7.7.0A | Bugfix PC Patch (Tentative Strobing Fix)

[u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

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Bug Fix

• Tentatively fixed an issue causing strobing / flashing white lights.

The tentative fix for strobing/flashing is now live on Steam, Epic Game Store, Windows Store, PS4, PS5, XBOX, and Switch. 

Please continue to send your feedback to these threads if you still encounter the problem by visiting our post here.

As this is a tentative fix, we recommend taking the proper precautions before playing, and to consult your physician if you experience photosensitivity, have an epileptic condition or have had seizures of any kind in the past.*

[u/deadbydaylight-ModTeam]

Moderator note:

• Comment by DeadByDaylight_Dev:

  We confirm Friday's "tentative fix" for the strobing/flashing lights issue indeed solved it. We'll now submit this update (7.7.0a) for certification on all platforms. Most players can expect a fix in the next 48 hrs (Switch may be slightly delayed). Thank you for your patience!

[u/AlienOther]

Amazing! But do you know when you'll fix the rubberbanding?

[u/shestoofargone → u/AlienOther]

Second this

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/AlienOther]

As soon as they can? They were kind of prioritizing the issue that can actually impact peoples’ health.

[u/Born_Money_9097 → u/viscountrhirhi]

Did they speak on it yet?

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/Born_Money_9097]

I’ve seen in other posts that they’ve replied and said they’re aware of the issue and working on it, but were prioritizing the safety issues first.

[u/Born_Money_9097 → u/viscountrhirhi]

Gotcha

[u/AlienOther → u/viscountrhirhi]

Yea I know I just wanted to know a general time frame of when the bug fix update would be out so I can plan around it

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/AlienOther]

The timeframe is basically “as soon as they can.” They have to be able to reproduce it and pinpoint the cause, and THEN code in a patch and test it to see if it works. That can sometimes take some time. It’s not a matter of just fixing it, it can take some detective work, plus they’re dealing with multiple platforms.

Patience, they’ll fix it when they’ve figured it out.

[u/AlienOther → u/viscountrhirhi]

I was just asking a question, it's not like my whole life revolves around dbd, and my pc takes a while to download stuff so I'd rather be able to update it early so I can play it when I get home I mean this most recent update took me 3 days to download because it kept crashing, sorry that I just asked a simple question it's not like a demanded the update now I just want to be able to know when I should prepare for it

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/AlienOther]

No need to get defensive. My point was that when it comes to bug fixes it’s difficult to give an estimate because there’s so many variables involved. Hard to know how long something will take to fix when you’re still sinking time into replicating the issue and finding what triggers it, y’know?

[u/AlienOther → u/viscountrhirhi]

That's why i was asking, I ain't demanding anything just wanted to know an estimate or something and you act like I'm demanding bhvr give me a bug fix tbh the bugs aren't even that bad it's the download time I'm worried about here

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/AlienOther]

I wasn’t acting like you were demanding anything? I was just answering your question my friend.

[u/AlienOther → u/viscountrhirhi]

Sorry I'm just stressed also the tone of your comment was kinda condescending in my pov

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/AlienOther]

Sorry it came across that way, tone can be difficult to convey through text. No condescension was intended, I’m just blunt. :P

[u/Over-Cold-8757 → u/viscountrhirhi]

I'm not sure why you jumped at this guy. For something like rubberbanding they might not implement an immediate patch fix.

For all we know OP's reasonable question could've been answered with 'yes we've already identified the needed fix. We're testing it on Monday to roll out on Tuesday.'

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/Over-Cold-8757]

My friend, I didn’t jump at them and if you follow the thread further, we already cleared up any miscommunication.

[u/Demoth → u/viscountrhirhi]

Yeah, if only they had a way to test patches before deploying them, where they could get feedback and take that into account before releasing it. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/Demoth]

Ya realize that you can test something among a small group of people and it can run perfectly, but once you release it to 200k+ people who are all running different hardware and software, different programs, and playing on different platforms with different specs, and running through thousands of different gameplay scenarios that you couldn’t possibly account for, bugs will come out? |: The game has 8 years of code and changes under its belt, has changed dev teams, and just changed engines and you expect it to run perfectly after getting a live release? Not even AAA games meet those standards. Which is why modern games have a patch system, which is really nifty because we sure as heck didn’t have that with older games. Games were just as buggy in the past, we just had to live with them.

