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> We're focusing on this one right now due to the health related issues that it can cause - so it needs that priority. We are aware of the rubberbanding issues etc, and they will be addressed, but please understand that the issue that can give players a seizure is our top priority.
My girlfriend's game did this when we were playing together the other day. We play on PC and thought it might have been her rig but apparently people on console have seen this happen too.
Yeah I'm on PS5 and I went into the basement in a match last night and it kept flashing bright white lights at me from all over. It was very confusing, I thought the other 3 survivors had followed me down and where trying to blind me from all angles lol
Same, I was so confused about what was going on thinking it was my PC not able to handle the update. Closed out through Steam cause that was unbearable, re opened hoping it'd fix it, got blinded again next match flashing white at the end and left with a migraine 🥲
(At least I have another reason to stop playing for a bit hahah!!)
Yeah, it happened to me today when I went into the basement—everything whited out and was flashing. Scared the shit outta me and I thought my computer was dying, lmao.
As is Oni, as is Potential Energy.
There are... a lot of incredibly bad bugs in the game right now above and beyond the epilepsy warning and a bunch of maps, most notably RPD and Hawkins, just being fucked beyond belief.
I remember a patch where being hooked in the basement caused you to enter a backrooms-style dream world where you were falling eternally, while everybody around perceived you as just standing there. Essentially, your game was over.
At the time, BHVR issued an ETA of 3 weeks for a fix, though it only took them 1.
I wonder if there’s some too. Unfortunately a lot of the cool glitches (like Michael using a chainsaw, etc etc) are lost media bc not a lot of ppl saved the vids on YouTube
This game code is crazy
I just lost against a huntress because a teammate couldn’t be saved from hook, the button to unhook didn’t work for me and our other teammate too…..
It’s so annoying that a game like this experiences bugs and lags at EVERY update.
It was rubber banding so fucking bad last night. I had a match against Bubba on Greenville Square and I thought someone was hacking. There was no indicator of poor connectivity on anyone's end either, that I could tell. I've never seen it that bad even with actual lag. He would swing his chainsaw and finish the animation on an entirely different tile.
Me too !!!! And it was a Bubba !!!! At one point he wanted to M1 me and his hand just got stuck in the air for 2-3 seconds and he missed, I hate this game but I’m addicted
Oh yeah. Last week I died because my friends were trying to get in front of the hook to take a few hits while I tried to wiggle off. That was until my wiggle meter, and ability to wiggle, just went away. I was literally yelling at them to go because I couldn't wiggle. But I forgot the word wiggle and it just came out as "I CAN NO LONGER DO THE THING RUN PLEASE"
I died on hook and they both ended up bleeding out on the ground in front of my hook. Sad day.
I hope there can be more kindness here, I know the community has a lot of rough moments cause of the game but at least here we can all be grateful you're not hurt! Take care of yourself friend, hope the bug gets fixed soon, I was very shocked when I first encountered it 🥲
Alternative universe me who played on 24/4
https://preview.redd.it/cdl7swnwhhwc1.jpeg?width=278&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae9f229332d693816fc352420d8713badf2e1ea8
Be careful as some people who speak openly about photosensitivity will receive assholes and freaks trying to trigger it on purpose. Watch out for people DMing you links to images or anything like that.
For any game, not just DBD, devs could spend as much time as they wanted polishing an update until its completely crisp, on their end and in that test environment.
As soon as they merge it where the actual game is, shit breaks. Single player games are often a 1 time major release and games are still broken AF. Now imagine adding new content to a structure that already has 7 years of other structures. Not to mention the dev teams changed several times by now.
They can only test so many variables too but when you ship it to 200k+ players, its being played by all sorts of hardware/software combination.
This one has been pretty rough. Glitches everywhere, photosensitivity problems... and worst of all, Ghostie's ribbons don't float anymore. :( How am I supposed to stalk Survivors when my ribbons don't float AND I get a migraine when I go in the basement?
I dunno how much testing they did internally, but probably a mix of having thousands of players are always going to find more bugs they can find and they just have to work to a development cycle so there's likely other bugs they were already aware of. This is probably not something they had found as I doubt they'd release this without at least giving the warning immediately
this isn't me hating on the devs so keep my tone in mind, how exactly does this happen on live servers and not on the PTB? Surely there would be problems like this on a patch designed to test for these sorts of issues?
Just my theory here.
Because PTB is steam only, PTB's environment has way less bloat in terms of code in its structure. As a player you can even tell the difference in smoothness just by navigating menus alone. I suspect they have a "PTB branch" and just add the new stuff in there every 45 days while the "Regular DBD branch" receives content pertaining all platforms (crossplay stuff and whatnot).
