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Bubba/cannibal mori is still in first person
thats literally it,bubba/cannibal mori is still in first person while the other killers are not
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…
Vecna's knife doesnt appear in the postmatch screen
Literally what the title says. His weapon doesnt appear floating in his hand in the screen where the killers are walking in the postmatch.
Event bug: Killers unaffected by Void Crystal
On some occasions, Killers are completely unaffected by the Void Crystal's visual obstruction. They see only the outer shell of the explosion, and everything within looks normal (i.e. no fog, Survivors are NOT invisible, etc. .) PC, Steam, but has occurred on other platforms. Exact triggers are unknown. Makes it extremely…
Loading into game with charms you didn't select
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: If you switch an outfit preset in the lobby before a match, you'll load in with the charms from the previously selected preset. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: While in the lobby, choose an outfit preset. Then change to a different outfit preset. When you load into the…
Debuffs not showing correctly on survivors
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: killer perks triggering do not show bugs ending or starting on survivors correctly. IE; friends to the end with cause a scream, but no exposed, hexed effects will not be clensed even after totems are clensed. Weave Attunements icon staying in place even when youve picked up the item or moved away.…
Halloween event
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I'm not sure if its a bug, but the Halloween event hasn't been active for me for a few days now, maybe a week? I can't use the offering, no pumpkins, nothing. PLATFORM: xbox series x STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: n/a VIDEO: n/a PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC…
Game Crashed after EAC loading
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Programs like MSI Afterburner or similar causes game crashes. PLATFORM: PC (Steam) STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Depending on your luck game could load or straight out crash after EAC initialization, if programs like MSI Afterburner and RivaTuner Overlay are working. Sometimes…
Character Model Missing on hook
Was spectating my gf who was hooked in the basement and their character is missing on the hook in basement PC (Steam) Just started spectating and the issue appeared
Missing cosmetics after completing cross- progression
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: After completing cross-progression, not all of my cosmetics that I have on PS5 transferred over to my Steam account. Most of them did but there are still a bunch on my PS5 that are not shared on the Steam account. PLATFORM:PS5 and Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Completed…
Mouse cursor not locking into monitor anymore
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Mouse cursor keeps moving to second monitor when playing and is not locking into main monitor when playing in fullscreen or windowed fullscreen. This problem started today. PLATFORM: PC Steam
Counterforce totem aura reading not being recorded on maps (item)
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: After breaking a totem with the perk Counterforce equipped, you see the aura of the farthest totem from your position. If you have a map equipped, it doesn't record it on it. A similar perk is Detective's Hunch, which does record the things you see on any map, even on a green map with no addons.
Chucky Stuck in 90 Degree Camera View After Using Ability
Tested this twice just to make sure it was a bug and yes it appears Chucky is bugged yet again. While in power it seems that if you get stunned you are stuck with 90 degree left or right camera turning. I tried using power again to get out of it, purposely getting stunned again, vaulting a window, teleporting through the…
Chucky Power Bug
When starting a slice and dice near a window, instead of vaulting the window, the attack was quickly canceled. Afterwards, the cooldown meter wouldn't fill, it just remained empty and I was left without my power for the remainder of the trial. PLATFORM: PC (Steam)
Regular EAC Kick -- Have to Verify Game Files Regularly to Keep Playing
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I regularly get the error message when I'm trying to join a lobby "EAC has detected the game files have been modified (error code 5). To resolve this, please verify the integrity of the game cache (found under the Local Files section of the game's properties). Additional info: Unknown file version…
Void Crystals Sometimes Cause Killers to Permanently Lose Scratch Marks
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: After a Killer enters a smoke screen created by a Void Crystal, sometimes the Killer will become bugged and be unable to see Scratch Marks for the rest of the game. PLATFORM: PC (Steam) STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Play as killer Have a Survivor throw a Void Crystal (It's…
Survivor Loadout's 1 & 2 for Custom Match's Linked
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Loadout's 1 & 2 for Survivors in Custom Matches is bugged. They are linked so if you change either loadout, the other will also experience that change. Loadout's 3 & 4 work fine. 1 & 2 are linked and you can't change one without changing the other. This makes it so you only go into a custom matches…
Scratchmarks missing after using smoke
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Scrathcmarks are missing after survivors use the smoke bomb PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Wait for a survivor to drop the smoke, see no scratchmarks
Dredge stuck in locker
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Dredge and the survivor were both stuck in place, and the match did not end after the end game collapse for these two. They both ended up disconnecting in the end. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I was across the map when this occurred, based off what I saw…
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Microsoft Store on PC not showing any update therefore unable to play PLATFORM: PC Microsoft Stotr STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Try to load game but unable to play as different version to others. VIDEO: N/A PLAYER LOGS: N/A I am making this report for a friend who is not on here
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…
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…
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
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
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.
