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Automatic Game Disconnect
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I’ve been disconnected from games back to back all night. They only last for a couple minutes and then I get booted. I’ve not been banned and my match syncing has not been locked. What am I supposed to do? I’ve already updated my device as well as run tests to make sure there weren’t any files…
Wall glitch in the game map
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: survivors can clip into the wall on the game map, specifically near the lockers in the room that drops down into bathroom. The corner is on the side closest to the inside of the map, where the two adjoining rooms connect and there are 2 lockers PLATFORM: xbox STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE…
you need rework
pls fix game
Tome Issue
Whenever I complete a Tome task I have to restart the ame otherwise I can't continue even though the end screen after the round shows "finished" (yellow) and then in the lobby it says 0/1, for example. Only after restarting or quitting the game is it properly displayed as finished and only then can I continue.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Challenge "UNWANTED GUEST" in the holiday tome will not register. PLATFORM: Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: In the event tome, the very first challenge will not register no matter how many times I throw a snowball at the snowman. VIDEO: PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required…
Zarina Christmas Sweater Causes Bluescreen/Crash in Bloodweb
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: While putting points into Zarina's bloodweb while having the new christmas sweater cosmetic equipped, the game will frequently crash and/or bluescreen my pc. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Putting points into Zarina's bloodweb while having the new christmas sweater…
"Dance with me" goes on cooldown when anyone vaults
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: when using "Dance with me", when any survivor fast vaults a lockere, it activates and goes on cooldown, while still giving the bearer no scratch marks. It has been replicated in custom game, event que and normal que PLATFORM: PC, Steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: 1. Equip…
Shoulder the burden not exposing/downing survivor on basic attack
Kate Denson shoulders the burden for Adam Francis, I immediately show up to take value from it, basic attack her, she loses 1 health state & keeps running Ps5
Alessa Gillespie dress clipping
When I go down using the Alessa Gillespie cosmetic for Cheryl Mason, the dress clips to the front of the character's legs.
Taurie's Fingers Are Broken In Her Sweater
For some reason, Taurie Cain's fingers become broken and it seems like she doesn't have any finger bones in her Disciple Sweater.
The First challenge from the bone chill event is bugged (PS5)
I can’t complete the first challenge since the bone chill event came out, it’s very frustrating because I can’t get any progression, I can’t get the rewards and time is running out… fix it quickly please or if you can give me cosmetics.
random crashing
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: unknown error code PLATFORM: steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: just normal gameplay and as the match ended it crashed with an error code PLAYER LOGS: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000002000029c9
Nea "Powder Surfer" outfit is said to be in the "from the rift bundle" but is isn't.
I play on PC and in the shop I saw that the "Powder Surfer" outfit for nea was available in the "From the rift bundle" so I eagerly clicked on "go to bundle" and despite saying that it is in the bundle, it is nowhere to be seen. (Also the bundle isn't purchasable for some reasons). Thank you !
High ping in all my games after the last patch
It's not just playing the event, also in normal mode my ping is extremely high, I usually play with 75ms now between 170 and 200. My platform is Playstation 5
Being Penalized for Server Sided Issues
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: For a LONG time now I've been randomly getting disconnected from matches at random. Sometimes even while in the AFTER game screen viewing the end game stats. Resulting in getting no BP at all and sometimes, but not always, even losing offering and items from something out of my control. Getting to the…
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF BUG
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Legion still get killer Instinct whem undetectable PLATFORM: PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Ran trails and unforeseen on him today. Notice I was still getting killer instincts while undetectable. No i didn't have the green tape addon on. VIDEO: No footage
Dredge teleport not working in bone chill
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Dredge's teleport was not working at all in bone chill PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: The power did not work/teleport me to a locker, instead I just bounced in place while still getting BP for "teleporting". Played two matches like this - I don't know if it's just the…
The Forums are buggy.
The issue is that whenever I select a post, the page stays stuck at a single place and rubberbands to it indefinitely. It happens regardless of what device you look up the forums on. You just have to turn on the forums, get into a post and ot happens. Please fix it.
