Dead by Daylight: Castlevania DLC Release Date and Details Revealed

After announcing the crossover DLC earlier this year with a cryptic teaser trailer, Behaviour Interactive have revealed their Dead by Daylight: Castlevania expansion, an official crossover with the iconic vampire-slaying NES game. The DLC is available to try out now on the Steam public test build on PC, and will be officially releasing on August 27th for all platforms. A new cinematic trailer for the Castlevania-themed content pack can be seen here:

Dead by Daylight: Castlevania will include two new playable characters from the original game: a killer, Dracula, and a survivor, Trevor Belmont. Dracula makes his debut as not only the first vampire to be featured as a killer in Dead by Daylight, but also the first shape-shifter. The ability to transform into either a stealthy bat or a ravenous wolf are both powers at Dracula’s disposal, along with his original vampiric form. Of course, this DLC would not be complete without the titular castle itself, and anytime Dracula appears as the Killer in a match of Dead by Daylight, his castle can be seen looming over the location in the distance. Trevor Belmont will also be featuring plenty of new perks loyal to his appearances throughout the Castlevania series, including the Killer-revealing perk “Eyes of Belmont.”

The full patch notes detailing the perks and abilities of both Trevor Belmont and Dracula were also released today via an official developer post on the Dead by Daylight subreddit. The notes on the two new Castlevania characters are as follows:

New Survivor – Trevor Belmont

New Perk: Eyes of Belmont

• When a generator is completed, the aura of the Killer is revealed to you for **1/2/3 seconds.**Any time the Killer’s aura is shown for a period of time, its duration is increased by 2/2/2 seconds.

New Perk: Exultation

• Stunning the Killer with a pallet upgrades your held item rarity to the next tier, then recharges 25% of the item’s maximum charges.*Rarity is not kept at the end of the trial.*This perk has a 40/35/30-second cooldown.

New Perk: Moment of Glory

• This perk activates after you open or rummage through **2/2/2 chests.**When you become injured, you become broken. Automatically heal 1 health state after 80/70/60 seconds. Then, this perk deactivates. This effect is cancelled if you enter the dying state. This perk will not activate if you are already suffering from the Broken status effect.

New Killer – The Dark Lord

Killer Power

His dark power allows him to exact revenge on humans, taking many forms to terrorize and slaughter them.

The Dark Lord has access to three Forms and can freely change between them. Each Form has unique abilities and strengths.

• Vampire Form – In his default state, The Dark Lord can use the powerful Hellfire spell, which creates pillars of flame that travel ahead of him and can be cast across low obstacles.
• Wolf Form – In Wolf Form, The Dark Lord has access to several abilities that allow for more effective tracking. Movement speed is increased, blood pools and scratch marks are more apparent, and Survivors leave a trail of Scent Orbs behind them. The Dark Lord can collect these Scent Orbs to charge a powerful Pounce attack.
• Bat Form – While in Bat Form, The Dark Lord gains the Undetectable status effect. Additionally, he moves faster, ignores vault points, and can Teleport to any vault points within 32 meters. Survivors become invisible, but scratch marks can be seen.

Perks

New Perk: Hex: Wretched Fate

• After one generator has been repaired, a random dull totem becomes a hex totem and curses the Obsession.The Obsession has a 27/30/33% repair speed penalty. They also see this Hex totem’s aura when within **12/12/12 meters.**This effect persists until the Hex totem is cleansed.

New Perk: Human Greed

• You see Unopened Chests auras and Survivor auras are revealed for 3/3/3 seconds when they enter a **8/8/8-meter range.**You also gain the ability to kick chests to close them. This ability has a 80/70/60 second cooldown. Survivors unlock these closed chests 50% faster.

New Perk: Dominance

• The first time each totem and each chest is interacted with by a Survivor, that totem or chest is blocked by the Entity for **4/6/8 seconds.**The auras of blocked totems and chests are revealed to you in white.