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Initialization error or no network connection
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I try and log on and I get initialization error or no network connection. It says saved game error and says error code :0. I haven’t been able to log on all morning. PLATFORM: ps5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: my internet is working fine . My PlayStation premium is active . I…
EAC Client Cannot Be Instantiated
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: The game starts but I can't get to the menu PLATFORM: PC I've tried resintalling the game, restarting the pc, deleting easyanticheat folder, doing a sfc /scannow on command prompt and reverify the integrity of the files. nothing seems to work. i played the game in the afternoon and it was fine. just…
Feng Min's Head Cosmetics Bugged
There are 2 Feng Min's heads that are bugged since the day of their release in Tome 14 The bug is in the heads of these 2 skins: It is also in the premium variation: It looks like hair chopsticks are going through his head. I hope you fix it soon please, I really like this hair and it's been like this for almost 2 years 😭🙏
Gideon Meat Plant - Survivor can get inside wall
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: In the room above Bathroom/Basement in Gideon Meat Plant, survivor appears to be able to walk into the geometry of this wall. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: As above, simply walk into the wall, doesn't seem to need special steps to force themself in.
Artist's legendary cosmetic 'Miss Fuchi' much quieter when summoning crows
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Artist's new legendary cosmetic, Miss Fuchi, appears to be much quieter when she sets up crows in comparison to her regular cosmetics. This may give an advantage when Survivors have no line of sight of her in chase. Below are two videos for comparison. PLATFORM: PC, Steam, Windows 11 STEP BY STEP…
White flash when using lightborn vs blastmine
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I've noticed over time that a white flash appears that covers the screen when kicking blastmine with lightborn. It's been getting progressively worse over the past couple of months now lasting a whole second. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: VIDEO:…
Hook counter/progress bar animation issue
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: First hook displayed second hook animation/second hook progress bar PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: 1. Was playing vs. Oni on…whichever map this was. Don't remember the name. 2. Got hooked for the first time. 3. The hook animation showed the Entity's claws, and my…
stuck in madness tier 3 against doctor
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: While playing against the Doctor, I was unable to "snap out of it" and was stuck in madness tier 3 for the majority of the game. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I was put into madness tier 3 during chase and then was hooked. After being unhooked, I was unable to…
Dance With Me activated by other survivors
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Dance With Me activates and then goes on cooldown when another survivor performs a rushed vault. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Equip the perk Dance With Me Enter a match Wait for another survivor to perform a rushed vault Observe perk in HUD activate and then go on…
Friend list - Pending Requests bugged
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I cannot completely cancel pending requests PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I go to the Friends section -> Friend requests -> I press Cancel on a person and the request is removed. On the next restart of the game, the request reappears.
Hikizuris' Dark Past Twins Skin Wrong Sounds
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: The new Junji Ito twins skin uses the wrong sound effects. When Charlotte walks, vaults, etc you can hear the metallic rattling of pots and pans. This is appropriate on some of her other skins, but clearly not for this skin as she's carrying a little girl on her back instead. It should have the same…
Clipping through wall
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: one of the survivors were able to hide in the wall. It on the game map above the restroom area in the corner near the lockers and pallets. PLATFORM: Xbox series s STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: choose the game map and go toward the bug area. VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are…
Lady stuck in locker
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: lady got stuck in locker, I couldn't get her put neither PLATFORM: xbox s STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: She was definitely leggy, kinda instant transmission all over the place, saw her go in locker then noticed she was in and not in the locker VIDEO:…
Haddie's hair on "Slouchy Beanie" clips into her head
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Haddie's hair on this head clips into her head, making it look like she has a reverse mohawk. Someone extracted the model and the hair is literally just shoved into her head and could be fixed in seconds by pushing it back on the Z axis. PICTURE:
Sadako/Onryo's Demanifestated invisibility duration is still bugged (also Reiko's watch).
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: the Demanifested invisibility duration, and the one of Reiko's watch, are still broken. The video below explains the issue in detail very well. PLATFORM: Steam, and all other platforms. STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: play Sadako in a custom game. VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: None.
Resilience Perk Missing Text
PLATFORM: PC/Steam This is just missing text so not much context other than a screenshot is necessary. If you read the last part 'and unlocking while injured.' The word chests is missing after unlocking. It should be 'and unlocking chests while injured.'
Dedicated server disconnect
Mid match I got kicked from the game with the error "Dedicated server isn't responding" Xbox Series S Random occurrence no instructions to recreate it.
