April PTB Changes revealed during Dev Stream ✅ April 2026
- Modifiers now have diminishing returns. Instead of stacking or no stacking, perks that modify all action speeds will now get progressively weaker, with each stacked perk being less and less useful (starting with the strongest ones obviously). I personally thought that a full no-stacking approach might be healthier for the long-term health of the game but this is a very good compromise. I'm very happy about this because it means that perks can start becoming really decent by themselves without worrying about crazy stacking builds. This will certainly boost the utlity of perks that increase certain actions without modifying the speed with a percentage (ex: Reactive Healing).
- Devs explained that the above change is meant to address and discourage the most meta-defining playstyles as reported by community feedback and their own internal statistics. This part is quite confusing to me, to be honest. Yes, we've all seen the very outrageous "400% healing speed strats" and the "1000% haste builds" but in my opinion the absolute strongest builds on both sides actually mix up different things that work together but DO NOT actually stack together (ie: Pain Res + DMS, Resurgence + Medkits, Stakeout + Hyperfocus, Sprint Burst + Vigil, etc...).
- Blight nerfed to be 110%, losing tokens after any pallet break similar to Ghoul. Good change and long overdue. He will still be really strong even after this, I'm sure, although less forgiving.
- Ability to see team mate's loadouts coming to DBD which is also EXTREMELY welcome and long overdue as well. For some reason this also seemed to include the Killer being played against which is immediately detrimental for stealth/setup Killers. This last bit should be changed to keep the Killer hidden but either way, but the devs have already clarified in a follow-up statement that they have the ability to make it so that this could appear after the match is already well-progressed (like after first hook for example). Fingers crossed but it's looking really good!!
- Spectating Survivors will also be able to interact with their screen a bit more and highligh perks to see what they do, for example. Another great change.
- General buffs for several of the weaker Killers including Unknown, Cannibal, Doctor, Demo, Dredge, GF, Wesker and also Animatronic, who will receive changes that will apparently encourage Survivors to use the cameras more (great stuff!). This list of buffs doesn't cover every character in need but all of these Killers could certainly use small QOL/add-on adjustments at the very least, so these seem like a welcome change.
(More info on these changes to be relased along the next PTB next week!)