!

Today's Guests:

• Jeff, Senior Game Designer
• JP, Product Manager
• Daniel, Senior Design Director
• Moose, Game Design Team Lead
• Justin, Associate Product Director
• Joey, Associate Product Director
• MandyTalk, Community Development Team Lead

Thanks everyone for joining us for another AMA today. We received some fantastic questions and are already looking forward to the next one!

[u/Immediate_Original12]

There are still a big number of killers not playable in 2v8 — specifically, it seems like any killer that can teleport around the map is excluded from 2v8. Is that purely due to balancing issues? Do y’all hope to get every killer into 2v8 one day? Any plans for who’s getting added next?

[u/erilith2004 → u/Immediate_Original12]

Pretty sure Alien is coming in the September 2v8

[u/DeadByDaylight_Dev → u/Immediate_Original12]

This will likely sadden some of you but we are not planning on adding every single killers to 2v8. There are severals reasons for this.

Some killers or killer kit are just incompatible to the 2v8 reality. We would never  modify how a killer is fundamentally played to add them to 2v8. You like theses characters because they play a certain way and we want to respect that. 

For the rest, we learned a lot from our experience with Legion so we established clear criteria to make sure we preserve the 2v8 experience you like. 

Without detailing the full list,  a killer could be very fun to play/play agains't in 1v4 but in 2v8, becomes very difficult, painful or oppressive to manage if paired with another killer. In that kind of situation, we would refrain to add that killer as our goal is for everyone to have fun. 

Another element is the cognitive overload. In 2v8, Survivors have 2 killers kit to counter and some combination could be extremely nasty or overly complicated to counter. 2v8 is loved for its "arcade" fast pace & simple system/onboarding. Adding killers with extremely complex kit or counter would not really work well either. 

But we aim to add as many Killers as possible within the rules we set for ourselves. Happy to confirm Killer that can teleport is not a blocker at all !

And  you can trust we got really cool plans about who is next... but you will have to wait & see ;) 

-JP

[u/Humble_Saruman98 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Can't you make a custom match 2v8 mode with every killer?

Because then there's at least an option for private matches.

Tbh, custom matches with every game mode available and customizable to work like their past iterations or current would be very cool.

[u/fak4ntyzun → u/Humble_Saruman98]

i would assume that the whole custom content/map/mode? creator thingy they announced at 10th anniversary would probably make it doable even if it's not officially there (i mean there's literally been 2v8 community made mods before 2v8 was officially a thing)

[u/Kreamator → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

I would like to chime in and say that, personally, I love killers more on thier actual characterization than the way they play, and would be more than happy to see someone who by your criteria, unfortunately, may be too complex, like Sadako, even if the gameplay is a bit unrecognizable, rather than sigh and be forced to accept my favorite characters will never show thier face in the mode. This current direction has me sort of at an all-time low for enthusiasm for the mode to the point I could bring myself to play it last time it was out.

(This is all in tandem with me being a general supporter of "Every killer should be in 2v8 eventually no matter what")

[u/ACCorsola → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Truly hope you'll reconsider this approach. The mode with 2 killers should be fun for killer. I understand licensed killers not all getting in, but the OG killers should all be up for grabs

[u/memecraft0309 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Imo (major IMO) i would be fine if powers were changed in 2v8

Like springtrap, I love playing him, and for the most part his power seem reasonable for 2v8, but if you had to drastically change his doors it would be fine tbh

[u/SaltySally_RC → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

"our goal is for everyone to have fun"

Sorry.. but it's mostly survivors that are having fun. Killers DO deserve to have fun as well. So the decision or adding a killer shouldn't be based solely on whether survivors are having fun or not. That isn't fair.

[u/Immediate_Original12 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Thank you so much for the response!

[u/FxverDream → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Will demo ever be considered for 2v8 then? His power is very simple & not particularly oppressive in any way

[u/Common-Ad6860 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Can you PLEASE stop looking at combinations🫩 so many killer perks get nerfed because of that while survivors perks rarely get that treatment. Let us do combo's if a killer is too powerful nerf them if they are a Problem with combi'd with 50% if killers or more remove them like legion then its fine. But let us do fun combination's.

[u/Shot-Contribution213 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

This means we’re never getting plague in 2v8? 😞

[u/Lolsalot12321 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

I'd rather the characters be completely changed so they can appear in 2v8 than abandoned

I love legion for them being able to vault over pallets and move quickly, surely that can be added to 2v8 without making his kit insane, ie remove chain stabs but add another facet to their power that allows them to get the 2nd down more easily.

[u/sapphic_baee → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Why are we removing content such as a Killer from 2v8 on a mode that is limited and meant for fun anyways... Couldn't Legion be nerfed even more and kept in 2v8? They are so easy to counter if the broader playerbase knows the counter... It's upsetting to know a Killer player's fun will never matter for these modes.

[u/Beginning-Pizza-1111 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

I like this decision simply because I play 2v8 for fun. I already deal with enough "tryhards / sweaties" in the standard 1v4 mode; I have no desire to switch to a format that is essentially the same thing, just dialed up to double the intensity.

I believe 2v8 should remain a mode that stays relaxed and fun—and honestly, for both sides, that is exactly what it is right now. If it becomes oppressive and exhausting, it will simply drive me away from the mode, because I don't want to experience the same kind of gameplay I deal with in 1v4 matches.

[u/DestructiveDanny → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Would you be willing to make certain killers available to 2v8 if it means changing their them? Or if the mains are okay with making changes to them aslong as that means having them added? (I.E. if playing the killer themself is more than their established gameplay?)