Here’s what to expect from the Ringu update.
The Sadako Rising Chapter for Dead By Daylight brings everyone’s favorite terrifying ghost girl from Ringu back, and there’s plenty to learn about this spectral assassin.
First off, while Sadako Rising isn’t coming out formally until March 8, 2022, switching to Dead By Daylight’s Public Test Build (PTB) will give you access to Sadako Yamamura and Yoichi Asakawa, the new Killer and survivor characters, respectively, well ahead of the chapter’s launch. To access the PTB, simply right-click Dead By Daylight’s Steam launcher, select ‘properties,’ click on the ‘betas’ tab, and opt into the PTB build via the dropdown menu, and voila!
Sadako Abilities
Like every other Killer in Dead By Daylight, Sadako’s formal title is “The Onryō,” so any description mentioning “Onryō” is about Sadako.
The Onryō’s Power: Deluge of Fear
Before Manifesting, The Onryō gains the Undetectable status effect and is invisible to Survivors, but becomes intermittently visible when she’s within 32 meters of them.
Special Ability: Manifestation
The Onryō must physically manifest to attack Survivors. Press and hold the power button to Manifest into material form in your current position. For a brief duration after Manifesting, The Onryō will continue to be intermittently visible to Survivors when she’s within 32 meters for as long as she remains Manifested. The Onryō can Demanifest by pressing and holding the power button.
Special Ability: Projection
The Onryō can also take physical form by Projecting herself through a TV. Press the ability button while looking at a powered TV to Project into it, shutting the TV off in the process. All Survivors within 16 Meters of the TV gain Condemned progress. A fully Condemned Survivor is reveal by Killer Instinct and can be killed once downed.
Sadako Perks
Scourge Hook: Floods of Rage
- You form a psychic connection with The Entity and alter the rules of the trial.
- At the start of the trial, up to four random hooks are changed into scourge hooks. You see their auras in white.
- When a Survivor is unhooked from a scourge hook, all other Survivors have their auras revealed for five seconds.
Merciless Storm
- Your horrible trauma is felt by everyone.
- When a generator reaches 90 percent progress, Survivors working on the generator will be faced with continuous Skill Checks. If they miss or stop repairing, the generator is blocked for 16 seconds.
- Merciless Storm can only trigger once per generator per trial.
Call of Brine
- Your psychic abilities influence technology in devastating ways.
- After damaging a generator, this perk becomes active for 60 seconds.
- The generator regresses at 150 percent of the normal regression speed, and its aura is revealed to you.
- Each time a Survivor completes a good Skill Check on a generator affected by this perk, you receive a loud noise notification.
Yoichi Asakawa Perks
What would a Ringu update be without Yoichi? He’s all grown up from the original 1998 film and ready to remind Sadako that nobody watches VHS tapes anymore.
Boon: Dark Theory
- Your obsessive study of the paranormal has given you unparalleled knowledge of other realms and planes of existence.
- Press and hold the ability button near a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a Boon Totem. Soft chimes echo out in a 24-meter range.
- Any Survivors within the Boon Totem’s range gain a 2 percent Haste status effect. This effect lingers for 2 seconds after leaving the Boon Totem’s range.
- You can bless one Totem at a time. All equipped boon perks are active on your Boon Totem.
Empathic Connection
- Your presence psychically projects itself to Survivors in danger.
- Whenever another Survivor is injured, they can see your aura within 32 meters.
- You heal other Survivors 10 percent faster.
Parental Guidance
- You have inherited the ability to hear the dead, and now, the dead warn you of danger.
- After stunning the Killer, your scratch marks, pools of blood, and grunts of pain are hidden for 8 seconds.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
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