Escape the Backrooms Suggestions & Bug Reporting
What is this?
We're trialling a new way for all ETB players to report issues and offer up their suggestions. This space is a hub to report issues you are coming across and ideas you'd like to suggest, you can also go through and upvote posts by the rest of the ETB community. You'll be able to see which issues and suggestions are under consideration and are being worked on. We're hoping that this will provide a better insight into development for everyone the community.
Posting Rules
- Please post in English only. Posts and comments in other languages will be removed.
- Only one suggestion or issue per post.
- Check to see if your suggestion or issue has already been posted before posting.
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Interacting with the code lock on hotel's second floor immediately after inputting the correct code
Title. Input the code, interact with the lock again. You are permanently stuck in the lock's screen
Thalassophobia Softlock
The Reason:
If a player with a low end device joins somebody else's lobby that is being hosted from a higher end device, there is a very high chance that a softlock ...
Players can instantly die by getting their spawn obscured
If a player spawns in on multiplayer, and another player is in the spot where they are supposed to spawn, the player instantly dies. This happens because not everyone ...
Stamina glitch
When you are sneaking, and you press your sprint key, you lose stamina even though you do not move any faster.
Kitty can (supposedly) spawn inside players/directly on top of them
The cause could be kitty targeting another player, and then choosing a spawn location that aligns with someone else's position
Level 9 house improperly rendered
Right side of the map is where this is present
Objects Clips Into A Wall when Player Walks up to Solid Surface
This bug has been in the game for as long as it has been out... but when a player walks up to a solid wall with a flashlight for example, the flashlight will go into ...
Setting your interact key to any letter in "itheardyou" makes the Hub puzzle impossible to complete
Instead of typing the character, you will exit the UI and not be able to complete the puzzle unless you change your interact key to something else.
Spectating Issue
When spectating (and you AREN'T the server host), sometimes players will just disappear, more specifically when they wander a certain distance away from the location ...
Crouchjumping into this window on expanded poolrooms (level 37.2) softlocks you
(gen 4 screenshot, still works in 1.01)
Inventory item duplication
If a non-host/client player moves an item around in their inventory, a copy of the item will sometimes appear. If you drop the copy, you have successfully duplicated ...
Unable to turn camera
Sometimes, players are unable to turn their camera. They can still move around and do all other things. Usually occurs at the start of the level, and reaching the ...
Game Settings menu stuck on "High" presets
Whenever i load in the lobby, in a new level or in a game. All my Game settings get reset to "High" like you see in the screenshot (hoch = high). Wich means that I ...
Pausing as you load into the lobby after pressing quit game (hub gamemode) underlays the pause menu
The lobby will be overlayed over the pause menu, and the pause menu is unuseable (image attached)
In Level 1, some items inside cabinets occasionally spawn in the wrong position
Just a minor bug, but I just don't like opening a cabinet and seeing a flashlight or almond water floating there. Usually happens in the 1st floor of Level 1 in my ...
Level 55.1 does not appear in the Hub
For some reason, Level 55.1 is missing in the hub
Main Menu Buttons are Mis-aligned
Title. This user cannot click on the menu buttons directly, when hovering over them with a mouse. See red-circled areas on the screenshots to know approximately where ...
Fix Keybind remapping
When remapping the crouch button to c and remapping the show card button to something else, the c button crouches and shows the card, the usual crouch button still ...
Please completely fix the issue where the corpse Actor causes the game to crash
Due to updates to the clothing system, corpse Actor can cause the game to crash, and the patch fix only replaced the corpse actor in Overgrowth, while in other cases ...
Show Gore setting is not implemented
It exists in the settings menu and in the save file, but not implemented
Level Fun+ Cloud Hall Partygoers Freezing up
Partygoers on Level Fun+ in the Cloud Hall get bugged and won't chase or aggro to balloons popping after seeing you in this (any?) position they can't track to. Im ...
