Deathloop 'soft lock' bug (stuck on pause menu) still an issue a year later

In Deathloop, you are trapped in a mysterious time loop, and your only way out is to kill eight key targets before the day resets in order to break the cycle.

Initially released for PC and PlayStation, it is now available on Xbox Series X|S as well as Xbox Game Pass.

Having said that, presently many Deathloop players are reporting a ‘soft lock’ bug where the game is stuck on the pause menu (1,2,3,4,5,6,7).

According to players, if they enter the menu in the middle of a mission, for example, to read a note or check their progress in a mission, it doesn’t close entirely for them.

Instead, it partially collapses, and players get stuck in the game’s menu. In order to get out of this situation, they have to forcefully and inconveniently close the game.

This issue results in Deathloop players losing their entire progress and items gained up to the point of their last save, and they have to restart the whole mission.

Trash developers!! The game is still broken on ps5. Menu bug that gets you stuck is still there even after you said it was fixed. In addition the still has frame drops and stutter.
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so many updates yet this game still has some of the most fragile menus I’ve ever seen. menu softlocks have killed so many Deathloop speed runs it’s not even funny.
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This ‘soft lock’ bug when exploring the in-game menu in Deathloop has been recurring for over a year (1,2,3).

I then searched this Reddit and this exact bug has been happening very often to players on PS5 and PC since launch. With a game that has no save feature and you lose everything if you just quit a run, a bug like this still in the game over a year past launch is unacceptable.
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Apparently, Deathloop developers have claimed on multiple occasions that the bug has been resolved. Even the latest patch notes go back to claim that they have fixed this issue.

However, reports about the problem continue to surface even after this patch.

Sadly, there is no workaround that can help Deathloop players avoid losing progress when this bug appears. But as always, we will be updating this space as and when we come across more information so stay tuned.

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