Surge is a Unique Perk
belonging to The Demogorgon
.
Prestige The Demogorgon to Prestige 1, 2, 3 respectively to unlock Tier I, Tier II, Tier III of Surge for all other Characters.
History
Whenever you put a Survivor into the
Dying State with your
Basic Attack,
Surge triggers its effect:
- Causes all Generators within 32 metres of your location to instantly explode and start regressing.
- Instantly regresses all affected Generators by 6/7/8 %.
Whenever you put a Survivor into the
Dying State with your
Basic Attack,
Surge triggers its effect:
- Causes all Generators within 32 metres of your location to instantly explode and start regressing.
- Instantly regresses all affected Generators by -8 %.
Jolt has a cooldown of
60/
50/
40 seconds.
Identical to the previous version, except that it was renamed to Jolt due to the license having left until Patch 7.3.3.
Whenever you put a Survivor into the
Dying State with your
Basic Attack,
Surge triggers its effect:
- Causes all Generators within 32 metres of your location to instantly explode and start regressing.
- Instantly regresses all affected Generators by -8 %.
Surge has a cooldown of
60/
50/
40 seconds.
Change Log
- Retired: with the departure of CHAPTER 13: Stranger Things from Dead by Daylight, Surge was reworked into a General Killer Perk: Jolt
.
- For Players who had owned CHAPTER 13: Stranger Things before its removal, Jolt would still show the original flavour text in the description and the Character association with The Demogorgon.
- Buff: removed the cool-down from the Perk.
- Nerf: instead of a fixed penalty of -8 % across all Tiers, Surge (then Jolt) now applies a tiered penalty of 6/7/8 %.
- Undocumented Buff: Survivors now scream in addition to being interrupted by the exploding Generator.
- Change: is now once again a Unique Perk.
- Change: does not trigger a Loud Noise Notification if no Progression is lost on a Generator.
- This change is due to the addition of a limit to how often individual Generators can experience a Regression event.
Trivia
- The Regression Penalty of Surge is not applied on top of the default Regression Penalty of a Failed Skill Check (10 %), it replaces it.
- This also applies to Generators that are already regressing.
- The penalty is fixed, meaning Surge will only apply its stated percentage and not stack on top of the default penalty of a Failed Skill Check, as some Players believe.
- Since any affected Generators start regressing automatically, Surge conflicts with using Pop Goes the Weasel
or Overcharge
.
- It does, however, activate Surveillance
on Generators affected by it.