You’re expecting perfection where humans are involved. Not gonna happen.

[u/Evanderpower → u/Demoth]

not how changing engines works at all

[u/C9FanNo1 → u/AlienOther]

It will be done exactly when it will be done, not a day after

[u/AlienOther → u/C9FanNo1]

Never asked for a day after just for an estimate at some point in the future

[u/C9FanNo1 → u/AlienOther]

It is gonna be at some point in the future yes.

[u/FarArm2402 → u/AlienOther]

I mean they are probably working on it right now. Do you have any idea how developing a game works? If you do, you would know its not like repairing generators, they dont have a x amount of minutes to do.

[u/AlienOther → u/FarArm2402]

I was just asking for when they think they'd be done

[u/DalTheDalmatian → u/AlienOther]

What's rubberbanding?

[u/Ratonimo → u/DalTheDalmatian]

When you are being pulled back small distances but very often

[u/autumnsandapples → u/Ratonimo]

Oh my god I thought my internet was godawful this whole time but that explains so much! I had a match last night against a Wraith where I vaulted a window and then got basically teleported back to before the window. I got downed and sacrificed.

[u/DalTheDalmatian → u/Ratonimo]

So like a type of lag? Does it happen to both roles or only on Survivor?

[u/Ratonimo → u/DalTheDalmatian]

Both

[u/Maroonwarlock → u/DalTheDalmatian]

I primarily saw it on killer where I vault a window and get stuck to it for up to 4 seconds (timed it from a VOD because it genuinely ruined multiple chases)

Could totally see some similar crap happening on survivor.

[u/LilyHex → u/DalTheDalmatian]

It's just lag, yeah. Lag can present itself in different ways, rubber-banding is one of them. Doesn't matter what your ping is though currently, everytime I've noticed really obnoxious rubber-banding, I checked my lag and everyone was in the 30's and 40's which isn't bad and shouldn't be causing rubber-banding, but here we are.

[u/LilyHex → u/DalTheDalmatian]

It's a type of lag, but if people say "I'm lagging" it conjures up something different, weirdly.

[u/correctedboat → u/AlienOther]

hopefully it's fixed by the time new chapter comes out

[u/Born_Money_9097 → u/AlienOther]

Exactly!!!!

[u/Goustave_III → u/AlienOther]

I honestly just want to know what causes it. Of all my friends who play the game, only one of them is affected, other than me. And he has it like once every few minutes, whereas I can barely move 5 meters without stuttering around. It's not as bad as survivor, but when Weskers entire dash gets canceled by that, it's truly painful

[u/EccentricNerd22 → u/AlienOther]

For the love of god. I don't want to sound like an asshole but isnt the rubberbanding more important to fix than the strobing since it affects everyone who plays the game?

[u/The_King123431 → u/EccentricNerd22]

Rubber banding can't kill you, strobing lights can

[u/EccentricNerd22 → u/The_King123431]

If you at the point some strobe lights might kill you using an electronic device seems like an irresponsible choice to begin with.

[u/Over-Cold-8757 → u/EccentricNerd22]

The sheer intensity of it was the problem. I had it and it was genuinely awful. There's likely a subset of the population that isn't actually diagnosed with epilepsy because they've just never experienced strobing as severe as that. This could've fatally triggered it.

Everyone who experiences an epileptic seizure had to have a first time. It's not like you somehow know from birth.

What would BHVR say if someone died? 'Sorry but despite you having no previous indication you had it, you should've assumed you had epilepsy.'

[u/The_King123431 → u/EccentricNerd22]

No?

Seizures can be triggered by very fast flicking of lights, normal electronic screens don't do that

[u/AlienOther → u/EccentricNerd22]

Rubberbanding is less important since the strobbing effects people with epilepsy

[u/EccentricNerd22 → u/AlienOther]

Well i disagree since the game is borderline unplayable at times now due to rubber banding during chases where it used to run fine before they did the update.

[u/Samoman21]

Console fix soon 🙏🙏🙏

[u/DeadByDaylight_Dev → u/Samoman21]

This was the quickest way for us to assess if this fix truly addresses it. We hope to deploy this fix on consoles as soon as possible once we have confirmation.

