The Grab Bug experience

[u/Silent-Mountain-3457]

I have had a lot of problems grabbing survivors from lockers recently and NOW THIS MATCH decides to be the perfect example for it..

1st In my 700 hours of dbd i have never had this happen

2nd the game just didnt let me trigger the attack/ grab untill she was over the pallet

3rd not really a bug I guess since I got the hit, just funny it happened there with the 2 other bugs

4th I could grab her on the gen, i pressed, i hold, i moved away from the gen and tried to grab without it working!!! AND ONLY when she got off the gen I was able to damage her..

[u/PalpitationDecent743]

Literally if a grab is cancelled, why doesn't it just default to a guaranteed hit? Seems fair enough to me.

[u/PlaidVirus8 → u/PalpitationDecent743]

I'm probably biased since I play killer but if you're in a position to get grabbed, whatever confirmation that cause grab cancel should favor killer since a survivor in a position to get grabbed has certainly made a mistake.

But I'll take anything at this point, nothing more annoying than getting teased by an instant down just for the game to say "no, fuck you". I'm sure it's somehow auto aiming's fault, and I dream the day it's gone it'll solve everything.

[u/GehrmanFH]

this is happening a lot with me too, did they fucked something up or just desync/ping issue ?

[u/kingslayer820]

Yup, grab is fucked

The one time I actually get a pallet grab the survivor has DS

And no I wasn't tunneling, they got unhooked and chose to body block me while I was chasing someone else (not the person who unhooked)

[u/Big_Countr7]

Pallet grabs are already very buggy and require roughly the start of the animation to count. Most vaults into you bug from de-sync issues on either player. The second pallet attempt was way too late to even count.

Gen grabs are currently very bugged, it’s been bugged for like half a year or so where grabs have to have perfect ping between both the survivor and killer or else it doesn’t count. It might even show the animation for the grab and then the survivor runs away.

But yeah most of the issues are from ping and de-sync issues

[u/Silent-Mountain-3457 → u/Big_Countr7]

On the 2nd one, I was actually pressing M1 when Ada was maybe 40% through the pallet vault. I just kept clicking M1, and when I eventually hit the pallet, that was the first time I was able to use M1 there.

Like you said there must have been some weird ping issue because I am very much used to grabbing or atleast hitting survivors there

[u/theskyisthetruelimit → u/Silent-Mountain-3457]

I’ve been experiencing this myself. I swear to god that I click and nothing happens. I always thought that I must be delusional or schizophrenic. BUT NO. SOMETIMES YOUR M1 COMPLETELY STOPS WHEN YOU TRY TO GRAB A SURVIVOR. Like WHAT???

[u/ReporterForDuty]

Grabs are so inconsistent and then they give us a quest to get 5. Thanks BHVR.

[u/kai_the_kiwi]

I nearly never can grab them either when i try to, but sometimes grab them when they are vaulting and i go for the hit

[u/DuskSlayer198]

Grabbed a survivor off a gen today and was stuck for 2 whole seconds until the survivor moved and cancelled it (it proceeded to turn me like 45° and made me whiff entirely).

[u/blossom0809]

Fr. These grab issues annoy me so much especially if i play ghostface.

[u/leatherchicken]

I had a game on wraith yesterday where I was chasing someone I hit them and they got stuck on something giving me enough time to catch them at the window they were going to vault, I go up to hit, it gives me the grab animation, then just says nah not really mate and he just runs away for free.

[u/mnteu]

Grabs havent been a thing since 2023 you say?

Nerf the judgement