Bug: Game Glitches and Hard-Locks After Killer Leaves Lobby at Countdown End
Game Glitches and Hard-Locks After Killer Leaves Lobby at Countdown End
| Status: | Duplicate |
| Added by: | Anonymous on August 9, '26 |
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| Actual Result: |
Game is in a hardlocked state, unable to do anything but play animations.
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| Expected Result: |
1) Survivors can continue waiting in the lobby for a new killer to arrive. 2) Unready button should become available again since the countdown has been aborted. 3) The timer should reset. 4) Exiting the lobby should take the player back to solo/empty lobby or main menu.
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| Severity: |
Major
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| Reproducibility: |
Frequently
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| Platform: |
Steam
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| Additional Notes & Comments: |
The first dbd log is the file I recovered before hitting ALT+F4. The second dbd log is the file after forcing the program to close.
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Steps to Reproduce
- Simply queue up and get into a lobby.
- Do everything as normal. Ready up or not with three other survivors and a killer in the lobby.
- When the killer leaves at the very last second, the game client and lobby glitches.
Explanation
When the killer leaves the lobby at the last millisecond of the countdown, they glitch the lobby for the survivors and their client. All survivors in the lobby are stuck indefinitely and no new killer can join this lobby. When we hit BACK to exit out of the lobby and go to the main menu, the game glitches out further, and our survivors are stuck in the end-game screen running through grass with no menu, no other information, no buttons or anything that can be done. The client is hard-locked and you must ALT+F4 or use task manager or steam to close Dead by Daylight. I also believe this is an exploit done intentionally to grief other players trying to queue up, and punitive actions should be taken against people attempting to do this.
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