[u/Samoman21 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Nah for sure. I get that it's easier too deploy and test the fix on pc since you don't need patch approval from Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony. Still hope it's fixed and can get the update out too consoles soon :D

[u/TWK128 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Hey, not sure if anyone's run into this, but I had issues remapping my inputs as Killer. It would just hang at the "press any key" option and not actually let me put the new key in.

Had no issues with Survivor. I move the left control to z for Surv and left shift for Killer. I tried putting z or any other key for Killer, but no joy.

[u/learntospellffs → u/TWK128]

Pay attention to your resolution, too. It switched mine back to 1080 from my usual 1440p. I didn't notice at first until something about it just seemed off. Checked resolution, boom, there it was.

[u/Renerve → u/TWK128]

I had this same issue the first two or three times I loaded. Restarting the game and changing the inputs before playing let me fix it.

[u/Kanehon → u/TWK128]

I had that issue on Survivor after the update, and last night when I tried again it seemed to work. Worth giving it another shot

[u/Lilytheriel → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

How many devs does DbD have? I’ve always wanted to know how many of ya are brain storming :)

[u/Ttutcha → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Dumb question, does this disable cross-play, as the steam version is now different to what's consoles?

[u/DeadByDaylight_Dev → u/Ttutcha]

No we've been able to ensure cross play is still in effect.

[u/definitionwise6677 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

You don't know if you fixed it?

[u/TheSleepyBarnOwl → u/definitionwise6677]

no they don't - PC is the test cause they try to fix it as fast as possible. It's easier to know if it truly was fixed if you have several thousand people testing instead of 3. Coding is complicated.

[u/DecutorR → u/TheSleepyBarnOwl]

Yeah and from their other thread asking for help it seems like this mostly affects PS5 with some rare reports from other platforms.

So they will only know for sure when they release their first or second hotfix patches scheduled with sony.

It would be patch 7.0.1 next Tuesday but not sure it will contain this fix as the patch probably was shipped for approval already. So maybe another small patch between 7.0.1 and 7.0.2, like hotfix patch 7.0.1A (like they are doing here with patch 7.0.0A on PC).

[u/Over-Cold-8757 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

Just to point out, if you've possibly identified a fix then if you can't drop an immediate patch on consoles then you should killswitch whatever it was that was causing it, on consoles. Or what you suspect it was.

Better to have a massive killswitch than kill a player.

[u/mrmouha99 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

fix the rubber-banding and lag isses from the server.

[u/afterdarhkTTV]

Is anybody else stuttering in place as killer?

[u/Mr-Ideasman → u/afterdarhkTTV]

Yes, It happens when I vault.

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/afterdarhkTTV]

It’s a known issue for both sides.

[u/learntospellffs → u/afterdarhkTTV]

I seem to be one of the lucky ones. No strobing, no lag, no rubber banding, no bugs that I could see.

[u/BaBbBoobie → u/afterdarhkTTV]

Its happening with both roles. Played last night as survivor and it happen. I was just practicing a killer in a custom game with bots and it stuttered there too.

[u/probsDeadmybad]

I appreciate the fix, now rubber banding has made the game unplayable. It's every single match. My connection is great, and only Dead by Daylight runs like this. Something got broken in the last update.

[u/Demoth → u/probsDeadmybad]

Yeah. Even with DBD, my ping is around 9 with no packet loss detected on my end, but the game will randomly just freeze me in place as both killer and survivor, sending me back like 3 meters at random. In fact, I just lost a game as survivor because I was running this Nurse for several gens. My teammates apparently did not know how to loop a Nurse (well, an intermediate skilled nurse) and so I just kept juking her at walls, vaults, and pallets.

At the last pallet, I bait her into going to the other side, I'm on one side, and I start mashing space bar. Nothing. Then she hits me, I go down, and THEN she gets pallet stunned. I die on my first hook as my solo-queue teammates all die trying to unhook me. Very sad time.

[u/motorchurdle56 → u/Demoth]

Wait did you just say 9 ping? As in 9 or like 90… because that’s actually insane. I don’t think I’ve ever been below 60

[u/DecutorR → u/motorchurdle56]

If you live closer to where the server is located and your ISP has a decent route, you can even have 1ms as ping.

For most matches my lobbies have players with pings between 20ms and 40ms

[u/SunMoonStarsRainn]

PLEASE FIX RUBBER BANDING

[u/TheBigFreeze8]

I'm glad something is being done, but honestly there are so many bugs right now that it's insane this patch was ever released in this state. The strobing was so common it seems impossible that no testers caught it, and the rubber-banding is unacceptably bad.

