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Weaving Spiders does not activate on blocked gens
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: My friend brought weaving spiders and at first it looked like it worked but when I went to a gen that was blocked by corrupt intervention the gen was not missing 10% of its progress bar like it should. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: 1) Weaving spiders is used while…
Visual bug on Billy
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: - I'm not sure if this has been reported yet because I couldn't easily find a related thread. While Billy was charging with his chainsaw, his polys are all over the place. I think it's probably just the one skin you can see in the clip, but I have no idea what the skin is called. PLATFORM: - The…
Unhooked by DC'ing player causes lock and invulnerability
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: After being hooked in The Game map, a player ran up to unhook me and DC'd at the same time they finished the unhooking animation. This locked me in place and all I could do was move my camera but do nothing else while the killer hit me repeatedly and while it played the hit sound and caused blood to…
Steam Inventory Question Marks
I dont know how long this has been a thing now but feels like forever. All my DBD items in my steam inventory just has no picture on them. My friends have the same issue aswell and is also bugged on the mobile app aswell. I would really like this to be resolved
The Executioner's power causes big frame stuttering
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Every time The Executioner uses his judgement of the damned attack, I get stuttering for as long as a whole second screen freeze. No matter where he is on the map, it messes with skill checks and is unplayable against in chase. The problem used to only occur for me while I was playing as the killer…
The game closes automatically during EAC screen
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: When launching the game, it will bring up EAC screen and then shut down. When launching the game again, it will boot up correctly. Basically every other time the game just refuses to load. Happens to my friend as well. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Launch the game…
The Ghostface legs show in the main menu after logging in.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: With the classic Ghostface cosmetic equipped, log out of the game. Upon logging back in, you will see his legs showing 🦵 I attached a video. This only happens on the main menu, not in the Killer lobby Also, here's two screenshots: PLATFORM: PlayStation 5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE…
Masquerade unknown skin has wrong voice
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Masquerade Unknown Has Male voice lines for killer POV PLATFORM: Nintendo switch STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Whenever I play a game as Masquerade Unknown as killer I never hear their Female voice it only plays the male one VIDEO: I tried to record it off of my phone but it…
Delayed skill checks
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: PLATFORM: STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PS5 players only.
1 and 2 presets on bots in custom matches are tied
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: This issue is not new, sorry if it was already here. So if you chose perks on preset 1 on bots in custom matches, it will be mirrored in preset 2, and if you will change it in preset 2, it will be the same on preset 1. PLATFORM: PC, Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Enter…
Unhackable Skull Merchant Drone
I've known about this spot in front of Ormond Main for a long time but have never used it, if you swing around the invisible wall you can get on top of the bins outside of Ormond and actually deploy a drone on them. This drone is completely unhackable because only killers can get on top of the bin. This happens on every…
Kate's shorts are bugged/unnatural
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Kate's default shorts look unnatural/broken. It's been like this for more than a year. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: It's just how her shorts cosmetics have been for a while, whether in my game, or on streamers' games. VIDEO: Not a video, but it's not necessary.…
Wrong time unit translation in Traditional Chinese text
I've noticed a persistent issue with the Traditional Chinese translation for time units. Specifically, the word "minute" is consistently being translated as "month." This error results in misleading time displays, such as "End in 55 months ( 55 月 )" when the actual remaining time is only 55 minutes ( 55 分 ).
