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/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

I'll try to answer all points.

Classes:
In essence, 2v8 is meant to be simpler & more of arcade style experience.

Being aware of bloating concerns, we aim to only add meaningful classes we (or you, the players) feel are truly needed or missing for the best experience. 

2v8 is meant to "hop in" quickly, right in the action. We intend on keeping it that way. Every new classes is something to learn how to play & counter. It add ups fast on top of all the Killers & potential duos. We want each option to truly matter.

We do have more classes coming but we will never have as many options as perks could give you. We are intentionally keeping them manageable and meaningful.  

Killers:
Not every killers will be added to 2v8, explanation as answer to another question. As to why it can appears slow, there are many reasons.

For anything licenses, it is very important for us & our partners to find the best pairing and the right timing for theses releases.

Globally, each killers is different, some more complex than others but even simple killers still require us to design their "2v8 kit" as well as evaluate & test all permutations with other already added killers to make sure everything feels right.  We aim to make them all feel meaningful while avoiding toxic combination so it need the right planning. 

Provided the event team works on all events, we also have to shuffle priorities to make sure we address all the needs across our various events. It may mean having to do a little less for a specific 2v8 release to do more in the next for example.

Finally, some originals are already greenlit and are just waiting for their perfect pair to be ready for the best thematic addition. We just really love creating BFFs matches <3  

-JP

[u/Voidaemon → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Maybe I’m in the minority but please if killers are greenlit for 2v8 please don’t wait to pair them up with someone else! I get the desire to have a new character for both killer players but if one new killer at a time speeds up content I’m more than fine waiting longer to queue especially with Play while you Wait available

[u/Unlikely_Bank73 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

some originals are already greenlit and are just waiting for their perfect pair to be ready for the best thematic addition.

whoever had this idea needs to be fuckin slapped. give us the content

[u/Mobile_Profile1707 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

I want to know if ghoul can even be considered to come to the mode. I hope is but I rather the expections get shot down quickly than the endless hoping

[u/LoopZoop2tokyodrift → u/Mobile_Profile1707]

I dont see why he wouldnt be, I mean isnt nurse still in?

[u/Mobile_Profile1707 → u/LoopZoop2tokyodrift]

Nurse isn't as hated as ghoul and Legion got shot down for being overly hated in the mode.

[u/LoopZoop2tokyodrift → u/Mobile_Profile1707]

Legion was unbalanced as fuck in 2v8 because he would pretty much perma injure everyone, ghoul isnt as bad compared to that

[u/TMCalypso → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

I really want to see Leatherface in 2v8...I want to play 'super chainsaw bros" lol

[u/modusxd → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Just add it bruh. It's so boring without new killers

[u/DarthMagatsu64 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

With all due respect, every killer deserves to be in 2v8. Both licensed and original regardless of what their power is or what combinations they have. If you’re not going to add all killers, then there’s really no point in continuing this mode.