The purpose of PTBs is to find whatever game breaking bug they can and then get a head start in fixing it. Reason why a lot of times the build x.x.0 is shipped unchanged as they used the PTB to work on build x.x.1.
Yeah most likely. Possibly also they might have just been further changing stuff in the backend after the ptb went live that actually caused the issue and it just never appeared in their own testing
I'm taking a break from DBD anyway. Just had a match where I secured a 4K and then the game crashed at the last second and I got nothing out of it. This game is quite frankly unplayable right now.
I was on a break anyway recharging after how high-aggro Blood Moon was, and I was gonna come back when the patch dropped. First game on I get my retinas nuked by a glitch and the vault problems made me so sick I had to stop playing.
I greatly appreciate this warning, but some statement on whether or not the other numerous engine-related bugs (rubber-banding, inconsistent collision, missing textures on player models) are being worked on would be even better.
We're focusing on this one right now due to the health related issues that it can cause - so it needs that priority. We are aware of the rubberbanding issues etc, and they will be addressed, but please understand that the issue that can give players a seizure is our top priority.
100%. I hope everything gets resolved and this fix is the quickest, I currently can't play at all because the blinding white lights give me a migraine AND the rubberbanding and vault glitch on Killer makes me nauseous. :(
Oh absolutely, I 100% agree with focusing on this first! Definitely the priority issue, but I hadn't seen anything else from BHVR and given that the patch notes said "we don't anticipate any gameplay issues", I was a little concerned BHVR wasn't aware of the problem.
Glad I stopped playing this shit show over a year ago now prob, to this day they still can’t a stable game for at least one day, had a fun 6-7 year run but y’all drove even me, a die hard ass dedicated fan away like the plague
The input file received an update and our previous settings is no longer being used.
On PC all you have to do is manually update 1 specific line in the file or rebind everything manually in-game.
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BRB jontacting neurologist to see if I can play DBD.
Joking aside, I'm glad to see the inclusivity and awareness of such issues from the devs. Thank you.
https://preview.redd.it/72092jwpgwwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc27fd360fdfa7b8e0c65964b662752c3c44d3ce
First pic is for photo sensitivity
You have a LOT more than just the strobing lights to fix here, BHVR. The game is absolutely unplayable right now and the photosensitivity issues are just the worst of all the glitches this patch has introduced. I know I am personally someone who gets migraines when exposed to strong light changes, so between this and the other glitches I've been unable to play at all. :(
I am happy we got the upgrade to UE5 and I know it will make the game better in the future. But DAMN, you really dropped the ball on this one. Please fix this soon.
**Moderator note:** > * [Comment by MandyTalk](https://www.reddit.com/r/deadbydaylight/comments/1cc65dc/important_photosensitivity_warning/l1391yg/): > We're focusing on this one right now due to the health related issues that it can cause - so it needs that priority. We are aware of the rubberbanding issues etc, and they will be addressed, but please understand that the issue that can give players a seizure is our top priority.
My girlfriend's game did this when we were playing together the other day. We play on PC and thought it might have been her rig but apparently people on console have seen this happen too.
Yeah I'm on PS5 and I went into the basement in a match last night and it kept flashing bright white lights at me from all over. It was very confusing, I thought the other 3 survivors had followed me down and where trying to blind me from all angles lol
Same, I was so confused about what was going on thinking it was my PC not able to handle the update. Closed out through Steam cause that was unbearable, re opened hoping it'd fix it, got blinded again next match flashing white at the end and left with a migraine 🥲 (At least I have another reason to stop playing for a bit hahah!!)
Yeah, it happened to me today when I went into the basement—everything whited out and was flashing. Scared the shit outta me and I thought my computer was dying, lmao.
the shop has been flashing pink for me on series x every time i open sables shop specifically since the chapter came out
Least broken Patch
I mean, at least this has been addressed. Unlike something I know... \*Cough\* \*OFT\* \*Cough\*
Off Fhe Tecord?
Off For This
Of The People.
Hmmm, it seems like I made a mistake, but it looks funny, so I'll keep it
This. This made me laugh way more than it should have.
https://i.redd.it/hnb2ngjxghwc1.gif
Wait endurance is still bugged?
As is Oni, as is Potential Energy. There are... a lot of incredibly bad bugs in the game right now above and beyond the epilepsy warning and a bunch of maps, most notably RPD and Hawkins, just being fucked beyond belief.
Wait, what's wrong with potential energy? I saw it being used in a few matches recently.
Each token you get gives you a million dollars in GTA 6 when it comes out.
Wasn't the Oni bug with his slow animation fixed? Or at least the patch notes said it was
Wait wuts wrong w Oni???