Tome/event timer being wrong
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: tome/event timer saying days instead of changin it to hours/minutes PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: went to tome and realised first it said 2 days left when at the 2 hours mark and went "huh thats weird, oh well" then when i went to claim a tome it said 53 minutes.…
8.3.2 - Troupe instrument bug in lobby
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: When having a character from The Troupe selected, in my case Baermar, something strange happens when you equip an item right as he's about to play the lute. The instrument gets fused to his hand as he assumes the new 'item holding' pose. This probably happens with Aestri as well as she shares the same…
Cant boot up the game
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: look i cant be the only person dealing with this ######### right now….i go to boot up the game and it shows the current tome and then nothing but black screen…its been 3 days whats going on? plus i dont know if my bhvr account is banned but i had to make a new one with my old email to make this post…i…
Graphics Settings
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I have to lower my graphic settings to stop desync or lag PLATFORM: STEAM STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Incorrect number of days left
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: The game displays the incorrect amount of time left in the Tome. It should be 15 hours, not 15 days. PLATFORM: Any STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED:
Incorrect Event Timers
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: When I view the event timer in the tome it states there are over 2 weeks left until it ends as of today (11/6/2024). I told my friend that we had a ton of time to finish and get all the rewards still and she asked if it got extended but when we searched the internet it said it was meant to end…
Sound being underwater
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Sometimes after loading into match audio sounds like being underwater PLATFORM: Playstation 5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Random VIDEO: https://youtu.be/U2fVOxME4K8?si=WWmz8-ycx7JbJ_mJ PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Disconnection after killing last Survivor
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I finished hooking the last Survivor in the match, the Entity animation finished, and a 4th skull appeared as shown in screenshots, but then nothing happened for about 10 seconds. I could walk around, swing my weapon, then I just disconnected and got penalized as if I had disconnected midmatch.…
finally fix controller on pc
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: its few years now and its anoying connect DS (ps5) controller when game is lunched, u cant use controller unless u click SETTINGS and go back with mouse ( sometimes this trick doesnt work ) or add controller support by default even Fall Guys has it with PS buttons on PC PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP…
Sound Muffled Entire Game on Ormond x2
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Loaded into the game, sound seemed fine, was behind a wall when I viewed another survivor drop a pallet, which sounded fine, and then went we went to main building gen, the noise sounded muffled directly, and turning your camera would mask the sound of the gen completely. Loaded into a second game on…
Flash bang has no audio
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I did test this the entire day in public matches. Under no circumstances do I hear any noise when someone drops a flash bang. No gasp for air from the survivor. Not the clip being pulled, not even the explosion. The lack of sound lead to many undeserved flash bang safes. And I mean it the way it's…
The Spirit's terror radius incorrectly fades out from her husk while she is phasing
When the Spirit begins a phase walk, her husk normally retains her terror radius until the husk disappears (when she stops phasing). I'm not sure what patch this broke in, but for a while now the husk's terror radius has begun to gradually fade out and become smaller until being reduced to nothing (very similar to how…
Chuckys camera stuck
Randomly while playing I was unable to rotate the camera more than say 45 degrees and was forced to walk backwards for most of the game. Xbox, happened to a mate on PlayStation as well tho For me it happened after I broke a pallet, for my mate it occurred when stunned in slice & dice. Dont have a video
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE:wrong date on haunted by daylight archive missions PLATFORM: xbox STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: when I go into the haunted by daylight archives it says 23 days not 23 hours. Just wanted to let you guys know so that there aren't ppl that actually still think they have 23 days left…
After downloading easy anti-cheat, the game does not start.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: After starting the game, easy anti-cheat is turned on, the download takes place, then he writes waiting for the game and closes. After that, the Explorer does not work, as does the task dispatcher. After 10-16 minutes of waiting, errors come out. One of the errors in the picture. PLATFORM: PS STEP BY…
Bot spawned in void portal, turned invisible, did not move
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: A survivor disconnected in a map, that's fair. Not sure why, they weren't losing. But then i started getting noise notifications from nowhere. When I attacked the spot the noises were coming from, it acted like I had hit and downed a survivor. The game then let me carry them to a hook. They were…
Spectating bugs audio
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Spectating softens audio until app restart PLATFORM: PlayStation 5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Spectate another player in an online match VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Ghostface visual glitch
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: PS5 there is a visual glitch where ghost faces mark doesn’t show on the HUD but it still counts
Good guy camera lock
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: when using slice and dice and getting stunned from the side the camera locks making you unable to look left or right. PLATFORM: ps5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: using slice and dice and being stunned by a pallet whilst sideways to it. VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required…
Lampkin Lane, Viktor out of map
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: U can get out of map with viktor PLATFORM: Pc STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: 1. just go to main and then on the Roof 2. From there u just jump out of map, Voilla VIDEO:
Scratch marks not appearing
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: during the DBD Halloween event survivors will sometimes lose all scratch marks for the remainder of the match. PLATFORM: Steam. STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: unsure what is the cause but likely linked to the event smoke bomb item and the effect of hiding scratch marks becoming…
BRÈVE DESCRIPTION DU BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: PLATFORM: PS5 PLAYER LOGS: There is no music background like on the PS4 menu on the ps5 menu
Stuck moving in place remaining of the trial
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Survivor gets stuck after throwing smoke bomb and unable to move out of place the remaining of the trial. PLATFORM: PC/Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: 1) Throwing smoke bomb near a corner of RPD in the STARS Office area by the generator VIDEO: Clip 1 - (Shows how and where…
The Nightmare Animation Bugs
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Whenever you're playing against Freddy (The Nightmare), his third person animations from the survivors POV are bugged. You mainly see it during his basic lunge attack animation and his successful basic attack cool down. They look like his first person animations where his clawed hand hangs in front of…
Freddy Arm and body distorting when he performs actions, attacks, carried survivor etc.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Freddy (The Nightmare) Arm and body distorting when he performs actions, attacks, carried survivor etc. PLATFORM: All? Duh. STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Play against The Nightmare. Duh.