Fun+ comes before 37.2 (Expanded Poolrooms) on the bunker board
It's supposed to be the other way around.
fix the pipe dreams because it look like more low texture
the sign at the start and he boiler is no longer there and it look weird and the fun doesn't have the rainbow light anymore and the ladder is wide little can u make ...
Completionist achievement is unobtainable
It’s pretty lame to spend 60+ hours just to do the nightmare achievement and still the completionist achievement can’t be unlocked by anybody legit. Can you please ...
Bunker death bug
In Nightmare mode (I don't know about the other ones) with 3–4 players, one of the non-host players sometimes dies while loading into the bunker. This bug seems ...
Running and/or jumping while taking a picture with the camera cancels the animation and disables it
In Level 55.1, while using the camera, if the player runs and/or jumps after beginning to take a picture, the animation is canceled out and a picture is not taken. It ...
Missing additional playtesters in the final ending credits
Been like this since 1.0 launch
Hub Base Password
I don't think there's any suggestions on this but please fix the "itheardyou" password for the hub base, change it to a different puzzle where you just power it on or ...
Fatal Error
having a fatal error on dark poolrooms every time I enter the big boat area with the changing water level but am able to join my friend and play for the mini areas ...
Typo in Level 52 achievement
The description for the achievement obtained from escaping Level 52 has a typo: "Turn on screen reader support" is appended to the end of the description.
Xbox M&K Issue.
On my Xbox when playing the game with mouse and keyboard It works but the cursor for the mouse doesn’t pop up makeing It where you can’t use the mouse In menus or ...
Fix this bug after level 9 my friend have this over hes screen it's unplayable
https://images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/11342656485927552715/87EE2E5DE6AD9A2DE2880329A6284789EC4D247E/
fix the gate in overgrowth
u can jump over the gates by not using the lever (jump crouch)
Can't see skins in Character Select option in Main Menu
I want to use the skins, they look so cool! But i can't :(
Update M.E.G. hub levels' descriptions for accuracy/consistency
1. The 1.0 release levels have not been added to the M.E.G. Hub computers' database
2. The level naming scheme is inconsistent. Some levels are named by their ...
Misplaced spot lights in Bunker
The title is pretty self-explanatory, there are two misplaced spot lights in the Bunker.
The exit gate in Level 0.11 won't open
This is a very rare bug, but sometimes the gate in Level 0.11 becomes completely unresponsive. So far, I have only seen this happen in co-op play.
When this bug ...
Thalassophobia diving helmet bug
after i complete thalassophobia and first enter the cave. The game automatically puts my diving helmet on for me. I then cant interact with the enviroment, items and ...
Level The Hub bug
In level the hub, when i enter the level for the first time and go to do the security check on the device, the screen on it shows this annoying white screen, which ...
Bug report regarding saving game
Hi! I have a Story Mode save that I think became corrupted after my laptop unexpectedly lost power while Escape the Backrooms was still running.
Here’s what I’ve ...
cannot play online due to platform privileges
every time i try to start or join a server, it says i cannot play online due to platform privileges, i’ve completely every step online regarding this issue and can’t ...
Steam Cloud Sync Overwrites Local Saves with Invalid/Empty Data and Resets Game Settings
Steam users often report "GAME" settings being set to invalid values (e.g., Show Body: High, Field of View: 0, Enable Crossplay: High, etc.). Updates to these ...
Bug on cross-platform xbox and pc (both through the xbox app)
After joining a multi-player game instantly crashes or crashes 40 seconds later with "fatal error". Verifying and repairing files, clearing catch, forcing direct x11, ...
Low fps and pc turning off
When i get low sanity, if I dont drink straight away or look around my pc just turns off. The library map with the tapes that goes dark is also really low fps ...
Show Body only works once
When Show Body is disabled, after crouching the body still appears.
Level 9 loading issue
It could be my PC (a 10-yo laptop) although the game runs decently on medium settings. However, Level 9 takes a long time to load—I’ve measured up to 10 minutes of ...