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Initialization Error PS5
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Played a single game after the new update. The game ended saying that it did not record the match properly and to restart the game. The game was restarted now it says initialization error. The game has initialized incorrectly. It may not save your game properly restarting your game may resolve the…
type-O
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: its not really an issue, its just a type-O i thought i should let you all know about. in the deathslinger blighted cosmetic their is a space missing between withered and his on his torso description for it. it says "witheredhis skin" and it should say "withered his skin." PLATFORM: all STEP BY STEP…
Machine Learning is 40 sec
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Machine learning has a 40 sec duration instead of 45 at tier 3 PLATFORM: Steam PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: patch update logging in to the game VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Messed up Chucky POV
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: POV of Chucky is inside his head and trying to move the character makes the screen wobble and it is basically unplayable. It fixed itself after picking up a survivor (he was still). PLATFORM: PC (Steam) STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I was climbing up the longer right stairs in…
DROP OR CHOP challenge is broken for both killer and survivor
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: The DROP OR CHOP challenge from part 2 of the Haunted By Daylight challenges is not working. Dropping pallets while being chased does not count towards the 5 needed. Breaking pallets does not count towards the 5 needed. PLATFORM: PC
Are servers dying or something?
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Everything takes 4x longer to load, it takes ages before I can see my character or my teammates in lobby after the match, the tomes load for ages and I can't redeem any rewards or choose a challenge. PLATFORM: PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I loaded in and just used DBD as…
Chucky's Slice & Dice gets canceled when close to a window
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: When playing as Chucky in the 8.3.2 patch, trying to start Slice & Dice really close to a window to instantly initiate a Scamper cancels the power completely. PLATFORM: PC (Steam) STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Get close to a window, then try using Slice & Dice to initiate a…
Game not loading
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: the game won't load after the update and when it does it won't let me use the blood web PLATFORM:ps5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Even scoring broken in new and exciting ways.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Arcane dowsing rods are non-functional after update PLATFORM: XBox STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURRED: Arcane dowsing rod BP bonus is not applied after the match, effectively canceling out the increased scoring events in HbD (Just bring cake and don’t play the event, it’s a fumble) If…
Merged: Can't log into game after update
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Can't load into match.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: After players ready up for the Haunted by Daylight event and the countdown reaches 0 nothing happens for a few seconds. Then when the game goes to offering screen, no offerings are shown and the "you have been disconnected from game server" message appears. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON…
Deathslinger's REELING Broken AGAIN Against bots
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Bots cannot be reeled in in public matches. the side to side motion is just like the bots in custom game mode. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Patch notes claimed a partial fix... but the 25.10.2024 patch seems to have reverted it VIDEO: https://youtu.be/l4BaMCM3pCE
Sadako bugs still not fixed
I've already mentioned this from the ptb bug section But the sadako bugs where her demanifest invisibility last about 0.7 seconds instead of 1.2 It's been a few weeks since I last made the post and yet nothing was done with the release of this update which could've been a rather quick fix especially since you did fix her…
Channeling Emptiness Bug + minor work around
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: The Challenge "Channeling Emptiness" fromthe Haunted By Daylight Event Tome, does not register as completed when completed. When a Haunt injures a Survivor the tracker will appear and say it is completed. However when returning to the Archive Track to claim the challenge it is shown as not completed…
Sable Halloween Outfit Missing Belt
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Cosmetic Bug PLATFORM: PC None, found by users on discord. VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Wraith Unable to Swing
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Seemingly at random, Wraith becomes unable to perform a basic attack, and I've only seen this issue start to happen since the Hallowed By Daylight event started. The only fix is seemingly cloaking and uncloaking and my ability to attack is restored. I'm unsure what causes the attack itself to become…
Alan Wake Cosmetic Glitch
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: The ‘Inner Struggle’ cosmetic has been bugged for a few months now and I just remembered today to report it. When you’re on a generator or doing a gesture part of the beard will break and appear on the cheek instead. I took these screenshots today so it’s still in the game as of making this report.…
everybody with stuttering in game, what happen?
actually the game have stuttering in pc, this started time ago with dracula dlc, They say that the problem could be unreal engine 5 because it is not 100% optimized and causes problems in other games too
INSTANTLY FREEZES KILLER GAME AND DCs THEM!!!
