I don't think you can get past it without disabling it first (unless you have dead hard, which is useless with the dedicated servers) which will make escaping the basement nearly impossible. I think this should be fixed.
This game brings out the worst in people. I've been told to "end your life" (by a fellow survivor non the less). I've 600 hours experience and play killer and survivor almost equally. The game promotes toxicity by imposing a bad writen rank system and devising challenges like ("Kill one survivor as ... by you own hands").…