Dracula locked out of snowskulls when shapeshifted
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Dracula only able to use snowskulls in Vampire form. Whether this is by design or not, it should be fixed. Let the dog play in the snow! PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Have snowskulls, be dracula as wolf or bat, snowskull is unavailable. PLAYER LOGS:
Nightmare Sticks On Specific Gen On Badham After Teleport
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: There is a specific gen on Badham that is sandwiched between a tree and a mailbox along the road between the shack and two-story house on Badham (wish I had looked to see which Badham variant number). Every time the Nightmare teleports to it he gets stuck and can only get free when teleport cooldown…
Bots standing on/blocking Pinhead's box from being picked up
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Bots are blocking Pinhead's box when you approach, this happened multiple times in the same match. The bot almost refused to do anything other than guard the box but wouldn't pick it up PLATFORM: Xbox Series X STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: VIDEO:
New Ormond map has really bad frame rate for Xbox players
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: the new map is beautiful but when playing on it as survivor and killer (on Xbox) I get horrible frame drops, especially in the main building and the underground mine. Turning my camera back and forth to look in front and behind causes the game to stutter and kinda freeze because the frames drop the…
Stuck on 'Wiggle' and killer couldn't hit anyone or drop me
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Stuck on 'Wiggle' and killer couldn't hit anyone or drop me/hook me/or be stunned PLATFORM: PC / Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Dracula killer used his flame power to down me at killer shack on Dead Dawg Saloon. There was a boon nearby that I was using to recover faster. The…
spirit end result skin
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Spirits skin called seifuku causes her front to see like skirt was pushed away PLATFORM:PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: use school uniform causes bug sorry if there was same bug reported but didn’t see one and i added photo end result so can see it
Plot Twist not working.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: when I press the button to activate plot twist my character instead stands up and then crouches again PLATFORM: PlayStation 5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I pressed square to use plot twist while I was injured and instead he just stood back up VIDEO:
Dedicated Server not Responding; Disconnecting
I've repeated had this occur to me today in my matches, not only is this issue rampant today but this is an ongoing issue that seems to be getting worse by each day. The developer team really should consider a server maintenance of sorts because I'm quite sick of getting a match penalty adding up to 30+ mins because the…
ZARINA MURDER MILL SHIRT
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: the icon for Zarina's Murder mill frank stone shirt is of the iron maiden shirt, this isn't a one and done glitch, this is just the icon in general PLATFORM: xbox STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: purchase TCOFS deluxe - link behavior account and all that to get dbd items - when the…
Jagged Compas doesn't show most progressed generator as dredge
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: When I tested the new Perk Jagged Compas I realized quickly that sometimes a Pain Res token is consumed but no generator is highlighted on the map. Just for it to complete a few seconds later. I don't know why this happens or how to reproduce it but it happened a few times now. The more concerning…
Completed tomes are resetted to uncompleted and anew
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Some of the tomes that I have completed and have received the rewards of are now completely reset to when they were how I started out this game. PLATFORM: PC - Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I logged on Dead By Daylight I opened the compendium I looked at my tomes Checked…
Ghost Face camera is missing during his mori
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Ghost Face camera is missing during his mori. PLATFORM: All Platforms STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Perform his mori. VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Stuck as killer
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Got stuck as trapper PLATFORM: xbox s STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Survivor triggered a trap while vaulting a window to flee after unhooking someone. I followed them through the window and successfully hit them, but I became stuck afterward. Their SWF group was running around me…
Pallet bug
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Got hit by pallet a mile away, and then it was unbreakable PLATFORM: xbox s STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I was xeno, stood away from pallet on purpose as I was about to use tail, only for survivor to throw pallet and somehow hit me, and then pallets unbreakable. VIDEO:…
Rebecca Chambers Hair: Broken again. Only affecting Nintendo Switch.
Good morning As you can see Rebecca’s hair isn’t right and is not giving her normal bangs. To my knowledge this is only affecting the Nintendo switch version of the game. This has been in the game for the past two recent updates & hot fixes.
