What is the Social Etiquette around the Hatch?
So I've had DBD for about 2 months, and I think I'm pretty educated on most things by now.
My question is about Hatch campers.
So I'm in the sewers of Survivor Solo queue which as anyone who plays that knows, is probably the worst lmao. You never actually know if you're rando team mates will actually rescue you from a hook before struggle. Or do something moronic.
I've often had to run away from a team mate as if they were the Killer so they wouldn't kill me (for example, when you KNOW a Killer has Nurse's Calling, and you aren't far away enough but you're team mate keeps trying to heal you despite you flailing your arms to go away).
So when it comes to being down to 2 survivors, I've noticed a LOT of Solo queue team mates just expect you to die on the Hook if they've found the Hatch. Like they won't even attempt to rescue you even if there's only one gen left. You just see them squatting, or teabagging, as if to say " I found the hatch! DIE already!".
I have to admit, I'm guilty of being a bitter fart and I hang on and struggle sometimes to the bitter end in hopes the Killer will find their arse.
In a match today, there are two of us left. I have all the heals in the world on me, and my offering was Bloody Party streamers so I kind of wanted to get as many BPS as possible. I get hooked in front of the Hatch. My team mate was *right there*. The Killer walked far away, but all my team mate did was teabag over the Hatch to tell me to die.
Am I a D-bag if I refuse to just give up? Or are they being selfish?
If I knew there was NO hope, I'd make an executive decision and let the Entity take me. But sometimes I'm just not ready to give up yet.
Thoughts?
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There is no 'etiquette' as such its about hiw you feel. If the killer has been a camping killer or been toxic or if i want my teammate to get hatch I'll die quickly (if the killer is camping me and there's only two of us left I don't want them coming for me ans dying for it). If however the killwr is not camping or not been toxic, or if my teammate is leaving me for no good reason other than to get hatch or if the teammate annoyed me during the trial I will struggle. If as you say the hatch and teammate was in front of me ans he refused to save for hatch, I would struggle every single second to hopefully stop that happening
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You can play however you want. If you wanna make the others wait for you to die, then do it. If you wanna be the one to wait for someone else to die and not try to save them, do it. You wanna let em escape? Do it. The only real etiquette (for me personally) is if you find hatch and its open, dont dick around to get the killers attention before jumping in. Just jumo in and take your escape
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The general belief is you should die on the hook so your ally can escape. You CAN go for the save, but if there are gens left chances are you guys are screwed since the best case scenario is the Killer lets you get the unhook but not at least one of you is injured. Smart Killers will proxy camp the hook and get both of his last downs.
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As a solo you should priorities your survival over your team when it gets down to the wire, that means letting people die on hook to finish the last gen or to get the hatch as going for them will likely screw you over. For end game saves unless everyone is alive you also don't often go for the save especially if you don't have BT, exit gates nearby, or it is a killer good at trading hooks.
That is at least the way I play as a solo, there just isn't a good reason to risk a win to save someone you don't know unless they did something you liked earlier in the match.
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people will tell you "you should die on hook so your teammate can get the hatch" most of the time.
i only do this if i liked the last teammate alive. if they were generally unhelpful, always hiding, etc. , i'll struggle and hope that the killer finds them before i die. it's up to you and anyone telling you different can kick rocks.
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If my teammate was helpful and all, I gladly die for them to take the hatch. I only struggle till the last second when the player evaded the whole game, sometimes didn't even go to the hook once out of hiding all game... or was just sandbagging everyone. Then good luck for them hahahaha.
There's no right or wrong. Sometimes it's stupid to feed the killer more kills with an "unsafe" rescue just because the killer pretend not to be nearby (that's falling right under his game), sometimes it's what you need to get 2 escapes.
To tell the truth I hate to smashing buttons, so I'm really down to just move on if I'm not mad at nobody hahaha.
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If I'm hook because of a teammates mistake I'll struggle for sure.
If I'm on hook and a teammate makes no effort to save me and just camps hatch I try as hard as possible to stay around and have them die.
I'm in the camp if a teammate is on hook because of you that you are obligated to do your best to get them off hook.
I'm also in the camp that survivors should generally make at least an attempt to unhook unless there are certain circumstances (already injured, killer has noed, and depends on the killer if they can't 1v1 well)
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When you're down to two people and you're not going to finish the gens, my philosophy is to keep playing until the game ends naturally. So, I'll always try to rescue the person on hook, and I expect the other person to rescue me. Whoever has the worst luck dies first, and then the other one tries to escape.
In cases where the killer's being horrible, or where I can see that my teammate's trying to save me but will definitely die in the process, I'll try to unhook myself if I can and, if not, let go during struggle to try to give them a chance.
In cases where my teammate totally could try to save me, but they camp the hatch instead, I hold on for as long as possible and hope the killer gets them.
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It's up to you. If I feel like that survivor did nothing the whole match then I'd struggle and hope the killer found them.
However if they were decent and played well then I'd happily die for them.
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In your example they are the #########. There's no set standard for it, but I follow a few simple rules. If I know they were helpful during the match I let go. If I know they've been crouching most of the match I hang on. If the killer is proxy camping I won't save unless I think I can sneak in and get them off before I take a hit.
Ultimately it's up to you, but I feel my general rules are pretty fair.
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Sometimes I’ll die and give them the hook. It depends upon how the game went. If you were a ######### player I’m going to struggle to the bitter end in the hopes the killer finds you.
but lol: “the sewer of solo queue”. You mean “the game where the vast majority of players play”.
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People who hide and wait for their teammates to die are the worst.
Had a game where it was 1 gen left and only me and another survivor left. The gen I was on was close to finishing but the bubba came and chased me off to kick it. We play chase and tap/kick the gen for at least 10 minutes. I eventually lose him as he patrols around my gen, I go to check out the two gens across the map from me.
0 ######### progress on both of them. I get caught out in a dead zone for my troubles and proceed to get hooked. I see my teammate crouched in the basement before I let go and kill myself and he escapes through hatch immediately after.
Apparently, according to the other two survs who were dead and spectators, the other surv just hid in the basement that entire 10+ minutes because he had found the hatch.
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Lol I was having a bitter day in Solo queue ;D
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