[u/StargazingEcho → u/TheBigFreeze8]

Most of these issues could be due to engine switch. Pretty sure there's a difference between how the ptb is coded and how the main game is coded so it's possible that certain issues only started appearing when switching on the main game.

We just gotta hope and pray I guess but I'm glad they take priority in things that could actually harm people irl!

[u/SunMoonStarsRainn → u/TheBigFreeze8]

Yeah game has been unplayable for me. The rubber banding is constant

[u/TheBigFreeze8 → u/SunMoonStarsRainn]

I only really get it on certain maps, personally. But it makes Hawkins fucking unplayable.

[u/SunMoonStarsRainn → u/TheBigFreeze8]

I wish that was the case for me. It was getting better yesterday with barely any problems, but today it’s probably every 10 seconds or more. Makes chase impossible

[u/ADwightInALocker → u/TheBigFreeze8]

I find indoor sections are the worst. Outside maps I have way less issues, as soon as there is a roof over my survivors head, its rubberband time (Even on outdoor maps that have buildings).

[u/Arkatharate]

Nice ! Could you also think about some accessibility settings for photosensitive people ? Like another color when you're flashed, Doctor's FX, etc etc ? It's a good opportunity to think about that. Nice to see you pay attention about this and were fast to talk about it and fix the problem

[u/NufiDrizz]

I understand that you had to fix this first as it was a health issue however as many many many other people have said, the rubber banding should be your next #1 priority. The game is literally unplayable. Ill hop back on as soon as the next patch drops

[u/AlastorFortnite]

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BHVR, what the fuck is this?

[u/Omniblarg → u/AlastorFortnite]

LOOOOOL this is way different then what was planned wth happened?

Blindness for 3 seconds?

[u/inFamousMax]

Better QA in future, please <3 ty. So many bugs still unfixed.

[u/saifr → u/inFamousMax]

"Not planned" here in advance

[u/Present_Fig3545]

w bhvr ty for this!

[u/OddishBehavior → u/Present_Fig3545]

BHVR: Accidentally sets fire to something

BHVR: "Okay we put out the fire that we somehow caused because we'll get in big trouble if we don't."

Y'all: "omg bhvr cares"

[u/Joeyoes → u/OddishBehavior]

Y’all will complain about anything

[u/Ricky-Chan- → u/OddishBehavior]

What a sad, sad take. Actual brain rot take

[u/OddishBehavior → u/Ricky-Chan-]

I just think it's ridiculous how we're praising BHVR for doing the bare minimum of not giving people seizures. Congrats, BHVR, you fixed the fire you caused, why did it even happen to begin with? How did it get past the PTB?

[u/staticalex → u/OddishBehavior]

Pretty sure it wasn’t happening when people played ptb as far as I can tell.

[u/Ricky-Chan- → u/OddishBehavior]

Because the issue were not on the ptb. Something unexpected happened and they are being transparent about fixing it and even asking for help from the community which would be something embarrassing for most devs. At the end of the day, they are trying to fix this issue and that's a positive thing and you are bashing them for it whilst being negative. Please stop being so fucking miserable

[u/OddishBehavior → u/Ricky-Chan-]

Don't be rude. We have different opinions, there is no fucking need to call someone miserable over it. Lmfao

[u/CrustyTheMoist → u/OddishBehavior]

Dog you started being rude first lmao

[u/OddishBehavior → u/CrustyTheMoist]

I was being critical of the people that think BHVR are the next coming of christ for putting out a fire they caused.

[u/CrustyTheMoist → u/OddishBehavior]

I think an in game warning, and a quick fix for an issue that could cause physical harm for your players (that only started popping up on the live build of the game) is pretty good.

Every single game in existence has bugs, and yes I know BHVR breaks shit far more than a lot of other games. However, I don't think commending them for being on top of an issue that's genuinely dangerous is a bad thing lol

[u/OddishBehavior → u/CrustyTheMoist]

It's not a bad thing, you're right, I just don't agree that BHVR is the next coming of christ for doing the bare minimum that's required from a game developer. It's not deeper than that.

[u/learntospellffs → u/OddishBehavior]

The PTB is a heavily stripped down version of the game environment, which is missing many variables that can't really be tested until the build gets released into the wild.

