Dead by Daylight reached new heights after the particular Five Nights at Freddy’s crossover launched just lately. The multiplayer horror recreation reached 106,029 concurrent players on June 17, breaking its earlier report by fewer than 1,000.
The final report was set in 2021 by a Resident Evil crossover that included Leon and Jill Valentine because the survivors, Raccoon Metropolis as a map, and Nemesis because the killer. Dead by Daylight–which launched in 2016–has hit concurrent player-counts above 90,000 a number of occasions, each with and with out crossovers.
This present crossover features a new playable character, Five Nights at Freddy’s Springtrap. His character brings over components from his franchise, together with stunning animations, spring doorways, and safety cameras that affect gameplay. The crossover additionally features a new map, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.
“It goes with out saying that Five Nights at Freddy’s and Dead by Daylight characteristic diametrically opposed gameplay,” shared Jay Guzzo, Springtrap’s Killer Designer in a press release to GameSpot. “Within the former, you’re primarily sitting in a single room and managing a single resource–your battery. Whereas in DbD, it’s way more motion oriented, and sitting nonetheless will seemingly get you nowhere quick. Our problem turned discovering a approach to get these two issues to coalesce. It got here right down to figuring out what creates that unbelievable stress in Five Nights and Freddy’s and adapting it right into a dynamic format for our personal recreation.”
Habits Interactive has constructed out an expansive roster of 39 killers and 46 survivors for Dead by Daylight. This contains unique characters and an enormous number of different recognizable faces like Nicolas Cage, Hellraiser, the Demogorgon, and lots of extra. It is a dream workforce of horror icons.