Bug #6208

2v8 Match Lobby Bricked When Survivor Leaves at Match Start

Status:	Open
Priority:	High
Added by:	Anonymous on August 16, '26
Assigned to:	Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:	10.0.3
Actual Result:	When a Survivor leaves at the last second, the lobby is locked but the game refuses to proceed, forcing everyone to requeue.
Expected Result:	When a Survivor leaves, the matchmaker should fill in the empty spot with another Survivor from the queue, or fill it in with a bot.
Severity:	Blocker
Reproducibility:	Always
Platform:	Steam
Additional Notes & Comments:	Not set

Steps to Reproduce

1. Queue for a match
2. Join pre-game lobby
3. As the final countdown begins, have a Survivor leave the lobby
4. Now, the lobby is locked, forcing everyone to manually leave to move on.

Explanation

When starting a 2v8 match as Killer, if someone leaves the lobby just as the timer hits zero, the lobby is bricked and no one can continue. The game refuses to readd other Survivors to fill their place, forcing all 7 other Survivors and both Killers to ALT+F4 in order to leave. This is because simply pressing the ESC button to leave takes you to the endgame scene of you running through a field but with no buttons to press, requiring a manual shutdown of the game to continue.

Since Killer queue times tend to consistently stay in the 20-40 minute range, this is incredibly frustrating as there is nothing to be done. It is a perfect way to troll as, without recording software, it is impossible to catch them and it costs the Survivors (like the troll in question) only a few seconds of requeue.

Attached image is minutes after one such event happened, and several survivors have already left. The Killer queue times were 38 minutes at this time. After pressing the Back button and cancelling the exit, the UI disappeared, leading to the second image. The three survivors slowly left as well, followed by me, leaving the Oni to also requeue.

The video provided shows the Survivor perspective. As with Killer, Survivors are forced into a buttonless screen as well. I was also using the Play While You Wait feature to save my queue for Killer, and this kind of lobby destruction resets my queue in there too. In short, this ruins everyone's experience of the game, especially those who want to play Killer in any way, shape, or form.

As evidenced by the following links, this bug appears to be longstanding and equally despised. Killer queue times are quite long, and because of this bug's reproducibility and lopsidedness in favor of the troller (and against Killers in particular), this is extremely irritating and unfair to encounter.
https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/1t8471r/new_bug_stuck_in_2v8_lobby_forever/
https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/1r72lq4/players_are_intentionally_breaking_2v8_lobbies/
https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/1fdq0qf/has_anyone_else_had_a_string_of_people_leaving/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadByDaylightRAGE/comments/1vo096r/2v8_as_killer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeadByDaylightRAGE/comments/1vof0vt/the_2v8_lobby_design_is_poorly_designed_and_i/

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