Spine Chill is a General Perk available to all Survivors.

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Cost

2,500

3,250

4,000

Description

This description is based on the changes announced for or featured in the upcoming Patch 7.1.0

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:

• Warns of the Killer's proximity and their potential awareness of your location by lighting its icon.
• Increases your Action speeds for Blessing, Cleansing, Gate-Opening, Healing, Repairing, Sabotaging, Unhooking, and Unlocking by 2/4/6 %.
  • This effect lingers for 0.5 seconds after the Killer loses Line of Sight or exits the Activation range.

"There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.." — Sassy, The Lost Tapes

History

• 7.1.0
• 6.1.0
• 2.6.2
• 1.0.0

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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:

• Warns of the Killer's proximity and their potential awareness of your location by lighting its icon.
• Increases your Action speeds for Blessing, Cleansing, Gate-Opening, Healing, Repairing, Sabotaging, Unhooking, and Unlocking by 2/4/6 %.
  • This effect lingers for 0.5 seconds after the Killer loses Line of Sight or exits the Activation range.

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Description

An unnatural tingle warns you of impending doom.

Whenever the Killer is within 36 metres of your location, Spine Chill activates:

• Warns of the Killer's proximity and their potential awareness of your location by lighting its icon.
• If the Terror Radius is audible, Spine Chill indicates its intensity, and thus the Killer's proximity, on its icon by adjusting the Cool-down timer.
• If the Killer has Line of Sight on you, Spine Chill increases your Action speeds for Blessing, Cleansing, Gate-Opening, Healing, Repairing, Sabotaging, Unhooking, and Unlocking by 2/4/6 %.
  • This effect lingers for 0.5 seconds after the Killer loses Line of Sight or exits the Activation range.

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Description

An unnatural tingle warns you of impending doom.

Whenever the Killer is within 36 metres of your location and facing in your direction, Spine Chill activates:

• Increases your Action speeds for Cleansing, Gate-Opening, Healing, Repairing, Sabotaging, Searching, Unhooking, and Vaulting by 2/4/6 %.
• Increases the chances of triggering a Skill Check by +10 %.
• Reduces the size of the Skill Check Success Zone by -10 %.

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Description

An unnatural tingle warns you of impending doom.

Whenever the Killer is within 12/24/36 metres of your location and facing in your direction, Spine Chill activates:

• Increases your Action speeds for Cleansing, Gate-Opening, Healing, Repairing, Sabotaging, Searching, Unhooking, and Vaulting by 2/4/6 %.
• Increases the chances of triggering a Skill Check by +10 %.
• Reduces the size of the Skill Check Success Zone by -10 %.

Change Log

Patch 2.6.2

• Buff: increased the Activation range from a variable 12/24/36 metres to a fixed 36 metres.

Patch 3.3.0

• Indirect Buff: now also activates if the Killer is cloaked by the Undetectable Status Effect.

Patch 6.1.0

• Rework: replaced the Skill Check modifiers with an accessibility mechanic that indicates the intensity of the Killer's Terror Radius on the Perk's icon.
  • This change was motivated by complaints from the hard-of-hearing regarding the 6.1.0 PTB version of Spine Chill.
    Since they had relied on the original version of Spine Chill as a replacement for being unable to hear the Terror Radius.
    This change was temporary and ultimately removed from Spine Chill, once the Visual Terror Radius was implemented.
  • Quality of Life: added a brief Linger effect to stop the icon from flickering and to make the Action Speed bonus more consistent.
  • Nerf: the Action Speed bonus now only activates if the Killer has direct Line of Sight to the Perk User.
    Previous, it sufficed if the Killer faced in their direction, including through walls.
  • Nerf: no longer affects the Vaulting speed, as the Developers decided that it did not fit the theme of the Perk.

Patch 7.1.0

• Reversal: removed the temporary Terror Radius indicator.
• Nerf: now only activates if the Killer is both within range and has clear Line of Sight.

Trivia

• "Sassy" was a member of the original moderator team on the Dead by Daylight Steam Forum.
• The flavour text is a quote that was originally penned by Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet.

Killers

• Victor from The Twins is immune against Spine Chill, as he is technically Charlotte's Power.
• The Dredge can be detected by Spine Chill even when it is hiding inside a Locker.

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