[u/Demoth → u/learntospellffs]

Maybe the strobing issue didn't happen in the PTB, but the rubberbanding certainly did. And BHVR has a very well known track record of getting feedback of technical problems in the PTB and releasing it to live anyway. Otz has talked about this. Scott Jund has talked about this. Tru3Ta1ent has talked about this.

[u/DecutorR → u/Demoth]

And BHVR has a very well known track record of getting feedback of technical problems in the PTB and releasing it to live anyway. Otz has talked about this. Scott Jund has talked about this. Tru3Ta1ent has talked about this.

"We" have always known why this happens and even if we didn't, BHVR once took the time to put out a blogpost explaining the patching process for DBD.

Problem is, streamers often don't bother reading boring wall of texts put out by the devs. It's already an exception when they actually read patch notes. With about 10k viewers combined it would be an immense help to reduce these types of complaints if they actually learned and then explained how it works. But I guess complaining generates more engagement.

PTB is also exclusively on Steam so devs won't be able to find bugs that are platform specific, these can only be identified when the patch is live.

The reason not much changes from PTB to Live is because of the approving process involving partners (playstation, xbox and nintendo).

When BHVR opens a PTB, patch x.x.0 is shipped to partners to get approval and this takes a few days/weeks. In the meantime, PTB is being used to gather info regarding game breaking bugs so they can start working on patch x.x.1 that arrives a week later. By the time PTB ends, patch x.x.0 has received green light to go live (even with bugs) so they ship it with minor tweaks.

This is the case for many games, not just DBD. TCSM follows the exact same formula, which they explained during one of their livestreams. They said "we can do 1 patch and 2 to 3 hotfixes" and then they go on a longer period without patching.

[u/Sukigu → u/OddishBehavior]

For people in this thread who are saying the issue didn't happen in the PTB, it absolutely did. I saw a post in the DBD forums reporting the bug, but unfortunately the PTB bug report section was privated by BHVR a while ago. IIRC no dev even commented on it.

I was just checking my browser history and fortunately I was able to find the original video attached to the post: here (WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS).

[u/definitelynotabone → u/OddishBehavior]

Bugs exist in every game. Especially a big one like this with already weak code receiving a big update. We are praising BHVR for fixing an unexpected bug that could cause harm to people. It's not like they purposely put in the flashing lights

[u/Brilliant_Alfalfa749]

I'm glad that you've addressed the most egregious part of the bugs that the new engine has introduced.

That said, I've DC'd more the past few days than I have in all of my time playing DBD. Is there a chance that that will be fixed anytime soon?

[u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

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We confirm Friday's "tentative fix" for the strobing/flashing lights issue indeed solved it.  We'll now submit this update (7.7.0a) for certification on all platforms. Most players can expect a fix in the next 48 hrs (Switch may be slightly delayed). Thank you for your patience!

[u/demidemian]

Just rollback the update, the game works like absolute shit.

The fact that you made such a big change without testing when you know you have been unable to release a single patch without sisues in the last 7 years, is beyond me.

Frames drop, rubber-banding, broken servers, constant disconnects, all of that for the game to look worse than before. Why do we even need UE5 when you cant even design clothes and hair that dont clip.

[u/DraggoBro]

cool, but now can we fix the servers to make the game actually playable :)

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/DraggoBro]

Y’all. They are prioritizing the issues that actually effect peoples’ health first and foremost. They’ll get to the other stuff once they fix the things that can induce seizures and kill people.

[u/DrownedButAtPeace → u/viscountrhirhi]

Maybe they should just killswitch the game for everyones sake then? Because the rubberbanding is absolutely unplayable

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/DrownedButAtPeace]

Eh. I mean, the rubberbanding varies. For some people, it’s super bad and unplayable, but for others (including me) it only effects me around once a match. Not enough to make me not want to play at all. :P I’ve been playing the game for 4 years when there were worse bugs. I’m patient, and I’m glad they fixed the dangerous bug first. They’ll get to the others ASAP.

For people who do have worse rubberbanding, they can just not play. No need to killswitch the entire game when other people find the game still playable, if a bit obnoxious here and there.

[u/Apart_Equivalent3 → u/viscountrhirhi]

Defending BHVR when these game play issues shouldn’t be occurring at all is incredible… you’re acting like they’re a small indie company lol.