In the forest map with a temple and it's raining and whatnot, there's a spot in the temple(it's a spot that leads to the ceiling and then only leads to a dropdown into the middle) where If survivors down themselves right at the ledge of the drop down, and the killer TRIES to pick them up, THEIR GAME INSTA FREEZES AND…
Kanami code does not give the charm
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE:so whenever I did the code it would not work and would not appear in my inventory I have done this 6 times and still nothing PLATFORM: Playstation 4 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED:Step 1:do the code step: 2 music plays step 3:not in inventor VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are…
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: PLATFORM: moblie STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: screen resolution is not working on the phone samsung galaxy z fold 6 buttons are overlapping and it make the game hard to play VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Xeno bug that allows unpunished tracking for survivor
All I did was drop my turret while someone was running into me and this happened I was able to replicate this as well
Yun-Jin Lee eyelid bug
Seemingly a simple Rigging/Animation bug in Yun-Jin Lee's eyelids, which I struggled to better capture in the picture bellow, presented in the event "Danse Macabre Cameo" outfit: Yun-Jin Lee's eyelids don't function correctly when she blinks during her menu interrupt animation. Her right eyelid fails to animate completely…
Game just frieze on his own and give u penalty ?!?!?
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: PLATFORM: PlayStation 5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: normal Gameplay just like on the video and the game freeze and give u a penalty ban ?!?!? VIDEO: https://youtu.be/QfgBSko9s5w?si=qONSNKfo1v--cOc0 PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Challenge does not work
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: In Tome 6 / Level 3 the challenge 'Means to an end' does not work for me. In multiple games I've reset several pallets and stunned the the killer with it, but it won't unlock. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC…
Party creation failed
SUMMARY: It happens when I try to connect to vpn while in lobby as a survivor, no issue with a killer lobby when I do so. After that error I cant play as a survivor (I click to play as a surv and this error pops all the time not allowing me to play as a surv), only way to fix this is to restart the game, same thing happens…
Void Crystals Obscure Nurse's Vision After Exiting a Cloud
SUMMARY: As Nurse, when blinking after exiting a smoke cloud your screen will be obscured by an opaque light blue screen/background. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP: This bug occurred in two different matches, twice in Haddonfield and once in Blood Lodge. If I entered or was within a smoke cloud whenever a survivor uses a Void…
"Big Baddie" outfit not playing the unique Modern Tales collection theme
The "Modern Tales" collection's lobby music theme does not play when equipping the newly-added "Big Baddie" outfit for The Trapper. PLATFORM: PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Purchase and equip the "Big Baddie" outfit for The Trapper. The default theme is playing instead of the Modern Tales theme.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Unable to play the game due to EAC client cannot be instantiated PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Map addons not appearing in game
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: It has to be a bug because even though you hate survivors you can’t surely have a blood web spawn rate of 0% for an item. I have gone through 245 bloodweb levels and no maps have appeared. Not a single one. There is no way that is luck of the draw, I have used different characters as well not just a…
Bug in event tome- I can see level 3
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I've found a bug that lets you se lever 3 in the event tome. You cant select any challanges, but hoover and see what they are. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I got here simply by choosing "go to event tome" in the event description.
BOON: BROKEN LEGS
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: There is a totem spawn on Shelter woods that's between two trees and a large rock. If this totem gets booned, the killer will get stuck in the area, jittering around everytime he tries to leave. He can check out anytime he wants, but he cannot leave Hotel California. I'm blaming Skull merchant for…
8.3.1 - Survivors don't gasp when picked up by Artist
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Whenever a survivor is picked up and/or dropped by the killer, they let out some sort of a 'gasp'. There are multiple per survivor. However, on Artist, this does not happen. I haven't given it much thought at all, and only recently started to pay attention to it. Going back in my library of…
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG charecters cause crash on geforce now
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: so basically any person who plays on geforce now cannot play as or with the following charecters or it crashes their game: Lara craft, Trevor Belmont, the dungeon and dragons charecters(idk their name) or their perks. PLATFORM: pc STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: as stated above as…
Lags while playing as Killer myself.
