Behaviour Interactive have just released the reworked The Nightmare in DBD: "The Dead by Daylight team is happy to announce the release of The Nightmare Rework. As we announced in our presentation of the Rework during the Dead by Daylight Third Anniversary Livestream, we have made some major changes to Freddy’s general gameplay, power and add-ons. We now present The New Nightmare."

The rework was announced via Twitter:

The 3.1.0 mid-chapter update including The Nightmare rework is planned to release on all platforms at 11:00 AM ET. Catch up on all the information here: http://bit.ly/2Y11Szg 

23 Jul 2019

You can watch the rework video below:

Dead by Daylight | The Nightmare Rework

Gameplay & power changes

Microsleep:

• Awake Survivors will see The Nightmare within 16 meters, The Nightmare will be intermittent from 16 meters to 32 meters, and while awake Survivors will hear The Nightmare emit a Terror Radius of 32 meters.

Falling Asleep:

• Survivors fall asleep passively over 60 seconds. Once asleep survivors see The Nightmare and hear The Nightmare emit a 2D 32 meter Lullaby instead of a Terror Radius. Once asleep Survivors will see the aura of an Alarm Clock on a dresser.

Waking Up:

• An awake Survivor can wake up a sleeping Survivor.
• Survivors can wake up by failing skill checks.
• Survivors can wake up by going to and removing an Alarm Clock off a dresser.

Dream Abilities

Dream Snares:

• Dream Snares slow and reveal a Survivors location.
• Only effective and visible towards Sleeping Survivors.
• Killers start with 8 tokens, each Snare costs 1 token to place. Only 8 traps can be placed at one time.

Dream Projection:

• Channel the ability to create a husk of The Nightmare at the targeted generator, complete the channel to take the position of the husk.
• Can be cancelled.
• For each sleeping Survivor gain a 15% cool down reduction on Dream Projection.

 

Misc Nightmare changes

• Loading tips for The Nightmare and playing against The Nightmare have been updated.
• Power Description and Power Tooltip updated for The Nightmare.
• All of The Nightmare's add-ons have been modified to function with his new power set. If you have add-ons for The Nightmare, they will be exchanged for the new ones.
• Failing a hook sabotage skill check will wake up an asleep Survivor. 
• Reduced the intensity of the Dream World post-process effect to increase visibility for survivors. 

 The new Nightmare is available on all platforms.