Skull Merchant Tracking Bug Big Square Blob when Tracking (Nintendo Switch)
Good morning. So this bug has been in the game for Skull Merchant for the Nintendo Switch only for at least for 3 months aka 3 patches worth and still no fix. As you can see, When someone is able to be tracked it’s completely blocked out by white square blob on her tracker. Making her power fundamentally useless in chase.…
I don’t recive the bloodpoints after a game or from the tasks
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: PLATFORM: Nintendo Switch STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I don't get my blood points after the game rounds or when I complete the tasks I don't get the blood points either. I was not given over 250000 blood points :(
Cosmetic's on account that is not supposed to be there.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: PLATFORM: PS5 My son has Cosmetics he is not supposed to have. He plays on PS5 and he is very new to the game. maybe a couple weeks of game play? He has shirts like the 2017 crew shirt and twitch shirts. I don't want him to get banned for having these kind of cosmetics that he is not supposed to have.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Mistletoe offering not giving me the correct Bloodpoints PLATFORM: PPC (Steam) STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I put the mistle toe offering and will hit snowballs to max, risky rivalry (high fiving snowman) to max, and get scared to max and still only get 40k BP match total, even…
Game crashes randomly mid-game to error screen
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: the game crashes randomly (happened 3 times in a row today) to the error report screen PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: i played killer (Spirit) in the event queue VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
100% Disk Usage Causes Lags.
Since the last update, the game uses 100% of my HDD, but when I wait in the main menu for a few minutes, disk usage stabilizes, and the game works normally without lags. I haven't tried it on my SSD, so I'm not sure if the SSD experiences heavy usage too.
Pressing "CONTINUE" too fast counts as a DC
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: If you spam the "CONTINUE" button, it counts as a DC… PLATFORM: PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: 1) Play a match 2) Spam the "CONTINUE" button 3) Voila
Survivor stuck in wiggle pick up animation
This bug has now happened 4 matches in a row now and has occurred multiple times over the past few days. This bug doesn't allow you to drop, hook the survivor, the wiggle animation is infinite. I even had it in a match for downing the first person and had the other 3 survivors finish the gens, leave out the gate so EGC…
Game crashing from blood web
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I’ll be leveling up in the blood web and it keeps getting stuck on the loading point and my game crashes and goes back to the start screen. Everyone on ps5 that I play with experiences this glitch PLATFORM: PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: A lot of the time when I go to level up…
demogorgon teleport crash pc
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: When I leave a portal with the demogorgon the PC restarts and the game penalizes me, I think it happens if I press the buttons to walk while I teleport between portals. windows 11 24H2, recently formatted pc, PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Place 2 portals 2…
Murder Mill shirts wrong icon
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: While in owned cosmetics, your murder mill shirts will be shown as the iron maiden shirts. Still normally usable tho. PLATFORM: ps5/any STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: clicked on survivor, clicked on cosmetics, clicked on chest, wrong icon
PC (Epic) - Blurry Graphics since 7.2.0
Ever since the new DLC update, my Quality: Ultra and Resolution: 100 graphics have been blurry. When i change to Medium 100 res its no longer blurry, it seems although my ultra shows 100 res its locked in at something else. I've messed around with changing dif settings, spamming settings and editing my user settings to no…
Some of Spirit’s head pieces are bugged
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Head pieces of certain outfits are bugged which causes them to look really unappealing. PLATFORM: All STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Equip said head pieces to see. VIDEO: No videos but i have photos: ( first two images are the head pieces of both outfits “ Lonely Celebration “ and…
Game won't load back to menu
The game has gone to a black screen during the post-game chat and refused to load back to the main menu after pressing continue. You can still hear the sound effects during the character walk cycle. You have no choice but to quit out of the game externally and lose the blood point gains from the match. Steam (PC)
Jagged compass bug
Jagged compass bug. this bug has happen many times in my matches and is either a visual bug or and actual bug. Jagged compass gives me multiple scourge hooks giving the jagged compass effect of showing the aura of the gen with the most progress or sometimes it be a visual bug changing all hook auras to be scourge I have…
the game version is invalid
I've just installed DBD except that it says the game version is invalid even though I've installed the latest version I'm on Steam Pc windows 10
Graphical settings not saving
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Whenever I open the game, it sets itself to Fullscreen, turns AA on and turns off FSR, this started happening a few days ago, I need to reset it back everytime I open the game ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTION: I always set my FSR on, turn off AA and set the game to Windowed Fullscreen, but ever since a few days…
Invincible spot on Backwater Swamp (Grim Pantry)
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Spot on the map where survivor can't be hit. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Occurred real time in game but was recreated in custom game. Step 1 load into the map (with correct rng), step 2 have survivor stand on intended spot, step 3 survivor cannot be hit within…

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