I've got massive lags while playing Killer myself. I've got this problems since the Castlevania chapter came out. I was able to play Killer without lags before. Sometimes I teleport or lag back, or hits don't connect. My screen freezes sometime too. While playing survivor everything is smooth. Attempted solutions; -…
Lit Totems at the Start of the Match
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: At the start of the match, there were lit Totems when there shouldn't have been as the perks I was running wouldn't have any active immediately. PLATFORM: Xbox STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I was playing as The Dark Lord and was running Hex: Plaything, Hex: Pentimento, Tinkerer,…
Clown Skin is broken by End Mori
"Thousand-Eyed Toad" Hillbilly has a seam around the waist
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: The outfit has a noticeable waist seam, made worse with anti-aliasing turned off. PLATFORM: PC (Steam) STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Preview the outfit in the store and turn it around to view the entire waist seam. VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS:
Crashing
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Every time i play, midway through the match my game crashes and disconnect me. Now i have a 48 hour ban for the second time because this stupid game just disconnects me. PLATFORM: PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: load into match either survivor or killer. Play for like 6 minutes…
the Unknown uses the female voice instead of the male voice when using his default (PS4)
The Unknown's voice is using the female voice instead of the usual male voice when using either hi default or prestige cosmetics. while I know this isn't much of a serious or game-breaking bug compared to the more recent ones, I want this to be acknowledged. ever since the release of Vecna, the unknown's voice seems to be…
Killer ping not shown correctly or ping indicator is broken
As you can see in this video the ping indicator for the killer shows a red ping, so the ping in the ESC menu should be above 200 ms. The killer ping in the ESC menu never got above 144ms. So the shown killer ping is wrong or the ping indicator is broken.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: The error is due to an unintended anti-cheat. I enter the game after a long period of non-activity in it, I downloaded DbD and then the error has appeared. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I just entered the game and the error appeared. VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player…
8.3.0 - Midwich upper floor vault is bugged
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: On Midwich, the upper floor vault that looks out over the courtyard is bugged. There is a strange, invisible collision there causing characters to get stuck and fall down very slowly. PLATFORM: PC, Steam, Windows 11 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Play on Midwich VIDEO: In this…
killer music is low the wind is way too high
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: well any of killer music is very low because audio of wind is too high its effects killers only and speakers and my tv audio it’s same way both of them i going to add video its effects most now on aliens music and spirits also see chucky too but chucky doesn’t effect that much just tested it on…
Vecna's power description doesn't fit on the screen
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Vecna's power description doesn't fit on the screen PLATFORM: any STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Select Vecna in lobby Hover over the power icon SCREENSHOT: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Game locks in loading in lobby when match found during bloodweb purchase
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Game locks in loading in lobby when match found during bloodweb purchase PLATFORM: STEAM STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: 1. Que for a match 2. Buy nodes on bloodweb 3. If match is found during animation, game stops working VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS:
Bug with Blight Serum Add-on for Blight
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Disabled Blight's ability completely and keeps you stuck in one spot if you hold the ability button. I think it only affects him since I haven't had this problem with any other killer. https://youtu.be/p_jjVMXF2rA?si=BxmP6rqlzeu70s7DPLATFORM: Console (Playstation) STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE…
PC - Snap out against Doctor randomly stops
I had this happen to me multiple times where it just stops before finishing so I had to press the mouse again. It isn't clear in the video because you cannot see my inputs. I moved after the bug occured because I was kind of taken back.
Plague projectile is not registering correctly
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Plague's Vile Purge seems to only register 50% of its ticks when hitting a survivor. It is taking me upwards of 5 or 6 streams of Vile Purge to fully infect survivors. This issue has coincided with the massive amount of desync that seems to be happening with the servers. I have hundreds of hours on…
Dissolution perk bugged on The Wraith
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Under certain conditions with certain addons, using the perk Dissolution on The Wraith will cause him to be unable to attack survivors until cloaking and uncloaking again. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: The Build used in the video below uses 2 add-ons which could be…

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