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…
"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.
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…
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; -…
Clown Skin is broken by End Mori
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…
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…
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…
White ward
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE:the white ward isn’t working properly when I loose some matches some times I loose my add ons PLATFORM: ps5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED:it occurred yesterday VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Chat Filter Censoring Words it Should Not
I've posted this many times, and I've either never received any response or my report is closed as "not a bug" without any comment or set to "pending" and never updated. I'm reporting this again because I feel as though this should have some sort of official statement by now. It has been three and a half years since this…
PC - "Thousand-Eyed Toad" Hillbilly Waist Seam
The seam is most noticeable in the back. I assume this is unintended, as I don't remember the mobile version appearing this way.
Hillbilly Rancor Mori Glitch/Bug
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Was able to mori two survivors just with the perk Rancor and the second one didn't become the obsession after I killed the first Platform: PS4 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I played Hillbilly. Last two survivors and I downed them both in the endgame. One already injured, the…
Checkered Robe Nurse Cosmetic Missing Sleeve in First Person
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: When playing as the Nurse with the new Checked Robe cosmetic, the sleeve on her model does not appear in first person. You only see a tiny little skeleton arm when breaking generators and other breakables. PLATFORM: Steam It's like this every time I play her, no exceptions.
Scratch marks dissapeard as nemesis ol
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: PLATFORM: STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Recent patch is not well optimised for EGS files
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Game eats CPU and RAM it was not like that before PLATFORM: EPIC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Now barely 70 fps since recent patch before it was 100 fps with 16gb RAM, when I added another 16gb there were no such issues so it means game is not optimised Screenshot below, believe…
Pig’s mori glitched on at least the killer side.
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE:I was playing as Pig and got the finisher mori. In the animation, the Pig had her version of when playing as the Pig (torso and head pushed back) and her mask even behind. I tried some more moris after with her and the same thing happened everytime. PLATFORM: PS4 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE…
Stuck downed in/under locker by Knights summon
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Unable to move, get picked up or healed PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Injured, went into a locker while chased by Knights summon, the summon opened/attacked and then I was stuck under the locker
Decisive did not work although skill check hit
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: After hitting DS skill check i did not get off the shoulder (Bubba). Additionally the wiggle bars did not show up and i did not get the wiggle progress bar PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Got downed by a bubba, bubba came back, chased me (map was Crotus Prenn…
From dedicated server thrown
Hello, I already had a few times the problem that my game stopped and I was then kicked from the dedicated server, I also got a penalty, it can not be because of my connection, I have now often read about this error, please fix it, thank you.
"You have been kicked" EAC validation.
Hi getting this message for the first time (watch the screenshot) PC\Epic games. Just entered the lobby and it occurred right after loading into the match screen. Here's my logs: Ps: - Dear @Rizzo , now it's ok? Is this how I need to make a bug-report?
I couldn't search my friend's username fully
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: "i" then "a" sequence in search resets search PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I enetered the letter i then letter a and it deleted evey letter before a VIDEO: N/A PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only. I was searching a username
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Blight with blight serum add-on cannot perform any rushes PLATFORM: pc STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: equip blight serum VIDEO: n/a PLAYER LOGS: n/a Player logs are required from PC players only.

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