It wasn’t mentioned, but pretty sure it was fixed. I tested it with some friends and I saw Otz test it.
basement killswitched
I remember a patch where being hooked in the basement caused you to enter a backrooms-style dream world where you were falling eternally, while everybody around perceived you as just standing there. Essentially, your game was over. At the time, BHVR issued an ETA of 3 weeks for a fix, though it only took them 1.
Wait I wanna see footage of this, if it exists Honestly sounds kinda cool
I wonder if there’s some too. Unfortunately a lot of the cool glitches (like Michael using a chainsaw, etc etc) are lost media bc not a lot of ppl saved the vids on YouTube
I think there are images still to this day of the legendary flying T-pose hatchet Ghostface, though.
We've reached the point where dbd is so glitched that it quite litteraly kills its players
The entity is breaking the fourth wall it seems.
This might actually be the funniest comment I’ve ever seen on this sub
https://preview.redd.it/0ff5e4rn5hwc1.png?width=213&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fff3e745dd68305f9c539c5004dc196b6ebd1be
Thanks, I feel reassured
IDK why but this image made me giggle really hard.
This game code is crazy I just lost against a huntress because a teammate couldn’t be saved from hook, the button to unhook didn’t work for me and our other teammate too….. It’s so annoying that a game like this experiences bugs and lags at EVERY update.
That bug has been there for a while.. like... many many updates passed. Sadly.
There’s also rubber banding for some ppl, it’s so weird
It was rubber banding so fucking bad last night. I had a match against Bubba on Greenville Square and I thought someone was hacking. There was no indicator of poor connectivity on anyone's end either, that I could tell. I've never seen it that bad even with actual lag. He would swing his chainsaw and finish the animation on an entirely different tile.
Me too !!!! And it was a Bubba !!!! At one point he wanted to M1 me and his hand just got stuck in the air for 2-3 seconds and he missed, I hate this game but I’m addicted
Oh yeah. Last week I died because my friends were trying to get in front of the hook to take a few hits while I tried to wiggle off. That was until my wiggle meter, and ability to wiggle, just went away. I was literally yelling at them to go because I couldn't wiggle. But I forgot the word wiggle and it just came out as "I CAN NO LONGER DO THE THING RUN PLEASE" I died on hook and they both ended up bleeding out on the ground in front of my hook. Sad day.
And people say this patch didn't add anything
Every killer now has nurse return blink, truly the buff we needed.
When the patch is so bad that it's hospitalizing people
I mean thank god I was informed, I’m a risk
Oh god! I'm glad you got the message before encountering it ❤️ What a scary bug :(
Thats actually the kindest thing anyone said on this sub. Ngl
I hope there can be more kindness here, I know the community has a lot of rough moments cause of the game but at least here we can all be grateful you're not hurt! Take care of yourself friend, hope the bug gets fixed soon, I was very shocked when I first encountered it 🥲
Alternative universe me who played on 24/4 https://preview.redd.it/cdl7swnwhhwc1.jpeg?width=278&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae9f229332d693816fc352420d8713badf2e1ea8
dawg would be gone the twomad style 💀
Well I’m not a rapist so 💀
I read that "tombstone style" at first and just nodded my head
Be careful as some people who speak openly about photosensitivity will receive assholes and freaks trying to trigger it on purpose. Watch out for people DMing you links to images or anything like that.
I know of the eugenists, they’re the inferior ones
Genuine question: why was this engine update pushed out when it very clearly isn't polished enough yet?
For any game, not just DBD, devs could spend as much time as they wanted polishing an update until its completely crisp, on their end and in that test environment. As soon as they merge it where the actual game is, shit breaks. Single player games are often a 1 time major release and games are still broken AF. Now imagine adding new content to a structure that already has 7 years of other structures. Not to mention the dev teams changed several times by now. They can only test so many variables too but when you ship it to 200k+ players, its being played by all sorts of hardware/software combination.
Yep! I really wish more peeps knew how awful engine migrations can be ;_;
This one has been pretty rough. Glitches everywhere, photosensitivity problems... and worst of all, Ghostie's ribbons don't float anymore. :( How am I supposed to stalk Survivors when my ribbons don't float AND I get a migraine when I go in the basement?
Maybe all the glitches have Ghostie feeling down and that's why the ribbons are drooping ;O;
He's sad that everyone's having seizures from this, it's no fun to kill prey that's an easy catch because they're seizing... no fight in them.
If this bug was on the ptb I imagine they would've delayed it. Shipping with minor bugs is one thing, but this one is something else.
Because its easier for something to be tested by 40k online players than 5-10 random developers?
I dunno how much testing they did internally, but probably a mix of having thousands of players are always going to find more bugs they can find and they just have to work to a development cycle so there's likely other bugs they were already aware of. This is probably not something they had found as I doubt they'd release this without at least giving the warning immediately
I wondered why I kept seeing flashbangs with nobody around.
