Dead by Daylight Update 5.3.0 was pushed a few days back that adds a new survivor to the game – Mikaela Reid, brings the “The Midnight Grove” Halloween event and adds a lot of new things to the game, but it’s also brought about a recurring bug with the game. The Dead by Daylight Lery’s bug has appeared in the game several times over the years and was fixed in subsequent patches only to remerge in a random update.
The bug is back again with the 5.3.0 update. The Lery’s bug can be traced back as far as 5 years to the time of the game launch. It is astounding how one bug keeps reappearing time and again. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the bug.
There are a bunch of bugs in Lery’s Memorial Hospital, the most notable is the vault bug where users get stuck at the window unable to vault to the other side or come back. Also, the generators at Lery’s are bugged.
While the issue is frustrating for players who have never encountered the bug prior to the recent update, some users on Reddit are casual about it and have taken the opportunity to mock the devs. Regardless of how you choose to interpret the situation, it’s a serious bug and one the devs should resolve for good. After all, to have one bug remerge so many times after all these years does not reflect well on the developers.
A user on Reddit has a theory about why the bug keeps reappearing and we think he may be right. According to him, “Say a person, Charlie, is working on a new feature on codebase A. It takes a few days or weeks. Meanwhile, bugfixes (like fixing this window) get pushed into the codebase making codebase B. Then when Charlie finishes his feature, he tries to merge his changes into codebase B, but because his codebase was codebase A, he accidentally reverts some of the code back, undoing some of the progress that made codebase B from codebase A.”
At the time of writing, we could not find any acknowledgment from Behaviour Interactive about the bug. It does not mean that they do not know about it, but it could well mean that the fix won’t come as soon as we would like it to. We will update the post with anything new that emerges about the bug. Meanwhile, if you know a workaround for the Dead by Daylight Lery’s Gen, Room, or Vault Bugs, share them in the comments.