The popular Dead by Daylight 2v8 mode returns
Image via Behaviour Interactive

Dead by Daylight: Is 2v8 mode permanent?

Seems foggy.

If Dead by Daylight’s 1v4 asymmetrical gameplay is a little too intimate for your liking, there’s a 2v8 mode coming. For a while, anyway. It will be available from July 25th to August 8th. 

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The Dead by Daylight 2v8 is not a permanent mode. Not right now, anyway. It’s time-limited.

This doesn’t mean that if you can’t play during the two weeks it’s available that you will never be able to experience it. There’s no confirmed date for when it will return, but the informative release about it uses the phrase “This first version of 2v8,” which suggests that this is the initial run of the mode and that it will return.

Dead by Daylight 2v8 infographic
Image via Behaviour Interactive

However, being a time-limited event, that doesn’t mean this it will return and just be a feature of Dead by Daylight. It might be that Behaviour Interactive will simply trot it out every so often to draw players in for a few weeks. It might gain a consistent schedule, but it hasn’t been announced. It might become something permanent, but that hasn’t been confirmed.

2v8 is looking to be an interesting shake-up. Rather than just throwing more survivors and more killers into the mix, things have been completely rebalanced to allow for this to work better with the additional players. “Please note that this is an iterative process, and we’ll be closely monitoring your feedback to ensure 2v8 continues to evolve in the right direction,” Behaviour Interactive says.

Right now, we only know for sure that Dead by Daylight 2v8 is going to be available from July 25th to August 8th, 2024.


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