Spine Chill is a General Perk available to all Survivors.
Description
An unnatural tingle warns you of impending doom.
Whenever the Killer is within 36 metres of your location and looking at you with a clear line of sight, Spine Chill activates:
- Increases your Action speeds in Repairing, Healing, Sabotaging, Unhooking, Cleansing, Blessing, Opening, and Unlocking by 2/4/6 %.
- This effect lingers for 0.5 seconds after the Killer loses line of sight or exits the range.
History
Change Log
Patch 2.6.2
- Buff: increased the activation range to 36 metres across all Tiers.
Patch 3.3.0
- Indirect Buff: now works against Killers cloaked by the Undetectable Status Effect.
Patch 6.1.0
- Buff: now lights its icon whenever a Killer is within 36 metres, regardless of whether they are Undetectable or not.
- Change: removed the increased Skill Check Probability.
- QoL: added a mechanic that reveals the current intensity of the Killer's Terror Radius.
- This change was motivated by complaints from the heard-of-hearing regarding the PTB version, who relied on the previous version of Spine Chill as a replacement for the Terror Radius.
This change will be temporary and be removed from Spine Chill once it has been implemented as a base mechanic.
- This change was motivated by complaints from the heard-of-hearing regarding the PTB version, who relied on the previous version of Spine Chill as a replacement for the Terror Radius.
- QoL: added a brief Linger duration of 0.5 seconds to stop the icon from flickering and make the Action speed buff more consistent.
- Nerf: the Action speed bonus now only activates when the Killer has direct line of sight to you.
- Nerf: no longer affects Vaulting speed, as the Developers decided that it didn't fit the theme of the Perk.
Patch 7.1.0
- Change: removed the visual representation of the Killer's Terror Radius.
- This is due to the Visual Terror Radius being implemented as a base mechanic.
- Nerf: now only lights its icon if the Killer is both within range AND has a clear line-of-sight to the Perk user.
Additional Interaction Speeds
- Rescuing another Survivor from a Hook, or Bear Trap.
- Attempting to free yourself from a Hook, or Bear Trap.
- Searching a Jigsaw Box.
- Snap Out Of It progression from being afflicted by Madness Tier III.
Trivia
- "Sassy" was a member of the original moderator team on the Dead by Daylight Steam Forum.
- Spine Chill applies its effects regardless of elevation.
- Spine Chill does not work against Victor as the Game does not technically consider him a Killer entity.
- The flavour text is a quote that was originally penned by Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet.
- Spine Chill also activates if The Dredge is inside a Locker within activation distance and looking at you.
Video
Old Spine Chill's effects (pre-6.1.0) | |
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Cleansing a Totem with Spine Chill activated | Repairing a Generator |
Opening a Chest | |