Bug After Act I Hallway Chase

[sleppycat]

After getting out of the endless hallway in Act 1 (right after you walk into the cloud of moths), I saw some moths again, walked forward a little bit and then I ended up in some black area with the full moon visible. I cannot move anywhere and when I take out the phone it jerks all over the screen as if the camera isn't working properly. The game saved as soon as I was transported to this place so now I can't play this save file anymore...

[METAL]

this is a bug im afraid. you should end up in that hall were you start exploring the school. if you have no other save before that, im afraid you have to start act 1 again.
i personally never had it but i know that this game has its moments were things just dont do what it suppose to do.

[sleppycat]

Shame :/

Alright thanks for the heads up.

[Amy_MoonAesthetic]

About 30 minutes ago exactly same bug happened to me too. I don't really know what to do. I tried almost everything to fix it but nothing works. I don't have any other save before this because when it happenned, game automatically saved, so whenever I reload I end up in that black area with moon. It really seems that we have to start act 1 again. I'm not happy about it too because I'm afraid It'll happen again. Maybe someone will come up with solution how to fix it.

[EddieK74]

A bug like that was fixed in a patch back in may last year; it´s sad to see it return now.
What has changed since then that makes this area behave like that again? Newer hardware? Drivers? The transition to Win10 ?

I feel your pain; the autosave only makes it worse because it discourages from trying that part again; almost at the end of an act and right after the most difficult bossfight (scissorman).

There is a chance to not have the bug happen to you if you win the chase. To win the chase you have to know the solution (youtube). I can´t promise you won´t have the bug again, but if I remember correctly, it only triggers when the hallway starts to loop, which can be avoided by taking the first possible exit before the giant ghost catches you.

What I did back then when I decided to make a new attempt was to locate the savefile and left the window open in the background. Whenever the game makes an autosave, a save symbol appears in the top right corner of the screen. The nearest autosave before the hallway chase is in front of the wall of insects, so after watching the save notification symbol appear I alt-tabbed out of the game and copypasted the savefile to somewhere else. If anything would go wrong, I´d have a chance to replace the bugged save with the backup from before the chase.

The default save location on my system looks like this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DreadOut\cloud\someNumber\somelongerNumber\save.1
It may look different depending on your OS version and Steam settings.

I hope this was helpful somehow, good luck to both of you.