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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Physically cannot play the game anymore. I'm on PS5, partner is on XBOX X, both of us have had issues repeatedly for the last hour and a half. Have finally been able to get into two rounds and after completing both rounds, was kicked out with 0 points, and no event tome progress. Now event tome is not…
F11 LOCKER BUG TECH
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: In a match if you consecutively press f11 while rushing in and exiting a locker, there is a chance that you get bugged and be inside the locker and you are invulnerable but cannot do nothing PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Search for a locker, while perfoming a rushed…
Sable Ward cosmetics glitch.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: The head texture "Elusive Thought" from "Winged Interlude" outfit doesn't match skin tone and has empty space with all open neck torso cosmetics. Here is the list of all cosmetics that I noticed: 1. "Timely Swimsuit" from "Whimsical Weather" 2. "Brightest Skull-Queen" from "Drowned Angel" 3. "Darkest…
Fast Vaulting a dropped pallet visually redrops it (2vs8)
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: When fast vaulting a dropped pallet multiple times in a row in 2 vs 8 the pallet visually pops back up and drops again (the pallet drop sound also plays). The killer did not get stunned, it seems to be purely visual, everything else is just handled like a normal fast vault. PLATFORM: PC / Steam STEP…
2V8 Mode Killer attacks not Registering
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I was watching my friend play 2v8 As Killer and quite a few times she would hit the survivor, the survivor would scream, there would be the blood animatic and weapon wipe, but the survivor continued on like nothing happened. It was very obnoxious seeing, and it has happened many times over the course…
Vecna Tome Challenge Interaction
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I use the Xbox One S version of the game. When the Lich kills a survivor using the "Recover Artifact" interaction, it does not grant progress towards tome challenges that require you to "Kill the Obsession by any means," such as the Obsessive challenges.
Pallet and trappers trap in 2v8
The placement of the traps by a pallet, if you try to disarm it, the option for pulling the pallet pops up instead getting you stuck in the trap instead. It happed 3 times on my last match.
Adam's Nostalgic Varsity Jacket weirdly shaped?
PLATFORM: Pc The torso cosmetic for adam (Nostalgic Varsity Jacket) look's like its model is weirdly shaped? I'm pretty sure it's looked different when it first came out. i don't know if this was intentional or not but it has been bothering me for quite some time and so i decided to report it. Here are some before and…
Means to an end not working
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Means to an end not working at all PLATFORM: PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: stuning killer with reset pallet in many games doesnt count in challege. Video for example. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VhzCYAyOtw PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
hillbilly adept achievement in ps5 didn’t received it
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: well hillbilly achievement in ps5 don’t work just killed all in The Decimated Borgo The Shattered Square PLATFORM: PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: just play hillbilly with own perks i added photos VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Vecna's hand bug
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: After teleporting using Vecna's hand I got stuck in the locker until a teammate interacted with it. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: 1. Obtain Vecna's hand. 2. Perform a rushed action in a locker. 3. Get stuck and the exit locker interaction doesn't work. VIDEO:…
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…
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…
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…
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:
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.…
EAC faulty
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Just got a new PC, downloaded DBD and the game wont run at all. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Launch sends my PC (brand new) into BSOD, I've been through all the fixes, drivers are up to date, etc. In the local files, I cannot even get EAC to launch when run as…
BUG son
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: PLATFORM: steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Locker visual glitch + potentially stuck in locker
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I was playing a match as normal and came across a survivor half in a locker. PLATFORM: PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I had just teleported using Dracula’s bat power, I had his Lapis Lazuli and Medusa's Hair add-ons equipped and the survivor had Quick and Quiet and was in a…
Multiple bugs, muffled audio and bugged pallets
Starting at the beginning of the match playing multiple killers i had muffled audio. Everything including (survivor screams, generator progress sound, gen pops, pallet drops) it sounded like it was distant or underwater, chase music was unaffected Had visual bug with pallets, While playing multiple killers, between clash…
Trapper Trap Forgotten Ruins
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: The aura of a trapper trap does not show in a certain location on Forgotten Ruins until a survivor steps in it PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Play Trapper, specifically wearing Naughty Bear Load into Forgotten Ruins Set trap HERE: Notice lack of aura by stepping into…
Leather Loop and Infantry Belt have wrong/very old translation in german
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Two Huntress add ons - ex extra hatchet - are not translated in german. in english it says the following: Leather Loop - Hatchet hits grant 2% Haste for 5 seconds. Infantry Belt - Hatchet hits grant 3% Hase for 5 seconds. In german it says the following: Infanteriestengürtel - Du beginnst mit 2…
Canceling or getting stopped from dispelling a unknown still gets you stuck in animation