jailor get stuck in main hall of rpd east wing
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: jailor keeps running into wall in main hall rpd east wing PLATFORM: pc STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: unknown VIDEO: n/a PLAYER LOGS: n/a Player logs are required from PC players only.
Scratch Marks do not appear after leaving smoke bomb
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: After entering the smoke sphere, leaving it leaves scratch marks invisible for the remainder of the trial. All of the survivors have no scratch marks, not just Ada. This has happened a few time before, that I do not have on tape. PLATFORM: PC/STEAM STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURRED:…
Power Struggle is broken
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I've been running power struggle as of late, and it marks pallets that have already been destroyed PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Get downed, power struggled reveals pallets and also shows pallets that have already been broken VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are…
All Platforms - The audio issues are getting out of hand now
Ever since 8.2.0, footsteps have been way quieter on certain surfaces, certain footware make significantly less sound overall, flashbangs and firecrackers no longer make noise when not in line of sight, maps like Midwich and Saloon produce ZERO footstep audio (Saloon is the biggest offender). This isn't a "please provide…
Bug: Nostromo Wreckage Realm When Playing Nurse
Not gonna lie this is the most hated realm for nurses. It has so many bugs. For the killer shack, once you blink in at a certain angle, you are stuck there for some time (2:55) till you angle it right on blink and then you can get out. There's also probs blinking to the outside of it while your down in basement. It's so…
Arcane Dowsing Rods Disabled
My game crashed on PC, Steam, and when I loaded back in the rods were disabled and I could not equip them. The same thing happened to the other survivors I was grouped with at the time Edit; nevermind lol loaded into the wrong mode
Locker grab turning into M1?
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I was playing on Midwich as survivor and was hiding in a locker in the room next to the exit (opposite side from the office). I was injured. The killer, Deathslinger, came by, heard my moans, tried to bait a possible Head On (which I was not running). He went up to the locker and I am not sure how it…
Alt-tab cause Crashing after Update?
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Game had ended, I said goodbye to the survivors and then I alt-tabed to check something and then Unreal Crashed. I'm making a post here with the first time it crashed, in case I can get it to crash again, then I will provide better info. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED:…
No Event items have their own node in p100/lvl 50 bloodweb
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: p100/lvl 50 bloodweb does not have haunted by daylight flashlight and medkits as their own node. They only appear rarely in the mystery boxes but the offering and addons have their own node in the bloodweb along with coming in the mystery boxes. PLATFORM: Xbox Series X STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW…
huntress hits not registering through small gaps
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: huntress hatchets hits do not register through any small gap. they used to work but no longer do as of around the dracula chapter. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: huntress hatchet hits are not registering through small areas. the splash sound is made and the…
Game acrashing Constantly Since 2V8 ended.
Pc Ever since 2v8 ended, the game has been crashing consistently every day multiple times. Even worse, it sometimes even causes a blue screenand the whole pc restarts. This only happens with DBD. I never have this issue unless I start playing it. One of my friends (also on pc) has also been experiencing this a lot lately.…
Constant Crashing Since Latest Update
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Ever since the most recent update, I can't get through a single match before the game freezes. PLATFORM: PC - Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Launch Dead by Daylight. Play one or two matches. The game crashes during one of these matches. VIDEO: Can't record one because I've…

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