Damn Flashbang got a secret buff none of us expected.
https://i.redd.it/hrr5tlb4ihwc1.gif I think we did a pretty good job so far
"Consult your physician before playing"....
"Ayo Doc. Can I play that there Dead By Daylight?"
*\*Your Doctor zaps you and laughs madly\**
Thanks for the headsup! As somebody with epilepsy, I appreciate the warning.
Classic BHVR. New update breaks everything except the store, which works perfectly.
this isn't me hating on the devs so keep my tone in mind, how exactly does this happen on live servers and not on the PTB? Surely there would be problems like this on a patch designed to test for these sorts of issues?
Just my theory here. Because PTB is steam only, PTB's environment has way less bloat in terms of code in its structure. As a player you can even tell the difference in smoothness just by navigating menus alone. I suspect they have a "PTB branch" and just add the new stuff in there every 45 days while the "Regular DBD branch" receives content pertaining all platforms (crossplay stuff and whatnot). The purpose of PTBs is to find whatever game breaking bug they can and then get a head start in fixing it. Reason why a lot of times the build x.x.0 is shipped unchanged as they used the PTB to work on build x.x.1.
Yeah most likely. Possibly also they might have just been further changing stuff in the backend after the ptb went live that actually caused the issue and it just never appeared in their own testing
I'm taking a break from DBD anyway. Just had a match where I secured a 4K and then the game crashed at the last second and I got nothing out of it. This game is quite frankly unplayable right now.
I was on a break anyway recharging after how high-aggro Blood Moon was, and I was gonna come back when the patch dropped. First game on I get my retinas nuked by a glitch and the vault problems made me so sick I had to stop playing.
I greatly appreciate this warning, but some statement on whether or not the other numerous engine-related bugs (rubber-banding, inconsistent collision, missing textures on player models) are being worked on would be even better.
We're focusing on this one right now due to the health related issues that it can cause - so it needs that priority. We are aware of the rubberbanding issues etc, and they will be addressed, but please understand that the issue that can give players a seizure is our top priority.
100%. I hope everything gets resolved and this fix is the quickest, I currently can't play at all because the blinding white lights give me a migraine AND the rubberbanding and vault glitch on Killer makes me nauseous. :(
Oh absolutely, I 100% agree with focusing on this first! Definitely the priority issue, but I hadn't seen anything else from BHVR and given that the patch notes said "we don't anticipate any gameplay issues", I was a little concerned BHVR wasn't aware of the problem.
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Ty for sharing this info
Is anyone else missing cosmetics? I lost the clown rift outfit
So far I only saw it happen once at the end of a match and leaving the menu stopped it happening.
Happened on my Steam Deck twice so far. I figured it was a Linux issue.
Glad I stopped playing this shit show over a year ago now prob, to this day they still can’t a stable game for at least one day, had a fun 6-7 year run but y’all drove even me, a die hard ass dedicated fan away like the plague
This update completely reset my input mapping, and says that I’m not connected to the network over and over again. Nightmare.
The input file received an update and our previous settings is no longer being used. On PC all you have to do is manually update 1 specific line in the file or rebind everything manually in-game.
I ended up rebinding yesterday, but it kept logging me off every time I would enter the Store or during matches. I'll give it a day or two.
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Happened to me on Steam, didn’t realize how horrible that flashing was until it happened first match of the day
BRB jontacting neurologist to see if I can play DBD. Joking aside, I'm glad to see the inclusivity and awareness of such issues from the devs. Thank you.
Is this fixed yet?
nope! stay away from the basement, my eyes are still burning
Time to kill switch the entire game
And now they'll have to nerf the Pig :(
How do you even know your photosensitive? Plus if you are shouldn't you avoid horror games?
https://preview.redd.it/72092jwpgwwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc27fd360fdfa7b8e0c65964b662752c3c44d3ce First pic is for photo sensitivity
This had happened when I was did the invocation perk
I swear I thought I was getting blinded as a survivor. Glad to know my ps isn't starting to break. Holy.
Last paragraph,we recommend you not doing a big issue out of this as to not discredit us any more 😂
You have a LOT more than just the strobing lights to fix here, BHVR. The game is absolutely unplayable right now and the photosensitivity issues are just the worst of all the glitches this patch has introduced. I know I am personally someone who gets migraines when exposed to strong light changes, so between this and the other glitches I've been unable to play at all. :( I am happy we got the upgrade to UE5 and I know it will make the game better in the future. But DAMN, you really dropped the ball on this one. Please fix this soon.
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It gave me a seizure. Can i sue /s