Lost 11 levels off of my pyramidhead’s blood web after leveling up
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: my pyramidhead went from level 40 to level 29 after my blood web bugged out PLATFORM: PC, steam STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: finished a match as a survivor, went ahead to spend my BP on a killer (pyramidhead), was level 40, I use the auto-level up blood web thing and then it…
Claw-Trap Injury not triggering Hex: Face the Darkness as Skull Merchant
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Whilst screwing around, I noticed someone getting injured via a Claw-Trap. Looked at my perk hud, Face the Darkness was not lit up even though it was an INJURY BY ANY MEANS hm? Nope. No scream, nothing, nada, zilch… Example: Pretty sure Hex: Third Seal triggers after said Claw-Trap-injury, hell you…
Bloodweb bug on one character only
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Was playing as normal, leveling up Taurie. Suddenly I couldn't pick the last item from the bloodweb, clicking it didn't do anything. But after trying to click it, it didn't let me open survivor selection nor loadout nor go back to menu. I could only click "select challenge" which would allow me to go…
bp loss / reset after winter event match
played a match as pinhead, after having just spent enough bp to have unlocked lvl 5 cosmetic skin. i won the match, and after leaving to return to the lobby screen, my bp was reset along with the points i had just spent prior to the match, which pushed me back to lvl 4, so i then had to respend those points to re-unlock…
Bloodwep Is BROKEN #!@#
In Nurse Bloodwep. For me, I did level-up Nurse to 7 and I got rewards(amulet:Astma). But suddenly It has changed to 6 back, and took my rewards again. Also, I cannot use my Bloodwep In Nurse normaly. I can't go to level 7 or next PRE level to reborn. BTW I'm PC player (Epic Games).
Entity stopping me from progressing bloodweb
No real cause just went into a game and when I finished the bloodweb had the entity covering my next item
connection to game drops in bloodweb reduces levels gained and non refunded bloodpoints
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: connection to the game drops whilst in bloodweb and reduces levels gained and doesn't give back the bloodpoints gained PLATFORM:ps5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED:was on bloodweb leveling ghostface the connection cuts out and i am put at title screen when restarting any levels…
Prestiges are being undone but blood points aren’t refunded
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Levels being undone but bloodpoints not being refunded PLATFORM: PS5 Every since the Bone Chill update, my game sometimes crashes while doing my bloodweb and whenever I load back in, it’s bad to the level I was at whenever I first opened the game, and doesn’t refund the blood points I’ve spent. Some…
unknown reason for matchmaking lock
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Died in match, sever didn't respond in the end screen, left, matchmaking locked. PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: i have no idea. VIDEO: dont have a video PLAYER LOGS: Player logs are required from PC players only.
Extremely low framerate on the new Ormond map
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I was getting roughly 75-80 fps throughout most of the match I played on this map instead of the usual 120, I've got a 4070 TI so not sure how the framerate is dying so bad PLATFORM: PC STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Play on the new Ormond map
The sensitivity slider does barely anything
The sensitivity slider is making very little difference when adjusting mouse speed. My settings reset (don't know why that happened either but that's a whole different thing) and when i was trying to set my mouse sensitivity i saw barely any difference. I tested it with putting it at minimum and maximum and the speed…
Midwich Elementary School #bug
When I jumped from the top, I got stuck and couldn't move at all. pc
Audio bugs, Spirit husk sound bug.