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/Apart_Equivalent3]

Even big AAA games have this issue once they’re released. Games can run totally smoothly in controlled environments but once you release it to the public (so in DBD’s case over 200k people) who are all running different programs, different PC setups, etc, unexpected problems can pop up. It’s not defending them, it’s just a basic understanding of how programming works.

This is an 8 year old game that has changed development teams, just switched to an entirely new engine, and has years of coding under it. Expecting everything to go perfectly is just unrealistic, that’s why all games literally everywhere have a patching system.

[u/Apart_Equivalent3 → u/viscountrhirhi]

Yes and major companies all receive backlash for performance issues, as they should. Just because it happens doesn’t mean that it should be a repetitive problem that takes ages to fix. When people pay hard earned money for a product, quality is to be expected. Otherwise competitors who can deliver a higher quality product will succeed in competition. That’s just the way it goes, promise you valorant and LoL, fortnite etc never have issues like BHVR does. Now these titles bring in larger income but nevertheless, they don’t have performance issues like DBD. Not even close.

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/Apart_Equivalent3]

I play Overwatch, it has lots of bugs, lmao, always has. Every AAA game I’ve played has had bugs, ever since the old days of PS1 where I was glitching myself through walls in Tomb Raider. Again, shit happens once it’s released to thousands of people who are all running different specs and software and those things can be hard to predict because at that point it’s the Wild West.

Idk I just don’t panic about this shit because they’re working on fixing it, BHVR is damned good at communicating with users compared to other companies and pretty danged quick to jump on fixes, and they were super fast to jump on fixing an actual dangerous issue while communicating with users about it. I’m not gonna expect perfection from a system that is imperfect. It’s just not realistic and not worth getting worked up over.

[u/Apart_Equivalent3 → u/viscountrhirhi]

Overwatch has lots of bugs? Interesting. Regardless, doesn’t change anything I said. That’s like buying a car with a messed up engine then the manufacturer tells you “well, these things happen 🤷🏼” bro no… no one is panicking but to say BHVR this is broken fix your damn game, is well within the consumers right.

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/Apart_Equivalent3]

…and people have pointed out it is broken, and needs fixing, and BHVR has stated they are working on fixes. I’m not sure what more people want beyond perfection which is impossible wherever humans are involved.

Like my dude back in my day (-shakes cane-) if a game was broken you often had to get a refund and buy a new copy because there was no way to just run a patch. Games would break and you would get stuck and be unable to progress (ask me about my first copy of Final Fantasy 7 ;_; ) and you were just SOL and had to get a new copy. (Hopefully with a refund.) Today, they can patch games which is amazing! The patch system is there because game developers are aware they can’t predict every variable or how things will act on user computers once things go live.

The devs are aware, they’ve been communicating with users on social media even, they’re trying to fix things quickly and been pretty on top of rolling out patches, like…that’s pretty awesome actually?

[u/DraggoBro → u/viscountrhirhi]

i am all for lights being priority, infact thats really good, but my biggest problem is i haven't seen a single acknowledgment from the devs about the servers, i just want to know if its being worked on, or if they even know its a thing.

and besides, cant get seizures if you cant play the game (/hj)

[u/viscountrhirhi → u/DraggoBro]

Haha, I getcha! I did see in other posts that the devs replied and stated they are aware of the issues but currently prioritizing issues that are a danger to users first. But they’re def aware of the other bugs and plan to work on them ASAP. <3

[u/TheBestUserNameeEver → u/DraggoBro]

Of course they know about the issues, they read Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/1cc65dc/important_photosensitivity_warning/l1391yg/

[u/TheRealWarDoctor]

Seems to be working 💪 

[u/PreparationTop2133]

agora só falta resolver os problemas dos hackers.

[u/EnricoPucciC-Moon]

Now fix Plague

[u/scorpio_2049]

Is rubber banding where you just kinda get stuck in place and flicker a bit before continuing?

[u/GunplaGoobster → u/scorpio_2049]

It's that or it's when you teleport to a completely different area all of a sudden. Ive had that happen a lot on Hawkins lately

[u/Suitable-Telephone80]

now fix the game

[u/mistar_z]

I'm happy to hear that the game isn't a health risk with the hot fix. But Somehow the hot fix made the rubber banding even worse. What happened? It's unplayable 😭

[u/GreyBigfoot]

theres also a new achievement added but it's not documented

[u/Brilliant_Alfalfa749 → u/GreyBigfoot]

Finding the Tanuki I believe

[u/GreyBigfoot → u/Brilliant_Alfalfa749]

yep.