When a unknown teleports to the hallucination or you stop dispelling you get stuck for a second, giving the killer a free hit PLATFORM: STEAM STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: VIDEO: (current version) https://youtu.be/K2FigdivP4s (older version, date in video title)…
Sometimes sound effect have lower volume, like you are underwater
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Sometimes after logging into a game, all the sound effects (i think a repaired gen is one of the sounds not affected by the issue) of all sudden start being heard at a much lower volume, literally like if you were playing underwater, a bit distorted. I though it was a "me" thing but it also did happen…
Higher ping since at least mid chapter
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: My ping used to range from 65 to 75 (sometimes it would drop to 60 or under) to 70 - 90 or even higher and the ping spikes are way more frequent. This doesn't happen on any other online games and my internet speed and ping is exactly the same on speedtest . net. Also restarting the router doesn't seem…
Haunted by Daylight - Iridescent Age Challenge bugged
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Haunted by Daylight - Bugged Challenge PLATFORM: PC (Steam) STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Pretty much i did a 4k with The Clown with the Iridescent Age challenge selected The challenge requires you to earn 2 emblem of iridescent quality, i got em and it didnt count VIDEO: PLAYER…
Skull merchant Adept broken
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Did adept, 4k and got merciless with great points, didn't get the achievement for some reason PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Won the match with merciless, didn't get adept PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Game afoot not working with killer powers
I just wnated ask to please fix the bug where killer powers dont proc game afoot, you guys were able to fix THWACK!, plaz fiz game afoot as well, I truly this this perk is underrated on so many killers but making it only being able to proc on direct pallet breaks bottle necks this perk so hard. I really hope this is a bug…
Survivors can fake vaults by lagging their game.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: By spamming F11, survivors can cause the killer to see them vault, but actually they have not vaulted. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Step 1: Find a window or pallet. Step 2: Press space, then immediately spam F11 (I've found 6 to be the ideal number of presses). Step…
Error 8,005
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: This error pops up up every time you try to load into the game and there have been many people across multiple platforms experiencing this issue and many have reported it across various social media platforms the errors range from from 8005 errors to 8007 to 8001 among other code errors etc etc Some…
Character filter issue
Platform: PC Issue: The character filter DATE doesn't list the characters in release order and is instead just listed the exact same way as when default filter is enabled. Huntress should be listed after Doctor when DATE filter is selected since she was the next killer after Doctor. Same with Survivors, Bill should be…
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
you closed the other one because you need game logs.. I’m on ps5 I can’t do that.. you ask for videos.. I’m on ps5 I can’t do that… screenshots of what? Things NOT existing? It’s hard to take screenshots of what isn’t there. The below summary is pretty clear. I am now over 300 bloodweb levels and not a single map has…
Game Crashing While Loading
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: While loading into a match as survivor or killer every 2nd or 3rd match seems to crash somewhere in the loading screen, I don't know if this related to lara croft/new survivors crash some people are talking about but since no mention of her was in the logs I'm not sure. PLATFORM: PC STEAM STEP BY STEP…
Machine Learning Perk Won't Go To Tier 3
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Machine Learning was recently nerfed to 45 seconds of activation.. at least it should be like that in its 3rd tier. Its not, its currently bugged to be tier 2. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: It isn't really replicating so to say, but perks are ordered by tier to…
EAC Cannot Be Instantiated
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Game won't even load in because it tells me the "EAC Client Cannot Be Instantiated" then the game automatically closes. Also, yeah I know there is another thread on this here but it is closed, I cannot reply to add my logs so I am doing it separately as this is very much still ongoing. PLATFORM: Steam…
Disconnection from match when playing as the unknown.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: when playing as the unknown, the game consistently disconnect me after playing for a while. PLATFORM:PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: when playing as the unknown, the game consistently disconnect me after playing for a while. it appears to happens after teleporting to an…
Matchmaking is too high with killers I have never played before
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I do not play a variety of killers, so I have quite a few killers I have never played before. Recently, I've wanted to expand my horizons, so I've tried playing some matches with new killers, but I keep getting paired with players with thousands of hours and who seem to bring only the most powerful…
Lobby bugged out
Loading into a match and it bugged out and fused the pre-game lobby screen and end game scoreboard screen. Disconnected from host. Xbox Series S Failed to properly load into match. https://www.twitch.tv/barksidettv/clip/ChillyToughOkapiLeeroyJenkins-VZpt-Cb5scPAPLKx
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.
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…
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
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…
Lobbies crash every two games on ps4-ps5
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE:lobbies crash every two games and gets stuck on the loading screen PLATFORM: ps4 pro-ps5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: -when the match is starting and the timer ends -when u join a lobby the background is dark then crashes at the end of the timer -sometimes crashes after offering…

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