Audio currently feels off and extremely bugged where its hard to keep chasing survivors when their grunts, footsteps, breathing isn’t consistent and not clear. Spirit also faces a bug where you can hear her husk so loud at the start of the phase which makes her even worse to play with all the audio bugs. PLATFORM: PSN5
Missing Mistle Toe offerings
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Pretty self explanatory. I heard the mistletoe was bugged so I stopped bringing them and just started stockpiling them for whenever they got fixed. I had 40+ on my Cheryl but today I only have 15 and I am very confused where they went because I sure didn't play 30 games last night. PLATFORM: STEAM…
Bloodweb and character level resets after exiting game or loading match
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: after levelling my houndmaster up to P1 level 36 I queued for a game, and after I got placed in a lobby my hound master was put down to P0 level 6. I’ve tried this 2 other times and the exact same thing happened PLATFORM: PS5 STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: just levelled my killer,…
Bots get stuck on Snowmen
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Bots get stuck on Snowmen. The pathing cant navigate around them correctly and they sometimes just run against the Snowmen PLATFORM: Pc STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Play a game of the event mode Have a player DC Monitor the Bot in tight places, notice the Bot can get continously…
Blight still freezes my game
Whenever playing as or with (2v8) The Blight (sometimes even against) my game will just freeze at some point. It has been about half a year or something, reinstalling, verifying game files integrity, changing the location of the files, nothing works and it makes zero sense. This also happened with Stranger Eddie on 2v8.…
Gideon's Wall Bug
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Ru_n87SqDr0?feature=shared
New Ormond Totems unpentimentoable
The totems between lockers on the new Ormond map can't be pentimentoed PC
Pinhead sometimes place his gate behind himself when he is next to the object
As the title,when Pinhead stands next to any object and use his right mouse ability,he sometimes places his gate behind himself and can see himself It occurred on 8.4.2
My Killers and survivors are gone
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: I redownload the game after I got a PlayStation 5 and chose the PS5 version of the game and when I went to play all my killers and Survivors I had purchased through the DLC pack were missing. I then downloaded the PlayStation 4 version and I still had all my killers and Survivors on the version of the…
Bone Chill event details going directly to event Tome bug
When reading the details of the event Tome it allows you to go directly to the event Tome with the push of a button however it does not take you to the correct level but I believe to level 2 or level 3 of the event Tome. Xbox Series S While on the event details, press the indicated button to got to event Tome.
My killers and Survivors are gone
PlayStation I redownload the game to play with some friends. I started the game and all most killers I had purchased in dlc packs were gone. I don't know if it's because of the fact that I originally played it on the PlayStation 4 and switched to PlayStation 5 but I don't think that would be the case.
Doctor Bug: Can't break out of Tier 3
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: When bug occurs, you are only able to interact with the environment or unhook. You are unable to mend yourself or others. You are unable to do gens, are unable to do totems, and are unable to break out of tier 3. The game will not give you the prompt to do so. Its like it disables your ability to do…
Map exploit on "The Game" map
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Survivors can hide inside walls on the Game map. I was chasing survivors when they "vanished" around the corner upstairs next to two lockers and one of the staircases. I wasted time by checking the lockers and they were not there. Second time they exploited this I decided to hit the wall beside the…
bug preventing the perk "solidarity" from working correctly
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE:If you start healing another injured survivor while you're injured with a medkit which doesn't have enough charges for a full heal and you don't interrupt the action the moment the medkit runs out and you just continue healing, you don't receive any healing from the perk solidarity. PLATFORM: Steam…
Shoulder the Burden Exposed Bug
I have been using Shoulder The Burden for a few matches by now and I have noticed that when I use the perk, instead of screaming and becoming exposed, nothing happens. The only part of the perk that works is the transfer of the hook stages. I play on Xbox Series X|S. This bug happens every time I use the perk. I'm not sure…
Bugged lobby
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Weird icons with missing textures on them appearing in lobby PLATFORM: Pc STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Chilling in a pregame lobby maybe tab out? Unfortunately I haven't unlocked common item :c
Crashed thrice since last patch (8.4.1)
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: Just after finishing a game, before going back to the character selection menu, the game goes black and finally crashes. PLATFORM: PC, Windows 10, Nvidia GPU STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: Just after finishing a game playing as survivor, while going back to the the character…
Silent Flashbangs
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: cant hear flashbangs being dropped around corners or walls PLATFORM:Steam PC
10 years of unjustified sanction
SUMMARY OF THE ISSUE: 10 years of sanction. PLATFORM: PC - Epic games. STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW THE ISSUE OCCURED: I was playing Dead by Daylight normally while streaming it live, everything was going well until the game ended and I was unjustifiably banned for 10 years VIDEO:…
THE SHAPE UPDATE SEEMS TO BE BLOCKING VAULTS
When running from the Shape and he is very CLOSE to me at a vault, I cannot vault. In fact I lose the vault prompt. It happened in the swamp at the little boat window and it happened at Springwood at the pallet that is between the fence and bush the school building wall, near the middle door.

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