Bug List

This page lists all of the bugs that can still be encountered in-game that are not yet fixed. Bugs acknowledged by Trion worlds will be noted with the link to the source of confirmation. There's also a plan to add a descriptive screenshot for every bug listed.

The list is mainly based of PC version of Defiance. If a particular bug is specific to the platform, it will be noted so.

Square brackets indicate the last game version when the bug was observed.

Challenges

• [1.026] Time Trials: sometimes after starting the race, checkpoints you pass tyhrough are not counted. This can be eventually fixing by restarting the challenge until they work.

Chat

• [1.026] Sometimes messages you write don't appear on clan chat. It can be fixed by relogging.
• [1.026] Sometimes previous chat messages persists on-screen.

Combat

• [1.026] After reaching EGO level cap, kill types are not displayed. (acknowledged)

Data recorders

• [1.020+] If data recorders in "Piper Investigation" missions from episode: Svushinnira are interacted with by someone else from the group, only the person who interacted with them gets the appropriate entry in "Intel" section. (acknowledged)

Game stability

• [1.026] Sometimes the sound in the game get stuck, the game starts to take more resources and may become sluggish, and upon trying to exit the game, the game crashes.

Grouping

• [1.026] In some areas when you are in group and driving vehicles, postion of your group members on the map stops refreshing, resulting in your group's member being "stuck" on the map, when the ghost vehicle rides. It also happens if your group member is a passenger.
• [1.026] Sometimes when you queue your group your other group members does not get a confirmation to join a match, while you get queued alone.
• [1.026] Sometimes when you are in a group, the leader gets changed continuously. Sometimes it happenes for anyone in group, and sometimes just for certain people.
• [1.026] There are a lot of issues with both joining friend and joining phases, resulting in throwing a person that is joining in a different server.
• [1.026] Sometims your group member gets thrown into a different sub-server when near an event splitting the group. It's probably connected with the availability of events based on the main mission completion.
• [1.020+] Sometimes it's not possible to invite a friend to a group (probably after sending a failed invite previously).
• [1.020+] Sometimes when queuing your group, you get wrongly placed to the new match instead of joining the one with less people waiting (observed when joining a team deathmatch map).
• [1.020+] When playing in group, sometimes the item you interact with count for every group member, and sometimes just for you, even when being on the same stage of a mission.

Instances

• [1.026] Sometimes when joining a co-op map, interface doesn't show you in group (no names on the left side and no indicatior on map).
• [1.026] In Explosions 101 mission upon entering the hulker room, the cutscene is sometimes played twice.
• [1.026] Sometimes when joining a co-op map, the interfaces still says "finding map".
• [1.020+] When you leave a co-op map preemtively and join another co-op map without relogging, you will get a confirmation about the previous map ending, resulting in an ending screen, but no reward, and being kicked out of the current co-op map.
• [1.020+] In Episode 1: The Heist mission, Nolan can get stuck making it unable to continue with mission.

Interactive objects

• [1.026] Sometimes, when you start interacting with an object and then move away your mouse button, then either the label disappears, or it incorrectly show another object's name. (screen 1) (screen 2)
• [1.026] When under the effects of Cloak or Blur, interacting with an object gets canceled and you have to start doing an action again.

Interface

• [1.026] Sometimes when you switch a weapon (probably when switching loadouts), the weapon bar below the icon miniature is wrong. It's either showing full bar or the bar of previous weapon.
• [1.026] When you switch loadout shortly after summoning a vehicle, the loading time for the next vehicle summon is incorrect.

Items

• [1.026] Infector Granade icon gets blurred on lower quality settings.
• [1.026] Drifter, Harmony Preacher and Lone Wolf headgear clip through female head.

Map/Radar

• [1.026] When your geoupmate is in your friend list and the same clan as you, the game may show different coloured dot indicator on map for each party member (green or blue)
• [1.020+] Sometimes you can't see the coloured dot indicators of your clanmates in map and radar.

Vehicles

• [1.026] Colors of vehicles are not always appropriate and seem to change at random.
• [1.026] On low graphical settings TMW Hannibal have incorrectly placed texture on a wheel. (screen)

Options

• [1.026] Option to turn microphone off keeps resetting upon each relog, if you have voice on.
• [1.026] When you get disconnected from the server, your options do not save properly.
• [1.026] Motion Blur option keeps resetting every time you log in again if you set if off and keep high quality.
• [1.026] The game have dispredancy when binding ctrl and alt - it is sometimes listed as a "CTRL" or "ALT" and sometimes as "LCtrl" or "LAlt"which may results in having the same action bound on the same key.

Weapons

• [1.026] When changing loadout and using BMG quickly it sometimes does not deal damage or heal until the weapon is switch and then switched back.