{"id":74652,"date":"2026-04-03T15:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74652"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:42:51","slug":"dead-by-daylight-devs-say-matchmaking-rework-is-a-re-imagination-of-how-the-game-is-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=74652","title":{"rendered":"Dead by Daylight Devs Say Matchmaking Rework Is a ‘Re-Imagination of How the Game Is Played’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Dead by Daylight<\/a> team at Behaviour Interactive has opened up about what they say are \u201csignificant\u201d changes coming with their upcoming matchmaking rework.<\/p>\n

Head of partnerships Mathieu Cote and creative director Dave Richard offered an update on their multiplayer rework plans during a conversation with IGN at the Game Developers Conference 2026 (GDC). After promising a “revamp” last summer<\/a>, they tell players they can still expect to see a matchmaking rework, teasing adjustments that will be more than a few minor tweaks.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe’re changing it in a very significant way,\u201d Richard said. \u201cPeople that have been with us for a long time, for 10 years, will recognize some of the past matchmaking that we have, the best parts of it, and the parts that are functioning now about the matchmaking are still going to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

He goes on, calling the upcoming tweaks a \u201cre-imagination\u201d that falls more in line with what makes Dead by Daylight special. That means emphasizing the stories that emerge from its asymmetrical horror formula while maintaining what already works.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it’s going to be a re-imagination of how the game is played that is more aligned with our values as a game, where it’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dead by Daylight team at Behaviour Interactive has opened up about what they say are \u201csignificant\u201d changes coming with their upcoming matchmaking rework. Head of partnerships Mathieu Cote and creative director Dave Richard offered an update on their multiplayer rework plans during a conversation with IGN at the Game Developers Conference 2026 (GDC). After…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":74654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74656,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74652\/revisions\/74656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}