Nothing new there.
Finally platinum'd this game recently. Love it, but one major gripe I unfortunately have to point out is that for whatever reason, you're unable to use defense/sub weapons you have equipped if you're grabbed by an enemy near a set of stairs or on the stairs; they'll just automatically bite you, and on hardcore this screwed me over a good few times on the stairwell room in the laboratory when I was getting grabbed by the zombie at the bottom as I was backing up to distance myself, but because I was near the stairs, automatic game over when I was grabbed. Not sure why the stairs of all things make enemies defense weapon proof, but that's kinda bad game design. 😬