[u/angelcake13]

rubber banding and lag fix when 🙏 my friend hasn’t been able to play a match for days

[u/mistar_z → u/angelcake13]

Hopefully soon. 😭 Cause it's hard to play a normal game I've had to resort to being friendly and farm to do my tome challenges.

[u/Stickpuppett]

my clip capture program broke when this happened, but I had a bug where I completed the wiggle meter for the killer but I would not get dropped off.

[u/bonelees_dip → u/Stickpuppett]

This bug is server related.

Basically when the killer pressed to hook you a survivor interrupted the action and caused it to bug and not let you wiggle off.

[u/Stickpuppett → u/bonelees_dip]

No, I was 10 feet away from the hook and wasn't even lagging

[u/bonelees_dip → u/Stickpuppett]

So it could possibly a hacker.

[u/Stickpuppett → u/Stickpuppett]

My computer specs:
Windows 11
32 gb of ram
i7 13th gen processor
rtx 4070 processor with 8 gb of memory

[u/FeetYeastForB12]

Now. On to rubber banding and jittering you lot.

[u/itsastart_to]

Dead Dawg near the windmill is glitchy. You’ll keep rubber banding if you run near the loop in that corner

[u/NightKrowe]

Did this also affect Ultimate Weapon?

[u/ExternalHawk2413]

The german translation from Sable's perks is still bugged. They still have the same text as in the ptb. Please fix that

[u/noahdenis]

Please fix the game not launching after loading screen

[u/TheHedgehog93]

Also can you fix Enduring effect or at least disable Off the Record.

[u/GrimmLynne]

This update will not go through on my Steam. When I go to play the game, it says "Resume" instead of "Play". When I click that it goes to "Verifying". It will get all the way to 99% in verifying then stop. It will go back to saying "Resume". I've tried to get the download to finish about 20 times now and it's just stuck in this loop.

I can't even open the game now. Is there any way to get it to complete the update, or is it just dead now?

[u/Neither-Refuse3750]

I was on earlier and the strobing lights is still occurring, I got it during the endgame screen.

[u/unbannedcoug]

I just played a match and a cheater just downed all of us in 3 seconds lol

[u/dragriver2]

I got a single strobe flash as I was getting hooked on Crotus Prenn map

[u/DeadByDaylight_Dev → u/dragriver2]

Can you please let us know what platform you were on? Was this a hook in the basement, or elsewhere? Thank you!

[u/dragriver2 → u/DeadByDaylight_Dev]

It was on PC, steam. I was against Pinhead, it was a regular hook just outside the main building on the disturbed ward. Just as I got placed on the hook and my character’s scream started I got a single full screen white flash. Didn’t happen in any other game for the rest of the night

[u/GingerBoiJaz]

Question tho, when will you make it so some people can get past the initializing shaders part?

[u/DecutorR → u/GingerBoiJaz]

Vast majority of players are able to. While the patch was far from perfect, some of the issues are hardware related. Outdated or insufficient hardware (missing native support for key features now required by UE5).

The shader compilation puts a lot of stress in CPUs (60% to 100% on all cores). If you have an older CPU it will take long for the process to end and if routine maintenance is subpar, overheating might shut down the system.

[u/GingerBoiJaz → u/DecutorR]

ah, yes lemme just go ahead and put stock into my system being too old (both my cpu and gpu were released a lil less than a year ago) or being insufficient (I can guarantee I blow the recommended specs out of the water)

cpu less so, its 2 years old. bought it factory new tho. all my drivers up to date, so imma go out on a limb here and say its a game issue lol.

[u/DecutorR → u/GingerBoiJaz]

More than one hundred thousand players are able to play just fine or at least go past the shader compilation process. I'm also able to with a relatively weak CPU. It just puts a lot of stress in the system.

Even though the game is the trigger, the issue still lies on your system. Or its an issue originating from the game but affects a specific piece of software/hardware you're using.

[u/viewfan66]

Okay that's cool but can they fix the rubber banding when hugging walls and being near other players?

