While playing Dying Light 2, you might be wondering why your Survivor Sense takes too much time to work or doesn’t work at all. There seems to be a bug where even after pressing the assigned button, Survivor Sense doesn’t seem to function as it should, which might be troubling if you are searching for loot or enemies nearby. In this guide, we will see how to fix the Dying Light 2 Survivor Sense not working bug.
How to Fix Dying Light 2 Survivor Sense Not Working/Not Activating Bug
While most bugs are troublesome to overcome, the Survivor Sense bug is one of them that is added to the long list of issues that don’t have a proper fix. There are a few ways to work around it, and here we will see how to do that.
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There are a few tips you can try out to make Survivor Sense work normally, but this is just a temporary fix, and the problem might come up again later on.
- Some players reported that Survivor Sense does not work while up in the air, and you will need to be on the ground for it to work.
- Crouching a couple of times or walking around and then hitting the Survivor Sense button seems to work.
- Taking out your weapon or using block and then using Survivor Sense also made the mechanic work normally.
- If on a controller, try to wiggle your analog stick for a while to see if it helps.
- Going in and out of Main Menu or Inventory helped some players over the issue.
- Switching items from the weapon wheel or just toggling around it helped disable the Survivor Sense bug.
- Remap the button that is used to activate Survivor Sense.
- Join another player’s server and then try using Survivor Sense.
- Holding down or tapping the survivor sense button a couple of times manages to fix the bug.
- Use a different controller if you have one then try to use the Survivor Sense button in the new controller.
- Playing Dying Light 2 on full screen rather than borderless window mode seems to work to fix the bug for some players.
- Turning on and turning off Flashlight sometimes help fix the Survivor Sense bug
- Restarting or uninstalling and reinstalling Dying Light 2 and then starting it up and playing the game, as usual, helped fix the issue.
While these tips temporarily helped work around the Survivor Sense bug, it was not permanent, and the bug returned for some. If it is a persistent issue, then your best bet would be to not use that action at all till there is a patch update to the issue.
That’s all there is to know about how to fix the Survivor Sense bug in Dying Light 2. If you liked this guide you can check out our other guides as well.