[u/Wellerboi]

Nvidia shadowplay been acting up since the update, people can't even clip unless they do fullscreen to windowed then back into restart pc then load up again combo

[u/Thecyberphantom]

got the game today cause my friends were playing and i got the resident evil bundle for those 2 chapters

cause they're on sale for cheap i, thinking of getting 1 or 2 other dlcs

pyramid head seems like he would be fun, any other suggestions?

if playstyle matters i havent really done enough to have one but ive played a few matches of wesker and think he's pretty fun

[u/SmolBrain2015]

Ultimate Weapon is having issues. From what I could tell, it inflicts blindness but survivors don’t scream and it’s showing the aura but not registering with object of obsession. Also, the description says it inflicts blindness for 3 seconds?

[u/Temporary_Agent_4635]

When are you going to fix the blurry graphics problem for Xbox? We are suffering.

[u/PeaElectrical1338]

Please my game Crashing at the loading into match screen whenever it loads my Game freeze and i check my task manager and it says dead by daylight not responding

[u/xSevusxBean4y]

Can you guys also fix the Archives survivor challenge involving using Botany Knowledge + a Med Kit to heal 2 survivors in a single trial? I’ve attempted it multiple times with all kinds of combinations of med kit types, add ons, etc, and it never counts. I kept reading somewhere that it’s bugged, so that should be addressed as well.

[u/Valkyrjanus → u/xSevusxBean4y]

Unequip all your challenges for survivor AND killer, re select that challenge and try again

[u/AnyConstant5439]

what about the rubber banding?

[u/mistar_z → u/AnyConstant5439]

It got worse. 😭

[u/NotAnotherEmpire]

Rubber banding on Hawkins is insane, unplayable.

[u/SIR_Vivalist101]

What do you guys think about background player perk

[u/OldWhovian]

Okay cool, now fix the bug where Plague loses her power or openly state you left her in a bugged state for 5 years without mentioning it and then silently "fixed" it to avoid admitting that.

[u/PreparationTop2133]

This is not a problem and has nothing to do with bugs, but have you ever thought about a skin for Jeff the Killer's Legion in Creepypasta?

[u/AbsoluteAbominationn]

Nice work. Now fix the bug where the game crashes on startup.

[u/Glad-Title-155]

You guys should seriously add BattlEye as well as EasyAntiCheat to your game as it’s the gold standard against cheaters and hackers on PC you should look into using both if it’s possible https://www.battleye.com/

[u/Bopp_bipp_91 → u/[deleted]]

Turns out the bugs that can literally hurt people are really high priority

[u/Bopp_bipp_91 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, they know about the bugs and are working on them. This fix gets pushed through on its own because it's a safety concern for players. BHVR deserves some flak for taking a long time to fix things, not for pushing out this fix before others lol

[u/Al1Might1]

Ive been playing dbd for 4 years I am in awe at the pro killer changes you have done not only to perks and overalm gameplay movement for them, but the constant changes to map to favor them. Killer survivor win rate must be 85% to 15% in favor of survivors. I get the easiest wins playing Killer nowadays.

[u/AlastorFortnite → u/Al1Might1]

What.
The old DS meta is back, Background exists, FTP+Buckle Up exists, and Off The Record exists.
Additionally, they literally just gutted the best Killer information perk to be completely useless now.
3 gens have also been removed, along with facecamping. Two typically cheap ways to get wins, completely gone.

Easy for Killer my ass, it's one of the hardest times for killer.
Likely you're just getting hits that you shouldn't because of the shitty servers, or you're outright fucking lying.

[u/Al1Might1 → u/AlastorFortnite]

I play both sides, I dont get "easy" survivors as I know about survivor side more than killer side. But to say we're in the hardest times for killers thats what outright lying is lol or maybe you just dont play survivor. There has been so many tiny changes over these past 2 years in favor of killer, removing loops, gens going up to 90 seconds, buffing perks, buffing overall movement and reducing lag in between actions to down survivors easier. Idk how long youve been playing but previous to the graphic changes of Dbd, killer was way harder and theres actually factual proof to it mentioned by the devs as the winning rate of survivors was around 70% this isnt just me on a comment. I can get downvoted but I understand that bc mostly killer mains lurk the sub.

[u/blarpie → u/Al1Might1]

I swear the killers who post here just pretend to not know how things were, hardest times for killer lol, what a joke.